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Page 2 Editorial Comment- University Funds The Daily Nebraskon More and more money is one of the ma jor demands of a growing and healthy school, just as the demand for more and more food characterizes the healthy child. Nebraskans are faced with bigger school bills now if the funds requested by the Uni versity and other state colleges are ap proved. The attention demanding question now, is whether the governor and the aext Legislature will consider that the proposed budgets of NU. are justified. At this eariy stage of the budget game little is really known about it other than it would require $5.8 million more in state property taxes and that the major portion of this is supposed to be used to increase salaries and wages of University person nel. For low many moons the Nebraskan and countless other papers have been de claring that pretty buildings do not a uni versity make. Before the budget has been thoroughly discussed it seems appropriate to repeat this phrase. Buildings and fa cilities are fine but mean little unless highly qualified instructors dwell within and competent personnel are maintained to keep them in tip-top shape. The University of Nebraska loses many good instructors because of the present middle rank salaries which are paid in structors and professors. They are not re ceiving poverty wages but at the same time their income often doesn't compare with the salaries of their contemporaries in competing schools. If any reason can be given for asking more money it is to enable the University to keep hold of its present high grade instructors and at tract more from other schools whch re fuse to compensate the deserving instruc tor. Interestingly enough, Gov. Victor An derson announced several months ago that he felt the University budget would have to be increased in order to boost University personnels' salaries and wages. Gov.-Elect Ralph Brooks has not yet publicly stated his stand on the issue but as an educator it is hoped that he will take the initiative to lead the fight for other teachers. The Nebraskan will attempt to follow the burt issue closely and present ma terial which will help explain the needs for an expanded University budget. Individual Staff Views By Diana Maxwell Diana Had to rent an adding machine yester day. Didn't want to, but when the columns of figures take three pages to put down, what'rt you gonna do. It all started very simply. I thought I'd mrxe gage comments on the Tassel decision to ap point a committee to study Homecoming Queen procedures. Great, I said. But minds wander and typewriters have a nasty . habit of not producing what you want them to say. The keys kept wanting to record things about other queens and pretty soon the carriage was whizzing back and forth with nothing but lists of the royalty on campii. Eee gads, said I? Can it be? . "Oh, we nominated a Ham Queen yes terday," piped one small voice. "And there's always The Girl Most Likely to Stop the big bad nasties on the gridiron," came another shriek across the office. It became a game. The Cornhusker, I find, records 14 major queens. Others are relegated to small portions within sponsor ing organizations' sections or headlines in the Rag. A quick list brooght 47 queens to the fore, counting of course the sweetheart chosen by all fraternities. Well, now says I . . . where there's a queen, or a miss, or a sweetheart, there's usually also about four princesses, attendants, runners-up, ladies-in-waiting, chains of ivy and daisy, finalists, semi-finalists, etc., etc., etc. Another quick tabulation by now the adding machine was needed definitely showed that In the finalist category for these campus honors, the totals run to about 100. Whee says I. New political motto lor every head a crown. Splendid place this. Now, if there are around a hundred damsels in the finals for Ihese things, good night how many candidates must there have been? The adding machine broke down at this point and refused to divulge any more information. It gave its last chug, scrunch and click at about the 400 mark. Let's attack this from another angle, said I. Where there's a candidate, there's usually a sponsor. Let's ask, I thought. Another quick survey indicated almost unanimous agreement from my Greek friends that at least once a week they nominate someone for something. Then out came my fourth grade multi plication training. 16 weeks in a semester; 15 ssrorities; 3 independent houses. 16 times 20 equals 320 candidates per se mester. (Well, even if they skipped a week or two now and then lets say 250 just for round numbers.) Only one comment was left good grief! From the Editor A Few Words of a Kind . . . e. e. hines 1 u jo a e.e. I cant recall a single Christmas sea son during my stay at the University in which a number of people didn't feel it appropriate to complain about Mickey Mouee Christmas decorations and their appearance on the streets long before the big day arrived. Some of these folks who scream let's keep Santa Claus out of children' imaginations invariably inquire, "Are we trying to make Walt Disney God?" I alio noticed the Mickey Mouse displays, chuckled and forgot about K. For a long while I felt that perhaps my oddities made me indifferent. Christ mas music of the jolly variety has al ways been welcome listening to me in December or July. And when it comes to carols, I feel even stronger about ap preciating them, winter or summer. Aft er all, if Christ Is the reason for Christ mas He is likewise the reason for Chris tianity and folks ought to be happy to sing about His birth everyday of the year. O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Away in a Manger" have a certain magic no matter when I hear them be cause of what they stand for and not just because they are most frequently sung at yuletide time. Then to answer the complaints about stores sticking Christmas toys and decor ations on their shelves for Christmas No. 2 before No. 1 even seems over. The big gest event of the year for children, if they haven't changed in the last 15 years be cause of exposure to excess radiation, is when the stores open up their Christmas toy departments. A youngster won't give up pleading with his folks until they con sent to let him see the toy displays. May be this is a corrupt materialistic drive which has filtered down to six and seven-year-olds, but looking at toys is still fun. It's fun for people six or sixty-six and lots more to boot. Young men think how Roy Rogers like they would look with that plastic handled 45 Colt junior complete with two rolls of caps never to be fired when dad is sleep ing. Girls picture themselves as auto matic angels of mercy the moment they can possess that nurse's set with six bot tles of pills which cure almost all candy hunger pangs known oi earth. Older people think how different toys are from the time when a stick was their rifle, airplane, car. ship or what have you, and then wonder what will come next. The biggest thing to complain about should not be the early appearance of Christmas decorations but the late ap pearance and early departure of the Christmas spirit. Tlie weather the last two days is one of the things which makes living in Nebras ka worthwhile. Just when you have, re signed yourself to perpetual cold, spring like weather appears. 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Nrhraika. andr tha art af aafiut 4. mil. y BOITOKJAL iimtr falior , Enwx Hlart Manatlnf Fdltflt , cirorite Mutrr '"'' maff Mrltar r.mmlr l imp.. fftat Randall Lamhrrt tan Kdltora ... Carroll Kratii, lllana Maiwrll. andra ruilly, Gratrhra Sldn. atari wrftrra nndr Whalra, Wyna Rmlthbrnrr. taff rhnlofranlaw . BisitEM rrrr Riitm Manager Av ml HtiHtnma Manaarra. Marllr (nffry. Mlnnrlta Taj lot society, will be tonight at 8 in the Nebraska Theatre.' 1 th' woer even tepeep meaner of th1 whole fACULTY HE' MUStf IN A 0AO MOO&" LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS l 4. 7h WJ3:.r t It 111 ' Wednesday, December 3, 1958 Second Foreign ftlpvie Tonight "Rouge Et Noir," the sec-, The French fUm stars Dan .... I mile Darrieux and Gerard ond presentation of the film ,i pnuipe. it js an adaptation of Stendahl's classic and will be shown in technicolor. (Bt (At Author of "Ratty Round the Flag, Boyd "and, thru the peep-hole BY DICK TEMPERO "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way . . ." That's right kids, only 19 shopping days 'til Christmas so let's plane for Russia, and more troubles over Berlin all hap pened during vacation. Events in the outside world are so numerous any more that it all dash out and buy all the ; Is hard to keep up with them. S needed yule tide k n i c k knacks. It is giauijiug w ar - note that the.1 U n i v e rsity ' A- f wauea unui - r after Thanks giving to put the lights or the Admin; Hall tree it only some of the other people could strain themselves! Pill Tempero I The basketball team started off what could be a fine win jning season last evening in I convincing fashion with an . 85 to 44 win over Northwest I Missouri State. Led by the ; Indiana flashers, Turner and 'Maxey, the team displayed some good all around depth which looked stronger than what we have had in the past. The Big 8 got off the ground with three wins in four games con-1 looks like it will be just as ! tough as always. It seems any more that the Couldn't pass up the chance; stores downtown barely get j to go to Omaha and see "South ! the gifts ott tne sneives tor pacific" over vacation. The one year before they put them ; Cooper Theatre is truly one of back up for the next. And! the nicest that I have seen speaking of Christmas re- j here in the Midwest. Todd-Ao minds me that the University : is a good change of pace even Singers are singing their an-! though j doubt that it revo nual Christmas Carol Concert lutionizes the movie industry, this Sunday. This traditional j As for the show, It was a spec musical is always a joyous j tacular in the style reminis musical experience and one cent of the late Mike Todd, well-worth attending. j About the only thing I objected The possibility of a new j to was the infernal color trial for Fugate, Grandsingcr! changes that persisted on tak freed, an atomic powered ;lng place. THE GIFT HORSE I know how busy you are-studying, going to c!a, catching night crawlers-but let me interrupt your multifarious activi ties studying, going to class, helping old grads find their dentures after Homecoming-to remind you that busy as you are-studying, going to class, searching for meat in the dormi tory stew-time anil tide wait for no man, and the Yuletide will soon be upon us. Busy or not, we must turn our thoughts to Christmas shopping. Let us, therefore, pause for a moment in our busy schedules studying, going to class, rolling drunks to examine a number of interesting gift suggestions. We will start with the hardest gift problem of all: Yht do you give to the perso who has even-thing? Well sir, there fol lows a list of a half dozen gifts which I will flatly guarantee tho p reon w ho has everything does not have: 1. A dentist's trhair. 2. A low hurdle. 3. A street map of Perth. 4. Fifty pounds of chicken fat. 5. A carton of filter-tip Marlboro. 6. A carton of non-filter Philip Morris. "What?" you exclaim, your young eyebrows rising 5n wild incredulity. "The person who has everything does not have eartons of filter Marlboro and non-filter Philip Morris?" you hriek, your young lips curling mockingly. "What arrant non sense!" you rasp, making a coarse gesture. And I reply with an emphatic no! The peison who has every thing does not have filter Marlboros and non-filter Philip Morris not for long anyhow because if he has Marllxiros and Philip Morris and if he is a person who likes a mild, mellow, fresh, flavorful cigarette ami who does not? eh? who does not? why, then he doesn't have Marlboros and Philip Morris: lie smokes them. He might possibly have a large collection of Marlboro and Philip Morris hvttn, but uhoU Marlboros and Philip Morris? No. An emphatic wo.' Now we take up another thorny gift problem: What do you buy your girl if you are broke? Quite a challenge, you will agree, but there is an answer an ingenious, exciting answer! tsurpriso your girl with a beautiful bronze heail of herself! Flickering Art By John West "Mardi Gras," the latest of- and long to find a better or ferine of 20th Century, is cur- j more stunnine iob of motion 1CLS Pture photography than that j ai "'".Ti "'a"- "for the William Wyler-Greg-i are still Interested in clean ory Peck production of .Tlfe ; wholesome (so-called f a m-, Big Country Tne fine mus. . j ily") entertainment. ; ical score for that film is also ; After the seemingly endless i worthy of strong nomination, j j slrin& ot drug-addiction, pre- J And if performance be-' version and insanity themes, fore tne cameras deserVes a' 10 wnicn nun duuiocc nave snouted p r a j s e nere.s tnat been exposed in r e c e n t and a low bow to Susan Hay. imomns, me puauie, aim in ward for her shockinlv , 0UVVVkl0 Wa, V J-ra. v - - I i mere I Mtaaaai aBBaaaw 111 ft. J Oh, I know you're not a oulptor, but that doesn't matter. All you have to do is endear yourself to your girl's roommate, so she will be willing to do you a favor. Then some night when your girl is fast asleep, have the roommate butter yoiir girl's face quietly, so as not to wake her and then quietly pour plaster of Paris on top of the butter and then quietly wait till it hardens and quietly lift it off the butter will keep it from sticking -and then bring you the mold, and you will pour bronze in it and make a beautiful bust to surprise your girl with I Remember, it is important irry important-to endear your self to the roommate, l?eaue if anything should go wrong, you don't want to be without a girl for the holiday season. I9.,g Mil Shtilmaa Your gift problem U no problem if you will give Marlboro to your niter tmoking Mends and Philip Morris to your non filter smoking friends. Both come in soft pack or flip-top box; both are made by the sponsor of this column. SARTORS 1200 "O" par- Clrrulatlua Maoaftr. ,. Jrr ariirmin .Mian Halman. ( harlrnt Or.iu, Norm K..hlfln ivrri Trupa istic portrava of Barhara Photographed partly on lo- Graham, in her last h o ur s cation in New Orleans and ! before execution, in Walter at the Virginia Military Insti- Wanger's shocker, "I Want to tute, the Cinemascope and ; Live." film ittnulnal nrpcntc thr " combined talents of Pat KJW) Boone, Tommy Sands, Sheree North, and Gary Crosby. W Romping through a pretty silly story, they make it at g all times pleasant and enter- taining. But the real laurels' belong to Fred Clark, of the fi thinned thatch, and newcom- 2 er, Christine Carere. Clark's K take-off of a coniving Holly-! wood publicity man is not only $ hilarious, but realistic. ; French import, Christine Ca- S rere, as with her recent per- formance in "A Certain Smile," beguiles with one K blink of her big brown eyes, $ and this time shows herself to be a deft comedienne. w The young Crosby, by the way, mugs with all the ? adeptness demonstrated by his father for the last 25 years. I Producer, Jerry Wald mayr$ again chalk up another click, f in the tradition of his "Peyton i Place" and "In Love and i War." S The recent passing of Ty- rone Power was a consider- able loss to the industry as. unlike the case of many of the other glamour boys, he happened also to be a partic- S uiuiiy line auw . He was equally at home as the romantic hero of numer ous pictures (Suez, Jessee James, The Prince of Foxes); the surprising villain in "Wit ness for the Prosecution;" and In the heavy drama of the theatre's "John Brown'i Body." He will be missed! ! Of course, it's much t o o early to even think of t h i s g year's Academy Award win- S v , . . ... v. : 1 it. .a t. ners. tint, let h e saiu uiai .j Source of greatest . glee on any Christmas tree . . , A WED-LOK ensemble 4 4f A 4- MK tM - "V- iaelvaa a- 1 Select your diamond from a large stock of unmounted diamonds 2. You see your diamond under magnification with an explanation or what constitutes the price of 0 diamond. 3. Your diamond comes direct from our cutter in Africa. 4 W aure.diaimxopd xPert Performing a service for you in order that vou aet the best for vour mnnev 1 'uu , ; one would have to look hard