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Many things should be included in an
educational institution and one of them is
tradition.
,v Tradition gives students pride and
comfort in their school and adds a little
color and excitement to the daily routine
of study.
One of Nebraska's greatest traditions
until'last year had been the Homecoming
displays and the Daily Nebraskan is glad
to.see that this tradition will continue
again this fall.
"Last , year after the Innocents Society
with. a great deal of mystery and suspense
withdrew, its sponsorship of the displays,
few, residences kept the tradition.
' This year the Corn Cobs and Tassels
have announced that they will sponsor
the three dimensional displays In their
original form.
.The Daily Nebraskan applauds Tassels
and Corn Cobs for actually performing
their function as the "spirit" organizations
on this campus by coming to this great
tradition's rescue.
We encourage every living unit and
. : In preparing the first half of the re
views in "That's What It Says" for this
year's foreign films, the Daily Nebraskan
realized that one of the films which will
be shown by the Nebraska Union film so
ciety this year is now appearing in down
town Lincoln.
This film, "Dear John," which will be
shown by the society March 1, is an ex
ample of what the foreign films accomplish
for many people.
As with the film "Dear John," an indi
vidual usually has trouble leaving a foreign
film without talking about it, thinking about
it and arguing over it for several days.
This last weekend the big topic on
campus besides the Student Bill of Rights
has been "Dear John" and its merits or
complete dismerits.
The many movie goers on campus
who have never bought a foreign ticket,
but found "Dear John" stimulating either
in their hate for its obvious vulgarity or
in their praise for its hidden message and
artistic qualities really should buy a
foreign film season ticket and enjoy regu
larljrmovies of this type that make people
think. ...
Z Separate from the other foreign film
reviews, the Nebraskan also thought many
people' "who have seen "Dear John" or
heard about it might find John Thomas'
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Do not be mislead by the title of this
column. It has absolutely nothing to do
with Innocents (at least not yet), and very
little to do with innocence (except as my
views may lack the judgment of maturity
or my naivete may overlook some of the
evil inherent in the complacency of the
students at this University).
Hopefully I will try to unexplain things
at this univ ersity which no one understands
anyway. And if that doesn't make any
sense, you try to title and write a column
at 8:00 on Sunday morning with three oth
er typewriters clacking in your ears.
It was actually just before I woke up
or just after; (it all seems quite hazy now),
but anyway it was about that time when
I suddenly found myself staring into the
fuzzy face of a pooka (or poohka). I didn't
know it was a pooka at first. I thought it
was one of my rommates with an 8:00 sha
dow. Slowly coming out of my reverie of
faraway places and sinful exploits, how
ever, I soon realized that I was staring
into the face of a Koala Bear. Now if
you've lived in a fraternity h o u s e as long
as I have, you've seen stranger things that
this on the morning of a Saturday night
leftover hangover.
So here was this Koala Bear In my
room, and since I was sitting there with
my mouth somewhat ajar, he politely
asked if he might sit down, and then in
troduced himself as Hrotbgar (he was very
literary), a pooka of the ancient House of
Elrond.
Those of you who know anything of
pookas (as you might from watching Har
vey) know that a pooka is an animal,
usually of immense proportions; appear
ing sometimes here, sometimes there;
hometimes to this one, and sometimes to
that one. Now pookas are extremely wise
(even as wise as Gandalf the wizard) and
when they wish, nearly as powerful as the
ancient elven-kings of middle-earth.
Hrothgar, being of the ancient house
of Elrond (and thus distantly related to
Thorin Oakenshield) was one of the wisest
and most powerful pookas and on very good
term's,, with all elves, dwarves, and most
hobbits. ,
t Curious as to why this pooka (or any
piTokaT should pick my room to visit at
8:00 on a Sunday morning, I questioned
him about his presence at this ungodly
hour. Taking his time (for pookas never
hurry), and munching on some berries
which he had stashed In a pocket (would
you believe they really do have pockets?),
he explained that he felt there was much
to be done here and that I had been chos
en to execute his plans.
Oh! 'Dear John'
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I refrained from asking him why I
had been chosen (for it is wise not to
question the ways of pookas), but having
nothing to write in my column I assured
him I would be of any possible service.
Hrothgar now explained that he felt
that two events of tremendous import were
now in the making at the University,
which indeed had surprised him because
of the reputation of apathy at Nebraska
(which I quickly assured him must only
have been a rumor). He continued, ignor
ing the interruption, by saying that he was
startled but elated at the record budget
which had been proposed by the Chancel
lor and the Regents to the state legisla
ture. Far from last year's sullied record of
rumored tuition hikes and whispered mis
takes of planned budgets and enrollments,
the stand this year represents a renewed
interest In education and the welfare of
the student in a state which prevloulsy
ranked 49th in the amount of money spent
on education.
Nevertheless, the challenge still re
mains for-the ASUN and the Student Sen
ate to vigorously support the administra
tion in the inevitable conflict with the leg
islature and its economy minded senators
with their scissoring budget revisals.
Hrothgar continued that this was but
one facet of a greater issue now evolving
at the University, that of the proposed Stu
dent Bill of Rights. It is difficult to under
stand how students who are at all inter
ested in an education can ignore the fan
tastic opportunities of a living laboratory
In which to accept the responsibility for
the leadership of their own lives.
Anyone who wishes to remain a pup
pet in the isolated community of a clois
tered University in whose regulations he
has no say, but whose rules he must
obey, does not deserve to be enrolled in
an institution of higher learning.
What better place to develop charac
ter and Intelligence, and what better way
than by accepting the responsibility of
self-regulation and government?
Students should not control the entire
University, for their interests are not the
only ones which are served at the Univer
sity. The students are, however, the most
important part of this University, and to
deny students any responsibility for their
own governing and education is to deny
this fact.
The leadership and maturing possibil
ities inherent in a Student Bill of Rights
must be offered to the University students.
If they then fail to take advantage of its
educational possibilities, then students at
this university are In no sense mature,
adult or deserving of the opportunities of
a collage education.
other interested groups to back these two
spirit organizations' sponsorship of t h e
Homecoming displays this year and to en
ter the contests for the best work.
It is true that working on the Home
coming displays can interfere with the fall
semester's first group of hour exams es
pecially for freshman, but every living unit
can control this problem by beginning the
work early and planning it for each indi
vidual so that the work doesn't interfere
with needed study.
For the freshman working on the dis
plays, Homecoming can thus be an aid
rather than a hinderance because as he
takes part in one of the school's greatest
traditions he begins to feel like the
school is really his, that he really belongs
here and that Nebrask's traditions are his.
Last year's Homecoming was sad for
many of the undergraduates and the alum
ni especially as they walked past the
mostly dark and quiet residences that had
once been lighted with excitement thanks
to Tassels and Corn Cobs this year's Home
coming might be different.
Wayne Kreuscher
review of the movie Interesting. Mr. Thom
as writes:
"Realism used to be a key word in
discussing movies, but today it's not par
ticularly relevant to films like 'Kwaidan,
like 'Juliet of the Spirits,' like most of the
films in this series (foreign films).
"But the concept of realism is vital
to "Dear John," which could not survive
without it. The plot: boy meets girl, boy
loses girl, boy gets girl; but it's all done
with the utmost fidelity to the details of
contemporary experience.
"Yes, it's one of those Scandanavian
sex movies, but that's the least of it. The
film is a detailed study of the growth of
a human relationship, the kind of movie
that as you watch it makes you whisper:
'How true!'
"The actors are dead ringers for real
people (the heroine is even a little too
fat) ; but they're appealing people, and you
care about them.
"The oldest story formula in the world
can still be rehabilitated by an artist
with the sharpness of eye and ear to ren
der it all so much like it really happens.
Perhaps the characters should break up
at the movie's end, since that would be
truer to most real-life stories than their
decision to get married.
"But who could begrudge so charming
a film the happy ending it deserves?"
Wayne Kreuscher
(In-No -Sense) I
That's What
EDITOR'S NOTE: Tickets
are now on sale for the Ne
braska Union film society's
fourteen foreign films that
will be shown every other
Wednesday starting Oct. 5
at the Nebraska Theater.
The tickets which are sold
on a yearly basis cost $7
for students and faculty and
may be bought in the Union
program office.
John Thomas, associate
editor of the Ameridan Fed
eration of Film Societies
"Film Society" magazine,
West Coast Division has
prepared short reviews of
some of these foreign films
that will be shown in Lin
coln this year.
The Nebraskan will print .
the first of these reviews
today and the rest later in
the week.
"Eroica" Oct. 5
Andrezj Munk, one of the
masters of the post-war gen
eration of P o li s h film
makers, is known chiefly in
est for his unfinished
er.
Eroica," one of his
earlier works, contains two
sections of a triology
in which the Polish worhip
of heroism gets some rough
treatment.
The Poles are a romantic
people, and you can im
agine the grinding of teeth
over Munk's nose thumbing
pastiche of their tales of
World Warll heroism In the
first story a drunken cour
ier stumbles through a hail
of incompetently aimed
b u 1 1 e t s to foil his wife's
cuckolding and inci
dentally, deliver a message
viatl to the partisan cause.
In the second, a soldier
whose supposed escape
from a concentration camp
has made him a paragon of
heroism is found hiding in
the attic of his prison hut,
too frightened to continue
his escape but unable to
come down because of his
importance as a symbol.
This is strong stuff, not
only to the poles, but to a
generation of Americans
reared on John Wayne
movies. The weakness of
most anti-war movies is
that they base themselves
upon the very myths that
cause the wars they attack.
But "Eroica," in which
the bitterest kind of cyni
cism becomes the finest
kind of art, is something
different.
"Halleluiah The Hills"
Oct. 19
Adolfas Mekas is brother
to Jonas, exponent of these
underdeveloped heme mov
ies known as- "The New
American Cinema."
But "H al 1 e 1 u j a h The
Hills" is a pleasant sur
prise beautifully
photographed and edited,
encased in its technique.
Not that it has much con
tent; it's mostly a lot of
boys in camera tricks and
interspersed with bur
lesques of everybody else's
movie.
But a lot of the sheer
job of making a movie
comes through, and in it
self becomes the film's real
content. It's worth seeing
alone for Ed Emshwiller's
photography, as beautiful
as. any you'll find In any
movie from any country.
After one of Emshwiller's
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long treks across a frozen
hillside you won't much
care what the movie is about
anyway.
"Cartouche" Dec. 7
When will American audi
ences learn to appreciate
Phillipe De Broca? One of
the original generation of
"new Wave" film makers,
his output has too often
been dismissed as trivial
or pointless.
But there's not a French
director around save Tate
who can make comedies like
De Broca. The logical heir
to Rene Clair's mantle, Dc
Broca is one of the few
masters of thoroughly vis
ual humor.
"Cartouche" offers Jean
Paul Belmondo as a Robin
Hood-type bandit devoted to
love and freedom with
equal zest. The film's sure
movement from w I Id
comedy to final pathos is
wonderfully done.
Released in America at
the same time as De Bro
ca's "That Man From Rio,"
this film tended to be sub
merged by that showier but
essentially empty movie.
"Cartouche" is a subtler,
lovelier work, no less devoted
to B e 1 m o n d o's athletics
but with other things to
offer as well.
"Ashes and Diamonds"
Jan. 18
Wajda is the second of
the Polish post-war mast
ers, and "Ashes and Dia
monds" still the best-known
Polish film. It made a star
of Cybulski, who plays a
troubled partisan tapped to
kill a Communist leader.
The differences between
this film and "Eroica" are
remarkable, and prove that
the talk of a "Polish
school" of film making is
all to simplistic. Though the
film is a little unsure of
what it has to say it's
gorgeously staged from be
ginning to end.
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Wajda is continuously in
control of his medium, as
one beautiful image suc
ceeds another. The talk
between Cybulski and the
heroine in a bombed-o u t
church, with an inverted
crucifix slowly swinging
back and forth in the fore-.
ground, is among the unfor
gettable moments of t h e
modern film.
"The Shop On Main Street
Feb. 1
"The Shop On. Main
Street" won an Academy
Award as the best foreign
film of the year, which
should be warning enough.
As a genuine attempt to
deal with acute moral di
lemmas it fails both through
lack of courage and of clari
ty. It's a shame, too, since
the film's first half is so
promising.
Joseph Kroner and Ida
Kaminska turn in superb
performances, the basic
plot situation is nicely de
veloped, and the whole
film moves toward what
should be a brilliant and
moving denouncement.
But at the last minute
the directors chicken out
and resolve the situation
through coincidence instead
of allowing the central char
acter to make the moral
decision that the whole
film has been leading up to.
The setting is Czechoslo
Our Man Hoppe-
A True To
Once upon a time there
was a funny looking beast
called a Stock Market, It
had the head of a bull and
the tail of a bear. Or may
be it was the other way
around. Because nobody
could ever tell which way
it was going.
Sometimes it went up
which made everybody rich
and happy. And sometimes
it went down which made
everybody poor and sad.
As it affected their lives
so directly, the people nat
urally had a deep and mys
tic faith in the Stock Mar
ket. And they worshipped
the incantations of its
priests, who would chant
things like "making a tem
porary readjustment" when
the Market went down, and
"reflecting a healthy econ
omy" when the Market
went up.
Then, one day, the Mar
ket reflected a healthy
economy by making a tern
p o r a r y readjustment.
Zooommm-SPLAT!
Panic and bewilderment
ensued. Nobody could ex
plain why the M a r k e t had
decided to go down rather
than up. Nobody, that Is,
except the noted Market
Here it is, only one week
into the school and already
the rut has begun to be
worn. Classes have been
attended, notes have been
taken and meetings sat
through.
Freshmen can't figure
out why they are so tired
all the time and juniors
are wondering if they can
hang on for just one more
year.
Yes, this year is shaping
up just like last year and
the year before that and
the year before that. But
to the older student there
is a difference. It is an
intangible thing, an es
sence that would be hard
to prove but which can be
felt.
It may be tied up with
the fact that the Rag has
taken a strong stand on a
hot issue early in its de
velopments and while doing
so has bucked both the
Administration and the
head of student government.
It may have something
It Says
vakia in World War II, the
problem that of a man who
must choose whether or not
to betray to the secret po
lice an elderly Jewish shop
keeper he has befriended.
Kroner is appointed
"Aryan controller" of Miss
Kaminska's shop by his
brother-in-law, and soon
finds himself almost a re
tainder of the local Jewish
community. When a po
grom begins, Kroner must
decide whether to turn in
his new friend or risk his
own neck by hiding her.
Problems like this cannot
be glossed over or compro
mised, but the movie does
just that and f u r th e r
glosses the gloss with a fan
tasy epilogue straight from
Hollywood. Still, there are
those who like the film,
and audiences are sure to
be sharply divided over its
merits.
"A Woman Is A Woman"
Feb. 15
Jean-Luc Godard is prob
ably the most talented nat
ural film maker working
today. Though slight in con
tent, "A Woman Is A Wo
man," his third film,
shows some of the reasons
why.
The insignificant story, a
reworking of the plot of De-
Life Fairy Tale
analyst, Dr.
libone.
Homer T. Pet-
"The Stock Market," he
explained, "is not only a
wondrous looking beast, it
is endowed with extrasen
sory perception. It knows
what we're thinking. And
it is eager to please us.
"Therefore, it moves
whichever way we think it
will move. If most of us
think it will go up, it goes
up. And if most of us think
it will go down, it goes
down. If we think it's a
bull it's a bull. If we think
it's a bear, it's a bear.
This is the sole factor that
controls its movement.
"Thus, all we need do
to be rich and happy is to
think rich and happy
thoughts."
And it worked! Every
body agreed to think the
Stock Market was going to
go up. So, thinking it would
go up, they gave it offer
ings of money. Consequent
ly, it went up and up and
up and up. And everybody
grew rich and happy.
No one was prouder than
Dr. Pettibone. He showed
his young son, Homer II,
his thousands and thou
By Liz Men
to do with Student Sena
tori who have honestly
questioned legislation that
normally passes without a
whimper from the floor.
Then again it may be
connected with a president
of a leading campus or
ganization who resigned be
cause she felt that the or
ganization was not involv
ing itself with sufficiently
significant issues.
This difference may be
linked with these events
and by the same token, it
may not. It may simply
peter out after a promis
ing beginning. Who knows?
It is hard enough to de
fine, let alone analyze.
The difference in cam
pus feeling has already
been written about and you
can be sure that it will be
referred to many more
times as the year goes on.
My comment at this time
is both hackneyed and
trite but nevertheless sin
cereVive la difference 1
Broca's "Love Game," de
tails the countless feminine
wiles through which Ann a
Karina manages to get preg
nant by her reluctant boy
friend (Jean Claude Brialy).
But the important point is
that the woman is Anna
Karina, whom Godard was
to marry short'y after the
film's completion. The mov
ie is a kind of public act of
love, with Godard's cam
era probing for e v e r y ap
pealing facet of his beloved.
The result is a film some
times silly, sometimes re
markab'e, but never dull.
Claiming to be a sort of
musical, it uses many of
the conventions of the great
Kelley-Donen films. It's a
movie about singing and
dancing made by p eo p 1 e
who can't sing or dance,
but who wish they could.
True, Miss Karina does
sing a (mercifully) few
times, but most of the mov
ie reminiscing is confined
to freezing the actors into
poses supposedly character
istic of Gene Ke'ley and Cyd
Charisse.
Somehow Godard brings
it off; through his frenetic,
shorthand t e c h ni qu e he
managed to impose upon
the film much of the gaity
of those musicals he cele
brates but cannot duplicate.
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Arthur Hoppe
sands of receipts for the
offerings he'd given the
Market. "One day, son,"
he said, beaming, "these
will be youn."
Td rather have
pie," said Homer II.
an ap-
"But these are certifi
cates of our faith in the
Stock Market, which is half
bear, half bull and en
dowed with extrasensory
perception, It's what makes
you rich and happy."
"There's no such ani
mal," said Homer II. It's
a mythical beast."
At first, Dr. Pettibone
was shocked. Then he was
thoughtful. Then he picked
up the phone and whisper
ed: "Sell short."
When the news leaked
that Dr. Pettibone himself
had lost faith in his theory,
everybody thought the Mar
ket would go down. And
that . . . Well, zooommm
SPLAT! "See," said f :?r Dr .Pet
tibone sadly to his poor,
sad son as they stood in
the bread line, "I was right
all along."
Moral: The things you've
got to believe in to be
rich and happy these days
you wouldn't believe.
