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1 !"" l irnr k. r-a wt i nc IN D KAj IS. AiN Wednesday, September 19, 1955 Nebraska.! Editorials: Those Fit Jo Rule The scheduled meeting of the Student Council this afternoon marks the beginning of the year's campus politics. What will happen during the current semester is something of a mystery. No one knows much about the people who will compose the organiza lon other than they all have pleasant smiles or are active in an organization that has repre sentation on the Council. The Council's controversial president in an interview published Tuesday stated rather gen erally that the Council would seek ". . . an effective voice in all that affects our general welfare and the future and integrity of the University of Nebraska." This might mean that the Council would be come an effective voice of student opinion, some thing it has not been in the last five years. The Council has usually been neither representative or vociferous in relation to the cause of the student. As long as the Council is composed of activity people and IFC delegates, it is quite unforsee able that it will render an effective, not to men tion a unified, voice. The Council's president should remember also that he is only the elected chairman of the group. He is unable to wield or command the representatives according to his personal de sires, unless they acquiesce. The Student Council, has done and will do in the future, only those things which are consid ered to be politically expedient. Until members are selected on individual merit and not on their various affiliations, it is rather doubtful that the University will have a student governing organi zation that is genuinely interested in the welfare of the University. Council members too often consider their re sponsibility to the group that selected them or to their fraternity. The welfare of the Univer sity is a term that is far too nebulous and un approachable for the average Council member. Plato once said that the only persons fit to rule are those persons who do not desire to rule. It would seem, if past experience is any judge, that members of the Student Council are anxious to be a part of the ruling class for their own personal benefit and the benefit of the group that selected them. If there is time and if it is convenient, the "future and the integrity of the University" might be served. Of Enthusiasm Of the more than 8000 students enrolling this year there are probably many varied reactions to returning to school. Some will be happy, some sorry, some indif ferent and others in varying degrees of either or all of these. As the school year opens, there is at least one idea that will be common to all just what the school year holds in store for us and how we will cope with the confrontal of many different situations. Naturally, there can not be one universal treatment or diagnosis that will adapt itself to each of us and enable us to meet the outcome of events of the coming year, whether they be favorable or nonfavorable. But there is one frame of mind that comes closest to being a cure-all, regardless of how individual feelings may be biased at the present. This elusive element has many synonyms, but is most commonly refered to by the obscure term of enthusiasm. For those who are returning somewhat en thused and full of determination to do good, re gardless of endeavor, added enthusiasm will them serve as additional strength to bolster when accosted with adverse situations. For those who are returning unhappy, enthusi asm will lift them to the level where they will be more receptive to progress, take more in terest and possibly help others. For those who are indifferent and don't seem to care superficially which way things may go, enthusiasm will give them the added support to experiment on a trial basis and find the lack ing self-confidence. Of course this panacea called enthusiasm must be used with planned moderation or pur pose and cause will be distorted through a lack of reasoning or understanding. Irregardless of the outcome of too much zeal, such situations would be better than the com mon condition of apathy and complacency. It is at this time, the beginning of the school year that goals and attitudes must be set up These personal policies must be formed through the bias of a positive approach, with full realiza tion of responsibilities and capabilities, and atti tudes resulting in self-satisfaction. Contradiction There is a curious, yet unfortunate, contradic tion on this campus. At almost any bull session one of the complaints is the high cost of enter tainment in Lincoln, along with the fact that "for anything really good, you have to go to Omaha." The complaint crops up continually; but it just isn't true. The University offers many types of enter tainment; parties, amateur productions, con certs, many cimiliar programs. Attendance at most of them is relatively small. "We want something really 'good' " they insist." Yet, when the Union attempts to bring talent to this campus which is recognized as outstand ing, response is so slight, that it hardly makes the whole thing worth while. Without support from the campus, the Union could lose thousands of dollars by bringing to the University some of the best in professional entertainment It has happened in the past. What makes this situation all the more incomprehen sible is the fact that these same students who show a monumental disinterest in these Union jcbows, spend many times the same amount of Voice Of The Turtle: money to see the same entertainers when they appear somewhere else. t anuuanty creeds contempt, the maxim goes, and that would seem to be the case here. Afterthoughts Leap Year? Some 2000 persons watched the wedding of Cecil and Cecelia, the camels, at the Crandon Park Zoo in Miami Friday. A robed sheik con cluded the Arabic ceremony, said to be an anci ent rite performed by the desert Bedouin tribe in mating their camels, with a shout: "Cecil, kiss your bride!" To the surprise of handlers, Cecil, who resembles a mothcbewed rug with lumps, responded. He and his auburn-haired bride, imported with $1,700 donated by thous ands of children and pet lovers, smooched shamelessly. Meanwhile, back at the oasis. Turtle Observes Passing Scene I" - Ol'n Sometimes, when they read this column, people look around quizziaHy and ask, "Who, pray, is The Turtle?" That is only logical, since it is not often that turtles have anything to say, especial ly in print. If ihey do, they keep it pretty much to them selves. When this column first came out last year under the proud legend The Voice of the Tur tlean English major lauded this writer for his intellectual awareness in naming his col umn after some vague thing c alled The Song of Solomon, wherein is found the line, "And the voice of the turtle was heard throughout the land . . ." This pertained to a turtle dove, not the aquatic type. This faille dove had some thing io do with spreading the word about something or ether, and had nothing at ail to do with the aheli-backed variety. Being a bird, he most Lkely didnt even know that real turtles exist, and d he did hi didn't care. Tiat writer, however, could est lay claim to any such knowledge at the Song of Solo mon, whatever that is, since he lifted his title from a Broadway play r-f five or ten years ago, also called The Voice of the Turtle. It just sounded sort of mystic, or something. So here we are. This is the Voice of the Turtle. It is not beard throughout this land or any other. Who would listen? Actually, the turtle does have some significance. Tur tles have always been a sub ject of admiration from this writer. They always looked so damned smug, sitting there peering out of their form-fitting prefabs, eating grubs and let tuce, and looking older than old Solomon. They are a lot like people you meet around this or any other campus, always going like crazy from one place to another, but never actually getting there. If they got there they probably wouldn't have anything to do except turn around and come back again. They sit there all complac ent, surrounded by themselves, not really knowing what goes on in the World Around Them. That is another trait their human count e r p a r t s seem pretty adept at. They are in a shell, be it intellectual, social, alcoholic or what have you. Sometimes tbey poke then heads out, but the bright sun frightens them, and they duck back inside. If you bother them they just draw deeper inside and grunt disapproval. Sometimes, however, they get moving, like I said, only pretty slowly. Once tbey start tbey won't stop for anything. Sometimes that is good. So. we give you the Voice of the Turtle. It is a small voice, at best, heard faintly from in side his shell. The turtle will comment on a number of things, some serious, but not very. Most of the time it will be what this particular Turtle sees looking out at the crazy people rushing around outside, each with his particular shell and his own particular probl ems and his own particular happy thoughts. It is pretty amusing, all in all, because the Turtle sees in others somewhat of a reflec tion of himself and his fellow turtles. We're all in this together, you know, and turtles are the craziest people. The fMebra$kan TTfTT-nVE TEARS OLD Xxmbtr: Associated CeQegiate Press IsiercUeg!ste Press SiSveseMaOvt: Kaftmal Advertising Service, Incorporated F&Z&eo' st: Jtom 29, Btu&est Union lttaft B University ef Nebraska Liacols, Nebraska J t " .,; ,s Ma. sa tmrmf vmtmtkmm 7 IL -" )Mt tm pbitkf4 ur ' n h t nitr-mry f -nnk mm-r t.st aA-wox'toa -f ba Cwmm Attauitf wa sn .,., at -.t autsamL. ri.tnw.ai mm tu6r ' " 1 " -m mm himm FuMt- .f-T-xrw r iff trmm wwti a to " " " - U.t. ywrt f mK7 IMWM isww m if-r urp,t, tn pert tut r , z fWigws vt i" "!f -,,i t im i-i.Lj i m( ti a i hi mat JT J s-wj i j M tat what Vx tit f ' itw & i-siMi. t Ktmmrf 8, IMA. btml i liaeata. Yebracka. mbAtt the set mt the Met ettirm m Art 4.1812. EDITORIAL STAFF ZOMt zfaw settee ... Savrta Effitar Cfw Editors ... 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These of ficers not only secretly put over a rushing plan that was contrary to the expressed will of the IFC; but, In so doing, with held the knowledge of the new system from their fellow fraterni ties thus giving their own houses (Phi Belts, Delts, Phi Gams and ZBT's) a potential rushing ad vantage over the other 20 houses. Last year, Jan Pickard, Kappa Sigma, headed a committee to re vise the rush week rules. On this committee were members of sev eral fraternities, the IFC officers (which included the present presi dent, Sam Ellis), and the IFC fac ulty advisers. Most of the recom mendations of this committee were adopted and were used in setting up the rush week program this fall. However, one proposal of the committee a proposal strongly urged by the advisers and the of ficers was twice rejected by the IFC. This committee plan cal led for the removal of the rushing rule that forbade the acceptance of a pledge pin before rush week. The Nebraskan and many frater nity leaders opposed this change which would, in effect, have legal ized spiking, and on two separate occasions the proposal was openly brought up, thoroughly debated and overwhelmingly defeated. Yet, in the confusion of rush week this year, many fraternities were surprised to find themselves sud denly faced with a situation which made spiking legal. They were not aware of this situation when rush ing plans were formulated last spring; they had not been able to build this new strategy into the all-important summer rushing pro gram, and, in the event the trickle down theory had not worked, some fraternities went through rush week without the invaluable knowl edge that spiking was no longer punishable. These fraternities who did not know, who were hurt by not know ing, or who could have been hurt by not knowing of this important rushing change have a right to know how legalized spiking was slipped past them by the officers which tbey had only a few weeks previously elected to govern the IFC. These fraternities should now know that their newly elected IFC officers conspired against the twice expressed will of the IFC. These officers formed themselves into a new rushing week rules com mittee to make more specific some of the adopted proposals of the old committee. Then, waiting till the last meeting of the year when most of the IFC delegates would be newly elected, the group presented what was termed "mi nor changes." When the "minor changes" were read, it was not nointed out that the clause which made spiking ille gal had been eliminated. The four officers were aware of what had been done; their respec tive fraternities were aware of what had been done, and it is also hard to believe that the advisers, Dean Hallgren and Dr. Harry Lloyd Weaver, both of whom strongly favored legalized spiking, were un aware of what had been done. This assured and arrogant trick ery raises questions of particular gravity for the IFC: To what point has the powerful triumvirate formed by the Phi Delts, Phi Gams and Delts (who have held 10 to 16 offices, includ ing 4 presidencies, in the past four years) injured the government of the Council? To what grade of seriousness will the all-too-excitable house jeal ousies be aroused at the action of ther elected representatives? To what extent will the confi dence of the IFC in its officers and advisers be undermined? To what degree must the IFC executives be reprimanded to in sure that the integrity of the IFC has not been unduly damaged? 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And then there was the sorority miss who was so dumb she thought a buttress was a female goat. it happened at nu Some students really want to get at the heart of their courses. One senior, already a grizzled veteran of three years of trying to find out just where his classes are to be held, got a little con fused the first day of classes. He mistook his instructor's office for the classroom and sat there alone for 15 minutes waiting for the professor to show up and start lecturing. He left mumbling about people that sit all day in their offices, doing nothing. Cosmopolitan Club Cosmopolitan Club is sponsor ing a coffee hour Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Union Room 316, according to Gunnar Green, pres ident. Both American and foreign students may attend, he said. 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If I can introduce America's collega men and women to Philip Morris's natural tobacco good ness, if I can inaugurate them into the vast wxiality of Philip Morris smokers and thus enhance their happiness, . heighten their zest, upgrade their gusto, magnify their cheer, broaden their bliss, augment their glee, and in crease their PQ " "PQ ?" said the makers, looking at me askance. "Pleasure Quotient," I explained. "Ah !" said the makers, nodding their sweet, shaggy heads. "If," I continued, "I can do these splendid things for the college population of America, there is no need for money, because I am more than amply repaid." Te wept then. I am not ashamed to say it WE WEPT! I wish the wiseacres who say big business is cold and heartless could have been there that day. I wish they could have witnessed the deep, croaking sobs that racked the gathering, the great, shimmering tears that splashed on the boardroom table. We wept, every man jack of us. 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"Like how to wear Bermuda shorts though your knees look like brain-coraL Like how t double-date in an MG." "And will you," asked one of the makers, whose name is Peter-S!t-by-the-Fire, "from time to time say a pleas ant word about Philip Morris Cigarettes, which are now available in two sizes - Pvegular in the familiar Snap Open Pack, and Long Size in the new Crashproof Box? "Crazy kid!" I chuckled, pushing my fist gently against his jaw. "You know I wilL" AAd ??-ehock tand- 1entl7, firmly, manlily and I left dabbing at my eyes with my agent and hurried to the nearest typewriter. mM CtUx SksJaua utl Th maker, of Philip Monti UU pUmr. U brlngl. rom thu uneentorU, freewheeling column each nmek iurine ihe W, pkei wah natural tobasco goodneu, Up end to tip end.