Tuesday, October 18, 1955
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THE NEBRASKAN
Nebraska! Editorials:
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler
Degrees Of Charity
For about a week now, and for the next two
weeks to come, the entire community will find
itself in the midst of an annual drive to collect
funds for charity. "
In the city, it's the Community Chest. Here
on the campus, it's AUF. Both are of equal im
portance to us and to the two communities, but
living in the University community, students
and faculty must be most concerned with the
why's and wherefore's and the success of the
AUF drive.
AUF has undergone some major changes this
year which should be noted. Each of these
changes has moved AUF farther into the realm
of real charity, bordering as it should and al
most does, on what man calls righteousness.
Many of the pressures to give of former years
have been eliminated by AUF, for its leaders
have realized that there is more to charity than
dollars counted in a collection. And yet, the
goal for this year is the highest ever. AUF feels
it should collect $11,000. This is nearly $2000
more than last year, which was itself an all
time record.
From all available evidence, AUF took stock
of itself and decided that people should be giv
ing because of charity and not for social rea
sons. AUF is often asked: why should students give
charity? Most of them are on limited funds.
Most of them are far removed from the areas
served by charity. Most of them feel they be
long to a community apart from communities.
These questions pose no problem to the AUF
worker, for he bases his ideas of charity and
why students should give on the logical proposi
tion that this is part of a larger group, that
charity is a habit to be formed early, that no
man i3 free of the duty of helping others.
Long ago, sometime during the 12th century,
a philosopher wrote about charity. He divided
charity into eight areas and labeled his work,
The Eight Degrees of Charity.
To begin, he reasoned, all men give; for the
first degree of charity assumes a contribution.
The first degree is that of the man who gives,
but gives grudgingly. This is a sadly familiar
category on campus.
Then come the other degrees of charity. The
man who gives, but gives less than he should;
the man who gives, but only after he is asked;
the man who gives, but this time, before he is
asked; the man who gives, not knowing to
whom; the man who gives not knowing where
and the receiver not knowing who gave.
Each student, giving to the AUF, falls into
one of these categories, as do the charities them
selves. But there is yet a final category, the eighth
degree of charity, according to the philosopher.
This is the man, or nowadays the Organization,
who gives to help a man remove himself from
the ranks of the needy.
This type of charity helps a man by a 'gift,
or a loan or a job; this helps a man help him
self. And this is exactly what AUF is working
towards this year.
When an AUF worker approaches you and
asks you to give, think of these ideas. Think of
the degrees of charity. Think of the notion that
the degrees of charity begin with the basic and
certainly elementary assumption that all men
will give to charity. D. F.
Last Chance, Ladies
AWS Board will meet this afternoon and it is
fervently hoped that they will take this final
chance to rectify the entire migration mess.
By one simple vote, this one group can make
the situation,"if not right, at least not all wrong.
AWS has made an unauthorized, unpopular
decision. The Nebraskan cannot see any com
plication in rescinding that decision. If AWS is
silent on the matter because they feel that any
action would cause more trouble and confusion,
they are taking a stand resulting from basic
weakness and not firm conviction. The latter
is much preferable.
The reasons behind the band's intended trip
to Ames have not been made known to the cam
pus at large. These unknown reasons make it
an impossibility for the band to go to Missouri.
This is beside the point. Individual members
of the band and the yell squad will attend the
game. Individual students have expressed the
desire to go to Missouri. It remains for AWS
to facilitate the matter for women students.
The Innocents Society will still exchange the
victory bell with the Q.E.B.H. Society of Mis
souri. More students are planning to go to Mis
souri than to Ames. In reality, the Missouri
game is the migration. Because of an unfortu
nate prerogative on the part of AWS, the trip
lacks only one thing: a free weekend for coeds.
The Nebraskan still hopes that AWS will act
on its modest proposal of allowing women stu
dents a choice of the weekends. It would seem
that AWS would definitely prefer not to have
sign-out sheets subject to falsification.
Of all students that sign-out for home this
weekend, The Nebraskan wonders how many
mothers will actually see their daughters. The
odds would frighten even a better that loves a
long-shot.
The original error was one of mistaken judg
ment on the part of AWS. Board members have
only to recognize the mistake and accept a com
promise. The whole mess could be solved by a
simple compromise; but it is difficult to get any
thing easy accomplished.
The Nebraskan heartily doubts that AWS had
in mind any crusade against the Student Coun
cil. It seems that AWS was caught in an em
barrassing situation and made a mistake in ac
tion. All could be remedied by a simple com
promise appealing to everyone.
AWS only recourse to save face, to make
women students happy and to fall into step with
campus opinion is that they vote to accept The
Nebraskan's suggested compromise.
If the matter is again ignored, it would be a
greater evil than if it is discussed and rejected.
AWS cannot ignore student opinion much longer;
it is in their power to settle the whole thing.
The Nebraskan only hopes they act wisely and
with justification for any decision. J. B.
Information, Please
Thus far, no evidence.
On either side.
Particularly, and most noticeably, however,
no evidence or facts or reasons have been given
to anyone for the passage or advisability of the
one week exam resolution.
Undoubtedly, there are reasons. And good
ones. But how many, of the 7600 students here
at Nebraska, know what these reasons are?
And just how and where has any effort been
made on anyone's part to explain to the student
body just what these reasons are?
And just what evidence lies behind these in
formal reasons made by supporters of the one
week period?
'Students leave town during finals.
Other neighboring schools use the one week
period.
'Students waste time during the two week
period.
Too much emphasis placed on final exams.
Cloistered Virtue . . .
A persons misses a lot if he never gets be
hind the scenes.
Take Monday night, for instance. The night
news editor couldn't find one of the editorials.
The deadline loomed ever nearer and still no
editorial.
The editor was contacted. The editorial page
editor was called in at approximately 12:05.
Still, no one knew where the editorial was.
Finally, in desperation, the campus policeman
let the editorial page editor into the Union.
Aided by Dave Renwick, he searched The Ne
braskan office and, eventually, found the va
grant two pieces of copy paper, pasted together
delicately in the middle and lying peacefully
on a window ledge.
Once again, the professional virginity of the
Nebraskan was maintained. And that's why, if
you look closely, you will find no glob of white
space in today's editorial columns B. B.
More time for class and laboratory and class
work.
So far, no evidence of any kind has been
presented.
But both sides are equally to blame. The
supporters of the two week period have also
lacked evidence. No ' evidence has been pre
sented to show that
Students in general do not waste time during
finals.
"The standards of Nebraska would be low
ered." The program of certain colleges would be
disrupted.
The professors would be unnecessarily
cramped for time.
.Essay questions would be limited.
Large classes will be harder to conduct.
Of course, the question arises: "Is this sort
of evidence necessary?"
We think it is. We think a proposal of this
kind, which directly affects every member of
our University community, should be considered
fairly and impartially in the light of all avail
able facts.
As of now, we have seen too few facts. B. B.
Afterthoughts
Poor Girl
Policemen, like professors, are used to
strange excuses, but one of Lincoln's "finest"
no doubt thought things had reached a new high,
or low, one night last week. He had just stopped
a University student, female, of course, who
had been speeding and had run a red light.
With perfect feminine logic she explained
that sne thought she was on a one-way street.
Fortunately, he was a smart cop. He let her go
without further explanation, probably afraid
that she would explain that the crux of the
matter was that she had sardines for lunch
but it was Tuesday.
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FB Failure
A Blessing
"Where lies the land to which
yon ship must go?
Fresh as a lark at break of day,
Festive she puts forth In trim
array;
Is she for tropic suns or polar
snow?
What boots the Inquiry?"
In the musty days beyond the
recollection of modern man that
is to say, in 1807 William Words-,
worth wrote these lines. In the days
vhen must materialized to moth
balls, (1938), President Hutchins
of the University of Chicago com
posed a requiem entitled "Gate Re
ceipts and Glory." What boots the
conhection? On . . Paradise Lost
in Autumn.
Autumn! That time of year when
the bright birds fly south and the
dumb birds go to school. School!
That institution wherein one goes
to class five days a week in order
to inhabit the Stadium on thoe
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Love Library Instruction
Urged For NU Students
The University Love Library is.
one of the biggest, most modern
and well-organized campus librar
ies in the midwest. Yet its very
completeness is a disadvantage.
Somewhere on its endless shelves
Is material aplenty for any re
search paper or project. Yet much
of this information might just as
well not be there, for all the use
students make of it.
The system of sections, divisions
and classified numbers used to
locate books is remarkably well
organized, but at the same time re
markably confusing to those unfa
miliar with it. And most students,
unfortunately, are unfamiliar with
it.
The only instruction a new stu
dent receives on the use of the
library card and number system
is a brief lecture at the end of New
St' dent Week, that is usually
promptly forgotten along with the
reams of other wearisome informa-
I tion thrown out for the betterment
of green frosh. '
Pamphlets describing the organi
zation of the library are given new
students and are available in the
library, but like most written In
structions aren't really adequate
to solve Individual questions.
Most of us will have at least one
theme or research paper to do
this semester which will require
Tale Of Two Cynics
references from the library. But a
lot of time will be lost in undirect
ed searching and much available
source material overlooked simply
because we have never learned to
use the library wisely enough to
take advantage of its intricate cata
log system.
And with the increasing enroll
ment, it is becoming impossible
for staff members to explain to
each individual how to find the
Down With
Demon Rum!
Let us pause today to deal with
a treacherous foe. Let us stifle,
for the moment, our nervous gig
gling and step forth to flay this
arch enemy of man, this accursed
and insidious menace. Let us
thrash our arms in wild abandon
and scream with appropriate fer
vor: DOWN WITH DEMON RUM!
My heart bleeds a bit whenever
I consider how frequently this evil
commodity disrupts the delicate
balance of society. Since the be-
Mock Tales
ginning of time, there has been the
drink problem. Now you may snort
and scoff at this and reply that the
biggest problem today is the price
of the stuff. But if that is your
answer, I am obliged to correct
you.
The man who quaffs intoxicants
soon becomes boastful, vain and
egotistical. He thinks the whole
vorld revolves around him. What's
more, it usually does.
Some hapless souls tremble and
shiver for hours upon arising the
only exercise they ever get. Others
are forced to endure strange serp
ents as their constant companions.
Still others run hither and yon in
the dead of nigh painting these
creatures on sidewalks, steps and
doors.
A luckless tippler I know arrived
home late one evening to find a
vermillion hippopatamus asleep in
his bed.' Deciding not to wake the
tirnid creature, he instead climbed
silently into bed beside it. Unfort
unately however, the hippopatamus
soon gave birth to a chocolate koa
la bear, six cross-eyed whooping
cranes, a one-armed ape and four
tree frogs who whistled "Battle
Hymn of the Republic" as they
hopped backwards about the room.
Who could, have expressed it
more vividly than Shakespeare
Quick
Quips
Headline from the Clearwater,
Fla., Sun: LOW NECKLINE ON
TV TO BE PROBED.
From the Albany Knickerbocker
News: "For her costume she was
awarded a radio and a loving up."
when he put down, "Oh, that men
should put an enemy in their
mouths to steal away their brains."
The Bard, it is told, also put down
a frequent slug of the wicked brew,
which undoubtedly accounts for the
first six letters of his name.
For those unhappy folk who are
forever at the mercy of Espiritys
Fermenti, I offer a tempting bev
erage which I have fondly named
"The Strawberry Cra , . uh , .
Frappe."
Simply mix eight large, crushed
strawberries with two cups of cold
tea. Add one egg white and chill
until half stiff.
Then when you're half stiff, feed
the stuff to the cat and pour your
self another straight shot.
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material for which he is looking.
Why should a university have a
large library and expand its fa
cilities'? There is a definite need for
formal instruction on the whys and
wherefores of Love Library.
There are two possible ways of
accomplishing this, both directed
by the administration through co
operation with individual instruc
tors. Organization of the program
could be centered in the English
department, which requires per
haps the most library work of any
department.
One way would provide for each
instructor to turn over one or two
class sessions to a member of the
library staff, who would explain
what library materials are avail
able and how they are organized.
The second plan would call for
several classes to be organized in
to a special session outside the
regular class hour when a library
staff member could talk to them.
This way, there would be no time
missed from regular classtime. . .
and the time saved in speedier re
search would more than make up
for any coffee hours forfeited.
The University has an excellent
library . . . and we should all be
able to take fullest advantage of it.
sixth, that institution whose news
paper editors believe the question
of a football migration to be a cru
cial issue.
Football. Now we get down to
cases. Football, she (fresh as a
lark at break of day) is a national
symbol. Or, since they say we must
Given' 'em Ell
be precise and concise, she is the
University of Nebraska's mono
mania (for definition see Mr. Web
ster or Mr. James Miller).
The game of football is a grand
invention. Nobody hates football.
Nobody hates students who are
football players. Lots of people do
have an adversion to football men
who play student, though, and a
few quiet souls are idealistically
unhappy when one calls a business
a game. And re. I'm not so quiet.
The spirit of collegiate football,
like other less mentionable spirits,
strangles this campus for months.
It has ceased to be a game; it is
a way of life, and rather a primi
tive one. Ideas and actions of val
ue cease to exist; they are re
placed by touchdowns, concessions
or, as at present, cries for blood
vengeance.
Some want to lynch the team;
the State Legislature and other loy
al alumni would settle for lynch
ing Bill Glassford. But we must
look on the bright side of a dull
matter! Our team's failure is ac
tually a blessing: those who can
not produce, are soon forgotten.
And, said Keats,
"When I have fears that I may
cease to be . . .then on the
shore
Of the wide world I stand alone,
and think."
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