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1 -J 8 : "4 - 1l j , 1 THE NEBRASKAN Friday, Morch 4, 1 955 Nebraskan Editorials- Too Many Iff Boards Ag and city campuses may be a part of the came University, but they operate almost inde pendently. Ag students participate in large city campus organizations and activities, yet most Ag activities remain primarily Ag projects, planned and attended only by Ag students. The organisation of student activities is even different. Besides the Ag Union Board, which operates in conjunction with the city Union Board, Ag campus has three other major ac tivity boards. The most important is the Ag Exec Board. An over-all Ag campus activity co-ordinator, the board checks constitutions and sponsors Farmer's Formal. Its value as a serv ice organization is dependent mostly upon the enthusiasm of its members. The other two Ag boards, however, are ap pointed to function for. a brief time only, and with only one purpose. The six members of Coll-Agri Fun Board plan Coll-Agri Fun Night in the fall and then their job is done. The Farmers' Fair, a bigger event, has a board of 12 students to organize it every spring. On city campus, comparable entertainment projects which involve general student partici pation are planned as part of a year-long' ac tivity program of some organization. No special . board is set up to guide Coed Follies, or the Kosmet Klub fall revue or AUF Auction. Instead, these events are the responsibility of individual board and committee members operating under - the general supervision of the whole group and - within the year-long program. It seems Illogical, as well as inefficient, that - separate board must be appointed to plan ' each of these two Ag events. Neither project is any bigger than any successfully carried out on COA Evolution '- Through the evolution process campus organ izations are gradually changing. This year in particular have rennovations among the activi- -ties taken place; for example the substitution cf the Co-op Council for the Independent Stu- ;- dents Association and the new Military Ball tion. Committee for the Candidate Officers Associa . The latter Committee came officially into being at Student Council meeting Wednesday when a constitution was approved by the Council abolishing the present COA and establishing in its place a Military Ball Committee. The sole purpose of the Committee is to spon sor the Military Ball both nominally and fi nanciallythe same function served by the COA only assumed to have more of a purpose than just the Military Ball sponsorship. Decision to abolish the COA came with the disclosure last fall that the COA, for all practical purposes, was a "dead organization" not having had a regular meeting or quorum for three years. The president of the COA obtained the position through a vague process and the Military Ball sponsorship was merely delegated to the various service branches, rotating among them from year to year. In the past few years interest in COA activi ties has dwindled and actually the CQA was nominally a campus organization operating under a yearly program which did not exist and only fulfilling any function at all in spon soring the Military Ball. about an investigation by the Council which The recognition of the COA status brought requested the COA to either fulfill its purposes as stated in the COA constitution or submit another constitution adjusted to the present functions which the COA performed. The Military Department chose to do the latter and a new constitution was submitted to the Council. The COA, as it was in the past, was abolished and the new Military Ball Committee was substituted. The provisions in the constitu tion deal only with the sponsorship of the Mili tary Ball and are similar to the provisions for sponsorship in the old COA constitution. Operating under a nebulous constitution, out dated and confusing, the COA, as a campus organziation, was net serving its purpose. Under the new Committee set-up, closer liaison and clearer purpose has been achieved which should result in a more organized and more practical organziation. This is the type of constructive service the Council can do with the co-operation cf other organizations responsible to the Council for fulfilling their purposes. J. H. city campus. There is no clear reason why such a cumbersome, archaic system as exists on Ag campus is necessary. Coll-Agri Fun Night is an old Ag campus tradition, continued not because of any partic ular enthusiasm but simply because it has been put on every year before. Attendance is poor, and participation in the show has made it doubly difficult for the three Ag fraternities to practice skits for Kosmet Klub fall revue com petition, which is held about the same time. Farmers' Fair is a bigger, better supported project, but also requires work only at one time of the semester the spring. The Student Council is seeking to limit the number of activities in which a student may participate. It was felt that too many activities are taking too much time. The Council recom mended that all students except freshmen be limited to two major activities. Therefore, any student who was appointed to either Coll-Agri Fun or Farmers' Fair Boards would be unable to participate in more than one other activity. The most capable and am bitious students would hardly be attracted to serving on either board when it would prevent working in some other year-long activity which earned more prestige. Obviously some changes in the Ag board sys tem are needed. Two alternatives might be pos sible, which would result in more efficient organ ization and eliminate useless activities. Both boards could be abolished, and Coll-Agri Fun Night and Fanners' Fair become projects of the Ag Exec Board. This would bring all major Ag activities under the sponsorship of one group. Since both are seasonal events, an efficient Exec Board should be able to plan both without too much difficulty. r Combining the two boards into one small, efficient board which would plan both events would also be a desirable revision. The board would become a respected activity, with a year's program (since one event is in the fall and the second in the spring). Better co-ordinated plan ning should result. To quote a familiar statement, it's time for a change. The Coll-Agri Fun Board and the Farm ers' Fair Board should be combined or abo lished altogether. M. H. Mushrooms Children have a game they call Gossip. One child whispers something in to the ear of the next, who passes it on to his neighbor, an so on, until the phrase returns to the first child. The object is to see how changed the words are; the end product is often ridiculously different than the original. Something similar to this process occurs in any type of endeavor, particularly when that endeavor is a continuation of something begun a long time ago. For example, a group of men was organized 50 years ago with an express goal in mind. Each year the responsibilities of achieving that goal were handed down to a new group. Each year, certain changes were made, some things Were omitted and others were .added. The result is that today, 50 years later, the organization is entirely different than that which it was at the beginning. In most cases this is called progress, a com pletely desirable thing. There is a danger, how ever, that the small changes each year have been made without those making the changes knowing what they were dcing. Not only the machinery, but the goal and effect of the organ ization have been changed when this was in no way intended. When change occurs through ignorance and failure to keep the original goal in mind, it is an evil. University activities are run in many respects by tradition. Every activity on campus is old in the sense that the responsibilities have been handed down from year to year and changes have been made. Each activity is highly organized, to the extent that the organ ization may be defeating the original purpose. Tuis i not r1crnnc:'?n of any specific organization. Every organization could be at tacked for doing too much or too little. It is, however, a warning that endeavors often mush room out of proportion or in the wrong direction. The important thing is that these organizations know how their activities fit into their original goal and are able to defend them. K. The Lenten Promise Lent Is Time To Repent Personal, National Pride By ROBERT E. DAVIS University Pastor Baptists and Disciples of Christ . As I sit here writing these words there is scheduled to be set off "the grand-daddy of all - atomic explosions" on a section of desert in Hew Mexico. The morning paper is filled with detailed explanations of what to do to avoid :ihe dangers of "fall-out" A B-47 is droning overhead as an ominous symbol of the power of man over his world. There is much talk about .'security' and how to achieve it: by air power, by universal military training, or by bigger hydrogen bombs. Some Americans have para phrased Martin Luther's hymn to read: "A super-fortress is our god; a bomb-sight never failing." But for all our talk of security and peace, mosi people are afraid, and well they might be. Our . great techaical knowledge now threatens to turn on us like some Frankenstein! an monster and destroy us. Technical knowledge and skills are not enough unless we possess the wisdom and moral integrity to use them wisely. Some one recently observed, "We have learned to swim in the sea like fish, and fly through the air like birds; but we have .yet to learn to walk on the earth like men." This Lenten season might well be the time when we repent of our personal and national pride, of our arrogant self-centeredness, of our confidence in material things and physical force. We must see ourselves in our proper perspective as creatures of a Divine Creator. We must recognize that we have by our ego-centricity sinned against our Creator and brought upon ourselves chaos and confusion. Instead of loving ourselves and our works, we must learn "to love the Lord, Our God, with all our hearts, soul, strength, and mind; and to love our neigh bor as ourselves." In Him alone is peace and salvation for ourselves and for our world. Tho Nebraskan , FIFTY-SECOND TEAS m mu m w num. mm tar t UesAtn Associated CoJSegiaie Press IMa mT' " W' mT ' fateraEeclale Press EDITORIAL STAFF ILepraesiaflTM National Advertising Service, ,w Wtol Jju57S3 Incorporated Maaagina fcitar .7.7.7.7.7.7.7.7.' Marlanaa Ummem rtm Jfr-lr U tmhii.tvM fcjr atati .1 the VrU SZ&mZ, ...Y.Y.Y.'.". HrJV!!! a-r.tr. of Bixter Oia tlrtH. f tb. CaaT EaMort . . .7.7.7.7" rn4 Dilr hZ. ttm ?irm. FuHieattoua under I he juHsdlctioa of tha , Edttar f..Mi.M m ttfea PtiMiraiiona mll ha frr from Si! rt Editor " Martin MHrhall nt rMmrrPp am tha part rf Mm. Hntteaanmlrtrc. lUporUrt . . . Ilrrertr ' Dwit, Jaaana Jnnca, Hal on i put ' "'' aaMlda MM. tlafearalt. The j?lxartra. Lactem flwitrr. Jill Marr, Kirk Btura. anwanSwra of 1 Aiwm ctaff sn aernmalUr re. Jrra DaVHbUa. Barbara Kallrraii. Klraaor Plfw. Km) r" fc ,K . ar 4o, ar raoaa to to Votifca, Carrin tAHrom. Kraa BrMarft, Jndr Boa!. Hon I - Wartoakl. Ulltaa HMraofttr. Aanrtta Meat, CoanH) r '-kh rate at II i anaasrer. S2.M auM ai Rait, Rath RoanaaM, Pal Brawa. Maries aim in. f it it scar, M aniicaV bawla coaa ic Pah- tout Juoiuoa. hay I .aw son, Kngn Halt. i is business staff .. Aasaal Kf cka InnrW of Nabnuka aaarr taa Bantam Maaaaar .... I'M Uinta t a ( I'aaHBtrna gmaest Paniirariaa. Am'I Banana Manaatn .... Btlatnat, Barbara r.trk. , a nr4 ctaa waiter at tka Pa Oil Km a Geona Madam, 4aa Haa kMitm, kabraaaa, aaoaf ma at Caaaraat, Marcfe , IH7, Clrcslaiioa Haaacar , Lta ttlaacr Campus Capers By Bruce Conner Globetrotting- Red Threat Seen In Three Events By CHARLES GOMON A Democrat, a general and a candidate, won his plurality by Communist document all found pledging unwaivering loyalty to the themselves in the headlines this U.S. and recognition of Communist past weekend. Sounds like a con- China. This man is a politician to gressional investigation? No, these end all politicians; he could un three items dealt with Tokyo, Wash- doubtedly make a package deal of ington and Helsinki. the Okeefenokee Swamp and the First, Japanese voters gave their Bad Lands seel for deal farming Democratic Party a plurality in country. Anyway, his party won national elections; second, the once the Japanese elections, discredited Stockholm peace peti- in the Pentagon, just across the tion is being resurrected and re- Potomac from Washington, our mil vised through a "World Peace itary brass is now evaluating the Council" in Helsinki, and third, effect of these elctions on U.S. Gen. John E. Hull is retiring from Japanese military cooperation, and his post as U.S. -and UN command- that is where Gen. Hull comes in er-in-chief in the Far East. Hull is the fourth general to hold Beyond the obvious fact that all the Far East command since ex three deal with Communism in one President Truman relieved Gen. form or another lies a subtler con- Douglas MacArthur in 1952. Rum nection which may bring them into ored as Hull's successor is Gen vivid conflict in Asia. Maxwell D. Taylor, a paratrooper Take the Japanese elections, for and an excellent combat officer, instance. Any American politician If Taylor gets the command he figures his campaign has urunistak- will arrive in Tokyo just in time ably stirred public sentimen if 50 to inherit the biggest Japanese po per cent of the eligible voters cast litical crisis since ex-Premier Shig ballots, but a good guess in Tokyo eru Yoshida was dumped as Lib- ounaay was mac ai least vu per eral Partv leader last vpstv w cent of the 23,500,000 men and 25,- To add the proverbial insult the elections, however, was that Pre mier Ichiro Hatoyama, Democratic Letierip (Editor's Note: Letters to Th Xebraskaa Blast be typewritten, doable spaced and m at aot exceed a auninaaa of ISO wordt, Taa Kebraskaa reserre the richt to edit letters sabmitted. Na letter will be armtee if it b aot accoaiDanied by the ajai of the aathor. Names will be oaiirted froai aabli catioa apoa reaecst.) 500,000 women who were registered rrmnlrf5 0. : , had actually voted. It could hardly Tfr 41 f F 8t,u-g be said thaithe wishes of Japanese Z? Vl I voters had not been sampled 1 me from Helsmkl Finland. The sienificant Dart about the Am.on.g verbal brickbats being .wirm. h.. ... tw. nurieQ western policies is one aimed at our efforts to stabilize southeast Asia through the Manila pact, popularly known as SEATO. The connections between the peti tion and Japan is that it is pitched at the 200 million people of south east Asia who supply a large part of Japan's industrial raw materi als. Before World War II Japan's trade with China. Korea and For- , , , mosa was almost half her export; Freshmen Lauded today this trade is negligible. Now To the many freshman students Japan's trade with southeast Asia who conferred with their high is twice what it was in pre-war school principals or counselors on days, but Japanese economists say the occasion of the first annual a 40 per cent increase will be high school principal-freshman con- needed to keep ahead of growing ference: population pressure. We extend our deepest gratitude Since Japan must import 87 per for their fine co-operation and their cent of her industrial raw materials excellent participation in that con- and 20 per cent of her food, trade ference. We wanted this to be a with somebody is inevitable. The purely voluntary effort and conse- U.S. has been doing most of the quently we did not exert any pres- supplying until recently, and to get sure whatsoever on anyone, but the Japan off the. American dole, the students responded in such a mag- leader of the returned Democratic nanimous manner that I cannot Party therefore announced in his miss the opportunity of saying to television and stump campaign that each of them thank you for the he proposed "more normal" rela- splendid. part they played in mak- tions with Red China. ing the day a success. If the phony Red peace petition Universally the principals and from HeIsinki succeeds m alienating counselors who were here from some 60 high schools said this is an experience they would not have missed for anything. We cannot help but feel that the students, therefore, who did not participate the southeast Asians and Japan gets chummy with merchants on the other side of the bamboo cur tain, we will find ourselves in the middle of a tricky situation indeed. Assuming Gen. Taylor is to be the in the conferences made a greater new far eastern commander we uu. .u. witn a g0vernment which would We look forward to one year rather trade with both Communist hence when another crop of fresh- and nonCornrnunist Asia than be. man students will have the oppor- come tovdved militarily anywhere tunity of visiting with their high Meanwhile, back at the ranch school principal or counselor. house m Moscow tne master-minds Thanks again. ..,, will have kept us so busy mend GEORGE W. ROSENLOF peripheral fences that we won't Dean, Admissions and have tirne to worry about the Krem. Inter-institutional Relationships im. present shaky foundations. Municipal Airport mi) ass n ,., Lkj . AM oom "A Fashion In Dining STEAKS SEAFOOD CHICKEN For Reservations Call 2-5678 Accommodations For College Croups Jest Jestin' What Will They Think Of Next By JESS BROWNELL By JESS BROWNELL to the old system of tutoring, no The latest sunny afternoon found required lectures, and plenty of me wandering aimlessly through time for gay and light-hearted pur. the city streets, raging inwardly suitSi at the circumstances of life which he repUed .. cause a person to Jose his inai- .w svstem. each student, unon hi. duality and with it the value or c wiU be assi d s education. When I am in such .' . rtTa Anm,tn, VIi his education . . tl 1 ..rHnfrriant a stale, i can una wU1 then be given a nurnber aad only in .misanthropy. I glare bale- ft t time on wfll fae M u v. and occasionally even throw . .. . . ,.cv rocks at tne people i meet,. Bnd thus his individuality, will h. On this day, however, I cnancea compjeteiy preserved. He will to meet a slight acquaintance of tQ fc by this number. His anonymity, mine w n 1 1 e stopping for a red light. He was whistling a lilting tune, and his face fairly diffused joy and good will. I immed iately inquired Ul lain wuai f had prompted such an un seemly dis play. He told me that he had just been talking to some of the school administrators, and they had un folded to him a plan which would way totally eliminate the conflicts and "It's a wonderful idea." he said, contradictions of undergraduate taking a qulcK step lorwara. life that cause a student to lose his individuality. My heart leaped within my breast; I was eager to hear. I have no doubt that much of the re sponsibility for my own loss of in- room, for fear that he might make friends with other students. Meals will be served through a crack in the door, and lectures will be piped in over an inter-com system. The student will not have to make any decisions for himself; everything will be taken care of by the uni versity. After four years, he will graduate, a bit pale and flabby from lack of sunlight and exercise, but well-educated, and possessed of a mind free from conflicts." At this point, I detected a look of madness in the eyes of my com panion, and I started to back I hit him a good one across the bridge of his nose with a sash weight and ran home. There is our problem, gentlemen. I feel that it is too big to fight out in the open. I dont know what dividuality lies in the conflicts and you're going to do, but I'm going contradictions .of .undergraduate life. "What is this plan?" I asked, underground. If any of you wish to join me, send a card addressed to the Gaunt Guerilla. I'll get in naively expecting a proposed turn touch with you. Hands Across The Campus Latvian Student Cannot Go Back By KAZYS Quite frequently upon making a new aquaintance and disclosing that I am a foreign student, more speci fically a Lithuanian one, have been asked the questifcn whether I plan to go back to my country. The answer to that is not a simple yes or no type and is complicated by the fact that my plans have very little to do with it. As things stand now, I cannot go back. If the above question couid serve as a classification of foreign stu dents, we could divide tliem into two tentative groups. The onea who can and the ones who cannot go home. I did not use the word want on purpose, because that of course depends on the individual. The ones who cannot go back are without exception from countries presently behind the Iron Curtain. This includes the Latvians, Lithu anians, Estonians, Poles, Ukrani ans and Czechoslovakians on this campus. According to University figures there are 57 of us. The oth er group of course is made up of students from all other parts of the world. How did we get here? I can an swer that question specifically for myself, but to a large extent this applies to the other students as well. We fled our homes when the close of World War II when the Russian armies were pushing the Germans back, and our countries were unfortunate and too small to stand in their way. At the time ALMINAS we thought of it as just a tempo rary arrangement and believed that the end of World War II, the war that was fought to preserve free dom. Evidently that did not apply to small countires. The Baltic na tions were by force incorporated into the Soviet bloc as U.S.S.R. Republics, the rest were made sat elites, and we were stranded in Western Germany with no place to turn to. It was a five-year wait until the Displaced Persons, the name we became known by, were given op portunity to emigrate. Coming back to the original ques tion, I do plan to go back when ever it is at all possible.' This of course in no way reflects my likes or dislikes of the U.S.A. For the record, I like the United States very much, and Nebraska in par ticular, but a man's own country is his home and I do not think the statement needs any more elabo ration. In ten years though, I've lost a lot of optimism and believe that without a third World War an opportunity to go back will not pre sent itself. Harold's Barber Shop 223 North 14th IVi block South of Student Union FLATTOPS $1.25 ANNUAL SPRING CLEARANCE BOOKS SUPPLIES 8 MARCH 7-19 TWO WETES ONLY I g aT" 1 . ART BOOKS & MATERIALS 50 OFF RONSON & EVANS LIGHTERS 13 OFF Viking Portable Library Books 50 OFF PICTURE FRAMES & PRINTS 20 Disc. I ZIPPER BINDERS . . . $1QQ (plus rax) I THOUSANDS OF BOOKS 19-39-69' 1 1 UNDERSHIRTS 29 4100 f .BOOK STORE
