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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 . . .
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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.
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By Diana Maxwell
As the song goes, "This
our once a year uay.
Todav this column will be
devoted to various and sun
dry complaints U ' ' " J"
have
wanted us
to print all
year.
First,
from all
the law
s t udents
comes
a request
for more
papers
in the Rag
distribution box. 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?
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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.
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