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' -'-r"rr"wiitiu n n ,i I, i , Illr iiiiiiiiiiii i i i i "i iTt.m, . . i -- . j WniiwfcU 0lSi " " Page 2 Friday, February 26, I960 The Daily Nebraskan Editorial Comment: Forced ROTC - Costly, But Benefits Are Few Too Much Waste Ed Cassidy, president of the Student Against Compulsory ROTC (SAS-ROTC) at the University m of Arizona, has compiled tome interesting figures on the taxpay ers' cost of the basic military science program. The figures, he says were obtained from the military science departments at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University. Reprinted here is a portion of his article- , "The present compulsory program is wasteful and inefficient. . . Approximately 2,000 students are enrolled in the two-year program. The cost to the student is 130 hours. The cost to the taxpayer is $1,200 to $1,600 per cadet This program last year elected only 53 cadets from the Army and 24 from the Air Force to go on to ad vanced training. "Simple arithmetic will show that, using the minimal $1,200 figure as the cost for one cadet for the two-year basic course, the taxpayers cost for 154 men who were deemed worthy to receive further train ing at the U. of A, amounts to $2,400,000. Moreover, the college program does not complete the training for these few. All who receive commissions must go on to other training courses. Students Snort; Selleck Snow Shoveling Slow It is enconaragjng to cote that the Student Council parking board is going to look into a situation that has had a number of sis dents scratching their beads lately in won der and some disgust. That Is the fact that with the many re cent snowfalls, faculty lots have been the first to be shoveled clear, with the student lots hardly noticed. Students may be on the average a little more hardy than their professor contem poraries, but getting stuck every day in a parking stall quickly winds the best. Students like to believe that they're just a little bit important, ev en if it only means scooping a little snow out of the way. Only incomplete figures could be ob tained from the University military sci ence department The annual budget for the Army department was estimated to be $75,000. Salaries would be about 7,000 additional Not included are the University contri bution, uniforms, the expense of providing weapons (in many cases used or out dated), and physical plant expenses. The $75,000 dollar figure does include the monthly payments to advanced cadets and travel expense to summer camp. No speculation is made on the accuracy or comparibility of the Arizona figures. The point is evident that the basic ROTC course is costly. Little Value Mr. Cassidy says the purpose of the organization he heads is not to eliminate or weaken the ROTC, but to make it more efficient and purposeful. "We feel it (ROTC) is useless for those who do not become officers," he states. He continues on this point: "Those who have been forced to enroll in the basic course and do not go into ad vanced ROTC receive no benefits from the course. The uselessness of the basic ROTC program is attested by the refusal of the Army itself to give credit upon enlistment for these two years of ROTC. "If the Armed Forces do not recognize the value of basic ROTC, then why should we? "Even those who admit the wastefulness of the basic course sometimes attempt to justify it as a course in military history, "citizenship"" and "science.' Yet the sci entific emphasis is so slight as to be un worthy of mention. "Does citizenship consist of shining one's shoes and paring one's fingernails, or does it consist of learning to analyze objectively current political controversies? "The first duty of a soldier is to obey. The first duty of a student is to think, to question, to analyze for himself . . The SAC-ROTC is circulating petitions to be presented to the Arizona Board of Regents to plat ROTC on a voluntary basis. From the Editor's Desk: It Seems to Me . . . 'i II" 1 t S i Kraut Sriiff, honk, cough; sniff, honk, cough. Oh, excuse me, but I have quite a cold and cant quite sniff get rid of it My nose honk is red as an alcoholic's and my handkerchief supply has dwindled down to the blue and white monogrammed type. Bat Student Health has been very kind to me and I now am the proud pos sessor of twa small bot tles of multi-colored med icinal tablets. The trouble is," though, rm always taking ex post facto-rype pffls instead of the preventative type. It makes me feel like a 180-pound weak ling. The Kingston Trio was even more par excellence Wednesday night in their con cert at Pershing than they were a year Ago. They're revised a lot of their material, and of secescity the song concerned with the riots Sn Africa. Probably 23 per cent of the audience was sorry to see them leave and so on, it seemed. It was Isteresttcg to note at the be gin ting cf the shew when Cora Cobs made aa apology fr Johnsy Mafhis not appearing, there was sctiiag hut applause for the subsHtate performers. Perhaps MatMs' cancellation was a Mas sing in difguite for the Cobs. I, for one, would like to give them credit for weather ing the storm and coming through with a group whose performance won't be for gotten for quite a while. Pet peeve (one of many): The Union record rooms on the west end of first floor are chock full of listening goodies. By Carroll Kraut However, it seems like about a half down students have cornered the market a the rooms and are sees ia there tor hours every tuj. Not that they bar the doors to keep you out r anything. But merely enter and you're stared at; mate some song selec tions and you're glared at Not too conducive to widespread use of the record facilities. Another attraction tonight in Pershing in the form of the Coed Follies. Having missed last year's performance due to illness (I am chronically sick) I am looking forward to see if the quality of the production has improved since two years ago. I don't like to say this, bet the Follies generally are better thai the Kosmet KJub Fall Revue. Maybe girls are just a little more talented ia this area or something. Eligible Bachelors will be presented to night, too. This tide I have always thought was one of the most dangerous on campus. It ew np males to the subtlest forms of attacks on their dating status. 1 predict half of this year's finalists wi3 be pinned, engaged or married by the time their successors are presented next year. There won't be a Religious Emphasis Week on campus this year and despite protests from the University Religious Council that the week has been cut out to make next year's that much better (Le.. using the time for planning, etc.) I still feel that the Council is missing a ehxnr to do some good. Another contention is (hat religion is emphasized contiauaDy, airy ay. But then It's pointed out that intensive programs are going to be held during Lent That certainly seems to be emphasizing things, even if it's emphasizing emphasis. Seems like I learned ia ROTC once that you usually don't win wars by retreating. Daily Nebraskan f r T 'iT-Hrrx-g TEAM OLD tmn . , n. -- Mentben Awoeiairt CMJerUte Frew, toler-. JJTrZ ZJik m cw ZtitmaAtXtrr, KUiwul Adrtrtisbtt Scry- Z TZi STwS't ice, laeorporaM kjuitwuju. ei irr TTLbhhe& it: soon t. stadent cnioa -'B":::;::::::::::::::::ri3i22; Ltaeeln. JCebracu cuiur , rrni-.nn .9lm mm. I tMtmt.... 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Come on Youngdahl, there are only 123 of us as it is. B. J. Holcomb requests that noisy seniors revert to being quiet sophomores while, in the law library. Moyer Once upon a turn-table there spun a story of Hun gry I's or i or something of the like. The lead in the trio was a booming voice whose tones offended the ears of the second member of the trio, who was monotoning one refrain, "I wont, - I won't, I won't and I won't let you either." The third singer was sort of a chorus of discreet chucklers chuck ling at the noise of the oth er two. And if I were a Greek I'd probably chuckle, too. What the lead in the trio is trying to do has been termed by some forgotten scribe as attempting to "or- ' ganize the unorganizable, and manage the unmanage able," i.e., introduce into Selleck some semblance of being more than a nicely furnished barracks. The monotones have roared back with all the righteous indignation of any good representatives of the aothingness cult. Large i's flash from their win dows as symbols of their sterling powers of boldout ishoess. VTrH, yeah group. RAM President Eason's comments may not rank as the most tactful statement of objectives ever made, but what HELP is shooting for needs to be done! Perhaps the statement that the'Ts" (those non affiliated students who nev ertheless would like a m ore active participation in cam pus affairs are a "frus trated group of would be fraternity men" should be stricken from the record. What is being lost in all the squabble is a simple idea which many non-affili-aled students seem to neg lect. That idea is that par ticipating in the life of the campus is not an all one way sort of ting like if you are a fraternity man you join at least one r gaiuzation, have parties, meet girls, etc; and if you are not a fraternity man, then you do not participate in any other campus or ganization; the Student un ion is off-limits to you; you do not organize parties and you do not meet girls. The quad men who are being called i's have every right in the world to refuse to foDow what they consider to be the "Rah, rah" col lege line. Bnt what about the others? It seems to me that they deserve to be offered some thing more than merely a place to eat and sleep and which will organize their intramurals for them. The HELP plan, as ex plained to the public, would utilize only two of the bouses within the Quadran gle as experimental units to "unite the 'Independents' with interest, ambition and energy and give them a chance to show what they can do." This really does not sound as though it would in any way encroach upon the pri vacy of those who do not want to be "united" in any way, shape or manner. Love Memorial Hall on Ag campus seems to me to be aa indisputable proof that this sort of thing can work. It does not challenge the sorority system, it simp ly gives Ag girts who do not wfcfc or cannot afford to be sorority members a friendly, homelike atms spbere in w hich to attend college. It does net force in dependents to live there Ibey apply for the pritO- It also gives them an op portunity to develop some leadership, something which certainly is not over ly apparent in the activities of most Quad residents. The tiny handful within RAM each year which at tempts to do something with the Quad surely cannot have tapped all the leader ship potential which must be lurking . behind some of those picture windows. Conservative Estimate By John Hoerner answers Hoerner A group of what ap peared to be highly intelli gent men with a knack for asking questions that de manded straight a p peared on ine enj v r $ i t y campus "tins week. These mtmbe r s of the -North Cen tral asso ciation of col leges ard sec ondary schools, sere on a routine check, chose to spend Tuesday nooa having lunch with the Student Council In an effort to get student opinion on the Uni versity. There is nothing quite as stim slating to self-analysis at to hate aa outsider ask direct qaettJoRS on differ ent faeets of be University. One question which caused sort of aa uncom fortable, I've just started to itch, look at our table was, "How are foreign students treated here?" Hardly a day passes without bearing someone repeat the old statement "There are more important things you learn at college than just getting grades and studying." ' This person as we all know is referring to the exchange of ideas, de velopment ia getting along with others, and other val uable benefits derived from activities, organizations, projects, parties, dating and all the . other extra curricular activities which occupy the spare time of the American College stu dent It is entirely possible that through neglect, false pride, or just plain ignor ance thai we are denying to the foreign students at this university a phase, of education which we our selves seem to value so highly. Cosmopolitan Clsfc was organized to combat this situation bnt it is bow not ia what yon would call a position to carry out its. position to carry oat its The answer, I think, lies not ia a club only but ia the attitudes of each stu dent toward our foreign guests. The United States spends millions each year for for eign aid. The good we could do right here at Nebraska with little effort and at no expense to ourselves would be immeasurable in terms of dollars. As somebody rantst have said. "One unselfish act is worth a thousand bushels f wheat!" That darn question both ered me. Can you answer it? Webster's New World Dictionary defines foreign first as "situated outside one's own country, prov ince, locality, etc." A little later on in t he definition however one notices a dif ferent meaning, "not be longing." Could ft be that some stu dents have tbe;r definition a iiiiie miied dp? Lettcrip LHtrn mum Thought Inrolred To the Editor: The editorial comment on Feb. 23 concerning Religi ous Emphasis Week cer tainly reflects a justified interest in the traditional programs of the Univer sity. It would have been bet ter, however, had the edi tor checked with bis staff concerning the full context of the interview or consult ed the persons directly in volved. In the event that such action might not have been possible, the present writer offers the following comments. The Council on Religion's decision to cancel this year's R. E. Week was not made without considerable thought The first step, tak en early in the fall, was to investigate its raisoa d'etre, a policy which the present writer would recommend to every organization on cam pus. Having unanimously de cided that the week did ful fill a purpose, the Council suggested that the program would have a more enduring success if a speak er of national renown was involved. This would entail a year of preparation, and the Council voted that this year be utilized for that purpose. Many other problems were involved, but the pre ceding illustrates the pri mary reasons for the Coun cil's actions. , Apart from the Council on Religion, the editor might be interested an know ing that approximately 13 religious bodies a the Uni versity campus are carry ing on a continual program of religious emphasis. Fur thermore, ra any of these denominations feel that faith, if it has any reality, is not a matter of emphasis but the very center of life itself. Many of the Christian groups next week will be beginning intensive pro grams for the Lenten sea son, and the Xebratkan's support ia giving attention to such programs ia its news columns would un doubtedly be appreciated by the religious organizations. Jack K. Eing A nice, well-modulated dis cussion or two is all right, she says, but let's knock off the yelling. (Note oh please note np perclassmen This is a re quest complaint and does not necessarily reflect the views of the author who is in enough trouble what with refereeing the basketball games.) From John Heeckt, who got so carried away last week that he didn't have room to put this in his column, comes a plea for cleaner sidewalks east of the Phi Psi house and north of the Theta house. Sam Grimminger adds that whoever you are, bring those furshlugginer snow shovels back. From the Kingston Trio we have a complaint di rected at Frontier Airlines. The boys like to fly, but spending 5 hours in the air between Kansas City and little ole Lincoln is too much at a dose. This isn't really a com plaint just a personal ob servation. Jack Nielsen notes that the first issue to arouse most Selleck resi dents from their miasma of apathy since be has been in school is a fight to keep that apathy. A point well taken. I wonder if the "i's" ever considered what the natural consequence of apathy is? And I mean apathy any where government, stud ies, business, activities, community service, y o name it But never mind, fellows. Just pull the nice warm blanket over your beads and fall asleep. What's the motto on that blanket? Why, it says "I just sleep, eat and study here." Hope you wake up in the same world you went to sleep in. i u t; ( YpJWOflldKAr JAM? Vj M A POST MA6hzT I J CAMPUS WORSHIP SERVICES DJiOPUS VrUDfMT rnXOWSKJP (CHUSTUM CHUCHE XKt D- mMnxma tvnsmm .bl. Wvnasf vat Frocm LUTHC5UNCMJl'DrNT WAT0At. LtfTHEtAM AMrcs HL. uruemrn. ;1 . 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