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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, March 26, J 953
Just Between Us...
By DON PIEPER
Editor
I wonder how many student! know that one
of the nation'!' 10 best collegiate musical organi
zations headquarters right here.
. , Twenty-three University students with excep
tional musical ability combine to form the Madri
gal Singers. " This group Is so good that the Na
tional Music" Educators Conference has invited
it to perform for more than 5,000 music instruct-
ors In Milwaukee, April 19,
It won't be the first time the Madrigals have
sung before national conventions. But this trip
is significant because it is one of the highest hon
ors a collegiate musical organization can receive.
But, some of the best things In life aren't free.
The Milwaukee trip must be financed. Some of
the money will coma from previous convention
performances fees paid Madrigals for such pro
grams does not go to the individual singers, but
Into a fund for the trip to Wisconsin.
But the big push for the finances will come to-
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night when the Madrigals serenade In the Union
Ballroom. Under the most capable direction of
David Foltz, the Madrigals have prepared an out
standing program well worth the $1 ticket price.
Vou wouldn't be- giving something for nothing If
you bought a. ticket for tonight's performance.
Here is what the Madrigal concert has to offer:
good music brilliantly presented and a chance to
promote your own school.
The name Madrigal Singers has long meant
the very best in group singing so there shouldn't
be much argument about the quality of the per
foimance.
But let's not overlook the objective of tonlg'.it's
concert. Outstanding , football teams important
as they may be are not the only form universi
tics have to boost themselves. Kight now, we
have a chance to send the Madrigals to Milwaukee
as our representatives. If the money is raised.
I can't think of a more pleasant way to help
promote the school.
In Your Backyard
Student governments In more than a dozen
universities and colleges have set deadlines for
fraternities to get rid of discriminatory race
clauses in their constitutions on penalty of ex
pulsion. An American Collegiate Press poll showed that
65 per cent of students Interviewed said they dis
approved of fraternities and sororities having
clauses In their constitutions stating members
must be of white race.
The poll also indicated that 80 per cent of stu
dents asked, disapproved of fraternity and soror
ity clauses limiting membership to white, non
Jewish persons.
In southern states, the poll results indicated,
that students were equally divided as to whether
fraternities and sororities should have anti-Negro
clauses In their constitutions. However, students
in the north favored removal of the all-white rules
by 71' per cent, Students from both South and
North disapproved of rulings barring Jewish stu
dents from membership In sorority and fraternity
groups by an 80 per cent vote.
These facts indicate that students who make
up fraternity and sorority groups do not favor
anti-Negro and Jewish clauses. Why then, are
such rules allowed to remain in force?
The major reason for the continuation of these
rules is that national fraternal organizations re
fuse to make any change in the codes governing
local chapters under their jurisdictions. In fact,
a chapter of Phi Delta Theta lost its national
eharter -when it refused to obey a discriminatory
clause laid down by the fraternity national organ
ization. G. Herbert Smith, president of Willamette Uni
versity in Oregon, and past national president of
Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said that many fraternity
leaders argue that members are only using the
basic right of selecting their own friends. And
discriminatory clauses barring certain people from
membership in that group only facilitate this
"right."
Smith noted that fraternities are, in form, a
closely knit group of friends, and consequently
members are fully within their rights to utilize
discriminatory clauses to aid in selection of
"friends."
He also noted that a university or college has
a duty to supply education to everyone, but fra
ternities have duty only to those it selects for
membership because they are purely "social"
groups.
The major weakness in this argument is that
fraternities saddled with discriminatory clauses
are not allowed this right. They are free to select
the friends that may become members of the group
from a specified type of student. Specified, that
is, by codes handed down by national fraternity
powers.
Even if an individual wore judged as worthy
o membership by a fraternity, he may not join
the group unless he falls, through virtue of birth
only, into a certain category.
Student council members of Rutgers University
took an active step against race discrimination in
fraternity and sorority groups by passing a ruling
to the effect that groups must remove their dis
criminatory clauses or "be punished by the Rut
gers Student Council." The council added that it
recommended each college in the United States to
initiate similar legislation.
With this type of legislation, the fraternity in
jeopardy will bring pressure on its national group
to change the discriminatory clause. Their efforts
will undoubtedly be extremely vigorous if they
wish to remain part of a large, powerful national
organization.
Rutgers University has given students through
out the1 United States an opportunity to show they
are willing to act in accordance with their beliefs
and clean up racial discrimination,-literally, "in
their own backyards." T. W.
WORLD
REPORT
By PAUL MEANS
Staff Writer
TODAY'S HEADLINES .
Sen, Joseph McCarthy was able to
now up confirmation of Charles
Bohlcn as ambassador to Russia
Wednesday . . . Confirmation Is
now expected to be delayed till
rriday ,
Queen Elizabeth II Wednesday
decreed a month's mourning for
Queen Mary, thus carrying out
the wish of her grandmother that
nothing interfere with Elizabeth's
coronation in June , . .
American bie cuns rfnrwH fhl.
nese Communists on Old Baldyl
cmiy inursaay while weary U.S.
infantrymen, stalled in two
bloody counterattacks, musterpri
strength for a third assault . . .
President Eisenhower sent Con
gress a reorganization plan for the
Agriculture Dcna
day, saying it would improve its
operations ana save the taxpay
ers some money.
Committee Shelves
Dulles' Resolution
PWrd In i Mi. March I Ilk .dlllc.n of m.
HI. I.ouli I'om llltpairh.)
On Senator Taft's sucecstion.
t h e Senate Foreion Rnlntlnnc
Committee has solved the great
entanglement over Secretary
Dulle's anti-enslavement resolu
tion by putting the whole matter
into what the majority leader
called "refrigeration." Stalin's
death, Tart said, furnishes a "per
fectly good excuse." The Senators
seized the opportunity and stowed
the resolution away back behind
the milk bottles, the hambone and
the miscellaneous scraps of
cheese. .
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Drunk Drivers' Names
Glenn Rosenquist
Have vou scon the new song
book? Published by the Interfra
ternity Council after years of de-
fncldent h rnni hTi . l the book contains two songs
hJ .hILT' e from each sorority and fraternity.
Administration than to the educa-1
tion of the satellite
against whom it was aimed.
lie Race Toward Labels
The day of the label is upon the world. First,
we labeled canned foods: Grade A, Extra Large
and Superior. Then its was meat: ' Grade A A,
Prime. Then automobiles: Low Price, etc.
Now we grade our Medical Colleges: First Rate
and on down the line. Even college newspapers
are rated: The Daily Nebraskan received an Ail
American rating the second semester of last year.
On a more serious plane the labeling fad is
now reaching immense proportions of popularity
in categorizing persons in their political leanings.
During the campaign last fall the terms were lib
eral, conservative, middle-of-the-road and a host
of other complimentary and not-so-complimentary
terms.
- In the congressional investigations into subver
sive activities, we hear Communist, left, fellow
traveler, "liberal," radical,, egg head and a dozen
or more other labels not intended to convey the
connatation of Americanism the one label that
now appears to be one hundred per cent safe.
(The common expression is: "The only 'ism' in
the world that should not be hated is American
ism." We think we're pretty good in our labeling of
persons, ideas and articles. If we can put every
thing within our knowledge into one of a number
of niches, we seem satsified that we have become
enough an authority to call ourselves informed.
Congressional and self-apopinted vigilantes are
likewise satisfied if they can classify supposed
on-American Americans by any one of 25 labels.
If they accomplish this task, public opinion takes
-care of the rest of the job of ostracism.
Yesteryear At !(...
. By DICK RALSTON
Staff Writer
A few days ago", I mentioned that a large pro
portion of students at two English colleges
pledged themselves not to go to war under any
circumstances 20 years ago. The Brown Univer
sity paper took up the idea and sent a similar
pledge around to all other colleges in the U.S.
Brown's Daily Herald commented: "Without
the American college students as officers there
could be no organized army and consequently no
war."
The petition read, in part:
But Americans have a long way to go if they
expect to catch up with their label-conscious
archetypes, the Russians. For, according to an
Associated Press news dispatch from Berlin, the
"purge-ridden Communists have figured out 36
different ways to call somebody a bum."
"Goaded by Moscow's desire for violent
As Mr. Dulles pointed out in
the beginning, the resolution had
to be passed with substantial
unanimity or not at all. But he ne
The operation was an cxpen-
Li..A nka arA full f9 cnnits PllV-
peoples liahinof a cnnol-innk Is not what it is
cracked up to be. But the book is
out. And it's a good one.
Watch the newly Initiated fra-
glected to find out in advance 'termty pledge classes. Watch them
what the Senate might agree to'blossom out to improve their per
be unanimous nhout. Whpn hi!sonalitics. Watch them forget
own draft failpH tn rpnndiato'about improving their averages,
Yalta and Potsdam, as the Re
publican platform had done, he
lost the backing of some impor
tant Republicans. When Senator
Taft inserted a clause questioning
the validity of the wartime pacts,
the support of the Democrats was
lost.
Quite apart from the politics
of the matter, we trust that the
Tse newly activates will rush
to Ben's for their white ducks.
They will spend hours trying to
be rar-ra and Riving the best of
the rar-ra fraternity men a run
for their money.
It's an old story: Joe Pledge
suddenly becomes Joe Active.
Bright and early the next morn
ing he is up and around. He as
cends the stairs with whip in one
a : u. , j hand, ciear in the other
nuiiuiiuuduuii lias aisu jeaniua , ' . j- v.u
that rprmHiatmr, .r,.nt. d In a most dignified manner he
bad hnsinpss in anv form Thi screams for a pledge. Up runs one
,o i ...u:u uj u of those forlorn wizened crea
learned at the time PrMlrirnt F.i. tures, who for the grace of o d
senhower delivered his State of
the Union message, for in that
message he delighted the repudi
ationists bv announcinc that Con
gress wdlild be asked to join in
"making clear that this Govern
ment recognizes no kind of com
mitment contained in secret un
derstandings of the past . .
Prom repudiation in the plat
form, to non-recognition in the
State of the Union message, to
"perversion" in the resolution, and
finally into the congressional re
frigerator such has been the
course of a foreign policy initia
father time, might also be a newly
initiate today.
This writer's attention has been
directed to the fact that The Ne
braskan now records traffic vio
lations of University students each
day,
(The Nebraskan is not trying to
embarrass individuals but im
press everyone with the need for
safety.)
"But Rose," they say. (Some of
my friends call me Rose.) "What
if you're picked up tor cirunKen
driving or an offense such as
that? Will the Rag make that first
Daee news too?"
I've never been picked up for
drunken driving. But I, too, saw
tive that was based on the myths
purge," the article says, "the Red word coiners and shibboleths of opposition
are filling their controlled press with brand new rather than the constructive
words designed to catch anyone, however innocent, iay lesson be well learned, the gravity of the matter. But
Crimes detected so far by the U.S. high comCum LOUcJe
mission in Benin inciuae:
Trotskyism, Zionism, cosmopolitanism (seeing
something good in countries other than the Sovic
Union), objectivism, particlarism, bureaucratism,
unionism, diversionism, schematism, imperialism,
Titoism, pacificism, conciliationism, individualism,
factionalism, practicism (exerting a practical out
look without depending on Red theory), neutralism
(to be a spectator in party activtities, rather than
an active participant), relativism, critical realism,
militarism, cnauvinism, bociai Democratism, op
portunism, eareerism, equalitarianism, theoreticism.
formalism, naturalism, collaborationism, opposition
to internal party democracy, bourgeois attitude,
kulak attitude, lack of vigilance, lack of class con
sciousness and uncritical attitude.
It appears that Americans will have to start
thinking up a batch of new derogatory labels to
paste on their enemies. That is, of course, if they
hope to keep up with the neighbors most recent
fad.
But we've got an awfully good start toward
becoming modern. K. R.
"To the President and Congress of the United
States:
"Whereas, we believe that war is futile and
destructive and should be abandoned as an in
strument of international action,
"We, the undersigned students, pledge ourselves
not to bear arms except in case of the invasion of
the mainland of the United States, and to work
actively for the organization of the world on a
peace basis."
Twelve students from the University signed
frne petition.
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REPORTERS
Mariana Hanson, Phyllis Hersherger. Dee Jaekson, Kay Nosky,
(rare Havey, ftoirrr Wall, Willie Desoli, Cynthia Henderson,
Marilyn Hutton, Nancy Odiim, Mareln Mlkelson, Alaiilyn Mltrh
pll, ilm Parish. Dick Kadlereke. Henry Baum. Elaine Smllh
berirer, Beth Hohwer, Don Shafton, Francis Svoboda, Doa Kll
kemler, and Marlln Brce.
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, WAYNE O. REED .
From milk delivery boy to Ph.D.
From teacher in the Otoe County
rural school to assistant commis
sioner of state and local school
systems in the United States Of
fice of Education.
That, in brief, is a sketch of the
career of Dr. Wayne O. Reed, who
received his master's and doctor's
degrees in education from the
University. He received his Bach
elor of Science in education from
Peru State Teachers College.
Reed and his younger brother,
Dr. Calvin Reed, chairman of the
Department of Elementary Edu
cation at the University, grew up
on a farm near Douglas. As boys,
they did most of the chores. And
because their father died when
they were very young, the two
helped to malte thfe family living
by delivering milk to the towns
people twice a day once before
school and once afterwards.
The elder of the two, Wayne,
Jane Saxton
iRecd interjected.
And, according to Reed, his
elder brother also had his share
of being kicked off horses, being
challenged by wild broncos and
being sent home from school be
cause he carried the scent of fur
bearing animals on his clothing.
When the boys' father died, it
was his wish that his children
stay in school that they not quit.
Their mother, having been a
teacher herself, had a great deal
of influence on them along this
line, said Dr. Reed
And it is quite possible that this
fatherly ambition is the driving
force accountable for Wayne O.
Reed's holding the high position
he does today
He was graduated from Douglas
High School, second high in his
class scholastically. After h i s
training at Peru, he taught in the
Otoe County rural school for three
years. He then went to Palmyra
as principal of the high school
and later became superintendent
of schools there
After five years at Palmyra, he
returned to Otoe County to be
come superintendent of schools
He held that position four years,
following which he was named
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion for Nebraska. In 1951 eight
years later he was raised to his
present post.
He is a member of such hon
orary societies as Phi Delta
Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi and Pi
Gamma Mu. He has been a mem
ber of the Lincoln Chamber of
Commerce, the Cornhusker Boys
State governing board, the Ne
braska Congress of Parents and
Teachers and the Nebraska State
Commission for UNESCO.
And even now Reed, despite his
high educational position, still has
an addiction to hunting and horse
back riding most likely carry-
since I am a man of action and can
be dramatic if I wish, I picked
up the phone and dramatically
dialed Don Pie'per, the key man
in setting Daily Nebraskan policy
He assured me that all viola
tions, as long as they involve Uni
versity students, are traffic in na
ture, and nnnear on the court rec
ord, would appear in The Daily
Nebraskan.
This apparently means that if
you are Mortar Board or member
of Orchesis or even Religious
Welfare Council, and you are
picked up for drunken driving
you run the risk of having your
name in the paper where all your
pals and professors can take note.
I believe our ed has an effective
plan. It is rather brutal to be
sure .Of this I am certain, how
ever: It cannot but help to focus
attention on the Nebraskan s cur
rent safety campaign.
Join the Crusade for Safety.
Get out your micropencil and
pledge yourself further to advance
the cause of safety by taking part
in safety activities of your club,
school, employee group and other
organization.
The new three dimension pic
tures have height, width and now
depth. You said it. Hannah's got
them all. She is high, wide and
deep, weighs two fifty and is not
so nifty. But nevertheless, fat
girls are relished by the best of
men.
With three-dimension you can
have a "lion in your lap and a
lover in your arms." I
But can you hang by your
thumbs?
ColiseumPooiOpen
To Coeds, Staff
Women's Physical Education
Department is resuming recrea
tional swimming for all women
students and University staff
members.
Persons interested may go to
the Coliseum swimming; pool
every Saturday from 2:30 to 3:30
p. m. until the end of this semes
ter. The Physical Education Depart
ment requires each person to have
a swimming permit, their own cap
and bathing shoes and to pay a
10 cent fee each time they partici
pate in this program.
STOLEN GOODS
13 Per Cent
'Drop-Out'
Plagues CU
By PEG BARTUNEK
Staff Writer
An intensive investigation into
the reasons for the large number
of student "drop-outs" between
last fall semester and the present
term will soon be underway at
the University of Colorado.
The dean of faculties at the
University said almost 13 per
cent of the school's enrollment
dropped out after last semester.
The graduate school lost slightly
over 26 per cent of its enrollment
while the business school showed
the lowest decrease with 8 per
cent.
College students overwhelm
ingly disapprove of enrollment
policies which discriminate
against Negroes, according to the
Associate Collegiate Press na
tional poll f Btudent opinion.
Students from all sections of
the country were asked: "What
is your opinion of college policies
which slate that Negroes may not
enroll?"
The results:
Approve 17 Pr cent
Disapprove 76 per cent
No opinion 5 per cent
Other 2 per cent
Students in the south are more
evenly split on the question, but
show a clear-cut majority against
segregation.
The Michigan Daily reports the
invention of a new alarm clock
guaranteed to make the stubborn
est sleeper and, what's more, to
keep him awake.
The clock works by a photo
electric beam which shoots across
the victim's body so that it is in
terrupted by any movement. When
the alarm bell is tripped, the
clock rings until the subject
jumps up and lets the beam
through.
If he tries to sneak back into
bed, the beam is broken again
and resumes its din.
P.S. The casing can't be un
locked to shut it off and it won't
help to pull the plugit's screwed
into' the socket permanently.
There's
no limit
to the way
the Easter Spirit altipliis
when yea send Easter Greets
the most special way then Is..
1 "union
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EASTER... APRIL 5
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always drove the horse-drawn lovers from his boyhood days,
milk wagon, as Dr. KeeJ remem- Indeed this maji, who started
bers. He also recalled the time out as a farm boy and has be
when the preacher's boy scared icome one of this nation's fore-
the horse. The animal speeded up
to a fast pace then turned a
sharp corner.
"You can imagine what splat
tered milk and eggs were like!"
most educational leaders today, is
more than deserving of . the title
which this column confers on him
Cum Laude. With a Magna in
front of it.
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