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THE NEBRASKAN
Tuesdoy, March 6, 1955
Nebraska.! Editorials:
liTTll MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibltr
Simiual Stimulation
Religion at the University is
largely a thing of indifference.
Students are much too con
cerned with their busy daily
schedules to be much involved
in the work of the Church on'
the campus and this, in it
aelf, is not necessarily wrong
or evil.
A student can produce an
effective witness while In the
classroom or in the Crib. His
identification with the Church
can be traced through his
veryday actions.
Religious Emphasis Week
does not have as its main pur
pose the addition of masses
of students to the rosters of
the religious organizations of
the campus. It does have as
Its purpose the goal of pre
senting tvery student and
faculty member the realities
of moral living and religious
truth.
Religious Emphasis Week
may awaken dormant faiths
and arouse hidden beliefs
and it may stiumlate a few of
those persons who were pre
viously numbered with the
ranks of the indifferent.
Three religions and nine
speakers of national reputa
tion are participating in the
week's program providing
leadership, but how many
students will be interested is
still an unknown factor. Con
tact of every student is the
minimum standard which has
been set by campus religious
leaders.
But, the result of Religious
Emphasis-Week will not be
tabulated in totals stating the
increase in church attendance,
but it may be found in a tol
erance and respect for the per
son of religious conviction. The
success of Religious Empha
sis week might be discovered
not so much in the acceptance
of dogma and doctrine as in
the stimulation of honest doubt
and intense questioning.
. The first week of spiritual
emphasis in three years is not
designed to convert half the
student population of the Uni
versity from their erring
ways. Religious Emphasis
Week is about what its very
name implies it is an empha
sis on the fact that there is re
ligion on the campus and that
is God.
Religious Emphasis Week is
underlining and capitalizing
the statement, "God Has A
Place on Campus." S.J.
A Fair Warning
Tha official notice from the Student Affairs
Office, warning students not to patronize the
Mallard Club dance, is not as harmless
as it might appear to be at face value.
Most likely, the much publicized note will
nave little practical effect specifically on Friday
evening! party (even though, unofficial sources
say, many people have been "scared out" by
the proclamation), but it nonetheless establishes
generally the attitude of the administration
toward the future enforcement of drinking vio
lations. The "out-of-bounds regulations imposed upon
King's for the weekend will be exceedingly dif
ficult to enforce. First, the administration doesn't
have the police resources to raid the dance hall,
and to summon the city or state police would
be an unethical and extremely dangerous thing
to be doing.
Secondly, it would be unwise and quite unpo
litic for the University to assume the cloak of
the Pinkerton and go out looking for violators.
But the important point to the letter, how
ever, is that the administration has taken cog
nizance explicitly of the circumvention of Uni
versity drinking regulations in the case of the
Mallard Club dance, and implicitly of the cir
cumvention in the instance of the many un-
A Duty Still Unfulfilled
The University basketball team has played a
total of 21 games so far this year. About half
of these games were played in the University
Coliseum, a large building situated on the
north side of the campus. It will holl nearly
10,000 fans.
It looks like no one told the Corn Cobs or
the Tassels about these games, however.
Unofficial tabulations at the last two home
Indicate 22 Tassels and eight Cobs present at the
Kansas game, and 12 Tassels and ten Cobs at the
Oklahome game.
At each game there were two cheerleaders.
These numbers are not much smaller than
"pep" organization attendance at other games.
The best spirit was given by the band.
Earlier in the year The Nebraskan published
an editorial indicating how the Cobs and the
Tassels are not fulfilling their duties to the Uni
versity and the student body in particular.
Instead of pushing promising sophomores to
they have made themselves into large, money
making bank accounts. The Cobs still pride them
selves in being the richest student organization
on the campus.
The almost negligible attendance at the last
two basketball games epmhasizes this point even
more.
Although they may not realize it, Cobs and
Tassels are hurting themselves by their current
attitude. Belonging to these organizations no
longer holds the prestige it did only a few years
ago.
Instead of pushing promising sophomores to
ward Corn Cobs, a number of organized houses
have abandoned the organization, and advise
other activities for their members.
In short, the Cobs, and the Tassels to a lesser
degree, may soon find themselves very much out
of the activity picture on the University campus.
This would result in the virtual collapse of two
organizations who could do so much but end up
doing so little.
The remedy for this situation would not be
easy. It would be up to the officers and the fac
ulty advisors to revamp their organizations, and
lessen the emphasis on selling yearbooks, flowers
and balloons.
Requirements for membership would have to
encompass more attendance at athletic contests,
particularly basketball. Members would have to
be picked more on the service they rendered to
the organization and not by political influence
wielded by active members.
The future of the Corn Cobs and the Tassels
as effective, necessary organizations on this
campus rests on how soon "and how effectively
they can drag themselves out of the monetary
mire in which they have immersed themselves.
A few decibles of rabid enthusiasm from the
crowd generates more spirit in a football or
basketball player than all the balloons and flow
ers ever sold by any fresh-faced young sopho
more. F.T.D."
The Humor Magazine
Why doesn't the University of Nebraska have
a campus humor magazine?
The objections to such a magazine revolve
around two basic points: (1) how can the mag
azine be financially successful, and (2) what can
be done to keep material of a questionable na
ture from appearing in the publication.
Last year a small group of interested students
thought they had these two problems pretty
well licked and presented a case before the
Board of Student Publications in the spring.
The proposal was defeated with the provisions
m the final decision, that if faculty supervision
were provided and a more secure financial status
could be assured, the magazine would receive a
more favorable hearing.
A more suitable financial plan has been estab
lished by the group, stipulating that the maga
zine staff will finance the original outlay and,
if the publication loses money, the group itself
will stand the deficit.
All that remains now before the final proposal
is 'drafted for review again by the Pub Board
is faculty backing. -
Perhaps, if this support can be gained, Ne
braska will not be without a humor magazine
much longer. B. B.
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Where Next?
One evening recently the trap cover over
the underground pipe system was open near
Andrews Hall.
A mound of dirt had been piled up nearby
and a small machine vibrated loudly on top
of the ground.
In the hole, however, two men, their blow
torches belching close by, sat quietly smoking
and drinking beer.
Tho Nebraskan
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Truff le For President
Shouted From Rooftops
I UKC'THIS COURSE ITS SO PRACTICAL'
scheduled, off-campus house parties in the past.
It is common knowledge that the Mallard Club
dance will be attended by University students.
It has also been commonly known for some
time that many organized groups have been
holding many illegal, off-campus parties.
But the fact that the University has tacitly
recognized this situation in their statement does
not mean that it will go out looking for violators.
Instead, and almost more important, the ad
ministrative stand means that any violators
which are reported, any complaints that are re
ceived, any evidence which turns up concern
ing either individual or group infringements-
will be disposed of severely, possible in ex
pulsion for individuals and suspension for or
ganized groups.
Last Spring one fraternity house came with
in a hair breadth's of losing its charter. And it
is not unlikely, if such incriminating evidence
were again to come to the attention of the ad
ministration, for them to prosecute the guilty
parties to the fullest.
The message of last week was intended as
fair warning to the University community.
As such, it should be taken seriously by all
students and organized houses on the campus.
B. B.
I ask 'all my readers to take the
following campaign poster and tack
it '.o the front door of their home
town city hall. Thank you Amos,
Persimone and Mother.
A vote for H. Sam Truffle is a
vote for peace!!
Truffle kept us out of the war
in Madagascar. He kept the in
famous Keyosa Fishing Gorunds
incident from developing into full
scale ar.
He has always been the Senate s
strongest advocate of peace and
once said. "I am a man of peace
and will go to war for it if nec
essary." A vote for H. Sam Truffle is a
vote for honesty!!
Honest Sam Truffle deals his
cards from the top of the deck.
He has consistently been the Sen
ate's strongest advocate of honesty
and once said, "I will play no
favorites, except when they are
good paying friends, and I will not
be bribed with trifles."
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Of life
f People
By HENRY J. KAISER
President, Kaiser Motor Co.
Once in a discussion with
number of my associates, a ques
tion arose that caused me to ex
press an idea that had run through
our activities for many years.
I asked them to stop and think
. . . "What would you say is the
real business we've always been
in?" Each one of us in that par
ticular gathering liked to think of
himself as a builder.
"We are in the business of build
ing material things,rt I said to my
teammates. "And yet our real bus
iness is more significant than that;
fundamentally we are in the bus
iness of building people."
Let's look out upon the wide
horizon of this thought about build
ing people. Do you agree that free
men everywhere must forever be
concerned with stimulating the
complete development of the individual?
The priceless worth of the in
dividual is at the heart of freedom,
and our way of life, as opposed
to systems that subjugate the in
dividual to a dictator or an all
powerful state. An essence of free
dom is the striving to create more
perfect equality of opportunity.
Does our free society, however.
even begin to do all it could to
awaken the creative, dynamic pos
sibilities of individuals?
The reason I answer "decidely
no is because I believe that the
best within an individual is in
finitely great . . . far, far greater
than he is likely even to begin to
use.
In ry own experiences I have
made many discoveries of undreamed-of
capacities in people
the capacities of courage, imagi
nation, love, Work and achieve
ment. Nevertheless, all too many people
self-impose limits upon the at
tainments. They place ceilings that
are too low on themselves. Thej
settle for life too cheaply, when
they could afford the life abun
dant They drift along on lower
Biography
Today's Challenge was given
ta the Nebraskan by Henry J.
Kaiser, president of the H. J.
Kaiser Motor company and co
founder of Kaiser-Fraser Motor
Company. He is president of nu
merous industrial corporations,
Including Kaiser Steel, Kaiser
Metal Products and Kaiser
Aluminum and Chemical. He
has also served on various
boards and committees dedi
cated to aid to foreign nations.
planes of activity, when they could
be tapping hidden funds of energy
and accomplishment.
Knowing that locked up in your
inner being there is a veritable
powerhouse, how do you throw on
the switch to release vast, untap
ped power?
Foremost the evidence is over
whelming that you cannot begin
to achieve your best unless you
set some aim in life. Many an
otherwise promising person doesnt
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Columnist's Note
The destruction, by fire, of my
fabulous mansion, and the ensue
ing loss of many priceless objects
d'art has left me slightly un
nerved this week.
Peering at my visage in the mir
row this morning, I noticed sev
eral lines crossing the bridge of
my thin, sensitive nose, a sure
sign that my cares have been
weighing too heavily upon me.
(Some of my detractors insist
that these lines are not so much
the result of mental anguish as they
are marks made by constant pres
sure from the rim of a glass. Such
people are quite mad, and no at
tention should be paid their re
marks. In fact, if I had my way, I
Jess Jestin'
know a few old Berber tortures
that would set them straight soon
enough.)
My condition has been so ser
ious that my friends have advised
me to retire to the fastness of a
mountain retreat, in the hope that
prayer and meditation might hast
en my recovery. However, my
sense of duty to the public, not to
mention the incredible dearth of
Scotch whiskey in most mountain
retreats, has led me to remain
here and continue my pot-boiling.
Recent observations of Our Uni
versity Community seem to indi
cate that warmer weather has
lessened the zeal of the campus
crusaders. Or perhaps I have
merely lost sight of them in the
crowds of beer-bent students.
At any rate, I have not heard
much from the saints this week.
And it was this pleasing develop
ment that caused me to turn from
the usually sizzling news columns
of the Nebraskan and read some
of the advertisements, thereby hit
ting upon two items deserving of
comment.
The first of these was an an
nouncement that space is now
available in Selleck Quadrangle.
Well, gentlemen, as I wrote in
Areopagitica, (a privately pub
lished book of verse I wrote when
I was three.) "The truth will out."
And I think someone let something
slip here.
Yes the well-concealed truth is
out in the open: there actually are
people who prefer living in an in
quitous fraternity house, or even
in an evil old apartment, to resid
ing in clean, spacious, and riry
halls for men. I predict that there
will be a shake-up over this.
The other advertisement which
caught my eye was one which
caused a singular upheaval of my
emotions, accompanied by sweaty
palms and a strong desire to hide
my eyes. It was from a local cloth
ing store and concerned t&e Ital
ian look.
If these people can be trusted,
that pretty little girl you winked
at this morning will soon be at
tired in slim tapered knit pants
and a merry knit shirt which
matches them to a tee.
And as if that news wasn't
enough to send me scurrying off to
the hinter-lands, the blurb went on
to list some of the dazzling new
colors. Now I might be able to
gaze upon pants in Mediterranean
blue and sunshine yellow, but God
preserve me from magnifico pink.
I'm getting better every day, but
I'll never be that strong.
hllenp
Witch Hunts
To the Editor:
Just a line to say that it was
a pleasure to meet you and the
other members of your staff last
week. It was nice of you to let
me say few words at your Press
Cluo luncheon. Mrs. Noyes and I
enjoyed the occasion very much.
You may have noticed that Pro
fessor Pauling has been invited to
lecture for a month at the Uni
versity of Illinois. The president
has been called on to defend this
invitation on the basis that Pauling
was once denied a passport.
We should certainly do all we
can to prevent witch hunts and to
show the world that this nation
really has some self-confidence.
Dr. W. A. Noyes
know where he wants to go in life.
That itself can be either a dilem
ma or a magnificent source of op
portunity for you. You can take
whatever jobs comes along, or you
can choose a work that calls forth
voil abilities and keeps you for
ever growing.
A victorious attitude toward
life, bora out of the confidence of
knowing yourself and what you
want to do, can subdue those dis
turbing inner conflicts and feelings
of inferiority that are felt at some
time by everybody. The qualities
of teamwork and leadership can
be put to account.
I can only leave this question to
you; you alone are the judge
Is R worth the price to seek to
achieve the best that is within
you? You can help create the kind
of environment that stimulates
others around you to find a mean
ing and fulfillment to their indi
vidual lives.
May we never lose our spirit
of dynamic onwardness! We can
look forward to the need, more
thin ever before, for trained and
educated men and women. The
enormity of the coming task spells
tremendous opportunity for men
an women of vision" and purpose,
who will arise to achieve the best
within themselves.
.'. vote for n. Sam Truffle is a
vote for the little man!!
Many great personages have
called Truffle, "a very little man."
Truffle pledges, "I am a man of
the little men and will aid the
farmer and the butcher, the baker
and the candlestick maker" Truf.
fie stands four feet seven in his
bare feet he does not wear shoes.
A vote for H. Sam Truffle is a
vote for equal rights!!
Truffle is truly a man of equality
The Mirage
and once said, "I strongly support
segregation and desegregatin and
believe in equal rights for women
and good coon dogs."
Vote for Truffle several times!!
Even his political enemies love
him the leader of the opposition
once said of Truffle, "Truffle is
a dog." He shaves and washes his
face thoroughly before kissing
babies. Vote, vote, and vote again
for Truffle!!!
Truffle speaks on various and
assorted subjects:
I, H. Sam truffle, pledge
effect,
1. to play the piano for effect,
2. not to shave my mustache,
3. to put a measure of caviar
in every pot,
4. to keep America green,
5. to put out all camp fires,
6 to keep them flying,
7. to keep the home fires burn
ing, 8. to not sit under the apple
tree with anyone else but you,
9. to put gum in wrapper before
discarding,
10. to close cover before striking,
11. to never draw to an inside
straight.
12. to know all men by this seal
and
13 to live happily ever after.
Jcin the "Truffle for President,,
parade of happy, singing souls. Be
an active member of the Draft
Truffle for President Committee.
Sign the pledge and make a huga
contribution to the campaign fund.
Figh Communism, inefficiency
in government, preferential treat
ment, the spoils system, the mon
eyed interests, the hoof and mouth
diseasa and the plague.
Organize your block and com
munity. Send in for multi-colored
pins, hats and T-shirts. Sell them
to your friends for a nice profit.
Sing the Truffle campaign song on
youi local street corner
friends and neighbors;
Vote for Truffle
it's just for you
that Truffle labors.
When they close the saloons,
stagger over to the polls and mark
several ballots for Truffle, Truffle,
Truffle!!!
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H GREEN J
Nature's Unsung
Heroes: The Moose
Of creatures perplexed by misfortunes malign,
And irked by vexations profuse;
Of animals finny, or furry or bare
Of scales or of feathers, of whiskers or hair
(All accustomed to pain and abuse),
There are none, I contend, on the face of the globe
More entitled to weep with grief of Niobe,
Than our sad-favored cousin, the Moose.
The rotund rhinocerous rises and yawns
At the leisurely hour of noon.
In a land where no sign for the morrow is heard.
Unfettered by circumstance, free as a bird.
Where the year is an eternal June;
But the Moose sallies forth in the chill of the morn.
Unloved, unlamented, alone and forlorn,
To graze 'till the rise of the moon.
In appearance the sort that Society shuns,
His hair an unfashionable hue,
Unprepossessing in feature and part,
Unpampered by Nature, neglected by Art,
His external merits are few;
And, having no manners polite to extol,
He lacks all the graces save greatness of soul.
For his heart is both valiant and true.
Then drink to our fearless old friends of the Norm,
Of the land of the hemlock and spruce!
Defying his failings, his foes and his fate,
Unmindful of masters, uncowed by the great, '
Undaunted by Nature's ill-use,
Our bold, insurmountable, modest, unquailing,
Indefatigible, ever-assailing
Indomitable cousin, the Moose!
Del Johsaoa
The Hole
A man dug deep in the ground until he had a hole.
He did not want a hole. He desired a concavity.
Being extremely thrifty and inventive, the man cut tht hole
into small pieces and sold each for hardly anything.
J. Francis Flyna
Noli Me Tangere
A mean look hit me between the eyes and I shot It bsA
with added momentum.
Ho! foolish one, the eye does not thwart me.
Optical arrows can not Pierce my shield of innocence.
Boulders of boldness cannot break loose
the barriers you've built between us.
Lothgar, damned lovable dog, quit licking my hand!
J. Francis Flyna
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