Monday, February 11, 1957
Daily Nebraskan Editorials:
CflOUHeACME?IDON'TCeV$(
I DON'T CARE! I DON'T CAGt !
I DON'T CAPE! I DON'T CARE!!
(JJMY DON'T 0l? YELL LOUDER
THAT'S AS LOJD AS I CAN
YELL. AND STILL MEAN IT..
VCHARUE BROUN?
The Last k
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me uany NeorasKon
The Internfraternity Council ii presumably
beginning the last act of Its Big Upheaval.
It is about to elect a new executive board, which
is what the fifteen fraternities who asked for
the resignation of the old officers seem to want.
It is also waiting for the Board of Control meet
ing Wednesday.
The outcome of this Board of Control meeting
and the Thursday election can only be specu
lated. Rightvnow, things are at a standstill. No
one knows what the Board will decide, or do,
and certainly no one knows who the officers
will be and what they will decide, or do, about
the fraternity system at the University.
What is important is that fraternities quit
grumbling at and accusing each other and their
advisors, and start building up what they have
torn down. Perhaps the new structure will be
stronger than the old. No one can say the IFC
hasn't had its faults.
So far, however, the only developments of the
issue have been bad publicity and bad feelings.
The "truth" of the matter, whatever that is,
has been veiled behind closed meetings. The
public is informed of the unity and understanding
that has developed at one meeting or another
From the accusations and statements made at
last Wednesday' meeting, this unity didn't
seem too strong.
The issue has developed further thaa whether
or not the officers should have been removed.
or whether or not this removal was justified,
Perhaps the advisors have been acting too much
on their own, as some of the IFC members
claim. This is a point, but not the important one.
The IFC has done what it has done, and now
faces the task of proving it can get Hself out of
its own mess. Trie fraternity system must prove
its worth to the University. This value to the
University community exists, but it cannot be
used to its best through strife and disagreement.
familiar Problems
Apparently budget problems are not restricted
to the University and the state of Nebraska, ac
cording to an editorial in the Iowa State Daily,
itudent newspaper for that school.
"Rising enrollments, crowded classrooms and
living conditions are problems facing the expand
ing state schools. The budget for the three
schools has already been set and will come up
before the state legislature in the near future
for approval. This will be an important interval
in the history of the schools," the editorial
stated.
One trouble spot at Iowa State is similar to a
rising problem at the University competition
for professors from other schools and private
business. The Iowa State paper said: "Low sal
aries, competition with private business and
rising enrollments place Iowa State in a posi
tion that, once behind, we will find it difficult to
catch up. We must maintain our faculty, im
prove our facilities and educational standards."
The Iowa paper also had praise for the state's
board of regents, which has the three-fold job
of governing three state supported schools of
higher eductaion Iowa State, Iowa University
and Iowa State Teachers. This board is made
up of members appointed by the governor.
Rising costs of state government and state
supported education are conflicting in other
states as well as Nebraska. It is a problem that
must be met immediately, before the big influx
of "war babies" into our nation's colleges. A
recent survey by a national news magazine in
dicates most colleges across the country are
not prepared for this boost in enrollment.
We are being faced with a nation-wide lowering
of standards, if funds and facilities cannot be
maintained In our Institutions of higher learning,
be they public or privately-endowed. A nation
is no better educated or trained than its youth.
freshing kmouncemenl
One of the best musicals to hit Broadway in
years "South Pacific" will be presented by
the Kosmet Klub in late May. This itself prom
lses a rare entertainment feature. What makes
it even better is that the show will be held in
the new Lincoln City Auditorium, with its newly-Iy-minted
acoustics and staging facilities.
"South Pacific" will be the first musical to be
presented in the now nearly-complete Auditori
um. This is no little distinction to the Klub and
to the University.
The Kosmet Klub has this year worked itself
out of a rather dismal situation left by the ban
ning of the Fall Review after the fall, 1955, pro
duction. This year, under the stipulations laid
down by themselves and the committee on Stu
dent Affairs, they presented a wholly creditable
Fall Review, and have contracted what could be
a fine Spring Show.
With the flame and smoke and hypocrisy of
the IFC business drifting around it is rather
refreshing to see a campus organization going
quietly about its business and doing its best to
bring a good show to the campus.
The Ef
ernal Dimension'
(Ed's. Note:) This is the second of a series
of dvotlonals by student religious leaders for
Religions Emphasis Week.
This week is devoted to a very important
reflectlon-What are fte Eternal Dimensions.
This theme is raised during this "Religious
Emphasis Week." In our complicated civiliza
tion when we speak of peaceful coexistence,
plitting the atom and hydrogen warfare, where
does the "Eternal Dimension" fit in? While we
emphasize our problems, do we de-emphasize
the standards? Someone has observed that phil
osophers used to discuss the problems of man;
now they analyze "man" as the "problem.
The march of progress-is it going in one
direction or is it radiating in so many directions
that we can not tell where it is going or what
end Hll is serve? There is a paradoxical mix
ture of confidence and fear, certainty and
doubt, substance and shadow, war and peace.
No one can deny there has been one kind
of progress. The physical and social sciences
have made breath-taking strides. Has man's
security and peace of mind advanced with the
strides just mentioned? That is a debatable
or even a controversial point. There is a grow
ing mistrust among man and nations. Treaties
are violated, the rights of minority nations are
ignored, the very dignity of man is doubted or
denied. The history of the twentieth century
though glowing with narratives of physical and
technical advances is nevertheless unsurpassed
in savagery, mass killing, deportation of inno
cent victims into labor camps, sometimes
nations even sit in judgment over nations less
brutal than the judges.
The real threat of war is never ignored. Since
war and peace are determined by ideas and
ideals, how can we rid ourselves of the thought
of war and harbor the plan of peace, if we
ignore the fundamental basic standards the
Eternal Dimensions.
In all the confusion, there is none greater
than the confusion in the minds of intellectuals.
Why? They follow on a single track the physi
cal dimensions are alone considered. The spirit
ual dimensions are unknown and unexplored.
Those who lead or those who are being drained
to lead, to set up ideals and to work out the
destiny of men and nations, are in many
instances, the most spiritually impoverished
of all. Those who are experts those who know
and those who set up standards in the physical
realm are devoid of knowledge of the standards
which pertain to the spirit of man. We have a
way of telling, according to established stand
ards, about the normalcy or abnormalcy in any
given situation, except in the realm of the
spirit.
It is no longer a theory, it is a fact that
many of our college graduates are more un
certain of the Eternal Dimensions than any
other class of people. Their knowledge of the
Divine Standards did not keep pace with the
other intellectual advancement. More and more
of our college graduates are theologically illit
erate. You as a future leader, what are you doing
to emphasize the Eternal Dimensions? You
have a role in life. By what standards will you
play that role? While you are being filled with
knowledge for your physical well-being, are you
slowly dying of spiritual starvation? In what
way do you measure up to the Eternal Dimen
sion? William Krueger
President,
Newman Club
Catholic Student Organization
The Rites Of Spring
Spring Day is fast becoming an established
campus activity, with the installation of a
Spring Day Committee by the Student Council.
This committee will be the main organizational
body for the event.
Last year, Spring Day made its first appear
ance on the campus on an experimental basis.
In spite of an attendance-squelching rain, the
people in charge were apparently impressed by
its success, or potential success.
The idea was first germinated in the spring
of 1955 after the infamous panty raid that cost
damage running into thousands of dollars, and
the expulsion of 19 students. It was decided by
administrative officials and student leaders
that some activity should be given students to
"keep their minds off such tumultous uprisings,
and give them something to let off steam.
Combined with the traditional Ivy Day,
Spring Day is designed to give the University
an All-University weekend, perhaps similar to
the famous Colorado University CU-Days, and
Iowa State's Veisha.
Although the appearance of another activity
on the campus' already crowded scene might
cause sad shaking of heads from campus poli
ticos, Spring Day as such is a commendable
venture. If it doesn't rain, .that is.
The Daily Nebraskan
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dick shugrue
Whether we impressed anyone or
not, the University debate squad
stopped in Chappell on the way
to the Rocky Mountain Speech
Conference at Denver this past
weekend to debate.
But the opportunity to stop in any
one of the Nebraska towns and let
the population of both the school
and the community know what the
University is capable of is the best
public relations move the Univer
sity could make.
In Chappell we visited the Deuel
County Consolidated high school to
debate this year's topic in front of
the high school and some interested
citizens of the town.
I'm not sure that every one of
the students know what we were
doing (debate is rather mystic even
to some members of the squad) but
I heard some comments after the
round which made the stop worth
while.
At this time of the year it's even
more significant that we stopped at
a town like Chappell.
The million-and-a-third people in
the state aren't really too sure what
we're trying to do at the Univer
sity. And so when the chance
comes along for the school to send
out students to the various commu
nities of the state to show our
wares, we reassure the masses that
1) the University is truly interested
in each and every town in the state,
2) the work the University does
benefits the student, 3) the Univer
sity is a service organization in
terested in aiding each person in
the way which is best.
At Chappell we met Peru State
College. The two young men who
debated for that school told a cou
ple of jokes, explained forensic ac
tivities to the audience and pro
vided us with a good challenge.
They, too, seem definitely con
cerned about the proposed tuition
increase for our state institutions
of higher education.
I earnestly hope that the various
University groups which ride out
to Nebraska towns and show peo
ple what is happening here impress
the people with the importance of
state education and the backing of
the people of the stats for on; state
schools.
I am not sure whether the Uni
versity sends representatives to Col
lege Days at various high schools.
If not, It would be a good tool in
making students there know we are
concerned with them and in giving
service through the University.
If anyone wants a minute-by-minute
account of the debate trip or
of how the squad made an earnest
effort to keep within the budget he
is welcome to drop into the Rag
office any afternoon this week.
I might mention that a law stu
dent at Denver University told me
many students had dropped out of
that school because of the large
boost in tuition there. However,
the DU Is not a public institution
and faces problems different from
those we face here. He said that
many fine teachers are attracted
there by the climate; wives are as
responsible as anything for that,
he maintained, since the salaries
were not the best in the country.
A solution to the parkirg problem
was offered by the United Press
some weeks ago in the public press.
"That classic form of exercise
the long walk was recognized by
the ancient Greeks as a tonic for
healthy living."
The release says, 'Early morning
walks are recommended for emo
tional disturbances by 85-year-old
professor Arthur Patch McKinley,
formerly of the University of Cal
ifornia. And from the looks of the park
ing situation on this campus long
morning walks and emotional dis
turbances seem to go hand in hand.
Professor McKlnlay said that
Hippocrates, that old Greek doctor,
suggested that long brisk walks
reduce hallucinations (like 'there
are plenty of parking places'), re
duce weight and keep the figure
trim.
I'll tell that to the gal who's just
slipped into two parking places in
the Union lot.
the outside
won
The Nebraska Legislature re
ceived nearly 600 bills in its cur
rent session. Actually the legis
lature would have its hands full
considering only 100, taking into
account the fact that almost half
the bills now introduced concern
some phase of government, and
that more time is spent debating
relatively unimportant bills con
cerning these minor details of
government than is spent on the
state budget and appropriations.
It is to one man in the Legis
lature that credit for many of
these bills is due. Sen. Terry "Joe
Smith" Carpenter, not only has
presented a great number of bills,
but has presented many bills which
have brought on much criticism
from all quarters. His bills are so
controversial and impractical, that
it would seem that he himself
would know the futileness of even
introducing them. But then, maybe
his sole purpose in having his
name associated with these bills
stems from his hunger for pub
licity. Not only his bills, but all his
actions, seem to be aimed at put
ting his name in headlines. Since
his political brainchild, the "Joe
Smith" episode at the Republican
National Convention in San Fran-
The Teacher
Is Here
To Stay
(ACP) "Television, motion pic
tures and other audio-visual devic
es will never eliminate the need
for that fundamental ingredient of
learning ... the live teacher.
Those are the words of Doctor
Edwin A- Lee, for 17 years Dean
of the School of Education at the
University of California at Los
Angeles. They represent a con
viction formed during a 50-year
teaching career.
"Mass comunication media,"
says Doctor Lee, "must be rec
organized for what they are . . .
mechanical means for the one-way
transmission of information or
entertainment. A student cannot
argue a point or discuss a prob
lem with a television set or a
radio, or ask questions of either.
In the end there must always be
a gifted teacher present if true
mental growth is to take place."
Doctor Lee also feels that the
prestige of teaching has risen
greatly since he entered the pro
fession a half century ago. He also
thinks salaries have improved con
siderably, especially in the large
cities. But he goes on to warn:
"We'll never have enough great
teachers until society recognizes
that quality education cannot be
purchased at bargain prices."
gary rodgers
cisco, which placed him in the
eyes of the nation, he has con
tinually been striving to keep him
self in the public eye, and has
had to resort to more and more
radical ideas to achieve it.
Carpenter's latest "publicity
stunt" was his attempt to force
Gov. Victor Anderson's budget out
of the budget Committee's hands.
Before that, it was his proposal to
abolish the state Highway Depart
ment. Who knows what our marv
elous law maker will come up with
in the next few days, for the
"headline hunting delegate from
Nebraska" has, since the conven
tion adjourned and he lost his na
tionwide audience, set himself to
the task of solving all the state's
problems and making a name for
himself.
In the past few years this nation
has taken a renewed and resurging
interest in education, though this
interest seems to have dwindled in
the Nebraska Legislature. The
legislature is, in general, forget
ting youth, and is not looking to
the future. This is witnessed by
the legislature's refusal to -even
introduce for debate the K12 bill,
indorsed by the State Board of
Education. The 43 members of the
legislature have completely ig
nored the students in Nebraska's
one-teacher schools, the "Forgot
ten 40,000."
I e
San Blast
Hanferd MeConnetl. a sophomore la the
Collec of Arts and eiriences, Is the
arw Independent eohimnlst for the Dally
Nrnraskan. McCennell has promised to
reflect as aecarately as possible the
views of the Independent, ef the male
specie as the campus. His heme is la
Omaha.
Terry Carpenter and I have no
fear of being hung in effigy, as
long as that is as far as it goes.
Bearing this in mind, I humbly
submit my first column in The
Dally Nebraskan.
On campus, for many years, the
Independent has held a important
spcial rank somewhere between
that of the worm and that of the
snail. The majority of Independents
blame this situation on pressures
exerted by fraternity members who
control the principal campus of
fices, and they have resigned them
selves to a policy of nonparties
pation and unconcern. Their an
tagonism towards the fraternity
system is not entirely unfounded.
The stand taken against R.A.M.
Glee Club in Ivy Day competition
represents unwillingness by the
fraternities to accept independents
on an equal basis. Whether they
will attempt to crack the dogma
of "Ivy Day tradition" again this
year is yet undetermined. This sit
uation is representative of the
problems which have confronted
Independents in the past.
The problem is not entirely the
product of the fraternity system,
however. The "I" in Independent
has long stood for indifference. The
average Independent resembles the
disatisfied citizen who never votes
but complains about the results of
the election. Perhaps he feels that
an Independent is a person who
must avoid association with any
organized group.
It is quite obvious that it is
impossible for any organization,
receiving such support, to become
effective. For example: With the
exception of a single first prize
homecoming display, the fall event
has been little more than a blotter
date for many independents. Hour
dances and exchange dinners have
become as forgotten as last se
mester's class schedule.
Only in the field of intramurals
has any serious competitive effort
been made. Even here the results
have been far below potential,
as evidenced by final results in
All-University playoffs. Any Quad
intramural manager is familiar
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with the difficulty of continually
obtaining enough players through
out the semester.
Without persistance, Independents
cannot possibly hope to gain recog
nition for their efforts. Qualified
potential office holders exist; but
without large scale support, Inde
pendent activity will continue to
lull in its present doldrum.
Independents must realize that
their individualism is not jeopar
dized by support of campus organi
zations or candidates who agree
with their views. The completion
of Selleck Quadrangle established
the existance of a concentrated
majority which so far has not
been effective.
The problem between independ
ent and fraternity cannot be solved
by sarcastic remarks which suc
cessfully produce continual con
flict. Understandably, there will
always be difference of viewpoint,
but both groups should hold a
common interest for campus wel
fare. At the present time confu
sion holds a poorly challenged posi
tion over campus affairs.
Unless active interest is aroused,
"Down with the other side," "We'
had control all these years", "I'm
better than anyone", "They're all
a bunch of losers", and "Who
cares what goes on around cam
pus," will continue to govern the
relationship between independents
and fraternities.
Survey Proves
Youth Informed
With the start of National Ad
vertising Week yesterday some in
teresting facts and figures' are ap
propriately revealed.
The Bureau of Advertising com
pleted a survey showing that mi
nors (in particular teens) find th
newspaper the most valuable me
dium for obtaining news.
It further pointed out that 80 per
cent of all "under 21's" read news
papers. The Daily Nebraskan feels
that this is a valuable tool for
newspapers in the sale of adver
tising. It is more important to point out
that the conclusions of the study
indicate the younger generation la
a well informed generation. W
might suggest that this ties in well
with the bill introduced in th
Legislature to allow 18-year-olds
to vote.
LITTLE MAN ON j CAMPUS
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dnectK preview vzmz
of a new hit
on campus
The critics rate this Arrow
Glen a smash hit on all counts.
The handsome broadcloth
shirt comes in a new hairline
npu ernn
wiotns available.; wide range f
of colors. Famous clean-cut
Arrow Glen collar.. Shirt $4.50.
Bias-striped shantung bow be, $ 1 .5 0.
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