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Now is the time of year when fraterni
ties start practicing those weird pre-initi-ation
rites quaintly named hell weeks.
In th past, the Daily Kebraskan has op
posed such rites. Right now we would like
to reiterate that stand.
The reasons are simple. The old fash
ioned kind of hell week is barbarous, de
grading and strenuous. It hurts studies,
health and, most important, feelings.
This year, however, there are indica
tions that the old fashioned hell week is on
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Unfortunately . .
Over the weekend it happened again.
Earlier this year, pranksters adorned
the sidewalks of the campus with the
large, red tetters "ISC". Sunday, reports
of further psint daubbing filtered into the
office of the Daily Nebraskan, this time
the damage occurring to the Ralph Muel
ler tower.
The act is again obviously the work of
misguided pranksters, who, under the im
pression that their stunt is funny, marred
the sides of the tower with large blobs of
paint, apparently thrown in bottles and pa
per cups.
The amount of paint spilled on the tower
is small to be sure, but that is not the
point.
The important fact is that it was done,
and no gmse of "just fun" can really
cover up the maliciousness of the act.
This is an open flouting of respect for
public property. As such it cannot and
must not be condoned, and every effort
should be made to find the person or per
sons responsible.
The Daily Nebraskan feels that, in keep
ing with the present administrative policy,
the case should then be turned over to the
Student Tribunal, who should, in turn,
mete out a severe punishment.
The university is no place for people
with the mental level of those who would
throw paint at a building just for the sake
of satisfying a twisted whim. It would be
best for all concerned if those responsible
would quietly leave school and return to
their native stomping grounds where they
could make and throw mud pies and the
like at their leisure.
From the Editor:
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Just when you pat yourself on the back
for being clever and original and all that,
something comes along that really shakes
up the old confidence.
For instance, the name of this column
and the little cartoon that runs with it
were my pride. I say were because sud
denly I find there is another columnist
who writes a By George!
His name is George Clarke, editor of
the Harrison, Nebr. Sun. Mr. Clarke is
currently appearing in the Publisher's
Auxiliary because he has a nice looking
editorial page and the Auxiliary would like
to pass on a couple of his typographic
tricks.
And they didn't even ask me about my
page.
Letterips Landed
And speaking of this page reminds me
that I intended to say something nice
about all the interest in the Letterip col
umn. Folks just keep writing in and I hope
they continue.
After all, this is a student newspaper
and as such it is supposed to provide a
voice for student opinions. Some of them
are pretty good at expressing themselves
(maybe better than the 'guy who writes the
editorials) which makes for a lot of inter
esting reading.
' Keep sending us those cards and letters
all you folks out there in University land
and maybe someday we'll get to looking
like the Omaha World Herald.
Anonymous
The mention of cards and letters makes
it easy for me to change the subject again.
The anonymous little potshots that help
make an editor's life so interesting are al
so arriving in a small but steady trickle.
One woman (I know she was a woman
because she signed it Mother) had the
right slant on anonymous letters all right
when she said that she knew most news
papers didn't consider them.
She excused herself, however, by saying
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Down No Real
to Hell Week
the way out The Interfraternity Council
has appointed a committee to set up a
standardized procedure for hell week that
will eliminate the barbarous, degrading,
etc.
In a recent poll of fraternities taken by
the Daiy Nebraskan the indications were
that hell week is being toned down.
Now, we know that committees can hi
' appointed to whitewash situations. And we
know that goody-goody reports about hell
weeks from individual fraternities may
not actually be so goody goody in prac
tice. But there is also a great deal to indi
cate that the Greeks are finally scared
enough to do something about this ancient
blot on their record. Several national fra
ternities ban hell weeks in the chapters
completely. And there is no doubt that tlje
local chapters are easing up.
That's good. And it comes none too soon
either.
In spite of all this, however, there still
seems to be no real justification for hell
week. If it is intended to build spirit and
unity, the same thing could be accom
plished by a pledge class working together
on a community service project.
If it is intended to train the pledges in
fraternity lore, that much can surely be
accomplished without the usual hell week
accessories.
So if the fraternities really want to do
something about hell week, they could
start by stopping it altogether.
Take Heart Girls
Spring is officially still about a month
away, but Saturday's weather brought out
dozens of Bermuda-clad coeds, shirt
sleeved men and lowered-top convertibles.
But also, several of the sororities who
will be competing in Friday night's Coed
Follies had lengthy afternoon skit prac
tice sessions during the balmy weather.
However, it's just one of the prices one
must pay in the activities world. To the
coeds who did stay in to practice their
skit, two things can be said:
1. You'll be glad that you practiced so
hard if you win.
2. If next Saturday's weather is any
thing like that of the 21st, Bermudas, con
vertibles and the country will definitely be
in order.
George!
that if her name were used "she knew
from experience what would happen." It
all sounded very threatening and if I had
a Howard Duff complex, I would check
out my private detective's badge and race
oK to see if the fair damsal needed res
cuing. Being monumentally lazy, however, I
suppose I'll have to let that one pass.
Amherst Experiment
Amherst College is trying an interesting
experiment in an attempt to reduce scho
lastic failures according to the Intercol
legiate Press Bulletin.
Essentially, the program will grant a
student a one year leave of absence if the
college feels that the student is not living
up to his academic potential.
The program will not replace flunking
out but will give students with ability a
chance to adjust themselves without jeop
ardizing their academic careers.
For stepping out along these lines, Am
herst should be commended. The bright
boys who don't know what they want to do
or who are too lazy to go to work are
many. And with the necessity for well ed
ucated people so critical today, society
cannot afford to lose them.
Thus, a request from the college that
they take a year off to think things over
and then try again might be just what they
need to scare them into getting down to
business.
The most interesting feature of the plan
is the provision which would allow the col
leeg to request a year's leave for a stu
dent with up to an 83 or 84 average. In
other words, you wouldn't have to be flunk
ing to get the boot for a year.
Kind of makes you wonder about Big
Brother and Gestapo and all doesn't it?
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Lenten Notes
Like Bodies, Souls
Need Purification
By Msgr. Charles Keenan
Lent is explicitly a season and a process of purification.
Immediately one asks: Whafis this purification? How nec
essary is it?
Let us draw an analogy between the outside of a man
and the inside between his observable body and his in
visible soul.
We Become Soiled
Nothing is more evident about the human body than
the rude fact that it has to be washed. The fact is neither
an accusation nor a reproach it is a mere fact. The hu
man frame or case, in its routine and commonly laborious
passage from day to day, becomes inevitably soiled. It
must be washed and purified!
The old story, the old story! If only the needs of a man's
soul were as clamorous as the needs of his body! For the
analogy is here most accurate: the soul, too, as it makes
its laborious journey from day to day and from eternity to
eternity, becomes inevitably soiled.
How?
Let each man answer, in all honesty, for himself. It
may well be it ought to be! that the soul of the earnest
Christian does not utterly blacken itself by the degradation
of serious sin. But can anyone fail to see the recurrent and
even daily cowardices and equivocations and sloths and
sensualities and meannesses and silly vanities to which he
falls victim? Perhaps an individual does not see any such
thing.
If he doesn't, then he, more than others, needs the puri
fication of Lent.
Self-denial
It is clear that self-denial is an instrument of this Lent
en purification. For the honest Christian there can be no
dishonesty or quibbling on this point. All of us, young and
old, strong and weak, saint and sinner, must resolutely un
dertake the primary task of the season: we must practice
some particular, precise and reasonably painful form of
self-denial. We must, that is, if we sincerely desire what
God holds out to us: inner purification.
Let there be no faltering as we journey into the deepen
ing shadows of this Lenten time. There is light enough
light enough to see the One who has come here before us
and even the cross on which He hangs.
A Considerable
Since the focus of campus
interest appears to be cen
tered around scholarship, I
might as well add my
thoughts to the confusion.
Unlike
many peo
ple I am
not ex
tremely concern e d
about the
increasin g
ly stringent
dem a n d s
being
placed o n
the students. Freed
There will continue to be
enough scholars to main
tain a Phi Beta Kappa
chapter and the scholast
ic fatality rate of students
will not increase so as to
endanger the existence of
the University.
However, I am concerned
with the reports of the Ore
gon State System of Higher
Education and the U.S. Of
fice of Education. These re
ports indicate that the sal
aries paid to the faculty are
generally quite low in rela
tion to the salaries paid in
universities throughout the
country.
This is alarming. It is
much more alarming than
whether scholastic stand
ards are tough, or whether
the students are apathetic,
or whether the Student Trib
unal is a Star Chamber.
While the University of Ne
braska has managed to
maintain an excellent staff
and reputation, if the faculty
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continues to be underpaid,
the academic standards of
the university will fall to
the level of mediocrity. The
professor who has estab
lished a good reputation will
be inticed away by higher
paying offers from other
schools. Promising young
instructors will consider
with a dim view offers from
Nebraska and many will
take jobs where the pay is
higher.
The University and its stu
dents have been fortunate in
that the caliber of instruc
tion has Ucn high. Profes
sors such as Dr. Lancaster,
Dr. Gray, Dr. Bowsma and
Dr. Manter, along with Karl
Shapiro and Emanuel Wish
now are examples of profes
sors with excellent reputa
tions in their fields. But the
loss to other universities of
such men as Dr. Johnson,
Doctor Anderson, Doctor
Storz and Dr. Carter is lam
entable; while low pay may
not have been the sole cause
for professors leaving, it
has been a contributing fac
tor and every effort should
be made to alleviate this
condition. The failure to
recognize the need for reas
onable compensation for
professors can result only in
a University of low aca
demic standards and repu
tation. One Overlooked
Actually when I consid
ered the realitively low sal
aries of the University pro
fessors, I overlooked one in
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Likes Pap
To the Editor:
No, Mr. Borland, no. You
ire wrong. Indeed, you are
wrong. The master comput
er in the Administration
building says you are
wrong. McCall's says you
are wrong, Togetherness
Magazine says you are
wrong, and, especially, our
parents say you are wrong.
And since these sources
yield, realistic evaluations
of what is correct, I say you
are wrong.
I like to be coddled, I like
to be fed pap on a middle
class spoon, and' most of all
I like to merge my oneness
into "Group. Dynamics."
And luckily for us (we, the
great, solid backbone of the
midwest) YOU CAN NOT
CHANGE the system be
cause it would take a re
evaluation of values from
the bottom to the top; and
we, the bottom, are in the
majority, and we are too
busy being "perambulating
eggs" to have time for any
sort of non-methodist activ
ities. N. U. Olddear
Going to America?
To the Editor:
Much has been written in
the Rag of late, and pru
dently so, concerning the
foreign student at NU and
the indifferent atmosphere
in which. he finds himself.
Following is a reprint of
"A Letter to a French
Friend" by D. W. Brogan
in the Virginia Quarterly
Review, which, I think, has
a special proximity not only
to the foreign student, but
the rest of us as well.
So you're going to Ameri
ca? There is the question of
language. I, whose native
language is English (in a
Scotch version), who have
spent a great deal of time
in America, am continual
ly missing shades of mean
ing, because "American"
is not my native tongue and
I have to work at it, con
tinually, to get, say a 10 per
cent grasp on American
linguistic reality.
I suggest, as a beginning,
that you find out what is
meant by "double take,"
"deadpan," "needling."
You are going to a coun
try that has never known i
famine, which has never
known successful invasion
from a totally foreign army,
which has never really had
to speculate on its survival.
You are going to a coun
try where the family, in the
old, strong, if now declining
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structor who clearly does
not fall in that category. But
perhaps I am not being fair;
after all, the football coach
contributes a very valuable
service. I mean, what could
be of more service to an in
stitute of learning than
teaching a group of students
the art of knocking one an
other down and of gaining
the important objective of
putting a ball over a line.
But, as I said before, per
haps I am being unfair. Aft
er all, we must reward such
service and success.
First Effort
As this is my first col
umn, I am reluctant to fe
vesl ny misanthropic char
acter for fear of incurring
the wrath of everyone from
Robin Red Face Ireland to
the newly crowned Out
standing Nebraskan. How-
ever, as time passes and I
can afford to buy my weekly
ration at the Grill, my cour
age will grow and I will
join my fellow columnists in
.jousting with windmills.
Nil (Irnrf Dnintr
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Cement Research
Improvement of the super
highways of the future may be
due in part to research done
oy Kichard Meier, Jr., a Uni
versity January graduate.
Awarded a graduate fellow
ship by the Ideal Cement Co.
of Denver, Meier plans to cpn
duct basic research to de
termine ways to improve con
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'YOU'RE TOO ttXNG!" THAT
OUST INFURIATES ME:
Monday,' February 23, 1953
French sense does not c
ist, where nomadism is
the national blood, where (
traditions are adopted and
discarded like the latest in
spirations of high fashion,
where a great many serious
things are discussed in
what is a seriously shallow
way, where people think
that there are answers to
all problems.
You are going to a coun
try where the relations be
tween the sexes are com
plicated by the fiction that
the American woman is
boss of her docile man,
who, in fact, is often only
giving her a- part of his
mind.
You will be dealing with
women in a society that
promises them much more
than it gives (the opposite
of English case where so
much more is given than
promised.)
You are going to a coun
try which does care a lot
about children, which pam
pers them, which produces
them on a scale beyond all
Indian nightmares, which
accepts an early exploita
tion of sexuality i.. a way
that would shock a Paris
industrial suburb, which be
lieves in marriage, even
repeated marriage, more
than in love.
You are going to a coun
try where, suddenly, you
can buy paperback editions
of everything, from Ein
stein to the Marquis de
Sade, where more money is
spent on music than on
baseball and too much mon
ey, time and energy are
spent on golf, as the court
of Louis XIV spent too
much time, money and en
ergy hunting (on horse
back.) You are going to a coun
try where fraternity is a
permanent and often suc
cessfully attained social
ideal, where liberty is never
quite down and out, where
equality is more of reality
than it is in France or Eng
land. (In all states outside
the South, the son of a
Nptrrn u-nrkpr or farmer has
a better chance of a higher
education than the son of a
French worker or farmer,
or a French peasant.)
You are going to a coun
try where friendliness,
trust, a general social ease
are in the air, where total
strangers greet you with a
cheerful but meaningless
"hello."
John Holt
Dangerous Place
To the Editor:
It's bad enough that the
University o f Nebraska
swimming and wrestling
meets are so poorly sup
ported, but when the few
TIIIU UU CUICIIU must UU 9U
at the risk of limb, and pos-
sibly life, there's room for
improvement of some kind.
Last Friday night I attended
the Iowa State-Nebraska
duel swimming meet at the
coliseum. When leaving the
pool area, it is necessary to
cross the stage, walk down
a flight of stairs to the coli
seum floor and leave by the
side exit.
After the match was over,
I walked up the stairs to
the stage, and found it so
dark that I was barely able
to find the five-foot wide
steps which had no hand
rail. I had taken but a few
steps away from the stage,
when an elderly gentleman,
who was unable to discern
the stairs in the darkness,
missed the top step and was
flung against some bleach
ers. He took the shock on
his shoulder and very luck
ily avoided serious injury.
If he had landed any differ
ently, he could easily have
broken a limb or received
a serious head injury. I
learned that a young lad had
also missed the stairs a few
minutes earlier. He. too.
escaped with only bruises.
Just because Governor
Kf, w,ants ights on H?e
Capitol doesn't mean the
University must make up
the deficiency in funds by
turning off its lights! I ad-
mit that a light on the coli
seum stage wouldn't serve
as much of a landmark, but
it probably would do some
thing as insignificant as
preventing a few broken
limbs.
L. L. Greenwald
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