Tuesday, February 18, 1958
Pace 2
The Daily Nebroskan
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Editorial Comment
Don't Look No w! University
Officials Forced To Beg
University and state
still grinning about the
teat Saturday .-
officials are probably
big game they bagged
They had better look out though. Those grins
might fade slightly In the next 12 months when
the search is pressed for the $1.5 million needed
to match the $1,856,000 donation by the Kellogg
Foundation.
Private donors have been fairly good to the
University in the past and may come through
this time to Insure construction of a Center for
Continuing Education at Lincoln, but private
citizens can also get rather tired of money
seeking appeals.
And when a person stops to think about the
Issue It seems almost shameful that the Uni
versity even finds it necessary to search the
state for large sums of money every time k is
given the chance to receive a large grant re
quiring matching funds.
Perhaps another large grant may he offered
the University in the near future and the same
Nebraskans who plan to give to the fund for
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CWirtesy Lincoln Star
Anderson
Courtesy Lincoln Journal
the Educational Center will again be appealed
to for aid. Will they tend to be as responsive In
answering pleas for financial help?
This Is a factor that state officials should not
Ignore in the joy and possibility of one success
ful drive.
Chancellor Hardin has said he is "most hope
ful" that the needed funds will be raised. Gov.
Victor Anderson has announced he is certain
the people of Nebraska will' put up matching
funds, and a member of the Board of Regents
commented, "I hope we can get the fund raising
job done."
Wouldn't it be more advisable to provide
some type of "insurance" to make certain that
the University and other state schools will not
find themselves falling short of their goals when
seeking needed contributions?
This insurance could possibly be in the form
of state funds. Nebraska's educational systems
now receive less state aid than nearly any other
school systems in the nation.
Where could the state get these funds?
Maybe the proposed Income and sales tax
measures are the answer. Maybe the state legis
lators should pay closer attention to Sen. Terry
Carpenter's request for a special session of the
Unicameral to consider broadening the Nebraska
tax base.
Education can no longer be considered a
novelty or polishing device for the chosen few.
It must be available in high quality form to all
of the state s citizens.
And quality does not come
without spending funds for
better schools, better teach
ing staffs and better instruc
tion aids.
Adoption of one or both of
these types of insurance
could certainly enable the
V C I Governor, who is opposed to
.VVJ calling a special session of
Carpenter the legislature, w say wicn
coarteay Lincoln joumtiout doubt or reservation that
the state can provide matching funds when need
ed. By no real stretch of the imagination can
he truly do this at the present time.
Certainly if Nebraska educators and officials
really want to contend with confidence that we
are on the brink of a glorious new era of
educational progress in the state, they had bet
ter do something to make their dreams more
than pipe-dreams and their oratory more than
vote and pat-on-the-back winning words.
Just as national legislators have realized that
national defense requires the immediate ap
proval of more funds for defense, so should
state officials and Nebraska citizens realize
that the fight for a well-educated populous will
require a similar loosening of purse strings.
- This Is not to belittle all of the constructive
efforts made in the past by Nebraskans in
building a good educational system, but to stop
and Inquire If the methods we have been using
are adequate to meet the pressing needs.
Curtain Drops
Word from the Belgian World Airlines informs
us that Russia may now be visited by Ameri
cans. This is no news to the world travelers around
us who have shot across the iron curtain many
times in the past few years to discover what
secrets of the Soviet Union are open to the
West.
The Belgian air service has a special rate
for students and teachers who would like to
see what the Soviet Union has to offer and
special arrangements are made for those who
decide to take the tour.
You have to give Russia credit for some
sharp promotional thinking along the tourist
line.
Russia, admittedly, has an idea to sell and
she's going out to sell it to whoever will bite.
From the Editor
private opinion
dick shugrue
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Contrary to the opinion of some students on
the campus the people who run the University
Libraries are not ogres out to get the students.
As a matter of fact, the librarians' sole in
terest lies in performing the public services
which make education more
accessible to as many stu
dents and faculty members
as possible.
Judging from some of the
comments which filter into
this office, some premature
judgments regarding the na
ture "of librarians might be
made. Some students, it ap
pears, feel that the fines are
excessive, the watch-dog at
titude nrevails and the serv
ice is minimized. Those students might be the
chronic offenders In the libraries people who
snitch articles out of books, steal volumes of
learned studies from the stacks or refuse to pay
their fines.
The fines are levied to make the books more
available to every student who might need
them," Richard Farley, assistant director of the
Library says. They are not excessive, he Indi
cates. "Nor is this library one in which a student, is
ever told to be quiet," the librarian indicates.
Common courtesy is expected from the stu
dent body.
And apparently that courtesy is obtained from
the vast majority of the students, the officials
of the Library note. "We have far less vandal
Ism or defacing of books than many of the large
Universities," Frank Lundy, director of the Uni
versity Libraries admitted. He seemed proud
that the student body respected the books and
other equipment furnished by the people of the
state for popular consumption.
All in all, it seems that the library system of
this University is far better than most I have
had an opportunity to see or borrow from. 1,
like many students, resent receiving letters de
crying my lack of responsibility in returning ma
terials. That's only natural, I suspect.
Bat even the old way of Informing culprits of
their offenses may be on the way out, Farley
Indicated. Perhaps the student tribunal could
handle the problems arising from violations of
the library's regulations.
It's an interesting experience to discover the
rationale of the librarians and the ingenious de
vices they use to make life easier for the
University family.
It's a great experience to understand Love.
For the benefit of those who are Irritated by
cigarette smoke while riding in automobiles, en
couragement has come from Abigail Van Buren, ,
sob sister of The Lincoln Star. A correspondent
of Abby's writes, "If your correspondent who
is allergic to cigarette smoke will light two
candles, she will not notice the smoke at all.
Don't ask me why, Abby, I don't know. All I
know Is that it works."
Now word comes from Detroit that all new
cars will come complete with radio, heater,
automatic transmission and two candles.
Shocker of the week: The ADA World, news
paper for the Americans for Democratic Action,
reports in the latest edition on Gov. G. Mennen
William's address to the Roosevelt Day Dinner
in Washington.
The Democratic governor of Michigan de
nounced the Eisenhower Administration as "ster
ile and unimaginative" and said that the
American people must supply "the direction
which we do not get from these men. They tell
time by the clocks in the Bureau of the Budget.
They don't know what ,time it really is by the
clock of history. Worse still, they have tried to
conceal that clock from the American people
by covering the face of events with slogans,
pretty phrases and fraudulent claims."
I keep recalling specific instances in which
the present administration has attempted to
cover up the facts from the American people
ard wish someone ?ould present a well-documented
rebuttal for Uie Administration.
It would let me sleep better at nights.
But, alas, only more phrases, slogans and
patter flow with the rest of the dirty laundry In
the national administration down the river of
time. Sigh.
SIXTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD
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part at any member 01 Mm fneolty at Hie University. The
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Buck Shot
By Melvyn EihUberry
Objections Sustained
, . . Bv Sieve Sclmllz
A poll indicates that students
will read any column so long as
it is "Peanuts." That poll, the
Buck-poll, was extremely limited,
unscientifically conducted, and
mostly sub
jective. But,
for a peculiar
reason, I think
it is accurate:
it was con
ducted among
some of those
whom I con
sidered "intel
lectuals," and
if most intel
lectuals' at NU
only read
"Peanuts," what is the use of see
ing what the clods read?
"Buck"
Being new at writing a column,
I wanted to get a picture of the
reader of Dally Nebrakan col
umns. So I started polling. "What
should a column be?" I asked.
A frequent answer: "Not like they
are now." (But the same people
praised an occasional column or
writer.)
"What sort of column would yon
read?" I asked. It became obvious
that they wouldn't. I had to con
clude that the column reader re
sembles his picture printed with
his column.
I, who believe in writing to the
reader, found this highly frustrat
ing. I could write to myself; no
one else would understand; but
that would be a too, too easy way
out. Or I could write to NU's slim
crop of Intellectuals (excluding
graduates and faculty) and be
looked down upon because I
haven't read Schopenhauer's Will
To Power, or Beyond Good and
Evil by Nietzsche, or because I
don't make clever remarks about
integration, individualism, or Ike's
golf playing. Or I could write to
the clods and have no readers at
all.
My solution: to write to an
Imaginary student, one who is
is about half way between In
tellectual and clod. He (or she)
Is good-natured and has a fairly
good mind, willing to read when
I really have something to say
and say it plainly. If I'm lncky,
this student really exists, and per
haps there are more like him. I
hope so.
If a picture is really worth
10,000 words, many instructors are
wasting a lot of breath. Why Is
it that most courses rarely (or
never) show a film? "Movies are
better than ever," the slogan says,
and that holds true in educational
film as well as the spectaculars.
A film or two (or preferably
more) can make the subject mat
ter come alive. Perhaps the In
structors are afraid of becoming
only film projector operators. If
so, their fear Is a mistake; films
will not take the role of the in
structor in answering questions,
onductlng drills, correcting mis
takes, helping individuals, evalu
ating the student, etc.
Lack of money has been cited
as the reason for the lack of ed
ucational movies shown; this is a
false economy: I am sure that the
money being spent for the student
union addition would solve ' the
problem quite nicely.
As to the films shown: well! One
ROTC film almost caused a mu
tiny. That film, shown at a recent
"lab" in Morrill Hall, was greeted
by hisses, boos and laughter. The
mutiny was dampened only by a
sergeant who yelled fearful threats
about tests to come.
The ROTC films are notorious
for their clearness; they are very,
very, clear. Yes, they are clear.
But the ROTC Department is to
be congratulated for making fre
quent use of films with content,
and the clearness is even refresh
ing in the hazy academic world.
Then there was the anthropology
film which began: "This Is Nana,
a boy -of the Seminole Indians. He
lives in a swamp. A swamp has
many trees and much water."
Then It cooed in exciting tones;
"It Is very wild." The class was
thrilled. The class laughed to show
how thrilled It was. Then there
are a few excellent educational
films, the kind that get your In
terest and your energy, the kind
worth 100,000 words; more like
these!
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Movie Madness
There has been some conjecture
that "The Quiet American" will
not be a financially successful
film. Although It would approach
cardinal sin, such a situation will
probably be the case. The picture
is almost too good.
The first Joseph L. Makiewicz
production since his financially un
successful "The Barefoot Contes
sa" in 1964, "The Quiet American"
is the same exciting combination
of great visual drama, style,
thought and wise-crack peppered
dialogue that have typified "Con
tessa," "All About Eve," "People
will Talk" and the other great
films which have won the writer
and -or director four Academy
Awards, and more Important the
undying respect of motion picture
appreciators the world over.
In a market in which such tripe
as "I Was Teenage Frankenstein"
and "Tammy and the Bachelor"
can become successful, one would
logically expect that an intelligent
approach to the art of picture
making would be even more re
munerative, but sadly this has
often not been the case.
"The Quiet American," adapted
from Graham Greene's novel,
poses the situation of Alden Pyle
(Audie Murphey), a Harvardman,
in his early thirties, working on
a mission for the State Depart
ment in Indo-China in 1952.
Sublimely innocent of every
thing except what he's read in
books, this quiet American falls
headlong and unaware into a web
of deadly intrigue Involving Viet
namese politics, murder, Commu
nists exploding a bomb in the
midst of a crowd of shoppers in
Saigon and a love affair with the
Indo-Chinese mistress of a cor
rupt English newspaper cor
respondent (Giorgia Moll and
Michael Redgrave respectively).
Photographed on location, it u
an urusual and thought provoking
film, entertaining each of its 120
minutes.
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Whereas "The Quiet American"
is intellectually stimulating, "And
God Created Woman" engages
with a diffsrent technique. She is
France's answer to Italy's Loren,
England's Dors and our Monroe.
In both Cinemascope and East
mancolor, Brigitte, most ably as
sited by Curt Jurgens, Jean-Louis
Trintignant and Christian Mar
quand, among others, demon
strates her conviction (hat there
is in life but one pursuit: give us
this day our daily bread.
So torrid that the traditionally
blase French censors banned it
twice before releasing it, the board
was finally pressured into approv
ing it, praying that 40 million
Frenchmen wouldn't prove them
wrong.
That the picture would be suc
cessful here has already been
assured. This commodity is com
mercial. It may be said that one
is quite abie to forget the ice,
wind and snow on the way home
from the theater.
It is a very pleasant discovery
that the Union Film Committee
has seen fit to revive "Mister Rob
erts" for this weekend's Sunday
Nite Movie. It is probably t h e
funniest American picture of the
past ten years.
No one was particularly sur
prised that the customary termites
are crawling out of the woodwork
with their customary objections
now that the Student Tribunal plan
has been overwhelmingly approved
by the student
body after " " "
some time on
the local camp
us, one has be
come accust
omed to those
who will object
to anything
which the ma
jority a p
proves; there
is romantic
glamour in be- , SchuHr
ing a crusader against overwhelm
ing odds and there is also the cer
tainty that the crusade will not
upset anyone because no one is
going to pay any attention any
way. ir 4
Let's face facts, all you who have
been licking your pencils and re
porting your vague suspicions that
the Tribunal is about to upset the
order of the universe, the thing is
. very nearly a reality and you will
Lcltcrip J
Mohl Answered
To the Editor:
After reading Ron Mohl's Tues
day column on radio broadcast
ing, I posed iihis question, "If he
is so very much against the pres
ent programming of Lincoln radio
statiors, then why doesn't he listen
to KNUS?"
KNUS programs strictly from
high fidelity long playing records
no rock 'n roll, no westerns, no
polkas . . . KNUS plays only stand
ards. This should satisfy your taste
for good music and also high fi
delity radio sound.
At KNUS announcers do not par
take in jabbering. They just play
the music, tell the time, tell the
weather, the news and the sports.
Furthermore, I don't believe that
Ron Mohl really knows his radio.
1 take Issue on two points: 1, KMA
Is not the good music station hi
Shenandoah, it Is KFNF which he
must be aluding to; and Z), no
matter how exasperating commer
cials may become to his delicate
ears, without them radio stations
. . . could not exist.
CHUCK PATRICK
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Library Lounge
To the Editor:
The idea of expanding the li
brary's book space is fine, but
isn't there any way besides taking
away the lounge? Why can't the
fourth floor study rooms go in
stead? The lounge is about the only
middle of the 'campus spot where
a person can sit down and have
a cigarette or a coke while study
ing. The library said they would
provide a smaller lounge, but the
lounge is already too small. Just
stop by and look during the noon
hour and the morning if you don't
believe me.
Progress is great stuff, bflt why
take away one of the last places
in which Lincoln residents, inde
pendents and Greeks alike can sit
together and toss the bull around
or do a little between classes
study In a relaxed atmosphere?
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printed, febniary 8, IDSS.
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the aadeiie year.
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do well to realize it. I am mt
particularly happy with the idea of
being judged by my fellow students
when I am caught in one of my
frequent devil-may-care hell-raising
let's all have fun now - that
we - are grown collegians ac
tivities. But the student court is
almost in existence, and let's con
duct ourselves accordingly.
By conducting ourselves "accord
ingly," I mean obeying the follow
ing precepts, which I only propose
because I am so worldly-wise.
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First, the student Isody as
whole should remember that the
vast number of discipline decisions
are pretty much routine. Tf one is
caught on a country road drinking
beer under-age, he is caught and
that's all there is to it. The quality
of mercy may not be strained, but
It would have to be stretched com
pletely out of shape if such a stu
dent were to be excused. And this
routine type of decision, because it
must be made so frequently, is
the type which is bound to maks
the Tribunal unpopular.
Second, the Tribunal members
must constantly guard I suspect
against a possible tendency on
the part of the administration to
shift blame for unpopular deci
sions onto the student judges. Tt
would be too easy for the various
deans to push a case which might
cause possible trouble into the laps
of the Tribunal and then sit com
fortably away from the repercus
sions with the excuse that tha
whole thing was the fault of the
students who heard the case.
As a corollary to the above, I
would suggest that the Adminny
Hall bunch remember that all de
cisions of the Tribunal will ultim
ately be the decisions of Adminny
Hall. Thus, the real responsibility
cannot be avoided.
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And third (and aren't your glad,
last) I would suggest that boys
will brboys and girls will probably
be girls, and what with one thing
and another there are going to be
quite a few people going before
the Student Tribunal who are not
really as wicked as they may
seem. The rules of the University
are not, after all, divinely inspired,
and there is such a thing as a
prank. I would expect the Tribunal
to set aside the strictly legal judg
ment occasionally, if only to prova
that "Be Kind to Dumb Animals
Week" may also be for the bene
fit of the average college student.
STARTING
TOMORROW
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