Friday, February 15. 1957
Qaily Nebraskan Editorials:
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MX) SEE AFTKlV WHAT'S ( THAT'S A FUSSSUDGETT
H)0N IT THREE YEARS) THIS UTTLE FUSSING.
IN A ROU). THEY LET j FIGURE y ,.,
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( BEAUTIFUL TROPHY)
The Interfraternity Council, in electing its new
officers Thursday night, radiated a feeling of
co-operation that has been missing since tht
resignation of the officers in January. The elec
tions were conducted politely, in good order,
and without any ill-feeling about what has gone
on before. .
There also seems to be general satisfaction
about the new executive council. The president
is one of the men who voted against the Janu
ary action. The other three supported it, but
only one actively.
In discussion on the candidates for the of
ficers, representatives of both those who were
for the resignation and those who were against
it last month supported candidates from the
"other side." This would seem to indicate the
Idea of a "faction" is being broken down.
Even the Interfraternity Board of Control, who
at first came out violently against the calling
for resignation back in January, seemed at
peace with the IFC, and is certainly more in
terested in the ultimate welfare of the fraternity
system than in carrying on a wrangle on the
issue itself. They were right in saying the action
itself was not good, however.
That Old
Montana's state university system is planning
to request appropriations of more than $26
million from the legislature for the coming bi
ennjum. The move is being made to key" Mom
tana's state higher educational institutions to
the level of like schools of learning in the United
States.
However, the $26 million for the biennium will
be apportioned to the five higher educational
institutions of the state which include the State
University. That school is requesting $7.9 million
for the two years.
Dr. R. R. Renne, president of Montana State
College, said that the state has the lowest tax
burden (percentage which all taxes take of net
income) of any western state.
And he maintains that the needs of education,
both for the foundation school program and the
university system can be met without increas
ing Montana's total tax burden to the point
where it would be as high as the average of the
eleven other western states.
Nebraska legislators are attempting to give
the University a budget which will allow for
expansion of salaries for instructors and some
of the physical building programs at this school.
What we can learn from the Montana schools
is that they, too, have definite needs. Officials
of that state are trying to keep the tax burden
from being as high as the rest of the western
states.
That does not mean that taxes will not be in
creased, but rather that they , will be increased
to a point where they are on a level with sister
states.
Nebraska must recognize the need for addi
tional tax funds for its colleges.
We reported late in the fall that such states
as Kansas which has two state Universities
have cut budgets but not before tax support has
reached a point where about 15 million dollars
is spent each year on the two colleges.
, If Nebraska were to act similar to Kansas we
would have quite a few more tax dollars coming
prior to a cut. But we cannot expect the an
swers to this state's problems to be the same
The Eternal
As Religious Emphasis Week at the Univer
sity closes, it is hard to avoid the inevitable
"evaluation" session which with great facility
plagues an otherwise pleasant and profitable
experience. Skirting this dread meeting, I pre
fer to think in terms of the parable, the style
of the master's. Hence the story, "The Lord
Helpeth Man And Beast," taken from the Agada.
The Agada is an interpretative branch of
Jewish rabbinic literature with its origin in the
middle ages. Sometimes it is labeled as "the
additions to the Bible." More accurately, it is
an interpretation and elaboration of Biblical
texts with the moral purpose of giving point to
a homily and inspiration to the more noble
fancies of man's imagination. In contemporary
terms it could be called a "short-short story."
In his conquest of the world, Alexander the
Great came to a small and remote village in
deepest Africa. Alexander was amazed when,
after his visit with the village chieftan, he dis
covered that every utensil of the village was
made of precious stone and metal. The very
dinner table na'd not a spec of anything less than
gold or silver.
Now the village chieftan also served as the
village justice. In the presence of Alexander,
two men entered the chamber of the chief-turned-justice
with a dispute. One man' had
conveyed to the other a strip of land to be used
for a deep drain. While excavating for this
drain the purchaser found a treasure chest. The
problem: whose treasure chest was it? The
seller said he sold the land and all that went
with it, including the heretofore unknown
treasure chest, while the purchaser said he
bought the land to build the drain, and nothing
else. Neither man desired possession of the
treasure chest.
The village chieftan thought for a moment and
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n'.-rril mm nwond elass matter at tbe poet efflea to
Lincoln, Kcujaeiut, under llis act of Aujrnst 4, ISIS.
n discussion of the candidates, one fraternity
president said that the responsibility for what
has been happening in the IFC lies with the
whole body, and not just with those who sup
ported the action. This is very true. The IFC,'
with the leadership of the executive council,
faces the task of building itself up again in the
eyes of the University.
Whether this is done through changing the
constitution or not is only a matter of future
speculation. What the body in particular and
the whole system in general must do is to con
centrate on the building up of the system as a
whole where it can serve the interests of the
University to good ends.
This cannot easily come about with further
and continued reference to one "side" or an.
other in an issue now dead and better off buried.
There should not now be any factions for or
against what has already been done. There
should only be all-out co-operation on what must
be done in the future.
Instead of the death of the IFC and the fra
ternity system perhaps now we will see the re
birth of the Phoenix, which rises out of its own
ashes. x
Problem
as Kansas' since our tax structure and theirs
and our university system and theirs differ. .
It is almost encouraging to note that we are
not alone in the struggle to fit our University
with adequate facilities and staffs On the other
hand it is a terrifying thought that state sup
ported higher education is in such a perilous
position in our country.
We will continue to call upon the citizens of
our state to get behind us in the support of the
University and the state teachers colleges.
After all, the success of the future if it is really
dependent on the youth of today demands that
we strive hard and constantly to meet the
growth of the state and the University with a
quick and generous response.
M Birthday
Eighty-eight years ago today the charter
establishing the University of Nebraska was
signed. It has come a long way since then.
The University first convened for classes in
the fall of 1871. The first building was Univer
sity Hall, a pretentious brick structure built
from imported (from a neighboring state) brick,
and erected on the salt flats on the north side
of downtown Lincoln.
University Hall has since been razed to make
way for Ferguson Hall. In its later years it
was deprived of its cupola, since the building
had started to distintegrate.
This disappearance of the original building is
somewhat symbottc of the scope of the Uni
versity's whole building program, as new build
ings are springing up all over, pushing older
structures aside. Sometime in the future the
University will have a physical plant to rival
any in the Midwest.
- The University can look back on more than
eight decades of service to the state and to the
people.
It is up to the rest of us to keep it that way.
Dimension
then pronounced his verdict. One litigant had
a son, and the other a daughter. Both were of
marriageable age. They would be married, and
the treasure chest would become their dowry,
the chieftan said.
Alexander was amazed and ' perplexed.
Wouldn't you have pronounced the same verdict,
the chieftan asked. Alexander thought, and then
said no. In fact, he said, in his country the
state would have seized the treasure chest for
the king's use.
Then followed this dialogue.
"For the King's use! Does the sun shine
there?"
"Oh, yes!"
"Does it rain there?"
"Assuredly."
"Wonderful! But are there tame animals in
the country, that live on the grass and green
herbs?"
"Very many, and of many kinds."
"Ay, that must, then, be the cause," said the
chief, V'ior the sake of those innocent animals
the All-gracious Being continues to let the sun
shine, and the rain drop down on your country,
since its inhabitants are unworthy of such
blessings."
Today this sun is still shining, and it is good.
It shines in the common Judeac-Christian heri
tage of the western world and in the parallels
found in the ethical religions of the eastern
world. It shines without questioning our own
worthiness. It remains for us, through Jhe in
nards of our souls and the externals of our so
ciety, to take this unique form of solar power,
capsulate it, energize it and inject it into the
jet stream of our daily living, and thus add a
fourth dimension to our existence, the Eternal
Dimension.
Richard Fellman
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation
Nebraskan
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. "The United States regards as
vital to the national interest and
world peace the preservation of.
the independence and integrity of
the nations in the Middle East.
"To this end, if the President
determines the necessity thereof,
the United States is prepared -to
use armed forces to assist any
nation or group of nations re
questing assistance against armed
aggression from any country con
trolled by international commu
nism: provided that such employ
ment shall be consonant with the
treaty obligations of the United
States and with'in the Charter of
the United Nations."
So reads the resolution approved
Wednesday by two powerful Sen
ate committees. The resolution to
proclaim the United States' hands-
off policy in the Mid-East was ap
proved in the joint session oi the
Foreign Relations and Armed
Services Committee.
The resolution had undergone a
complete re-writing before it was
approved. It was a strict party
measure that, banded the Demo
cratic members of the committee
together to vote in a revision to
the military section of the resolu
tion. The vote was 15-13, with no
members of the committee cross
ing the fence to vote with the
other side.
The resolution will be put to a
vote in the Senate now, where
this resolution, which will greatly
affect cruicial and ever-increasing
pdoblems in the Middle East,, may
face a great deal of democratic
opposition.
Nebraskan Letterips
To the Editor:
It is not made clear in the story
in Tuesday's Nebraskan whether
the "Seventy - five selected pro
fessors from the various colleges
of the University" knew the use
their answers were to be put when
they were asked the question,
"What books have influenced you'
a good deal?" Somehow . "influ
enced" has become transmuted
into "recommendation" and the
University Library is giving out
lists headed "Your Professors
Recommend. ..."
The students on the Dean's Ad
visory Committee of the Teachers
College may be excused for their
such third-rate stuff as Desiree
and A Lantern In Her Hand and
slop like' The Prophet. We may
pity the Professor of Meat Brais
ing wh6 thinks that The Robe is
a great book, but let us make it
clear that such an evaluation is
not the work of anvone who knows
anything about
fiuvisory , ummmee nad known
what it was about it would not
have paid any attention to the
person who, out of the great gal
lery of English and American
poets, chose Whittier to rank
alongside Keats. Let the Dean's
Advisory Committee go to the
English Department or to the Hu
manities Librarians if it wants a
list of good fiction, and let it not
water down that list with third
rate slush garnered from incom
petent sources.
Daniel Bernd
Graduate student,
English Department
To the Editor:
I would like to take this oppor
tunity to thank both the staff of
the Daily Nebraskan and you per
sonally for the cooperation given
the various committees during Re
ligious Emphasis Week. It was
most encouraging.
Bob Rhoades
Worship Committee
REW
ignorance in perpetrating this
asininity, but we can hardly ex
cuse the older and presumably
wiser heads who assisted in com
piling and causing to be published
the strange melange of literature
and tripe called "good" books.
Seventy-five different opinions
add up to nothing whatsoever, and
it should have been obvious to the
Advisory Committee, and its ad
visers that nose-counting is not
evaluation. One informed opinion
is worth seventy ignorant ones
and seventy times zero is still
zero. The list is self-evidently ridi
culous. For example, the list head
ed "Influential Books" includes a
text on anatomy? Why include it
in a list intended for general dis
tribution? If some of the books
are seriously recommended for
university students, we can only
conclude that the faculty's estima
tion of the intellectual capabilities
of the student body is very low
indeed (I will not dwell upon fae
alternative explanation). Vthy was
a children's encyclopedia, The
Book of Knowledge, listed instead
of the Britannica o. Lie Ameri
cana? Perhaps the most e.abarrasing
aspect of this silly project is the
lack of literary task or knowledge
displayed by the professors who
submitted recommendations for
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My pet peeve (which has been
growing daily since last Novem
ber) is the failure of the present
Republican administration to allow
newsmen to do their job.
I'm not necessarily referring
to the fact that the Tired Old
Man didn't have a news confer
ence from November 14 until the
last week in January..
What gripes me (and apparently
many others who rely on official
sources or first hand looks for the
truth) is the fact that -three Amer
ican newsmen were censured by,
the State Department for going
into Red China and attempting to
see for themselves wha: was be
ing done.
.These men, according
Department authorities, were being
brought home because they violat
ed the Trading With Enemy Na
tions act.
I can faintly recall Ed Murrow
asking Chou En Lai whether he
would permit American newsmen
to go into his country end get a
glimpse of trans-bamboo life. Chou
mumbled a "yes" and Murrow
didn't press the matter any furth
er (he only had an hour and a
half).
The three newsmen who went to
China (two representing a major
television network and another a
picture magazine) were told that
their passports could be revoked
for. such action. .
It might be interjected that a
foreign correspondent without a
passport is ' like a bus driver
with-eight flat tires HE'S stuck.
The good old , American Constitu
tion guarantees the freedom of
the press; the freedom to publish
the truth from where it can be
gleaned. Just the other day an of
ficial government report stated
that an entire army of fifth colum
nists with as many workers as
an entire division was at work in
the U.S. piling Communist propa
ganda on the people. We object
because we feel the Commies are
literature'. If the 4
seeking to control thought, to say
what can be read or saic and this
is against the freedoms we have
fought so hard for.
That's the very reason I object
to. the State Department's censure
of (and I say this with reserve)
my three coUedgues.
I don't remember Ernie Pyle
but I know the legend associated
with that fearless newsman who
followed the 'shooting war to the
know what was going on.
In .this speaking war against
the Reds I consider the three news
men to be Ernie Pyles for they
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sured. But I am encouraged to
note that a member of the Senate
has demanded a hearing to dis
cover whether the action was tak
en with haste and in bad taste,
I think we can count on the
Congress to decree that freedom
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the U.S.' position in the free world
I hope that the snooping cameras
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'College Try'
Scores Again
On Terms
ACP From the Bethany College
"Messenger," the Oklahoma
Daily and the Syracuse "Daily
Orange" comes this new collec
tion of college daffy nitions:
COED COLLEGE: Where the
girls, go in for facts and the boys
go in for figures.
COLLEGE: A mental institution.
DIPLOMA: A sheepskin that a
graduate uses to pull the wool
over some employer's eyes.
GOSSD?: Letting the chat out of
the bag.
HOLLYWOOD WIFE: A girl
who's been married six times and
never had an anniversary.
HYPOCRITE: Undertaker trying
to look sad at a thousand dollar
funeral.
OLD FLAME: What a girl uses
to burn up her new boy friend.
PINK ELEPHANT: Beast of
bourbon.
SORORITY: A male student's
idea of heaven.
UPPERCLASSMEN: Stu d e n t s
who are a "shining example for
freshmen . . . shining because they
are either bright, lit up or polish
ing the apple.
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of college progression in answer
ing a professor's question:
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pared. JUNIOR: I do not remember.
SENIOR: I don't believe I can
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