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EDITORIAL OPINION
NU Should Study
Athletic De-emphasis
The Big Eight is currently involved in one of its some
what less than friendly rivalries, relating to a ruling by
the conference that forced Kansas t6 forfeit the football
championship.
KU was charged with illegally recruiting Bert Coan
from Texas Christian University. Earlier the Jayhawks
were put on probation for the violation. Last week, the
faculty representatives decided Coan was ineligible and
forced Kansas to forfeit all games in which Coan saw ac
tion, i
We are not going to attempt to say who is right in this
case. Needless to say, Kansas is somewhat put out by the
decision.
The main issue to us is that intercollegiate athletics
football mostly have deteriorated to the point where it
won't be long before a senate investigating committee
begins thinking about house cleaning.
Once upon a time, athletics were considered to build
character and provide an outlet for energy. Those were
the days. In this latest of many incidents not the least
of which was one which involved Nebraska's Bill Jennings
last year one player has found himself the center of a
name calling hassle which has found faculty members
and other adults acting like children.
The time has come for all schools involved in inter
collegiate athletics to thoroughly self evaluate the present
worth of the program. An academic institutnion can not
afford the unfavorable publicity that surrounds such mud
slinging. Even Oklahoma must be running out of oil
wells as their 1960 team bore little resemblance to the
powers of past years.
Two schools, Marquette University and the College of
th Pacific (recently changed to the University of the
Pacific) have de-emphasized their athletic programs. Ne
braska would do well to study this possibility rather than
be dragged to the unfortunate level where much of the
intercollegiate athletic programs have fallen.
OSU Prof Observes
Faculty Failures
(The following article appeared in the Ohio State Lan
tern as part of the Lantern's series inviting the faculty to
speak on issues and problems of the day. The author is
Charles B. Wheeler, assistant professor of English at
O.S.U.)
Wynken, Blynken and Nod are the names I shall give
to the three professors on this campus whose portraits
are breifiy sketched here. The men are ficitious but not
imaginary.
By a longstanding tacit agreement, every student
who enrolls in one of Profesor Wynken's courses is spotted
a "C" to begin with, and only in cases of flagrant ab
sence or failure to turn in assigned written work is there
any danger of a lower grade. "A's" and "B's" are com
mon. Profesor Wynken is not a fool: he knows that his
students, by and large, are nothing to get excited about,
but he is a kindly man who believes in live-and-let-live.
He is also a great sports fan and is unsparing in his criti
cism of sloppy playing on the football field. Luckily for
his peace of mind, our athletic department enforces the
highest standards of performance.
Profesor Blynken is not the drooling petty sadist por
trayed in "Little Man on Campus," but he manages to
harass his students quite as effectively by being obtuse to
their feelings. He never stops to make sure that his as
signments have been understood after he gives them.
When he lectures he goes so rapidly that note-takers are
left hopelessly behind, and when he holds a class discus
sion it usually turns into a tete-a-tete between himself
and some favored student. He adheres to his office hours
so literally that he is almost inaccessible. Though he in
sists that papers be turned in on time, he never returns
them when promised. He habitually comes into class late
and then holds it with his glittering eye until 30 seconds
before the final bell for the next hour.
Professor Nod is not a boring lecturer, droning over
dog-eared lecture notes compiled twenty years ago. His
method is entirely different. It may be called "teaching
the text," that is, sitting in front of the class and reciting
the text out loud, with interpolated comments, while the
students slump, numb and disgusted, working on their
arithmetic under pretense of reading the Lantern. He
never assigns papers that require more than a sentence
or two of consecutive original writing, and the papers are
returned bearing grades but no marks or comments on
their faults. He will pass illiterate writing if the technical
content is satisfactory. He is very fond of multiple-choice
tests, though now and then he will extend himself by
giving a short-answer test to see how well the students
have memorized "facts" (a word he would never dream
of putting in quotation marks.) He believes that his
courses are intellectually demanding.
These men are faculty failures. They are not localized
in any one department or college they can be found all
over the campus. Perhaps we faculty, members might
turn, for a change, from criticizing the shortcomings of
our students to consider how far short we fall of meeting
the challenge that they present. This challenge is not only
in their numbers: it is in their seriousness, their re
ceptivity, their candor, it is in their woeful inexperience,
their c on f u s e d aims, their clumsiness at abstract
thought all their qualities, good and bad, call for the
best in ns. We cannot succed with less.
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Williams's 'Streetcar'
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1 'Let's Wash Our
Own Clothes9
To the editor:
I The modern proverb
I "And I dont like anybody
very much" put forth by
1 the illustrious Kingston Trio
seems to me to have a
great bearing on most of
the campus problems. It
could have an even greater
I bearing if it were changed
to "And nobody likes any-
thing very much." The rea
1 sons why I present this
I "obvious truth" follow.
Thou shalt wash thy
hands thou point they
finger. This applies to not
I only to The Daily Nebras-
kan but to the majority of
the other campus organiza
I tions.
For example: The big
i I's cut down the little i's;
I the TNE's find fault with
I the non TNE's and the non
1 TNE's dig into the faults
of t he TNE's; the Rag
criticizes the Student Coun-
cil and the Student Council
I boycotts the Rag. The in
i dependents slam the frater
i nities and the fraternities
double their accusations of
the independents. The non
I ROTC students fire'accusa
I tions at the ROTC students
and the ROTC students
I shoot the non ROTC stu-
dents. ETC., ETC, ETC.,
I Red Speaker
Ban Gains
New Support
Lansing, Mich. (UPS)
I Sen. Elmer Porter's cam
I paign to reinstate a com-
munist speaker ban at
e Wayne University gathered
I support last week at a spe
I cial session of the state leg
I islature.
I Reaffirming h 1 s original
1 stand. Porter said, "Wayne
will have trouble getting
any funds above their ap-
propriations of last year if
their policies do not
I change.
I "I never change my mind
1 . . . unless proven wrong,"
he added.
When asked if he desired
I a ban on aB Communist
speakers at the University
Porter said, "I talk about
one school at a time."
f Representative Al 1 1 s o n
Green, chairman of the
House supplies and expen-
ditures committee, charged
i that "Wayne State is nuts
to allow Communists to
1 speak."
I. "I'm beginning to get a
I little suspicious about the
universities and their left
wing approach, and a lot of
others think that way too,"
Senate majority leader
Lynne Francis warned
Senator Lewis Christman
favored a "properly con
trolled" policy which would
provide for an address by
someone "well versed in
the principles of democ
racy" to follow immedi
ately after any speech by a
Communist. But if a re
laxed speaker policy is 'to
let some commie come in
and talk, the hell with him"
he concluded.
ad infinitum. This all re
minds me of the confused
atheist who calls everyone
else a God-cursed Christian.
My main point is How
can everyone be so ready
willing and able to wash
someone else's clothes when
they can't seem to find
enough soap to wash their
own? When, if at all, will
each group start cleaning
the skeletons out of their
own closets instead of try
ing to find the key to some
one else's closet? Possibly
we need a turnabout week
when everyone switches or
ganizations and tries to
straighten them out. You
are right, this would prob
ably solve nothing. The old
addage still holds the
grass looks greener on the
other side. Therefore why
don't we all try to improve
our OWN groups, organi
zations and activities? In
terested persons and criti
cal ones might find it more
effective to get into the
problem organizations and
put their ideas to use from
the inside. If the Rag needs
news, how about printing
what the groups have done
or are doing to attain their
respective ends and goals.
Lets get off this kick where
the blind lead the blind and
lets start figuring out why
each of us are blind.
True, this letter is trite
and overly analogous, and
true the main idea is an
"obvious truth", but pos
sibly we are in the position
where we can't see the for
est for the trees.
RON GOULD
Compulsory ROTC
Retained at Oil
Norman, Okla. (UPS)
University of Oklahoma
Board of Regents last week
approved a committee
recommendation to retain
1
comuplsory ROTC at the
University.
Chairman of the Regents
ROTC committee, Julian
Rothbaum said, "The pri
mary reason for retaining
comuplsory ROTC was be
cause the department of the
army contends that they
still need the compulsory
system to' fill their 14,000
vacancies every year.
The committee recom
mendation was approved
despite strong student sup
port for a voluntary sys
tem. Student Body Presi
dent Jed Johnson appeared
at the November Regents'
meeting and presented the
case for a voluntary program.
By Phil Boroff
and Doug McCartney
Tenne s s e e Williams's
powerful story of disillu
sionment and destruction
unfolded In University The
ater's opening night per
formance of "A Streetcar
Named Desire."
The production has thf
appearance of being the
finest of this theatre sea
son. Directing an able cast
in a production enhanced
by effective use of color
and sound, Dr. Dallas S.
Williams has given the
play a comprehensive in
terpretation. Main faults
were a slow beginning and
a set too large for the
Howell stage.
Tenne s s e e Williams's
plays have always been
called "controversial," and
"A Streetcar Named De
sire" has earned that spe
cial distinction of being rec
ognized as a classic of
American theatre.
All Williams's plays fea
ture a "central, dominate
heroine." In portraying the
creation and the destructibn
of the dominate Blanche
DuBois, speech graduate
student Leta Powell is out
standing. This is her first
appearance on the Univer
sity Theater stage.
- In equally strong char
acterizations, Den
nis Shreefer, as the "All
American slob," Stanley
Kowalski and Larry Long,
as the grown up "mama's
boy." Mitch, were superior.
Shreefer "looks the part."
His animal ways and un
couth language brought
laughter from the audi
ence. However, Shreefer oc
casionally rammed so much
food into his character
mouth that the audience
could not hear through the
mush.
Long had a much more
sensitive and decliate role.
His quiet pleadings and
boyishness were correct
for the part. Perhaps Long
was the best male per
former, but Shreefer was
more appreciated by the
audience.
Louise Shadley, as Stella
Kowalski, was inconsistent
in a difficult part. She
tended to overact the highly
emotional scenes. At other
times, her lines were so
soft they were lost to the
audience, but It was still
a creditable performance.
Impressive in the larg
cast of 23 were: Loretta
Loose as the loud Eunice
Hubbell, Curtis Greene as
the card playing MacSheph
erd, Andrea Chicoine as the
peanut-eating Negro wom
an and Lesly Smith as the
flower selling Mexican
woman.
On the minus side, Zeff
Bernstein, who ' has given
many fine performances on
the Howell stage, seemed
miscast' as the story telling
Steve Hubbell, Jim Mac
Donald was wrongly a com
ic collector and Dick Wat
kins could have been more
commanding as the doctor
who takes Blanche to a
sanitarium. v
Walk-ons, in a nightmare
and other sequences, were
appropriate.
The set is a copy of Jo
Mielziner's original Broad
way set. However, it has
not been properly adapted
to the Howell stage. As in
last season's successful
"The Diary of Anne
Frank," some audience
members are not able to
see all the action. Parts of
the set' are obstructed by
the proscenium, the wall
that frames the stage .open
ings Immediately after the
curtain rose, the title of the
show was projected onto a
scrim, a meash curtain
hung in front of the set.
While effective, it seemed
to "label" the show as a
movie title labels a movie.
To see an excellent cast
in a combination of realism
(properties and characteri
zation) and fantasy (lights,
set and nightmare se
quence) that established in
teresting moods to enter
tain the audience, catch
that "Streetcar."
Lack of Interest
Big 8 Talent Show
Idea 'Just Sitting'
Student Union program
manager Bill McKinnon" de
scribed the idea to recreate a
traveling Big Eight talent
show as "just sitting."
McKinnon said the plan to
form the show with about
three acts from each school
had not progressed due to a
lack of interest from other
schools.
He pointed out that the
plan was dropped last year
because a convenient date
for all the schools involved
could not be found.
"All the schools would con
tribute acts and the show
would play three schools in
one weekend " he said.
He commented, "It is not
too promising for this year
out we haven t given up."
"Students who have gone in
the past have had a real good
time and had a chance to
meet people at other schools,"
McKinnon said.
This year's winners in the
recent University talent show
would be involved in the trip,
if it should gain support from
the ether schools. So far only
Nebraska and Kansas State
have expressed interest in the
program, according to Mc
Kinnon. First place in the Nebraska
talent show went to the Delta
Gamma dance team of Karen
Costin, Awe Sowles, Lucy
Madden and Jeanne Thor
ough. Second were the Phi Psi's
Plus Two combo. Gail Calla
way and Mary Kay Coonrad
took third with their traveler
act.
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