Friday, January 8, 1960
Page 2
The Daily Nebraskan
Editorial Comment:
Jennings Dragged In
Thursday morning sports pages head
lined a ruling of the National Collegiate
Athletic Assn. that placed the University
of Oklahoma on indefinite probations,
banned the school from post-season bowl
games and prohibited it from sharing any
cuts from televised games.
The penalty was assessed as a result of
Oklahoma's failure to disclose details of a
fund for recruiting athletes. The fund is
one administered by Arthur L. Wood of
Oklahoma City. The NCAA established
that the fund had provided improper fin
ancial aid to a student athlete. Wood re
fused to open his records to NCAA investi
gation, despite urging from OU officials.
The announcement of the probation
stated that the severity of the sentence
was due largely to the fact that when
Oklahoma was under investigation in
1954-55, no mention was made of the
existence of the Wood fund. Additional
probing after this previous Incidence re
vealed that some athletic department
members must have known about it.
Nebraska Coach Bill Jennings was Im
plicated when Wood was quoted as saying,
"The money referred to was money I
gave Bill Jennings personally to defray
travel expenses for prospective athletes
during a period from 1952 to 1954 . . . (Jen
nings was an assistant coach at Oklahoma
during this time.)
"I would say this whole thing probably
has been brought on by Jennings disclos
ing information to the NCAA. As far as I
am concerned, it is a closed issue," Wood
added.
However, Dr. George L. Cross, presi
dent of OU, said that the infractions were
revealed by Sooner Head Coach Bud Wil
kinson. Dr. Cross said, "When the 1953
violation was recently brought to our at
tention, Mr. Wilkinson took steps immed
iately to inform the NCAA of it. .The NCAA
first learned of it through our own initia
tive." Dr. Cross did not mention Jennings. The
Husker grid mentor has denied taking the
money from Wood, but would not com
ment further.
However, as public opinion would have
it, the fact that Wood has implicated Jen
nings with his charges has cast a bad
light on the character of our coach. The
Daily Nebraskan is confident that Bill
Jennings is not the caliber of man who
would pull this incident out of the back
ground with the intentions of taking Okla
homa out of the Orange Bowl picture and
thus putting Nebraska in a better position
for going to Miami next January.
We feel that Cornhusker football for
tunes are steadily improving due both to
good coaching and the fine material that
is coming up playerwise next year and
that no underhanded tricks are necessary.
Unless Mr. Wood can prove that Jennings
is the cause of Oklahoma's misfortune
through unsportsmanlike "tattling" the
whole affair should be written off as
nothing but a false front put on by Mr.
Wood to cover up for his own mistake.
Longer Library Hours
First comes the long, tedious work of
study. Questions asked, replies given, esti
mates made, costs figured, opinions aired,
opinions requested. Then a temporary
stalemate.
Then suddenly, after months of work,
an almost casual announcement is made
that Love Library will remain open until
10:50 every night except Friday and Satur
day. If ever the Student Council could sit
back and breathe a long collective sigh for
the final accomplishment of a difficult
task, this is the time. Council members,
particularly those on the library commit
tee, are to be sincerely congratulated for
their long work to extend the hours.
The new program goes into effect Mon
day. It will require a considerable amount
of additional work on the part of the li
brary staff. It will also entail additional
expenditures. However, it is the opinion
of nearly all students concerned that the
use which will be gained from the library
facilities during the hours during which
the library has in the past Been ciosea,
will completely justify this added effort
and money.
In the fall of 1951, a vigorous campaign
was carried on through the Daily Nebras
kan and other agencies to open the li
brary on Sundays. At that time as in this
case, the additional funds needed and the
additional burden on the library staff was
cited.
However in the long run the students
convinced the library staff that their case
was a valid one. The library agreed to
try opening on Sundays.
That the experiment was a success is
attested to by the agreement to try this
new experiment, which will open the li
brary an additional 10 hours a week.
There is little reason to doubt that this
experiment will be as successful as the
last one.
From the editor's desk:
V
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Diana
By Diana Maxwell
Maybe I've tuned in on the wrong fre
quencies, but if the static I keep hearing
Is accurately Interpreted, it just may be
, that at last enough influential people are
going to stand up and shout that thing
that every thinking per
son In the state realizes.
The rumbles have been
pretty firm so far that
maybe, naybe, maybe,
, some of our politicos will
risk their political necks
by saying that we have
got to broaden the tax
base.
Charles Thone skittered
near the subject in a
statement last week. He
did not say that the state GOP should
adopt a broadened base as a part of its
platform, but he did indicate pretty clearly
that considering same would be a jolly
good Idea.
Comments the Lincoln Star: "All of us
are witness to the sad state of affairs
found In our own state of Nebraska where
elected public officials have refused to do
the one thing which must inevitably be
done broaden the tax base. Every citizen
you talk to seems to know it must be done
and just about every public official will
admit it but none of them will make a
public fight of it.
"The chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee hag spoken in favor of
a broadened tax base but he stayed away
from the far end of the limb by turning the
final decision in the matter over to the
voters. If all we want are public officials
who will tell us when its time to. vote and
on what we shall vote, then we have had
it. . ."
Another symptom of the growing rest
lessness over the failure of office-holders
or candidates to vigorously espouse the
broadened tax program was seen in an
editorial comment in the Lincoln Journal
concerning funds for education.
The Journal noted realistically that a
state can only dawdle so long when it
comes to supplying adequate funds to pay
for good schools.
It's a fact of modern life that big gov
ernment of the welfare state variety re
quires big taxes. Obviously it is not
equitable or smart or particularly lucra
tive to sock the property owners and sock
them hard, while not getting any state
tax from those who don't own buildings,
farms, ranches, homes and so forth.
If we want good roads, which we do,
they have got to be financed. If we want
schools which can be properly supplied
with desks and books and manned by well
trained teachers, we have got to pay for
them. If we want to have state colleges
and a University that is equipped and
staffed to do the mammoth job of edu
cation required today, the funds have got
to come from somewhere.
Hardly anyone disputes the contention
that property taxes cannot be boosted
again. This would only aggravate the
state's problem tax-wize and would by no
means settle it. A broadened tax base is
needed, and it is needed now, not in 10
years.
The ranks of has-beens is swelling
wildly. New AUF officers, and now 'even
forevers like Basoco step down from
Builders positions. For three and a half
years I've wondered what gets into senior
activity-types the minute they lay down
their gavels and turn over their files of
reports. Now I know. There must be sheer
delight in waniering around having after
noons free to heckle the younger activity
types who are still trapped in the mill.
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Escapes Serious Fire
By Ingrld Leder
The withdrawal of New
York Governor Nelson
Rockefeller from the Re
publican presidential race
has brought comments from
p o liticians
'
U
Ingrld
that since
c o m p e
tition for
the num
b e r one
spot on the
GOP tick
et has been
e 1 i m i
nated, this
year's con
v e n tion
will be as
cut and dried as the one
In 1956.
If It hadn't been for Terry
Carpenter and h 1 s "Joe
Smith" the 1956 GOPpow
wow would have been a
pretty dull affair.
Carpenter is still being
criticized that by nominat
ing "Joe Smith" he made
our state look ridiculous.
I wonder whether or not
these critics are aware of
what exactly went on in the
San Francisco convention
hall in 1956.
Two Ideas
Carpenter went to San
Francisco with two fixed
ideas. He professed to see
a tough campaign instead
of a closed convention as
it turned out instead, and
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On Campuses Vi Things
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anly these letters which are signed.
Letters attacking Individuals mast
carry the anther's name. Others may
use Initials er a pen name. Letters
should aet exceed 200 words. Whee
letters exceed this limit the Ne
braskan reserves the right to soa
dense them, retaining the writer's
view.
Abby Retorts
To the editor:
I have always wondered
just what Ann Landers is
and I was pleased to dis
cover that the Wednesday
Nebraskan answered this
question for me.
She is, according to the
pleading editorial on page
two, a dignitary. How clever
of you to say this; I never
would have thought of such
phrasing. She is apparently
on the same level as Dr.
Tom Dooley and Victor
Reisel, to mention Just two
other dignitaries you noted.
This, too, is encouraging.
I'd always thought she was
just a publicity gimmick
for the Lincoln Journal.
"Dear Abby"
the Nebraska state senator
also planned to nominate
Secretary of the Interior
Fred Seaton of Hastings for
the vice-presidency.
Although at the beginning
of tHe convention Seaton
told the members of the
Nebraska delegation that
he expected them to toss
his name into the political
ring, he changed his mind
the day before nominations
took place and tried to dis
suade Carpenter from nom
inating him for vice-president.
During roll call of states
to determine what names
would be placed in nomina
tion, Mrs. Hazel Abel, Ne
braska delegation chair
man, answered that one Ne
braska delegate "without
the concurrence of the re
mainder of the delegation"
wished to place a name in
the nomination.
I question that Mrs. Abel
did not know whom Terry
wanted to nominate, but
when convention chairman
Joe Martin asked her who
it was the delegate wished
to nominate she said she
had no idea.
Surprised
Terry was taken com
pletely by surprise by Mar
tin's announcement that he
had a letter from a promi
nent Nebraskan declining
to permit his name to go
before the convention.
This left the usually re
sourceful Terry, having re
ceived the floor, at wit's
end.
Terry described this situ
ation thusly:
"I was stumped, I had to
say something. I was in a
very embarrassing posi
tion. The first name that
came into my head was Joe
and then Smith."
Later to reporters Car
penter explained that Joe
Smith was a symbol a ges
ture against a "closed con
vention" a proof that this
was a wide open convention
where anybody could be
nominated.
Competition Necessary
Critics say that Terry
should have listened to
Seaton's request not to nom
inate him, but whether Ter
ry should have taken Seat
on's advice is unimportant
here.
It is more important that
Terry wanted to show that
competition in candidates
and issues are necessary in
a political campaign.
Joe Smith was a gesture
against a closed convention.
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