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THE NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, April 12, 19S
Nebraska!! Editorials-
Victory I'Jith Thorns
"Ce serae, seric." What will be. will be So
It is with the now enacted Student Council pro
posal to limit activities.
Hie results of the last Council meeting before
vacation were quite surprising after the indica
tion in a previous meeting that at least half the
Council memiiers opposed the proposri. Evi
dentally there were many conversations among
Council members during the interim period and
the final vote was decisively in favor of the
proposal
Regardless of the majority opinion in the
Council, The Nebraskan maintains its former
stand that the proposal is neither in keeping
with the principle of individual choice nor needed
on this campus. But, however, loudly The Ne
braskan protests, what is done is done, and the
only course which remains for the future is that
of close watching and critical appraisal.
There are several things involved in the whole
.controversy which are hard to understand on
the merits of their seeming logic and obvious
proof.
One is why the coed members of the Council
Insisted on supporting the proposal on the basis
that coed organizations which are already reg
ulated by AWS, were in favor of the proposal.
These same coed organizations will be little
affected by the new proposal except, in the
event that AWS surrenders its authority to reg
ulate coed activity participation to the Council,
the coeds will be responsible to the Councfl
rather than AWS. It would entail only a change
in bosses.
...
The rejection by Council members of the proof
offered them by a group of senior students that
such a proposal was not needed is also hard to
understand. A graph compiled by the seniors
showed the Council that officer distribution
among the activities was present in an almost
ideal degree. Yet the Council passed the proposal
believing distribution could be improved beyond
this ideal state. The seniors had a valid case
but the Council didnt like being told they were
wrong.
Actually the proposal is aimed at the men
working in activities and the kinks will most
likely appear in the adjustment of attitudes
among the men towards activities. This will
carry over into activities in which both men and
women are competing. Competition might well
dwindle to nothing leaving the coeds in control
of such groups like AUF, Builders, Red Cross
and Union. Or it might go to the other extreme
with the men taking over these same activities
in an attempt to make more room for male
officers. In any case it will probably be a
battle of the survival of the most politically able.
This proposal also contains a subtle bint of
increased attempts to usurp power on the part
of the Council. If AWS finds itself faced with
alterations! in its age-tested point system to
conform to Council policies, it may well feel
forced to turn over coed activity regulation
entirely to the Council to avoid conflicts and
constant confusion as to which group is the
authority. Council and AWS overlapping may
give rise to an unhealthy ..situation in which
coeds in particular would find themselves ap
pealing to AWS only to have the Council dictate -a
final decision. In the event AWS was delegated
by the Council to handle all coed appeals, which
Is logical because the Board is made up of coeds
in like situations, what group would handle the
men's appeals? Of course the Council could set
Campus Capers
By Bruce Conner
up an appeals board for men however, this
seems out of keeping with the full scale control
over ALL students which the Council appears
to desire.
The Nebraskan has proposed before that the
activity situation be handled through the various
organizations in a voluntary, honest way and not
through Student Council legislation. Even though
the proposal passed there is still a valuable
recourse to organizations interested in keeping
competition on an efficient and fair level The
Nebraskan would like to suggest the formation
of a board consisting of organization presidents
which would meet four times a year and com
pare lists of possible officer material. In this
way, outstanding students could be given every
opportunity to work in organizations with a
more secure feeling that an officer's job would
be available in one of his activities. The presi
dents could, in case of a duplication of nomina
tions in two groups, give the student nominated
his choice thus cutting down the chance that
one group would take for granted the nominee
would accept the other group's nomination and
vice versa resulting io the loss of the student's
leadership to both. Of course there is a chance
for political maneuvering in a board of this
land but the cut-throat politics which may arise
should such a supervisory group not be formed
might well be more dangerous. The new Council
proposal demands some form of inter-organization
co-operation in order to insure activity
workers a fair chance at recognition for their
efforts. It is hoped that this suggestion will be
seriously considered by the campus organiza
tions or similar ones devised to replace the
security lost to students by the recent Council
action.
Such a suggestion is based on the fact that
there are only three major all-men's activities
in which men have the competitive field to
themselves as compared to the seven major
all-women's organizations. There are approxi
mately eight activities in which both men and
women may compete and most of them are
dominated by women. Two organizations in this
latter group are specialized Cornhusker and
The Nebraskan and their staffs are selected by
the Sub-Committee on Student Publications. This
eliminates two groups whose competition is
based on technical ability alone and not neces
sarily the run-of-the-mill activity busy work.
This unbalance among tie opportunities offered
to men without threat of female competition is
considered the result of more willingness on the
part of women than men to work in activities.
Here the old double standard comes into play.
Women, by virtue of their interest and desire to
work in activities, have necessarily been reg
ulated as to the number of offices they may
hold. But men have been less available for
activity positions in the past and the scarcity
is increasing. The present Council action does
nothing to help this situation. It actually offers
less chance to men for an officer's position then
there is presently. .
The campus is stuck with the activity limita
tion proposal and even though it is not a good
"law" activity workers will have to adjust to
it or fight it. If the former is easier, well and
good. If the latter is necessary, the Student
Council may find that their conception of "rep
resentinng student opinion" needs a renovation.
J. H. B.
Campus Circuits
Campus Politicos Down South
Wage Small-Scab Campaigns
From The DAILY TAR HEEL
University of North Carolina
Contrary to poets and Klnsey, spring is the
time when this campus turns its mind and
energy to politics. This particular spring it's
bees the verbal sparing of candidates Ed Mc
Curry, Don Fowler and Manning Muntzing.
It to the time when all leaders of the campus
world compete to see who can wear the best
smile for the longest time, who can win the
most votes. '
Here ai Carolina, politics are take pretty
erleasly. The campus politicians, above all
else, take themselves more seriously than tbelr
jobs. These wbe are running fiis4 the spring a
treadmill ef campaigning, and the voters (about
Jtalf, the students) find the whole business a
pleasant diversion from academic duties.
The tempo of the campus, usually a rather
casually -paced place, steps up to a point at
which life U "tfariHingly imminent,' as alumnus
Thomas Wolfe once wrote. In "Of Time and the
Elver,' Wolfe who was somewhat of a politician
himself in his undergraduate days, reflected:
"It was just that season of the year when the
two events which are dear to the speculations
(A the American had absorbed the public inter
est. These events were baseball and politics,
end at that moment both were tbrffiingly immi
nent . . . Both events gave the average American
a thrill of pleasurable anticipation: his approach
to both were essentially the same. It was the
desire of a man to see a good show, to take
tides vigorously in an exciting contest to be
mused, involved as an interested spectator is
Involved, but not to be too deeply troubled or
concerned by the result.
Sack Is the Carolina student's approach to
eawspss paOcs. He spends hours listening to
wetdi-be statesmen promise elaborate dormi
tx? acI;tes, extra holidays, and football trips;
fee argues endlessly bent the relative merits
cal5ie; -fees he votes with the easaabiess
of purchasing a coke la the Y.
On the other hand, the candidates have de
cided that it's high time someone started "doing
something for the students. In his mission to
serve the students of this first state university,
the candidates discover that the campus dining
hall a place featuring prosaic, but wholesome
food is the platform from which to save the
campus. '
First things come first to candidates, so when
the campaign gets heated classes are sacrificed
for the sake of "doing something for the stu
dents. Candidates are seen on posters, knock
ing on dorm doors, attending every conceivable
social event, and anywhere else where they
might glean a vote except in classes.
Almost always in a campus campaign fand
this year may have been an exception) someone
is accused of lying. And always the politicians
swear that they are "not one of those poli
ticians. Nearly always particularly this time there
are no issues, except which candidate is most
popular. The dormitory party promises things
for fraternities, and the fraternity party prom
isesfraternities parties to the dorms. And so it
goes on and on for several noisy weeks.
After si's over, administrators nod their heads
la agreement ever the great educational benefits
ef the political season. And they have reason
to sod, for the University has turord out many
state governors, Congressmen, and a U.S. Presi
dent (James K. Polk).
The candidates will quietly sink back into
comparative obscurity after the battles, return
to classes to learn, and stay away from voters
to forget their promises.
A prominent history professor, amused at the
spring sorties between campus politicians,
seemed to sum the whole business up when he
declared: .
"Politics? That's just another way of talking
about human nature.
The Nebraskan
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'Globetrotting-
Yalta Blunder Is
Challenge To Dulles
By CHARLES GOMON
Few geographic names in inter
national news can today conjure
images as vivid as can the word
Yalta. The name of this little
Black Sea resort has become the
blot of power-politics on the shield
of world understanding. Churchill
was moved to say that the results
of the Yalta agreements would
make more of a mockery of the
post World War II peace than Ver
sailles did for the peace follow
ing World War I.
Criticism is easy with the bene
fit of hindsight. Few have the
ability and knowledge to act with
foresight even when perperly ad
vised. Yalta was the chance of
generations for the Big Three lead
. ers to leave the ranks of petty
politicians and become statesmen
of enduring stature.
One, Stalin, was forbidden by
his ideology and environment from
recognizing this challenge. A sec
ond, Churchill, was content to make
protestations on the rights of minor
ity peoples; he was the only one
to go this far. The third, Roose
velt, despite the mandate of the
1944 election and the faith of the
most American voters prostituted
the trust' placed in hfm as leader
of the United States of America.
If you dont believe it, read the
recently released record.
The reasons for the Yalta con
cessions are as varied as the num
ber of persons speaking on the sub-
was a sick man is known, but
his doctors believed him to be in
good enough condition to make a
to a country with doubtful medical
facilities.
That several high-level military
leaders urged concessions to Rus
sia in order to bring the USSR into
the Pacific War is a matter of
record, also. Yet many equally
authoritative voices in military
circles cautioned that Russia was
not needed in the Pacific.
During the hieght of the "Mac-
Arthur Hearings" in 1951 a report
from Army G-2 was placed in the
hearing records. Reading the re
port as now printed in "Human
Events' one is struck with the
uncanny accuracy with which five
Army colonels of intelligence pre
dicted the adverse effect of bring
ing Russia into the Pacific War.
If you are interested in this "Colon
els' Report" read a summary in
last Sunday's Omaha World-Herald,
or better yet, obtain the hearings
record of the Senate Armed Serv
ices Committee June, 1951, volume
4, pages 2916-17.
Of course, there are advisors
and advisors, many with conflict
ing points of view. The important
thing ia this case is that the
colonels were ignored and millions
of people are behind the Iron Cur
tain as a result.
If the Yalta agreements are so
odious why hasn't the Eisenhower
administration repudiated them in
Record with Republican campaign
promises in 1952? The answer lies
in the arguments advanced by the
permanent civil service members
of the state department.
According to these officials the
Yalta agreements actually have a
double edge. If our concessions to
the Russians seem excessive we
must remember that in exchange
we got pledges of "free elections"
for eastern Europe. Since the
USSR has not lived up to this
bargain, say these officials, we
have a powerful diplomatic weap
on in that Russia's east European
actions are in violation of interna
tional agreement, Le., Yalta. Ac
cordingly, if we were to repudiate
Yalta we would have no basis for
complaint.
In the opinion of this writer, such
thinking is at best illusory. What
ever propaganda advantage we
may have had by being able to
call the Russians names because
they didn't live up to an agree
ment somehow seems lost beside
the stark statistic of 26 million
Poles living under the grinding
domination of the Soviet system.
Surely we have made our diplo
matic point after 10 years. Let
as face reality. Not only did the
Russians have their cake and eat
it too in eastern Europe, but they
also grabbed what was supposed
to be our slice ef the dirty pick
ings in China.
It is time Secretary Dulles used
the convictions with which he ap
parently entered the State Depart
ment. If this kind of blunder goes
unrepudiated the time will be upon
us when the confidence of the
people which negotiators must have
will be as absent from the confer
ence table as freedom is from
Warsaw.
Givin' 'Em Ell
Wisdom, Truth, Art
Result In Knowledge
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As my friends
Shugrue carry on their timely con
sideration of the deficiencies in
Nebraska schools and teacher
preparation, I should like to bring
forth another
vital aspect of
our educa
tional sys
tem. The objec
tives of a uni
versity educa
tion tend to
vary with 1-.t.--
and instructor.'!
Some univer
sitv women
openly admit that they are here
"to catch a man" ... a man
with prospects for a financially
stable future. Some men are here
"to beat the draft," others to play
football. Many, many students are
in college in order to earn a de
gree, which will, in turn, assure
them of a "better" job after gradu
ation. To these students, most of
the educational aspects of univer
sity life are simply details which
must be endured, the penalties
which one must pay for a degree.
Finally, there are students who
lift their eyes above their hank
accounts, to that nebulous aspira
tion known as "getting aa educa
tion." What this education consists
of, and how successful are its re
sults, depend entirely upon the stu
dent. I think that we Americans have
an unfortunate tendency to evalu
ate all things by a monetary scale.
We think of things in terms of
practicality, production, and re-
By'ELLIE ELLIOTT
Gourlay and numeration,
We want our "mon
ey's worth" out of the things that
we buy; they have to function,
they have to be practical The
same is true of our actions; we
must make "every minute count"
. . . preferably on a time clock,
on a wage scale.
Because of this tendency, ft U
difficult for us to permit anything
to simply be, to exist with no im.
mediately practical functioning
powers. We are quite apt to di;
card or disregard an object, an
idea, ... or a course . . . that
has no apparent use to us at the
moment. We feel guilty if we
"splurge" on a painting just be
cause we like it, or if we "waste
time" reading a book Just because
we want to read it.
Likewise, I imagine that most
people would label as Impractical
those things that I think are the
ultimate objectives ef a college
education: wisdom, truth, and
art. The first cannot be taught;
the second must be discerned by
each person, by himself, for him
self; and the third ... music,
literature, painting, sculpture, and
associated modes ef self-expression
... wont feed as, clothe
us, house us, or afford as television
and a Ford Tunderbird.
But without wisdom, knowledge
is worthless. Without truth, there
is no knowledge. And without
the arts, life itself is worthless. A
man can own 10 million dollars, a
fleet of Cadillacs, mansions, oil
wells, corporations, armies, univer
sities, and degrees ... and still
starve to death, inside. For withj
out wisdom and truth, which can
both be contained in art, he ia
just a blob of protoplasm.
-The Deep Well-
NU Conflicts Based
On Human Nature
By WARREN BURT
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Within the past two or three
weeks, four extremely controver
sial topics have delnged the
campus and the pages of this
paper the intangible student
"apathy," Activity Big Business.
the resignation of Jack Rogers
from the Innocents Society, and
the operation of the "Faction." Im.
plicit in these issues ar cpvprni
factors which constantly affect re
lations between people of all ages,
and which bear recognition and
examination. It is my intention in
this series of articles to attempt
to bring ud for thoueht and em.
sideration some of these factors
as they relate to uresent
problems.
Directly underlying the current
questions, nearer the surface at
some times than at others, is th
ever-increasing awareness of each
other by the Greeks and the Inde
pendents. Even more basirallv
underlying these headliners are
three fundamental aspects of 'hu
man nature desire for power, or
prestige, resentment of mw nrf
prestige, and indifference to both.
Some people are inclined to value
membership in a trroun. leader-shin
of the group, or recognition and
prestige for achievement; others
find such motives completly for
eign to them, preferring individual
effort for its own personal satisfac
tions; and it is true that yet others,
because of a real desire for recog
nition and group acceptance,
coupled with circumstances mak
ing this impossible, come to resent
group organization. As regards an
apathetic attitude it is human
nature for all people to find an
absorbing interest in something;
yet it is impossible for anyone to
find such an interest in all things.
Recognition of these facts and
application of them to the questions
under consideration and the per
sonalities involved lead us to real
ize that the issues at hand are not
local, are not new, and are cer
tainly not trivial They are mani
festations of problems deeply
rooted in all society, because of
inherent differences in individuals.
There is a great value to be de
rived from tackling questions such
as confront us these days. Careful
and constructive thought is being
developed, and valuable experi
ences worked through, which will
be of great benefit to us and our
respective communities in our
future lives no matter what our
fundamental nature may be.
-Where There's Smoke-
There Is Mo Place Like Nebraska, But h
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By MIKE SHUGRUE
The drive out U.S. Highway 1
from downtown Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., to the Jai Alai Stadium is
impressive. One passes night club
drive-ins, golf-driving ranges and
other day and night amusement
places. Finally he reaches a
bnghtly light
ed building
topped with a
huge sign stat
ing, "Jai Alai"
o r m-u.
Here hun
dreds of peo
ple gather dur
ing the season
to watch a fast
moving game
for as little as
25 cents a person.
Di.a on the beach blend with
nights filled with beach parties
and visits to the "Elbo Room."
Golf, tennis and boating are a
part of almost everyone s activit
ies. Boat tours through the Ever
glades interest crowds as do the
dog races.
Special events like the Festival
of Venice draw people to watch
water parades, to dance and to
enjoy leisure hours as much as
possible.
Lincoln Is not Fort Lauderdale.
Neither climate nor intent draws
tourists to Lincoln. .Consequently
one cannot expect Lincoln ta offer
the profusion of entertainment pos
sibilities offered ia the "Venice of
America."
However, we feel that we have
a right to ask that possibilities
for entertainment and social gather
ings be extended. We Brent ad
vocating cocktail lounges, although
they might solve the drinking prob
lem. When a fellow can buy one
drink and nurse it along in pleas
ant company, he doesn't have to
invite his room-mate to help him
finish a bottle behind locked doors
on campus.
Sow ling is fun, but one can't get
on an alley on a weekend night
in Lincoln unless he belongs to a
league. It is almost a closed sport
to most collegians.
Movies get old, ' especially when
the Lincoln theaters insist on hold
ing to a minimum the presenta
tion of pictures like "The Barefoot
Centessa," which is above the
moron level, and bold over such
gems as "Cattle Quern f Mon
tana." Students who Want to organize
house parties and other activities
during the week can't do so be
cause of University rulings which
amount to "no parties during the
week when you should be study-'
ing."
Oh, the picture isn't aH black.
But it certainly isn't very bright.
College students can be heard grip
ing every weekend because of the
lack of activity in Lincoln.
The -answer?
We dont really know. Perhaps
the State Legislature should be
less prudish and open a beer gard
en in connection with the Union.
Perhaps we students should be
more original, but even being orig
inal requires something to work
will.
Perhaps the Student Council can
look Into the matter and make
tions for opening ap the campus
and providing a greater range of
activities for students.
Surely the Dorm Council, TFC
and PanheH can get together and
work out a program of some kind.
We're just registering our im
pression. This campus and city
are pretty dull.
The Spring Activities Committee
has plans that win definitely liven
up one day in May but that's
just one day. .
The chancellor Is interested in
getting the students' together and
providing them with something to
do something better than drinking
beer in cars or seeing shows.
We're interested too.
. . . But We Have Penn Woods
By JOHN GOURLAY
The land of sky blue waters and
lofty balsams has nothing on our
University region. Indeed not. Just
a few minutes drive from the
strain and pain of campus life lies
a beauty spot which challenges
the most scenic havens of the na
tion. Ah, yes. The cool green of tow
ering trees, a running stream and
the wild life of the woods are free
to be enjoyed by all. This won
derful refuge is Perm Woods.
College students for many years
have taken advantage of this se-
ciuaea picnic
ground. A 1
most inacces
sible to those
without a
guide, the spot
where college
students meet
nature f u r
nishes an in
vigorating at
mosphere for
collegiate rec
reation.
The Penn Woods' beauty is not
to be challenged. One reason for
this is that few, if any have ever
seen It during the day. Daytime
Penn Woods is not exactly a Wal
den Pond. The glistening and gurg
ling moonlit stream of the evening
oozes its way toward the Lincoln
Sewage Plant by day, carrying a'
hardy supply of algae and drift
wood and cartons and garbage
from natives further up stream.
The shadowy green of the evening
is transformed into a panorama
of car ruts, piles of ashes, gaily
colored cartons bearing old Ger
man names like Schlitz and Store.
Walking beneath the mighty elms
is hazardous. Small, tin-like ob
jects lie strewn (or rather lie piled
knee-deep) over the area. Some
appear fresh and pretty) others lie
rusted and bent from exposure to
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man and nature.
But at night the shrouds of dark
ness mask the shabbiness of the
day. As one bounces over the
trail through the furrows of plowed
land, the woods loom up dark and
foreboding in the night. The route
enters the woods, the trail turns
and gone are the lonely fields and
dusty roads. Instead, a cheery fire
blazes high into the trees and
amidst the hidden songs of cricket
and frog come forth odes praising
dear old Rappa Tappa Gong. The
strain and pain of campus life msy
be behind but the campus isn't.
On a good night and what night
these days isn't good half the
campus is vesting in nature.
Ah it's a gay aad carefree Ufa.
Even (he most bookish ef etadeats
usually manages is became aa eat
doorsmaa la this atmosphere.
Woodgatberers scow the sanwasV
ing thicket for fueL English ma
Jon gaze late the treeteas sosrlrg
la inspiration. Biz Ad wizards
clamor eagerly around the guh
iag refreshments.
And so it goes on into the still,
ness of the night. But humans
strangely enough are human and
the pace begins to teU. The wood
gatherers no more wander from
the protective fire. The small clear
ing begins to bush, the fire grows
dim, the ukelele plinks no more
the EngLsh majors converse in
hushed ecstasy upon the discov
ery of such things. One can evca
bear the breezes drifting through
the trees.
But, as they say, time flies and
all good things must come to an
end. The combination of these two
principles eventually drags the
happy scholars from the glowing
coals back to nsture and into
their convertibles. Then, smelling
like a warehouse of smoked Ca
nadian bacon, they roar away to
civilization. .
So, Nebraskans, when trudgin;
about campus don't envy Boulder
think of the Woods. ,