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1 Paqe 2 rte OaiW Nebrcskan Tuesday, April 15, 1958 "I -1 i a i ' Editorial Comment Knowledge Through Action For a good portion of last week sever al University students took time out to participate in a mock United Nations assembly. They played the roles of na tional representatives all the way from India to the USSR, Israel and the United States, along with Cuba and the host of other nations that dot this globe. Psychologists would call this mock session "role playing" and tell you that it is one of the most effective ways of helping people to understand the prob lems of each other. When an American youth stands before a legislative body and tries to argue the case of the So viet Union in an international dispute, he has to call on his ingenuity and knowl edge to attempt to fairly represent the just demands of that nation, or to main tain a stand that he knows the USSR fa vors for nationalistic reasons. This is one of the most constructive types of education because it is the learn ing through experience type of instruc tion which, tests show, usually leaves the most profound impression on the learner. It is also important because of the reason George Moyer, the secretary general of the moder General Assembly, stated: "The UN is the only organization in the world that has the mechanism in herent within it to prevent World War III . . . It is only through sitting down in sessions like this, mock and real, that we can come to a better understanding of the problems our nations face." Certainly the idealism of college youth showed through in the ease with which some of the world shaking issues were handled. This included numerous repri mands against France and the Soviet Union, recognition of Red China, and similar acts that are now knotting up the work of the real UN. It is gratifying, however, to note that students are interested enough to spend three or four afternoons and evenings taking part in such a worthy project. The NUCWA club members who spon sored this event along with Dick Fell man, assembly chairman, are to be complimented for the success of their project: success made possible only be cause of much hard and extra work. The Challenge Of Space We won't be the first to say that Ne braska has entered the space age. But we will point out that the Univer sity, with the addition of the Mueller Theatre of the Stars and the lectures of Dr. Harlow Shapley has taken a step toward instructing the students in the mysteries of the sky around us and the importance that sky, that space has for the future of science, the future of our freedoms. This is, most obviously, a day and age when science and the -atom have taken their proper place in the mind of man and have challenged thinking hu man beings to investigate the world around them with minute microscopes in a search for new infinitesimal parts of matter which can lead to new and better living standards, safer lives and all the other wonders born from the atomic age. Now, the emphasis on science and space will lead Nebraskans to dig into the many problems which accompany the search for truth regarding the heav ens. Perhaps the emphasis on space can serve as a lesson to the student whose previous interest in the heavens has been from a farm yard or from a moon lit park. Space, that seemingly infinite body of who knows what encircling our globe, holds magnificent challenges to the student of today. We look for changes and we can find them in the skies. We look for permanence and we find it in the sky. We look for truth and the deep well, the interminable well, of it holds our tiny world in its lap. The University is fortunate that we have the facilities with which to explore the wonders of the universe. Let us use them to watch and listen for new par ticles of truth which can be built into vast stores of knowledge which will help keep men free, shape men's destinies toward better lives. From the Editor private opinion Hardin While other parts of the country are worrying themselves into a depression, Nebraska and its University are looking forward with optimism. The best example of this farsighted ness evident here at the University is the building and the planned expansion of the facilities. And to carry this fur ther, the best example of the expansion is the planning of the Kellogg Center for Continuing Education which will be constructed on the Ag campus in the n e a r fu ture. You can't imagine what a wonderful expe rience it is to go to the campus of a great college and have all you need for a successful conference right at your fingertips until , you've operated in a Kellogg Center. MJ will profit from the mistakes made at Michigan Stale in the planning of the Kellogg Center there. Chancellor Hardia com me d ted Monday afternoon. "For example, where MSU has 190 hotel-type rooms for housing persons on the campus, Nebraska will have only 100." Dr. Hardin indicated. And Ne braska's Kellogg Center will have more conference rooms and two auditoriums areas which the Michigan center could use now that it has seen the reception and the use their seven story building is getting from the people of Michigan. "Here, the center will be self-sufficient plant, not dependent on the University for support," Hardin, who helped plan the MSU center, explained. "We have figured out that the annual cost of operr ation will be about $173,000 while the total income (from rooms and rental of conference space) will total about $152,000 per year." "Of course, the NU Kellogg Center won't be a convention hoteL It will be dick shusrue a conference center aiming to educate people from Nebraska, the Missouri Ba sin States and the Great Plains region," Hardin noted. The Kellogg Center at Nebraska will be under the supervision of the Exten sion Division and will house such meet ings as Boys and Girls States, the All State summer program, the Future Farmers summer programs and other youth activities. "As an innovation, we will offer short courses during the winter months for young people of college age who haven't had the opportunity to attend college, Hardin declared. There, young people will be taught bookkeeping, agriculture and the arts which make it easier for a citizen to take his place in the com munity more quickly. "The Kellogg Center will be the means of bringing education to the people of the state. Groups which feel this need for education will be able to use the cen ter for the increasing of their knowledge with the help of the University, the chan cellor added. The Kellogg Center at Michigan State at whicv I was lucky enough to slay Wis past week is a magnificent structure of which both the students and faculty of that school are proud. And the University can look forward to strengthening its place as the center of education not only for the state but for the region with the addition o( a similar yet improved center on our own campus. The chancellor's calling the center "a real service to the state" is no exag geration. Yet is does little good to talk about a center such as we will soon have Hardin says the date for opening is early in 1961 1 at Nebraska. You have to stay in one to appreciate it fully. 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The pater n a I i s m of our Uni versity is de grading. When a prof takes roll. we are hav- l n g our rough equiv alent to "in to your cells." Surely we are old enough to decide when or when not to cut classes. Per haps some few may not be mature enough to decide, but if failing exams don't show these students that class at tendance is a good policy, then these students dont de serve a degree. Or are the profs afraid that students will pass their exams without attending class? Whatever reasons may be for the roll call policy, the effect is to cast doubt upon the value of class attendance and to cast doubt upon the maturity of the whole student body. a a a I am losing my egghead friends. They tow smoke pipes and play cards hour after bour. I won't smoke a pipe and don't know how to play cards. But I never was an egghead anyway. V My electric clock could be an interesting symbol of time. . That clock just keeps on going. Like infinite time, the hours lie in a circle with out beginning or end. The v ery repetition of the hours is theoretically infinite; even if the clock should wear out or if the electricity should fail, time would go on, for the visible clock is only the symbol of the real thing the abstract idea of time. (Actually I don't believe that: I just said it for the beauty of the theory. Time is the relativity of motion, and if my clock were the only thing in the universe, and if my clock truly stopped, then time itself would stop because there would be no relative motion i. Another way to look at time is in its relationship to you. One view in poetry; "Time flies, You say? Ah, no: Time stays, You go." The other view was ex. pressed 800 years ago by Omar Khayyam: The Moving Finger writes; and having writ Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to can cel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. To all of this my clock says nothing except to keep mov- ing and keep repeating. Politics may yet creep in to this column, if only for amusement. Of course there is the spectacle of the United States yelling "propaganda" at the Soviet H-bomb test ban. while the U.S. continues to plan for more of its own tests. The longer this situa tion goes on, the worse the United States appear. It isn't funny really, but people al ways laugh at a basketball player who is faked badly out of position. Campus Green Post III A barren waste Twisted steel, Broken blocks, Moldy bones. The waste at night Eerie glows. Haunted shadows, Crumbled ruin. Then one day Sound was heard. The silence broken, Twas a footstep. A man alone Methodic motions. Searching eyes. Silence returned. A barren waste Twisted steel. Broken blocks, Moldv bones. W. OWEN ELMER Good For Grins It was one of those blister ing days. I bad called on a student to read aloud a brief paragraph from an essay. This he did. laboriously. When he finished, 1 asked him to comment on the sig nificance of the passage which he had just read. His earnest reply brought even the sleepiest student to an hilarious awakening. For he said, "I am sorry, sir, but I wasn't listening." (The Reader's Digest) After several antonyms had been given for the word "jubliant" in the sixth-grade spelling hour, one little boy added: "Oh, I know what you mean now it's like jubliant delinquency." (The Reader's Digest) A young lady found herself for the long week-end with a notoriously strait -1 a c e d country family in England. Fearing that the pajamas she wore instead of a night gown might be " considered improper, she carefully hid them every morning when she got up. But one morning at breakfast, she suddenly realized that she had forgot ten them, that they were ly ing brazenly on ber bed. Ex cusing herself, she rushed to her room. The pajamas had disappeared. While she was feverishly hunting for them, looking vainly through closets and drawers, a dour, elderly maid appeared at the door and sur veyed the scene. "If it's the pajamas you're looking for, miss," she said, "I put them back in the young gentle man's room." (The Reader's Digest) Wayivard Wanderings By Ron Mold j it Never has the Rag hit the nail more squarely on the head than in Friday's head line, "Legs Gather On Cam pus." Gather they did! I haven t seen ww so many love- vv ly legs since . I don't know when, And it i wasn't just) , the legs that , caught rayv sT eve red , ; w line cnort. ling eves, and all of the thngs little Mohl girls are made of jammed in to chemises of varying colors. Somehow the girls didn't look that way when I was in high school. All those lovely, lovely, lovely females. I felt like the Big Bad Wolf eyeing Little Red Riding Hood as I passed them on campus and watched them taking their little five-inch steps all that their chemises would allow. The "sacks" m u s t be get ting popular. At least half of the legacies I saw scurrying around were wearing them. I saw 1 young lady wearing one while climbing out of a Cad illac convertible and she looked very nice indeed (of course, Marjorie Maine dressed in a gunny sack would look good climbing out of a Cadillac convertible.). In fact, my entire observa tion of the Panhellenic Legs is probably a little warped, because I've been holed-up in the inner recesses of Selleck Clod for so long that it's a social disgrace. And I'm not blaming anyone but myself, understand. It's all my fault. My problem is that I I o s t the keys to my Mercedes Benz last fall and haven't bothered to have a duplicate made yet. a a a Since Editor Shugrue has revealed his musical likes and dislikes, I am tempted to air mine. I don't believe that classsical music is the only kind of music. Now I like the classics and I once had several years of piano train ing, and hammered my way through ev erything from Beet hoven's "pathetique Sonata" to the "Polka" by Shostako vich. But as far as pure en joyment and degree of emo tional involvement is con cerned, I shall have to admit that my preference h a shifted to progressive jazz. The first thing the dissent ers will throw at me will be what do I mean by "progres sive." And I'll have to admi that his term is just about as far out on the abstrac tion scale as you can get. I'll have to define it by giving you a name. Whenever I think of progressive jazz, I think of Dave Brubeck. The Dave Bru beck Quartet has been win ning college admirers since the early 50's, when it started a series of campus tours. Brubeck has a style which the rev iewers in the Saturday Review have called "sophis ticated" and "highbrow". The Quartet is composed of piano (handled by Dave), sax, bass, and drums. Out of this seemingly-commonplace combina tion of instruments comes a unique result the Brubeck sound. Through the use of counterpoint and ingenious improvisation. Brubeck comes up with something which my eardrums claim has never been equaled. The amazing thing about Brubeck is that a great deal of his recordings and con certs have never been written down, but evolve from what critics call "freee association" improvising. Except for set beginnings and endings, the rest is left to the inventive imagination of the members of the quartet. I don't mean to imply that Brubeck is the only example of good progressive jazz. Jazz fans on the coasts have been raving about the brassy style of Kenton since the '40's. Op osing the Kenton school are the "quiet" progressive group like Red Norvo, Barney Kes sel and their followers. Unfortunately, there is a lot of garbage cluttering up the jazz market, as there are in most other fields of music, not "the goofs who feed the jukebox upstairs", so I hope Mr. Shugrue won't put me in that category. The kind of jazz I've been talking about and the ubiquitous rock fc roll we're bombarded with every day of the week are worlds apart. The sooner the rock it roll movement exhausts it self, the happier I'll be. There's not really much left to talk about. The usual topics have already been cov ered. We all know that girls look good in bermudas and bad in sack p19 dresses ( gen-f erally), that r'ta--' a few corrupt I . ' ? U n i versity ! nvrt will W creep off t o A Jt the woods for hoar anH that f lArVI f WHU K.mmmm, ' ,f A Few Words Of A Kind by e. e. bines when who should wander up but my kindergarten love. She joined us in the jump off the bench game. Well, men, you know bow rough some women play games this girl was already a veteran at age S. In the midst of one of my plunging 3-feet leaps from the bench this girl gave me a push. I went helter-skelter and flopped to the ground. When I hobbled to my feet I was a wounded man with a dan gling broken arm. "I'm sorry." she said. "That's okay," I said as I stumbled home with tears in my eyes and my broken arm. Time has healed my physical wounds, but 1 don't know about women and parks they just don't mix. Now I know what it's like to feel passively passive. For weeks the subject in psychol ogy class has been test ad ministration and interpreta tion. It's all a mystic prelude to the writing of a case study. Three times a week I sput ter into the classroom, look for an empty seat by a good looking girl (despite, my lack of trust), and proceed to doo dle on my note paper. Oc casionally I look up to see if words have appeared on the blackboard, but all I ever see is the usual uninteresting mass of figures and symbols, signs -for sigmas ai means and medians, so I go back to my doodling. "You'll never be a success this way," I tell myself. But then I think of haphazard Henry David Thoreau and his words, "Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplify, simplify," and so I nod off into a simple bttle day dream of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings." SDrine" is a v jk lousy time for & book learnin'. ' "Spring," I en fold myself in a moment of great illumination, "is the time of year when the park ing problem is not where to park, but who to park with." What is this great urge that swells up inside the hearts of sometimes rational (although not in the true Plato tradition) . University men and women? Why do people let 'the glory of the moment divert them' from the task of developing a complete and harmonious personality founded on rea son, research and what have you? In briefer words, how do women do it that is pro duce a magnetism greater than that yielded by my Jun ior Buck Rogers magnetic ring? Actually, I'm still kind of wary of these skirt clad wenches. Having stumbled through a few ho'irs of col lege type psychology and some random "what makes us tick" reading, I know why I will probably never be able to trust women. The cause of it all is a traumatic childhood experience. Two older brothers and I were playing jump off the bench li a city park one day