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Friday, October 3, 1958
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No Man Is an Island
The Rev. KMth cAnkAMcn a
the Baptist-Christian Fellowship, is author
of today's religious column a regular re
minder of the role religion should play In
every student's life.
Someone has said that if this earth one
day .did have a "visitor from a small
planet" he would doubtless be confused
by the actions of religious men. In strange
buildings he would watch people rise and
sing or bow their heads and mutter with
obviously no one there to hear them. He
might witness & strange meal of bread
and wine or some sort of water baptism or
perhaps even a rite that, by a few words
and actions, establishes a marriage.
"What", our extra-terrestrial visitor might
cry, "is this all about? What are these
people doing?"
In the jnost general terms, the purpose
of religion can be stated as this: Religion
seeks address itself to the ultimate, the
final, the most meaningful question that
man can ask. For example, Who am I?
Whence came I? Where am I going? Why
am I here? Of as Dr. Paul Tillich has
phrased them: The anxieties over 1) fate
and death, 2) the nightmare of meaning
less ennui, 3) the fear of sin and con
demnation. Religion seeks to speak rele
vantly to these problems. This is its pur
pose. But why then do religious men go
through all the mysterious, symbolicNacts
that are called worship? Why don't they
simply address themselves to these great
questions and start talking? They do not
because they cannot; for the answers to
these great questions are never ade
quately expressed in human language. As
Goethe has said, "The highest cannot be
spoken; it must be acted." Thus do relig
ious men have their rites and their serv
ices: they are speaking to the ultimate
concerns of man in the only language that
is possible.
Individual Staff Views
My great-uncle, when he was a kid.
accidently" had his left foot cut off with a
scytha.
The accident left him, surprisingly, the
life of the party. He was the only boy in
school who could twirl bis
shoe round and round on
the end of bis leg.
My grandfather's popu
larity with his school
mates originated from a
totally different art, the
ability to weaken a wil
low switch by slicing it
with a pocket-knife so
skillfully that teachers
were unable to detect it
That was the era of the hard and prac
tical individualist who fought the world
and his elders with amazing tenacity and
skill
But in spite of their rough exterior,
these men must have dreamed secretly of
a Fourier's existence.
Why else would they have built for their
By Marilyn Coffey
Marilyn
children these universities, Utopian insti
tutions as carefully isolated from the
world of Madison Avenue as the under
garments of a Puritan?
Here, for days on end, their offspring
can bask in the fluorescent light of cafes,
soaking in steam from cups of coffee.
Here, in moments of seriousness, they
can ponder the skeletal patterns of an ex
tinct wolf.
Young men, without so much as crack
ing a book, achieve a distinguished
squinty-eyed facade merely by enrolling in
a surveying lab.
The daughters sired by these Utopianists
can learn, in home ec. how to care for
babies the easy way without bearing
them first
And who dares intimate that college ed
ucation is to no avail? After four years
of study, any graduate can spot another
university man, if not by his intimate
knowledge of the ancient Greek alphabet,
certainly by his specialized vocabulary.
Mention Pavlov and what graduate's ears
will fail to prick up?
From the Editor
A Few Words of a Kind
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My outside world day after day is a
patch of blue sky and Historical Society
building wall seen through 30 steel-gripped
glass panes. An iron grate looms over the
window well, a large brick enclosure with
cracked earth covering
the cement bottom. A
September 29 issue of the
Rag lays casually curved
and folded near the center
where a large, black
drain juts its many open
ings out into the well to
soak up rain water and
melting snow. Lumps of
dirt and stone, yellow and
brown leaves find their
graves among the dry, peeling dust
Window wells have a place in the life of
every city grown person. They were and
are worlds to explore: papers, gum wrap
pers, discarded letters, bits of broken
glass, leaves, stocks, dead bugs, spider
webs, and here and there a fallen penny or
nickel or dime. And if only you had a long
stick with gum on it you used to think, you
could get that nickeL Or better yet, you
thought, if you owned that building you
would open the window and reach right
out and the nickel would be yours.
Fall and spring have power to prompt
reverie. So here I sit, rubbing my ear
witJi the world of reality lurking outside
my door, waiting to re-enter.
The same event isn't seen the same
through all eyes. A freshman football
player asks, "Why isn't there more spirit
at pep rallies? A cheer leader and close
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friend says '"That was a great rally before
the first game. Best we've ever been to."
'"Not much cheering competition between
fraternities," another freshman footballer
says. "At Georgia Tech and Oklahoma
they have students by the thousands at
rallies," another comments.
"Modern generation can't spell," cries
every other adult in the country. Campus
cops, I understand, are having the same
trouble. A law school student with a
Volkswagen checked the parking ticket he
had received. Under make, of car was
. printed "forin."
An instructor has reportedly announced
he will give an examination over material
in a ponderous book. One catch. There is
but one copy of the fet bit f information
in the library. The book may be checked
out only for 30 minutes at a time and ev
eryone in the class is fighting to get it
defying fines and deportation from the
campus to hold on to it Maybe the instruc
tor needs some instruction.
Nation magazine is among my favorites.
The fact that it is a liberal magazine has
much to do vith my finding it enjoyable
reading. Cleverness, however, is what
really sells it to me.
It has, for example, the shortest editor
ial I've ever read. The magazine says,
"We suggest that our current belligerent
stance toward the Red Chinese constitutes
a strong argument for admitting them to
the United Nations. If they're old enough
to fight, they're old enough to vote!"
The same issue carries a letter from
C. H. Richardson of Altadena, Calif. Mr.
Richardson writes:
Dear Sirs: The question bothering me
these evenings: does Arkansas have the
H-bomb?
Then a critic reviewing a book sums up
the author's writing in this fashion: "What
is a possibility to him on one page be
comes a probability on the next and a fact
before the end of the chapter."
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Bungling
By Dick Shugrue
Because of the ' interesting learning specified in the land
(and laughable) events in re- j grant college legislation."
cent days regarding ROTC.j Well, why, then, does the
some aroused young student i University of Nebraska con
asked me, "Well, why do we j tinue to make compulsory the.
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have to have
the course at
a University
in the first
place?"
It has been
claimed b y
certain self
appointed in
terpreters of
the Morrill i 'j
I which gave Shugrue
land and a perpetual income
from the sale of other lands
to the state agricultural and
mechanics colleges, that thei
act also stipulated compulso
ry ROTC courses must be of- j
fered at the college. j
If this seems unclear, let's'
ask the question, "If we are
a land-grant college do we
have to have compulsory:
ROTC courses?" j
The answer, supplied by
U.S. Attorney General Wil
liam D. Mitchell, as long ago
as June 20, 1930, is a distinct
"No." j
Mitchell had been asked for
an opinion as to whether the
ROTC courses at a land grant 1
school had to be compulsory
by the Secretary of the In-;
terior. In his opinion he'
writes, "The statutes nowhere :
specifically require that the,
offered course in military tac
tics roust be compulsory."!
The opinion states further, I
"There was no intention to
require instruction in military j
tactics to be compulsory upon -the
students any more than
those branches of learning re
lated to agriculture and me
chanic arts." i
Even more Interesting is a
letter the Attorney General
cites written from "the Acting
Secretary of the Interior to a
Secretary of War, July 19,
1923, reading, "The policy of
the Department of the Interi
or has been that a state ful
fills its obligation under the;
law when it offers instruction
and provides facilities for in
struction in the branches of
iKUlt courses for all fresh.
imen and sophomores?
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