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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
