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y i i I . , i' ; ..y ,' "?r ... , A I- Page 2 The Daily Nebraskan Tuesday, May 7, 1957 Daily Nebraskan Editorials: Aftermath Every spring following the Student Council elections the press waxes eloquent on the duties and services to be extracted from the new and old members of the governing body. -This spring the Daily Nebraskan is tempted to do the same things if for no other reason to prove that the paper, if no one else, is inter ested in campus affairs. Rather, the Nebraskan feels that there is a more important duty which the press can serve in informing the members of the student body who cast their ballots in good faith that the paper will keep an eager eye on the council watching for irregularities, for factions and for general activities of the group. The Student Council which has the confidence of the student body cannot step out of line. When the confidence is backed up by fair re porting on the part of the student paper and honest criticism by the editorial columns the University can be assured of a smooth and efficient government at least on the under graduate level. And so in keeping with the spirit of these ideas the Daily Nebraskan feels that it would be wise to outline a "press policy" for the coverage of a student government. In the first place the paper will level sharp but honest criticism at all levels of the stu dent government. It will keep the council mem bers awake; it will keep them concentrating on the vital job they have before them. The paper will watch the council for the development of factions; we will look for ideas in the body which would not best benefit the entire student population. The Daily Nebraskan will report the activities of the council and see to it that the important measures outlined by the group have a fair airing. The most a student paper can do is to find the truth and comment upon it. A good news paper never fabricates the truth and doesn't build mountains out of molehills. But a paper like the Daily Nebraskan can watch for the inroads of ideas which are not for the best of the council. We will check the rolls of the council and report if a member is not present. In short the student paper will expect the best of service from the Student Council. We believe the students made the choices and ex pect the same service from their representa tives. But in the final analysis it's up to the students to stand behind their representatives. Now What? As a result of Monday's all-University elec tions, the installation of a student tribunal on the campus has passed through its fourth stage of development. First, the idea was conceived by the Student Council last year. Secondly, at elections a year ago the student body gave the Council a go ahead vote to work out a proposed charter for a' tribunal. Thirdly, the Council drew up a charter and passed it unanimously. What apparently remains now is for thu Coun cil to offer the approved charter to the Board of Regents for final official approval that would install the tribunal as part of the University's student government and disclipinary system. The question that arises now is whether the charter approved by students voting yesterday will adequately fulfill the needs of the student body. As the present charter states, the tribunal would hear only cases referred to it by the office of student affairs or agencies of the Fac ulty Senate. Council officers who backed and drafted the charter have assumed the tribunal will build a reputation for integrity and judi cious decisions after a time. This would give the administration cause to depend on and trust the body. This is only an assumption, however, and it would take time before the tribunal would be From The Editor's Desk. A -word or two an effective agency of student responsibility. The Daily Nebraskan firmly believes a tri bunal is needed by the campus to fill the gap, that often exists between the student body and the administration. At the present time student discipline is handled directly by administrative officials. A tribunal would act as a link between students and officials, and would result in needed trust and confidence between the two areas that is not often seen. A tribunal would not have final jurisdiction, of course, as it is always the responsibility of the ' administration to maintain final control over the students. But a tribunal would make student opinion known to officials, who, by their very positions, cannot be aware of this feeling. What the tribunal should have is direct juris diction, subject to review and appeal to the administration, over cases of student trans gression other than those involving morals or those which bring about automatic disciplinary measures. , The students of the University are now, by virtue of Monday's voting, closer than ever to a student tribunal. Although less than half of the school's students voted, their decision will carry some weight with the Board of Regents, even if they might not have known exactly what they were voting about. before you go . . . By FRED DALY Editor The future of students vot ing on designated faculty committees will come before a vote of the Faculty Senate today. This issue has been batted around for several months between the Council and the Senate, and it is about time something defi nite is done. General opinion among in terested students and faculty indicates that students should be given the right to vote, es pecially on committees like the Board of Publications and the final exam committees. As things stand now stu dents sit on various faculty committees and are occasion ally asked for their opinions or ideas. This is, however, far from having expression of a Tote. Faculty members who have aerved on committees where tudents have taken active parts have praised these stu dents and their work. They generally feel that a student must have a vote for the committee to get the most benefit from the student's abilities and interest. The future of the student committee vote rests in the hands of the menjbers of the Faculty Senate. For the best interests f the faculty committees contain ing student members, and for student - faculty relations in generalr the most judicious and logical course for the Faculty Senate to take today will be give its overwhelm ing support to the student vote. A preliminary look at the 1957 Cornhusker revealed a yearbook the school can be proud of. The photography is excellent, organization fine the general effect ranks this edition with the best of past years. Still, they only put out one edition a year while we over here put out 70 every semes ter. Unreliable sources indicate that the reason the Mortar Boards take so long in mask ing their successors is that they can't see very well through those teeny little holes in their masks. Student Health hints at a lively increase in attendance after last weekend's Spring Day and Ivy Day events. Apparently pushball and a little fancy tackling on the part of the Innocents accounts for this. It is getting to that hairy time of the year again. Re ports are due, term papers overtime, hour tests again, and that terrible spectre of Final Exams skulking around. It is also spring, and nice outdoors, and it isn't raining very much anymore. It is getting a little hardei to rationalize out of things every day. Basically, life is just one damned weekend after another. Crusade This Is another in the series of reprinted dized. It has a record of having been singularly editorials from the Daily Public press. To- useful and dependable in areas of controversy. day's editorial is from The Lincoln Star. One need only to cite the great, objective re- It is surprising that the controversy continues porting of Walter Durabty who covered Russia between Secretary of State Dulles who has on the spot from 1920 to 1935 for which he closed off Red China and the American press was awarded a Pulitzer prize. He is but one which wishes to open it up. It is one that of innumerable newsmen who oyer the years ihould never have come up, or having come, have provided us with most of the factual back- ahould have been happily resolved in favor of ground of our global knowledge. the freedom of the press long since. when such men are orbiden to visit China the Secretary Dulles owes to the American people . , , , . , , . . ,. American people perforce are required to relv a convincing explanation why he is overriding v 4 u y the American principle of objective reporting. on Red Propaganda or on narrow statements If there is a truly compelling reason for it he of w own state department. Neither has the hasn't mentioned it. background, skill nor the objectivity to serve The American press is not easily propagan- the American need. The Daily Nebraskan IXSTY-FTVE YEARS OLD EDITORIAL STAFF Member: Associated Oolleglate Press Edltot t Wni DaW Intercollegiate Press Muutini Editor joek Poiiocu Representative: National Advertising Service, Editorial ra Editor Dick simmm Incorporated News Editors., San Jones, Bob Ireland Published at: Room 20, Student Union sport Editor Bob Mutei Lincoln, Nebraska Copy Editors Art Blackmail, Carole trunk 14th & R Georgs Moyer, Bon Wariioloski Thm Dally Nebraska) l published Monday. Tuesday, N1"ht Nw Editor Alt Blackmail Wednesday end Friday during tbe school year, except ar Edlto. Walter Patterson tlitrlng vacations and exam periods, and one Usue Is Staff Photographer... Dais Lewis published d urine- Auiriist. by students of the University office secretary Julie Dowell at Hadraaka under tbe authorisation of the Committee society Edltot , aa FarreU m Student Affairs as an expression ol ' t!MH opinion. Reporters..... Diana Maxwell, Mary Patterson, rubllcatjon. under the Jurisdiction of the Subcommittee K , L Ktth 'Bmlth, Rnb na Student Publications shall be free from editorial Grlmmlt, Sam Hall, jack Carlln, jssnsoTsalp on lb. part of the Subcommittee or on the Mk h , Kelllson ft of any member of tbe faculty of the tnlverslty, or . on the part of any person outside the tnlverslty. Tbe Writers Cynthia Zuchau. Bob Wlra, Gary Mttbera of the Nebraskan staff are personally tt Rodcrs, Stan Wldman. 'ms. " i0 C8UM " " BUSINESS STAFF Subscription rates are IJ.60 per semester or 14 for Business Manacer. . fieorire Madsea lbs academli ar. Assistant Business Miuiafer Larry Epstein ' Entered as second class mailer at tbe post uffle us Tom Neff, Jerry Melletln Uneviii, Nebtaefca, under tin net ol August 4, 1JU. Clniulatloa MamsgW. ..swai".. " Jack f orris lisTiWiH fgEAUTIrU....) f JUST I I f v 5-7 Nebraskan Letierips To the Editor: Contrary to popular opinion In dependent Women also have pig ment in their skin. After reading the column in the Tuesday issue of the Rag entitled "Spring Sun burns Mark Sorority Girls," we thought perhaps you would like to know that the sun also shines on Independents. Give the Indepen dents a "place in the sun". The Palefaced Independents. To the Editor: The c&.nic strip "Peanuts" is ridiculous as any fool can plainly see, as I see. Everybody, b o t a young and old, should know that dogs can't talk and besides that, nobody's named Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown To the Editor: Well, the madcap mania of the mall is over again for another year. Next year there will be an other group of Red Men who think that' the University looks up to them and feel that they deserve every honor steeped on them. The truth of the matter is that I once asked a man from Kansas what he thought of our Innocents' Society and ail the rigamorol that went along with it. He replied, "Your what?" I faintly recall the words of that great Innocent of the first century, Virgil, who admonished the juniors of his day at Rome U (who didn't make it, either) "For san et haec olim meminisse Juva bit." i Lou Kramer 'Cross The Campuses By DICK SHUGRUE Editorial Page Editor Colorado University which has been in "favor" of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has taken issue with the organization and blamed it for "rabble rousing" on the Boulder Campus. The Colorado Daily stated that the student leader of the NAACP which has worked hard and long throughout te nation for integration and equal rights took a swipe at the Denver public school system which was uncalled for. Editor Paul Hannon of the Daily says," We agree that the race picture in the Denver-Boulder area is no perfect." acias: we stand always Doc s Diagnosis Gary Rodgers He against discriminitory practices as being illogical, unnecessary and immoral. "However, let's remember that prudence, temperance and gradual improvement are the only real answers to the remaining racial problems of our area." Hannon suggests that men such as the campus NAACP leader, Amund Pickus, select his targets more judiciously and not besmirch the "vigorous, yet temperate rec ord of the national organization." At the University of North Car olina in Chapel Hill the girls are demanding "equal dress rights". The Daily Tar Hell says that wom en are here to stay" and as long as they're here they will be demand ing first this and then that." Mary Voorhees, staff writer of the Tar Heel explained that girls are very unhappy since they can't wear Bermuda shorts to class. She cays coeds' gripes stem from: 1) The fact that it's just as hot to the women as it is to the males of the species. 2) Wal shorts were first designed for women. 3) The Bermudas look much better on the gals. A letter to the Daily Nebraskan suggested a "Culture Day" to sup plant the present "Spring Day." Well, at Kansas State College the first "Arts and Sciences Open House" was held last weekend. The day's activities included in French and Spanish, depart mental exhibits, a music program, several films, and tours of the buildings. The Collegian reported that about 500 high school students at tended the day and listened, to the Dean of the College, John Weaver discuss various aspects of "intel lectual" college life. A cartoon in the Iowa State Teachers College paper blasted the parking situation on the Cedar Rapids campus. Staff Cartoonist Dick Leet drew a picture of an irate student on a bike staring at a sign saying "Park ing Reserved for staff," hanging over an empty lot. Words to the wise might be suf ficient, since many University stu dents seem to feel that faculty lots are not being utilized to their ful lest extefit. The Syracuse University "Daily Orange" s&ys that research into the problem of whether students would "go" for an honor system indicates that the problem would be heartily approved by many concerned. And even the big schools could make it work,, the paper claims. The loopholes range from the Bus Ad Council Elects DeVries To Presidency Raymond DeVries, a member of Delta Sigma Pi, has been elect ed president of the Business Ad ministration student executive council. Carry-over members of the coun cil are Alan Rosen, who is a mem ber of Alpha Kappa Psi, and James Whittaker, Sigma Chi. Senior members include La Grande Coady, Delta Sigma Pi; Jean Johnson, and Richard J. Ku cera, also a member of Delta Sig ma Pi. John E. Fifer, Delta Sig ma Pi;' Milan Frey, Delta Sigma Delta are junior members. ' Sophomore members include Bob Krumme, Sigma Chi and Rog er Rankin, Phi Delta Theta. An organizational meeting will be held Tuesday, May 14 at S p.m. in Room 212 of Social Sw...l es. The purpose of the council is to act as a middle man between the faculty and studen'-s. end a's.D to put on a banquet in the fall. fact that an honor system would have to reach far into fields of en deavor aside from the class room situation. "That book you took from the library for. a night without check ing it out; the faked ID all areas which should be covered by the honor system," ,The Orange says. But the paper concludes: We think it would work. And even if we find it doesn't, it's well worth a try. Those students with a critical eye might find, themselves a job at Syracuse U. The paper is conduct ing a contest now in search of a movie critic. The present critic, apparently, has fallen heir to the perennial spring disease, love and can no longer view films except through rose colored glasses. Two students who played a tape recording consisting of "vulgar ad jectives" have been removed from their dormitory room at Texas A & M. The student paper, "The Bat talion" said that immediately fol lowing the Saturday night incident another resident of the dorm rushed up and made the men turn off the recording. Acting quickly the Student Coun cil executive committee released a statement regreting the incident. It said that such actions chould not be tolerated by the administra tion or the students of the school. A bill is now before the Legis lature of our state that can end the state support to the Univer sity's Medical school building fund. This bill, if passed, will repeal the current act which appropriates a quarter-mill levy for this fund. The quarter-mill now goes into a fund which provides for the con tinued expansion of the medical school and would guarantee the school its capability of keeping its American Medical Association ac crediation. Governor Anderson supports this bill. He supports most anything that "will save the state money." It just might be possible that the most economic plan for the pres ent would not be the most econo mic in the long run. Just what good would it do to save $1 this year, if because of it you will have to spend $2 next year. This is exactly the effect the ending of the state quarter-mill appropriation to the building fund will have.- It will cause the school, in the process of the next few years, to lose its accrefliation it is inevitable. Once this is lost it is hard to regain. It would be much more costly to restore this accrediation than to maintain it. Secondly, the very purpose of the building fund was to build. It was to provide for new buildings, new additions and maintenance of the present plants. Such measures must be allowed for. Our state does not just hand out a paper sack with a few million dollars in it whenever some proj ect is in need of the funds. Instead, we must plan ahead and make allowance now for large expendi tures in the future. The present bill was passed four years ago, since then the amount the bill has socked away Was continued to grow, in 1962 it would be about six million dollars. With this sum an outstanding Medical Center could be formed. This would tend to bef a tremendous asset to the Uni versity Medical School. In backing the repeal of the quarter-mill levy the governor was no doubt thinking of the great sum of state money he could save us. He must not be criticized for try. ing to reduce the budget of our state, to reduce spending in any way he can and consequently re duce our taxes. In this time tax reductions would be very welcome. However, I believe that if the tax reduction can be accomplished only by halting the progress on a state institution such as the Uni versity Medical cshool, then we do not want the tax reduction. The Medical school is not the only place where our governments are faced with the decision of which is more important to re duce a needed service, or a al ready high tax. Our state has faced this same problem in rela tion to the University budget as a whole, our country is facing it in relation to the proposed cuts in the State Department budget of $47 million and in the U.S. Informa tion Agency of $38 million. The questions must always be weighed. But we must look to the future... Students Dislike Date ureau Proposals A (ACP) Three out of every four college students want to be able to arrange their own dating while attending college. They make it quite clear that dating is a per sonal perogative and the college administration should keep its "hands off." But some students feel "date bureaus" might be able to play a useful roll in some situa tions on some campuses. Student comment on this issue was gathered when Associated Col legiate Press asked the following question of a representative nation al cross-section of college students: Do you think colleges should set up "date bureaus" for their students, or do you feel students get their own dates without any trouble? The results: The figures show that there is little difference in the opinions of college men and women on this question. Students favoring "date bureaus" feel they would be a good thing for shy students, or for fresh men with few acquaintances. Oth ers believe "date bureaus" would be- helpful on special occasions, some think boys or girls colleges could make good use of them since students attending these institu tions don't have the opportunity that students at co-educational in stitutions have to meet members of the opposite sex. Here are a few comments typical of students holding these opinions: 'A bureau should be set up for special events such as a banquet . when numbers of students don't atteijd because of no date," is the feeling of a sophomore coed at Mississippi College (Clinton). An Oswego State Teachers College (Oswego, N.Y.) freshman states: "Some of the students are a little shy and a date bureau would help them get started in their social life." "If it were run right it would be OK. You can meet a lot of nice guys on blind dates. The fun you have is up to the persons," is the way a senior coed at St. Cather ine's College (St. Paul, Minn.) puts it, while a University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) senior simply says: "Sometimes it's terribly hard for a boy to get a date." And a fresh man coed, also at the University of Arkansas, thinks "it would help shy students." Students opposed to the idea of "date bureaus" often term the idea "ridiculous." Most state that they can handle their own personal affairs. Others say blind dates just don't seem to work out too well. "No girl I know would like to ttiink she was unable to get her own date, so I'm sure it would be pretty unsuccessful," is the way a Long Beach City College (Long Beach, Calif.) freshman coed puts it. A Villanova University (Villa nova, Pa.) senior thinks that "col lege life should breed a little initia tive in every student and a North em Illinois State College (DeKalb) freshman coed says: "If they can't get their own dates they should forget it." A Lynchburg College (Lynchburg, Va.) senior says rather emphatically: "I'll handle my own affairs, thank you!" Students who are undecided on the question form two groups, hose who just don't have an opin ion and those who feel the answer depends upon the type and siza of the college and the particular situation prevailing at the time. mjtle Man on campus by Dick Bibler ' d?OOZ. FENWlCKI -N VE&N. if 1 L . IINKS OF HIMSELF YOU CAN I fftl NDHMIN HIS OFFICE DM ANP 1 y VrJ HI. 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