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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.
The administration deserves the con
gratulations and thanks of every stu
dent and every person in our state for
acquiring the center from Kellogg.
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"Brother, Let Me Tell You About Tortoises"
Buck Shot
By Melryn Eikleberry
. Mar i
Buck"
Many a young St. George
has gone out to slay a
dragon, and many a dragon
has decorated its cave with
glistening new armour. Oh.
the pity of it
all!
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
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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.
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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 . ' ?
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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
