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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
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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
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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
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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
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