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s 1 I 1 r, i: C - T V i i :1 ft it 5 4 :. U ti Pace 2 The Daily Nebreskan Friday, Moy 9, 1953 Editorial Comment Scholarship In Fraternities The Inter-Fraternity Council's new rul ing that no fraternity may pledge a freshman student during first semester if he was in the lower one-fourth of his high school class Is a mature step for ward. It may help local fraternities to do a constructive about-face and return to emphasis of scholarship, the primary element considered in the country's first fraternities and the factor supposedly of basic Importance in every fraternity existing today. A fair Bomber of persons have pointed te the fraternity system, not only here but at nearly every college in the land, and asked, "What do fraternities have to offer that being an independent doesn't except for socializing?" Sadly enough, the answer at many colleges has had to be, "nothing." Not only have many ex isting fraternities failed to stress scholar ship, bnt they have also allowed their members to Slide by on slip-shod class performances because "he's a' good guy. The task of a fraternity would seem, however, to be not just building '"good guys' but rather mature men. Scholarship Is an integral part of every matart man. Nebraska fraternities have discovered in recent years that instead of rushing a freshman to join a particular house they have had first of all to knock them- selres silly just rushing him to pledge a fraternity. Why? Simply because fra ternities lost sight of reason and re placed it with cries of "we have damn good parties." No one would suggest that a well rounded social life is not important to the mature person, or that the offering of social opportunities should not be a feature of fraternities. One would not be brash,' however,' to suggest that drinking, parties, pledge hazing and sorority serenading are only secondary to study and knowledge in one's college career. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops no, but the kind of man the country turns out." Ia turn, the true test of a fraternity is, not the census, nor the size of chapters, nor the beauty of the house no, but the kind of man the fraternity turns out. The Inter-Fraternity Council's civic service day was an earlier constructive feature added this year at Nebraska. If the IFC sticks to its guns and continues to upgrade the requirements and func tions of fraternity members it will help to -further justify the exist enct of the Greek system. Certainly the fraternities should strive to turn out men about whom they may boast not "he holds his liquor well." but "he holds his know ledge well." lZvt'.;nsCM0OL is V GETTi.MS YOU (I . ( DOUHSNT'T. uJHEN YOU COME HOKE IN THE AFTtCNOON. YOU NEED WTUM6 TD UCi P VTV) T) UKWND..Y0U NEED TO RELAX. CjL k'NOu) I do) r; i. ft'T UMO OASTS TO LIE H'iTM HIS HEAD l A (LATES D.H? I ' S-1 Poor Little Croml Nebraska's Secretary of State Frank Marsh says that the election turnout in the state will be low because of apathy. Well, if Frank wants to see good old American apathy he should come around the University when the time for a con vocation is at hand. Thursday, for example, the University sponsored a talk by Dr. I. M. Levitt, director of the Fels Planetarium in Phil adelphia on "Space Travel and Satel lites." A handful of students, relatively speaking, showed up. In the afternoon. Dr. Levitt stayed around to speak to the interested stu dents on any phase of space science the students cared to propose. Again, a handful of students literally 'showed ap. When a national figure comes to the campus, we should see swarms of stu dents pushing their way into the coli- seum to hear words of wisdom, to in vestigate new areas of human endeavor, to listen, to the advances that their fel low Americans are making in important fields of investigation. The blame, if any, falls on the stu dents, naturally. But it falls op the facul ty members for failing to instill in the students the necessity for broadening their horizons. The faculty should be more than will ing to inform themselves about a con vocation speaker, then to make judg ments as to the calibre of the speech to be given. But no. Too often the faculty member w ill laugh off a vital convoca tion by saying to his students, "Well, you won't go anyway, but here's the in formation' on when and where." Apathy is a good old American insti tution. It's permanent, it seems, since now it has found a shrine in our Universities. from the Editor private opinion ... dick shugrue milium t-'MMM Shugrue College students don't seem to realize it s there.- The Mueller planetarium, that is. Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz, director of the University Museum, says that high school students far out do college students in visiting our new plane tarium. And it's a shame. Alum Ralph Mueller I put the planetarium on the University's camgus in the hopes that stu dents might be inspired by the study of the sky. But the only sky study students seem to like is the kind out in the country with some fal. The planetarium was put on the cam put to attract people from all over the state, certainly. However, the students have a perfect right to use it, to visit ft, to be awed by the story of the sky. like too many things, the students are failing to take advantage of the plane tarium. The cost is nominal, the shows just about continuous ,and the experience thrilling. You might try it out. The Outstanding Nebraskan nomina tions are open now. This award, spon sored and administered by the Daily Nebraskan, is a true Cornhusker tradi tion, if you- like traditions. "And if you don't, it's an opportunity for students to participate in naming some faculty member and some student each Dnies ter to receive a well-reserved distinc tion. The award was initiated some and half years ago by the Rag. At the time it was recognized that students had no voice in the selection of the outstand ing teacher awards given at the Spring Honors Convocation. Students and facul ty members alike are eligible to nom inate persons they think are outstanding oa the campus and to hope their nom inees will receive the top student award. In the past it has been encouraging to see the student response. The sober let ters, the fine commendations have added to the prestige of the award, and for all of these, the Nebraskan is happy to have a big role in giving the semi annual awards. If you can think of an outstanding campus personality, faculty or student, let the Rag know about him and share in the distinction which may come to him. . This evening, Victor Bluedorn. execu tive secretary of Sigma Delta Chi. pro fessional journalistic fraternity, will ad dress the Nebraska undergraduate and professional chapters of SDX on the never-ending battle for the public's right to know. Rluedorn's talk oa freedom of informa tion will add some weight to the con troversy being waged or our campus be tween the student council and the Daily Nebraskaa. Here we. have attempted to find the news and print it in an objective man ner for the students. We have found our efforts nipped by the council, which has thought better of releasing information, allowing probing reporters into "closed" session of the council, etc. We trust that Bluedorn's remarks will illustrate the importance of freedom of information and further point out the need for the public to know what its government is doing. Our respect for the council or for any form of government is enhanced when we know what that body is doing and are given a chance to approve or dis approve it. Government, atfer all, is effective, only in proportion to the approval it re ceives from the governed. And freedom of information is essential to show the governed what the government is doing. cntBROSKfln ECTT-SEVEN YEARS OLD Member: Associated Collegiate Press Intercollegiate Press Representative: National Advertising Service Incorporated Fsblished at: Room 20. Student In ion 14th R Lincoln, Nebraska Tfc. DaRy Seoraskaa to pobti.hr Moadar. Imdu. WMlMtv aaa rrt aariat the whool year, nrept tmnatt aacaitaaa aaa exan pert4, aaa mm taue It aaljUjae .wring A ax IMC. br .tsaent of the L'alveroH a Nearaeka anaer the aataortzatloa ml tae aminitte. Staaeat affair, a. aa exoreaahai ef trade! ooinmi. PvaHraMmw ander Hh Inrtaa'trrki f the Hnhenea aefttee a ataifeat rubllrarin .halt he free from aaHarral mmnfeip a the part f the Haheommtttee a tlx part at aa avaiher af th. ladlr f the talTenttr. The aeauwra ef the Nehraekaa Maff r aermaalljr retpoaniMr. what Ihrj aay, t, . cam U he ariata. tVferuarr a, ISM. mtlMrriptiaa rate. ar. tt.sa per aramter ar St (at law aeaami. rear. Fatrre. aa teeoaS eti. natter at the bum afflre -a UaraiB, Nehraaka. utter tke art af Aacast . S1I. i-D'TORUL 8T.Fr- Sr r- rrss ' Maaatin. Mtta Mark l.Wt.troa em MltflT Email. I .Imp. haort. Kattar Morer Cwf "ltr. Gary Rndrer. Diana Maxwell, Pat Ftaanifaa, Garrutt Hraua, OntrAra Bide. Nlrht Near. Editor rut naaahraa !! Mrllen .. Martaret Wertmaa. Her rrobaaea, an. ( harm 8mlta fttKlaew Manatee , erry fteJIeatl. il.tant Rnitaein Maaafrr Tnra Neff, Staa eValmaa. Hh ftmlat Ctmlatiaa Maaasar .Jerr Trap. A Cold Air Mass Seems To Have Movent In " From The East, Bringing Fog . . . a?fal Pensive Patter by Judy Truell A Few Words Of A Kind , bv e. c. bines I threw part of my life away today. It was a simple matter, easy but somehow painful. It wasn't a big thing ... in fact, all l did w a s ...,. ov er and think. "This doesn't say what I want to say." And then 1 ask, "What or how should I say what I feel?" I've never been able to an swer this question. Yesterday afternoon I had 10,197 things to do during my three, beautiful, - wonderful, free hours. But after I had spent a good fifteen minutes just making up the list, " (lists are won derful, they look im portant Snd after they are done it seems as though half t h e t h i n g s on them had al- ready been Miss Truell done I decided that it was im possible to do anything be cause it was impossible to know where to begin. So I spent my three hours reread ing Babbitt for the third time. For those of you like me whose name is inefficiency and who see the' rest of the year smothering you under forgotten, late arid procrasti nated assignments; I strongly suggest forgetting the whole thing. Educated psychologists would call this an "escape mechanism" but so what! If you're going to enter into such a program you have to go all the way or none at all. You can still go to class, but it is during those free hours that your individuality should bloom. And if you really want to become known as an "in dividualist" READ! ! clean out the f. have top drawer of -TX my desk. Yet ' X npartv irv. I ' thing I 'Wfcv xoucnea n a a a memory, was a subtle reminder of so snmthinr I did or didn't " do, that e.e. I should or shouldn've done. Why, though, do I say I threw part of my life away, when actually I rediscovered little bits of me that had care lessly become hidden in an olive drab drawer in a black plastic topped desk? There were clippings of ar ticles I wanted to comment on (I never didi, magazines that may never be read again, pictures ripped out of t h New Yorker, class schcdu.e . lost ball point pens that rs corrupt fellow mi t h a v c w alked away w tth." it- 1 month old letters still a. king to be answered. (Still asking to be answered ... Do you recall a moment in which you stopped and thought about some persons far away who were once a part of your life each day? You stopped and tried to im agine what they were doing this very moment, who they might be talking with. Wheth er they might be thinking of you, or might have forgotten you in an olive drab drawer in a black plastic topped desk. ) ... Mothers Day, I'm t o 1 d, comes round our way next Sunday. Mothers' Day like Christmas, like New Year's, like Fathers' Day, like East er, like every other officially proclaimed day of recognition or commemoration, spurs up in me a bundle of mixed emotions. Maybe they're necessary days. Maybe "without, t h e i r being listed as special nota tions on calendars beneath carefully prescribed dates all these persons and things would miss being honored. But my mind cries, "Cor ruption." No card, dozen of flowers, special sermon or long . distance telephone call has ev er been able to tell anyone how much he or she meant to me. Perhaps because of this we so often leave unex pressed the love or apprecia tion we feel for someone. We buy an expensive card and take it home to sign, make a short note on, and send its way to the one to be hondrai or remembered. Unfortunately my cards so often fail to reach the mail box. I stop and look the cards Nebraskan Letterip Absolutely Right! To the Editor: Mr. Shugrue is absolutely right! I don't like to agree with editors as a rule, espe cially when the editor is a red-headed one, but this is one time when I have to do so. In as much as what he said in reference to the Student Coun cil applies to the elections of Monday la-t he U correct as far as he 'ocs with what he intimated. The way the whole thing was run v.is completely in vi olation of any decent stand ard : ui was a shocking thing t.) L:.!o';i. I was completely a.jaorred by the lack of what was missing. What bothers me l1-? i,:ost is that the Student Council is supKsed to be governing body for the organ izations on this camphs. but' w ho governs the Student Council? This is of vast importance when one realizes that their constitution is in violation of the law of the land in that it states that it must be as it is. In other words, certain freedoms are being stifled! I believe the whole thing fairly smacks of sub-rosa in terference, in that it is cer tainly obvious that all is not as it should be specifically with reference to the above mentioned disastrous errors. Perhaps the Student Tribunal iniyht obe called in to give their opinion for the reason that they might, in fact, I have heard that the whole thing is tied up somehow with a subversive movement con cerning the new tree that is now planted next to the build ing across the street from the ZBT house, w hich woulcTcer tainly hsve what must admit tedly be confessed to be sin ister implications. But to sum up my argu ment for which I am in favor I think it is perfectly obvious that it is necessary. We must have the power to do what is needed in these elections and that is elect the man we want. And I want Richard Shugrue to be my college's represen tative! So let's all get togeth erthis is important a n d hang together no matter come what may be as it is. We must have the right in elec tions to write in votes when we feel that a write in ballot is necessary to be written in! I feel very strongly on this matter" FURIOUS To the Editor I was somewhat concerned over the failure of the student council to allow write-in bal lots in this past election Although I'm aware of the fact that the council does lit tle that affects independent students like myself. I was disturbed by the fact that a student, if dissatisfied with a candidate, automatically lost his vote. The right to vote for whom ever one pleases should be considered as inalienable as the right to vote. But it is not around here. What steps can we take to allow for write-in ballots? Charles Cilona. Ed Note. A amendment to Jhe coun- , cil constitution can be pre sented to the council along with 300 signatures on a pe tition. The council, by the terms of the constitution, must allow a vote on the amendment then. "Gather yo boxes while ye may" BECAUSE ' Tho makers of MARL BORO cigarettes are air ing txway a tap recorder to the organized Greek house on campus who sores the most MARL BORO boxes and writes tho best slogan in 25 words or less on "Why we smoke MARLBORO cigarettes.' Save right away 11 Check Tatar lulletia Basra1 tee Mora Detail. HOME CONCERT by CHAPEL CHOIR (Harry Cirtrlmmn, director ) As part ct morninf worship SUNDAY, MAY II, 10:45 AJH. x at UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL (Missouri Synod) 15th and Que A. J. Norden, raster But I'm not soap-boxing for everyone to rush out and buy up all the books they caa find. If you can't find some one to borrow from, look for diversion elsewhere. Speaking of diversion, try intramurals! Softball is now in full swing and I think that we have reached the finals. I have loyally attended every game, played and been replaced but the spirit was there. Even though you are only made second-string cig arette holder and watcher-of-coats, you too can run yell ing home with your team mates and have a hot. tri umphant, separate dinner. If you want personal glory try badminton there's a breath taking game! But if you are neither an intellectual or an athlete, you can alwrys wander dreamv eyed about the campus and smell the flowers. The lilacs are in full bloom, and the dandelions in our yard are over-running the grass. It's too bad that ivy doesn't have flowers: to aid the traditional pillars Oh well, all these things are well and good, but the lists have to be made out and all . the things have to be done and then you have to start all over again. But as some astute philospher once said "C'est la vie!" History and English and zoology will go on forever after the flowers die and the v Softball field is plowed up for a new building. So if you're go ing to read, try the bulletin for next year's classes. It's too late at night or too earlv in the morning to try and change this unmovable course. Fashion As I See I By Wendy Makepeace The VT. A. Sbeaffer Pmi Company has Jost an nounced an extraordinary otter maktaf it possible for you to obtain one of their Skripgert fountain pens, a Skrip S-pack, pins a handwriting- booklet en titled. "Sure I Want to Be A Better Writer" at a greatly redaeed price. The Skripsert fountain pen and the package of fire Skrip cartridges hare a combined regular price ef 3.44. The complete Stri dent. Special handwriting Kit, inclnding the t h r e e Hems mentioned, are ar-Sable to yon for only 75 cents. Visit Gold's pen counter on first floor for this won derful offer available te students only. &frft"eJaS41