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Friday, September 23, 1955
THE NE BRAS KAN
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Nobraslcan Editorials:
We're- With You
This morning, at nine o'clock, the University
of Nebraska football team boarded an airliner
and set out on what most observers would deem
a hapless venture.
It is very doubtful that anyone was there to
see them off. It is even unlikely that anyone
knew they left. Or cared, very much.
Last week, as everyone knows, the Corn
huskeri lost a football game to the University
of Hawaii, by one touchdown. The Rainbows,
as everyone knew, weren't considered to be
good enough to play in Memorial Stadium.
Everyone, that is, except Hawaii, who prob
ably wouldn't have believed it anyway. Maybe
they weren't in the habit of reading the Lincoln
sports pages.
So, Nebraska lost. It is probably not the
first football game they have lost. It is not the
last. It happened unfortunately, to be to a team
who was supposed to walk into the stadium and
immediately lie down quietly on their backs
and let the Scarlet steamroller run back and
forth at will.
However, Hawaii just didn't feel like lying
down that Saturday afternoon, and besides, they
had a few little tricks of their own, such as
speed, agility and a sort of reckless determina
tion that Nebraska hadn't run into last Decem
ber. So they won, and earned it all themselves.
It is thus that the Cornhuskers, and Coach
Glassford in particular, find themselves nailed
to a journalistic cross from which the nails can
be pulled only by the venerable scribes them
selves. The armchair alumni, always ready to voice
their scorn in loud and raucous tones, have
joined the contest. It is rather like a primitive
village stoning their local champion from the
premises after he lost a fair fight to a smaller
man. It is also a little disgusting:
If the champion, after licking his wounds,
should rise from his place of appointed medi
ocrity and beat the living tar out of someone
else, he would immediately be accepted back
into the tribe, so that his glory would be re
flected back to his fellows. And so on.
But now, dark clouds form on the horizon,
and brows are furrowed in disgust, and oaths
spit from the mouths of the wise men like the
flickering heat of a Homecoming bonfire.
There is no hope. There is no future. Our
team is no good. Why? Because they lost a
game. So what.
So, loyal Cornhuskers, don't you think it a
good idea to lay down your bludgeons and your
newspaper editorials and your "Goodbye, Bill"
posters and, perhaps while no one is looking,
whisper a "Go, Big Red," or a little of that
corny old "Come a-running, Boys."
Maybe you're a little out of practice, and
it's not what everyone else is doing, but you'll
feel a little better for it. And you will be doing
the team, the school and yourself a big favor.
As Preacher Franklin said: "We will fight,
and get hurt, and lie down and bleed awhile,
and then get up and fight some more."
The bleeding, to be . sure, has been bad
enough. There is no need to aggravate it. And
no one can say he has heard the team com
plaining any. F. T. D.
No Fight
The controversy between Zeta Beta Tau and
Sigma Alpha Mu quietly came, to an end Tues
day evening.
The settlement announced In Wednesday's
Nebraskan, a credit to both fraternities, that
Sigma Alpha Mu had pleaded guilty to spiking
charges and Zeta Beta Tau had withdrawn their
letter of protest from the IFC Executive Coun
cil marked the end of nearly two weeks of
negotiations between the two groups.
The compromise was finally reached be
cause each house realized that a fight, and
there could have been some real legal gun
slinging from both quarters, would do nothing
but harm to each fraternity.
The entire affair, from the time the Sammies
pledged 21 out of 24 boys to the submission of
protest by the ZBT's to the series of diplomatic
conferences, was a source of amusement to
outsiders.
To the two houses involved, however, it was
an important and justifiably so, case of "sav
ing as much face as possible."
The Sammies made no secret of the fact
that they had spiked 19 boys before Rush Week
started.
The ZBT's wanted this proved conclusively
to everyone's satisfaction before the IFC. A
protest was submitted.
An important aspect of the situation is that
in years past the ZBT's and Sammies have been
considered somewhat detached from the IFC
rushing regulations. Consequently, as the two
houses were rushing only against each other,
they attempted to handle their own problems
between themselves.
In the past each house has been guilty of
violating rush week rules, including spiking
violations.
This year, however, the balance was thrown
way out of proportion as the Sammies, admit
tedly tried for the clean sweep.
Thus, the ZBT protest to the IFC had a touch
of "sour grapes." They had been cleanly out
maneuvered in a game each house had been
playing for years.
But the protest also was a justifiable com
plaint against the Sammies for taking the sport
out of the game and forcing the IFC, inevitably,
to impose more stringent regulations upon rush
ing. As it now stands, the entire campus knows
the Sammies spiked more than their share of
boys illegally. They do have a pledge class
of 21.
The issue is neither heads nor tails. It's
dead gray. Neither house is free of condemna
tion. The important point to evolve from the hassle
Is that the IFC cannot fail to see that spiking,
which has been going on for years, is slowly
getting out of hand. B. B.
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Now that everyone's at- rushing went, the general
tended one or two classes, tone on the campus seemed
the confusion of dropping to be "so what." Too many
and adding is over and the people have closed their
first football game is a mat- eyes to open violations by
ter of history, it might be saying, "Well, everyone
good for us to stop for a few does it."
moments and consider in a This is not healthy and
somewhat informal, off -the- only a silly person would
cuff fashion one of the is- really believe it, ut there
sues that has been in the are seemingly many very
middle of almost every dis- smy people living up and
cussion, both verbal and in down two of our streets.
.print, since early this mi,- Tt?t : 4.
month liie IFC recognizes the
rru r v , existing problems, and it
The issue is Rush Week. pians to revamp its entire
Certainly, it surprises no- program for Rush Week,
body, but it does effect There are still two essential
everybody, Greek and inde- elements which must come
pendent alike. out in everybody's mind if
For a good many years this new program, no mat-
the entire Greek system has ter how ingenious it is, is to
been criticized from many work
But none of the critics of graPPle. Wlth the " ues-
the Greek world have been lULZt for.a
entirely wrong. And all of governing suh th.e
the legitimate5criticism has lS? rt ?
centered around Rush dealmg thv,wha 13 uad
Week, what preceedes it permitted to be a ' touchy"
and what follows in its im- problem to sit back The
mediate wake. This is the ? Set 1 rules wlU have
sorest spot in the entire havfthe necessary
Greek world, overlooking strength to lend themselves
the Aegian of course, and to enforcement The IFC
' this is as it should be should be a real governing
Already too much has body for all fraternities. It
been written about the should be able to handle its
problems of this year's Rush own dlfficult situations.
Week. The University's Heretofore, this has been
. Panhell has been noted overlooked, sometimes on
, , nationally as one of the purpose, sometimes acci-
: smoothest in its conduct of dently.
Rush Week for the sorori- Secondly, and for the
ties. The IFC has received later to succeed this must
no such commendation but be dominant, the general
in the last few years nobody tone among all Greeks must
has been sufficiently change. There can be none
aroused about the open and of this closing of one's eyes
flagrant violations of the to infractions of rules,
avowed rush rules to do There must be complete and
- v . anything about it unanimous support by cam-
This year, undoubtedly pus or our best attempts
one of the worst as far as will come to naught. D. F.
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French-Moroccan
Strife Reviewed
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A prominent national magazine
recently published a series of
photos showing a Moroccan being
shot in the back by a French Le
gionaire. No pictures were avail
able, however, of the mutilated
bodies of French civilians carved
up in bloody Moroccan demonstra
tions this month.
The unpleasant truth is that in
this age of ultimate weapons and
collective security treaties man in
many climes still assumes that the
solution to an immediate problem
is the insertion of a knife beneath
the fourth rib of his personal
enemy.
Strangely enough, the United
States is responsible for the re
cent Moroccan disturbances. At
the Casablanca Conference of 1943
President Roosevelt is reported to
have encouraged the Sultan of Mo
rocco to throw out the French regime.
Whether Roosevelt actually said
it or not, the Moroccans think he
did which is the same thing. Nat
urally, the French government is
overjoyed at the prospect of losing
the rich (since irrigation) wheat
and olive lands along the southern
shore of the Mediterranean.
Because they feel any steps to
ward native self-government are
only preliminaries to independ
ence, the French have been reluct
ant to grant any reforms from the
semi-feudalistic governmental con
ditions existant under the heredi
tary Sultan of Morocco.
Nationalistic aspirations have
"moderate" supporters among
both French officials and native
leaders, but extremist agitators
have drenched the area in a blood
bath as exhausting to France as it
is distasteful to most Arab leaders.
In 1952 the Istiqlal (Independ-.
ence) Party decided to take the
question of greater s e 1 f-govern-
ment for Morocco and Tunisia to
the United Nations Security
Council.
France refused to discuss the
matter, so nationalist agitators
kindled riots in Casablanca on
Dec. 7 to emphasize their de
mands. Sixty-four French and 160
Arabs became casualties in the
blood-letting.
A month 1 a t e r U. S. Delegate
Henry Cabot Lodge arose in the
Security Council to vote on
whether or not to discuss the North
African question and informed the
world that, "I have been instructed
to abstain."
Anxious to be inoffensive to
NATO allies, the USA, it seemed,
could only twiddle its diplomatic
thumbs. A violin might have been
more appropriate in the Security
Council chamber t h e flames of
nationalism were being fanned.
Three years of bloodshed and
slow negotiation followed, a n d on
June 3, 1955, talks in Tunisia were
finally closed with the ratification
of a s e 1 f-government convention.
Former Premier M e n d e s
France promised this status to
Morocco also, but colonial admin
istrators maintained that Morocco
was less well developed than Tu
nisia (which is true) and thus not
prepared for greater self-government
(which is not necessarily
true).
During the three intervening
years, instead of granting major
reforms, Paris sent: a battalion of
French marines Senegalese units
from Indo-China, three squadrons
of the riot-cracking Guarde Mobile
of the Parisian Police, Foreign Le
gion reinforcements and small
arms to the French colonists.
Sultan Ben Youssef embarrassed
the regime with pro-nationalist
statements and was deposed by
the French. His elderly successor,
Moulay Arafa, has been maligned
and shot at f o r being a French
puppet.
Though previously "uninspiring"
as a ruler, Ben Youssef's exile on
Madagascar became the focal
point for Istiqlal agitation, and his
return to the throne has been de
manded. On August 20, 1955, thousands of
Berber tribesmen descended from
Atlas mountain strongholds to rape
and murder on the streets of the
colonial town of Oued Zem.
Following the Berber lead,
knives flashed all over Morocco.
Ninety-two French and 1000 Arabs
.perished at Oued Zem thousands
more died throughout the pro
tectorate. This terror shocked the Paris
government, made cautious if not
lethargic by domestic politics, into
adopting a compromise plan call
ing for the removal of Sultan Arafa
and the setting up of a regency
council pending the return of Ben
Youssef.
A full general, Georges Catroux,
was sent to persuade Ben
Youssef to return (unique bargain
ing position!) to Morocco. Oddly
enough, the man who was respon
sible for the proposal was sacri
ficed to politics in the process.
Resident-General Gilbert Grandval
was too moderate for French co
lonialshe was fired.
Reasons for the awkwardness of
the French position are legion, but
inaction is not monopolized by
Paris. Anxious to preserve the se
curity of the U. S. air bases at
Sidi Slimane, Marrakech and Nou
asseur, Washington has shunned
taking any position in this game of
international politics.
What the state department ap
pears to forget is that the writings
of Jefferson and the Wilsonian
statements on self-determination
prompt nationalistic aspira
tions. It is difficult to believe that the
laissez-faire policy which the U.S.
has followed has done anything ex
cept contribute to the discord.
To say that the U.S. has had noth
ing to do with the native protest
against French colonialism is
naivete;- we are committed by tra
dition and ideology. To abstain be
cause "It's not our affair" is a na
tional disgrace.
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Another fall has rolled around
and a new Nebraskan staff is
ready to inform you, entertain
you, perhaps bore you but most
important to stimulate your think
ing. The purpose of this column will
be to present the viewpoint of the
independent student in the issues
that arise throughout the semester.
However, other topics will be in
cluded from time to time.
Representing the independent is
a difficult job. There are many
kinds of them. Some students are
independent because of necessity,
others by choice. Some are inter
ested in activities, others are con
tent to attend classes, earn a di
ploma and leave the campus with
out once associating themselves
with the student organization
As the name of this column im
plies, the independent students con
stitute a majority of University stu
dents. However, as a group they
have no official spokesman or cen
tral organization. They are not an
"interested group" in that any one
interest can be found in all of
them.
There are some general ideas
that most independents would like
tp see advanced. To these this
column is dedicated. If this col
umn tends to represent the inde
pendents who live in organized
houses and are interested in activi
ties, it is because those are the
ones with whom the writer has the
most contact and in whom he has
the most interest.
With this in mind let us look at
the independent on the University
campus. Of one thing we can be
sure: his numbers are growing.
Notwithstanding an increase of en
rollment this year, fraternity
pledge classes are smaller. Pledg
ing is far from ended, but early
indications point to a lessened in
terest in fraternal living. Why?
There are several reasons. Let us
explore a few.
In the last decade, colleges and
universities across the nation have
pushed forward long-delayed plans
to provide student housing operat
ed by the parent institution. The
University has been no exception.
Beginning around 1946-7, the first
men's residence halls were built,
accommodating fewer than 250
men. In 1954 the capacity was in
creased to more than 900 men.
This year has seen a small in
crease in accommodations. Plans
now call for an addition to the wo
men's residence halls to increase
their capacity.
These statments explain a phy
sical reason for the growth of in
dependents. There is more housing
close to the campus which is avail
able without the necessity of join
ing any organization.
Another reason is linked to the
fact that more young men and
women are attending college than
ever before. In 1930 about 12 per
cent of all high school graduates
went on to school. Now the figure
is near 30 per cent who further
their education. Obviously, many
families are represented on the
campus who were not a genera
tion ago. Sons and daughters of
parents who did not attend col
lege are less likely to join social
fraternities and sororities than
students who can approach the
campus as legacies or whose par
ents at least have told their off
spring about Greek-letter socie
ties. A third attraction to the inde
pendent ranks is related to the
increase of residence halls hous
ing. The increasing number rr In
dependents in organized nouses
has allowed those houses to offer
attractions found before only in the
Greek system.
The same decade which has seen
a nationwide growth in independ
ent housing has also witnessed
equal or greater progress by resi
dence halls government, both by
students and administration.
Years ago residence halls were
called dormitories and were just
what the name denotes a place
to sleep. Not so today. Now the
modern living unit provides social
and activities programs which
compare favorably with any Greek
organization.
This factor has led many a po
tential pledge to remain independent.
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