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Pog 2 The Doily Nebroskan Monday, Moy 4, 1959 Editorial Comment: Congratulations Plus A Couple Questions Ivy Day has passed for another year and 25 lucky people are glowing radiantly under the Impact of each newly spoken, "Congratulations." Allow us to add our felicitations to the rest. And having thus opened the subject on a courteous note, allow us to ask a few ques tions. . 1. Why only 12 Mortar Boards? In the past we have been somewhat wearied by the lengthy parade of junior women who have been masked. We have wondered if such mass membership was not a reflec tion on the selectivity of the organization. So, in a way, we were pleased to see the number of Mortar Boards reduced this year. Certainly, no one argues that the 12 who were honored did not deserve that honor. But the faint suspicion lingers with us that there ,were at lease four and possibly six other gkls who would not have lowered the quality of the organization at all if they had been named. Which leads us to another faint suspicion about the seleo Rules Explained For Two Inebriates If two members of the newly elected Innocents Society are to continue to enjoy the friendship and cooperation of this newspaper, it might be well for us to lay' down a few ground rules right here and now. First, do not appear foolishly Inebriated In our offices either in the Union or at the Lincoln Journal. Second, do not pick up, remove or in any other way handle, our copy, type, pic tures or zincs. This last stipulation we will be only too glad to remove if you can furnish us with evidence that you are Journeyman printers in good standing with the union and employed by the Journal and Star Printing Co. In conclusion, let us say that we are sorry you have gotten off to such a bad start as members of what should be the most respected organization on campus. Since we personally know and like both of you, we hope that the situation which occurred last Thursday night will not be repeated. From the Editort By Well, folks, we have finally made it. We have reached the zenith of journalistic competence. I mean like after all, when the Pixie Press comes right out and digs us by name no less than five (count'em) times, it means wer're doing something right because the Pixies never dig anybody un less they are. Actually, the boys of the red snake might have a point when it comes to the Pink Rag. Personally, I don't think it was up to last year's snuff myself. But with the arrival of the Pixie Press, my heart eased a little. For the snakes didn't turn out their usual product this year either. There were some good pic tures but the "copy was even more harem scarum,misspelled, misstated, etc. than usual. The snaKes also raustbe in trouble scho lastically. A quick comparison of their claimed overall average shows a drop from 5.9 last year .to 5.7 this year. One thing we know for sure about this charmingly sub rosa organization, how ever They drink. That was said so many times (and reflected in the quality of their newspaper so obviously) that it even got a little tiresome toward the end. Like most students, I fell into the trap too, though. You'll notice that though I didn't like much of the Press, I read most of it. It had the same fascination as a comic book. Panic Last week, in a moment of shear panic, I let Kent Walton write this column. The result was a rather whimsical ramble that didn't go much of anyplace. It was rather refreshing not to have to write a column last Sunday. However, I have this horrible feeling that what Walton really wrote was one of the most subtle parodies on my column that I have ever seen. If that was his Intent (and I am practically certain he wouldn't pass up an opportunity like that to say something derogatory about me) Daily Nebraskan flXTY-EIGHT TfiARS OLD toniJre mpwnlbl far what the My. m to m mom to Be prlnCa. rebrnarj I, ISM. Member: Associated Collegiate Press ub.eripon nt m u pm manm or t tor uw ' latorooUoHat. Pres. S'r Representative: National AdvertMnf Service. MrtD A,J.4"U Incorporated El"".-- r PBblixhed at: Room W. Student Union zFltf"?:: Lincoln. Nebraska JElLv,,- 3n lath A B J 1 ..T Mor John Hoerner 1W tt Copy Edltore Carroll Kram. Sandra KuUy Fred, Tba Pally ffebraekaa I. puMi.to Monday. Toaatay, Jr, " t n WanoMdM and rrlday arlni toe eeboul year, iscep Staff Writ Marnn TEJJliX? frrrtat eaeatlotw aae period, by etnrfenta of th j0hii H "raw UvUrm Coffey, Soadim Wbaiaa. lalwalr if Neareika seder the aotnorliation of the staff Photographer Mlnette Tvi. Committee M Student Affair, a aa eipreuloa of eta- BMrNEM STAPF ' :. oainkM Pablleatlfln under tee InrMletloa ei Um Bnslneu Manager . ........... ...... Jerry Kelientfa fuararamlttee no Student fubllratlon. ehe.ll he free from Afslatant Builneia Manarrre Stan Hal man. ditnrtaj eeannmhlp on the part of the Htiheommittee or Charleae Gnus, Norm Kobjflnf. a the Bar of any awmbrr 1 the faculty of the tot- ClamMled Manaarrr nil flrartv Mralty. KM nwmban at tba Nebraekaa ataif are pee. Circulation Manafer s0uf Youngdahl George! there will have to be retaliation of some kind. I think I'll have the Grill revoke his credit card. Rites of Spring The traditional Spring Day rites are over and the campus police can go back to breathing normally again. It was a pretty successful affair all in all, starting early Friday morning and winding up with a prolonged serenade carried on through the joint effort of about three fraternities, early Saturday morning. The car cramming contest was marred by the injury of one young lady who was either jumping on or off one of the cram med automobiles. It is safe to assume here, I hope, that the Spring Day com mittee will eliminate this obviously dan gerous sport from the lists next year. Of course, judging from the number of bumps and bruises, there are some who would put pushball in the same dangerous category as car stuffing. However, it does a young man good to get in there and slug it out he learns self control, self reliance, the glory of striving against friendly oppo nents and the art of mayhem when the referee's back is turned. And it sure is a good game to watch from the sidelines. Actually, I fail to see the value of Spring Day except as another example of much maligned college frivolity. But then, if you don't want to be forced into having fun, you can always curl up somewhere with a good book, the televiska sat or a girl type companion who Is of like mind about the situation. And considering that last: Viva la Spring Day! .' tions. After all, the last time the Mortar Boards took as few as 12 was in 1947 when the campus was recovering from the aus terity of the war and there wasn't much activity. We must suppose, since there were extenuating circumstances in 1947, that some extenuating circumstances cropped up again this year. And they had nothing to do with a war, obviously. 2. Why no independent Innocent? For the last four years the Society has chosen to overlook Selleck Quadrangle as a pos sible source of members. The closest the Quad has ever come to being represented in the course of these four years was when John Kinnier was chosen in 1957. Kinnier was a member of the Cornhusker Co-op, the closest the Big Red have come to naming a bona-fide independent. This year, as in every year for the past four, one house has contributed three men to the society. This house has an approxi mate membership of 60. Selleck Qaud rangle has an approximate membership of 900. Surely, within this 900 there is one man deserving of membership in the Society. If the Innocents are to continue to lay claim to being representative of the entire campus, it seems to us that they cannot continue to overlook the independents. And certainly, the presidency of the RAM Council should carry as much weight in the selections as the presidency of the Interfraternity Council or the Student Council. Earlier this semester, the Daily Ne braskan published an editorial outlining what we thought should be the grounds for membership in the senior honoraries and why. We do not claim that this year's se. lections ignore the critera we support. As a matter of fact, it looks to us like these criteria have been followed more closely this year than in the past. At the same time, there are these two questions outstanding. It would be useless of us to ask for answers to them from the outgoing members of the two societies. Their records aire secret for obvious rea sons. However, if questions such as those we have raised, continue to bob to the.surface like corpses in the future, it might be wise for the campus to reevaluate the methods and worth of the senior hororaries. Wf. C. A Aw- DID YOU i 4? CAON...tfxA i, Je2w EVER CONSIDER v CAN'T BLAAlEl j T."3 THAT ITMI60T J CJ EVERYTHING) J fl i j BE THE MAM jf M ON THE I I PEMlNDTHE QVgcai)Tj i VjAcauET Book Review: 'Hour-Glass 9 Displays Superb Skill By Michael Dicstl The Hour Glass by Edwin Gilbert, V. B. Lippincott Co., 512 pp., $4.95 It was 1936 and 23 year old Gabe Mario and others of his generation the "chrisis kids" as he called them ventured into the quixotic Greenwhich Village and to Papa Belkoff's on the corner of West 3rd. and Macdougal. Gabe is the last to arrive at Bel koff's and a subterranean party the first evening in troduces the characters: Noan Stirnbergy muscu lar young painter from De troit whose great loves are jazz and fried potatoes; Dick Willford sex starved writer from the Midwest with "intense vi tality, a brooding, caged energy that communicated itself at once." There is Ellen O'Conlon would be poet who represents re bellion qua rebellion ("I wonder what my mother and father would say if they saw me now?") and Peter Amstead a color less Princeton graduate, now working at Macy's. But the essence of life in the Village is focused on Gabe and Clair Chamblis; or rather, the inability of Gabe to communicate his A Fe w Words of A Kind Once there was a Bern stein who didn't direct the New York Philharmonic. But this is not to say that he did not inspire wild mu sic, on one Jt occasion, at ' 1 e a s t , he L p r o v ed an If inspiring di- f rector, mm This mo ment oc curred dur- 4 v 1 WW ing his pre sentation of a 1 a b orous tome.. The e.e. number was being played In happy pizzicato fashion until suddenly an unhappy horn player who could never persuade anyone to listen to the tunes he wanted to play went berserk and tooted a discordant blast which madly danced key to key, A-D-A, A-D-A, A-D-A. The barbaric blasts drove the horn player into a deep er frenzy. He could not stop tooting his horn. At first the audience chuckled. "The horn player is having fun," they told themselves. But soon it became evident that the horn player was voted to his senselses mu sic and desired that the en tire orchestra join him in playing it. This was too much for the rest of the orchestra to en dure. "You are proposing that we play the lousiest music ever conjured up in this concert hall," said one fellow musician. And con sequently the horn player soon discovered he was toot ing alone. Now when the horn player walks down the street peo ple point at him and say, "There is that wild horn player who would have the whole world play his mad music were it within h i s power." MORAL: One test of the competence of a musician is to be found in the music he plays. Barbed Wire? A column written by a man with the imnrobable name of Weasel Necklace for the Browning Momtanna Gla cier Reporter carried the following pithy report. "Levi Aims Back was picked up Sunday night back of George Wippert's place where he was hung-up by one leg on a barbed wire fence. More fences would help the police." Barbed wire is all some say we need to turn this school into a real prison. It's a thought though. f 2 love for this alien and un worthy interior decorator whose greatest desire is to possess men for the ad vantages they can give to her career. She receives only "satisfactory" on her design project but her hope for the future lies with Roger Freusen, the editor of Crosstown whom Gebe had introduced earlier. Her opportunity for success comes soon and she moves from the Villlage to Up town Gramercy Park, working with an established interior decorating firm. Forced to Marry Peter Amsted is forced to marry 18 year old Leslie, daughter of a law client of Gabe's, and leaves Macy's for an entertainment job in a small nightclub a j"b ob tained through the iirorts of Gabe. Ellen O'Conlon is lost somewhere in the men agerie of names, but we re member she is becoming a rather successful poet publishing in small maga zines. And Noah's "Jazz in Art" show is just enough of a success to inform the reader that all is well al though not too believable in this fairyland of peo ple who are "arriving." Gabe graduates from De Pyster second in his class and into a Murray Hill apartment and the law firm of Aarons, Bykstone and Cahne. There are after noons of selling advertis ing for the Town and Coun try and writing cartoon captions for Roger Freu sen. Meanwhile, Clair real izes the importance of Gabe for her decorating success: "It was as if his failure or success would somehow reflect on her; she had giv Daily Nebraskan Letterip Witch Hunt The persecution of an outstanding American and a selfless individual, Mer ton Bernstein, is reminis cent of the witch hunts for which Nebraska has taken second place only to the the Know Your SC Candidates continued Teachers College Ann Walker, is a freshman and a member of Alpha Xi Delta, Builders assistant. UNSEA. Junior Panhellenic. Alpha Lambda Delta pledge. cumulative Average 7.8. Miss Walker feels that co- ious colleees and bween the colleges and the administra tion is vital for the Univer sity and much work needs to be done in this field. Carole Woodllnz. a fresh- man. is a member of Akiha Chi Omega, Red Cross, New man Club and a WAA house representative. Cumulative average 5.5. Miss Woodling is runnine for Council because she would like to a member of an organization that deals di rectly with the student body. She feels she could success fully represent the desires ana ideas of the students. College of Law One representative will be elcteed. Nlel Stillineer: No informa tion submitted. James Fournier: No infor mation submitted. College of Dentistry One reDresentative will he elected (See today's Council story). Bob Theede. a tunior. Is historian of Siema Phi Ensi- lon, member of AUF, Secre tary of Kosmet Klub, and a member of Xi Psi Phi pro fessional fraternity. Theede believes that repre sentation from all colleges is government. He is interested in , student government and says he will do everything possible to uphold past tra dition and assimilate new ideas for the good of the Uni versity. Bob Smith, a fresham, is a member of Sigma "Phi Epsilon. Cumulative average 6.108. Smith stands for open Trib unal hearings and for a dead day before exams. He be lieves we should re-arraeal two-hour Darkin!s on lfith tn make it more effective. (f -3 J OF SO MANY I en him much of his time and she needed to think that the future would hold some kind of reward for him and thus for her. A Jus tification of their relation ship." But for Gabe, the rela tionship was one of great longing for the sincere love communication by tele phone or a quick glance of her eyes. But in every case thfir careers or Clair's ambitions prevent any great desire from material izing. Instead, she marries Howard Quint, an architect friend of Gabe's. put this soon fails, and in acknowl edged defeat, she turns again to Gabe but with the same expression of pride: Yourself "It's always yourself, she thought as the cab rattled along Lexington Avenue. It always comes back to yourself. You waste so much of your precious life fretting about others and how to please or defeat them, but you fail most of the time because you can't or won't come to terms with yourself and who you are." Gabe's love for her has cooled considerably. But he realized that there is no reason to be indifferent or revengeful to her as she had reached the pitiable state which transcended the pride of them both. They are married; Noah blinds Gabe in his left eye in a fight over Clair and, later, both men go off to war. It is October, 1952, and Gabe is resolutely resigned to Clair's hate, reunited again on the country es tate" of the Scorick's. Here the center shifts to Gabe's infamous Joseph' McCarthy. First the American Le gion tried to walk all over Prf. E. N. Anderson for his use of a book in University classes which the Legion had not approved. Then there was the case of C. Clyde Mitchell who was bumped from his job and finally had sense enough to leave Nebraska. And now if Sen. Jack Ro mans, Sen. John Cooper, et al, attempt to investigate the University College of Law for its hiring of a re spected American, our state will go down in the annals of American history as the most bigoted, most black-minded state Ameri ca knew. My respect for Merton Bernstein means nothing. The fact that I think he is not only a loyal American, a generous individual and a responsible citizen but also a fearless represent ative of what he believes to be right means noth ing. But if you could poll the outstanding public figures of the day you would find that Merton Bernstein's reputation and his person ality have won him warm friends among Americans any of us would be proud to call our friends. For ex ample, while taking with former United States Sen. of the Democratic Senator ial Campaign Committee this past summer, I hap pened to mention Mert Bernstein's name. "T h e professor?" Senator Clem ents exclaimed. "Why we surely miss him around the Senate Office building!" It s worth noting, I think for the sake of those who obviously have been brainwashed into thinking , HAPLESS OPPOSITION' .. f 3) SI6MS THE SPORTS PACE IS THE CRUELEST PAgE IN THE PAPER.? r-s I1' AMriTUCkl f.lfAITI ft ON TO WIN BY SCORE OF SIX 1 STUi THINK love for their daughter, Mary, and the resulting jealousy which Clair feels and, also, Gabe's law prac tice. Dick Willford has pub lished his first novel quite successfully but his second, the Nighi Flower, is banned in this country for moral reasons. After weeks of refusing to take the case, Gabe fi nally relents and amid a ' heavy law practice which is ruinous to his health, he fights for the book but is defeated. While Gabe is in Italy with Mary recovering from overwork, the high er courts reverse the de cision and book Is allowed publication. In the end, the revela tion comes not in Gabe's love for an unworthy wom an but the attempts of the lawyer to under stand the true meaning of the law. Gabe learns that the law is not necessarily a sys tem which does not con sider the human condition. It is in this last case par ticularly that Gabe discov ers that the courtroom tri umph must be considered a victory of the law, not of any one person or his ideas. Rare incites into tech nique ("Pete Amstead put down the guitar as if it were a nude woman he'd been stroking . . .") and humor ("I was hoping to be the stellar attraction in this opera but I'm still just another spear carrier.") af ford the reader an expan sive novel of generally su perb craftsmanship. What it lacks in depth, it attains in movement and skillful portrayal of a varied (but perhaps too numerous) fas cination of characters. the Americans for Demo cratic Action is a left-wing group, that it was express ly formed to combat com munism. Furthermore, the membership list includes not only the Roosevelts, the Stevensons, the Humphreys, etc., but also leading fig ures in education, journal ism and politics. Mert Bernstein is too big a man to deman an apolo gy from Romans, Cooper, Bridenbaugh, Moulton, et al. But the University of Ne braska must now allow the legislature or any other body to N abridge academic freedom again. It has pitched two strikes against freedom on our campus already. Let it not be said that Nebraska Uni versity allowed itself to be the instrument of wrath against a man who tried to write a fair, honest la bor bill for Nebraska. Let it not be said that Nebraska University was a party to the vengeance of an Ord trucker who vent ed his own personal anger against a fair minded American from the floor of our Unicameral. Vet today Best Idea To the Editor: Bob Handy's idea of charging us $1.25 extra for guaranteed shows is the best idea that has come up since I enrolled last fall. We need good entertain ment here at the U and we aren't getting it. Where can anyone get a better deal than what Handy wants us to have. For poor students that want good entertainment Bob Handy's idea Is fine. Rich Shumaa ' WITH SUPER? PITCHING AND POWERFUL HITTINS, TMEV COMPLETELY DOMINATED 7W08 HAPLESS OPPOSITION. a m