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Wednesday, January 12, 1955
Editorial Comment
Personal View On 'Security Officers'
Drinking, the pastime and the legal offense,
hows no sign of cooling off as an Issue or
conversation piece. The most recent move in
the administration's enforcement program, the
"security officers," did much to change the
issue from red to white hot.
Like it or not, fraternities must realise the
University administrators intend to go through
with their program. Fraternities will be in
spected; they will cooperate or put themselves
in a position where severe discipline wiil re
sult. Should the "security officers" be forced
out of the picture by popular agitation by the
organisations involved, they will be replaced
by some other enforcement body. In short, the
University intends to do what it has said, stu
dents shall not have alcoholic beverages on the
campus.
The program of enforcement fits neatly into
the administration's view on its responsibilities
to its students and to those students parents.
Chancellor Hardin has felt the need for a
crackdown or more strict enforcement of anti
drinking regulations because of what he feels
to be popular opinion among the people of
Nebraska. Whether his feeling is art accurate
measure of public opinion is a matter of ques
tion, la any case, whether or not there is
popular sentiment to the effect that there is
too much drinking here is a matter of opinion,
and the administration's "opinion" will pre
vail. - However, administrators, like all humans.
Bare made serious mistakes in their enforce
ment problems. Students resent being kept in
the dark about what is being planned. They
resent being told point-blank whst to do. They
resent being told only half the story v hen the
remainder is to affect them.
For a case in point, take the series of events
that led op to the bitterly received announce
ment of the "security officers" plan. Early in
tits year. Chancellor Hardin appeared before
the foterfraterniry Council to explain his stand
on the drinking regulations in effect at the
University. At the meeting, questions of how
the enforcement plans for the old rules would
be enforced were coldly received. The atti
tude of the administration seemed to be that
XFC delegates were only trying to find out
what the enforcement program would be in
order to plan ways of circumventing not only
the rules but the efforts to enforce them. This
assumption, or apparent assumption of evil
intention was not justified. In any case, the
methods, the exact methods, by which the drink
ing policy was to be enforced this semester
was kept veiled. This was unwise.
For the second example, take the announce
ment of the "security officers" plan. Here again
the announcement was made to the IFC, this
time by Associate Dean of Student Affairs Frank
Hallgren. And here again, the secrecy of be
fore was present. The inspector's names were
not announced. Their exact powers were not
defined. Their methods of operation were not
described.
To criticize witnout suggestion for improve
ment serves no useful purpose. The Nebraskan
has no wish to present useless criticism. What
the administration should have done in the
past and should do in the future is let stu
dents know what is planned in the way ot en
forcement This is only logical when it is re
membered the administration considers or at
least purports to consider students capable of
mature, adult action. If the administration pre
supposes that students will look only for loop
holes in an announced program, then requests
for student help should come to an end.
Simply announcing an already formulated
program to students is not any means to the
end of active student cooperation; previous an
nouncements which include specific informa
tion, not simply general theory, is. (General
"theory" was the major type of information
given students on a committee which met with
the Chancellor before any announcement was
made concerning the liquor use regulations.)
More specifically, the administration could
have smoothed the path to full cooperation in
its "security officer" operation by introducing
the new inspecUvs to the IFC during the same
meeting that new policy was announced. To
keep these men in the background is to invite
student suspicion of them. Fraternities are na
turally reticent to cooperate to the adult-like
level the administration seems to want.
Fraternities have not raised serious objec
tion to the inspections of their premises by
Dean Hallgren. The reasons are obvious. Hall
gren is not considered a secret agent, bent on
involving organization's in serious difficulties
with the administration. This has been learned
through past experience. However, fraternities
have no assurance this will be the case with the
"security officers."
Fraternities are not contesting the right of
the University to regulate and enforce bona
fide laws. They are rightfully unhappy, and
justifiably dissatisfied with administration me
thods in carrying out the required enforcement.
In a change in the administration scheme of
enforcement, public relations is a necessity if
the administration ever hopes to receive that
which it asks for student cooperation. T. W.
Without warning came the announcement
Monday that Claude lightfoot, -executive secre
tary of the Communist Youth League in Illi
nois, went on trial in Chicago b the U.S. gov
ernment's Erst attempt to prove that mere
membership in the Communist Party consti
tutes a criminal offense.
The announcement came as no surprise to
many speculators who have been following the
gradual tightening up by the Judicial Depart
ment of Communist activities in the U.S. The
bold Judiciary blow has been softened by court
successes in previously convicting 81 persons
under the Smith Act clause which prohibits ar.y
conspiracy to organize groups working for or
teaching the violent overthrow of the VS. gov
, eminent.
The Lightfoot case does not fall under this
clause, however, but under a heretofore un
tested clause of the same Act which makes it
a crime "to become a member of, or affiliate
with" any group which teaches, advocates or
encourages the violent overthow of the govern
ment. Obviously the Lightfoot trial is a test of the
extent to which government authority can go
to curtail Communist activities by whether or
not this particular portion of the Smith Act will
stand up in court If Lightfoot is convicted and
if the decision is upheld by the Supreme Court,
then the Smith Act provision making member
ship in the Communist Party a crime will take
its place among the statutes as being valid
without exception.
The governmental authority to regulate sub
versives was revamped in 1940 with the passage
of the Smith Act the Internal Security Act. It
was passed at a time when the Fascist Fifth
Column was in full operation and menacing
our home security. Since the war and the rise
of Communist infiltration and activity in the
VS the government's first attempt to control
the Party was through the Smith Act provi
sion which prohibits the teaching of violent
overthrow of the government Because the Com
munist Party was recognized as a legal minor
ity group in the VS. multiple-party system, the
Judiciary ran into difficulty making accusa
tions of 'violent overthrow teachings" stick.
The difficulty of getting proof and legal red
tape seriously slowed up the FBL Then came
the governmental gimmick of convicting Com
munists on perjury charges but this too en
tailed getting proof that the suspect had lied.
Then the Commies initiated the Fifth Amend
ment as a form answer while under question
ing thus eliminating the danger of perjury
charges and leaving the government helpless.
Governmental frustration culminated into the
Communist Control Act which Congress passed
last August This Act outlawed the Communist
Party by defying it "the rights and privileges
and immunities attendant upon legal bodies."
The Communist Party was labeled as "an in
strument of a conspiracy to overthrow the VS.
government" Therefore withdrawing from it
The Biaaest Test
legal existence as a multiple-party system mem
ber. From here regulation of the Party fell
under the jurisdiction of the Smith Act, which
the Communist Control Act specifically pro
vided. While the Coirmunist Control Act was in the
process of passage in the House and Senate, a
controversial issue arase. A clause, added to the
bill in the Senate, specifically made member
ship in the "Party a punishable felony. When
the bill went to the House the membership
clause was dropped under the prodding of At- .
torney General Brownell, FBI Director J. Ed
gar Hoover and President Eisenhower. The final
bill outlaws the Communist Party but it does
not make membership a crime.
The administration gave as reason for not
wanting the membership clause in the bill:
have registered are guilty of a felony, how will
L If Communist Party membership were a
crime, the Fifth Amendment would bar the
government from compelling Reds to register
under the Smith Act (Under the Smith Act a
registered Communist is disqualified tor non
elective federal jobs, defense plant jobs, pass
ports, etc. It requires Communists to register
with the Attorney General or face penalties up
to five years imprisonment andor up to $10,
000 fine.)
2. Driving the Reds underground would make
it harder to keep them under surveillance.
These two reasons have been the basis of,
administrative policy toward the control of
Communist activity inthe U.S. The main ob
jective, according to ' Brownell, was to keep
the Communists out in the open so that the
Judiciary Department could watch their move
ments. The administration's objections to the
clause in the Communist Control Act which
would make membership in the Party a felony
were based on the grounds that such a provi
sion would negate previous governmental pol
icy and drive the Reds underground.
Yet Monday a Communist leader went on
trial in the first attempt to establish that mem
bership in the Communist Party is a crime
the very thing which Congress refused to in
sert in the Communist Control Act and which
the Judiciary Department and the President
fought against when it was proposed in the
Senate.
Just how the Lightfoot trial will end, no one
can possibly know because the questions which
arise are not answerable by speculation. The
trial is predicted to go to the Supreme Court,
which will ultimately decide the validity of the
Smith Act. The main question which arises on
this point is whether or not the Smith Act is
constitutional. What of the Fifth Amendment
which protects the individual from self-incrimination?
If the government in one breath provides
that Communists register or be subject to pen
alty and in another declares that those who
have registered Lre guilty of a felony how will
the governmental policy of keeping the Reds
out in the open by keeping them registered be
maintained?
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KU Student Speculates
On Weather In Utopia
By JANCY CARMAN
To coin an old phrase, "The grass
Is always greener on the other
side." but is it? You live in Ne
braska, but you'd rather live in
Florida, while those living in Flor
ida might find it either too hot or
too expensive there and would
prefer living somewhere else.
Students comment from lime to
time how much prettier another
campos is, or how much more
lenient their roles are, but how do
students oa that other campus
feel?
What would that place called
Utopia be like? Below is "one
man's opinion" as it .appeared in
the Daily Kansan. ;
Utopia. That is the place where
the sun always shines for the sun
bather, the place where it always;
rains for the farmers, and the place '
where it always snows for the !
skiiers. The temperature is alwaus ;
cool for those who dont like hot'
weather and always hot for those!
who dont like cold weather. The,
trees are always green for the peo
ple who ke the spring and always
golden and brown for the people
who like the fall. That is Utopia.
Mark Twain was wrong when
he said something to the effect
that everyone talked about the
weather, but no one did anything
about it. Maybe people were dif-j
ferent in Mark's day, but the peo
ple of today do plenty about the
weather they complain.
Never ia the history of mankind
has there been people of sack- ver
satility. After four months of hot;
weather the first cool day comes !
along to break the heat wave, and
most people are tired of cold weath
er. After three years of a definite
lack of rain, the first sprinkle
comes along, and most people
are tired of the rains.
Then the trend is reversed. The
one cool day passes and the mer
cury climbs and the clouds break
up and drift away guess what hap
pje wonder if it will ever cool off
and rain.
If the wind blows in the summer
time people complain of the hot
breeze, but if the breeze stops
blowing the people say it would be
cool of it were blowing. The same
holds true in winter, spring and
faQ.
It it snows there is iether too
much snow or not enough. The
same holds true ia winter, spring
and falL
If it snow there is either too
much snow or not enough. The
same with rain. The same for ev
erything. But Utopia, that's the place.
Then there are students ia sun
ay Georgia. But they have their
problems toe. From the campus
newspaper at the University of
Georgia comes this skeptical view
on school life.
It never ceases to amaze me how
certain professors can lecture come'
hell or high water. Take for in
stance a certain individual (so
what do you want, names yet?) I
look around me in class and what
do I see? One student (a loose term
at best) is deeply engrossed in de
termining which teams to pick on
a parlay card. Of course we close
our eyes to such goings on because
after all this is strictly extra-legal
activity and besides we've al
ready picked our teams.
Looking further, we perceive
that a group of four girls are in
tently discussing the relative mer
its of their Saturday night dates.
Smirks galore are diffused aU over
their faces, and right in the middle
of a discussion on the physiological
function of the duodemum or a lec
ture on the composition of the Sen
ate, they spontaneously let out an
inconspicuous roar of laughter.
Sweet indulgence spreads over the
benign face of said instructor as he
unobotrusively picks up the nearest
book (or paper weight as the case
may be) and gently heaves it in
their direction. This outburst of
congeniality and good fellowship
on the part of the prof immediate
ly sets off a mass riot. (Psycho
logically this is perhaps advan
tageous to certain frustrated indi
viduals, but generally it distracts
one from the business at hand for
periods up to 58 minutes.)
After order is restored In the
classroom, the professor turns to
the board, there U explain
graphically that which he has
expounded. This is the signal for
mass migration from the class on
the part of the more industrious
souls who hear the cry of
the wQd cue stick or 8" ban. An
average mortality rate of 42 per
cent during such incidents is not
nnusnal.
The atmosphere in the classroom
is healthy and conducive to study
In one corner of the room are two
live wires, and overhead is a
maze of pipes which unobtrusive
ly drip water on the heads of for
tunate individuals, this moistening
their hair and preventing its falling
out.
Since windows are against the
policy, they have therefore been
thoughtfully left out and replaced
by stopped-up ventilators and be
autiful technicolor lights beaming
vitamins, minerals, ultraviolet rays
and Hadacol over the inhabitants
of the cubicle. It is amazing how
conducive this atmosphere is to
sleep, in which occupation fully
half the class is engaged.
Woman's View
Confusion Hits NU
With Follies Season
By MARILYN TYSON
Telephone calls from the fellas
t) the coeds for that Friday or
Saturday night date have changed
from the usual "Thank you, I'd
love to" to "I'd love to but we
have Coed Follies practice and I'll
get a campus if I'm not there."
And this isn't just a feelble ex
cuse to avoid a date! Coed Fol
lies practices are being poured
on' heavily In every women's or
ganised, house on campus. Drop in
on any one of these houses and
you'll find first floor crowded with
coeds in bermuda shorts and jeans
singing and dancing around the
floor with leaps and bounds.
If you dont get lost in thet first
floor confusion, go on down to the
basement and you'U find the
ame thing. The whole house
echoes with shouts from the Coed
Follies directors that sound like
this: "Mary, you're doing that
wrong." Or this: "Pronounce your
words clearly. Stop shouting!"
Every piano in the house is beat
ing out some rhythm to which a
group of panting coeds are trying
to learn a dance step.
In some comparatively quiet
room ou second floor, a group of
gals are feverishly working on cos
tumes or rewriting some, song that
just doesnt quite have it.
Every girl who isnt in the pro
duction is sitting with a group of
dancers shouting that the lines
arnt straight and groaning over
uncoordinated Suxi who just cant
seem to get her feet to go in the
same direction as everyone else's.
Why U this frantic rushing?
Simple; Coed Follies tryouts are
next week and the Omega Upsilon
girls are determined to out do the
Ma Na girls and vice versa. Every
one wants to be in Coed Follies.
Then there are always the ob
jectors who shout new suggestions
to the concentrating dancers, only
addirx to their already confused
directions. Sarah always has a
word or two of advice to "give
to her partner, which drives the
Follies directors to distraction. Usu
ally in the midst of chaos the di
rector win scream for slince take
a deep breath, fix a stem eye on
tVia triMrrich trirU tWnra her and
calmly whisper, "O. K. let's start
all over again and do it right
this time. Then things calm flown
for awhile until the point of con
fusion is reached again and th
seme pattern goes on and on.
After the rehearsals are over
for the night, you might find the
practice rooms looking like a tor
nado hit them. The piano is moved
to the center of the dining room.
Lamp shades, formerly used for
hats or props, are scattered on
the floor with strands of crepe
paper and sheets with blurred lyr.
ics printed on them. The televis
ion set is facing the wall and
chairs are piled up in the corners
or artistically pyramided around
the room having served as stage
settings or backdrops and flats
for the rehearsing coeds. Ash
trays are filled to overflowing with
still smouldering cigarettes and
someones' makeshift costume is
draped over the stair bannister.
And during Coed Follies season
everyone ' drags out all the old
props and costumes that have long
been stored ia the attic, gathering
dust and moths, to see if something
is still usable. .Often the am
bitious costume crews get con
fused and wind up with some ar
ticles that havent been In the at
tic but have been left on tables
and chairs and forgotteu by care
less coeds in their rush. It usually
takes a good month for everyone
to retrieve their own contributions
to the costume cause of Coed Fol
lies and daring that month the
complaining about lost article is
ceaseless.
Meanwhile, the guys on campus
will just have to be patient. It
isnt that Mary doesnt want to go
oat; it's just that Coed Follies
practices come first. You get to
be king during 10 months of the
year but ia January and February,
Coed Follies takes your place. Pin
mates will just have to take their
nights out with the boys bow and
let the light of their lives con
centrate on the tricky modern
dance number.
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SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: No. 1
In this day and age, as I like to call it, everybody should know
something about science. Unfortunately, however, the great majority
of us are majoring in elocution, and we do not get a chance to take
any science. But we can at least learn the fundamentals.
Though this column is intended to be a eource of innocent merri
ment for all sexes and not to concern itself with weighty matters,
I have asked the makers of Philip Morris whether I might not from
time to time use this space for a short lesson in science. "Makers,
I said to them, "might I not from time to time use this space for a
short lesson in science?' v
"Bless you, lad!" cried the makers, chuckling. "You may cer
tainly use this space from time to time for a short lesson in science."
They are very benign men, the makers, fond of children, small
animals, community singing, and simple country food. Their Jbenevo
lence is due in no small measure to the cigarettes they smoke, for
Philip Morris is a cigarette to soothe the most savage of breasts. I
refer not only to the quality of the tobacco which, as everyone
knows, is amiable, humane, and gracious but also to the quality
of the package. Here is no fiendishly contrived container to fray the
fingernails and rasp the nerves. Here, instead, is the most simple
of devices : you pull a tab, a snap is heard, and there, ready at hand,
are your Philip Morris Cigarettes. Strike n match, take a puff, and
heave a delicious little rippling sigh of pure content.
So, with the cordial concurrence of the makers, I will from time to
time devote this column to a brief lesson in science.
Let us start today with chemistry. It is fitting that chemistry
should be the first of our series, for chemistry is the oldest of sciences,
having been discovered by Ben Franklin in 123 B.C. when an apple
fell on his head while he was shooting the breese with Pythagoras
one day outside the Acropolis. (The reason they were outside the
Acropolis and not inside was that Pythagoras had been thrown out
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linseed oil game. He would also certainly be forgotten today had
not Shakespeare written "Othello.")
But I digress. We were beginning a discussion of chemistry, and
the best way to begin is, of course, with fundamentals. Chemicals
are divided into elements. There are four: air, earth, fire, and water.
Any number of delightful combinations can be made from these
elements, such as firewater, dacron, and chef's salad.
Chemicals can be further divided into the classes of explosive
and non-explosive. A wise chemist always touches a match to his
chemicals before he begins an experiment.
A great variety of containers of different sites and shapes are used
in a chemistry lab. There are tubes, vials, beakers. Basks, pipettes,"
"lV"1-A retort is lso snappy comeback, such as "Oh. yeah?4
f-r "So's your old man!"
(Perhaps the most famous retort ever made was delivered by none
other than Noah Webster himself. It seems that one day Mr. Web
nfe walked unexpectedly into Mr. Webster's office and found
Mr. Webster s secretary sitting on Mr. Webster's knee, "Why Mr.
ebster!- cried Mr. Webster's wife, "I am surprised!"
5i.r my der" he "PlL "I m surprised. You are astonished."
Vell, sir, it must be admitted that old Mr. Webstar ot off
good oiKi, but still one can not help wishing he had spent less time
trifling with his secretary, and more time working on his diction
ary. Many of his dnitions show an appalling want of scholarship.
Take, for instance, what happened to me not long ago. I went to the
dictionary to look up "houghband" which is a band that you pass
around the leg and neck of an animal. At the time I was planning
to pass bands around the legs and necks of some animals, and 1
wanted to be sure I ordered the right thing
(Well sir, thumbing through the H's in the dictionary. I hap-
R?L C.m1 Cr0M hAT?",AJ'i this is how Mr- Webster define
d?r 1." 6 lid hoofed herbivorous mammal, used as a
(Now this, I submit, is just plain sloppiness. The most cursory
investigation would have shown Mr. Webster that horse are not
mammals. Mammals give milk. Horses do not give milk. It hu to be
taker. Trom them under the most severe duress
(Nor is ihe horse a draft animal, as Mr. Webster says. Man is tL
draft .animal. Mr. Welter obviously hid the cavalry in mind, buC
even iyhe cavalry it is men who arerafted. Horses volunteer!)
But I digress. We were discussing chemistry. I have told you the
most important aspects, but there are many more far too many
if ?fI 1 fpa?e lremainin8- here. However, I am sure that there
is a fine chemistry lab at your very own college. Why don't you go up
Prine. anf?rJlnd P$ke 'T1"1' Make k,nd of day out of it.
hrlU p ' KCar funn-vLhats- Toast frankfurter, on the Bunsen
burners. Be gay. be merry, be loose, for chemistry is your friend!
C Mil Sbeiaun, ml
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who think you would enjoy their cigarette.