The Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, May 22, 1957
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Daily Nebraskan Editorials:
Budget Finals
Early next week the budget for the state of
Nebraska for 1957-58 comes up for its final de
bate before the legislature. The budget has been
steadily hacked at while in committee and by
the Governor himself, as the state's ultra-con.
servative statt legislature finds itself allergic
to spending.
To the state, every portion of the new budget
is important. To the University, there is one
part pertaining directly to this institution that
tends to overshadow all the rest. That is the
University's budget increase request, originally
et at $5.5 million, cut to $3.2 million by the
Governor and destined to be cut even further by
the legislator's budget committee.
Classes will be completed by the time the
budget is finally accepted, as will final exams.
Students, leaving for home, jobs, vacations or
the service will tend to get out of touch with
their University. The budget will become some
thing to be tended to by the administration.
But, when a $20 per semester tuition raise is
necessary to give the University at least a
minimum operating span it is obvious that the
University's budget is very much a matter of
importance to University students. Even more
important than tuition is the" rather chilling
fact that a good University must have ample
funds upon which to operate. ,
Practically speaking, the future of the Uni
versity's budget is out of the students' hands.
Even school -officials are limited to what they
can do at this time, except to keep on explain
ing and asking for what they need.
The next few weeks will spell out much of the
immediate future of this University. It can
only be hoped that the future will be as suc
cessful as the past has been.
A Semester's Passing
Today, as is the traditional custom, the Daily
Nebraskan is running the list of the staff's
choice for the Ten Top Stories of the semester.
Stories are judged on news value, significance
to the University and relative importance with
ether stories.
This semester the tuition raise proposed by
the Board of Regents rates the top position on
the list. There are a number of reasons for
this choice, all of which fall under the general
heading of the trouble the University is having
with the legislature.
The tuition raise itself has been discussed in
the columns of this and other state papers. Stu
dents are generally opposed to the raise, as they
would be to any increase in their living costs.
This increase, however, need not have been
levied if the state would be willing to shoulder
more of the burden of its state university.
The second "top story" is really a series of
developments relating to the gradual cutting of
ths University's budget requests. The Univer
sity needs state funds to grow and to develop the
state's future citizens. This year these funds
are getting more difficult to attain, as many
state schools across the country can testify.
The third story relates the Faculty Senate's
failure to vote on the proposal to allow students
to vote on faculty subcommittees. The Daily
Nebraskan has pushed the student vote all se
mester since it was removed at the end of the
first semester. The student vote as such is more
than an extension of student self government it
is an excellent way to bring students and faculty
closer together in considerations and decisions
regarding student affairs. '
There were other important stories, of course.
Some of the related events involved one group,
others involved the entire University. All to
gether they spell out the ebb and flow of campus
life over the semester. Some are significant
and will affect future generations of Cornhusk
ers; others are only fleeting, and will soon be
forgotten.
Still, when they occurred, they were very important.
Smooth Sailing
or no difficulty and all went well at the Ball.
The real test of the fraternity system in lieu
of its January incident will be the outcome of
this summer's rushing program. Starting early
this June some 24 organizations will begin tour
ing the state in an effort o find pledge classes
for nevf year. The impression the fraternities
make; the way parents of rushees greet the
fraternity men; and when rush week finally sub
sides the number of new pledges fraternities
acquire will decide finally the effect of the Janu
ary 19 axing.
If all goes well through Rush Week the Daily
Nebraskan surmises that next year's IFC po
litical season will be void of the 1956-57 petty
jealousies, rivalries, and general nonsense. This
year's prevalent feeling of "rabid rabble-rousing"
which some seniors held dear to their
hearts and which caused more harm than good,
will also have died an ignoble death.
Most fraternity members realize that even
their own alums forecast bad things for the fu
ture. With this premonition in mind it is up to
the 1957-58 IFC to bear down and produce an
indissoluble unity amongst its members despite
past grievances and political upheavals.
Last January after the sudden, spectacular,
and rather shocking eruption in the political
status of the Interfraternity Council the Daily
Nebraskan was one of those who predicted poor
ailing ahead for the fraternity system at the
University.
Since that momentous hour when three Council
officers resigned their positions under pressure
.from a majority of IFC members the "sailing"
has been on the whole smoother than predicted.
While the Daily Nebraskan will not change its
original conclusion that last January's coup
d'etat was a serious mistake, it must concede
that the IFC has progressed admirably since
that time. Evidence of this was last Saturday's
IFC Ball which from all reports was handled
with utmost efficiency and enjoyed considerable
success.
The IFC Ball outcome is especially significant
when one stops to realize that one of the reasons
the administration granted permission to the fra
ternities to reinstate the dance was to test their
integrity. This test was in the form of a pledge
which was signed by all fraternity presidents
and which stated that there would be no drinking
at the dance. The pledge, was upheld with little
From The Editor's Desk:
A word or tivo
before you go . . .
By FRED DALY choosing a business career," The reasons for the system
Editor the gentleman said. "Liberal are that it "will cut down on
There have been people in ;'ls skills may not be so im- cheating" and wiil "put a new
here for the last five days try- mediately applicable to a spe- moral tone on campus." A
ing to get their Cornhuskers cia situation ai those with a man "will have his own in
from members of the Daily technical background, but they tegriiy strengthened when
Nebraskan staff. The Rag can he just as fundamental, working on his honor."
staffers after few days of tnev cover a wider range of it is encouraging to see Mu
trying to sell old copies of activities, and they usually dents taking on themselves the
their publication, have re- "re more adaptable. responsibility for their own in
verted to putting up large "A number of firms," he dividual honesty. It is even
signs clearly pointing the way s"oes on. "which previously more encouraging to see an
to the Cornhusker office, and considered an engineering de- honor system endorsed by a
have retreated into the protet- gree a necessity have now re- large number of faculty mem
tive shell of their inherent v'se tneir thinking and are bers, as Dartmouth reports,
dignity willing to discuss career op- But it Ls a little sad to stop
So, if there are any students fortunitie. with well-rounded 8d reflect that this has only
around who haven't picked up lberal art5 menfor the,r workd 'm a few c1,ee'
their Cornhuskers, come down timn 7r"; ', , ""f the f10"' "and ,thaJ
to Union Room 20, come Now lhat ouht t0 fan a few 8tude,,u at the collce Ievel
through the double doors, turn fire " " endles ru' st Proctored continually
right and go through another nU betw"n nf'"eer and w taking exams,
door. Don't ask anyone in the ,U come,' ab10ut the relative l! would be n,ce to thmk
Daily Nebraskan office. They menu of their respect.ve that honesty would be an in-
either .won't hear you or will curriculum. tegral part of higher educa-
give complete and concise nt ' n. Maybe tnu u expecUng
rections on how to find the Dartmouth College has been too much.
- gradually incorporating an
furnace room. . ... .
t 9 honor system into its aca- The sun came out again.
demic plan and the system You could tell by the people
The Bowdoin College place- wat gjven ut most significant staggering blindly out of So-
ment director made an an- recognition this year when the cial Sciences, their hand
nouncement recently that English department offered clasped to their burning eyes,
should be balm to the hearts ju semester exam to 700 But don't worry the old sun
of Arti and Sciences students. freshraen proctored only by will be there burning all over
"Liberal arts education is a signed pledges of the student's the place when graduation day
practical education for one honesty. rolls around.
The Daily Nebraskan
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Lots of fun last night taking the
Kosmet Klub, South Pacific, out
to the Lincoln Air Base tho
there was that time when we were
making book on. the possibility of
the show being tornadoed out.
George Jean Daly suggests in
his review this morning that this
is the finest KK show ever. I
haven't had Fred's experience in
watchfng these things; I have no
standards by which to judge this
show against the previous years'
products. At any rate the "out of
town opening" crowd, seemed to
like it. You ought to like it too.
Actually, the show wandered all
over the base. Probably the air
men who were defending their
country from a cockpit in the of
ficers club were more entranced
when the chorus girls were eating
dinner than they were by any
thing that went on on stage. Well,
the arts provided subordinate plea
sures. I notice that one of the local
theaters is running an ad this week
for the '"movie everyone's talking
about." I happened never to have
heard of the particular motion pic
ture they are talking about.
This leads to an interesting ques
tion: Just how far can you go in
an advertisement to make people
belive something which with a little
observation they would know was
not true?
For instance, for years the
great state (Iowa) has been sug
gesting that all low a iis are lovable
people who have not the slightest
irritation with their envL timents.
Now this to use a figure of
speech which is appropriate in dis
cussing Iowa hogwash.
Iowans spend more time griping
about the pettifoggers on capital
hill and the concrete cowpaths than
they do in farming. Nevertheless,
they accept the gospel according
to Public Relations and are con
tent to believe that their homeland
is floating in milk and honey.
This has some interesting as
pects. Why doesn't the typewriter
battalion which must be nestled
somewhere in the boweb? of the
Nebraska capitol get together and
turn out some copy telling us that
while it was slashing the budget
the legislature was considering the
greater good of all concerned. My
gosh, if they kept at it long enough,
even soma University students
might be convinced.
The trouble is that there is al
ways some malcontent who in
sists on thinking for himself and.
that spoils everything.
This is my last column of the
year and with any luck at all
any other year. I find myself ask
ing myself if I would take any
thing back. There are a few things:
(1) 1 would never again suggest
that most college students are lib
erals. On reconsidering, I find that
liberalism takes more effort
mental effort, if no other kind
than does conservatism. And be
cause mental effort is not needed
in the "Great White Father" kind
of political set-up we are working
under now. thinking has momen
tarily gone out of style.
(2) I would forget that "Schjltz"s
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ill aiH aubllth the itaalarc.
I saw in the Lincoln Journal the
other day, a picture of an Ameri
can flag which someone had heed
lessly left in the trash can to rot.
Such disrespect for our flag is
to be deplored. We lost over 30,000
killed in Korea to defend that flag
and then some boor comes along
and does something like that.
We are faced with one of the
greatest menaces ever coped with
by a single worlo. power. The soli
darity of the American people and
their patriotism -vas never more
needed. Can you imagine that pc
ture appearing in "Pravda or
"Isvesta" with the caption "Amer
icans respect their flag?" I'll bet
old Joe is rolling in his grave
with laughter. This is the sort of
thing that will lose it all for us
in the end.
Disgusted.
Use
Nebraskan
Want Ads
Schmaltz" had ever been the title
of this thing. I didn't create the
name, but I had to write under
it for three weeks, and it was a
considerable strain.
(3) I would burn all copies of
that picture that Wilfred Shuta and
I shared this year. W. Somerset
Maugham suggests that people
who don't like photographa of them
selves usually feel this way be
cause they think they are better
looking than they are; this is prob
ably true, but I would just as
soon cherish my illusions. So there,
Mr. Daguerre.
Perhaps it would be better if I
also took, back the great David
Happily hoax. But I liked David,
and I think he stirred some inter
est on the campus. Even practical
minded, hard-headed, realistic old
paw-pumping Bob Ireland wrote
something jr other about a moo
cow, and it appeared in "The Cam
pus Green." Perhaps David took
some of the bad connotations from
the word "poet."
And there goes Fred Daly, look
ing more like an editor than any
one else ever could.
ACP:
Coeds Agree: Don't Ask
College Men For Dates
(ACP) Almost half the college
men think coeds should feel per
fectly free to ask them for dates.
But the coeds don't agree. Many
students of both sexes do agree
however, that it is all right for the
coeds to ask for dates for special
functions.
The following question was asked
by the Associated Collegiate Press
of a representative national cross
section of college students in an
effort to determine collegiate opin
ion on this issue:
Do you think coeds should feel
perfectly free to ask college men
for dates (assuming the coeds
Intend to pay for or help pay
for the date?)
The results: Men Women Total
Yes should
feel free 45 12 32
No should not
ask 19 40 27
Depends upon
situation 35 45 39
Undecided 1 3 2
From the figures it appears the
Docs Diagnosis
Gary Rodgers
; Letterip
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To the Editor:
It is high time rhe Daily Nebras
kan put some efiort into proof
reading their copy. I have watched
them stumble through an. entire
semester now without piiducing
one error-free paper.
The jobs held by the Daily Ne
braskan staff are positions of
prominence in campus altairs so
unfortunately we get many in these
jobs who are looking only for the
selfish gain the activity has to
offer' instead of conscientiously
trying to do their jobs.
Dissatisfied.
And they're off and running. . .
No, its not Fonner Park or Ak-Sar-Ben.
This is a different type of
race. A race for wor:, supremecy,
also a race to see who can spend
the most money on . armaments
fastest, and who can make the op
ponent think they have more
strength than they actually do. In
gate number one of this unusual
race we have the 'American De
fender,' in gate number two, the
'Red Aggressor.' The American
Defender is slightly favored, but
the Red Aggressor is gaining in
experience.
No one can predict the results
of this vital race, perhaps the most
vital race in history. Russia in
creases its army and U.S. increas
es its air force, U.S. increases its
air force and Russia increases it
nuclear power, etc.
It has grown to the extent that
now each side, especially with nu
clear weapons, has the power to
totally destroy the other. In 1949,
U.S. had enough atomic weapons
to destroy tlje entire of Russia,
since then its supply of nuclear
war-heads and weapons has in
creased tenfold.
Now the U.S. ha begun to arm
Its allies. The Russians, mean
while, have announced that they
"will see to it that its Communist
allies have Nuclear Weapons and
Guided Missiles to match the
weapon America has provided for
its NATO allies."
Thus is part of their public
"Hands Off Us" campaign of
speeches and general aimless
warnings. The Communists make
threats and claims of matching
bomb for bomb and missile for
missle with the West.
The United States is continually
extending its defenses within miles
of the Russian and other Commun
ist countries. The allies of Russia
in the Warsaw Pact the Commun
ist's answer to NATO include Po
land, East Germany, Crechoslo
vakia and other satellites. Marshal
Zhukov, the Russian Defense Min
ister recently proclaimed that,
"We will carry out all measure
which will serve as retaliatory
steps for actions of NATO. . , .all
measures taken by NATO will
mean a further development of the
arms race and war hysteria. We
have at our disposal. . . .adequate
means to retaliance."
Mr. Khrushchev, in another speech
warned the United States and the
other 'capitalist nations' "Do not
joke with ui. Do not try to test u
as you did in Hungary. You are
thinking maybe of doing it not
only in Hungary but in East Ger
many, for example. Be careful for
we are not saints. And if nece
sary we can rap your knuckles.
Mr K, of course maybe Just
blowing out his hat, but there i
another possibility. He may be
setting the ground for any further
military action, so as to form some
type of concrete alibi for using
military force to curb uprisings
and anything else that might come
up. This way he can say "I
warned "you so."
Another unrelated item , of news
goes a little further to prove this
line of thought. Mr. K. has told
Mr. Cyrankieqicz. the Polish Pre
mier, that Poland and other Com
munist countries should reinforce
their defense. "The Oder-Nelsse
frontier is your defense and ours,"
he said, "if anybody crosses it we
will consider it an attack not only
on Poland but also on Russia." He
said to Cyrankieqicz that the capi
talist States hope to find in Poland
a lever against the Soviet Union.
I think if a conflict Is to start,
The views .expressed by Daily
Nebrankaa eolumnlit are their
we and do aot necessarily re
flect the views of this paper.
Poland indeed is a likely spot for
it.
Incidentally I play the favor
ites.
men are very willing to have the
coeds start asking them for dates,
and helping them pay for them
too. "Heavens Yes! I've been wait
ing for this for three years," i
the reply of a junior attending
Ohio University (Athena).
Some of the men feel that tho
sexes are pretty well on equal
status today and therefore thero
is no reason for the coeds not to
ask men for dates. Some student
believe that there are an ever in
creasing number of aocial func
tions and events that require coeda
to ask men for dates. Here are
some remarks made by interested
students.:
"Why should the gala hesitate
to ask for dates, they do just about
everything else we men do these
days," is the opinion of a Junior
at the College of Physician as
Surgeons (San Francisco, Calif.).
A sophomore attending Yakima
Valley Junior College (Yakima,
Wash.) feels it's all right for a
coed to ask for a date "because
some fellow she may want to
go with may not have the initia
tive and-or the means."
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VALEDICTORY
With this column I complete my third year of writing
for Philip Morris.
It has been my custom in the final column of each
year to forego any attempts at humor, because you, dear
readers, have had your f unnybonea so, frozen by th cold
wind of impending: final exams that it ia futile to try to
get a laugh out of you; and because in this last column
of the year we are saying goodbye, and goodbyes ara
occasions for sweet solemnity, not slapdash foolery.
Today my heart is full. I am grateful, first of all, to
the Philip Morris Company who make this column pos
sible. They have given me a completely free hand in tha
choice of subject matter; they have not tampered in any
way with my copy; they have been unfailingly courteous
and helpful. I wish to take this occasion to extend heart
felt thanks to the makers of Philip Morris for their most
touching kindness, and to notify them that if wt renew
our association for another year, I shall require a sub
stantial increase in salary.
Second, I should like to tender my thanks to you,
dear readers. A writer's life is not an easy one. There
are an appalling number of hazards a drought of Ideas,
for one; catching your necktie in the roller of your type
writer, for another-and when a writer is blessed, as I
have been, with an audience as alert, as bright, as intelli
gent as you, dear readera, then he must take his hat in
his hand and his necktie out of the typewriter and humbly
give thank.
EHw teas da-. MttoubrliwejaZ, '
This, dear readers, I now do. Thanks for being dee.
Thanks for being readers.
Finally, I wish to thank the tobacconists of America
who make it possible for us to buy our Philip Morris
Cigarettes by the pack. If there were no tobacconists,
we should have to buy our Philip Morrises direct from
the factory in boxcar lots. This would present grave
storage problems to those of us who live in dormitories
and other substandard dwellings.
I hope, by the way, that you have been to your tobae
t onist's lately and bought some Philip Morris Cigarettes.
I have been trying to beguile you into smoking Philip
Morris Cigarettes by means of what advertising men
call the "soft sell." Indeed, I have occasionally gone
beyond the soft sell into the "limp" or "'flabby" sell. I
hope my pulpy merchandiaing has had its effect, for here
is an enchanting cigarette, pure, natural pleasure, a joy,
a jewel, a haven to the storm-tossed, a bower to the weary.
And in addition to being a haven, a bower, and all like
that, Philip Morris is a boon to the absent minted. Ne
matter which end you light, you're right!
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And so goodbye. Go in peace, go in content. May
good fortune attend your ventures, may love and laughter
brighten the corners where you are. See you, hey.
kUxSaulaua. UK
It' I been m great pleaiurt for u; the maktri of Fhilip M afrit,
to bring you this monument to the toft tell emch tceelt. Till
next year, goodbye, good lurk, and good tmoklngwitk
natural Philip Uorrii, of eorriil