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SUMMER NEBRASKAN
JULY 10, 1958
In Good Company
While University officials sweat out the raising of LI
million for the Kellogg center, they can consider themselves
in good company. Everybody's doing it, it seems. Harvard,
for example, is passing the collection plate with hopes of
raising $82,500,000.
In a recent report on college-fund-raising techniques,
Newsweek quotes the American Association of Fund-Raising
Counsel as saying that some 45 colleges and universities have
announced long term campaigns in the first four months of
1958 which will eventually bring in more than $408 million.
What makes this four-month figure stand out even larger
is comparison with fund-drive goals in earlier years. The
same Newsweek article points out that in the school year
1954-55, total college donations were $335 million, a figure
several million below the goals for the first one-third of 1958.
A scant two years from the 54-55 figures, the sums given col
leges and universities had jumped to $S33 million in one year.
This represents an increase of almost 250 per cent in two
years.
Unfortunately, the University has not shared in this dona
tion boom. Where national figures have shown tremendous
gains, University figures have only crept upward. During the
calendar year of 1954, funds received by the University
Foundation totalled $534,389. In 1956 the figure had climbed
only about S22.O00 to $558,158. These figures, of course do
not show all tht funds available the University, but they do
indicate clearly that Nebraskans have not yet caught on to
what the rest of the nation is learning rapidly that our col
leges and Universities must have more money.
Further proof of this may be found by a look at legisla
tive appropriations during approximately the same years.
Appropriation for the University in 1954 was $7,500,000, and
in 1956, despite urgent pleas by university officials, the ap
propriation was upped by only $1,400,000 for a single year.
Nationally, gifts to colleges have shown by far the larg
est increase in funds given by foundations, which in 54-55
dropped $50 million in the educational till, but in 56-57 had
increased the ante some 6C3 per cent to $319 million. These
figures clearly show the increased national awareness of the
importance of our colleges and universities.
Now if Xebraskans wiE just join the upswing. In a
state like Nebraska, $1.1 million should be easily obtained.
The fact Wiat it evidently is not is a reflection on the citizens
of the entire slate.
Musings . .
mat classic battle that Las
been raging ever since lie
first printed word appeared
by student hands on a college
campus moved into the analyt
ical spotlight
recently. The
'war" be
tween college
editors and
the powers
that be has
often been a
matter looked
upon with in
difference by
the student
body, fervor
Diana
by student staffs and bewild
erment by the general public.
The researchers have
moved in on the feud now.
A survey by a New York Uni
versity news workshop indi
cates that this running battle
between student staffs and ad
ministration officials is one of
the hottest issues on campii
today.
From the 128 college editors
who replied to the workshops
queries, what might be called
almost a direct ratio between
size of schools and size of
fends emerged. According
to the report, editors in larger
schools over 5,000) were (the
most uspoken critics of ad
ministration moves, while
church schools ranked last is
warfare.
The Da2y and Summer Ne
braskans rank among the 75
of college papers whose copy
does not go through some kind,
of faculty er administration
censor before publication.
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by Diana Maxwell
Church-supported schools
reported an amazing degree
of "agreement" with adminis
tration policies. As exception
to the rule was the editor of
a California school who edi
torially called for a more
"searching religion for the
students.' Not stopping there
in his headlong attack os offi
cials, he plunged into the no
smoking regulation enforced
on campus. He reported this
infuriated some administra
tive members, causing some
eyebrows to singe."
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Once again the red-headed
sage of the newsprint has
struck home in his classic re
ports of conversations with his
wide assortment of cohorts
such as Bundles Traganza and
Sneaky Triclefish. I too, be
came a victim of the late
movie madness recently.
The first night I viewed a
stirring epic of the type he
described a few weeks ago.
You know, the war epic that
ends with strains of martial
music as the hero speaks elo
quently on the might of the
U.S. Army, Air Force, or in
this case, the Navy. Mean
while the camera pans ma
jestically across aH the weap
ons tised in World War IL
The second night, all my il
lusions about Eobio Hood
were shattered when I saw
hixn playing some other part
This time be was Siamese
twins who bad been severed
at infancy but one of him felt
all the emotions of the other
of ton.
Coffey Break....
Shortly after my initial ar
rival in Lincoln, I had an ex
perience that shattered all my
bonds with the "younger gen
eration." On that par
ticular sum
mer after-
noon, I was
sedately driv
ing the fam
Uy car over
the bricks cf
South Street.
The conserva
tive paint of
the car re
flected the
Marflya
stunch. middle-class Republi
can purchaser. The license
number, 51-SL, revealed an
affiliation with a small lown.
My quiet stop at a red light
was heralded by Mr. Left
lane, a bumper-dragging Mer
cury, who had racked his
pipes at my approach. Greasy
beads popped out of every
window. Our modest car
blushed at the intensity of the
appraisal
As the light changed, the
low Mercury frog-leaped for
ward. The parting words of
the sleek-haired teenagers
hung on the air.
"Come to town to spend
your your chicken money,
lady?"
The bonds snapped. I pain
fully remained a teenager by
chronological standards, only.
Later I began to wonder if
chicken money was a fore
runner of the phrase, filthy
lucre. Perhaps it originated
whea cows were the medium
of exchange.
But before condemning
cows, it should be mentioned
that undoubtedly they were re
sponsible for poker chips, too.
My reliable source, a crony
of Ivy Baker Priest, tells me
that gambling sprang up back
is the days when a couple of
cows were ample price for
most young women. The
awkwardness of gambling,
using cows for "money," wor
ried the shysters. What man
would raise hie opponent two
if such a move meant throw
ing a couple of sturdy heif
ers on the playing table. So
the invention of power chips.
This refinement supposedly
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A famous author was auto
graphing copies of his new
novel in a department store.
One gentleman pleased h i m
by bringing up not only his
new book for signature, but
reprint editions of his two pre
vious ones as well
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in defense of the U.S.S. En
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through the press and maybe
we can save her for poster
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