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Editorial Comment
A Continuation
A stitch in time saves nine.
And so the proverb lingers on long after
the Faculty Senate has disposed of the Mitchell
Case ... if they ever do.
It seems to the Daily Nebraskan that a lot
of cloak and dagger tiptoeing around could
have been avoided had, at the very beginning
of the stink about the Mitchell situation, the
administration of the College of Agriculture
said that the present financial advisor of
Pakistan was removed from his chairmanship
in the department of agriculture economics
because the Uninversity did not feel that
his views as chairman of the department did
not warrant his remaining. Then the ag col
lege could have added that Mitchell would be
welcome to stay as a full professor in the de
partment. The next move which should have come im
mediately should have been Mitchell's charge
that his academic freedom was abridged. In
stead he waited until a half a year later when
be wasn't even around to file the charges.
Surely the issue was already clouded with
time.
Well, the committee system could have got
ten on the ball immediately and substantiated
the charges which needed substantiation . . .
three of them, apparently ... A fprmal apology
could have been made a year ago and the
Mitchell case would be over.
Now It is easy enough to say what should
have been, but that is not always the easiest
route.
So at the present time there is still one solu
tion in sight which, we believe, will settle the
Mitchell case, once and for all. Same persons
in the University l?el that the administration
has been embarrassed enough by the publication
of the Privilege Committee report. Others be
lieve that the publication of the report is
much like the judgment of a jury that a man
is guilty. But no punishment is meted out.
The Daily Nebraskan is not out for the blood
of the administration. We recognize, rather,
that the administration knows a mistake has
been made and definite steps are being made
to correct the situation.
However, we believe that an acceptance of
Dr. Patterson's motion which stutes, "in view
of the finding of the Committee of Academic
Privilege with respect to the violation of
academic freedom of Professor Mitchell, the
University Senate charges the Committee on
Academic Privilege to keep under surveillance
all faculty-administration relations in the Col
lege of Agriculture which may threaten academ
ic freedom and privilege."
Nothing embarrassing or impossible or even
difficult with that motion.
And yet the Faculty Senate wants to drag
out the Mitchell Case even further by tabling
the motion.
Once again, this paper admits that it is easy
enough to make recommendations when one
is sitting outside the actual theater of combat.
But some positive action is not only needed
but necessary to this long-standing blot on this
great University.
Let us hope that the Faculty Senate will
waste no more time in coming to a speedy
and just solution to the Mitchell Case.
Don't let anyone tell you the phrase "A
Friend In Need is a friend, indeed," is a false bit
of philosophy.
Students who are concerned with the de
cision of the Faculty Senate to give student
members on three faculty subcommittees the
right to vote found this out Wednesday.
The friend? Dean of Student Affairs J. P.
Colbert.
The need? Giving the student body the re
sponsibilities after which' they thirst; the right
(or the privilege, if you will) of voting on
faculty subcommittees.
Dean Colbert, so the Daily Nebraskan has
been informed, was responsible for making
the recommendation to the Faculty Senate that
the motion to allow the student vote be ac
cepted. And the repurcussions on the part of the
Filially, the Vote
students ' for this somewhat momentous deci
sion will be felt for many years to come.
The three committees involved are the Sub
committees on social affairs, that on student
publications and that on student affairs.
Now, with renewed vigor, the students who
are playing roles in these bodies can, in prac
tice as well as in theory, work toward pro
moting the best interests in the student body.
One of the significant things which comes
from the Senate approval of the voting is
the knowledge that Dean Cobert rather than
being a hard-headed administrator, is working
for the best interests of the student body.
He is willing to take definite action toward
improving the status of the student body. He
is willing to give responsibilities to the stu
dents; he is willing to work with, not neces
sarily over, the student body.
NHSPA Meeting
Today high school journalists from all over
Nebraska will roam over the University cam
pus during the Nebraska High School Press
Association convention.
The young journalists, looking forward to the
day when they can get their hands on the
"lead story" which will make them famous,
will be soaking up the words of wisdom of
professional newsmen in all fields of mass
communications.
Dailies, weeklies, industrial journals and the
electronic fields of communication will be rep
resented in the talks given to admonish, in
spire and convert the high school students.
The art of mass communications is to be
cultivated wherever and whenever it can. Amer
ica needs responsible, intelligent persons who
are willing to take some financial setbacks
and plunge into the dissemination of truth.
But the day will come when the nation will
realize that journalism is one of the noblest
of professions. That day, we predict, will ar
rive when the prep journalists of today those
high school students who are swarming over
our campus today and tomorrow have reached
the professional ranks.
There is plenty of evidence right now that
journalists are becoming more and more im
portant in our free way of life.
It is the journalist who works untiringly to
make known the secrets which some news
sources would conceal. It is the journalist
who reveals to America the corruption and the
dangers of the many threats to our economy.
It is the journalist who dares to defy the
sacred chambers of the legislatures to expose
fraud and corruption.
And upon the journalist of today lies the re
sponsibility for truth which no man can alter.
He must be upright, he must be willing to
take the buffets of society, he must be willing
to print the truth and stand by it.
It is our hope that the young journalists who
are visiting our campus today and tomorrow
will see the values placed on the truth. We
trust they will accept the challenge of the
profession and leave this Uninversity with the
knowledge that they are vitally needed to carry
on the battle for truth within our state and our
nation.
All in all, welcome to the high school journal
ists. May your hours here be profitable and
inspiring.
Misguided Generation
The following is an abstract from a talk
given by Jerome J. Schiller, Ph.D., instructor
in psychology at Syracuse University, which
wag reprinted in the Syracuse Daily Orange.
It fits well Into the series of Ideas which the
' Dally Nebraskan has been presenting from
other Institute of learning.
Sitting down to prepare a psychology lec
ture, I was unable to summon sufficient con
centration to begin working because an event
that had occurred the previous night kept re
turning to nag me.
The event consisted of a goodly portion of an
Introductory class in psychology defying the
graduate student who was administering a
quiz by opening their books during the examina
tion and passing papers back and forth.
Undoubtedly, the event is not unique for
either the department or the particular schol
astic year. The disturbing aspect of the event
U that the very openness of the cheating may
ignify the attitude, "Whatever you can get
away with is all right." This suggests for me
that for these students one can expect lawful
behavior only If one uses a form of external
restraint.
In the October 28th issue, Newsweek estimat
ed the ratio of populace to police to be 35 to one,
about the same ratio of inmates to guards in
our penal Institutions. The ratio of populace to
police in a non-totalitarian state is extraordin
arily large.
This state of affairs could not exist, if the
restraining forces were solely external, if there
were not a set of internationalized values that
act as both restraints against lawlessness and
guides for behavior.
Such a set of internalized values, called
Conscience or Superego by various personality
theorists, is said to develop through socializa
tion beginning at birth. At first, because of the
young child's undeveloped ability to understand
adult rules and limits, the parents have to re
strain and guide, but the lessons learned in
the early years have become inculcated and
the child eventually becomes self-limiting and
self-directing.
The extent to which the adult is self-limiting
and self-directing serves, among others, as an
index of his maturity. Applying this index to
those students mentioned previously indicates
that they have fallen far short on this measure
of maturity. Neither are they self-limiting, but
their behavior suggests that they have not
passed from the Infantile state, where they
needed external restraints, to the mature state
where they are capable of self-limitation.
The implication of this situation of undis
guised cheating for the use of an honor system
among students is obvious.
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Letterip
To the Editor:
Your editorial entitled "An Ad
mission" in the November 5 issue
calls to mind a story try father
related to me years ago about a
man who was kicked out of col
lege on the grounds of miscon
duct. My father contended that he
heard the story from ttie man
himself-who later became a good
friend. Here it is:
It seems this young man was a
man of considerable imagination
and talent, but not possessed of
much money for a college educa
tion. When he found himself in a
Latin class in one of our Mid
western institutions of learning
let's say it was "somewhere in
the Dakotas" to avoid embarrass
ment to the institution concerned
he quickly discovered two im
portant facts: one, that the profes
sor was extremely shortsighted,
wore thick glasses many years
old, and couldn't see who was re
citing in the class; and two, that
most of the class consisted of
athletes who knew much about
off-tackle slants but next to noth
ing about the Gallic Wars. What
more natural than that this pen
urious and scholarly young man
should enter into a financial con
tract with the athletes to move
about the room and recite, with
slight changes of voice, as the
professor called out the names?
Everything went along smoothly
until winter came. The athletes
were doing brilliantly in Latin,
the professor was highly pleased,
and the young man was making
his way ttirough college. But then
one day the professor slipped on
the ice outside his home, h i s
glasses were broken, he had to
buy new ones that improved his
vision greatly, the athletes and our
ingenious young man with the tal
ent were found out, and all hell
broke loose. The president prompt
ly fired our man, and compliment
ed the professor on his repaired
vision. The students decided some
sort of objection should be made,
so they organized a funeral pa
rade through the town to the presi
dent's house, with the young man
rising up out of his coffin on the
president's lawn to deliver a mag
nificent farewell address.
Subsequently the man applied to
three institutions of higher learn
ing for admission, explaining in
his letter the precise nature of
his offense and stating his quali
fications as a scholar. One was
Yale University, one was a college
in Ohio whose name I can't recall,
and another was the University of
Iowa. He was promptly accepted
at -all three, and chose Iowa be
cause he wanted an education (or
at least a degree) in a hurry,
they had a department of Ice
landic at the time and he was of
Icelandic parentage, and courses
could be taken by examination as
fast as the student chose. So he
took all the courses in Icelandic
that were offered and graduated
in a year and a half, with honors.
Later he went on to Harvard Grad
uate School, and still later to the
Arctic, where he carved a name
for himself that put him In the
top rank of 20th century explorers,
authors and scientists. His name?
Viljahlmur Stefansson.
Some years ago, when I was
teaching at Iowa, I met "Stef" and
recounted the story I tell above,
asking him pointblank if it were
true. He smiled briefly, and re
plied, "no comment" or words to
that effect. Anyway, the institu
tion that caused him to be separ
ated from the rest of the student
body later gave him an honorary
degree (so did many others in
cluding Harvard and Iowa), so I
suppose all was forgiven.
Would we have let him into
NU? I don't know.
Robert G. Bowman
Professor of Geography
Jr IFC Cancels
The Junior IFC Pledge Sneak
Dance, scheduled for Saturday,
was called off late last night
in an action of a special Jr.
IFC committee, according to
Gary Anderson, president of the
group.
The dance will be re-scheduled
later.
Tho' the knowledge will be of lit
tle comfort to the Gadfly, I find
that the Office of Student Affairs
(whose amorous somdir.g title evi
dently masks an interior as
fiPed with intrigue and tea-bags as
the British Embassy) is interested
in statistics other than those deal
ing with the heinous offense of
keeping a book out of the library
long enough to get it read. The
sages of Smith have also been
keeping tabs on the ambitious
minority; they find to no one's
surprise and dismay that 90 per
cent of campus activities are in
the hands of 3 percent of the stu
dent body, about 250 harried, hur
ried and hopeful part-time schol
ars. This, as everyone can see, is a
troublesome situation. Somewhere
7,750 people are studying; the
thought nags at those of us whose
days are spent in coffee cups and
whose sleep is constantly perturbed
by the knowledge that in the morn
ing we are going to have to fabri
cate some fable to explain how we
lost an assignment.
Mutterings
But if the great white father and
his happy henchmen are really
bothered by the centralization of
what little power is to be gained
in campus politics, they will do
well it seems to the one unambi
tious junior still left to look again
at the ultimate end of the rah-rah
rainbow: the Scamper for the Scar
let, otherwise known as the Bustle
for the Baldrick, the Hustle for
the Hood, the Trip to the Tackle,
the Jostle for the Jacket and the
Paw-Pump for the Prize.
Let me get something straight
I am not launching a diatribe
against the Innocents Society nor
am I pouting because someone
basely accused me of plundering
the Hooded Horde's Den. I think
that those who have survived three
years of average-threatening and
ulcer-producing rush are entitled
to all the honor they can accumu
late if in the process they have de
veloped their personalities and aid
ed their school in a way that it
would not otherwise be helped. But
I am a little unhappy about an un
healthy exclusiveness in the acti-
The Gadfly
Sara Jones
The non-acceptance of the re
port of the Liaison committee by
the Faculty Senate and the com- '
mendable motion by Professor
Charles Patterson was at least a
step in the direction of finishing
the Mitchell case. But the tabling
of the Patterson motion came as
a blow to proponents of the case.
Faculty members at the meet
ing indicated that the motion to
put Ag College faculty-administration
relationships under special su
pervision would be taken off the
table at a future probably the
December meeting. The reason
given the faculty wanted more
time to think it over.
It occurred to me that more
than half of the undergraduate
population of the University has
never heard the story of the Mitch
ell controversy which is two-years
old. No one knows the complete
story or if they do they're not
telling. Here then, interlaced with
commentary,- is a student's eye
view of the case as seen by a
sympathic obverser.
The Mitchell case exploded onto
the NU campus one year and sev
en months ago when the April 13,
1956 issue of the Nebraskan car
ried the headline "Ag Ee Chair
man Mitchell Said Relieved Of
Post-Outside Pressures Termed
Cause". Since then the case has
been confused and mishandled by
withholding of information, stalling
tatics and general clouds of se
crecy obscuring the real issues.
A chance remark at a Student
Council meeting began the con
troversy, alerting the then-editor
of the Nebraskan to the possible
removal of Mitchell as chairman
of the Ag Ec department. The ad
ministration denied the report sev
eral times. Four days later, April
17, 1956, headlines read "Ag Ec
Department Seeks Successor To
Clyde Mitchell" and the adminis
tration announced that the change
has been made. Reason given to
strengthen beyond present level
the research and extension pro
grams. Dr. Mitchell hed been under se
vere attack by influential factions
throughout the state for his unpop
ular economic views. The Nebras
kan contended that this was the
reason for Mitchell'a removal. The
action, Nebraskan Editorials main
tained, was a "moral abridement
of academic freedom".
Sources with the College of Ag
riculture who refused to be iden
tified by name confirmed the TCe
braskan's stand. No word was re
ceived from Mitchell, who was at
the time on a leave of absence to
study in Italy. Howard Ottosun
was named ag ec chairman.
In time for the second to last
edition of the year. Dr. Mitchell
sent a list of six charges against
the . Administration to the Rag.
The case was referred to the Fac
ulty Senate Committee on Aca
demic Prvilege and Tenure.
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The next year the editorial staff
of the Nebraskan had changed
hands and the editorial policy had
changed with it. From an active
fighting stand for Mitchell, the
Rag adopted a neutral "report the
facts" attitude. The case dragged
on and on. The Committee grew
tired of reporters calling them for
progress reports and the Rag
grew even tireder. Mitchell had
accepted a job with the United
Nations in Mexico and sent word
that he could not return in person
for the hearings.
After the hearings, the Commit
tee reported that three of the
charges made by Mitchell were
upheld three instances of violation
of academic freedom. None of the
charges concerned his removal as
departmental chairman.
That was what happened. It has
not yet been settled.
Now come the if's. IF the ad
ministration had admitted in the
first place that Mitchell econom
ic views had been the reason for
the removal Instead of casting
shadows on Mitchell'6 administra
tive ability (which would not have
been a technical violation of aca
demic freedom) IF the charges
by Mitchell had been received im
mediately and the matter referred
to the committee before the furor,
IF the administration had clari
fied its stand early in the contro
versy, IF all the facts had been
revealed, instead of the sea of no
comments into which the Rag
sank, IF all this had happened the
Mitchell case might never have
reached the heights it did.
Now the case has been post
poned another month. Faculty
members who condemn the stu
dents for their lack of courage and
their apathy refuse to show these
traits themselves, by censoring the
administration for the abridgement
of the academic freedom of one
of their members. "For them the
Bell tolls, ask me not for whom
it tolls."
stevc schultz
vities troop and more than un
happy about the fit of finnagling
which has struck my clsss as it
looks forward to the greener pas-'
tures of Ivy Day. A ew of the fel
lows ought to get together and find
out whether they really want 4o
take tickets as badly as they think
and, above all, wheher they are
in activities to make a contribu
tion to the school or to themselves.
Note to young Jim Cole:
Thanks for the offer, young Jim,
but I have already written a col
umn that puts forth my opinion
about something, a column on a
topic about which people are afrai
to talk, a column that nets letter,
rips from readers tho' I am not
so presumptuojs as to imagine
that because they disagree with
me they "fail to correlate their
reading with their brains.")
The difference between you and
me, young Jim, is that when you
do (or think you do) the above
mentioned things, you get "so sick
of it that you never want to see a
typewriter. Or a pencil. Or an edi
torial page." On the other hand, I
am exhilirated by controversy, I
enjoy argument, and I read my
Letterips with pride and amuse
ment. I am satisfied that my attitude
is the only one which a columnist
can have if he has any hopes of
survival. You would do well to cul
tivate a similar viewpoint. If you
do not, if you get sick of defending
your opinions, if in other words
you get sick of fulfilling the func
tion of a columnist, then you would
be doing yourself and the editorial
page a great service by getting the
page a great service by getUng
out. You can be replaced qui:e
adequately by a crossword puzzle.
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