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The Nebraskan
Wednesday, April 12, 1961
Just A Thought 1
By Dave CalhounW
The Daily Nebraskan has just received release I
number one on the Peace Corps. Applications are now 1
available to those interested in volunteering. Two I
thousand of these applications are available for campus s
distribution and others may be obtained at the local I
Post Office.
The applications contain a detailed questionnaire f
covering such things as language pro
ficiency, area preference, and special
skills which would be an asset to ane
working for the Peace Corps.
Since the University is a possible
site for a training school in conjunction
with this program, it is important that
the students understand and know more
about the Peace Corps. To assist in de
veloping interest a poll will be con
ducted in the Crib soon. This poll will
consist of a number of questions con
cerning personal attitudes about the
Corps.
Since this program and the problems which, it is
attempting to solve are of such vital importance not
only to us as citizens of the United States but also to the
citizens of all the countries of the world, some attempt
should be made by the students of the University com
munity to arouse interest and at the same time better
inform themselves about the Peace Corps and the prob
lems which it will work toward solving. Reports from
three other Nebraska colleges (Nebraska Wesleyan,
Creighton University, and Omaha University) show very
little student interest This indicates that if anything of
positive value is to be done about creating interest in
this area, the leadership must come from the Univer
sity. What can the students do to create interest? There
are a number of partial solutions. The obvious one is
to be Interested themselves and to express that interest
strongly. The University could make an important con
tribution by encouraging the establishment of a central
training center for the Peace Corps here. The work
which has been done in cooperation with Turkey shows
Nebraska's potentially great experience in ag develop
ment. The excellent studies of Latin America provide
the University with the opportunity to do some vital and
significant work in this field.
It might be suggested that the students form an
organization to aid the establishment of a Peace Corps
center. The purpose of this organization would also be
to discuss the issues and areas with which the Peace
Corps is concerned. Very few of the students at this in
stitution have any conception of the social, political, cul
tural factors at work in such areas as Africa, Asia, the
Far East, the Middle East and Latin America. An
organization of this type would allow interested people
to meet to hear qualified guest speakers and to discuss
with them the areas which are of importance.
We have in the past few years heard the criticisms
of the foreign policy which the United States has used in
the underdeveloped areas of the World. The Peace
Corps is a bold new plan to alleviate some of the prob
lems facing as. With the wholehearted support of indi
viduals all over the United States it can become a major
factor in the attempt to attain more complete under
standing between people of different cultures.
No serious student of foreign affairs can seriously
doubt that the United States is rapidly losing its position
of world power. We are surrounded by nations filled with
starving and half -starved people. Revolution is an ugly
word to rich America, but it is the sound of hope to
thousands of diverse tongues and literally billions of
poverty stricken people. The nations of the world would
feel themselves fortunate if most of their people were
as well off as the denizens of Tobacco Road.
No amount of foreign aid or propaganda is going to
convince these nations that it is not desirable to take our
wealth from us and give it to their starving citizens
whether by economic competition or otherwise. Our only
hope, and it is a rapidly disappearing possibility, is to
reach these nations on the precinct level and convince
them that we are doing our best to help.
Only the best trained people will be of any use in
foreign cultures far different from ours, cultures which
are so different from ours as to make Russia look like
Town Meeting, U.S.A.
Nebraska's stake in this is as large as any one of
the fifty states, and in view of our understanding of
the means of solving the problems of hunger perhaps we,
who know not hunger, but only the minor problems of
surplus are uniquely fitted to carry the message of
plenty to the world.
Certainly if any leadership is to be exercised by the
state of Nebraska in this, the most pressing problem of
the time, it must be done by the students and faculty of
the University of Nebraska.
A survey of Omaha University, Creighton University,
and Wesleyan shows that virtually no students are in
terested in the Corps on their campus.
This writer's only comment can be that they simply
do not have an interest in understanding the world situa
tion. These students point out that the Peace Corps in
volves personal sacrifice and the support of programs of
the Democratic administration. They say that it is im
practical rl idealistic. The people of the world are not
impractical and their ideals at the present time consist
of throwing off the centuries of ignorance, disease, and
poverty. They wil do this with or without our coopera
tion. The force unleashed by the demand for more food by
one and one half billion persons is far stronger than that
of any fire, war, flood, earthquake or other emergency
known to man. Fighting an emergency threat has never
been profitable: it has always been necessary. Acting
to prevent that emergency is not only necessary it is
far more profitable than losing all of the wealth and
power of the United States through a vain attempt to
ignore the meaning of current history.
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To the editor:
We wish to cohgratuate
the Daily Nebraskan for the
courageous stand it has tak
en on the exposition of the
suh-rosa element on the
University campus.
We would like to see more
such editorials. It is good
for the Greek system and
the University as a whole.
It shows that Mr. Calhoun
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the benefit of our school at
heart I
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the University students and cons didnt matter. The of
the Administration stand be- I ficer was white, they were
hind the Daily Nebraskan I black. That's aH"
in its efforts to expose I 1 don't know, either.
groups whose actions may
be detrimental to the Greek
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system and the University
oi Nebraska.
Charter Members of the
. Dick Basoco Fan Club.
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Western Economists, Ideologists
iCan't Understand Indies Problem
i Eric Sevareid
Trinidad, W.I. What is
happening with the "under-
privileged" peoples on this
I earth, virtually all of whom
are, by giant coincidence,
I d a r k of
skin, is
s o m e
f thing hap
1 pening in-
s i d e indi
I v i d u a 1
f breasts. It
is for poets,
n o v e 1-
ists, artists
those
who ob-
Sevareid
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s serve persons to under-
stand it; it is not for econ
I omists or ideologists those
I who observe people how-
ever much they dominate
I the Western approach to
s the phenomenon with their
I funds and missions and
I committees and propagan
1 da.
This much penetrated my
I own skin, calloused by
I years of exposure to the
f dry winds of sociology, aft-
er some travels through
1 A f r i c a. Now, moving
fthrough the supposedly
tranquil islands of the West
Indies en route to see the
i new Brazil and its massive
crisis, I can feel again the
prickings of this uneasy, ill
defined awareness.
An American woman art
I tist was talking on the ve-
randah of her lovely villa
I on one of these jeweled
"holiday" islands. She
could see the Negro fisher-
men stretched in the strip
I of shadow beside their
boats on the curving beach,
the local taxi-man s o n n d
I asleep in the front seat of
his Chevrolet Her domes-
tie servant dressed in
flowing, antebellum garb,
including bandana, padded
among us with the ice-cold
g daiquiris and slipped away
with the silent submissive-
ness of the British-trained
I black.
When she was sure the
servant was out of hearing,
I the artist said, "They are
all 60 quiet and pleasant
I They seem so contented,
even grateful. But lean
feel it in them, the way you
sense that another person
is in a room even when
1 you don't see him. I guess
I we'd never get anything
I like the Congo in these is
I lands, but I know it's there,
this hatred. Last month, on
I the dock, a white officer
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man up against the shed
and My God! every loafer
00 tack, had a shovel
or a stick an his hand in
a flaBlL quickness of
it! Pure reflex action. The
whether Congos, in minia-
ture, will ever happen in
j. j v r
ine west inaies, many oi
tliem now federated on pa
per and moving toward in-
dependence, but I have
-s learned a few apparent
principles of behavior
1 among the "emergent" peo
I pies. One is that the closer,
i not the farther away, they
1 stand in relation to realiza-
tion of the inchoate desires
1 in their breasts, to release
from their ancient frustra
f tions, the more angry and
f violent they become.
I "Pure reflex action." We
are seeing it now on a
world scale. Centuries
i of white racism have pro
1 duced the inevitable black
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racism. It is racism, not
Communism, that is likely
to become the dominant
characteristic of this gen
eration, and Russian Com
munists will be no more
able to escape its ravages,
in the long haul, than West
ern democrats.
We have treated black
men as a race apart so
long that they are bound
to act like a race apart
in spite of the appease
ments of citizenship and
'civil rights."
It is too late many gen
erations too late to expect
general integration save in
terms of public institutions.
It will not happen in terms
of private human beings.
This is so no longer be
cause of the white man's
racism only, but sow be
cause of the b 1 a c k man's
racism as well.
It is one of American
history's bitter Ironies that
while the Supreme C o n r t
has thrown out the old
southern "'equal but sep
arate" principle in respect
to public institutions, lit is
this very principle in all
other respects that millions
of Negroes now seek, in
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their hearts.
It is not to be wondered
at I suppose, that in the
foreign policy gyrations
over the Congo and
Lumumba, great numbers
of American Negroes react
ed as Americans second
and as Negroes first
I do not understand all
the psychological mysteries
involved In man's reactions
to pigmentation of the skin.
But I am aware that even
In countries like Brazil, of
ficially vnsegregated in all
realms of life, the blackest
men generally do the
roughest and dirtiest work;
that the same is true In
the all-Negro Republic of
Haiti; and that in the ris
ing rebellion against eco
nomic exploitation all over
Latin America the ideology
of skin shading is a very
real, if unacknowledged,
force for hostility.
But the age of the con
quistadores is long past
This is the twentieth cen
tury. One can hope, at
least that dark men in
power in this age will prove
white men in power in their
dark ages.
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In this land of good things,
when a good thing is so
seldom a good thing, we
have come across a good
thing the coming "Damn
Yankees" evening this Sat
urday. The first Greek Week was
held in 1916 at the Univer
sity. Actually the first
Greek Wreek was held in
the fourth century, B.C.,
but since they didnt have
an "egg race" then, of
course that one doesnt
count
Highlighting Greek Week
in, 1916 were the Greek
Games. The featured
events on this memorible
day Included the 400 meter
hurdles and a ritual sing
for the men, and for the
women, the 1916 games ini
tiated the tricycle mara
thon and the egg race
which we see today as rem
nants of the original happy
hours.
The theme of the games
was "Responsibility or
Bust" Old TNE initiation
ceremonies were sold for
eye shades, and partici
pants tracked by the hun
dreds to the games site on
the east lawn of Student
Health.
An account of those same
frolicing moments has re
cently been discovered in
the attic of Harold G.
Jumparosnd, promin
ent Lincoln mimeograph
machine , and past director
of the games.
Jumparound's account is
as follows :
"It should be stated at
the outset of this account
that it is written purely as
a non-profit venture, and
with the hope that it may
aid future Greek Week
games directors here in
this attic here. At no time
in this account have I pur
posely or unwittingly given
any information which I
feel would be detrimental
to the Greek system, the
student body, the city of
Lincoln, the world or hard
ly anything I gness ..."
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sage, a cesenpuon ot we
women's egg race:
"... and I hope to tell
you I never seen such a
" sight A3 them women out
there with them eggs in
their mouth and their el
bows and armpits and this
guy from the Jr. IFC try
ing to line 'em up and ev
erybody alanghii-it were
the most ridiculous thing I
ever seen. Then somebody
hollers 'Go' and they ail
took off, a'running and
a'jumpin and almost killed
this poor fellow from the
Jr. IFC. Stupidest damn
thing I ever seen."
Following Jumparound's
account of the egg race,
co-chairman f the games
Miss Lettuce Muffit issued
a statement concerning the
overall purpose. She said,
In part: "Overalls are not
to be worn to the games. It
is not becoming a social
organization to allow their
members to attend such an
event in such shabby attire.
It is the hope of Greek
Week that each bouse will
include as many different
pairsofpants as possible in
these events and thus con
tribute to the support and
spirit needed to supplv a
climax' to the Greek Week
activities. We want the
houses to keep in mind that
although the garnet provide
a basis for competition,
this must not nndermine
the basic purpose of Greek
Week a successful egg
race."
Included in the informa
tion which was found in
this gentleman's attic was
the song, "Ode to the Greek
Week Games." It is re
printed here in the hope
that the IFC and Panbel
lenic things might use it
again this year in keeping
with the outstanding pro
gram which is pro
grammed. ODE TO
GREEK WEEK GAMES
Egg race, egg race, rah
rah rah!
Tricycle marathon, Omph
pah pah!
Thirty dirty fratrats tied
in a knot
What yeaaah lizard skia
victrola?
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