THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, November 23, 1947
PAGE 2
Nice Try
In an effort to validate the action of the Student Council in ob
jecting to the racial discrimination which was prevailed in pig Six
conference circles for these many years, The Daily Nebraskan sought
produce student response by the polling system. The results speak
for themselves ... the Nebraska student governing body acted in
complete accord with the majority sentiment.
Therefore, the Lincoln conference of campus leaders likewise
has received the blessings of the UN student body. If, however,
history is soon to repeat itself the only appropriate comment to the
student body and the Council is "nice try."
If our memory serves use correctly, in May, 1946, students on four
Big Six campuses raised an objection to the same clause, which at
that time was so quaintly referred to as "a gentlemen's agreemnt."
Just as is happening today, those four campuses referred their senti
ments to their respective faculty representatives on the Big Six
Board of Governors for the board's consideration. The result! The
board moguls, always glad to know student reaction to any ques
tion, merely put the gentlemen's agreemnt in writing. Like we
say, nice try!
Consequently it is felt that the action of the students on these
some four campuses is futile. Today as it was a year and a half
ago. We're young, we're only students and we're rather simple.
All the time we thought representative government meant just that,
but like I say we're young.
Which brings up the only logical question in our minds, just
who is supposedly represented on this Board of Governors? If it's
the faculty, then speak up, where did we first hear of the definition
of representative government? If it's the administration, then
moisten your vocal cords and expound! If it's the students, then
let the students be heard. Unless of course we've become mere
names on registration fee receipts or numbers on an IBM machine.
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Dear Editor:
The results' of the racial dis
crimination poll, I . feel, will be
known even before tabulation
unanimous support of the Stu
dent Council's decision.
Around the campus today one
couldn't help notice the unusu
ally large number of Daily Ne
braskan's with this ballot blank
missing. This great interest, I be
lieve, was created by the recol
lections of most veterans. Some
of us worked with Negro soldiers
during the war and found them
both cooperative, hard-working
and entertaining. Some of us
recollect that our constant at
attemps to hitch-hike rides on a
furlough were almost always
helped by a Negro driver irre
gardless of official regulations.
You know too that some of our
finest musical work comes from
the Negro race.
We, whites, look down on the
Negro because his living condi
tions are below ours. He is re
stricted in almost every economic
field. Authorities say remedies
will be slow to come. This is
our fait because it is our natural
instinct to look out for ourselves.
As whites have we any right to
restrict the Negro from competi
tion in our athletics?
Lets go on the books as one
group of humans who believe in
equal rights for all men. Lets have
one field in this land of ours
where at the present time, there
are no restrictions on the Negro.
Maybe the Constitution should
be revised to add another free
dom the freedom of participa
tion. William S. Stocking.
JhsL (Daily. ThJbhasJicuv
, ' Member
Intercollegiate Press
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year, bj.vo manea. diubk cvpy - - - . : - -days
and Saturday, vacation and examination period, by the University
im uder the npervtlon of tbe Publication Board. Entered a second
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Class Matter at the fort Of tic la Uneola, Nebraska, wider Act of Congress
S. 1818. and at (pedal rate f posture prvrtoea tor
t. 1917. authorized Beptemoer JO, iwtt,
March
section 1103. Act of October
The Dally Nebraska la published by the stnoent 01 me university vi nnwu
a expression of students new and opinion only Aecoraini o
Law t-overoln student publication and administered by the Board of Publications
"It 1 thVdeelared policy ol the Board that publication under tt Jurisdiction shall
be free from editorial censorship on the part of the Board, or on the part, ol any
member of the faculty of the university: but member of the taff of The Dally
Nebraiksn are personally responsible for what they say or do or cause to be printed."
EDITORIAL STAFF
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Mi.' rditors". " 7 "7. H1U. eore.. Miller
New. Editor Jeanne Kerrlcan, Norn Lerer. Wally Becker, Cub Clem, Tottw iddocii
Kports Editor
At New Editor
Special Feature Editor
Society Editor .ri'n
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Assistant Business Manager Bill Wilkin. Merle Stadler,
(Ed Note: The opinions expressed by columnists In The Dally Nebraskan do aot
necessarily represent those of the University or The Dally Nebraskan.)
Student Placement Meeting
A.me- l if.
At o iuonuav Aiiernoon
The meeting between UN
seniors and representatives-of the
Civil Service and the Corps of
Engineers will be held Monday
evening at 5 p. m. in Room 107B
Social Sciences.
The purpose of the meeting will
be to find placement for deserv
ing students who would have a
hard time finding a good job in
their fields in other days. The
entire placement program at. this
university is under the direction
of T. J. Thompson, who is acting
under dual capacity of Chairman
of the Educational Placement
committee and liaison officer,f
the Eeighth Civil Service region
at the university.
Other information on senior
placement may be obtained from
the office of the Dean of Student
Affairs in Room 104 Administra
tion. Engineers and chemists are
especially wanted by most big
comorations now. according to
Dean Thompson's office.
THE DELTA UPSILON'S finish of their skit with the chorus spell
ing out Delta U on their unmentionables. Anything for a laugh.
Veterans Swell
College Ranks
To 2,500,000
"A decided drop in the inflow
of new veterans but an over
flowing reservoir of total col
legiate students" is the report on
current attendance at American
universities and colleges made
public by Dr. Raymond Walters,
president of Cincinnati and na
tionally known statistician of
higher education.
Telling of preliminary statis
tics received from 350 approved
institutions throughout the coun
try. Dr. Walters said: "As com
pared with the first-time G. I.
invasion of the colleges a year
ago .there are fewer freshman
veterans on the campus this fall,
the decreases ranging in gen
eral from 10 to 75 percent.
"However ,a remarkably high
proportion of the 1,000,000 vet
erans who entered college last
year with federal payment of
their tuition and subsistence did
academic work and have re
turned to upper classes this
year.
"There has, moreover, been a
big increase in the number of
students going to . college di
rectly from high schools, so the
combined veterans and non
veterans taking both fulltime
Campus News
In Brief
Ii Tau Sigma
The president of Pi Tau Sigma
should contact Jane McArthur,
managing editor of the Cornhus
ker immediately, concerning the
group picture which was sched
uled for Friday, Nov. 28, at 5
p. m. It will have to be re
scheduled before Dec. 1, since
this date is during Thanksgiving
vacation.
Air Reserve
The Air Reserve Association
will meet Tuesday No. 25, at 7:30
p. m. at the 4 and 8 club in the
Lincoln hotel. Lt. Enger will
speak of the Oklahoma City Air
Reserve convention which he attended.
COBS TASSELS
All CORNHUSKER salesbooks
mut be turned back to the Corn
huker office before 5:00 Tuesday,
Nov. 25.
and part-time courses will prob
ably approach 2,500,000 as com
pared with about 2,000,000 in the
fall of 1946.
The current enrollment will
likely prove over 50 percent
largeer than that of the ' prewar
peak reached in the fall of 1939,
Dr. Walters concluded.
McWilliams,
Noted Author
Tq Talk Here
Carey McWilliams, noted au
thority on the history of racial
minorities in the United States,
and the causes of racial con
flicts, has agreed to speak at the
next all-university convocation on
Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 11 a. m. in
the Union ballroom.
McWilliams will talk on "Or
ganized Racism A Threat to
Democracy." A California at
torney who was head of the Cali
fornia division of immigration and
housing from 1939 to 1943, McWil
liams has spent a good many years
in the study of the various phases
of the subject of minorities. He
has written many books such as
"Prejudice," "Brothers Under the
Skin" and "111 Fares the Land"
which have received widespread
attention in this country.
Urges New Policy. .
Urging the necessity for es
tablishing a new policy about mi
norities, McWilliams says that it
must be based on scientific fact
and not upon a "miscellaneous col
lection of old wives' tales and su
perstitions" and must also be
based upon the American concep
tion of citizenship.
Ominous signs today, and re
newed attacks of violence upon
Negroes which have gone com
pletely unpunished. One of the
threats to democracy, he warns,
will be made thru power politics
utilized by demagogues.
California Grad.
Carey McWilliams was born in
Steamboat Springs, Colo., on Dec.
13, 1905. After attending Colo
rado schools he entered the Uni
versity of Southern California,
where he was graduated in 1927
with an LL.B. degree. In 1940
he became president of the com
mittee for the protection of the
foreign born, formed for the pur
pose of preventing passage of the
numerous anti-labor and anti
alien bills pending in Congress.
Opinion Poll ...
(Continued from Page 1.)
ballot. Tabulated as a percent
age of persons interviewed, the
survey results are:
Question
I .
II
III
Survey
Yes
M.91,
srt.i
59.4
results
Undrrldcd No
OS. 4 09.9
.4 87.5
1S.S U.t
indicate that
while nearly 90 of those ques
tioned opposed the discrimination
against Negroes in current Big
Six rules, students at large were
not as keen for the rest of the
Student Council resolution.
The majority opposed endorse
ment of the council demand that
the University withdraw alone un
less discrimination is eliminated.
However, about 60 were favor
able to reforming the conference
including only the schools admit
ting Negroes.
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