The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 08, 1957, Page Page 2, Image 2
i . . -I 1,4 i Poo 2. -ie Do ilv Nebraskan I- ioJV, ovetT.-,sr. c 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. Daily Nebraskan FIFTY-SIX TEARS OLD . . , Batrrad a -wwad elm alia ta p rniUm m Zember: Associated Collegia te Press Lawua. 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Mar- aa tnat rnMWaUnai shall be tnm fraaj Mltnrlal ar Wrrtmaa. nwBl an Mm part of the ftabcommltt r aa ta Sport Wrltrra . , . Km Krecd, DI RumuMra, Ban Slav art at aay ai iiMi af tar faantty af ta univmlty, ar he, Harold FrlMman, Hob Win. aa tfc part at aay am awtiride the Wmrnity. Ta n I til N lute STAFF aimimr af tne Nr-hraakan ta.lt ar pmonaUy fa- Rn.tnxM Manam rry (Mlrnttn MHiMt for waat trt tv. ar aa ar ta a Aiatntafit Baatoim Maaafm. . .Torn Nf, Stan Kalmaa printed, lrbraarr 8. IBM. Hob HmMt akaerlptlaa rate an ft.to per Maw Mat at tat ClrimlaHoa Maaafar . oba Norn 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. CHICKEN DELIGHT PHONE 5-2178 FREE DELIVERY Cblrkea IMUittt lllanor . Aarlmp UeUiM WE NOW SERVE 1.35 1.35 85c 85c 95c Cblrkea IrrHrht lulmp IrtilfM Kaaek rin iMmnt n tamer Open Seven Days A Week 115 Ro. 25th fit. DANCING CGdjf OtiH TO THE PUBLIC MICKEY CULL On 10th Between A tc Bouth 8at- Nov- Phone Early for Reservation 4-2825 Atlm. 90c Dancing 9-1 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. well! hows ol V j VDIME-A-DOZEN " TODAY? J HEWl TODAYS HAN Die: ST DEODORANT STICK FOR MEN! Complete protection in an unbreakable, push-up case; no foil to fool with; tasy to pack; he-man size. $1 J' I -t f f jf:-r y f " . w i V 7 YARDLEY OF LONDON, inc. ytttiri aratfuett hi awr)e tft trttlad in Infltm) and mthd In Ik U.S.A. from rat ! 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