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DAILY NEBRASKAN Friday, November 15, 1940 DAILY policy again After these days of wrangling and arguing over prin ciples, elections, and other miscellaneous misunderstood issues, it's time this writer sets readers straight on just what part the DAILY NEBRASKAN has taken in the arguments arising over the election returns and in the discussion of campus politics, campus issues, and campus elections in general. The DAILY is NOT a greek paper, nor is it a barb paper. Its news columns are and will continue to be fair to every group; and those columns have and will Include news pertaining to barbs, greeks, and any one else. The importance of news is the criteria used in determining publication space, length, and position. DAILY news editors and managing editors weigh all news relatively at it effects the entire campus. This semester, the job has been done excellently. The staff now includes a barb editor whose responsibility is the reporting and coverage of barb news to insure that that news finds its way Into the DAILY columns. That barb editor, and the rest of the barbs working on this paper have not had, and do not now have cause for complaint of unfairness or discrimination against them. If you don't believe us, ask them! The DAILY never made any claim to the effect that It originated the co-op movement among barb men. It has endeavored to start a campaign to further the co-op movement by asking cooperation from barb leaders in strumental in organizing co-ops. But those barb leaders have either been too busy or were not willing to cooper ate, and the DAILY has gone without their assistance, which, in any case, would be absolutely necessary before anything could be done. The DAILY needs facts, figures, and other data which would indicate tne possibilities of furthering the co-op movement. Barb leaders promised to get the necessary information, but they have failed. The DAILY represents neither liberal, progres sive, nor barb views In campus politics. It represents the views of Its editor, and those views are not the views of any particular faction, regardless of what anyone else may believe. We have tried to be Impar tial and anyone who says otherwise is lying; anyone who believes otherwise is misinformed. The DAILY ha pleaded for honesty in campus poli tics by criticizing those who conceal personal ambitions or claim they have none. If campus figures are ambi tious, there is no reason for hiding their aims. Honesty is still the best policy. Greeks particularly have never disclaimed personal aims for their own glory or for the glory of their houses. Barbs have o reason to camou flage their intentions behind the guise of helping the "downtrodden." The DAILY believes, and strongly, that the barbs on this campus have much to achieve and much to work for. It also believes that the political condition most barbs claim for themselves is but a product of laxity and failure to try and work Into activities .that have been and are now open to them. Most barbs seem to be content in feeling they are discriminated agau.3t and stop there. What they should be doing is working in Kosmet Klub and Corn Cobs; on the DAILY NEBRASKAN, Cornhusker, Awgwan, and other publications. No one has stopped them or threa tened to do so. The very few who have gone out for these activities have found they are not handicapped. The cry and holler that is raised seems empty and one of illogical, and non-understandable self-pity. The opinion of the DAILY regarding the first action of the student council judiciary committee was explained yesterday, plainly enough for everyone to understand. The beliefs stated in the above editorial are long-standing and not affected or formulated because of what has happened during the last few days... that should be clearly under stood by everyone. This editorial was written before the second judiciary committee meeting, without any knowledge of what may have transpired there. Regardless of what that commit tee decided, Thursday's stand remains the DAILY stand. Tsk! Tsk! The following was received by us in yesterday aft ernoon's maiL Dear Editor: (Or should I say skunk). Isn't It not enough for the greeks to take the elec tion away from the barb party by unfair polKlcs with out you trying to sabotage the party itself? Every barb knows how much the barb leaders have put In trying to get the barbs into an organization so that they can demand their rights. Every barb is grateful for the work these men and women have done. If the DAILY is so interested in the welfare of the barbs, why did it wait until the barbs were organized before It became interested In the welfare of the barbs. I didn't like the headline either. The liberals didn't win the top post and you know it. It was given to them. i Angerly yours, j Ward Brunson, Barb. ' And I don't mean angrily.) It's amusing to find people ifke Mr. Brunson, Throughout the whole melee over the election and the editorials in the NEBRASKAN, not one person has gone so far as to show the ignorance and indiscriminate taste that Mr. Brunson has Bhown in addressing his letter the way he did. To show that we can take It... and then some, the letter is printed. We're sure the rebound won't fall on us. There's still something like acting like a gen tleman, or acting civily and like a man. In addition, all the English professors and teachers, from the second grade through university, frown on the use of a double negative, as used in the first sentence of the letter above. Ed. Due to aflood of letters received yesterday concerning the past few days' activities on campus, the DAILY finds it Impossible to run all of them in any single edition. Many are too long to be run, but we shall try to,, include them In later editions. Some are so point less and hysterical that to run them would be absolute waste of space. Regardless of what the con tent of any letter is the DAILY is indeed happy that this campus has livened up. We shall do our best to get all the letters into the paper, but we cannot to the im possible. Naturally, we run noth ing which will leave us open to a libel suit. Ed. Dear Editor: On page one of Wednesday's DAILY NEBRASKAN, entirely out of accord with the usual posi tion of editorials, appears a col umn, signed by the editor of the DAILY, obviously written for the purpose of alienating the support of unaffiliated students from the Barb Union. Aside from the fact that this marks a policy wholly in consistent with the DAILY'S de mands for impartiality of the barb paper, the editorial errs in several of its most important statements. Basinc its nlea for barbs to de- pert their party on the ground that barb leaders nave Deen worKing for their own personal advance ment and have neglected the wel fare of its members, "Your Edi tor" declares that the "Barb" has refused to aid in the campaign for the improvement of housing con ditions and the establishment of the co-op system, which the DAILY now attempts to take credit for leadine. As members of the first fully ro-onerative boardine snd rooming house on the campus, we feel that we are authorized to speak in pro test to this statement. Pioneer Co-op was established, as was Cornhusker Co-op Eating Club, by barb members of the university YMCA. Instrumental in the early development of interest in co-op houses were barb leaders George Gostas and Ellsworth Steele. The Barb Union has felt it unnecessary to act to any great extent in this matter as an organization, since ( barbs have taken an active part in an unofficial capacity. rhe Union does, however, have as the first plank in its platform a pledge to work for better hous ing facilities for all university stu dents, and is making an active campaign for the establishment on the campus of a men s dormitory at a reasonable monthly rate not to exceed $25 to $30 per month for board, room and all nouse fees. In addition to this, the second issue of the Barb contained, inserted in side the sheet, a questionnaire surveying the housing situation on the campus. The questionnaire was put out by the Student Coun cil and the Barb Tnterclub Council. The DAILY NEBRASKAN'S claim to establishing the co-op system rests largely on a similar survey which it conducted. While barbs appreciate the aid the DAILY NEBRASKAN has given through publicity and sur vey, we cannot feel that the DAILY has been ss instrumental in aiding co-ops ss have some of the barbs who have been working for this purpose for some time, rather than seeking, as has the NEBRASKAN, to Becure a lion's share of the glory by a dramatic official entry Into a project al ready started by the unofficial representatives of another group. The Barb Union seeks to pro mote interests of its members in more ways than one, however. It has been a luling of the prom committee that men attending the Junior-Senior Prom are required to appear in tuxedo. The barbs have pledged themselves to the abolition of this rule, which has prevented many of the barb men from attending. It is for the ful fillment of this and similar pledges that the barb political organiza tion is needed. In order to put their ideals into effect, it is im perative that the barbs secure par tial control of the reins of student government. This, rather than de sire for personal advancement, is the purpose of the barb candidates in their campaign for office. The barb membership comprises a great majority of the student body, yet at the present time they have almost no voice in the man (See DEAR EDITOR, page 5.) The Daily Ncbraskan FORTIETH VKAR. Subarrlptlon Bate are fl.00 Vn Hniw- ter or SI. AO fur the College Vear. f2.M Mailed. Single ropy, 6 Onti. Entered ai aecond-rla matter at the poilofflee In Mneoln, Krhranka, under Art of Cmi imwi, March 3, 1875, and nt unrrlal rale of postage provided for In Section 1IM, Art of Ortober 3, 1917. 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