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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, April 30, 1953
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Br DON PIEPER
: Editor
You. What are you?
You, the person reading this editorial, what
art you?
Are you the neurotic product of a thaken
world?
What do you want out of life?
Do you think?
Yei, I'm talking about you a 20th century
university it'-dsnl Just what are you?
There have been a lot of words written to de-
mlght not know all the answers? Did you chal
lenge anything?
The tendency seems to be for blind acceptance
Are you learning by absorption or do you sort
through different views and come to logical con
clusions? The Importance of thinking can never be min
imized but especially not now when a cruel and
shrewd enemy stands ready to pounce on Amerl
ca's every weakness. You must, know why you
do not want to live under Qommunist domination.
You must not be content to believe that free en
ternrise is best merely because others say so. Do
crlbe you and your contribution or lack of con- you have an inquiring mtnd? There are those
tributlon to the world. Many men have at- who say that youag an aggregate are afraid to
tempted to evaluate you in the light of preceding lhjnk and that you wcicome indoctrination,
generations.
For the most part, these evaluations are not
favorable. In too many instances, these critics are right.
Your crltics-both members of your genera- There are exceptions ljut there is no need to dis-
tion and your elders-have described you as un- cuss them. , The student who needs discussing Is
imaginative blobs who are unwilling to face y"1' yu are conlent t0 rid wlth 1he tide'
reality, These critics have said that yau are In- There are plenty of you who don't belong here
terested only In security and are afraid to think. Louis Bromfield, an author with whom this
In a word, you belong to the "lost generation." writer very seldom agrees, discussed you recently
WORLD REPORT
I1ITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
By Bibler
TODAY'S HEADLINES. ... At
Panmunjom today, Armistice ne
gotiators are to meet at 11 a.m. . . .
The negotiators appear ready to
compromise on Bmall issues but
are still far apart on the basic
problem blocking a cease-fire in
Korea. . .
The White House announced
Wednesday that President Elsen
hower will present his administra
tion's defense program, complete
with military and foreign aid
By PAUL MEANS
Staff Writer
costs, at his news conference to
day at 2 p.m. (CST).
Thirty OIs and five Marines
came home to American soil Wed
nesday from long captivity in Red
prison camps in North Korea. , .
SHADES OF JESSE JAMES. . .
Two "tough talking" bandits held
up the Citizens State Hank at De
catur, Neb., in broad daylight
Wednesday and escaped with
around $14,000 after locking three
women employees in tne vauu.
Brkker Amendment Might
Limit Atomic Control Pacts
can well
rniTOK'H NOTKl A nropoard amendment (iiihmlllcd hy ' J'J.
iA limit Ih. trratv-maklnc power, of the rreaidrni. Aiinou.n nr.,.., ......
hi. heann action ou the prnpoxl. "till, mimtlpn nt aniennna i" ''
....... . . -- - . u. i th. i hri.iian Nrifwir ninniinr.
tilt Inn." ftporflinv in nmi Vw V 'i ..-. .n.i
.wcum on
a hit-. Tk. MK-aiaL&n FAD fill I
and ioiirlh'edHorlnla will be pul.ll.hrd In the near future.)
President Eisenhower yesterday
gave the best definition we have
. l lh mt healed and cnnlrnv.rlnl liif of Ihe eomtni month..",
"nf 'dl ortn lw l" .rrlr. f four. were ...hll.hed reei-nlly In .he Va.h- I
?i The Nebra.kan reprlnl. W-m Irnm Ih. nnirr....lonnl Kac..rd. Th. third .
Consider the Inflammatory words of an edi
torial writer for the Athenean, a student maga
zine at the University of Wisconsin:
in an article for Esquire. And, In his analysis of
the American system of higher education (which
he thought was "merely messy"), Bromfield says
"Tndav'a students are a sterila assemblaeo of that "there are too many young people in our
prisoners of orthodoxy. A group with little curl- institutions of higher education who are not there
osity, content to munch chocolates and watch a to acquire knowledge but to get a Job somewhere,
television set while the rest of the world staggers r to make a club- or to cscaPe from thoir fathcrs
blindly to destruction, a group hungry for a rut business, most commonly, simply to please their
to cower In; a collection of youngsters already parents.
middle aged, lulled by life into a state of vegeta- why are you hcre?
tive smugness."
k Don't back off from that question. Why are
Is that you? you here? If you are even partially awake in-
No question could be more basic now, especially tellectually, you know that the world faces a
for the seniors. Are you, the future citizens, crisis. And it takes only a little more reasoning
merely frightened refugees of confusion? Do you to conclude that solid, free-thinking leaders are
ignore the difficult, preferring to bask in the false needed. Are you here to prepare yourself to lead?
security of blind belief? Bromfield said that you wanted a college edif-
Don't laugh. There are a lot of people In- cation so that you could "get a Job somewhere.
telligent, deep-thinking people who believe that In 1949, Fortune magazine wrote, after taking a
you are not even beginning to meet the chal- nation-wide poll of the class of '49, that "security
was its goal." Fortune went on to say that your
generation "wants to work for somebody else
preferably somebody big."
Is this bad? Is there anything wrong with
security? Of course not as long as your search
for security doesn't blind you to the importance
of chance. You must not forget that progress
comes only with adventure. If you do nothing
but look for security you will become stagnant.
editorial charges that students are content to ac- Then a1 ife will become stagnant. Do you recog-
cept without challenge the facts and opinions of nize the pitfalls of a selfish search for security?
their Instructors "We (have) refused to partici- re this bjjd off? PrQbably not
pate in the business of thinking, but preferred to haye been disiUusioned by
watch ttie intricate process go on in the heads of rtomance ,n these critica, times. And,
others' probably, they have been justified. But every
Oscar Handlin in the January, 1951, Atlantic generation js disappointing yours seems to be
Monthly says that "your generation has welcomed especially disappointing because your problems
the shackles of orthodoxy all those eager faces are especially great.
looKing up ai ine piauorm, waning to re ioia
lenge you must face.
Are these critics right?
. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of truth
in their indictments. In many cases, these critics
have completely overemphasized the situation.
But the modern student you cannot ignore their
charges.
For instance, do you think? The Wisconsin
what 'to believe. There is a delight in dogma;
know the authorities, accept the classics and wash
your problems away."
This does not excuse you.
The Wisconsin condemnation concluded with
these words:
"We hope that enough introspection will push
Is that you? us up the scale of evolution from sheepdom to
Things don't seem to be that bad. However, something nearer the dignity of a Free American
what did you get out of your lectures this morn- citizen.
ing? Did it occur to you that your instructors "Our world is not a safe place for sheep."
NEBRASKAN EDITORIALS
Constitution At Stake
The Student Council meets this afternoon. it is clear that both of them will be seniors next
Today's meeting may provide the only oppor- fall,
tunity for open debate on the matter of election ,
filings. No changes can be made in this year's The otner constitutional provision appears at
elections, it is true, but by next week the 1953 first glance to cioud the issue. If "regular Uni-
election will be a- matter of record and nothing versity rui0S" include class standings, the rules
is quite so uninteresting as an election which has must be appiied ln accordance with Art. IV, Sec.
passed. 1 a (5). In other words, the University's eligibil-
Should the Council leel obligated to recom- ity system mUst be employed to determine the
mend election changes to next year s council, xne class stan(jing a student will have next fall
urss maner miuiuu .uu ,mw.. The on, practicai manner to determine this
of the eligibility requirements for applicants for number fa add number of hours fhe stu(Jent
class and Council positions, for grave injustices hgs earned th h the flMt gemester Qf tW
nave resuiiea mis yeur num viie aiuumi uiv
sion? between junior and senior standing.
The first question undoubtedly is, "What does
the constitution say concerning eligibility?" It
says two things.
Art. IV, Sec. 1 a (5) states: "Filings for col
(the number now employed in determining eligi
bility ) and the number of hours he is now carry
ing. Two problems immediately arise: The student
may not pass all of his present courses and he
may pick up additional hours by attending sum
mer school. The first problem is unlikely since
honr-A nt the Brloker resolution to
limit the treatymaKing powci . x
who are arguing for this
proposed amendment, he said, are
saying tnat me wnuiuuun
should be changed so as to keep
it the same as it now is. Many
agree with the President that this
is a bit or an anomaiy, un mi.
nrifWpp amendment would add
nothing to the safeguards already
in the Constitution.
It must be remembered, how
ever, that the President was
talking- about only one segment
of the four-point resolution. The
other three poInU are all con
cerned with crippling the
treatymaklng- process thro;"
which our foreign relations are
controlled. These would effect
changes of a most dangerous
character.
Frtr pvnmole. section 2 of the
proposed amendment would for
bid the United States to negotiate
any treaty permitting an interna
tional nreanization to supervise
or control any matter essentially
within the domestic jurisdiction
of the United States.
Witnesses at the recent hearings
naturally supposed that this would
prevent the United States from
agreeing to international control
over atomic power. Senator
Bricker takes a different view,
but his intterpretationof section 2
seems to fly into the face of its
precise language.
Mr. BRICKER told the Senate
the other day that this claim that
his amendment would stand in
the way of an effective atom
control program was the. most
absurd charge leveled against it.
He arrived at a contrary inter
pretation by saying that control of
the atom is not within the domes
tic Jurisdiction of the United
States. hat. then, is within the
country's domestic jurisdiction?
No one knows.
In trying- to escape from one
horn of his dilemma, Senator
BRICKER has made section 2
meaningless. Perhaps there is
some gain in that, but it seems
inconceivable that Congress will
approve a resolution which
meant one thing to its author
and the opposite to nearly
everyone else.
This is the second time that
Mr. Bricker has come forth
with a muddled and mischievous
proposal affecting the treaty
power. His 1952 resolution was
abandoned after its defects had
been exposed.
Since January he has been
pressing his new version on the
apparent assumption that it had
the support of the President and
the Secretary of State. Now it is
obvious that no such support will
be forthcoming despite Senator
BRICKER'S missionary work at
the White House.
It is a pity that the Senator
did not also sit down with some
of the experts who have been
studying this problem for the ad
ministration, for his resolution, as
a whole, is the gravest sort of
threat to the standing of the
United States as a world power.
He is in the ridiculous position of
a Republican senator trying to
undercut the powers of a Repub
lican President to deal with a
world erisis.
Last year his . reckless course
seemed to be explained as parti
san politics. But what can ex
plain it now? The Senator has the
alternative of withdrawing his
had been in effect In 1945 It
would have prevented the
United States from joining the
United Nations. The Association
of the Bar of the City of New
York also concluded that sec
tion 2 wouloXforhld the United
States to play Its part in the
, . . a i r
international Monetary runu
Agreement, The International
Telecommunications Union, the
World Health Organisation, and
similar bodies. Presumably It
would also prevent the United
States from espousing various
rights of its own nationals be
fore the International Court of
Justice.
Even more serious would be
the impediments placed in the way
of agreements designed to keep
the peace and insure our security.
The ban against international con
trol over anything "within the
domestic Jurisdiction of the United
States" would seem to forbid the
kind of atomic-control program
that this country has been seek
ing for several years.
If atomic disarmament is to be
achieved, it. must include ar
rangements for international sup
ervision of the users to which fis
sionable materials are being put.
The United States as well as other
countries would have to submit
to such international controls, and
the Bricker, amendment seems to
be a direct bar.
To be sure, Senator BRICKER
denies this by saying that con
trol of atomic power is obvi
ously of international concern,
hut if his amendment Is to be
interpreted In that loose fashion
It Is merely a piece of foggy
verbiage which ought to be dis
carded on grounds of vagueness.
The one thing certain is that
section 2 of the amendment would
clamp unmeasurable restraints on
President Eisenhower and Secre
tary Dulles at a time when our
international ties are closer than
ever before. No need for such re
straints has been shown; the safe
guards against unwise treaties are
ample. On the other hand the
necessity for a flexible, positive
and unembarrassed foreign policy
stands out from every instance in
which American leadership is put
to the test.
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It Seems To Me
Octogenarian Tauge
Jo Win Class Election
Dorothy, 81 -years-old. has ap
plied for junior class president,
Though her hair is scraggly and
white and her shoulders sag, she
is eligible.
Dorothy is no ordinary student.
Because of her age, people as
sume she is a mature personality.
She is respected on the campus
because she is older than most.
When she blinked her baggy
eyes and announced her In
tentions to run for class office
no one batted theirs.
And everybody wanted her to
win. That is, until they found out
her platform from The Daily Ne
braskan. Dorothy is campaigning
for a junior-senior class council
of fifty members, a lavish junior
senior prom, class dues, class pic
nics, class beer busts and many
other friendly and heartwarming
get-togethers.
Old Dotty will probably be
elected junior class president in -ti
a iriiiuauuc occaubc ui uci ma
turity and popularity on campus,
how could she miss? Maybe she'll
even be a Mortar Board.
But though Dorothy is 81 years
old, she s got a lot to learn, bhe
must leam the deep-down facts
of so-called "class spirit on the
campus.
She'll learn that it's there all
right. But Nebraska's class
spirit is a passive thing, which
disappears when it's riled up.
Glenn Rosenquist
sophomores more than: "Will I
get into advanced ROTC?''
At least the Air Force has Ini
tiated a new policy. Their quota
system has been drastically
changed. Sophomores wishing to
be eccepted for advanced are
sweating it out.
More emphasis has been placed
on flight training. Cadets inter
ested in flight training and phy
sically fit for this training have
a much better chance of making
advanced.
Rigorous physical examinations
are in progress to determine those
physically fit to fly the airplanes
in tomorrow's air force. The other
exams are getting tougher too, as
any sophomore can testify. .
'
While the Air Force Is chang
ing its quotas, Max I. Dog is
enjoying the benefits of college
association, Max, I understand,
attends Professor Curtis Elliott's
class regularly. Does Max pay tui-
Nothing seems to be worrying
Engineers Week Aimed
At High School Students
lege representation are open to students who will the chances are that any applicant who meets the
be eligible to serve during their sophomore or grade average requirement will not flunk courses
junior years." (The by-laws say: "Filing pro- this semester particularly since he obviously feels
cedures shall be the same for class officers and he had enough time to engage in an activity next
representatives to the Student Council . . ." fall.
Art. V, Sec. 1 b states: "Regular University The addition of summer school hours is a possi-
rules shall govern in determining a candidate's bility, but it is just as great a possibility under
eligibility." the system now employed. No one has raised
fa an objection. '
The first provision says nothing about the . "T
standing students must have at the time they file. . If the constitution were to be followed strictly,
The by-law provision implies that the same is the Council this afternoon would have little choice
true of class officer applicants. Applicants for in devising an eligibility system.
senior class officers shall be eligible to serve dur
ing their senior year and those for junior positions quently finds it easy to avoid the constitution on
to serve during their junior year, is the obvious the matter of elections, perhaps this afternoon's
Intention. debate should concern itself with the advisability
If this is true, it is unconstitutional to base 0f a constitution,
eligibility for filing on- the applicant's standing jbe constiution is specific. Will the Council
As you read this article, the
engineers are feverishly perform
ing miracles they never thought
were possible on displays that
were supposedly fool-proof. Yes,
the nail chewing is finally over
with, and open Hoice is here;
most engineers will be involved
in one way or another to present
an other successful and educa
tional display of what they con
sider to be valid applications of
engineering principles.
,
I need not describe the disDlavs
here because they have been pub
lished elsewhere in the paper.
But the students in the College
of Engineering and Architecture
are ready and willing to explain
as much as they know about their
displays from 2 until 10 this eve-
think about from one or several
displays. Then, perhaps, you will
realize the very real purpose of
E-Week; e.g., to engender in the
minds of visiting high school stu
dents an interest in the field of
engineering, or at least an inter- ;tle doesn't move any machinery.
esi in me possionuy or securing
While Max I. Dog is paying his
tuition, let's pay some attention
to the ticket-sellers. Ticket sellers
sell tickets and right now they
are selling Kosmet Klub tickets,
'Tis said that a Kosmet Klub offi
cial at the last Kosmet Klub
worker meeting asked the work
ers to raise their hands if they
hadn't sold more than 300 tickets.
It's ridiculous, but those who
raised their hands probably won't
make the club.
NROTC. . .
It was the first trip to sea, and
one young sailor was draped
weakly over the rail. The captain
came along the deck, and with onet,
look at the sailor, said, "You can't
be sick here."
The sailor looked the captain up
and down, then with all the dig
nity at his command, said.
"Watch."
WORDS OFv WISDOM. . .
The steam that blows the whis-
a college education of some sort.
Yes, E-Week is here to in
form the public of the oppor
tunities offered at the Univer
sity for their children, and to
acquaint the children with an
atmosphere and a way of life
that might otherwise be com
pletely foreign to them.
This year's Open House promises
to be as complete and diversified
as the 83 previous events of this
sort. Many of the old disrilavs
mn.8- that are practically demanded by
Any and all students are ureed the DeoDle will reanwar hut tv,o
auernauve 01 wnnarawinc n s i. , .l. r t- . .. r . . -
fniid, cin.i " l" ollc,,u .l"e. VPen ouse wneniotners win be new and interest-
stultification of the adminTstratJiOu!30.1.1,1.! ?h ' Part in keeping with technological
tion he helped to bring to power. other function involving as many
l ii students.
Amendment Would1 nou can be assured th?1 yu
Steal Ike's Power
Any move to narrow the treaty
making power must be closely ex
amined these days because of the
vast responsibilities that the
United States has acquired. The
power to make . treaties is the
power to. regulate our relations
progress being made in all fields
or engineering.
So plan to attend, even though
you may have seen it before.
You'll be glad you did!
Immoral . . .
Dear Editor:
Your editorial
Letterip
of Wednesday,
Homonc thof tK
But because the Council has shown that it fre-iimTt
t ui iuuo v a j a ou as iu
with other nations, including our' "Bargain Basement," was well
closest allies. j taken. A satirical approach is un-
When the Constitution was be- j doubtedly the only sensible one
ing drafted in 1787, there were t0 be taken toward such a pre
posterous suggestion as that ad
vanced by Gen. Clark.
avoid possible abuses. The United
States was then only an isolated
strip along the Atlantic seaboard
with fewer than four million
people.
I would like to noint out. in
addition, that the offer of money
to Red pilots is highly immoral,
since we are bribing them to com
mit treason against their country.
But the Founding Fathers in- The Russians may have a legiti-
this year. In the two cases in which applicants members respect it or is the constitution just a'sisted that the door be kept openlmate reason for protesting Clark's
for senior positions were disqualified this spring, piece of. paper? K. R.
The Daily Nobraskan
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to any kind of agreement deemed1 offer as being contrary to the
appropriate to the national wel- purposes 01 ine united Nations.
fare within the powers .granted
by the Constitution.
Now that the United States is
the most powerful nation in the
world, however, Senator
BRICKER and his collearues
want to take away part of what
the Founding Fathers deemed
essential.
Section 2 of Senator BRICKER'S
proposed constitutional amend
ment reads as follows
FRANK PIERSON
NUBB
THURSDAY
Home Ec Club at 4:30 p.m.,
Home Ec Building parlors.
Robert Ripley's "Believe It or
Not" display starts at City Hall.
Ag Students Bull Session at
7:30 p.m., Ag College . Activities
Building.
PhVCIOC Pnllnnxliim nt J.lt n
..j onaai Koom in, iirace Lab.
permit any foreign power or any Engineer Open House starts
international organization to sup-jfrom 2 to 5:30 p.m. and 7 to 10
ervise, control or adjudicate rights! p m
of citizens of the United States Kosmet Klub Spring Show,
within the United States enumer- "Anything Goes" at 8 p.m Ne
ated in this Constitution or any braska Theater
other matter essentially within the I AUF at 7 p.m. in the Student
domestic jurisdiction of the! Union.
United States." I Sony Directors for the Ivy Day
Some students of international Sing at 5 p.m., Room 315, Student
law say that if this provision I Union. j
A Challenge? ...
Dear Editor: .
It seems as thouch Eneinpprs
Week has affected a couple of
loose wires in tnat they are boast
ing that Engineers Week can be
won by quantjty and not by qual
ity, originality or simplicity.
Is it a Herculean task to con
nect with wires, the motors, gen
erators, switches and lightbulbs
which are permanently installed
in the new Electrical Engineering
Building? This building was no
doubt designed and constructed
by "belabored" Arch E's and "en
croaching" CE's.
As far as being discouraged it
will take more than a series of
self-excited EE's to challenge all
the "dormant," incompetent engi
neers who roam the campus.
If the "chamrjions of nil crin.
tific knowledge" in the Engineer
ing Open House Award they
should give thanks to the fields
of CE for impounding Water for
hydroelectric power, the "stink
ing" Che ME's and the ME's for
converting natural energy into
mechanical energy and then into
electrical energy, without which
the electric?! engineer cannot ex
ist. Their part in Engineers Week
would collaise completely without
electricity.
If the open house can be won
before it begins, it would then
appear that to hold a competitive
open house is useless.'
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