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THE NEBRASKAN Fridoy, October 19, 1955 Nebraskan Editorials: A Belief System Student Council is considering the possibility c cluing t ia the manner of selection of Home eosciC Queen. Ia past Tears, The Nebraskan has asked for a change in the system, but as is usual, the only time someone thinks about a change is in the Fall, and the issue is forgotten during the second semester. The pre-requisite for a Homecoming Queen candidate is that a junior girl be a member of Tassels, women's pep organizction. That's about alL The organization chooses five women and presents them to the student body for selection. After a hasty gaze at the candidates, those students who happen to be at the pep rally or have been required to do so by their house file into the Union and vote for the young lady who is to represent the University at one of the most colorful and important spectacles of the year. Of the more than 3000 women at the University bo more than 20 are eligible to represent the University as Eomecoming Queen each falL This is not intended as criticism of past queens. It is doubtful that a more vorthy can didate could have been selected than Carol Link, 1955 Queen. But, a change in the method of selection would at least provide more interest in the choice of candidates. Relatively speaking, the Homecom ing Queen election is the least heralded on the campus. If the nomination of candidates is opened to the entire student enrollment, it is almost cer tain that all five women would be suitable rep resentatives of the University. As the system now stands, it is very unusual if all five women are seriously considered for selection. The con test is usually between two and at the most three candidates. The Nebraskan wishes the best of luck to the five Tassels who are selected this evening, but since the Council has brought the matter up, perhaps it is time for a change. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler VJe Like Ike Let's get something straight. The Kebraskaa has committed itself to sup port President Eisenhower and the picse&t administration in the coming cam paign and cannot qualify as an independent newspaper. Neither does it consider itself a strongly partisan Republican paper as evidenced by another editorial in today's column. However, the policy of this newspaper shall be to influence students at the University to vote andor support Mr. Eisenbower. On the state seme, the situation is not as clear cut as we believe it to be ia the national elec tions. Got. Anderson and his administration are ncmisg on their record in the last two-year term. They have mad progress in some fields frmf-rig a much needed influx of funds into the state's mental health program, but many Demo cratic criticisms strike home. But so strong support will be forthcoming for Irank Soma, the Democratic gubernatorial can didate who ran for the office in 1948, who re cently stated "I'd love to be governor." Sorrell has run for one office too many to be seriously considered. Nebraska's Democratic party needs a repre sentative of the younger generation of leaders who are popping up in the party in other states. George Morris, the Independent candidate, doesn't really expect to be elected in his grudge fight against the Board of control and neither do we. If any preference is to be shown, it would probably be toward the present incumbent, Gov. Anderson, who has directed the expenditure of funds wisely and seems to be more fully aware of the responsibilities of state government than are his rivals. The Nebraskan believes that the nation needs Mr. Eisenhower at the bead of the government for another four years. By the first week of November, we hope to have presented our case in its entirety. Locked Up Desperate pleas for help un stilled the 7 a.m. solitudes of Southeast hall at Kansas State when two freshman women dis covered they were locked in their second story bedroom. One houseboy and three men rushed to the scene only to find that the door was stuck from both directions. Working with tools passed under the door, the wom en themselves could not alleviate the situation. It took one very long ladder for entry and two men pushing and pulling to remove the door two hours later. Grief stricken at first about missing her a.m. written compo sition class, one of them later re marked that "there is more than one way to cut a class." 'FftWKLY TO RSTHS5. AfYlSE r"SlWtN THPfge NOT SO SET IN TWEig WA? - -4 4 Or Comic B cons ''- Book banursg crusades hare cleared the news stands of many of the more harmful comic bocks and mothers need cot worry about the Jnflaeace of the notrso-fanay funnies. But, new kind of comic book has appeared that might very well be just as harmful to . some fe?t segments of the population as the sex and violence comic is reported to be to the zsation's youth. A "funny book' ia full color with pictures of war sad young widows has recently been is sued by the XaSonal Republican headquarters. Generally it is a harmless enough way to trace the history of President Eisenhower and Rich ard Xixaa, but it is fall of half -truths and mis Hn'j, statement. Local Republican organizations plan to mail this eomk to areas of stracg labor tmkn inQu cacc that were strongly Democratic ia the last election. Bam effective it will be on this teg sent of the pqpslatarai remains to be seen. One of the prevelant themes of the comic is that the Democrats were responsible for the instigation of the Korean War. While The Xe braskaa will continue to point out that the Democratic party has held the economic line in their time in office through a war economy and that the Democratic administration's policy on ending the war was often a bit perplexing, it is neither realistic or fair to label the Demo cratic party as the "war party." The comic book states, "There are four mil lion more jobs now in peace time than the Democrats bad with their wars." When Mr. Eisenhower was informed of the previous statement be said, "I dont believe when America gets into war we can afford to call it anything but oar war." The Freside&t's forthright repudiation of the statement should be fair warning that such dangerously divisive tactics of partisanship are not to be repeated by members of the Republi can party. mpsme 0 I'm not a salesman. . J haven't any gimmick to peddle or any repartee with which to keep you howling. But you might (in all kindness) call me a standing-room-only patron of the arts. I haven't learned anything about the tragic flaw or the significant flaw or any of the other flaws which teach ers seem to tolerate. I can, though. sit without twitching for two or I thrM KfBlTC on4 wraj-li o irnn-l !aif or listen to a good concert. Whether the ability to enjoy any of the forms of Art is considered square (or whatever the opposite of that colloquialism would be I've never heard a bebepper re ferred to as round) really doesn't Dick Shugrue bother me. And it shouldn't. Sure ly, we all live in our own little worlds surrounded by a clique and tied together by small talk, prac tical jokes and, in many cases, mysticism. This is the plan of civ ilization (and I don't know whom I should blame for it.) As tag as it works and we can still knock out the fortificatior at Leningrad, our way cf life will cater to the little guy and his little interests. Something is missing from our age, our way of life, though. Oh, I'm not saying anything wiser, "sharper" men haven't been say ing for centuries. We've lost that spark by which our minds are charged to surge ahead and dis cover tew things, cherish the an tiquities and defend the bere-and-cows. I'd put the blame on the pres ent place cr lack of place of art in the "average" man's life. Only through art can he come to un- f m taut anon The most cratrpeasatsag thing about an educa tion is that it cant be bought. Platitudes like "yea cdy get cut of school what yoa pat Ma iV "A food time end s good student dost ga together," end "the read to success starts on i3 to drive, are not miMmZlxr to most sto deols whs have passed through at least the twtltfi grade cf ary high school. B'Jt as time f-s aid inmds start soaking c? some of the socalkd drive handed out freely by wiseoed did prc&ssors She pgaSSadfts might make a li3s sense. We grre students credit for having the fore sight, hindsight sad insight into the problem cf what coeisatotes an ed.oct.tion. Yet ce can never be too premmp&jas. Tar the spending of four years on s campus, the speeding of thousands of dollars far sn educa tion and the spending of one's talents on mesial eaSslbemcs are si a part of that "ta-purchas-s&Se" entity, an education. If that mesas we can bay an edacatka then wt art either totally fatekmed cr confused shout he cosax&a&m of the word 1jy. This week sad bhA, a beg Jaaca ctf the pur chase prk of edacaitioa is heiag spent ... rst exams. The frtairsen can mm be "chied ia" ss to what they can expect for the neafit right semesters. Kaybe Cbey can get s few tzps on Lpw to stafy tcA law to take s test sad, more jjxportaxiS, Law to pass 'A. Sever hire we frit &st cheatsg in test sad sl a go&d grade were euestkl to an edaca tiaa. Qever methods of arZAZrig are encouraged 3 Fj'iis; sot ia I'tirtcka. It might be prenntp kus to thlk hs ainy words to the wise might ever ftt to those wise fsj Cury're aiased si. If ZiX?i:gz4 CLach, to thak Chat scmeaoe res pmiS&i&zt ceas&zis tad pooders over skt wisdisa. The jKtat is, t3 Sodding aside, that exam fci&e .is 12 txxsi ksportsst time of the sex&ester. That tet $3& z&eaa fl tects ... it goes far mry cstssStj to Sears, to search yoer minds and see what (if anything) is there. Well never thank the" instructors for the gargantuan tasks they push onto us. They &m expect us to. What is expected of us in the growkg process is a realisation that finding out how to thick and hew to absorb facts and ideas is important. When (as and If) this time comes, we mZl (re portedly) ecjqy taking tests. For those of cs to whom the tnomeot of discovery hasn't presented itself, all we can do is study our hardest, "get on the ball" sad try to pass the exams. After aS, the good grade wel earned is part cf the expense of an edaca&oea. After thoughts Ask For Joe "Joe Smith Nebraska's most recent coa tdhutoon to the catsonal pc&iieal scene, popped c? in KranCagton, W. Va recently. Ee passed s bogus check for $38.25. The address be gave was s vacant kt. A3 the genuine Joe Smiths in the area were found to be law-ahidicg and respectable. Kajhe it is becomkig a fad. Of Panties The male sftadezls at Berkeley, California, w2l prafcahly thhJc twice before staging ry more panty raids. There was a really big raid last sprite sad it wound cp costing students tZYA. That's the sum paid to girls who ed loss claims with the dean of students office. After the raid ea Jsj It, the men of the ergaoized livicg groups around the campus contributed epprcxi-5t-y I3-S9 per man to a ifcZxz&rcpie tod to pay for miilidaaa cf , damages. Indiiidaal daims from tie girls averaged about 139- Mary were as snsaH as SI, tat at least one totaled ever $iS9. Kur has the reetitrJim csmsdstet ficiihed the job of paying. It has new begun fTjrjal2Eg the rrcperty damage claims of the various hooses invaded daisg the li-ot. irasican frrn-rtrsi ixuls old r.;t.s:'Aure: fi-as&msi Asvertkag frvk, lEsarrstf J ftlZf t Cwn U, frsdezt Vsla Wh & Z ViJvtr&r f KeSetsfai ' ' w -f vv tosm Ml fMb.. i. ? in. $mm vmAm&Xf mMf - - ;' ... i...(....... .... r,''m$ f't'i" . . - . f-r. f-i mMwn . '. -. v .i ..(.vv r Mt t WW V ... ' . . . m-.u. m. fifeat , - 4 It ! ; .. ' ' i-i-T-j . J.- fxncmi STAFF auMurwr tm tt4 t,ftr ..... KM Milih 1 1 Mill ! iff liiirBg fijM. . .-" esfiw JhWMif M Af i in wty 4 M r trim. XmnM Tfti (m I 1111M1 Sviy ...... jo s . .Art kit- mm. im v., S-v M VtMw, iMo tcrraiss kit? ASttttS'Hbtt'i' Jhm W!,v Uu77 stAft I JtefX tetrr teaafena Pan don a derstand the "average" men of old. Paintings, yes. But plays, music, the dance, even conversation and the way to enjoy them all are slowly slipping through our fin gers. The cultured Romans may have said the same thing about those peasants who went to see and enjoy the plays of Piautus. He might be classified as a script writer for the Appian Way (some thing like the colorful Great White Way of today.) Tastes varied then as now. The upper class might hare seen Jimmus Dean as in "Prometheus Bound" while the bobby sandalers were seeing the "Haunted House." Trite, but true. Piautus nonetheless has been remembered through the ages. Maybe the fault lies in the mis calculation of what art is today. Perhaps dramatists shouldn't get the "You - dont -love - me - at titude." I thick, though, that in view of the fact that we have a two thousand year advantage of perspective of civilizations over our Roman friends that we should ditch the mistakes they made and steer towards the art forms we know are art. . Jf for no other reason for the satisfaction that we can share in ages past and may be even wring out a few drops of the Greek culture from the al most washed out dramas of the past. No, not that they are actual ly washed out; that we have let them hang up to dry sayisg, "Look how rice and clean modem tech nology has made these" (we have actually lost most of the brilliance of the original tongues) and nev er trying them, on to see what a truly thrilling experience it can be to put on some of the glory of ages past. Daily 9:30 to 5:30 D Thursday 10 to 8:30 V (Berets JfCre (Bach - - j V- V A eke - ; 4 j fiiimiiu; u 4 'J t X soo&ooooooooX Berets are back this year in dressy versions for an elegant look. Whether you choose an all pearl or iridescent pailette, they're comfortable, smart, easy to wear. Pearl White Pailette White, Coffee, Mint, Beige, Navy, Ice Blue, Purple, Pink or Black. O each HAT RACK, SECOND FLOOR m " Lincoln Smaliiv mimb If,? 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