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The baily Nebraskan
Friday, September 30, 1966
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A home to every activity and practi
cally a home for many of the students at
this University the Nebraska Union is a
true student center.
The Dally Nebraskan has often gone
on record disagreeing with administrators
and their policies and criticizing the Uni
versity and its non-s 1 1 m u 1 a t i n g at
mosphere, but the paper Is also ready to
recognize hard work and devotion.
One administrator who deserves
praise for his work and ideas is Allen
Bennett, director of the Nebraska Union.
Mr. Bennett can be praised and
thanked by the students for many of the
current policies, facilities and future
plans of the Union.
Most students probably don't know
Mr. Bennett because one of his main
policies seems to be that the Union should
be for the students and the student!
should be in charge of it as much as
possible themselves.
But any student who has ever asked
for something extra like a meeting room
on short notice or permission to use the
ballroom for an invited speaker (even
one as controversial as Allan Ginsberg)
knows that Mr. Bennett is always on the
students' side.
When especially large crowds gather
in the union and possibly begin to be
come extremely enthusiastic such as at
Hyde park or jazz and Java, Mr. Bennett
4. True Friend
with a frown on his face will somethimes
appear on the outskirts of the crowd.
But very seldom in fact as far as
this paper knows never will Mr. Bennett
let the crowds confuse or hurry his
judgment. He has never shown the im
patience or misunderstanding of youth
and their actions as many older people
are guilty of doing.
The Nebraska Union is a true stu
dent union for it really is the center of
student activity. The Union is where stu
dents meet, where they hold their meet
ings, where the paper is written and
where the controversies begin and end.
If one was to visit other unions across
the country, he would realize that Ne
braska's is unique. It emphasizes t h e
students' needs and is used by all the
students more than most student unions.
The Daily Nebraskan feels that Mr.
Bennett Is one of the main people respon
sible for this Union being unique.
Furthermore if each student knew
the plans Mr. Bennett has for improving
the Union beginning this December, the
individual plans he has for helping each
organization and for providing better fa
cilities for every student all 17,000 stu
dents at this University would be march
ing to Mr. Bennett's office to thank him.
Mr. Bennett is an administrator who
really does respect students and their
organizations the students have no
better friend or supporter.
Policy Statements
The number of pages, policy on
columnists and letters to the editor in the
Daily Nebraskan all three things need
to be clarified.
Today's paper is the first Daily Ne
braskan with only four pages this se
mester. All the other papers have had
six or eight pages.
The Nebraskan will continue to have
six pages as frequently as possible, but
has found it financially necessary to have
four pages at least once a week.
The Nebraskan will plan after today
on having four pages each Monday and
six pages the rest of the week. This will
give the business staff an extra day to
build up on ads and give the rest of the
paper a small rest on weekends.
At Thursday's Hyde Park one of the
Nebraskan's columnists made a comment
about his column and said that other
people would write in his column at times.
The Nebraskan reserves the right to
edit at all times or withhold all columns.
The paper has more columnists right now
than it has ever had, but the paper will
continue to be very discriminating about
which columns it publishes. We definitely
will not accept every column that is given
us.
As for letters to the editor, it seems
necessary to remind our readers that the
Nebraskan cannot publish any letter that
is not signed with the writer's name. The
Nebraskan will not publish the writer's
name if the writer so wishes, but we
must have the name for the record.
Recently the Nebraskan received a
special delivery mailed in Lincoln criti
cizing the paper for its stand on senior
keys, but the letter could not be pub
lished because it was, not signed.
Steve s4bbottf5
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All Editorials
, By Wayne Kreuscher
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Writing a column for this paper is no
bowl of cherries. I had always looked for
ward to cutting my cynical swath
through the hayfield of campus customs
and activities, callously but righteously
mowing down mediocrity and any other
bugaboos in this Community of Scholars.
But I seem to have developed a type of
writer's hay fever.
It's not that I couldn't find enough
victims for my barbed pen. In fact, they
hurled themselves at me at such a pace
that I had dreams at night of quitting
the "Rag" and publishing instead an en
tire book of extremely timely and rele
vant campus criticism. I would even
borrow a phrase from Tom Lehrer as
the title of my best-seller: Tropic Of Cal
culus. The subject of my column would
change from day to day as more timely
and willing subjects offered themselves
to me for crucifixion. Today's column
was, at various times, intended for Andy
Taube, who was whistling In the wrong
key in Monday's "Rag"; for the obnoxi
ous photographers at the Fatha H i n e s
concert last Friday;, for Abel Hall and
its deplorable (or nonexistent) mainten
ance and kitchen staff; for Student Sen
ate, who seems to fumble too many im
portant balls, but who has a defense sec
ond only to Nebraska's Big Read teams
(11 and 13); for the Bill of Rights, which
has had to suffer a pre-natal existence in
the mind-wombs of so many insensitive
politicians and writers that ft took Gene
Pokorny and Don Quixote de La Mancha
to wrest it from a certain windmill in
Monday's "Rag" and put it in its proper
perspective.
However, as the deadline for my
column drew sore upon me, I was still
wi'hout a topic. In spite of the variety
listed above, I could not see wasting my
time over trite subjects or overplayed
events. I could not go "literary" since
all the poets buried in Westminster Abbey
were still claiming innocence for John
Schrekinger in Monday's "Rag."
So I asked one of my few friends.
"I don't know which one I should write
bout. What do you think?"
Why don't you write something posi
tive for once."
"Positive? What do you mean?"
"Look," he said, "every Tom D I c k,
and Harry that writes for the "Rag"
thinks he has to be a critic. Nobody ever
reads the columns except those who are
written about. They say, 'Look what he
wrote about us this week' write his name
down, and say he doesn't know what he's
talking about anyway. So his column
hasn't really accomplished anything ex
cept alienate those whom he wants to
listen. Try something positive."
"Bah- Humbug!" I said politely.
What you want Is to praise someone,
find something good about someone for a
change, get them on your side, and then
try to work with them for improvement."
"I've thought about writing that way,
but I can't think of a single positive thing
to say about this university."
'Then what are you doing here?"
"I've been here three years and it's
too late to change now."
"That's the wrong attitude Board
man. Everyone gets tired of reading the
same old stuff. Every column in the
"Rag" is like every other column step
out of the pack, be different, be friendly."
"But I really can't think of anything
to write about nothing positive. I'd like
to be friendly and have influence; I don't
really like sounding like a railing Thersi
tes all the time. But what should I write
about?"
"That you'll have to come up with
for yourself. Take another look at Stu
dent Senate, the dorm, John Schrekinger
maybe things aren't so bad."
All right, I thought. It's true, the
Senate did select John Winkworth, a sena
tor for the right reasons, as chairman of
the library committee because he wanted
to try to improve our library, and not
because he needed a committee. True,
the Innocents did do away with the
senseless waste of Homecoming displays,
If only for a year.
And then the YWCA, though unable
to carry through its Freshman Weekend,
did successfully launch the exchange pro
gram with Stillman College in Alabama.
And the dorm has been made a bearable
place to live by the high-spirited social
atmosphere of the Sandoz-Abel snack
bar, especially on nights whan Nate
Branch drops by for an exuberant jam
session. And true, even John Schrekinger
admitted that he wrote that poetry in hu
column.
I guess maybe things aren't so bad
after all.
Remorse of conscience!
Ever since the Middle Ages
the sky has been falling in,
and ever since the Refor
mation "mother" Church
. has been a self-righteous
old hen.
No wonder, in the face of
such dogmatic institutional
ism, that many contempor
aries consider Roman Ca
tholicism stuffy and irrele
vant, a haven for sheep
heads. Let us look to pro
testants this week.
Most prots are either ig
norant or embarrassed
about their founders theol
ogy. They fill the conse
quent theological void with
fuzzy-headed liberalism or
fundamentalism. Both are
weak.
Liberals quoted Bonhoffer
about "religiousless Chris
tianity," Tillich about "the
ground of Being," and with
these nebulous cliches un
der their belt, they go out
like little tailors to slay
dragons of evil, imitating
whatever is currently fa
shionable in the world of pa
ganism. Pagans delight, of
course, in providing band
wagons for these "New"
Christians.
What could be more
amusing than the sight of
confused Christians falling
all over each other trying
to vociferously lambast ev
ery conceivable aspect of
Christianity (Kirkregaard
did it, didn't he?).
Fundamentalists are
amusing in a different way.
They set out to witness St.
Paul's teaching that "You
must be fools for Christ,"
they prove that "all fools
are Christians." Unpricked
by- thorns of reason, unsul
lied by deeds of social ac
tion, they stand up at Hyde
Park and shout about
"grace," "salvation," and
"hell." Listeners find them
truly instruments of divine
retribution, and sincere ag
nostics wager that only mon
goloid idots make it past the
pearly gates.
Occassionally one finds
liberals and fundamental
ists housed in the same
place. Whenever this oc
curs there follows a purge.
Nebraska's own example of
this is the recent resigna
tion of Bruce McSpadden
from the Wesley foundation.
Apparently Bruce made
the mistake of reading
"Motive" magazine in pub
. lie, preaching "Thou shalt
not kill" without apendag
ing "except in Viet Nam,"
and worst of all, discussing
the subject of brotherly love
for Negroes with some of
the "fraternal" advisors.
Since everybody knows
controversy has no place in
the Church, Bruce was
spanked. Realizing the seri
ousness of his apostasy, he
resigned.
There you see Christian
ity: a case history of schi
zophrenia, a mystical body
virtually sent assunder.
Structure without spirit is
a hollow shell; spirit with
out structure is anarchist
confusion.
Result? The phrase of the
day is "God is Dead." Out
of jealousy some pastors
give anti-"Playboy," anti-"
Beatle sermons. Nobody
pays much attention. No
body goes around saying
" 'Playboy' is dead." But
then I guess its always been
easier to unite people for
purposes of evil than pur
poses of good. Remorse of
conscience! Agenbite of In--wit!
ffan Min Writes . .
Who Would HaveThunk It?
A University coed is
about to leave on a typical
"I - don't - know - what
we're - doing - or - where
we're-going" date. Can she
simply get dressed and go?
Heaven forbid! She must
first sign out neatly on the
little sign out sheet as to
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her destination, when she'll
be back and finally wffen
she does return what time
it is then.
Since she has no idea
where she's going, she's
likely to put ''date" or if
she does have some idea
what the evening will en
tail, she r;Jght put "show,"
"walk," or "woodsie."
What will happen if she
forgets to sign out or sign
in? If it is a repeated of
fense she may be called
before AWS Court and cam
pused although she has
made it in by hours.
Who would have thunk it?
The reason given for this
system is most usually that
if an emergency arises
one's living unit will know
where to find her. Yes,
she's on a date, on a walk,
at a show or at a w.oodsie
they'll really find her.
Another argument some
times offered in defense of
this totally ridiculous pro
cedure is "how will people
know if someone isn't in if
they don't sign out?"
Now almost anyone who
has lived In the WRA can
tell you that anyone who
took an illegal over-night
and got caught 'was not
caught because she messed
up on the procedure it is
all too easy to just leave
without signing out at all or
to have someone else sign
her in. People are caught
not being in by the periodic
room checks not by the sign
in sheets.
What earthly purpose do
they serve? They cannot be
used as a check as to wheth
er coeds are in the living
unit and cannot be used to
find someone who is out.
All they can do is to pro
vide the AWS Board with
additional and unnecessary
paper work and the aver
age coed with additional
aggrevation.
If someone would suggest
huving the sheets available
for use on a volunteer basis
or for use when taking
over nights or out of towns,
an argument would be diffi
cult to find. But to simply
perpetuate meaningless bu
reaucracy is rather ludi
crous. AWS has made progress
recently, b u t there are
things left to be done. Will
this system be allowed to
remain? A proposal to
change it may be tied up
in committee for a year,
one board member said.
Who would have thunk it?
You Ask Me
. . . half the people at
Hyde Park Forum Thurs
day were just waiting to get
into the South doors of the
Union.
. . . Derby Day is getting
to be 'old hat.'
. . . Peanuts was a better
comic strip than Odd Bod
kins. ... the fact that Nobby
Tiemann used a biplane to
pull his banner is indicative
of something.
... you must be out of
your mind.
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Return on Jan. 2 Unavoidable
Dear Editor:
Miss Polly Rhynalds ("Return on New Years Day?"
Sept. 28) objects to resumption of classes on Monday,
Jan. 2. An earlier letter did so on other grounds, merely
the possible bowl game.
I have full sympathy with these objections, although
I was the one who proposed the change in the academic
calendar resulting in this date. The calendar committee
had proposed Christmas vacation to run from Saturday,
Dec. 24, at 12:30 through Sunday, Jan. 8.
There would have been four read: Four days of
classes on Jan. 9, 10, 11 and 12 (Monday through Thursday)
followed by the reading day on the 13th and final Exams
beginning on the 14th. In other words, for all practical
purposes, the semester would have run until Christmas.
In addition, Dec. 24 would have been a day of classes,
and I wondered just how many people would have been
here on that day, or even on Friday the 23rd.
The Faculty Senate passed my motion to amend the
proposed calender. Nobody, including myself, was happy
with either vacation schedule, but In view of other factors
limiting flexibility in the calendar, one of them had to bo
accepted.
I suggested the possibility of taking one day (Wednes.
day out of the Thanksgiving recess and to resume
classes only on Tuesday, Jan. 3; but this proposal was
found quite unacceptable. Adding one day to the spring
semester would not make up for a day lost in the fall
semester.
It's just bad luck that this time Christmas and New
Year's fall on Sundays, and that there are so few days
between New Year's and the end of the fall semester
which cannot be avoided in view of the need to start the
summer session by the middle of June.
Edward N. Megay
Mayor's Speech Of Little Use
Dear Editor:
I agree with the Sept. 28 editorial that the principle of
having the mayor of Lincoln speak before the Student
Senate is a fine thing. After hearing him speak Wednes
day I regret that Dean Petersen did represent Lincoln
and its mayor before the Senate.
I feel he did not accomplish much other than a good
will visit. Mr. Petersen avoided the direct and clear
questions asked him, as: how he felt about liquor by the
drink; what can be done to solve the traffic and parking
problems on campus; and how much had been done to
provide fair and low-priced housing for foreign students
since ASUN President Terry Schaff's report to the City
Council last spring.
Mr. Petersen recognized the University's students as
being responsible and called the senators the future lead
ers of this city. But he was very vague about the Uni
versity's impact on the city of Lincoln.
I am glad that the mayor did come. It opens doors for
possible future ties between Lincoln and the University.
Other than that, I feel Mr. Petersen accomplished little
else than to prove he's a practiced expert at evading
some important questions of the time.
Jamie
South Africa's Apartheid
Dear Editor:
I have followed your recent interview with Eastman
and from his words it is clear that the South African gov
ernment cannot claim to have achieved anything in the
advancement of the native people in the country, in spite
of the booming economy and in the light that the natives
two miles away in the British governed Basutoland have
advanved under a poorer economy to achieve their inde
pendence this year.
I think in Eastman's monoscopic view he has helped
us to see the effect of the apartheid or racial oppression
policy. This policy in guise of separating races suppresses,
oppresses and exploits the non-Europeans, keeping them
ignorant or even reducing them to humilitation in a de
plorable inhuman way or as Eastman puts it, it is a
practical way to "control" the 22 million natives. We
know that the South African native has not been hostile or
dangerous to the European settler, I therefore object to
this inhuman policy which can only be controlling their
number and advance.
Those who feel that educating the natives is detrl
mental to American interests and the European popula
tion (there) are merely evading facts. For example in
free Africa there are governments headed by Africans
who anguished in desert prisons for several years under
colonial rule. Today these men have formed not only
an l-communist but staunchly DEMOCRATIC governments
void of racial discrimination, fully protesting foreign busi
ness and makmg sure that nobody is hnrt because he or
she is white. I wish to add and emphasize that the entry
of foreign arms and white forces is the single factor
tending to jeopardize the position of friendly whites living
and helping us in free Africa.
It is regretful to note that although South Africa has
had a longer contact with Europeans than say Uganda,
. Eastman still discovered that the natives "have not been
exposed to European thinking." What Eastman saw was
the effect of apartheid. He tells us the natives are left
alone along side a booming economy. Under aparthied
there is a poor reaction to those rare government pro
grams. We also know that the apartheid policy endeavors
T f ot white and African teachers and missionaries.
What hope then, does the policy offer for the development
of three-quarters of the p o p u 1 a t i o n which Eastman
characterizes as superstitious and backward and there
fore far below all the neighboring natives.
A practical solution is for the South African govern
ment to a low free government of missionary schools.
Such schools should receive government assistance and
if necessary they should at first be manned by adjoining
African teachers and missionaries or even whites of non
South African origin. It is my hope that the present ex
ploitary foreign business companies in the country would
contribute to such a program thereby creating a good
relationship and helping to build cooperation instead of
oppressive control. The aim is a quick institution of
DEMOCRACY in South Africa which is at the moment
staunchly anti-DEMOCRATIC. ,UUI"C'H
Abby Wandera