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The Daily Nebroskon
Monday, September 29, 1053
Editorial Comment
Little Rock, U.S.A.
The anticipated has happened. Little
Rock voted 19,470 to 7,565 against admit
ting Negroes to what have been tradition
ally all-white schools. Gov. Orval Faubus
said the issue had been made clear to
voters and "they have made the deci
sion." Faubus may have won another vote
winning battle (only for himself-Ameri-ca'i
prestige declines every day Little
Rock schools remain closed) but he has
not even come close to winning his bigger
battle for perpetuation of prejudice.
Nation magazine reports what stands in
tha way of his private schools plan: "One
factor which has received little publicity
so far is the matter of school-revenue
bonds. In general, school and other mu
nicipal loans, carrying an interest rate
carcely higher than savings-bank ac
counts, are an attractive investment only
because of income-tax exemption features
and because they offer almost the same
degree of security as government bonds.
But this Is true only as long as the schools
are used for their Intended purpose and
are supported by the credit of the com
munities which they were built to serve.
If the schools are closed, or are involved
in litigation, the security of the bonds is
undermined. What may happen in any
particular case will depend on the terms
of the indenture, but disagreeable finan
cial repercussions are likely . . .
"... No one can gain by the closing of
the schools except juvenile delinquents,
demagogues looking for the easiest way of
caging votes, and the minority which puts
white supremacy above all things . . .
The children themselves, as indicated by
TV polls, regard an indefinitely prolonged
vacation with misgivings. Even youthful
segregationists say openly that when it
comes to a choice between no schooling
and going to school with Negroes, they
prefer the latter. Students preparing for
college are worried about accreditation.
Most teachers like to teach, and all are in
terested in- their pensions. Time is not on
the side of those who have hit on this tech
nique for defying the Supreme Court."
Individual Staff Views
Mr
Moyer
The Student Council is going to investi
gate the campus parking situation.
This is a laudable attempt to come up
with something constructive on the sub
ject. It Is too bad that the Council is about
live months late starting
their project.
The Daily Nebraskan,
last spring, published a
feature analysis of the
same problem. With coly
a little trouble, the Ne
braskan figures can be
brought up to date, thus
saving the Council some
valuable time.
Two Hour Rule
For instance, the Council wants to study
the two hour parking rule. A quick discus
sion with University officials reveals that
the two hour rule was installed to prevent
students from storing their cars on 16th
street. The University takes the view that
the purchase of the Elgin property and the
addition of two other parking lots along
16th street has sufficiently alleviated the
need for fraternity storage parking.
Thus, administration officials feel that
16th street parking areas should be left
open as much as possible for casual vis
itors to fraternity row and the University
environs. This is not an unreasonabe idea
fa view of the good public relations which
could result.
Secondly, the Council wants to consider
By George Moyer
the possibility of closing 14th street. A talk
with Lincoln police officials discloses that
14th street is presently one of the few
through streets connecting with the Corn
usker Highway. Unless extensive con
struction work is done on 16th and 17th
streets, the possibility of closing 14th be
comes pretty impractical.
Fullest Extent
The Council would also like to know if
the present facilities are being used to
their fullest extent. Last spring, The Ne
braskan found that at peak periods some
352 parking stalls on University property
remained unused. The addition of Elgin
and the removal of the old Student Health
building has added 400 new parking spaces
to last spring's total. With approximately
seven-hundred vacant spaces available,
students aren't beginning to fully use their
parking opportunity.
The Council also will attempt to formu
late some type of rule which will force
more cars Into the 17th St. lot. The two
hour parking tale should accomplish that
pretty effectively.
Lastly, the Council intends to look into
any other matters pertinent to campus
parking.
This is a little vague but one thing that
might come under this heading is a little
solid advice to the average University
student. It should run something like this:
"You are never going to be able to
drive your car into a classroom so you
might as well get used to walking."
From the Editor
A Few Words of a Kind
. . e. e. hines
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In my short journey through life I've
managed to get glimpses of maybe half
a dozen college humor magazines. All of
them were fairly impressive and I kept
wondering why the University no longer
had such a publication.
Too much work for some
body, I thought.
Last year a release
from the Associated Col
legiate Press had a few
comments on: "Is college
humor making a come
back?" The ACP pointed out
that the University of
Connecticut had approved
plans for operation of a
humor magazine at that school, while at
the University of Oklahoma a freshman
was wished "good luck" by the campus
paper on a private venture, the Sooner
Synic.
Wampus, the humor mag at Southern
California, was reported editor-less.
Glancing through the exchanges last
weekend, I noted that the University
Daily Kansas was reported the same dif
ficulty in an editorial, "The Decline and
Fall of Humor." The editor said:
"This student body may not remember
but KU has had a long, rich history of
campus humor.
"Squat, last year's magazine, seemed
a little weak, but it was preceded by
giants. The old Sour Owl and its alter ego,
the Bitter Bird, gave the alumni some of
their brightest memories.
"Well, the old Bird was banned and the
Owl expired in 1956. Since then we've had
Squat
"This year we many not even have that.
The publications committee is waiting
patiently for applications to the campus
manager,
humor magazine for editor,
staff members.
"So far, only one person has applied.
Obviously, one person cannot publish a
magazine, and the committee is consider
ing giving up and leaving KU humorless
Jills year.
"A bleak prospect indeed. With 8,000
students on campus there must be many
who could write humor, draw cartoons,
and come up with good material.
"In the good old days, undergraduates
in America were noted for their irrever
ence, gusto, and breezy ideas of the na
ture of humor. There were fights to see
who could contribute to the campus fun
ny books. It was one chance to blast
stuffed shirts, unpopular University poli
cies and weird campus habits with satire
and burlesque.
"It is not necessary to be dirty-minded
to write campus humor. Smut is not re
quired. Ribald humor is something else
again. Ribaldry is the traditional field of
campus jokes, and it has showed up in
every college humor magazine worth
reading.
"Humor is not an essential, but is cer
tainly an important phase of campus life.
We hate to see it die."
So go the words of the Daily Kansan
editor. I don't know what the administra
tion thinks of a humor magazine here, but
it would be a good venture for someone
who would like to try to soften the expres
sions of a few thousand students for a few
moments.
The University is fortunate enough to
have good publications in the Prairie
Schooner, Script, the Cornhusker and
with hopes you'll agree) the Daily Ne
braskan. A humor magazine is about all
that's missing.
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The Briar Patch
By R. M. Ireland
I'm a tiger, I'm a tiger,
I'm a tiger happily,
For I'd rather be a tiger
than in ROTC.
Note: To sung to the tune
of "My Darlin' Clementine."
All right children, let's play
a game.
The boss man has re
vitalized the nomenclature of
certain campus landmarks
which in the past through
some oversight have been
erroneously labeled.
Our leader .
has also de-
vised an ad- Vv
ditional chal-J, , ,t Is
leneee for all I ' ' h
you cadets infsCrlHE 1
an effort to 1
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league. Ireland
Now, instead of the usual
terms, certain "elements"
surrounding the buttress of
butchered grammar, the M
and N building, will be ad
dressed in the p r o p e r mili
tary fashion.
Let us examine this latest
in the series of efforts to re
novate the English language
dating from Samuel Johnson,
Noah Webster, G. B. Shaw
and Sgt. Dietz.
Before
M and N Building
Sidewalks
Vine St.
Classrooms
Mall
Colonel's room
After
Hanger
Runways
Active (runway)
Ready rooms
Ramp
Headquarters
Not that this bit of intellec
tual history-in-the-making is
not enough. .
Additional plans call for the
learning of the "fact for to
day." For instance: the Air
Force's F-384746251 super
sonic pencil sharpener rotat
es 3.2 times faster than the
Navy's bilge water duster.
Being a person completely
instilled with patriotic fervor,
might I suggest a few more
chores to give the Aviary Pal
ace boys something to
be really excited about.
Perhaps for federal inspec
tion we could have a "ramp"
(if you don't understand this
term please refer to the score
sheet above) full of bus-suited
troops dancing to the "Tiger
Rag", twirling model air
planes about their heads, and
growling in loud, ominous
tones.
This show would undoubt
edly so impress the inspect
ing officers that its basic
ideas would be incorporated
into the official military stra
tegy. Of c o u r s e the whole
plan would have to go through
the Pentagon which would
take about 10 or 12 years,
but I'm sure that we could
eventually have a minor rev
olution in military tactics.
Oh, I don't want to join the
army, I don't want to go to
war . . .
NOTE: Consult your song
leader for the tune.
Prairie Schooner
Publishes Whitman
A. L. Rome, Henry Miller,
Others Share in Fall Issue
My Weal Or Woe
by dick besoco
I'm a pretty staunch sup
porter of the Student Council
everybody seems to be
"staunch" about something
these days and I'd hate to
haveto start agreeing with
Steve Schultz's opinion of that
organization, but I hope they
accomplish more at this
week's meeting than they did
at last.
I guess they managed to
find out that a "call for the
question" isn't discussed and
means that the motion on the
floor gets voted on. And a
committee was set up to
mulch over the parking prob
lem. Yea! We can just drive
around the block until they
come out a resolution that
there is a parking problem.
And everybody is looking
with jaundiced eyes at the
newly born Student Tribunal
baby. I see
som e b o d y
finally had
some thing
nice to say a
bout the IFC
last week,
but the Tri
bunal is still
i . i t
Deing looxea -at
for new ( "
wavs for it to v i
be stepped Basoco
on before it even gets going.
Sure, there are some weak
spots, and they made a bad
mistake by assuming the
power of the Student Council
when they ruled on one of
their own, but if given the
chance 'i ought to develop in
to a sound student court sys
tem.
fcdl
But if everybody sits on the
edge of his chair just dying to
catch the Tribunal blinking
at the wrong time, the thing
is a dead duck. And 1 think
the Tribunal ought to be given
fair chance to prove itself
one way or another, so, mak
ing an inductive leap or some
thing, 1 also tnuiK mat the
only way it'll have a fair
chance is for the student body
to support it.
It might turn out to be a
pretty good deal . . .
The latest word from Wash
ington is that the nation's only
golfing President wants the
weather bureau to start nam-
Itirr ruirriponoc cftor nrimn
ministers of foreign countries.
Perhaps this is a move to
help out his foreign policy
which is pretty sick and in
dire need of desperate meas
ures. And speaking of foreign pol
icy, how did we get maneuv
ered into this ridiculous posi
tion in Formosa? It isn't ex
tending any lines of defense
or anything else in this age
of push buttons, and Chiang
K'ai Shek's hand just isn't
worth holding when the big
bomb goes off.
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What I want to know is if
I give a buck to this Extra
Point Club type thing, are we
going to win all our football
games? Because, by golly,
that's what I'm in school for
and I want to see my interests
protected! I guess I can't
even cheer the team when
they lose any more because
it's not going to encourage
them to win or something.
If they get their old $20
thousand maybe the cheer
leaders could change that yell :
to "Fight team, our dollars're
with you! "
And why doesn't the police
department give half of what
must be fantastic proceeds
on itin to the athletic depart
ment? But mavbe thev rinn't
give a rat about whether we
win or lose. At football any
way . . .
Articles by top American
writers and an unpublished
poem by Walt WTiitman high
light the fall issue of the
Prairie Schooner, the Univer
sity's literary quarterly
which appears this week.
Karl Shapiro, Pulitzer
prize winning poet and pro
fessor of English, is Schoon
er editor. Bcrnice Slote, asso
ciate professor of English, is
associate editor.
Whitman's poem Ken
tucky concerns the conflicts
Americans faced during the
early Civil War years. He
was writing the poem In 1861,
soon after the Confederate
armies invaded Kentucky.
The work was never com
pleted. Miller
The poem was arranged
from Whitman's worksheets
by Dr. James Miller, chair
ment. Dr. Miller won the 1957
Walt Whitman Prize of the
Poetry Society of America for
his book, "A Critical Guide to
Leaves of Grass."
The poem is accompanied
by a commentary written by
William White, Wayne Uni
versity professor and editor
of the Whitman Newsletter.
An article by Henry Miller,
who has been called "the
most vital force in world lit
erature since D. H. Law
rence," also appears in the
issue.
Comparative
The article entitled "Chil
dren of the Earth" compares
aspects of life in France and
America.
Miller is author of "Tronic
of Cancer" and "the A i r
Conditioned Nightmare," a
book about America.
Another feature is a story
by Agnar Thordarson, "The
Thief," which has been trans
lated from the Icelandic by
Paul Schach, professor of
Germanic languages.
Other Contributions
A poem dedicated to Elsie
Cather, sister of Willa Cath
er, is contained in the quarter
ly. The poem, entitled "FaU
in Nebraska 1957" is written
by A. L. Rowse who lectured
at the University last year.
Other contributions include
a poem on James Dean by
Ralph Pomeroy; poem by
Rosalie Moore, whose work
was selected for publication
in the Yale Poetry Series, and
book reviews by poet William
Carlos Williams and critic
Frederick J. Hoffman.
The Schooner is sponsored
by the English Department
and the University Press.
Outside World
Premier de Gaulle's new constitution was approved by
an overwhelming vote of the French people. Out of 6 million
votes cast in France itself, 83 favored the constitution.
Helene Batters Coast
With the departure of Hurricane Helene, North Carolina
coastal residents struggled to restore services to their bat
tered area. Helen, meanwhile, was reported moving out into
the Atlantic and breaking up.
Farmers Frown, Smile
The 1958 record corn crop will cause frowns as well as
smiles to Nebraska farmers. Storage space is expected to be
scarce this year because the government is reportedly unablo
to pick up some 1957 corn sealed on the farm.
Police Add Divers
Norfolk, Va. has added a skin diving branch to their de
tective force. The branch is expected to locate water-logjed
stolen property in this port city.
Park Visitors Numerous
A record of 216 million persons visited 2,216 state parks
in me u. during lm, an increase of 16 million over 1956.
Tax Hearings Open
Two weeks of tax hearings by Sen. Terry Carpenter's
Legislative Tax Investigation Committee open Monday in
Lincoln. Some 174 business firms and individuals have been
asked to appear before the committee concerning their tax
schedules.
All-Purpose Greeting
A Massachusetts professor sends an all-purpose greeting
card once a year to his friends, bidding them "Merry Christ
mas, Happy New Year, greetings for Memorial Day, Inde
pendence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and any other holi
day you are of a mind to celebrate."
Minister Released
The Rev. Lester Griffith, an American missionary, was
released Sunday by Algerian nationalist rebels who had kid
napped him.
Letterip
Campus Keepers
I'm not from Nebraska and
am a little surprised at the
lack of pride students on cam
pus are willing to show about
their state anrf shnni
braskans are extremely
inenmy ana this school is
grander than any of my ex
pectations. The grounds-keepers should
especially be- thanked for the
wonderful work they do. No
where can a campus boast
better-kept grounds.
When next spring comes
around the grass by admini
stration hall should be in full
growth and increase the
beauty of an already beauti
ful campus. Just want to take
my hat off and thank those
responsiDie lor sucn a good
looking campus.
APPRECIATIVE
THE STRANGE WORLD
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