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Poge 2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Wednesdoy, February 4, 1953 O lust M imn Us . . . Br DON PIEPER Editor As I intimated yesterday, this column will be a personal expression of the Editor's views. Everything from weather to presidents will be dis cussed in an informal way. I hope that we can approach problems through this column cooly and rationally. Just because this column will be written in formally, It will not confine itself to light sub jects. We will discuss the Student Council and we will discuss the advisability of playing base ball instead of studying. There are few more powerful temptations for college students to face than the warmth of spring weather. There is something about newly bud ded trees that inspires the collegian to water fights and gives him a lust for underwear. Games of catch on the front lawns of organized houses also rates high on the list of spring time-wasters. Now, your Daily Nebraskan is not going to come out against enjoying the spring weather. We have no intention of frowning upon baseball; we even advocate picnics. If we say anything about spring activities, it will probably be a warning against a repetition of the ceremonies carried on last year. Certainly the amount of bad publicity the Uni versity received as a result of that light-hearted endeavor should convince the student body that there must be other ways to enjoy warm spring evenings. February seems like an awfully early month to start hammering about the moral issues in volved in panty raids. Actually, the reason be hind bringing the problem up was the weather man's prediction that reasonably high temperatures would continue to prevail. Reports special to The Nebraskan from Kearney announce that tul ips have shoved their heads above the soil in that community. Of course, only those planted near the house have showed a great deal of am bition In this regard, but it might indicate a trend. Warm weather is traditional death on study ing. After all, how can profit and loss compete with a warming sun. Spring seems to symbolize freedom. The flowers are freed from their un derground prisons. The leaves emerge from the trees. The chlorophyll is released to make the grass green. Why, then, shouldn't the poor stu dent be given equal freedom? ic Instead of freedom, the student is shackled with heavy books and heavier eyelids. I don't think that the scientists call it this, but nearly NEBRASKAN EDITORIALS everyone else use the the term: Spring Fever. This disease presents quite determined opposition to spring finals. Even the twelve-weeks exams take a beating. Right now the flu is causing trouble but just wait until the spring call to the country begins. Along this line, I would like to suggest that the student body keep in mind the remedy the Junior-Senior Class Board has concocted to help tem per the disease no one would be fool enough to think that he could find a complete answer. Just i t r a i . n . k r.i.i'Party overruns two Red positions jtacii. ieii., Lite uuaiu w jvocw tin. winna .on Western Front Prom. This dance with a "name" band play ing has replaced the traditional Junior-Senior Prom. The old name scared underclassmen away from the ticket-sellers and no name-band-dance WORLD REPORT By PAUL MEANS Staff Writer TODAY'S HEADLINES ..Eu rope's grim search puts known, flood toll . over 1,500 . Holland worst hit with one-sixth of the country under war.. Immediate aid received from NATO, U.S. j Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor ar- rives in Korea to take charge on! U.S. Eiffth Armv . . . Allied raidine! LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Bibler tr rtf Jo' rAi irrozr On Tfru mffie wan vut rmrso r6fi v worrSmor rv?N vent iswiwvit fw nr oifn xi?'ee let fia f" o ' wun i Ike's next move may attempt to blockade Red China coast U.S. I Allies to oppose move. . .Chiang 'vows Republic of China will not Q3IV Oil! L L Wilt BC 1 UUliU XJL.iO Ul can be successful unless the whole student body , any nation to achieve goal is Invited. Tentative arrangements call for the Prom to be held in the Coliseum because that is the only place that can hold enough people to make a name-band-dance financially fruitful on March 20. But the Board needs underwriters. It is ob vious that a party of the proportions mentioned requires a rather large financial risk. After all, name bands will not even look twice unless they are offered something between one and two thou sand dollars. The Coliseum doesn't come cheap either. Therefore, the Board, on recommendation of the Student Council, is collecting signatures of Juniors and Seniors as underwriters of the dance. As has been explained before, no one will be responsible the dance will not even be held unless 1,400 signatures are collected. This mfcans that if there is a loss, it will be split 1,400 ways Furthermore, it means that 1,400 people have agreed to the idea of having a Prom. So far, due to the campaign during the fee-paying, the Board has collected 1,110 signatures. This is enough to indicate that a great many University Juniors and Seniors feel that a Prom will help class spirit. Moreover, they want a Prom because they like all-University parties. Nazis Seek Control Of European Army In a recent INS feature, Frank L. Kluckhohn notes the startling similarities between the new Naziism in Germany today and the early days of Hitler's rise to Nazi dictatorship. A noted foreign correspondent, Kluckholn was in Germany during the Infant days of Hitlerism and has just returned to the United States from a sur vey in Western Germany where he made a careful Investigation of: tne so-called neo-Nazilsm now TJ -yum. I V T I I I L. 1 I wet n vut nnrso J f A (J T " y rv?N 'Vent iswiWvit fj A k yV V Vic nrjy pftrtitf - --V 5 fW nir otfuetK'ee i?Sy V3 , '.V ixv "Nice to have yon In one of my classes again Miss ah, Miss I can't remember your name, but I never forget a beautiful face." TWO ON THE AISLE o If you are a Junior or Senior and you have not signed the underwriting sheet yet, please think over the issues involved. Any Board member these people are your elected and appointed rep resentatives will be glad to explain the whole situation to you. As far as Spring Fever is concerned, I prefer it to flu. , acing A Godless University In a university, particularly a state university such as the University of Nebraska, the question of the place of religion continually arises both in the classroom and in extra-curricular affairs. A common solution to the problem is to cite the American tradition of separation between church and state. Because the University is state sponsored, the argument goes, there is no room for the church on its campus. While religion cannot be equated to the church, most observers find it difficult to think of religion without its institutionalized form, the church. For that reason, religion is usually dismissed as irreconcilable with an objective university. But the division is an awkward one. Students and professors find it impossible to leave their religion on the doorsteps of Burnett Hall. One's religion, whatever it may be, cannot be forgot ten at the snap of the fingers. Instead, it provides a background against which the student evaluates every fact and every theory he encounters in his studies. This, at least, appears to be necessary if one assumes that a student's religion is basic to his character and his life. But a modern theory contends that the true student must forget his own personality and his own prejudices in the search for objective truth. Religion, the theory says, has nothing to do with fact And so, students are satisfied with limiting their education to the laboratory, to factual social studies and to the material world around them. As Robert Frost observed: "Our worship, humor, conscientiousness Went long since to the dogs nnder the table. And served ns right for having instituted Downward comparisons. As long on earth As onr comparisons were stoutly upward With gods and angels, we wee men at least, Bat little lower than the gods and angels. But once comparisons were yielded downwsrd. Once we began to see onr Images wmgln, te.de,. of th. Western ftom ffo Qas$ Students Are Isolated from Life's Problems World. Kluckhohn states that "the Nazi machine being reassembled brazenly in West Germany, de spite arrests in the British zone, i a two-faced monster. One side of the profile is innocently open to public view, the other is masked." The neo-Nazi croup believes that the time has come when all military and political prisoners Scoff Stars As Soldier In Dismiss By BOB SPEARMAN Staff Writer Before I say anything about "The Man Behind The Gun'.' I'll tell you what I hope to do in this weekly "Two on the Aisle" series. We'll try, I hope to your satis faction, to give the answer to that question, "Which movie should we go to see this week-end?" With that in mind, here we go. I dropped down to . the Varsity Tuesday afternoon for "The Man Behind The Gun." Randy Scott is type-cast in this better than aver age shoot-em-up epic as a devil may-care soldier in disguise, with a tremendous devotion to duty. In this respect "The Man Behind The Gun" reminds you of "High Noon" in which the hero is torn between love and duty. Scott's devotion to duty is without any conflict, which may be the reason why "The Man Behind the Gun" is not as good a movie. Incidentally few westerns, if any, are as good as "High Noon." . f W "The Man Behind the Gun" deals with lowlessness in the Old West, and I do mean Old West California in the 1860's. In the first 20 minutes, Randy arrives in l Los Angeles to be taken for one, la school teacher; two, an Army ! deserter who killed a fellow of- From the moment matriculation, side Ul U,JUMIL ficer in a duel and three. r"8h MO! naSSeiDCtlCll 'em up killer intent upon killing Viav tViot tVi ronton c in the law abiding citizenry of early should be released. As Paul Haus-c mmniKtn snmetimec hofnr nr'vorfw, v,a kc nf A,,- hrw California. As we. said though. ser, one of the heads of the vet-jsnortiy afteri college students get I and disrupt "life" that "life" peo- Sc?u li really a soldier in dis erans group and senior living an "all-knowing" grin from some- pie lift the lid and take away our suise. He tips his card and is dis former SS general told the author, one out in ..the worid and are lethal toys covered for what he really is as "Every German wants Germany tol(j sornethine to this effect. m. m. he tries to worm information "The iime has come for ail of! JH t exist in aj e-. people, no. doubt, have iTm t saloon mnitTrv men towork toother" " know whatYfe rialiy iS; do ial he Midy together. situationth't ac&ally ISfSro to advocate .T?5 c'T31'"8, ""I,!, TflnMrhnhn ctatn. that "th- face Society. College Students are nrnoram rloarlv n 1 r" Z.s .u. ' xt"'onlv idealists, not to be taken TCZ": ' ?" "!1IKi;r- rrom nere on ine pioi uie ina!H.eu aiue oi uie uew-ixaii, r . ' n mvim."'? V1 experience. kju uejthickens and tne trouble Starts. monster s iace is pernaps immeal-! - V lomer nana, me wor a is preiu ately more dangerous. I ques- '"c"- su"cv "c:,diced aga nst anything with tioned numerous persons as to!ca,use have not experienced i academic rjng tQ it how, discreetly and secretly zV tl,: c When scholars nresent a solu- firm trt n rAal lifo" nrVlom thaf " ! HpflPfi Pa1itv it ic larffolv ho. I am fed up with that sort of . cause the thinker has not been derision! j allowed to study the realistic sit- We have been cut off from so-uation. Scholars belong in libra former' brown and black sMrts:of llfe situations, had grabbed more of the machin ery of at least two democratic government parties than most re alized. I received identical re plies. laboratories and classrooms, people believe. If it is problem of mathematics the student is al- but regard as inevitable, that they eventually will dominate a Euro pean Army. The author believes East if they could not get an army soon from the West Reflected in the mud and even dust, 'Twas disillusion upon disillusion. We were lost piecemeal to the animals, Like people thrown out to delay the "wolves." Concerned with the denial of religion at the University, a group of students has set the com ing weekend aside in order to evaluate the modern day university and the University of Nebraska and to discover the place of the Christian stu dent in its program. Faculty members will participate in discus sion periods and will work with all interested University, students to determine the answers to problems which confront the Christian in a non religious institution. As reference material, a booklet entitled "The Christian Student and the University" will be used. Its chapters, and the sessions of the weekend con ference, are divided into four parts: "Christian Trt"YM t a &ni4 fVtA TTw it nfeittf "Tk a YTv?a-ci r en4 ..... :. College news this week cen- ine unKnown ooa," "ine contemporary couege- jtered around one thing-exams and "The Christian Vocation to Studentship. From down Mizzou's way comes y The booklet was written by outstanding college; the story about one of the more educators, including two professors of philosophy, I intelligent rootoau , m r i ,. . . . . . Jan industrious a jiivivmvi J viu.suau bliu m o.uutiiv StUdV Of U 1 S aie uivinny acnooi. While neither the booklet nor the participat ing faculty members pretend to know the answer to the question of university religion, both should provoke enough thought to enable serious stu dents to attack the problem. When universities and religion join hands to investigate the world both the known and the unknown laboratory and book knowledge will assume their correct position in the complete education. . . . iciety not by our own choosing but ries, Maic fopiMViat tVioiri because "the world" does noti "life chance lies in the Western plans I want to hear us. We have been; purely a proble frr rnnctitiitinir flprman units nf ! placed in a "class box." We can land technology. a European army. Their cry is, 'see outi and can rap on the glass! lowed to apply his formulas but They need us now." iwith a chance of being momen- not recommend use of his find- Responsible German officials, tarily noticed. At times someone 'ings. according to the article, know the, in "life" hears us shouting and! need for such arming but concede comes closer to laugh at ourj Therefore it will be my mis that the neo-Nazis not only hope, drivel. ision to bring the actualities of it we do not cause too mucn the world to the presently ideal disturbance inside the box the istic and unrealistic college en- neoDle in "life" will leave US alone . vimnmnt Tn oi'&rv r.nccihl ti..o. that the Nazis would turn to the, to battle, scheme and chatter'we will try to escaDe our con- t It all comes out all right in the "'.end, though and Randy gets girl. All in all, this is a pretty good movie. But if you enjoy going to movies just to laugh at Holly wood's little faux-paux's you'll like the scene where the chorus girls in the salon rustle their bustles to "Some Sunday Morn ing," a tune that wasn't around in the 1860's. For that matter it wasn't around until about the 1940's. Well, remember movies are better than ever. theQ among ourselves. It is only when 'fines. But all the while the reader we begin developing something in- Stolen Goods Texas U Dean Expects Afeiv Integrity Record Peg Bartunek Faculty Failings Or, A Professor Can't Win must bear in mind that a eolum nist is encased in the same glass box. It will not be easy to bring a If he's brand-new at teaching, he true story from "life" because1 lacks exDerienr. IfLMhtthr)'. teaching all his life, o he's in a rut. low graae on ? an exam, he raised his hand and s a i d.t "Don't y o u think that th first question v ( was a 1 i 1 1 1 ef amphibious?" r ' Student, boners on ex ams at the neroes. Alter as much as possible. When theyi ran nnt A n that that, ii.it! .. n hang a curtain around us. Fur-!If uhe. doos,all the talking in class, thermore, forces toward conform- I?8 in love wlth the sound 01 ity to society will be great, leav-' hls own V0lce ing less chance to watch "life" .1 he leaves the discussion to people. j others, he's just lazy for words. If he gets his name in the news- icyce dox, ena lor tne Detroit, papers, he's Dublicitv-mad. liiHjlL1-?"!" ver appears in the public prints, he s so much deadwood. 5 per cent touchdown passes aeainst Baiti- The results: Yes No 82 per cent more in 1950 to establish the 1 h. I l.. .7i """....' No opinion 10 per cent Lions' record for most scores in al"hhA"tB,e,." i,l"ntest' other 3 per cent single game. in a student nnimon noli takpiv Bartunek ja year ago, the same question was asked. At that time only 45 per cent of those interviewed said chances were poor. To give new impetus to the use of television as an educational medium, nine Midwestern univer sities have formed the Allied Uni versities tv council to plan eu cooperative approach to this new educational field. Participating are the University lot Indiana, University of Ken , K ,JiH ' iiiiiiiiiiiiMniwiwniiWMiii r WOLOING UWEXPlREO 61 INSURANCE "XtQtA POLIO ES MAV CDWVECT TO ANY OF TUESE PERMANENT PLAN POLICIES he's a popularity-seeker. If he never goes to a game, he's puouc enemy. If he dresses decently, he's trying to be a fashion-plate. If he thinks about something be sides clothes, he's a bum. i If he seldom admits a mistake. ; hi. a di l uydlll. Until that time the objective facts of the uni versity cannot be fully evaluated on the campus by the student. Today he seeks his yardstick away from the campus and desperately fights to retain his religion in the face of a godless uni versity. K.R. Yesteryear At Aff . . . By DICK RALSTON Staff Writer Probably the biggest and most noticeable change in the last 20 years has been the sky rocketing of prices. In 1933: Club breakfasts were served in the Temple cafeteria for 10 cents. History paper sold for 45 cents a ream. Most used books were available at 25 to 50 cents. Men's haircuts were 35 cents. Five course dinner, including steaks or chops were served at drug store for 35 cents. The price of an afternoon at the movies was 15 cents; evenings, 25 cents. Sounds like a Utopia, doesn't it? But before you start dreaming too much about "the gold old days, remember this was 1933, the height of the depression. While prices have nearly tripled in the past 20 years, incomes have risen even more rapidly. The student who was going to school on his pa's bankroll was a rarity then. One plan adopted by the Board of Regents for Ag campus provided students with all but Sun day evening meals for $3 a week. Students were employed to prepare the meals, and each student eating under the plan had to help with the serv ing. v Students, themselves, formed "boarding clubs" and prepared their own meals. One such club charged 1125 a week for two meals a day. The group always had enough funds left over to have a party at the end of the semester. University of Wyoming must nave.tucky. University of Louisville, convinced many msiruciors mai; university of Dayton, Miami Uni their courses still remained some- versity (Ohio), Ohio State Uni what of a mystery. j versity, University of Cincinnati In a sociology exam, "personal- and Xavier University, ity" was defined as the "organ- ization of pregnant processes in1 The Westminster (Pa.) Holcad the brain." The professo cf the, thinks that it is s "fallacy" to be- course had been under tne im-,eve mat teacners aren't neces- pression it had somethings to do sary. with "regnant processes." I "Where would we get chaper- Some of the biggest flubs were ons for our dances?" asks the Hol found in freshman spelling. Im-'cad. Latest reports have not re- agine the discouragement or iveaieci mat teacners noia an The Daily Nebraskan flFTf-FlRST TEAR Member: Associated Collegiate Press Intercollegiate Press Representative: National Advertising Service Incorporated Th Itail; fftfcmtaa H ptMkkH hf tfc Mm M lk t'lit- Aetroiut a rarelaa f Mafeati mwi ana ptarioat mmlt. AoriKf la Artki II af B-Lam ornila( UmCaa imittkti-m mm4 adslnbHintf ttr la Board of PaMlcatloaft "It to ffri ahmfewnl !' a! th Rsar4 Ibat aanHeXtatM aadr to lari. 'C ml a (? (row inial mtmnal wt 4 a ' f . put ft tmr awntMr af la ttnm M lh I ntitii, k Mm mtmhm at IN M(f M Ta DiHr S ar ptnnurlir manailfct iar waal tktt ta a araMt.- tkmnlnlm ram r t ttM MtUa er IS tot la f' fr, 14 auiica. amii ro-f Sc. rMlika faa tt 4 a tsrtttt t4 Kbaoi m ttetrt Taratloa aa4 uaatiia lent atrioan. Ont hm t tn&Uih r)n A mm k lb t'al f "j pt Nehriuk mAt tSa wantriaa l itlM Coaunlua aa PatiiKMMiaa. hmttnti as Mona trttw mrtr at th Pea) lititt ta Iaateia, 5Mitu4. aaacr act mi iSmrnt, Marak s, 17. u4 at (aatial nt af aentM rrmUti for I ctlaa 11 OS, Act at Caatmn Ottohtr . lal?. nhorttS Sptcnbr 10. Ifi2. KDIXORIAL SXAFI1 War , I) a PirMr New I PIot Hat Cottoa Mnaaslaa EaUer gaily Hill KaHortal hn Eallet , . Ka RrMraia Con hiUan Etf IMaf. jaa Harrtwa. Marttra Tn. Tea Wawar4 iaorU Eallar Olaa Naifoa Aat'l Sar EdUar 1 Bowarl Vana Ftatar Kditor J Dick Cofttr A oliw Ckack Bum BtSIXESS STAFF BalaH Manager Areola Sura Ant BalaH Maaaatn Prt Btrejtoa, staa Slevl professor received "had writed" for "had written" and "druggen" ,or "drugged" for "dragged." Students at the University of Texas will compile their best rec ord of scholastic integrity this year in more than a decade, ac cording to the dean of students there. Last year 148 students were found guilty by the dicipline com mittee of cheating on quizzes, sell ing another person's books and other acts of dishonesty. The dean said that about 30 students will probably receive penalties after January mid-se mesters. "Something Is bound to go wrong when 600,000 exams are given," he said. The University of Tennessee engineering school has invented an ingenious student helper. When a student doesn't under stand what the professor is talk ing about, the puzzled student just presses a button on his desk. An electronic gadget lights up on the professor's desk. and he takes time out to explain questions. College - students apparently hold little hope for a speedy set tlement of the Korean war. In a survey by the Associated Collegiate Press, students across the nation were asked, "Do you think the Korean War will be over within six months?" Office of text book informa- r.i hLI tion nearly completes lists of texts Mskt "w Editor i Haxllya Tytenifor all Courses, equally high opinion of students. mmmm, kmmavmMtMiJ'-&4r .....M a' GOLDENftOD STATIONERY STORE 215 North 14th Street o 7 o Campus capers call for Coke He's a "heaTy" in the play, but short on time. Busy students need quick mVeshment. That's where Coca-Cola comes in. o "Coke" b a rglterd frod-mark. OttUS UNOII AUTHORITY Or THI COCA-COIA COMPANY IT COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF LINCOLN . ta) Ii3. Trie COCA-COLA COMPAKf Q