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.1 Poga 2 (Vednesdoy, April 22, 1959 The Doily Nebroskan Editorial Comment: LITTLE MAN ON. CAM PUS Hie Dean Has A Point Dean Harlan. Cleveland, featured speak er at the University honors convocation yesterday, touched on an all important ubject for Americans. . Dean Cleveland told the convocation (which mustered a pretty fair crowd, in cidentally) that "currying favor with the present government (in a foreign country) may be much less relevant to the United States national interest in a fast-changing world than making sure we can get along with the next government." This harks back to a theme we touched upon in an earlier editorial. In that one, the Daiy Nebraskan stated that the United States had lost its position as one of the world's dynamic powers and had turned more and more towards sup porting the status quo. This left Russia, we said, as the only major revisionist power. In a world changing as rapidly as ours this could be fatal. Freedbm from colonialism is the chief desire of the rising countries of Africa and southeast Asia. At the same time, once these countries have gained their in dependence, fear of a resurgent colonial ism is their chief worry. Under these circumstances, Commu nism and democracy are merely secon dary considerations. They are liable to turn to any strong man whom the people think can defend the new nation against foreign domination. This leads inevitably toward dictator ship. And dictatorship, to maintain itself, needs an outside threatening power to keep the people's minds off their own situation. E-Week Comes To Page 2 ' The editorial page is going to disappear come Friday while the Daily Nebraskan salutes Engineering Week on page 2. In the past the Rag has published an E Week special. Restrictions involving print ing costs and advertising preclude that this year. Thus the full page of E-Week features and pictures. Editors traditionally hate to turn over their page to a special feature of this kind in leu of regular editorials and columns. This time, however, we feel it is a proj ect well worth the one day lapse of edi torial comment. E-Week has been very successful in the past. It has promoted not only the engineering college and its various departments, but the University as well. It has been one of the factors that gives the University College of Engineering and Architecture a top ranking among engi neering schools in the nation. So go to it fellows with our blessing. Since the United States, as Dean Cleve land points but, has supported the pre dictator government and is an ally of the former colonial powers as well, we are the logical candidate. In the meantime, the Russians get off free because they disguisa communist colonialism in ideological phrases and support any and all revolutionary move ments (outside satellite countries) in the hopes that their men will receive favor able positions in the new governments. So Dean Geveland is absolutely right when he says we must sell our good in tentions to the newly installed revolu tionary governments. At the same, time, we must sell them communist colonialism as their whipping boy. And in the end we must sell them democracy as the best form of government. We have always wondered why a nation that sells toothpaste with such ease, can't sell government of the people by the peo ple and for the people. Loss of A Friend The loss of an old friend should call for a eulogy. Monday, we lost an old friend. The friend was Sidney Jackson, the genial Jamaican who did so much for for eign students on the campus. Sidney left the University to study med icine at Heidleberg, Germany. He had a fellowship that was too good to turn down. Sidney regretted leaving Nebraska and we regretted Sidney's leaving. The kind of understanding which he promoted is val uable to any campus. . Good luck in Germany, pal. Come Armed! Now that the Student Council finally has the proper number of candidates to con duct an "official" election, the Daily Ne braskan is wondering just how many of these student representatives will take the time to give their views to the public. A student governing group, composed of fellow students, for fellow students and by fellow students, should by all means in form these fellow students of their plat forms, plans and reforms. An flpportunity for this informing ses sion will be held Friday at 4 p.m. by the Daily Nebraskan staff. We hope candidates bring reform issues by the dozen along with all the construc tive suggestions that they can get to gether. To stop this complaining that the Coun cil not representative, students should talk to their favorite candidate, tell him what they want from the Council, then let him form his platform. With such a set of platforms and candi dates to choose from, students should then be able to pick the right one to vote for. And let's have some real issues too. There are certainly plenty to choose from, so take your pick. Conservative Estimate Hoerner plotters last The Spring Day Parade. I can see it all now. Seething masses , of humanity crowded in and on top of slowly crawling, flat-tired cars. Where the idea for this competition came from is a mystery to everyone including the Spring Day Committee but I suspect it had some thing to do with the re cent phone booth cram ming craze. It will be interesting to observe the various com binations devised by some of our more progressive ho in order to win this contest. (I overheard two male night speculating on the benefits of "go ing in" vith a sorority on the deal.) The rules drafted by the Spring Day house chairmen limit the forces available for holding students on the cars to gravity and luck. Of these two the latter is the most important. Let us turn our attention to proper load ing technique. To do this the cramming marshal must first put out of his mind all thought for the comfort and welfare of the individuals in volved. They are merely bodies with a given mass and volume. The only requirement at the end of the parade is that they be alive and that they be in or on the car. First off it is appropriate to suggest that all participants fast for at least. 48 hours prior to the contest. This in addi tion to reducing their volume and mass will make them insensible to pain and thus d( to the comfort of the drive. The first important area to consider is the inside of the car. The first thing to do is remove all the seats, upholstery, door By John Hoerner handles, ashtrays, floormats, and mother-in-law straps. These may seem like small items but remember, a cigaret lighter could be replaced by a finger. After the inside is stripped to the frame the master crammer should proceed to cram in bodir s. (They must all wear ten nis shoes to protect their toenails). P-inr sure to leave room from the driv er to operate the car safely and according to University regulations the crammer next moves on to the trunk or luggage compartment as it's called on the "older" model cars. The trunk lid should probably be re moved along with the spare tire, beer cans, trunk mt, and jack handle. After the trunk lid is removed the cram mer should proceed with vertical or hori zontal stacking methods which ever to most effective for his particular model car. At this point amid cries of anquish or pleasure depending on each individual's exact position most crammers would quit, but not the winner. There is always the engine compart ment. Now most people would think that engine, heat and vrpor would prevent pas sengers from enjoying their jaunt. How ever this should not be considered in the race for supr iacy. At least 7 students should fit in an aver age engine coi"oartment. They should all wear fibre glass underwear and gas masks. The latter add to the bulk but they are necessary to comply with the Spring Day committee's ruling that all entrants must be alive at the end of the parade. D.aily Nebraskan SEETT-EIGHT TEARS OLD Uembtr: Associated Collfflxt Press Intercollegiate Press Representative: National Advertlstaf Berries, Incorporated Published at: Room 80, Student Union Lincoln. 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This was of no practical use except it made me , ,, feel like a and if that doesn't bridge the i m p 0 s sible gap in my self c 0 n f i dence, a t least I can .a LaJ. MaLJ Borland mm mmw .(....,.. Anolntant Bu.lnm Manar t:irim ftriMw, Kara, Kohlflaf. CiraiUUaa Manafor. .Jn-rr tMUntla Stea Ealmaa, an OradT ......Dons xounfAaal look like a race-track driv er, which should fool the other drivers into thinking I have all kinds of guts and prowess. My helmet is over size and hangs down over my eyebrows making a dark cave so I look like I have crafty eyeballs, and I grin savagely, and kick the accelerator with violent stomps. I need my crash helmet because I am emotionally incompetent, and this in hibits a ridiculous psycho logical need that consumes me the need to possess one of those parking stalls near Burnett Hall at 9 a.m. I tried driving into a stall one afternoon when the campus was empty, but the feeling wasn't the same. It just left me limp and sort of empty inside. You know how you used to feel when you were little, crouching over a fishing pole along a creek bank of the boy scout camp, and wanting more than anything to catch a big whale. You would sit there and watch soggy tomato can labels and old milk cartons float by, and just hope. Well, that's how I feel about where I park be fore my 9 o'clock class. Only, being inhibited and all, this has become a sort of inner need. My crash helmet serves as a kind of crutch. Everyone needs a crutch in this competitive world. Now I can control the sickness when I see someone else fill up a space right in front of Burnett. With my helmet I feel on par with the other cars rac ing around the mall. And when I beat out two Fords and a Pontiac and edge my car into the stall, I know I have won. I almost feel like going to class. Of course, not finding a park ing place at 9 o'clock sort of ruins my day. Yesterday I poised right on the upper corner of the mall and shifted back and forth in my seat scanning the horizon for an open stall. With my helmet I now can park in the center of the street and block traffic just like everyone else without feeling squeem ish all over. I sat there and fiddled with my drive indi cator until I saw something move near Bessey Hall. Then I tromped. But a lit tle Volkswagen came from the other direction and ca romed off a curb, ripped some gears, and pitched around in time to steal the space I had spotted. This happens all the time be cause those little cars sort of jump around you and, staring out from under my oversize helmet, the chin strap blocks out little Volks wagens. I hate the way those cars scrunch up at one end of a stall so you think you see an empty place, and tear off up the street only to iind a small car hiding in the gutter. Anyway, yesterday I missed two places and got frustrated trying to pass a campus laundry truck. The tower was ringing nine o'clock when I decided to cruise around the mall at top speed, dodging in a"nd out of cars which were still parked in the middle of the street waiting. Finally I took a big chance at a stall I saw emptying on the other side of the mall, and I cut across on the sidewalk. A Volkswagen rounding the corner of Bessey Hall lawn beat me to it. It was then that I noticed a janitor watching things from the steps of Morill Hall, lean ing on 16th and forgetting ing on his broom. He was laughing incoherently. For "some reason I felt like park the whole thing. Letterip The Dally Nebraikaa will aafcUas air Uiaae Irtltn which ar alnwa. Letter allarklaf laalrMiul maat carry the aaihor'i aanw. Other may as Initial ar a pen a me. Letter hoald aat exceed MA ward. rVaea letter eiaeed toll limit th Ne braskan reserve the rirhl te aanv deaae them, ntalaiag tha writer' view. Reasonable To the Editor: Recently the Daily Ne braskan has been filled with charges between it and the - Student Council concerning the laok of information a vailable for publication by . the Nebraskan on the one hand and the distortion of facts by the Nebraskan on the other hand. . First off, it seems only reasonable that the Rag representative should have been able to quote the pros pective Tribunal candid ates if for no other reason seems to me that the stu dents who are interested in the Tribunal should be able to tell whether members rode into position on empty promises or whether they are really attempting the changes they recommended. Further it appears that, al though it is responsible to the students, the Council is not making a genuine at tempt to keep the students informed of its proceedings. However, it also appears that the Rag, lacking spe cific information, is tearing into the Council without al ways verifying its charges. In order to alleviate the confusion, it 6eems only rea sonable to suggest that in the future the Council have as a permanent representa tive either the editor of the Nebraskan or a person des ignated by him. First, the student body will be apprais ed clearly and punctually of the action taking place in the Council, thus being able to evaluate its worth. Sec ond, the information pub lished by the Rag will then be accurate. Third, the Council as a student organi zation should not be able to act in secrecy. Although committeees may meet in private sessions, the results of these meetings should be presented for publication. Lacing the foregoing re commendation, the best al ternative wduld be for the Council to designate either the chairman or another re liable person to keep the Ne braskan continually aware of Council proceedings and action. It is too much to expect that the Rag can continually keep abreast of direct cooperation on the part of the Council mem bers. In closing, I should like to remind the Council that it is not a body set above the students, it is a body working through and with the students. As such, it does not have the peroga opinion and judgment from its acts. JAF Photoplay Perhaps the best local movie buy is the continual ly excellent pictures pre sented at Havelock's popu lar and comfortable Joyo 1 Theatre. A drive north and east of town, the h a s . A a 111 ai u c m s n e c - r'l t. t.cul.r JU LA success ui s u b s e - . West t quent run engagements of the best of current movie fare, at a more than rea sonable admission price. Manager The Joyo's owner-manager is friendly Clarence Fra sier, a man who not only knows his business well, but is sincerely interested in it. ' He takes considerable pride in not only running the choice current product, but, has equipped his theatre for the greatest comfort of his patrons as well. The seating is of the convenient sliding variety and projec tion facilities (including 4 track stereophonic sound an unusual bonus for a small theatre) are the very best. Up and coming at the Joyo are "Tonka," "The Journey," "Gigi" and "Rio Bravo." It is hoped that the recent success of "The King and I" (in its third engagement) may prompt Frasier's bringing back of some of the better older, and still worthwhile, pic tures. Comedy Comedy at its best re turns to the Nebraska screen when "Stalag 17" reappears this Thursday. This is the well remem bered film treatment of the hilarious play about our G.I.s conning the Germans in their own consentration camps during World War II. William Holden will again, appear, in the role whiA won for him an Oscar. Otto Preminger, Don Taylor and Robert Strauss are also in volved. Re-run Week This would seem re-run week with local attention again on George Steven's excellent production,' "Shane," currently at the Stuart, and "Mister Roberts,' playing the Union this Sun day, by request. "Shane" combines the excellence of photography which any Stevens film can boast ("A Place in the Sun," "Giant," "The Diary of Ann Frank"), and this picture is perhaps the best example of true Americana ever imortalized as a movie. The latter film, as Sunday audiences will soon attest, is every bit as funny the third time around. Note in particular Cagney's crudeness, Powell's shrewd ness and Fonda's cunning. Qa Campus with (By Oie Author of "Ralli Round the Flag, Boyt! "and, "Barefoot Boy with Cheek.") VIVE LE POPCORN! The other day as I was walking down the street picking u tinfoil, (Marlboro, incidentally, has the best tinfoil, which is not surprising when you consider that they have the best ciga rettes, which is not surprising when you consider that they take the best filters and put them together with the best tobaccos and rush them to your tobacco counter, fresh and firm and loaded with smoking pleasure). The other day, I say, as I was walking down the street picking up tinfoil, (I have, incidentally, the second largest ball of tinfoil in our family. My brother Eleanor's is bigger more than four miles in diameter but, of course, he is taller than I). The other day, as I was saying, while walking down the street picking up tinfoil, I passed a campus and right beside it, a movie theatre which specialized in show ing foreign films. Most campuses have foreign movie theatres done by, because foreign movies are full of culture, art, and esoterica, and where is culture more rife, art more rampant, and esoterica more endemic than on a cam puts? Nowhere; that's wliere. R II I ( S j&W fwl fix V r-w '"V4':,i I hope you have all been taking advantage of your local foreigm film theatre. Here you will find no simple-minded Hollywood products, marked by treacly sentimentality and machine-made bravura. Here you will find life itselfin all its grimness, its poverty, it naked, raw passion 1 Have you, for instance, Been the recent French import, Lt Crayon de Mon Ortcle ("The Kneecap"), a savage and unoom promuiing story of a man named Claude, whose consuming ambition is to get a job as a meter reader with the Paris water department? But he is unable, alas, to afford the flashlight one needs for this position. His wife, Bon-Bon, sells her hair to a wigmaker and buys him a flashlight. Then, alas, Claude discovers that one also requires a leatherette bow tie. This time his two young daughters, Caramel and Nougat, sell their hair to a wigmaker. So now Claude has his leatherette bow tie, but now, alas, his flashlight battery is burned out and th . whole family, alas, is bald. Or have you seen the latest Italian masterpiece, La Donna g Mobile (I Ache All Over), a heart-shattering tale of a boy and his dog? Malvolio, a Venetian lad of nine, loves his little dog with every fibre of his being. He has one great dream: to enter the dog in the annual Venetian dog show. But this, alas, requires an entrance fee, and Malvolio, alas, is penniless. However, ha saves and scrimps and steals and finally gets enough together to enter the dog in the show. The dog, alas, comes in twenty third. Malvolio sells him to a vivisectionist. Or have you seen the new Japanese triumph, Kibuisi-San (The Radish), a pulse-stirring historical romance about Yamoto, a poor farmer, and hw daughter Ethel who are accosted by a warlord one morning on their way to market? The warlord cut Yamoto in half with his samurai sword and runs off with EtheL When Yamoto recovers, he seeks out Ethel's. fiance Red Buttons, and together they find the warlord and kill him. But, alas, the w&r'urd was also a sorcerer and he whimsically turned Ethel into a whooping crane. Loyal Red Buttons takes Ethel home where he feeds her fish heads for twenty years and keeps hoping she'll turn back into a woman. She never does. Alas. ItW kfa ! I (here's imoklny In the balcony of your theatre, we hop, you'll be tmoking Philip Morrieor, if you prefer mere, Marlboro . . . Marlboro new Improved filter, Arte rich Haver in mfjcew of rklltp MarrU. v ., m j m- m m m