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Wednesday, December 9, 1953
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EDITORIAL PAGE
Council Conimimism
The Student Council action to bar racial
and religious discrimination in honorary and
professional fraternities is the beginning of a
fine half-job.
The project, begun last Wednesday, if fully
successful will force removal of discrimina
tory clauses from the constitutions of several
comparatively small groups, leaving another
much larger group of social fraternities hav
ing discriminatory clauses in their constitu
tions free to continue their discriminatory
practices.
The Council has blandly explained the rea
son for not taking action against discrimina
tory social fraternities by saying it does not
have jurisdiction over social fraternities. On
the surface, this excuse is a valid one, but
like the Council's action of last Wednesday
The Shock
President Eisenhower did exactly what Sir
Winston Churchill feared he would do.
He shocked the world in his address before
the UN General Assembly.
In Churchill's view, according to the Lon
don Daily Express, the shock of the Presi
dent's speech would have a "bad and de
pressing effect on world opinion."
But here is where the prime minister was
wrong.
Eisenhower's purpose, seemingly, was to
hock the American people, the Kremlin and
the delegates to the Assembly Into realising
the facto of life.
In effect, he told them that there is no
scape from the threats of total destruction.
No defense, no promise of retaliation, no
stockpile will safeguard the American peo
ple or the world from possible atomic at
tack. If the President had stopped there, per
haps Churchill's fears of a depressed world
opinion might have materialized. The initial
scareundoubtedly felt' in New York and
Moscow as well as in Lincoln might have
become frustration and finally depression.
But the President had more to say.
His proposals for sharing atomic informa
tion and establishing an international atomic
energy commission were not intended to fa
cilitate development of war weapons. They
were meant as a vent for the powers of shock
and frustration Churchill apparently feared.
Eisenhower's proposals did not sound prac
tical on the radio. They probably didn't
sound any more reasonable in the United Na
tions building.
Joint contribution from Russia as well as
from the U.S. of fissionable materials for
peacetime development of atomic energy
sounds impossible.
Bat this Is an impossible age. Total de
struction of human life on earth doesn't sound
any more possible to our ears than the fan
tastic stories of Buck Rogers, The possibility
that the snap of one man's fingers in Mos
cow could mean the end to civilization is
hardly reasonable.
But it's true. The world is hanging on the
end of a string, dangling over flames of po
tential atomic destruction.
The impossible has now become the essen
tial. If the world does not learn to live
peacefully with itself, Eisenhower told his
audiences, not only peace, but also the life of
the world, is In danger.
His point was simple: Either learn to live
together in peace with The Bomb or die
together with The Bomb.
When the alternatives are so clear-cut, the
American people, the Kremlin and the United
Nations have no choice. They must ac
complish the impossible.
Strange as it may seem, when man Is faced
with such decisions, he invariably rises to
meet the occasion.
Sir Winston may not believe in this ability
of men. But, obviously, Eisenhower does.
Only when men know the truth as terrible
as it may be can they be expected to solve
their problems. The President has told them
the truth. The next step is to attain the
Impossible." K.R.
The Bible As Law
The United States last community of
polygamists apparently has been broken up.
An Arizona Superior Court judge gave sus
pended sentences to the 28 leaders of the
colony. -
He warned them, however, that "a viola
tion by any of you and the individual will be
sentenced to prison."
Although the polygamists had protested
that the custom was based on religious con
victions, the judge re-read his Bible and
ruled that "the Bible didn't commence with
ploygamy and the Word of God shows no
warrant for your action."
The Judge, citing the sixth chapter of
Genesis, said, "You have hidden your crime
behind a religious banner."
And so the Bible, long employed by profes
sors of literature and of history, enters the
law field. Take note, Dean Belsheim. You
may soon have to Institute a course in the
Laws of Solomon. K.R,
it is a departure from the usual action per-
sued by the group.
If the Council has no jurisdiction over so
cial fraternities, why has a new social frater
nity Delta Alpha Pi been forced to submit its
constitution to the Council Judiciary commit
tee? Jack Clark, president of the fraternity
said he was told his organization must sub
mit a constitution to the Council or not re
ceive University recognition.
Ironically enough, Delta Alpha Pi members
stated clearly in their constitution that no
person shall be denied membership on re
ligious or racial grounds. This group has
gone to some effort to show they do not favor
discrimination.
The Council maintains it has no authority
over social fraternities, yet it kept one
waiting for approval which the Council pres
ident said was necessary for "University
recognition." The Council has shown its de
sire to end discrimination in fraternities but
has limited the cope of any corrective action
to a small area professional and honorary
fraternities.
Why is this the case? The only answer
which completely explains this muddle of
reversals and backtracking is the Council
doesn't know what it may or may not regu
late or control.
This Council action is unfortunate in any
case. An organization set up to act as a con
trol of student activities with control over
these activities is an important campus or
ganization. It should be expected to take the
lead in good projects and to supply leadership
for those projects. Yet how can the Council
ever fulfill these capacities if it does not
know exactly what it can do and then do it?
The Council has shown real interest In a
problem that is common In universities and
colle-es throurhout the United States. It
has attempted to take the lead in combating
racial and religious restrictions, but It has
shown marked shortsightedness and a lack of
understanding of Its own power. The Coun
cil has reversed Its policy regarding social
fraternities and shown hesitancy in taking
social fraternities to task for a crime for
which they are considering to take action
against honorary and professional fraterni
ties. Clearly the Council is groping. Mistakes
caused by this groping are costly to its pres
ent project. It will be an error the Council
will have to claim as its own.
It will be a shame if the anti-discrimination
movement, a week-old today, splutters
out before it ever gleams. T.W.
Attn: Council
The plan for expanding the University
housing facilities to accommodate enlarged
enrollments is about to bear fruit. The men's
dorm will soon be in business.
But, as with new projects in general, the
opening of the dorm will bring with it prob
lems. One erroneous view held by some is
that eventual compulsory housing of fresh
man men will be undertaken by the adminis
tration. This is not the problem facing the admin
istration, according to Acting Chancellor
Selleck. On the contrary, the Chancellor 6aid
that because of the very reasonable rates to
be offered, more applications are anticipated
from upperclassmen than can possibly be
handled and still take care of incoming stu
dents. Chancellor Selleck said that the most Im
portant problem In connection with the open
ing of the new dorm Is how many rooms
should be reserved for new students at the
cost of limiting space for upperclassmen.
The Student Council, anxiously seeking
problems to explore, has an ideal opportunity
to conduct a survey of the' proposed alloca
tion of housing units between upperclassmen
and incoming students. Its recommendations,
if any, would offer the Chancellor at the very
least an indication of student interest and at
the best the basis for a system of allocation
based upon student desires.
If it is worthwhile projects the Council is
seeking, this question is one which is begging
for attention. E.D.
Margin Notes
Functions Of A Paper
The New York City newspaper strike
ended today. Several million people had
been denied complete and accurate world
news coverage through the medium of print;
but the great voice of the press is no longer
dumb. -
Newsstands were shut down; paperboys
were silent; the thundering presses of the
nation's largest newspapers didn't roll. But
the strike had still another effect upon the
world's largest metropolis.
Litter, which is accumulated each day, had
dropped 25 per cent since the strike began,
the city sanitation department has estimated.
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Job of teachlnt-."
The Challenge
Academic History Made
By Regents' Policy Move
By WILLIAM F. SWINDLER
Director Of The School Of
Journalism
(This is the eleventh in a weekly
series of articles treating the
problems, issues and challenges
of the day as viewed by repre
sentatives of various fields of en
deavor.) Something tremendously im
portant happened at the Univer
sity of Nebraska on Nov. 21. It
was not the game with Oklahoma,
but the action of the Board of
Regents, a few hours earlier,
which spelled out a clear, un
equivocal set of principles by
which freedom of study, discus
sion and inquiry should be in
sured for this institution.
It was the kind of manifesto
which an American university
should have issued months ago
when the present ware of hys
teria. Intolerance and reaction
was berinninr to gather momen
tum. Everyone associated with
the University of Nebraska should
be very proud that our institution
actually took the step. ,
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What is a university? There are
probably almost as many an
swers to that question as there
are people connected with univer
sities. One of the answers I like
best is Uiat a university is what
the word originally meant, when
groups of thoughtful scholars be
gan to meet and live together
in. the Middle Ages a "little uni
verse" in which every conceiv
able area of human knowledge is
open to exploration, and anyone
who wishes to study anything is
welcome to membership.
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What is a great university?
Again, there will be many differ
ent answers. One of several which
I prefer is that it is an institution
which is continually zealous to
acquire the most complete facili
ties possible for further study,
in the form of library and labora
tory materials: and is staffed with
instructors who are intensely in
terested in their subjects believ
ing them, in fact, to be the most
important subjects in the institu
tion but respecting all their col
leagues in other fields because
those men and women, too, be
lieve passionately in their sub
jects. a a
This adds up to a totally in
tangible but extremely valuable
asset an environment or atmos
phere which invigorates and stim
ulates everyone in it. Even if you
never come into direct contact
with certain areas of university
activity, the whole institution is
richer for them and the intel
lectual life of everyone benefits.
One institution which I attended
had one of the country's outstand
ing medical schools; and although
we never had the slightest oppor
tunity to take any courses in that
school we were proud to be asso
ciated with a university which
had nurtured such a curriculum
it was a yardstick by which we
could measure the other curricula
in the institution, and it suggested
to undergraduate students that
these things mattered intensely
and deserved study.
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In another institution we had
one of the world's outstanding
libraries on international law;
and we had teachers of the sub
ject who held eight o'clock classes
spellbound with their lectures
half the time the bell at the end
of the hour would go unheeded
while questions flew and if stu
dents were in a hurry to leave,
it was because they were impa
tient to get into that library to
dig. These teachers came fresh
from that library to class, or
from manuscripts they were writ
ing or from meetings in which
they presented papers; they came
literally loaded with material for
class discussion.
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The University of Nebraska, I
believe, is such an institution as
this. It seems to me that the av
erage Nebraskan is completely
unaware of just how rich, an in
tellectual resource the state pos
sesses in this university. One has
only to remember that this In
stitution produced both Roscoe
and Louise Pound in law and lit
erature; and Charles E. Bessey
In soolocy, and offered refure to
Edward A. Ross (one of the coun
try's treat sociologists) when he
was forced out of Stanford by the
type of unworthy pressures which
our Board of RegenU has so mag
nificiently rejected.
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To refer again to the other
events of Nov. 21, I do not envy
the University of Oklahoma its
magnificient football team nearly
as much as I envy its magnificent
, university press-r-one of the half
dozen top publishing centers for
publishing research in the United
States. I do not envy Oklahoma
the oil money for its athletic
scholarships nearly as much as I
envy the oil money which went
into its annual awards for master
teachers among its faculty. These
things, not the million-dollar grid
iron lineup, are what make Okla
homa outstanding.
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Nebraska ,can take equal pride
in its brilliant museum and art
collection, its top-flight school of
dentistry, its leadership in vari
ous fields of agricultural research.
Its charter membership in t h e
Association of American Univer
sities (a kind of Phi Beta Kappa
for institutions of higher learn
ing) puts it in the first rank of
schools throughout the country
offering balanced and well-stocked
facilities in many fields for stu
dents fortunate enough to study
here.
These are the things that are
important in a university these,
and the unrestricted right to use
them in the further extension of
knowledge and the expression of
views on any subject. Our great
est asset of all is the courageous
far-sighted statement of policy by
the Board of Regents which was
made Nov. 21.
Post-Dispatch
Regents' Stand On Mitchell
Seen As Gain. For Freedom
(The foliowinf editorial, appearing-
In The St Louis Post
Dispatch Sunday, wm written by
Robert Lasch, a graduate of
the University School of Jour
nalism.) It is a pleasure to record a
gain, in contrast to the all too
frequent losses, for the cause of
academic freedom and common
sense.
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At the University of Nebraska
College of Agriculture in Lin
coln, there is a vigorous young
professor of agricultural econom
ics, C Clyde Mitchell, with
strong opinions on price sup
ports.
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Mr. Mitchell is in favor of
fixed price supports. He believes
that Secretary of Agriculture
Benson's plan for flexible price
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supports would expose farmers
to the hazards of an unsupported
market in a society where sub
sidies to business, labor and other
groups would put farmers in an
unfair competitive position.
Mr. Mitchell may be right or
h may be wrong. In any case
he expressed his views freely in
public speeches and in his class
room. He came under attack by
some Farm Bureau leaders in
Nebraska who disagree with him.
,He was accused of radicalism, of
advocating "destruction of the '
free enterprise system," of "in
doctrinating" students.
The university regents opened
an inquiry. The result of that In
quiry is the splendid statement
which we reprint on this pare.
At many universities today Mr.
Mitchell would have been lucky
to escape with a reprimand. At
some, ho would find himself on
the skids because he had be
come "oontooverslal." The Uni
versity of Nebraska regents
courageously took Its s t a a d
against these trends whoa It
said:
"The rights to uphold, to dis
cuss and dissent are the moral
fiber of America' greatness.
They are likewise the strength
cf a great university."
The Student Speaking
Hey Already
Tfie Jno Story
By JERRY SIIARPNACK
"Look at this," said Mr. Ry
strom, tossing an opened New
Yorker magazine at my person.
There was a circle around a
paragraph on Page 42. "It's a
circle, sir," I said aftef only a
moment's -hesitation.
"No, you idiot, read the
article.''
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I read it aloud, "One of the
rules of the Jinja Golf Club, of
Uganda, Africa, permits theball
to be lifted without penalty from
the hoofprint of a hippopota
mus." I took a rather dim view of
the Information for I have never
cared much for golf, Hippopota
uses don't affect itie one way
or another. "Very nice," I com
mented, looking carelessly at the
Editor.
"Do you know what this
means?" he asked.
"Not precisely," I said. I had
no idea what it meant, other
than just what it said.
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"I think this thing's a gi
gantic hoax. I doubt if there
is one hippopotamus in all
Uganda."
"Probably not," I said.
"Of course, there isn't," said
the editor, "and I'm sending you
to Uganda to expose the fraud.
It will make a great story for
Friday's Nebraskan. Besides,
we're short on material this
week."
"Just a minute, chief," I pro
tested, "you promised me the
Bermuda assignment"
"Pshaw. Anyone could cover
the Big Three job. I'm sending
Gibson."
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So I set out for New York
within the hour.
The train jostled and jistled,
and I thought. Revise your col
umn don't use profanity
sweep the office and now, ex
pose a hoax in Uganda... Africa.
It's always someimng.
Finally, after some two thou
sand miles of jostles, jistles and
thinking, I arrived in New York.
I headed for the dock and my
ship as quickly as anyone heads
through New York City at fiva
o'clock in the afternoon and ar
rived at the place of my de
barkation in about three hours.
And there In the water floated
(after a fashion) my ship. It
looked like the wreckage of an
overgrown "Kon-Tiki." It would
have seemed more natural to sea
it equipped with a set of canvas
skils rather than the four stacks
that emerged from its topside,
or whatever the roof of a ship
is called.
I boarded with some appre
hension, and shortly thereafter
the vessel wheezed, groaned anoV"
we were steaming towardsW
Africa, "the land of contrasts,''
as the travel posters say.
I was sailing with two other
men, a woman and 50 tons of
pig iron. The pig iron, I am
sure, had the best quarters.
We were two days, and about
50 miles from New York har
bor) before I saw any of tha
others.
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It was one of the men I saw.
He was fat and wearing tweed
knickers. He was staring ont
at the -sea. I approached him
and he spoke without looking
up. "What are you doing aboard
this floating debris?"
"I am going to Uganda to ex
pose the Jinja Club hoax," I
said, innocently.
The fat man turned abruptly
towards me, his face becoming
quite red. A monocle dropped
from his left eye as he shouted,
"You keep your bloody body out
of Uganda, unless you want a
woncha through your stomik!"
(To be continued)
Daily O'Collegian
Tax Relief Sought For Cost
Of Education; Letters Urged
(The following- editorial Is re
printed from The Daily O'Colle
gian, student publication of Okla
homa A4M. Since our Student
Council has endorsed this pro
posal also. It Is Interesting to
note that the O'Collegian feels
letters from the entire student
body rather than from the Coun
. oil alone will be more effective,)
Congress is considering changes
in the income tax law this year.
In January Senator Burnett R.
Maybank of South Carolina will
appear before the senate finance
committee in hopes of providing
an amendment which would
make educational expenses de
ductible. At the present time, it Is very
hard for a man of moderate in
come to retain enough money
over living costs to meet pres
ent education costs. In most
states, perhaps ail, education is
required by law in varying de
grees. It seems only just that
education expenses, along with
medical expenses, be deductible
from income tax payments.
The student senate decided at
its Wednesday meeting to write
a letter to Sen. Robert S. Kerr,
a member of the senate finance
committee, as well as a letter to
the committee itself, endorsing
the proposed amendment.
While this is a very good move,
we fear that one letter may not
do the trick. However, if a size
able proportion of students (yes,
students should have a voice in
this matter also, especially if
they are working their own way
through school) and students
parents were to write their sena
tors and congressmen, such an
overwhelming approval of the
proposed amendment could not
be overlooked by those in Wash
ington. Each student can do his part
toward making the income taxes
more just if he will write the
state senators and his district's
representative, or at least per
suade his parents to do so.
These representatives should
be urged to appear before the
senate finance committee to re
quest the inclusion of this pro
posal in the tax bill for the next
fiscal year.
In essence, the amendment if
passed would provide that edu
cational expenses, along with
medical expenses, would be de
ductible in the amount that they
exceed 5 per cent of net income.
Passage of this amendment
would relieve the unwarranted
financial burden of today's cost
of education. This would enable
more persons to afford a college
education, and raise the educa
tion standards of the United
States In a manner which would
be second only to the GI bill
benefits. "v
Postage stamps are inexpena
sive. So are sheets of stationery. -Even
the busiest student should
be able to spare five minutes ia
order to contribute to the pas
sage of this important amendment
Ibid
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