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Frank Partsch, editor
Page 2 Friday, April 9, 1965
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The Power Of The Times
Any examination of the policy staie
nients released today by IFC and Pan
Hellenic must necessarily begin "Well,
they surely don't say too much." One of
our English teachers holds that effective
criticism means the justifying of weak
links, and. as part of this criticism, we
think we can justify a few of the obvious
weak links found in these statements.
The times not the Daily Nebraskan,
nor Administration, nor the Friends of
SN'CC have dictated that discrimination
in the Greek system is to die. Realizing this
during the last two or three years, Greek
leaders have held countless discussions
over what the role of the individual chap
ters, the nationals, the administration and
the Greek coordinating bodies should be
in ushering out this discrimination. With
an eye toward the conflagration caused
at universities where the administration
was forced to act because of Greek dis
interest, and with another eye toward
the easily-ignited alum tempers, the Greek
leaders here have produced these state
ments. Any weakness here can be found
in their haste to extinguish both fires
without getting burned themselves.
By themselves, these two statements
are worthless. Their potential value lies
in (1) the fact that they show a legitimate
concern for the problems they face and
(2) the fact that they have admitted their
need for help and have asked for it. When
I haven't signed the Peti
tion yet. and I really have
no desire to follow the mad
Carpenter from Terrytown
through the streets to watch
pigeons splatter the statue
of William Jennings Bryan
at the Capitol, but I am com
passionate by nature.
This morning is one such
case. I was winding my way
to class, having unusual dif
ficult staying on the side
walk due to gross wining
and dining last night, when
The Spirit hit me.
Twas then I decided to
colonize a chapter of Camp
Fire Girls at the University
of Nebraska.
I used to be a CF girl.
We had rumbles with the lo
cal Girl Scouts, and our fa
vorite lark was to crumble
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long range work can be used to eliminate
discrimination in these groups, this is the
best way. When the times decree that
sudden action is necessary, help is
needed.
And, implicitly woven between the
human rights cliches is a request for help.
The buck has risen to the top. where the
responsibility has rested from the begin
ning. The delegation of authority has been
sterilized by the times, and the first
stringers have to be called into the game
to stave off the rally.
Now, the statements, themselves. IFC
will work for the support of the Board of
Regents to implement civil liberties "with
in member groups." PanHell wants to sup
port the Board in implementing civil lib
erties at the University. Here we have a
glaring difference, one which reflects on
the composition, freedom and initiative of
the groups involved.
There is no real cause for concern,
here. Both groups were given a chance
to say what they wanted, and both took
advantage of it. We assume that the Re
gents will read the two the same, for both
are vague enough to be either strong or
weak.
We await results, not statements. For
what these are worth, we commend them.
For what they can do, we await eagerly
and praverfullv.
FRANK PARTSCH
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small inferno of logs, mud
rolled potatoes, and saddle
shoes, blazing a dark red.
(similar to the red beads
one earned for cooking a
mother sow in a pressure
cooker with an apple in her
mouth.)
At any rate, the Univer
sity could use the Camp
Fire Girls. Next week I will
be in the Union with a pe
tition which I would appre
ciate everyone signing so
we can bring the organiza
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Dear editor,
1 am writing this letter in
regard to the article writ
ten by Miss Smithberger in
Wednesday's Daily Nebras
kan. I am more disturbed
by the journalism practice
than by the issue involved.
The purpose of a good
newspaper is to inform. It
should enlighten the public
rather than confusing it. To
be specific, I believe that a
good newspaper should pub
Worst Discrimination
Dear editor,
Every time
we turn
around we hear cries
again discrimination. Sel
ma. etc. Now the budget
committee is proposing one
of the worst kinds of dis
crimination, that of discrim
ination according to wealth.
The proposed increase in
tuition will not hurt Ed
ward Jackson's car-owning,
Honda-owning students
i Tuesday's Daily Nebras
kan) for they could afford
a much larger increase than
that proposed. The student
who is hurt by this increase
is the student who has to
save and scrimp to buy his
books, or whose folks are
scrimping to get h i m
through college.
For the student who has
a financial straggle to just
attend college, this could be
the straw that breaks the
Shindig More Important
Dear editor:
I don't know how many
people knew President
Johnson was to give a ma
jor address Wednesday
night at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, but it was weil pub
licized for several days.
This was one of the most
important policy statements
on our position in South
Vietnam that the President
has made to date.
Assuming a large number
of students would be crowd
ing the TV area in Cather
Hall, I went down a few
minutes before the Presi
dent was to go on the air
to assure myself of a seat.
Nearly all the seats were
filled when I arrived. As I
stood and waited a few mo
ments during the closing of
the preceding program, I
was appalled at the sight I
saw. As Shindig ended
there w as certainly no doubt
about finding a seat as ful
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Information
lish all the information
concerning an issue, not
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No doubt Miss Smithberg
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let the readers know what
the whole issue was about.
Victor Tseng
camel's back. This is an ex
treme and cruel form of
discrimination, for it is de
priving someone of an edu
cation, of a chance to im
prove his lot in life.
Mr. Jackson and State
Senators you might be able
to afford this increase!
Some people CAN'T. Is it
your right to deprive these
people of an education? 1
think not!
Larry Toothaker
P.S. Write your state sena
tor! Editor's note: Mr. Tooth
aker imornis us that he has
written approximately the
same letter to his state sen
ator. We would like to note
that, as a member of the
varsity track team and as a
senior, Mr. Toothaker
would have nothing to lose
if a raise were enacted, and
think that he should be com
mended for his concern.
ly half of the students left
as President Johnson came
on the air.
Don't students realize we
are fighting a major war
in South Vietnam? Don't
they realize that hundreds
of men including many
Americans) have been kill
ed there in the past few
months, not to mention the
past several years? Are
people so wTapped up in
themselves that they think
only of how they will be af
fected if tuition goes up a
few dollars? How many stu
dents realize how the Unit
ed States will be affected if
we lose the war in South
Vietnam1?
Is Shindig really more
important than the Presi
dent's statement of our pol
icies, aims, and intentions in
South Vietnam, or have I
misjudged the importance of
this world crisis???
Gary W. Lcntz
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The racial problem has
various causes. The three
main ones are economical,
political, and sexual. Be
cause it is spring(made lu
cid by girls, who are trading
their silly knee socks for
the more sensual bare legs)
and because it is infre
quently mentioned, this cor
ner will write about sex as
one of the essential prob
lems in race relations.
Looking at Negroes one
can easily discern that
there is a wide color range,
from blue black to ghastly
white, in Negro people.
There are also different de
grees in hair texture and
facial features. These de
grees are signs of inter
breeding. Your great grand
father went to the slave
quarter too often just to be
checking on the slaves.
The white man suffering
from these puritan ideas of
sexual insecurity has as
cribed super-sexual powers
to the Negro. We have all
heard the ribald jokes and
the myth of the buck nig
ger. The white man has en
acted laws aimed at the
Negro, prohibiting interra
cial marriages. When Ne
groes were lynched they
were often emasculated.
These are examples of a
sexual fear.
The southern while does
not want his schools racially
mixed because there is the
problem of the school dance.
The northern white does not
want the Negro to move
next door, not because the
Negro might rape his wife
or daughter but because the
wife or daughter, believing
in the myth, might throw
themselves at the Negro
male.
The Greek houses are noi
racially mixed because
w hite students do not want
to compete sexually with
Negro students. What would
happen if sorority doll went
to her house dance with a
Negro date? And, it does
not take a waiver from the
national group to bring a
date to a house dance !
For those of you who think
I am putting you on. the
next time you catch your
self staring at a mixed cou
ple having coffee in the crib,
ask yourself why you are
staring.
Sex is not THE. but it is
ONE of the problems in
race relations. Onlv until
e' if
USED CAKC
we can look at sex as some
thing other than what
PLAYBOY would have us
do can we start to solve
the sexual myth. Perhaps by
then some of the politi
cal and economical aspects
to civil rights will be over
and we can begin to see
people for what they are.
The Daily Nebraskan
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