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THE NEBRASKAN
Friday, April 23, 1954
EDITORIAL PAGE
We Could Learn By Example
That American university students are an
extremely fortunate group is an undeniable
fact. . Tha,t they need to be reminded of this
fact periodically is equally undeniable
. Students, at Nebraska share in the good
fortunes of their counterparts this country
ever. They are well-housed, well-fed and
well-dressed. The most struggling and
moneyless person af'the University is bounti
fully supplied with the necessities of life in
comparison with students in other parts of
the world today.
In addition to these basic advantages NU
students have a' modern plant in which to
work. They possess a library a good one
with books, many books; they have access to
facilities for chemical experiments, for the
study of languages, for laboratory work in
the physical sciences.
Perhaps the most important item in the
luck of University students is that with the
free mind which automatically accompanies
freedom from want, they can absorb instruc
tion without hlnderance and in large numbers.
Let us contrast this rosy picture with uni
versity conditions in Asian and South Ameri
can countries. Material on those conditions
has been gathered by an energetic organiza
tion, National Student Association, engaged
in the spread of democratic ideals throughout
the student world.
Its study teams report that in many coun
tries only a minute fraction of the young
people attain university education. (This
contrasts with the United States, in which 20
per cent of the youth go to college.) Those
who do attend universities are almost certain
to develop into important leaders in their
countries. Many are political forces while
at school.
While at Harvard James Grant, now an
assistant to Harold E. Stassen, Foreign Opera
tions Director, was sent to southeast Asia for
the NSA.
He likened the total population in six
countries there to that of the United States
but the university population he could com
pare in size to the student body at one
American school, The University of Cali
fornia. In Burma he found student affairs to be of
vital importance to the nation. While he was
Why No Station?
Other schools have radio stations, why
doesn't Nebraska?
. This question has been asked many times
by '-idents on this campus. Radio programs,
presented by the speech department broad
cast over KNUS, which is not a regular radio
station but a wired wireless, can be picked
up only on and near campus. The programs
are announced, given and directed entirely
by radio students.
A few years ago KFAB, radio station in
Omaha and Lincoln, offered as a gift to
the University FM (frequency modulation)
equipment which included a FM transmitter.
This offer was not accepted by the Univer
sity. Ridiculous, you might say. But the Univer
sity, aside from the finance which would be
involved in completing the es iitial FM
equipment necessary for broadcast, not in
cluded in the offer, had other reasons for ot
accepting KFAB's offer.
T" oegin, any program that is to be broad
cast over a network to a general radio audi
ence iiust be interesting, good, and should be
near perfection. Therefore these programs
should be done by partly senior or advanced
radio students and, if possible, partly profes
sional people.
A general radio audience would not put up
with the stammering, nervousness or obvious
ly unprofessional manner that would result
from most beginning radio student's at
tempts. Should the programs be guaranteed to be
food, meaning the advanced students and
professional people would do them, beginning
and intermediate radio students would then'
be deprived of essential training. So reasoned
the University and Speech Department when
they made their decision to leave the Temple
broadcasting scope as It was.
Another problem arising is the fact that if
Nebraska had a --dio station, it would have
to be operated 365 days a year, meaning
broadcasts by students during summer,
Christmas and other vacation times.
Radio departments in other schools which
have incorporated str'ons such as Iowa State
and Northwestern, allow only the best or more
advanced to broadcast, leaving the other ra
dio students to practice before a proctically
"dead" mike.
Nebraska's radio department felt that it
was more important to give radio students,
beginning to advanced, as much txnrience of
-'-- actual broadcasting as possible, for ra
dio students to practicebefore a practically
dents.
The radio department in the Temple Build
ing is new. It is comparatively small and so
the KNUS type of station is practical for
student needs, but KNUS is also growing.
With Its careful instruction it has produced
excellent radio people. J.c.
there, the inauguration of a student body
president was attended by several Cabinet
representatives, a group of members of Par
liament and two envoys from foreign
embassies.
The need for trained personnel is so acute
in Indo-China that he discovered that every
young lawyer who had graduated from law
school the spring before already had become
a judge.
The two pictures of American and foreign
university students have been sketched and
when they are held side by side the contrast
is obvious. Small numbers of struggling
students attend universities in the face of
hardships. Twenty per cent of a nation's
youth go to college in the midst of plenty.
Under the first conditions political, economic
and social leaders of nations necessarily are
produced. Under the second set it is possible
for many persons to spend four years learning
nothing, making no contribution to their
nation and society.
It would behoove the fortunate ones to
think of their less lucky yet equally, or more
energetic counterparts. It would behoove
us to learn by their example. S. H.
Tribute To Trees
Arbor Day was celebrated Thursday in Ne
braska and people around the country paused
for a few moments in a busy day to think a
little about the beauty of nature that Was
native to America far before man first entered
the scene.
A great Nebraskan, J. Sterling Morton,
founded Arbor Day. The holiday was first
observed in 1872, and one million trees were
planted.
Each year, many tourists d Sunday riders
drive to Nebraska City to visit Morton's famed
home Arbor Lodge. Visitors follow Apple
Blossom Trail and look at the colorful
flowers.
To the average University student unless
he happens to be from Nebraska City, of
course Arbor Day more than likely sor of
"slipped by" with little special notice.
It is good, though, to ju.?f pause for a mo
ment, and recall that the state of Nebraska
is somewhat famous for founding the day.
We should be justly proud. s
Let's keep planting trees on Arbor Day.
Let's keep our nation filled with men and
women with foresight who realise the neces
sity of saving the land. For goodness sakes,
let us not allow Arbor Day to slip by us,
completely unrecognized. D.F.
On Display
University sororities in fact, the whole
University will be on display this weekend.
High school junior and senior coeds from
all over the state will be staying at sorority
houses for a weekend of concerted rushing
the only rushing sororities are allowed to do
before next fall. This phenomenon is offi
cially labeled Legacy Weekend.
To high school girls whose mother or sis
ter belonged to one of the Greek sororities
having chapters on campus, the weekend will
provide a chance to become acquainted with
the present chapter. They will be entertained
at picnics, movies, slvber parties, dinners
and any sort of informal get-togethers that
ingenious actives can invent. For many of
them, it will be their first peek at college life.
To sororities, the weekend provides a
chance to make a good impression on some of
next year's freshman rushees. If they can
show the legacies a good no, I mean fabu
lous time, the girls will return to their
home town considerably influenced toward
next fall's choice and full of praises for their
mother's or sister's sorority.
These few high school grls will be re
sponsible for accomplishing what harrassed
housemothers have been trying usually un
successfully to accomplish all year. Bed
rooms will be immaculate (probably for the
first time since mid-year room switch), for
mer rivals will become best buddies (for a
day) and company manners will be brought
out of hiding. From Saturday noon when the
first legacies arrive until Sunday, the agic
word will be Fun not only for the visitors
but the hostesses as well.
To the University, Legacy Weekend is a
chance to familiarize future coeds with some
of the opportunities and traditions which
await them. Not only the sororities, but the
whole campus, should be on its best behavior.
First impressions are important, and naturally
the entire school wants those Impressions to
be good extra specially good.
With a wise eye to advantageous Univer
sity publicity, Panhellenic '$ sponsoring a
style show in the Union Saturday afternoon.
But it is principal1 through the friendliness
of all University students and the sincere
welcome extended by everjone they meet
that our weekend visitors will be favorably
impressed with the campus.
Only the fraternities might have grounds
for complaint against the project. The boys
will of necct.it;. be spending a dateless eve
ning while the girls escort legacies around
town en masse. But, on the other hand,
Legacy Weekend has advr "ges for them too.
Think of the studying they could do! M.H.
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
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by Dick Bibler
The Student Forum
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By JOYCE JOHNSON
Who said there was no activity
in Lincoln during vacation?
The mysterious killing of a
State Penitentiary guard on
Good Friday and the recent
throwing of hats into the Ne
braska political ring set the town
on its tender ears.
In addition the appointment of
Mrs. Eve Bowring of Barr 99
ranch to the Senate filled me
with womanly pride and satisfac
tion. I have often sensed that
woman's destiny as the political
strength of our state would be
realized in the near future.
Does anyone know where I can
pick up a second hand ranch
after June 8?
It's becoming increasingly ap
parent that one of the major
qualifications of a successful
woman in Nebraska . . . whether
she be a Rodeo Queen or a gov
ernmental official ... is that
she be a first-class horsewoman.
I suppose there is a comparison
between the bellering of Here
ford cattle and the filabustering
in Washington.
No matter what the critics'
views are concerning our new
Senator she has nevertheless be
come a national figure in the
last week.
A morning TV show allowed
several minutes in picturing
Mrs. Bowring on her Sandhills
ranch as she gave her final in
structions to her ranch hands
and bade her cattle a temporary
goodbye.
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TV and cattle reminds me of
Fred Allen who certainly took
the bull by 'the horns in humor
ously dealing out a black eye to
television.
He said that in Akron, O. there
are 700,000 TV sets and 640,000
bathtubs, which implied that 60,-
000 people in this area are dirty
TV watchers . . . talk about
cleaning up television!
Allen also noted that a nutri
tionist in Boston, Mass. warns
that audiences who combine both
snack eating and television star
ing are undermining their health.
1 understand a book will be pub
lished soon on this topic. I be
lieve the title reads, "Peace of
Mind or To Piece or Not To
Piece, That is The Question."
New laws are even being
passed concerning TV owners.
In Ohio divorce cases the tele
vision set is awarded to the par
ent who obtains custody of the
child. This sounds like the new
giveaway program, "Take and
Take."
Probably the best argument
Allen dug up was when he re
ported that a national party
chairman said that a personable
appearance on TV is essential to
political success. Allen added
that the country's next president
may be another piano player by
the name of Liberace. His cam
paign slogan might easily read,
"With Liberace You Can Be
Sure."
As to the future of television,
price of cattle and Nebraska pol
itics. Borrowing from Mrs. Bow
ring, "Let's ride the fence awhile
until we find where the gates
are."
Two On The Aisle
'Rhapsody1 Has Music,
Plot And Liz Taylor
By DICK RALSTON
"She's just darling."
The author of that remark
wasn't a virile young male ad
miring Liz Taylor's obvious
physical charms. It was a very
respectable-lookinR middle-aged
lady stopping to look at a picture
of Liz on her way out of the
theater.
I agree with her.
Starting with "Place In The
Sun'' Liz started growing up. In
"Rhapsody," she is a very ac
complished actress who would be
"just darling" even without her
generous beauty.
However, Liz's features are
given the full Hollywood treat
ment in "Rhapsody" whether
they are needed or not. She plays
a "poor little rich girl" and
sports a new outfit in every
scene. Her Cadillac convertible
doesn't change, though.
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In spite of the fact that she
occupies a very prominent part
in the movie, "Rhapsody" offers
more than Liz alone. Vittorio
Gassman, who is pretty hot with
the bobby-soxers according to
rumors, is in there pitching
guess what to who.
Also along for the ride is John
Ericson, an awfully weak link in
an otherwise strong chain. These
two young bucks engage in that
old spring pastime all through
the show that of competing for
the fair lady's hand. The results
prove that even in the movies,
a woman's mind is totally un
predictable. Louis Calhern plays
the poor-little-rich-girl's rich
father.
. . The music is real "gone" also.
Tchaikowsky's violin concerto
and Rachmaninoff's second
piano concerto are the major
works with generous amounts of
lighter music thrown in for good
measure.
In spite of the distracting in
fluence of bountiful music and
Liz's charms (or Gassman's if
you zip your jeans on the side
instead of in the front) the
movie sports an intensely emo
tional story that would be a suc
cess even without the frills. Poor
little rich Liz finds out the hard
way that musicians don't get
good riding around in mink
lined convertibles with beautiful
girls. Solution? Throw away the
convertible.
Liz's personal troubles
mainly her men are the focal
point of the movie, and I think
this is the strongest role she has
attempted including poor little
rich girl in "Place In The Sun."
Regardless of which was the bet
ter role, she handles this one par
excellence.
Whether the movie la "great"
Is up to the Oscar-givers. But
"great" or not, it is great enter
tainment. I overheard someone
say the music was great but not
the acting. Someone else said
they liked the acting but not the
music. Apparently everyone
found something they liked. I
liked It all.
Dob's Dillies
WHY GENTLEMEN SMOKE
CIGARETTES AND PREFER
BLONDES:
1. They're not much fun until
they're lit.
2. And not much fun unless
you have one all to yourself.
3. Most men would walk miles
for some kinds!
4. There's always one brand
that satisiies you more than oth
ers! 5. They're not good for you
but once you get the habit it's
hard to quit.
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You never know how a girl is
going to turn out until her folks
turn in.
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Definition: A meteorologist is
a man who can look at a girl
and tell whether.
Daughter: "I took Henry into
the gloving room last night, and
.
Mother: "That's living dear."
Daughter: "You're telling me."
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She's the kind of girl who
likes to whisper sweet nothing
doings in your ear."
While the Iowa State Daily is
advocating that the advanced
ROTC men take their shots over
the bar, Syracuse University is
replacing penicillin injections
with penicillin tablets. Com
ments Pearl Bernstein, in the
student paper, "germ-ridden Sy
racuseans can now approach the
infirmary without fear of shoot
ing pains in the posterior regions
of the anatomy.
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The coke machine in the Stu
dent Union at the University of
Detroit has been functioning so
strangely that the manager
threatens to remove it. Due to
variety of well-placed kicks,
body blows, slugs, and Canadian
coins, the machine has been
known to dispense 288 cokes for
the bargain price of less than
50 cents.
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The little darling wanted very
much to wear her Mother's girdle
But she didn't have the guts,
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Recently a thief who had been
burglarizing many homes was
apprehended and brought to
court.
"Don't you know that crime
does not pay?" asked the judge.
"I know," replied the thief,
"but the hours are good."
BY DEL HARDING
Hot, muggy days and miles of
burning pavement. A lush green
carpet over the countryside.
Spanish moss, dangling from the
trees. Exotic moonlight nights.
Shabby riverside and roadside
shacks. Folksy radio announcsrs,
and the blaring of pulsating jasz
or foot-stomping Western music
from the radio. Cordial people,
perfect hosts. This is Arkansas,
Louisiana, and more particu
larity, Houston, Texas.
While most NU students were
resting up for the last siege of
classes, four of us were taking
an . enjoyable and educational
trip to a Kappa Alpha Mu (nat'l
photo-journalism honorary) con
vention at the " University of
Houston.
My knowledge of the Cougar
school, which is located in the
largest city in the South, was
limited to a recollection of a
football-win inspired gift of some
$2 million to the school by a local
oilman and of the enticing of the
star Nebraska Wesleyan basket
ball player to their campus.
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I've visited many campuses
and attended one other univer
sity besides NU, but I found
HU unique.
About 80 per cent of the stu
dents work, most of them taking
from five to eight years to grad
uate as a result. Tutition is high
$40 for each 3-hour course.
(But some things are cheap
phone calls are still a nickel.)
11U has its own student-run
radio and TV stations. And the
name Cullen, the aforementioned
oilman, is ever prominent.
The student-faculty relation
ship is informal, to say the very
least, giving the feeling if "one
big happy family." No doubt
this informality is largely due
to the newness of the college and
the older and more mature stu
dents. The coeds are more settled
and not so wide-eyed. Heels and
earrings are popular feminine
class wear.
Veterans and married students
are more in evidence. The Cou
gars have only local sororities
and frats and few students be
long. There are the same "ac
tivity wheels," but they seem
more sincerely interested in their
work not merely using it as a
stepping-stone to a senior hon
orary. I've often heard the time
worn term "Southern hospital.,
ity," but it's no exaggeration to
say we were royally treated. Of
course tnere was much good
natured razzing about "youall are
damnyankees!"
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All of the campus buildings
are air conditioned a near ne
cessity. "Easy," and "not very
tough," were the standard re
plies to my asking if their cour 1
ses of study were difficult. The
replies were also uniform on
another subject: McCarthy. They
hate him.
Heard how a Texan radio sta
tion with a Mexican-based
transmitter offered "for the low v
low price of $1.98 you can have
a gen-u-ine . autographed picture
of our Lord Saviour. Jesus
Christ!" Barnum was right.
Had a former United Press
photographer as a banquet
speaker. He was a stocky Milton
Berleish Kansan who saw much
action as a WW II combat
photog. His talk dealt with his
failures and successes, and one
of his blunders is worth pas
sing on.
Seems he was driving a jeep
through the streets of Paris one
night when a riot broke out
.and bullets .started whizzing
past him. He curbed his jeep
and dived under it, grabbing for
his .roll-film camera to snap
some action pictures
He fumbled frantically with
his camera, trying to load the
roll of film. The riot was quick
ly quelled, and he climbed from
under his jeep to see just "why
in the hell" he couldn't get tha
film into his camera. 1
He held up the roll of film
and lo and behold it was a
roll of cherry lifesavers.
From The Daily Kansan
Why Dishonesty Trend
In American Schools?
The trend today in American
schools, while statistics never
will be devised to show it, seem
ingly is toward more and more
dishonesty or "get away with all
you can to get out."
Dishonesty (cheating, lying,
falsifying, or whatever you will)
has been with us since the days
of Adam and Eve and in all
probability will continue until
the millenium, but must it in
crease as it seems to have in
recent years?
Even our own KU catalog
which is sent to prospective stud
ents contains the ominous warn
ing "Infractions (of dishonest
work) will be reported to the
dean for investigation and judg
ment," but still it goes on here
as (presumably) in most other
schools if figures gathered by
statisticians ore correct.
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It actually cannot be proved
to be a growing trend this dis
honesty in school work for, as
said before, statistics will not
show how many students cheated
in 1910 as against 1954. If they
did they probably would be so
astronomical as to astonish even
the most cheating - conscious
persons.
But it seems from such recent
happenings as the West Point
scandals and the basketball
fixes of the recent past that the
cheating ogre is gaining new
followers.
Surely the argument of the
most naive that they just didn't
catch them in the old days Is
groundless cheating always has
been looked on as bad by those v
with principle.
But what is worse is that
cheating seems, contrary to what
some of us more, "highly edu
cated" college men and women
may believe, to increase in each
grade of scholastic advancement.
In a Purdue university opinion
poll taken five years ago, 68 per
cent of the hundreds of ninth
graders interviewed said they
would cover their papers if they
suspected someone was copying,
yet only 46 per cent of those In
the freshman year of college said
they would take steps to prevent
copying.
The former president of the
Governing Boards of State Un!
versities and Allied Institutions,
Dr. Charles E. McAllister, said
in his book, "Inside the Colleges"
that he found a marked increase
in cheating in 89 colleges that ha
visited. He reported one dean
said his students "apparently do
not know right from wrong."
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He attributed the cheating
trend to mishandling of so-called
progressive education, disrupted
family life, and the inordinate
attention paid to grades. The
Purdue surveyors put the blame
on teachers who put too much
emphasis on high marks and
parents who disillusion their
children by explaining their own
questionable actions with the
theory that the end justifies the
means.
These reasons and you will
notice both placed the finger of
blame on over-emphasis on
grades we second.
But we will add that we think
it boils down to a start in the
average U. S. public school. Too
many youths come out of high
school in this country without
having put in as much effort in
four years as many college stud
ents put in on just one term
paper. High schools do not make
the students work instead they
have the' attitude that everyone
is entitled to a high school "edu
cation," so almost every entrant
is graduated.
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The student then comes to KU
or any other college from this
typical high school expecting to
get through four more years on
father's money, party a bit with
father's money, drive" his car
with father's cash, and do (or
not do) just what he did in
high school.
Suddenly he finds the pressure
on, and, not Used to studying and
possibly not having the desire to
do the same, resorts to any
number of crutches so well
known the nation over files,
crib notes, stealing papers, et al.
This is the reason cheating will
continue to increase.
This trend toward nation-wide
dishonesty can be stopped in
kindergarten.
Letterip
Friedman-Pepper Controversy Rages,
'Knowledge Needed' Theme Rapped
Dear Editor:
Janet Cooper's letter could not
have been more timely. It is
amazing that the religionists are
still harping on their "What you
need is knowledge" theme. Ap
parently they don't realize that
no amount of Bible-reading will
answer the basic question of
whether the Bible is valid, either
as a source of information or as
a guide to life.
Actually, Marvin Friedman,
James Ellingson, Ellie Elliott,
and Richard Rowen would be
surprised to learn just how much
of their kind of knowledge F. Jay
Pepper has.
He attended religious schools
for a period of twelve years; In
addition to which he has been
actively engaged in thought,
reading, discussion, debate, and
writing on various aspects of re
ligion for the past ten years. It
Is obvious, then, that F. Jay Is
by no means Ignorant of his sub
ject. Yet the general tone, as well
as over a dozen statements in
all three letters against him was
that Mr. Pepper simply knows
nothing. Such assumptions are
inexcusable from four people
who do not even know the per
son they are attacking.
The above information is com
pletely irrelevant to the discus
sion of religion itself, but was
made necessary by the irrespon
sible letters cited. As one who
knows Mr. Pepper well enough
to know the facts, I have stated
them here. It is hoped that Re
ligion will stop its name-calling
and either come out with some
pertinent facts or dissolve.
Jeanne Moyef
University
Bulletin Board
FRIDAY
Lab Theater Tryouts. 3-5 p.m.,
Room 201, Temple Building.
BABW Tea, 4-5:30 p.m., Ellen
Smith Hall.
8arton Lecture, 8 p.m., Love
Library Auditorium.
All University Square Dance.
8:30 p.m., Ag Activities Buildig.
YWCA Faculty Women's Tt,
3:30 p.m., Ellen Smith Hall.
SATURDAY
Square Dance Festival, 8 p.m.
Coliseum.
Block and Bridle Spring Show,
State Fair Coliseum.