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1.1 f Poqe 1 The Daily Nebraskan Tuesday, September 24, 1957 f v. a - ,1 X. V 33 f.Y it 7 rt J, ) V I u Ah 1 1 Editorial Comment Rally B usmess How fast the memory flies! It was just a short year ago that the Ne braskan cried out, "The most pathetic atti tudes have been employed by fraternity pledge classes who band together to show a more active interest in plastering their fraternity's name all over the campus than in the program of the rally. Of course this was concerning the rally prior to the Iowa State game of the Cornhuskers when the fracas business was in high swing and fraternity banners went flying. Once again the fraternity flags were flying Friday night along with two-by-fours and pledges. The fraternities have openly disregarded the action of their own governing body, the Inter fraternity Council. The memory lapse? Why, the fraternities who forget the ruling which was made in the second week of last October regarding the banners to be carried in the pep rallies. Here it is as reported by the Nebraskan: The IFC motion stating that fraternity pledge classes would no longer carry banners at pep rallies with the name of the fraternity on the banner. The ruling came because then-president of the IFC Sam Ellis said the "rallies are getting way out of hand." Subsequently the Nebraskan suggested that a new format for the rallies be discussed by the people in charge the Corn Cobs. But, as we predicted last October, the second semester came around and no one seemed to care what happened. Now the new year has rolled around and with it heads have been rolling in the streets. Signs were torn down, pledges were mauled, actives were boisterously shouting orders or A Qassic We're not interested in bringing up mummies around our own campus. But it is interesting to note the controversy which is going on in South Dakota over the question of academic freedom, or as the head of the college concerned stat ed "academic i n c o m patibil ity." We have not been able to gather all the facts in the Hixson case as it is raging in South Dakota. We can only 1. A ' say at me 1 present time L : that he has likened his case with that of Dr. C. Clyde Mitchell who left the University of Nebraska charging abridge ment of academic freedom. Copy Editor Gary Rodgers is preparing a resume of the Hixson case for the benefit of our readers and the Daily Nebraskan will pre sent the acts as they fall. It would be an interesting thing, however, to remind the committee involved that Mitch ell's case has attracted somewhat of a classical aura and the results of the committee which will give the final (we hope) report on the business is in a pressured position. Mitchell Hoiv9s That Again? If flu inoculations are to be given on the basil of importance to the community, it will be interesting to see who gets the first shot on the college campus the Latin professor or the football coach. Chicago Daily News. Interruption Dr. John McKinley, a retired Muskegon Col lege of Mchigan history instructor, contends that "too many university students are in school only for the social life." He added that "they do little except interrupt the work of the serious student." Is Dr. McKinley referring to those students who poke their classmates with a crazy elbow and quip, "Will ya look at the tie this prof is wearing today?" Or is he talking about the gentleman who persists in playing bongo drums with the legs of the chair in front of him? Perhaps the retired professor believes that the girls who arrive on the campus wide eyed are really after the MRS degree. But that's not a new thought around college cumpuses. The "joke" that girls were coming to schoM to get that degree was already a classic when co-education gained a foothold on this campus. The serious student, of course, is a term apart from the serious student as a person. For example one student may be quite serious about getting her man; another might be serious about learning what is truth. However, we must admit that the academic atmosphere of a university is harmed by those students, who, through their bad example, lead freshmen into believing that routine study hours are for the birds. It's hard to pound into any man or woman's head what the purpose of a university is. To each man there opens a way and a way and a way, so the sage said. The campus big wig who believes that petty activities are important must believe just that . . . Whatever one does is important all the time. This will always be true because of the in flated nature of man. But a little objective glance at Dr. McKinley's comments wouldn't hurt anyone on the Uni versity campus. from the editoi First Things First. . . A friend of mine, evidently auffering from academic flu, has reminded us that only 34 more weekends remain in the 1957-58 school year. It's all settled. According to a college editor's poll taken by the "News Workshop" of New York University, Dick Nixon and John Kennedy will be battling for president of the United States in 1960 if col lege editors are good prog nosticators. Of 58 answers to 150 schools polled, 35 saw Vice President Nixon as the lead er of the GOP, while 21 en visioned the Senator from Massachusetts as the standard-bearer of the Democrats. The editors were almost evenly divided on whether the GOP can win without Eisenhower in 1960. According to the poll, a majority of the college editors felt tl.at integration is being carried out fast enough. The editors also agreed that there will be small military outbreaks around the globe, but no third world war; that college students are not overly coucerned with 'Jie draft anA Jack Pollack by jack pollack that the United States lost prestige during the recent Middle East crisis. A roundup of poll results said, "The editors maintained that University administrations are not, for the most part, impeding free comment on college news, and that their papers yield considerable influence on campus opinion. "Nixon and Senator William Knowland of California were given dominant preference as the 1960 leaders of the GOP. Finishing second to Sen. Kennedy on the Democratic side was Senate Majority leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas. Adlal Stevenson ran a close third and Gov. Averell Harriman of New York and Sen ator Estes Kefauver two serious contenders for the 1956 Democratic nomination placed in the rear ranks." Thirty-six of 57 answers maintained that the United States lost prestige during the Middle East crisis. Among the reasons given included "Lack of a positive policy , . . continued bun gling and doubletalk by Dulles have lost many friends and influenced few people." One of the editors who thought the country gained prestige in the Middle East said "we proved we are interested in preserving world peace." Another felt that "our position was a firm one ... we did not sink to the depths that England and France fell to." launching fists into "invaders". . . the entire atmosphere of the rally Friday night was one of unconcern for the Cornhuskers and complete concern whether the banner would get back to the house from which it had come. All the president of the Interfraternity Coun cil could say was, "It shows the fraternities have spirit. ... I was in Omaha but I hear it was a real spirited one (rally) just like the old days. That's a fitting comment from the leader of the organization of which some members, it appears, deliberately flounted the regulation which the IFC had passed less than a year before. Stan Widman, the chairman of the rallies for the pep organization, says that they allowed banners in the rallies with the names of the fraternities if the names were kept at the bottom of the banners and printed in small letters. But who is to tell the Greeks how they should conduct themselves? If the IFC, then let the IFC inform itself of what is going on and keep the regulations which is developed last year. If the Corn Cobs are responsible for the creation of the problems at the rallies, then we believe that the Corn Cobs should elimi nate the source of the trouble and have an honest to goodness rally. But what gripes the Daily Nebraskan is the fact that there is so much buck passing on the whole situation. Added to this the attitude some students seem to hold is sickening. And that? "Well, if we took the fraternity names off the signs no one would want to be in the rallies." Unfortunately such a person forgets that the football team is what is being cheered on and not the Greek system. ME'S BEEN TAGGING AFTER ME Ail MORNINGIEVERV TIME ID TURN AROUND. THERE WED BE! Daily Nebraskan FIFTY-SIX YEARS OLD the part of w person outside the Universltr. The . . . , . ,. . . Member! at Ui Nebraskan stall ars personally re- Klember: Associated Collegiate Press ipoasibi tor what th tar. or o or earn ia as li.t.nnIUrl.. -,., printed. February 8, 1M. UterCOUegme rress . Subscription rate an $2.50 per semester at 14 ni EepresenUUre: National Advertising Service. SSi . a, tb. no . Incorporated Uneola, Nebraska, under the act f Atunut i, tf It. Published at: Room 20, Student Union editorial staff Lincoln, Nebraska ri,tar 'k fnk 1 j.u , D Editorial Editor Hick 8hutrue IIW S tt Manailnt Editor Ron Warholoskl T Dally Nebraskan Is published Monday, Tuesday, News Editor Sara Jones Wadndsy and Friday durlnc the school year, except Sport Editor ..Bob Mattel inrtnc vacations and exam periods, and one Issue Is Copy Editor Bob Ireland (chief), BnMlsneS durlnc Asrwti by students of the University Carole Frank, Georre Moyer, Gary Rodgers, Ernie Hlnes ml Nebraska mider the authorisation of the Committee en flrodent Affairs na an expression of student opinion. BISIXEhS STAFF Fabtlr-rlons under the luflidlctlon of the Subcommittee Business Manager Jerry Srllrntln ae student Publications shall be free from editorial Assistant Business Managers. .. .Tom ff, titan Krlman, eansorsblp on the part of the Nubcnmmlttee or on the Bob Smlrit part ut mtf member ot the faculty of the Untatralty, at Clreulatloa Mansnn. ainnnnnympi "T IWEU..A I I S' iw tl Ml "I Wit tit rt iiinnc)f 7iii Your. Ladv Seeks Advice A Dear Dr. Quonset: I need your help. I have fallen in lot'e. But please forgive these tear stains the object of my af fection seems to find me the ob ject of his objection. We met this summer by accident. It was early in the evening when his truck crashed into the trac tor I was driving. At first I thought neither of us were hurt. Later I was to learn that my heart had been broken and injured beyond repair. It was his commanding and gentle way that won me. He jumped out of his truck and asked, "Why the "h..." don't you look where you're going." Then he told me to reload the hay that had fallen from his truck in the acci- Into Tlie Limelight Depart with me for a few para graphs from such neurotic issues as student voting on faculty com mittees, rush week, even "canned Christianity" and think with me about the intellectual challenge or the lack of it, if you will in today's schools. Paul Bromfield is an English man whose recent book, The Un common Man, has mirrored the obvious feelings of the U.S. public schools toward the mediocre. Mr. Bromfield points to the lowly and sometimes illegitimate birth of many of England's greats, showing that from the un common comes a nation's culture, values, governments, and secur ity. Bertrand Russell and the two Pitts are three of the "illustrious uncommon" with which he deals. Indeed, his point is well taken. Too often, however, we glory in the "home town boy made good" while failing to take full advan tage of the truly genius. Our con cern is to make the child adjusted rather than intellectually uncom fortable. If he is taught to think at all, he thinks typically rather than exceptionally. it it is Note, for instance, that the im portant thing is to make the fragile being feel worth in his own group. To flunk the brat would make him feel inferior; to skip him a grade would place him ahead of his age and size group. Such reasoning fails to compre hend the fact that some children are inferior; that to hold the pre- A Few Words . . . Of a Kind e. e. hines Things one might never know if he didn't read newspapers: "Gall Bladder is Lost by Fran ces L a n g f o r d" Omaha World Herald... What the devil will she lose next? "Beatrice Hospital Gets New Head" Lincoln Journal . . .Mod ern plumbing at last. Just in time for winter. "A well-known foundation firm, Bien Jolie, has just come forth with a new girdle. The girdle is made expressly for youthful (16 to 70) figures, and comes in small, medium and large sizes." Omaha World Herald ...Grandmother, what a youthful figure you have! it it "Mother Plans Trip to Moon" Lincoln Journal. . .Where did you say you were going, Mother? "Watch Helps to Tell Time" Omaha World Herald. What will they think of next?" "Little Blue Dam Pleas To Seat-on"-Omaha WorW Merald I'll be dammed! It talked! This is the lighter side of life. Sadly enough newspapermen must also report the tragedies: Or "Guards Unearth Convicts' Still" World Herald. Newspapers must report the words of raving maniacs: "Work Past 70, Doctor Sug gests" World Herald . Don't work until past 70 would make more sense. - Then there was the report of the Iowa coroner who did a com plete about-face. He resigned as coroner to return to school and study pediatrics. But the most wonderful report of all was the story of the World War I veteran who discovered the address of a long neglected friend he had borrowed a dollar from while on the battlefield in Fraiice. He added up the interest and sent the rediscovered friend a check for about $43. it it -Cr ATTENTION: Jack Twittlewit tle. Remember me. I'm the boy who loaned you 25 cents during a second grade recess. Write in care of the Daily Nebraskan. BAD JOKE OF THE WEEK: Mom Broom was sitting in her living room knitting some straw. When Father Broom walked in, Mom Broom said, "Guess what, dear. We are going to have a little whiskbroom." "You're kidding," said Father Broom. "We've only bsen together for three months." cocious back destroys ms uucic in unchallenging trivia. The recent Saturday Evening Post lends support to this criti cism. In an article by John Keats, a free-lance writer and descendent of an uncle of the great poet with the same name, attacks vehem ently public schools which stunt learning with insipid lessons in "living skills", "...the schools have failed because they do not ask the children to think," con cludes Mr. Keats. Everyone in terested in the problem should read this indictment and the arti cle by Herbert Brown, Jr., affirm ing the public schools in the Sep tember 21 Post. A- A One needs sit only for a few days in any Ed Psych class at this University to realize why this trend is prevalent in educational theory. Our future teachers are taught in Education 62 Thorndike's "Law of Effect" which says that a student will do the thing which gives him the greatest satisfac tion. It's no wonder the president of an eastern college recently re marked that he was "astonished to learn of such a decreased num ber of college preparatory courses being offered in high school." Courses in tooling hot-rods, build ing hi-fi's, and dancing are re placing foreign languages, physics, and math. Of course the teacher is now supposed to make the stu dent fit in, be apart, become ad justed with courses failing miser ably to intellectually challenge the student. ir ir it Lowering the tide naturally low ers the boats. While in school it is the brilliant student who suf fers. When he is out of school it is the country which suffers. When such a student should be accept ing the responsibilities of public service, he becomes another typi cal family man interested in suc cess, money, prestige, and per sonality. Instead of a writer of great novels you have a television script writer; instead of a com poser you have a "Spectacular" arranger; instead of a lawyer there's the man looking for that loophole; instead of a statesman you have a politician. Instead of great science professor giving his life to the training of students at a university you have a Kerr oil executive doing research and full of the "security" which the pro fessor does not enjoy. Instead of a Methodist missionary to India you have a popular television minister explaining how to overcome your worries, your business opponents, your tensions, your small bank ac count, your frustrations, and your criticisms. In 1851, D. Bauldelaire wrote an Dave Rhoades essay later entitled Fusees where he says: "...we shall perish by the very thing by which we fancy that we live." Let us return in tellectual thinking to our high schools and avoid an impending crisis. Frankly, I'm thankful I've had the opportunity to study un der some teachers who would ra ther light a candle than curse the darkness. But many more of these teahcers are needed!" dent. What command that man has! When he confided in me and told me he needed the $5,000 which I had in a bank ac count for his mother's operation I thought he loved me, so I loaned it to him. Since I have found he was raised in an orphan home. Still I love him. I worry though because he does somethings which make me think he may never love me. One time he ran over me with his truck. Another tim he shot at me with his shotgun. I forgave him, however, when ha told the sheriff he thought be was shooting at a wild animal. Please, Mr. Quonset, tell me what I can do to find out if this man may ever love me. Send your reply as quickly as possible. I get lonely here at Mercy Hospi tal. Miss Wounded Lover. Dear Miss Wounded Lover: Your case is indeed an interest ing one. I can only admonish you, however, since there seems to be little which can be done to mend a broken heart. You made your first mistake by falling for such a man. When your vehicles struck you should have gotten out of the rut you were in at that moment. But then farm girls will be farm girls. As far as the personal help is concerned I am planning on vis iting with you and discussing your problems away from the hectia rumble of the press. Dr. I.ft. r . "J V 4 gaily slave A .i -tfcr slwgrue There's nothing like bachelors' quarters. Mother Black, dame extraordin ary of South 24th Street will testify to that. He's t h e (yes, he) cur ly headed guy who pays the rent on time for three students at the U n i v e rsity and makes sure the house is filled with the niceties of life. Black plus a law student a dental student and t plain old student have taken this house on 24th Street, mowed the lawn, trim med the hedges and done general clean up until the place is hardly the same as it was three weeks ago. I walked in one afternoon with a fellow traveler and we found the television going and all hands soundly dozing in front of a Gene Autry TV show. "Nothing like a Western to clean said one of the a man s soul," guys. After exam ining the three bed rooms, basement and tiny back yard we moved to t h e icebox. Yes, there was ket full of the a bushel bas stuff in there. "We j u t Came b a C k Courtesy Lincoln Journal from a Schlitz- Black aweed," exclaimed Mother Black. That difficult project would have pocped even the sturdiest of men way out and we can understand why the afternoon snoozes were in order. t t What's k like to live away from the hustle and bustle of the arte rials; away from the noise and con gestion of an apartment of frater nity; away from the bother of hav ing worked girls always rapping on the door asking for sugar? - "Grrrrreat," says Black. And we could both believe him. Now the intellectual atmosphere of the house is beyond compare. Black claims he is going to take up piano (they have a beautiful upright in one corner of the living room); Roger the Dodger has tried his hand at cooking and the other two guys are becoming quite artis tic in their efforts at Schlitzaweed ing. The only thing we didn't lik about the place was Gene Autry. When Schultz the Printer (not the tall, thin one) moved to the San Fernando Valley he sold his TV has kept tuned in to the best in set to Black. Since then Roger video shows (so he claims). After he gets home from Law School on goes the Hawk. We speculated that he was a little chagined when Mickey Mouse left the air waves. "Don't you guys ever watch any thing else but horse operas?" "Oh, yes, Gordon Hathaway is high on our list of favorites," one of them stated. But most of the time one hand is grappling with the bushel basket in the icebox and the other is dink ing a pretzel into the cheese dip. In true college fashion these mea of the times have found a place with a garage and no walk to shovel. "The noisy people next door own the driveway and they have to shovel the walk when the snow flies," Black seems to think. So for you cair.ous luminaries who are sweltering away in a dor mitory or some garret you can look forward to the day when you are headed for professional school and can abide on South 24th Street, I Alum by I have been trying to work my self into the proper state of indigna tion to write for the rag. If I can be lieve what I read in the paper, that is the first requirement for any columnist. This fact is one of the things that constantly amazes me about the campus. Buildings rise and fall, football coaches come and go, but the Windmill Tilters go merrily on. Sometimes it seems that students, who inhahit what the Nebraskan calls "the inside world," would be discouraged by what's happen ing elsewhere in what is referred to as "the outside world." Out there people are busily put ting together H-bombs and outfit ting the natives with brassieres, with no particularly happy results that I can detect. But the students go on trying to tell the administration how to administer and otherwise attempt ing all sorts of impossible deeds. I haven't figured it out yet. r it What has set me thinking along this rather dismal line is the re cent discussions about alcoholic beverages and University policy. 4 4 I have always felt that Lincoln's Sounding clarence kaufman, refusal to accept liquor by the drink is unfortunate and not based on any solid reasoning. if tt Yet, I can recall that one of the outspoken opponents of liquor by the drink several years ago was Chancellor R. G. Gustavson. The chancellor argued (and I imagine parents all over Nebraska cheered) that it would be bad for University students if liquor by the drink were permitted here. r r At the time I wasn't particularly impressed by this argument, be cause I thought it rested on one of two false ideas: one, that students were not drinking and would be gin to drink if the law were changed, and two, that students might be drinking a bit now and then but would drink a lot more if they bought it by the glass rath er than the jug. I didn't think, and don't, that either of these argu ments had much to recommend it. it tr t However, what is important is that the chancellor was expressing the attitude which I think the University feels it must that the campus is sort of a kinder garten for teen-agers who must be given the same sort of protec tion that they had at home. I don't believe it but I can understand it. Board '49 The only glum thing in this Is that it suggests that it's unlikely to expect any change in Univer sity policy on alcohol (assuming state law could be complied with). If the University administration doesn't want liquor by the drink in Lincoln, for non-students, how could anyone expect it to have a more tolerant attitude toward stu dent drinking? it r it Personally, I don't buy the argu ment that "if they're old enough to fight, they're old enough to drink" or vote, or whatever someone has in mind). However, it does strike me as odd tnat an 18-year-ola in NeDras ka is mature enough to get ma. ried but not mature enough to buy a glass of beer. Suth things can be explained only by the lawyers and other mystics. ft r As some French cynic or other said: "The law is just; it prohibits rich and poor alike from sleepini under the bridges." Use Nebraskan Want Ads