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Editorial Comment
No Need For Complaints;
We Escaped Iowa Woes
A number of University professors,
some critical citizens and a few students
are still grumbling about the Univer
sity' "unprecedented" Monday vaca
tion. The major criticism seems to be aimed
at the Chancellor for his supposed weak
ness in the face of 2,000 determined stu
dents. If any of the Chancellor's critics
can personally attest that he would have
had more courage in replying "nay" to
such a mass appeal for no school, he
or she must be composed of materials
somewhat foreign to the common human
creature.
It is interesting to speculate what hap
pened at Iowa State University .Monday
night after the Iowans turned the same
trick the Huskers performed the Satur
day before
The Iowa State Daily reports that
"Events arising from the student vic
tory celebration after Monday's Kansas
basketball game are being investigated
by college authorities following several
complaints of damage.
"A group of 1,500 to 2,000 students
smashed the windshield of a truck, broke
a car windshield, dented a car door and
broke two windows in Roberts Hall be
fore finally dispersing.
"The crowd was just milling around.
Police Chief Ivan Walton said. They
were undecided as to what they wanted
to do. They started to get the day off and
when that failed, they didn't know what
they wanted.
'Student body president Chuck Man
att said that to his knowledge, 'No names
were taken. ... I offered to pay for
the damages to the truck as a represent
ative of the student body. Since they had
caused the damage, they are responsible.
Other than breaking the truck windows
and other damages, the students were
just letting off steam and having fun
the damage isn't justified, but having
fun is.'
"Mannatt said he would press for
revaluation of present legislative rules
to see if the student body might be able
to obtain a half day off during the winter
quarter. At the present time there is
no provision for students getting any
time off durinc winter ouarter. When
occasions like last night come up in the
future, we might be able to gel a half
day off, he said."
So, this is what might have happened
if the Chancellor had refused the requests
of the Administration Hall throng Sunday
afternoon. However, he gave in and
allowed the students a special holiday.
A few professors who feel upset be
cause students seem intent on occasional
idleness of this nature might recall that
University students aren't here on a
gratis basis, that they have to contribute
a good share to paying the professional
salaries.
One of the major evils of our present
generation is the worship of the schedule
and time table. It is refreshing to note
that University students can show back
bone enough to play iconoclasts to this
type of worship.
And really we're not much more cor
rupt that our predecessors. In fact, Wil
liam Wordsworth's college career at
Cambridge about 150 years ago seemed
quite parallel to ours. In an autobiogra
phical poem, The Prelude, he wrote:
We sauntered, played, or rioted; we
talked
Unprofitable talk at morning hours;
Drifted about along the streets and
walks,
Read lazily in trivial books, went forth
To gallop through the country in blind
zeal
Of senseless horsemanship, or on the
breast
Of Cam sailed boisterously, and let
the stars
Come forth, perhaps without one quiet
thought."
Choice Quotes
A spoils columnist for the Daily Kan
san at the University of Kansas has ob.
served :
. . the experts were right. They
chose K-State to wn the Big Eight argu
ing that the Wildcats had a basketball
team. Kansas has a 7-foot center. The
obvious was obvious in both Lincoln and
Ames. There was no one on the Kansas
team that could take up the slack left by
a Chamberlain being guarded closely.
A poor team has its compensations to
the students, however. At Nebraska they
got a day off from classes because their
team defeated Kansas. No such luck in
Lawrence where victories are shrugged
off almost as nonchalantly as are foot
ball coaches. The question is "How non
chalantly are defeats shrugged off?"
From the Editor
private opinion
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Courtw Sunday
Journal ana fclar
Shulman
It all started when Romulus had a city
named after him.
Now people are so "name" crazy that
they can't die happily until a lake,
stream, county or township has been
plagued with their name m
fr.y oil tims
Take the case of the
Minnesotan versus com
mon sense. (A name J
have unkindly tacked on
the hijinx of the gov
ernor of the land of the
lakes). Some publicity
agent in Manhattan
dropped the Rag a line
saying that Max Shul
man has just had a lake
named after him by his honor the gov.
Lake Shulman it's called.
And from the sketch sent us by the
TK office the body of water looks
strangely like Dan Cupid ...... even to
tbe extent of having wings.
Also on the list of the most-likely-to-be-soaked
ex-Minnesotans who've had a
lake affixed with their monickers are
CBS newsmen Eric Sevaretd and Sig
Mickelson, Harrison Salisbury of the
New York Times, DeWitt Wallace of the
Reader's Digest and Dan Mich of Look
Now perhaps when the Salt-Wahoo
Watershed gets completed and the State
of Nebraska has a number of lakes be
tides McConaghy, Vic will take out his
pen and not only make state bigwigs
Admirals but give them a place on
which to sail their boats.
Hardin Lake, Hallgren Hollow, Mil
litzer Stream, Pittenger Pond, Brug
mann Bay; all names to be reckoned
with.
The morning newspaper had . an item
in it regarding the governor's proposed
proclamation of "Believe in America
Week." Vic says he may set aside the
week of March 23-29 for such an ob
servance. The idea was spawned by New
Jersey publisher Harry Raines who feels
dick shusrue
such a week would help combat the
present "psychosomatic slump America
is now in."
However, the Star forgot to mention
that Raines' proposal calls lor a tremen
dous spending spree which is supposed
to cut the recession we're in. That
means that the general American pub
lic will have two alternatives. They can
either charge everything they buy on
the spree thus making the situation even
more precarious or they can pay cash
and have no money on hand to meet
emergencies.
We'll celebrate "Believe in America''
week by forgetting to charge anything,
by forgetting to demand luxury items.
by pinching pennies. It may not sound
as romantic as Mr. Raines' idea, but
it'll keep us a little more secure, I'm
guessing.
Today in line with the Sigma Delta
Chi awards for writing, which were in
augurated back in 1951, it might be
worth while to mention a few words
about the endless crusade wa;d by the
professional journalism
fraternity against secre
cy ana tne suppression
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of the news.
SDX has been com
mended again and again
for trying to stamp out
the "House keeping"
rules from the national
government which ham
per effective coverage of
the news. I've cited be
fore places in which the
organization has discovered cover-ups
in news. Editor & Publisher listed 83
such examples of voverups.
Government would discover, I suspect,
that it is appreciated and respected by
the general public if it opened its secret
doors to the press. Not that every file
of the FBI should be opened to every
common thug in the land. But a point of
common sense and respect for the Great
American Joe can and should be reached
by the government wheels.
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Goodmorning Democrats:
It seems from the re
sponses via Letterip that
only the Democrats read this
column. Or, maybe I have
just been neg
lecting them
in writing
mv column.
Well, lo
coin a phase
that I'm sure
has gone
t h rough
many mints
before, "Pol
itical differ
ence is bet
ter than political indifference.
And today I will write my
column in two sections. The
first will be for my Repub
lican readers (if there are
any and the second for my
Democrat readers i likewise, if
there are any). The sections
are distinguished by the let
ters "R" for Republicans and
"D" for Democrats. I'nless
you're an independent, just
read your section.
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R) For Republicans only!
The closed union shop is
Communistic.
Labor has its closed shop
and capital has its shop
closed, is thi5 fair?
Speaking of fairness, I am
reminded of this story. There
was a PWA (Democrat pro
gram you know ) worker who
was complaining to his fore
man. "Gee Whiz." he gee
whizzed. "I haven't any shov
el!" 'Well, whaddya kickin'
about?" was the reply. "You
don't have to do no woik if
you ain't got no shovel!"
"I know," pouted the fellow,
as he stamped both feet, "but
I haven't got anything to lean
on like the other guys!"
Well, it seems that this is
exactly what the union lead
ers want, "something to lean
on. so they won't have to do
any work."
the right to work is the
right to make a democratic
Movie
Madness
This week Lincoln is playing
host to two interesting and
spectacular films, each of no
small scale and importance
and collectively representing
a reported expenditure of
some $8.5 million.
The best of these is the cur
rent screen interpretation of
Ernest Hemingway's A Fare
well To Arms. Much more
impressive than the last ver
sion 1 1932.1, which starred Hel
en Hayes and Gary Cooper,
the new adaptation by script
writer Ben Hecht and produc
er David O. Selznick is one of
the most graphically beautiful
pictures ever made.
A f arewell To Arms is a
love story. Photographed in
cinemascope and color on lo
cation in the Italian Alps,
where Hemingway himself
once saw duty in World War
I. the film faithfully recreater
its author's moving account of
that war and the tragic love
affair between a young Amer
ican serving in the Italian Am
bulance Corps (Rock Hudson)
and a young English nurse
played over dramatically by
Jennifer Jones).
In an obvious attempt 1o
achiev e another Gone With the
Wind, MGM lias produced and
released Raintree County, a
lengthy (3 hours and 5 min
utes) chronology of 53 years
of Indiana and U.S. history.
The average moviegoers will
find it extremely difficult to
be as interested in the overly
involved love - hate - war as
in several stunning perform
ances by Montgomer Clift,
Elizabeth Taylor, Lee Marvin
and Eva Marie Saint, who
beguiles with but one 6mall
smile and one tone of voice.
The beauty and depth achieved
by the new process, Camera
65, are deserving of special
mention.
the gadfly
Besides the picnics and the
jolity, one real service might
come to the University from
the one day holiday granted
to students Monday. Possibly
the mob action which forced
upset the University faculty
the Chancellor's move may so
that they will vote down the
half -day holiday for Spring
Day. Let us certainly hope
that this comes about.
Now let it not be suspected
that I do not approve of
Spring Day. Not at all. If the
majority of University stu
dents wish to gambol on the
greens and revel on the
grasses that is quite all right
with me. What I object to is
forcing me to attend the darn
thing in lieu of anything bet
ter to do, such as atend my
really interesting Friday
morning classes.
In other words, let them
have Spring Day, but why dis
miss classes for it. Class at
tendance is none too high in
most Friday classes and if
somebody really wants to
push peanuts and throw eggs,
let them cut classes.
The last two Spring Days
have been an insult to the
Buck Shot
By Doc Rodgers
please note small "d")
choice.
I guess even in Russia they
have a choice the choice
to work and to work where
and when they tell you to
work, or be shot.
I have heard little substan
cial augument against the
right to work, but one of the
more substantial arguments
is that the right to work sup
ports free riders people who
enjoy the benefits without
doing iheir part, in this case
payin; 'ues.
To this I say, "Our nation
is full of free riders peo
ple who enjoy the benefits and
luxuries of our system of gov
ernment without contributing
their portion. This free-rider
is by the far the most dan
gerous type he is the per
son who doesn't vote."
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(D) For Democrats only!
Seriously now, let's get rid
of Benson. Maybe w e can get
those nasty ol' Republicans to
join in what would be a truly
great endeavor for our coun
try's welfare a down with
Benson campaign.
This would call for a lot of
work, but it would be worth it.
Already the congressmen
from the agricultural and
some semi-agricultural states.
Democratic and Repubilcan
alike, have disowned the for
m e r Morman churchman,
farmer, county agent, college
extension man and politician.
Even if we do douse Ben
son and place a more favor
able man in the ag slot, we
must not go over our heads
with this price parity stuff.
Let's go down to 60, and
then make it up to the farm
ers by reducing this Republi
can tariff which is prohibiting
the full development of for
eign trade, and consequently
making us unable to unload
our farm product surplus to
the hungry peoples of the
world.
And in unions, for our own
good, let's get these corrupt
leaders out! Democrats want
democracy in unions as else
where. "Give the rank-and-file
union members more
voice in the affairs of their
unions." The big trouble with
unions is t h a t we have too
many cabooses and not
enough engines.
By Mehyn Eikleberry
Eikleberrv
"1 could call you a perfect
fool, couldn't L?"
"Yes." 7
'"But that wouldn't be right,
would it?"
"No."
"That
wouldn't be
right because
no one is per
fect." This dia
logue actual
ly happened
between
professor and ,jf
a siuaem, an
you can prob
ably guess which one gave the
short answers.
There's no doubt about it
the student union addilion is
going to be a fancy place for
us ignoramuses to use. The
University has done about
everything reasonable for stu
dents and we students will
have to make ourselves
worthy of such a fine institu
tion. In this case, though, I
think the University is jump
ing the gun; why not have
plenty of up-to-date education
al films in use first, and then
(if there's money), bowling
alleys?
If you are even slightly con
nected with some small news
item in the Daily Xebraskan
or other local newspapers,
you may soon ind your name
printed in newspapers all over
the Middle West. For ex
ample, my partner and I won
two debates and lost four re
cently, and the Daily Nebras
kan kindly printed a small ar
ticle in the back, mentioning
no names. But an ultra-kind
Casper, Wyoming paper print
ed the headline: U. Of N. De
baters Get Victories, saying
that the junior debaters had i
won 5 and lost 7, then listed
names. The Associated Press j
picks up and sends out these i
items expecting the newspap
ers to use good judgment as
to interest; when the news
papers simply print those
items because they are from
the AP, we read some petty
and often odd ,tems from dis
tant localities.
I confess I'm with the ma
joritv; I'm an independent
(but not an Independent). And !
majority during the last stu- j
dent council election? Lest
fraternities be too proud about
their turnout at the polls, let
them remember that inde
pendents don't have to pay $1
fines for not voting. I saw the
lines at the polling places, and
I could almost hear those fra
t e r n i t y voters saying
"Baa-a-a!"
Don't get me wrong I'm
not against fraternities and
sororities. I'm for any good
they might do. If they want
to set up petty standards for
their ow n members, haze their
own pledges, kill themselves
with their own projects, buy
alligators and Sherman tanks
with their own money all of
that is okay with me. But
number one doesn't feel any
acute need of any more regi
mentation, nor do I feel the
need of the companionship of
a horde of standard model
fraternity men.
I don't look down on fra
ternities, either. Fraternities
serve very definite needs in
the emotional lives of those
w ho join, and there are quite
a few joiners, too. I am sur
prised to find that there are
some very intelligent people
in fraternities and sororities.
My fellow columnists need
not give the victory cry for
the student tribunal. Even
w ith the Daily Nebraska! sup
porting the adoption of the stu
dent tribunal, even without or
ganized opposition, even with
polling places set up w b e r e
every student must past to
pay his fees, some 6,000 stu
dents didn't even vote; in oth
er words, the vast majority of
NU students don't evea cart.
... by mra jones
intelligence of University stu
dents. The sight of perfectly
intelligent sorority girls pull
ing each other into open pits
of water, to say nothing of
administration members
pushing peanuts down the
hall, would be insulting if the
participants weren't so com
pletely unaware of the silly
figure they cut.
Spring Day might really be
come something interesting if
it were brought to a more
adult level. Floats and fire
works are featured at similar
events at other schools. Per- j
haps the Kosmet Klub Spring j
Show or the Coed Follies '
could in later years be incor- '
porated. But as long as they
are nothing more than silly
games and ridiculous stunts, i
the Spring Days will remain j
in as low repute as they are !
now.
The members of the Spring
Day committee are constantly
remarking that they'd like to
see the Day "really become
something big," which is what
they said last year and the
year before that. Why is the
"something really big" al
ways in the future?
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