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I .( K 1 4 I S . - ' . 'f. . - l ' At ; ' 7 '. - A .J-r ' : 1 Page 2 THE NEBRASKAN Friday, October 14, 1955 .Nebraskan Editorials: The Silent Delegation Once again they sat there, complacently and and contentedly. They sat quietly through what was, it must be admitted, a rather routine meet ing, and said nothing; but the fact the meeting was dull affected them only slightly. These Council members belong to The Silent Delegation. They rarely speak. One wonders if they think, if they follow what the Council is doing, if they prepare themselves for the meet ing's debate, if they even understand how pow erful they are, sitting mutely, as they do. One wonders. Wednesday a tabulation was made, indicating ' the number of oral contributions on the floor of the meeting that each member made. The results are surprising to no one who has ever attended a Council meeting, this year or any other year. They are surprising to no one who as ever followed the action of the Council by reading the newspaper reports of their meet ings. The table indicates a trend that occurs meet ing after meeting. About one-third of the mem bers do most of the speaking and leading, an other one-third contribute whenever they can and the final one-third are never heard. It must be granted that every member does not have something worthwhile to say or add to the discussion at every single meeting. It must be further granted that often one member sum marizes an argument better than another is able. It must certainly be granted that needless oral comments are wasteful of time. Yet, it is a matter of record that some mem bers never do much of anything. None of this is aimed at the Council as a legislative group. It is not meant to be critical of action the Council has taken, regardless of personal views on various issues. The Council is the only all-University stu dent group. Its powers are great and can be used for good in many ways. In almost every instance, the faculty and administration look to the Council to see what student opinion is. The Council is in a position to lead, and it must lead if this University is to progress the way we all want it to. But time after time the Council finds itself hindered by inactivity on the part of its own members. What can be done to curb this apathy? Council leaders have often asked this question. We are encouraging oral contributions on the floor of Council meetings only because we feel it will stimulate activity. We understand that many people have noth ing to say, and we do not want useless com ments for the sake of comment. We feel that if a student member is encouraged to stand up and speak, he will first before he speaks be en couraged to think. It is this thought that the Council sorely needs. We therefore ask the members of The Silent Delegation how long they plan to maintain their silence. We ask them how long they want to burden the Council, :nd the entire University, with their votes and their lack of leadership, which thus far has remained anonymous. Speak up! The University wants to hear your voices and your thoughts. Do us the favor of telling us these . things. Let us think with you, talk to you, maybe even argue with you; but do let us know you are a member of our Coun cil. D. F. All IVe Want AH we want Is reconsideration. Reconsideration of the one week exam reso lution passed last May by th Faculty Senate. We're not interested now in whether the final result will be a one or two week period of final examinations. But we are interested in seeing the proposal reconsidered by the Faculty Senate. On the basis of these three points : 1. THE PASSAGE OF THE EXAM RESOLU TION WAS HANDLED POORLY BY THE FACULTY SENATE LAST SPRING. Tt was literally rammed through the assembly with Only minutes remaining in the meeting. Brief, insufficient discussion. Admitted, incomplete understanding on the part of many faculty members. A prearranged group who favored the one week period. Only partial representation from several of the colleges. Try Again, Ladies The migration mess was still stale-mated after AWS met Tuesday. AWS remained offi cially silent concerning the one and only campus issue they have a part in resolving. Women students awaited the outcome of the meeting, hoping for a compromise and were disappointed. It is not too late for AWS to change its mind and fall in step with student opinion. Last week, in these editorial columns, we suggested a log ical and practical compromise. Our modest proposal was apparently disregarded as a way out. We will again offer our suggestion. AWS should allow women students a choice of the two weekends. This would involve no extra work for board members and would be welcomed by coeds. It would also prevent more serious trouble in falsification of sign-out sheets, which would, in turn, place housemothers in a bad position of determining who honestly went where. The Student Council has been largely ham strung on the issue by an unauthorized decision by AWS. Council provisions concerning settling the date of migration do not state that an AWS Board member be consulted, but AWS claims that they must be consulted in the decision. This is not in accordance with Council rules. The Council takes precedence over any campus organization that acts in defiance or conflict with the Council. In this instance, AWS is to serve only as an administrative body to carry out the wishes of the Council. AWS has attempted to act in a policy-making capacity. They have acted in dependently of the Council and without the authority to act It is clear to us that AWS has overstepped the boundaries of campus political set-ups. The Council should make full use of the power to reprimand organizations that conflict with them. The AWS rule book states that "Migration shall be where the band goes." AWS has no authority to make such a ruling and the Council should demand that the ruling be removed from the rule book to avoid further confusion. This year, a compromre can be worked out. AWS still has time to agree to a compromise that would be acceptable to most students. We do not feel that AWS would lose any prestige by rescinding its unfortunate action. However, pre cautions should be taken by the Council that fuch a situation does not recur. The fact remains that most students prefer making a trip to Missouri. All that the confused student, caught in the middle of bureaucratic bungling, wants is to visit the famed Heidelberg of southern Missouri and sample their southern hospitality. J. B. And improper justification for the actual proposal itself. As we have pointed out editorially before, whether the proposal were good or bad, this is no way to pass important legislation which directly affects every member of our University community. 2. STUDENT OPINION WAS NEITHER SOUGHT NOR CONSIDERED. Last year's Student Council drafted a reso lution, protesting the Senate action, which was given personally to the Chancellor. This year's Council adopted a resolution Wednesday, direct ing its members on the Calendar Committee to "reconsider and investigate the final exam period." This year and last students in general. The Nebraskan and its columnists have protested the one week exam resolution and its handling in the Senate. 3. NO EXPLANATION OF OR JUSTIFICA TION FOR THE ONE WEEK EXAM PERIOD HAS EVER BEEN MADE TO THE STUDENTS. As far as we know, no spokesman or sup porter of the new proposal has made any ex planation to the student body. We have been given no reasons, no facts, no actual justifica tion for the cut in the exam length. All we know is that, as far as it stands now, we will be taking our exams in one week in the academic year 1956-57. For these three above reasons and in the in terests of fairness to the faculty itself, the ad ministrative staff and the student body, we urge the reconsideration of the exam resolution in the November Senate meeting. B. B. Afterthoughts 'Silver Tongue' The Detroit parents are tonight wondering what they can do to encourage their three-year old son to talk. They have a rather unusual reason; the little boy removed $2,500 from his mother's purse and mislaid it, while playing. The money's still gone and the boy has not as yet told where he put it. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Ribler Really? The New Yorker Magazine recently com mented about the Miss America pageant, which Sharon Kay Ritchie of Grand Island presented Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Murder of Lid ice" as the winning talent. Tb New Yorker said it expected the next Miss America to be Dame Edith SitwelL reciting "Little Boy Blue." Some Sneeze Divers do not always hunt for buried treasure when they go down into the sea. Master Diver Holecek spent 47 minutes under the water lev searching for an indespensible item. On coming up he announced that his mission was a failure since he failed to recover the upper den ture of Seaman Portinen who shad sneezed hio plate overboard in San Diego Bay. Right Place A young English major recently got back a corrected theme from one of her instructors. As the prof handed her the composition he scowled slightly and said, "Miss Smith, you split an infinitive!" "Where?" the young lady asked very indig nantly while thumbing through her paper. Her instructor replied very blandly, "Right after the to." The Nebraskan Entered as weend elas matter at the prut office la Lincoln, Nebraska, ander the aet of August 4, 1812. 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"AfTte L00VIN3 OVEC MXJC GRAPES TO SAY YOU BOTH HAD SEVERAL FACTORS WORKING AGAINST YOU - THE FACULTY-' Address Urged State Of NU Tt J Zl Two days ago this campus had its first all-University convocation of the year. Judging from last year's experience, it might be the only one of the year. All-University convocations have become fewer and fewer in the last two years. Within the memory span of most upperclassmen, there was a time when there were four or five big convocations each year. These events always signaled some students to get coke dates for the convocation hour, some to plan to do library work and others to "hit the sack" for the duration of the speech. One- of the most important of these gatherings was the Chancel lor's annual State of the University address. Although less than an hour in length these talks projected the plans of the school for the en tire year. BOAC Flights Over Russia Could Threaten 'Solidarity' I I I c . Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Mail reports that the British Overseas Airway Corp has applied to the USSR for permission to fly to the far east by way of Moscow and Peiping. s.Sir Miles Thomas, Chairman of Boac, said the foreign office opened negotiations on the deal last August. If BOAC gets the per mission, it will cut 3500 miles off the LON-TKO run, 1250 off LON HON and 500 off LON-SYD. The story' fails to say what the agreement would do to Anglo- American 'solidarity' in cold war policy. It seems fairly obvious that commercial advantage takes prec edence over into governmental policy. Although U.S. Airlines are subsi dized through air mail contracts, BOAC has been nationalized and is owned by the British govern ment. It does not appear that BOAC policies would be very far out of step with foreign office thinking. Anyway, the rush is on to reap rewards from the recent 'relaxing' of world tensions which the Krem lin has proclaimed. Since Geneva the State Department has been beseiged by sports clubs and good will organizations (not to mention more delicate cases of congres sional origin) all of whom want to get behind the Iron Curtain. These passport applications in the U.S. are only matched by their Globetrotting counterparts Europe and where the people want to go, the air lines want to fly. It is interesting to note that the Russians have made no basic change in fundamental policies. Thousands of words have poured from the typewriters of newswrit ers to the effect that Communism (and by inherent doctrine world domination) is still the aim of the USSR, according to Nikita Khru shchev's own admission. All this goes unnoticed, how- Didn't He Ramble Legends Hang Heavy On Old College Campi By HARRY Guest Columnist Campuses are fine old things, as everyone knows. They are full of mossy old buildings, fraught with tradition and held up by ivy; there are new sparkling buildings, hung with aluminum and festooned with modern architecture. There are fountains, and rocks dedicated by the class of 1907, and great iron gates, which are found sitting around all by themselves and looking traditional. Sometimes there are even a few statues or stone lions languishing around to give a gay air to the surroundings. There are lakes and ponds, where dashing sophomores, fortified by foaming tankards of the good nut-brown, set off to at tempt new marathon swimming, records. There are great athletic tradi tions, built up by years of confer ence champions and enthusiastic alumni support. There are picnics, and song fests, and serenades and panty raids, all adding to that great store of campus lore that brings tears springing to the eyes of alumni and handsi springing to checkbooks of the same. And, there are legends. Ah, yes, legends. That faint, cosmic mist that blows across the faces of the students on soft, moonlite nights, and stirs in them the rest less awareness of the past. , There are legends that hang in the cornices of the old buildings and play through the faint light filtering from the watchman's flash. There are legends, almost unknown, but the mention of which brings small voices echoing out of the distant past. And we've got one, too. From the first, the legend grew. No one knew why, nor from whence it came, but it was a fine, noble leg end, which everyone enjoyed. . It was all legend and a yard wide. It is still around. Like most leg ends, it is a hardy thing, not easily extinguished by the building of new buildings and the tearing down of old ones. It is pretty dur able. It is therefore only right that thii legend be brought out, where it can again be enjoyed and rev elled in, and the old alums can blow their noses unashamedly, and weep over their checkbooks; think ing ol those years so long ago, when. . . So, let us listen then, our hands i PRKVTIIVG Fraternity, Sorority. & Organization Letterhead , . . Latter . . , News bulletin . . . Booklet . . . Program GRAVES PRINTING CO. 312 Horth 12th Ph. 2-2957 clenched in excitement, our palms damp, our eyes bright. A long time ago, before the time of the motor car and sliced bread, there lived a beautiful Indian princess named Maude. She was indeed fair, and light of step, and exceedingly good to look upon. And she loved a handsome and keen-eyed brave, whose name was Clyde-who-walks-even-as-t h e-buf-falo- walks. But herr rich and cruel father, Geni - of the - furrow ed-brows, did not look upon their match with favor. In fact, he was a little miffed. So he told Maude that she could never again see her lover, Clyde-who-walks-etc. again, and must retire until times end to a secret villa, surrounded by huge stone columns, where she would spend the rest of her life knitting pot-holders out of old grocery string. Maude, being a spirited lass, as well as gentle as an April breeze, said she would sooner die and lacked her father right in the left ear He subdued her a kind re proof, chained her and sent her packing. So it was that "Maude, pining away in her villa, began singing a love song to herself, all the while losing weight and getting scurvy from fretting from being away from Clyde-who-walks-even-as-the-buffalo-walks. And wouldn't you know it, but old Clyde should happen by, hear the song (later recorded by Bill Haley), recognize the lilting bari tone of Maude, who was graceful as the sparrow, steal into the villa, and rescue her. Legend has it he kissed her right on the spot. And that's how our legend got started. Of course, the columns we have over by the Stadium aren't her columns, but if you should ever get a girl over there some soft night, and start whispering urgently and misty-eyed in her ear, well, an old legend never hurt anybody. After all, you're never a real coed until you've been kissed un der the columns. Gee, didn't you know that? My, my! ACDIt WTTRPHYfi Owa TRUE ataryl i 1 ' " TECHNICOLOR! Starring AUDIE MURPHY Man hall THOMPHOM Cnarle Open 11:46 UK A KB Boon Xoo'U Be Hearta- About "TKLai' ever, by some clubwomen or junk eting congressmen who want to be the first in their home town or constituency to be 'inside Russia. In six months travel books will glut the market. Already stunts are setting in; Dr. Berthold Schulz is driving a jeep from Moscow to Olyansh Lenin's old home. A Chicago den tist, Schulz jeeped from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow without of ficial difficulties. The BOAC. plan is not similar to going down the Mississippi on a raft; it is no stunt. The Comet III is ready. Successor to the fly ing coffin Comet n, the new comet jet airliner has met rigid stan dards designed to eliminate men tal fatigue and resultant disinte gration of the earlier models. When these 600 mph jet airliners are back on the internatonal runs, the Moscow-Peking route will save 5:50 flying time of the Bombay Singapore route. It would seem that showing the technical wonders of the Comet jetliner to the Communists would be poof business, even if no one considered BOAC's contribution to false security. Quick Quips A college student tppeared be fore a judge and pleaded that bis marriage lie annulled. "On what grounds?" asked the judge. "Her father didn't have a license for his gun." Last night I held a little hand So dainty and so sweet. I thought my heart would surely break So wildly did it beat. No other hand I held last night Can greater solace bring Than the pretty hand I held last night Four aces and a king! A miss in the car is worth two in the engine. During a tennis tournament, a fellow sat down beside a girl. "Whose game?" he asked. "I am," she said. Then there was the sorority miss who was so dumb site thought a buttress was a female goat. "Well, there gaes another pupil," said the professor us his glass eye rolled down the drain. Wife: "Dear, I paid the doctor ten dollars again today." Husband: "Wonderful! Just think, honey, only three more pay ments and the baby will be ours." Jean: "Cosh, but my date, last night was sure trying at times." Jane: "You should have been out with my date. He was trying all the time." Then there was the one about the street cleaner who was fired for day dreaming he couldn't keep his mind in the gutter. Students! Let em expert shoe re pairmen fjive your shoes that new look. See us for "your shoe dressing needs. e Uzizrn f':il;:d ShC3 Shcp 143 South ,12th St. Lincoln The purpose of these convoca tions was to give the student a picture of what his University was doing for him. Included were build ing plans and changes in policies and personnel. The State of the University convocation was the one time in the year when the student felt a unity or oneness in his school. Here, for a few moments, the student heard the highest official in the University tell him personal ly what plans were being made for the advancement of the institution. But now all that is gone. The student is left to gather his infor mation from contradictory rumors and press reports. This fall Chan-' cellor Hardin delivered a speech similar to the old State of the Uni versity message. But his audience was confined to the officers of campus activities and living units. Certainly the information con tained in this talk was of a nature which could be released to all students. Is it to be supposed that only activities people are interest ed in this information? I do not think so. With all the talk about Corn husker football, coaches and such, I feel compelled to put in two or three cents' worth on the topic. . Nearly everyone connected with lootball has been criticized. The players, alumni, coaches, fans and Nebraska's population in general have been blamed by various writ ters for a season that is not off to an impressive start, to say the least. The one group which has es caped the literary ax so far is the Yell Squad. Now don't get roe wrong! I think the Yell Squad is undoubtedly trying its collective best, but the response from the East Stadium is disgustingly fee ble. Here are my suggestions for im provement. First of all, get a pub lie address system for the cheer, leaders which can be heard be- The Silent Majority yond the box section. Over the normal crowd noise it is virtually impossible to hear the announce ment of the yells. Secondly, instruct the cheerlead ers in the use of a megaphone. The standard technique seems to be to utter the first two or three words while raising the mega phone. When the cardboard cone is aimed not much higher than the box section is apparently the pro per time for another word or two, with the remaining few being spoken as the megaphone is on its way to the ground. Such a system does no good. Perhaps the people in the boxes can hear, but they should not be the principal noiseraakers. To get response from the students, they first of all must know what the yell is to be. As a third point, slow down the yells so that even the few who try to follow can keep up. Our Yell Squad does not allow time for the echo to disperse under the bal cony. The result is a backwash of sound through the student section at about the ime the cheer lead ers lead the next line of the yell. A final suggestion is that the Yell Squad be separated from the masses of vendors, Boy Scouts and mixed-up people who continually tramp back and forth in front of the stadium. 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