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Tuesday, April 30, 1957
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, Every college or university has its traditions
the University is no exception. There are the
columns, Ellen Smith Hall, the Carillon Tower
(new, but mellowing). And there is Ivy Day.
Since before the turn of the century the Uni
Yersity has celebrated some sort of spring rites.
Like the school itself, Ivy Day has grown, until
now it comprises what might be called an all
University weekend, encompassing. Spring Day,
the Farmer's Fair, the Union Birthday Party
and the Ivy Day festivities.
The advent of the Innocents Society and the
Mortar Boards on the campus gave Ivy Day
ome 'significance in the honoring of the out
standing men and women in the juniop class.
There arc the intersorority and the interfra
ternity sings, the awarding of plaques and tro
phies to men's and women's houses outstanding
in scholarship and activities, the honoring of the
man and woman in the -senior class with the
highest accumulative scholastic average and
presentation of the May Queen and her pourt.
Ivy Day combines the pageantry of the crown
ing of the May Queen and the electric excite
ment of the masking of new MorUr Boards and
the tapping of new Innocents. .
There is the beauty of the singing competition
and honest applause due those with the highest
academic achievement in the graduating class.
Ivy Day, to the alum, is a symbol of his under-,
graduate days, whether or not be ever took
an active part when in school. It is something
held by no other school, although others may
have similar celebrations. It is something that
belongs particularly to the University.
Now, fortunately, Ivy Day has been expanded
by the inclusion of Spring Day, the Farmers'
Fair and the Union Birthday Party. The week
end is no longer restricted to activity people or
fraternity and sorority choral groups.
The weekend is designed for all students to
take part in any degree they wish, with com
petition and entertainment available to all.
There is no stipulation as to average, honors,
activities or affiliation.
It is a little ironical that a growing institu
tion such as Spring Day should grow out of the
devastation and pillage of the 1955 "panty raid'
riots. The University saw the immediate need
for something to allow students to let off steam
without calling out the police and fire depart
ments and bringing unfavorable publicity down
on the school and its students.
However, out of this nasty incident grew a
two-day free weekend based en the principle
that a little fun never hurt anyone.
In a few years Ivy Day, 1957, will be only a
matter of record. People will forget those hon
ored in the past after their pictures have been
put up on the wall and then relegated to the
back of the mantle. '.
But, right now, this coming Ivy Day and the
Spring Day events are supreme in the col
lective mind of the University. It is time to
stretch a little, relax from the drudgery of
classes and amble over to the Old Thumping
Grounds to see whatever there is to see.
In an intellectual society besieged by "mod
ern educational methods," progress and all the
rest, these messy old traditions might be cher
ished a little bit more.
For this week, at least, there is no penalty
for being a little sentimental.
Eggheads
Time magazine advises us that the eggheads
are making progress on the music front this
week. The magazine informs vz that the latest
answer to Rock 'n Roller Elvis Presley is a
composer by the name of Beethoven.
"Now only four, weeks old, the Beethoven fan
club got started when two Yalemen put $45 into
1,000 buttons which were snapped up by stu
dents at Manhattan's High School of Music and
Art for 15 cents each"?' Time reported.
Those students now proudly wear the legend,
"I like Ludwig."
Perhaps the primitive beat of the old master
has attracted the young people. No matter what
it is the move back to the classics looks like a
return to the classics. Maybe so. But maybe
it's only a reaction to the times . . . and the
customs. "
Now, however, we have to contend with an
even more primitive-than-Elvis music called
calypso. Not that it must be defeated. Just that
it pounds us day- and night with the beat of
the islands.
What this campus needs is someone with
nerve enough to call the broadcast music outfit
and 'ask for the Fifth (symphony). After all, if
high school students can unite and conquer
there's no reason why college kids can't do the
same. -
We look forward to the day when Pogo has
gone his way, too, and students begin to wear
presidential campaign buttons reading "Shapiro
for Governor" or "Sandoz for the Unicam."
That day's a long way off, but when it
arrives, the Yale boys will make the best of it.
Travelers
interests of the world for a gala Boy Scout-type
jamboree, we might encourage such a trip.
Whether or not the committee is motivated by
the deepest of love for the American way of life
is not the case. v
Anyone interested in spreading the way of
life which we cherish might find the festival
a success.
Maybe this would be & fine way of saying
to the Commies that we have something to
show and something to live for. Perhaps the
Festival would be a time when young people of
the world could "find not one method, but
thousands of methods by which people can grad
ually learn a little bit more of each other," as
President Eisenhower has suggested.
. But we dare say that any young people who
make the trip will be eyed with suspicion by
chauvinistic patriots. In other words, the joining
of East and West in friendship is an almost
impossible task, no matter how we look at it.
In a quaint propaganda move the Soviet Union
is sponsoring a 'World Festival of Youth and
Students this summer. The particulars from the
higher-ups (which came to the Daily Nebraskan
last week) note that the Festival enables the
youth of the world to sit down together and
talk things over.
"Not only. that," the pressurizer continues,"
but they are able to view, through song and
dance, sports and academies, the way of life
of their fellows everywhere." - i
The United States Youth Festival Committee
claims that it is not their purpose to encourage
ideas which are contrary to our way of life or
suggest by any means a change in our Con
stitution. The USYFC is in no way connected
with or will accept support from any Communist
or left wing group or individual.
If that's the case and1 some local monied
interests would like to join with the monied
From The Editor's Desk:
A word or tivo
before you go .
By FRED DALY When fanning Himself to a hension and a certain amount
EdiUr white heat of studying the of relief.
A 195 graduate of the Uni- student often finds himself. And, apparently, all these
versity said something to a wondering just how he got emotions run together a year
small group of hard-bitten sen- himself in such a mess in the w i0 later into "the best years
iors last week that merits first place. of your life." This is probably
thought. "In retrospect, your Students look at school with go m retrospect,
four years in college are the different opinions, depending But toward Ae end your
best years of your life," he on how long they have been Urm get , HWe baiIy
said, looking old and grad- here.1 t1 tht game
Mted- , Freshmen took at the whole n is the thing to do in some
The seniors, with only four business as a Big Adventure, drcks tJ complain ,nd r,ve
more weeks of classes and two and often find themselves jbout jn generaj nj
weeks of exams left in their slightly snowed by the weight ple particular This At
University careers were in- of academic responsibility. known as cynicism, and is a
dined to look at this partkm- Sophomores become acutely . mark the intellectually ma
lar senior with the kindness (and often extravagantly) con- ture who hav, given up nope
and understanding one re- scious of the "social side," re- the word ver tdving Hg
serves for the mentally infirm. suiting in amazing drops in problems
Still, there may be some- grades and an easy way to get xhtn) mt of the le spring
thing in what he said. For the an early start in the Armed Bky ont natures catas-
four (or five, or six, etc.) Forces. They also start their lropes comM to s m a s h a
years a student spends at this laborious climbmgs in the ac- sma!r town 0 1000 persons to
or any similar institution he is tivity world. kindling. The toll read one
somewhat cloistered from the Juniors are sophisticated; dead, several injured and Iran-
cares and worries of the "out- they have responsibility; they cireda "homeless,
aide. ' are mature; about this time of - Disaster? Yes! Hopeless?
ISs Immediate thoughts are the year they break out in a No!
occupied with making enough red and black rash known as Milford is already rebuild
money to get through school, the jitters. No known cure ex- jng, bigger. and better than
paying tuition increases, writ- cept blindness or falling heav- before,
irig dadd7 for more money, ily to the jround. And what I want to know,
passing courses, getting Seniors are sages, cynics, cynics, what do you thing of
enough sleep, turning 21, find- tired, heavy-footed and toward - that?. ' '
big out what will be in a final . . the end of the year look to- ' For sale: sliding pads. Fit
exam (by various means) etc, ward graduation with appre- tings on appointment only.
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To the Editor;
Much nonsensical ' and unin
formed copy gets into print in any
newspaper but, since it is almost
always harmless and never inten
tional, seldom do the readers take
advantage of the forum sudh col- .
umns as this afford. The case is
quite different, however, when the
material is viciously dangerous
and public exposure is possible
only through a "Letter to the
Editor." Silence, even enforced,
seems too-much like tacit agree
ment, so it behooves the "alert,
Interested and participating citi
zenry" to make themselves beard
immediately and forcibly. That is
not merely a right it is a duty.
Never in an American newspa
per have I ever tead anything so
pernicious, subversive and frankly
stupid and Mr. Gary Rodgers'
column "Doc's Diagnosis in the
Daily Nebraska last Friday. This
is strong language but, if consid
ered reading of the offending arti
cle does not bear me out, I am
prepared to face censure for both
error and calumny.
Although I would far rather sup
press Mr. Rodgers' ideas than give
them greater circulation here, be
lated criticism is much like box
ing with shadows so it is probably
better to get this thing out in the
open where it can be dealt with
apart from h-S deceivingly sensiDie .
opening paragraphs by reprinting
the three final paragraphs.
"Let the Russians be stopped by
movements from within. It will
not spread out its territory when
U.S. withdraws its foreign posts
without consequence. When Russia
expands, as in Poland and in Hun
gary, uprisings occur," Mr. Rodg
ers assures us!
The consequences of Russian en
slavement and their bloody sup
pression of any revolution are
more horrible and more keenly
felt than the minor expenditure
by the Kremlin of gasoline and
munitions to operate tanks against
a virtually helpless civilian popu
lation, as in Hungary, or. the manu
facture of , barbed wire for the
slave labor camps of the Soviet
East. Are we to withdraw from
Europe and leave yet more free
men to prey to the ruthless dic
tatorship of Moscow, Mr. Rodgers?
Wnat hope of liberation or refuge
will then exist to foster resistance
within the barbaric empire? Yet
you, Mr. Rodgers, openly urge us
to abandon half of the yet-free
world to such savage slavery, such -ruthless
exploitation as Moscow
has demonstrated wherever her
hordes have rolled! Do you won
der that I accuse you?
"The leader of the largest revo
lutionary movement in USSR re
cently visited the U.S. In his talks
to the U.S. newsmen he said a
successful revolution would occur
in Russia within the next two
years. He should know," Mr.
Rodgers adds.
That notion is dangerous just in
proportion as it is appealing! May
we not, you say, abandon this ex
pensive effort and this trying
anxiety if the threat will cease to
exist in two scant years? I ask
you: inquire of the Czechs and
the Chinese if eternal Viligance
is not the real price of freedom
rather than vague and vain hopes
that someone else will do all that
is necessary. Can you imagine our
memories are so short that the
hot sunshine of your complacency
will lure us out of our uncomfort
able armor and leave us defense
less before Russia's bloody sword?
We know, incidentally, that the
"largest revolutionary movement
in the U.S.S.R." is none other than
the blood-glutted Communist Inter
nationalwhich may expect rev
olutions within the next two years,
all right, but not in Russia.
"Meanwhile," Mr. Rodgers
pleads, I hope naively, "I believe
it is the duty of the United States
to maintain the face of a peace
loving nation and accordingly re
duce its defense spending and its
national debt." 4
Behind the thin veil of economy
rMs is a naked proposal for unilat
eral disarmameRt a not very se
ductive argument, Mr. Rodgers.
Without guarantee of freedom or,
tren, survival, you would advo
cate this when it is admitted the
Red Air Force has literally thou
sands of modern aircraft more
than we, when they hive exploded
several nuclear weapons in re
cent tests, in face of their subma
rine fleet's acknowledged capabil
ity to deliver atomic rockets on
our coastal cities! I am astonished
and angry: what would please the
Kremlin more than our withdraw
al from Europe and unilateral dis
armament?! Really, Mr. Rodgers, what .kind
of a (Party) line are you trying
to give us? We may or may not
live in a "Cultural. Desert" but
even here we can unerringly dis
tinguish the chains of enslaved
peoples from costume jewelry!
Thank you, we're having none of
that! I even dare say, when it
comes down to it, we will some
how manage the raised tuition: if
the State will furnish the bwrnbers
we can buy the books ourselves
until tim get better and govern
ments can afford properly to foster
the human, spirit. Until the idea
turns, however, we must survive
and help other free men to live
for that better day. We can do
this only as we are strong in arms
and spirit.
Let there be no more talk, Mr.
Rodgers, of abandoning our fellow
men. Dream us no dreams of
someone winning our battles for
us. Do not counsel we give up the
race because it is hard and you
think we should sit and grow fat
in our ease. Your tempting argu
ments are worthy of neither you
nor as. If you must write a public
column be a conscience, not a
succubus.
Frank P. Ross
To the Editor:
Some of "Compulsion' must
have rubbed off on Mr. Shugrue,
who, I understand, had the respon
sibility of cleaning up the copy in
Monday's paper.
I notice that on the editorial page
there was a daring use of the lan
guage of the hoi poloi which, if
nothing else, got a good number of
carrrms "dopes" reading the edi
torial pages.
Perhaps more mistakes like the
one in the Foreign Students tour
story would inspire the students
here to scrutinize the Rag with a
careful eye.
Amused
Well, have fun tackling and tap
ping this weekend, and I am sorry
that I can't be here for the annual
fertility rites. Instead, I begin col
lege shopping this weekend with
a trip to the State University of
Iowa. I cannot in good, conscience
pay 240 dollars a semester to con
tinue at the U. of VS.
My announcement of intention to ,
transfer will probably arouse no
mourning. But I think the appar- ,
ent mass evacuation of the local
campus, which one senses is short
ly to occur, should give pause to
the powers that be. One feels that
the annual recurrence of "trans- ,
ferritis" is inspired by more than
bursting buds and warming woods.
' This year the mental bag pack
ing is in great measure provoked
by a persistent and not unreason
able fear that the state legislature
and, though one hopes not, per
haps the people that legislature
represents have lost faith in the
intellectual heritage of their state,'
and that the university has - be
come the whipping boy for a poorly
based taxed structure. One wishes
that these suspicions were un
founded, but one can hardly make
any other interpretation 1 of the
events of the lasj few weeks.
- I speak for the moment, for the
through these
This morning, Nebraska's legis
lators are debating the recent tui
tion increase. Our worthy solons
are trying to decide whether this
increase will destroy the right of
the populace to a college educa
tion. From the outcry that has
been raised so far, it is safe to
conclude that some of them think
it will, or that it will at least pro
vide a good start to doing so.
These some are correct; the tui
tion increase is the beginning
that will end with the limitation
of college education to the privi
leged and moneyed few. This limi
tation has already begun in the
private schools back east. A re
cent magaiine article comparing
the per anum cost of attending
Harvard now and ten years ago
reveals that the 1946 rate was ap
proximately $1300 while the 1936
rate is over $1,000 dollars higher.
And yet, it is hard to find any
way in which the Board of Regents
could have escaped the dilema
they faced without raising tuition.
The Legislature had just refused
to grant a- million dollars that the
chancellor said was absolutely ne
cessary to the operation of the
University for the next biennium.
The legislature had pried from the
Chancellor a statement' that en
rollment would not be seriously af
fected by a (30 increase and there
had been strong implication from
the capitol that if the Regents
wanted to retain their traditional
right to regulate tuition at he
Universiy, they had better make
use of it very suddenly.
The whole sorry problem can be
blamed on expanding enrollment,
rising overhead and a drouth
which crippled the state's rural
resources. The conservatism of the
legislature in refusing to broaden
the tax base was certainly a con
tributing factor, and it is a con
servatism that must soon come to
an end or witness the destruction
of the fine reputation long enjoyed
by Nebraska as being one of the
most progressive and best gov
erned states in the union. How
ever, it must be admitted that if
the people don't have any money,
ho tax can provide revenue.
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Hi ho! Steverino. My good friend
Steve Schultz, in one of the most lu
era columns he's written all year,
has promised to pull up stakes and
head for the University of Iowa.
It hurts me to praise a Republi
can, but the editorial page was
certainly lively while Steve was
writing for it. The Schultz kind of
writers are the. kind of rabble
rouse rs a campus needs if for no
other purpose than to force people
to ask, "What is intellectualism?"
Keep the pot boiling Schutz or
Schultz or whatever it was we
printed.
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The middle Eastern crisis con
tinues to plague John Foster and
the, "Grinning Golfer". King Hus
sein of Jordan has dissolved two
cabinets in two weeks nd his
third, presently iri operation, gives
no indication of being any strong
er. The young king vows, that he
will defeat Communism in his
country, but he is. faced with an
intolerable situation.
On one hand are the Israelis,
who can give no support to an
Arab country. Rather they inten
sify the Jordanian crisis by f oust
ing Arb refugees from their coun
try onto Jordanian oil where they
must live in squaW and poverty.'
On the' other hand are Jordan's
Arab allies who ostensibly would
aid the country. However, only Oil
rich Saudi Arabia has shown any
inclination to do so with Egypt and
Syria apparently waiting to cut up
the little kingdom should its gov
ernment fall.
However, by yesterday the situ-
George Moyer
ation had eased somewhat. The
curfew imposed in Amman was
lifted for eight hours and .the town
was nearly in a holiday mood.
Just how much the threat of the
U.S. Sixth Fleet, dispatched to the
area by President Eisenhower, has
.to do with this can not be ascer
tained. But , whatever the effect,
the intent is plain. The step was
an almost exact copy of Teddy
Roosevelts "Big Stick" diplomacy
which worked so well at the turn
of the century. Although we abhor
it, threat of force and force are
still the only two things Commun
ism is able to understand or. fear.
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out of state students who art tht
primary sufferers from the recent
tuition hike. We will be asked tt
pay 240 dollars a semester, as
compared to an out of state tuition
average of 195.66 for the Big Seven
as a whole. This hardly teems
economically feasible when one
considers that a Missourian can
go home to pay 90 dollars, a Colo
radan can evacuate to an 06 buck
fee, and an'Iowan would have to
pay only 'lOJ dollars per semester.
Even nostalgia for Delt Woods
and the lobby of the 'girls' dorm
cannot overcome dollars and
sense. ' ' , - .
The theory that the out of state
tuition raise was designed to rid
the campus of those of us who
came from across the wide Mis
souri has been rampant in tht lo
cal Ivy Covereds. And it is per
haps reasonable to ask just what
we foreigners are doing here in
the first place. '
What do we contribute? We eon
tribute, the hope that a university
which is potentially one of the fin
est in the country, a university
with, all the advantages I enumer
ated last week, will become rec
ognized as more than a local
phenomonon. We . contribute the
word of mouth publicity that is
more effective than a pile of rave
notices in Levejoy'a. And we con
tribute, we hope, the kind of new
ideas that keep an educational in
stitution from burrowing its way
into a chauvinistic rut.
Our forced exodus will wipe"
away all these contributions and
replace them with the worst sort
of publicity any school can have,
a discontented student body.
Holiday magazine proclaimed a
couple of months ago that the
state university is the successor
to the heritage "of the great uni
versities of Europe and our own
east coast. This is reassuring be
cause the state university seems
a peculiarly Mid-western institu
tion and as such could carry on
the t r a d i t i o n of individualism
which is also a Mid-western insti
tution. '
j'GSS
The Gifnpus6s
By DICK SHUGRUE
Editorial Page Editor
In the critical days just before
Ivy Day festivities on our cam
pus, thoughts of many students run
to the color and the honors which
might be theirs.'
On other campuses similar prob
lems are facing those hopefuls-of-honors.
But all is not rosy on the
"honors" scene around -the na-
tion. '
The Intercollegiate Press reports,
that a disposition of a case before
the University" of Maine Faculty.
Council concerning honor society
standards is still undecided.
"The main problem involved is
the controversial differentiation of
professional honor societies from,
scholastic honor societies," the col
lege watchdog states.
"The controversy arose ' at a
council meeting early last fall
when a discussion of the program
listings of students to receive honor
at the Scholarship Recognition
Assembly treated all societies
equally."
The "Press" continued that the
argument hinged around the fact
that in theory the societies are
equal each having their own stand
ards in some particular field. In
reality, however, the" societies are
not equal since many of them do
not require, in the general sense of
the word, what the University
considers "honor" grades..
The University of Nebraska hon
orary societies which range
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from the strict Phi Beta Kappas
to the '-'active" Innocents and Mor
tar Boards all require a spe
cific grade average before a can
didate may be considered serious
ly. The question may be whether
the standards for all groups are
adequate to be called "honor"
groups.
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The Associated Collegiate Press
says that editors and college ad
ministrators across tht country
have been lamenting the lack of
persons who seek polio shots at
health centers.
But at Texas University a stu
dent wrote to the Daily Texan
telling what he believes the rea
son is:
I believe I can enlighten you
on why the majority of UT stu
dents have neglected to take their
polio shots. It's very simple.
They are cowards! Sissies! Tht
borrrible truth is that they art
. afraid of the tiny stick of tht
hypodermic needle.
So says, Billy Newton whose
father is a doctor, wbcet mother
is a nurse and who "feels like a
sieve."
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Incidentally words of wisdom t
The Westminister College of Penn
sylvania defines:
Pathologist: One who can find
his way through the woods.
Here at Nebraska it's reported
that most of the woodsy claa J
can't even find their way into tht
woods!
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