Nebraska Newspapers

    Wednesday, February 24, 1954
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THE NEBRASKAN
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MyiRg k illess
A littlt less screaming and a little more
calm thinking are needed In the current con
troversy about secret or public choosing of
a Chancellor for the University.
The episode has degenerated Into a battle
between The Lincoln Journal and the Board
of Regents. The Journal claims a moral
right to know, on behalf of the public, who
It being considered tor the post of Chan
cells. The Regents claim that publicity would
and has hampered the efficiency of the
Board In its search.
Thus the Issue Immediately becomes con
fused by the tact that one side is arguing
the question from moral grounds; the other
from practical grounds. Which is it, moral
or practical?
The Nebraakan believu the situation Is
stentially on in which the Regents need
to find the most efficient manner of choos
Ing s Chancellor for the University not one
la which nablle trust will be violated if
choosing is don secretly.
Our reasoning is this: As the situation
Is now defined, selection of a Chancellor is
not ft matter of public policy. Selection of
University personnel by the Board of Re
gents is ft use of the executive power of the
Board not of its legislative power. This
remains true whether a Chancellor or en in
structor is being hired. The situation is
only magnified aow, not changed.
Another point which has come through
'Private' Opinion
During last week's rain, an unidentified
Nebraska coed expressed her very definite
views on The Nebraskan.
The Rag's finally good for something,"
she mused, as she covered her shaggy pony
tail up with the morning Nebraskan and
and dashed out into the rain.
The young lady didn't know that her
comments would end up tn print, but to this
partlcmlar Individual, it will probably make
no difference. Undoubtedly, she will not
read this editorial.
Maybe she had a good argument, though.
Certainly, many of her friends agree with
her.
Notice the discussion in any restaurant,
fraternity or sorority dining hall, or campus
gathering within ft few hours after The
Nebraskan is circulated and listen to the
criticism. Most of it is good, honest criti
cism. But there is one exception;
There is the growing group of readers
who claim The Nebraskan doesnt cover
campus news. Many disagree with editorial
policy. Condemnation of the paper is heard
from almost every viewpoint aimed at almost
very inch of the paper. But no one hears
cf the criticism, whether valid or not, out
side each little group gathered around a few
cups of coffee.
For many years, the former Daily Ne
braskan carried the motto under its mast
stating: "The Voice of a Great Midwestern
University." Many still think the Univer
sity ranks among the great of the midwest,
but there is doubt as to whether The Ne
braskan can be said to be its Voice."
It's utterly foolish for editors to tell stu
dents to express their views. College stu
dents should not have to be cajoled into ex
pressing ideas. After all, a university com
munity Is considered mentally alert and
willing to fight for what it thinks right
This b not the ease at the University.
The Nebraskan states its opinion. The sub
ject blended there. Seldom is a letter writ
ten te the editors disagreeing with anything
or for that matter, agreeing with any
thing. During ft year of publication, many mis
takes are made by the staff of The Nebras
kan both in mechanics and in judgment.
Criticism to what is printed is seldom, if
ever, heard outside The Nebraskan offices.
The flow of letters The Nebraskan receives
should be constant, not a rarity.
If The Nebraskan is not serving its pur
pose, that girl who covered her hair, that
little group sitting over coffee finding dis
agreement with an editorial, that individual
who maintains Nebraska is or is not a "cul
tural desert," maybe even you noble as you
are ought to Just sit down and put your
thoughts on paper write a "Letterip."
Send that letter to the Editor of The
Nebraskan. Ton will see it in print when
space is available. In any event, yonr ideas
wia be read by the staff, and beard by the
entire cam pas, not Just by yonr little croup.
At that point, and only then, your criti
cism will become valid. At the present, it is
nothing but Idle gossip.
The poet Ogden Nash once expressed his
Ideas on what happens to people who gos
sip. He said:
There are two kinds of people who
blow through life like a breeze.
And one kind is gossipers, and the
other is gossipees."
University gossiper, continue floating if
you wish. You're merely wasting yourself.
But if you wish to develop ideas, exert your
Influence. Stop your idle talk and put your
thoughts on paper. D. F.
the current maze in greatly jumbled form is
who ultimately is choosing the Chancellor,
the public or the Board of Regents? Ne
braska citizens have chosen to have their
elected representatives, members of the
Board, do so for them.
This is an important matter. No one
would ever deny the citizens of Nebraska the
right to have a voice in choosing Chan
cellor. However, by giving the Board of Regents
the power of picking the specifio man to
handle the University, the publie has, in
effect, said, "We elect you to represent us,
the citizens of the state. We believe you are
eapable of choosing a man we think desir
able." If the public or The Journal want to tell
the Regents what type of a man it thinks is
desirable, this is another matter. The Jour
nal can speak editorially and the public can
write or talk to Regent members. Anyone
can describe the man he would like to head
the University and be heard. They can
say, "We want a man who will defend aca
demic freedom. We want a man who can
enjoy a football game, yet not emphasize
athletics to an extreme." They can say any
thing, but the final decision is the Regents'.
It is another matter also if The Journal
and Nebraska citizens feel the Board of Re
gents is not competent to select a Chan
cellor. This, of course, should have been
settled at the polls when members to the
Board were elected.
However, the Regents have acted in a
muddled manner on several recent issues, a
fact brought out fully in a Journal editorial
Tuesday. This does not change the fact that
the Board's final actions were responsible
and reasonable in each of the cases cited by
The Journal.
Something is needed now to clear the
air and to satisfy The Journal's and The
Nebraskan's reasonable belief that the "best
interests of the University lie always in the
fullest public understanding of the Univer
sity's business."
That something is a statement from the
Board of Regents to the citizens of Nebraska
and the University outlining the type of man
it is looking for to head one of Nebraska's
greatest public institutions. S. H.
'Coffeed' Classes
Herewith ensues a humble suggestion for
the betterment of all students earnestly seek
ing to achieve the utmost in their aspiration
after knowledge.
In order that students might have every
encouragement toward concentration in
early-morning classes, professors ought to
serve coffee at the door. This little gesture
of friendly cheer would eliminate the neces
sity for cutting class to "coffee" at Earl's or
some such non-educational establishment.
Lecture attendance would rise; both stu
dents and instructors would be able to dis
cuss the Life and Culture of the Ubangi
Indian with much more enthusiasm.
Cream and sugar should be provided, of
course. And thoughtful instructors could
even serve breakfast rolls during hour exams
to maintain the stamina of exhausted stu
dents who undoubtedly have stayed awake
all night diligently studying.
The increased amount of knowledge ab
sorbed by University students would more
than compensate for the slight expense en
tailed in such a project. In deference to
Brazil and $l-a-pound coffee, however, a
two-cup limit might understandably be im
posed. The idea is not an entirely new one, but
an adaptation of the traditional English cus
tom of tea and crumpets. The English are
so devoted to their daily teatime, that even
during World War I British soldiers had hot
tea served to them in the front line trenches.
So if it's tea in trenches for Englishmen
why not coffee in the classroom for Amer
icans? M. H.
Margin Notes
Blue Monday?
Four days a week, Tuesday through Friday,
Burnett Hall is crowded at the end of the
11 o'clock class, as University students jam
the entrance leaving the building for lunch.
Monday seems to be an exception.
Each Monday, and only on Monday, there
seems to be no crowd leaving Burnett
Could it be that "Blue Monday" is really
that blue?
Hands Up!
A quick thinking Minnesota grocer is mak
ing things rough on prospective hold-up men.
The grocer, a native of St. Paul said a tall
teenager walked into his store and announced.
"This is a stickup." The grocer reached under
the counter and came up with a .38-caliber
pistol. He threw the young prospective thief
a pack of cigarettes and pushed him out the
"Get out here and don't do
it any more, kid youTl get into trouble."
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The Student Forum
Where iire We?
"Our boys Just aren't hitting tonite. Coach, an I understand
that girl over there bet they wouldn't be."
On The Light Side
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By JERRY SHARPNACK
My heart-felt thanks to W. Rob
ert Norton whose thoughtless ad
vice made this story possible,
a a a
Bathesda was a small boy about
the sire of twelve or fifteen pea
nuts. He didn't live around here.
He lived in a little bitty town no
bigger than the space covered by
two-hundred shoe horns you've
never been there.)
Bathesda had a mother and
father and dog. The dog, Reese
bob, was about the sire of one
peanut
Bathesda especially liked his
father because he often told him
stories about the great btr peo
ple the site of two thousand pea
nuts that lived someplace else.
Bathesda often wished he were
two thousand peanuts bir and
wondered if he could ever grow
that much.
Bathesda had always wanted to
be big or something different be
cause he never thought people
paid much attention to him. Ac
tually, they did, though.
One day, as he was out walk
ing with Reesebob he met an old
crumphy-looking woman with a
green face. She was a witch.
Bathesda was usuallv afraid of
witches with green f.ices, but he
thought she might be able to
make him grow. So he asked her.
and she said she could for thirty
five cents. Bathesda gave her the
monev and the witch told him
to follow her to her scarey old
castle that was on the hill.
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The witch had a large pot in her
castle. Whatever was in it was
boiling and there was a cow foot
in the middle of it. She said she
was making a special kind of to
mato soup and if he drank some
of it and said, "Trozeboddle"
three times he would grow.
So Bathesda drank the tomato
soup and said "Trozeboddle"
three times. But instead of grow
ing big, he began to shrink! He
shrank down to the sire of a half
peanut before the witch came to
her senses and said "Heeser
bomp" which stopped his shrink
ing. Bathesda was pertrurbed. Not
only did the crasy old witch get
fouled up with her words, but she
completely forgot just what did
make a person jtow. And not
even for fifty-cents could she re
member. So Bathesda went around for
the rest of his life no bigger than
half a peanut.
Moral: Don't try to be bigger
than vou are.
By BERT BISHOP
Couched in the heart of this
University, as well as in other
institutions of the same nature,
are a group who have dedicated
themselves to the elimination of
everything great and human in
thsir definitions of the human
being.
It is strange indeed that so
many supposedly humanitarian
coHrses and universities could
allow such reductions and retro
gressions to occur when their
history and traditions have been
centered around the uplifting of
man.
It would be a happy thing if
the movement could be called a
disease, so that all men might be
allied against it. Instead, it is
being encouraged by a band of
self-styled apostles of the new
word, being advanced time and
time again by men who, with
each word, violate themselves as
well as every other person. Al
though it is known by many
names and is nurtured under
many flags, it is also capable of
damage in any number of dif
ferent ways.
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The new religion is worship
of the great statistic or, in a
phrase, scientific method as ap
plied to the human being. Lock
ing at modern psychology, we
find that man has become not an
individual being of stature and
sense, but instead a collection of
behavior patterns, determined
completely by his heredity and
environment.
, The first thing man achieved
under the influence of modern
psychology was to lose his soul;
after all, they said, how was it
possible that something existed
which could not be measured.
Then he lost his mind, since it,
too, could not be boxed and
shipped off to the laboratory for
analysis. Just recently he has
begun to lose consciousness be
cause the men with calipers and
graphs cannot determine the dif-
Independence Day
Estonian Students' Group
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By UVE J. KAPSI
"The Estonian Student Associ
ation in the USA., and its coun
terparts in other countries of the
Free World, has as one of its
aims the distribution of inform
ation pertaining to Estonia, her
history and her present fate.
-We still adhere to the belief
that a people have a right to
determine their form of govern
ment and to choose it through a
democratic process without in
tervention by second powers. The
following article is meant to ac
quaint the reader with a piece
of history of a country now
behind the Iron Curtain and
embodies a protest against Rus
sian oppression of a people who
want to be free and independent.
"I think that this article con
tributes toward an evaluation of
Soviet Rntsia'a threat to the
present Free World, which can
be best appraised by looking
back at Soviet Russia's 'achieve
ments" in !aft decades and not
by theoretic.o-1 speculations.
"Because I am en Estonian, a
national cf one of the countries
presently behind the Iron Cur
tein, a student on the University
campus, and because I believe
that there can never be enough
information concerning Soviet
Russia and the countries behind
the Iron Curtain; I have asked
that this article be published in
The Nebraskan.
Group Statement
"On February 24th all Eston
ians in the Free World celebrate
their biggest national holiday,
their Independence Day. It was
on that day in 1918 that this
small nation of only one- million
once again gained its freedom
after naving been conquered by
the Germans in the 13th century
and later becoming a province of
the Russian Empire,
"The Estonians never lost the
desire to be masters of their own
land despite the many centuries
of foreign rule, and this was
finally accomplished in 1918.
Immediately, however, the newly
born republic found itself at war
with the Soviet Union which
made every effort to conquer it
Only after a heroic two year
war which required tremendous
sacrifices from all Estonians and
with invaluable help from the
great Western Democracies, the
USA and Great Britain, was the
Red Army repelled. A peace
treaty was formally signed in
1820. At last the Estonian people
could start rebuilding their war
ravaged country.
""During the nxt two peaceful
decades great progress was made
in industry and agriculture,
which put the' country on a
sound economical basis. The
University of Tartu, established
in 1632 by the Swedish king
Gustav Adolf, and the Tchno
logical University of Tallinnn
contributed much toward mak
ing the Estonians a well edu
cated people.
In 1844 Estonia fell once more
under Soviet control after long
years of suffering under a Ger-
r sneaks
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man occupation and ruin caused
by World War II. It remains
there today. More of its people
are being killed or deported to
Siberia every day, but little of
this leaks out through the Iron
Curtain.
"Despite these grim facts, the
Estonians have not lost hope that
this brutal terror will come to an
end someday and they will be
come a free nation again. It is
this faith that they solemnly
reaffirm on February 24th."
Only Sixty
Abraham Lincoln misspelled
60 words between the ages of 22
and 34. Most students could now
out-misspell him in two weeks.
Judging from themes the only
conclusion that may be reached
is that school just ain't what it
usta was.
University
Bulletin Board
WEDNESDAY
Summer Projects Mart, 2:30 to
5 p.m.. Union Parlor X
Philosophy Club, 7:30 p.m.
Union Faculty Lounge.
-Hasty Heart." 8 p.m. Arena
Theatre.
Steea RasmuKsen Lecture on
Artlcture, 8 p.m. Love Library
Auditorium.
THURSDAY
University Dames, 8 p.m, Ellen
Smith Hall.
FRIDAY
Alpha Kappa Delta elections,
3:30 p.m. Room 113, Social
Science Building. -Gerald
Thome Public Lecture,
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ference between awake and
asleep.
The other so-called social
sciences reach the same Intense
absurdities, dealing with the ob
vious in solemn mystery.
The sociologist has his "socie
tal" laws, the economist his for
mulae of supply and demd and
the "educator" his tn-jective kin
dergarten. Each one is guilty of a
transgression by his own defini
tionignoring all things with
which his system cannot deal. It
never seems to have occurred
to these people that If their
wrench does not fit the nut to be
loosened, they should find a
wrench that does, instead of leav
ing the nut tight and pretending
it does not matter.
a a
Once upon a time, man was
determined that he was more
important than a stone or a tree
or a rabbit. He was a little cloudy
about what a stone was essenti
ally, and set out in his own way
to find out. The end of his search
was science orderly, accurate
and objective. What was more,
'the system which evolVfed was
peculiarly apt to what was being
studied because rocks and trees
and rabbits were part of the out
side world, where objectivity is
truth.
His success In these things led
him astray, however, because
he leaped upon it as being the
answer to all things- And he
began to be objective about him
self, the inner world, where ob
jectivity Is Impossible.
Unless those who seek to learn
more about man turn in a new
direction (and, after all, a fad,
no matter how temporarily en
tertaining or enlightening it
might be, is not an absolute)
they will find themselves chas
ing their own pretty illusions
more than discovering new wond
ers in fact. And they will have
arrived at a state of darkness
8bout reality which is far mora
ignorant than that of man before
the advent of science.
From The NC Tar Heel
Angry Coed Sends Editor
Rules Of Asking For Dates
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aant.t I have read about all I can
stand of those boys griping about
coeds refusing to date them. What
are "we supposed to do, ask them
for dates?
I wonder how many of the
poor, neglected little boys have
ever asked a coed for a date. I
mean really asked, not wandered
up after class or in Y Court and
mumbled something that might
if one listened hard, sound al
most like an invitation to a
movie. You can't say: "Yes, I'd
love to date you," if you haven't
been asked. And we're called
those horrible forward coeds.
We took a check on one floor
of our dorm alone last Friday
night (Jan. 15). Very few girls,
aside from the few who are
pinned of going steady, were dat
ing. We could understand that
if we all looked like something
that crawled from under a rock,
but most of us look like normal
females.
Now don't say the girls want
to date only f rat men: That is
a fallacy originated either by a
conceited frat man or a poor
little boy who was turned down
for a date.
Naturally, it will be more dif
ficult for freshman dorm men
to get dates. After all, the coeds
are juniors and about two years
older than they. They really have
no room to gripe.
The following suggestions may
help some of you lonesome, ne
glected little boys find some
coed who likes d&rm men best.
1. Ask her for the date; she
isn't going to ask you.
2. If she says, -No, I'm sorry,
you must try again. She may
have another date and it's very
doubtful if she would rush out
to break it just to date you or
anyone else for the first time.
3. Don't approach her with the
I'm going to ask you for a date
but I know you'll turn me down"
attitude. If anyone sulked up ta
me and asked as if they hoped
I'd say no, that is certainly what
I would say.
4. Ask her for something spe
cific. There may not be many
"facilities" on Chapel Hill but
you go to movies at home, you
drnce at home if you dont have
three left feet Our basketball
team does play home games, or
have you ever noticed?
Why don't you try asking, any
how? Coeds are people, too, at
least most of them are.
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