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Tuesday, October 20, 1959 Page 2 The Daily Nebraskan Snafu Rides Again To wear the robe and crown of a Home coming Queen is an honor, and a privi lege which any girl would remember with great pride the rest of her life. To reign over the activities of the day traditionally set aside for glorification of all that love of school and pride in the in stitution embodies should be a joy un blemished by any criticism of selection methods, any questions over procedures or any other disturbing factors. But again this year a snafu crept into tbe selection process. This was a sort of comedy of errors compounded and multiplied until the cul mination came on the Friday of the day Hi which the 10 finalists were to be an nounced at the rally. It was on this day that it was announced by the Division of Student Affairs that one of the final ists did not meet the eligibility require ments. That ona of the candidates could have survived the panel interview and the eligibility check that should have pre ceeded it indicates clearly that someone goofed and goofed badly. " It Is the responsibility of Tassels to handle the details of the Queen's elections. It is therefore their responsibility to de termine conclusively that any girl being considered for the position meet every stipulation of the requirement criteria. By some rapid action on the part of a Tassels officer Friday, the original error which made Sueleai Thompson an in eligible candidate was straightened out Credit for two hours which were carried on the records as incompleted in an art course was added to Miss Thompson's rec ord when the instructor concerned noti fied the office of the Registrar that she had completed the course work satisfac torily the first two weeks second semester last year. Our point here is not to argue with whose fault this credit mixup was. The is sue in question is the inefficiency of the checking procedure by Tassels. It seems Inconceivable that any group could conduct an election for a position of the importance of the Homecoming Queen without ascertaining clearly that every girl under consideration fulfilled all the requirements. According to Jane Savener, Tassels president, the requirement which Miss Thompson did not meet was that any candidate for the queen have carried at least 24 hours the two previous semesters without any incompletes or failures. Once the situation was cleared up through the efforts of Judy Truell, Tassels vice-president. Miss Thompson apparently did meet all requirements and in other words was as eligible as anyone else to bain the run ning. Further complicating the situation dur ing the checking stage was that eligibility was verified in the Office of the Register, whose records showed Miss Thoraspon as having ample hours to meet the require ment that the candidate be a junior as well as having the 5.5 giade average. It is now known that further checking should have been made through the Division of Student Affairs. 4 After talking with all the persons in volved, including the candidate herself, the Daily Nebraskan feels that although all the mistakes were made innocently that neither Tassels nor the administra tive persons concerned were trying to hide anything this sort of mistake could have been avoided easily by asking the appro priate individuals ahead of time what the procedures were for checking a candi date's eligibility. Long before any candidates faced the original panel of interviewers, no question of eligibility should have been left undis closed. As of early Monday evening, the situa tion was still up in the air. Miss Savener had been told by a Student Council mem ber that should Miss Thompson be de clared ineligible by the administration the Council would have no alternative but to declare the entire election invalid. All that may be said r.t this time on the brighter side of the ledger concerning HC Queen elections is that the slate of 10 finalists included some excellent candi dates any one of whom would represent the University well Oct. 31. The interest in the election runs high as evidenced by the assemblage of signs which appeared over the weekend and the number who turned out to casf ballots Monde. It should be the fervent hope of all con cerned that in the future more care be taken with all phases of the selection pro cess in order that no repetition of this year's snafu or any variation on the theme occurs. Soviets Boot 6Spy' The latest friction between the United States and the Soviet Union has resulted in the ousting of the American security of ficer stationed in Moscow and could bring about a retaliatory move by the United States. The Soviets claimed that Russell A. Langelle was involved in an espionage plot against the Russian government and ordered him to leave. Langelle, however, was reported kidnaped by Soviet agents who vainly attempted to enlist him as a spy against his own government Apparently, the United States will wait until Langelle reports to Washington this week, before deciding whether to expel a Soviet diplomat from Washington. The fighting fire with fire attitude of the State Department is the only way of dealing with the Russians to show them that the United States government will not tolerate any such unusual treatment to its diplomats. The incident indicates that the Soviets are by no means completely peace-minded and serves to show that we must con stantly be on guard against further such incidents endangering our hopes of a uni fied peace. Staff Views: On the Other Hand J By Sondra Whales Sometimes you get more from conven tions than a juicy steak. (Although steaks are more than nice). Friday's trip to the managing editors' Associated Press conference in Beatrice produced several interest ing talks . on the way home. One idea emerging from the various discussions cn non-conforming hats and the merits of Homecom ing mums was the honor system. One fellow jour- nalist thought that such a system might start the grou&Jwork of a spirit re-. vival-pride-in-the-c b o o 1 concept Like a Charm Maybe It would. He further Informed us that such a technique had been tried in ROTC and was working like a charm. True, an honor system would build the morale of the students. True, if it worked, tensions between students and the ad ministration might be lessened. Now, he suggested, the students regard the faculty, (or at least portions of said faculty) as an extension of the iron arm of the law. Tests are taken in an atmo sphere of supreme secrecy with prior throats of drastic punishments making a student wonder if be will be struck dead should he sneeze. That grab for a Kleenex Sondra could we3 be ihe grab for a crib-note! Would the stunts stick to it should an honor system be installed? It's all a question of the chicken or the egg and which comes first. Rather, must we have pride in our school and state to adhere to an honor system, or must we have an honor sys tem to have pride in our school and our state? But it's an idea, it's worked La other schools and it might work here. Nothing tried, nothing gained. Mom Headquarters Our office is no longer the Daily Ne braskan headquarters. It is Mum Sales Headquarters, as proclaimed by our be loved editor Diana S!axweIL Di has plastered the-walls with advice to all campus males, suggesting that they get their dates now, for the dance, to they may buy their mums soon. "No girl would dare be seen Oct 31 without a mum," she claims. My roommate, Polly Doering, , is an other salesman of the things. She sold one to her date at an Ak-Sar-Ben ball even yet The things " some people won't do to make a quota! Green Bugs Interesting ' thought gained from same convention and uttered by man sitting across from me after I had discovered four lovely green bugs in my lettuce. "A half bug is worse than a whole one." Daily NeLraskan SIXTY-NINE YEARS OLD Member? AaaocUted CoHertete Frew, Luter- cetletiate Frew Kepreaeskthre: National Adrerttrfnf Serv ice. 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He ex plained that most people don't want novels that are realistic, or true to life. - Thundering Boredom "No realist," he writes, "would ever dare pinpoint on paper the most realistic of all life's attributes: the thundering, crashing bore dom of the life of the aver age man." When he raade an exami nation of several classics, be found they "are all good, rousing tales, and fan to read." They also layed down several simples rules. First, the protagonist most be picaresque, in other words, a charming scoun drel, and a dominant male. He thinks this quality ap- dear di a couple of errant thoughts have crossed my mind recently for instance the really great athletes dont have to show what fine competitors they are by elbowing oppos ing players in the face " and it will be interest ing to note the response or perhaps more likely the lack of response on campus to the forthcoming h o m e coming dance it may well be the first time in the history of the event that the intermission entertain ment is the big name rather than the dance band itself such is the way of broken contracts and by the way boss is the universitys illustrious board of publications act ually performing a neces sary function or is it merely another bureau cratic red tape committee the way i understand it the pub boards chief func tions are those of picking the paid staffs of the rag and cornhusker and the awarding of contracts for the printing and engraving A Few Words . ... Of a Kind by e. e. Appreciation courses de serve appreciation. They're eye-openers. Not only do they make one aware of the remark a b 1 e ac- c o mplish- mM mems o i men in Uw fine arts, but also they direct attention to the diversi- peals most of all to Ameri- fied educa- can women readers (wno uonai op- incidently, read more than the men.. "For," Yerby states, -after having had their mothers and grand mothers convert the United States into a matriarchy with their ardent femini nism, and reduce the beard ed patriarch that grandfath er was into the pink and paunchy Caspar Milque toast of today, the average American female reader subconsciously enjoys read ing about a male who can get up on his hind legs and roar." Sex Depends The second rule, "Sex neither helps nor hurts a book;. it ail depends upon whether the novel, itself, is interesting." The third rule, or essential, is a strong, exteriorized conflict The plot should be dramatic, and finally, there must be a theme. Yerby also blasted those wno condemned "escape lit-, eratiire," stating, "That novels written with the de liberate Intention ta amose and entertain have or should have a very real place in contemporary lit erature." Another critic of Amer ican literature, Alfred Kaz in, said, "I am tired of read ing for compassion instead of pleasure." He complains of "the increasing slovenli n e s s, carelessness, and plain cowardice of style in fiction today. Most of the trouble, is that the ' individual does not have to invent human values, but only to redis-, cover them." 1 MacLeish'f Mew Archibald MacLeish, whose play "J B." won the Pulitzer Prize for drama this year, and who teaches a course in creative trriting at Harvard University, writes that "creative writ ing . . . can't be taught "Yoa have to have a writ er who can write before you can teach him bow." In ex planation, he says you can't teach this kind of a course, because you don't have a subject, just an object the student The last article in this series Is one entitled "Let ter t a YoEsg Maa About to Enter Publishing," by as anonymous author. It states, "The typical American regards reading a work and prefers in his free hours to be distracted by entertainments whieh range from heU-fire revival meetings through profes sional t ports contests." Schools at Fa alt The fault "lies with the public schools who make literature 'dull, difficult and painful' dull, because it is made available only if It is harmless or has been ren dered harmless by unmerci ful bowdlerizing; difficult and painful because the stu dent reads so little that be 1 tin A v ort unities at the Uni versity. Art appreciation discov ered to be anything but an easy grade by stu dents of Asst Prof. Philipp Fehl first of all provides the student with some inner light on the ways and means of art and artists. Then, as the student wanders in and out of Mor rill Hall, it acquaints him with the museum and art exhibits. One Day One day he pauses in front of some polished stone exhibits before hurrying on to class, another day finds him stalling in front of some Indian artifacts, an other time he's halted by an animal stuffily trying to look natural in his unnatur al natural habitat. Eventually, cariosity and Instructor's encouragement carry him np the stairs to the art exhibits. There his cariosity changes to sur prise, wonder, sheik, dlsbe- Hines at what makes music tick, while making composers known-about-f oiks instead of a series of names repre senting sometimes dull, sometimes exciting, some times mysterious music that seldom makes the jukebox in unabridged form. Besides scraping together a better understanding of the hows, whats, whys of music in the classroom, the student's ears do for him in the Music Building what his eyes did in Morrill Hall. In one room, someone is practicing a vocal solo, in another a piano is getting a plunking over, in another a mass chorus is sounding fury, in another an energet ic sound is being produced by a coordinated crowd of orchestra members. After absorbing a con siderable degree of appre ciation for art and music as well as the University's art and music departments, it's only a mental step away to the realization that every other University col lege and department like wise has its mysteries and rewards that often go unap preciated by the out-siders. What, the out-sider might wonder, are some of the mysteries of such fields as drama, English, history, law, engineering, business administration, elementary ed .... and girls" PE? Greeks Host Mueiister Choir uef, scorn, and "i Hke the Members bundav VViVll Vl Ummm M ff he steps from mooV-ra work to modern work. And the work, the newly initiated student of art thinks, is more exhausting for the trying-to-uaderstand viewer than the apparently splash-happy artist. Part of the answer to his big "Why this stuff?" is provided in visits to class: "Many artists no longer concern themselves with trying to paint things as they are, that's for the pho tographer to do. They roust do other things which the camera cannot or does not do." Music appreciation, in turn, provides an inner peek Fraternities and sororities opened their houses Sunday evening for the Muenster Choir which presented a con cert at the Student Union Sunday night Fifty-seven persons were m tha group which arrived in the United States less than a month ago. The company entered Lincoln Sunday aft ernoon and after a short re hearsal, took a tour of the campus. After the tour they went to the "houses to change clothes. The group ate din ner at the Crib. An estimated crowd of 800 viewed the concert The com pany now travels to Wyom ing and Colorado. by caesar of said publications but do they actually do this hasnt overnded from the rumors i hear the pub board hasnt over ruled an editors recommen dation on the cornhusker for years and rag selec tions have offered little more excitement one rea son for this is undoubtedly the pitifully small number of applicants for the paid positions on both staffs but my point is that i doubt that the pub board would be able to make accurate selections if they really had to choose from several can-, didates ive heard tell that faculty members of the board are seen around, either office only at the timex of t h e chirstmas party and there fore dont really know what any one individuals quali fications may or may not be except from what they may pick up by word of mouth this must certainly be true of the cornhusker where they dont see a fin ished product until the book is out and by that time the staff for the following year has already been picked one alone and how about the rag which they see four times a week there is one lone journalist on the board who might be able to figure out whether or not a person is deserving of advancement by how he or she has writ ten for the paper the prev ious semester while the other members of the board are undoubtedly good peo ple in their chosen fields i find myself wondering on what basis they consider themselves qualified to pass on matters they have had little real contact with stan musial is a very fine, ball player but this doesnt mean he knows what break fast food is best for me bigger type and the student members of the board are picked by the student council most of whose members probably dont know the difference between a headline and a cutline except that one is in bigger type these student members do tromp down occassionally im told but i would sup pose that they are like Jie faculty members would be if they went down to visit the dungeon offices that is they dont know what theyre looking for anyhow so they probably wander through looking terribly im portant and acquiring vast knowledge about the time of day what the weather is like and various other sub jects they may actually know something about no wonder they dont go down there more often and i hear that contracts are 'usually let to the low bidder anyway so thct func tion seems rather nil too in the boxes well kid i doubt that my thoughts will cause any stir at all because afterall the campus in general doesnt care one way or au other about pub boards as -long as the rag is in the box in soc and burnett at eleven and the cornhusker comes out in the middle of may and the people concerned you paid staffers have to mind your ps and qs be cause selections are com ing up at the end of the emester and at the end of the year and you cant affend the pub board theyll still be picking paid staff ers your obedient servant caesar byctoug ?0Sr:C1 lr 11204 Lvfi W ? 1 J Scrry I'm late, Prof.t bui.I just Couldn't NfitTa parking place. 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