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Page 2 THE NEBRASKAN Wednesday, December 19, 1956 Mebraskan Editorials: Little Worth The retiring president of Hastings College, Dr. Dale Welch, said, "There is no reason why the students attending the University should not pay $180 per semester in tuition." He added that he sees no reason why free higher education should be expected. Dr. Welch feels his proposal that tuition be raised is an honest answer to the problems fac ing the University. He adds that students should be able to underwrite $3 million during the two year period with taxpayers giving an additional $2.5 million. Yet this problem of immediate support for the University is hardly the long-range problem which we face. Dean of Faculties A. C. Breck enridge, states that the action of Kansas Uni versities to raise tuition indicates there is need for additional funds. But Breckenridge pointed out that the two Kansas institutions (Kansas State College and the University of Kansas) now receive $15,589,739 as compared to a state tax support of $8,900,000 per fiscal year for the University. The Nebraskan agrees with Dr. Breckenridge that tax support for the University should be raised to a level comparable to Kansas before an additional tuition increase is seriously con templated. The problem facing the University is not just a problem of keeping our head above water dur ing the next two years. We feel that the state has an obligation to offer education to as many of its citizens as possible. The University is trying to keep a reputation as an educational institution. That means more than offering classes for young men and women every year. It means that the University must continue and expand research, that it must strive to keep top level teachers, that it must search for new talent. Chancellor Hardin . said that the incVease in 'the budget for the next two years is to attempt to retain some 200 faculty members who are tottering on a decision to stay or leave. The increase is to find classroom space for some 1500 students expected to flow into the school in the next few years. So it seems that Dr. Welch's proposal, if it is to be taken seriously, must be remade every year a budget is proposed. For if the school is to rely on a 2.5 to 3 ratio of taxpayer to student dollars for additional funds, the tuition must keep going up as expansion fund needs go up. Dr. Welch's assertions that students can well afford to support, the school through double tui tion is an over generalized observation. He im plied that fraternity and sorority houses and fancy cars of students indicate they can afford the added burden. Yet he fails to realize that fraternity and sorority houses are not owned by the students; that the difference between fra ternity house room and board and that at the dorms is no more than $20 per semester, that fancy cars are few and late '30 and early '40 models are much more numerous, and that not all students belong to these groups. We are willing to acknowledge the great need for funds from whatever source they can be obtained. Yet we maintain that the very basic concept of a state college is that each citizen shares in the cost of tomorrow's leadership. We are willing to wager that the state of Ne braska wants to further public education in the interests of each and every citizen. We would dare to say that Nebraskans will take up the burden of added taxation to insure a more equalized individual burden of support. We stand behind tax support of the University as the only solution to a long range program of expansion. err Reaching Effect The Student Council will hold what could prove to be their most important meeting of the school year this afternoon, the outcome of which could have far-reaching effect on student activities. First, the judiciary committee has refused the Tassels' proposals to take legal control of the Homecoming Queen election. The women's pep organization offered amendments to their constitution which would give them final con trol of the election, in much the same way it is run now. If the Council should approve the committee's rulings, the field would be open for further sug gestions on how this vital election would be run. It logically would not be controlled by the Tassels, or anyone else. Second, the student activities committee will report on progress made on the student tri bunal. The fact that only seven students showed up for the open meeting held Thursday should not discourage the Council members. It is only an indication of active student interest, and that more work should be done on the matter before it can be presented to the student body again. A third matter also concerns the Council, but probably will not come up in today's meet ing. This is the matter of closed meetings by student organizations under direct control of the Council. The Council should not let this matter drop in committee, but should give care ful thought to it. The Council is the direct controlling body over most student organizations. By establishing a policy of open meetings, the Council would set a precedent that would bring student activities out into the limelight of student opinion, where they belong. These are the matters that will come before the body with the strongest potential to act of all the organizations on the campus. Their actions could have strong influence on student activities now and in the future. For this rea son, if no other, the members of this body will do well to realize their responsibilities to the students they represent, and act with thought and with an eye to the future. From The Editor's Desk: With Malice Towards None While engaged in the yearly rite of Christmas shopping, I climbed on the escalator of a downtown department store and ascended into Santa's paradise commonly known to wee folk as "toyland." As I stepped off the ingen ious form of modern transpor tation common only to metro politan areas such as Lincoln and Omaha, I was immed iately jumped by some minia ture Eloise who, after looking at my packages and eying my senior-width girth, asked me if I was one of Santa's help ers. I pushed her down the escalator. She bounced twice before she stopped her mad dish laughing. The jovial old gentleman dressed in red and white wearing some rather faded cotton for a beard was bal ancing two tots on his knee as be plied them with candy canes and asked them if they had been bad or good. One future leader who was wait ing his turn to climb on ol Santa's knee pulled out his etheral interplanetary ray gun and evaporated his neighbor, thus assuring himself of an audience before closing time. As the line shortened some of the larger children behind me were pushing which was rather disconcerting I finally came near to the venerable old sage. He had a twinkle in his eye and belly that gurgled like insipid jelly. Being to large to sit on his knee, I as sumed a position of parade rest. "What ho, Santa Claus," I said. "What's your name sonny?" he asked somewhat mali ciously. "Don't I know you," I par ried. "Are you a native of the North Pole?" I detected a ring of appre hension in his vocal tones. Then I knew. I reached out my hand and ventured into his waistline. It was all he. Nothing false about this Santa. I looked at his finger nails. Dirty. I ripped off his beard. There stood "dirty old man" Fred Daly in all his unkerhptness, sticks of candy in all his pockets. "You're not Santa," I said. This year's Kosmet Klub show was relatively successful although the difference be tween the skits placing one and two and numbers five and six was rather obvious. Gen erally the show, with curtain acts and Diane Knotek to fill in between skits, was enter taining and in good enough taste to please even the most "persnickity" of faculty mem bers and parents. Perhaps the entertainment was sacrificed to good taste, though. Few people would mind, however, if the entire produc tion were shortened abouk 45 minutes. Si Tenser Hmmn Of ilm i! 3acci.fi.fi The Advent of the Messiah was an original promise made to Abraham, thai L; hi seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed. It is shown In ,be time of David to be a promise which should find its fulfillment in the cenktg of a king. The name Immanuel came out of the hope of the Jewish people directed to the birth of a child who should bear this name. Thus it came to pass in the birth of Christ the culmination of this promise. As Immanuel (God with us) Christ brings God near to us near in His perpetual presence according to the promise, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." The Rev. Donald Bliss University Methodist Pastor The Nebraskan FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OLD ntnt m .ini ! matte ai n mt atfin n Kmher: Associated Collegiate Press U""1" Intercollegiate Pres. rm .. . sm . Representative National Advertising Berries, Mwtes ttw iei rnArnnlrf .Mttorlal Editor Mull I.untroro Itfc&htd Ki; Room JO, Student Union ?prt!:.l,,or v : m"n 1413 R ai,it nick Shut ma. Ifefversfty of Nebraska fd' v;;; ?"rnm" . ... 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Jerr SuIlenUne LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bib!er "AND WHEN IT FALLS Ctf THE PAflefc IT STAMP5 A 0k5 KtW The Iconoclast Both Bruce Brugmann and E.B. Ellison Jr. whoever he may be have called the subjects I choose for my columns "obvious." I would cheerfully ignore one such criti cism; two within two weeks, how ever, seem to indicate a grounds well of opinion. Even so, I would not bother to reply in print if the critics had not raised a question which deserves an answer. (If I took column inches to parry every critical thrust, I would amuse my self and bore my readers, ala Henkle and Brownell.) My answer to the question of obviousness should do much to clarify the prob- Steve Schultz MHIWallMMaMHMMMiBWCaRaHMBai lem which I am afraid arises in in the minds of some wrong-thinkersof what I 'think I am doing. So put down your coffee cup and let me search my soul. I admit to the charge that "The Iconoclast's" subject matter is sometimes obvious and often has been dealt with before. But I plead extenuating circumstances. First, I do not believe in novelty for, the sake of newness. Every problem of any significance can be at tacked from an inexhaustible num ber of angles. Thus, The Iliad, The Red Badge of Courage, and The Naked and the Dead all deal with the relationship between man and war, but each book views this relationship differently. I consid er the elements of greatness, the place of conservatism in college life, and the deteriorating affect of science on society to be sub jects of sufficient magnitude to withstand many assaults from many angles. My columns on those subjects were not the first word, but neither will they be the last. The writer who tries to find a new subject will do so only with dif ficulty and will probably find him self writing sonnets on tonsils or esssays on bottlecaps. My second extenuation is that at least three types of obviousness exist. First, the truism, which is so hackneyed that no one could find a new approach. If I wrote arguments to prove the goodness of motherhood or the virtue of the Golden Rule, Bruce and E. B. would be fully justified in their criticisms and I would be run out of Andrews Hall on a rail. The second type of obviousness is that which needs repetition. If no one needed to be exhorted to follow Christian ethics, churches could close their doors and I could sleep all Sunday morning without a guil ty conscience. The necessity of school sp'rit is clear, but we con tinue f have rallies. So also is the virtue of conservatism obvious but needing repetition. I can mount my soapbox to quote my col league Mr. Brugmann and preach conservatism without a pang be cause I know the subject can use repeating. But I have chosen the "Icono clast's" subjects primarily from a third source; those opinions which are obvious to me because of my background but which may not be equally obvious to others. My views in James Dean and the place of science come from this cate gory. I did not fabricate those views from nothing. They are a synthesis of the books I read, the courses I take, and the people I have known. Certainly these sour ces are not unique; everyone has access to the same books, courses, and people. Perhaps Messrs. Brug mann and Ellison have taken ad vantage of that access and syn thesised the same ideas I have. But they must remember that many people have not. My back ground is in the humanities, but there -are others whose viewpoint is determined by a background in science. To them my column knocking the altar from under the technological sacred cow may have been not "obvious," but in furiating and, I hope, thought pro voking. Those of differing views have an obligation to each other. For mu tual benefit they should exchange their conflicting opinions. No man should call himself educated in either humanities or science until he has heard the other side. Thus the ideal situation would be a con tinuing dialogue-debate between myself (or preferably someone better equipped) and a technologi cal mind. Such a dialogue has not developed and probably will not. Therefore, my column remains what it was when I started: an insight into a mind . which has been curiously shaped by its ex periences but which even so is representative of a certain seg ment of the population. From The Iowa State Daily: What Is A Fraternity Man? Between the pride of high school graduation and the responsibility oi earning a living we find the college fraternity man. Fraternity men come in assorted sizes and weights, but they all have the same creed; to make it known, with a loud fanfare, that their fra ternity is not only tllte best but that its members surpass all other males on campus in every imagln able way. Fraternity men are found every where on campus sleeping in lectures, blocking the entrance to the bookstore, parking in "no parking" zones and Unionizing when they should be in classes. Mothers write them "please write, son" letters, fathers, replen ish their bank accounts, little sis ters worship them, instructors tol erate them and coeds can't make up their minds. A fraternity roan is dignity with a five o'clock hadow, elegance with a crew-necked sweater, and sophistication with lipstick on its 'collar. When you have to study he asks you to THE PARTY. But let there be uomething you have heard about for months planned on for weeks and he asks another girl. A fraternity man is a composite he has the speed of a track star, the impatience of puppy, strength of Gorgeous George, wisdom of Zues, stubborness of a mule and all over disposition of a chameleon. He likes ivy league styles, skips, "the brothers," "blasts," all sports, trophies, spring, sleeping, quantities of food, picnics, hay rides, blondes, brunettes and red heads. He's not much for last year's date, Saturday classes, wear ing the pledge pin, remembering special occasions, other fraternity men, bright lights and women's hours. Nobody else studies less before midterms and more in the wee hours of the morning. Nobody else can get so much fun out of old sweat shirts, Inscribed beer-steins, "hell-week," original ideas, pipes and strong smelling cigars. His favorite remarks are "I'll call you sometime!", "don't study too hard," "it's only " and "Boy, have we got a sharp pledge class I" A fraternity man is a gallant personage you can close your eyes to his behavior, but you must smile at his persistence; you can take down his picture, but you can't take him from your heart. Might as well give up he is your friend, your dictator and master. But when he brings you home from a date when you doubt his sincerity as genuine he can make you walk on air when he says fnose six magic words, "Honey, would you wear my pin?" Conformity In Education ' By SABAH KUSHKAKI In the United States, among the various educational doctrines the leading one is the doctrine of ad justment. To define this doctrine in a very crude way, it means that a student should be educated and trained in such a manner so he would be able to conform and get along with his physical, social, po litical, economic, and intellectual environment. ; ' Although the man who orig inated this doctrine is believed to be John Dewey, it has to be point ed out that Mr. Dewey has grossly been misinterpreted by his disci ples. For when Dewey taught about the theory of adjustment, he meant to apply it in an already improved society. As Mr. Robert M. Hutchins said in his lecture at Uppsala University, "Dewey was essentially a social reformer, and it is tragic that he should have laid the foundation for the preposition that the aim of educa tion is to adjust the young to their environment, good or bad." No matter what the advocators of adjustment present for the jus tification of thsir doctrine, it should be reminded to them that they are running a great risk in that they are chopping off the foundation of a free society Be cause, when the happiness of a society is dependent on an adher ence to the already estaolished way of life, this means that one should conform to something which has not undergone a critical anal ysis. As a matter of fact this is the essential and distinctive fea ture of totalitarianism. Indeed no democracy could ' live without a sincere and critical analysis and discussion of the social institutions in a country. When an educational institution instead of being a cen ter for -the communication of free thought becomes a place where ftie members Of which are expected to prepare themselves for an already adopted system, . then this is of the essence of indoctrination. A superintendent of a Middle Western city's educational institu tion, a man who had the power to fire a teacher, once in a letter addressed the instructors and said that although "indoctrination has never been in good repute among the teachers in the United States ... it now appears necessary for the schools in the United - States to indoctrinate the American youth for American Democracy. . ." The main characteristic of the democ racy, the letter confirmed, was concealed in free enterprise To show the destructive danger of such a view, once more .1 quote Mr. Hutchins: "Although I believe that democ racy is the best form of govern ment, that the American democra cy is a very good form of democra cy, and that the economic system known as private enterprise has made significant contributions to the development of my country, I ask myself whether it is possi ble for the American democracy to be improved and whether the American system of private enter prise has no defects. ." "We hear during the cold war in America that the American way of life is in danger. You would suppose to listen to the people who say this that the American way of life consisted in unanimous tribal apotheosis. Yet the history and tradition of our country make it plain that the essence of the Amer ican way of life is its hospitality to criticism, protest, unpopular opinions, and independent thought. . ." Here it is. Those who are not a member of this virtuous nation and yet sincerely subscribe to the idea, expressed by Santayana, that "to be an American is of Itself almost a moral condition, an ed ucation, and a career," it is in evitable to become desperat3ly alarmed about the development of theory of adjustment in the edu cational institutions. For, while Americanism in itself a virtue, that virtue has not been obtained through indoctrination of younger generations. "SkaSw" f Wa with Mutnor "Bartfoot Boy WttK Cheek," tte.) No Press Club Lunch Due to the Christmas vacation, there will be no Nebraskan Press Luncheon Friday, according to Sam Jensen, editor, Instead, the Nebraskan and Cornhusker staffs will have their annual Christmas party Wednesday In the Rag offices. THE GIFT HORSE The college life is a busy one, especially at this tim of year. What with going to classes and studying for exams and pursuing a full social schedule and construct ing rope ladders to foil dormitory curfews, the average undergrad is bo pressed for time that he cannot do justict to his Christmas shopping. Therefore, to aid you in your Christmas shopping, I have gone into the market place and selected for you a list of gifts, notable for their originality. Perhaps the most original gift of all this year is a carton of Philip Morris Cigarettes. "Original?" you ex claim, your bushy young eyebrows rising. "Why, we have been giving cartons of 'Philip Morris for years!" True, I reply, but each time you give Philip Morris, it is a new treat, a fresh delight, a pristine pleasure. Each carton, each pack, each cigarette, each puff, is juBt as good as the first one you ever tried. Another gift destined for certain popularity this year is a gift certificate from the American Dental As sociation. This certificate, good at any dentist's office in America, is accompanied by a handsome gift card upon which is engraved this lovely poem: Merry Christmas, little pal. Do you need some root canal? Prophylaxis ? Porcelain caps f Bridgework to close up them gaps f Shiny braces that will straighten? Inlays? Fillings? Upper platen? Merry Christmas to your teeth, And the rosy gums beneath. Another gift that is always welcome Is a book, espe cially to people who read. This Christmas the selection of books is particularly attractive. For lovers of an thologies, there is William Makepeace Sherpa's A Treas. ury of the World's Great Treasuries. For those who fancy inspiring success stories, there is the stirring autobi ography of William Makepeace Pemmican entitled How I Got a Forty Pound Monkey Off My Back and Started the Duluth Zoo. For devotees of skin-diving, there Is Married a Snorkel by Lydia Makepeace Watershed. For calorie counters and waistline watchers, there Is Harry Makepeace Wildfoster's Eat and Grow Fat. My own favorite book this season is a pulse-pounding historical novel from that famous author of pulse-pounding historical novels, Daphne Makepeace Sigafoos. This one is called Egad and Zounds, and It tells the poignant romance of two young lovers, Egad and Zounds, who, alas, can never be married, for fiery Egad Is but a gypsy lass, while tempestuous Zounds is a Kappa Sigma. They later become Ludwig of Bavaria. My final gift suggestion is one that a great many people have been fervently wishing for since last year Do you remember the introduction last Christmas of tiny perscal portable radios that plugged Into your ear? Well, this year, you will be delighted to know, you can buy an Ingenious pick to get them out. Max Bhulman, !SSI Old Max ,id it, but It froart repeating t 4 carton of Philip Morrii, triad by tha portion of thU column, it a ChrUtmat gift that's bound lo pltata tmryontil