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The Nebraska!
Friday, April 21, 1951
EDITORIAL OPINION
Russian Delegation
Arrives in Lincoln
While most of us were studying, thinking about the
plans for this weekend or sleeping in the wee hours this
morning, nine weary travelers arrived in Lincoln for a
busy five-day visit.
The weary travelers are the members of the Rus- I
sien delegation. They will be guests of our campus, Ne-
braska Wesleyan and the city until next Tuesday.
Of particular interest to the members of our campus
community will be the luncheon this afternoon and a I
panel discussion Tuesday afternoon.
The luncheon today is sponsored by the Young Re-
publicans and Young Democrats. It should provide the
Russians with a little insight of the American political
set-up and particularly what the younger members of
the American political systems think and believe.
The scheduled forum, Tuesday afternoon, should pro-
vide a good discussion. According to current plans, two I
or three Soviets and two or three Americans will carry
the thought for awhile. Then the panel will discuss ques- I
tions posed from the floor. i
These Russians are not students, in the American I
sense. They are highly intelligent, well-trained profes- I
sional people. 1
They offer an excellent opportunity to the members
of our campus. False understandings and mis-concep-
tions can be corrected if we take advantage of it.
If you are fortunate enough to run into this delega- I
tion during their campus tour, take a little time out of I
your busy schedule and talk with them.
The visit of the Soviet delegation is not a one-sided I
thing. W not only can erase some of their mis-concep- 1
tions, but perhaps through their visit, we can erase a few
of ours. 1
Ferae Naturae
QUAERE
Inside View
AAAUCE IN WoNO&RLANf
Over the years the publi
cations of the University
have run up an enviable
reputation. One of the rea
sons for this had been the
excellent relation maintained
between the staffs of the
publications and their gov
erning board.
This column is a criticism
of some of the aspects of
that board. It is not intend
ed to state that the board is
prejudiced or that it does
not do an excellent job. It
does.
I merely wish to point out
that much better staff and
campus relations could be
maintained if certain prob
lem areas were investigated
and some trouble spots were
eliminated.
I offer these criticism be
cause any comment on staff
selection is detrimental to
the staffs and to the publi
cations themselves.
Some of the areas that
cause sore spots are the al
leged J-School influence, the
fact that members tend to
follow the advice of the
J-School members, advice
that is often based on close
personal contacts rather
than any careful Investiga
tion of personal competence.
There is an excellent rea
son why this happens Pub
lications members do not
visit the offices and do not
follow the Rag closely they
only know the students they
have in class or the stu
dents that are their friends.
This criticism is especial
ly important when one con
siders that often the board
does not follow staff recom
mendations. Failure to fol
low staff recommendations
flaunts common sense, is a
rebuke to the staff mem
bers, and violates the tra
dition of the board. If the
board is to interfere with
the internal management
policies of the publications,
it should ly do so after
InvestigKtiag the situation
in the office extensively
throughout a semester.
The board does not follow
up on recommendations that
it makes to the staffs, thus
its suggestions, many of
which are very good, are
very seldom followed. Its
programs and organization
al changes lack continuity
and are often changed with
out warning the staffs a
great deal..
The entire philosophy of
the board now seems to
many of the staff members
to be one of arrogance and
f "you're working for the
pub board" rather than the
!iroper one that the board
s working for the organiza
tions. In addition the board is
prone to ignore business
practices that the most ig
norant business man would
recommend. It does not
even have acceptable con
tracts with most of its busi
ness associates. Under this
system the Rag is punished
for errors it makes in rela
tion to the printers, but
printers are not punished
when they make mistakes.
With regard to the inter
views it may be said that
the board is a sucker for
snow jobs as is demonstrat
ed every year. It does not
have formalized interview
ing techniques, and an
nouncements of pub board
results and decisions comes
via the rumor vine and the
cruel practice of having the
last year's staff, which is
not responsible for the re
sults, take the dirty job of
breaking the news to the
losers and winners.
The board, generally
speaking, ignores overall ef
fort and leadership qualities
and intellectual grasp when
picking its workers. Many
times an editor is chosen
who is excellent technically,
but couldn't get along with
the rest of the world.
At the last meeting the
board reversed along
standing policy and re
quired that applicants pass
a technical test. The meth
ods used vary from printer
to printer and have little
relevance to the job. No bet
ter method could be found
for corruption and favori
tism to enter.
If a technical test is to be
used all applicants should
be told in advance and the
test should cover principles
germane to the subject and
principles that would be a
fair test of general graps
of the subject matter.
Finally if staff recommen
dations are to be reversed
the board should carefully
hear the old staff out, not
abruptly dismiss them, and
it should explain to both old
and new staffs the reasons
for their dismissal.
The above could be but
tressed with many exam
ples and is written by a for
mer member of the board
who has carefully consulted
with many semesters of
staffs before making criti
cisims. Few personal ex
amples are used or details
and facts mentioned in or
der to avoid personalities
and damaging bystanders.
Flowerpot
By Gretchen Shellberg
Today flowerpot presents a few seeds
for thought.
Recently when Justice William 0. Doug
las visited our campus, he advocated
United States support of revolutions in
economically and socially underdeveloped
countries when these nations rebelled
against and attempted to improce condi
tion. Douglas added further that the Unit
ed States should provide technical aid,
teachers, and doctors rather than muni
tions to these nations revolting against
their old standards of living.
During an informal discussion, I asked
Mr. Justice Douglas if he thought the .
Cuban revolution is presently, or was
originally, one of the revolutions against
living standards which he had men
tioned. If so, I added, what should the
the U.S. attitude toward helping Cuba be?
Mr. Justice Douglas referred me to a
book by C. Wright Mills entitled "Listen,
Yankee." Douglas said the book would give
me a clearer picture of the Cuban situa
tion that he could give. (Douglas has not
traveled as extensively in Latin America
as he has in the middle and far east.) 1
had already read the book; it had prompt
ed my question. I hope some of the fol
lowing remarks from Mills book prompt
questions in your mind too:
Introduction by Mills
"In the late spring of 1960, I (Mills)
decided to look into Cuba. . . . That jour
ney has forced me to the view a view
which for a long time I had rejected
that much of whatever you have read re
cenlty about Cuba in the U.S. press is
far removed from the realities and the
meaning of what is going on in Cuba to
day. "My M(ills') major aim in this book is
to present the voice of the Cuban revolu
tionary (in a letter to the United States.)
Voice of Hypothetical Revolutionary
"We are not angry with you, whoever
you are; we don't even know you. How
could we? The North America we know is
not the suburbs of Cincinnati, wherever
that is; how could we know anything about
that? What we know is the big, sharp
edges of Yankee politics and Yankee im
perialism to us, those are not just dirty
words. They've been facts of our everyday
lives as we've lived them in Cuba. It's
been the idle tourists and the sugar
monpolies and the support of the Batista
dictatorship and the giving of medals to
his murders and our not having work to
do and seeing the land lie idle while we
squatted on the edge of the road in our
filthy huts that is what most of us know
of North America.
"Some of you came down to Havana
tens of thousands of you, in fact, during
the fifties, some of you came down just
to lie in the sun or on the beaches we
Cubans were not allowed to use. But some
of you came down to gamble and to whore.
We stood on our street corners and
watched you in your holiday place in the
sun, away from your bleak, Yankee win-
ter. Some of us have begged from you;
we were hungry, you see. But know this;
that's over; we are not going to do that
sort of thing again, ever.
"That old Havana, as we've said, was
one of your holiday places, away from your
bleak winter. But it was not away from
your almighty dollar; it was not away
from your perversions of leisure. What
ever Cuba has been in all these respects,
you helped make it that: by your support
of "our" Government, by your gangsters
who were in on it, and by the patronage
and the whims of your rich tourists. Well,
that's over, Yankee. Please know that.
We've drawn a line and
we're standing on it. We've
made laws and we're stick
ing to them, with guns in
our hands.
"We know newspapers
often lie, and never tell the
whole truth. We hope that
you're not fooled. Anyway,
we're not. We're too close
up to what they are writ
ing about us. Besides, as
revolutionaries, we don't be- Shellberg
lieve anything that we don't know person
ally: that's one thing making a revolution
teaches you. Revolution is a way of de
fining realities.
"We suppose that off and on you've
been hearing about Latin America since
you were in high school, and we can
imagine how boring it must have been
for you. What you've heard, mainly; is
about how one dictator has replaced an
other, and about bits and pieces of ancient
history, and then those crowds rioting in
the sultry streets. You haven't paid much
attention to it, except to the violence now
and then; and we can hardly blame you
for it. But you can't afford to ignore us
any longer.
"For now our history is part of your
present.
"And now some of the American future
is ours, too, as well as yours.
"Your Government said it was protect
ing and guaranteeing our Cuban independ
ence but that independence was a sham.
It was your Government and your cor
porations that decided when our "inde
pendence" was menaced and so when the
Yankees could intervene. What they had
was the key to our house.
"Before our revolution in 1956 those
men in the Directors' Rooms on lower
Manhattan controlled more than 90 per
cent of our electricity and telephones
about half of what was called our "public
service" railroads; some 40 percent of
our sugar production.
"Then again, in 1952, after the war for
the Four Freedoms was all over and done
with, Batista came back into power, again
by getting hold of the army and using it
to take over, and again our Government
said; 'OK, Senor Batista, you're our boy.
(continued on page 4)
THE WORLD OF SUZIE
WONG, a Paramount pic
ture starring William Hold
en and Nancy Kwan.
Based on the popular
Broadway play which was
based on the novel by Rich
ard Mason-"The World of
Suzie Wong" is a colorful,
exotic world. But against
the bright documentary
value of a Hong Kong lo
cale, insert a boring, melo
dramatic, trite love story of
an East-West relationship,
complete with unwed moth
erhood. The huge faults are not
the film's, nor t h e play's,
but the original novel's.
The sex angle of the warm
hearted prostitute and the
American painter and ad
venturer has been told in
so many different ways
and by so many different
authors. Only the Hong
Kong locale, attractive cos
t u m e s and photography,
and some interesting inte
rior settings give the film
any appeal.
William Holden is much
too old and conservative in
' appearance to be the paint
er leaving permanent em
ployment to travel to Hong
Kong to learn about 'paint-
ing' and about 'himself.'
Newcomer Nancy Kwan is
an affected Suzie Wong, re
placing France Nuyen of
the Broadway cast after
Miss Nuyen had 'difficul
ties' with the' filmmakers.
The film also changed di
rectorsfrom Nicholas Ray
to Richard Quine.
The film occasionally en
tertains, and there is some
intended humor. The frank
discussions of sex and
prostitution may arouse in
terest, but the interest
leaves but unpermanent
impressions em
ployed mainly to shock.
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tent of the novel, for .o
improvement or hin"ra :t
has been noticed in the
screen adaptation.
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titute Gwennie, was a fa
vorite photographer model
for the husband of Eng
land's Princess Margaret.
'Husker Selects
Section Editors
The 1982 Cornhusker sec
tion editors were selected
Wednesday by juniors and
seniors of the 1962 Cornhus
ker Staff.
Susan Southwick, student
government; Betty Ann
Harsh, activities; Barbara
Ihle, activities; Dave Wether
ell, military; and Dan Vogt,
agriculture, will work under
Honey Lou McDonald, Panel
Editor.
Sue Stewart, student
scenes; Linda Lueking, worn
en's houses and halls and in
tramurals; Leroy Or ton,
men's houses and halls and
intramurals; and Bill Wright,
sports, will work with Helen
Schmeirer.
Karen Rasmussen, business
administration, teachers,
pharmacy; Julie Berner,
Fine Arts; Anne Savidge, ad
ministration; and Carol Wil
li a m s, medicine, nursing,
dentistry, will work with Pat
Mullen, panel editor.
Cyn Holmquist will direct
Dave Smith, Arts and Sci
ence, journalism, law; John
Zeilinger and Allan Stadler,
fraternities; Barbara Jack
son, sororities; and Dan Ro
senthall, engineering.
The Panel Staff includes
Nina Morrison and Jack Rich
ard; advisor is Dr. Robert J.
Cranford.
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