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Peat 2 THE NEBRASKAN Tuesday, Jonuory 8, 1957 Nebraskan Editorials: LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler Time To Quit ws Pete Elliott had a reasonably successful sea ton on paper and tin even more successful season in terms of good will and confidence in better things to come. Everyone is satisfied with his first year at the University, but many students and faculty are not so satisfied that they believe a raise of $2,500 is justifiable or necessary. The agenda of the board of Regents showed suggested increases for all members of the football coaching staff and for Athletic Director Bill Orwlg. Orwig was to get 13,200 and Elliott was to receive a salary of $13,000, a boost of $1,000. Orwig is listed by the University as a full professor and Elliott is listed as an associate professor. Orwig is largely responsible for the , improved athletic situation at the University, an improvement which includes basketball and other varsity sports. It was the University's Athletic Director who was responsible far bringing Elliott and Jerry Bush to Lincoln. It is said that Elliott is being considered for coaching positions at other Universities, but if after an average season he is given a $2,500 boost, what will the University have to do when he has a successful season and the com petition becomes stiff? It may be possible that it is necessary to give Pete Elliott a large pay raise. It may be that collegiate athletics have reached the point where football coaches as a commodity are worth more than college presidents. And it may be that the University of Nebraska is not able ic compete with Big Ten schools and other foot ball institutions when a football coach is worth $20,000 a year or more. The Nebraskan believes that Coach Elliott is an asset to the University of Nebraska, but we also believe that Bill Orwig, as Director of Athletics and as the man who bears responsi bility for all athletic programs, should be paid more than any coach who is responsible to him. It is Orwig that does the hiring and firing, at least in theory and it won't be much more . than a theory if he is paid $1,300 less than one of his subordinates. It may cost money, but we believe that if Pete Elliott is to be paid $14,500, then Bill Orwig should be paid $15,000. When the figure begins to approach $17,500, then it is time to quit. Chancellor Hardin is paid $17,500. Regent J. LeRoy Welch, In making the motion to boost Elliott's salary, said that "Elli ott's outstanding success during the first year should bring him a salary more commensurate with his service." If this is the only reason for the pay boost, then the original figure of $1,000 would seem "more commensurate" with a four win-six loss season. At the present timeElliott is somewhere no one is quite sure just where possibly listen ing to offers of greener pastures. To say the least, the present situation is confusing and rather unstable. It would appear that the University is trying to enter big-time competition which in itself is all right, but when it becomes necessary to offer large pay boosts and disregard any notion of academic privilege, then it is time to settle down and become accustomed to Big Seven competition. This is not intended as criticism of our foot ball coach nor is it a form of disrespect for the Board of Regents. We are proud of our University and this pride is built in the class roomwhere we are taught by associate pro fessors who earn upwards of $5,000 each year just as much, if not more so, as our pride is built by victorious football teams. The editor of a college daily at a large uni versity on the west coast recently suggested that the football team be paid openly and that what he believed to be professionalism be labeled as such. Let us not close our eyes to the cost which lias been paid time and time again for winning football teams. Let us not close our eyes to the disgrace for which many of us were responsible in connection with the departure of Bill Glass ford from the Nebraska football scene. There are more important things in this world than a salary increase for a football coach, but the tragic note is seen in that fewer and fewer people are able to name those more important tilings. Unfair Taxation State concern for the University's higher budget request has increased since the legisla ture has gone into session. A few basic ideas must tie remembered as we look at the problem in the light of need. Nebraskans, must, of course, look at every angle of the situation in order to understand just what Chancellor Hardin means when he said that we are faced with a major crisis in education. People In the state got a practical view of the problem when it was announced Saturday that Dr. Colbert C. Held will leave the Uni versity to assume a better paying position. Two choices remain for the state to make. The University can become a powerful influ ence in education and research. Or it can become a second-rate institution of higher learn ing. An Interesting article in the Chicago Sunday Tribune was entitled, "When you glide, you roll down hill." This might be very appropriate for Nebraskans who are willing to get along on hard tack budgets, little tax increase and little future for state educational expansion. The Nebraskan realizes that the state has been plagued with drought too long to make an increase in taxes a favorable step. But perhaps Nebraska has been too long burdened under a system of taxation which is not as fair, not as equal as other systems are. Bills have been introduced in the; legislature to increase such taxes as those on amusements. A push to obtain a sales tax, or an income tax is being contemplated. We see the broadening of the tax base as the only solution to the prob lems of the University. After all, the economy measures which the state is striving to effect are measures which would ease government as well as make it more efficient. But Nebraska, in contemplat ing more office space for the capitol which was to be "sufficient for 50 years" realizes that this is no longer an infant state. So where can the people of Nebraska turn for help in their struggle to keep their heads above water? For one thing, they are turning to the income of fellow Nebraskans. Now, those who live in apartments are relatively free from the burden of a fair share of taxation. It is easy to see, then, that as the state broad ens its views, as it broadens its interests and as it broadens its ideas of democratic govern ment, it must distribute the share of support for the government to the most people. If the University is to survive, new funds must be obtained for the University. And if, as it appears, this is impossible under the present tax base in Nebraska, the people must be fore sighted enough to assume a new tax. Nameless Example At a New Year's Eve party at Washington, a speaker noted that events in '56 were almost back to normal, "Eisenhower is back in Wash ington, Eden is back as Prime Minister, and Dulles is back and forth." Bypassing "those men who would be remem bered among the great names of the epoch" Time magazine named as its "Man of the Year" a man who was on no roster when 1956 began. Chosen were those nameless men, women, and children both living and dead who had "shak en history's greatest despotism at its founda tion," the Hungarian Freedom fighter. Said Time of its selection, "The Man of the Year bad many faces, but he was not faceless; he had many names, but he was not nameless. History would know him by the face, intense, -relentless, desperate and determined, that he had worn on the evening of Oct. 23 in the streets of Budapest; history would know him his dauntless contest with Soviet tanks." Bypassed for the coveted award were several "makers of history" ranging from peacemaker (Dag Hammarskjold) to troublemaker Gamal Abdel Nasser, athlete (Olympic Gold Medals Winner Bobby Morrow) to entertainer (Elvis Presley), Communist hatchet-man (Nikita Khrushchev) to the People's Choice (Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon). The Hungarian Freedom Fighter, said Time, demonstrated the profound and needful truth that humanity is not necessarily forever bound and gagged by modern terrorist political tech niques. Thus he gave to millions, and speci fically to the youth of Eastern Europe the hope for a foreseeable end to the long night of Communist dictatorship. Ultimate effect of the fighters for freedom remain to be seen. Today the great world lib erators, the Communist party in Hungary, are quietly rounding up those "oppressors of jus tice," those thousands who by their own blood shed gave hope to the future of a world without Communism. The Nebraskan nrry-nvE years old wssaer; Associatca vouegiaie cress Intercollegiate Press " '.,"'SSlltai!ve National Arlvartlelnv fionrl Incorporated SHshed at: Room 20, Student Unlns liih&R University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska "Ta Jenfcit la polished Taftsdsy, Wednesday and Sri!r (S.uriJit tit ec.haoi r, eisept during vacation! S.3 a (.... and one Issue it pnblibhed during if .tudeata f ttw University of N'ebraiAa under . su ...flmi.iuo ef t OmnJtto on Student Attain mm mm memmtoa of Mudrnt opinion. Publications undrv t immntfium of the SubeomniittM on Student Pubri e. -'Hi Ik free from editorial censorship on tne S- rt tno Sttbftiromitixo or eo U part of any mem her i faeiifiy of the I ntvei. ?, or on the pat of any p. -.. ... of the I rilvernllj. The mem hen of th t mi staff are personally responsible for what they a-', or ri9 or mM to be printed. February ft. laas S tmS au neenndi elss matter M tie post of flee ra fussta, ,4ska anus Ui set o: August 4,1011. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor Sam Jensen Managing Editor , . . Fred Daly Editorial Page Editor Hack Lunditrom News Editor Bob Ireland Sports Editor Halt Blore Copy Editors: Gary Frenzel, Sara Jones, Jack Pollock and Dick Shngrne. At Editor lion Merman Night Newt Editor Rant Jones Staff Photographer Dale Lewis Office Secretary Julie flow. I! Society Editor Jaa FarreU staff Writers.. Nancy DeLong, George Mover. Marianne Thygeson, Cynthia Zschau, Bob Martel, Bob Win, vava Mcrxog. Frank, Ron Warlowskl. Judy Marilyn Nisnen, Minnettcr 'lay. lor, Diana Maxwell, Sandra YVhalen, Jo Ann Oaboron, Doothy Hall, Dlanna Geaae, 8tan Kidman, Art blatkman, Barbara Meston, Bill Wilson, Gary Peterson, Gary Rodger. Mary Dee Patterson, Gretehen gaeger, Deanna Harnett, George Porter BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager George Maden Ctrcolntinn Manager Blcbard Hendrlx Assistant Buslneei Msnaremt . Don Beck, Lmjrj Epsiaia, rasa Naff, Jerry SuUaaUaa Reporters Carole Nieler. ' VOU SHOULP HAVE HK PfAONSTRATlON UTNH tfoce of The Turtle Ha! The fools they've done It again. They have given us a new year to ruin. Now we can go out and start new wars, and compli cate the ones we have already started, and hate people, etc. Haven't had such a good deal since they harnessed the atom. Probably everyone had a good time over Vacation, what with tur key and ham and prime ribs and mashed potatoes to surround, and ten hours of uninterrupted televi sion every day. Also, most likely everyone went home with cases of books and pa pers and everything, and proceed- Fred Daly ed not to get anything done. After four years I have developed a keen sense of not getting anything done. I can not get anything done for hours on end. Sometimes one gets conscience qualms, but they can be lulled away by the TV tube. It is like taking dope. New Year's Resolutions used to be a very big deal, but now they are pretty much left alone. We are becoming less and less a race of hypocrits, apparently. The Christmas Holidays are a time for getting married, one is led to understand. I got my room mate married off out in Ogallala, and I owe around for wedding pres ents dating back to November. According to whoever writes rules of social behavior, you have one year in which to send a pres ent. So don't clutch, it will get there eventually, just as soon as money can be raised for postage. Something ought to be said about finals, probabiy. They are coming up in less than two weeks, and if you listen very carefully you can elready hear the booming of the guns and the screams of the dying, and the ringing of the greats bells. Some people look to finals as something terrible and foreboding, instead of a time of intellectual stimulation and furthering of the Learning Process. I do, anyway- Nominations are now open for Outstanding Nebraskan. Two per sons are lauded each semester one senior student and one f aculty member. Nominations should be based on the individual's leader ship, participation in University affairs, and particularly service to the University. Nominations will be due next Monday. Names of persons nom inating should be included with letters of nomination, but will not be released by The Nebraskan. It will be our little secret. It certainly is good to be back at school. Yes, sir, it certainly is. In the Crib this morning all the people who were there cutting their ten-o'clocks looked like they were descending to the ninth and last circle of Hell. By the way, hapy new year. What with new superhighways and f.ix-lane turnpikes, and fine, new cars with lots of chrome and gadgets and horsepower, and wonderfully-devised traffic patterns, it is all a person can do to stay alive. Thought for the Week: Candy Is dandy, But liquor is quicker Collegiate Poll: Adequate Preparation r Minneapolis ' (ACP) Educa tors, politicians, parents and many other interested individuals have discussed the kind of a job col leges are doing in educating the youth of this nation for the fu ture. Much of the argumenl con cerns the perennial issue of lib eral vs. narrow, intensified study. Methods of teaching also come in for praise and criticism. In order to get the collegiate slant on this issue Associated Col legiate Press asked the following question of a representative na tional cross-section of college stu dents: DO YOU FEEL THAT YOUR COLLEGE IS DOING AN ADE QUATE JOB OF PREPARING YOU FOR YOUR FUTURE LIFE? The results: Men Women Total Yes 72 78 74 No 15 15 15 Undecided 13 7 11 In general, college students over whelmingly support the kind of a job their present colleges are do ing. When asked reasons for their decisions, most students reply in terms of their own individual sit uation, saying they are satisfied with their choice of program, etc. One comment however, is repeat ed a number of times, and a Wake Forest College (Winston Salem, N.C.) senior coed express es it quite well: "Adequate prep aration depends more on the per son than the college." And a fresh man at the University of Wyo ming (Laramie) puts it this way: "What you put in is directly equal to what you get back." A very satisifed sophomore at tending Mississippi College (Clin ton) has this to say: "I'm getting an all-around education and am growing mentally, spiritually, physically and. socially." But a sophomore at Tyler Junior - Col lege (Tyler, Texas) states: "Scho lastically yes; mentally and spir itually no." A University' of Denver sopho more qualified his opinion by ap proving the overall job colleges are doing but comments that "some majors are sometimes too confining in scope," while a fresh man at the same school can find nothing wrong: "The University of Denver is definitely a wonder ful institution, and the instruction received here may be considered as excellent." With students who feel their col leges are not doing an adequate job the major complaint is an overabundance of petty details and den you with too many extra courses you don't need" is the way an Ohio University (Athens) junior expresses himself, and a Wake Forest College senior states: "I think the college program is unrealistic because it is too con cerned with details that will nev er make any difference." A Maryland University (College Park) senior feels that colleges should offer more "chances for experience" and take more "in terest in the students." And a senior at the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, N.Y.) believes that in some instances the "caliber of instruction and the courses do not have many things in common with preparation for the future." "Rright now I don't feel as though I'm prepared for a thing" is the quizzical reply of a Uni versity of Maryland sophomore. And a freshman coed at Wake Forest College is worried because her institution doesn't "offer ade quate preparation for married life." Some students undecided on the issue feel the pros and cons equate each other, or as a junior coed at Syracuse University (Syracuse, N.Y.) puts it: ". t .adequate in certain phases not at all in oth ers." But in general, undecided students believe they just don't have enough information available in order to make a decision. But when asked the question a sopho more at Juniata College (Hunting ten, Pa.) states: "111 tell you in about 15 years." Pan on a m " 'Mm Sunday night Loretta Young put on a tall hat and gave the televi sion audience a good look at the Hollywood conception of ancient Egypt. The king was in his counting house, all right, but instead of counting out his money he was counting out the blessings which had been showered on his by the all loving sun god, Aton (the vow els are insignificant.) I think that this program popped up at the right time. All during the holidays people were badgering me about what I do in this column. Dick Shugruo "You write too deep," one friend said. "You fail to say anything but repeat the big words in Webster," coughed another. My own brother looked cross eyed at me and said, "Get down to brass tack, boy!" Just what this all has to do with the queen of Egypt is, in my esti mation, very much ... On one hand we have presented before us on the television screen a view of Egypt which is not an accurate reflection of Egyptian thought and life and on the other hand we have a conception of a columnist as op posed to the real motives of that person. That's still too vague, I know. The thing is, we too often view others in the narrow scope of our our beliefs and don't take what they have to offer in the spirit it is offered. Then, too, Loretta looked like Nefertiti. Her looks were the same as that statue which has been stuffed in a corner of the Berlin Museum for these past years. Os tensibly, my writing may look like a column to the few. Yet to the many who are famil iar with WW and BB, my work doesn't even look like the city's public notices During the holidays I caughte up on my old Ameri ca's and read, what in my mind, are some good columns. And it was a pleasure to see long sentences, tough words, and a dictionary at my side into the long hours of the night. But that still doesn't lop me over to the offensive side oi the game of life (for that sentence I might be fired.) I told my brother that what 1 was working for was an under standing of the basic problems aU face when they start to live. He maintained that I should concen trate on those many problems which are facing the University so that I would be a positive force. Then he said in the next breath, as he read the report of what student council representatives had to say in Kansas City, "Some guys just don't leave well enough alone. They're always looking for the spotlight but don't care what they say about the University." You can imagine which one of us be gan to laugh. That's the picture as it flashe on my screen today. I'm sure our prejudices and our likes are very much found up in the sphere of influence we know. For those who saw Loretta and think that the Egyptians were finding the Paa Christi and for those who think that columnists should be short, sweet and funny, there are always movie houses and spigots. For those who would rather solve a few basic problems, know a few basic facts about history and understand some of the ele iments of why peoples differ, we can still get Falernian wine and America's rates are but $7.50 a year. Nebraskan Letterips To the editor of The Nebraskan: The unfortunately misrepresent ative stories concerning the Big Seven Student Council convention's discussion of campus liquor poli cies prompts this letter. The wire stories which ran in several, local papers, obviously constructed from isolated quotes in the Kansas City Morning Times (Dec. 28), implied that the Ne braska delegation broached the entire subject of collegiate drink ing, ". . . originated a suggestion to revamp university rules which ban drinking" and supported this suggestion by criticizing the Uni versity of Nebraska's enforcement of campus drinking regulations. These three embarrassing impli cations could not be further from the purpose and tenor of the dis cussion among the Big Seven stu dent council presidents in Kansas City over Christmas vacation. In the first place, the subject of campus drinking regulations had been placed on tha pre-convention brochure at the written request of the University of Missouri, and was not presented by any mem ber school for special consideration at the conference. Secondly, the Nebraska delega tion argued, against the direct op position of several other Big Seven schools, that the conference ad ministrations were all obliged by state law to enforce drinking regu lations on campus. Further, our representatives pointed out that this jurisdiction could be legally extended to fraternities and soror ities, normally privately owned, but nevertheless always chartered by the Board of Regents. The suggestion which we broached, and which was inform ally agreed upon by the member schools in lieu of an official vote, was to the effect that Big Seven administrations exercise caution to see that legal boundaries are not overstepped in the enforcement of drinking regulations. This was neither an attempt to "revamp university rules banning drinking" nor was it an effort to enlist sympathy for on-campus drinking, but was merely intended to strengthen our position of en forcing drinking regulations in accordance with state law by try ing to insure, in so doing, that (1) the legal rights of the indi vidual are not impaired (as in cases reported at Oklahoma Uni versity where locked cars had been broken into) and, (2) the le gal rights of universities are not over-extended (as in cases at sev eral schools, including Nebraska) where administrations find them selves in the legally indefensible and virtually unenforceable posi tions of supervising all im promptu gatherings. Thirdly, our explanation of Ne braska's drinking policies came in response to a question by the K State discussion group chairman, and were defined as enforcement of drinking regulations on campus and at university functions (which I interpreted by the Student Af fairs Division as four or five stu dents gathering socially.) It may be pointed out that our delegations supported this stand strongly, and contended unequivo cally that drinking regulations must be enforced on University, state-owned property, disagreeing only with the interpretation that the institution could legally and practicably enforce drinking reg ulations in all off-campus gather ings of more than five students. It is unfortunate that the news stories did not adequately reflect the spirit and temper of the ar dent council convention, and even more unfortunate that the result ing misrepresentation evoked com ments questioning the motives of the Nebraska delegates, but I hope this explanation will help to clear any further misapprehensions which may have occurred. Bruce Brngmann President, University of Nebraska Student CsaacS Editor, The Nebraskan: This business of tuition for LV versity students must arouse most universal interest throughout the state, It fits in well with ourv program for conservation and util ization of natural resources, The greatest shortage in the United States today is skilled manpower. Every young person graduating from college enriches the state and nation. Enriches it many times f.rf061 t0 state of education. When the great GI Bill of Rights was passed I was aghast at the great cost to the government. And 11 was really enormous. Now we all look back and wonder what on earth the country would have done without the teachers, doctors, en gineers, what have you, who trained under that wise and gener ous legislation. No one will ques. tion that the progress of this na. tion was greatly accelerated by the contribution of these enthusiastic and well trained young people. The funny thing about it is, the more educated people we turn out, the more we seem to need. Ifs like a great bon-fire that rises higher and higher the more it is fed. And so today, I think the most shortsighted thing the state or nation can do is take a parsim. onous attitude toward education. The GI Bill boys proved conclu. sively that we have abundant ma terial ready and willing to accept educational opportunity and make good on it any time it is offered. I do not speak here for the selfish welfare of individuals who want an opportunity to make money, although this is perfectly legiti. mate. I speak for the health, safe, ty, and prosperity of the state. Instead of increasing the tul. tion for our University students, we ought to reduce it. The Federal Government ought to aid generously in education of every sort. During the campaign we heard President Eisenhower on TV promise not only to see that a bill to this end was introduced in Congress, but he promised to throw the influence of his adminis tration actively behind jt. We are losing money on every dollar we "save" on education. Too many of us are shortsighted. I feel sory for a college presi. dent with so little vision. It is far from characteristic. Chancellor Hardin is conservative. He is not asking for money for an eleemosyn ary institution. He is caffling atten tion to an opportunity for acceler ating the prosperity and spiritual progress of Nebraska. W. T. Davia We Here ... What's In a Number? (ACP) A University of Texas coed has been scaring away some of her dates lately, but entir?ly against her will- When going through enrollment, she wasn't sure of her new phone number ... but decided to list it on all her cards as she remembered it. Now men who call her get a masculine sounding husky-voixd answer. The Daily Texan advL s date-seekers to heng up prcm. ..y and informs them the unknc.vn voice is the Austin chief of po lice. The coed used the chiefs unlisted number by mistake. t p -fair, ttPWfV M;V"7JV!'flclW1 r f '"rT ?r"J '?' x'"b-"v W"" t?wjf