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Nebraskan Editorials:
THE NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, March 20, Iqss
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ticipation and co-operatiw-the Mock Political
Convention ended on a sour note Friday.
, What were seemingly the Democratic Party
enthusiasts got up and walked out during the
final balloting for the presidential candidate. The
reason for this was apparently to prevent the
Republicans from having a quorum, thus result
ing in pandemonium and running around in cir
cles b? GOP stalwarts.
The Republicans, however, somehow succeeded
In gathering the required quorum, and elected
Dwight D. Eisenhower, with Henry Cabot Lodge,
HI, as the vice-presidential candidate.
The Ruling Bypassed
Reports from the Interfraternity Council Exe
cutive Committee indicate that the IFC will by
past the Student Council Judiciary ruling in its
Wednesday elections.
The Judiciary Committee decision, interpreting
that a previously established scholarship stand
ard would apply to IFC, Panhellenic and Student
Union would limit officer candidates in these
organizations to only those with a 5.7 average.
The IFC maintains that it is responsible only to
the Interfraternity Board of Control and, ulti
mately, to the Board of Regents. Thus, it con
tends that it does not have to submit to a Coun
cil ruling.
However, the Judiciary committee maintains
that it has the constitutional right to review the
constitution of "any student organization of gen
eral University interest."
A Sour Ending
Thus, the Democrats, for all their cries of pain
and accusations of injustice, found themselves
looking a bit silly. In spite of what they could
do, the Convention ended with a candidate chos
en, and its purpose fulfilled.
Just how well this purpose was fulfilled, and
the ultirihte goal of the Convention attained, is
a matter of some doubt. The reason for the whole
business, according to its sponsors, was to give
the students experience in the mechanics of a
political party nominating convention and the
politicking that goes on.
The
Campus
Green
The mechanics of the Convention were accom
plished, and well. The committee- in charge
must be commended for the work that was put
into it. Except for occasional rabid outbursts
and the nonsense of nominating unqualified per
sons, the Convention ran as smoothly as could
be expected for an unexperienced group.
Some difficulty arose in the finding of the key
note speakers, and the committee had to settle
for relatively unknown figures, after first setting
their sights on the stars of the political world.
These problems are small, however, and per
haps unavoidable. The important thing is whether
tnose students who took part in the convention
got as much out of it as they should of, or
whether it turned into a erudjie-game. with a few
parties finding themselves unduly wrapped up
in their mock politics and a few more parties
treating the whole business as a gigantic game
ct charades.
Both sides in the dispute have excellent cases,
even thought precedence resides with the IFC.
But the question cannot and will not be solved
by the IFC bypassing the decision or the Student
Affairs Office ignoring it. Under the provision of
the original scholarship standard passed last fall
the Student Affairs Office is pledged to enforce
the ruling, and all student organizations are
obliged to abide by its provisions.
The ultimate disposition of the case, however,
will not be decided by those who ignore the
Judiciary ruling but instead will lie with the
faculty committee to which the case is appealed.
B. B,
The actions of some of delegates show both
these extremes true to a point.
Because of all these factors, the true worth
of the Mock Political Convention can never be
estimated. Nothing was actually proved by the
week's activities, except that another committee
was organized, and eot something done.
The success of the Mock Political Convention
was assured, perhaps, if ah appreciable number
of those students who took part as delegates,
workers or even as spectators went away with a
little clearer knowledge of what makes Dolitics
rumble along its erratic path in the United
States.
Whether many of them will want to go into
politics after this clearer knowledge is another
matter. F. T. D.
An Honor System
The story in today's news columns, explaining
the disposition of student discipline on many
other campuses, points up the suprising accepta
bility with which the principle of a student tri
bunal has been received in a crossection of col
leges and universities.
Letters received by the Student Council com
mittee studying the idea of a tribunal revealed
that four other Big Seven Schools have student
tribunals and many other colleges (including
Virginia, Colorado, Montana, Stanford, Utah,
Michigan, Princeton and Illinois) have similar
systems of student courts.
AH schools indicated in their letters that the
tribunal was not a revolutionary element in stu
dent discipline, but merely an extension of stu
dent responsibility, which had been granted
previously in the case of student councils, student-faculty
committees, etc.
Further, all schools with the tribunal indicated
that 4he experiment had been quite successful.
But the important point emphasized in most of
the letters was that almost every school, where
the tribunal was operative, enforced its student
discipline under some variation of an honor code,
either an established code in writing or an ac
ceoted code in principle.
Such a code, preferably in principle, must be
set before the University student body and com
pletely accepted before a student tribunal can
even be seriously considered at Nebraska.
The reasoning is that, if the University or the
Council is entertaining the idea of a student
court, the court must first of all have jurisdic
tion over a well-defined area of student affairs
and, secondly, have a ciear-cut policy to enforce
Students would have to accept the idea that a
student court would handle all violations (drink
ing, cheating, moral, etc.) And it must accept the
accompanying punishments of such a principl
susoension. nrohatinn and evnulsinn
Without the underlying structure of an bono?
system, in principle, if not in fact, the idea of a
student tribunal can be pushed little further
here at the Univeristy. B. B.
"Years ago a company used o
adi'ertise that "we couldn't- im-
prove the wrapper so we improved
the product."
I say that's jolly, provided the
wrapper really is improved. How
ever, there seems to be little sense
improving the wrapper to the ex
tent that no one can -get at the
product.
Now the wrapper may be
snocx prooi, water proof, germ
proof, dust proof or 96 proof, with
a dash of color thrown in here
and there for novelty, but if you
nave 10 send for a mechanic to
get the thine off. something i
wrong somewhere.
a m
The other dav I walked intn th
union and bought a roll of mint
as I usually do when I'm skipping
my i p.m. class. I started claw
ing .at one end of the m l with mu
fingernail. It was obviously not
uie eno to begin prying at, so I
turned the pack over and began
working on the other.
This end had b-en elnmnwl
down with a lever press usually
reserved for snlicinir REA
tircal wires. I tried biting and
scraping at both ends ( one after
the other, naturally) with mv tth
and gave up just before a filling
aropped out. students in the adjoin
ing booths also becan Wrinir
me unpleasantly.
Now. all that I had wantrf
a clove Lifesaver. If I harf
to dismantle a dynamo or pull out
a laKesnore dock. I would haw
pected a little trouble. But a clove
juvesaver!
I finally saw that the whole thin
was going 10 get the better of me
unless I got down to business. (Vm
not one to shirk an unpleasant
tasK, unless it be getting an as
signment in on time.)
m mm mi.
I tossed the roll into th
fountain, intend inz to soften tin
.... 7 -
uie wrapper, mis wasn't nlnvinw
cricket with the hygiene men, but,
as tne inspector in "Dial M For
Murder" said, "My blood was up!"
It bobbed UP. Still as hprmAKnl-
ly sealed as an oil drum. I craft A
the pack over mv knee a tim
or two and slashed it against the
wooaworx.
;
Finally, the blood rushpd tn mv
head, I dashed the whole works
to the sidewalk. It broke into rpv.
eral pieces, but the ends still held
together, as intact and tichtlv
clamped together as they were
wnen tne masons finished with
them at the foundry.
.
These past few wn1c T
been carrying a small tool kit
about with me, complete with pli
ers, screw driver and cortrsrrpw
This is much easier than trying
to make it to my one o'clock.
By PABLO PICANO
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Columnist Takes Note
Of University Events
Since, regrettably, there Is a
free press around this country,
and the citizenry is subject to
misleading news stories, boring
editorials, and insulting col
umns, I frequently have to
take sot of the events of the
day as recorded in the tab
loids. From this source, as well
at from cry constant research
es, X get material far my in
tuiting column.
J im barely able to get a
copy of last Tuesday's Ne
braskan ia order to study it
carefully, since it was 'the
issue with Heckle's column "
and wis distributed only from
the rest rooms, and most cop
lea were ""accidentiy" con
sumed in a huge pyre.
Nonetheless I noticed in it
that the University is present-
tog 'Jeanne d'Arc Au Bucher"
by Eormeger (the paper wasn't
sura just exactly how that
same was spelled, so they tried
."HlBBIfir," "Eenegar
t Cennegar," "Monegar." One
- Cing he 2Utg advocates is va
. riety) this Kay,
This is one of the few decent
fh!ns done around here, and,
; 12 it proves to be as fine as
fc Eig David" presentation
two years ago, it will almost
make going to school ' worth
while.
I also noticed in the same
issue of the Rag that one of
the leading candidates for Joan
of Arc was already rehearsing
her part.
Another one of the worth
while things around here has
My Bootless Cries
been the annual art exhibit,
which as usual proved to be
a rewarding experience. It is'
a shame though, to have to
hang these paintings in the
rib cage of Stegosaurus, so to
speak.
'
The art department - here
has been of the stature to de
serve a' gallery of its own,
instead of being relegated to
the upper floors of the mu
seum. However, the Powers-that-Be
will have a better chance
to ponder over this neglect
and that of the continual de
lay in building the Music
Building once they are able
to move into their nice new
Administration Biulding.
The recent mock political
convention was even more
disturbing to my common
sense than the hordes of
readers that besiege me with
questions about what I "real
ly meant" in my last column.
About the latter I can at least
console myself knowing that
they were probably set upon
me by my many enemies.
But this political convention
became absurd and disturbing
in no time at all. It's all right
if students want to follow na
tional politics and solve the
world's problems, and it's all
right if they want to play poli
tician and berate each other,
but it's not all right to mix the
two together.
I thought one Boss White
bucks was actually going to
cry over the defeat of the Dem
ocrats in the "mock" conven
tion. Next time I suggest that
they nominate only students or
else mythical people like Peter
Rabbit, or somebody. As it was
this vear. it Kountfori in m lit.
the Mickey Mouse Club run-
rung United Nations.
I'm also led to understand
that the Student Council and
IFC are trying to disprove
each other's existence or some
thing. I hardly think comment
on this is necessary.
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For The First
Generation Of
The Cobalt Age
Mildly wearily the chant
of the jukebox blares.
In the worship of our want
we have lost our cares.
Whispered sounds of terror pass
Deafened hopes and fears,
Shattering a whiskey glass
empty thirty years.
We are gentle, we are kind,
We are sadly wise.
How we wish that God would
blind
our unfocused eyes!
G. Tbomas Fatrclouga
Prayer To Three
Saints
For Genesius the Comedian
there was a stage and a mask,
and buffoonery stripping the soul
caked
before an unmasked God.
For Simeon
There was a boiling blue dessert
sky
and a minute octagonal world of
sinlessness
covered with his own excrement.
For Lady Julian
there vas a cell byond the wall,
without incense,
without images;
only a round pellet in the band.
"What may this be?" And the
answer: "It is all that is made
Saints,
forgive us
and pray God that He forgive us
for all our adoration.
Turn our faces
toward the divine emptiness
which was your life.
G. Thomas FaircJougb
Spring Rain
Gruff clouds
Shake their dog-ears.
From their coats grain-drops
spring
And bound into April's fresh wel
come mat.
Glenna Berry
First Snowfall
Brave leaves
With rustling swords
Slash the young invaders.
Crystal blood spills on grey ce
ment. And melts.
-Glenna Berry
Nebraska n Letterip
Convention A Fiasco
To the Editor:
The Mock Political Convention
was a fiasco. But let us consider
the reasons for this failure. I
blame the radicalism of a :ew
persons, and the lack of indivi
dualism on the oart of the sup
porters of these few radicals .
I ask VOU. is it in Irppnintr with
the American way to allow one's
vote to be cast a certain wav be
cause of group pressures?
Should a citizen become a mere
pawn, to be moved about at the
discretion of the individuals who
want to be "big wheels"? My an
swer to these questions is "NO."
I am firm Democrat. I will cast
my vote for Kefauver next Novem
ber. But I am thoroughly dis
gusted with the manner in which
the Democrtic delegations conduc
ted themselves at the convention. I
feel that the only persons actually
showing any signs of civility at the
convention were the Republican
factors.
I was especially impressed with
the fine showing given by the dele,
gations representing the states of:
Arizona, Vermont, Idaho, New
York, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Ore.
gon, Massachusetts and New York
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