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Doily Nebroskon
Editorial Comment
No Vote Like Your Vote;
Polls Open Until 7 P.M.
The polls are open!
The students who gather Wednesday
afternoons for a few minutes of decree
making are going to be named accord
ing to the votes counted up after 7 p.m.
All a student has to do to make known
the kind of representatives he wants on
the council is to stop off at the union
lounge or the library and make a few
X's on a ballot.
The voting task is so simple, in fact,
that the majority of the student body
probably won't engage in the game.
They'll lounge around the campus coffee
spots much too busy to vote. Then next
year they'll still be in the coffee spots
griping, moaning and groaning because
of what the council members did at
their last meeting.
The student government system at the
University isn't perfect. The student
body really doesn't have much say so
about policies affecting students, and
the council can't take any strong actions
that oppose administration ways that's
the way it is today. The way it will be
next year will depend a great deal on
the kind of people who are picked for
the Wednesday afternoon crowd.
The task of each student on campus,
then, is to take time out today to survey
the list of candidates and vote for those
who seem to be best qualified for the
post. This type of lecture may be given
each year and ignored just as often.
Voting though is the only way you have
of making yourself heard on this cam
pus. If you don't know enough about the
candidates, ask someone who knows
them. And by all means, remember
this isn't a beauty queen or a most pop
ular fellow on campus election it's a
vote to determine who will be fixing up
little bits of legislation next year that
will affect YOU. SO YOU SHOULD
VOTE.
Dual Matriculation Tussle
The dual matriculation question like
the bad penny keeps returning to haunt
the serenity of the University scene.
Dr. T. J. Thompson, who was dean of
student affairs at the University for 25
years, has been the latest person to re
kindle the flames of controversy. He
has essentially one thing to say about
dual matriculation do away with it.
His comments were a bit less terse.
He said: "Observing the present ar
rangement through two decades leads
me to believe that dual matriculation
should be eliminated and teacher certi
fication placed in a neutral office."
Getting more qualified teachers is a
big headache and any new plan that
will help facilitate encouraging more
persons to qualify for teaching should
be considered. A plan that takes into
consideration the ability of the person
in his subject field also should be re
viewed seriously. Certainly the views of
the professors in Arts and Sciences col
lege should have some weight in de
ciding whether or not a student is cap
able of teaching.
The elimination of the dual matricula
tion system would possibly provide these
two essential elements more teachers
and teachers better screened as to their
abilities in their major teaching field.
Thompson also criticized the work of
the committee which studied the cer
tification problem. He objected to its
composition and its methods of investi
gation, along with its split vote on the
dual matriculation issue.
One thing is certain about the com
mitteeit delivered a fairly watered
down report that hasn't changed a
thing. Another thing is certain what
should have been a quietly and intelli
gently handled disagreement has been
allowed to erupt into a disorganized
series of squabbles that are only making
the University appear like a less desir
able place to attend.
The administration and members of
the Board of Regents should face up to
the fact that there is a major disagree
ment between many Arts & Science
College professors and Teachers College
instructors on the certification problem,
and that ignoring it won't solve it.
The appeal would be for the admini
stration heads, including the Board of
Regents, to take a definite stand on the
matter and cut off this endless bicker
ing. People are tired of talk about the
matter. A little action is due.
From the Editor
private opinion
dick shugrue
Today is election day on the Univer
sity campus.
An old timer used to tell me that he
never could stomach the candidates put
up for student council. Consequently, he
wrote in a name of some kind soul for
council. Around here if a guy has as
few as 90 votes, it seems, he can get on
the council.
If you look over the ballot and don't
find anyone whom you can trust, why,
don't be afraid to write in my name.
I'd be happy to serve on the council and,
possibly, cause a little rhubarb among
the powers that be when they discover
someone other than the selected few has
collected some votes.
And, too, voting is usually such a chore,
that a write-in gives you a sense of the
elfishness, thus happily concluding an
otherwise dull day in classes andor the
crib listening to that stuff from the juke
boxes.
Now that all the judges have been
named to the Tribunal, the University
might sit back and examine the great
machine it has created.
Criticisms have popped up all over the
place from council members, from
ordinary students, from faculty mem
bers. What the objects of their criticisms
are range wide and far. But what the
nucleus of the objections amounts to, it
seems, is the very nature of the tri
bunal. And by that is meant the human
beings who make up the tribunal. I
heard one objection from a council
member the other evening which went
something like, "To put it bluntly, the
Judges on the tribunal are just not the
peers of the students they will be judg
ing." That could be true. We have two "old
men" (around 25 years of age), a fifth
year man, a law student, two profes
sors and a couple of real undergradu
ates. Will these people look objectively,
justly, fairly at the cases brought be
fore them? I have heard serious doubts
expressed by members of the student
body.
But the test will come when the tri
bunal goes into action. Since this is a
new venture for the University it should
be criticized wisely by the entire student
body. That means, logically, that the
meetings of the tribunal, like a court
room trial, should be open to the inter
ested public and the procedings of the
tribunal should be put into the public
record for the edification or scandaliza
tion of all to see.
I have serious doubts about the hon
esty, the integrity, the ethical base of
any undertaking done in secret, with
no check from a minority willing to
sound off against abuses. I would have
serious doubts about the integrity and
the wisdom of the tribunal if it decides
to become a closed group allowing no
observers or reporters.
Here we have a fine thing In a well
constructed tribunal. We simply can't
let it get out of hand. We have to go
along with it if it goes along with the
accepted right of the citizens of this
community to know. The right to know,
as journalists all over the country call
it, is as precious as the right to trial by
jury. One counterbalances the other,
fortunately. If one is dropped by some
whim of a group which doesn't want
its stupidity known, the other fails in
its duties.
Let's give the tribunal the benefit of
any doubts, however, and hold off final
judgments until the first case comes to
court.
'Nah .Wrong Kind Of Summit'
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Objections Sustained
Members of a couple of R
Street fraternities have
emerged outdoors of late to
boot a football across the
street, laugh when it hits a
passing car,
and warn a
woman driv
er, "Be care
f u 1 lady,
don't run
across the
football."
I recall
that as a
child I t oo
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the streets, they can not be
out opening beer cans in the
weeds. It is a very simple
scientific truth you can't be
two places at once. So which,
I ask, do we want? College
students playing football in
the streets or college students
drinking beer in the weeds?
And who knows? Perhaps
when R Street is no longer
crowded with traffic A ter
rible menace to the welfare
of children playing nearby;
you know the image of the
little child being struck down
by a speeding driver as the
child dashes into the street
after a rolling ball. I may
stop and show them how I
kicked footballs. . . as a
youngster their age.
I believe it was Norman
Vincent Peale who testified
before a Senate committee
that liquor is the cause of
90 of the world's troubles.
Well, a few years ago another
"wise" man declared that the
wearing of tight shoes is
what makes men hate each
other and do all manner of
bad deeds. "Either shoes or
our civilization must go,"
this prophet declared.
It's hard to decide which
one of them is right seeing
that neither of them had any
facts for support so we'll
just have to accept both of
their views. This will mean,
of course, that we'll have to
load our cars down with all
our church keys and shoes
and roar away to some se
cluded countryside spot to
bury them.
But if sobriety and bare
footedness are the prerequisi
tes for happiness, we cer
tainly won't quibble. What
are a few dirty feet among
happy, sober friends?
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streets for
lack of adequate nearby play
grounds. I, too, kicked hell
out of the football in an effort
to impress any and all pass
ing lovelies with my athletic
prowess.
Realizing that youth is
truly the "golden age," no
one in his right mind would
suggest that the youngsters
deflate their football or move
elsewhere for their partici
pation in some good clean
fun. To do this would be to
deflate their egos and destroy
their means of release of
pent up nervous energy and
tension. God knows we don't
want to stifle the little chil
dren. What then can we do? The
only feasible solution is to
close R Street to traffic, rip
out the pavement and plant
grass (So the youngsters
won't skin their knees if they
should slip and fall while ap
plying their toes to the pig
skin) and tell them, "Here,
children, this is your street.
Go play football."
"Too expensive," you say?
Preposterous, I answer. Re
member, when children are
playing with their footballs in
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To the Editor:
During my current period
of "social rehabilitation" I
have given a great deal of
thought to campus politics in
general. And I have come to
the conclusion that what this
University needs is a person
of dynamic character and
vigorous personality to lead
the student voice.
I therefore wholeheartedly
endorse the candidacy of
Richard E. Shugrue for Stu
dent Council roember-at-large.
As a part of my en
dorsement I call upon each
and every student to lead not
jump on the Shugrue-for-Council
bandwagon.
TOADIE
Vets Tedsr
One of Best
The April 23 edition of the
Daily Nebraskan is perhaps
one of the best editorial edi
tions that has appeared for
quite some time if not since
jny entrance into these Ived
Halls.
Not only was the main edi
torial exceptional, but even
the single letterip for once
displayed a bit of adult intel
ligence rather than a youthful
bickering over inconsequential
subjects.
It is refreshing to note that
the University contains stu
dents who have the intellectu
al capacity to observe their
university and judge its vari
ous institutions. I can think of
few things that should have
more appeal to a student ac
tually interested in the stan
dards of his education than a
discussion and criticism of
these standards.
JOHN T. HEECKT
Vets Tedsr
SC Criticism
To the Editor:
I think it is unfair of the
Daily Nebraskan to keep
harping on the Student
Council as the paper seems
to do every day of the year.
It would be better if you
criticized constructively the
efforts the council members
have made to improve the
University.
First of all, I say, look at
the record of the Council and
then go off on an intelligent
stream of ideas. But to blast
them for holding back the
names of the tribunal mem
bers is unfair. They were
just trying to make the tri
bunal a little more respond
ed to, I guess.
"TOM BOERSCniNGER
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I was not surprised last
week to note that a couple of
my colleagues attacked the
"last story in Scrip, " "The
Here" by Barbara Wilson.
They various- .
ly accused it w. 1
of "Neo ob-1
see nism"
(w h a tever
that may be)
and "bad tfw
taste." One iv
of them sug- ' rf
gested that 'V-V
the story had f. Vi.
no place in a
student publi- Schultz
cation, though it might
be
suitable in other types of mag
azines. Now, I am inclined to let
it go at that, to let the story
stand on whatever merits it
may have. But on the other
hand, I feel a certain edi
tor's responsibility to pro
tect my authors; also, if the
story is in bad taste, part of
the blame must fall on me
for allowing it to be print
ed. So I'll reply with some of
my typically fiery rhetoric.
The charges of obscenity
and bad taste are so nearly
synonymous that I can an
swer them both at the same
time. Probably they arise be
cause of Miss Wilson's choice
of subject matter. But to ob
ject to any subject matter in
literature is to so stifle the
modern writer that he would
be better off doodung singing
commercials for Madison
Avenue. One of the contribu
tions of the last fifty years of
literature has been the estab
lishment of the principle that
nothing in life is so inherent
ly evil that it cannot be used
as an artistic subject; this
quality of embracing the
world whole is one of the fea
tures which gives modern lit
erature its power.
To deny this principle is to
deny the worth of much of
the work of Faulkner, Joyce,
Hemingway, Steinbeck, etc.,
etc. Moreover, those who con
demn this principle come dan
gerously close to imposing on
By Steve Schultz
the writer a discipline which
would keep him from discuss
ing any subjects unacceptable
to the pulpit and the Tuesday
Afternoon Tea and Musicale
Society.
My colleagues may contend
that this is all very true but
that Miss Wilson's handling
of this subject matter was
clinical, that she unnessarily
prolonged the questionable
elements of her story. On this
I tend to agree, but I suggest
that this is a result of the
author's lack of experience
rather than of an intention to
write pornography. These
two critics must realize that
an author may spend ten
years (or his entire life)
learning to handle his subject
so that it is tastefully present
ed and forceful at the same
time. Miss Wilson has not had
time to learn all the skills of
her craft.
But the most serious charge
in either column is the sug
gestion by Ron Mohl that "I
(Mohl) don't think it belongs
in a student literary maga
zine." The real implication of
this remark is that students
are incapable of digesting the
material that they read, that
it is somehow going to myste
riously warp their minds. This
opinion is twaddle and can
not be seriously sustained by
anyone.
Moreover the suggestion
that stories such as Miss Wil
son's should be excluded from
student publications denies
the very aim for which Scrip
was intended. We are trying
to provide an audience for stu
dent writers who show prom
ise in the hope that seeing
their work in print and hear
ing comments from the au
dience which inevitably
follows publication will inspire
them and provide them with
constructive criticism. This
possible aid can be of as much
benefit for the would-be writ
er of realistic or naturalistic
fiction as it can be for the
would-be writer of Boy Scout
Manuals or flower seed catalogs.
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