Nebraska Newspapers

    Tuesday, April 23, 1957
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Daily Nebraskan Editorials:
Convocation
Today an ex-Governor of Nebraska spoke to
students, faculty members and parents at an
all-campus convocation. Classes were dismissed
for this annual spring Honors Convocation, held
to pay tribute to students in the top ten per
cent of their classes.
To most students, unfortunately, this convo
cation was little more than a chance to get out
of class for an hour or so. Of the 90 per cent
who were not honored only those with interests
outside an unprecedented release from classes
bothered to attend and listen to ex-Gov. Peter
son. Certainly they cared little to see someone
else honored for academic achievement attained
by only a few.
Thi xjonvocation, aside from the presence of
a well-known national figure, and a man cer
tainly known in this state, has significance
largely overlooked by the campus. It is one of
the few times during the year that the Univer
sity significantly honors those with superlative
academic achievment. In modern educational
factories knowledge sometimes tends to be
subverted for the mechanical process of attain
ing a Degree.
Persons who do well in their classes are
either PBK's a breed held much in awe or
rather odd persons who "bury themselves" in
their textbooks. The national trend has been
toward smashing the egghead in a figurative
manner and treating him as an alien in Ameri
can society.
Naturally, few persons in the University could
or would wish to be called eggheads. Still, it
is somewhat encouraging to see the academically
elite on the campus given some sort of public
recognition and applause, even if it is para
doxically necessary to call of classes to do it.
Religion On Campus
Newsweek Magazine this week has devoted a
couple of pages on the study of religion on the
American College Campus.
We won't go into the details of the discussion
by the major news gathering of the churches on
the college greens of this land.
There are, we dare to say, a number of
students who earnestly believe and practice
some sort of Christianity or Judaism. These
people are not the ones whom we need to
worry about.
Now the Daily Nebraskan is not in a position
to dictate that any student embrace any religion.
We only suggest that man, as a peccable
creative, look beyond himself for the answers
to the questions which perplex and have per
plexed societies for ages.
The origin of man and the destiny of man
subject to the study of escatology have pro
vided fruit for thought for the greatest thinkers
the world has ever known. ,
We believe that college students respect the
thoughia of ages past but are wary of embracing
the results of lifetimes of study without some
evidence upon which to base conclusions.
Students, then, would investigate every reli
gious belief which has passed across the screen
of human drama and seek some answer to
the complex problem of existence.
We believe that faith comes only to those
who. would accept it. And many products of the
present generation are not willing to accept
ways of life which don't seem to have worked
for the people of ages past.
War, torment, grief have all survived the
ages and pester man as much now and prob
ably more as ever before. But man must realize
that religion is more than an abstract code of
thought for mankind.
From The Editor's Desk:
A word or two
In order for it to be effective, man must be
willing to live by as well as accept its precepts.
And this involves, to a certain extent, the relin
quishing of "freedom."
. But if religion, as the apostles of that precious
commodity would have us believe, is truth, then
this truth will make us free.
The Daily Nebraskan believes in the right of
every human being to decide for himself in
what way if any he will worship his God.
But if man fails to look into the situation; if he
fails to believe in a God merely because he
does not want to investigate, then he is a
traitor to the ideals of true scholarship and
he is not being "true" to himself.
We believe that the college student is, at
present, becoming more interested in the prob
lem of the reason of hfe. And along with a
concern for this problem comes the quest for a
God; a quest for a code of life; a quest for a
rule of conduct.
Religion offers this code to fallable man. It
presents to man in many ways, shapes and
forms the order of life and the code of conduct
which can bring man to truth and to freedom.
And so we suggest that man investigate
religion. We add that the conclusion of such an
investigation cannot be dictated. Each will
answer every question through the way he
feels is best.
But the campus must not be self-sufficient. It
must look to some other source than man for
the answers to the enigma facing the world
today. If the answer is in religion, then man
will feel the peace which a sincere trust in
God can offer. If not, then we are always willing
to accept an answer if it is worth living and
dying for.
before you go .
By FRED DALY
Editor
Dont tell anybody, but it
would, seem to the casual, dis
interested observer that Spring
is finally here. It took time,
and a number of snow storms,
rain and a hurricane or two,
but at last the University is
nodding sleepily in the sun.
You know what this means,
of course. No more studying
all the time because it is too
cold to go outside. No more
spending 10 and 12 hours a
day in the Library to keep
warm. No more midnight oil
being burned while the blizzard
howls outside.
Instead, windows are thrown
open for ventilation, a little
balmy scent of the Great Out
doors wafts in across the sill,
and with a course cry students
belt from their rooms, out into
the glorious sunshine and are
not seen again for hours when
they return to their domicles
at peace with the world.
Naturally, some people hold
stock with ""spring fever'-' and
that sort of rot, claiming that
a student's energy sags frighiV
fully with the first sign of
warm weather.
There is nothing to that at
all. It's just easier to think
lying here under a tree with
the leaves coming out and the
little birds hollering their fool
heads off. It is envigorating
charges the brain. Makes you
want to spring right up and
rush out to do a full day's
work.
Work? Well, maybe tomor
row. - i
A fraternity at a West Coast
college held a "We Hate Wom
en" week. Members were their
"mungiest" clothes, boarded
up doors and windows of the
house, and circled their lawn
with barbed wire.
Those who were able grew
beards, and all refrained from
speaking to women, attempt
ing to prove that "every man
is an island." The basic rea
son given: "Men are weary of
continually trying to maintain
their b e s c appearance. They
want a vacation."
Sure! And how much suc
cess do you think this editor
had trying to convince The
Powers how nice it would be
for me to grow a beard for the
Grand Island Centennial?
Only five more weeks until
school is out, not too late to
pull up a few low grades, etc.,
but apparently a little too late
to make PBK. And only seven
more weeks until graduation,
and the Big Start on the Road
of Life. Brrrrrrr!
. The Student Council is still
working on a proposal to bring
a student tribunal to the Uni
versity. This was brought up
last spring, and was a referred
to a committee to consider the
possibilities of such a plan.
Also being considered (al
though none too seriously) is
an honor system.
Before anything could be
done with a tribunal, if it is
proposed, the issue would have
to be referred to an all-campus
student election.
We hope the Council comes
up with something before
school is out. Such things tend
to die out over the summer.
Certainly is tired out today!
TKl3 a
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"This Is another in the series of thought pro
voking editorials which have appeared in news
papers ta this country. The present ideas
appeared ta the Omaha World Herald.
The American Association of University Pro
fessors has reaffirmed its stand though not
quite so flatly as before that invocation of
the Fifth Ammendment by professors questioned
about Communist activities should not be cause
for dismissal.
reporting on the case of a University of
Kansas City professor, the Association said:
JA refusal to answer questions about pos
sible Commaaist affiliations Is til-considered
btit, standing alone, it does not merit dismis
sal .
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" The slight hedging in this statement might
be because of its timing. It was issued hard
on the heels of the AFL-CIO Executives Coun
cil's expulsion of Dave Beck because he refused
to answer questions about what he did with
Teamsters Union money. So far as we know,
nobody save Mr. Beck and his lawyers has
contended that his refusal to talk meant abso
lutely nothing.
If most professors agree that Mr. Beck should
lose his job and we surmise that such is the
case then the stand of their association can be
justified only on the assumption that Communist
activity is less reprehensible than misuse of a
union's funds. That is a dubious assumption, to
put it mildly. . "
Nebraskan
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IkhrasliGn Lellerips
To the Editor:
The University is desperately in
need of additional revenue. The in
crease in enrollment and rising
price levels have forced the Uni
versty administration to seek a
multi-million dollar increase in the
University budget for the next bi
ennium. Unfortunately the greatly in
creased needs of the University
come at a time of severe drought
and declining farm prices. At such
a time the Legislature is quite
naturally hesitant to add to the tax
burden.
The most common suggestion is
that the tuition should be raised
or even doubled! Promising as
this m ght at first appear; it has
one very serious drawback. The
University was founded in order
to give the people of Nebraska op
portunity to receive a college edu
cation. To raise tuition particular
ly in a time of agricultural de
pression would tend to deny this
opportunity to many students.
As an alternative to an equiva
lent tuition increase an increase
in parking fees would have much
to recommend it. Such fees could
be founded on either the benefit
principle or the ability to pay prin
ciple. The benefit principle is one with
which most students on this cam
pus are familiar. It simply works
on the basis that you should pay
for benefits received. University
students meet this principle in
such non-educational functions of
ttie University as the dormitories
and the student health service. If
a student chooses to live in a uni
versity operated dormitory, the
dorm fees are expected to cover
the costs of housing and feeding
him. Similarly, if a student de
sires a poliomyelitis shot, he can
get it at cost at the Student Health
Center.
Likewise providing parking
space must be regarded as a non
educational function. In providing
this service the University must
acquire lots, divide these lots into
parking stalls, surface ttiem with
crushed rock, and police and main
tain these lots. It would seem fair
that students should be expected to
pay for benefits received; yet at
present only a nominal fee of
$1.00 per year is charged for a
student parking permit.
This situation is aggravated by
the fact that generally speaking
student car owners who receive
such parking benefits for practi
cally nothing are financially bet
ter off than students without cars.
While it is true that many students
need their cars in order to com
mute to class, it is also true that
to a large percentage of students
their car is merely a weekend con
venience and a social asset. Any
increase in tuition would bear
heavily on many students. An in
crease in parking fees would ex
empt those students financially
unable to own a car while requir
ing those who do bring a car to
campus to pay for the benefits
they are receiving.
An increase in parking fees
could be productive of consider
able revenue. During this school
year the University has issued
4,171 student parking permits at
$1 a permit. At the present time
the University owns 2573 parking
slots on this campus and 644 slots
on Ag campus. (This excludes 577
slots on city owned streets and
those in fraternity and sorority
lots.) Some of these slots are, of
course, regarded by students as
more desirable than others. This
accounts for the fact that the park-"
ing lot near the Elgin plant is
never completely filled.
Such differences in location and
convenience would lead to the idea
of scaled parking fees. Thus the
University might charge $20 per
semester for the privilege of park
ing in the more desirable parking
lots such as the Union lot, those
in front of the Quadrangle, and
the West Stadium lot. That such
fees are not exorbitant is shown
by the fact that private parking
lots located similarly charge $6.50
to $10.00 a month. A $20 fee
of course, require some guarantee
that parking space would be avail
able. The remaining parking space
(University owned streets and the
Elgin parking lot) would be open
to all students who pay a $10 per
semester parking fee. This would
entitle them to park in these
areas on a first come first served
basis. Assuming an additional 2,
000 students purchase the $10 per
mits this also would raide $20,000
per semester.
The parking plan I have out
lined would raise $80,000 a school
year a sum slightly greater than
the amount raised by a $5 per
semester tuition increase. Such a
system based on benefits received
and ability to pay would be far
more equitable than by raising the
same amount of revenue by a
blanket tuition increase for all stu
dents. A special feature could be added
to this plan to raise even more
revenue. The University could use
the plan of the University of Wis
consin and charge a $1 parking fee
for all University-owned parking
slots on football Saturdays. As
suming that 2,500 slots are filled
for each of the 5 home games,
the University could gross another
$12,500 in this manner.
Another special feature might
involve converting half of the
South Mall into a parking meter
area and charging 25c an hour for
those who are late to class or who
don't wish to walk the extra
blocks.
The plan outlined here is neces
sarily a broad one and offers a
great deal of flexibility. As a rev
enue raising device it could give
the university finances a consid
erable lift without additional taxes
and in lieu of some of the prob
able tuition increase.
Ernest Enke
To the Editor:
The University administration
must be laughing up its sleeve.
Not only has it been putting the
axe to its faculty members with
impunity remember Bill Glass
ford and Clyde Miichell-but now
it has a faculty committee to han
dle the public relations end of
the procedure.
They may exaggerate the effi
ciency of the committee investi
gating Dr. Mitchell, who was
shipped off to Mexico, but who
expects the group to reflect a gut
less faculty (who either keep
their mouths shut or run off to
another school) with little more
than a wrist slap?
I can see it now: Dean Breck
enridge and Dean Lambert exer
cised poor judgment in the way
which they handled the announce
ment of Mitchell's demotion. The
committee discourages this sort
of action and trusts it will not
happen again."
D.B.
To the Editor:
The fraternity . system must be
on pretty soft ground now that
they have said that spiking is
legal.
What will become of the "hon
est, upright and true" frat man
who used to think that hard rush
ing was the way to get a man?
Now all that he will have to do
is take the high school freshman
into the woods and keep him there
until school (four years hence)
begins.
The frat men have done it
again. They have stepped out on
a limb and proved that they can't
compel with one another hon
estly and must sneak around
through the summer months and
grab innocent little boys.
Lon Kraemer
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The Campus Green
who knows
Is it meant that we should wait,
for liars, and would be guardians,
(call them what you wll) who in their
own striving, gather about them the ones ;
who will never understand, but I understand. '
Is it meant that we should wait,
for those, well I hate to say it, who don't drink,
gather them about me, I'll listen to their story,'
not seriously I think, (but I'll understand.)
You're not serious, they do have belts on their panta.
Don't they? Edwards -
To Wordsworth
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Make each tiny pedal twitch
The yellow bees will buzi
And the big-brown cow will moo . , .
Bob Ireland
Dick Shugrue
are paying top guys top prices for
getting into fraternities and break
ing down the unit rules of the
organized houses.
The Communists must see that
there is a definite place for the
fraternity system in a democratic
society.
After all, the frats allow a man
to be selective about his com
panions, to be expressive about his
ideas and to be at odds with the
government of an institution in a
truthful say.
Down in the same place (Texas) .
the University has a very inter
esting way of supporting itself.
The know-it-alls say that when
the educational institution began
the state gave it some worthless
land in the western portions of
the state. Now that oil has been
found out there the U of T is fabu
lously wealthy.
The fraternity and sorority hous
es are doing all right for them
selves. One Big Tex bragger said
that the oldest house on the cam
pus was built in 1948.
That, of course, couldn't be true.
After all, if we could be staying
in a place that was 40 years old
and my mathematics are right
1948 wouldn't be a true date.
The independents have it pretty
nice, too. -Z3
A new dormitory is being built
which will house hundreds of 3"m.mg
people who want to get an educa
tion. The cost for the place is
astronomical.
But the poor processors still
have to rely on the state legisla
ture, for their bread and butter.
And from all indications the
same problems that face educated
persons up here face the Texans.
It wouldn't be surprising, how
ever, to discover that the Texana
have a Century Club for the teach
ers. That's the least they can do.
A closing note.
Spring fever has hit the Uni
versity of Oklahoma. The student
senate passed a resolution 23-5
asking the university officials to
allow the wearing of Bermuda
shorts at certain meals in tht
women's dorm cafeteria.
The students asked that the
shorts be allowed at breakfasts,
to Friday and Saturday suppers
and Saturday lunches on non-football
days.
They argued that shorts art
accepted as proper wearing ap
parel for women, that the ap
proach of warm weather increases
the comfort problem for quad res
idents and that shorts are mora
convenient and comfortable than
dresses.
I've never stopped to ask, tha
women around here what the rules
are on wearing shorts around the
campus for meals. I suppose that
it never gets warm enough in Ne
braska for the girls to get up ia
arms about such a problem.
Boys just seem to do it. They'ra
all aggressive.
The "grader" system one of
the stalwart parts of any over
crowded department at our Uni
versity has a number of de
fects. And I suppose that those
who get the crumbiest grades
feel that the system is weakest.
For the sake of argument let's
say a young man who considers
himself a ''brain" submits a test
paper to the instructor who in
turn smiles and says," Nice day,
eh, Swanson?" The next step for
the paper is to the hands of the
grader americanus, a species who
is nocturnal and somewhat bug
eyed after slopping through a se
ries of papers.
Swanson gets his paper back,
with a five on it and can't see
why. He takes it to the teacher
who "ups" the grade after a thor
ough examination of the work and
a discussion with the grader.
The system has failed.
For the grader is supposed to
relieve the teacher of the pitiful
job of correcting papers.
And yet in doing so he creates
a number of complex problems.
Teachers pride themselves on
the "long hours and careful prep
aration ghey put into their classes.
If they miss correcting papers they
are missing half t fun of being
a teacher (maybt nd on the
other hand, a stu-, .it fells that
he has established a certain rap
port with the "head man" and
can write his tests placing a spe
cial emphasis on the elements
which he feels are appropos to
the teacher's style.
An example? Well, a certain
prof stated in class that little
magazines were begun because
much fine literary work and
particularly poetry was not be
ing accepted by the "Big" maga
zines such as Post and Colliers
The grader then places his red
pencil marks around the word
"big magazines" and, draws ques
tion marks in the margin indicat
ing that he didn't catch on to the
thought the teacher and stu
dent were trying to convey.
Some folks say that readers
have no sense of humor. Gener
ally true. And when they try to
crack a joke, most students feel
that they are Just heing smart
alecks.
Recommendations: 1; Have all
readers take the course from the
teacher who is teaching it so that
they know what's being discussed
2) Have the graders available
for consultation.
3) Have the readers visit class
meetings once in a while so they
can understand the vier points
which the students are discussing.
Oh yes. I do grade papers,
convention last week deep in the
heart of Texas, a brother named
Igor from California mentioned
that the Communists are trying to
infiltrate the fraternity system on
the west coast.
Bro. Igor said that A the Red
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