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Wednesday, September 28, 1955 Page 2 THE NEBRASKAN - 3 Nebraskan Editorials: Me (p, ladles For the first time in known campus history, AWS is proposing that women students have more voice in their own government. The pro posal, allowing house representatives to shoul der portions of AWS responsibility, is designed to make the woman student feel more a part of the system which governs her. Liberal AWS leaders who drew up the proposal have recog nized something which has tco long been de ficient in AWS systems. Tuesday afternoon a group of coeds met to debate the proposal. The group failed to come to terms with the real issue involved and de bated mechanics of the proposal instead. Coeds who have complained about what seem to have bmen medieval rulings of AWS are literally throwing away what seems to be a step toward more liberal lines of thought in the regulation of women students. The logic of such opinions evades The Nebraskan. In the past, AWS rulings have been accepted without active protest or comment. Any com plaints were made privately behind closed doors. But here is a chance to bring the governors to the level of the governed. It is completely revo lutionary in AWS history that any authority be delegated. The Residence Halls pose a peculiar problem in both numbers and differing allegiances of residents. Sorority pledges feel no particular loyalty to the dorm and tend to resent dorm rulings; outside of this factor, the number of girls in the dorm itself make such a system unwieldy. Because this proposal is not readily workable in one instance, coeds should not aban don the idea in other quarters. AWS leaders have expressed willingness to make exception in the dorm situation, and devise other plans. The Nebraskan only hopes that coeds will recognize the basic issue involved. AWS will again debate the proposal in the near future with a newly elected body of house representa tives. These girls must disregard the mechanics of the proposal for the moment and think of the larger issue. The mechanics can be worked out in administration of the principles. University coeds must not alleviate this important step toward an honor system and more responsibility in their own government. A repeat of the debate heard in Tuesday's meeting would lead only to further confusion. A system which has seemed to be inefficient and a waste of valuable time, such as the court, is up for reorganization. Coeds would, it seems, welcome a streamlining of tedious court ses sions and a step toward more liberal lines of thought concerning their position in the maze of campus rulings. J. B. Mss Nebraska The University of Nebraska, long the citadel of learning of the wide Nebraska plains, is a school steeped in tradition and pride. The scarlet and cream banner has been car ried into battle both intellectual and athletic for many years. The Cornhusker spirit has caused many an old grad to rise weeping at football games and class reunions and smite his breast, crying out his loyalty and love of the University. This tradition of spirit and striving for victory is carried on in many fields. Cornhusker foot ball teams long were the scourge of the old Missouri Valley and Big Six Conferences. Track, baseball, basketball and gymnastic teams have also won their laurels. In the intellectual field Nebraska representa tives have done well, distributing Rhodes Schol arships, fellowships, doctors degrees and the like throughout their ranks. All in all, the Uni versity is a fine, noble institution, finding itself hallowed in the things a school should be hal lowed in, such as tradition, fine records, moldy old buildings. But now, with a flurry of drum rolls and the popping of flash bulbs, the University finds it self honored in a new and more wondrous way. We got a beauty queen! Actually, the presence of a beauty queen isn't exactly new on this campus. On nice days you must be careful not to step on them. There are big ones, bttle ones, young ones, old ones. There are no fat or skinny ones, since thay are beauty queens, but there certainly are a lot of them. We have queens for activities, the Farmer's Fair, homecoming, pep rallies, BABW, football, May Day, the Military Ball, .agriculture and the Kosmet Klub shows. Of course, not all of them are called queens right to their faces we also have sweethearts, goddesses, Girls and TNC's. The point is, some times you can't see the beauty for the queens (Haw!). But now all these queens are for naught. We have in our midst a Queen among Queens Sandy Speicher, Miss Nebraska for 1955, and a candidate for Miss America (won, by the way, by a simple slip of a thing from Grand Island). She, although not attaining the ultimate $40,000 worth, is at least a 47th cousin to it. It makes the University, with all its home made ermine robes and long files of royalty, look a little silly in the face of it. And you know, she did it all by herself. No campaigns, activity points, posters or loudspeakers. How did she ever do it? F. T. D. The Oasis Occasionally the intellectual malcontents com plain that Lincoln is a cultural backwoods. Perhaps the Corn Belt is not awash with cul tural opportunities. Students are lucky to have available at cut rates a good selection from the drama, music, art, films and other entertaining diversions. Masquers, for instance, are offering a bar gain these days a season ticket to University Theatre productions. For $4.50 one 'can see four plays and an opera. Campus dramatic produc tions are usually well-chosen and presented. The opera should frighten no one "La Boheme" is an Italian "South Pacific." Each year, in addition, Film Society presents a schedule of foreign films shown at one of the Lincoln theaters. Art theaters are rare in this part of the country, or in most parts, for that matter. Seeing good foreign films is a privilege. Yet Film Society is never sold out. University orchestra, choral and band pro grams are frequent. Those with even1 faint bore dom with "I'm In The Jailhouse Now" can find at these concerts a wide range of music, easy to listen to as well as cultural. In addition, the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra offers reduced prices on its season tickets to students. The Union brings well-known artists to cam pus for special concerts. They have Included, in the last few years, Agnes Moorhead, Eugene List, Dave Brubeck and several groups of dancers. In other fields discussion groups, special lec tures, exhibits and films are regular presenta tions of nearly every department of the Univer sity. The Nebraskan attempts to carry adequate news of all such opportunities. Complaints of the lack of intellectual pursuits In the allegedly barren Corn Belt may be due to reluctance to take advantage of the Univer sity's and Lincoln's presentations. The East and West Coasts have no monopoly en good entertainment. Universities have tradi tionally been the centers of these things as well as study. Attending concerts, plays and exhibits la less of sn obligation than a delight. k Culture will not come looking for one any more than Penn Woods will move to the Girls' Athletic Field. Intellectual development de mands curiosity and initiative as well as desire. Sitting in the backwoods south of town andv crying that the Mid-West is, a cultural back woods is a pleasant game. If one is looking for intellectual pursuits, the campus is the most likely place to find them. M. S. Afterthoughts Pastille Perfume France is known both for her scent and her sentiment. It seems therefore appropriate that it was a Frenchman who recently received a patent for a postcard with a special pocket to carry a "perfume pastille." This is supposed to be saturated with the prop er scent. Perhaps skunk would be for poison pen letters or blood for the bleeding heart vari ety. It might even inspire new perfume, such as "Rejected" for "Dear John" letters. 'Ashamed7 Breaking into Nat's Oyster Bar Sunday, a burglar took nothing of value except a March of Dimes poljo container. A few days later the conscience of the robber became too great. He sent the bar an envelope containing $5 and a note. The note said the container had $3.fiO and the burglar added $140 more to make it an even $5. The note was signed, "Ashamed and Relieved." No Silence A French journalist defined America to the Congress of European-American Associations the other day, "The United States is where everything is possible except silence." Raymond Aron, the journalist in question, . might have extended his observation to campus particularly in Love Library's study lounge, where everything is possible but silent studying. The lounge seems to be taken over by pledges who are forbidden to coffee before the middle of the afternoon, and consequently make the study room into a Crib annex. Antidote A conductor on the Chesapeake and Ohio railway has been giving away lollipops so long that he can't keep track of the number lie has handed out. Every child on the train receives one from him. "It began because I learned that youngsters riding on a train for the first time are as scared as I would be in an air plane," C. C. Lane says. This corresponds somewhat to the local book stores' practice of dispensing free soft drinks to students, to take away some of the shock of buying a semester's books. The Nebraskan FTFTT-FIVE YEARS OLD Member: Attainted CoIJeilate Press Intercolletrlato Frew Representative: Nation! 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Mnr ...Bill HaUwrll, Harbara MVr, Connie Ifnmt, Mi'U 'ff ClreufaMoa Manafaf , Von OmIi LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler "YeSjH' OLE FKAT IS GETTING 6ACK OH ITS' fETSINC.'TEX' PLEDGED." Faculty Senate Must Justify Exam Decision On May 10 the University Fac ulty Senate voted, 131-65, to limit the period of final exams to one week, with three exams scheduled each day. Exam time was reduce! to 2 hours, and the free reading period was eliminated. This problem and it is indeed a serious problem for all of us Given' 'em Ell caused a major furor among both students and faculty members at the time, and there are many of us who are haunted, even this early in the school year, by the prospect of the new program. For the benefit of freshmen and new students, may I point out that statements and opinions voiced by lefferp fFitllor! "o(es The Nfhraskan l,etterlp Column l open to letters from l render. Ijetterti must not exceed 150 words. No let ter will he published If It l unsigned; name will be withheld If requested.) Editorial Lauded Dear Editor: May I congratulate you on the Sports Editorial concerning the Hawaii game. I get so fed up on the other type oi articles. I thought you'd like to know how an Alumnus and also member of the faculty felt. Interested Use Nebraskan Want Ads For Effective Results the administratin, faculty s n d student body last spring are to be found in the issues of The Ne braskan for May 10, 11 and 13. It is a most impossible to exi: gerate the detriment which the accelerated schedule will effect upon the academio system of this university, and upon every individ ual involved in that system In the first place, students are deprived of the time necessary to assimilate and synthesize their knowledge prior to the exam. Even if a student studies diligently throughout the semester, he must have an opportunity to relate the last day's work to the rest of the course, and to medicate upon his conclusions. Thus, the deprivation of this opportunity is likely to result in poor preparation, poor perform ance and, finally, a negation of the basic purpose of the examination' as a learning device. The physical and mental strain upon both students and instructors will seriously alter the purpose and success of exams, as will the fact that instructors carrying a normal academic teaching load simply cannot formulate, supervise and evaluate respectable exams within the prescribed time limits. There are few people who will not suffer under the proposed pro gram, and it is quite possible that, eventually, the academic reputa tion of the university itself will be unfortunately affected. To the best of my knowledge, the student body has never been given an official explanation, by the ad ministration or Faculty Senate, of the reasons for the change. Chan cellor Hardin stated to The Ne braskan in May that the decision may be protested by groups or individuals at the Faculty Senate meeting in October. But whether this is fact or wish ful thinking, the Faculty Senate has an obligation to the student body to justify its apparently un wise andunwarranted decision. n fi Tru i inn i a-vti. - iviucnuivi "sj vj Winters Mf!fffi tILUAN6lCH- TlAUSHTQIf Students You arc cordially invited to make use of our every banking service irst national Bank 1001 O St. 2-8561 r.- Economic Links Uprooted Peron 1 The phenomenon that was Pe- dustrial and self-sufficient econo- ron of the Argentine will be dis- my in a country which has no iron cussed as long and as vehemently or coal and little water power as the demagogue that was Huey must fail. Long of Louisiana. Half of the trade of South Amer- Peron had . dynamic political ica was formerly carried on by Issue which Long could never claim the Argentine, and it is one of however, and it constitutes the rea- the most highly developed nations son for Peron 's tremendous (if of the continent. This development early) popular support. The issue is the result of the exchange with was imperialism. Europe of high quality, grass-fed Both the rise and fall of Juan beef and excellent grain for eo-1 Peron were linked to economics- and other commodities. Probably economics which neither he nor the American nation . i. . less ; cap Die OI Decoming teu-auuu iciii. Aware of the Army's vulture like watchfulness, Peron clearly missed the political acumen of "shirtless ones" who were the Per onistas chose to recognize. Large British investment was made in the rich Pampas grassland of central Argentina for the purr pose of raising beef. Until World War II the Pampas were the world's principal source of low cost meat and grain, with the famous "300 Famileis" controlling the re sulting large estates. Costs were low because tenants on the estates worked at a subsistence level. While the British Merchant Serv ice was busy elsewhere during the war, the export business in Argen tina fell off, and the estates be gan cutting payrolls. The "shirtless ones" became job less ones and flocked to Buenos Aires and Rosario to seek employ ment and-or relief among the in dustrialization and public works projects of the new leader, Juan Peron. Capitalizing on the underprivil edged vote, Peron and his wife Eva passed out grain from the pub lic granaries with their left hands while the right hands were busy restricting individual freedoms. It was generally conceded that the Argentine Army (traditional pow er behind any administration which attained office and sometime inst rument of the 300 families) could have thrown Peron out at almost any time. The trouble was that to do so would have resulted in the slaugh ter of thousands of Peronistas, plus a return to the rule of the 300 families' oligarchy. In the end the hard facts of economics caught up with Juan Peron. Attempts to build an in- Globetrotting "Evita" after the latter's death from cancer. The Dictator fought with the Church, a mistake in normally religious Argentina. At last, when it was apparent that Peron's followers were dropping away in substantial numbers, the Army struck. A revolt from within toppled a modern Caesar. QUITE A FEW VETERANS ARE LEAVING SERVICE WITH Gl INSUR ANCE UNDER PREMIUM WAIVER. IF THEY WISH TO KEEP THESE POLICIES IN F0RCEJHEY MUST START PAYING PREMIUMS AGAIN WITHIN 120 PAYS AFTER For fall Information rnnttet your a VETKRANb AUIWiniOiBAUvrw k tilt MSSnJa, (Author ef -Barifoot Boy With Chk,n ee.)1 ANYONE FOR FOOTBALL? Pancho Sigafoos, pale and sensitive, first saw Willa Ludovie, lithe as a hazel wand and fair as the morn, outside a class in money and banking. "Let us not hem and haw," said Pancho to Willa. "I adore you." "Thanks, hey," said Willa, blushing prettily. "What position do you play?" "Position ?" said Pancho, looking at her askance. (The askance is a ligament just behind the ear.) m a.W WHI II hi i 1 Bin &pottmt jcntf ci5 "On the football team," said Willa. "Football!" cried Pancho, his lip curling in horror. "Football is violence, and violence is the death of the mind. I am not a football player. I am a poet." "So long, mac," said Willa, "Wait!" cried Pancho, clutching her lissome young forearm. She placed her foot on his pelvis and wrenched herself free. "I only go with football players," she said and walked, shim mering, into the Betting sun. Pancho went to his room and lit a cigarette and pondered his vexing problem. What kind of cigarette did Pancho light? Why. Philip Morris, of corris! Philip Morris is always welcome, but never more than when you are weary and sore beset. When a fellow needs a friend, when the heart is dull and the blood runs like sorghum, when darkness prevails, then, then above all, is the time for the mild ness and gentleness that only Philip Morris can provide. Pancho Sigafoos, his- broken pnyche welded, his fevered brow cooled, his synapses restored after smoking a gentle Philip Morris, came swiftly to a decision. Though he was rather small lor football (an even four feet) and somewhat overweight (370 pounds) he tried out for the team-and tried out with such pluck and perseverance that he made it. o ran,Ch,0'.COl,eT.?ed the eMon ttain8t Manhattan School of Mines. The Miners were always a mettlesome foe, but this year strengthened by four exchange students from Gi braltar who had been suckled by she-apes, they were especially formidable. By the middle of the second quarter, the Miners had wrought such havoc upon Pancho's team that there was nobody left on the bench but Pancho. And when the quarterback was sent to the infirmary with his head driven into his ribcage, th coach had no choice but to put Pancho in. r,an,Chn'8 tanJ-n?t not conspicuously cheered as the little fellow took his place in the huddle. "Gentlemen," said Pancho, 'some of you may regard poetry as sissy stuff but now in our most trying hour I can think of To woJds more t than these lines from Milton's Paradise Lost: 'All is not lost the unconquerable will and study of revenge, mmorta hate and courage never to submit or yield!' " nale' ana So stirred was Pancho's team by this fiery exhortation that they threw themselves into the fray with utter abandon ,r,affCTl8aeJUnnCe' thentire 1uad was hospitalized 'before not hlinl !n f26,,8 10 drP f00tba- Willa Ludovie, not having any football players to choose from, took up with Pancho and soon discovered the beauty of his soul. Today they SZochVLrere tethe'-d-i. Wdtat FS. Smoking what 7 Why, Philip Morris, of corris! (Mu thulwn, lfM
