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7 Poge 2 The Dailv Nebroskan Friday, November 7, 1958 yvrTH.l - Editorial Comment Democrats? What Is a Democrat? This question isn't really too silly for a University student to ask. The simple fact is that most University students have never known what a state-wide Demo cratic representative looked like. Back in 1941 or so when the last Democratic gov ernor was serving out his term in the Capitol, most of the studentbody wasn't much past the learning to walk stage. Even for many Korean War veterans a Democrat is something that he only heard talk about until this week; folks 22 or 23 were only starting in the kindergarten or first grade back in the early 40s. What does the election of a Democrat or two or three or more mean to Ne braska? This question is even more significant. The answer will probably never be com plete and can't even begin to be made until the Demos have a try at their new Jobs. Was tt Just time for a change? Did Nebraskans finally tire of a conservative Republican government which ran the economy platform into the ground? There isnt a single person in the state who can give you an honest or comprehensive an swer at this moment. It is certain that the few Democrats in power won't be able to make a great change in the state scheme of things dur ing the next two years. Republicans, as of now, are still very much in control of the strings throughout the state. Come next election end Nebraska will probably see one of the most interesting campaigns it has ever known. Republicans will be anxious to regain the ground they lost and Democrats will be enthusiastic to see con tinuance of the "trend" away from solid Republican conservatism in the state. More than 50 per cent of the persons who are now enrolled in the University of Nebraska will be eligible to vote in that next big election. That k one of the ma jor reasons why they should begin now to take a greater interest in the ways of gov ernment. Students and their counterparts would have enough votes in 1960 to swing the governor's election if it were as close as it is this year. One by one the votes could pile up to compose a powerful voice in Nebraska. In a way, it's kind of prophetic that the year of the establishment of a Young Democrats club at the University was the year for the Demos to break GOP's vise like grip on government posts. If any thing should serve as a spur to the Young Demos, it is the glimpse of victory the Democrats have known. The same elec tion results should likewise kindle more fire among the Young Republicans. Apathy is a term that may or may not be appropriate to use in describing many of Nebraska's past elections. One party power for long lengths of time sometimes breeds this. It seemed at times that this was occurring in Nebraska. Again, though, this is a thing we are too close to to clearly evaluate. But we most assur edly shouldn't see apathy in 1960. And we say, "Hurrah!" No Man Is an Island Robert E. Gordon, associate director of the Wesley Foundation on the University of Nebraska campus, is author of today's article. A student at the University of Minne sota composed the following prayer: Our God: In the next few minutes we want to find you to know that you are. Because of the hurry and worry of our lives here at the University, many of us apparently have felt that we do not need God any longer. We have gone on without having time for God, then suddenly we have found that there is a great emptiness in our lives. Suddenly, we ask: "What is it all about? Why go to school? Why live?" We discover we have no peace or rest; we discover that we need something else; we need insight and peace and calm; we need you, God . . . Make us awake. We want to live. We need you more than any genera tion ever has. Come down to us, 0 God, and we'll go up to you. Who of us does not feel this craving? And where can we find help in achieving for ourselves a more vital experience of the divine presence? Of necessity, an experience of God must be our very own never a duplicate of the experience of someone else. We can make use of some things in life at second hand. We can wear other people's clothes. Or we can give expression to their ideas. When it comes to finding God, we must do It for ourselves, In our own way, or we do not do it at all. Furthermore, finding God is largely a matter of letting God find us. Some times we talk about seeking God as though He were lost or hiding somewhere. But the plain truth is that God is not lost or playing hide-and-go-seek with us. God is here, where we are. Ii. order that we may be found of God, we need to remove any barriers that tend to shut God out. Sometimes these bar riers take the form of preoccupation with secular affairs, moral failures, intellec tual confusion, or emotional tangles. It these things be removed we can more readily make a response to God, who is continuously and patiently seeking us. There are certain areas of spiritual ex perience, common to almost everyone, by which many have found God. A trans forming experience of God, when it comes, is not something utterly new and strange. Rather, it is the discovery of new depth, new meaning, and new di mensions in experiences which we have been having all along, so that, like Jacob rising from sleep, we exclaim, "Surely the Lord is in this place; and I did not know it . . ." Finally, we should not become unduly disturbed because of the ebb and flow of religious emotions. Rather, we should give ourselves steadily to doing the things that God presumably wants done. There is something like a tide in our moods. A sense of God is at one time clear and at other times rather vague and unreal. When our mood is at its lowest, we can find encouragement in the Bible, whose writers lay stress on obedience to God's will. They see discipleship as not being dependent on intellectual acrobatics or on high-powered emotions. Action is the key word obeying God day after day. Let us be assured, then, that God is not far from any one of us. It is only our response to Him that is missing. From the Editor A Few Words of a Kind . . . c. c. hincs The W3!.ie mat 's out for nearly 700 Nebraska high school Journalists who are making a two-day visit at the University to think about the "Rewards of Journal Ism." I note that they come from 52 schools, including my alma mater Grand Island. The program is terribly impressive and indicates that the pros are ex tremely interested in the development of the next generation of professional reporters. Reporters and editors from some of the state's top dailies and professors from Journal ism school are all enthusiastically porting the convention. Journalism in high school was the first break for many of us who now labor on the Nebraskan. There was the mimeo graphed Junior high school paper, which must now be yellowing somewhere in my pile of things I decided long ago never to throw away, but the glossy papered Is lander was the big time. It's impossible to evaluate how much high school journal ism classes helped. There is no doubt, however, that it Is there that many begin s; J ' ). e.e. sup- to adopt or discard the idea of journal ism as a career. Reporting is a field in which you never gain perfection. One day's or one week's edition is no more than to the press when you have to begin thinking about the next day's. You learn very early that report ing isn't like the movies, which Is I be lieve the first thing that was told me by Arch Jarrell, editor of the Grand Island Daily Independent. (He's among those helping out with the convention.) Report ing also entails countless routine, what seems like endless rushing, and only now and then a by-line. The most valuable lesson you learn from working with good journalists and on reputable papers is that facts are sacred. You can't be continually careless or negligent in . gathering facts or you never get past calling the hospital for birth notices. But how did I get to that? This is sup posed to be a welcome, not a long disser tation on the practices and philosophy of journalism. Again, welcome to the high school journalists. And I'm sure they'll learn much from the convention. Jour nalists never stop discovering that there is more to learn. Daily Nebraskan IZXTY-EIGBT TEAKS OLD Member; Aeeuted Collerlate Frets Intercollegiate Prem SopratntatfYti National Advertising Berries, Incorporated Pobllahed at: Boom 24, Student Onion Lincoln, Nebraika 14th A E Ttm PJ3y (ftDmskM l publisha Meadar, Taesdas, reriaeeea nl Vri aurlns. Hi eeaeol year, unM fw-Snj nwthHH aae KM perleas, toy students of the tSnlvertlr? ef sHeraeke aniler Mm swthortretlmi M the Committee aa S.Jilmt Affairs a aa expressien of atu ens anloa. Fsfclkwtlna under the Hirts!lUa at taa Buheommlttee on Student Publications hall be free from al tonal easieanhlB aa la aart af In Subcommittee or aa tee part of any member of the faculty of the Unl varalty, Taa numbers of tba Nebraokan staff ara per- nnairjr rat noun! hla far what they aay, ar io or nun to aa artntea. rsbnjars f, Subscription rate are S3 per rrnM tar ar la far tha sVteaamle year. Entered seem eiai matter at tha post efflee la Uneola, (feeraak. ender taa act of aaaaet a. 111. EOITOBIAL BTAfr Bfltor , Ernest Hum Maaarlat Editor fleorre Moyar Renter Kraft Writer Kmmlr Mmpo Sport Filter landau Lambert Ce editor. Carroll Kreas, Diana Maxwell, Randra Holly. Oreteben aides. taff Writers Mondra Waalen, Write gmUBberfer. Staff rbotnrtaoner BUSINESS TAD' Business Manacer . Assistant Business Manerera fjharlena ilross. Norm Riihlfln fJIrralatloa Manaerer Jerry Trupp MartlFB Coffer, Mlnnette Taylor Jerry Pltntln .Ktan Katman, Conservative Estimate By John Hoerner Nebraskan Letterip Hurrah for the In-Effigy-Hangers, at the University of Houston that is. A sign on a dummy prom inently hanged at Houston U. "The coach : d o e s n 't need it, THIS IS THE STUDENT BODY!!" R easons given were failure to sup port the ral lys, failure to give support Hoerner at the games, and failure "to support a good football team in general. Well at last one mob of dummy builders placed the blame a little bit closer to the mark. One of the duties of the stu dent council is to serve as ballot validators or judges at campus elections. At the last election it seems that only four members out of 33 could make it. Senior Girls Gibbs Scliool Offers Two Scholarships Two national scholarships for college senior girls are offered for 1959-1960 by the Katharine Gibbs School. Each scholarship?' consists of full tuition ($785). for the secretarial training course, plus an additional cash award of $500, totaling $1,285. Win ners may select any one of the four Gibbs schools for their training Boston, New York, Montclair or Providence. Winners are chosen by the scholarship committee on the basis of college academic record, personal and char acter qualifications, financial need and potentialities for success in business. Students interested in com peting for one of the awards may obtain information from the business teachers educa tion department, Room 104, Teachers College. I Are the five "raiders" go i ing to be punished .... or is just one of them going to take I the rap for the rest? The Lin coln police evidently aren't I going to press charges. Really though it was kind i of funny, a!! that money and long hours of work going up 1 in flames. Really makes you laugh when you stop to think about it. I wonder though j if the four raiders who went free aren't laughing the loud- est of all. i ; Amidst the tremblings and ; shakings of falling organiza ! tions and activities a n e w -I comer rears its head. Name: Student Apathy and Parasite League. Meet ings are in the C rib on Wednesday night. Anyone in terested is eligible to join but there is only one catch . . . come to a meeting and you're automatically out. The campus beautification committee wants to remove the 27 parking spaces that block the view from Love Li brary to the coliseum "a nat ural Mall" they called it. This isn't terribly shocking until you hear the advance-advance planners discussing the removal of all parking on campus. Write your congressman or something before you come to class some morning and try to park in a reflecting pool with the goldfish or in a bed of flowering lobelia. see This question I hesitate to ask, it may cause some hurt feelings -or raise a lot of rab ble but here goes: "Why aren't there any windows in the back of the geography building? The Dsllr Nrbrasksa will rublisb only tksse letters which are sifnrd. Letters atlacklnr Individual, must carry the author's asme. Others may ase Initials or a pre asme. Letters should est exceed WO words. When letters exceed this limit the Nc hraiikaa reserves the rlfht Is con dense them, rrtsinlnl the writer s stem's. Queen Election The Nebraskan this week carried an article about the revision of the Honorary Com mandant election procedure. A vote of confidence should go to the ROTC department for allowing all-campus elections for this campus queen. More important, it is finally an end to the old idea that if the finalists for any event are released beforehand that there will be too much poli ticking. Now an interested student will be able to find out about the different final ists and when he goes to the polls he will be able to cast ! his vote intelligently. Hats off to the Military Ball ' committee and here is to the ; hope that some of the rest of the groups on campus use the ! same method. j Richard M. Tempero YWCA Chaplain Workshop Set A chaplain's w o r kshop, sponsored by YWCA, will be held Sunday at Rosa Bouton Hall. j Beginning at 2 p.m., the' workshop will feature Rev. i Rex Knowles who will discuss the promotion of religion on campus. The group will re view resources material for devotions and discuss prob lems and ideas. Refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome and chaplains of a 1 1 organized houses are particularly urged j to attend. ' NU Studying 13 Counties' Leisure Likes The University's Council i for Community Study is gath-, ering information about the leisure and recreational likes I and dislikes of residents of 13 ; Kansas and Nebraska coun- j ties. Questionnaires are being mailed to 4,000 residents! picked at random. Dr. "Rich-1 ard Videbeck, assistant pro-j fessor of sociology, and a crew of graduate students will visit the area next week to interview 100 to 125 indi viduals. ': The survey will attempt to determine what part Enders, Swanson and Strunk Lakes play in serving the recrea tional needs of the residents of the counties. From the sur-; vey, the University hopes to be able to suggest improve ments, value of the lakes for recreational purposes and the lakes' use. A $12,000 grant from the National Park Service and the National Bureau of Recla mation is financing the sur-: vey. AUF Support Panhellenic, speaking for the 15 member groups, pledges its full support to the Md. Parents, Teachers Hear Saylor sV "The first prerequisite in planning programs of educa tion for the new era is that we keep the doors of oppor tunity open to all children and youth." This was the opinion of Dr. Galen Saylor, treasurer of the National Congress of Par ents and Teachers and chair man of the University depart ment of secondary education. He spoke to the annual con vention of the Maryland Con cress of Parents and Tparh- ers in Baltimore, Md., Thurs day. Dr. Saylor suggested that a broad program be developed "with a varied approach to' learning, with the learning activities for each child geared to his own individual ized set of standards, so that he is called upon to stretch himself." All University Fund as it opens its drive on the Nebras ka campus. The worthwhile causes that j will be aided by these monies deserve our very real con cern and active effort. We in dividually pledge support and urge campus wide participa tion. The slogan of the campaign, "We are giving not to ALT but through AUF," has real meaning for every one of us. Here's hoping this will be an other huge success, i Panhellenic Executive Council LYNNE MEYERS MARILYN PICKETT NANCY PRESTON Democracy? Dear Sir: Is this or is this not a dem ocratic campus? We of the Women's residence Halls would like to express our doubts concerning this mat tor. Recently the question of elating dorm officers arose. We were told that, we could recommond nominees for of fices, which we did. However, the girls we recommended were not placed on the elec tion slate. We feel that this apparently deliberate neglect is due to prejudice on the part of housemothers, dorm coun selors and the dorm director! Who, by the way, are the ones who selected the girls for the election slate. We feel that our rights are being infringed upon. Every one should be able to nomin ate any person of their choice. 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