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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, July 23. 1949
Jul (Dcdh TkbAaAkcuv
Member
Intercollegiate Press
FORTY-SEVENTY YEAS
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Nebraskan are personally responsible for what they aay or do or cause to be printed."
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3, 1879, and at special rate of noaice provided for In section 110S. Act of October
8, 1917. authorized September It, 1822.
Editor M- J- Melick
Business Manager Keith O Bannon
Thanx . . .
To the entire campus, for its deathless devotion in spite
of staggering odds. You read it and it wasn't easy, but the
agony is almost over. With this issue The Daily Nebraskan
ceases publication until September 15.
Now, then, is the time to sing the praises of the unsung
heroes who have fought the battle of college newspaperdom
all summer. Thanx then from The Daily Nebraskan to
Emily Heine who has been responsible for features, to Rod
Riggs, of Mud, Sweat and Cheers, to Janet Kepner for a
superb coverage of the theater and to Sharlot Maurer for
general reporting and Bill Poe, the man with the camera.
Thanx also for wonderful faculty co-operation, es
pecially from the summer session director's office. Thanx,
too, to Fritz Daly and the public relations office, without
whom it just wouldn't have been possible.
We hope The Daily Nebraskan has been a useful item.
If you haven't read it we trust you have used it to wrap up
the garbage.
Bargain
Basement
Casually slipping a cigarette be
tween his lips, Dave Cole lighted
it with a gold-encrusted lighter
presented to him by the King of
Siam. He leaned back in his chair
and reflected briefly over the 8000
word editorial that he had to write
in the next half hour.
He heaved a sigh and turned to
his custom-built solid platinum
typewriter and began to peck at
the keys. He gradually increased
his rate of typing from 50 to 100
words a minute, wording his edi
torial on the economic implica
tions of atomic energy in words
for his 9,800,000 readers. It was
somewhat difficult for him to
"write down" from an intellectual
standpoint, but soon he was typing
automatically, letting his thoughts
wander.
In his mind he went back to the
old college days, thinking of all
the parties, the people. He thought
then of his prolific and the word
is well advised love affairs, of
all the girls he had known in col
lege. Shirley and Jenny, Barbara
and Mary, Jane and Beth, Frances
and Beverly.
And then he thought of Nancy,
the daughter of the president of
the press association. Of Nancy,
the girl he had married, and of
how easy things had been for him,
and in spite of hfs great talent,
how bored he had become.
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The Uni Theater . . .
has scored another success with its production of "Hay
Fever," presented last Thursday evening on the Union stage.
Congratulations go to both cast and crews for putting on a
production under great technical difficulties. It is a neat
trick to put on a play of any size with a stage as small as
that of the Union's, and add to that the difficulty of putting
spot lights on window sills and balcony ledges, of having a
backstage area almost big enough for one person to walk
through, of getting people on and off stage with only one
entrance three feet wide which has to contain also a
prompter, light crew, prop crew and sound effects men, of
playing only one night in an auditorium which is none too
large and in which the acoustics are not top-flight. We are
not criticizing the Union, for they have been very helpful,
but the stage was not built for large scale productions.
All of which brings up the question what about the
University Theatre? Plans for next season include produc
ing the plays in the Nebraska Theatre. For this we give
thanks to the administration but with the reminder that
this is temporary at best, for having the use of a stage for
only a few nights five times during the school year is hardly
what could be termed excellent conditions. The University
Theatre needs a home.
A new building was to be included in the plans for the
future but action is slow. Every time we have made inquiry,
we have been told "the plans have been sent to an architect."
We got a little inside information on the preliminary report.
It was on just removing the fire hazards in the present
auditorium and we understand that it was so costly that
the plans were sent back for further revision. The rumor
was that the administration was toying with the idea of a
long range project.
This raises a number of questions. First of all, if they
decide to renovate the present auditorium, does that mean
that the speech department will be permanently housed in
the Temple building? It isn't in such terrific condition
either, you know. If, on the other hand, they build a new
auditorium, will this put the theatre in one building and the
rest of the speech department in another? That would be
confusing and certainly make a lot of work trotting back
and forth. And are we to have a new speech building at all,
or will high costs and maintenance discourage the adminis-.
tration? We don't like to feel tkat the administration is
stalling us along in hopes that we will forget about the
whole affair.
We are not condemning or criticizing, we would only
like to be answered. The University Theatre needs a home,
not in five or ten years, but now.
Pardon Us . . .
If we wax a bit philosophical in our last editorial.
We overheard an interesting: commentary on ourselves
the other dav. which we will pass along to you for whatever
it may be worth which is probably nothing.
"I don't understand her," a friend said. "Her greatest
ambition is to put out the best Daily Nebraskan yet. She
fails miserably but it doesn't seem to frustrate her."
This and an idea that the basis of our society is compe
tition, the competition generated by the desire of one person
to reach a goal set above his fellow man. The idea of keep
ing up with the Joneses, no matter how.
We now come to the basis of our social ills. The desire,
the reach. A misconception from the word go. The impor
tant thing, it seems to us, is not to find, but to seek an
other way of saying that the end doesn't justify the means.
Life it seems to us was conceived to be lived for the
greatest benefit and happiness of all concerned. When so
city becomes so construed that we no longer live simply
because we get a kick out of living, something has sprung
a leak.
The important thing then is to get some deep down
satisfaction from life while living, rather than waiting to
sit back in fifty years and meditate on ones successes.
And the beautiful part of the whole thing is that it
applies to just about everything. Take college. To work for
the joy of learning, rather than grades. To do the best job
possible because work is fun, the salary is only secondary.
To work as long and as hard as possible for the pure joy of
work, thereby making oneself more tolerable. If we succeed,
how lucky we are. If we don't, how pleasant it's ben to try.
Robert Slezak, who has played
the No. 1 position for the Uni
versity of Nebraska tennis team
the past three years, will coach
the Cornhusker net team next
season, Athletic Director George
(Potsy) Clark announced.
Slezak replaces Francis Leigh
ton who resigned after com
pleting his work for a degree.
Stozak alc will serv on the
physical education staff starting
this fall.
He has won the boys singles
crown in San Francisco, Army
Air Forces Training Command
singles during the war, Tucson
War Fund Invitational singles,
the Lincoln city singles and
doubles, Nebraska state doublei
the past two years and the Ne
braska hard court crown at
North Platte for two years.
Slezak is married and the
father of thre children.
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