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MitW''il,.it,.mt,- , . i,ll.,l..,i.w...iiniiiirirwin-ir-.l--n i - . A -in.-. , MiiiiMUmmiSkmmmmnmmn m .Ii.,w.im..w....-.-.... " " -.- . . - --- w" ..v,,,,, .... . -- - - - - "' A ti- Page. 2 The Doily Nebraskon Wednesdoy, Morch 4, 1959 i. Editorial Comment: Religious Emphasis Was There or Not? "What'd you hink about Religious Em pnasis Week," someone asked a coed yes terday. Her reply was a question "You mean there was one?" This was not, of course, a universal re action to REW, but it is prevalent enough to merit a consideration of the success or failure of this once-a-year project. The Council on Religion, which sponsors the Week, thought that for the persons who at tended the seminars and meetings REW Where's Turner? Not On Big Eight Team Where's Turner? That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the Big Eight basketball team picked by one of the national wire services last weekend. I was also surprised that one was out so early in the season. It was released on Friday, and since it was supposed to be picked by the coaches, sportscasters, and sportswriters it meant that they must have sent their nominations in while there were still at least four games left on the conference teams' schedules. This in itself is a little presumptious. A lot can happen in four games. The team listed Bob Boozer of Kansas State as number one point-getter on the team. This is natural because he is one of the best ever turned out by the Big Eight. The rest of the team consisted of Arlen Clark, Oklahoma State, Don Matuzak. Kansas State, Bill Bridges, Kansas, and Gerry Schroeder, Colorado. The last three don't rate close to Turner. Bridges leads the league in rebounds and should probably be on the team. How ever, not ahead of Turner. He was some sixty points below Turner in scoring and would not even have been scoring at that pace if it were not that Ron Loneski was relieving the pressure by averaging six more points a game than Bridges. Also, most of Bridges points are from under the basket. Matuzak is a great ball handler and de fensive man as is Turner, but he isn't even averaging; ten points a game. He is also about 200 rebounds short of Turner. Schroeder received a lot of publicity in the Big Eight tournament over Christ mas, but that was all. He has tapered off since then. He is averaging way less points than Turner, isn't the defensive man Turn er is, and not as good a ball handler. He also rates in the same rebound depart ment as Matuzak does, which is at the bottoiw of the league. had been successful. Probably it was. The most successful part of Religious Emphasis Week seemed to be the invita tions extended to individuals to speak at organized houses. Rex Knowles, Betty Wil son and Rabbi Stern, to mention only a few, are all excellent speakers. Their talks were usually very well received by those who heard them. Herein lies the rub. At the first seminar on Feb. 8, a Sunday night, approximately 80 persons attended. This represents about one per cent of the University student population. Not a par ticularly tremendous attendance at the kick-off to a week designed to emphasize religion in a society which professes to have religious underpinnings beatniks notwithstanding. The question then becomes why the sparse attendance? Many students, when asked if they knew about the meetings, commented that they did, but were too busy to attend. Some had gone to meetings of their own denomina tions. The very fact that other sessions were scheduled at a time conflicting with this first meeting seems to indicate that better planning might smooth out some of these problams in future REW's. Religion is not som ,hing to be crammed down anyone's throat. Thus, compulsory attendance at Religious Em phasis meetings would completely defeat the purposes for which the Week is in tended. The secret must lie in making these gatherings so inspiring, or interest ing, or stimulating, that students would want to attend them. There is really no other way of making the week "success ful". Attendance figures can't do it. Suggestions for next year's REW in clude televising some of the activities and seminars over local television stations. Perhaps this would, as is intended, stimu late interest. However, this would at best be only a piecemeal solution, and would not touch the underlying question which Religious Emphasis Week attempts to tackle. That is the general unconcern of many, many college students over reli gious matters in general. Televised programs would be watched only by those who are already vitally con cerned with their God and the cosmos. Others would still tune in ''Maverick" or "Cheyenne.' The question then returns to the original problem how can Religious Emphasis Week be made both more far-reaching and more meaningful. The Council on Re ligion is making a good start in their at tempt to analyse the question. They are open to suggestions from persons outside their group as to where they go from here. VALENTINES, iJLJIl I SUPPOSE THERE'S A CUTE ONE IN THERE RJR ME? T LUHY SHOULD THERE I BE? I DON'T LIKE YOU, , COULDN'T YOU JUST SEND ME ONE OUT OF PITY? x -it the distillery. . . I think everyone has about wrung that word dry, so I shall refrain from even men tioning it. Please do not con strue this column as being an other among many other fit full essays on whether or not that word exists on the uni versity campus. I have my own ridiculous ideas about the state of mind around here, and like last week, I am go ing to stick my foot in my mouth again. Fair and Warmer It was a little warmer last year, and basketball hopes were a mite fairer. We were given a chance to feel the first break in winter with the help of a pair of fine ball games. The weather blos somed into Easter and classes fell into our notebooks in a long line of lectures until one day it was all over, and sum mer was here. We had the memory of some good school spirit and a large, loud, ivy! day drunk. e had passed another semester. I can use this memory as a sort of cushion to my thoughts when I think of campus to day. Maybe this is bad. When IIOLLYWOOD BOWL Open Bowling Saturday I Sunday 24 Lanes Automatic Pinsetteri Restaurant . . . Barber Shop 920 IV. 48th PIIONE 6-1911 county, into a closet with a sign on the door, "Proceed at your own risk." This is not me giving up. It is my understanding of; the state of mind around here. I think we have spent too many quiet years coming out of our cacoons in a quiet way. Bingo Time It's about "bingo" time again. Easter is early and mild temperatures are late. The time is ripe. I don't know if it will happen, but I am damn certain I want it to hap pen. I want to see everything go "bingo" some night. I want to see 4.000 of the little people just standing on 16th street, clutching t he i r frisbees and yelling. I want to see those campus leaders in the IFC stick their heads out of the smog and organize a real Ball a Ball for Ne braska, to be held at Man hatten. Kansas, March 9, with four bus-loads of cowbell clinking, beer drinking, o b noxious students. Let's Defy Then Bush would get to see a real away game. Then cam- ICS? On Campus with MaxShuIman (By the Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boyx!"anrl, "Barefoot Boy with Cheek.") you lie on a cushion too long; pus cops would get to see stu 'tf ,.;,', dent faces again, and fear I feel a little different than! groups of four again. Then last year. I feel like a nun j sneaking in a quick blob cf coming out of a closet. The paint would be passe, winter has left more thanj There is no better substitute snow on my back. I am com-jfor blowing off steam than a ing into spring and the trees are still bare. Time Limits There is a feeling of time limits around me time limits on 16th street and 14th, and on S street. I won't play bas ketball in the parking lot this year because of new parking rules. I wait out these last few weeks as social chairman wanting to do something more dangerous than coffee and pop in the card room. For the first time the local constabulary has c 1 o s e d us up. in the city and in the POVERTY CAN BE FUN It is no disprace to be pxr. It is an error, but it is no disgrace. So if your purse is empty, do not skulk and brood and hide your lieud in shame. Stand tall. Admit your Kverty. Admit it freely and frankly and till kinds of Rood things will happen to vou. Take, for instance, the case of Blossom SiafooR. Blossom, an imix-cunious freshman at an Eastern girls' college, was smart as a whip and round as a dumpling, and scarcely a day went by when she didn't get invited to a party weekend ut one of the nearby men's schools. But Blossom never accepted. She did not have the rail fare; she did not have the clothes. Weekend after weekend, while her classmates went frolicking, Blossom sat alone, saved from utter despair only by her pack of Marllxros, for even an exchequer as slim as Blos som's can afford the joys of Marlboro joys far beyond their paltry price: rich, mellow tobaccos, lovingly cured and care fully packed; a new improved filter that works like a charm. Croous himself could not buy a better cigarette! However, Marlboro's most passionate admirers among whoe minilxT I am paid to count myself would not claim that Marlloro can entirely replace love and romance, and Blos som grew btcudily nioroser. little open defiance. The ad ministration may get sic k, but that is far better than the sickness of riding out your pent-upness in some already too late spring day game. The little people got shoved around more this vear than see the tables turned if only tor one day. from the Sidesliiies Arabian Caravan Bedouins Are First Middle Easterners By Ali Ghandour Fdiion Note This is th first hi sentt of arucVei by a Jordanian snxlrnt, dunJ to explain and interpret his homeland the aeeUunf Middle avast. Kosmet Hub's spring show has folded for this year at least and I'm sorry to see it happen. The past productions have been pretty good shows, despite the seeming lack of interest. Finances, time and poor attendance have been thorns in the side of quite a few campus activities this year. IFC Ball sort of fizzled, although they're promising a bigger and better show next year. Penny Carnival and Coed Follies both drew fire be cause of the times at which thev were held. Penny Carnival inter- Miss Sides fered with four week exams first se mester and Coed Follies fell right at four week exam time second semester. Penny Carnival silently folded under the pressure but the Coed Follies valiantly stood firm and succeeded in putting on one of the best shows they've ever had. (I must remember to check and see if all of the girls in the skits flunked out of school or have come down with severe cases of mono because of the strain.) All of which is interesting, especially if one is of an analytical nature and likes to explore the deep, dark reasons behind events. All of these happenings could be attributed to several things nobody has any money any more, we are all becom- By Gretchen Sides ing followers of the great god of intellec tual activity and scorn such plebian things, the presentations haven't been good enough to make anybody want to go or it could just be a case of that word, which like Mr. Borland, I am tired of hearing about. - Despite the reason, it is all rather sad. I hope Spring Day offers something fun. Oh for a show comparable to Iowa's Vei sha. The proposed Spring Day Open House sounds rather anemic. Of course it may be extremely stimulating and all that but it sounds just like a stiff shout for the finer things namely education. And although I am an advocate of scholarship and such cultural matter (I even hopped up on my soapbox a few weeks ago and gave a couple of cheers for the way students are settling down and trying to learn something) I do believe there is a place in this world for some good old fun and merrymaking. But golly there may be a place, but there doesn't seem too be much time. Poor old campus activities can't have shows because they run smack into exam times or some other time. Well, who knows the eventual outcome of these monumental goings-on. Before everything fades into a scholastic or apathetic puddle I may have to go out and have one last fling start a one-man war on the . Spring Day committee or Adminy Hall or something equally exciting. bits of these species deter-j mine his own. He must go! from pasture to pasture as tho ! seasons change. I Within the tribes crime is' As a son of Arabia I should be very glad to give a picture ot the life, habits and spirit of j almost nil. The thief, murder the Arab people. It would help er, or attacker of women is u' uedie auiunu tunca tuenj nnt mprplv nnnicho W ' - " J f -aa.Jlt VI VUl a : T Daily Nebraskan grXTT-OGHT TEARS OLD man? rwa!a tm mt iwr w. ,..,, ,, rhrt4. rehruarj 8. i5V Member: Associated Collegrtate Prese i!pWM, m n tetercotlesUto Pres. , Kepresentattve: National AsJTertissiu Service L"im- . taw set at Awnm . tit. . Incorporated editokiai. staff rsbUslted at: Room 19. Student Cnioa 1!1ZW mww .V.V.V.V.'.V.. .'.".. DEMa-Va" Crro Kraas. Sandra Kallr raa tf Wraiaaa la awMKfcr MMda?. TaraAa. , ;''h" B r hufltr --" rrt-iay aurtai t aeb" rear, nnvt :.:A"ST-. r' r" " lr ZTVZM a orrwts. slwleata af the M"m "'' lef. Sara Mkalea. C?lar--T ?est 4r. . aiareuiaa mt mm- 8t" rK,,orr" Mtaette Tajtat atoat apMtaa ratleaoa asntet le taraolettaB at the Bt SI ESS STAFF tM.nenmiltee a Staaeat mbttratwo. .hail Irlrr, tnai Bu.li,. H,,.-rr 4r , ar.al -rhJ aa part '"tLmj''T. " 'iant Kin, Mwsn. . (., k. ma, mm Ma aart af aw at lhr rae.lt, . the I at- , h.rw .r.. Mit. aaswi. I at law hears .tall ara aar- tlanitiea Maaactr oil bra of one of the most inter e s t i n g and pictures q u parts of t h e world. After many years of war and suf fering its pe pie have a strong desire I to hold o u t i a tm their hands Ali to the people of the West to insure a common spirit of co operation in the entire human i ace. And hence, for the first time in history, the Americans overseas have established a contact with ail of the Moslem peoples, Arabs and Non-arabs: in North Africa and Asia. The Bedruins are the ori ginal Arabs; the real Semitic race. Today we refer to the terms Arab, Arabian and Arabic. Arabic is the language and ? script of hte Arabs. Arabian ieers to the various aspec's 1 the life in Arabia, Pales tne. Syria, Lebanon. Jordan, iiaq. Egypt and Nr 'i Africa: The greatest nesi for clar ity. however, exists with the terms Arabs. Arab culture,! Arab conquest, and the his-: tory, science, and culture of: the Arabs. But who are the Arabs? The Bedouins of Arabia form the only ethnic group in the. world which has preserved the : original Jewish or more pre-! cisely, the North Semitic type ; The Bedouin has not changed even his style cf dress for five thousand years. : Only his weapons have ; changed: from sword to rifle. The nomadic life of the Arab lis conditioned by his occupa 't on, and his occupations oy ! the character of hte land. 1 i The Bedcvin raises goats. camels, and horses. The ha-( ex cluded from the tribe. In the j desert this can mean deaih I from starvation as even hos-! tile tribes will not harbor a I thief or murierer. However, I I the Bedouin people are very! 'generous, there is no time ii-' mit to their hospitality. j As a fighter the Bedouin is ! brave andtough, but as a rate ; they refrain from killing the1 enemy unless he meets with' resistance. The princple object j is not to kill, even to secure ' military victories, but to alle-1 viate his eternal poverty by; the material gains of the wa- 1 Then one day came a phone call from an intelligent sopho more named Tom O'Shanter at a nearby men's college. "Blos som," said Tom, "I want you to come down next week for the barley festival, and I won't take no for an answer." "No," said Blossom. '"Foolish irirl," said Tom gently. "I know why you refuse ms. ll is localise you are poor, isn't it?" "Yes," said Blossom. "I will send you a railroad ticket," said Tom. "AUo a small lanii in case you get hungry on the train." "But I have nothinc to wear," said Blossom. Tom re4ied. "I will send you one suit of cashmere, two pow ns of lace, three slacks of velvet, four shoes of calf, five socks of nylon, and pnrtridee in a pear tree." "That is most kind," said Blossom, "but I fear I cannot dance and enjoy myself while back home my poor lame brother Tiny Tim lies abed." "Send him to Mayo Brothers and put it on my tab," said Tom. "You are tcrriUy decent," said Blossom, "but I cannot come to your party because all the other girls at the party will be from rich, distinguished families, and my father is but a humble woodcutter." "I will buy him Yosemite," said Tom. "You have a great heart," said Blossom. "Hold the phone while I ask our wise and kindly old Dean of Women whether it is proer for me to accept all these gifts." She went forthwith and asked the Dean of Women, and the Dean of Women laid her wise and kindly old hand on Blossom's cheek and said, "Child, let not false pride rob you of happiness. Accept these gifts from Tom." "Lord love you. 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