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The Doily Nebroskon
Monday, November 10, 1958
Editorial Comment
Coffee Diplomacy
A recent visitor to the University re
marked that when tours were being
planned for Russian students last year,
offers poured in from colleges and univer
sities to host these students. And yet, she
continued, at many of these same "schools,
dozens of international students were al
ready in attendance but were lost in the
shuffle of anonymity on campus.
Frequently this is the story at Nebras
ka, but occasionally a bright spot appears
in the picture. One of the brightest is an
event known as the annual International
Friendship Dinner, held last Friday in the
Union ballroom. Of the 300 persons who
attended, about half were international
students, in whose honor the dinner was
held.
Events like this and the annual Mortar
Board tour in the spring when interna
tional students are shown around the
state can go a long way toward bettering
the relations between the foreign student
and the native-born one. However,
planned programs, large organized efforts
and specialized events for the foreign stu
dents fall far short of really integrating
them into campus life.
The foreign student on the .Nebraska
campus is not an isolated individual,
forced to cling to a group composed only
of students from other countries. Far
Effigies Everywhere
Many Nebraskans a few days ago were
very excited about a half-hearted hanging
in effigy of football coach Bill Jennings
after the Huskers loss to Missouri. Xo
one got terribly excited, which was ap
propriate in the light of the almost uni
versal belief that Jennings is doing the
best he can with his thin ranked squad.
A glance through other college papers
indicates that coaches effigies haven't
been confined to the Lincoln campus this
season. A letter to the editor writer at
Iowa State stated:
"The past few weeks of this football sea
son contained some of the most exciting
athletic contests in the history of the
game, especially in the Big 10 Conference.
They also contained some of the most de
plorable student actions!
'A few weeks ago, a fine hard fighting
Michigan team suffered a surprising loss
to another Big 10 powerhouse. Michigan
coach Bennie Oosterbaan was then hanged
in effigy!
"This past week-end. Northwestern
humbled mighty Ohio State with a con
vincing 21-0 defeat Ohio State coach
Woody Hayes was then hanged in effigy!
"Such insults are regarded, presum
ably, as a means of informing a coach
that his team's fans are not satisfied with
his work. Both of the previously men
tioned coaches have fine records. Ooster
baan was 'Coach of the Year in 1948.
His team won Rose Bowl games in 1948
and 1951 and have had impressive records
in recent years. Hayes was last year's
'Coach of the Year.' His teams w on Rose
Bowl games in 1950, 1955 and 1958. Are we
to believe that a coach must have the
conference championship each year in
order to keep his self-respect ?
"In this writer's opinion, the actions of
the few students participating in the hang
ings show immature disrespect and the
.ultimate in poor sportsmanship. The ac
tions were certainly uncalled for and we
hope they do not reflect the feelings of the
rest of the student bodies at the two
schools."
Kansas State's college paper, mean
while, reported that five effigies appeared
on the campus during a five day period.
One of the last two hanged represented
the alumni for their lack of support of
the football team. The other represented
football coach Bus Mertes, presumably
because of his team's poor won-lost
record. The Kansas State Collegian said
this represented the fourth time this year
that Mertes had been hanged in effigy
and was the sixth effigy episode there this
year. Athletic director Be be Lee was re
portedly hanged last month. In addition,
Mertes also was hanged once last fall.
A front page head on a short report of
the latest effigy hangings there said very
simply, "Ho Hum Another Effigy." And
that is about the most appropriate re
sponse one can make to students who feel
inspired to dangle a crude effigy from a
tree. One wonders how many more trees
would have to be planted on campus if
every student who made a poor scholastic
showing were hanged from a tree by his
professors.
Individual Staff Views
By George Mover
mi
Mayer
If the campus beaulification committee
really wants some good ideas, they ought
to take a hint from a really experienced
campus beautifier.
It's pretty hard to improve on mother
nature and her riot of fall .
colors. A walk north,
along 12th St toward the
pillars should be enough
to send Larry Novkki and
company scurrying back
the their planning boards
bubbling over with inspir
ation. And speaking M ideas
for ike committee, why
mt eliminate the twa fae-
slty parting areas behind the library
ceBvert the whole stretch into mall?
There is one mall in front the Coli
seum now and another behind the library
would make everything symmetrical or
some thing.
Another high school group has just left
the campus. This time our weekend vis
iters were prep journalists from all over
the state.
During their convention here, I was
obliged to help judge some at the contests.
Some of the kids knew pretty much what
they were doing but most of them had
little or so idea of even the bare rudi
ments of journalism which I have been
able to pick up.
Jmt to set the record straight, I have
fcad n!y e very elementary earse in
journal! ni and my professional exper
ience estskie f the DaHy Nebraska! to
limited to one summer on a weekly and
some scattered articles for the Norfolk
Daily News.
This obviously doesn't make me much
of an expert on journalism. Nevertheless,
it doesn't take much experience to see
that most of Nebraska's high school jour
nalists try hard but miss the boat by a
country mile.
The reason? Well, their teachers are
often English majors who have had very
little experience in journalism and all too
little in English.
Moreover, the kids have a full schedule
of classes and activities to keep them busy
without their high school newspaper
which consequently gets shorted when it
comes to their time and effort.
And why shouldn't it? After all, jour
nalism is a technical profession that more
and more is requiring its members to
have several years of training before they
tod professional employment.
So why spend all that time in high
school on journalism? Why not spend it
preparing would be journalists for their
college training in their chosen profes
sion? Why not give them the f nod a mentals of
their trade: the abOity to spell, the ability
to write complete sentences, the ability to
command their language and the two
most valuable assets of a good journalist,
intellectual curiosity and basic integrity?
Of course, these are why's nearly every
school board in the state has been asking
its superintendent of schools for the last
ten years.
They have yet to get a logical answer.
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from it. However, neither is he a fully ac
cepted member of the campus commu
nity. The fault here lies mainly with the
community, which in general tends to
segregate the international student, to
lump him with all the students from other
countries, rather than assessing each on
his own merits. Generally he is taken
simply as a "foreign student."
With ferment swirling in the Middle
East, India and Asia, most of us still wend
our carefree way around the campus,
blissfully ignorant of what is really hap
pening in these vital parts of the world.
Foreign students all over the nation have
complained that they find it difficult to
discuss international affairs with the
American student. Why? Because the av
erage student here is so startlingly ig
norant of anything that is happening not
only beyond the boundaries of his own
country, but even beyond the city limits of
his own town.
And yet, much can be learned painless
lyover the coffee cup. We're not doing
the international student a favor when we
sit down and try to learn something from
him about his homeland. Coffee cup di
plomacy could do a great deal to erase
both some of our ignorance and some of
the foreign student's feeling of strange
ness here.
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Shakespeare Lives On
At University Theatre
Campus Grins
Skeleton in Wrong Closet
Recalls 1874 KU Prank
At University Theatre the bigger than normal number The Daily Kansan reports , ion elevators are designed to
play's the thing. of persons try out for roles. 'a skelton that seems to be in hold about 1,00 pounds. The
And. in spite of the fact that And he says that acting in ; the wrong closet. j lb griaaers toiauea 3,161
we're living in an age of for-! one of these is probably the And it isn't the first time a ! pounds,
ward looking cars and mass j best training a young actor1 a skeleton has disappeared!
communications, the magic j can have. j from the Kansas University k w K
name doesn't belong to an up ! But back to the popularity i scene. Back in 1874 another Qn FoolballcFS
to the minute Beat Genera-; of Shakespeare. His drawing ' skeleton was lowered through
tionist or playwright in t h e power attracted students not the uncompleted roof of Unri.iL I fn' r.inin
"Cat on the Hot Tin Roof " only from this University and ! building into a group of fac- -l UrtIH"
tradition. other schools in Lincoln. buti"lty and students attending
Here in Lincoln, nearly 350 : 25 other Nebraska high chapel exercises,
vears after his death. Shake-! schools and a group from; The 1958 version of the
"speare's name is the one most ; Tarkio, Mo. missing skeleton is a $150
likely to assure a filled' That was for "Merchant of;sPecimen smuggled from the
theatre. This isn't scholarly ( Venice," which toured to Mc-1 anatomy laboratory.
conjecture, either. The atten-, Cook to set an attendance rec
dance records prove it. i ord in the school's large new
Merchant of Venice", the : auditorium. In addition, it
University Theatre's opening played at Linem Air force
production this year, broke case and ended up with a
neany nnea auaience aespue
all attendance records as a
total of 1,444 crowded the
theatre during the play's four-
night stand. This new record
was set in spite of numerous
conflicting activities that
week, including an ever pop
ular migration to Boulder,
Colo.
lack of advance publicity
there. Airmen would wander I
in the auditorium to see what
was going on and then end up
staying to the final curtain.
The list of Shakespeare
plays that have been pre
sented during Williams'
reign ?t University Theatre
The Tempest,
Gills seems to be in danger
of losing their lofty position
in the world of football at
Iowa State, that is.
A front page article in the
Friday Iowa State Daily head-
Freshmen don't get away lines: "Dr. Forker Protests
with a thing at Wake Forest p0wder Bowl: 'Girls Not Con
College, according to a recent stnieted for Football.' " Dr.
report in the Old Gold and Barbara Forker is head of
u . . . , . the women's physical educa
The other day a freshman ,,n3rt mpnt
I coed w as apologizing f o r a ! . .
comment which had irritated
Dr. Dallas Williams.
theatre director, said this fie-1 include: 1 1
ure well exceeded the 1.301 1 "O t h e 1 1 o," Midsummer
who took in "Teahouse of the Night's Dream." "Twelfth
August Moon" last vear. And Night," "The Taming of the
what did "Teahouse", the for-, Shrew," "King Lear." "Mac
mer record holder outdraw to beth," and "Merchant of Ven-
an upperclassman.
j "After all," she said. "I'm
only a green freshman."
This did not stem the tide
of wrath.
1 "Freshman is quite enough.
You needn't say 'green.'
i There's no need to be redun
: dant."
The article said "an ob
jection to the Phi Delta The.
ta's Powder Powl was sub
mitted in tfc form of a letter
yesterday to Millard Krato
chivl, director of student af
fairs. "She based her objections
on the injuries which occur
red at the game Sunday . . .
Dr. Forker complained about
the Powder Bowl last year
and earlier this year. r,he
ice.
A symbolic logic class at
the University of Texas was
listening to the prof give
specific instances to Drove his added that she refused to al-
Other of his plays that Wil-, points. low the games to be played
liams is considering produc-, -por example, we know on the women's intramural
ing are the first part of;that if we see Greek ietters fidd cause of injuries su
"Henry 1 in wnicn t aistatt . somewhere we know that
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century piawrigni io oUl oi , men nave Deen mere." A housemother, several of
the three top attractions at About Nothing One trouble j .-If Robinson Crusoe had ho charire were tnliirei!
.... Tu,.,n c i r. ;t 1 ie that it's hard to find some-1 .... .u j wnose cnarges were mjurea,
isiuvcisiiT iikoui a i v v ii . ----- i seen urceK leueib in uie sanu i;-n--A k.
place number one? "Nothing
other than another tf Mr.
Shakespeare's works, "King
Lear."
That gives the 16th-17th
was enlarged and remodeled one who can play Falstaff . r on isian ,e was isolated
in 1954. What's even more 1 he same aimeuuj nas Pre- 0n and had taken this course.
impressive, according to Dr. j vented mm irom praeuuug ne
Williams, is that m the pen- j Hamlet.
od before the expansion
Shakespeare was top drawer
too.
Dr. Williams, connected
with the campus theatre since
1944. said "Macbeth" was the
pre-1954 leader. Greatly im-
pressea wiui me mieresi
tion'
dav.
Lettcrip
with Dr. Forker Tues-
would have been excited: "-"R-
I he would have known there aPPa appa uamm. noose
(were men on the island," the molher' complained that the
professor said. game was too rough. Among
A class member had an ad- the injuries mentioned were
ditional observation: "I'll bet a broken nose, two black eyes
in
Grateful Greeks
We would like to take this
Shakespeare's plays, he says ; opportunity to express our
he believes it s because mere i appreciation to all the otner
is "someuung in nis plays tor : sororities and fraternities on . players
everyone." ! ramnne fnP tht,ir v,elD and ! for too
There S the dueling, light- r . . . . , T, i huddle last wek. although it
f i r v in iifiii iii i riiiiuii ij ii t
Homecoming display last
week.
and two cracked ribs."
Dr. John Grant, director of
the college hospital, "termed
the Powder Bowl 'one of the
The Minnesota Daily re- things that can be done with
ports that 16 Gopher football ouf and said it isn't worth
he'd have been even more ex
cited if the Greek latters were
Kappa Kappa Gamma."
were not penalized
much time in the
the
ing. murdering, loving, mad
ness in Shakespeare's plays
that mark and make many of
today's most popular plays, j We are particularly grate-1 tor stranded between first Iowa State Daily quoted Grant
).UU3 llicv aillilUKXic: nonliv
ing." The "director said, "Ac
tors never seem to tire of
took them 30 minutes to call
a play that would free them
from a Student Union eleva-
the chance of a serious Injury
He said that one woman is
still troubled by a knee injury
from last year's game. She
had to have an operation." the
playing in Shakespeare be-!
ful to the Sig Alphs for their
having tried to extinguish our
fire.
cause the more they stud v:. cooperauon is cer-
their parts the more t h e y : f"Jy a? "ample of the won
find. His plavs aren't like dLerfuJ ffhn? and unity of
many which you can block! the Greeks on the University
out and characterize in fouriof Nebraska campus. Since
or five days and then forget i Homecoming is such a com-
hniit You're a wavs f nd n? peuuve acuvuy, we ieei max
and second floors.
The players had boarded
j the elevator after eating at
! their training table on the
tthird floor.
I "Overloading" caused the
j incident, the janitor said. Un
as saying.
"Chairman of the Powder
Bowl Eldon Greiman said that
the Phi Delts realize that
some changes must be made
in the rules so the game won't
be so conducive to injuries."
something new in Shake
speare.
When one of W. S.'s plays
reach the casting stage, Wil
Lams says that he finds a
the cooperation shown be
tween the Greeks is s o m e
thing of which the University
should be especially proud.
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