Pope 2
The Daily tebroskon
Monday, April 29, 1957
Daily Nebraskan Editorials:
Ac. ion
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The day has long passed when men paid hom
age to their governors and the governors ex
tracted in kind and service the tribute afforded
them.
Government has become a function of the
people and the men and women to whom it is
entrusted have a sacred duty to the citizens of
the state.
Government, though, goes a step further. It
can make decisions for the good of the people
without their consent. They through the power
of the vote may retract what the governing
body has legislated.
And so in a day when truth has become a
sacred tool for the righteous, men demand that
their rulers be truthful; that they be honest;
that they be sincere in their efforts to afford
the finest rule at the least cost to the people.
In the event that the government fails to
give to the minority those benefits which the
lesser numbers demand, can there be a recourse
to action? We believe so. We believe that
honest explanations documented by tried and
true knowledge can gain for the "little man"
those benefits which he requests from the gov
ernment. The people demanded explanation in the case
of the union leaders in the West Coast cities
and received some satisfaction.
The labor investigations have moved across
the country and are uncovering scandals in
every nook and cranny of the nation.
In another case, an American newsman was
deprived of a renewal of his passport and the
people balked. Now an investigation has been
held and' Nebraska's own Senator Roman
Hruska has partaken in the investigation.
Once again the facts have come forth and the
greatest benefits for the largest number of
people have been insured.
William Worthy was the man and the investi
gation seems to have said that any time a
citizen steps into a Communist country we have
no authority over him. He could be kidnapped
as has happened to others in the past.
Worthy's case and the results demand care
ful scrutiny by those who fear for the American
democratic process. Now the citizens of this
nation can see that justice has been achieved.
And if they believe it hasn't they can still
turn to the legislators and demand to know why.
Now if the government can satisfy the people
by the democratic process on a national level
despite the fact that the results affected only a
few (relatively speaking) could not the same
thing happen on the state scale?
We are driving at the budget, of course. The
budget for the University. You know, that giant
flounder which has splashed back and forth from
the capitol to the campus and back again these
past months. The trick is to let the legislators
know in a definite and an honest way the needs
of the University and let them have an oppor
tunity to investigate as they see fit, the real and
acute needs of our school.
The resolution which Senator John Adams Sr.,
has presented before the legislators might he
just the starting point of such a move. Adams
feels that the University may not be allocating
the monies available to the right and most press
ing needs.
Which remains a moot question until an in
vestigation. So let them have a closer look at our school.
Let them see what the laboratories and the
halls are like. Let them notice the cramped
classes and wonder at the work load of the
teachers.
Let the legislators hear the Regents and let
them listen to the Chancellor as he looks them
straight in the eye and tells just where the Uni
'versity stands.
We cannot reaffirm too often that we, as
students, believe in the democratic process. We
would like to see it in practice.
We would like to see the legislators on our
campus. We would unbar our doors and admit
our weak points. But we would stand firm in
our belief that the University with the com
plete support of the people of our state can rise
to heights never before imagined.
And what will we get here if the legislators
see our side of the story and are willing to
sacrifice so that we might grow?
We could have a great Universtiy with a
strong staff and a powerful spirit.
We could give the prestige which is due Ne
braska back to the state.
We could enrich the future with truth and
build a fortress for the hearts and minds of
tomorrow.
But first we will see the legislators ask to
visit our school.
After thoughts
Selflessness
From the Associated Collegiate Press:
What holds back student government? What
factors can keep it from being truly effective?
Notre Dame University's student senate presi
dent Pat Logan writes his answers to these
questions in his school's Scholastic magazine.
"First," says Logan," there are some indi
viduals in the senate who are seriously lacking
in the qualities of selfless leadership, in mak
ing decisions on principle rather than for
personal interests, popularity or out of fear
or weakness.
"Many," he adds, "are not fulfilling respon
sibilities to fellow students outside of attending
a meeting once a week.
"Secondly, the conservatism of the university
administration holds back progress of student
government at times. Realizing that our basis
for authority rightly is delegated to us by the
administration, there are areas of student life
which have been delegated . . .
"Thirdly, a student apathy is a serious
hindrance to student government's becoming a
vital, influential force."
Logan makes a definition of leadership, too.
To him, it is not service. Rather, he defines a
"true" Christian leader" as one who creates
a significant impact on the thoughts and actions
of those with whom he deals."
From Th Editor's Desk:
A word or two
before you go
Fred Daly
Editor
The University, apparently,
Isn't the only school facing a
tuition raise next year. This
is obvious, of course, since
state schools everywhere are
having trouble getting money
from their respective legis
latures. The "out" for some of them
Is to put the burden of raising
the necessary money on the
Students themselves.
The University of Colorado
Regents have raised tuition $20
for instate students and $30
for outstate. Instate tuition is
still more than $30 below that
for Nebraska.
The situation at CU parallels
the trouble the University is
having with the Nebraska leg
islature. It is a matter of
buck-passing, short - sighted
ness and general ultra-tight-fistedness
on the part of the
legislature.
And the students, few of
whom can vote, are finding
themselves shouldering more
and more of the weight of a
state-supported education from
a land-grant school.
There is very little reason
why people of the state of Ne
braska should not support the
increased costs of supporting
Is just another dollar that can
be paid out by a University
student who probably can't
vote, anyway.
Early in May the students
at this institution will vote in
an all-campus election to elect
their representatives to the
Student Council. These people
are elected from the colleges
and from various large (or
not so large) organizations, in
a manner designed to give a
cross-section of student in
terest and representation.
In past years the Council
has ranged from heights of
foresight and "good works" to
the depths of ineptness and
bureaucratic red tape.
The purpose of the Council
is to provide a student "gov
erning body" to look out for
and keep a judicious eye on
the students. Its work on
campaigning to have the one
week exams passed by the
Faculty Senate put back on
the two-week schedule is an
example of the power this
body can wield.
Its fumbling about from one
year to the next on "activities
limitation" is an example of
something a little silly.
- It can thus be seen that the
Student Council in its function
of student representation can
a large and highly-reputable
University.
A dollar saved (or pinched)
do a good deal to forward the
interests of the students of this
University. It cannot do this
ideally, however, w i t h out
members that have the in
terests of the University at
heart and are not cn the
Council for prestige, activity
points or personal political
power.
It is, of course, entirely too
much for anyone to do more
than imagine such a celestial
state of affairs. It is a point
to be kept in mind, however,
when selecting candidates.
It is also difficult for the
voters to know what sort of
person they are voting for,
especially when voting in a
large college. Since cam
paigning has become a for
gotten thing in Student Coun
cil elections, most voters
don't know what candidates
think or claim they think. It
becomes a matter of voting
for the person you know.
'About the only thing a stu
dent can do as far as repre
senting himself in student gov
ernment is to take the small
trouble to vote election day.
In that way he can do his
small bit in trying to assure
serious, sincere student gov
ernment. If that isn't asking too much.
The Daily Nebraskan
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Now that spring is here the
Campus Green is starting to look
a little more flowery than it did
during the winter months. David
Happily has died and it looks like
his bones have fertilized a new
group of the intelligentsia who are
trying to pawn Barry Wright off on
the student populace.
This could prove a valid game
if the thing is not taken too far.
Water fights and dish throwing
are out of the question when a
critic wishes to discuss an "artist's
work." And so David died a hap
pily death. , '
There is a real value in having
a scapegoat who never really gets
hurt on the campus. Any student
with an eye towards the letters
can gripe and tear at the works
of such a phony and no one is
hurt except tho integrity of the
newspaper.
Young men are always filtering
through the office begging on bend
ed knee that we print poems under
a pen name. We do it often for
many of the poems are fairly good.
But I fail to see how the party
of the second part will ever know
much less believe that the poem
in the campus green is for her!
What was it George Washington
said in his Farewell Address? "If
the girl's worth winning, she's
worth wooing." (?)
it it it
Internal combustion department:
Sen. John Adams, Sr., of Omax,
wants students to invade the capi
tal (in a pleasant sort of way) ,
Tuesday morning for the discussion
of the resolution which would call
on the Chancellor and the Regents
to tell the Unicameral why the
tililion was raised. ' The Rag has
gone into thai in detail but the
invitation' of the senator stands.
Here's hoping that many students
who are genuinely interested in the
welfare of the University will be
on hand to hear their representa
tives debate the resoultion.
The presence of the students at
the Legislature Tuesday might
prove to be a coup. And the Uni
versity certainly could use one
of those quaint little French in
ventions at a time like ttiis. -a
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Fraternities and sororities who
pass by the students from Ne
braska high schools who swarm
over the campus during the Fine
Arts Festival are missing out. I
was given an opportunity to listen
to some of these people discuss
Friday afternoon and they were
very good.
But that's not the point. I sup
pose there are enough leaders
of tomorrow who come from the
ranks of the big schools. But they
don't show me too much. I'm
looking to the grassroots of the
state for the leadership of to
morrow. Let's face it. Nebraska,
will probably always be a con
servative place. And with that con
servatism comes a need for de
liberation. Maybe the pace of living in the
cities has quickened in the past
few years. But the pace of think
ing in the small towns has re
mained the same. Young men
from Laurel, Scotia, Fremont, Bel
levue all joined together in my
discussion rounds and plotted out
a plan for the solution to the farm
crisis which was pretty adequate.
Perhaps if the fraternities latch
ed onto some of these guys they
wouldn't be so hasty in their de
cisionslike the one to permit
spiking.
Then too, the fraternity system
needs to spread itself to more
areas. In a competitive age,
Greeks will just have to learn
that organized dorms and we
have one of the best organized
dorms on this campus in the coun
tryare vying for top men, too.
Musicians, actors, painters and
talkers find their ways into the
dorms faster than they do into the
fraternities.
And they're as valuable as any
one in any organizations.
Foreign Sf udenfs'
Journey delated
By STAN SHIEBERT
Special Writer
Imagine yourself standing down
by the Student Union one night last
week. A long-distance bus pulls up.
Several foreign looking characters
get off. As you gaze at them in
credulously, you think to yourself:
"Aha! the circus is back in town."
Needless to say, you would have
been worrfg. What you are looking
at actually is the last act of the
1957 Foreign Student of Nebraska
The main characters in our play
are 23 foreign students (including
this writer) whose homes are in
15 countries loacted on four of
the five continents of the world.
The other characters are five
Boards, whose efforts made the1
whole thing possible, a very pa
tient chaperone from Teacher's Col
lege, and, of course, our driver,
who is prabably sitting in his bus
right now wondering why he ever
undertook to drive a bunch of crazy
foreigners arour.i Nebraska.
Now imagine yourself in the
same spot three days previously.
That is when the curtain went up
on our play, whose action was to
cover about 600 miles of central
and eastern Nebraska.
Scene one finds our band of in
trepid explorers arriving outside
Joslyn Memorial in Omaha. We
descend from the bus and, in great
anticipation prepare ' to enter the
museum. Suddenly someone no
tices a sign which reads: "Musem
closed Mondays." Pandemonium
reigns. The tour seemd doomed to
failure, until a resourceful young
lady manages by the use of much
femine charm to inveigle herseif
and us into the building. All's well
that ends well ...
Scene two shits to Grand Island,
where we tour the new High School,
after which each member of the
group is asked to stand and say
a few words about his particular
country. It is the first of many
similar requests later on the tour,
so that by the end of the last day,
everybody knew exactly what each
speaker was going to say. This
provided much amusement for the
members of the tour, if not for
the local i habitants.
The next scene is set on a "road,"
between Lexington and Curtis. The
mud here is a foot deep from
recent precipitation, and our bus
comes off the road and plows
deep into the shoulder, where
We stick until a tractor can
get us out. This incident was
unanimously voted the most fun
of the whole tour, if you don't be
lieve this try it yourself some
time. Scene fpur ... We arrived, at
Curtis about four hours late, to
be recieved by the local High
School, which is an affiliate of the
University of Nebraska College of
Agriculture. For our benefit the stu
dents put on a square dance, at
tired in their most colorful western
cosf.rmes "'
Their efforts to teach some of
these elaborate steps to students
, from 15 countries provided a sight
for sore eyes. We reciprocated
with a demonstration pf the Euro
pean waltz by a young man from
Austria. This was watched by an
admiring group of students.
Our scene shifts from Curtis to
Holdredge and finally to Hastings.
Here we visit the college, in which,
by chance, are a number of foreign
students, including a couple from
Hungary, who had a great deal
to talk about with the Hungarian
girl in our party. In fact, we had
much difficulty persuading her to
continue the tour with us.
And so the wheel comes full cir
cle, and we find ourselves back on
the steps of the Student Union,
glad to be back in Lincoln, and
yet sorry the tour is ending.
Epilogue . -. . First, we will re
member the warm-hearted hospi
tality and friendliness of the peo
ple of Nebraska. The nicest thing
that could be said is that they
tried to make us fee1 nve mem
bers of the family. Tne rem.X rf
the couple in Hastings who enter
tained myself and another to din
ner is typical of the general feel
ing. They said: "We would have
liked to have had you all the for
eign students to dinner if we had
the room."
Secondly, I thing we will al re
member the wonderful feeling of
good will among the members of
the tour. Today, there is a great
deal of talk about racial prejudice
and nationalistic hatred, and it
seems particularly significant to
me that students from all over the
world could, be together and laugh
about the differences between their
governments. Maybe what the
world needs is for all the politi
cians to come to Nebraska and go
on a gigantic tour. That'd fix 'em.
i GREEN 1
The Path
Men will all discover that life can be
A struggle to find a love and a truth.
Soon their eyes will catch a glimpse
Of the beauty God has delicately moulded.
Soon each heart will gain the courage
To reach out for latest fascinations
And whether weighted rivals gain
Leaving simple people far behind the goal
The loved must know that someone waits
To touch the heart deserving service.
Man who loves; who loses to a god
Can know that he is finest yet.
For when a love 'is tost and hearts
Are squeezed the back spring captures '
Fullest heart fruit in its breast.
play
Did you send the letter to Lucerne
Or watch how they ran? I ask cut
I think we ought to know
A brag isn't worth the grey
It's written on les someone
Will answer the charges.
I'd ask again, but must hurry
Along now, my fancy.
EPS
(ACP) College students have
taken to heart the characters in
some of the comic strips like
Peanuts, Pogo, and Li'l Abner.
In many cases college newspapers
run these comic strips where local
newspapers do not do so. Most
approve of their college news-'
papers printing these comic strips.
Associated Collegiate Press de
termined collegiate opinion on this
situation by asking the following
question of a representative na
tional cross-section of college stu
dents: Some College Newspapers Reg
ularly Print Comic Strips Such as
Pogo, Peanuts, li'l Abner, Etc.
Do You Like The Idea Of College
Newspapers Doing This?
The results:
Men Women Total
Yes, like idea ... 55 58 57
No, don't like idea 29 29 29
Undecided 16 13 14
Many students approving comic
strips in college newspapers have
qualifications. Some say the strips
are all right only for those college
newspapers published every day.
A Georgetown University (Wash
ington, D.C.) senior feels comic
strips are desirable "so long as
they are not overdone" in terms of
numbers. Others approve only the
"higher-class" comic strips. A
senior coed attending Brooklyn
College (Brooklyn, N.Y.) says she
likes the idea, "but only when it
does not take away space from
college news, features or good car
toons." An Ohio University (Athens)
graduate student feels that the
comic strips mentioned in the ques
tion (Peanuts, Pogo, Li'l Abner)
are "more than just funnies," they
are an excellent form of satire on
our way of life. A Jacksonville
University (Jacksonville, Fla.)
freshman coed also likes the idea
because the comic strips will not
only "attract attention, but if
chosen carefully will serve a good
educational purpose."
Students disapproving of the idea
of comic strips in college news
papers believe college newspapers
are issued too infrequently to main
tain continuity, that comic strips
have no place in college news
papers, and that they can be read
just as well in regular newspapers,
thus, college papers should not
duplicate such features.
- Here are several comment
typical of these viewpoints: "They
(comic strips) can be read mor
up-to-date iii the regular news
papers" is the feeling of a senior
at the University of Nebraska. And
a sophomore coed at the same
school dislikes the idea because)
"the purpose of college newspapers
is not to duplicate regular ncw.
s papers." A Christian College (Co
lumbia, Mo.) freshman coed thinks
college newspapers "come out too
seldom to print all the daily install
ments of the comic strips.
Nebraskan letter'ms
To the Editor:
Who is this Barry Wright? His
poem seems to make more sense
than the average. When he says
"Fill the foetus flush with flour,"
I know exactly what he means.
That the idea is repulsive (and ab
surd) has nothing to do with the
poem's merits. True, the poem is
trash, pure and unadulterated. Yet
it does not beat around the bushes
on the Campus Green.
' . Maurice Anderson "
To the Editor:
As graduation day approaches
and this year's senior class hurries
to complete papers and finish any
work necessary to get their de
grees, many juniors wonder what
will happen to the atmosphere of
the campus after they are gone.
Who will there be to rake into
the mud and dig out issues which
"should be brought to the attention
of the uninterested public?"
What will happen to campus or
ganizations and administration of
ficials, who, because of lack of
such Issues and people to raise
them, will be forced to return to
those ends for which they were
established or back to normalcy?
The prospects of stack-blowing
and trouble in general are looking
rather dim and the present junior
class will have to show a lot more
initiative at r.nusing trouble for El
len Smith and such before the situ
ation looks any better.
Puzzled Junior
To the Editor:
I, too, was at one time convinced
that Nebraska was a cultural des
ert. But now has come proof that
there is a spark of imagination
here on campus. Some person, J
suspect it to be Steve Schultz, or
as he prefers to call himself, Da
vid Happily, has had the imagina
tion to find something of merit in
Barry Wright's poem "Exhorta
tion." Norman Menzie
ET73
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