Wednesday, October 1; 1952
Page 2
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
We Wish Them Luck
Fifty-two juniors and seniors anxiously sat
Wound in the hall of the Union's third floor
Monday afternoon as they waited to be Inter
viewed by a Student Council committee for po
sitions , on the Junior and Senior class coun-
: lis ,
'.".' Durlpjr the course of the interviews, under
the direction of Nancl DeBord, questions about
class spirit, class unity, class fund-raising; cam
paigns and class sofcial functions were asked
the applicants. The interviewers obviously
knew what they were doing: and knew what they
were after in their. Questionings.
- The members of the class councils have been
chosen and are now subject to Council approval
before publication. And, yet, even before the
names are officially released, comments and ques
tions about the selection have been raised.
To some, the class councils are worthless. To
others they represent another activity. And to
countless others, they are necessary and must be
continued from year to year in order to find their
pjace in the lives of students.
Various motives for desiring membership on
a class council were undoubtedly present Mon
day afternoon during the interviews. And it
has been suggested that various motives were
also present in the minds of t those persons who
made the final decision.
Despite what prompted the decisions of those
voting Council members, the councils have been
chosen and, after Wednesday's Council meeting,
shall be officially ready to assume their duties.
Many conflicting Interests may be responsible
for the choice of the class council members as
many special interests were responsible for the
applicants desires to be Junior and Senior class
officials.
The fact that becomes apparent to The Ne
braskan is that plans of class unity, spirit, social
functions, service projects and so forth become
meaningless when promoted on basis of special
interest.
To the new council members. The Nebraskan
would like to wish the best of luck in addition
to the hope that their jobs are carried out in
the best Interests of the students they represent.
R.R.
A Lagging Culture
A few days ago this paper wondered editorially
if the University and Lincoln were not slipipng into
a-cultural lag. That was before the concert had
to be moved.
The concert, which promises to be a delight
. ful evening of Gershwin music, was moved from
the Coliseum to the Union Ballroom because of
insufficient ticket sales. It isn't just a concert by
University musicians, although many of our mu
sicians are quite accomplished and capable of pre
senting a very good concert. It is a concert by a
world famous organization: the Longines Sym
phonette. To The Nebraskan, it is highly regretable
that the Union concert sponsors, had to make the
move. Certainly it isn't because the Sympho
nette isn't famous enough. It has maintained a
regular radio appearance schedule since 1948.
It Isn't because the ticket prices are too high.
Students were to be admitted for only 75 cents.
Why, then was there such a disinterest on the
part of students and Lincolnites?
- Probably one of the very good reasons is that
the word Symphonette sounds too classical. It
tastes of long hair. Admitedly, it would be a
little cultural. But most of Lincoln, including the
University section, is acquainted with the type
of long hair that Mr. Gershwin produced. It was
long hair of a type that interested the jive artists
of Tin Pan Alley as well as the professors at mu
sic conservatories. Gershwin is a creator of mod
era music which is certainly cultural but not
frightening. We do not mean to maintain that
any other type of culture is frightening, we merely
are trying to emphasize the popularity of Gersh
win's music among all cultural levels.
The Symphonette will play selections from
Porgy and Bess. It Is good American music.
Despite the fact that this sounds like an ad
vertisement, we are not urging anyone to go.
Ticket sales had to be stopped because of the
change of location. Only a limited number of
tickets are left and they will go on sale Wed
nesday. The Nebraskan would like to repeat its charge
that there must be a cultural lag in this part of
the country because a chance to enjoy music like
that should never have to be limited to such a
small auditorium as the Union Ballroom. D.P.
Gauging The Candidates
Mihkbof the presidential aspirants would be
leastllkely to blow his top under job pressure?
Who has the best ability to apply his experience
andJuibwledge to new and changing situations?
Tftcse' questions could be answered if the nom
inees would consent to a three-hour battery of
tests at the University of Chicago. For the first
time, psychologists have the scales to weigh what
they call "biological intelligence."
These tests Include more than I.Q. They
gauge the sturdiness of the whole nervous sys
tem and take in emotions, Judgment, memory
and thinking capacity.
Drawing a psychological profile of prospective
leaders f government or business is not a far
feCTPfl Idea, in the belief of Prof. Ward Halstead,
who devised the battery. "It is tremendously im
portant in our complex 20th century society," he
8ay$t"tr have persons with healthy brains in key
positrons." A few leaky blood vessels in a criti
cal parli.iof the brain could decide the fate of a
nations future, he. points out.
Halstead, an experimental psychologist, be
gan 17 years ago to devise tests that would de
termine how much brain damage could be In
flicted by cancer, boxing or ploughing through
a windshield. It became apparent in recent
years that some of these same tests could tip
off clues on the state of the aging brain.
Now Dr. Halstead is able to take two individu
als at the height of their mental ability and pre
diet which will be the best equipped in the years
ahead to make vital decisions.
But in the coming election, the American vot
ers will not have any types of tests in which
to gauge the candidates."' However, they have
radio, TV and personal appearances by the can
dictates which are determining factors in their vot
ing.
Voters have the privilege of Individually se
lecting a candidate. This method Is a compli
ment to their integrity and our democracy. S.G.
Lets Take Stock
With more than two weeks gone from this
school year, it's about time students sat down
and took a thorough inventory of their college life.
Almost all of us returned to school this fall
with bright and shining faces and a deep con
viction that this year we would avoid the pit
falls and temptations which, in varying degrees,
; "led us fcstray last year.
With some of us it was too many parties and
" "lost weekends." Some of us spent too much
time with activities. Many of us spent too much
time dating and a few spent too much time study
ing. Some of us spent too much time playing
bridge, and some became stale from a lack of
;, any recreation at all. And some of us were Just
; plain lazy.
; So over summer vacations, whether working at
a full time job or loafing at the beach, most of us
have resolved that we wouldn't make the same
". mistakes again that we have in the past. How-
ever, making resolutions and keeping them are
; !two different things and too many of us are start
; lng off the new school year where we left off.
Whether we are working our way through
school or are totally supported by our parents,
we are here for an education. What that educa
' tion should consist of Is a question each student
' must answer for himself. But once he has an-
Wlahqin Tbie
Daily Nebraskan congratulations are definitely
in order for Betty Stratton, Calendar Girl of the
year. The Builders Board Is also to be congratu
lated for this annual project which is, as we see
it, 8$ extremely effective way of bringing the
activities of their organization to the eyes of the
University..
It is extremely gratifying to note that 52
. Juniors and seniors filed for class council po
' sltions this year. Perhaps we expect too much
- from that tried old phrase of "school spirit." It
would teem that it takes time to drill the idea
of service groups into the minds of students.
This j-ear's applicants for the councils give an
' indication of a growing interest In the activities
of the junior and senior classes.
Daily Thought
The best advice is don't give any.
Axkmymous. -
swered it he should proceed to work for that
education as he best knows how.
However, whatever facet of college life we have
chosen too emphasize we cannot completely dis
regard the others and still call our goal "educa
tion." If we are after technical knowledge we
cannot overlook the social graces and if we are
after a social education we must not let our
selves become technically illiterate. Activities
men should not let themselves become overzealous
to the extent they are never seen in class. And
football players cannot play football all their lives.
Men planning to take over their father's business
and women planning to get married are wasting
their time and money unless they take advantage
of the storehouse of knowledge within the ivy
covered walls.
Whatever is the student's purpose in attend
ing college he is wasting his time if he narrows
his college life to one facet only. A liberal ed
ucation in the arts and sciences need not be the
students goal, but a liberal education in -the
art of living, working and playing with his fel
low man should be the ambition of everyone
Intelligent enough to pass his entrance exams.
D.R.
Just
Around
By JAN STEFFEN
Society Editor
The biggest social news this
week concerns the surprise pin
nings announced Monday night.
Almost everyone involved man
aged to keep their big secrets
until candy or cigars were
passed at dinner.
Among the most surprising
surprises were Sue Gorton,
Kappa, and Mike Lawlor, Sig
ma Chi; Sherry Clover, Alpha
Chi, and Marty Mathlesen,
Delt; Aggie Anderson, Gamma
Phi, and Duff Olson, Delt;
Jean Bangston, Alpha Phi
pledge, and Marty Lewis, SIg
Ep; Marilyn Mangold, Gamma
Phi, and Dale Sass, Sigma Nu;
Gwen Srb, AOPi, and John
Sterick, Omaha; and Jane
Haylett, Theta, and Gene
Gray, DU.
The AOPi's and Phi Delts re
ceived a jolt Monday evening
when Mr. and Mrs. Don DeVries
announced that they have been
married since June 4. Mrs. De
Vries is the former Beverly
Smith.
Other pinnings. not so aston
ishing to the couples' friends,
were those of Tikki Rothen
berger, KKG, and Taul Shedd,
Beta; and Kay Cover,1 DG
pledge, and Jack Morrow, Sig
ma Chi.
Still other recent pinnings
were those of Donna Krause,
Alpha Chi, and Al Hanson, Sig
Ep; Mitzi Moyle, Kappa, and
Danny Lilly, Phi Delt; Sally
Barnes, Omaha, and Ed Berg,
Kappa Sig.
A new steady couple on cam
pus is Janie Mapes, Gamma Phi,
and Duane Rankin, Phi Psi.
Announcing their engage
ment Monday night were
Frank Munk, Kappa Sig, and
Anita Lawson, AOPi, who
were pinned several weeks
ago. The couple plans to be
married Dec. 26.
Harriet Swanson, girl's dorm,
has announced her engagement
to Dex Hin-
ckley of Har
vard Univer
sity. Another
engaged pair
are Nancy
Hegstrom,
Alpha Chi,
and Bill
Strauss, now
serving with
the Air Force,
the Air
Force. '
. Steffen
After a picnic with the Chi
O's Saturday afternoon, the
Kappa Sigs took off almost en
masse for East Hills Saturday
night. Among the couples were
Jack Warrick and Lois Srb; Tom
Kissler and Evonne Mikkelson;
Mark Crawford and Doris Bil
lerbeck; Lowell Neumeyer and
Carol Else; Gus Wolfe and Nan
cee Peterson; Dick Tilly and
Bea Beutel; Bill Cozier , and
Clarice Millen; Bob Otte" and
Marlene McCullough; Ed Laur
nen and Ginny Wilcox.
ATO'S had a busy weekend
with the Pi Phi's and Tri
Delts. Friday night the Taus
and Pi Phi's held a picnic at
Capital Beach. Sunday after
noon they were on the losing
end of a track meet with the
Tri Delts. Pledges of both
groups took part in the field
events, but the main event
turned out to be a football
game between actives of each
group. The women won, 7 to
0. It could have been because
the Taus were forced to play "
on their knees.
Student View Of Politics
By KEN RYSTROM
Managing Editor
"I hear what he is saying. Now what docs he
mean?"
How aptly this statement and question apply
to the matter of political campaigns. Words of
party platforms and statements of candidates can
be read and heard a hundred times with unmis
takable clearness but not understood, if they ac
tually do mean something.
Realizing the background and the analysis
necessary for. interpreting political stands,
statements and Incidents in the current cam
paign, The Daily Nebraskan will publish a ser
ies of articles in which the issues of national
and state campaigns are Investigated. The ser
ies will consist of several studies of individual
major issues with information and interpreta
tion drawn from a wide source of current news
paper and magazine articles, political column
ists and observers, from the opinions of the pub
lic and from the candidates themselves.
No attempt will be made to judge or evalu
ate the political positions of parties or candi
datesthis must be left to the reader to deter
mine in light of the facts. Members of The Ne
braskan political staff represent a variety of poli
tical opinions and do not claim to be nonparti
san as individuals. The reports the staff pub
lishes, however, will be at least bi-partisan, if not
nonpartisan.
4r
Because issues will undoubtedly be of the
greatest concern in this series, perhaps a com
ment on their origin and importance would be in
order. "An issue may be stressed, played down or
ignored, candidly met, obliquely handled or dis
torted, depending upon the convictions, morals, at
titudes and techniques of candidates and upon the
overall plans of the party strategists," says Clau
dius O. Johnson in writing "Identification of the
Principal Issues" for the September issue of "An
nals of the American Academy of Political and So
cial Science."
Johnson declares that issues commonly are in
troduced by economic, and social groups "or
ganizations which may have no strong affiliation
with any political party." The party, in its con
vention, becomes a clearing house for these is
sues "a broker of plans, projects, ideas and poli
cies." Issues, he says, may come from pressure
groups, presidential acts, action of a foreign power,
a diplomatic blunder on the part of the govern
ment, a labor-management dispute, an industrial
depression and unemployment, a disastrous flood,
inadequate medical and health care.
While these issues are'arising all the time, many
of them are not incorporated into a party's plat
form partly because the issue may die or be set
tled before another platform is drafted, partly be
cause the political leaders themselves oppose the
advancement of the issue no matter how great
its popular support.
Johnson blames on the leaders the reluctance
of party endorsement of temperance and prohi
bition movements, the direct election of Sena
tors and the national income tax. On the other
hand, however, political leaders and platforms
may run far ahead of popular support for some
programs such as, according to Johnson, restric
tions on immigration and aliens, assertion of the
rights of the United States abroad and the care
of veterans.
While many of these issues are easily identi
fied foreign policy, labor relations and conserva
tionothers may not be definable. For example,
there may be a general feeling of restlessness
among the citizenry perhaps because of an ac
cumulation of grievances or a mistrust of the
group in or out of power.
Johnson says concerning this:
"The party that can diagnose the trouble and
offer a promising remedy will profit greatly. In
such cases, however, the people are more likely to
find release in a person than in a party, for only
a personality can show the understanding, the
warmth and the spirit necessary to make articu
late the basic social needs of the millions."
The Republican party this year appears to have
based much of its campaign on this so-called spirit
of restlessness and seems to be advancing a per
sonality which fits Johnson's statement.
Frank R. Kent, in "Political Behavior," how
ever, perhaps would have hailed the nomination
of General Eisenhower in much the same way he
described the nomination of Charles Evans
Hughes in 1916. He declared that Hughes was
the "only chance for Republican success," being a
non-party figure and thus appealing to the inde
pendent voters as well as Old Guard Republicans.
In either case, however, issues become second
ary to candidates. But, as we have noticed dur
ing the last few weeks, both Governor Stevenson
and General Eisenhower have been conoerned
with keeping (and making) peace with party
leaders and the countless state and local ma
chines indeed a necessity.
The identification of a candidate with a party
an essential in American politics therefore in
volves the record and the platform of the party
in the campaign for men's votes. This alliance
justifies our consideration of the issues as de
fined in the national political platforms and as
related to past party record. The party and the
candidates are inseparable although not indis
tinguishable. This is not minimizing the importance of the
candidate himself but simply recognizing the re
liance of the candidate upon party machinery for
election and of the President upon the party in
control of Congress.
During this series of political articles the for
mal stands of the parties will be presented as they
are stated in the platforms drawn up at the na
tional conventions this summer. Supposedly, each
party has stated its position on the issues of the
day for all to read and understand.
Johnson says this about a platform:
"On this document the public has beome rather
too cynical, so cynical that not a third of the vot
ers read any part of it, and probably not one per
cent read it in its entirety. Even the party lead
ers often fail to take their platform seriously, but
at other times and on specific issues they show no
lack of conviction and sincerity.
"The major parties frequently adopt several vir
tually identical planks because the two parties
must appeal to millions who hold essentially the
same views on public questions."
In an attempt to define more exactly specific
issues and party positions, we shall examine the
statements of the candidates for, in essence, they
head the party campaign and should be in a posi
tion to speak for it. It may be, however, that their
statements will do little to cast light on the party
platform.
!
Among the issues to be examined and analyzed
will be foreign policy, internal security and civil
liberties, government finance and fiscal policy, la
bor relations, agriculture, conservation, social se
curity and the welfare state, ethical standards in
government and presidential power. Other is
sues may arise or some of the above may lose
their significance in the course of the campaign.
Other issues may remain so clouded or contra
dictory that efforts at analyzing will fail.
Every attempt, however, will be made by The
Nebraskan political staff to vivify the campaign
and to present an impartial view of the politi
cal clash of ideas and candidates.
Ring up the curtain!
WEDNESDAY
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Auditorium, 5 p.m.
Ag Union Chili Feed, Ag Union,
6:30 p.m.
Union talent show tryouts, Un
ion Ballroom, tonight. ' '
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THURSDAY
Diamond Discussions, Social
Science Auditorium, 9 a.m., room
20 Morrill Hall, 11 a.m.
Gamma Alpha Chi, 309 Burnett
Hall, 4 p.m.
Kappa Alpha Mu meeting, B5
Burnett kali, 7:30 p.m. I
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