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i Wednesday, January 16, 1957- Pegs 2 THE NEBRASKAN Nchraskan Editorials: LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler . 1 , .1 i i . f i Medical Concern Medical students who visited with Governor Anderson Friday were very concerned over the transference of building funds into the general funds to be used to reopen two wards at the Uni versity Hospital. Not that Bob Stryker objected to reopening the wards. But he objected to the slowing down o fthe projected building program of the medical center because of the transference. Stryker, who is president of the Medical Col lege Student Council, told the Governor that he believed the very existence of th University medical center was tied up in the building fund. "As a medical school we can't be satisfied with just getting more funds; it is imperative that we get enough funds for everything. A medi cal school has to have the very latest in ma terials and medicines or it will not do an ade ijuabe job in instructing the students," Stryker stated. Tuesday the Legislature's budget committee introduced a bill which would transfer $75,000 from the building fund of the Medical College to the general fund to supply immediate funds to reopen the wards. The bill, which was recommended by the Governor, would take money from the building fund which must accumulate before any build ing can be completed. Dr. Lawrence Cappiello, Information director of the hospital, explained it this way. "State law provides that we must have money on hand be fore we can spend it. That means that the build ing fund must meet certain goal before it can be used for construction." - Stryker said that the diversion of funds at the hospital would hamper expansion and ulti mately hurt the standing of the medical center. 'I realize that it's more important to meet the pressing needs of today before we go on to the future," Sryker said, "but we must not cut off our nose to spite our face." He maintained that every one at the medical unit in Omaha was very concerned over the transference of funds. And if safe to say that everyone at the Lincoln campus is concerned about the transfer ence of the funds, too. We are well aware that the medical unit in Omaha faces pressing fi nancial problems. We are aware that the Lincoln campus faces similar problems. Governor Anderson assured students Friday that every request which could be met under the present tax structure would be given the Uni versity. We are not ungrateful to the state for the support of the University, of course. But more than gratitude, we need funds to keep the Uni versity moving ever upwards. Explosive Censure Ja recent weeks, three American newsmen who dared to defy the wrath of the State De partment went behind the Bamboo Curtain to find the facts of life in China in order to inform the American people. They were immediately censured by the State Department with talk of revoking passports to anywhere but back to the U. S. The sounding box of the American Press, Editor Publisher, immediately let off steam on the subject saying that it is no one's business where newsmen find the truth. E & P maintained that on one hand we have to contend with the Communist propaganda which pours from China and on the other we must avoid getting the truth about the land from American newsmen. . , The State Department has claimed that be : eause some American citizens arebeing held, against their wills in China, the nation can take no chances y with-further occurrences -"ol this nature happening again.. ;; - - - .But the .government might be putting- its. foot -bits mouth on this secbuni. For if ire suppress'' the sources of news we are no better than a Communist state which suppresses truthful ac counts of happenings. We would like to support the administration in very aspect of its policies. In a non-political gesture we are striving to make our federal government as sound and as strong as possible. But even this college newspaper is very much concerned that the search for news would be squelched by governmental policies. When the three were censured no action was taken against their employers, Look Maga zine and CBS. Perhaps this was a move of cau tion on the part of the State Department, for the wrath of the industry would surely have followed such action. - We maintain the right of newsmen to search into every nook and cranny to find the facts, to keep the nation strong, by learning the . truth. And if the .sole source of truth about Communist -nations is the ability of American newsmen to sift through fiction and view truthu theVwe say that American newsmen should be allowed to go anywhere anytime to iuluuu the public.-- mien ration th Reverse One educator has called it "the South's and the nation's most integrated college." He was referring to West Virginia State College which has gone virtually unnoticed since the nation watched efforts to integrate Negroes in schools ia Clinton, 'Tenn., Louisville, Dallas, and others but which has pioneered in the social frontier by instigating integration in reverse. It is of particular interest that one of the country's foremost Negro institutions until the Supreme Court decision in 1954 should now be come one of the country' leading integrated schools. Over half of the enrollment today is white, and this has been done all in two years. The school only points up that the contro versial segration can go both ways and ironically shows that the whites who by their ancestors have proceeded down the segregated path have actually taken the opposite role to discriminate against themselves. West Virginia State didn't go out looking for new enrollment in whites after the Supreme Court decision, in fact it was a young man liv ing only five miles from the campus who called the day following the court decision asking for admission. And, there have been no major problems be cause of the new integration. It has pointed out that any difficulties that have arisen be tween white and Negro students have been because they were students and not because they were of different races. We in the North have little understanding of integration of white schools in the South let alone Negro schools. To us this may not seem as a step toward a better understanding between the social relations of our two races but to West Virginia State a well deserving hand must be given. From Tho Editor's Desk: With Malice Towards None The loss of the vice-president O. TFC for the second time in one iwn ester would seem to place ajinx on the position. Both of tie former office holders an now on conduct probation, one for an infraction of fee University's liquor policies and the other for failing to iriorm the Uni versity that 5ie was a non-resident stud 4 and had not been reside for over two years. Thfcfte persons who are in Xterti.ied in such things point out that both indviduals, prior to their forced resignations, bad attempted to carry out action which caused some small pain to Dean Colbert and Dean Hallgren of the Di vision of Student Affairs. ' Both students, while ad mitting that they are guilty as enraged, also believe, or are alleged to believe, that the Student .Affairs Office went cut of its way to punish them and that the punishment was not actually so much the re sult of the violation as it was fee result of opposition to pol 'iies td the Student Affairs If it is true that the Student Afafirs office is going out of it3 way to punish certain stu dents, then it is most appar ent that this sort of proceed ing is not consistent with the responsibilties and the power of this office. The student af fairs office has almost auto nomous power in student dis ciplinary action and can sus pend students from the Uni versity, if they believe such action necessary. Another charge that is pre sently floating around is bat Dean Hallgren has, on several occasions, attempted to infu ence student affairs in a man ner that could best be de scribed as political "back scratching. In other words, he has supported certain students for campus positions in opposition to other candi dates whom he believed to be either less qualified or unde sirable. It is doubtful, if the charge is true, that this sort of action is within his preroga tive. The reason that I mention these allegations and that is what they must be labeled is that more and more incidents which contribute to their pos sible veracity are coming to light. One thing must be ad mitted. The past two vice presidents of IFC hive not been loyal supporters of ad ministrative policies and they haven't lasted in office as long a those other members of the executive council who usually go along with administrative action. These comments, are not in tended to be received as some final judgment or dictum, but they are presented unsubstan tiated comment that seems to be becoming more substantial. The Student Council has de cided to poll students about a passible tuition raise at the time when students are paying their fees for the coming se mester. It is very unlikely that any student, immediately after paying $90 to the University, would favor a tuition hike. Sfr Ten sen The Nebraskan FIFTY-FIVE TEARS CLD EDITORIAL STAFF sgrnxz Asscomea loucgiaie rrcsw Maoaxtnc Eiew m ii , , . . , tentorial Paaa UAiUit ................ .Mack I.rodtrm faicrceuegiate Press m b ir-iana ZrMzs:zi&'ZTit National AdvertfRg Service, F.?, ljjgmr 7a!5?VK3 refeiahea at: ium so, stud uaka fssLSSZ tzz k It IWIm pwwttlf ......................... Julia ftnwril tmntf COfuw. ........... -m t'tirersUy l Nefcwata lt - S,2T.wS Uscola, Nebraska Bofc T !K i-wm! ta iTOhlUhM TmmAnr, TrlWaai m tiflportara. ...... .farala Frank, Horn Wsrtowakt. 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And, of course, the Communists are the good guys, and the United -States is the haunt of the bad guys. ; In their newspapef stories, cer tain phrases and epressions are used to easily identify persons and countries for the"average reader of the Russian steppes. American poli tics are "desperate intrigues and plots of imperialist circles." "The glorious camp of socialism stands firmly together as one ready to repel this massive campaign of subversion." The purpose of Vice-president Nixon's visit to Austria was to "gather the remnants of the counter-revolutionary bands and try once again to stir up disorders in Hungary." It -was also noted that "Ruling politicians in the United States, carefully concealing their plans to colonize the Near East and replace the discredited British and French, have under taken new intrigues 1ft pursuit &f their nefarious goals." It is also - interesting to note that order is being restored in Hungary "with the help of the friendly Soviet troops who acted on the request of the Kadar govern ment." It was, of course, "impe rialist circles in the West who sought to restore the capitalist landlord rule to Hungary." To ease Ivan's mind when his belly is empty, he is assured that "it is well known that relations between the great Soviet Union and the Peopl's Democracies are based on mutual respect of sover eignth, equality and mutual trust." Finally, there is usually a smat tering of releases on how United States' spies are being liquidated here and there, and that "the whole world knows of the increasing sub version of the American imperial ists against the peaceful People's Democracies." After reading these reports, it is easy to understand how people's under Red domination can remain as passive as they do, notwithstand ing revolts in Poland and Hungary. Especially in Russia itself, the people hear no news other than that edited by government control lers. The newspaper, the most com plete media of communication of truth and honest opinion. Or, like in Iron Curtain countries, it can be used as an effectual drop by drop poison. Anyone read Little Orphan An nie, lately? Collegiate Poll: lungary And heeiom MINNEAPOLIS (ACP) The in spired Hungarian revolt for free dom proved to the world there is still a desire for liberty and in dependence behind the Iron Cur tain. But heartbreaking to freedom-loving nations of the world was their inability to give Hun garian freedom fighters anything but moral encouragement, lest other action precipitate a general war between the East and the West. Associated Collegiate Press sought to gain collegiate opinion on this issue by asking the follow ing question of a representative national cross-section of college students: DO YOU FEEL THERE IS ANY WAY, SHORT OF WAR, EV WHICH THE UNITED NA TIONS CAN HELP HUNGARY REGAIN ITS FREEDOM? The results: Roughly half of the students feel there are ways to aid un gary in its attempt to regain free dom. The most common feeling eems to be that the free world, and especially the United Nations, should exert pressure of various sorts upon the Soviet Union, such as economic boycotts. Others feel diplomatic maneuvers are the an swer while some believe another summit conference is necessary. And a few students feel we should go as far as to threaten Russia with war. Here are a few typical responses : "We should insist that commun ist satellites be allowed political independence by freedom of choice at the ballot boxes," is the opinion of a sophomore at the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, N.Y.). A sophomore coed at the University of Nebraska feels this way: "I think Russia is too afraid to start a war and we could do almost anything to free Hungary." A freshman coed at Jacksonville University (Jacksonville, Florida) believes the answer is "moral sup port and encouragement by the free nations," while a junior at tending the Bernard Baruch School of Business, City College of New York, gives this observation: "We should place embargos on Rus sian trade and send UN observers into Hungary." And a junior at tending the Newark College of En gineering (Newark, NJ.) puts it this way: "Exert more propagan da pressure; Russia is highly sen sitive to world opinion." Students who believe that there is no way short of war to help Hungary regain its freedom either feel that Russia is too strong to bully or that the UN is ineffec tive. A sophomore attending Georgetown University (Washing ton, D.C.) exemplifies this latter position as be says: "The UN is not able to enforce any decision it may make because of its in ternal organization." Here are several comments typical of other points of view: "Unless Russia would relent, there seems to be no alternative other alternative than war much as we would hate to witness it," is the feeling of a sophomore coed at yillanova University (Vil lanova. Pa.). An Ohio University (Athens) senior has this to say: "As one of the two most power ful nations in the world today the U.S.S.R. will not allow outsiders to change its basic policy." The Campus Green The Ascension Down Ses ailes de geant l'empechant de marcher Baudelaire John of the Cross tearing The tangled fibers of a lover's brain, A poet, sees the besotted face As wild as tigers' eyes Embedded in the moon: The aesthetic' waning swoon. And down and swifter Falls the burnt Icarus With a forehead hot as suns And a heart that died in sweat, His ascension rest In crests of his jutting, chained will As the splash echoes back Richard M. Kelly ' I The Iconoclast CaHaMauiia4 0fc J More random thoughts from a curiously shaped mind . . . Back in Iowa where I come from, we cuss about the cowpath high ways and the ridiculous laws; we re-elect the GOP with patient reg ularity and then grumble about the capitol hill crowd. We also stand for the Iowa Corn Song as readily as for the Star Spangled Banner. And we are as proud of calling our state university the j "Athens of the Mid-west as we are of calling the football team "Rose Bowl Champs." I write this Steve Schultz preamble as an extenuation for the remarks I am about to remark. For I am an Iowan by birth as I am a Democrat by birth, and my prejudices are ingrown. I submit that by comparison with the Great State to the east, the stae of Nebraska suffers from a mass infefiotiy complex. What is .the- Nebraska state song? Or the "state flower? Where is the state Jlag flown? And who knows a Ne braskan by his state pride? I sub mit that the only invariable sign of a native of this state is his neurotic fear of highway patrol men. This deatribe is apropos of the University's budget problems. They seem to me another indica tion of the massive Nebraska fear of greatness. We, as students, and the state natives, as tax payers, have every right to be proud of the University for the potential it possesses, for what it can be. No college in the group that makes up NU has any outstanding weak nesses and many have outstanding strengths. Nebraska University, as it exists today, is a foundation on which a skyscraper can be built. But if we, or the taxpayers, cr th legislature are dedicated to me diocrity, we can expect just that. I find myself suddenly on a soap box and dangerously near the sort of overwrought prose I fear so much. But I feel the problem deeply. One can tell a Texan by his pride in size, a Rhode Islander by his pride in smallness, and an Iowan by his pride in height (of cornstalks). Nebraskans of the fu ture could have damned little pride in mediocrity. a Perhaps because I am writing this in the Rag office, my latent admiration of newspaper men has suddenly evinced itself again. I am amazed at their ability to keep all those stories and all those phone calls straight. And their perpetual motion without emotion fascin ates me. (I becom upset just try. ing to make out a schedule for the semester.) But most incredible is their abil ity to write something coherent in a headline. Given just so many spaces in just so large type, a newspaperman is able to make sense. If they had to work in rhyme scheme, they would have a form as challenging as the Petrarchan sonnet. One of the idiosyncracies of hu manity that perpetually baffles m is the desire to appear crazy. Al most everyone I have known for any length of time has tried to convince me that his particular job required mental unbalance. They all say, "You don't have to be crazy to be a (fraternity man, in dependent, corn canner, ditch dig ger, chem major, KK worker, etc., etc.) but it helps." Apper ently, anything to be different. But all this is in vain because I know that no one is as crazy as speech majors and columnisU, i .rk il UlllliiJI mmm (Autlitr -Bartft Boy Wit Ct," ttc) WHO WENT TO THE PROM ...AND WHY "Hello,"' said the voice on the telephone. "Thia ia Werthar Sigafoos." "Who?" said Anna Livia Plurabelle. "Werther Sigafoos," said Werther Sigafoos. "I ait next to you in psych. I'm kind of dumpy and I always wear a sweatshirt." v- "I'm afraid I don't remember you," said Anna Livia. "I'm the one whose lecture notes you've been borrow ing for two years," said Werther. "Oh, yes!" she said. "What do you wish, Walter?" "Werther," said Werther. "What I wish is to take you to the Junior Prom next ApriL" "That's months away, Westnor," said Anna Livia. "Werther," said Werther. "Yes, I know, but you are so round and beautiful that I was afraid you might have a date already." "As a matter of fact I do, Wingate," said Anna Livia. "Werther," said Werther. "Oh, drat!" Tl"mmm iiri-rnar- -imnmr - i Anna Livia did not really have a date, but she was expecting to be asked by Stewart Stalwart, athlete and ' EMOC, handsome as Apollo, smooth as ivory, driver of a 2.9 litre Bugatti, wearer of faultless tweeds, smoker of Philip Morris Cigarettes, which, even without hi . other achievements, would by itself stamp him as a man of discrimination, as the possessor of a pleasure-oriented palate, as one who smoked for the pure joy of it, who had sought and found a cigarette brimming over with zest and tip and hearty good fellowship Philip Morris! Well sir, Anna Livia waited for Stewart to ask her, but two days before the Prom, to everybody's amazement, he asked Rose-of-Sharon Kinsolving, a nondescript girl with pavement colored hair and a briefcase. Anna Livia sobbed for a spell and then, not wishing to miss the most gala event of the junior year, she phoned Werther Sigafoos. "My Prom date has come down with a dread virus," she said, "and I'll accept your invitation, Waldrop." "Werther," said Werther. "Oh, goody ganders!" The next day Anna Livia received a phone call from Stewart Stalwart. "My Prom date has come down with a dread virus," he said. "Will you go with me?" ""Certainly," she said and immediately phoned Wer ther and said, "I have come down with a dread virus and cannot go to the Prom with you. Whipstitch." "Werther," said Werther. "Oh, mice and rats!" So Anna Livia went to the Prom with Stewart and who do you think they ran into? Rose-of -Sharon with Werther, that' who! Stewart had felt obliged to ask Rose-of-Sharon be cause she always did hi homework, but she had weaseled out because she really wanted to go with Werther with whom she felt a great oneness because they were both o dumpy. He fell wildly in love with her at the Prom, and today they are married and run a very successful five-minute auto-wash in New Bern, N. C. Anna Livia and Stewart are happy too. They are till junior and have not missed a Prom in six years. O Mas nbulman. 1S67 AU't tcU thai mndt mU, tar th maker$ of Philip Morrig Cigarette, who bring you this column each week through the school year. And, ipmaking of thingt that end mmU ani begin well too try today mettful new Philip Mirrrul