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Tuesday, November 16, 1954 Page 2 Lincoln, Nebraska Editorial Comment Givin' 'Em Ell LITTLE MAN ON CAMPU5 by Die Bib.'w 'Lackadaisical' Hot Mr Tree Mecs One newspr per account of Nebraska's football efforts last Saturday smacked strongly of the journalistic efforts aimed at ousting Coach Glassford last spring. In this account of the Nebraska-Pittsburgh football game the writer emphasized the fact our team seemed "lacka daisical1' about the task of winning the game. The paper in which this particular writer dis played his ware made quite a point of glorify ing the ability and experience of its entire sport staff in a full page display with pictures and number of years of writing experience of each individual on the staff. Whether this -"display" was in defense of what the writers have written or will write or to drum up reader interest is something few persons outside of the organiza tion that caused the printing will know. Agecf Pheasant Three years ago. Frank P. Allen shot several pheasants in South Dakota and shipped them to Nebraska. A state game official spotted the birds and took action which resulted in Allen's nppearance in county court for exceeding the limit allowed in Nebraska. Allen was acquitted by the county court and the case dismissed. The county attorney, however, appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Nebraska which only recently handed down a final decision on the matter. Allen is to be given the pheasants three years after first getting them. Some wait for a Thanksgiving dinner! T. W. However, the ' lackadaisical" writer, whether he has had HO years or three months experience, was wrong when he said the Cornhusker foot ball team lacked drive and spirit while losing to Pitt 21-7 last Saturday. The Huskers were lacking in size and speed, not in spirit and will to win. Though all University students lack "lacka daisical's" experience in the world of sports, there are comparatively few of them who would agree with his handling of the story. It is clear our players ran into a team that was heavier, faster and generally better. Nebraska's loss to Pittsburgh was not a blot on a football record it seldom is to lose a game to a better team. The man who has been most vc-cally sarcastic about our team's showing last Saturday should have kept in mind the fact Pittsburgh is a better team than the majority we have played this year; a win over Pitt would have been an upset, and a team that looked wonder ful in winning oer Colorado and Missouri might well be outclassed thence beaten) by another better team. Like the freshman's prize winning essay that seems smooth and polished when stacked up against other first-yenr-student themes, our foot ball team might not have looked inspired com pared to Pittsburgh. The fact remains, however, the other freshmen and the Huskcr footbi.U players shouldn't have been taken to task for doing their best. T. W. Whose Queen Is It? The campus extra-curricular activity, al though not recognized as such, with intermin able longevity and snow-balling potentialities, is queen electing. Some part of the University elects a queen each month or at least every two or three months. But these queens, although they receive pub licity which attaches their, to the University as a whole, actually represent only segments of the University. Their representation is based upon those who select them, either in prelim inary interviews or elections or on a final ballot. The Ag campus elects a Farmer's Fair Queen representing the students on Ag campus. The military elects an Honorary Commandant who is ultimately (he choice of RQTC students. Ne braska Sweetheart is chosen by those students who have purchased tickets to the Kosmet Klub Fall Review. May Queen is the selection of junior and senior coeds. All these queens repre sent the University to outsiders but to many students they are supposed to represent the University, whether or not those students had any part tn the election. At the half-time of Saturday's football game another campus queen was presented the Hoir.econnng Queen. According to Tassels she represents the entire University more so than any other queen elected during 'he school year. She is supposedly the choice of the whole Uni versity and is presented to the whole Univer sityat least those students who have pur chased football tickets and that number far ex ceeds the attendance at Kosmet Klub Shows or the Military Ball. The problem lies in the fact that actually by virtue of her candidacy she represents the Tassels organization. Tassel are constituted as a service organiza tion serving the University. They consider themselves a representative group in that each organized house has two members in Tassels and the number of independent Tassels are based proportionally on the number of inde pendent women enrolled in the University. However, membership in Tassels is not a matter of free choice, that is, not any coed desiring to be a Tassel may do so because she must first be selected by her organized house or, in the case of independents, be selected from those independent volunteers attending the annual selection tea. Because of this re stricted membership, Tassels must be termed a selective group and not representative of the University as a whole. The Homecoming Queen candidates are chosen from junior members of Tassels who have best served the organization and indirectly the Uni versity. If the Homecoming Queen is to be a represen tative of the student body and it the Homecom ing Queen is an honor bestowed on that coed who has best served the University, it is illogi cal to confine her qualifications to member ship in Tassels a selective segment of the University. Service to the University takes many forms. It may be m the form of supporting the foot ball and basketball tea:r.s through the instru ment of membership in a University organiza tion or it may lie through attaining high schol arship, thus supporting the University's acad demic standing. If the Homecoming Queen is representative of service to Tassels and in turn the University through Tassels' iletir.ition of their organiza tion's purpose taen she should be presented as such. Otherwise it is unfair to students at the University for a queen to be presented in their name, as their choice of the coed to repre sent the University as a whole. Because Homecoming is so recent an event, the Homecoming Queen election was taken as an example. But the same election process holds true for other organizations choosing queens. They should present their queen for what they are representatives of that specific group. Just as the Farmer's Fair Queen is presented as representing the Ag students so should the Homecoming Queen be presented as a Tassel being honored for her outstanding service as determined bv Tassels. J. II. od's Place Questioned God Has a Place On Campus. For several semesters, The Nebraskan has run this standing head across the top of a column including the schedule of activities of various religious houses on campus. Last week, the statement came in for a sur prising amount of criticism. One student has charged that The Nebraskan is editorializing. On the other extreme, the Professional Religious Workers organization suggested changing the head because it did not give proper emphasis to God's place in student life. They felt it should be more positive. To the agnostic, there is no recognizable Cod. Therefore, his claim is that it is merely the newspaper's opinion, and not actually a fact Et ail, that there is a God on campus. And opinion in news columns, whether in the story or the headline, is a journalistic taboo. The Nebraskan believes that God does have a place on campus. We also believe that this is a fundamental faith, a basic concept of life tor the great majority of people and we do not feel that we have taken too much journalistic freedom by saying so. Therefore, "God Has a Place On Campus" will continue to precede the religious news each week. This headline acknowledges merely that there Is a God. It does not attempt to say what form that God should take for any individual. God has many names, many forms. He stems from many different beliefs. It is the simple acknowl edgement that there must be a power greater than man. What shape that power is whether material or spiritual is an individual deci sion, which The Nebraskan makes no attempt to influence. The argument goes that if vou can't prove with cold fact and logic that there is actually i a God, the concept of ore must be just opinion, j 'But religion is not a subject which can be de- j fined so clearly. Man's conscience and every- j thing in nature testifies that there as a God ... i but faith is an enigma. God is not an object to be set forth as Exhibit A. He is anywhere and everywhere; anything and everything. He is whatever you choose to make Him. Neither does The Nebra-krin say what place on campus God shall have. That again is the student decision. We ntercly sav that he has a place here, as he has everywhere, On the other side of the fence, the Professional Religious Workers have said that the contro versial headline underemphasizes and winds up giving the wrong impression. There contention is that the statement seems to say only that. well, we have- our books and our parties and j our activities and somewhere in this mess there i is a little corner for God. too. This, they feel, does not give enough importance to God and his place in our lives. Obviously, in their opin ion, we are not editorializing enough! They also mentioned that the head was no longer effective. Through long semesters of use, it had become trite. So instead they sug gested an impersonal label head, such as "Re ligious News." But is this supposed to be more effective and less trite? The Nebraskan does not believe in injecting opinion in its news columns. But neither does it believe it is doing so by saying, "God Has A Place On Campus." God has a place on campus, and The Ne braskan will still say so. M. H. JJisl TbzbAaAkcuv FTFTY-SECOND YER Lincjln, Nebraska, under act of toneress, Mrcb 3, 1879. ' ' ,".. D nd at speciji rate of eosiase ornsided for in Sectins Member: Associated Collegiate Press ,,., Ac ot longrM , 0cober 8, ,917, .uthoruei Intercollegiate Press September iv, 19:;. Representative: National Advertising Service, EDITORHL STAFF Incorporated t.ditor- . Xorn Woodward t The .Nebraskan it published by undents ot tie I'm- Kditorial Page Ldrtot Jan Harrison rsiry of Nebraska as eipressron of students' news and Managing Kditor Kaj Noskj opinions only. Accord in Article II of the By-Laws News Kditor Maiwone Hansen (oternini student publications and administered br the Copy Editors Bruce Brugmann. Dirk Kellman, Board of Publicatious. "It is tiie desired policy ot the Mm Jensen, Marilyn Mitchell hoard thai publications under its lunsdiction shall be (re from editorial censorship on the part of the Board, Sports Kditor Howard n or on the Part of any member of the faculty ot the feature Kditor .ra.e Harsey Inirersity. but the members of the naif of The Nebraskan . Edtor Gary Burchflfld are personally responsible for what they say or do or o.-civrwc cTirr cause to be printed." Bl.Sl.NLS3 S I Ar r dnbscripUon rates ar ?2 a semester. $2.50 mailed or Manager thel Singer VJ? 'nrn'eV .'"week4 ?T, ear" Zt Ass t Business Managers. ..... Ben Belmont. Barbara Kick,. pZ. one issue .. .ui.iM.ed Oeorga MaUen Andy ll..v eluring August By the I nisenily of Nehra.ka under the Herniation Manager Nell Miller ktl "'r..,00- srenFo' n. b, 'One big advantage in having (o take this course over is that I know when I'm supposed to laugh. '' A Star Is Born Garland Frenzy Strains Scenes By ELLIE (U II.I.IATT "A Star Is Horn" is a BIG pic ture in the grand old extrava gant Hollywood style. It comes to you on the wide Cinemascope screen, sparkling with brilliant technicolor, and it engulfs you with the omnipresence of stere phonic sound. Yet through "'l this maze of "bigness" comes a deli cate thread of quality. It is an inconsistent thread which some times gets lost in showiness, but it is there. are generally quite good, and the comedy is funny. At times I felt a little uncomfortable in Judy Garland's scenes. They tend t o take on a frenzied aspect and one wonders whether Miss Garland will stand up under the strain. James Mason creates a believ able, and rather pathetic, charac ter in Norman .Maine a sensi tive actor who lets himself get lost in the treacherous Wonder land of Hollywood. But evcrv so I think the thing that was most , cften the film reaches a disquiet- important for me was the honesty of the thing, apparent even in the comedy scenes. It is a picture a bout "Filmdom's Capital," but along with all the magical aura ing intensity and it is these mo ments which make the film worth while. A Star Is Horn ranks with the better movies that Hollvwood has of stardom, you are given a look produced. I: does not. in my opin- at t ho tinsel, make-believe and hypecrisy inherent in the un stable Hollywood life. It is not a brutal honesty a baring ot the soul type picture but it is an attempt to point a valid moral in a light vein. The picture lightful enter the sequence Judy Gar la::; bit :u:r.bled. : rich V.; in pure, ce . Although y Lester's rr.cv.e :s a ion, reach the level of art because rf its inconsistency and obvious attempt to deliver its impact with "velvet gloves" as it we-e; :t is net devastating in its expression of theme ;.s say. ir instance. "Sunset Boulevard" was. In sh.v-t, is not a great picture, one to be remembered over the years, bat it is certsir.lv a good movie r..i worth the price of ad- Letterii "I know of n government in history that has been corrupt and survived for long." "I don't be lieve that ingratiating ourselves with subversive elements would, even though legal, be morally proper." A straight forward in terpretation fo the first shows abysmal ignorance of history and the second reveals a most vague idea of the extent of U.S. terri torial jurisdiction the subvers ive element of which he speaks is rpparently tiie Communist Chi nese government. Mr. Sogandares-Bcrnal's letter is the botched expression of of revelation and insight having botched thought and as such may any place on earth?" nave certain pbychological valid- And too, please explain in what it.v. It scarcely lias sufficient rbet- ways the "individual who never orical power to convince one that set's to college" is "a lot better 'hose not similarly maundering The Question Is . . . After serious consideration c: the editorial "Ah. To Ee Dumb" we have come tD the conclusion that the reasoning behind it must be either superficial or fallacious. Rather than unjustly condemn, therefore, we would like to know exactly what the author was at tempting to say. For the benefit of us. the con fused, then, please answer t li e what courses denounce the princi pes of a good life? Name them. What courses claim the "mind to be the only supreme being in this universe and deny the possibility must admit themselves to be lack ing in good-will or in sincerity. Gl'Y L. COOPER III Who's Dumb? Dear Editor: Your editorial "Ah. To Dumb!" off than we are. JOHN C.OURI.AY JANET GORDON Wrong Policy Dear Editor: A further point to Mr. Cooper on why we sr.ould not recognize (Nebraskan, .Nov. 9. 1954) is Continental China. ; a poor attack based on an ob- The latest statistics show that . viously warped interpretation of the 1950 purge of t'ounter-revolu-1 intellectualism at the University tionaries claimed seven million 0f Nebraska. An intelligent lib lives in execution, and 20 million . era art3 student dies not consider courageous imprisoned citizens. intellectualism to be a profound Quite a toll don't you think? ; p;;jar from which he mocks and May I again pose "The Ques-; pities other men in other ways of tion?" Should we accept crimin-, iife but, having gained a true lib als into the U.X.? I will answer eral education, he attempts to sympathize with and understand al! men on all educational levels. Nor does an intelligent professor wait in gleeful anticipation to dis cover and indoctrinate the "wide eyed student who has not devel oped his own philosophy of life." in that simpiv NO. FRANKLIN SOGRAN DARES Please Answer Dear Editor: China and Germany will impede Russian expansionism if they pur- inHononno"t fnrpirrn nolicieS ti, n ',rc Indpnondent The function of any professor foreign policies and would do so college is to he p students to if thev could. The reason they do ( df stand and criticize subject not do so now is that the govern- j matter with intelligence. The in- ment of the one (that of China) -"7,'';" " V'1" 1 ( u-inrr itcoif nr naive student into an agnostic has no means of supplying itself or w spoken by those godly professors and written in those infallible paining anv international status ex cept through Russia, and the other I dovmunv I ic rl i cm PTTlhprpd . WUth the U.S. proclaiming it will not let j texts" and who "believe is) every co of what it hows, except 10 ; ; gain the whole for its side. The United States policy in re snect to these nations is wrong. Instead of opposing, It should strongly support any moves that tend toward the development of strong Chinese and Qerman re gimes. The internal character of such regimes is one of our busi ness. Their external policies will inevitably frustrate Russia and cannot, of themselves be danger ous to us. It seems to Mr. SogandareS' for an agnostic is one who doubts everything including what his professor has told him. To state that liberal arts stu dent considers those who do not have college degrees, to be unfor tunate and to state that profes sors like to laugh at and ridicule men of other ways of life is to insult the whole purpose of educa tion and to be as naive as the wide-eyed" student who "was simply never taught to think for himself." Perhaps, M. M., you Bernal that such an opinion as j should come out of the "seclusion" the above could be expressed on-1 of your intellectual vacuum and lv by a "Pink" or an eccentric ; become acquainted with some of who "just wants to be different." His statements in support of this contention are awkward at best the "pseudo-intellects" in Burnett and Andrews Halls. BEA BEL'TEL 1 P.y El.l.Ii: ELLIOTT We Americans have a strange sense oi good and bad. I do not mean good and evil; this is a moral problem winch is personal, apparently eternal, and hardly a matter to be dealt with here. 1 might even coniine my remarks to out ideas of good and bad forms of recreation, of good and bad forms of cultural education. We seem to live by the maxim that is trite, fallacious, but typi cally American: "You can't get something for nothing." Once upon a time, this phrase meant that a man had to put out al least a little etfoit if lie wished to realize bis dreams. Today, it means little more than "If it's free, it's no good. There must be something wrong with it. or it would cost money." The "it" here can mean almost anything . . . food, cloth ing, an act of kindness: most of all, concerts, plays, and other ar tistic and cultural forms of enter tainment. The mid-west is culture-starved, in the sense that we do not have the advantages of the metropolitan east. Attending the ballet, the symphony, or the play, is not a natural, regular habit to us. As a result, we have not developed a taste for these things; worse, we have not developed the power to evaluate those artistic displays to which we are occasionally ex posed. Worst of all, we are ignor ing the students of this university who are attempting to bring to us some of this classical culture. Tuesday night, the Lincoln Sym phony Orchestra Association gave a conceit. (I use the term loosely.) Miss Narline Conner of the Metro politan Opera Association was the leature attraction. She was as-i-isted iso to speak) by Galen Lur wick at the piano. He had no business being at the piano, but that's where he was. Apparently Miss Conner felt that she was in the sticks, and singing to a bunch of hicks: she sang what she felt to be appropriate selections, i. e., j "Corning Thru the Rye." I have not met anyone wno stayed ai me concert long enough to find out how it ended; sulfice it to say that it was not too terribly success ful. However, it cost money. Be cause it cost money, lots of people went. It was supposed to be good for two reasons: first, it cosi money; and second, the term "symphony" carries with it def inite cultural and classical insinua tions with which to impress one's friends. Thursday night, Sinfonia, na tional professional music fralcr. nity, presented a program of six teenth century music. The num bers were presented and conducted by students. The concert was quito good; it was certainly far more enjoyable than Tuesday night's fiasco at the Stuart. The Sinfonia concei t was held in the Union ball room, r.ut it was not well-attended. It was free. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" Voice Of The Turtle Student Cures Thirst Collecting Cockleshells By FRED DALY iKdilnr's ol?: This column introduces ; KriMi h.iil. wtphnmore in Arts unri !-ci- ' enccs. It "ill iippciir reyuliirb in The .Ne- ; tmisk.in fflitori.il columns. I j All through our great campus bitter controversy wages over a problem which has fired the hearts of both students and University of ficials. This problem of drinking by stu dents has caused the administra tion rules. This policy was pub lished for the benefit of students and people throughout the state. The statement of policy resulted in an influx of campus police and other interested parties tip-toeing through parking lots, occasionally looming up in the darkness before some student who was only look ing for his car in the first place. Editorials and articles have been printed, and many faces have been turned in mule and tearful suppli cation to those who seem to know what really is going on. Many ! tables have rocked with pounded fists and numberless fists have been shaken futilely in the air. Such are the external, apparent effects of the problem of drinking. They show the color, the fire and the waving banners. But, deep in the basement, there is a story so full of pathos and human emotion that it must be brought forward. This is the story of Milo Skal nik student. Milo Skalnik is on O.M.O.C. Overlooked Man On Campus. While others wave their flags and bemoan their troubles before ail who will listen, Milo takes his problem deep down inside of him and suffers with it. Milo has been bothered very much by the damper put on his recreational facilities. While not by any means a drinker, Milo was not adverse to a nip or two before breakfast or between meals. While other students went laugh ing gayly to Swede's for a coffee break, Milo would tip-toe into the nearest storm sewer for "a finger warmer" as he laughingly called it. o As vou may see, the University's policy on drinking had a profound effect on Milo, leaving him in a state of shock for six days. He spent four of them shivering un der a pile of crushed rock in the parking lot behind the Union. Emerging from his pile of crushed rock, Milo realized he must henceforth warm his fingers with extreme caution. He was driv en underground. As his supply of "store-bought" produce, as he laughingly called it, dwindled to what he could wring out of old corks, he found himself using more and more questionable methods of substitution. lie existed for three weeks on Kelly Cocktails made by straining .Mennrn's Skin Bracer, through slices of bread. This process re moved almost all the harmful ele ments from the liquid, leaving only the poisonous ones for his diges tive tract to cope with. After this diet finally started to eat holes in the lining of his stom ach he reverted to crawling along under automobiles with an ice pick and a lard pail, draining the anti-freeze from their radiators. He drank this laceel with carrot juice to increase the nutritional values. Before he was finally rescued from his destiution by a kindly Alabama yam-stuffer, he ha d I turned to stealing the medicinal ! alcoliid-sopped cotton from Stu : dent Health used to wipe off ther mometers. He is now happily stuffing yams for union wages of ; $2."S a week He has cured liim : self of his bad habits and spends i bis leisure hours collecting cockle- shells. He has the largest cockle- snen collection in Alabama, a state noted for the lack of same. Such is the story of Milo Skal nik. student. Overlooked by the rush and fuss of campus activity, he conquered his problem by suc cumbing to it. His plight will servo as a symbol to all who follow after him. Just what kind of a symbol, no one knows. Maybe collecting coc kleshells is the answer, after all. In Alfred Nobel's earlier will, the one made in Paris in 1893, and then cancelled, there was no spec ific bequest in regard to literature. Mention was made only in general terms of rewards for the most im portant and original discoveries or the most striking advances in the wide sphere of knowledge or on the path of human progress. It is evident that the donor wished to aid, first of all, the exact sciences. It was not until he drew up his final will,, in November 1895, that he made the stipulation that one of the five annual awards should be given to "the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most out standing work, of an idealistic tendency." Nobel's commendable desire to help and promote the cause of letters was inspired, first and last, by his own interest in literature, which had been developed in his earliest youth and was later stim ulated by his continued language ! studies. He not only read but mastered five languages, including Russian; his poems in English, written in his late teens and still preserved, show an astonishing mastery of poet diction and an unmistakably poetic instinct. 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