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THE NEBRASKAN
Thursday, April 18, 1946
EDITORIAL!
COMMENT
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Big Six Hoax .
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It was bound to happen. Everyone's been ex
pecting it for weeks, alomst since the beginning
of school Well, since people could get gasoline,
and students brought their cars back to school.
As we walked out of the Union Wednesday,
There's life in the Student Council yet! We are glad turned to the west, and waited for the light to
to see that the Council has enough backbone, for the first change, there it was, an accomplished, horrible
time this year, to really stand up for what they believe is fact the curb was stained in awful, loathsome,
right and pass on an important controversial issue. We're bloody red. Darn this street department, next
speaking of the resolution on Negro participation in Big Six thing we know they'll sweep our apartment out
conference athletics. of the gutter.
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i ne iMeurasKa uounuu weiu a sieu luunci man m . .. if rnim
Kansas U council, originators of the resolution, when they . . . . . stM.. iha n1h
added the proposal that UN withdraw from the Big Six if o .... . .ic,rcH iho cifJn
the recommenaat.on is not aaopiea. uoviousiy me uuBni, disappeared int0 thin air, but had slid be-
Teix max tne oniy way in wnicn iney uouiu iojc u...vc..iy hJnd the marble counter Thin air space it was
and conference OTTiciais to give xne maner serious consider- . cn . . . ... rpmain nnli, th dim
anon was Dy tne aaamon ot inis arasuc ciause. n icnmins
for them to encourage similar action from the student
bodies of the other schools in the conference.
The stumbling blocks in the problem are Missouri and
Oklahoma, where state laws keep Negroes out of state uni
versities. Iowa and Kansas State will probably have no ob
iects to withdrawal of the "gentlemen's agreement" which
future years, when members of the wrecking crew
will no doubt discover that the Mary Morning
breakfast was set for May 5, 1946,
That embarrassed expression on the faces of
inost students in class the other morning when
the professor mentioned prayer was a sad com-
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being, and one of the distinguishing characteristics
of the adult is an ability to apply that faith to
everyday life. Why, then, should college students
assume an apologetic attitude when church attend
ance is mentioned, or sit like warts on a pumpkin
when prayer is the subject under discussion.
Latest constructive suggestion reaching our
cranial flaps is that the Daily Nebraskan should
run a crossword puzzle, to occupy people's time
while waiting for their order to be filled, or when
their date is late, as usual. Would cut down on
the number of paper airplanes flying around.
Fascinating, that's the only apt description for
those tricky matches engraved "U. S. Navy" they've
been handing out with cigarettes of late. Swabbies
have made more than one innovation on our cam
pus this year, but we wouldn't have gone so far
as to say they "set it on fire." That is, until
now. lhen we eet the word from the navv that
1 ne adoption Ot a resolution- Withdrawing racial dlS- LFD had it under control within a matter of min-
crimination in the Big Six does not mean that Missouri and utes and Navy hall, bless its sainted memory of
Oklahoma would have to change their state laws, it would gayer days, is still resting not so firmly on its
merely mean that any schools so desiring could use Negro foundation. Be that as it may. we appreciate the
boys when playing any of the others of the six schools,
six schools.
The Student Council has initiated its most worthwhile
project of the year. It is a project which can be acconr
plished if the council will be persistent.
that two schools should determine the policy for all six
member schools.
The majority of both Eastern and Western universities
allow Negroes to compete in school athletic programs. 1 he
six midwestern universities are showing themselves to be
behind the times in tolerating such outdated rulings. They
are also hurting themselves by discouraging college attend
ance of Negro athletes from their own and other states.
Nebraska high schools frequently graduate Negro track,
basketball and football stars who would be valuable mem
bers of college teams.
One of the most important arguments against the con
tinuation of this "gentlemen's agreement" to mass racial
discrimination is the intolerance of the attitude behind it.
Why should any boy, because of the color of his skin, be told
that he is not good enough to play football or basketball
with his fellow classmates? What could be more undemo
cratic and less Christian? Doesn't the constitution of the
llt-iitorl 5tato cau cmviol-iinor nhnut froorlnin anrl Am in litu ?
Low Tide . . .
comment made about the love-seat by one ob
servant lad, "that class of 1906 had the right idea,
all right, but I'll bet they never expected the light
to be on in the library all night."
Best news to come out of the university this
year is the way most of us are describing the
Dear Editor:
Some good clean-cut entertainment has
been taking place under the name of poli
tics, and today was the climax to the com
edy. Last week students were asked to signify
their party preference in a registration. The
Student party had a platform stating only
that it was for democratic government. I
spent 41 months confined in a caste system
to preserve the right of democratic govern
ment. That is written (or should be) in the
constitution of every organization except
those that are trying to overthrow our gov
ernment, or even undermine it. A - party
must have a principal other than that to
exist.
The second party, the Union Independent,
says: "We are against factionalism." The
only definition I can find is that a faction
is "a party, organization or clique, within
a state or party." The Union Independent
party is nothing but a faction.
Now the climax of the comedy. A party
called the University party says "The pur
pose of this party is to promote the inter
ests of those dissatisfied with other political
party systems. That is a good start, but
that is all. It can be summed up with one
word, ambiguous.
Listen, kids, can't we elect a king and
queen every week instead of trying to use
the poor innocent word politics to disguise
a popularity contest.
Sincerely,
Johnny Kolopochecky.
announcement in today s news columns of the
piped music in the ballroom. Most popular item
in the Union program has long been their Sun
day schedule of free movies followed by the Coffee
Hour. This winter, however, its appeal has been
challenged by the noon-hour dances, when stu
dents can take a few minutes out from erudition
for terpsichory. Now they can have dances each
noon, and tea dances almost as often, without
woiking Union supervisors to mere shadows. Who
knows, we may not have to give up that dream
of dancing with Schneider, Stroud and Seldon in
quick succession. There are still twenty-two danc
ing dcys till finals.
Student interest and participation in campus elec
tions is at an alarmingly low ebb. The purpose of these
elections has been to afford students a voice in the ad
ministration of the university, but statistics indicate that
the student wishes no medium of expression.
During the war-time years members of this univer
sity took an active part in promoting Bond sales, United
Nations discussions, War Surveys and innumerable other
pertinent democratic functions, and at the same time com
pletely disregarded one of the strongest rights reserved
for democratic thinking peoples, the right to vote.
Now that the actual fighting has ceased, it will be in
teresting to see whether the coming elections will find
more students at the polls than before or during the war,
In the prewar elections of 1939-40 less than 40 percent of
the students enrolled visited the campus polls on election
day. Only 2,033 of 5,896 enrollees cast ballots. Yet during
this time there was a great deal of lamenting by the stu
dents concerning the administration of the school.
1941-42 brought our first war-time elections. A higher
percentage of students visited the polls, but still 2,629 vot
ers out of 5,235 enrolled represented barely fifty percent
of the student body. Ensuing war years, however, saw
active voting participation drop even more than enrollment.
In 1943-44 only 829 students went to the polls of the 2,774
enrolled in the university. Exactly 29.885 percent.
Figures for this year's voting are unavailable, but with
slightly more than 1,200 students registered of the 5,500 en
rolled in the university this semester, the trend of student
interest doesn't appear to be on an upgrade.
If students don't want the privilege of maintaining a
Student Council, electing class officers, and choosing publi
cation members, then they should make this fact known and
allow the present plan to be abolished; but, on the other
hand, if they want to continue to exercise this prerogative,
then they must accept its coordinate responsibility of par
ticipating in any and all elections and seeing to it that thru
the candidates of their own choosing they maintain the
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