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THE NEBRASKAN
Friday, April 6, 1956
Nebraskan Editorials:
Little man on campus
by Dick Bibler
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Two questions that could be very important
la the University in succeeding years will be
Jut to a vote of the student body May 7 one
asking student opinion of the instigation of the
honor system at the University, and the other
asking opinion of the establishment of a Student
Tribunal.
- The Student Council has already approved the
tribunal in principle. However, since there,
rould be no sense in having an honor system or
a .tribunal unless the student body wants them,
these plans would not be formulated unless the
student body voices its approval in the election.
A special Council committee has spent a good
New Opportunity
An opportunity for University students to hear
one of the foremost men in the field of sociology
wCl be presented next week through the new
series of lectures on the humanities.
Dr. David Riesman, Jr, lawyer, author and
socialist, is being brought to the campus by the
University Research Council to initiate a new
series, University Lectures in Humanities.
Ia the words of the Council, the purpose of
this new series is to bring to the campus recog
nized scholars who will, from the background of
their own specialties, explore and interpret the
implications of their knowledge for man and his
place in tbt universe.
Although Dr. Riesman's field is primarily so
ciology, he should have something interesting
for every student on the University campus if
they will take the trouble to attend the lectures.
Students and faculty alike can benefit from
the experiences of this man who has engaged in
research at many of the leading colleges and
universities throughout the country.
This new series is another attempt by the
University to bring to the campus opportunities
for students to broaden their education outside
the regular academic fields. Through the lec
tures and seminars Dr. Riesman will present,
much can be gained that will not be found in
class texts.
The University Research Council should be
commended for originating another series in
addition to the Montgomery Lectures.
The opportunity is here. The success of the
series depends upon the students. BS.
deal of time investigating the possibilities of
these two programs. The committee recom
mended that the honor system and tribunal be
approved by the Council.
They also urged that next year's Council for
mulate these programs, if a vote by the students
shows general approval.
Because of this recommendation by the com
mittee, University students will decide the fate
of two ideas which are presently no more than
suggestions
The general idea of an honor system includes
a lessening of faculty supervision in exams, sup
ported by a promise from the students not to re
ceive outside help from any source. This system
is now used in schools such as Tulane, the Uni
versity of Virginia and Stanford.
A Student Tribunal would enforce University
regulations and enforce an honor system, if
such was included. Schools having tribunals in
clude Iowa State, Kansas State, St. Olaf and
Stanford.
Further Nebraskan editorials in the next weeks
will explain different facets of a student tribunal,
and what it might consist of. The honor system,
its purposes and its functions will also be ex
plained. In these editorials The Nebraskan will
endeavor to give the students a clear idea of the
questions on which they will be voting.
Whether or not an honor system or a tribunal
would be positive improvements at the Univer
sity cannot be known until they are tried. They
should not be tried unless a majority of the
student body approves of the ideas, and believes
the Council should go ahead with their plans.
The responsibility of deciding these issues has
been put straight into the hands of the students.
The Council was wise in doing this, as a student
tribunal and an honor system would affect
each and every student. They are of such im
port that they cannot be left solely in the hands
of the student representatives.
This is one of the few chances the student
body has to decide on issues affecting them so
directly. It is the duty of every student to take
notice of the importance of the election, and to
do his best to make a wise decision.
Take notice of these issues, students of the
University of Nebraska! They have passed from
the realm of the activity world into your
bands. F.T.D.
Combined Student Effort
The Unkm has announced its plans for the
evening Spring Day activities. A carnival, out
door movies, three one-hour performances of
variety acts and a street dance are a "shot in
the arm" to the Spring Day plans.
These evening events come in addition to the
barbecue and afternoon novelty track events an
nounced earlier. . '
The JJ Club's organization of afternoon fun
has been carefully arranged. Organized houses
are selecting teams to compete in such sundry
events as toig-of-war, football throw and greased
pig catch.
The Ag Exec Board deserves praise for its
work to arrange the barbecue. It has the finan
cial backing of the administration as well as the
Students.
The Student Council, Union, X Club and Ag
Exec Board have worked out a holiday that is
geared to suit the entire' student body. The
results of their work is an example of what can
be ' accomplished by the combined efforts of
studrat groups.
The goal of the Student Council's Spring Day
committee to establish a campus tradition that
every student can enjoy, will owe its success to
the joint efforts of the groups.
The Union has sacrificed their annual birth
day party and has given the Student Council
their full cooperation in achieving the Council's
goaL By arranging for the extra events they
have pursued their job of filling student's needs.
The N Club has broadened its scope by work
ing on Spring Day. Their participation is an
indication of the interest the students as a whole
are taking in the new campus holiday.
The Ag Exec Board by transfering its energies
to the city campus has shown a spirit of unity
of both city and Ag campuses working for the
good of the University.
The organizations deserve praise for their
spirit of willing cooperation. The Ag Exec
Board, the N Club, Union and the Student Coun
cil have worked together with a Busker spirit
of cooperation, each doing its utmost to make
things a little nicer for University students.
Let's hope the students too cooperate to make
Spring Day as successful as the plans indi
cate AH.
Council Prestige At Stake
The ultimate decision regarding the lines of
authority of Student Council, Interfraternity
Council, FsnbeQemc and Student Unkm is still
pending.
Meaowbik, the Residence EaEs for Men hsva
submitted a request to the Council, asking that
RAM Council be exempt from the S.7 scholar
ship standard passed early last fall. The request
was referred to the Judiciary Committee to de
termine if the Council bad authority over RAM
to impose the scholarship ruling.
Tfees actions place Council prestige in a
precarious position.
first of aS, fee Council has passed a ruling
which was originally designed to apply to all
ftodezg activities of general University interest.
Kow they find that three large campus or
famza&ons ETC, Panbeflenkt and Student
Umoo consider themselves immune because of
pedal Regent provisions; two others The ?
ferasksa and the Cornbusker are apparently
exempt because they are answerable to a fac
ility committee, toe Board of Student Publica
tions and another groupOx RAM Council is
trying to slip from beneath Council authority.
Ia other words, the Council has in theory
passed sa all-activity regulation affecting
scholarship, but In effect a ruling which, as of
bow, earn be applied to only two-thirds of those
etudes?! fa extra-curricular activities.
And which can be watered down further as
e&ssr organizations try to remove themselves
from tli clause "of general University interest"
ad Cooscil jurisdiction.
Thus, w5A the difficulty in enforcing this
regulation, why should the Council ever again
wish to pan or why would it be fair to pass
ither aH-esmpus ruling when it can never
Securely bt applied to all student activities?
AM fcltowtag this line of reasoning to its
logical conclusion, what use is there for a Stu
dent Council which is not "the supreme campus
governing body" and which cannot pass legisla
tion affecting all campus activities.
Whether or not the original decision of the
Judiciary Committee will be upheld or rejected,
the final disposition of the ruling is one which
is important for the prestige of the Council and
student government at the University of Ne
braska. It cannot be delayed much longer. B.B.
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Afterthoughts !
Not Appreciated
The campus police known for their vigilance
and scrutiny sometimes aren't appreciated for
the long hours they put in inspecting the park
ing lots of organized bouses.
One night recently two gendarmes put in a
minute examination of a sorority parking area
and flashed their lights across the windows.
They were greeted with a torrent of unlady
like exclamations from a coed their flashlights
bad rudely awakened.
Escapist
Spring is maiMfesied on a college campus in
many ways. Coeds blossom into tropical foliage,
convertible tops go down and balmy breezes
drive industrious students out on the highways
and byways of the campus to study under the
blue sky.
Perhaps the most relaxed of these is one
character who has been seen serenely reading
out on the third-floor fire escape of a fraternity
bouse. It makes him feel aloof from worldly
cares, he says.
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Independent SG
J Slate Explained
Well, students, here is your Sil
int Majority back after these many
weeks. The style is the same
Vaii ttio mimnse is the same
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to represent the independent stu
dent in The Nebraskan.
The big news in the independent
world this week was the announce
ment of the second annual all-Independent
slate of candidates for
Student Counca college represents
tives.
Selected bv the four largest to
dependent organizations on cam
pus, the slate represents the best
qualified Independent students who
are willing to run tor uwncu seaw.
Omm mainr chansre was made in
the selection process this year. In
stead of presenting a person ior
every office, the slate has only
the absolutely best candidates. Last
The Challenge
VJlllGiniilflil Of S ilfQE'QSf
In Poefpy "Af wts" Seen
By WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
American Aataor and Physician
The poem as encountered in our
university teaching does not oc
cupy an important place compared
with the sciences. In fact it is quite
lost in the welter of technical sci
entific subjects.
That is an advantage to the stu
dent of the arts because when an
important branch of learning is
neglected the changes that are tak
ing place there may be said to find
their greatest freedom to develop.
When the vulgar eye looks askance
at them you may be sure that the
life within them is quickening,
making ready for the spring.
We hear very little of Greek and
Latin to say nothing of Hebrew and
Sanscrit which the faculty of Yale,
for instance, used to teach. I cer
tainly am not advocating a return
to those practices.
They pointed to a difference in
the interest of the world at large,
whose withdrawal has left us with
qualitative starvation, that has left
us with a generation of cripples.
If you lop off a whole segment
of the knowledge of what goes on
in the more sensitive reaches of a
man's or a woman's aesthetic re
actions to Lie you will produce
frustrated individuals who for their
satisfactions will resort to noth
ing in the end but war.
Let us grant, from historical
precident, that the poem is an im
portant topic for a man's interest-
that is, quite apart from the ful
fillment bis hungers after fulfill
ment of yearnings, his thirst to
know what other men, and women!
of the past have given their lives
for.
Granted again that for the full
est appreciation of the poem a
Today's Challenge was writtea
especially for The Nebraskaa's
eolnina by William Carlos. Wil
liams, noted Americas author,
poet and physician. He is a mem
ber of the National Institate of
Arts aad Letters and the Bergea
Co. (XJ.) Medical Assa. He re
ceived the Dial prize of S2000 for
services to Americas literature
fa 1 2 S, the National Book
Award for Poetry tn IMS and the
Boliingea Prize ia Poetry ia 1953.
knowledge of at least two or three
foreign languages is important.
There is awakening, painfully
for the most part, at least a cur
iosity about what these "nuts" the
poets are up to.
If this goes on we may in the end
have a revival of the art which will
be a good thing, because some
thing you have to accord to the
vulgar, when you have succeeded
penetrating their thick skulls they
frequently show a sovereign vir
tue known as common sense.
In America we speak a jargon,
an idiom, unknown to our mas
ters, I speak of our -school-teach-
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Hangover
The sun rises early and hot
on a coated tongue.
My bead is large and heavy,
and is not a part of me
With luck I shall be dead by noon.
Leroy
Ballerina-
No woman at all could ever love you.
No woman
who speaks,
and plods,
and keeps ber skirt down.
Women live on and on outside men's dreams.
You whirl luminous
from darkness
into men's eyes.
never at all into their arms,
never, never into their kitchens.
But, we know you
we of the daylight,
of swift words,
and slow feet
We know
And we fear you.
Charlotte Bull
Definition for a Small Child
To be afraid
is to talk too loud
and laugh too long
and shiver when you bear a song.
Charlotte Ball
Tomorrow
When Coring is no more.
And am apple's a core,
When a life is no more ,
And tears are shed for
When youth is no more
And the rich glow is poor
When love is no more
. And hearts are at war
Then gather together, consider the weather
And think what tomorrow will bring.
Black Coffee
Black coffee I drink when I'm lonesome,
Black coffee I drink when I swgy.
And a curse on the man who pollutes it
Tomorrow at dawn then?
Toucha,
Metloda Ray
Wellnda Ray
ers. The difference between it and
the language spoken in our class
room is subtle.
It arises deep in the tissues of
the race and is characterized for
the most part by a metrical qual
ity which our popular jazz ap
proaches but does not typify jazz
is of African native origin but at
least breaks from the horror of
our "Victorian" acceptances.
It breaks the stasis, at least
that, but we are for the most part
not negroes, certainly not primi
tives and even those of us who are
negroes can not be satisfied for
long with such a "speech."
In making our new verses the
measure of our lives, what has
taken place in our thinking has to
be taken into consideration. We
are not living in a geocentric uni
verse any longer! but in one where
a relativististic yard-stick is the
rule.
Briefly with the poem it is no
different. The accepted poetic foot,
fixed and conventionally measur
able no longer is to be accepted,
though for practical reasons it is
still taught.
A variable foot has now begun
to be considered, one with a mul
tiple number of syllables to the
measure. The measure remains as
always fixed, "free verse" is a
misnomer, there can be no "free"
verse but only a new way of mea
suring it. Thus you have a glance
at what is going on in the art of
the poem.
year a person was endorsed for
each position to be filled. In sev
eral cases reluctant persons wera
asked to run in order to complete,
the slate.
Not so this year. Every man and
woman on the other side of this
page . was picked because he or
she was considered the best-fitted
for the position. For positions that
no one was qualified, the inter,
viewing board selected no candi
date. The selection of a group of
qualified candidates is only the
first part of a program to improva
the value of the Student Council,
The avowed purpose of the four
organizations, Barb Activities
Board for Women, Residence Halls
The Silent Majority
for Women House Council, Inter
Co-operative Council and the Resi
dence Association for Men is to
improve the value of the Student
Council through a threefold plan:
1. To set up an interviewing
board to select the best Independ
ent candidates. The four, groups
will then officially support these
candidates through a mass pub
licity program.
2. To make available to all stu
dents, independent and affiliated
alike, more polling places with suf
ficient capacity to allow a size
able number of votes to be cast
without long waiting lines. (Last
year about one out of four students
voted and many of these had to
wait in line. The first requisite
to more voting is adequate polling
places.)
3. To encourage the independent
student to vote. The groups hop
that points 1. and 2. will be effec
tive in making this third point
successful. The reasons for a lack
of independent voting in the past
have been: inadequate polling
places, few independent candi
dates, no clearinghouse to unify
the independent vote and plain old
apathy.
The first three of these reasons
have been abolished already with
the selection of the slate and the
cooperative attitude of the Student
Council elections committee in the
planning of better polling facilities.
'"Tie problem of apathy is mors
difficult. The answer lies in a
super-publicity campaign. Public
ity means money and student or
ganizations are traditionally broke.
However, a letter is planned, which
will go to all independent students,
containing the qualifications of tba
candidates on the slate, a list ot
polling places, hours and so forth.
The four organizations art co
operating well and from all indica
tions the plan will be carried out
successfully. The final result still
lies in the hands of the independent
student on election day, May 7.
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To the Editor:
Be careful, Fred Daly, that you
do not break your arm patting
yourself and your colleagues on
the back!
Your editorial entitled "Freedom
of Campus Press Vital for Free
Expression" describes interference
with the editorial policies of the
campus newspapers at Florida
State University, University of
Texas and the University at Gear
gia. Then after a deep breath and
(I hope) a somewhat uneasy con
science you state, "The University
of Nebraska is fortunate no such
situation exists here."
The three cases that you men
tioned involved highly controver
sial questions such as criticism of
a college president, a governor
and the natural gas biSL to addition
to supporting moderation in racial
integration and support of Sena
tor George in opposition to Gover
nor Talmage.
At no time has The Nebraska
involved itself in these controver
sial questions or others of aa
equally controversial nature.
I ask two questions of the staff
of The Nebraskan:
1. What would happen if you
were to strongly criticize the poli
cies of Governor Anderson, Chan
cellor Hardin and the University
Board of Regents in terms which
would either state or imply that
it is time for a change of Ad
ministration? 2. What would be the results
of The Nebraskaa's taking sides in
the present political campaign,
particularly if the policy clearly
showed that the goal of such a
campaign was a change of admini
stration? If you can honestly answer these
two questions with the simple an
swer, "Nothing." then and only
then do you have the right to
say "The students and the faculty
of this University should be thank
ful that its press is free even if
they don't always agree with it
I demand that you prove your
self a free press before you hand
out self-congratulations. If you
cannot so prove yourself then shut
tip and continue to pen your in
consequential editorials about the
IPC, the Student Council, drinking,
panty raids and exams.
Ze-oneth D. Iindqiust
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