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THE NEBRASKAN
Nobraslcan Editorials:
Friday, February 24, 1955
Cannot Be Ignored
As Religious Emphasis Week approaches, one
cannot help but be impressed with the quality
of the speakers who have been secured. They
represent the three major faiths and many areas
of specialization and interest within the broad
field of religion.
'
Such speakers should offer a real challenge
not only to the religious convictions but also to
the intellect of every student who hears them.
Religion is more than blind acceptance, de
spite the emphasis on faith. Religious faith
should encompass knowledge and understand
ing as well. It is this which Religious Emphasis
Week hopes to encourage through its activities
These speakers will come not so much to
convince or convert, but to help students under
stand the place of religion in a rather confused
A Fine Thing
National politics will move onto the University
campus March 14-17 with the advent of the Mock
Political Convention. Joint sponsorship of the
Student Council and the Nebraska University
Council on World Affairs is slating top figures
from both political parties to come to the campus
and speak to what will eventually be the core
of tomorrow's voting public.
Whether or not this core will pay any atten
tion to them is another matter.
In most things, a college education is a fine
and wonderful thing a fine and wonderful thing
to hang on the wall in your office or your home
for all the world to see and say, "there is an
educated man." Isn't that nice?
The main fault with this wonderful college edu
cation is that most graduates prefer to stop
their education with the diploma that hangs
there for the next 40 years, gathering dust and
turning a little yellow.
What is even more at fault is that many col
lege students stop their education even before
they get their diploma. They stop it by cutting
themselves off from that part of their college
life that can do them the most good things like
visiting lecturers, seminars and mock political
. conventions.
When an emphasis on grades or busy-working
campus activities starts putting its great heavy
foot in the way of education, it is almost a sure
thing that the student involved has stopped
working for an education and has started work
ing tor a degree.
It is for this reason that things like the Mock
Political Convention must be noticed by the stu
dents, before they find themselves slipping out
side the glimmer of the lamp of experience and
practical application that is much more valuable
to learning than a 9 on an hour test.
By taking part in the Convention, even as a
spectator, students, will get some idea of what
goes on behind "the wheels of government that
no political science text can touch.
Learning by doing is a fine thing. If one has
to go outside the academic circles to do it, then
go outside by all means. Just don't neglect this
part of a college education.
You're only hurting yourself, you know.
F.TJ5.
and confusing world; to help students clarify and
crystalize their personal religious convictions
and to try to answer some of the problems fac
ing persons of faith in the largely secular world
of a university campus.
The committee is rapidly completing the
plethora of details which the week entails; the
speakers are no doubt preparing their speeches.
All that remains is for the students to express
an intelligent interest.
Despite the best efforts of the committee and
the speakers, the students can kill Religious
Emphasis Week. It wouldn't be hard. The usual
excuse of lack of time will probably do the job.
Other students can beg off by saying that "re
ligion is too deep for me." -
It must be admitted that students are busy
so are the students who compose the Religious
Emphasis Week committee and who have spent
s many hours planning this.
It can further be admitted that the topic "Man,
the Maze and The Maker" is deep in its impli
cations. But these three aspects of life can
scarcely be ignored.
There are some students who will try to ig
nore them by ignoring Religious Emphasis
Week. And so the committee will lose the time
and money it spent on the preparation; the
speakers, all of them busy men, will lose time
which might better have been spent on a more
appreciative audience and the students will lose.
They may never know it, but the students who
don't attend will probably miss the most of all.
But think of all the time they will save. L.S.
Spring Slush
The suggestion of a Spring Rush Day, intro
duced in Wednesday's Interfraternity Council
meeting, was an excellent, yet premature, pro
posal to expand the fraternity rushing program.
The idea behind the proposal was to establish
a spring rush day, similar to the longer three
day period in the early fall, giving fraternities a
chance to pick to round out their pledge classes
and, secondly, giving the boy who may be in
terested in pledging a fraternity the opportunity
to go through a more informal and much less
complicated system than the fall Rush Week.
Though the suggestion generated little enthusi
asm from the floor, the philosophy lying behind
it is sound and would serve as a vital link be
tween the present rushing program and the
eventual system of deferred rushing.
Why not have a Rush Week in the spring, just
as in the fall? Why not give the fraternities the
official opportunity and encouragement to in
crease their pledge membership? Why not give
the boy who is or has become interested in fra
ternity life the chance to pledge?
There can be no serious objections. It is com
mon knowledge that some fraternities each year
come out on the short end during Rush Week.
On the other hand, many likely prospects are
not pledged or do not go through Rush Week.
An organized, official Rush Week during the
spring would benefit both the fraternity and the
prospective rushee.
Let's hope the suggestion isn't forgotten next
year. B.B.
Attitude Important
University Experience Is Life
ByD,?' K0Y. REEN tha destructive, the im- activities, extra courses,
Dean, College of Engineering moraI an(l the incompe- etc).
and Architecture r A - j
v 1 , tent Creative advances are
Your attitude toward For example; the not made by those who
the University is import- evaluation of your work simply repeat what was
ant to you and to the is based upon what you done yesterday or last
society which brought it actually deliver in terms year. What you are able
into existence. The ap- of service to those who to undertake or contem-
plication for admission are managers of your plate tomorrow is the
asks the question, "Why organization and is al- jiope of the future,
are you going to col- ways based upon their These are only illus-
lege?" appraisal, not yours, trations. You can no
The reasons given by (Grades). doubt add to the list. I
entering students are in- You work with indi- have been unable to
teresting reading. They viduals of widely differ- think of any really basic
vary through a wide ent characteristics and differences between the
range. A sampling would attitudes, some of whom standards of a good uni-
lnclude "to create may be irritating to you. versity and a free so-
friendships;" "to pre- This should not prevent ciety.
pare for a career;" "to you achieving your ob- It has been extremely
be able to make more jective. interesting to hear dis-
money;'"to broaden my Important undertak- cussions by personnel
interests;" "to develop ings are broken up into recruiters who have
myself;" "to be an en- workable parts by man- visited our campus seek-
gineer;" etc. agement, item by item, ing the services of grad-
Regardless of the Each has to be done if uates. They universally
stated reason for com- the whole enterprise is assume that the stu-
ing to the University, it to be successful. You dent's pattern of life and
might be interesting to are welcomed at a new the meeting of standards
examine the question, assignment if you have during the university in-
"Is the University ex- performed your last task terval will not change
perience a preparation with unquestionable ex- when they are employed,
for life or is it part of cellence. (Complet- They are lodking for
life itself?" ing each course satis- learning men, not learn-
The standards of a factorily). ed men, who will help
food university are Your community is create a better society
asically the same as the made interesting, whole- through their particular
standards of a free so- some and enjoyable by concern. The University
ciety. In both there are those who are willing to experience is life and
certain minimum ac- do more than meet the should be also prepara-
ceptable standards es- daily requirements of tion for a bettor life. You
tablished to protect so- their vocation or prof es- will be expected to con-
dety against the lazy, sion. (Extracurricular tinue to be a learner.
The Nebraslcan
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Letter To 'Broozie'
Offers Student Poem
By CORBAN LE PALL '
dear broozie,
enjoyed your last letters to the "members", you don't like mathieu
there will be a georges mathieus in the march show red cake frosting
that's unpalatable, let's throw away craftsmanship Just explode, frank
english has been writing and fixing spaghetti, here Is a peom of frank's
you may have read.
A Winter-Wind Autumn
A winter-wind autumn closed the petals of its bells
in china long ago,
rung its ochre grief through a master potter's eyes,
through the red mountain doe.
Leaves rushed down to the scythe tongued grass
of his sand slippered hill
mocked the scudding flock of silent grey gulls
raining with fevered will
from sea stone copse to shrilling wave crest.
His hands were fragile as a hungry girl,
he turned them from the sea,
set fingers in clay, drove a wheel to work
crescent shadow free.
Then threw high a twig thin neck
crowned by a white turned lip,
a clay wet, caul stripped throat that sang
the oars of his funeral ship
to voyage his bones to the silent gull sea.
The glaze stone throat sang great costumed wars
from ancient to infant hand,
a warrior horseman fled a harbor gate
his plundered flask in the sand,
shattered by beach pocking enemy hoofs,
crushed to a pebble row.
A fisherman's maiden paced on the shore
in the hour of dew mist snow
and drew one yellow flower
from the broken twig thin throat,
audrey and 1 got a letter from jean she's been working pretty hard
between coffees and discussions of art and society, we like to read her
letters, ray rice saw "odd man out" on t. v. of all things and he said
there was a lovely mad artist who painted james mason as he was
dying, ray then fell upstairs and read Yeats, i did a water colour last
week it's thick with powdered gold fused with coloured pigment, i
took some elmer's glue, mixed it with water ana usea powaerea pigment
to lay thickly on fabriano. the painting is dark and opaque with a re
cessive golden area as its light source, using powdered pigment is like
using very thick oil paint, the edges are textured and the shapes seem
to move into and out of the thick surfact. i'll send you a slide of it. leda
says, "hi"
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Deletion
To the Editor:
You asked for student opinion
and we obliged with our Letter of
Feb. 17. However, our letter, cause
and opinion was fouled by unneces
sary and unitelligent editing.
The deletion of our pivot para
graph ruptured continuity and suf
fered a break in our line of logic,
The meat of the letter lay in this
paragraph and the preceding two
lines, which were also deleted.
Our letter was not of such length
as to warrant cutting and the de
leted material was of printable na
ture. Then why edit? Does Cor-
ban La Pell also read copy?
The purpose of our letter was to
show up Ellie Elliott as governed
by the word and to give La Pell a
rap on errant pen-hand.
With this purpose we wrote the
following which composes the sum
of your deletion (speaking of
Kettering's article) "It's gram
matical failings were as nothing
when weighed with the worthy
thought it contained. Of what value
are complex words, nicely-connect
ed, if they do not formulate worthy
thought?"
"Compared to Corban La Pell's
Junk verse, the writing of Kettering
is grammatical perfection. How
ever, it is not the wrappings, but
the content that is important. It
is only the fool that will forsake
the gift in favor of the color ribbon.
Kettering presented us a rich gift
in a plain package. La Pell gave us
poor hash in a golden bowl."
Too often the meaning of a writ
ing is changed by editing. We would
hope that student opinion will not
suffer the fate of ours in the fu
ture. If you are to print student
opinion, please leave it uncensored.
In search of pure student opinion,
John F. Flyffn
Roger A. Langenheim
to tear them down. A part of the
traditionally agricultural sections
must be converted to flourishing in
dustrial sites absorbing the former
agrarian as a vital part of the
expanding industrial economy.
Richard E. Rice
Robert D. Malone
Thanks Given
To the Editor: '
This is just a note to let you
know how much we appreciated
your editorial in the Nebraskan on
Wednesday, February 15, 1956. You
expressed our purpose on the cam
pus better than we have ever stat-
ea it.
Thanks very much for taking
your time and devoting space in
the paper to the University The
ater. We are indeed grateful.
Dallas S. Williams
Director, University Theater
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Solution
To the Editor:
We must admire Dick Johnson
for his determination in seeking a
solution to the farm problem.
Nevertheless, we feel that Mr.
Johnson is knocking on the same
battered door that has led other
political aspirants to further deter
progress toward solution of the
growing farm problem.
Specifically, it seems that Mr.
Johnson (along with a majority of
the farm population) refuses to
recognize that surpluses and low
farm income are a result of tech
nological advances in farm pro
duction and that the only logical
solution to the problem lies in a
sizeable reduction of the farm popu
lation.
As we see it, Mr. Johnson pro
poses to solve the farm problem by
finding channels of consumption for
our huge surpluses thus caus
ing demand which, in turn, will
bolster farm incomes. This is not
feasible.
Our population can consume only
a limited farm produce; produc
tion above that level will necessar
ily result in surplus.
These surpluses cannot be
dumped onto the foreign market
without seriously affecting foreign
economy. Thus having eliminated
the channel of broadening human
consumption and what other
means is there where can we
turn?
There is only one logical ans
wer, Mr. Johnson. Sometime in the
future, Congress must free itself
from the shackles of farm politics
and must see fit to discontinue al
substantial proportion of farm sup
port so as to permit agriculture to
function as an efficient unit adher
ing to the principles of suddIv and
aemanc'.
We do not need to repaint those
graying farm buildings we need I
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