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A Shocking Situation
According to rumors from administration (no one
really knows for sure) any speaker can speak on this
campus regardless of his beliefs, ideas, positions or po
litical affiliations.
Fine the privilege sounds nice and ever since Allen
Ginsberg was here we feel that one can almost believe
the rumor.
So who do we have scheduled to speak at the University
this year?
All-University convocations no one.
Talks and Topics a satirist (fine), an actor who is
famous as a villain, a woman newspaper correspondnet
and a cartoonist.
The Daily Nebraskan feels that the lack of speakers on
this campus is shocking and we encourage every other
student at this University who feels the same way to let
the school know about.
This is supposed to be an educational institution. We
are supposed to learn about the world here and its prob
lems. The Daily Nebraskan feels that one of the most im
portant aspects of this learning process is seeing and hear
ing intelligent speakers talk on many different issues.
The University is definitely failing every student with
its poorly planned and poorly organized program of inviting
speakers to this campus.
The members of the Faculty Senate convocations com
mittee, who are supposed to invite speakers to this campus
for all-University convocations, say they are limited by
funds and by the fact that many speakers just plain don't
want to come to Nebraska.
The Daily Nebraska. i can not believe that this com
mittee has so little fiuds that it can't bring anyone here
or that Nebraska is such a badly located state that not even
one speaker will accept an invitation to speak.
-Furthermore the Nebraskan would like to point out
that the Faculty Senate convocations committee is sup
posed to start inviting speakers to this campus in January
of the proceeding year. It is now October ten months
past the time the speakers for this year were supposed to
have been invited to the campus.
We can not understand any committee that is being
conducted in such a manner that ten months after it was
supposed to start working it has failed to accomplish one
thing.
If the point was simply that the committee has failed
this year, it might be excusable. But the record shows unfor
tunately that this convocation's committee has failed to
invite almost any speakers in the last three years who
have given stimulating talks or have interested the stu
dents. One might remember that besides Norman Thomas,
the only speaker on this campus that really said anything of
interest or educational value last year was Allen Ginsberg.
And the University went out of its way to make it clear
that this speaker that packed the ballroom and had sut
dents crowded in the balconies was not a guest of the Uni
versity. Apparently the only speakers who are guests of the
University the few that we have are comics who tell
nice jokes or old. men who sound like they are reading
from text books.
Talks and Topics has managed over the last few years
to provide the University with a better program of speak
ers. Perhaps thi makes it evident that any inviting of
speakers at this campus and handling of money for their
invitation should be handled by students who really care
about the educational atmosphere at this University.
' But Talks and Topics still leaves a great deal to be
desired. Really four speakers when one of them is a
comie and the other an actor can not be called exactly a
cultural boost to the campus.
-The Daily Nebraskan cannot, express its disappoint
ment or concern strongly enough about the lack of speak
ers on this campus yet alone any that are interesting,
stimulating or educational.
Wayne Kreuscher
Committee To Investigate
Student Senate's welfare committee announced Thurs
day afternoon that it also is concerned about the speaker
problem on this campus and will try to find out why the
University has this great cultural and educational gap.
The Nebraskan congratulates the welfare committee,
headed by Sen. Ron Pfelfer, for recognizing the problem
quickly and for starting an Immediate investigation.
The Daily Nebraskan would like to suggest that the
committee find out exactly how much money the convoca
tions committee has as contrasted with the Talks and
Topics committee to finance speakers.
Furthermore we would like to know how the convo
cations committee chooses the speakers that it does in
vite and who has the decisive hand in making this de
cision. In addition to this Richard Scott, program manager
of the Nebraska Union, said Thursday that the catalogues
that Talks and Topics uses for inviting speakers do not in
clude many of the speakers who are available to speak on
university campuses.
We would like to know why these catalogues are so
inadequate and why if they don't include all the speakers
possible, Talks and Topics doesn't find some others.
The Nebraskan would like to suggest that Sen. Pfei
fer's committee consider and investigate carefully the
idea of asking Faculty Senate to discontinue the useless
convocations committee and give all its money to the Ne
braska Union Talks and Topics committee.
In this way Talks and Topics which has shown some
initiative recently for inviting good speakers, might have
more money to expand their cultural program the way it
should be.
Wayne Kreuscher
'News Outlook'
The Daily Nebraskan be
gins in today's paper a
special page on news out
side of the campus that will
be printed In each Friday's
parar.
This page (page five, to
day) will be the "News Out
look" page and wiU consist
of one main story which
will quote an authority's In
terpretation and explana
tion of one important event
or -condition in the city,
state, nation or world.
The page will also run a
"Week In Review" that will
breifly report some of the
important city, state, na
tional or world news.
The Nebraskan hopes that
this page each Friday might
help every University stu
dent be more interested and
concerned with the impor
tant events happening
around the world.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The
f e 1 1 o w i n g editorial was
printed in the Sept. 7 is
sue of "The Spectrum" at
the State University of New
York at Buffalo .The Daily
Nebraskan feels that many
of the things this editorial
has to say about univer
sities are relevant to almost
every school in the nation.
This edition of the "Spec
trum" is an orientation is
sue; and, with the decision
to build a University in
Amherst as your reference
point, we will attempt to
orient you.
The concept of Univer
sity Autonomy is a myth.
Our University is in the
business of creating mass
produced replacement parts
for the continual rejuvena
tion of societal values and
institutions. Its overall goals
fail to either admit of or
seek any relevance for
these values and institu
tions, and thus the Univer
sity's structure can do lit
tle more than reflect every
practice of society. Indus
try and politics lay the
ground rules, as every ma
or University decision be
comes the result of back
room bartering, as opposed
to intellectual pursuit in an
atmosphere of free inquiry.
Our University snugly sits
back and gasps in horror
at the clandestine CIA op
erations recently uncovered
at other "centers of learn
ing" and calmly invokes
its long tradition of "re
spectability" as assurance
against any such "bad in
tentions" on its own part.
This too is a myth. Few
of us doubt that given the
opportunity, the University
would have developed along
the same lines; and that a
possible reason for its fail
ure to do so was a long
tradition as a second rate
university one in which
the CIA would be scarcely
interested.
Even so, our University
is hardly free from the
pressures of the outside in
terests. It is a junior mem
ber of the greater State
University system whose of
ficers are political appoint
ees and whose Board of
Trustees has been tradi
tionally comprised of pro
minent businessmen. It sees
itself responsible and re
sponsive to the State Legi
slature's internal maneuver
ing. The manifestations of
these pressures will become
obvious time and time
again throughout the course
of your education either
explicity, as in the case of
the State University's im
position of a loyalty oath
on faculty members (which
has been removed, or im
plicity, as in the size of
classes, the scarcity of
grass on campus, the length
of registration lines, out
rageous prices in the food
services and the number
of digits in student ID numbers.)
The University has made
itself part and parcel to
society's mass production
mentality, and the result is
an impersonal and irrele
vant education. Let me wel
come you to the State Uni
versity at Buffalo.
Daily Nebraskan
Vol. 90, No. 15
Oct. 7, 1966
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By SABRA McCALL
Lt. Gov. Philip C. Sorensen, Demo
cratic candidate for governor, has said he
would work for the enactment of a new
state law giving the vote to all persons 18
and over.
To us on a college campus, this has
far-reaching significance. It would give
us the opportunity to exercise one of the
responsibilities of adulthood that we all
demand, instead of waiting for that mythi
cal "grown up" age of 21.
It means that we can actively partici
pate in the political society governing us,
rather than passively observing the con
trolling persons and influences around us.
Sorensen, at 33, recognizes the youth
of this state has a definite role to play in
its future. He has said so, even when out
winning votes of older Nebraskans.
Phil Sorensen would be a young gov
ernor. He. would also be a governor with
the young in his program of growth for
Nebraska.
Since the election of John Kennedy,
the youth of this country has begun to
energetically take a part in the political
process and the decision making. With
the vote for 18-year-olds, this could in
clude more than 57,000 young persons in
this state to continue what Kennedy began.
But more important it would make
them want to become a part of the politi
cal process in Nebraska, which needs
forward-looking, original and sincere men
like Sorensen.
It is hackneyed to say that a person
should vote because he serves in the
armed forces. Teenage mothers don't get
to vote, until they, too, are 21. Nor is it
proper to say that a person should ballot
because he pays taxes. That's the price of
living in this country. We all enjoy it, we
should all pay for it.
However, it is most appropriate to
say that a person should vote because he
is a member of a country built on the
principle of free, open and equal demo
cratic institutions.
As we all are experiencing, the years
between our 18th and 21st birthdays are
the most impressionable and responsive to
ideas, learning and knowledge. If it takes
a person until he or she is 21 to learn how
to vote, then we could just as easily deny
any person who didn't go to college the
right to ballot.
That, of course, is ludricous. It is also
a flagrant violation of our democratic
principles.
We deserve the right to vote . Nebras
ka deserves Phil Sorensen. You deserve
the right to vote for Phil Sorensen.
By CATHIE SHATTUCK
Gee, just think. Here I am a big time
politician fully equipped with buttons,
balloons, bumper stickers, yard signs and
enthusiasm. Now the question is, "who am
I ringing doorbells for and why am I do
ing it?"
The "who" is Robert Denney, candi
date for Congress from the first district.
The "why" is positive leadership and
ideas which Bob Denney is willing to work
for in order to serve Nebraska.
Follow Bob on one of his days of cam
paigning and you will see that here is a
man who will work. He needs to win so
the people of his district can get a fair
representation.
At breakfast, Bob tells this audience
he is for the expansion of education at all
levels. He proposes that the money now
being wasted in the Job Corps at the
rate of $9,000 per student per year should
go to the s t a t e for the expansion and
development of technical-vocational train
ing. This he would do for Nebraska and
not represent his district by spending 9.1
million dollars for the Florida cultural
center as did the current Congressman.
At lunch, Bob Denney speaks again,
on education and he tells his audience
that he thinks all parents with children
in college should be given a tax deduction.
This certainly appeals to me as a student.
That evening, Bob Denney talks again
on what needs to be done for Nebraska.
He tells of his ideas to develop our cen
tennial and I am reminded that the
Congressmen we have from the first dis
trict voted for spending 4.1 million dollars
in federal money on the Alaska centennial,
but made no effort to get aid for Nebraska.
That man we have in Washington
now, certainly does get things done, but
his supporters will be sorely pressed to
tell what he has done for Nebraska. Bob
Denney will work' for NEBRASKA and,
with my support and your help, "Denney
Will Win".
From Inside Looking Out
Is it true that Batman is a Beta?
Is it true that Smoky the Bear is going
to proctor Abel Hall?
Is it really true that Student Senate
(supposedly no longer 'Mickey Mouse') de
feated a resolution recommending that no
organizations sponsor activities on Oct.
29 (AUF night), because the resolution
was too weak, and then defeated a resolu
tion ruling that no activities be sponsored
on that night, because it was too strong?
Well, Bob, T.S.W.H.S.
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(Jan 3tkin Writes . . ,
Who Would HaveThunk It?
Once upon a time but not too very far
away (not that's an original beginning),
a sleepy coed tiptoed down to the base
ment of her house to get a bottle of pop
and some peanut-butter crackers.
Now I konw that tiptoeing down to
the basement for something to cat is not
too terribly unusual but this young coed
was in for a shock . . .
Who would have thunk that she'd find
herself literally engulfed in a mass of
chicken wire, wire cutters, crepe paper,
wood, paint and of all things, muslin?
Yes, group, in case you have n't
noticed ... the Homecoming displays are
back on campus . . . again.
And despite the scratches from a mid
night battle with a ten foot wire football
player, at least one person is happy about
it!
Last year seemed empty somehow on
the nights before Homecoming. Few peo
ple at the Homecoming dance were cov
ered with merehurocrome and the day of
the game was not as festive as in past
years.
The reason was obvious enough
there were no giant crepe-paper monsters,
breathing smoke, spitting water, scream
ing and generally terrorizing the pedestri
ans. There were no blaring ditties or large
masses floating in the wind and somehow
everything seemed a disappointment.
Who were the villains behind the plot
to rob Homecoming of its splendor? Why,
the hooded herd or the boys in blue as
some call them this year who retracted
the display trophies of course.
The reasons given were valid ones,
nevertheless the displays do cut into
study time and only the art and engineer
ing students can get any educational bene
fits from the time-consuming project. But
this year Corn Cobs voted to give an
award to the best display and the "altars"
were returned to their previous pedestals
(i.e. displays again became Important.).
Displays really can be fun to build, you
know! The alums like them (say how
about building a display pushing for senior
keys); the paper companies like them;
wire firms adore them etc., etc.
In fact that's the only thing they have
in their favors is that people (even alums
who notoriously don't like anything) like
them. And that's enough reason for this
kid.
Granted, just because people like
something doesn't mean it's an absolute
necessity of life, but how many University
students are really losing time from their
studies compared to the number that say
they are?
Nothing is lost by having displays
(University students are already notorious
for wasting time and money so more won't
hurt) and a lot is gained in spirit and
enjoyment. I'd vote for spirit and enjoy
ment any day!
One thing that is just a tad bit disturb
ing about the displays is their titles like
"Flush the Wildcats" for instance.
It's like who would even want a ten
foot toilet in their front yard? Well, some
one obviously does and that's fine for
them.
Who would have thunk it though?
And then there are the old standy-by's
like "Junk 'em". Who would have thunk
l,artr?Ltnte old s2an like that would
EY LR be used again.
Who would have thunk that those
adorable plays on words would come back
to haunt the campus? Two of the real
cuties this year are "Martian on to Vic
tory (rah, rah, rah) and "Wildcat . . .
astrophy".
How about using some really neat
alliteration like "Octopi the Eni-Zons"?
my e a take"off on a movi like
"Cat Ballou It"?
Whoopee ding.
... ,Pke 1 "id it's that time of year again.
Well, someone would have thunk that the
displays are better than the slogans. At
least someone could hope so.
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