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I The Daily Nebraskan Monday, February 18, 1957 -. ! .. .. i i . i t Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Editorials: ABirthdavGt Although the University was eighty-eight years rising cost of living and -the rising cost of old Friday not many students lifted a glass of operating such a school as this University, tomato juice In salute to their alma mater. We don't think that the comparison between It was reported that alumni clubs over the the fall of University Hall and the fall of the country would celebrate the birthday of the University itself is completely a valid one. After University, and that messages taped by the all, the landmark of the University fell because Chancellor would be sent to those who could" the school was growing, not obtain the Services of a speaker. if the University itself totters and in some The Daily Nebraskan believes that a revival future year ceases to exist it will not be a of the original Cornhusker spirit (which really mark of expansion. isn't lost) is an essential part of the expan- v As alumni groups all oy,er the county hear sion program of the school. the message of the Chancellor we can only We reported that Old University Hall was hope that they will hear the message of need razed because it was beginning to crumble; for their school. that room for expansion was needed. The A report by the Nebraska Citizens Corn game is true today' throughout the state of mittee for the State University cited this as Nebraska. tne primary problem of our school: The Uni- Certainly the school must expand if it is versity's need for increased financial support to meet the growing needs of our complex so- involves more than a routine problem of budget- ciety. But it cannot be expected to move one ing. It involves a basic issue: The survival of inch forward without the full support of every the University of Nebraska in the role assigned Cornhusker. to H at the time of its founding 88 years ijgo. We're talking about the budget again. And And that role was to offer "the inhabitants we'll probably continue to talk about the of the state the means of acquiring a thorough budget until this, University has the full sup- knowledge of the various branches of literature, port of Nebraskans who are willing to sacrifice science and the arts." to insure the state of a sound future. We have stressed the fact that Nebraskans Day after day we have noted that pther have always been willing to get in and pitch, state colleges all over the country from Mas- That means they have been willing to accept sachusetts to Montana are faced with the a fair share of the burden of state education, tame blight that our University faces. More We hope their representatives will under- money is needed everywhere to cope with the stand this idea. Brothers, Ml The Daily Nebraskan mentioned briefly last cepting racial integration as the right course week that Brotherhood Week followed our own of action. Those who refuse to accept others Beligious Emphasis Week. because the cast of their skin is not the same . We noted that Brotherhood Week was the as their own are ignorant of the common herit- natural result of RE week since the two were mankind which has drawn on just abou io closely allied in thought and purpose. every people of the world m all times to present Man can't really accept the principle of the to us on the proverbial golden platter a culture brotherhood of every person unless he accepts that relatively sure footed, the common fatherhood of God. Without some This week, then, is the practicum for applying unifying cource (in this case God as a father) tnose lessons which should have had a chance man would be stumped in his effort to under- to sink in from last week, aland each race and each religion on its own n can be a very profitable week. We some merits, times feel that our efforts for world peace are But since we who ar living in a "nation futile since they are so unknown. But we be under God" we generally accept the fact that lieve that accepting the common brotherhood we are guided in our daily purpose by some of man is the first step and it is a step that force higher than ourselves. only the individual can take. From another perspective, however, man can- If every student at the University lived true not reject the brotherhood of every person if to the Fatherhood of God during Brotherhood be claims to believe in God as a father. Week we would be that many steps closer to America is facing a grave test today in ac- peace, to harmony in the world. , Back In Its Place A strange and wonderful thing took place at When the hard work and last-minute prepara- the University last semester the Military Ball tions came, everything was organized down to made money. ' the last man. Since 1950 the Ball had been declining, both .m spot m the p-cture was in social prestige and financial solvency .Stu- q electmg Com. dents began to stay away in droves ana m- wefe held roiddle terest in the city of Lincoln also feU off over q beore Rnd a Last spring, however, the Naval ROTC un.t number of coud be rera. what was once the biggest social event m town. h ticket.holders vote at the door, found itself in charge of the Ball through the at Kosmet RIub paU Reyrf? fr Ne regular rotation through the three services The braska SwMtheart and prince Kosmet navy unit decided to do something about it. The general concept of the navy', plan was The 1956 Mllltary Bal1 Proved number of to initiate campus interest and return the ball First, with proper planning, preparation to the prominent occasion of the season. Two management, the Ball can and will make floor shows, at no expense to fce sponsoring money- i' can be a social event stu- service, were introduced. Reserve boxes for fall' events was a far cry from the drabness interested townspeople were arranged. Hours dents wil1 enjy- e easy atraosPhere at last for the Ball were set for 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. There of Previou Balls here PePle sat around on were also a package deal for flowers and dinner chairs UP aainst the waU and looked at me and radio coverage by KNUS. another. Third, people in Lincoln, especially Midshipmen in the Navy ROTC unit were businessmen, are interested in the Military organized into various committees. The main BaU- and wUl help suPPrt organizational and planning work was done by The Military Ball belongs on this campus, a permanent Military Ball Committee organized and to the city. If the latest event is any in March of 1956, seven months before the Ball, criterion, it can remain here for a long time. From The Editor's Desk: A word or two before you go . . . The Interfraternity Council about it and see what we can be abolished. Instead of re election meeting Thursday f- the future. Let us re- porting "on the status and ad brought out some interesting move our coats of mail and visability u retaining the observations Instead I of the sheath our swords and get to for differences of opinion and WOrk. , . , . . , ; veiled accusations banned As one delegate said: "The IFCshouM take step, to about at a few previous meet- responsibility lies in the whole strengthen and encourage this Ings, the election meeting was jpc" 'for reconstructing the y' all sweetness and light. body. ' Thi junior group now 00 This in itself is good. In- Another good point was the experimental basis the stead of acting like angry chil- resolution calling for meeting first good chance freshmen in dren the fraternity representa- with the Office of Student Af- the vanous houses have lives went about their busi- fairs on the possibility of to meet men from oth- ness nicely, politely and even bringing back the IFC Ball. buses fieldg other .to jocularly. Everyone was An affair of this sort is what than the compete type. Al- deterxST have a good the system needs. Fraternity tlZZ Zt toe men need to get out of their and healthy and all that sort . However, there was the feel- cloistered Utile worlds and of thing mutual understand- IngZt a few members are meet some one outside their f . IS conscious aba,t the "fric own particular brotherhood. strengthening the system. tion that called for the resig- Obviously, the IFC would Finally, the statement from nation of the original officers have to go all the way in co- the Board of Control was in January. They seemed to operating with the Administra- somewhat of a letdown from feel those active in the faction tion on such an event, if a their earlier vociferousness would logically be leaders in proved. regarding the resignation ac the interim period. Along the same line, al- tion. They were right in say Gentlemen, the rebellion is though in the opposite direc- ing the manner in which the over. You have made your tion. was the inference that officers were removed was point. We would rather orget perhaps the Junior IFC would unwise. The Daily Nebraskan FIFTY-FIVE VEARS OLD EDITORIAL STAFF Member: Associated Oollerlate Pres. mh .. ..'.:V.:V.:V."":VV.;.'iiirr Intercollegiate Press - miiii f Kd.wr iirkMr Kepresenlatirc: National Advertising Service. v. V: ".."".'. '.IT .5 'JuSS Incorporated or eHra n HMtam, tn nn Published at: Room 28, Student LnioB -hi Ltoeola. Nebraska, SifSX: 7" ' 14th it E &lftr t.nrr . . fUmrH Tm tHr rtmka H imhUt4 MuKint. 1 , MIM i Irxtf w ike , rirrfA ttmtf WnVen Nnr DtLn. f yn(il Zwtua. ( m4t ttm whm.! i, ....-. Krtr MsrSJrs JSImwi, MI(Mrt mm : Mttmtn M nfmvum mt m4rm m-tnlom. r- 1W ,M, Miwrll. mr Klnin, t ),:)- mT ituiitiitm f tim (uwnmlM-w tuMt HmiU IHmm imw, K1H (w, vm rMC trmm Kin HIImm. ,r rrtmam. MmTT mHrlty mm th rrt mt th --hnmmM mm, bww Bmrmu Imv Lamp. art umv mr tu Imratn mt tbr I Mvrlty, mt mm iim t f lr ' Cmrrtr. Th BL' SIXES S STAFF wwxt.lt r mmt Xli m. mt t rmmm t Mmm" M'L" mm4 mt 4 t moot. f to Mt HvMn MMf. .. . IL. 17- tMHtri. HmmAM. mnmtr the m1 f ujri. )U. Tmm eff. o t" -..,f JBOV.IDiDN'r THINK LINUS ( Ui5 EV'EP 601H6 ) HE NEVES SEEM5 TO KNOlO UHEN TO 60 rI0E- HElL STICK: AROUND UNTIL, THE LAST DOS 15 HONS- IF VOUlL PARDON JTHE EXPRESSION cabbages gs an A newcomer to any select group whose members are well-known to the public for their actions, as a unit or individually, carries with him a certain disadvantage in that he is relatively unknwon. However, if Re has any precon ceived ideas about himself or the actions of the group, he can turn his "new-ness" or "fresh-ness" in to an advantage. Such a group, as it exists on a newspaper staff, is those rugged individualists, the newspaper col umnists. The new columnist finds it to his advantage that he has had a chance to view the successes and failings of his contemporaries. To this axiom he adds his own personality and ideas. The sum, he hopes, will capi talize on the traditional success of those columnists who have gone before him, remedy their faults, and even create something unique in his column. Before he begins to write the new columnist will usually talk to a number of people who read the paper regularly. They will tell him that he ought to write some thing that is of "interest" to the reader. This is all the useful in formation he will receive from these people as they soon begin to discuss their own personal "inter ests." Here, besides learning that he must write of things of interest to his readers, he also discovers that he must be varied to please as many readers as possible. Still in search of a more defined purpose and point of view, he turns to tradition. He reads Horace Greeley, who tells him to be bold and crusading. Emerson tells him that he must not construct "me ters, but meter-m a k i n g argu ments." Those two, coffee-soaked pub lishers of the Eighteenth Century, Addison and Steele, teach him to use gentle raillery and common sense to reform society. As yet he has not found the all-inclusive guide and purpose for his new column. Ultimately he turns to the Greeks, who, it has been said, had the answer for everything. The words are simple and timeless, as always: the work of art must "instruct and delight." At this point the columnist learns that he is essentially an artist,' serving mankind. The art must be the instruction of man and the provision of man's delight in discovering or rediscovering things about himself, his fellow men. his universe, and his ab stractions. From the artist man is given much of the material he needs to build a culture for him self, within which he can exist. The lesson is almost complete. The columnist knows that he must be provocative and varied. He is an artist who diffuses culture through the instruction and delight of his readers. If he is skillful he will be able to accomplish both of his purposes. If he writes for one and not the other he is only partially successful. To instruct, yet not delight, is to be boorish; and to delight, but not instruct is shallow. His lesson learned, the column ist has only to search for subject matter that will fulfill his purpose. He searches through the fertile valley of knowledge and informa tion between a cabbage and a king and like the Walrus, makes the reader sit and listen while be "talks of many things." However, in the imaginative and symbolic story of the Walrus and the Oysters by Lewis Carroll there is an important moral. For while The opinions eiprecsed by Daily Ntbraikan columnists are their oa and do not aecessarily re flect the views of the paper. john crowell the Oysters were in rapt attention to the Walrus as he told his story, he ate them for his dinner. You say they were instructed; they were delighted; and then they were "et." And so, gentle reader, take a lesson from this apparently simple story: get ed ucated in this column or any where, have a ball for yourselves doing it; but don't get "et." San Blast sanford-mcConnell As I begin my contribution to this week's Daily Nebraskan, I imagine the University's IBM ma chine is completing calculation for student's first semester averages. Quite soon, each of us will receive a long white envelope, revealing the results. Somewhere between th unsuccessful and future Phi Beta Kappas there exists a mean, the average student. His accumu lative average Ls usually around 5.7. I m. . ,4 - I ' . i K ' Of -Ski -:-h- ACP Poll: StudentsGiveCom merits On Prof-Grid Salaries (ACP) The life of a college football coach is apt to be a very hectic one, especially if he does not produce winning teams year after year. Generally they are given short-term contracts and their bargaining position depends a good deal upon their record of producing teams. And since their occupational longevity is so doubt ful they usually rate a pay scale higher than that of the highest ranking college professor. In orcer to get an idea of what collegians think about the difffer ence in pay scale, Associated Collegiate Press asked the follow ing question of a representative national cross-section of college students: College football coaches are usually paid more than the high est ranking professor. Do you think this difference in salary is Justified? The results: Men Women Total Yes 24 15 20 No 64, "2 7 Undecided .... 12 11 11 There appears to be some sex difference in the figures shown, with the coeds leaning more to ward the side of the professors. Of all students favoring the coaches point of view, however, the following tatement by a Vil lanova University (Villanova, Pa.) senior is very representative: "The coach is gambling that he will be around next year, the professor isn't!" Here are a few oilier typical statements: "The coach earns it; the relative salaries in the different fields can not justifiably be compared," the feeling of a junior attending Newark College of Engineering (Newark, NJ.), while a University of Nebraska senior looks at it this way: "A college will never have to worry about losing a professor because he is mediocre. Coaches are under constant mental strain which cannot be measured by monetary standards." And a Wart burg College (Waverly, Iowa) jun ior believes "the work of the coach is harder; his is a 12 month and 24 hour job." Among students favoring the professor's point of view two gen eral feelings stand out: 1) the feeling that the professor has more time and money invested in his job, and 2) the feeling that educa tion is more important than foot ball and should be rewarded ac cordingly. Here are a few re marks typical of these and other opinions expressed. This is high enough to keep him well above minimum University standards, qualify him to become a fraternity active, offer a foun dation for the high academic re quirements for med-school or make him eligible for an executive position in many campus activi ties The Independent represents the largest student group at the Uni versity and the largest scholastio spread. Unlike fraternities, which drop students who fail to make sat isfactory averages, the Independ ent span includes students from both extremes of the grading scale. Despite this, house averages at Selleck Quadrangle, for example, cluster quite close to the all Uni versity average. This serves as an argument in" favor of the Inde pendent's scholastic ability. Much of the judgment against Independents, by other groups and Independents themselves, has been quite superficial. A major area of controversy has centered around the activity of Independents in campus activities. Close examina tion reveals many of the beliefs unfounded. Independents have been judged largely by their inac tiveness in campus politics. When one considers the activity of Independents in varsity athlet ics, religious student houses, musio department productions, Universi ty radio nd television, student publications, and University thea ter the fallacy of Independent in ertness becomes quite apparent. Independents are quite active in these departments as anyone fa miliar with them must admit. Within the departments, the much publicized strife between in dependent affiliate disappears. In stead, there is a unity of interest which surpasses other differences. The major problem arises when the individual returns to his respective group. Thiis he lives an unrealistic Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde existence. Oddly enough ths same valued friend who catches the winning for ward pass or helps you with cal culus exam is quickly stereotyped and a ssociated with a group which someone said was naturally an tagonistic. 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