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The Dailv Nebroskan
Mondoy, December 15, 1958
Editorial Comment-
Best Foot Forward
The University's best foot goes forward
at this season of the year. And it was a
well polished foot Sunday as Earl Jenkins
directed his first presentation of Handel's
Messiah.
Handel's oratio was impressive as al
ways," and as always, a large crowd of
Lincoln and campus inhabitants turned
out to hear the 500 student performers
combine their talents. Last Sunday, Uni
versity Singers drew above capacity
crowds to their annual Christmas Carol
program. Thursday Madrigals are more
than likely to do the same at their addition
to the campus Christmas atmosphere.
This kind of spontaneous public relations
probably does as much as all the efforts
of George Round's official PR department
to enchance the University in the eyes of
the community.
Page one today tells of another phase of
this foot forward air that spreads around
the campus this time every year. Practi
cally every organized group on campus
gives a party for orphans, buys gifts for a
needy family, or takes gifts to children in
hospitals. And for once, it is not done for
the publicity that might ensue.
Caroling comes into vogue, and city old
people's homes, hospitals and orphanages
are deluged by offers from campus groups
to come and entertain. In going to these
places, the typically blase college student
can let down a few pretenses of ulta
sophistication and sing the songs he
learned in the little church at home.
It is refreshing (and fortunate that it
comes annually) to find the students show
ing themselves to the community and the
state in this favorable, and unplanned
fashion.
From the Slot
With the Christmas season upon us, the
office is full of plans for little gifts and big
parties.
Along about this time of year, one of the
more pleasant duties of the managing edi
tor arises. It is traditional
that the slot man, who
has passed out little but
acid comments and head
lines to be written during
the semester, should step
out of character for one
day and pass out the pres
ents at the Nebraskan
Cornhusker Chrl stmai
party.
The one hitch this year
Is that at 155 lbs., I make
p rather disillusioning Santa Claus.
However there is a member of my im
mediate family who will make a perfect
old St. Nick. Cousin Morris Morgan
"Butch" Moyer, tips the scales at a
Christmasy 250 lbs., all crowded onto a
5'9" frame. Not only that, his eyes twinkle
too.
M
Moyer
The motto of the family is "A Moyer for
every occasion."
The student loan system proposed by the
National Defense Education Act of 1958
sounds like a really constructive program.
If the Board of Regents can see their
way clear to provide matching funds fpr
those offered by the federal government,
the step should help alleviate a need long
felt in Nebraska for really top flight teach
ing personnel.
The act provides that one tenth of the
original loan will be cancelled for each
year recipients teach in public secondary
by George Moyer
and primary schools'up to a maximum of
five years.
This is quite an inducement. Under such
a system, a student -in Teachers College
could get half of his or her college educa
tion free.
Moreover, special consideration will be
given to students with skill in math,
science, modern and foreign languages
and teaching techniques. This places
heavy emphasis on the areas of the high
school curriculum that this column has
long advocated stressing.
The' only catch to the plan right now is
that the legal position of the University
may not allow it to provide matching state
funds. The University's legal staff is now
investigating the pros and cons of this pos
sibility. If the lawyers decide that the present
laws of the state won't allow the accept
ance of the federal loan funds, the Uni
cameral should take steps to see that
these laws or policies are changed.
Conservative policies Vhen it comes to
federal aid to education are laudable in
view of the controls federal gigantomania
tend to impose on local government. But,
where primary and secondary education is
concerned, Nebraska has dug itself into a
big hole.
It is a hole that must be filled if the
state's reputation for endowing its chil
dren with their educational birthright is
to remain respectable.
It will be "up to the vigilance of the peo
ple v and their elected representatives to
prevent federal control from extending
beyond the limits prescribed by good
taste and the American ideal of local independence.
From the Editor
A Few Words of a Kind
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Appointments will be the end of me. For
years I have placed great faith in a mind
that always (or nearly always) carried me
to a designated spot at a designated time
to see a designated person. None of these
Builders Calendars for
me, was my attitude.
But now ... this is the
time my faith has begun
to falter In the sureness of
my memory. Everytime I
walk into someone's of
fice they seem to ask,
"Say where were you?"
Then conies a long com
ment on my shortsighted
ness in overlooking an ap
Dointment made for a cer
tain minute in a certain hour several
weeks earlier. None of the appointments,
of course are my idea. .
Appointments usually begin with a note
on an advisors door or with a card or com
ment from an instructor. So one day when
I do walk proudly up to the office door of
a person to see about this or that desig
nated purpose, what happens? I find I am
on time but a note tells me that the per
son had another urgent meeting or be
came ill the day before. I trot away think
ing how bad things like this are . . . com
pletely upsets my schedule. And before. I
walk out the door I check a bulletin board
to review the time when my meeting with
another advisor is. The board tells me it
was 11 a.m. the day before.
One fellow was telling me how he had
had such a bad run of "missed appoint
ments. "People kept dragging into my of-,
fice late all day. It .was terrible." He went
on to add that missed appointments
seemed to indicate a gross irresponsibil
. . . e. e, hines
ity except in the case of women who "you
always expect to be 10 or 15 minutes late,
anyway."
I sat listening with a sort of glowing
pride for he was one of the few souls who
could never accuse me of being late for
one of his appointments. But then I hap
pened to recall a comment written by an
author in the 19th century, even before
things got as bad as they are. People used
to miss a weekly stagecoach without the
slightest irritation, the author had writ
ten, but now they nearly go into hysterics
when someone is five minutes late. This
made me think of how more and more
punchclock like my life and the life of
those about me is becoming. I think I
changed the subject.
Bob Ireland, Jim Harpstreith, Terry
Mitchem and Barbara Michelmann, the
four new Phi Beta Kappas who I know,
certainly dispell the myth that a PBK is a
bore who may be great in history class
but a bungler in society. They are all sur
prisingly human and well adjusted. Bob
tells me he is even an athlete.
I vote the following as the funniest joke
I've read for weeks:
"The train was speeding toward its des
tination when a man rushes into the club
car and yells, 'Has anybody here got some
whiskey? A woman in the next car just
fainted.'
"Another person pulled forth a pint bot
tle and gave it to the man. The man un
capped the bottle and took a hurried gulp.
'It certainly disturbs me when I see a
woman faint,' he said. Then he capped the
bottle, returned it to the owner and walked
out."
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The Briar Patch
By R. M. Ireland
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Ireland
I have just discovered that
I have an extra rib which un
doubtedly means I am des
tined to establish a new, more
invigorating race of living
things.
Some day
when I wake
up in my
cave room
and light tho p
stubby candle
which pro
vides me with
what little il
lumination I
n e e d, I will
d i s c o ver a
new creature has been formed
overnight from my rib.
Soon more " of these living
things will occur and we will
form a cult.
By next semester we will
have multiplied so much that
we will have become a threat
to the AFL-CIO faction in
Roca.
Eventually we will be a
strong, powerful, and myster
ious clique although we will
paint no sidewalks nor send
roses to 4-H queens.
And then, with fire in our
eyes, resolution in our hearts,
ana swords buckled to our
sides, we will strut down to
campus, throw open the glass
doors of the Administration
Building and nerform a conn
d'etat in. the Registrar's Of-
tice.
There w ill be no bloodshed
only a few broken pencils, and
burned downslips together
with ripped manuscripts and
shredded drop sheets.
And then, after my new
race has dissolved the powers
that be, we will eliminate the
alphabet, classes, chicken
gumbo soup, and Santa Claus.
We will write "Humbug"
on all blackboards, sorority
bedroom doors, and lavatory
ceilings.
We will outlaw all Christmas
presents.
We will eliminate morning
so that everyone can be hap
py. And above all, we will make
everyone drive small, foreign
cars so that more parking
space can be had.
Saturday saw the opening of
the first annual Sigma Chi
parlor games in the field and
on the track. And after the
smoke had cleared and the
dust had fallen we discov
ered that we have in our fra
ternal order one man who can
run the mile, two others who
can run, and twenty-five peo
ple whose legs have no use
other than for normal, every
day functions.
If the United States is de
pendent on performers such
as we Russia will win the
Olympics in 1960 and T. Sloan
and I will provide sawdust
for some forlorn pole vaulting
pit.
Indian Yoga
By C. S. Krishnaswami
If
About a year back a team
of medical experts from
America visited India to study
the reactions in the brain dur
ing performance of yogi ex
ercises. Their w: ' jsKMtiL
repon snouia
make a very
i n t e resting
reading.
Since com
ing over here,
the writer
has seen
some pictures
of p h y s ical
e x e rcises in
dailies and Krishnaswami
periodicals which resemble
some of the ' Asanasas, like
Sirasasana and Halasana.
The Yogi physical exer
cises, by themselves, do not
make one reach the ultimate
aim of yoga, but as an aid
in developing the mental ca
pacity required of it. As an
added consequence, they help
preservev good health which
everyone would like to have,
and in this at least, lies their
being worthy of pursuit.
For example, the Sarvanga
sana and Sirasasana affect
the endocrine glands which
legulate metabolism and con
trol balanced growth; the
Parchlmothanasana helps one
to be youthful, by drawing
upon the flexibility of the body
to the fullest extent possible.
Controlled breathing prac
tised for an appreciable time
cures certain lung troubles
Mention may be made of
the Savasana (to be like life
less) the posture for relaxa
tion, which can be practised
for any length of time, at any
part of the day.
Lying flat, with hands close
to the body, legs stretched
loose, breathing slowly, one
creates a feeling of let-go,
starting from the toes to the
head. If the i;,iHd deviates,
the process is started all over
again.
By practice ft Is possible to
carry the relaxation to such
an extent as to lessen the
sensitivity of the body to
touch. A few minutes in this
Asana will give the relaxa
tion of a few hours of sleep.
It is enjoyable. Try it.
Students Discuss
World Affairs
Two University students will
discuss re 1 a t i o n s between
American and international
students tonight on KUON-TV.
Sidney Jackson, an interna
tional student from Jamaica,
and Ernie Hines will appear
on Colin Jackson s program,
"World Affairs Comment," at
8 p.m.
Mr." Jackson will conclude
his 6-weeks series of programs
on world affairs with "Travel
ling With Jackson" Thursday
night at 7 p.m.
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Columns For Elgin .
The question of just how
the Elgin building is to be
made beautiful has been
raised". It seems to me that
the Memorial Columns by
the coliseum could be at
tached so that Elgin would
conform with the rest of the
buildings on campii.
I realize there will be those
who will protest, but they are
to be reminded that the
"parking" space is larger at
Elgin than the one on the
Mall.
The columns could be
placed in the middle of the
South wall, with a flying but
terfly, reinforced concrete
roof placed above, in order to
protect those without auto
mobiles from the ravages of
the elements.
CALEB HEATHCOTE
No More Advent
"Christmas is just a few
days away and we haven't
had our Christmas party." It
was hard to withstand the
panic-stricken plea but I tried
to point out to the grief laden
young lady that there was no
real catastrophe as yet. In
fact, I stated that there would
be nothing really wrong with
out a Christmas party during
the Christmas season.
When she had recovered
from the shock of such an
unprecedented proposal, I
held forth for several minutes
on one of the truly disturbing
features of modern life, the
unchristian and irrational
practice of celebrating Christ
mas all during Advent.
We are all Christian enough
that we do uct like to receive
Easter eggs on Ash Wednes
day. We are all rational
enough that we do not shoot
off fireworks for a month be
fore the Fourth of July. On
the other hand, if someone in
vites us to a Christmas Party
the day after Thanksgiving,
the only normal thing is to
buy a present and go.
I applied the real clincher
by stating that we miss out
at both ends. We omit the
days of quiet and prayerful
preparation for the entrance
of Christ Child Into our
hearts. To compound mat
ters, we tire ourselves to the
point that Christmas rejoicing
ends with a horrible th u d
right after Christmas Dinner.
We have no stomach for the
Christmas Season, those glo
rious Twelve Days till Little
Christmas and the F e a s t of
Kings. Instead we take down
the tree as soon as possible,
and mutter fervently "Thank
God, that's over for another
year."
RT. REV. CHARLES J.
KEENAN
And Parking, Too
Satisfied by their solution
to registration the adminis
tration can continue their
scourge of rights and priv
ileges. With the aid of IBM's
and ABC's the Parking Prob
lem can join the list of "dem
ocratically" solved items of
the U of N.
THE 7:30 CLUB
Zorro Strikes
Out of the night when the
full moon is bright come I,
to avenge the wrongs of Alpha
betical Registration. Look for
my sign.
Zorro.
Aardvark Speaks
There comes times' when
one must speak for justice,
when truth cries to be heard,
when reason lies bleeding and
the voice of the demogogue
is heard rising above all
others. Now is such a time.
In this land where the in
dependent spirit first
achieved its lasting triumph,
we now see on this campus
such a spirit attacked from
all sides. A university which
rightly should be in the van
guard of progress finds itself
in the throes of reaction.
One in this university who
would elevate reason to its
rightful place in the guidance
of our affairs has been as
sailed by such emblttere l
and frenzied enemies of prog
ress as are the cancer Oi
every age. He stands alone
who would resolve the chaos
of registration In a serene
alphabetic discipline w h 1 c J
would secure to all the ben
fits of an abstract, disintc
ested arbiter.
Opposing him are those wht,
would lightly put aside ai
achievement which for mort
than five millenia has en
abled man to e x p r e s s hi?
thoughts in a symbolic form.
Through the alphabet, now
under such a heavy attack by
the apostles of self-interest,
the accumulated knowledge
and the chronicle of the cen
turies have been the priceless
legacy of succeeding genera
tions. Unfortunately, the author of
the panacea has diluted its
effect by suggesting that reg
istration begin with different
sections of the alphabet from
semester to semester. This
deference to the hostile
group is a reprehensible de
viation from principle. Such
an error can of course be cor
rected with the support of the
thinking faction on this cam
pus. Secure In the knowledge of
our own disinterested sincer
ity, we shall uphold the self
less action of this latter-day
Caesar, defiant of the oppos
ing stilettos.
AARON AARDVARK
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