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" 1 THE NEBRASKAN Tuesdoy, April 26, 1955 Nebraskan Editorials' Afoiv Comes Payment A week ago it wu announced In these edi torial columns that The Nebraskan Special Fund was being established to help individuals pay for personal property lost during the riot and to aid in an exhibition that might be. able to bring pride to the University and its student body the same group which stood by silently, almost condoning Thursday evening's pilfering and Infamous mob. During the last seven days, one contribution has been officially received. It is of more than idle- interest to ponder the currently partially successful fate of what might have been a noble good-will gesture. - Seemingly, the collection had support; at least it was given lip-service support by individuals and groups, all the way to the Student Council. But why have groups failed to step in and offer help? The Nebraskan's entry into the fund rais ing was merely to perform a service, as a central agency from which collections could be handled and publicized. But there is more to the empty Special Fund coffers than mere lack of interest. Many students claim they will have to pay their own losses, hence, why help others. Some say they had no part in the riot. Others say they dislike the publicity given to groups once they contribute. They add that the paper is merely trying to "keep everyone up with the Joneses." Can this possibly be true? In the fall the AUF uses every gimmick imagi nable to collect funds; and every fall, for the past few years, they have succeeded. But with the riot a special problem arises, which needed special handling. Many unknown students helped the riot prog ress by their silent watching. Many students do not have full insurance coverage. Students and organizations at the University have forgotten the adage that charity begins at home. Now that the din of radio and paper blasts have stilled, we have forgotten about the damage we dumbly committed. D. F, In For Student Government What men fio expresses what they think. And what Student Council candidates think about campus affairs now is an excellent indication of what they will accomplish next year. For this reason The Nebraskan has offered space In its editorial columns for any views or opinions on the campus scene which Student Council candidates might like to express as a means of communication with the student body. From past experience as exemplified in the lack of student enthusiasm resulting in little if any campaigns the candidates have been judged and elected almost entirely on popularity and name-familiarity. This is not student govern ment by responsible representation. It is a sad situation when a student body and candidates from that student body condone such a farsical affectation of student government. They condone it by allowing it to exist in the same form year after year. They condone it by disinterest and indifference to responsibility and democratic principles which are the duties of every citizen to know, respect and protect. Within the next two weeks there is an oppor tunity to put into action these responsibilities and principles, not only by the Student Council candidates but also the entire student body. Participation in an election by merely placing an X on a ballot is not enough. It is up to every responsible candidate to 'express his views so that he may enter into a Council position at least with a clear conscience that he has been elected for what he thinks, not for his popularity or familiarity alone. It is up to every student to inquire about the views of Council candidates so that they may have a clear conscience that they are not placing just an X on a piece of paper but an X which connotates a clear-cut opinion, a responsible vote and a share in next year's Council. The Nebraskan, regarding itself as a means for expressing student opinion and news, hopes that Council candidates will take advantage of the space offered them. If they do not, then The Nebraskan may rightly concluded that this Uni versity is not ready for, nor willing to accept the responsibilities of student government. J. H. B. msians Otiended After pros and cons over the Russian editors tour of the U.S. were hurdled back and forth, the Soviets nonchalantly stepped out at the last minute and refused to come. Their reasons for canceling plans were two requirements of the U.S. a law passed in 1941 requiring all irrimi grants and foreign visitors to the U.S. to be fingerprinted and' a legal technicality protecting American citizens from incurring costs should any of the visitors be stranded here. The real reason was that they never intended on coming here in the first place. Soviet spokesmen said they resented being treated "like criminals." They supposedly don't like dealing with a government that indicates ill-will and distrust. The real situation is that the fingerprint re quirement is nothing new invented just for the Russians; its reason is to prevent misuse of the visas should they fall into others' hands. And the possibility of the Soviets being stranded here and forgotten or mistreated is ridiculous. The reasons for the cancellation of the tour are even more flimsy than one would expect from the Soviet Union. No other conclusion can be reached but that from the very first the tour was a propaganda move. The State Department was too slow in granting the visas and Russians pointed an accusing finger at our own "Iron Curtain" for the benefit of the ears of any nation who had ears to hear. Now, unless the U.S. does something about it, these same nations may never hear the entire story. The fact that visas, were finally sent to Moscow will be forgotten. Although resulting propaganda could be used .against us, an extensive propaganda campaign carried on by the U.S. will make the Russians look like fools. The American side of this should receive complete publicity over Radio Free Europe and Voice of America. Furthermore, the U.S. can prudently afford to open its gates wide for any future tours of this kind. We have more to gain than we have to lose. If a similar situation should ever rise, it will be interesting to see what excuse the Rus sians could invent next time. K. N, Campus Circuits Riot Policy Tested At Yale As Freshmen Chase Girls From Yale Daily News The University's severe anti-riot policy had its first test on the Old Campus last night. The riot crackdown, which followed last year's snowball riot," states that for "wilful and flagrant disobedience, however, or for evident encouragement of rioting, dismissal shall not be regarded as improbable or excessive. During last night's demonstration, the campus police took in over 10 freshman. John H. Bowers, chief of the campus police, stated that the names of those brought in would be turned over to Dean Harold B. Whiteman Jr. this morning. When con tacted last night Dean Whiteman said that he had no comment to make until he investigated the circumstances. The riot started when a group of freshmen found a happy drunk named Charley wandering on the OJd Campus after dinner. This started the spontaneous, unorganized fracas. After a few minutes, Charley was led away by the campus police, and as he was being , ejected three teen-age girls happened to pass through the campus and were immediately mobbed. They were chased across the Green and escaped by boarding a handy bus. Becoming alarmed by the growing number of freshmen on the prowl and the setting off of "cherry bombs" and firecrackers, the campus police began to lock all gates. Whereupon, the freshmen forced their way out the High Street gate where they discovered Charley again. They lifted him on their shoulders and started a "march on the Taft." At the corner of Chapel and College Streets they were met by city and campus police. They were quickly dispersed and Charley was last seen entering a squad car. Once the gates were locked no freshman could leave the campus by regular means without a pass signed by Chief Bowers. Things quieted down for a while, but the eager freshmen had retreated only to organize a new outburst sched uled for 10. At 10:06 a firecracker was set off and campus police prepared for action. Except for a few intermittent explosions the "organized" riot fizzled out by 10:30, among mutterings of Yale being a "prison and a "police state." The riot caused ho serious property damage nor were any students injured. The incident on Fraternity Row last Friday pointed up the rather tenuous position of drink ing to the fraternities. Probably the present compromise between the letter of the law and the State and University officials' realization that it is better to have drinking take place, in the relatively sheltered atmosphere of the fra ternity is the best solution to drinking at Yale. However, it should not be forgotten by fratern ity officers that this privilege entails a respon sibility to the community. It may be humorous to hold such events as "pig night" (that affair Companion Editorial at which pledges invite the "least-attractive- dates" possible to their houses) from one van tage point, but certainly it seems an immature, if not worse; practice from a number of others. We suggest, perhaps presumptuously, that this is one event which could be done away with with no loss to the fraternities and a great dea1 to be gained from the standpoint of public relations not only for the fraternities but for the Univer sity as a whole. Again, both the fraternities and the University should be aware that their position is a delicate one on the issues mentioned above. I ' The Nebraskan nvrvmmvn WAR eommtttw on Student Publications shall b from FiFTT-ESSASWi' IHiAtt editorial censorship on tha part ut the Subcommittee, or . . on the part of njr member ot the faculty of the Unlver- Meaiibcn Associated Collegiate Press tty, or on the part of nnr person outside the University. The member et the Nebraskan staff are personally re. IliterCSSegiat Press sponsible for whst ther say, o ansa to be printed. September to iVfl. Ee-reseataSivei National Advertising Service, EDITORIAL STAFF FMltor Jan Harrtm EaCffOlorated Kciitorial Pn Editor U Moky MiMMfins Editor Hirlann Hansel) Tl. S,ta,. h pobilshed by stents of th. Cnl- jX ; . ) i;:::::;:":: ! " ! BmHwmsnn wsHy of Nebraska under the authorization of the Com- Copy Editors Frrd Daly, Kortr Henkle, mlttee on Mtudent Affairs as an expression of atndrnt ' Jrnsrn. Msrllys WMrtHI opinion. rii!l.t!.ns under the jurisdiction ot the Hub- ?f,g-.it es Kdlior. . '. '. . Moger Henkle UTTU MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Blbler Where There's Smoke Making Averages More Difficult Now By JOHN GOURLAY and MIKE SHUGRUE f ,. I "A Gourlay An Open Letter to the Frater nity Freshmen who did not make their averages: Gentlemen: Study-hall regulations are easing off in almost every house on cam pus. Spring fever is here with all its consequences. The disappear ance of study r e g u 1 ations leaves you with practically no fraternity re strictions. Approximate ly 200 former pledges are sporting newly won fraternity pins these days as a result of concentra ted scholastic endeavors last semes ter. Approximately 200 of you men are still with pledge buttons as a Compromise Plan Dear Editor: Now that ruffled feelings, includ ing mine, have somewhat calmed themselves, and the revengeful feel ings of the student body have gen erally turned to a conversation that asks "Was justice REALLY done?" it is time that a more ade quate solution be reached than the curt dismissal of 15 boys. As I stated in my letter of April 22 (which was penned the day after the raid) the entire riot was the result of the stupidity of a small portion of the student body. I will grant that these students de serve punishment, but is justice accomplished when 15 boys bear the guilt for a multitude of ap proximately 2,000? (About 200 ac tually did the extensive damage). NO, it is not!! I am sure that a suitable plan of compromise could be reached, and I would like to present what I consider a compromise that ac complishes dual purposes; it lets the student realize that he is being severely punished for what he did in his time of thoughtlessness, and ic also gives the student the oppor tunity to prove to us AND to the administration that he is a capable and responsible individual. The plan I propose is: 1. A campus ever evening ex cept for one 10:30 night during the week and one 1:00 night on the weekend. 2. Regular study hours compar able to the hours kept by the girl's dorms. 3. A certain average to main tain. 4. Restitution of the damages aid aid in helping restore the damaged houses to their previous state. (By this I mean helping to put up screens, etc.) If the student did not agree to these terms, he could VOLUN TARILY leave this University, but must still restore the damage mon ey. I know that the dismissed students, and other unnamed riot ers, worried about apprehension, realize their mistake and, except for a few cases, would submit to these terms. I also believe that if each sepa rate house in Selleck Quad had a married couple as house mother and father, conditions could be improved. In my estimation, Sel lecK Quad is a oack-ared Utopia. What do you, the student body, think? SHARON S. MOORE No Honor Here Dear Edito-: Whoever Prometheus is he had better take another longer look at the students around him and no tice whether they look capable of supporting an honor system based on their self-respect. I think that was evidenced well enough last Thursday night when scores of University students forgot any thing they had ever heard about honor and behaved like animals. I think this Prometheus is an Incurable idealistic fool when he prattles of an "inner ethical system" inviolate by an individual. As I have said: the students be haved like animals' and so should they be treated. JUPITER result of scholastic failure. It will be at least next semes ter before any of you become active members of a fraternity. However, the future is still uncertain. At first, pledges were forced to look at books. Now, with initiations over, and beer in the air, even the pretenses of enforced study have been set aside. The job of intellec tual discipline has been shifted from the shoulders of the frater nity to your shoulders. The taste of disappointment fades fast, but remember back to tha downcast day when fellow pledges were initiated this spring. That same day can easily happen again. Before you is a great challenge. The elements are working against you, spring weather, parties, Ivy Day, etc., are plenty to occupy your time. But, the goal can be won, its rewards are countless. Five weeks of school remain be fore finals. They may be the most important weeks in your life. They may spell the difference between fraternity pins and dorm con tracts. Then, in two hectic weeks aver ages are made or broken. Finals are not something distant they are too soon for comfort. Remem ber! seats on sandy beaches in the spring time are not seats in isissMwwwKwuwwss chapter rooms. -J Most men when they come to col lege have high goals and are brimming over with ambition, rhis is the spir it that needs a rebirth during this time of the year. An Shugrue hour's time spent in reconsideration of your ambitions and aims would certain ly be an hour well spent. The re sults of this thought may prove invaluable for a lifetime. "If at first you don't succeed" is certainly a worthy gem. How ever, in this case the time is now there might not be another chance. s K i 1 Givin' 'Em Ell Psad-Psack Becomes College Success By ELL IE ELLIOT: iuu -jssTsssns" d Elliott A few weeks ago I related to you the sad Aristotelian tragedy of Fringle Flipswitch, psychological psad-psack. Since then, I have been doing extensive research on Fringle's childhood and early ado lescence. I have found fascinat ing authenticated equivocations about Fringle's college career that are of the most vital concern to all of us. At the precocious age "of minus thirty-three, Fringle Flipswitch had his bottle taken away from him, and was forced to drink milk instead. He was also al lowed to lower the hem of hist diapers a regulation four- inches. His nother taught him how to read, and with unequaled speed, he breezed through "Peter Rab bit" in only five years. His father taught him how . . . well, his father didn't like milk either. One horrendous day, as Fringle was concentrating his half-track mind on the advertisements In "True Story Magazine," his mother snuck up on him, blind folded him, chained his hands to gether, put rubber guards on his tooth ,and tossed him Into a bur lap sack. Fringle knew immedi ately that he was doomed to a shopping excursion. Alas, 'twas true. His mother snuck him into a bargain base ment and purchased for him six new diapers, a pink dress shirt with French cuffs, gray flannel slacks, pink-and-gray nylon socks, a purple and green tie, yellow suede shoes, eight more teeth, cigarettes, matches, a hip flask and a Railway Express shipping crate. Thus equipped, Fringle Flip- switch was packed off to the Uni versity . 6,000 miles away. Hia trip was uneventful, since he spent most of it communing with a cow through the slats of his first-class crstc ' Fringle arrived at the Universi ty just in time to take his entrance examinations. In these he did ex ceptionally well, and was assigned to the kindergarten of the Uni verslty Experimental School. After registering for his courses and trying out for the football team, Fringle moved his belongings into the Women's Dormitory. He stayed there for two months before any. body discovered The Truth about him. Shrugging his shoulders, re signedly, he pledged. We need not bother with Frin gle's academic career. . . he cer tainly didn't. No, he adjusted him self immediately to college life. He did all the things expected of a university student: carried a pencil and a notebook with him always, bought ' a coke at the library three times a week, at tended meetings and perpetuated pantie raids. In fact, the pantie raid was probably the most Important sing le event in Fringle's 15 years at the college. The episode is most tender. You see, Fringle did not have very agile toes. During the raid, he caught Jiis left big toe in a screen at the women's dorm. A Girl, hearing Fringle's agonizing screams for mercy, rescued him from the mesh he was in, and they got pinned. This Girl was a wonderful in fluence on Fringle. She bought him books about Schweitzer, Vergil, Augustine, Russia, history, Eng lish, music, art,. Fringle carefully placed all of these wonders on his bookshelf, where they looked very nice, and the two of them spent many happy hours gazing at the covers. Yes, Fringle Flipswitch was a collegiate success; and he and The Girl were elected Typical Campus Couple in their ninth year at the University. Hortercce 'n Gertrude No Deities, Nymphs Floating About Here By MARY SHELLEDY and JANET GORDON "It's bacchanal time again, Hor tense." "But my feet are still stained from last year." "Look at the aesthetic side of it for once." "It's been very warm for April. And I don't like grapes anyway. Those little seeds are tugged." "Ya' always have to take the bitter with the Mogan David. Since the hot season hasn't set in yet, it will have to substitute for gin and bitters." "Back to that character with the beard again, hey?" "Don't you think there is a subtle connection between picnics and pagan festivals?" "Depends on who is at the picnic. Not many of 'the deities and nymphs are around to float through the wood. "Floating comes easy after an all-night picnic." "Back in the bad old days.he peasantry whoopfd it up when the warm weather came all sort of antic hays. Nice thing was, there were no sheriffs around to worry about the proximity of the festival to a local pumping station." "The South Bend gendarmes were clutched." "They might have had some anxiety about finding stomach pumps." "But these aren't the bad old days. This is the prissy present. The underprivileged masses aren't allowed to riot happily in tha springtime." "We don't pay our taxes. In grapes anymore, either." "Student riots are nothing new in history. Back in Germany in 1817, 700 students at a convention got somewhat carried away and held a real riot. The local authori ties shut off the beer taps and censored the newspapers." "Sounds hideously familiar. But how did we get on the subject of students?" "Who is more underprivileged than a student?" '"Me." "I'm not speaking of the under endowed. But as I was saying, cavorting in the provincial woods has only a squeamish resemblance to Bacchus in the Greek back woods." "How do you explain Delt Woods? That's Greek." "The ideal solution, I have heard, is to plant the whole Girls' Athlet ic Field in shrubbery and trees. Charge admittance, and the Uni versity could be self-supporting." Slide Rule- Lipstick Distribution Dynamics Studied, Analyzed By Engineers By BARRY LARSON I have noticed' in the past few months a growing influx of propa ganda directed against the en gineering colege. Various writers have depicted us as highly intelli gent blobs of protoplasm floating around the campus, with a slide rule on our hip (a practice which I thoroughly abhore), and mumbl ing equations in our beer (we do drink some, you know). I noticed a poem in this paper during the past week which stated that en gineers are dead six months be fore they die. Ah, this may have been so two or three years ago, but now there is a new movement on the march. Allow me to dissertate (I borrow ed this word from Ellie E.) On a new course which we are offering in our counter-part of the Social. Science Department. This course is Dynamics of Lipstick Distribution 404. It has provoked more observa tion, research, and laboratory ex periments than any other course. Students have spent countless hours attempting to determine the laws governing the distribution of lip stick and its resulting effects on t . metabolism of the body. "here is an inverse proportion ality between lipstick distribution and the intensity of the light. As light becomes brighter, less and less lipstick is distributed. The amount dispensed in total dark ness, all other variables remain ing nearly constant, approaches infinity. Continued experiments at the Girls Dorm (under careful but discreet surveillance), have shown that temperature, passion, and time of each application are all closely related variables. Exper iments proved that passion in creased as temperature increased. Temperature increased as a di rect result of the increase of the number of applications and the increase in the length of time for each application. In order to grasp the fujl meaning of the discourse thus far, an introduction to the symbols of lipstick distribution is essential. The nomenclature is as follows: P pressure (lbs. per sq. in.) N number of application per minute. T Temperatures (degrees cen tigrade). A (D area of transmitter (sq. cm.) A (2) area of receiver (sq. cm.) p pucker factor (units of de-, sire). t time of application (seconds). S surface conditions (cm. mill). I intensity of light (scandal power) . D distribution (mill per sq. cm.) R passion. With the above data collected and using the symbolism above, the following working equations were developed: , . R(4 P 2NTH3t)-r6J D(P A(l)A(2)TN-tp Dynamics of Lipstick Distribu tion 404 is now required of every engineering student. It is also a prerequisite for C. E. 501, Struc tural Analysis of the Strapless Gown. So you see, we engineers ore not as backwards as you might think we are. We are ever on the march to further our social status and standing. Why only last week, a couple of our boys even furthered themselves right out of the University. Think of us not as engineers, but as the future playboys of tomorrow. W MOTHEt MOTHERS CaAHOMOTHB SUNDAY, MAY 8 Tell her how SPECIAL sh is with tOiaHsWJ Get them at the "GOLDEL'OOD" 215 North 14th St.