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Wednesday, September 1 j, 1 95:
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick BlbUr
The Student Speaking
American Version Of 'The Charge'
Isn't it strange? If you shout often enough
and loud enough, someone is certain to be
lieve what you say.
Remember last spring when Congressman
Velde, chairman of the House Un-American
Activities Committee, dropped a hint that
his committee might be planning to investi
gate the clergy for possible Communists. Do
you remember the uproaf which arose from
the American people and even from other
members of Velde's committee?
"Such an investigation can never happen,
if freedom of religion and freedom of speech
' are to remain intact," we were told.
During the summer the short-term execu
tive director of McCarthy's Senate Investigat
ing Subcommittee, J. B. Matthews, wrote a
scathing article in an American magazine in
which he said, point-blank:
"The largest single group supporting the
Communist apparatus in the United States
today is composed of Protestant clergymen."
Another wave of indignation swept Mat
thews right out of his subcommittee job
despite the objections of Sen. McCarthy.
The clergy still appeared safe from con
gressional investigation.
Another bright chapter followed. Bishop
Oxnam, directly accused of aiding the Com
munist cause "during the week" by a Velde
committee member, Rep. Jackson (R-Calif),
appeared before a congressional committee to
answer the charge.
"When he emerged from the hearing, Ox
nam was completely exonerated. The name
of the clergy remained unsoiled, and possible
Investigations appeared farther away than
ever.
And then the inevitable happened. Names
of 600 supposed Communists and former
Communists among the cloth were released
by the House Un-American Activities Com
mittee. There in prominently-played news articles,
both In the Omaha World-Herald and the
Why The Beanie?
Ever wonder why freshmen are supposed
to wear beanies?
In the beginning of the tradition, fresh
men were undoubtedly to be singled out
as the lowest of the earth's wretches. The
cap, originally green, marked the wearer as
an object of scorn.
But today the NU beanie is red, not green.
It is worn by some frosh, discarded by oth
ers. Sale of beanies helps to support the Inno
cents Society, Coed Counselors and a local
clothing store.
What we want to know is is the beanie
a genuine tradition or simply a commercial
enterprise?
Theoretically, wearing the beanie should
be a humbling experience. The freshman
should lower his head, walk along the sides
of corridors and speak only when spoken
to.
" But does he? Ha.
The little red cap serves only as license for
actions which would disgrace an upperclass
man. The beanie seems to justify shouting
in the halls, wandering into the women's
physical education building and generally
playing the campus jester.
Indeed thia is a farcry from the humility
fraternity men would have the caps pro
duce. Perhaps Innocents and Coed Counselors are
contributing to the delinquency of fresh
men. But the clubg are making money and
fraternities have an excuse to rack up de
merits. And the freshmen are still buying
the beanies.
No one seems to mind the system, as
meaningless as it may be . So who are we to
say anything? K.R.
Big Business
Opponents of the administration have been
criticizing Eisenhower's cabinet and advisers
for being heavily weighted with representa
tives of "big business."
They continually point out that government
is now becoming an instrument of business
and that government is leaning over back
wards to favor the moneyed interests of
the country.
Perhaps they are right Perhaps they are
wrong.
The Intimate relationship between gov
emnvint and business, however, is pointed
out sharply by the following sentences from
a news article published in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch:
. . . the recent fire which destroyed the
General Motors transmission plant at Livonia,
Mich, shocked the Treasury because of the
possible loss in tax revenue if General Mo
tors eutomobile production is curtailed ser
iously. A loss of 100,000 autos, and millions
of tax dollars, has been mentioned."
If the government is becoming dominated
by business, perhaps the Republicans know
which side of their bread is buttered. K.R,
Lincoln Star, were the names and some of
supposed activities of a number of the 600.
The story seems to have stuck its foot
into the door of clergical investigation. With
the exception of the individuals named, no
one seems much concerned about what is
really going on.
Whether the accused are guilty of their
charges is not the point. The point is that
the investigation, the very suggestion of which
horrified Americans last spring, is now under
way. Even Matthews is back in the act. Tues
day morning's papers carried the story that
Matthews had charged, in a TV discussion,
that "thousands of clergymen" helped in the
postwar Communist campaign to demobilize
our armed forces.
The hunt is on.
Perhaps a full-scaled investigation will be
some time in developing. But, unless the
trend of public opinion is reversed, there
will be no turning back until McCarthy and
Velde have galloped over the backs of Ameri
can clergymen to new heights of hysteria-
based thought control.
"Into the Valley of the shadow of death
rode the six hundred," wrote Tennyson.
The remainder of the American clergy
will follow. K.R.
The Challenge
Today's issue of The Nebraskan contains
the first of a weekly series of articles to be
written by a number of persons representing
various fields.
Under this vague classification, we hope
to include as well as academic figures, reli
gious leaders, perhaps some students and
maybe a few public officeholders.
The Challenge, as we have chosen to call it,
will truly be a challenge both to our po
tential authors and to our readers.
The column will be a challenge to the
authors in that they will face a critical audi
ence, which has recourse to The Nebraskan's
Letterip columns. In another sense, it will
be a challenge for the authors to present
what we hope will be frank admissions of
what the student will face in his particular
field.
The readers, however, stand to get the bet
ter of the bargain provided they meet their
challenge. That is, reading the column with
a critical and appraising eye. The persons
contacted to write this series will not be
limited in any way to subject mater; they
will only be requested to write about what
they consider one of the most important prob
lems, issues or challenges in their field.
In fact the authors will have the liberty to
go out of their field should they consider that
best.
The purpose of the column is simply to
make available to our readers the wisdom
of successful persons in varied fields. This,
we feel, is in keeping with our concept of
youth unable to effect Changes of itself, but
being capable of evaluating "and1 scrutinizing
the judgments of others.
In itself, this is a challenge. E.D.
Margin Notes
The Game's The Thing
For the forthcoming grid tilt between Notre
Dame and Oklahoma at Norman this Satur
day, tickets are being sold to Oklahoma stu
dents one to each student. Except married
students. They are allowed one additional
ticket It seems that 100 more applicants
spoke for tickets than University records show
are married. Looks like Norman justiees-of-the-peace
will do a booming business before
Saturday.
A Woman's World
The campus is going to the women.
Figures published in Tuesday's Nebraskan
show that University coeds have captured
another traditionally male honor.
For as many years as anyone can re
member, a social fraternity, usually Fanxir
House, has topped the organizational scholas
tic list
But finally, a sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta,
has toppled the kingpins of brains. The
Theta's 6.570 average comfortably defeated
Farm House's 6.471.
The coeds are to be congratulated.
Transportation Conspiracy?
The Student Council appears to have sold
its soul to the Lincoln buslines. The 400-per
cent increase in the price of University park
ing stickers should send off-campus students
flocking to bus stops.
Perhaps the law of supply and demand will
solve the parking problem, even if the Uni
versity and the Council can't
The Party Line
Despite President Eisenhower's attempt to
form a mild coalition cabinet, the American
tradition of straight-line party control seems
certain to defeat any effort to follow such
European customs.
The resignation of Secretary of Labor
Durkin proves that the administration can't
have its cake and eat it, too.
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The Challenge
Journalistic Signposts
Show Decay Of Values
By NATHAN B. BLUMBERG
Asst. Professor of Journalism
(This is the first of a weekly
series of articles treating the
problems, issues and challenges
of the day as viewed by repre
sentatives of various fields of
endeavor.)
Two recent events in the field
of journalism serve as examples
of a formidable challenge con
fronting Americans. It is the
problem, old as civilization itself,
of values.
The first event was a decision
by a special committee of news
paper editors and journalism
professors who had been asked
by Sigma Delta Chi, professional
journalism fraternity, to look
into the matter of an independ- ,
ent study of press conduct dur
ing the 1952 presidential cam
paign. That committee, after weeks of
deliberation, came to the con
clusion that it was not "feasible"
to make such a study because,
in the words of the majority re
port, there is "no methodology
for measuring bias."
Thus, faced with a multitude
of charges that America has a
"one-party press," a distin
guished group of . editors and
teachers chose to sidestep the is
sue by mumbling about "meth
odology" instead of launching a
project which had been de
manded by a majority of under
graduate members of Sigma
Delta Chi.
The issue is left in mid-air;
the study, which may have
proved conclusively whe t h e r
newspapers had or had not been
swayed in their news columns by
their editorial viewpoints, is
sidetracked.
The University of Nebraska
nnderrraduate chapter of Sigma
Delta Chi, acting on its own and
to its great credit, officially re
jected the conclusion which the
committee had reached.
The second event was news
paper conduct in the handling of
news reports on the so-called
Kinsey report. It, was to be ex
pected that the tabloids and the
blood - and - thunder dailies
throughout the country would
have a field day.
Many newspapers refused to
publish a news story on the Kin
sey findings, either on the
grounds that it would constitute
free advertising for the book or
that it was offensive as material
for a family newspaper. Still
other newspapers dismissed the
book with a single news account.
And there were other news
papers and these are the ones
which should be our concern
which piously proclaimed that
they were performing a public
service while laving their pages
day after day with the most
lurid and libidinous details of
this 800-page book.
It Is also interesting to note.
Incidentally, that a few news
papers which refused to print a
word about Dr. Klnsey's re
search could find no objection to
publishing in intimate detail the
sordid record of the Jelke case
in New York earlier thia year.
These episodes, it seems to me,
exemplify the trend toward easy
and cheap answers, pious plati
tudes and a refusal to employ
ethical values to situations which
confront us hi our daily lives.
The trend is not limited to one
or only a few fields of human
endeavor; it is permeating the
whole fabric of our society.
One sees it every day in poli
tics, where issues are submerged
University
Bulletin Board
WEDNESDAY
InterVarsity Meeting, 12:30
p.m.. Union, Room 313.
Stndent Council Meetinx, 4
p.m. in Union Room 315.
Student rnbllcAtloiis Dinner, 0
p.m.. Union Parlor C.
BAEW Jadcing, 7 JO p.m., Un
ion faculty lounpe.
Alpha Kappa Pat Meeting, 7:30
p.m., Union. Room 313.
THURSDAY
Interfraternlty Council Meet
ing, 5 p.m., Union, Room 316. ,
Coed Counselor Meeting, 7
p.m., Union faculty lounge.
Alpha ITU Omega Meeting,
7 JO p.m., Union, Room 315.
FRIDAY
Annual Dean of Women's Tea,
3:30-5:30 p.m., Ellen Smith Halt
Newman Club Record Dance.
7.30 p.nu. Union ballroom.
by interests and a McCarthy
thrives in an atmosphere which
frequently moves us years closer
to George Orwell's 1984. It is
evident in television, in movies,
in magazines which worship at
the shrine of Utter Mediocrity.
It can be seen in education,
from the elementary grades to
the post-graduate field, where
forces are working assiduously
and sometimes insidiously to
lower standards, to make tech
nique more important than
knowledge, to make experience
more significant than truth, to
make a mockery of studies
which the many generations
which preceeded us have pains
takingly and almost unerringly
constructed as the only pathway
leading to an understanding of
man.
It is this drift away from val
ues, a willingness to substitute
expediency or "new ideas" for
the hard, cold, unrelenting fact
that men must take a stand
where clear issues are at stake,
that is at the core of many of
our social, political, economic
an educational difficulties.
Instead of meeting problems
head-on, analyzing and judging
them on their merits and then
making a rational decision, one
can see Batten, Barton, Durstine
and Osborne replacing Plato,
Socrates, Milton and. Shake
speare. The soap opera technique is
overwhelming us. When plati
tudes and propaganda are tem
porarily victorious over values
and knowledge, we become a na
tion of Invertebrates animals
without backbones.
In Shaw's greatest play, "St.
Joan," the crisis of the Maid of
Orleans is also our contemporary
crisis. "Without these things."
Joan cries at the end of her de
fiance of the Inquisitor, "I could
not live." In those words she is
made to show that she is more
concerned with the conditions of
life than with life itself.
This college generation, this
"silent generation" if you will,
should seek out the educational
paths which will create a stub
born insistence on knowedge and
values. The road of pragmatism,
while paved abundantly with
good intentions, leads inevitably
to helL When a person or a na
tion stands before an In
quisitor, how could he be better
answered than in the words of
Joan?
QhiddstA.
"Bey, it's happened to me! I'm
in love. Prettiest girl in Lincoln.
One of twins."
"Twins huh? How d'ya tell 'em
apart?"
"Nobody could ever fool me on
my Angelina. Besides, her twin
is fullback on the football team."
The newly weds booked
honeymoon suite in a hotel,
bride was a
beautiful
creature truly
in
and
the
The
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statuesque
figure.
her husband
was obviously
very much in
love with her.
The walls
were thin, and
two sailors oc
cupied the next room.
"My dearest" said the hus
band, "you are so beautiful. I
think I'll get a sculptor from
New York to model you."
A moment later there wan a
knock on
there?"
"Two sculptors
York."
the door. "Who's
from New
And then there's the one about
the man who hurried up to the
counter, laid down two nickels
and demanded a can opener. The
clerk handed him a dime, and
the man went happily on his
way.
'1 can't marry him, Mother,
he's an athiest and doesn't be
lieve there is a hell."
"Marry him dear, and between
us. we'll convince him he's
wrong."
Strictly ECushner
By MARSHALL KUSHNER
Contrary to , rumor, this col
umn has not returned to the
inside page of the no longer
Daily Comedy of Errors by pop
ular demand. Since receiving my
Pub Board pension, Rystrom et
crew are attempting to give me
an honest position.
I wanted to name this column
of tripe "I's Right!" However,
the stuffy staff felt that this
would mislead the readers and
reflect an inaccurate and contra
dictory title for the continuity.
The Air Farce really has got
ten a bit tangled in their own
red tape. If they had the money
they spent sending telegrams be
tween Washington and ROTC
wings, the stamps wasted to in
form juniors and seniors they
are in-out and in the advanced
course, I'm sure they could fi
nance a squadron of B-36's.
The Daily Nebraskan dedicat
ed no less than 36 inches of its
precious space in analyzing the
slings and arrows of outrageous
misfortune incurred by the re
cent confusion.
Certificates in lieu commis
sions. One brave soul (may he
rest in peace) had the nerve to
ask the instructor, "What means
this certificate?"
"It means you're deferred by
the department of the Air Force
until you graduate, at which time
you are eligible for the draft.
After two years, you may ap
ply for a reserve commission."
Well, that's ducky. Do you
think you'll be drafted into the
Air Force? Heck no, you'll go in
as a buck private (with B.A.)
in the Infantry, Wasted Air
Force instruction for four years.
If you receive a commission in
the Infantry after two years,
your life expectancy is thirty
six seconds. But don't worry
about it. . .
The Stadium's filled to capacity
The Huskers are ready to roll
They drive with sweat and te
nacity
For ten yards and eventuall
their goal.
The down Is now one
The conflict's begun.
The play is over' tackle Minnie
Who's concerned with Muscl
Max, the cynic
But the whole is there for Be
dogna
Who grinds through like a rinj
of bologna.
The play's worth a few
And the down now is two.
A pass called by Gohde is quit
discreet
But it's short of the mark am
falls incomplete
Bill misses Loehr, one of hi
boys
He'll just have to wait 'tiUllj
nois.
Norrie is off on his adjectiv
spree
As the Huskers come out fo
down number three.
What's this we're back to the ol
single wing?
Oliver snaps to Yeisley, who's of
on a fling
He's almost gone 'til he's knockei
on his seat
It seems he got tangled in i
Webfoot's webbed feet.
The fans blurt "tally ho, let1!
score"
The scene is set, it's now dowi
four.
It's out of the huddle and dowi
in position.
Poor Bill, with his hat, has i
nervous condition.
Somewhere, not Portland, th
sun shines bright
The Scarlet and Cream ha
shown its might.
And now the scoreboard th
winner depicts,
It's NEBRASKA 13, OREGON
Walt "Strictly" Witman
Slide
Rule
I CE's Start Classes In
I Renovated Buildind
When the Civil Engineers ar
rived back on campus this week,
they said, "This can't be." But
there it was their old building
had been transformed into a
modern and more complete set
of laboratories and classrooms.
The hydraulics lab is really cool
to say nothing of the new Sani
tation lab.
During the latter part of last
semester the CE's were cooped
up in about 4 rooms on the
ground floor of Ferguson Hall;
offices which had been in sep
arate rooms were then placed
desk-to-desk.
Classes are due to begin in the
renovated building today.
t
No doubt, meetings are al
ready being planned in the
minds of the chairmen of every
engineering society this week.
None of them have dared to an
nounce any as yet, however.
Topics of discussion will no
doubt be about membership
drives, dues, etc.
By the way, have you bought
your subscription to this year's
Blue Print yet? If not, better
scout around and get yours. I
hear tell the issues are going to
be on time this year or else.
This is not a new claim, but
it's always interesting to see how
far they miss their goal every
year. If any of you got to read
the last two issues that came out
last semester, you'll agree they
were the best ever even if they
were mailed after school wj
out! i
Any freshmen who have bee
on news staffs during hi-scho
are welcome in the JghiePri5
office. --
Some fellows are writing ii
articles on their summer em
ployment for publication in th
B.P. I know I'll be interested i
how anybody saved any mon
this summer; I didntCao't sa
I didn't have fun, though.- - -
I asked a few fellows wht
they did this summer, and the
related a few sad stories abou
ROTC camp; I don't know thi
anybody enjoyed them.
When asked just.Jhow thf
would handle 2 millftm,,men 1
such a training program, thougi
no one seemed to have any bet
ter ideas.
About the most controversy
subject on campus today is th
situation with the ROTC righ
now, as far as I can see.
Some engineers, as well a
others, are being made to grad
uate in January or no commis
sion. That's kind of hard to d
unless you planned k-that waj
One good way to foul "a Jched
ule up is to decide to gradual
one semester ahead of time jus
in time to change your last se
mester.'This from someone that'
doing it
Don't forget, only 200 days 'ti
E-Week. John Marks.
Crossword Puzzles Yet!
Dear Editor,
Although I think you are put
ting out a fine paper, I have
often wondered why college
newspapers do not run comic
strips or even crossword puzzles.
The news and editorials some
times get kind of dry as a
steady diet. With the addition
of Pogo or a similar strip, I
believe your readership would
increase.
TRANSFER STUDENT
(Editor's note: Although we
cannot conceive of NU students
having the time to work cross
word puzzles, we do agree that
a comic strip on a once-a-week
basis would be worthwhile. We
hope to be able to offer our
readers a comic strip in the near
future.)
Financial Idea
Dear Editor:
Could your financial plight be
solved by increasing the student
tuition which goes to The Ne
braskan? I'm certain that Uni
versity students are willing to
spend more than a dollar a se
mester for the paper if it is
published four times a week.
Why not ask the Student
Council to petition the Board of
Regents for an increase in Ne
braskan tuition fees?
S A FORMER COUNCII
MEMBER
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ter comes along but what 11
something better comes alon
and sees me going with him?"
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