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The Dailv Nebraskan
Friday, October 17, 1953
Editorial Comment
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Ungolden Silence
The story remains unchanged. The Stu
dent Tribunal has not brought student dis
cipline out into the open. Every case of
this nature is still conducted behind a door
closed to judgment or evaluation by the
campus population as a whole. A student
is very neatly charged, arraigned, hand
.slapped and pushed out the door, probably
with don't toss pebble edicts ringing in his
ears.
No one but the student, the judges and
the administration know what transpires
during Tribunal court sessions. Officially
only the judges and the administration
know the nature of all cases being tried
and their dispositions.
A few weeks ago Joe Baldwin and his
disciples attempted to rule on the eligi
bility of one of their own members who
had changed colleges. The Student Coun
cil reminded the tribunal it did not have
this right, and then made a ruling in favor
f the eligibility of the judge involved. The
Dally Nebraskan thanked this Council for
this speedy ruling and then asked, "Why
not investigate the reaction of the student
body to the closing of Tribunal hearings?
Why not make a ruling on the manner in
which these hearings should be con
ducted?" So far this request has been
completely ignored.
Wednesday the Tribunal met. The same
farce that occurred earlier this year was
repeated. Charges were secret, except for
individual comments from the students,
and the outcome was the same, unknown.
We, as University students, should ob
ject to this high handed conduct by .the
student judges. If they desire to play lord
high executioners let them at least be held
responsible for sloppy head chopping when
it does occur.
To illustrate the extreme to which the
blundering and lordly Tribunal has gone to
assert its self-assumed power of secrecy,
the Nebraskan need only outline events
which occurred at the Wednesday meeting.
A reporter-photographer was sent to cover
the session. The judges would be happy
to pose for a shot they said. No picture
taking or reporter, however, would be al
lowed during the hearing. The reporter
wanted to ask two students scheduled to
appear before the Tribunal if they objected
to the hearing being open.
What then? The Tribunal pointed to an
other self-designed regulation which said
that the student on trial must request in
writing, before the hearing, that it be
open. Oddly enough there is no actual
stipulation as to how long before the hear
ing this written request must be made. If
the students were willing to make written
requests Wednesday, by means of a neat
method of interpretation by the Tribunal,
the reporter would still have been denied
entrance. The written request, the judges
apparently contend, must be made when
the student reports to the Division of Stu
dent Affairs earlier in the week.
Oddly enough, the slip which the student
signs says nothing about his need to make
a written request if he desires to have the
hearing open. Perhaps he is supposed to
guess about this matter. Now word comes
that the Tribunal is considering making an
announcement on the slip which charged
students receive. This will outline his need
for a written request if the Nebraskan is
to attend.
So here we are back to the basic issue:
wRy a closed meeting in the first place,
why should the student have right to close
it? The written request issue appears to
be merely another way for the Tribunal to
appear fancy while slapping the press and
student information in the face.
The Nebraskan can hardly forget the
words of a Tribunal student judge made
' earlier in the year. "Why don't they give
us a chance?" We're being condemned,
the judge said, without getting a chance.
Well, the judges have already muffed a
couple of chances for judgment by child
ish insistence on secret meetings. If they
are too small to admit that this is an en
croachment on freedom of information and
a mistake that should be corrected, they
are too small to judge anything or anyone,
they are especially unworthy of continued
existence in what is ideally a mature uni
versity atmosphere.
This year the Iowa State Daily reprinted
a Nebraskan editorial in behalf of open
student courts and commented: "We have
many times stated the case for open stu
dent conduct cases. Open cases (1)
squelch undesirable rumor (2) give sub-.
sequent defendants some measure of pro
tection and (3) allow the public to know
what the court is doing."
How long will the Tribunal continue to
be a sham for fair student discipline ma
chinery? The burden for correcting the faults of
the present Tribunal rest with the admin
istration and the Student Council as well
as the Tribunal judges. The administra
tion, namely the Division of Student
Affairs and its dean, should publicly an
nounce whether it is pro or con on closed
Tribunal meetings. Student conduct was a
matter of endless speculation and false ru
mor while it was administered in secret
by the Division of Student Affairs. Under
the present setup it is impossible to deter
mine whether the Tribunal is just a rubber
stamp for the administration or an inde
pendently operated group. Certainly the
administration and Tribunal should be in
terested in discrediting these rumors. The
best way to do so would be by opening the
hearings, not by making announcements of
piety which secrecy makes it impossible
to check.
The Student Council should be interested
in holding a complete investigation of stu
dent reaction to closed meetings. This
would be as constructive a task as the stu
dent representatives could possibly under
take. If the Council strives honestly to do
its job, it will not overlook this important
matter.
Next Wednesday, rumor has it, the Tri
bunal will meet. Next week, as a result
of the closed door system of student jus
tice, you will know as much about the effi
ciency, effectiveness and value of the Tri
bunal as you do today exactly nothing.
Justice is truly blind.
Penny Carnival
Hats off to Coed Counselors. The decis
ion to abolish Penny Carnival may bring a
few regretful sighs but over-all the an
nouncement will probably be met with
complete satisfaction. Jan Lichtenberger,
president, said the reason for ending the
annual fall task for pledges was that
"really satisfactory results were not ob
tained." This type of honesty is rare these
days.
The Coed Counselors deserve even fur
ther praise for their decision to carry out
a complete revamping program, the aboli
tion of Penny Carnival representing only
the beginning. Many organizations orig
inally formed to perform beneficial tasks
have degenerated into busy, busy activi
ties in which the primary duty often seems
to get lost and forgotten. But the Coun
selors have wisely chef Vd any such trend
in their organization by deciding to cut
down on the number of Coed Counselors,
select members by board interviews, im
prove their training program, shorten their
period of active work, and aim their fall
program primarily at Independent women
who have no big sisters to aid them in
becoming adjusted to college life.
"Our primary aim is to increase the effi
ciency of this organization and its effec
tiveness as a counseling service," says
Miss Lichtenberger. Right there you have
the most mature statement a leader of an
organization can make. The group will
now forget, if they follow their stated
course of action, the fringe matters and
activities, and get down to better and
more complete counseling.
College Vandalism
A few immature fellows, who didn't get
their fingers slapped for marking crayon
on their walls at home as children, have
carried their thoughtless doodling with
them to college.
If any person can state with pride that
he has stayed up until the wee hours of the
morning in order to sneak to some fra
ternity house or class room building and
disfigure a door or wall with paint, he is
obviously walking about with a head filled
with a distorted evaluator.
The Pi Xis have their claim to fame, if
it be such, in stenciling their trade mark
on campus sidewalks. This does little
damage and presents little distraction,
although it too is not among the list of
things one can be proud of having accomp
lished while at college. The more serious
offenders are those who mistake fraternity
or group esprit de corps with mutual de
struction and defacing of property. They
are totally unrelated. If the same people
who slapped "Beat Iowa State" on the
sidewalks about campus and the Student
Union wall had to scrub it off, they would
realize the childishness of their action.
If the same people who slapped paint on a
recently painted door had to remove that
paint, buy new paint, and repaint that
door, they too would understand the smaD
ness of their apparent "feat."
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College Students Ponder
Integration, Pro and Con
(ACP) Integration of
schools got much attention in
the college press these first
few weeks of school.
Editors of Critograph,
Lynchburg, Va., college, crit
icize their state government
for closing schools which are
under federal integration or
ders. Defy The Government
"What do the so-called lead
ers of this state hope to gain
by closing schools in order
to defy the federal govern
ment? The Byrdmen admit
that the closing will only
postpone the inevitable and
that the state has not one leg
to stand on in a federal
court . . .
"The high school s t u -dents
without high schools
know who is on the losing
end of this deal. Students in
Warren county high school
and Charlottesville are feel
ing the effects of Virginia's
bullheaded segregation stand.
Students in Little Rock, Ark.,
are feeling the effects of their
governor's wild bid for pow
er and prestige . . .
"Whether we like it or not,
there is only one Law of the
Land. The sooner people real
ize this, the sooner Johnny
can get back to school . . ."
Beyond Civilization
Critograph ends the editor
ial with a quote from the
Raleigh, N.C., News and Ob
server: "Closing down the
schools is something beyond
secession from the Union; it
is secession from civiliza
tion." The Central Michigan Col
lege Life thinks the closing
of the Little Rock high schools
"is weakening the United
States ... As Americans, as
college students, the plight
of these student should be of
(our) utmost concern ... It
makes no difference whether
you believe in the Supreme
Court ruling or not. What
does matter is that freedom
to learn is failing, and the
failure is as dangerous as
anv war.
Louisiana State University's
Daily Reveille notes "opposi
tion to school closing is com
ing from parents who realize
that the education of their
children is more important
than segregation. And, it is
time state officials in Arkin-
sas and Virginia also realize
this factor, for it is question
able whether the courts will
uphold the public-p r i v a t e
school system.
Graduate Students
The naDer reDorted that 59
Negro students are enrolled!
in LSU in New Orleans1
LSUNO) but none at Baton!
Rouge, though some have
been there since 1950 all
but one were graduate or law
students.
The day after the above
Reveille comment appeared,
the paper ran this letter from
reader Brant Calongne:
"Congratulations to students
of LSUNO. You are doing a
fine job. Just sit back calm
ly and let them shove the
My Weal or Woe
Negroes down your throats.
It would be terrible to op
pose it. After all, the opin
ion of nine men is far more
important than the opinion of
the majority of 170,000,000
people.
Exaggerated Example
"The previous paragraph is
an exaggerated example of
the one-sided view that the
majority of our paper's edi
tors take when writing edi
torials. Since the beginning
of summer semster, many
articles favoring integration
have appeared in . . . our
paper ...
"The purpose of this letter
is to present a little of the
other side for a change . . .
"Some of us say that wej
wouldn't mind if Negroes just j
attended our classes. The
damage from this alone
would be terrific. In Wash
ington D.C., white students
are retarded tremendously
because of integrated classes.
In a national test given, in
one school, white students
averaged 98 while Negro stu
dents with the same educa
tional facilities averaged only
51.
Social Functions
"It doesn't stop with inte
grated schools. If they get in
to our schools, they will get
into our social functions.
Don't think they won't, be
cause they will. Maybe you I
don't mind a Negro dancing!
with your girl or asking herj
for a date, but I do. Remem
ber, if we give an inch, they 11
take a mile ....
"When forced integration
starts in our school, home
town and state, we've got to
fight it. It's our job, no one
else s. If everyone put up re
sistance, regardless of h o w
little, the nine kings of our
Supreme Court would have no
other alternative than to give;
in."
Letterip
Band Day
Dick Basoco doesn't like
Band Day!
So what if it doesn't serve
a useful purpose? It's orna
mental, like the hood orna
ment on an automobile.
Basoco, however, seems to
be of the same order of peo
ple who "customize" their
cars. Would he like to "nose
and deck" the University?
R. CHRISTENSEN
Poetrv Reading
Karl Shapiro, of the Uni
versity English department
and a Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet, will be featured in a
poetrv reading on KUON-TV
tonight;. -
The program will be pre
sented at 8 p.m. over Chan
nel 12. Several other Univer
sity faculty members will
also appear.
I was just sitting there,
phone in hand, when this
shrill little voice on the other
end of the line demanded in
dignantly, "Isn't there any
tnmg you like
on this cam
pus?" This com
lent was
meant to im
ply that all I
did was run
around knock
'"8 i n l n gs, jy f
which is Drob- A J K
ably true, and U "V U
I tried fever- Basoco
ishly to come up with some
thing around this place that
I liked.
I like Nebraska U. It's not
the best school that anyone
can mention, but it s not the
worst either, and the facilities
are here for anyone who
wants to use them.
I like the small segment of
the campus community that
has campus spirit. I don't
mean just the people that go
out and yell like mad while
we're ahead or after we're
ahead, but those who g t
worked up into a wild tizzy
just because the old Scarlet
and Cream is out there trying.
I think most of the organi
zations on this campus are
basically worthwhile. So may
be you can't point out in dol
lars and cents where a group
does anything beneficial; the
mere fact that they exist and
give the small minority a
chance to do something is
proof enough for me of their
worth. But then I'm aot very
sophisticated.
Now this probably qualifies
me for a spot in the nearest
institution for the mentally re
tarded, but I can't see exact
ly what the objections to the
three programs are.
Some people think march
ing is silly. I'm one of those
who think that legs were
made for stretching out in
front of oneself while he sits
on the extreme top of these
limbs in an easy chair too,
but then marching is a pretty
minute portion of ROTC.
It's just like a lot of other
things on this planet it all
depends on what kind of an
attitude yea go into it wish.
If you go into any of the
ROTC programs thinking it'D
be an ordeal, chances are it
wiD be. But it certainly
doesn't have to be an or
deal. . .
... By Dick Basoco
And I think we do hav;
some reasonably good lookih
girls on this campus. Even if
you can't tell it by our queens.
At least that's what my spies
tell me.
Which reminds me that
somehow somebody took my
remarks about queens in gen
eral and the Homecoming
Queen in particular pretty
personally. It was perhaps un
fortunate that I spoke at a
time when Homecoming
Queen was so much in tho
spotlight, but I wasn't partic
ularly referring to any of the
present five contenders. But
then nobody really cares pbout
that title anyway under the
present set up so I doubt that
my remarks affected a n y
body's chances or were ev2n
read with much attention.
And cheer up. Tassels, I in
clude you when I say that
most organizations are basic
ally worthwhile, for you cer
tainly are worthwhile basic
ally. But what is this "Project"
thing? I'm serious, I'd like
to know. It's always being
mumbled by someone, but as
far as, I can tell it's primary
function is to think positively.
Why doesn't everybody just
take a Dale Carnegie course
instead?
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