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I I i Paqe 2 The DaMv Nebrcskon Monday, Mov 12. 1Q53 Editorial Comment AND THEY CALL ( ME PECULIAR! . i V :.4 V.'' ) t i if- v H v. Journalism Week The journalist will be in the limelight at the University this week as the School of Journalism sponsors its biggest Jour nalism Week ever. Most of the activities will be directly aimed at School of Jour nalism students, but occasional oppor tunities will be extended to the others In the University populace to hear out standing newsmen. Including William H. Lawrence of the New York Times. The week, appropriately enough, will end up with the emphasis on young re porters high school students taking part in the University Silver Key awards competition. From this group will come a goodly number of tomorrow's out standing newsmen and newswomen. Mock Election Crystal ball gazers contend that the Tuesday Nebraska primary election will result In the lightest turnout in recent history. University students could recti fy this trend of events slightly by taking ft few moments out today to cast a ballot In the mock primary election being con ducted on campus by the Young Repub lican Club. An election of this type, though com mon at many other schools, hasn't been held at the University since 1952. The results of the election will not be of great significance, but the procedure will allow persons who have never voted in a state election to become familiar with the appearance of an official ballot the ballots being used in the mock primary having been modeled after the official one. Also, if students feel that the candi dates on the ballots aren't the kind .they want to vote for in the upcoming 'gen eral election, they can write in their favorite candidate's name be it Pogo -or an actual breathing character quali fied to help govern the state. Polls for the election are located in Love library, Social Sciences Building and the campus and ag student unions. They are open until 5 p.m. The School of Journalism is to be commended for its development of such an extensive Journalism Week with the concentration being kept on the develop ment of the journalism student rather " than using the occasion for mere show. The free press has always been an integral part of the American system. Iii order to insure the perpetuation of this tradition and to maintain a high level of efficiency in reporting, it is necessary for prospective reporters to receive a thorough and practical back ground in modern newsreporting. The University School of Journalism is per forming this job better and better each year. Hats off this week to both the School of Journalism and its journalists. A Battle To Win Medical science has made a series of startling and marvelous break-throughs in finding cures and treatments for diseases during recent years. But the research workers still have a goodly number of ailments and diseases to seek cures for, including illnesses ranging from the common cold to luekemia. Saturday night many persons in the United States were reminded of the work yet to be done when it was an nounced that the 9-year-old son of Red Skelton died of luekemia at the UCLA Medical Center. Few ill children have ever received more publicity, or helped through their plight to make the world more aware of the hopelessness osome illnesses. The Skeltons and every family who have ever had to sit by and watch one of their members die will testify that the battle against man's diseases takes the aid of more than a handful of people that it requires the financial help and interests of everyone in the nation.' And though medical science has not yet achieved the break-through in the battle against luekemia, all Americans must salute these diligent medical workers, who with everyone's help, may someday conquer this illness. From the Editor private opinion dick shugrue t I T I iS- KHI1II Shugrue Stroke, The Rag got a boost in its struggle to open up the news sources around the campus Friday evening when Victor Bluedorn, executive secretary of Sigma Delta Chi, added his support to our Freedom of Information cam paign. Speaking before the state professional and undergraduate chapters of SDX, Bluedorn said, "Business which affects the public should be conducted in public." That's the stand we have taken when the Student Council has tried to put the clamps on our reporting what's going on in their sacrosanct chambers. After the dinner Bluedorn told me that SDX and its 20 some thousand members are behind efforts by any newspaper to halt suppression of the news by any form of government. "After all," the man who has "run" SDX for 12 years commented, "government on any level is responsible to the people it governs and the people must be guaranteed the right to know." I indicated that I would let him know how the fight is going out here in Ne braska. I'm sure that he won't exert the same active force in helping us get free dom of information that he is engaged in asserting on the federal government, but his support in the ideal of freedom of information is a valuable weapon to squelch self-important campus moguls from keeping the what and how from students. This goes for administrators, too, who withhold information about student dis cipline. Bluedorn's comments will vital ize our efforts to get the student tri bunal and the division of student affairs to codify the rules of discipline so that they cannot be mistaken, so that they cannot be misused. Tomorrow it election day. Every student who is of voting age should be ready to go to the polls or should have his absentee ballot signed and sealed. It's a shame that interest in the pri maries has been, squelched by some vested interests. But it's encouraging to note that some persons who are running for government offices have taken it upon themselves to battle the apathy in the state's voting turnout. Often I am told, the incumbents run ning for reelection attempt to halt in terest in a primary election or to play down the really important issues by re fusing to return to the scene f battle, their own districts, when an election is at hand. We who are on the outside of the po litical circles have relied on the news papers to inform us as to what the is sues are and, I think, owe them a debt of gratitude for informing us as to candidates' qualifications. It would be a wonderful thing if every student entitled to vote would get his ballot filled out and, possibly, change the course of an election. I remember in recent years when Lin colnites turned out at the polls only 8, 000 strong. In an election of such shal low turnout, the student voice could make a big dent in the outcome and let the politicians know that students mean business when they take an interest in government. Even If the vote the student casts is motivated by a purely selfish interest in enhancing his own prestige on the po litical stage, the very fact that he real izes an election can mean something, that one vote can do something Is ego buildiiig. For an example of this, look at the recent student council election in which a Teachers College candidate was aced out by a single vote. And rumor has it that that candidate didn't take the time out to vote. The laugh may be on her, but the lesson is upon all of us. ' I'll step out of character and encour age you to vote, for whomever you wish (no party lines here). But for heaven's sake, vote. QtfBRflSKfln SIXTY-SEVEN TEARS OLD BnlvOTilty. TIM nembm of tfca Kebnuku itaff n Member: Ablated Collect. Pr JTZlCt' " " " liatercolleflate Pren subsertptioa im u.m p semester or m t Representative: National Advertising ""l cal"mi0 , Enured a mutant elm tnmtter at the poet offlrw 4 Service Incorporated Unooln, Nebraska, unoer tbs act of aMwiut 4. 1911. Published at: Eoom 20. Student Union . editorial taf , Gtltw Kick Bnuirue ltn Si K F.dltorlal Editor Ernest Hind Vlnnnln KTeriraatra Maaaftns Editor Mark l.oodiitriin Lincoln, Nebraska NMr, EdHnr t-mmit Ump The Paflf Hebraskae. t published Monday. Tuesday "Porta Ml tor Oenrge Mover Waaosadar aad f rider elurlne the aebuul year, mtrrpi UoPf Editors Gary Rndgers. IMane Maxwell, staring vacathma and exam period, and on Issue l Flannlgan, Carroll krauf. Uretchen Hides puMKhnd durlnr anicnit, h students of the tinrvrnlty Night News Editor Carroll Kraut mf Nsbraaka nndor In aotliorliatloa of th (Jsmmltuw Staff Writer , Harrarnl Wertman, a Htndent affaln at an cxprrwiilon of ttudmit opinion. Horn frobatoo, and (inarm Hmllb PnhlHwttomi andrr 'ho tnrladlntlim of tnx Nubrsonv flmlnnit Mutm Jerry Hrllrntla asfttr na atudvnt fuitlleatlnna tthall he free from t Aatlttant BukIimm Manager . ..Tom Neff. editorial enenrnhlp on the part of the Hnltennrmlttee Staa Kaunaii, Bob Nmldt ar aa in fan af aa? avarobar of tb taooltr of ua Oiraulatloa Manager .....Jerry Trupp ' iUrr lX JJt ILL BcT r WOULD MAVE MAE A 6000 BALD EAGLE.' r-2 "You'll Make Better Time Without This Extra i Wheel" A Few Words Of A Kind e. bines At least three-fourths of the people I know are cattlemen in one unique way they keep a pasture of sacred cows. These sacred cows .ar,e ta boo Subjects, m&mm-v!m persons, things, or mr- ideas which they do not discuss with anyone else and which no one within thunder sounding dis t a n c e of them is to e.e. My Weal Or Woe dick basoco by Stirs iW 3 & Basoco I've been meaning to ask retiring Dean Henzlik how a class can average a grade of better than a 7. In fact, an average grade of 7.4. It seems tnat in one class, out of 142 grades, only one was below a 5, and more than half of the grades given were 8's or 9's. Now, real ly, it is ob v i o u s that here we have one of the most outstanding groups of scholars ever to grace this campus. Even in it is in a Secondary Ed class. As a matter of fact, every body must be pretty smart over there. In nine sub 200 level courses with at least 75 students, the lowest class av erage last semester was 5.486. I certainly hope that the Ed Psych 60F students shape up this semester, because their average is a disgrace to the amazing ability displayed by the students in other TC courses. The excellent scholarship can obviously be attributed to the high, high standards for which Teachers College is known. h Congratulations to the new PUK's. If you got tackled and tapped instead of merely be ing named, people might have known you got initiated a week ago. And in the future don't hold your initiation on an Ivy Day weekend because the competition is too tough. tt r I see where our traveling veep got stoned in Peru. Then Nixon got praised for his "courage, patience and calm ness" in the face of the dan ger I wonder what Ike thought Dick would do throw rocks back at the students? it It seems that all anyone has to do on this campus to damn somebody else is make a few well placed phone calls, mumble a few sentences about "She's a Red Dot" or "He's a Pi Xi," and the per son you're calling believes this without looking into the. situation any further. It's a pretty sad state of affairs when people start be lieving anonymous mudsling ers instead of at least sup porting the person who is, be ing slandered until you find out that the information is ac curate. It seems to me that if any such accusations were true and had facts to back them up, . then the accusor would not have to hide behind a telephone when . he or she says "Did you know that what's her name is a what do you call it?" When you believe some thing like this, ;you are worse than the person who slinks around and says it. You are the judge and jury, and your decisions cannot be a snap judgement. Fortunately, this does not apply to many of you read ers; unfortunately, it does ap ply to some. And those to whom it does apply I would advise to check into things a bit more carefully. So far you've been pretty far off base. mention except under fear of direct and abusive verbal at tack. The taboo subjects range all the way from sex to seeing eye dogs and God and dwarfs. . Tell a joke about divinity to the' average fellow and he'll stare at you, grinning per haps but still sadly feeling that "there's a man doomed to eternal hell fire." Such a person I once asked, "What's wrong, don't you think God has a sense of hu mor?" He stood open mouthed for a moment and then scurried away before a bolt of lightning came flash ing out of the sky to strike me (for being so sacrilegious) and him (for associating with such a low life individual as me). Finally, I have discovered a wonderful little book writ ten by Olive Bell recognized (the cover says) to be one of the world's best known au thorities on the arts. Civiliza tion is the grand book's title. Bell says: "One of the qualities that by e. most clearly distinguishes a civilized man from a savage is a sense of humour; and the sense of humour is in the last analysis nothing but a highly developed sense of values. By a sense of humour I do not mean a taste for buffoonery and romps. . . I mean the power of perceiving the lu dicrousness of taking things too seriously and giving them an undue importance; and this power is enjoyed only by those who can tell ends from means. To attach to a means the importance due to an en 3 is ridiculous; and because all human achievement falls something short of the idsal, to a thoroughly civilized per son all human endeavor will appear at moments slightly comic. ". . . begin to consider peo ple busying themselves aoout politics,' trade, dignity, com fort, reputation, honour, and the like; and soon you will catch them treating these means with the intense, in flexible earnestness due only to ends. They are taking these things much too seriously; your sense of values will tell you that, and your sense of humour will reward it with a. glow of peculiar, civilized pleasure." And so you keepers of sa cred cows, I rest my case. 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