The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 12, 1958, Page Page 2, Image 2
,1 Poqe 2 The Daily Nebroskan Wednesday. March 12, 1953 i 5 5 I 1 I 't; I 0 I I I? s -1 ' s . 1 Editorial Comment Tribunal Okay Heartening; Student Lethargy Isn't It could hardly be called the Magna Carta of the students. It need not be hailed as the manifesto which frees students from oppression imposed by administrators. The latter statement is true of the Student Charter because oppression of students doesn't exist here at Nebraska. But the Faculty Senate is passing the charter Tuesday afternoon which will be long remembered by the University as a significant step toward student self government. Sooner or later, the Issue of student discipline was bound to hit the floor of the Senate. Sooner or later the ques tion of how far the University should go In allowing students to regulate their own affairs was hound to land in the hands of the Faculty Senate. Approval of the charter for the tribunal had come from the division of student affairs. Approval had come from the Student Council and interest was kept alive (if weak) In the student body by votes in January of this year and last spring on what charter would and should be sent to the higher authorities .for ap proval. A special committee was appointed by the council to smooth out the num erous wrinkles in the charter. Then the students got another crack at it. passed It and waited anxiously for the final word from the Senate. Tuesday, with little debate and fewer amendments, the Faculty Senate passed the student tribunal charter. The next step for the document will be the Board of Regents. Little opposi tion is seen from that body. And pro ponents of the Charter, such as coun cil member Dave Keene who served as chairman of the group which form ulated the charter, arc hoping the ap proval of the Regents can come as quickly as possible. If that final step is taken, the remain ing action will be in the hands of the students and in their hands alone. It will be up to the student body to determine if the tribunal will be put into action, who the student members will be and, ultimately, how the tribunal will operate. ' Students, unfortunately, are too often Ignorant of what governs them. As a matter of fact, the Iowa State Daily, newspaper made a survey of student information regarding their student council to discover that the average Binder's knows as little about the coun cil as the average citizen knows about government. We would hesitate to poll the students at our University regarding the tribunal. The results of the election passing the tribunal were disheartening enough. The only conclusion which can be drawn and quite validly is that stu dents for a large part don't give a hoot who handles their affairs or how they are handled. Now with the tribunal perhaps but a couple of weeks from reality, students ought to give it some sincere thought. It might not be long when the fam iliar calls to visit the office of the dean will be replaced with little notes to stand before the student tribunal and have a case ready for hearing. This may stun some students, but, unfortunately for those who have been off in the clouds, it's just a mutter of fact. On the other hand, students have an opportunity now to inform themselves about the tribunal, its limitations and its advantages. They can get set to vote for judges not by how the candidates look or how glibly they speak but rather by their attitudes toward the student brand of justice and the rights of stu dents. Moreover, the student body might be gin thinking about the codification of student regulations, which has received some encouragement from the division of student affairs. This great task will probably fall into the hands of the trib unal. The passage of the tribunal charter by the Faculty Senate means the hurdl ing of a big stone on the path toward self-sufficient, mature student govern ment. The Senate should be congratulated for its objective handling of the matter and its speedy conclusion of the balloting. The students should be prodded into discovering the significance of the char ter to their future at the University. From the Editor private opinion Fritz is one of the few guys who could get away with it. know-wliat into Saturday night V ,,;f 'J Shugrue Taking a mixed you the Pow Wow Room on and not being caught, that is. Fritz Simpson, editor of the Daily Nebraskan in the Spring of 1950, was in town Saturday to attend an alum banquet and fell baby-sitter to me. He started rambling on about the Rag and what it had been and what he hoped it would continue to be. "When I was sittln' in your chair," he commented, "our big gripe with the administration was the teacher evalua tion thing." I had to laugh. That was still being batted around pro and con and all these eight years nothing University-wide has been done about it. "I used to think that if a student pays for an education by tuition as well as taxes he ought to have the right to evaluate the teachers," Fritz said. When the mild mannered present busi ness manager of the Atlantic, Iowa, News Telegraph graduated from the University the Korean War had, of course not plagued the free world. He calmly (from all indications), married his associate editor and settled down in business with his father. The kind of fellow you're bound to remember, Fritz stuck a feather in the cap of Dean of Men Frank Hallgren. "When I drove past the house, he was . driving the other way, waved, backed up his car and gave me the greetings of the day," Fritz noted. He added that as house president he hadn't always been on the very best of terms with the administration. "Those were the days dick shugrue when the assistant dean of men checked around the houses inside and out for bot tles of spirits. "We didn't appreciate that," Fritz chuckled. But he seems to have come out of it all right. Meeting a fellow like Fritz Simpson takes a great weight off my mind. Over his front door should be asign stating in no uncertain language, 'Rag Editors Can Make Good." And apparently, they can come out of four years of University unscathed, still clutching onto the illusion that the Administration would latch onto a pro gram which they proposed. R. Gordon Wasson and his mushroom study might have stopped right here in the Union. , If the guy wanted a really mystic sub ject to dig his intellectual teeth into, he might have placed a couple of quarters into the juke box and observed the strange reactions of the worshippers of the ritual music of the West. It might interest readers of the Schultz statements located in this paper that the Daily Nebraskan has no axe to grind with the Uninversity Theatre. Moreover we have been more than gen erous in doling out free publicity to that group with a continued decline in theater advertising. The editor (that's me!) goes to the theatre to report what he likes or does not like. As a matter of fact that is the understanding between the director of the theatre, Dr. D. S. Williams, and me, made at the beginning of this year. If the University Theatre itself doesn't like the 352 inches of space de voted to it on the front page alone so far this year, we'd be happy to halt this service. QltBKflSiifin l VTV-CfViritf WARS! nin editorial member ol the Nebraskaii start art per. Member: Associated Collegiate Press to be printed. February 8, i5S. Tntori-nlWisLtA Ppps Subscription rates are $2.SD per semester or $4 for intercollegiate rress ,dpmle ,,. Representative: National Advertising Entered as second class matter at the post office D Service Incorporated "". VebwkoRiij staff uust ' l9"' Published at: Room 20, Student Union B(iltor nick Shurrue Lincoln, Nebraska Editorial Editor Ernest Hines 11h l v Managing Editor Mark Lundstrom Xm Oi K New Editor Carole Frank The Dally Nebraskan Is published Monday, Tuesday. Sports Editor George Moyer Redoes day and Friday during the school year, except Copy Editors Gary Rodgers, ' wine vacations and turn periods, and one Issue Is Diana Marcel!, Fat Flannlgan, Emmie I.impo. published during August, by students of the University Wight News Editor .Diana Maxwell f Nebraska under the authorization of the Committee Staff Writers Margaret Wertman. m Student Affairs as an expression of student opinion. Herb Prohasco, and Charles Smith Publications under the jurisdiction of the Stibcommlt- Business Manager Jerry Sfllentfn tee part of any member of the faculty of the lniver- Assistant Business Managers Tom Neff, ilty. The censorship on the part of the Subcommittee Stan Katman, Rob Smldt ar on the Student Publications shall be free from Circulation Manatee Jerry Trupp "Okay You'll Be On Radio Tracking, You'll Be On Mooiiwatrh, And You'll Be On Lost-Ami-Found Ads" f j -'A i-.ftps, .' t t ii ' Objections Sustained . . . By Sieve Schultz xm-' uiaj t't x AW fA 1 had almost decided that no one beside Shugrue could take Shugrue's review of On dine seriously, and I was go ing to ignore the subject. I supposed that v the long-time tradition of sending smart alecky theatrical-semi-illitcr-ates to do the University Theatre criticisms was under stood by the student body, and that these reviews were ignored by anyone of any sense. However, I notice that "D. E.M.," who is obviously lit erate since he can write Let terips, allowed himself to be lieve that Shugrue's comment on the 1 a s t Howell The atre show was "c o n structive, ed ucat i o n a 1 c r iticism." And I also am told that a few people A n ii tr K In MM v it v i g IV cancel their Schultz reservations for Friday and Saturday night after reading the editor's attempt at per sonality glorification. Thus, as a loyal patron and sometime participant in Uni versity Theatre, I am forced to take up the cudgel for the right and to condemn Shu gure's alleged review as an ill-conceived, incompetent, and pernicious perpetuation of the Rag's unhappy habit of viewing Howell Theatre shows through black-colored glasses. As proof, let's take the re view apart piece-by-piece to see what makes it tick or, rather, to see if it ticks at all. Jr 4 -A First, the headline p r o claimed that the Reviewer, (sic) "Can't See Casting." Perhaps, but why isn't the statement substantiated by anything in the review? The first third of the re view proper is a synopsis which is probably intended to indicate that any University of Nebraska senior with Dick Shugrue's incredible the atrical knowledge and fine sensitivity could have con structed a better play than Jean Giradoux. r Then, he takes off on the actors with a grand disdain for the fact that he knows next to nothing about acting and that he did not watch the play closely enough o have anything intelligent to say anyway. He says, for in stance, "Peyroux's character is often as different as knight and day." Now this sentence may indicate that Shugrue has read Time magazine and that he is quite proud of his own prose style. But, un substantiated as it is, it adds nothing to anyone's under standing of what this excep tionally fine actor was get ting at. He dismisses James Baker's portrayal of The Old One by saying that he "wears a rather heavy grey beard" and "looks like Foo Man Choo." Nothing is said about the characterization as a characterization. He sug gested that I was "loud and funny" as the Lord Chamber lain, for which I would thank him if I thought his opinion was worth a thank you. But he was unable to de cide whether I should have been loud and funny, when a single reading of the script would have shown him that this was at least a possible in terpretation of the role. Next, Shugrue sets himself up as an expert on the be havior of monarchs by say ing that Steve Brown is "a little too impetuous f o r a king . . ." The presumption of this statement masks the fact that, like so many others, it is not backed up by any citing of evidence. He says at one place "... the (technical) effects are so often lost . . ." and says nine paragraphs later, "These tricks are feathers in the cap of Charles Lown, technical director of the U n i v e r s i ty Theatre." Now, which is it, Mr. Shugrue? vr w -it Commenting on B a k e r's supposed resemblance to Foo Man Choo, Shugrue writes, "... perhaps this is the comic relief of the drama." The significance of this re mark is great, because it in dicates that Shugrue does not have enough perception to recognize the obvious comic relief which ,is written throughout the play. This review would be bad enough if it were an isolated example of inability. But the fact is that the Rag has con sistently sent reviewers to Howell Theatre shows who either knew nothing about the art of drama or who had axes to grind with University The atre. The incredible incompe tence of this parade of pon tificators has been disgrace ful to the newspaper and damaging to the theatre. I suggest, for myself alone, that the Rag find a theatre critic who has been to the theatre before and that the editor stop making a fool of him self while trying to display his erudition. Editorial Editor's Note: The views of the paper's columnists are. of course, not expressions of the psper's policy or views. In all fairness to both The llaltf Nebraskan and Its editor it should be entphasixrd that the Ondine review was only one of several written by Dirk Shugrue and the first of a critical nature toward a University Theatre production. Also, a careful rheok of the Rag office failed to un cover the "axes to grind with University Theatre" of which Steve Srhults writes. I if AV DAD SAY'S THAT KIDS THESE' DAYS HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY. EXCUSE AE.CHACLIE BR0LJN..DO YOU HAVE CHANGE FOR A TEN? SURE ...HERE YOU AE. PINE... NINE ONES AND FOIK THAN QUARTERS. Ml? J jOL ' NONSENSE !Y0l'gDA! DOESN'T KNOW UUHATHES TALKING ABOUT.' No Man Is An Island This is another in a series of articles written by directors of the University student religious houses. To day's article was written by the Rev. Alvin Norden of the Lutheran Student Association. How often our patience is sorely tried! This is true not only of students but also of professors, administrators, campus pastors, house moth ers, janitors and others who live and labor among us. Frequent subjection to this test, of course, is the case not only with us who are on this campus island, but ever and everywhere in this world it is the lot of mankind. With many of us it will be much more so after we leave this campus. No doubt most of us could speak at length and even wax eloquent as to the patience which is required of us, and perhaps there are' times when we feel that there are com paratively few people in this world, or at least in our to rn e d i a t e environment, of. whom so much patience is re quired. It is true that some people are called upon for greater patience than others, and in various phases and at differ ent times In our own life this is the case. Patience Is a quality we ad mire in others. We need to strive more earnestly for it ourselves. Not only has our patience been often sorely tried, but we have often also failed. Impatience on the part of others has often hurt us. How concerned' are we with the hurt we do and have done unto others by our im patience? And think how often we have sorely tried the patience of others! How unhappy have we often made not only ourselves but oth- I V.' with (By Ou Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boyd "and, "tsartjooi tsoy un i.iueK. ) FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE The firet thought that comes into our minds upon entering college is, of course, marriage. But how many of us go about Becking mates, as I like to call them, in a truly scientific manner? Not many, you may be sure. So let us today make a scientific survey of the two principal causes of marriage personality need and propinquity. Personality need means that we choose mates because they possess certain qualities that complete and fulfill our own per sonalities. Take, for example, the case of Alanson Duck, As a freshman Alanson made a fine scholastic record, piayed varsity scrabble, and was president of his class. One would think that Alanson was a totally fulfilled man. But he was not. There was something lacking in his life, something vague and indefinable that was needed to make his personality complete. Then one day Alanson discovered what it was. As he waa walking out of his class in Flemish pottery, a fetching coed named Grace Ek offered him a handsome red and white pack and said, "Marlboro?" "Yes!" he cried, for all at once he knew what he had been needing to round out his personality the hearty fulfillment of Marlboro Cigarettes, the soul-repairing mildness of their fine tobacco, the easy draw of their unparalleled filUr, the ease and convenience of their crushproof flip-top box. "Yes, I will take a Marlboro!" cried Alanson. "And I will also take you to wife if you will have me!" "La!" she exclaimed, throwing her apron over her face. But after a while she removed it and they were married. Today they live happily in Baffin Land where Alanson is with an otter-glazing firm arid Grace is a bookie. Propinquity, the second principal cause of marriage, simply means closeness. Put a boy and a girl close together for a sus tained period of time and their proximity will certainly ripen into love and their love into marriage. A perfect example Li the case of Fafnir Sigafoos. WTiile a freshman at Louisiana State University, Fafnir was required to crawl through the Big Inch pipeline as part of his fraternity initiation. He entered the pipe at Baton Rouge and, alone and joyless, he proceeded to crawl north. As he passed Lafayette, Indiana, he was agreeably surprised to be joined by a comely girl named Mary Alice Isinglass, a Purdue freshman, who, oddly enough, had to crawl through the Big Inch as part of her sorority initiation. '1 i i -" -mil ii i i iiiii mi iiiiiumiiiiMin nxn. i Chatting amiably as they crawled through Ohio, Pennsyl vania, and New York State, Fafnir and Mary Alice discovered they had much in common like a mutual affection for licorice, bobsledding.'and the nonsense verse of Arnold Toynbee. When they reached the Vermont border they were going steady, and when they emerged from the pipe at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, they were engaged. After a good hot bath they were married and today they live in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where Fafnir is in the weights and measures department and Mary Alice is in the roofing game. They have-three children, all named Norman. 1951, Mai Shulmsa ers even more so by our im patience! How often calm ness and self-control have been lacking on our part over against misunderstanding, slowness to comprehend, de lay, and provocation on the part of others! How Impa tiently we have struck back when others have offended us! How much we need to be forgiven not only by our parents, friends, fellow stu dents, and colleagues, to men tion only those near to us, but above all by God for our impatience, displays of sud den anger, impulsive and hurtful wrath over against our fellow men, to say nothing of our impatience toward God In His way of dealing with us! I do not know how you seek to gain forgiveness from God. I go via the Lord Christ, of whose life, suffering, and death we hear so much es pecially during this Lenten season, and I rely on H i s atoning love and promises such as we have in the words, "In whom we have redemp tion through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace" (Ephesians 1:7). For strength to fight against impatience and to exercise patience, even though I often fail, I look to the Lord Christ's loving pa tience for me. We need also to pray for patience and to practice it in our life. Patience does not call for a surrender of truth and what is right, but it docs take much love to exercise it. It is sorely needed! No man is an island! Propinquity is ture to mean love when you put yourself close to a pack of Marlboros, made for your pleasure by the sponsors of this column. r