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V" I . $ : v I c s X i" - V ;i : 4 i. ?. i '33 i-4 a J i 4 A Page 2 The Daily Nebraskan Monday, March 9, 1959 Editorial Comment: Merry-Go-Roimd Keeps Students Uninformed The smoke therefore fire syllogism is a sometimes overworked routine, but it seems as if there has been a tremendous amount of , smoke covering situations on Book Burners Need Caution Last Sunday, March 1, the Omaha World Herald published on their front page a feature story by Edith Kermit Roosevelt on high school history texts. The headline on the story read "Some U.S. Pupils Get Red View of History." There followed a long list of quotes (out of context), innuendo filled statements and screaming accusations which were all supposed to prove that a list of 11 high school texts were influenced by Commu nists. , We do not contend that the 11 textbooks in question were not Communist inspired. After all, we haven't read all of them, so we don't know. What galls us is the manner in which the article attempts to prove its claim. It does it in a style that smacks more than a little of a Pravda press release. Statement First, there is this concerning the elec tion of George Washington and John Ad ams. One of the books under fire says that these two were elected by the "wealthy, aristocratic group in American society and thus controlled the government fo r 12 years.' " This, says the article, is "a baseless charge. Actually it was the male white electorate, consisting of 95 per cent of the adult population that elected Washington and Adams." It strikes us that there must have been an awful shortage of women and Negroes in those days if 95 per cent of the adult population were white males. We might also mention that election records of the time show that proper quali fications were such that a good deal less than 95 per cent of the white males were allowed to vote. But then, why bother. Miss Roosevelt has already trapped her self aplenty. Then there is her concluding statement which runs "or 'iiaybe (GI's) turned traitor (in Korea) because they had been taught this new Marxist brand(of-American history.)" To begin with only 12 GI's refused re patriation from Korea and we doubt if any of the books concerned could have influ enced them much. Ten of the 11 were published after the Korean War began. campus recently. Rumors and hearsay about raids, raids and yet more raids are coming in thicker and thicker. It's said that students have been charged with trespassing on farmer's pro perty even when the farmer has given them permission to use the land. We asked the County Attorney if this were true. He 5aid he "didn't want tovget in volved". Did this mean no comment, we asked? No . . . just that he wouldn't an swer the question. We've heard that certain places are off limits to students, and that the list in cludes many spots that in the past have been popular gathering places. We asked the dean of Student Affairs what is off-limits. His reply was that everything that is not on the on-limits list is off-limits to Uni versity students. So we ..asked for the on-limits list. There is only one list in existence we were told, and this one is locked up in someone's of fice, and was therefore unavailable to the dean. So now we are supposed to believe that the Dean of Student Affairs goes about en forcing discipline among the students without knowing to what areas his authori ty extends. So once more we seem to be on the merry-go-round, wondering just what we can do and what we can't. The rumors growtalk swirls around the dorms and houses of a real crackdown. The County Sheriff said there hasn't been a deliberate crackdown on students, but that his force has been increased by four men and two cars whereas before there was only one car and two men. Then a local businessman told us that he sees a slackening of social functions on campus and that this is definitely hurting his business. Groups are not having form ats and other social functions as often, he said. So the merry-go-round spins round and round. It seems impossible to pin any one down on what the score is. Is there a crackdown? No, claim the officials. The heck you say, shout the students from their corner. Tsh, tsh, children, again say the officials. It spins and spins. And the longer it spins, the wilder become the rumors, the more the bitterness spreads, and the more likely it becomes that students will even tually become completely fed up. Even older than the "where there's smoke there's fire" adage is the one that says people usually act about the way you act as if you expect them to behave. So how are things in junior high school, kids? From the Editor By George! Look, children, I'm back and just when you thought you would be spared this ob noxious column this wefek. Actually, I wasn't really sick. It was all a big test to see if George Moyer's all girl band could get the Daily Nebraskan out without 'George Moyer. I was very disappointed to find out that they could. Really Lucky Not only that, but I'm lucky too. The chancellor calls off school, and here I am, stuck in Student Health. By Thursday the miriad of little bugs attacking my alco hol riddled syctem had withdrawn to re group and I was feeling well enough to talk. The nurses now know the athletic his tory of Madison High School since I gradu ated and before. They have heard all about my exploits on the baseball dia mond,' football field and basketball court. (Some of these are really fantastic be cause of the huge amounts of ineptitude involved.) They have also heard all the amusing anecdotes (well, I think they are amus ing) that I have to tell about the race track and print shop. Needless to say, they are very glad that I am gone. (Gloria was even tempted to put me'under a heavy sedative by Fri day night.) But they were all very nice. If most -of them hadn't been married, I wouldn't be we'J enough to leave yet. Best Around The new Student Health building, in spite of a paint job that can only be de scribed as gaudy, is the nicest hospital I've ever been in. -V i.. '' They have the very latest in medical equipment over there and there are even different colored lines on the floor to lead you to the right place. This gave one fel low with a hangover a great deal of trou ble, but though his illness was accurate, it was transient, -o no permanent damage was done. Dr, Sammuel Fuenning, director of the University health services, said that the center at the present time is the best staffed and most modern in the city. Moreover, until the new Bryan expansion is completed, it will continue to rank first among the city's hospitals for comfort and facilities. In short, if you have to be sick, there ain't a better place. Visitors There was no geting lonesome over there. No indeed. Two of my columnists were - up to gloat. Diana and Sellentin came over to say hello (Sellentin had to remark that he had finally got me van quished and was selling Gold's the front page for Friday which ruined everything.) One of the columnists was Kandy Sat kunam. He came every night about seven which really saved some long evenings. He makes a point of visiting in Student Health every night and all the nurses and most of the patients know him. He is better than food packages from the Red Cross. (And you really need them too if they put you on that liquid diet they've got. Phew!) Daily Nebraskan gjXTT-EIGHT TEARS OLD Member: Awwciated Collerlata Frew Intercolleriate Prew Eeoresentative: National AdvertLntaf Service, Incorporate Published at: Room JO, Student Union Lincoln, Nebraska Htb t R Tim Daily Wmmmi it NetoattM ta mttuUthm Monaj. Tuwxfajr. dU ni '! CHUBS W wmmm rwmw, oov. uumim an M parted, by atudnto sf the thm aathoruatlaa at Mat , utmiMi Affair m mm nptrnntim of atn- " ' . llaHiiua mlm.it ara mtm. aw. ana ; UMora, ncbraika, andcr tka act of aacuat 4, lu. EDITORIAL STAFF r.aupr Managing KdltoV ... Mnlr Staff Writer Hixiru Kdltsr Mdht Ni.. Editor , Cow lldltnn ( Imly frirhan. Jr. ti Fdltora ... 8iaff Wrilera John Hiwrner. Staff FhotorraphfT BUMN1CM STAFF nunlnmu Manager AtnlAtaitt Hilftlnrn Manager 7, t barlMie (irn. Norm Hohlflng." Claulfled Manager Carroll kraui , . flMirge Mover ...Diana Maiwrtl , .. .(retrhrn Rlrtm .Raadall Lambert nannm Kuliy Sandra Hull , 'at Oean, Tom ftavten .Marilyn Coffey, gondra W bairn. .Mlnetta Taylor .Jerry Melientln SUn Knltnan. LITTLE MAN ON. CAMPUS "ffev P0N5O(2 I 0 NA FINALLY 6AVE UPTRVIN61& KEEP THE LI6HT5 TURNEP OH ATTH' FPKMMN QMCZ NlTE.' Outside Our Skins -Lenten Notes- Cross Symbolizes God In History of World By Alvin Petersen Pastor, Lutheran Student Chapel The cross is the symbol of God's intervention in his tory. Its very shape sug gests the traumatic event, when God vertically inter cepted the horizontal brok enness of the world. Indeed, history notes this event by reckoning time as A.D. or B.C. When Gov viwed the plight of humanity, He con cluded that no half means would do. It was necessary for him to take on human form, to enter into the very experience of human be ings, that He might find a way out. Thus Christ, God incar nate, with deliberate and I, A7 I Petersen Oil Grady Letterip Th Dally Nrbratkan will aumliik Letteni attarking Individuals mart only tfaaac letter whira are ftlgaed. rarry tlie author's name. Other mar mtit initial or a pen name. Letter kttotiid not exceed gvO word. When letter eireed thi limit the Nr. brashaa reverve the right ta ro dene them, retaining the wrlter't f lew. Kcligioii Unrest? I have just finished read ing the editorial in the Daily Nebraskan which posed the question as to why Religious Emphasis Week functions were not more widely attended. Since you slated that you are open to suggestions, I feel free to voice my opinions on the subject. Has anyone stopped to consider the possibility that the reason less people at tend this sort of function h because less students on the campus are satisfied by the social and supernatural as pect of religion than were students of previous genera tions. Could it be that religion on campus is not the fad that it once was and that when the students, caught in the con tradiction between natural sciences and believing in a spiritual god, have chosen agnosticism as far as a God is concerned? The students are realizing the possibility that modern religions may not be the ul timate truth and are there fore delving into natural sci ences and humanities in a search for values and a rea son for existing. I do not believe that ad vertising and commercializ ing the "Religious Emphasii Week" is going to arouse more interest. The religion for the future must be one which admits the validity of the scientific method and at the same time fulfills the religious need which science admits man needs. This is a big request but this is what I think the "ap athetic" student of this generation is searching and working for. Joe Tctro measured steps "set His face" to go to the cross, to suffer and die and arise, that men and women of all time might have eternal life. God, in Christ, recon-, ciled the world to Himself. The brokenness and rebel lion of humanity, of you and me, still exists, because sin is innate. There is no easy remedy to sin, selfishness, and perverseness. It still takes a "cross experience," that is God's grace must in tercept our wilfulness, and cleanse and purify us. In fact, a new life has to arise in each person. No half measure will do! The secret is in the cruciform God is in Christ reconciling! And one intent of this in tervention is 'that God might establish a community of redeemed the church. And in truth, the church does exist as a positive demon stration of the ongoing re demptive activity of God. Its fragmentation is its shame, and due not to weakness in the content of the gospel, but to the weak nesses of the "saints" who are still sinners. During Lent Christians everywhere take cogni zance of God's deed in his tory, redemption, and through the church, which which is God's manifest agency, "extend an invita tion to men and women everywhere to "make their peace with God, "by accept ing His grade and to wear the cross as symbol, but more than a symbol, as an experience of restoration. "If anyone is it Christ he has become a new person altogether, the past is fin ished and gone, everything has become fresh and new. All this is God's doing, for He has reconciled us to him self through Jesus Christ." (II Cor. 5:17-19) Always on the iookout fc a few laughs, I hit the jack pot the other day when I ran across a little campus pub lication from one of the stu dent houses called "Dy ing Embers" or something like that. It really tick led my funny-bone, al though I'm afraid I laughed loudest Barbara where n o humor was intended. On the back I found sometning of close kin to a gossip column called "Mousing In the Church" by Tom Catt. or something along that line. Anyway, I was delighted to find that Wanda Furd and Henry Furginshlugginer are now going steady. She's wearing his perfect Sunday - School attendance medal. Somebody else is (brace yourself) growing a beard! Can you imagine? Breakfast Blast Then they cagily hint that they had some sort of $ blast over thpre in which some breakfast food got heaved on the living room wall. The column went on to report a few more of the earth-shaking events that are going on unnoticed under our very noses at the Uni versity of Nebraska. On the inside was an ear nest confessional written by some character called the House Hermit. Here the au- t h o r, probably shedding oceans of guilty tears, blurts out the shocking fact that he's a chicken about ad mitting that he's a Chris tian. He lays bare his soul, exposes all his vices, and keeps only one secret ... his name. He follows his initial statements with several vague generaliza tions about what "should and must be the center of (his) life" and lets us in on the message that God has it in for cowards. Hates Cowards Yup, He hates cowards like everything. I must have been brought up in a very backward fashion, I guess. My folks were provincial enough to believe and teach me that God's main feature is love, which they said en compassed us all, cowards included. I'm certainly glad I got the message, straight from the hermit's mouth, about what the deal really is and whom He loves and doesn't love. After I had read this little gem from cover to covti avidly, learning about as much as I get from Mad magazine, I got to thinking very deeply "Hmmmm, I wonder," I, thought. What I was thinking about was, "What in ths name of Alfred E. Neumann am I going to write about in my column this week?" Outside World It will be lovelv weather for slush today. The weather man has predicted partly cloudy skies and no important changes in temperature. Highs of 42 to 52 are forecast. Bouncing Ballots The counted and recounted ballots for governor will be returned to the counties. A notice from the recount committee said that the expense of returning the ballots would be consiciared part of the expense of the recount. Senator Sees Plans Senator Roman Hruska reviewed the present status and future plans for the nation's longrange missiles pro gram during a weekend visit to the Air Force Ballistic Missiles Division in Inglewood, Calif. The senator was briefed by project officers on prog ress of the Atlas program, which he said is several months ahead of schedule. I THINK ili ) AND TELL THEM f, Ty I'VE LOST ithin I'll go Right . OVER TO THE PHONE, AND , CALL THEM UP.' IT- J THINK ILL Jf5TPlCUP V7 tui i'm THE PH0NEALL THE LIBGARr' ( DROP DEAD ) AND TELL THEM THAT i'VE . LOST THEIR BOOK.. , NO NEED FOR CONTINUOUS ADVERTISING TRAFFIC LIGHTS Should be turned off ot oil dangerous intersections to save electricity. Everybody knows it's a dangerous spot and that is sufficient. TEACHERS No need to review lessons. Tell the children just one and they'll never forget. HIGHWAY POLICE Stop driving up and down the highways. No need to caution drivers by patrolling highwoys. Drivers know the law and should obey. OUT OF TOWNERS That advertise in the local paper, and mail order firms that send catalogues are wasting their money. Everyone knows what is sold at stores in town and they'll all shsp at home. BUT If you are one of the wiser kind, like the Notre Dame Cathadral that has stood for six centuries but still rings the bell every day to let peoplt know it is there, and believe in continuous profitable advertising, then you will advertise in , , , E DAILY QEBRASIfflri