Pag 2
The Doily Nebroskon
Tuesday, January 14, 1953
Editorial Comment
A Library Problem
K problem brought to our attention by an
Instructor at the University is probably much
graver than anyone realizes.
It is a problem which stems from the creation
ef regulations and the subsequent creation of
punishment! by whidi to enforce these regula
tions. The problem referred to is the pilfering of
took and magazines, of parts of books and
magazines from the University Library. The
instructor suggested that students feel a need
lor the materials and have few if any qualms
bout helping themselves to the materials. He
blames the stealing on the fact that the libraries
charge high fines for the late return of books.
Tor example, if an overnight book is no'
returned before nine the next morning the stu
dent is not fined merely five cents but upwards
to twenty-five cents.
It might also occur that a student who is
working has not the time to read five or six
chapters in an overnight book between the
hours of nine p.m. and nine a.m. So rather than
incur the wrath of the teacher for not having
completed the assignment the student swipes
the book from the library by one means or
another thus dang his fellow students and the
library an untold harm.
The untold harm comes because the library
cannot make an inventory of every bonk every
week. As well as records are kept, a book may
be missing for long periods of time before the
library is aware the book is gone. Consequently
the students who must have the book for studies
cannot obtain it. '
A vicious circle may have developed from the
book supply people, as we have indicated. There
is one rather simple and one rather honorable
solution to the whole situation.
In the first place the University, as the leader
of the students must take the initiative to
solve the problem through the libraries. The
assumption backing the fines at a library is
that if people are punished they will avoid
breaking the laws. Furthermore if people are
punished sufficiently they will be quicker to
respond to the treatment.
It is obvious that the policy has not worked,
since those who might end up being punished
take their chances with whole-hearted thievery.
It amounts to an honor system among the
students and a feeling of trust in the students
on the part of the library- If the librarians could
believe in the students and not insult their
integrity with exhorbitant fines then we pre
sume the students would react in a more hon
orable way.
For those of you who have the feeling that
honor has no place among thieves, we might
remind you to ask your neighbor who has run
across a magazine with a missing page ia vital
page) how he feels about the honor of men
at the present time.
There's always room for improvement, we
might add. And books can prove to be teachers
through more than their printed words.
szbes jfrni 1 1 r WcanV'
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Cole Bin
Jim Cole
The Exam Wrath
As exams come creeping around the corner
students get the bite-the-nails habit, unusually
enough.
This is no time to advise our fellow student
to hit the books, to beat a heavy trail to the
library, to he awake nights sweating over the
latissimus dorsi or the founding of Rome. But
it might be the time to warn students against
the pitfalls of complete confusion when the
end of the next semester rolls around.
It just so happens that some students nave
come to the end of the line in particular courses.
This being true they can take slock of w hat they
have received from the instructors arid what
they can do to pull a good grade from iie
course. The easiest answer to that problem is
aiudy. But, alas, when January looks lite April
from the editor
outdoors aixi students begin to get the urge
to travel to the country there are real blocks
to making a success out of college life.
Teachers may hand you hints as to what to
expect in exams. Don't take the hints. It could
be fatal.
Of course many students still take notes in
(lass. A popular substitute to that scholastic
penmanship exercise has been the creation of
cribbing to supplant real knowledge. One stu
dent suggested that cribbing be given the status
of a real course in this school since i: seems
to be such a highly advanced art.
For those of you who have become stricken
with the fear that the end will never come, that
tne exam will never be completed, that the
end of your college career is at hand, it might
well serve you to remember the same anxiety
and the same relief which you experienced last
June. Ah' The relief of the last day of exams'
But wait! Xew anxieties! New fears! What
will the teacher be so cruel as to dole out for
a grade? How will i: affect my standing with
the fraternity or the musicians union? Once
again the fingernail biting ritual begins. Once
again trie calendar marking rite begms. It is
the perpetual motion of the student. It is tne
everlasting ruination of calendars and finger
nails.
Might me suggest that the studying for the
next semester begin somewhere in the first two
months of the course? Might e add that statis
tics seem to show s student does better work
if he is relaxed, confident of the material pre
sented? Might we suggest that . . . Well, sugges
tions have their place, but this doesn't seem w
be it.
Let us hope fur a continuation of this delight
fully springy and foggy w eather so that when
the day for the impossible Test rolls around we
might all join arms, rip off the oid calendar
faces and aalk forth into the oblivion awaitii.g
those wno have no spirit moving them to study.
First Things First.,.
Far tli multitude who find Cnar.ie iGjm!
Grief!) Brown and the other ''Peanuts" char
acter intellectually void arid, fur tiiose others
who find it completely un-understandabie, tne
Rag is beginning a stricty collegiate comic
trip "Here's Arnold. "
Arnold is billed as Lite peremuai undergradu
ate and definitely a little man on campus, but
be gets around. As artist Bill Johnson quips,
"Arnold'a no brain he'll never get his degree
but be knows what's going on."
Furthermore he' keenly and humorously
interested in traditions, pep Jests, spurts, stu
dent gwernment, coeds, professors, wtio lo
atudy, grades and finances.
Unlike Charlie, Arnold is sexhurwrem, talka
trve, and more so defnulely collegiate.
The doubie-bladed but unrelated problems S.
coaches and petticoats are consuming niotrt of
the coffee4reak conversational tidbits at Ter.s
A&. Since the Rag sports is devoting time to
tne latter, it might be worthwhile mentioning
soma of the consternation stirred up by wnat
ne AiiM student calls the "impending doom (if
petticoats hanging over AIM and causing much
agitation around the state."
As early as 1K3 I always thought early
meant :ght o'clock), the fairer sex was re:
gmxed as an important "drawing card" for
bv Jack Pollock
ainieu: coacnes s:,3 players. . . . thai is. re
cruiting would be easier if the school mere coed
A b.U before tne itate legislature in Teius i:i
favoring the c.ieducauonal system was sup
ported by one Senator who claimed "'More tnaa
one person is m tavor of co-education at AAM -they
just didn't .pei.k up." Former students ap
parently turned the tide, backing T5 years !
tr adition, despite the fact the same sane senator
predicted a coeducational AAM by b2.
Seems to me the coeducational supporters
were p:Kty passive in their attempts to bring
the fairer sex into the classrooms. As it now
standi., boys, you can cancel those registration
at A4.M. Tne first crop has been postponed.
And at oid conservative personified. College of
William i- Mary at Williamsburg, tradition has
gone down the drain. The old Phi Beta Kappa
building has been named Ewel Kail. Not to be
confused with Tom. Eweli hall is named after
Benjamin Stxiaert Eweli, president of trie col
lege lrom 1B54 to 1BHH. Eweli, together with the
faculty and student body entered the Confeder
ate service seven years after he assumed the
school's presidency when the Civil War forced
the closing of the College. Four years later, ui
Jlidj, Eweli reopened trie College. ...
Even at NU another tradition is waning. Tnat
hrgnway test plot called the Union parking kit .
soon to be replaced by cavities in the ground
and construction work. No more mud. No more
dut. Just a $i;M),mn Studeui Union adaption.
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Every man Is entitled to free
dom so long as he does not in
fringe upon the rights of others.
And though the relation may
seem obscure, when people work
for the good of all involved, co
operate, and reach agreement, that
individual freedom gets strength
ened because the rights of every
one are considered. The final de
cision may come as a result of
compromise, each side giving and
takiug as much as necessary to
provide equal benefit and to ade
quately get done what needs to be.
For that reason, then, and be
cause harmony is more pleasant
than discord to most people, we
like for things to run on a smooth
rail. And it looks as if the sem
ester will end on a good note and
the new year begin on one.
Evidence i
The President has sensed the
gravity of the world situation
heavy with Sputniks and has
risen to the occasion with a def
inite, sensible program to
strentghen the country. He seems
to posses a nenewed vigor for in
itiative and leadership. His plan
has been generally accepted with
enthusiasm by the American peo
ple, who may get their confidence
back in Eisenhower.
Military unity, accelerated de
fense efforts, foreign aid and trade,
scientific cooperation with our al
lies, aid to education and research,
a shift in the bjdget to allow more
for defense, are a well ordered,
prudent system for making this
country safe as possible.
At the request of Senator Bixler,
the XSEA agreed to hold off their
amendment prohibiting both a
eny tax and a sales and-or in
cline tax. ordering the Legislature
to enact a sales tax in 1959. They
agreed to wait a month.
This group hat every right I
pass a petitien aroand.
But the teachers are first giv
ing the committee a chance to
work with other groups interested
in broadening the tax base so that
a unified effort can be made and
po&sibly a comprnmis reacned.
At tfae preseat time these groups
have some semblaaee mt roopera
tua. The student council has worked
to iorm a tribunal charter, think-
Mutte rings
ing about it, discussing, consider
ing the opinions of the students,
and finally making some needed
changes.
Now it will be voted upon by the
student body. From there it goes
to the faculty, where if objections
should arise, those objections will
need to be considered and more
work done to make some settle
ment. However, all the worthwhile
hasn't occurred just recently. The
whole semester was chock full of
notable accomplishments.
For example:
A health building has been con
structed, or worked on. Ralph
Mueller presented a planetarium
of more use than that irritating,
off -tune screech tube). The Chan
cellor, the Dean, and their men are
comfy in their r.ew headquarters.
This university, under the di
rection of Dr. Marvel Baker and
Dr. Otto Hoiberg, has given At
aturk U in Turkey advice and
technical assistance.
A half million dollars in grants,
for research purposes, was ac
cepted by the Board of Regents.
A long overdue Mitchell Case at
least reached some kind of con
clusion. The students were finally given
a vote on three subcommittees.
Some of the Arts College pro
fessors came up with a sound,
proposal but a revolutionary one
for Nebraskans, about teacher cer
tification. And what their petition
demands is definitely progress.
A nourishing program of cul
tural actvity was made avail
able: the Lincoln symphony, com
munity concerts. University Thea
ter, the art gallery programs, San
day night movies, Audubon Society
lectures, and the fareign film ser
ies. This has been a get-ihings-done
semester even though at t rr.es the
struggle was a hard one. And even
though some things still aren't
done.
Most of us w ish the examination
schedule could have been changed
to two weeks. Peraps that can be
arranged in the coming semester.
My outlook is fairly bright r.gal
now.
At any rate good luck with the
finals and a studious, rowdy new
semester lo you.
Letterip
'Buck' Bla'tetl
1 The Kdiior:
Xos, Me.:
I see that tt.e Migt.ty MjjUi
shot itsej Ui i.u Muiiuay. I
had hoped that your chiidisn ai
titjiie jLitayf lajung a jste
t:d asfejuie v.ewpaka beiaus t
was. to your so called mind. fh
ionabie would cLange as you gre
vp. You have a. ways been, st be.:,
sligtsJy repolsive. up 1.13 aow
every o: has mantled to ignore
you rattier successfully
But Uiat's probably why yo.i - -j, I
sifh ridiculous drivel to be , .'.-:
ui the Eitg.
I. and uiiCkjLiu'.ecily .. .: i
dent that read it. managed :.. t
don a feeling of nausea mhen you
attacked Santa Claus. bit your
recent, repugnant statement con
cerning the Student Tr.bunal was
unbearable.
Yu very joss.o.y do not have
the ability to coniprerieiid what the
Student Council arid the Deaa dl
Student Affairs are trying to ac
complish, but 1 think you just en
joy trying to sound off against an
ristit .ition oilier people reauze a
potentially beneficial to the cam
pus. If you had been seriously con
cerned with the Tribunal's charter
you could have written a sugges
tion when trie Cojncil ai.ked 3'r
them in the Rag.
Or you might have written , t
tional statement coucermn: the
the Tribunal on Monday insiead of
the buiik that appeared. So wiry
don't you talk tt a Council mem
ber who knows something aboxt
the Tribunal before you make a
fool of yourself again.
Go borne and practice tne violin,
but leave the fiddling in campus
affairs to someone that is genu
inely interested.
Ik-k Bbsm
Nominee on Block
T the Eic-:
In cannectiuii with :t tJt
omLvatJon o f or Or.e Paul
Snen.e "'s.' is s. "O .is'.AUJU.g
Nenra-skan." we : v n.fi'i itrs of
trie sendir lasv . : t e College of
Law wn.;i to i .... :;.e ioiiowxig
q jesix.-!. :
1. Hb iv i.me P.al 4-ne
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2. V. tut 1 . 1 1 c l.UlJil lo BD-
liiate i . - iir?
I. ( Urilt the meaaiac of the
word oV;-d" which appeared
iv )'- i-i.'f ui iHtroinatiefi.
MeUers of Uie Vvior llM
titles- or
! i t Vole: 1W nefcoawr keeuc
the oomiaatMHi mi the
Vetorakaa in a eonfi
deatial fit ia tbe Dailjr
Vebrakkaa offite.
Fan Heinimlnl
T the EsUir:
I wouid hate to be a basketball
official in Nebraska. The people
are so darn parti' -n.
This partisan Jup siios up
every tjrie a team steps onto tlie
Cohseum maples. Arid rightly
enough, it should. Alter all, Corn
hubkers thould fupport their team.
H'iwv-r, there is a gw.d deal
of d:!ic.-e:ice between supporting
2 le.o.n aticl going to war for it.
S'b'jjt'T.g insults at tlie officials
arid hootiiig when trie oppotitif.in
trys a free throw it tJownright
p'lor sportsmanslup.
One thmg all Nebraska fans
should remember. The Big Eight
play a double round roT-in acbed
ule with each team meetmg the
others take, once at home and
once on the road. Hunker fans no
loubt feel that Nebraska is en
titled to a fair shake in the road,
and the best way to insula they'll
get it Is ta be courteous to the
opposition when the H muter s are
at home. George Mvyer
Counesy Sunday
Journal and Suar
One of the most daring political
moves of the current century is
the Eisenhower administration's
plan to issue scholarships; give
the populus a little education and
the Ike team
can pack u p
its mashie-nib-licks
and slip
softly into the
night.
But even
though the
Great White
Father - i m
age's appreci
ation of t h e
alues of col
lege training
is too little financially and too late
practically, it must have sent in
tellectuals (whoever they may bet
scurrying from their dimly lit gar
rets into streets from coast to
coast to toss confetti made from
tornup copies of the Atlantic
Monthly. "At last." they must be
chortling, "even the Black Knight
who killed the Champion of West
ern Culture said Champion being
the late Humpty-Dumpty, A d 1 a i
Stever.son) is recognizing that egg
heads can be good for something
besides omelets."
Now one cf the great accepted
ideas of this century of great ac
cepted ideas is that the intellec
tual element is oppressed beyond
belief by an environment consist
ing of noodniks whose closest ap
proach to literacy is that they can
read the advertisements on their
TV screens. Actually, those of us
who are the supposed oppressors
have a right to ask just what those
high-foreheaded fellows who carry
a slide rule in one hand and a
copy of Plato's dialogues m the
other want.
They have been given the op
portunity for a greater education
than they could have gotten at
any other time in history. The en
tire publishing industry has re
tooled so that it could publish pa
perback editions of obscure bocks
which the underprivileged intel
lect can afford to buy. iTime was,
I am tokf. when the mark of in
tellectual achievement was a col
lection of bocks stolen from the
local library ucxier the dubious
theory that a gaal of self -education
steve schults
was more important than the petty
laws set up to discourage petty
larceny.) The theatre has rushed
into the breach to produce the
arch-thinker, Bernard Shaw. Tele
vision hns eaten up scripts and
called for more, apparently with
little response from crusaders for
development of the mass mind.
Even the United States of Amer.
ica, that supposed hot-bed of men
tal vacuity, has once in this cen
tury selected a college president
as its leader, has nominated for
the presidency ano'her oft-proclaimed
egghead, and is now con
sidering seriously the qualifica
tions for that office of a man who
has recently won the Pulitzer
Prize. All this should please a seg
ment of the population which can
not possibly number more than
about three per cent.
Meanwhile, the intellectuals
have apparently secluded them
selves somewhere or other. I sus
pect that they have been drinking
wine from some good vintage year
and taking potshots at the wrong
thinkers, i.e., these who do not
agree with them. They may say,
and they will be right, that the
best government would not count
heads but minds; they will neg
lect to add that the heads cannot
be counted unless they come out
of their shells.
The problems we have with the
rather embarassing presence of a
Russian satellite in the thin air up
that way ar not the fault of Ei
senhower, who was a great gen
eral but whose qualifications as
an administrator of government
make him best suited for the pres
idency of the Abilene, Kansas, Ro
tary Club. These problems must
be laid at the door of the self
proclaimed intellectuals, whose
long-suit is supposed to be the
imagination capable of foreseeing
these scientific developments and
who if they exercised this fore
sight in the pre-Sputnik era had
so isolated themselves by their
preenings and pesturings that ther
had lost the public confidence. A
little boy will not be believed if
he shouts "Wolf' too often; but
neither will he be listened to il
he has made a deliberate attempt
in the past to prove that be is a
hopeless neurotic.
A Few Words Of A Kind
hv e. v. Iiincs
I an no an ot"f..ial crusader
a..i am prepared fir any perse
cution that may befall me. People
vnall mock me arid utter false
things aoout n.e Vet my cause is
great arid 1 shall endure.
I have begun, you set. a tru
ae f'ur wearing red sweaters.
It Is strange how crusades be
gin. ilL'ie began wits a Christmas
parkte received from California.
When I opened the package I
fki-nd the last thu-g I Lad brer.
kck.r,g 'ax namely, a red
t eater .
That day 3 p-t the sea:er on
for minutes be.'-sre find Jig a
drawer for il. Then early th wetk
I wore it i'jr an hour. Sunday, I
wore it the enure cay.
I, was on Sunday that I became
converted to my belef in the value
of wearing red sweaters. As I wore
my red sweater, the s-nole world
began V look better lo me. I didn t
muid the mud or the rain, arid I
even began to like swine pe"jp
m spite oJ iriemoeives.
Tnea I hit on the wonderf J iciea
that my red sweater could 1 a
symbol ... a symbol ior brother-b-'jod
-(or something like that 1.
My thoughts went lie thJi: " If
everyone wore a red eater, ev
eryone wouid have something ia
common. People ho hae tlu.gs
in cOTimcm have a chance to be
better friends. Therefore, if all
people wore red s eaters, all pe
would have a chance to be
belter friends.
So now I sm wearing try red
sweater in public. I cm setting n
example of g'xid red sweater
wearing. I don't intend lo rireach
v win my crusade. Presenilis nev
er appealed to roe. Yob know, A
.s how on live that really counts
uot just the way be talks.
Oh, it's rot eaty this crusad
ing. There have been doubters .
"Intat tie devil are you. a
cheerleader?' some aw.
"Look, a run-a-way f-e errliie.
lAbers scream.
"It's a little boy red. sey oih-
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B-jJ I dort let these jibes de
tract me. Lute a good htt cru
sader I turn the other cheek and
let the in rajit i. My ca use ia
great and I shall endure.
Red sit eaters and brodierbood
forever!
Some people collect stamps, oth
ers pile up stacks ul "girlie" mag
ainrs. arid a few gather a coo
gimeratxia of beer can and bottle
operiers Belter krxm n as "church
kejs".
I. h'weve.-, collect d.fferer4
t...r.gs. My two favorite collectioxiS
ae duty laundry and clever
hraes.
Pledges periodically clear away 9
my first collection with short trip
to the laundromat. Cornered
friejxis periaps only acquaint,
antes but I call them frieiids in
spue od what they say about me)
arid forced conversations relieve
me regularly of my second col
lectijc. li wtauidn't da, you know,
Vt T'tiC the same clever phrase
I s ice is front of the same pervn.
Amorag my last cxauecuon of dir
ty laundry were eight dress shirts,
four Ivy League khakis, and ni
nieTOus utaiieiitjooaDs.
Among my clever phrase collec
tionas compiled during the la
week were:
I. Clever line of poetry "Cold
I walk and cold I wander, win
tering the lifetime o-jt." Tnla was
giea.-xd from the curreat asaue
of Harper's.
1. Cievef drmkir.g toast "Here'a 0
my luck, add it to yous. Tiii
came from "My Mac Godi-ey."
2. Clever comrrient "That was
ijiy tenrns. Periiaps new only
to roei. "Liiioceiii Ambassaijors,
by Philip Wylie provided this one.
4. Clever yoke "Trs rabbaa
were being chased by a pack of
dogs. 'Let's swp arid pretty soon
we'll out number them," one vi
tfie rabbits said. 'Keep running yoa
jdwt. Ibe other said, 'we're broth
ers. This cam from a very
bid ao-uete.