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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)
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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.
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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.
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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' ..
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CRUELEST PAgE IN THE PAPER.?
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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
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