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...'- ..... .... I W AM I f i Mi. i Page 2 The Daily Nebraskan Fridav, Februorv 15. Qaily Nebraskan Editorials: lope For Tie Future The Interfraternity Council, in electing its new officers Thursday night, radiated a feeling of co-operation that has been missing ince 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. in 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. Thai Old Problem 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 Mon 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 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. Af(J 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 symbolic 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. 7k Eternal Dimension 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 6f 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 had not a spec of anything less than gold or silver. Now the village chieftan also served as the Tillage 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 boue"jt 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 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, "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 Judeao-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 $he 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 The Daily Nebraskan FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OLD Member: Associated Collegiate Press Intercollegiate Press Representative: National Advertising Service, Incorporated Published at: Room 20, Student Union Lincoln, Nebraska 14th &R The Dally Nebraska la publish Monday. Taeaday, Win6ar and lriinj during the acbooi year, except dnrtne vacation vil enn periods, ana m taaue la ftabl&bed durtns Aurnet, !? atudenta of the I Diversity mt NebrMks under the authorisation of the Committee tm Htodent Affaire a a eprelo of student opinion. fWi-t!on tf!r the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Ctudmt tuliliraliona ahe.ll be free from editorial oensorMMp on to part of 11m Subcommittee or ea the eari of any member of the faculty of the University, or a the part of aay perom outside the I'alveraity. The member of the Nebraekaa ataff are perwmaJiy re epnatinle for what tlsy any, or 9 or cans to be ptfrtrd. KeiT-mry 8, 1 'JS. Knttred a aw-ond eiatsa matter at the poat offlea la Lincoln. Kebrnaka, under the act of Aura , EDITORIAL STAFF Editor -. .. .Fred Daly Managing Editor Jack Pollock Editorial Page Editor ; . . .Dick Shugrae Krw fcditora. Sara Jones, Bob Ireland 3porte Editor -..Bob Mattel Copy Editor Art Blackmail, Carole Frank George Aioyer, Boa IVarholoakl Ag F.eitor Dick Hendrlx Staff Photographer ..Dale Lewi Office Secretary..... .Julie Dowell Night Newe Editor , Carole Frank Society Editor . .ian Farrell Staff Writers Nancy ' DeLong, Cynthia Zachau, Bob Wlrz, Gary Kodgera, JoAna Gabboroa, Stan Widmftn. Reporter Jndy Sleler Marilyn N'ltsnen, Mlnnettei Taylor, Diana Maxwell, Sandra Whalen, Dorothy Hall, Dlanna Geaee, Bill Cooper, Bill VYUaon, Gary Peterson, Mary Pat. tenon, Deanna Barrett, Emmy Lmmpo. BUSINESS STAFF Bualiwaa Manager George Madtea rirrulatlon Manager Jack Norrli Aaalataat Bnainew Managers Larry Epstein . Tom Vtll, eiry beUetla :j-MJsl THIS ISA ( BEAUTIFUL TROPHY,) 'AWMJDEDTO LUCILLE VAN PELT.. 1954 1955 1956..THE WORLDS NUMBEB-ONE FUSSBUD6ET " ftle AFTER I WHAT SI UOON IT THREE YEARS) iWS LITTLE N AKUUU. IHtY Ltl -ieVM: ( THAT'S A FOSSBUDGET ) 1 aaassssssvw - ft I I I "-aaaaaaaa I'd Mi , rT I sum IH the outside world . . . . "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- gary rodgers off policy in the Mid-East was ap proved in the joint session 01 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 wil! 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 NeWraskan 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 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 the alternative explanation). Why was a children's encyclopedia, The Book of Knowledge, listed instead of the Britannica or the Americana? Perhaps the most embarrasing aspect of this silly project is the lack of literary taste or knowledge displayed by the professors who submitted recommendations for 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 who thinks that The Robe is a great book, but let us make it clear that such an evaluation is not the work of anyone who knows anything about literature. U thep Advisory . Committee had 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 pandoria 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 to State 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 and 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 pioture 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 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 colleagues. 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 dick shugrue fear to tread nowhere even in the face of the fact that the Chi nese might have taken" them cap tive. I'm ashamed that they were cen 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 must be allowed in the news gath ering circles. And for the sake of the U.S.' position in the free world I hope that the snooping cameras and noses of any newsmen be per mitted to travel the globe. EUROPE .... 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