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I 5 i Page'2 Editorial Comment: Better Clip This Carpenter Bill Scores Once Again Wednesday, the legislature's revenue committee will hear a bill to extend the .25 mill special tax levy for the University College of Medicine Indefinitely. The bill was introduced by Senator Ter ry Carpenter, the fellow from Scottsbluff, you know. Terry has apparently scored again. If the bill is killed, it means that the tax will be dropped. Originally, the tax was to raise $8 million which it has done. However, anyone who has visited the Omaha campus knows that $6 million is Just a good start towards making the col lege what it really ought to be as a medi cal school. The trend in Omaha is to move the medical center of the entire city to the proximity of the University campus. In line with this, a new doctors' building has sprung up just below the University build ings.. . The , contrast is rather vivid. Even a cursory appraisal from the outside reveals that some of the University structures are a little shaky. Of course, the University has bright new .buildings and the best in modern equipment on the campus, too. And they are doing some building. And for this we can thank, at least in part, the mill levy which Carpenter pro poses we keep. Senator Terry may not always be on the popular, vote getting, crowd pleasing side of the fence. But he has a real feel ing for the needed and the necessary, and he has proved it again by sponsoring this bill. . Sick Secretaries Represent No One According to the morning papers, Sena tor Stuart Symington (Dem. Mo.) drew bipartisan blasts when he suggested that President Eisenhower appoint someone to replace John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State. Symington's contention was that Dulles couldn't run the State Department from a hospital bed. For some sentimental rea son or other both sides chimed in with "keep John Foster sentiments." Now, Mr. Dulles has been a very good secretary. One political science professor the Daily Nebraskan talked to said that he is often considered the best since Sew ared. This still isn't much of an excuse for leaving him in the top job when he is a The Spectrum Seems like it's getting more and more dangerous for campus fraternities. Not to say that it is for the individual fraternity member, but for houses on the whole, Legislation by the IFC (which generally has to act on some matters in a way that isn't too appeal ing to member houses, but is necessary for a con tinued existence), admini stration groups and hous ing authorities, and sug gestions and downright demands from scattered groups such as parents and high school legisla tors make it a constant scramble to keep one step ahead of the push which seeming- -ly points to a unified housing system, an open door, nothing-hidden type of living, and a "we'll be good so we can stick around campus" attitude in some of the fraternities themselves. Yes, that rag is here, and It's getting louder and louder. The role of crusader Isn't ended at age 21 or 30 or 40. "Push ing" continues throughout the ambitious man's life, no matter if the ideals are good or if they be selfish. Conformed living, expansion, profitable ventures, virtue all these ideals may be in the minds of some of the do-gooders who are trying to legislate the student's life and mind in whatever area that it hasn't already fallen to apathetic lack of interest or an area of no positive and con structive thinking. But can't you just see the new rows of picture window dormitories that will gleam on the NU horizon in 1980? Daily Nebraskan HXTY-EIGHT TEARS OLD on ally mponstbla for what they any. or do at nuu ta aa printed, Kehruary S, IBM. tfembcr: Associated CollerUt Press subaeriptioa nt era 13 per emni or is for in latereoUet-Ute Press "SS, "IT- ... . . ,k KBtre tattond elan matter at the poit of flea la Kep resent trre: Nation! Advertising Service, nkm, uxt u act of .- . iu. Incorporated editorial wtrr rnbiuhed t: Room io. student Onion fSSta- ' nETa'Vlr,; Lincoln, Nebraska rnl'" on-trim m tuv r. vS"rJ." i-'",0,J, Bandall Lamhert Ktb & S Nlfht 'W Editor Tom Uavlea n Copy Editor. Carroll Kraua. Sandra Knlly T pally Nabrmakaa la pu blinked Monday, Taeaday, Cindy Zarhan. tVedaeaday Bad irnday durlna too Mbvot year, raornt Kdltnri Pat Dean. Tom hnvlea tarln raoationa aod oaaia parloda, by atuoenta of tha , L ,, Marilyn Coffey, sondra Whalen, InlTeealty af Nebraska nndar th authorization of tha .h".,"!'rn', .. Commit tea on (Undent Affalra aa aa eiprraaloa af atn- 8'" rltntorapner Mlnetta Taylor dent opinion. Publication under tbo Inrladltfloa at tha BI NINKHft HTAFF gnbeommlttte on Student Puhliratlnna ahull he free from Rnlnr Manaicer Jcrrv kwii.nii. editorial eenorhlp on tha part of the Hiihenmmlttec at AMtnl Huslneaa ManaiVr iT. !.. m tfc. part af any memhe, of the taenit, of ba UaJ- , "ZZ" Crn, Kohlfln; " anil. Tha Bwanaefa af tha Nabrankaa ataff art per- Claa.lfled Manager oil firady Editor and new AP specialist on Latin America, Mor riss Rosenberg, once dictated a story to his New York office in Serbo-Croat. The object was to get the story past the censors, who couldn't understand the lan guage. Rosenberg was lucky enough to have a colleague in New York who did. Most of the journalism majors around here are hoping that the j-school won't get any ideas from this. Strolling Students Traffic Headache An Omaha couple was killed Sunday night when they were struck by a car as they were crossing to their Dodge Street home. There is no traffic vlight on the corner and only "an imaginary line" crosswalk, according to Capt. Harry Green, head of the Omaha Accident Investigation Bureau. The speed of the car that struck them was an estimated 30 or 35 miles an hour. The couple was thrown 89 feet. The1 story could have said that a Uni versity couple was struck and killed as they were crossing 16th and S streets on their way home from a movie. Or it could have said that one or two or three students had been struck and killed as they were hurrying to their 8 o'clock classes or hur rying home for lunch. Or it could have said that a couple was struck and killed as they were crossing 14th and S streets after a night class by the car that failed to slow down at the golden blinking caution light. The analogy is grim; so is motor ve hicle homicide. And so is the situation which exists here on the University campus. Never are traffic laws flaunted more openly than on the corners in front of Teachers College and Andrews Hall. At noon, students often stroll blithely in front of oncoming traffic whether the light is with them or not. The situation has the makings of a real good accident. Let's hope we don't have to organize a school safety patrol (you know, like in grade school) to prevent a tragedy. sick man. If the government is afraid of losing a man with Mr. Dulles' exper ience and wisdom, he can always be re tained in an advisory Capacity. But the American Secretary of State has become, more than any other member of the executive outside of the president, the man in the catbird seat. When crisis develops anywhere in the world, it has be come axiomatic that our interests be rep resented in person by a top man. Mr. Dulles himself created this situa tion. Now he is unable to continue the rigorous line of duties he prescribes as adequate for a Secretary of State. There is no use clinging to wreckage, to be brutal about it. Let's have a new secretary. By Weather occasionally can be awfully nasty, but it's an emotional outlet at other times. Walking in the lightly-falling rain on a cool pre-spring evening can provide a night's entertainment that's cheap, fun and just a little bit out of the realm of the habits of most other people that can make you feel quite a bit like a naturalist or an existentialist which is often quite self-satisfying. Daytime walking in cool cloudy weather is all right, too, but the night is best of all. As a friend questioned several days ago, "Why don't more people enjoy the evening instead of spending all their waking hours during the day when large trucks are spreading dust and mud over everything?" (If this is not quite an accurate quote, sorry, but I think that was your general idea.) Possibly the nicest arrangements one could have in this season would be to work eight hours say from about 2 to 10 p.m. Then the rest of the evening and the dawn could be spent in relative quiet and an at mosphere of beauty and peace. One could get the necessary sleep in the morning and early afternoon hours when important things seldom happen and when trucks are spewing mud and dust over creation. But, as he added, humans are followers, and pretty soon others would be following the evening till dawn waking hours rou tine and soon trucks would be spreading dirt and mud and dust and exhaust fumes throughout the city throoughout the night. You can't win for losing. i 'J Kraus Publisher reports that the Carroll Kraus ,The Daily Nebraskan BWaJJMYBE-MEX r$T0LE IT? V wax, houA r stole IT! VWEajtWATDO I LIBRARY1 THINKS I WOULDN'T DO THEY J 6000 GglEFjj YOU XPCT 3 ( YOU STOLE STEALTHEIR JUmim?) 7-JrM TO THINK? LIBRARIES A KimBJ Eulogy to the Breed To the Editor: I have noticed in the stu dent newspaper, the amount of attention given by sooth sayers, prophets, etc., to the strengthening of o u r academic principles, the difficulty of the college cur riculum, and finally the downfall of campus activi ties and traditions. Some of the great psychological and moral truths are well taken. Others, however, smack of sheer idiocy. Students do not have to be better pre pared than ever before. The complexity of the modern world, of course, demands more technical intelligence, and these are good reasons for the downfall of campus traditions. But haven't we forgotten another aim of higher edu cation? We have, of course, and that aim is to teach peo ple the ability to meet and deal with other people. It can't be learned out of a book or in a classroom. Nor can it be learned from be hind the closed door of a dormitory room, at the Greek study hall break, or even at a good natured beer blast. It can be learned by actually meeting and deal ing! What better way to ac complish this than through the support of campus ac tivities and traditions. I have a fable which I would like to pass on to you: Once upon a time, in the dark ages of all mankind, when women wore formals below the knee and cars were painted all one color, there lived a very strange breed of men who went by the childish name of Joe College! They were fun lov ing fellows who liked their youthful lives, and enjoyed coming out of hiding from their academic caves and nooks periodically, for the avowed purpose of commu nicating with one another. Using their obviously infe rior and "immature" minds to the fullest possible ex tent, they contrived certain clubs and groups, now eith er extinct or sub rosa. The leaders of these groups were those that were called by the name of ac tivity jocks. These s o named leaders spent their time in bustling about the campus, and they politic ally and morally slew great numbers of men in their ruthless and wanton lust for position. The lesser of the Joe Colleges served as slaves and men in waiting to the jocks. Now these groups of f e 1 1 o w s would meet at the rise of the full moon, and taxing their fee ble minds to all possible Photo Play The current, failure of "Separate Tables" at the Varsity boxoffice is not only a bitter disappointment but an unjust reward for a film that is in some ways quite excellent. Anyone following the current periodicals is well aware that the film is the adaptation by Terence Rattigan of his play and that it stars Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven and Burt Lancaster. Where "Separate Tables" suffers is that, as with the film versions of so many stageplays, it confines itself in such a way that the real scope of the motion picture medi um is never given a chance. In this respect, it is a dull film. But, in consideration of two of its characters, the frightened and twisted Major Pollack (played beautifully by David Niven), and the withdrawn and dominated Sibyl (Deborah Kerr in perhaps her most difficult role), the pic ture reaches far beyond the quality of just an ordinary movie. "Separate Tables" is the handiwork of producers Har old Hecht, James Hill and Burt Lancaster and director Del bert Mann. ' Big Succees This past weekend's big success was the Lincoln's "Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys." Leo McCarey, a master of comedy, (proven by his sensitive treatments of "The Aw ful Truth" and "Going My Way"), has carefully preserved the wry humor and subtle sophistication of the Max Shul man best-seller. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins and Jack Carson star in the Cinemascope and color story of a busy-body wife in an averaged sized American town who leads a crusade against Army plans for using the commun ity as the site for a "top secret" project. It gets pretty in volved but everybody has a good time. Fine Actor That fine actor, Sidney Poitier will this Sunday again demonstrate the vitality of talent which has recently won him International acclaim for his beautiful performance in a very bad picture, "The Defiant Ones." The Union has slated an obscure but brilliant film, "Edge of the City," which M-G-M released a year and a half ago. The race relations issue, which Stanley Kramer, with complete lack of attention to the real facts of life, hit us over the heads with in "The Defiant Ones," is also treated in "Edge of the City." But, this film is entertaining and realistic. It was photographed in New York City and John Cassavetes also stars. Daily Nebraskan Letterip limits they would pass the hours in obviously childish, and dull witted pleasures, such as doing some service for someone else. Some served their fraternity, some their activity organ izations, and some well, there were those called leeches even in those days. These bands of fellows had favorite songs that they would sing ... in two parts, yet; and much fine ritual, pomp and dignity of man ner. These things meant a' great deal to these strange fellows and it showed in some of their childish atti tudes like walking erect. Nearly 90 degrees to t h e ground they stood, in con trast to the current student standard of bending oneself into a double S curve and breaking into a shuffling gate, somewhat reminiscent of a staggering drunkard. The position and bearing of these strange men im parted the rather Immature feelings of security and worth, and they had, also the obviously psychological ly disturbed feeling that they might be respected or even worse, needed. Out of this mutual group feeling came a term long since on its way to the hin terland in a great black ship of the dead. That term was "group spirit," and it generated another rather obsolete term called by the name of "tradition." Then one day the "jocks" became dissatisfied with their roles as leaders. It was, after all, easier to play cards or drink beer on Tues day night than to go out into the cold and storm. "Better to help myself and do what I came here to do. Besides, it will give me time to reflect on mystic power of real TRUTH," they reasoned. Meanwhile, their slaves and men in waiting were discovering the same thing. They were just plain tired of being slaves and men in waiting and they were af fronted by the fact that the student paper failed to print their names in stories on their activity organizations. After a short time, a great council of mankind was called and it was de cided that there should be no leaders and no followers, and that men should serve none save themselves. In this way they could all be equal; for after all, THIS WAS THE GREAT DEMO CRATIC WAY! And so it was . . . So then, we come to the current trend. I wonder though what it is that all men are equal at in this case. Obviously the answer by John West is nothing. However, for the few upper classmen with good memories who are all but named as im mature I dedicate this fa ble. Others besides these up perclassmen have long since passed out of our University of fading tradition. The new look is scientific, technical, and psuedo scholarly. It carefully dissects the emo tions and thoughts, giving proper respect to each man's disgustingly correct and hypocritical environ ment. It shows in many of the student's conversations. Don't make the mistake that this prophet does not include himself in this group, because he has no choice. However, if you have a choice, heed these words and choose tradition and sentiment. This proph et did just that; for when I sit aged and weary in my wheel chair, I want more to remember than the in side cover of my bio-chem text book. A Soothsayer Statistics To the Editor: Who wrote the Nebraska Basketball Statistics? According to your figures, Herschell Turner made 101 field goals and 101 free throws. This adds up to 305? Also, do Bill Lundholm's 21 field goals and 23 free Outside I do not plan to tell you the story of my fascinat ing life in this column. I will not tell you what I had for dinner, or that I fell down in T r o n t of the 'li brary, or hat I had a 1 a hang over last Sunday m o rning. The world out there . . . out- Barbera side our skins ... is too full and exciting to let me fill these lines with attempts to glor ify the mundane. I've got a few things to say. So much for introducing my self. Have you read Roger Price's story, "Why Christ mas Is Nice?" It is a story which appeared in an is sue of "Krump" magazine a few years ago. Mr. Price refers to prehistoric times, before people learned to be Husbands and Milkmen aift Bookie-of-the-Month-Club members. People then were mainly concerned with Getting Stuff. (By Stuff, he refers to lawn mowers, fountain pens, Van Heusen shirts, etc.) The Big People acquired their Stuff by simply Bashing and Taking. The Little People became adept at Hiding and Swiping. The Medium-Sized People . . . (the Great Middle Class, the Common Man, the Firm Foundation of So ciety) . . . discovered that they could tell Big Lies about the amount of Stuff they had hidden away, and -JJIILE MAN I I ' . ' 4. ; Me ! a.M- A WEU, X SEE YOTDIPN'roeT mTOMtt Tuesday, February 24,1 959 throws total only 43 points? These mistakes also ac count for the mistake in Nebraska's total points for the season. Remember, people really do check figures and I be lieve you should want to be more careful. Joan Graf Hold Off To the Editor: The theory which justifies the Student Council is that the Council will act in be half of the student body. When we vote for members of the Council, we expect those who are elected to act for us. We delegate to them our authority to act, and expect them to use this au thority wisely. The matter of registration is currently of concern. The Student Council has attacked the problem, as it rightly should, in search of the best solution. After much investi gation it has found a solu tion which each of its mem bers supports (according to your own editorial on Fri day, Feb. 20.). This alone should indicate that there is some merit to the pro posed solution. In addition, the Administration seems quite willing to co-operate and to give the idea a fair try. Just once, give this thing a chance, will you? Raymond L. Balfour Our Skins that was just about as good as actually having it. This is perhaps one of the great est Discoveries that history has handed down to us. In the U.S., where the middle class is the largest, a sound philosophy is need ed. Now, of course, we all know that no people at N.U. are primarily interested in Getting Stuff. Foremost is the great search for Knowl edge and Wisdom. Still, there exists a parallel to the prehistoric situation. The Big People, today, be come adept at Kicking and Passing (blessed are the Big People, for they shall in herit the athletic scholar ships). The Little People learn to Read and Look Intelligent, and they be come intellectual geniuses, and the Medium-Sized People have discovered that they can get a degree from Arts and Sciences or Teachers College and then go out into the world and tell Big Lies about the amount of Wisdom and Knowledge they gained at N.U., and that that is al most as good as actually having gained it. Actually, there is only one thing that is different between our situation and the one Mr. Price de scribes . . . besides the necessity of making up Big Lies, today one must also learn to become a Hus band, or a Milkman, or a Bookie-of-the-Month - Club member. ON.CAMPUS ,mryn0 w.-fV'MIIv niiiaa,inwie.