The Daily Nebraskan
Monday, January 13, 1953
Editorial Comment
A Grave Responsibility
Students and faculty members have gone
around in circlet regarding the Student Trib
unal at the University too long.
Now that we have been presented with a
charter for a tribunal which ia not only work
able but alao superior, we should snap up
the chance to get it wot king just as fast as
possible.
Thai k, if we deem It fitting te roe our ewe
ftffalre.
From all sides such charges have been lev
eled at the administration as, "Students can't
take care of their own affairs," and "Why
eVwl the administrators keep their noses out
of our business." These charges and a few
cases when the allegations seem to be sub
stantiated have added to the confusion over
whether the students can rule themselves.
We would not be so naive as to think that
the Tribunal would solve the myriad of prob
lems which student-administration relation
ships have created over the past year.
But the word has come from the office of
student affairs again and again that if a char
ter is workable the administration would be
more than willing to allow the students free
dom within the bonds of practicality.
This newspaper believes very strongly ia the
charter as It has beea corrected and approved.
Through the past few years the paper has
called for a tribunal.
We weren't about to accept tht one proposed
and approved by the students last spring for we
felt it was standing on wobbly grounds.
That idea has been dispelled with the crea
tion of the revised charter. As we mentioned
Friday the committee which drew it up de
serves a great deal of credit for the difficult
and long job it undertook.
But that work will be in vain if the students
don't approve the charter.
And it's not entirely a question of marking
the "yes" on the ballot. It's a question of tak
ing the time to read and understand what the
charter means for the University present and
future.
So we encourage the students at the Uni
versity to make a real effort to understand
the charter and if they deem it the kind of
charter which will serve the University well to
approve it.
Outstanding TSebraskans
Over the past years the Daily Nebraskan has
awarded the Outstanding Nebraska citation to
those students and faculty members who,
through their contributions to the University,
have made the school a better institution.
Moreover, the award has been a jealously
guarded honor which, we believe, has been
cherished by those who have, received it .
The campus newspaper, through its associa
tion with virtually every department of the Uni
versity, makes the final selection of the in
dividuals to be awarded. We believe that because
f our knowledge of campus life and activities
we can judge accurately who deserves the
award.
It is encouraging to note the response to the
call for nominations. One might think that it
would be disheartening to have few nominations
come in to the office. However, this seems to
show that the students are taking the award se
riously and not trying to flood the office with
nominations.
Acceptedly there are a great number of fi:ie
nominees on the campus, both in the student
and in the faculty and administration rank?. We
hope that before the deadline students will
think about the persons they know who have
made a real contribution to the campus.
One Crisis Less
This editorial, another la the series of edi
torials printed for the benefit of the Univer
sity community, is taken from the Wall Street
Job rail.
Teachers who have not succumbed to the or
ganized propaganda that only the Federal Gov
ernment can save us from the Sputnik crisis are
having their say about Secretary Folsom's $1
billion for science proposal.
The superintendent of the Cleveland, Ohio,
schools, Dr. Schinnerer, says Federal aid is po
tentially dangerous since it is a step toward
Federal interference in education. The president
of the Association of American Colleges says
that increasing Federal aid will endanger the
freedoms of independent colleges. Dr. Edmunds,
president of Stetson University, said at the as
sociation's convention: "Most of the educators
here would like to see the colleges supported
in the traditional way by industry, foundations
or private individuals." And once the American
people realize "that the choice lies between an
American and a Russian program of education
the answer will be made soon enough." Educa
tional institutions, he said, will be able to get the
funds they need for expanded facilities.
Our experience with the propaganda efforts
of the Federal-aid-to-education exponents sug
gests that Dr. Edmunds and Dr. Schinnerer may
know more about the subject than Washington
does. We have a suspicion that the main objec
tive of the Federal aiders is to get more Federal
money into the education system every year,
no matter what the reason or how flimsy the
pretext.
This year we are told that unless Washington
spends $1 billion more on science education we
will never catch up to the Russian Sputniks and
education is doomed.
Last year we were told that unless the Fed
eral Government came across with billions of
dollars to build schoolrooms across the country
education was doomed. But hardly anybody
mentions that these days.
Is it fair to ask the Federal aiders what hap
pened to the schoolroom crisis?
from the editc
First Things First. . .
bv Jack Pollock
Prepare or panic. One more week until finals.
To those professors at NU who use the final
three classes to give (?) hour exams, request
term papers or attempt to catch up by sum
marking those last five chapters, I recommend
Texas A k M s traditional , , ,
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dead" week system. At
AicM, the week before final
exams is usually devoted to
review, reviews, and reviewing.
Who was it that said 11
of collge coeds have early
snarriage in mind and the
other 89 are studying for
a bachelor's degree . , ,
CaurtMir t.incota fiur
Pollock
Kiplinger's "Changing Times" reported in
the December 1957 issue the big harvest far
eg grids.
Said the magazine, "while gloomy talk about
tough times on the farms turns youngsters to
ether fields, the demand for ag grads is hign
and rising 15,000 needed each year for re
search, conservation, food processing , extension
work, farming, running co-ops, etc. Right no
about 8,500 youths come out of the colleges to
fill the demand . . .
James ("From Here to Eeternity" Jones'
latest novel "Some Came Running" has been
pegged as the biggest literary sleeping pill il
lbs. II oz.) of the season. The Wallstreet Journal
reported that what Jones' second effort lacks in
conciseness U,2W pages! it more tiian makes
up for in dullnc.-.s. Running 400 pages longer
than tli o'.t -.--lengthy "Eternity," J.xies'
"Running" concerns a man called Dave Hirah.
whom "Time'' calls "a late-thirtyisli pitying
sorehead who believes the world owes him a
loving." It's another must miss.
Congrats to Bill Orwig wlio convinced the
Board of Regents that a building (program)
cannot be built on quicksand. In addition to
hiring a "top-flight" assistant coach, the school
will revamp the freshman football program com
plete with additional assistant for the frosh
gridsters.
The addition of two football coaches puts
NU on par with other schools in the Big Eight
conference in staff organization.
Evidently the initial efforts of the Touchdown
Club are paying off. Orwig said the addition of
another coach a d salary hikes approved by the
Regents 011,000 to $12,000 for the football
coaching staff for the coming year) would not
affect the number of athletic scholarships.
Tennessee Ernie asks what's so new about
punts with a buckle on the back? Quips old TE,
"We had a pair like that years and years ago.
only instead of calling them- Ivy League, we
called them overhauls."
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Daily Nebraskan Letterip
Worthwhile Wait
To the Editor:
We've been waiting long months
for the student council to approve
the Tribunal charter.
Now we can thank the persons
who have apparently worked long
and hard on the charter for the
work they have put in on the char
ter. Let's hope that some persons
won't come along with the thought
of knocking the charter or the
principles it stands for now that
the effort has been taken.
Sure, it's up to the students to
pass on the thing. But it's up to
them, t oo, to grow up and solve
their petty differences on the out
side of the charter rather than take
out their fears and disappoint
ments on the charter.
That's not too far-fetched an
idea, either. We know that there
are certain groups who oppose the
handing of power into other groups.
It's natural when an individual will
be thwarted he will be ready to
stamp on his neighbors. But this is
hardly a democratic way of solv
ing our differences.
How will this perhaps happen
with respect to the charter?
In the first place, the charter
puts a great deal of power into
the hands of a limited number of
students. Consequently there will
be undue pressures placed on
these students to decide cases in
favor of the power-interests.
As an example, the Greeks
might (not necessarily will, but
might) veto the charter on the
grounds that it may have a ten
dency to strip the fraternities of
some of the power, implied or ex
pressed, which they hold. Further
more, koine poor students who
have no prestige might feel that
the power elite will rob them of
the freedom to have a truly just
hearing.
This may or may not exist in the
charter and subsequently in the
tribunal. We cannot know. Nor can
we know if the federal or state
court system will work. But we
do know that both are based on the
faith of man for man. Let's hope
the carry-over here at the Uni
versity will be sincere.
Lud Wigsby
Action Requested
To the Editor:
In the current discussion on de
sired improvements in our system
of education it is the urgency to
produce more and better qualified
scientists that is being stressed.
Highly authoritative men mention
two or three years as time of grace
within which we must operate.
Lincoln Schools Superintendent
Steve Watkins pointed out to me
recently that the 11 professor's sug
gestion is concerned with future
appointments of our high school
science teachers, and any improve
ment resulting from it can possibly
produce more and better qualified
scientists not earlier than some
8-10 years from now. Hence, the
attempt by the 11 professors to
portray their proposal as a re
sponse to President .Eisenhower's
appeal for an urgent increase in
number and qualification of sci
entists in America sounds rather
peculiar.
It is a fact, not widely known
among American educators, that,
the pre-college and college edu
cation system in Russia is in an
off-set position to ours, in that
our freshman and sophomore col
lege years are incorporated in Rus
sian's approximate equivalents of
our high school. In other words,
Russian kids stay two years longer
than ours in their "high school,"
and are being trained there in
mathematics including trigonom
etry, physics and associated sub
jects, which are being taught ia
our first two years of college ed
ucation. This situation underscores aga.ti
that the responsibility for improve
ment in producing young scientists,
so badly needed by our country,
lies squarely on the shoulders of
our college professors, including
those who have suggested radical
changes in our educational sys
tem. I am challenging those who
suggest changes, that cannot pro
duce a beneficial effect for a pe
riod of years, to tell us just what
they plan to do, as college pro
fessors and individuals to meet '
our national emergency now?
MAXIM K. ELIAS
Blasts Tribunal
To the Editor:
What sort of cases will the stu
dent tribunal consider? Perhaps
students will be tried for leaving
shoe laces untied. Or, in serious
cases, this group of junior inquisa
tors would have no business inter
fering in matters between students
and University or civil authorities;
the only result of such interference
would be a "cover up" for friends
of the junior inquisators, or dam
nation for enemies of those in
quisators, or at best a badly bung
led investigation. This is not jus
tice; It puts some very partial
students over other students (with
power to cover up or harm by
recommend at ions ) .
If I were in trouble with the
University administration, I would
much prefer to deal directly with
the administration.
Investigations could be bungled
because tribunal members will be
involved in studies and activities
without the power or experience to
conduct adequate investigations.
A student could tell the tribunal
(for their information) that the
cow jumped over the 4 moon.
Perhaps the real purpose of the
student tribunal is as an instru
ment of favoritism concept
foreign to the idea of a tribunal.
Or perhaps it is to create a new
authority to bring new conformity
to the student body a conform
ity non-essential to the university
but felt desirable by certain stu
dent leaders. Whatever justifiable
purpose the tribunal may have, that
tribunal can serve only badly.
Only paritally, only to serve the
vanity of those who leave childhood
by building their dand castles a
mile high.
Melvln (Buck) Eikleberrjr
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The Nebraska State Education
Association made headlines last
week by promising the people of
Nebraska, benevolently, that they
would delay their campaign for a
state sales tax for year.
Earlier, this same association
had met and set forth resolutions
to the effect that teachers were
grossly discriminated against in
wages, pensions and everything
else and were generally getting
the dirty end of the stick in every
thing. These resolutions were net foih
as the solution to the teacher
shortage and the inadequate in
struction some high school stu
dents are receiving.
It is interesting to note that
neither of these pronouncements
in any way bothered to concern
themselves with any improvement
in the curriculum or instruction in
the state's high schools. All they
asked for was money.
Now. the people of Nebraska are
generally pretty practical. When
they are asked tor more money
they i;rmally return with the
comment, "OK, but what do you
do abojt improving the service
you give us?"
It is pretty obvious that th
service needs improving. E
remedial course offered at t.i,
University is proof of this. I : .
been said and said and sai.i th:.t
high school student.-; are
unprepared for college acaJf-tmc
life.
So if the NSEA. gets more
money, are they going to use it
to turn out more of the same kind
of teachers to teach the same
provenly inadequate courses or are
they going to supixjrt some con
crete changes in the way teachers
are prepared for their profession?
A man whom I consider wi.e,
once remarked to me that :t
seemed to him that the schools
teach entirely too much "bugy
washing." Recently, eleven noted
University professors said essen
tially the same thing. Courses re
quiring a degree of intellectuaJisni
are too little stressed in high
schools while the extraneous sub
jects such as music clinics, sh'v,
basketball and journalism are em
phasized too much.
Admittedly, shop and journabsin
are useful courses. Shop is, after
all, the mainstay of trade schools
and is taught much better there.
Journalism can be learned much
more thoroughly in the classroom
of Dr. Hall than with a hign
school teacher who has only a
textbook knowledge of what he is
supposed to be teaching and would
feel much more at home devoting
his time to the fundamentals of
English grammar.
Therefore, let me close with art
other question to the NSEA. Be
fore we give you this money, what
about the "buggywashing?"
The new addition to the Phi Pi
house is nearly completed. Il will
offer several advantages to i's
occupants because it gives them
an outpost on the Kappa Sig's
flanks and a salient from vliich
to bombard the boy's dorm (tool.
All joking aside, I am glad to
note this sign of campus prog
ress. It shows that the Greek
system is still very much alive
and kicking. But the view of that
newly laid red brick which I will
have from my study room window
will never replace a head on shot
of the Alpha Phi house.
Well children, it's election time
on the old NU campus. It all
started way back with AUF and
now the Y's have taken it up.
Pub board interviews are due the
second Tueday of exams i h o w
horrid!) and the entire staff ex
cept Jack Pollock, is already get
ting weak in the knees. Everjo.ie
is on their good behavior, and I
was actually able to ci.rne in Lite
twica las', week v. .i ; jl.iag
so much as a riiintjie hom any
body. The peace ;..;! qu.i of the
office is realiy a i...le unnerving.
In this frantic age of the Sput
niks, Mutniks and ICBM's it might
be easy to toss up one's arms and
stare fixedly into the dark clouds,
but this hardly contributes to the
solution of the world's problems,
hardly places us even an inch
nearer the understanding of the
present threats to world peace.
No one can assume a disinter
ested air when faced with these
problems. It does no good to say
that all the talk of Russian science
and technology advancement is all
propaganda. They may not be
ahead ol us,
but they cer
tainly run a
close second.
It, is necessary
for the Ameri
can citizens to
under stand
this world situ
ation, if the
U. S. is to do
anything about
it. The citizens
a s taxpayers
talk of lowering taxes, yet it is
evident that one gets only the
government that they pay for. If
then, we are to lower taxes and
laise defense spending some other
e.-ea must sacrifice. What is it to
be? Foreign economic aid? Farm
price support? Government aid to
business? Only an informed and
interested public can make these
decisions. Who was it that said,
"Constant vigilence is the price of
democracy?"
This talk of cutting budgets is
an interesting thing. We have had
for the past three years balanced
budgets for the first time in many
years, yet at the same time these
budgets have increased. This
means one thing higher taxes.
Big government costs money. My
self, I'm an advocate of the old
8ddage "he is best governed, who
is least governed." Nonetheless,
I'd be the last one to say stop
defense spending. To do so would
be to invite Russian attack. I be-
Rudgers
ACV
Asian Flu Publicity
Said 4Wise' by Students
When the United States Public
Health Department became awarp
of the possibility of a flu epidemic
this year, it instituted a program
of information to warn the nation.
Some people thought the issue was
given too much publicity, while
others felt the Health Department
did the right thing.
Associated Coll?Kiaie Press
asked a representative group of
American college men and wom
en about their views on the subject,
and discovered in first analysis
of questionnaires that a majority
of them thought the publicity pro
gram was a wise policy. The ques
tion t . t was asked, and the re
sults of initial tabulation, are as
follows:
"Do you think the public health
department was wine in widely
publicizing the possibility of an
Awlan flu epidemic, or do you
think It should not have given the
Iksue so much publicity? Why?
The results:
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A substantially larger number
of men than women thought the
Health Department was wise in
its publicity campaign, but there
seems to be no particular explana
tion for this difference. Reasons
given to support their answers tend
to be about the same for both.
A Bradley University (Peoria, 111.)
Ireshman thought the publicity
gave people a chance to prepare
for ttie epidemic," and a Univer
sity of Vermont sophomore felt th?
publicity had even more far-reaching
effects, that without it. ". . .
many people might not have real
ized the seriousness of possible
complications."
"Much pre-warning has prevent
ed a mass hysteria," was the opin
ion of a Colorado State College
(Greeley, Colo.) senior, and his
view was supported by a freshman
at Knox College (Galesburg. El.)
who agreed that, by widespread
publicity, "panic was avoided."
Just the opposite of these views
was generally held by those who
believed the epidemic was given
too much publicity. "There was so
much publicity over this epidem
ic," said a coed freshman from
Colorado State College I Greeley,
Colo.) "that the public became
overly concerned and worried with
out cause." A senior from Bio. a
College (Los Angeie, Calif.) ex
pressed his opinion this way: "It
(the publicity) was foolish. While
It alerted the public, it also gave
them cause for panic ancj justifi
able psychosomatic disorders." A
junior coed from Knox College
(Galesburg, 111.) was also among
those who thought the Health De
partment shouldn't have publicized
the epidemic to such an extent.
Her comment: "I say this because
the publicity alarmed many peo
ple who weren't even able to have
a flu shot ..." A University oi
Kentucky (Lexington, Ky.) fresh
man maintained that the extensive
publicity "created unnecessary
mass hysteria."
lieve that in the past the only
reason the Russians have not at
tempted an all-out war is that we
were always well ahead in mili
tary strength. The reason they do
not now attack even if they are
ahead of us, is that at the present
time both sides possess the might
to destroy the other. There will be
no winner in the next all-out world
war. Both sides will suffer com
plete destruction. Someone said
that if the next war is a nuclear
one the following war will be
fought with bows and arrows.
This is nr.t to imply that the
Russians would satisfy themselves
with this monster called co-existence.
The whole Communist theol
ogy is based on one thing world
domination. Until they achieve tlus,
they will not rest. And until the
world is secured for the peace-loving
peoples, the democracies must
maintain this "constant vigilence."
What then will the Russians do?
If we knew this, we would be in
deed fortunate. The fact Is we do
not know. There will always be the
element of surprise, however, I be
lieve we can expect the Russian
aggression to follow two lines of
attack. The first is the undermin
ing of the government of existant
free nations. The international
Communist party is very well or
ganized. It exists in every country
on the globe. In some places it
is no threat, but in others it con
stitutes a force of considerable
magnitude. In these countries the
Communists form a strong collu
sion party and once it it strong
enough to elect the high officials
in that country the Communists
are assured their foothold. And
once they gain a foothold, they are
nearly impossible to stop. Hungary
is good enough proof of this.
The second means Russia will
use to conquer the free world is
through the pocket book. Back in
1917, one of the Russia bigwigs,
Lennin I believe, declared that
the communists could conquer the
world without firing a single bul
let, he said all they need do was
wait till th'.' capitalist countries
went bankrupt. Perhaps this mer
its our consideration. We are cer
tainly spendms a lot for defense
and for economic and military aid
to our foreign allies. And take a
look at our growing national debt.
But you say, "aren't the Russians
spending just as much for de
iense?" There is a basic difference be
tween the communist and capitalist
systems which allows Russia to
spend great sums on defense. You
never hear of a Russian debt. This
is the reason I believe there is
none. You will recall, back about
six months ago, that the Russian
government discredited all govern
ment bonds. In a short public an
nouncement they said that all the
bonds were worthless could not be
redeemed. Each Russian peasant
had been required to purchase
these bonds. A certain per cent of
each month's wages was taken out
to apply toward the bond, and
many peasants looked forward to
using them in their old age. Yet
with one sweep of the big hand
of the "people's government" this
hope vanished. I can hardly see the
United States government doing
this, no matter what financial stale
the country might be in.
Russia can all-cute all Its re
sources to their military machine.
The Russian people are told that
the sacrifices they make are made
necessary by the American threat
to their "peace." The commissars
tell them that if they did not have
to protect themselves from the
threatening forces of the "capital
ist nations" they too could have all
the luxuries of our high standard
of living. And, so they will go on
diverting all their efforts to a vast
war machine, to such projects as
the space satellite, and to such
deadly weapons as the Intercon
tinental Ballistic Missiles.
Meanwhile let's maintain our
"constant viligence."
'THAT S THE ONLY PENGUIN
IN THE fJUCKLD (iJlTH L0NS 1
BLACK EARS!