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Nebraskan Editorials
Needed Spirit Md Action
Summer vacation and even the inevitable
final exams appear to most students as the
long sought, pleasant relief from the hum-drum
activity of the normal school year, eventful
though it was. And eventful years, by defini
tion, are followed by adjustment, conciliation
and reconsideration.
During the year now closing, some of the Un
iversity' rock-ribbed ideas and concepts have
been altered. These changes are not final. Be
gining with the first sounding of the Carillon
Tower for the first eight o'clock in September,
echoes of the storms of the past few months
will again be subject to hot debate.
In this past year a new' Chancellor has been
introduced to the University. Dr. Hardin is now
initiated to the mores of the University. He
has set a fast pace for himself. He has led
as he saw fit. He has led well and must be
commended for a splendid freshman year. In
September, issues the shortened exam period,
the policy of activity limitation, the spring
event, the liquor policy, the riot problem and
the question of re-instatement must be adjust
ed into their proper focus. Students and faculty
must face this together.
As can easily be seen, each of the issues now
rampant needs finishing before the final coat
of veneer can be applied.
Currently in the Legislature is the budget, a
budget which might give the University the
biggest single increase in funds for growth and
expansion it has ever received. With the new
capacity for development, will come first a
changing physical plant. Unfortunately, this
promises to offer as its wake a re-birth of the
now forgotten parking problem.
Over and above all this, even the controversy
, and the growth, hovers the thing we call spirit.
This spirit will soon manifest itself in newer,
bigger and more attractive buildings. It can
well be hoped it will appear in the form of
aroused student interest in everything, includ
ing the team.
But it must almost be prayed that this spirit
will come garbed in the robes of the scholar,
bringing with it the intelluctual freedom and
breadth of mind which alone can convert build
ings, students, faculty, administration, teams
and books into a University. Then out of this
University will go the satisfied alumni, the
trained and thoughtful citizen and the minds and
bodies ready and able to apply principle to
action. D. F.
VJlwre Will It JW Go?
A $17,800,000 University budget for the next
two years is close to a reality. Little doubt
exists but that the Legislature will pass the
recommendation handed down to them by the
Budget Committee several days ago. Univer
sity officials are not getting what they asked
, for (their original request was for $18,800,000),
but they are satisfied. At least the recommenda
tion was $2,800,000 over the University budget
for the biennium currently ending.
Since the beginning of the legislative session.
University officials have been in a touchy po
sition. They know what they want, but they
also know that they can't get what they want.
They therefore have been holding their breaths
to make sure that they strike a pretty good
compromise. The fact must be faced that taxes
horrify both taxpayers and legislators who are
responsible to taxpayers. Both are not close
enough to the University to be convinced that
it needs even a $2,800,000 increase in budget.
However, University officials have done a
good job in convincing at least one of the leg
islators that an increased budget is necessary
in regard to blanket salary increase which was
originally included in the budget. This legisla
tor said that unless University professors are
given an increase in pay, the University will
lose them. He hit upon one of the most important
aspects of the budget. Should this happen, noth
ing could be more deterimental to the Uni
versity. Yet exactly where this blanket increase fits
into the final budget is unclear, and University
officials either don't know or are hesitant in
explaining. The million-dollar cut in the Uni
versity's original request will be taken from
the appropriation for the University Develop
ment Program. This would have been used
, to improve the University Medical Center in
Omaha and the Agriculture College and its
outstate expermental stations. More impor
tant, it was also to be used for development
in all other colleges for expansion and the hir
ing of additional instructors. Of the original
request of $1,300,000 for the Development Pro
gram, a total of $756,840 was to have gone to
the Medical Center and Ag College. If the
committee recommendation passes, this fund
wil be left with only $300,000. 'Either the Medical
College (on difficult grounds in regard to ac
creditation), Ag College or the college expan
sion program will suffer. With a look at the
figures, it is difficult to see how things are
going to work out. If more teachers are needed
(and the English Department says they are in
'Outstanding'
Recognition for "Outstanding Nebraskans" is
mentioned on the front page of today's Ne
braskan, but quite possibly recognition should
be given to an 'outstanding" individual who
wasnl eligible for the award a person, not
a native Nebraskan, wbo is a subject of Her
Majesty, the Queen.
Colin Jackson has instructed classes in in
ternational relations this past semester with
great deal of subtlety and humor. He has
given student a keen insight into the hap
penings in today's world and the reason for
these happenings. The reason that Jackson's
lectures have been particularly perceptive, is
feat he has been to the places where history
is being made today and he has met and talked
with the men who are making history.
For instance, be often complains about the
fact that his favorite hotel in Saigon has been
bombed and he dosen't know where he will
stay when be visits Indo-China this summer,
la talking with campus groups, Jackson has
provided a deeper insight into the relations of
England and the United States and their weak
nesses and their strengths.
It has been a very fortunate occurence that
Jackson has spent his time in our midst and
perhaps, someday, University students of gov
ernment will be able to say that Colin Jackson,
MP., once taught political science classes in
BuQding. S. J.
view of an expected increase in enrollment),
it can hardly be overlooked. Would the remain
ing $300,000 go for this, thus eliminating the
Medical and Ag Colleges or would the English
Department be left without the teachers it
needs?
Also, exactly where does this leave the blanket
Increase in salaries? The history department
is losing two of its professors to "California
sunshine and higher pay," in the words of a
colleague. A short lesson in the theory of sup
ply and demand shows that although we may
be able to keep up the standards of the Uni
versity for some time through unselfish devo
tion of professors, it won't last if we don't keep
up with the Jones' in regard to University
salaries.
The blanket salary increase may be included
somewhere else in the total figure of $17,800,
000. Even if it isn't the University Develop
ment Program is bound to suffer. It seems
strange that if officials thought it important
enough to be included in the budget, they would
allow funds for the program to be cut so dras
ticaly. If the appropriations are not earmarked
(officials don't know), the reduction could be
shared by all divisions of the budget. The fact
remains that you can have a good university
through its instructors without the best of sup
plies and physical plant. But all the supplies
and new buildings in the world will not make a
good university without instructors to go along
with them.
And herin lies the danger of the budget which
is to be passed. The need for higher salaries
at the University is beginning to be crucial.
K. N.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler
"Worthal! Say, I haven't seen much of you since you got that
cute little sports car."
In Spite Of Everything
All year long the staffs of the Rag and the
Cornhusker heckle each other in a traditional
spirit of rivalry between publications. Type
writers are slyly "borrowed" and never re
turned with surpising regularity. Copy pencils
and erasers disappear, and can be easily traced
to the neighboring office.
And of course Rag staffers are always so
pleased to direct wandering students to the
Cornhusker office everyone always seems to
overlook the door that says Cornhusker. It's our
fond dream that some day, just once, a student
will ask in the Cornhusker office where the Rag
office is.
While troubles of the Rag staff are almost
daily, our neighbors go quietly about their busi
ness with hardly any fuss. It's only at the end
of the year that results show. up. And this year's
result the 1955 Cornhusker proves that the
yearbook staff did do quite a little work this
year after all.
So for once The Nebraskan calls a truce on
ye olde battle to send congratulations to a
fellow publication on a job well done. M. H.
Afterthoughts
Conservatism
British elections which were held yesterday
appear to be radically different from elections
in the United States. To begin with, the national
executive, Sir Anthony Eden, ran or "stood"
as the British say, in only one constituency
(equivalent to a small congressional district).
Then too, the circus type campaign was com
pletely absent. A dignified and quiet, by our
standards, election was held. Britishers read the
papers and listened to the speeches with a great
deal of solemnity and then orderly, and without
much show, they marched to the polls and
elected the Conservative Party to office for a
second term and gave Sir Anthony a chance
to "stand in the sun," something he's been
waiting for, for a long time.
It really is quite different from an American
campaign where the elections and campaigns
are long and noisy, the candidates colorful and
quite ambitious not content to wait 20 years
and a change is made in the administration
just for the sake of a change.
Tho fobraskan
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'Enlightened' Student
Reverts To Nature
By JESS BRO";NELL
Perhaps I have been neglecting the group. All break into gales
the drama this semester. If this of laughter,
is the case, the situation is about HERBERT. (Looking around
to be remidied. I have written nervously.) Do you suppose they're
a short play, to be performed at laughing at us? I don't know why
any college on Graduation Day. they should.
The scene is any college or uni- FLO. Don't worry about them,
versity. Graduation ceremonies Herbert. They mean nothing to us.
have just been completed, and As you said, we have a duty to
countless students are seen wander- perform and an obligation to fill
ing about the campus. They are fill.
draped in black robes and some THE STREET URCHINS. For
are weeping. Others busy them- get your duties and change your
selves erasing the obscenities views ; Come live with us and drink
which have been chalked on the free booze.
buildings by a nearby group of HERBERT. (In a bemused
streeturchins. voice.) I wonder if they aren't
A young man and his girl right. Perhaps our Vorld lacks
stroll onto the scene. Their names something.
are Herbert and Flo and they are FLO. Don't talk that way, Herb
quite obviously in love. ert! Any one who talks that way
FLO. Isn't it wonderful, Her- is on the road to destruction,
bert? Here we are, graduates. THE STREET URCHINS. For-
HERBERT. Yes, it certainly is get your world and live for fun;
wonderful. Now we can get mar- Come with us and dance in the
ried right away, and begin to live sun.
long and useful and happy lives. HERBERT. I've made up my
FLO. I shall teach school and mind. I'm going with them. Are
you shall get a job with an ad- you coming, Flo? (She shakes her
vertising firm and we shall both head.) Then Goodbye,
be very happy because you love Herbert runs off to join The Street
me and I love you, whatever that Urchins. When he has joined them,
is. he throws off his black robe and
HERBERT. Don't be maudlin, reveals himself to be clothed only
whatever that is. in a loin-cloth. He Is The Natur-
THE STREET URCHINS. Come al Man. The little band moves
live with us, and dance and sing; down the street. Herbert is lead
you went to college, but didn't ing them; he is singing and fling
learn a thing. ing rose leaves. As he passes Flo;
FLO. What did they say? he throws a rose leaf to her. She
HERBERT. They asked us to grinds it into the ground with her
come with them. But we can't foot.
go; it would mean giving up all As Herbert leaves the scene,
that we have worked for and that Flo cries oat and starts to fol
would be shirking our duty. low him. Then she recovers her
A Street Urchin, who has crept composure, clutches her Teacher's
closer and overheard their con- Certificate to her breast, faces
versation, runs back and repeats the rising sun, and walks bravely
Herbert's statement to the rest of on.
Hortence 'n Gertrude
Three Scraphooks
Behind Graduation
By MART SHELLEDY
and
JANET GORDON
"Beware the Ides of June, Hor- "Tell me, where do you sign
tence." up?"
"What's with you ... an eye "Hush, Hortence. While studying
for an ide?" at the second juke-box from the
"The seniors are leaving us in bulletin board, Sari was accosted
the middle of June, not that it by a Bizad junior who insisted that
isn't a pleasant place. But Sari not only was She His Type, but al
Slinge, the perennial ingenue from so that li Was Bigger Than Both
Teachers College, is finally grad- of Them."
uating." "Sari gleefully agreed, no doubt."
"We won't have to trip over 'To- "Now Sari was established. She
morrow's Bride' every time we had his pin, her pastepot and a
reach for the bathbrash now! But coloring book. Her first ' project
what will she do after four years completed, she decided to enjoy
of sitting in the Crib over a cherry- University life to its happy hilt,
limeade? Who will listen to her "By her senior year, after Sari
plaintive, 'Oh that this too too solid had been pinned to five Her Types,
flesh would melt.'?" Sari was all in a bunch. EVERY
"Sounds vastly ghastly, but do ONE else was going to graduate,
tell." and she was three scrapbooks be-
"Sari came to. University with hind. A crisis was at hand,
four pairs of nylons knee-length, "Asking directions front a fresh
of course and a pencil. She still man, she made her way to the Li
has the pencil. She never got brary. Once there, she began grop
around to sharpening it she ing toward the Education Read
thought she'd snag her nylons. Inf Room. She had no library card,
(They came in the same sack, you and was about to sneak a re
see.) served book out under her cash-
" After rush week, which she had mere, when it happened,
enjoyed tremendously, she disco v- "There, at last, stood A Man To
ered that she had pledged a fra- Lean On. With tattered library
ternity. Being broadminded, the card in hand, he offered to help
fraternity didn't object, but the her out. He never knew what hit
Administration did. him.
"After this temporary setback, "So upon graduation, Sari Slinge,
Sari decided that she'd better reg- girl ingenue, will have gathered
ister for some classes. She ended a permit to teach, a husband to
up taking Bicycle-riding, Bead - support her when she doesn't and
stringing and Bird - dogging, with two new pastepots autographed by
a minor in Coffee 101." all the busboys in the Crib."
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Legalism, Expediency
Or Human Rights?
By MARK ETHRIDGE far to be recalled. The librarian
In The Saturday Review who got fired in Oklahoma for
I confess that the last five years subscribing to "The Nation" is not
have been intellectually th most working in Oklahoma,
distressing of my life, because The list is long and could ,be
I have had the feeling that some- much longer. The danger in sacri-
where along the way we have lost ficing a little liberty, which is what
"that faith in the universe not we began to do in 1950, is the
measured by our fears." My great-
same as sacrificing a little virtue,
er distress comes from the fact yjj you can dc- wnen virtue goes
that with some notable exceptions is t0 mourn it. But it is worse than
newspapers of the country have that with freedom. When news
been no more alert to what was papers, among others, began to
happening to the United States than rationalize the first steps we took
nine-tenths of the other citizens. 0 ranress some freedoms instead
And they should have been, if they set in motion forces that are
they are going to possess the power not easily stopped, as France found
they do. out in her Revolution. Repressions
I fully believe that when histo- 0f that sort move in ever-widening
rians and sociologists come to concentric circles, until at the end
study the past five years in Amer- every man tends to regard himself
lean history they will rank what as the only authority as to what is
we have done to the concepts of 100 per cent Americanism.
Livingston, Mason and Jefferson Thus, the Legion forced the Girl
along with the Yazoo frauds, the Scouts to rewrite their manual.
scandals of the Grant Administra- Minorities which stand to lose most
tion and Teapot Dome. Fortunate- by intolerance are inclined to join
ly the country can quickly recover the pack. Catholics tried to pre-
from theft, bribery or corruption; Vent the showing of "The Miracle."
they are physical, But this period Jewish groups protested "Oliver
in which we have sacrificed basic Twist" and "The Merchant of Ve-
freedoms to a fancied security has nCe." The NAACP tried to pre
left wounds that will be a long vent the revival of "The Birth of
time healing and scars that will a Nation" and "Uncle Tom's Cab-
not be erased. We have seen the m. a Negro bishop protested
fulfilment of the warning which Ed- "Green Pastures."
ward Livingston gave in 1789; "If There are two specific eases
we are to violate the Constitution which I should like to mention.
the country will swarm with The Suoreme Court has handed
Informers, spies and all the odious down a revolutionary, or rather
reptile tribe that breed in the sun- evolutionary, decision affect i n g
shine of despotic power U convey segregation. Only one thing is cer
your words distorted by calumny tain about desezreeation: its in.
to the secret tribunal where fear evitability. But already councils
officiates as accuser and suspicion have sprung up through the South
is the only evidence that is heard." that are, despite the feelings of
Yes, the tide of hysteria is be- their respectable sponsors, noth-
ginning to roll back. We are begin- ing more than uptown Ku Klux
ning to regain our senses. Even the Klans They are largely dedicated
Senate Subcommittees seem to be to th, wfl of dwin kpiwo..
prepared to admit that a man tion "by means short of violence."
should be faced with his accuser. . . Nnw nnhnHv .nv rfPS!r
But we have come only a little hurrv th tmnsitinn- varvhiw
way back. People are beginning hflg sympathy with the special
to stick their heads up and to problems that are presented where
counterattack. McCarthy has been th. nnni-tinn iwarwh.lminffi
censured. But, as Robert Hutehms Negr0 Unfortunarely, most of the
pointed out to the National Press papers that I have seen
Club lately, Oppenheimer and have either treated the issue emo-
Davis have been cleared of dis- tionally, allied themselves with the
loyalty but are not working for the council, or have been silent.
Government; Ladejinsky is not me pose one more problem,
with the Department of Agriculture We e , worW One of our
and Dr Edward Condon faced Unes o defense m lbe and
with his tenth or eleventh investi- another either m Quemoy nd
gation, declared, himself out of Matsu or is not in Quemoy and
the game. The poison has gone too Matsu depending upon how ..crys.
tal clear" the President's policy
is to you. (It's not at all clear to
me.) ... I nominate the Formosa
story as the most under-explained
story of 1955. Here we have been
perhaps on the brink of war
least in a position where it was
Letterip
Fellow Cornhusker
Dear Editor:
Cramming
for Gatams?
At the end of my semester stay one. man cnoic wnetner or no
at the University, I should like ana 1U venture that nine-tentna
through The Nebraskan to thank of the American people dont know
all those faculty and students who what a11 about-
have made my "lour months so- H0W many know Formosa
journ in Lincoln such a pleasant doesnt belong to Nationalist Chi
one. na any more than it does to Red
I should also like to congratulate China 7 And that Chiang Kai-Shek
your editorial staff on such an ex- tnwe a interloper? How
cellent student newspaper, which is many know tnat toe Formosans
every bit as good as any Univer- want tneir freedom as much as
sity newspaper I have read any- anyooay eise ana nave tougnt tor
where in the States. Your editorial i several times? Have we bound
articles I thought were splendid ourselves irrevocably to Chiang
and your sports coverage first W1H1 ine ireaty waa-raiuiea
rate. Though phrases such as the other day? Have we in our over
"loading the sack," "hurling the aU pohcy abandoned the Atlantia '
horseshoe." and "breaking the Charter and the hope that it held
wrists," have left me a little puz- to colonial peoples every-
zled. where?
Through your columns too. I have A" we more concerned with
been instructed in the intricacies legalism and expediency than with
of American affection which ap- human rights?
parently progress through such
mysterious stages as dating, go
ing steady and pinning (against
or to what I have never been
quite sure.)
It would be impossible to repay
all the kindness and friendliness
shown to me in Lincoln, but should
any members of the University of
Nebraska be in London and look
ing for some Cornhusker friend,
tney should call me at the BBC,
Langham 4468.
COLIN JACKSON
AUF Thanks
Dear Editor:
In regard to the recent All Uni-
versity Fund faculty solicitation
drive, AUF would like to thank all
the faculty members who so gen
erously contributed and made our
effort a success.
Each check and each dollar
contributed means that much
more needed support for a worthv
charity. The All Universitv Fund
is very proud that the Univeitv
faculty and administration believe
in our organization and its aims
to the extent that they will back
our efforts by financial contribu
tion and moral support.
Persons still wishine to contrib
ute to the AUF faculty drive may
do so by sending contributions to
AUF in the Student Union.
Our Sincere Thanks,
Sandra Speicher,
AUF faculty
solicitation chairman
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