Monday, Oct. 7, 1963.
A ROTATION SYSTEM:
1, 2, 3- Switch
Nothing that has happened this year, or in the past
several years (with the possible exception of the Pi Xi
painting episodes) has created more student interest than
the current stadium problem.
The blame for the problem has been placed; the apol
gies have been received and the student is still be
fuddled and angry.
The Student Council welfare committee last Thursday
flight came up with a possible solution a rotation system.
As the rotation system is set up, a group of around 900
students, both Greeks and independents, would be trans
ferred to the bleacher section each home game. For this
plan to work, it would need the support of a good share of
the organized houses on campus.
A Daily Nebraskan poll, conducted Sunday afternoon
revealed that most living units, especially the fraternity
houses, did not favor the plan.
This Is only natural. All organized houses supposedly
had an equal chance not to sit in the stadium, and the
houses that finally did get placed there want to stay
especially for the Homecoming and the Oklahoma game.
It's only human. People are basically selfish and to some
extent are Justified in this situation.
M seems that the only realistic solution to the problem
is to continue the voluntary switching of sections among
living units in the stadium and in the bleachers.
Who knows, this switching may catch on, and the prob-
tem may solvate. GARY LACEY
A Solution
Dear Editor:
Being an old-timer and
sitting back watching the
battle for possession of
bleacher seats, it grati
fies me to know that the
under-grads have found
some way to occupy their
spare time outside of scho
lastic endeavors.
After a few minutes of
concentrative delving into
the problem, I and sev
eral of my compatriots
have developed the only
logical and equitable way
' to settle the question. Our
plan is as follows:
Require every student
to be in the stadium by
1:15 the afternoon of the
game. Then, lock the
doors and have all the stu
dents walk clockwise
around the stadium seats
while the band plays
"Pomp and C I r c u in
stance." When the band
stops everyone sits down
in the seat nearest him.
Simple.
"Out of the games of
babes, oft times comes
solutions to man's most
important problems."
We were also wondering
w h e t h e r the Innocents
were sitting in the bleach
ers during the Oklahoma
game? And which game
is the band sitting in the
bleachers? And the foot
ball team? And the Re
gents? And if the football
tickets are rotated, is the
University going to con
fiscate them as stated on
the tickets?
Harv Perlman
Beanies OK!
Dear Editor:
Last Wednesday Ben
ton House of Selleck Quad
rangle held a house meet
ing in order to try to keep
one of the old school tra
ditions alive. This tradi
tion was that of wearing
beanies. The beanie tra
dition adds color to the
stands and is a symbol of
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school spirit for all to see.
On a vote the house
agreed to pay 50 cents of
the price on all beanies for
any Benton house resident
who wanted one, if the res
ident agreed to wear the
beanie at all football
games.
I might add that not
only freshmen and sopho
mores, but juniors and
seniors bought these bean
ies, so I think that the sale
was very successful and
at least a small step was
taken toward preserving
a fast dying school tradi
tion. Gary Fitzpatrick
Proud Alum
Dear Editor:
My last letter in this
column was written some
23 years ago, so this really
takes me back. I'm glad
though that I don't have
to go back to the time I
was an undergrad because
I'm proud to be member
of the present student
body.
It's wonderful to find
that the Daily Nebraskan
still speaks its mind
better than ever, I think
and that the student
body will unite to protest
injustice. Further, they
are now wise enough to do
something about it in
stead of just yelling!
The constructive ap
proach by the Student
Council to this unfortunate
stadium seating problem
is terribly reassuring to
one who constantly hears
youth relagated to the
canine species.
Keep up the good work,
staffers; the world needs
you, and bad!
A proud l4i graa,
Mrs. Elisie Ensz,
Beatrice, Nebraska
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Beer 'n'
Down through the years,
College students have
gained fame (and noto
riety) with outlandish
practical jokes on our na
tion. Who will ever for
get the "guppy-gulping"
of the 30's, or the "pan-ty-raids"
of the forties, or
even the "phone-b o o t h
stuffing" of the fifties.
The sixties have seen
our college kids whirling
around in washing
machines in a "safe-on-the-ground"
simulation of
John Glenn and other as
tronauts. (These stunts
have received the acco
lades and diatribes of the
press, and the students
perpetrating this wild
stunt have been aptly la
belled "astro-nuts.")
In the magical, and oft
en unreal world of col
lege life, numerous in
explicable stunts have
been the vogue, become
popular, received wide
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Bitters
spread publicity, and
have passed on to an un
timely demise only to be
replaced by other fads
even wilder and more un
real. One fad, however, which
is the
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UNIVERSITY
C
ft
Liquor Law
Could Mean
Jail Sentence
The Campus Police, in an
effort to help acquaint Univer
sity students with the new
and stiffer penalties for liquor
violations, have provided each
fraternity, sorority and dorm
with a copy of the revised
law.
The law, enacted by the
Nebraska Legislature last
year, raises the fine for a
minor in possession of liquor
from $100 to $250 or sixty
days in jail and provides a
compulsory 3-5 day jail sen
tence if the liquor was bought
by the minor misrepresenting
his age. Adults who buy al
coholic drinks for a minor
face a $500 fine and 15. days
in jail. Formerly the fine for
this offense was $200.
Campus officers have spoken
at several house meetings ex
plaining the changes and the
risks involved in violating the
state's liquor laws.
A Perennial Fad
erupted countless years
ago probably from the
tables down at Morey's
where the Whiflenpoofers
wanted a little more zest
to their nightly rounds of
beer, was the additon of
Angostura aromaitc bit
ters to their mugs of
foamy.
What apparently hap
pened during one p o s t
football session, is that a
younger Whiffenpoofer,
attempting to be a pace
setter and looking to start
a new fad (he didn't like
gulping guppies), raided
his dad's home bar and
came up with the tropical
ingredient. In an attempt
to impress the upper
classmen, he dashed it
into his mug, added beer
to it, and discovered im
mediately that it gave a
distinctly different taste
to the brew. The Bitters
bottle was passed around
from hand to hand, and
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A Coed's Lament
by martha
D6Hr Mfllcs
I hate to sound desperate again but it does happen
to be three weeks since the start of classes and the male
species seems to be running its regular course off the
bofltGn trflck!
I, however, have had one offer for a date well not
quite', it was more of a rendezvous meeting at Oak Lake
for a'moonlit night of bull frog spearing.
I have to admit that nothing could put me in more of a
romantic mood than tromplng through the swamps in breast
waders, goggles and a spear but thus is the price one pays
for popularity.
And there he was my date tattlly dressed in a pair
of madras flipperscarrying a large madras burlap bag
over his bare shoulder, which had been tattooed in madras
plaid with Delta Tau Delta-what a mad affair!
And finally when the night was coming to an end and
we sat side by side nestled among milk weeds, poison oak
and mosquitoes and whatever else happened to bp growing
in the swamps at the time came the gleam in his eye
he had only one as his last date was not too handy with a
spear and the softness of his voice whispered through the
night:
"Should we toss to see
Cork's Quirks
BROTHERHOOD!
Well, just how far does
true brotherhood really
go? Not merely Greek
brotherhood, although this
is surely included, but
just good 'ol brotherhood!
Today's short commen
tary stems from the Stu
dent Council welfare com
mittee's report, which
you will all no doubt re
member having read in
last Friday's Nebraskan.
The report itself could
very easily have begun
with the words: "Wouldn't
it be nice if . . ."
On paper, the commit
tee's report seems highly
feasible. However, at a
second glance one notes
the keynoting statement
made by Council president
Christie: "The success of
this plan lies in complete
student cooperation."
These ten words alone
practically put the clamps
on the entire project.
Anyway, since there
would seem to be a num
ber of people pushing fof
this plan, I thought that
I would step back for a
second or two and toss
out a few questions which
I have.
1 What about those
students with choice 2
yard tine seats? Should
they be asked to take the
worse of two evils one
week? How much more of
the game would the
bleacherites be able to see
from this vantage point?
2 -What about the finan-
all joined in with their
steins of Beer 'n' Bitters
in still another chorus of
you-know-what.
That's how it probably
started. And it hasn't
stopped. A perennial fav
orite at college get-togethers,
and othr campus
shenanigans, the Beer 'n
Bitters has remained
curiously a college fad
but one that refuses to
fade like the guppies and
phone booths, and like the
washing machines will.
Beer 'n' Bitters seems
destined to remain a col
lege favorite that is un
til the grownups latch on
to it and take it as their
own. From then on in, it
will undoubtedly sweep
the country, with nary a
passing rederence to its
beginning those many
years ago in Morey's as
the brainchild of a weak
stomached undergraduate.
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by Lynn Corcoran
cial side of the story?
This plan would, in short,
furnish those students who
paid $6 for their season
tickets with seats at
least as good and possibly
better than those for
which other students
paid $10. If you think you
have the answer to this,
consider yet another fi
nancial aspect: Some or
ganizations have paid a
$50 deposit in order to be
seated in the card section.
Should this have any
bearing on the proposal?
3 And last, but surely
not least, what about hu
man nature? Is this fac
tor being completely over
looked? A single glimpse
at the Nebraskan poll
reveals the results of this
variable.
I am the first to agree
that this is an excellent
idea. If the committee has
answers to my three ques
tions, then I will be able
to agree that it is a plaus
ible idea.
There is another gap
between a good idea and
a plausible idea, and
somewhere in this gap
you will find my original
question: Just how far
does true brotherhood
really go?
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