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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.
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'Round The Prickly Pear
By BRUCE BRUGMANN
The officers of the Interfrater-
nity Council should be severely
censured, if not subjected to more
serious action
They should be thusly treated,
for they have
p e rformed
d i s honor
ably against
the fraterni
ties which C
comprise the
IFC. 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?
The future of the Interfraternity
Council may well depend on how
these question are answered.
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was required by the state board
to send in some samples for certi
fication. Shortly afterward, the manufac
turer received the samples back
with the terse note, "Your horse
has diabetes."
A college student appeared be
fore a Judge and pleaded that his
marriage be annulled.
"On what grounds?" asked the
judge.
"Her father didn't have his shot
gun registered."
Mary: "Gosh but my date was
trying at times last night."
Alice: "You should have been
out with mine. He was trying all
the time!"
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.
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ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR
Today I begin the third year of writing this col
umn for Philip Morris Cigarettes, and I am merry in
my heart.
I am merry for several reasons. First, because I am
being paid.
Not, let me hasten to state, that an emolument wai
necessary. "Sirs," I said a few days ago to the makers
of Philip Morris, who underneath their dickeys are aa
friendly as pups and twice as cute, "Sirs," I said to thi
winsome assemblage, "there is no need to pay ma for
writing this column. 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. The makers wept The secretaries wept I
wept My agent Clyde Greedy, wept We wept all.
"No, no!" cried one of the makers, whose name Is
Good Sam. "We insist on paying you."
"Oh, all right" I said.
Then we laughed. The gloom passed like a summer
shower. We all laughed and chose up sides and played
stoop-tag and had steaming mugs of cocoa and lit plump,
firm, white cigarettes, brimming full of natural tobacco
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Refreshed and exalted, we returned to the busi
ness at hand. "Now then," said one of the makers, whosa
name is Merry Andrew, "what will you write about ia
your column this year?"
"About students and teachers," I said. "About classes
and cutting. About eds and coeds. About Greeks and
independents. About the important is:ues that occupy
the supple young minds of college America."
"Like what?" asked one of the makers, whose name
is Tol'able David.
"Like how to finance a full social life without a re
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"And will you," asked one of the makers, whose name
is Peter-S!t-by-the-Fire, "from time to time say a pleas
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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
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