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Page 2 The Nebraskan Monday, May RKj EDITORIAL OPINION Council Election Needs Your Vote Today the students of the University are given a chance to exercise one of their basic rights. The Daily Nebraskan urges all members of the student body to vote in the Student Council election. . It would be ineffective and unnecessary to ramble on about the importance of each student voting. We do feel, however, that it is necessary to remind the student to vote for the candidate, his beliefs and his platform and not for the group in which he represents. The two major groups which have announced slates of candidates have done an exceptional job and are to be commended for their work. Both groups have taken ac tive stands and have gone out of their way to inform the student body. Now the work Is left up to you, the student. Vote today, for the candidate you believe will add a concrete contribution to the Student Council. Just A Many a controversy can be solved more by time and tried and true processes of investigation than by all of the huffing and puffing in the world. A prime example may be found in the recent HUAC controversy. The student that "Operation Abolition" ac cused of starting a riot and assaulting a policeman last May in San Francisco was found innocent Wednesday. This is the last straw in the long list of proven inaccuracies in the film. This is the rea son that toe National Council of Churches has stated that no one would see the film without "supplementary informa tion." The Daily Nebraskan totally alarmed the Coolidgeites when it reasonably sug gested the same thing as the National Council of Churches i.e. that the film was open to question and that one should look into the other side of t h e question, if he is to be shown the movie. It is significant that those who spon sor the film and call themselves the defenders of our free society refused an offer by students on this campus to represent the opposition and inform the public. It shouldn't be necessary, but for those of you whose favorite reply to an unbeatable argument is that the move is sponsored by a parlor pink i.e. one who lives in this century) perhaps one should notice that not only Communists, but Carl Sandburg, Alexander Meiklejohn, Allan Nevins, Dr. and Mrs. Onus Pauling, Harry Emer son Fosdick, Irving Dilliard, New York Times, Washing ton Post, Milwaukee Journal, St Louis Post Dispatch, Des Moines Register, (need more?) have approximately the same views. We might suggest that our opponents now do the rea sonable thing and conclude that the country is overrun with parlor pinks and that (shudder) a revolution is in order. The above is just a twit and a twinge and an irrele vancy. This nation most not continue to fight phony battles of words over issues that are as dead as St George's I g"P. bad the group con dragons. Social Security, the income tax, welfare pro- I fctef J..1 " far" grams, areas firmly here to stay as Republicans or Dem- arf to&iy, it would be in crats. A few fat the nation will continue to be duped by effective to ran the RAM communist front organizations. Ignore them. We do not criticisms in Tuesday's pa need protection from the parlor pinks, we need to adapt Ir-) to the real world and fast I To do this we cannot afford to waste out time took- VFC Runnin8 Scared fag over our shoulders like a group of old women. Let Says Reader the FBI defend us from sabotage and let truth defend t Th F.diir- jierseii. uuaw win ima urn trum ana ireeaom are tar more formidable than they are. Let HUAC get out of their way. Had we fought the Revolutionary War by ignoring the British and snarling with the Tories or any who were remotely sympathetic to England, we would still be a land of tea drinkers. One of the best commentaries is "Intelligent Anti- communism, an article in the Christian Century, an or- I ganization oa so ones subversive list "Bet aS this is somewhat beside the point The cm- I cial point is that the method of the new antkwmmunist I revivalism it wrong, inappropriate, self-defeating. The method is to whip up American emotions, to make as in- I capable of discrimination, to prepare as for war. It does this at a time when victory ia the world struggle against communism requires methodical discrimination, employ- i ment of edncationa land political as against miliary methods. "In a time when nuclear and biological weapons of total destnictiveness have become the principal means of I warfare, war can no longer be a legitimate object of s policy. Rather, it can come only as a result of the com- I plete failure of policy. When war was acceptable as an s instrument of national policy, it could be prepared for by 1 repeated use of emotion-rousing tactics to drive people 1 into taking leave of their scrupks and civilized values until the national peril was removed. Today such a pro- cedure is the surest way to ensure defeat and annihilia- g tioa. If the new anticommunist revivalism rsreeps the country -as it is obviously designed to do it wiH ensure g the exact opposite of what its organizers and sponsors I Intended." I Dailv Nebraskan I v I Member Associated1 CoIIerUle Pre, btenutiomal rrew f KeprtweBtfttive: Satumal Aavertisiar Serviee, lncrjortr4 I rklisbe4 fc Enb St Stadent Cawa. LhtooU. Xrbnsk. I 14th A K i TetepbMe EE l-'CZh SEVEXTT-OXE SCSSCESS OFFICE EOET.S: J-J Tk BaBr Itoli ! In BMMwt Maafer, fnmea. 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Bill fcunkaks, tmmm I nlmn m Thought By Dave Calhoun I Calhoun est. 4225. 422C, 227 IXAE.5 OLD I TJL M radar throws FrUUjf f . -NdMEftfl , a maara hUHnai fme anas jtatunniihw mm ckr aarl ml mm lw ml car ban KbrMba staff mrm . mr mm. mt aaa m mm praMM. s lam mmm mtttmt tm I f-nrfta. lii aiaalia. ...... .Cnitub ttkxIlM'. i .. .. ......... . ....NwiB fcnaCty . . . .. . . .. ,Sttm m'mmmt sz Author Claims MNebraskan Unfair I To the Editor: 1 It is my hope that, since the reply to the RAM criti i cism of the IFC was printed in its entire context, the I same courtesy will be ex I tended to the original arti I cle itself. I feel that the 1 spirit of the criticism in the RAM statement was mis- represented by the parts I taken from its context. In I particular, "The statement 1 criticized the recent action of IFC to allow any Greek to run without IFC tepprov- al. But for the protection of his house against IFC retaliation, a pledge not to i support him signed by 2-3 i of the members of his house I must be filed with the IFC." I think you will, agree upon re-reading the article that the criticism was not of the IFC allowing any Greek to run without its approval; I and the quotation does not s make clear that the point of contention is the require I ment that the candidate's I house pledge not to support him. I feel that the article tak- en as a whole is a fair criti i cism of the principles un I deriving the IFC slating system, which, as I stated I in the article, was the pri- mary object of criticism. I feel that it is supported by ruifrYit XlAtarliAnrvV cf of A mem, uur amy in lru is I to promote the Greek s," and by the vote last 1 Wednesday in the Student Council meeting concerning the coercion amendment. When only those men who I last year signed the pledge I were the ones voting against 1 the by-law, it seems obvious to me that there may well I be a conflict between the best interests of the entire i student body and those of 1 the IFC. If this were not possible, why does the IFC require such a pledge cf its nominees? I I do feel that it is only i fair for the Daily Nebras f kan to print the whole state I ment by the RAM Commit ! tee in its entire context Joel Landak, author i of the RAM criticism of the IFC 1 (Editor's Note: Space ia Monday's paper prohibits I fee DaQy Nebraska! from I conforming with Mr. Lna I dak's wishes. The Nebras- kaa would have been happy I to ma the Council com 1 meats by the RAM council I or any other Interested I Two weeks ago the Ne- braska State Legislature beat down a fair employ I ment practices act and will I in the near future defeat in committee, a bill banning discrimination in taverns r. ft f . - . ' 'J v - 1 it Daily Nebraskan and restaurants. This is na tural, it is the way of an "in" group that is trying to stay "in." It is wrong but in an obscure way un derstandable. They are afraid (don't ask me why, I ..an't tell you. Last week the IFC part of the Student Council voted down a bill that would have banned coercive block voting (I know a number of Greek men and women voted for this bill, they have my greatest re- . siect). This bill was voted down for the same reascn that the bills were, and will be, voted down in the State Legislature. This too is un derstandable, they are afraid that a present mi nority group will attain the power and position that is in accordance with that group's size. By defeating the a n t i coereion block voting bill the IFC shows that is run ning scared, it acknowl edges that it can lose in a completely free election. The only way the IFC can hold its present position is to continue block voting; to assess members for func tions even if the members do not attend (I am refer ring to the IFC Ball); and to try to dominate sup posedly all-campus activi ties (in this instance I re fer to the presentation of the IFC trophies at the Ivy Day ceremonies). If the last three men tioned practices, and any that I have left out, are eliminated and things that organizations can do that are good are stressed (such as Help Week and other ac tivities that help the Uni versity and the students in general), then the IFC can run confident instead of .scared, and will be able to see fraternity men elected on their individual merits alone. Roger H. Skidmore An Open Letter To PC Volunteers To the Editor, Open Letter to Peace Corps Volunteers: What is pre-eminently at . stake today are human and universal elements. It is man who is denied; it is the affirmation that there is nothing which binds and cements all men into one family; it is the fragmenta tion of humanity .into end less exclusiveisms na tional, cultural, racial, eco nomic that is the great est challenge. Western civil ization is doomed until it rediscovers and reaffirms what is human and univer sal in its own soul. This means not only economic and technical sharing with Africa; Asia and Latin America, but intellectual, moral and spiritual sharing. What is supremely good must be good for all. Those who keep on repeating, as if they have discovered a transcendental wisdom, that their ideas, their way of life, their civilization, is "not for export" but only m kj) Uii' r?m aV ikktX iidse aim their industrial products, do not know that they are thereby digging the grave ' of their civilization and the grave of their way of life. Those who go to A f r i c a, Asia and Latin America and say, "you stay where and what you are and we stay where and what we are; we have nothing to give except our goods and gadgets," lit tle know that the day will come when these lands will turn upon them and spit in their faces. Man can live without goods and gadgets but he cannot live without some thing human and universal that joins him to his fellow men. A civilization in which the human and univeral has atrophied can relate itself to others only through force, and it can always be broken by force. A civili zation is doomed if it is not creatively conscious of something human and uni versal it can and must give. What is genuinely human and universal is never im posed; it is awaited, wel comed and embraced. Not until the businessman from Detroit and the peasant from Rangoon can come to gether on a much deeper basis than the exchange of goods and money can West ern civilization really begin to have a chance in com petition going on at present for the heart and soul of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These lands do not want to deal only with businessmen; they crave for human and spiritual fel lowship, absolute sincerity and absolute brotherhood. There is no . exchange of soul; there is no sharing of life and ideas; there is no community of spirit; there is no fellowship of man with man. This is their deepest challenge; what have you to give me, not of your gad gets, but of your mind, not of the external husks of your life, but of the sub stance and marrow of your heart and soul? That which is really be lieved to be true and hu man and universal is to be shared with others; it can not be kept under a bushel. The question iswhether there is a profound part of one's being that one hon estly feels must be shared with others. The question is whether one honestly feels one is not complete or happy so long as others are miserable or subhuman, a prey to every superstition and every dark fear. Sud denly the world has become physically one; minds and ideas are much more criti cally and instantaneously in teracting with one another. Only he, therefore, who feels with humanity, who is at one with all conditions of men, who is insufficient and incomplete without them, who is not protected and separated from them, can help them and lead them and love them and be loved by them. If there were no human and universal elements in Western civilization all Letterips would be hopeless. BUT, its deposit of humanity and universality is the richest in the world. The civilization at whose heart pulsate Aris totle and Augustine and Aquinas and Dante and Newton and Shakespeare and Kant and Lincoln, the civilization which has been blessed and transformed by Christ, needs only a mighty hand to shake it out of its -slumber. And once shaken, once really awakened to the responsibilities which it and il alone can shoulder, there is nothing it cannot dare do. W.P.H. Council Candidate Clarifies Position To the Editor: I would like to clarify my position concerning Student Council representation sys tems. In Friday's Daily Nebraskan, my stand was paraphrased: "She does not feel that any system would be en tirely effective." Had the word proposed been inserted before sys tem, my point of view would have been made "clearer." I do not feel that the pres ent system is effective be cause it has failed to give a close association between student and representative or student and Student Council. I do not believe any system of representa tion by colleges can pro duce this badly needed The Bite's Worse By Barbara Barker Ah spring! Belabored, per- haps, and belated, but spring at last, the lusty month of May, happy Moth er's Day, and exactly 33 days left until the grandi ose June 10 exodus of the four-year advocates of tenacity and the collegiate dogma. The weekend which has just been caused to pass was indeed unique proba ably one of the most amus ing, excitement - ridden, sometimes completely hys terical week-ends I have en joyed, on the whole, during the past four years. After indulging in a bit of ancient ritual to Luther and his crew (I somehow had the ridiculous idea h i s first name was Martin) to pro mulgate any amount of sun shine on the ensuing Satur ' d a v, whaddayaknow it didn't rain! Looks as though the Spring Day Multilatory Games came off with smashing gladiatorial suc cess, with sawdust-filled lungs, gouged and bleeding eyeballs, and a reconsidera tion of the farm problem by cow-milking coeds. The bloody battle of the little giants in the joust was just a bit primitive, perhaps, and I can imagine no finer feeling than being pinned to a barn wall by a gigantic pushball. Suds-filled basins around campus are taking out the deeply-rooted dirt on many a soaking sweatshirt and people are still query ing "who heaved the first miscalculated egg?" Spring Night, with a mag nificent turnout of probably Si or 49 people, touched off the day's festivities ia a most fitting manner. Weren't we j s t ducky lucky to get ahold of Cathy Carr for one of her inimita ble performances. Go o d grief. Isn't it exciting to think that pony-tailed, worldly, somewhat chunky Miss Carr gave a fleeting consideration of "enlisting" here at U? Think of the outstanding contributions she could make to a univer sity campus (providing she could pass the entrance ex ams). The Fonr Aces did add a desperately-needed drop of entertainment to the evening (not outdoing, of course, the aforementioned starlet), and their rendition of "Sine Along With Mitch" helped end the evening on a note of cheery gusto. Congratulations are, of course, in order for the newly - tapped Mortar Boards and Innocents for the ubiquitous (I love that word) honor just attached; for the May Queen and her bluely bedecked (and pain fully sunburned) court; for the Cnally-bonored George Round; for the singers and the Sigma Nus, and for L'gar Ferguson on bis direc tion of the Men's Glee Club. (Or were they directing you?) Most deserving felicita tions of all to go to one Richiid Van Westover, w hose blue sport coat and personal, personable run ning commentary gave Ivy Day a not-soon-to-be-forgotten superiority. People personal contact. However, I ce:' ' 'v TO BELIEVE that en elective system IS within i'; ra-ill pf our campus. V.'s z:c in telligent enough t: iz-:s a practical, workabb, FAIR, system of represent-iioit. By remolding the plans precinct and living district proposed as alternatives to the present College Rep resentation System, fiaws inherent in their original castings can be eliminated without scrapping either mold, and our campus can make its choice between TWO feasible plans rather than have ONE handed to it without being asked. At the present time, neither the living district plan nor the precinct pro posal allow campus activi ties to be represented on the Student Council. It is a mistake not to have activity organizations represented on the Council. Although Student Council members representing ac tivities SHOULD NOT BE VOTING MEMBERS, the voice of these representa tives should be heard in the council room. Activities are a definite aspect of campus life. One of the purposes of the Student Council as the governing body of our cam pus, is to co-ordinate a 1 1 aspects of student life. This can not be done successfully or efficiently if voices from activity organizations are not within immediate ac cess of the Council. Paula Warner (especially housemarms) are still tittering about the housemother's choral group and the justly-glorified in troductions of the day's prominent personnel. One could have mistaken a freshman page for the Shah of Iran owing to the vigor ous intros exuded from the speaker's stand. The Master of Ceremonies truly outdid himself and any of his pred ecessors, to the amusement and admiration of his en raptured audience. Saturday night's varied activities were well-attended, wherever they may (Continued nnEi! 700 GRADUATE IE U0OLD IS YOODS Provided you have two training to qualify yourself for a position in Americas ever-expanding foreign trade THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN TRADE Phoenk, Amoaa i Can provide you this traintng Sign wp for n wterview A representative will vis the Ewsiness Placement Of fice, Friday, May 12, stort ing of 9 .m. on Page 4.) fx -hi.. V