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Poae 2 The Daily Nebraskan Tuesday. October 11. y Editorial Comment A New Approach to Students Who Will Receive Down Slips Don't be surprised tomorrow when you go to the mailbox and find one of the lingering traditions of the University awaiting you a downslip. But you can be surprised, if you wish, or feel t'P to it, at the humane approach which the office of student affairs has taken with the slips this year. In the past in very formal language the office cf student affairs told students who received the slips that they should make an appointment with their instructors and discover what it is that't hampering scholastic achievement. Now, the tone of the letter from the admin istrative office has changed and the greatest amount of the burden of building scholastic reputation is placed squarely on the shoulders of those whom it affects most the students. Dean of Student Affairs J. P. Colbert has written a letter which will accompany the down slips. The letter tells the student how the University can help him. It lists four suggestions for the student: 1. Fill !n the check list on the reverse side of this page. Answer, for yourself, and be as honest as you can. 2. Visit with your instructors. Take the cheek list along, if you like. It will help both of you work toward a plan of action. S. Consult other people who are seriously Interested in your progress your parents, your adviser, someone in your living unit. 4. The University Counseling Service can help you plan better study skills and reading tech niques. Also, talking over your plans for the future should help you clarify your goals. The check list on the reverse aide of the letter includes such items 'as "I hve a serious purpose in attending college," "I know how I stand on the placement tests," "I like the instructors who teach my courses," and so forth. There will be a certain element of the Uni versity population who will immediately charge the student affairs office has succumbed to the soft sell technique utilized by Madison Avenue hucksters. But in reality the office is placing the brunt of the collegian's job in getting hep to Uni versity life right on the student. This is accom plished not by being harsh and demanding, but rather by suggesting in adult tones that these helps are available for you, if you want to make a success of yourself, use these aids. We believe the new letter which comes along with the downslips will convince the University student that this is an adult world with adult responsibilities. We are hoping that students will take the advice offered in the downslip letter not as a challenge from the big guns of the institution but rather from the people whose job it is to see that the future is made secure by providing an educated people. It will be interesting to see the results of the downslip interviews which follow mail delivery tomorrow morning. It will be interesting to see how many University students can admit they have been "goofing off" and get on the road toward making something Out of their four-plus years at this college. Battle for Right Another in the series of editorials from Great American newspapers is reprinted from ths Chicago Tribune for the pleasurable reading of the University population. "It was just a prank," the Kelly High school ftudent told the Boys court judge. What the boy did was to circulate a couple of sheets of loose-leaf notebook paper, on which he had written a petition requesting the Chicago board of education to adopt a pol icy of racial segregation. Before the school's principal got his hands on the petition, 16 pu pils had signed it. Anyone confronted with such a petition does well to be neither amused nor gratified. In this city, integration is public policy. It is state policy and national policy. There is noth ing funny about either being or pretending to he an opponent of this policy. But the authorities, . confronted by a little rock placed in the path of policy were not content to brush it aside. The circulator of the petition was arrested on charges of at tempting to incite a riot. Brought into court, he was referred to a Municipal court psychiatrist, who advised psychiatrict treatment. A Boys court judge placed him under one year's supervision. Furthermore, as a disciplinary measure, he and seven of the signers of the petition were suspended from classes for two weeks. All this is unpleasantly suggestive of situa tions elsewhere, in which spokesmen for mi nority views are restrained on the specious plea that the mere expression of their opinions is in itself a disturbance of the peace. One may not, in either a serious or a jok ing exercise of free speech shout "Fire" in crowded theater. But Chicago is not so near from the editor the brink of anarchy that a school boy peti tion is either certain or likely to incite a riot. In the present , instance, nothing was broken and no one was hurt as result of the peti tion. Anyone provoked to violence by it would have been clearly at fault, and subject to dis ciplinary action. Good citizens tolerate the circulation of petitions which they would not themselves sign or sanction. High school prin cipals should know that. If a school boy proves lacking in responsi bility, or blind to the reasons for public pol icy, he needs more schooling, not less. In the absence of any overt act other than an expression of opinion, he certainly does not require being surrounded with policemen, how will he ever learn to accept the high prin ciple of "freedom for the thought we hate?" Distortion How Universities get bad names. The United Press, reporting the Sacked Pledge Incident at this University, has been quoted in papers all over the country. The Kansas University Daily Kansan carried the story with a certain accuracy for two para graphs except that it referred to the "nude Fra ternity pledge." Then the story cried: "The coeds reacted with swift, if misdirected justice. They gave the unfortunate pledge a pummeling, then sent him packing in a pair of girl's slacks." And so papers all over the country have car ried the same copy. We are curios as to who lets information of this sort out. But then, that's a moot question. First Things First. . . The move is to the south and east. Officially, the unofficial migration is to rfizzou. " The annual trek dates back to the good old Says before highways were hard and autos were cushioned. - Officially there Is no "official migration, but ."most professors are prepared to take in stride mass absences in some of their Friday classes. J3ut there are no "excused" absences for those attending the outstate contests. In the good old days special trains were Tecruited to carry Cornhusker boosters. As the transportation trend gradually switched to autos, the University found it didn't pay off financially ior special trains. And so the University officially stepped out of the migra tion picture, for legal reasons primarily, accept ing no responsibility for mode of transport, accidents or mishaps. '." But official or unofficial, students make the annual trek. Some 500 tickets are still left for the game at Columbia according to A. J. Lew andowski, athletic department business man ager. For those attending, and migrating, more n Columbia will be printed in this week's Rag. For students with receding hairlines due to scholarship problems, finance or women, com edian Jack Parr reports he's heard about a new wonder shampoo. It won't keep your hair from falling out, but your hair will be awful clean by Jack Pollock when it hits the floor. Student fashion critics and those who label some traditions below the scholastic purpose, dignity and maturity and college education may decry K-State's "Tramp Day," but those in Kansas really appreciate the one day a year they can let their hair down. Tramp Day is the day beforj Homecoming and was initiated by the K-State Student Coun cil. Says the Council, "It lets sleepy students wear the same clothes to their Friday classes that they will wear Friday night while working on house decorations and floats." The council felt the students would be working on decorations until the completion deadline losing some valuable work time changing clothes to go to class. Tramp Day at K-State started two years ago and was first called Hobo Day but the name was changed because "Tramp Day," seemed more appropriate, according to the Student Council. Students who disregard the privilege to vote in campus elections take note. At the University of Arizona at Tucson, 30 bedridden flu victims expressed a desire to vote in elections for class presidents. The election chairman taok ballots to the student health, letting students cast "absentee" ballots for the first time in the University's history. Daily Nebraskan FIFTY-SIX TEARS OLD Member: Associated Oollertata Press latercelief late Pitas Representstivs! National Advertising Service, Incorporated Pobll'hed at: Room 20, Student Union Lincoln, Nebraska lltb & ftailf KcbrMtrma t pntnhad Monday. 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Back in the days when I was an actor of sorts and thought I was considerably better than "of sorts," I appeared in a show at Iowa State College. At the time, I was a high school senior, a top secon dary school scholar, and the epi tome of fair play, clean living and good sportsmanship. I derived the same pleasure from attending col lege parties that I note in high school seniors who somehow wan der into undergraduate caper-cuttings today: the pleasure of a Sun day school teacher somehow trans migrated to a Roman orgy, disap proving of throwing the Christians to the lions but wanting to be sure t h at somehow all the animals are fed. 1 sat in a corner, my eyes watering from t h e smoke, drank rf i my couee, ana .m- wondered that J c o 1 1 e g ians could derive Schults so much pleasure from losing their faculties. As I say, I was fresh out of Boy Scouts; now, I have be come hard-bitten, embittered loose living ol' Steve Schultz and my for mer naivete has frittered away. Still, those were wonderiul times a Into The Limelight Astrid was a typical farm boy. One fine day in September little Astrid packed his mother's suit case with his blue serge and went to the Big City to enroll in the Univeristy. At first, things went well for him. But as the months drifted slowly into the dreary win ter, Astrid made an un happy discov ery. This was learning ' about the IN's and the OUT's Rhoades He found out, for instance, that a thing can be IN for four reasons: A. Because it is casual. Example crew neck sweaters. B. Because it's subtle. Example paint on doorsteps. C. Because it's IN and that's all that can be said about it. m jf ; XJfi u ' ; '. Dave Rhoades Example hi-fi. D. Becase it is so far OUT that it must be consid ered IN. Example Biff Keyes. The OUT people, Astrid ascer tained, are never IN but the IN people can get OUT by honking off. IN people who make an ef fort keeping IN are definitely OUT. OUT people who know they're OUT are IN. In people who think they're IN are quickly put OUT. Astrid discovered further that playing Frisbee is way OUT. Quot ing from Aldous Huxley Is com pletely IN. In articles condensed in the Reader's Digest are OUT. Pipe smoking is IN. Unknown to most students, the Thursday Eve ning Club is way, way OUT. Nan cy Cambell is certainly IN. Li brary fines, the Corn Cobs, and cave films are definitely OUT. Take this quiz and see how OUT you are. Which person is most IN: Jerry Sellentin, Gary Frenzpil, or Astrid? To avoid cold stares you'd better ask me in private. Daily Nebraskan Letterip Blasts Ruling To The Editor: The recent incident of the near nude fraternity pledge who was deposited .on the front step of s sorority house has proved to be an other case of the University's "se lective justice" system. Had the same atrocity been committed by independents, I se riously doubt that a group of inde pendents would have passed judg ment on the wrongdoers. Would their social privileges have been "suspended" or would the of fenders have been booted? This breach of the peace was more than just a blight on the fraternity system, it reflected on the whole University and was car ried In papers throughout the U.S. as well as in Nebraska. It is time the University au thorities step in and deal out a brand of Justice that will encour age the so-called "socialites' to be have in a manner which will con form to the conventional rules set down by society. The IFC's attempt to deal out "punishment" to the wrongdoers was a farce and compares with taking one drunk out of a group ot 20 drunks and having him sit s judge and pass sentence on the other 19. R.A.L. To The Editor: "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." This is rather a primitive Idea on the nature of justice. Sadly enough there are still a few shaven faced barbarics trotting around campus today calling for this same sort of "law and order." The latest example of demands for this puerile form of "justice" are resulting from the recent fra ternity hazing episode. The IFC was given authority to pass judgment on one of Its or ganizations whoe members had committed a thoughtless, but ap parently unmalicsd, prank. The prank did not help the fraternity involved, it did not help fraterni ties as a group, and it did not help the University. Consequently, tha IFC levied $250 fine against this fraternity and also withdrew certain social and initiation privileges. All three of these actons are more than slight when one considers that the fraternity has only 22 members, including its 10 pledges. The administration followed up its move toward self-government by approving the IFC's action and closing the book on the episode. But a few die-hards, bleeding from past wounds of their own, thundered forth with such quot ables quotes on the hazing epi sode as: "The violence, done was more than a fraternity joke. It was a crime punishable in the law courts." And then the screams were di rected toward the lack of indi vidual punishment for the hazing. What might our die-hards sug gest? Shall we boil the individuals in Mazola oil? Shall we cut off the fingers of those who wrapped the pledge in the mattress cover? Shall we lock them in the local podunk and write condemning ar ticles about their "immorality?" Shall we boot them out of school? Should we sentence them to reg riular library attendance in which they are encouraged to read books by our present "Open Your Eyes and Live" authors. Or should we step back and admit, "Yes, this action was Im mature. These people and their fraternity cannot go unpunished. And then allow a mature group of students to pass judgment adequate Judgment, mind you against the violators. And if this Is not enough punish ment for the lot of you, please allow this half-hearted agnostic to borrow these words from the Good Book: "Those of you who are without sin, cast the first stone." J. C. PRIEST PRINTING Fraternity, Sorority 6 Organisa tion Lattarhaadi , , , Lettari , , , News Bulletins . . . Bookleti . . . Programs GRAVIS PRINTING CO. 312 North 12th. Ph. 2-2957 STUDENTS, HAVE FUN . . . Send a frlond a Scorer Hallowoan Friendship Card Goldenrod Stationery Store 215 North 14 steve schultz and one of the most wonderful of all was opening night. I was bright eyed and queasy and smelled of Max Factor stage maKeup; the audience was bright-eyed and ex pectant and smelled of champagne. They were even decked out in tux edoes, which amased me because apart from the Junior-Senior Prom and a couple of Fred Astaire mov ies I had never seen anyone m formal dress. At any rate, I stood On stage acting It up a batch and the audience sat in the auditorium and enjoyed the show a bit, and then we all went home and talked about how great I had been. Now, the point of all this is that University Theatre opens Its 1957-58 season Wednesday night. (The fact that I am enthusrd has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that I am Masquer's publicity director.) And the kids have what I hear is a good show. But the catch Is that though the show runs until Saturday night, there is only one opening night, there is only one chance to see something that no one has ever seen before, there is only one oppor. tunity to get in on the ground floor. Perhaps I sound as though I were selling uranium stock, but I am sincere. The theatre is a unique experience, far different from going to a movie. You, as an audience, see not a group of canned shadows who will be packed up after the run is over and sent to the next city to per form their mechanized miracles; you see somethL.g which has never been seen before and which will never be exactly the same again. The particular thrill Of live theatre lies in just that fact. And that particular thrill is heightened on opening night, when there is a pe culiar kind of suspense: will the show be good? Will it be great? Unfortunately, few people ever avail themselves of this pleasure on opening night at University Theatre. Because I am an Occa sional actor myself, I have par- ticipnted in a couple of Howsll Theatre shows. The Friday and Saturday night perfoimances i' ways played to good houses, but. Wednesday and Thursday were lean days when we tried eu ; tricks on the few people who wanted to see the show ahead of the crowd. The first two nights were always disappointing. This is as disgraceful for the University and as insulting to a group of extra hardworking stu dents as though only 75 or 80 peo ple showed up. for the first foot ball game of the season because the rest of the student body wanted to wait and see what kind of a team we had. Now, to launch into the sales pitch. School spirit does not con sist of cheering at football games (though my congratulations for the week go to the two Kappa Sigs who fostered lots of displays and ear-splitting music last weekend), A good bit of school spirit con sists of taking from the institution the particular types of pleasure which It and -no other place has to offer. And one of these types is the pleasure of seeing good plays well performed. And, it's kind of fun to wear a tie once in a great while. Atid besides that, you can combine the atre going with a couple of other good times: get a date, take her to dinner, discreetly sip a co-.p's of glasses of whatever you happen to have in your glove compart ment, and rush down to Howell Tneatre in time for the eight o'clock curtain. And one more incentive to get you to the opening of "What E ;ry Woman Knows ': I will be on hrnd in a tux, probably looking for all the world like a beanpole in mo.irn ing. The sight of the leading candU date for Grub of the Week dreei in formal attire and looking ex tremely uncomfortabje s'.iould be worth the price of admission ia itself. The Plcbian Clod rex menuey An Italian actress once stated that the American man was a lousey lover. There Is merit in this. There is a tendency for Ameri cans to love someone with the expectation of getting something in return. We are raised in a so ciety in which goods are always in exchange one for another. We see this all around us and it has permeated our thinking. When one first starts dating, there is a tendency to take the attitude of getting one's money out of the deal. The guy washes the car and lays out ten bucks for dinner and dancing, and in return he expects the girl to look nice, be sociable, and to neck for an hour before going ,in. "Fair exchange on ten bucks," he says. And the girl upon fixing her hair, buying clothes, and learning how to be sociable expects the fellow to en tertain her by going someplace and treating her to dinner and a movie. Most people come to the realization that this Is inadequate and immature. This return attitude is likely to take a different turn. We give affection and we expect affection in return. "Here I am real sweet to the guy and he just sits there like a toad and croaks about his transmission being noisy." "You try to be real nice and entertain ing to that girl and all she does is talk about some silly thing she has done." For affection given we expect affection in return. The only way to achieve real ma turity in love is to give love with out expecting anything in return. Your mind is then always Open to understanding and learning about the other person. If your mind is closed, you wont be able to work out the solution to most problems which may arise because you won't have the understanding or patience. However, to love without ex pecting anything in return is not to close one'6 eyes to the reality of a one sided love. Any way you look at it, a one sided love is un desirable and won't last. The point I make Is that to ob tain a full maturity In love one must be willing to love without expecting anything in return. jl! t tolntmnt durviyori f p to tot. Kin .ore VI. YafdH. Co., Itl, LonSoa ."i IS ltAol V I New! 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