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-vmmm- Poge 2 The Nebroskon Wednesday, Dec. 14, 1960 editorial opinion C.. J r Reorgaiiizuig Badly la hue willi the self evaluation plan currency coder sta&v by the Student Council, Tbe Daily Xebraskaa would to outline suggestions for areas where we feel im- provemcnt is needed. Oar primary concern is to see a governing body thai is cornpoted of students who were ejected on tbe basis of qualifications other than good looks, a came or LFC backing. If the student body was given the opportunity to judge oa the basis of where Lion to iinpyriaiii lssuei, mere wuuju uc k'uiuu h complaint once the ballot had been marked. Secondly, it is the paper's feeling that the cumber some comber of representatives prohibits sound and speedy legislation. It would be wise for all organization representation to be abolished, since they represent only one facet of the Council's duties. la line with this idea, a complete revision of the basis for representation is in order. We suggest that except lor two representatives at large and a gradual student representative, organized bouses would provide candi dates, based oa so many per WOO students, for example. The number of officers could be cut from six to three, a president, secretary and treasurer. The president would be elected in an all campus vote, while tbe newly elected council members would pick the secretary and treasurer. To promote more interest 5a the activity of the Coun cil, it would be heallhy to organize a party system. There would not necessarily be a certain number of parties; however, it is likely that only two would be able to survive. To be more specific, we propose the following changes for consideration by the committee: 1) Organized houses be blocked off into districts of 800 members. Any number f students could run im the irarifnarfr Wum wfTirih nonlil the held iiffl maffiaiP fit&oe an each district. The top two in each district, providing I they were from different parties, would oppose each other ia the gesoeial electiMi which would be held from three I weeks to a month after the primary. Eajd on the present fasraTlmtssL Gvm wmM irarobaMv he elected on this basis. 2) Three representatives at large one per 900 would be elected from those mdergradaates who do cot belong to organized bouses. The same procedure would be followed as that cited Cor orjamized houses,' except yt the top four in the primary would rim la the gen eral election, with at least two different parties repre seffited. 3J One graduate student would represent all pro fessional raduate schools atod others enrolled in the jraduat college. The same procedure for electing Shis 2 representaShie would be followed. I -. I: : - I The presideat wsuld be elected en the same basis, I wffla a! saauleats voting. Be should have had at least as year's experieiace on the Coamci and wiosald be an m&er- I graduate. I I Atoaitteid!', these proposals are 3 rough form. We I intended E this way, siaee we dosaTt daim to ha ve all the I antewm and oxne Iee'ay miuKt be aUswed Jlor maoMka-' tiao, i I There is a place for student government, pranuded It Is eSsdave aad mot Just bareatteratke madainfiry. The I Student Council meeds a thorough reorganization, else 51 te coademned to a life of mediocrity. Nebraskaii tll c fMtnHi mnanr frm am r mlnm. tm tuuM mm xmmmt Wl tmttt eh VImhUum Mwm Mr Probation. Ride Draw Conmumt To She editor; The good and JuaiOy dean oxiy iruEEed nxae smatl poM whex (fiffixticg imderaite pribaios and elainicg its mse jecterday. Be anade Sh sanal 'r sfight ff mot meatiostiiEg tthst a tftudeait wh Siuitab3y ibnrsi tated She almMstratios need oat to hare heen ns praibsetian sA another sdhooB or toare violated a pr4a Sion att Shis school to 9 (tw prp for liSeu AS CMs .fitudturt that to d is vMste she rules lis the same 13 way Stoat draws a wanting r limited tti'ne pmftatios ifcrvnn anoth er Dtudest. Intt (ereI ttie error of dicfteaiag She gu5s ff admury, he teaituons f tribunal, a few LriucaU enemies r all Chree. TMs (OjEpdensur can conae fr.ftaa tweaking a tew psiditical motet, ref.wtutg to cry at fcrJbtoiaJ Saearicgs, disagreeing With UnSrasrfcny r slate paiey b She JMd f anerats, r axjr Kter sissJlar expression mi Ilese BBSeSt. X'iJle 1 ars JiikMcg abywt She djoMfitraliB ((wtkutSb 1 eldio di mfer (Sirders Daily ftefjraskan szragTW'GKz itui co KE t-tl. 1 ttl Jtt 4K5 OnbtlB MM m mt wwrtir r (tar Otor onMkinrt mr. Kaimwl M TOMrti iiiw MtMr at Mtt aunt Ap btunutft. mMOwk. In Mt af Atonal 4. Wt. Mtr mkmiiiiii.hii w attuHMiMl WoMlwr. H tr.. Wwilmwilf an r- w utn Mw wNhmii rmHt iv!ti wimattun u4 muua mm1uk. r jm,,iv MrmmiMIUM aur anna awv imwaj . ux6. WW .... . .. KWHll. ' ... a Amuur -i .imw (mm, ami ... .l TVL.K a caamcaie sianas in reja- Letterip ilanuil mii at (Mtr MHor' . s uMW. Mm miw) WiM to awifeuMi mo, aauMnnx sue 1 firooa my IbdKlhriQfcerJ I f 3JSSTS 1Knc w asBfl '7 want to Shani Shesa lor ur t carfl preparations for mew schedule books They 1 twfo&av festival. Mi3 are a fine icwtrihutioffl to y111 " 2s She higher sdaolastie staad-1 Sn God were plaQed ards f SMs (Mwersity as itt a e 1 ty wiffl Sate a gesBius to mse I and sb She large Shena as well as a person 1 8g 4 1 wts has momiaaig to do but S fad several tours sawr tog She dellicsle,, celar prose off She buHelins put ut by this imstjtution. JPf More Comment On Schedules Tv6 She editor; While reading Tuesday's issue (of She Daffljr Jfehras-. iaa 1 motieed She letter writteaa by 53, B.. AHhwugh Aite ff She points tcaeja Siaoed an She Hetter were : rather ague, I would like fA tntr mvt :Lm ) O S (ttorjaer.. I SMok mm ttf ; Also' sjgsi'ic.aiat was She these duamges aae a ItMe 1 sanat tese we tbe atReoetkary.. 1 7 jpn life at Sito ' lo pjcrsicufilsr I wld Siilks I u8" r,t!!1'i'if tfce wojaiap to say ttbat tafctis io2litary I f'esia. hwr tut U a gmflt deal, ftfl!f45" t k e t h away She itailitsry. She French f f' wuBway fystems and She ad- 3 asaMstratiw, but do we., ai I studeasts meed sius A StiHdeJE( aw. Mr an, r BHM) to w (WkOMMt. ...... vvwOiwHmnm y unm bnM.v. rtit..ri,fc,ii hmm t'iiiMw. (MW ritM-i. itHiip gUuHihl HW 4MHMWW J f A Chris The year is 2160, the I place b Sdar System N.. Major PUart. The be- I lots of mis piaset have recently discovered Sclar Sy stem . 3 ad one plaa- rt ia the system whkk life nee existed. A expe- 1 dilioa f specialist was test to excavate tin nrias 1 of this planet to determine tbe type f ehllizatioa kkli existed. The fEw- s fag is the report of their finding: search Erst revealed g IjLat the planet 5 was Earth," and tne pia I teau on which we' landed to make our study was evt- dently called North Amer- ka. the area, more specifi I caljy, the -United Stales." 1 Time was divided into I periods set off by special religious days, called . Sun I days; thus the first sLsevv- ery which we made was that these people were Sun 1 worshippers; these Sun 1 days were special days on which the worshippers re 1 ceived strength which I lasted them through the days between, which were 1 called "weak" days, and f evidently lacked this strength, or vitalizing pew s' - I Time was also divided I Mo longer periods called "years" by a very special H occasion for the worshipper I which they caHed "Ctais s mass." Although we found it speled with a "t" pre 5 ceding the "mas fwhica s an our spelling is mass1. our experts at either thas was their f for hyphen or else 48 wr in transla- tkm caused by a sateeriog translator. After careJiial stody our experts realized i the significance of this i hiphanated word: "Oris" was the name of the son of the Sua God and "mass" f meant large, or big. Thus 1 it was the ceOebratm of I "Big C3aris " Jiow Big Chris was the I living son of the Sun Gkd, suromg letmow m was naturally fsynabolical- 1 red, r. at least so dressed a be would have fo be, comiiog each season from tes father's dwelimg. Big Chris came on this spedal occasion as a mes- senger of his father to answer She prayers off af en" by Iriingiag soisne off the things for which Shey had prayed all year loasg. Evidently the Sun God rewarded on relatioia to 5 what the Jainiifly had ac 5 esmpCished on earth te, 1 the more muoey the people bad,"B5"'t!nor tebiTSooa off I She Son God rewarded 1 them, and She less a man had eaade. the less he re- cewed from She Sua God. tO QOirt. tZUS WaS tr.UlrV a iyi.Mn on jJ Iiaceu OS WXlSt She SEStn exttM ds Iter fiiiim. ",wuif" w,uwr amra uwt tuy am She dajlinse aod flunjjr a weak days. These iidtls were aSU csflors, ss-isice at was probahfly bsswered 4 i - d m ertws, Shwusa the predoiEsiiitaant cotoluag was rel These syaashoOs were toiaid al wer, tout aoovt wDioaoa3!ly on tie special trees which were brwufftt itoto She h9ssm dtrisg SMs eanj these trees mwsd ts been $ymbAt off She ILff which She us es and were pec-itaBy aj9! priate s a j&ey toaiHtaajijjied,, fwataig to ward Ue fium, iiaalkcaniiip ftil bhv . it.. . wwwz to na se stuafs :b:k'Ja we-re fr.wujjftd Sogeither scai mted ii3y iio the dajtwae,, ivese She jpilac whese She fiaaleriial aws off the weme stored. There was lina iit4 eafcfjlaanife f(w ti r tttiaags durteg ttte year. rgm tor jttteriud jpiWicS ttbe festwaJ ur "Ejg Cteis. OiurjiBg this period the pe9pi w.puiid eictlaaije for as mittch gaods a powii bile its attPwdauK-e wis 8a Siteir smxmSMjms to ear tWy eatorpj-ises.. At aao.tn sius e&ctemge vtf' tfejie peris iU&ke S&wt t aa e s e f.ood were pmhased io w (Ster to .fiKsriiice to fog CJbitus at ikus mi&wi. mc a & msm argitaseMs for this al-tA-jjMrtiW is tbe case that was to prepwe ithese vods iiaa a psirtiu".r ffasawwi, sjiswar. ahtowugh varied, aad their taj'd.id - Mass Story . i Elacement tinder the sym olk tree. Tbe more com monly accepted theory, however, is that tbe care in preparation was in order to imitate the gifts of "Big Chris." These packages were placed under the sym bolic tree so that future generations would maintain their belief in this supreme being. In other words, ac cording to this theory, the religion was all a figment of tbe imagination and a pretense in order to have security and explanation of many of tbe things of their solar system which could not be explained and were thus feared. At any rate, tbe purchases were made according to financial stat us and attributed as gifts from the Sun God brought by Big Chris. These men w ere clearly living as if the Sun God did not exist, but explaining their' acts in terms of this supreme be ing. But whether pretense, idle self-disillusion, or what ever, this religion was su perior to any that has ever been known to exist ia that it was cosviocisg enough, or at least so desirable, that there was not just 38 per cent belief and partjciipa tion, not just 60 per cent but 1Q0 per cent everyone was a participant Jn the acts of worship on "this- spe cial occasion. Whether out of fear of being deprived of life for a season, or be cause of conformity, or be cause of real belief, we have not been able to deter mine for certain, but we have not been able to fmd evidence of a single person who did not, in one of She many ways with a sym bolic tree, with the Sun idols oa the tree or with gifts supposedly given by Big Chris participate in thas worship. The eintire society seemed to aim to ward this day. The priests of this relig ion were eviideataly the people in charge of the large buMirigs, for they played a majjor role in She worship- They were in charge of the gifts and tried al durtisg this season to whet the people's appe tites far these girls. But the priest seemed to have di rect communications with the Sun God rather thas barag any kmi off a su preme imfaHlible priest and an ecclesiastical system, for She priests seemed to be stntiggliasg aod competing agajust oae another for She ' loyalty off the commas peo ple. The loyalty off maoy people was constant,.., b t probably the greatest na lorjty did jtwtt really trust the priests, or else they wanted to find the priest that offered Shem the most ior their Joyaity. for they w ent tea dhurc to church las we nay mow mame she large bisildingj of which w e feave beea ta3k.tc.gi) SestLcg the priests. However, we fhould mat run dom She .imxsm people for Shis, tor their supreme loyalty, aft er all w as to the Sub God. and through which priest they worshipped iis ot e$ pedaBy saguificasat, This special religious fes tival was a K&emry osie, with all Mods off celehratioo, jaigi8& aad coanplete J.uM tUtace. The people seemed to have a great tatereat m music aad had muds off jit fcwsapstted for and dedicated to the time toff the coffiiisg off Kg Chris. This gave m part of She Mormati&g about She occasion, siace sgs (ffiftem preserve tradi tiou iiaa its purest form, (toe wiig of speciiall tatersst was about a young mas by tbe rnaove of Rttdodps KUiJer, who caioe frwm a very pvor f.am; but bes'aute he ffiwted to live as a poor per ojsi, he was as ukat fjwm the fajs&jHy, Ac She song &ays; "AJB off tf. oJher Keja deers atsed to laufh aa ea3I 4ujs8 masses; Shey woiasldiot let poor JftMjJfl jjnm m aary ffiejadeer gaasaes,' AH Shis rejjectiMa was due to tbe fatt that EuivCia tmd to raise fetiijaseilff m Mt-jety abwe his pwwr amd very pioius famSy who laheiied fciftsi as outcast $m$6y be (f'Sttse fce draok ia by the fact Shat be was always oiled the "redaofctoil" fceiadeerL But Bag Chris s-jifves-iiated the fact thai K.dv3pM pi iteto the "ijir off Oaris-ffliiiass whoSle feeartedJj". the saase as She rest ff She ""best po?Je" Ifjfefcl Kd, Tbsa mf tns rewarded wim by Jettijg Mm lleud She way lor him m his aaaiiisiios the day be ap pealed, la tie mfdst of Shis fi-iety. however, there sieeaatid to be a ikvemy re liigiuB. even thoiB.gh all peo ple were al to She $um (w$l Shis was because sswme fast a Aomfifle loyally. IMs iwther Jo?allily a to m iu vasible Gs whois they worshipped primarily In small buildings scattered over the country, which they also called churches, so that our report may be somewhat confusing. Tbey seemed to have God Man similar to Big Chris, ex cept that their God-Man bad only come once, bad been killed and was sup posed to be living now, in an invisible form. Tbee people of the here tical religion also seemed to give this day of Big Chris a great deal of significance in their religion, as tbe birthday of their invisible God-Man. However, it is ex tremely difficult to distin guish any difference in their preparations for the occa sion from tbe preparations of tbe regular Sua wor shippers. Tbey even bad the symbolic trees in their small churches and often bad an imitator of Big Chris come into their cburcbes to give gifts of sweet things to tbe young people of this religion. Now the object of t h i s heretical religion seems en tirely senseless, since they seemed to be no different from the Sun worshippers except that they spent an hour or two in their small churches on .he day of Sun wgrjhjp, which was evident tjfcfcffijthe purpose of show ing their invisible God that they still thought be was around. However, some of the leaders of this religion seemed to nave had a com pletely egocentric view of Hmr rehgion, since tbey tried to say that their re ligion of "Big Claris" was actually a part of tbetr wor ship of the invisible God. They said that Big Chris was a symbolic representa tion of the spirit of their religious festival, and that Bias Clause Resolution Approved East Lamsiing, Michigan (TITS) Student leaders of Big Ten ttmher$a5ies. meeting at Michigan Slate last weekend, adopted resolutions urging the adoption ,f deadliiae m the elimination of fraternity bias clauses and requesting the Xataonal Executive Commit tee off She VS. Jkatiomal Stu dent Association ((XSA) to bear criticisms by member schools. Bias . clause elimination deadliiDes will be adopted "only if satisfactory progress Is mot made," a spotesman said. Seven of the Big Ten mm versifies are presesBy mem bers of S&A fi Universities of ELioois, iJSESiana, Sortfcwf-i4 -era. Michigan, Minnesota amd Wiowasji, the spokesman added, and the other three (Purdue. Iowa and Michigan State)) are fcteresled la joia-1' fcg. A53 member .rjaaizatjoiss expressed a desire to work within 3SSA for structural aod procedural reforms aad the possibility off a separate Big Tea student weromcaJt was mot crattw. The Ceieace also passed resolutioaas epresid3g disap proval of actioas takes by the UojversJSy of Caliioniia sts deaat jgwersBsjeat ezecaitive comaaiilSee to regulate edi torial policy of the studeift ew:spaper. The C.ai3y Calt twriai'am. aad Gm&emsmg mili tary dri2L Saturday lis La.l Day for Dropping ! AH students who wast to dnop a (psnurse is food staad- tag msm, mafce wraeioseDtf to drop She coBrse prior to 12 moons Saturday, accordimg to Mrs, Irma Laase, assiauunt to She registrar. STUDY (II SOUTHERN FRAHCE Trmdt te2cj-t mi Uttnftwt, Imtf&m ite&t Am am-JwAt year tm AmtetitM uv 0$ A-srMvr with tiimm tn f.rS m ffWMtw &Atu mtmf turn tm ftmmh Jttitm, turn Afottti fa, jj AfWimm hf Umrtk ISA air-c.k4 l : iistimt m rnmwt A1X-IM-I0YIMCL tbe symbolic trees and tbe idols of tbe Sun and the of ferings under the trees were also symbols of their festi val. Making an objective eval uation, we report that this could not be the case, since Big Chris was not thought to be a spiritual symbol of the invisible God, for all the people thought of him quite realistically, or at least acted as if tbey did. Fur thermore, this heretical re ligion, unlike tbe religion of Big Chris, believed in deprivation and suffering in order to help others in stead of striving to further one's own interests and prove one's own abilities and righteousness in tbe eys of Big Chris. But here again, the heretic continued to act in accordance with orthodox Sun worship, pur chasing gifts in proportion to bis prosperity and trying to continue this level of prosperity, ignorant of the needs of others. la conclusion, we can Gosip By Leon Gosip Sen. Bill Skarda of South Omaha questions the integ rity of tbe Board of Re gents of tbe University. For an elected state official to make such a rash statement is to lay himself open to the question relative to bis in tegrity. Tbe statement be made, as recorded in tbe Daily Nebraskan. is not only in coherent; it seems to be ir responsible in tbe opinion of this author. If he repre sents the view point of any majority of the people of Nebraska, then maybe we'd all better leave. . la a day whea the world is clamoring for better edu cated leaders aad the forces of Communism are compet ing with the forces of the Western world for the hearts and minds of three fourths of the earth's pop ulation, . we .simply cannot afford to skimp on educa tion. Anyone who believes oth erwise didst learn the facts of life oa bis mom my's knee. We have bad the benefit of She Glenny report which related that our colleges are below par ia salaries. We know that to attract com petent educators, we must fay them. And Bal says that the University's needs are bidden. Ii BiH is ?iig to be the Scapegoat-Maker this ses sion of the unicameral, then let him pick one other than our IMverstj. Bill, how about craefciEg down oa those loose taverns out 'm South Onsaha? ' "Tid anyone bear Paul Harvey last week? ridja"t be say that al atheis are really ComasausiMs? Aad LMYER5ITY OF XEBIUSKa FLYING CLUB MEETING THURSDAY, DEC 15, I'M P.M. UNION AIRPORT fioiit a, J rr ti m wwf vfnMi YOUR DIAMOND DOLLAR Vai BUY AT Sartor Jewelry Hi taw mm M&J the pfet &f fmtoi b fffir yj$ saw - Ki m mm Uvrj immi teestf pfeef to tfn fm ft SinejJ wftyj itt fc-s ctKiiss sf d.strariS SMKqr...4amaw ya bt gjj tt nv mil yatr tku &s&tdl wZm, ttfn cenvnma atnn rws SARTOH JEWELRY I2ii tir ,(rt by john else only say that no matter what tbe claims of this wor ship of tbe invisible God. the worshippers did not show loyalty to tbe invisible over their natural loyalty to the orthodox worship of Big Chris. This society was far eijougb advanced scientif ically to realize, as do we, that an invisible God could not actually be real, but that one's loyalty must be given to the real, to tbe visibly living son of tbe Sun God, Big Chris. This concludes our re port. We found through this study a people far enough advanced to accept only tbe visible and verifiable things as real, but not yet far enough advanced to ex plain tbe entire universe and thus have no need for their pretense of a supreme being. This is perhaps tbe "missing link" of our an cestry, tbe step between ig norant God-worship and our discovery of reality. . Respectfully submitted. Robot No. 13 Column didnl every atheist around here just sit back and take it? I'm no atheist, but I don't gloss over tbe facts of his tory. Atheism, as we know it, was around long before tbe current brand of com munism was around. Fur thermore, communism is basically (if anything is basic anymore) an econom ic system and atheism is an incident of that form of eco nomics. For Harvey to say that all atheists are communists is just as siilly as his saying that we're sliding away from our American way of life (whatever that is) when we honor the great Italian statesman. Garibaldi, on our postage stamps. And for that kind of talk be re ceived .. Now, isn't this "good standing" business asstitut ed by the Student Council tbe berries? I think a good argument could be made by any student organization wiHth guts enough to do so to prevent the council from cutting off Union facilities and freezicg funds. The arbitrary, wjthboldg of an organization's funds by the council or the admin istratjoa seems to be a breach of the trust obliga tion imposed oa the Usiver sty and its officers. Stu dents following the rules asd depositing mosey witia the big-wigs are injured be cause they refuse to compJy with the rules set down by a por totfigry couscJL More power to the dissen ters. And may they remem ber what kind off council they have whea ejection tame comes zrmai next spring. By latest count, 69 orgaxuiations are IBS. W $253 A 'V-'-r-i'. .