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-r r-i Paae " Daily N'ebrcskan Friday, March 193 Editorial Comment I KEEP GOING 1 RETIi'tEN THfcA J Soviets Win Another Battle i 7 1 KEEP GOING i . . 3 1 - i i. M ',4 n V vi V '. 4 v'S n v 1 nit You can keep telling the free world that the Soviet world is surrounded by an iron curtain through which little or no truth leaks, but the Russian leaders wisely keep devising clever little schemes that make your charges seem like misdirected smears. The latest Russian propaganda move ment is an exchange program for jour nalists. The Moscow regime has an nounced that Soviet journalists will visit India, Indonesia, Britain, France and countries in South America and Middle East this year on a reciprocal basis. That ans that John Q. Publics all over the world can expect to be exposed to a barrage of "we're not afraid to let the world see" malarky. Many of us, probably including our national leaders, will mark off every bit of this publicity as corrupted propa ganda. The idea itself, however, cannot be attacked. Promotion of exchanges of newsmen between the United States and Soviet dominated countries would seem ingly be one of the healthiest things that could happen to the American press and public. The only views Americans get of Red China, as an example, are those from mothers who go to see their imprisoned ions or youth who defy the U.S. govern ment and agree to go on a free tour of the Chinese nation. These reports are, at the very best, reports from untrained sources. Newspaper business is more than just being around when an event occurs. It also entails training in detail gathering, searching behind the scenes and intelligently interpreting and writing what the newsman has seen. Americans are forced to live in their little glass houses through which no good words about the Soviets may pass. This type of world is an unreal as the land of Alice in Wonderland. For the government to claim to "protect" the mass of citi zens by not letting them know what is really happening is silly. The public will someday be rudely awakened if it is not fully informed of the true condition of the enemy's world. Perhaps there is some merit to the philosophy that one should only say good words around a child, but voters and tax-payers are not children. The American public, just as every child finds, will inevitably be ex posed to a dog eat dog world and its best to be prepared for it. The clamor then is for more freedom for the press. Freedom not only in Amer ican boundries but in foreign nations as well. As long as there are Canon 35s, security sensitive government agencies and press choking administrations, the American citizen can not expect to get a full view of the problems with which he must live. His inability to do so can only make him a poorer than necessary citizen. The Spirit's Renewal To ancient peoples spring was a time of revitalization. It was a time when sac rifices were made to their gods to ap pease them and to petition for good crops. The spring time rites took a lowly place when the season was sanctified in Jewish history by the Passover, during which time the Bible says the Jews who had placed the blood of a slaughtered lamb on their doorposts were spared the avenging sword of the angel of death. Then at the dawn of the great Chris tian era, Jesus revitalized the millions of followers He was to gather around him through the next two thousand years with his own personal sacrifice for man kind. The spring vacation which we are granted gives us a time to refresh our memories regarding the great masses of material steeped on us through the early part of the semester. It grants us time to revitalize our spirits for the final spring time weeks spent on the campus when other activities are beckon ing. But more important it gives us time to refresh our souls as well. The great re ligions of the western world, Christian and Jewish, will celebrate age old fes tivities during this next week. For Chris tians, the week brings the culmination of Lent and the Easter season. For Jews, the Passover will begin the fifth of April. But for all peoples it would be well to adopt the principles on which the great religions base their celebrations of the springtime: love of God and love of man for man. It would be an encouraging step to ward world peace if these principles which are regenerated during the Easter season could be carried over into every day life the year round. From the Editor private opinion dick shugrue With everyone selecting slates for the Student Council, the Daily Nebraskan will be more than happy to step into this field, too, and support candidates who we feel would do the best for the council. No special interests involved here, however. We'll be willing to look into and publish the stands which the vari ous council candidates yeomt are taking regarding the more important proD- lems on the campus. It's my belief that I without the candidates! i f r 1. Ji hMMfa&l A taking stands on issues f (such as I've outlined? over the past week orj so) we have little more than a dormant onef nartv system which squabbles over such Shugrue things as whether it's important for teachers to dress neatly and which has found it hard to keep the attendance book straight There's a healthy air springing up around here what with the independents and the Greeks supporting candidates. They are, admittedly, special interest groups, however. The newspaper, impartially, can offer the student body a rather clear analysis of what's what around election time and when the big day in May comes around, we hope students will get out and vote not for pretty faces or fancy cars or brothers in the pin, but for quahfied persons. I'm not saying the Daily Nebraskan will pick and write about only the candi dates we like. We'll give the student body fair descriptions of all the candi dates. But we're hoping our fellow students will use their heads when voting. A lot of people downtown probably swore off "it" Thursday as the business establishments of downtown Lined" (in cluding the taverns) were besieged by gay looking big bunnies. No pink elephants, these Easter bun nies with girls' faces were workers for the Crippled Children's Society helping in the Lily Parade and collecting money which will go to handicapped children in the form of special training and re habilatory equipment. As I understand it from some of the higher-ups in the Crippled Children's So ciety, tins are still in stores if you haven't had a chance to drop in your money. ..News from the seat of national gov ernment. A trip to the moon would only cost a couple of billion dollars. Within the reach of every one. Communists, however, probably won't be taking trips to the moon with the capitalist overtones of that high price tag on the moon trip. Speaking of spots the Reds have put themselves on, get a load of the wording of this poster sent to the Rag by the Fifth World Student Chess Champion ship which will be held this summer: "Organized by the Bulgarian Chess Federation and the International Union of Students with the support of the Bulgarian Student Sports Association un der the auspices of the International Chess Federation." Here's the dilemma: Do the Reda play with kings and queens and bishops or are the chess men in a Communist set all proletarians with little round heads? And I see where the friend of the farmers, Nikita Khrushchev has re placed Nikolai as president of the Soviet Union. Back to Stalinism, some observ ers are saying. For here's a man who is both secretary of the Communist party and president of the U.S.S.R. That's almost as bad as having a member of the Student Council on the Tribunal, isn't it? SOTT.SEVEN 1TARS OLD Member: Associated Collegia Press Intercollegiate Press Representative: National Advertising Service Incorporated Published ats Room 20, Student Union Lincoln, Nebraska 14th A R The Dttr Nabmfcaa ! pnbUnlm? Monday. Xoeulmr, Wednesday nod t'rlday during the Khool year, except taring vwatloiia and exam period, and one Issue Is published dorlnc Aucust, by students of the University f Nebraska under the authorization of the Committee a Rtudent Affairs as an exnresnlim of stndent opinion. Publications under the Jurisdiction of the Nubrnm snlitee on Student Publications shall be free from editorial ernsnrnhlp nn the part of the Suhrnmmlttee r on the part of any member of the faculty of the SKfln University. The members of Om Pebraskan staff are personally responsible for what they say, or do. or cause to be printed, lebruary S. 10o. subscription rata are $2.60 per semester or St for the aeadrmle year. Entered as second class matter at the post office 'm Lincoln, Nebraska, under the act of August 4, 1811. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor Dick Shornst RdltorM Edttor Ernest Hines Managing Editor .Mark Lundstrnm News Editor Emmie Llmpo Sports Editor George Moyer Copy Editors Gary Rodxers, Diana Maxwell, Pat Flannigan, Carroll Kraus, t.retrhen Miles Night News Editor , . Pat Flannigan Staff Writers Margaret Wertmaa, Herb Probaseo, and Charles rimitb Business Manager Jerry Srllrntin Assistant Business Managers .Tnro Neff, Stan Kalman, Bob Smlctt Circulation Manager Jerry Trapp "Okay, But How About A Little Less Starchness?' . ."7.. eW.-f-yyt'iA .,:-:-rg"- iswly .:i'J Objections Sustained- . . . By Steve Schultz Iw-IwismJ Schultz Minor irritations continue to pile up now that I can't write about my major irrita tions (my fellow columnists). As a matter of fact, 1 could probably fill the rest of the semester with preju dices which are even more purely personal than t h o s e I am accustom e d to w r i t e about. The most minor of these is the names which someone or other per sists on giving to candy bars. 1 have been trying to bolster my obviously underfed frame with between meals snacks. This is the latest phase of a 20 year long campaign to make me look like something other than an Occidental Ma hatma Ghandi. But whoever is in charge of sales and promotion for the leading good y-makers has frustrated my attempts. I can't buy a candy bar be cause I am damned if I am going to walk up to the man behind the counter, look him straight in the eye and say "Snickers" or worse yet "Forever Yours." it Well, all the politics con nected with IFC elections is over, and we can hope that the Greeks will settle down to a year of non-conniving amiability. Spring is coming, the woods are allegedly open again, and this should help the cause of inter-house broth erhood considerably. But more seriously, (my last sentence was in jest, but you may not have noticed) one hopes that the new offi cers and their subordinates will not act as the IFC has in the past as though we all have it made just because we wear nice little mystic badges. It is too easy to read the uninformed writings of self appointed Independent spokesmen and to laugh them off as upstarts. But some where behind the obvious sour grapes from Selleck there is a- definite feeling (which is not limited to the dormi tory) that the fraternity sys tem has failed to fulfill its function and that it is time for new blood to boil. it r Now, I can't say that I agree with the viewpoint that the Greek system has become impotent. But this is a good time for those of us who are under constant (albeit often ridiculous) attack to consider going on the offensive. One hopes that the 4 new men who now hold the top spot on campus were not c h o s e r. because someone thinks they would look nice in crimson. One hopes that they were also chosen for their imagination and initia tive. The fraternity system can use a little to replace the platitudes of the past. r r r Lots of talk this spring about the TNE and Pi Xi or ganizations. This seems to be the time when ambitious sophomores begin to think that it would be nice to drink for a while with guys who really know how. Well, may be they are right. Meanwhile, the administra tion seems to consider the two groups as mythical. At least, they have taken no two secret fraternities which by any standards are violat ing rules which supposedly govern the student body. It is hard for me to be lieve that the campus police couldn't catch some of t h e Pixie Press's newspaper boys if they really were told to put their minds to it. Or may be Adminny Hall bunch real izes that TNE and Pi Xi are made up of a bunch of self important little men who like to think they are getting away with the cookies Mom ma left on the shelf. Good For Grins Charlie Brown, Patty, Pig Pen, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, Schroeder, and Beethoven were at University of Min nesota this month, brought by their creator Charles Schulz. Schulz drew as he talked. "Lucy says you can draw Charle Brown's head by using a pie plate", Schulz said as he drew something that looked very much like it could be drawn with a pie plate, "but this is not necessarily so". He put a sad little face in the circle, drew a much-too-small body under it and in troduced Charlie Brown. Then he covered the drawing with vertical streaks. it -b it "That's rain", he explained. "Charlie Brown says, 'It al ways rains on the unloved' " The strip, says Schulz, "de picts high-toned sayings jammed down into these little people." He does all the work himself. "After all, there's not much there just figures and graphs". it r He drew Snoopy the dog in a frantic moment trying to find his way out of a patch of grass "caught in the throei of weed claustrophobia". Lucy, author of "I was a Fussbudget for the FBI," complains about Pig Pen, Schulz says. Pig Pen replies, "Yeah, but I got clean thoughts." He has trouble with Schroe der, mainly because of the Beethoven bust on his piano. "I have a hard time drawing Beethoven. Sometimes he looks like James Mason and sometimes like Elsa Max well." His wonderment was matched on one occasion by that of little Linus. it ir it Clutching his "security blanket," Linus listened intent ly to the story of Sambo end the tigers. When the story over, Linus looked puzzled and asked the question one might expect any normal child to ask: "How in the world could anybody eat that many pan cakes after undergoing such an emotional experience? My Weal Or Woe by dick basoco L 1 I have just made an excit ing, rewarding discovery. I have at least one reader! If anyone besides the per son s) that sent me a note last Tuesday K reads this column, he or she or, if I'm lucky, they will recall that I men tioned the TNEs, Pi Xis in my last N column. i-l And the Basoco fact that I have at least one reader was proved when I was" the honored recipient of a real, honest to gosh cloak and dagger note from that ultimate of all sub-rosa or ganizations, the one and I hope only Thet? Nu Epsilons. Those of you who haven't been fortunate enough to see a TNE card might be inter ested in hearing what they look like; after all, they really are impressive! In the middle of a 7 x 3Vi inch white card is emblaz oned in black a skull and crossed keys on a black cloud of something that looks like a spray from a, "Poof! There goes persperation ! " ad. One eye of the skull is a brilliant green and the other a bright, blood red. On either side of the caricature is typed their menacing message. Those of you who did read my last column will recall, too, that I said something about members of this organi zation being little people who ran around trying to formu late campus opinion without the guts to do whatever they do in the open. Well, my card informed me that, if I only knew, they aren't little people and they do formulate campus opinion. And lastly, in big, black, cap ital letters, that "WE DO HAVE GUTS!!" And I have another com plaint to make to these epistle sending individuals. You must not know me very well be cause those who do, know that despite being a Lincoln man, I am currently residing at the fraternity house. Therefore, in order to be appalled by the potential power of this organ ization, I had to go all the way home, where the card was sent. It really was in considerate of the TNEs. "AND WE DO HAVE GUTS!!" Well, as ol' George Gobel would say Surrre, they do! 1 just can't think of anything requiring as many nerves of steel as sending a letter through the mail. Why, who ever mailed that card should get the Congressional Medal of Beer Drinkers and Pid dling Politicians for bravery above and beyond the call of the beer can. I understand that a guy who did or said something that the TNEs didn't like back in the late MOs was beaten up by a gang of the club's mem bers. My, but that was pret ty gutty too, wasn't it? It takes almost as much nerve for a bunch of people to rough up one single guy as it does to drop a letter in a mail box. "We do formulate campus opinion . . ." Well, formulate away, o 1 d dads. I should think it is per fectly apparent that I am pos itively petrified when I think of all my political aspirations going up in a cloud of skulls and crossed keys. But let's face facts, fellow students. WE are the ones that let organizations like the TNEs formulate whatever campus opinion they formu late. WE give them whatever power they may have. WE are the ones that make it possible for them to do whatever they may do. We are at fault because they can intimidate us. We are at fault because we let them intimidate us. Without the fear on the student's part of the "mysterious unknown" a group like the TNEs can't exist. Or at least the ego sat isfying element that such a club may have will be miss ing, and pretty soon so would a lot of the club's members. ACP Poll Collegians Return Verdict; 'Too Many9 American Ads Responses by a sample of American college students in terviewed in the regular Asso ciated Collegiate Press Na tional Poll of Student Opinion survey indicate that college people in general feel there is too much advertising being, done today. A relatively small proportion of those inter viewed feel there is about the right amount, and a distinct minority have concluded there is too little advertising. To obtain this information, ACP asked the following ques tion: "In general, do you think there is too much, about the right amount or too little ad vertising done in America to day?" Answers to the question in dicate that equal proportions of college men and women feel there is too much adver tising. A few more men than women think there is about the right amount, and a few more coeds are undecided on the issue. Almost equal pro- fortions think there is too ittle. A complete tabulation of question results is as follows: Mea Women Total Tee mock advertlttag W 7 1t About the rigttt amount 1 11 1 Toe little advertising It- t 1 Undrcidet. Don't Kaew 1 Radio and television com mercials receive quite a bit of criticism among those who feel there is too much ad vertising. "There is too much time spent on radio and tele vision with commercials and not much on programs" is the opinion of a South Georgia (Douglas, Ga.) sophomore co ed. High Pressure A freshman from St. Mary' University (San An tonio, Texas) lupports this view, but is a little more more emphatic. His com ment: "Television commer cials are trying to shove things down people's throats." A sophomore from Rose Poly technic Institute (Terre Hau te, lad.) similarly thought there was too much advertis ing on television and radio, but he qualified his comment with "In periodicals, the amount of advertising is about right." Magazines, how ever, did not escape without some criticism, although it was much less than that di rected toward radio and tele vision. Many of the people inter viewed felt there was too much outdoor and signboard advertising. A Missouri School of Mines (Holla, Mo.) junior expressed his discon tent with billboards with the comment "There's too much advertising on the highways. I'd like to see the country side" and a senior coed from Wayne State University (De troit, Mich.) joined the pro test with "When we can't see our countryside because of signboards, that's too much." Two other comments seemingly their final words on the subject of advertising were made by a freshman from the University of Ne braska who observed: "It's boring," and by a junior coed from Wayne State who con curred with "It's obnoxious." Products Known To defend her view that there is about the right amount of advertising, a Chatham College (Pittsburgh, Pa.) freshman coed com mented "Although at times it may be annoying, advertis ers do get their products known." A practical fresh man at Rose Polytechnic In stitute agreed that "there may be a little too much" but defended his "about the right amount" answer by say ing "It does, however, help pay the cost of publication." Answers given by the mi nority of students feeling there is not enough advertis ing fell into distinct classes. A freshman coed from Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, 111.) gave the "too little an swer because "My dad is an ad-man," and a Wayne State junior spoke for the other ele ment: "I'm in advertising. The more, the better." ,' V f -m-..1. ' . :-. . ts- ewe