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Tuesday, April 25, 1961 Page 1 The Nebraskan Applicant Shortage Cause for Alarm Several Student Council members are showing some alarm because of the lack of applicants for next year's Council. It seems that several of the colleges are not even able to submit the minimum number of candidates. To help the students, the Council has extended their deadline until tomorrow at S p.m. If the Council member's alarm is justified and if there are not enough applicants for Council, it is easy to deduce that there is a problem in this area, The Nebraskan is not trying to sound elementary about this problem, but evidentally the "Run, Jane, Run" approach is necessary. Why won't people take the time to get interested in the governing bodies which run their campus lives? Why won't people show an interest in serving on the Council? It to an established fact that the Council as a whole to as good as the individual members. This is evident from the results of this year's council. The prerequisites for Council membership are not impossible. Certainly you know more than twenty mem bers of your college who can sign your petition. , Maybe you don't feel you are the biggest activity gunner on campus, but surely you have some set opinions about this campus and what should be done to improve it. Why not take fifteen minutes out of your day, go over to the Division of Student Affairs and file for member ship on the Student Council. Ferae QUAERE Hflv! Afl of you Inde pendents (girls) who always want to be part of the neat Greek system. Now is your chance. The old animal is informed by a pretty, but reliable source, name of carcajou, that the spots are going for the asking, (ivy spots that is). Things heard on the shortwave? Lady Admirals likely to have an escort sur plus next year . . . look out for favorites . . . they may fade . . . you'd best be 65 for safety ... set numbers don't suit our math . . . counted chickens and count ing chicks often don't hatch. Dear girls . . . don't Ig nore the above message . . . A short costume is just the thing for a spring day . . . we wouldn't want the god desses angry with the In dian movement now would we? It takes little effort to be a maiden of spring this year . . . almost as little as it takes not to be one. I see that Barbara Bark er can read a book. I have it in for her as the book that she recommended hap pened to be the only one copy left in town. I am in hot water as I told my fa vorite (only) campus love ly that old grouch would would give a copy to her. So In lieu of that here is a guaranteed list of funny books. "10,000 jokes for all occasions," Bennet Cerf's "Out on a Limerick," and. "Strategy In Poker, Busi ness and War." Sample joke from the first tome, this here young lady from the city and the fine old country boy type were walking across a pas ture. Whilst crossing this meader they saw a bull nuzzling up to a cow and trying for a Saturday night date. Said boy to girl, "See ing that makes me want to do the same thing. Said girl to boy "go ahead, it's your cow." Sample limerick "A senior at lunch in Purdue found quite a large mouse in his stew, said the waiter "Don't bout, and display it about, or the profs win be want ing one too." PROBLEM OF INwimn yr T Mo Epillmi Pettaaal Malfcrmatiia Hourarr Prtaamlty Ainsworth, Borrow, Coler idge, Dickens, and Emerson sit for an examination. They are placed by the examiners in the above order. Marks are awarded as foDows: The candidates each take five subjects: English, History, Latin, French, and Philosophy. The candidate placed first in the subject scores five marks; the candidate who is second, four marks; the third candidate, three marks; and o on. Final placings depend -on the ag gregate marks scored. Ainsworth scores 24 Dailv Nebraskan Member Associated Collegiate Press, International Press Representative: National Advertising- Service, Incorporated Publishes" at: Koora 51, Strident Union, Lincoln, Nebraska. 14th ti K Telephone HE 2-7631, ext. 4225, 4226, 4227 SEVENTY-ONE YEARS OLD Tray Daily HtkiMm ta vahHahed Monday, Tnraday, rYrdnmday and Fri day atarlnf tin erhenl tmi, eTeept dnrfnc section and exam pcrloda, by atadrta at the Cnrrenity of Nebraska andrr anthorlratlnn of the Committee a, fttwaVnt Affairs aa an orpmwion of atndrnt opinion. Pnhhratlnn nndrr the Jnrnidtfltlea ef the Sanmmmlttx on Htndrnt Pnhtlratlom a hall be free from editorial emeenhlB on the part of the Htinrammittee or on the part of any aMa otttatde the rnfrrnilty. The member of the Bally Nrbraakan staff are parao lly teapenstMe fat what they say, ot do, or cause to be printed. Vehroary 8. 1 OSS. tabaerlrtloa. ratea are IS per semester or to for the academic ?ear. Kutered aa second elan matter at the poat office la Lincoln, Wahraska, Sot tfca at of Aagaet 4, 11. BUSINESS STAFF fhjamees Manarer n,M Kalman Jueiataat Matinees Maaarera . .fim Fercnaon. mil Oinlieka. John Sohmedei BOITOK1AL STAFF fMlts Dave Calhoun Manacmc Ed Iter ., Gretehen Shellber, Vm Kdltor Norm Beatty At Newa Miter Jim Forreat Sperte Fdltor Hal Hrmvn Copy r altera Fat tV-an, lnte Hnlbert Jerry Mmherann Htaff Wrltera Ann Morer, IHrk Stneliey. Nancy rVhllford Junler Staff Write Kayo Wohllerth, Jan Sack. Unyd Oarn w . ... , Eleanor Bllllnra ll-ht News Editor jerry LamhenoB Natura The last book is a study by an editor of fortune magazine of Game theory, a very anstruse and little understood mathematical work of great importance to the social sciences. The illustrations are by Osborne and chuckly no end. The tenor of the book is serious but it is easy enough for all of you louts to read and its tone is illustrated by the dedication "to our wives, poor wretches." Miss Barker I know has read a book but I doubt that she lives on this cam pus. Many and many a Greek has been damaged by the underlying societies and many more have been perverted. The group could be all right and often is just a collection drinking types. But it is sufficiently upsetting to the college at mosphere that most deans, nationals, and locals oppose it. There is certainly some thing offensive about a fel low joining my fraternity and then rushing out and joining another one to work at cross purposes. It is di rectly contrary to the entire democratic system to have a secret party. If their aims are desirable and fair and all that why the secrecy? Why should a person be discriminated for or against because of an undisclosed membership. The meaning of a subrosa may not be much until you realize that some persons are literally heartbroken by their failure to remain in organizational positions after two or three years of hard and sincere and outstanding work. The progress of the interfratern ity system under the lead ership of these toads ig an adequate commentary on how good they are for the sytem. Further, the entire system gets blamed for their childish pranks and their entertaining but irre sponsible journalistic efforts. Few girls whose reputations are attacked in these pieces think they are harmless. Few persons who are punished by the Uni versity while members of subrosas are saved through higher-up pressure are amused. THE WEEK marks in all. Coleridge scores the same mark in each of four subjects. Emer son is top in French and third in Philosophy. What mark does Borrow score in French? BRING OR SEND AN SWERS TO 210 BURNETT. Answer to last week's problem: The teller was $44.55 short at the end of the day if he did not make any other mistakes. Correct answers were submitted by Roger Becker, Ned Criscim agna, Warren Groeling, Jim Huwaldt, Earl Scudder, Len nart Swenson, and Leon Wiese. Latin American History Advances From Nothingness to Convulsions By Eric Sevareid Rio De Janeiro History i has not happened in world i affecting terms below the I equator. Latin America has I never made its mark on the ! world. But I now history I is b e g i n- n i n g to 1 h a p p e n j here in con i v u 1 sive, lawk ward ! heaves, j The Bra I zilian giant j is lifting it- self by its ,, ! bJt -mm Sevareid boot straps toward the first world role ever played by a South American nation. Its stunted human institutions are goading themselves to match the grandeur of the country's size, and poten tially Brazil is to South America what India is to Asia. If the Democratic method fails to lift India onto the track of modern self-sustaining econom ic gnrvt Democratic free doms w.ll black out in South Asia. If Brazil fails and it is now touch and go for 1 U. i nV: 1 Saty By Dick Masters I will make no reply to the recent comments con cerning the subrosas on this here campus. The apathetic and otherwise idiotic bits that have infiltrated the Rag's columns and letter rips are for the most part unreasoned and unreason ably. At least the editor and his hard core staff are tak ing a realistic view of the situation. Their reasons for total abolishment are not grounded on t h e assump tions that T's are fascists, the Pixies poor journalists and the Red Dots anti-Sunday school. If we are going to holler "Wipe 'em out!" let's at least know why. Enough of whatever I've been saying. Besides the strength of these groups lies in their appeal to mysticism and power politics. Most of this crap has been done away with through the efforts of some crusaders. But what I was starting to deal with before I read this ridiculous column harmlessly entitled "Not Guilty", is the real subject for the day: The Decline and Fall of Party Boys and Girls at the University of Nebraska. This is strong talk, isn't it? But look around and see if the decay is not appar ent. This humble person will not write of the glory that once was NU, but will instead attempt a compre hensive cataloging of those factors which have contri buted so much to the fall. The first of these causes may be grouped under the Lead of: strengthening of curriculum in order to shorten the standard four day weekend. This plot has had a devastating effect on graduating seniors, prospec tive party-going freshmen, and hardened, but time- CCAN? WHAT COW?" Brazil, as it is for India President Kennedy's hemis pheric battle cry of "prog ress, yes'; tyranny, no" will become a faint and mock ing echo all across tire southern continent. Brazil is not only trying to become a social democ racy, it is trying simultane ously to become a nation. It never was before. It was a feudalistic coastal strip in semi-colonial economic dependency upon Europe and the United States. Like the startling glass and marble capital city of Brasilia, rising from the lost and ancient interior plateau, the new Brazil rep resents a future unrelated to a past. Its leaders argu ing for help in foreign cap itals have only their vision to offer as collateral. The President of the Brazilian Senate talked to me, over the little coffee cups, of prostrate Euope after World War II and said, "We saw what Italy, France and Ger many were able to do with your help, but their future was underwritten by their past. We have no such se- burdened grad students. Secondly, Administrative cost-cutting which has re duced the beer-bottle-gathering crew. In order to pro vide salaries sufficient to draw professors who are capable of really putting the screws to this here curri culum, University officials have replaced the forty three man paper sticker and bottle picker crew with fourteen pugilistic police men. I'm here to tell you that this littl deal has cur tailed the old party crew to a big fat degree. The third category is that of; Campaign promises made to Methodist and Lutheran Church groups by a few public officials. This fact, in conjunction with a mother's alliance of rookie cops (known as the WCTU) has made it more than difficult to procure, imbibe and otherwise en joy party essentials. But the most alarming curb in the past few months is the fourth and last: Fraternity and sorority of ficers who have been in fluenced by the above and have relentlessly purged Old Guard members for stocking their rooms with the healing waters. The Decline was brought about through the diligence of the faculty, the adminis tration and the Lincoln Police working in conjunc tion. But the Fall, the utter collapse, of the institution has been brought about by Judases in our own midst. Surely no Party People can withstand the withering glances and the stiff fines imposed by his peers. Note: For those of you who have been calling about the Knee-pads, they've been sold. I think I got'em at Gerry's but if you can't find'em there, check with Gould. curity to offer." The only past, Brazil can exhibit to foreign govern ments and bankers, is the last five years since the fantastically sweeping Ku bitchek developent plan was launched, creating al most overnight new power, new industries and the nu cleus of a middle class and creating also a raging inflation, which the , n e w President desperately fights to halt. That which causes men to form a people. Janio Quadros told Brazil ians in his first post-inaugural speech this winter, is the remembrance of great things in which they acomplished together and the will to carry out great new things in the future. But Janio now furiously promulgating new laws for exchange controls, land bank and income tax re forms for streamlining the parasitical bureaucracy also told his people it is in admissable that in the name of tomorrow's citi zens those of today be stripped of their essential assets. His problem is to stop the Inflation without stop ping the progress. Washing ton clearly believes h i s chances are good. Kennedy would not be arranging for further credits otherwise. Kubitehek printed more bil lions of cruzein s to finance the standing leap toward the future than were print ed in all the previous his tory of this country, yet the informed concensus of for eigners here is that a slow er, more logical, step-by-step progression w o u 1 i have failed, eroded to death by the familiar termites of red tape, corruption, quick private profits and political jealous'"s. The only way, they think, for Brazil to break with its history of boom and bust, as in rub ber at one time, in cotton at another time, was to push the development boom so fast and so far, involv ing nearly every state and municipality, that succeed ing governments would be left with no choice but to push it further. What Janio is battling against now is a crisis of faith as Brazilians gasp to get their second wind. They can scarcely ask North Americans to b e 1 i e v e in Brazil if they do not be lieve in themselves, and the test is upon them now. To a man, informed Brazilians wanted Kennedy to win last November. To a man, they applaud his Latin American policy now. But they can not expect more of us than they demand of themselves, and if the expect to suffer disappointment and yield again to their former habit of blaming their ills on the Yankee, then the neutralism Janio is toying with partly to get our at tention and help an be come a more uncomfort able reality than either State Department or Penta , gon likes to contemplate. (Matrlhuted MSI by The Mall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rlfhla Reaerred Not By Myron Papadakis Now that the "Nebraskan" has launched its "let's pur ify our campus" crusade, what if in the upcoming in vestigation of subrosas it is found that: 1. Mary Melody is sister of the president. 2. That the Red Dots' only function is to sell mums in direct competition with Mortar Boards. S. Timothy Nonconsequen tial, Esq., pledged Pi Xi. 4. Adminny Hall received a badge for its statement, "It's spring." 5. Hannah Doesn't did. 6. Thirteen T.N.E.S. or dered matching sport coats. Oh, well, I imagine that it is time to be serious, as the gravity of the situation has been forced upon us by the very text for our eleven o'clock. The Administration's com ment on subrosa organiza tion, to my way of think ing, is indeed perfect. "It is spring!" It is entirely beyond my feeble comprehension why anyone sweats subrosas. Does anyone really believe that they run this campus? Surely, elections are elec tions, and still run in a dem ocratic manner. Member ship to such bodies as I.F.C. and Student Council surely isn't run by T.N.E. If one maintains that the T's do run campus politics, it is only through its members being prominent and per suasive. No organization can possi bly "run" campus politics, as to my knowledge almost all important positions are gotten through election. I may be wrong, but I say it would be foolhardy to state that the majority of any campus activity are T mem bers. If any group or organ ization is seemingly run by T.N.E., it is first run by the member. His personal ity and leadership ability have gotten him his posi tion, not T. It is my contention that T.N.E. isn't apolitical threat but rather an organ ized group of campus lead ers. I also believe that membership in this organ ization comes from leader ship and that leadership doesn't follow membership. Let them exist and be hap py in themselves, they hurt no one. As for the group bearing the name Pi Xi, if their goals are purely social, as they claim, then fhey surely are inconsequential as a po litical group. What can be wrong with a group that en joys the friendship of all its members? What national fraternity on this campus would function without the material advantages of a place to live, eat and sleep? I doubt that many groups would function as well as Pi Xi. These persons are leaders in their respective groups. The harm that they do, if any, is more than countered by their most hu morous paper, the "Pixie Press." Surely, Lhis publica tion is more sought after than any edition of the "Daily Nebraskan." The only other subrosa group that exists on cam pus is Red Dot. Latest re ports on this organization r GRAVES PRINTING CO. Social Stationery Party Invitations Graduation Announcements Have Graves Print It South of Temple Bldg. HE 2-2957 A man with Alopecia Ur.ivr?- doesn't need this deodorant He could use a woman's roll-on made for the man who wants a deodorant he knows will get through to the skin . . . where perspiration starts. Mennen Spray peoddrant does just that". It gets through to ths skin. And it works All day. More men use Mennen Spray than any other deodorant. Have you tried It yet? 64, and lJ00 plus ;?x Compl8te bek Of body ..,. lBcluoinB ,h , $ca(p tfmpi(s Guilty are that it has been warred upon with great success, and has lost all political power that it once, reputed ly, held. Now it is basically a social group, frowned up on by the majority of soror ity girls, but still in exist ence. These, then are the groups. They exist, and the "Daily Nebraskan" has donned the cloak of Cru. sader. The Rag demands unity In the fight against subrosas. I do not believe that these groups merit the wrath of anyone, much less that of the crusading "Ne braskan." , But wait, what of the fra ternity outlook on subrosas? Almost every house has a constitutional clause that bans dual memberships. I cannot argue this point, as it is a valid agreement against membership in sub rosas. Sickening as it is, not many of these fraternal vows have any legal mean ing. Admittedly this is a weak excuse. The other pos sible excuse might be, "For give me, for I knew not what I joined." To my way of thinking, the "Daily Nebraskan" has given too much space to an unimportant question. 1WA to Recognize Outstanding Women The Independent Women's Association (IWA) will an nounce the Outstanding Inde pendent Women of the school year May 8 at a special recog nition dessert. don't Feama. AFTER ALL.EVeONE GETS DEPRESSED NOUJANDTHEfM PERHAPS Y00 SHOULD TRV TO CHART YOUR PERIODS OF depression; CHAaiE8S3(0N.. NOU), H0UK0N6 WOULD VOU SAV TMI PERIOD Of DEPRESSION HAS LASTED? CANOE TRIPS Info the Quetica-Suparior Wil derntn. For individuals or group. Write Bill Rom, CA NOE COUNTRY OUTFITTERS, Ely, Minnesota. with imrumi n e,, re-rr (six y&esT)