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I Paae 2 The Daily Nebroskon Tuesday, .October 6, 1959 Scramble on 16tli St. The Perils of Pauline fiidn't begin to match the dramatic action of man afoot versua man 'acar. In our own campus version of this unceasing struggle Between the pedestrian and the wheeled, students have thus far done a remarkable job of gaining and keeping the upperhand. Uke at 11:50 a.m. when hundreds of persons attempt to ford the river of snarl ing autos which gushes down 16th St. If you've ever watched the action, you will have noted that until there are 10 persons assembled on one patch of road, no one moves. Then with the 11th person, the previous ly Intimidated group takes the first hesi tant step forward. In each pack there must be one leader i.e. the fellow on the left, since it's a one way street going south. Lane by lane the pack crosses. Each of the three lanes represents an other conquest that is unless one of the roaring monsters is being manned by a die-hard egotist who isn't going to stop for any pedestrian be he alone or accom panied by several dozen others. It Is one of those pieces of good fortune that In the past few years no student has been injured on some of the more heavily used campus thoroughfares such as 14th end 16th Sts. Granted the students do a good bit of jaywalking, but when you're heading for class on a rainy day, what're you gonna do? This Is why the resolution forwarded by the Board of Regents to the Lincoln City Council informing that group that the Board would "strongly oppose'' any move to make 16th and 17th Sts. major arter ials to the proposed Interstate spur. The Regents further recommended, as they had on previous occasions, that these two streets become internal parts of the cam pus, hence closed to through traffic. At the present time crossing 16th St. is hazardous, to say the least. That nearly half of the University's living facilities should be separated from the main body of the campus in the first place was a mistake long ago. To reinforce this original case of poor planning by pouring even heavier traffic onto the streets' would be to invite more traffic accidents involving pedestrians. Casting aside for the moment all pleas based on making a more beautiful cam pus, unifying the segments, or simply making getting from place to place more convenient, the fact still stands unchal lenged that shooting an arterial street be tween two halves of the campus two times a day, unaided by traffic lights creates a dangerous problem. Students dashing in front of cars on a busy street create an added annoyance to motorists on both 16th and 14th. If these roads would skirt the campus completely, drivers would be inconvenienced less,' and students would be a great deal safer, It would appear that this time, when the route for connections to the interstate are not yet completely confirmed, would be the time for city planners to consider ser iously the Regents' request that traffic be diverted away from the heart of the University. 0 Activities World Opens Ta the freshman, or the upperclass transfer, is presented a list that fills two pages of small type in the Builders di rectory. This list is the run-down of ac tivities general and specialized, small and large. Within this listing are cate gories as varied as Orchesis (modern dance) and Cosmopolitan Club (interna tional students). Never would we advocate that all 8,000 plus students enrolled in University be come 8,000 identical figures of the Organ ization Man and Gal. Far from it. The so-called activity jock that cam pus specimen who is a "wheel" in every thing it's possible to wheel around in, is a breed apart not necessarily a bad breed, but definitely a breed apart, This is the group composed of two types first those who have that nebulous quality called leadership, and second those who would wear masks or hoods. To persons in these groups come the rewards for which they work, be it a mystic niche or the knowledge that they are improving their University via their efforts in or ganizations. And for the rest we can only say that' if the activities trail is avoided simply because an individual fe Js he cannot de vote hours to stuffing envelopes or run ning errands, he ought to look at the other half of that trail. The student who takes nothing more from this school than a di ploma and a memory of hundreds of classes and hours of working has missed the intangible something which makes college something more than four years of brain-stuffing while waiting to take up the real affairs of living. Take activities such as Red Cross and YWCA. Certainly few persons would argue that these are worthless groups insti gated only to further a small group's per sonal ambitions. When one of the Red Cross swimming instructor spends hours trying to help a handicapped child learn to swim this cannot be called the con niving efforts of an activity jock gunning for recognition Ivy Day. Then there are the smaller organiza tions specializing in some specific field of interest, such as the language clubs, the swim and dance groups, NUCVVA, and so on and on and on. The major activities, those geared to pro mote the school in one way or another, (such as Builders, Student Union, Corn husker, AWS) necessarily entail busy work at some of the lower levels. It takes seal ing a lot of envelopes to get a worth while project off the ground. If sealing the envelopes were the end in itself, we would say forget the whole thing. But it is not. The activity needs the en thusiasm of new people. The new blood can benefit from the associations with other persons. Where else can one learn the ways of human dynamics better than from within a worthwhile group. Where else learn leadership, develop the strength of character necessary to plan a program, instigate it and follow it through to com pletion? These are the values, of activities. This is only a small taste of what they can give the individual who is willing to give of time and talent to them. Activities Mart next week will throw open the doors to many organizations. Activities NU this Wednesday night will explain for newcom ers as many organizations as time will allow. Staff Views: On the Other Hand if Growl! 1 Stomp! Banners waving, flags flying and battle cries screaming forth, the Daily i Nebras- kan i2 on the march! And what brings out the crusade buttons? What else could but the Student Tribunal! Open hear ings arc again the subject of discus sion. Contrary to popular belief, the Rag does not creep through bushes at the woods to discover who's downing that illegal can of beer. No, we do not want to usa huge lists of names of all the latest persons who have been "caught by the eagle eya of the law." Sondra In fact, we do not want to publish names at all. r i t What we do want is to attend Tribunal hearings, see what goes on and be certain that cases are not railroaded through by Tribunal members ox ad ministrative checkers. We want to know if, in the majority of cases, the wishes of the Tribunal are followed, Or. if their opinion is changed by a higher hand. We want to know if the Tribunal always sees .that it has all the" facts. We want to know who de cides and why when the judges split and the dicision is left up to the adminis tration. If a closed door policy continues, anything could happen. The Student Tri bunal is the court of law on the University campus. Closed doors are conducive to private decisions, secre tive action and unfavorable decisions, because no one really knows what's going on. An open door policy is not for the persecution of those being tried, it is for their protection. It is so that everyone on campus can know what decisions the Tribunal gives for what offenses and, most impor tant, why! And it is to prevent in justices. I love sunshine. I hate rain. One of my sorority sisters informed me that farmers in southeast Ne braska cannot get wheat planted and it is a month and a half late already. If I knew any weather men I would crusade for sunshine. And warm tem peratures. Balmy breezes. Starry skies. Fogless nights. - Dirty ole rain. Daily Nebraskan RTYTYATVP YFARS OLD CMverslty. The member of th Dally NmkH . . 4 . . . ., i . , staff are personally responsible for what th- Mr, r Munbw: Associated Collegiate Press, Inter- an, r rn to t prints. February s. im. COllfgiate Press fcnhsrriptloo rate ar f3 per semester or U lor Ww Representatives National Advertising- Serr- ntJlea ''' i. .matter at th fne tee. Incorporated la Lincoln, Nebraska, nnaer the at of August 4, Ills. PubllsJied at: Room JO. Student Vnlon rmtn !?.t.t..!f!f...Dta. KwrtI Lincoln, Nebraska Managing Editor Carroll Kran Uth A R t:,tnr Boadra rVhalea Teiep&ew -76si, txu 4225. 4226. 4227 WKSr::::::::::::::::::irJ2S? TH Daily Nebraskan t published Monday. Tuesday. 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By George Moyer What with Sam Hall and running the student side of I AT IZP&T VYff HAVE A VOX WOKS OF TH5 FfZESH AN CODING IN TO USE THS A Few Words . . . . Of a Kind by e. , How times change. There was a time when anyone who suggested the passing of "Dear Old Ne braska U" as the campus battle cry would prob ably be tarred and e a t ti ered. Now they get as reyi talizers of school spirit. I suggest e.e. that instead of changing the pep song we change the pep oranization. . These remnants of school rah-rah-rahism have gone too far. "Touch not a word of its grey old unlyrical text," I cry. If the Cobs want new songs written I suggest they write an organization song. A couple of words they might work into their in spiring hymn of glory are sobs, and slobs. I think the latter has an extraordinar ily keen ring to it. Letterip Tbe ll Nebraska win aabtlsb only the letter which are slsaed. Letter attckla todWIdo! mast erry th sathor' m. Other may nse Initials or a pen urn. VrJTn should at ieeed SO0 word. Whea htters aieeed this limit the Ne braska reterw the nrw eoa desse Uxm. reUJatal th writer! views. 9 Why? Why To The Editor: Why? Why? WHY? must the articles in the Rag this year keep harping on the very things that they harped on last year? It seems that everytime I pick up the Rag it's filled with articles pertaining to Apa thv and Lack of School Spirit. In the editorial column it was stated that some of the students didn't know the song, "There is no Place Like Nebraska." This I can hardly believe unless they are students from out of state and that isn't a very good excuse because I, too, am from out of state and I knew the song long before I came here to school. The other day my room mate and I walked into the , Union and were greeted by two very active boys. These two boys began talking about the University of Nebraska. Naturally their brains had been fille!. with complaints and they were almost convinced that Nebraska Uni. was going to the dogs. Now really, boys, if you are so put out with this school, why not go to Doane or Wesleyan? There are plenty of students on this campus who care about it enough to take your place. Nebraska students don't stand on their heads in the middle of "O" Street and cheer for Nebraska but who expects them to? This school does have spirit, maybe not in the way some of you expect it to, but it's there and all you have to do is look for it As far as Apathy goes, start looking into some of our activities on this campus. I don't think they're anything to be ashamed of. K. Kerr ACE Meets Today A.C.E. will meet today in 2O0 Teachers College at 4:45 p.m. Dues are $1.50 for the year. A film, "The Master Ele ment," will be shown. Hines My apathy, if you won der, rises from an immun ity built up from annual on slaughts of weeping words from weeping columnists about poor school spirit. The only thing school spirit at football games needs is more victories, which the last couple of Saturdays in dicate the University w i 1 1 have. School spirit which is far more than just a few yells at football games needs a positive attitude toward the University as a good place to grub for an education. Thanks to a toughening of academic standards, which at least one professor con fessed to me last year has been done, unconsciously if not consciously, the Univer sity is steadily improving in this area. I would applaud efforts to carry this improvement further, even if it meant a few more low grades on my report card. The trouble with this school, from my little ob servation point, is that there are too many people worry ing about rah rah on the football field, and com pletely ignoring the go go in the classroom. This irri tates me terribly because it's very hard to find "some one who has something to talk about except parties and games and beer. This is not to say that I do not like parties and games and beer, but let's face it there is something else in life. Being a weak minded intellectual climber I like finding people who have something to talk about. It's hard. Most people, I will admit, are honest. The trouble is that they're honest bores. But I bore you and me with my idle chatter. Rah, Rah! And did you see those Dodgers go, go, go. my brother making witty remarks in their columns about this and that, there's hardly any defense left for this corner. I guess I will have to form a band of sickly but determined city boys to ward off the "slings and ar rows of an outrageous some thing'or other." This week we are going to have a column with lots of asterisks. I want t h o s e printers to get plenty of practice putting to asterisks so that maybe they won't forget them come some fu ture time when asterisks may be important. Type you can always throw away, but aster isks are im portant be cause with out them the type you've got left just doesn't have muoh conti nuity crime. how. A least My it sure didn't last week. .(Loomer ' claims my type never has any continuity even with asterisks between each line.) Grundy old politicians like myself just naturally seem to seek the smoke stained comforts (?) of the law school. Take for instance the fellow who sits beside me Mick Neff. When I was a brash sophomore, Mick, M a r v. Breslow, Don Beck and Bruce Bruggeman were ;lL'rlAT5 THIS ABOUT, YOU AND A "MISS 0THMAG"?U10 1 IN THE CWRlD 15 TaMi5' othmar? SUE'S MY TEACHER...SHE UNDERSTANDS ME! J Is- things on campus (In spite of what 13 cloistered, hood ed mystics thought). These people were all on Student Council and one day at the suggestion of Mr. Neff, they determined on a crusade. They deter mined thrt the Homecom ing Queen was going to b elected by the students. With this for a goal they set upon the unassailable fortress thrown up by Tas sels in -Rm. 313 of the Un ion with comments, criti cism and suggestions. In this they were Joined by the intrepid editor of the Daily Nebraskan, Sam Jen sen (also presently shel tered in the school of law). This quintet was so success ful that they even stirred the monolithic object of their attack to reply thus making Tassch a contro versial organization, a thing unthinkable in the annals of the school. The point of all this is that once the wheels were started, they were hard to stop. Subsequent Councils carried on. And we n o w have a new system for electing the Homecoming Queen. So we see that by study ing history it is fouud that the Student Council does not have to behave like some sort of inert gas (bag?) and impressions cre ated by self-congratulation can be corrected. a Those students of moving picture glory will recognize the Union film committee's pair of free. weekend attrac tions as a pair of classics. They are "A Day at the Races" with the Marx Brothers and "Way Out West" with Laurel and Hardy. The two comedy teams involved superseded Martin and Lewis like the Model T did the Corvair. And like the Model T, there is still a lot of mileage left in both. Congratulations to Don Geise and the YOUNG DEMOCRATS. Sam Hall said it first and better but I'd still like to get on the record. 'Love, Marriage' To Be Discussed Male campus leaders will discuss "Love and Marriage" and answer' questions on dat ing at a panel for the YWCA group today at 4 p.m. in the Student Union. Girls who are not Y mem bers are invited, according to Carol Vermaas, group leader. 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