The Nebraskan
Tuesday, May 16, 1961
Page 2
Castro Actions Spark j
Anti-Red Challenge
By Eric Sevareid
Sao Paulo, Brazil The
young Cuban Democrats
who fell on the beaches of
the Bty of Pigs did not die
in vain, nor has United
States leadership of the
Latin American bloc of na
tions been wrecked by the
double image of aggression
and incompetence that we
projected in the tragic in
vasion affair. The more one
travels, reads and con
verses, the more the evi
dence demonstrates that the
mad defiant gesture of
those youthful Cubans won
the hearts of millions
among the essentially hu
manistic peoples of Latin
America.
Great numbers, especially
among the young, have
turned furiously and defi
nitely anti-,
Castro. The
former pic
ture of the
verbearing
Yankee co
lossus bully
ing a weak
nation is f ad
ing, and
now the
dominati n g
mental im
age is of a
Sevareid
brutish, bully-
ing Castro slavering over
the anguish of his victims.
By long conditioning most
Latin Americans resent the
top dog no matter his name
or nationality, and Castro
not Kennedy now suddenly
appears top dog here in
modernized, industrialized
South Brazil.
I have observed the same
back-lash against the Com
munists I saw in feudalists
northeast Brazil. For the
first time in years, the local
Reds are openly, even phys
ically, challenged. For the
first time, anti-Communist
students and intellectuals
are organizing. After the
expected Communist march
on the American consulate
here, students broke up a
Red rally. Eighteen-hundred
of them signed an anti
Castro statement Leaders
of a hundred labor organi
zations signed another. High
school boys marched into
the USIS offices demanding
pro-American films to be
shown in their schools. A
band of law students began
shaping plans to organize
other students in every La
tin American country for a
continental anti-Communist
congress, and from the fire
in the eyes of those I met I
believe they will do it.
Castro blundered in mak
a Roman circus of his cap
' tives. He has made a more
far-reaching blunder in
formally proclaiming Cuba
a member of the Communist
bloc and refusing elections.
By this move, as the ""Jor
nal Do Brasil" has put it,
'Castro burned bis ships."
Four leading papers in
Sao Paulo immediately en
dorsed the Kennedy proposal
for joint Latin American
sanctions against Cuba, and
great numbers of individual
liberals, land reformers and
generic anti-Yanquis are
getting off the burning ships
as fast as they can. Like
the C. Wright Millses and
Kenneth Tynans and other
"Let's be fair to Cuba" first
guessers in New York and
London, they cannot defend
the regime in Cuba now, un-
Pennsylvania University I
Checking Hazing Charges
(UPS) The University would not be permitted to 1
f Pennsylvania announced enter the fraternity house
this week the opening of an unless they submitted to 1
investigation into charges branding with a hot iron.
that twenty-three students One pledge reported that I
had been branded during a "the blister resulting from I
fraternity hazing. this wound took about
The DaOy Pennsylvaniaa, ( a week to heal and left a
student newspaper, said the permanent scar, accord- I
branding had been done ing to the article. I
with a blunt instrument George Peters, dean of i
held over a pot of flaming men, said "these alleged 1
denatured alcohol. It practices are very definite-1
charged that the hazings ly against university regu-1
had included "agonizingly lations and the regulations I
pain fnl" paddlings and of all national fraternities."
forced performances of de- "If the charges can be s
grading acts. substantiated," he added, I
According to an eyewit- "appropriate disciplinary
ness quoxea in me article, action will oe taken against rj
pledges were told they any fraternity involved." Vt ",'
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less they are equally ready
to defend the regime in lTo the editor,
Hungary or Czechoslovakia. 1 Let me join you in ex
T h e same phenomenon I pressing concern over the
apparently is occurring in lack of support f or R a d i o
every major South Ameri- Station KFMQ in our corn
eas city. As of right now, 1 munity. Although I am not
Castro is not splitting the in a position to enjoy this
Latin bloc he is pulling station's program in t h e
large parts of it together. morning I know that many
Himself he mill pull down housewives and mothers,
sooner or later. He is bound 1 wives of students and f acul
to by the uncontrollable i ty m e m b e r s, find their
drives of his own psyche, I household duties more bear
even if outside pressures do aWe when they can listen
not touch him, for his is un-1 to the intelligent, stimulat
mistakably the psyche that I Z and enjoyable offerings
can exist and feel alive only I cf has
in crisis and drama, that I an important cultural ims
cannot plan or build or tol-1 I0B m X&ir
erate peace and normalcy, I Albert Schrekinger
m? SS IS P0re Cmment
with that forces such a per- On FM Situation
sonality to pull down the d
temple upon himself. He '
has the emotional structure Someone toM me about
of the late Joseph McCar-1 vei7 pertinent cditonal
thy-brilliant, fearless, bull-1 JZSrSti
dozing, heedless, utterly f ffJlSSr
rwklesn and without man 110118 on y 0 n r stand for
IS i ilJTteflL ftS g more intelligent and plea
and impervious to the feel- w
ings of others. I ,
The other night I sat in Jim Um
a Brazilian patio with a Cu- i
ban lawyer who had gone to To the editor,
school with Castro. He told i 0 not merely want to
me the story which I can- f approve, I want to applaud
not relate in its full mani-1 your support of Radio Sta
acal flavor of 16 - year - old tion KFMQ. It is both a
Fidel and the mountain: source of deep musical de-
""So the Professor said to
me, you go and talk Fidel I
out of this crazy notion to
climb the mountain. So I f
went to Fidel and in 30 min-
utes he had talked me into
joining his expedition. So I Our kindly chief rabble
two of us rode the train with rouser (Soulful Cal) has re
Fidel three, four hours. We quested that as I am pot
got off at a village. 'Where s ting tonight on the old type
is the mountain, Fidel?' we I writer I put in a plug for
asked him. "This way," he this here luncheon we troops
said. Just follow me.' So I in the dungeon are having
we walk, we walk all night on Friday May 26 in the
In the morning there is no Student Union for to honor
mountain. Just follow me, the Outstanding Nebraskans
Fidel said. I and outstanding Nebraskan
"We walk all day. At night staff,
there is still no mountain I Price for this fun time of
and we have te sleep. "How munching and awarding
do we sleep here in the jun-1 (everyone who attends is
gle?' we ask Fidel. 'We guaranteed a hero medal to
have these tents said Fi-1 be given out by glorious
del. We struggle with the Overset Leader leader of
tents and say, TideL how those overset) is $1.50 the
do we make the tents price is, that is),
work?' And he shrugs his Ks the editorial voice of
shoulders and says, 'How do . . . , . ...
I know about tents?' So we I the desk' 1 mould Me
lie on the ground with the here mention that we are
canvas over us like Tplan- fine forgotten, unthanked,
kets. In the morning we f unsung, trite backbones of
have no more food and FI-1 thig nere establishment. If
del says, 'We find food some , ... . .
way, I guess So we eat I J0" doubt " doWB
some fruit on the way, but 1 one afternoon and listen to
we are very hungry. We f us sing unsung,
walk all day again and Dear Innocent brothers:
sleep the same way, hungry you iost your head, didnt
all bitten by mosquitoes, you?
filthy, but we find the moun- i understand the M.Bs
tain." I are shaving it and will re-
"Did you climb it?" I turn it for a goodly reward,
asked. This reminds me of a song
"Of course we climb it. 1 1 beard recently s ong by
You cannot stop Fidel, you Bugs Bunny: 1 dream of
cannot argue with Fidel. We Jeanne, she's a light brown
climb it, and the Fidel Cas- f hare. Oh.
tro expedition gets in the There just trundled
papers and everything, but through the office a mem
the thing was, when we get E ber of the higher echelon of
down, we find there is a the illustrious and wasn't
smooth road right from the it illustrious this year
railroad to the foot of the Cornhusker. It seems as
mountain and we could have though the price of next
found the mountain in three, year's book may go up (for
four hours of walking. What
a leader! This Fidel he gets
where he is going, but I tell f
you, he never know how, he
don't care how, to make
plans is a bore to Fidel. He
just goes, goes and you got 1
to go with Mm, or too bad."
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Daily Nebraskan
light in the best of classical
music and a leading cultur
al force in Lincoln. The uni
versity city of this state
should be able to support a
classical music station, or
it state is indeed culturally
barren.
When I moved to Lincoln
two years ago the first
thing I purchased was an
FM radio so that I conld
immediately enjoy the long
hours of pure, high quality
music which was available
from KFMQ.
It has been my greatest
source of pleasure, means
of relaxation, and actually
. a form of mental therapy
for the stresses and strains
in my life as a writer and
a student at the University
of Nebraska.
It Is rime those who love
good and great music be
come vocal enough to drown
out the shouters for 'Rock
and Roll, and the 'Grand
Old Opry.' Silence is aot
golden in the minds of com
mercial advertisers.
Thank you for taking up
the gauntlet for defense of
my favorite radio station
my source of long hours of
deep joy in classical music)
incomparable KFMQ.
Bess Eileen Day
To the editor,
As a newcomer to the city
of Lincoln last year, I was
pleasantly surprised to find
By Gretchen Shellberg
the first time in years). If
they print the present qual
ity book on $5.50, my heav
ens, what may be to come
with increased funds??????
This is actually a back
handed way to compliment
this year's staff on the ex
cellent job their 4once-a
year day" was a sell out.
And it would certainly seem
the yearbook is worthy of a
few additional pennies since
our tuition next year will be
worthy of a few additional
dollars. Perhaps our educa
tion will also become more
colorful and Improved?
As this year draws to its
""30, I find great consola
tion in the fact that every
one is generally "too pooped,
to pot." It's about the fact
that minor depresses are
becoming major depresses
and are much more fre
quent these days like
about every 37 minutes.
One suggestion I find
quite helpful: dont hay
black covers for your term
papers. Get red folders to
match the color of your
eyes when you get done. It's
more personal that way.
And when it's all done
through, and you've written
those term papers and
made up the missed quizes
and hit the mu mu blast
and taken your finals and
filed for your summer un
employment compensation
and bid ta ta to your house
mother for three months,
remember kiddies, COL
LEGE IS THE BEST
YEARS OF OUR LIVES.
Amen, and to seed.
operating in our midst a
radio station, KFMQ, which
compared favorably with
those on the east coast
In the months since last
September, KFMQ has be
come a close friend.
Now I find that this sta
tion will have to reduce its
broadcasting hours. It is
possible that the local bus
inessmen and general pub
lic are so unaware of the
importance of this station to
the city's cultural growth?
H. S. Valk
Assistant Professor
of Physics.
To the editor,
I know that I speak for
many friends when I ex
press gratitude to you and
your colleagues for your ef
forts to muster support in
behalf of KFMQ-FM. We
have in this radio station a
unique organization, devot
ed solely to the serious pub
lic interest whose work has
dramatically raised the
standard of public service
and cultural values of the
community.
It seems that there are
many corporations (public
and private) which spend
many advertising dollars for
institutional and service pub
licity, yet the names of pub
lic and private utility com
panies, for example, are
conspicuously absent from
the list of sponsors of
KFMQ programs. As a cap
tive consumer, with no al
tenative choice of supplier
in these Instances, I feel
rather dismayed that my f a
vorate station is not being
supported by any of the ad
vertising cut from my gas,
electric, and telphone pay
ments. KFMQ has become a fa
mous example of a respon
sible community servant,
purveying its commercial
wares witn aignrty anu
showing the listening public
that it still has some choice
in thit world even if it is
only on a highly-localized
scale. Lincoln simply must
not fail on this score, and
I hope that we can help a
bit to insure that it win not
Robert L. Chasson
Professor of Physics
To the editor.
Your recent editorial
stand on the merits of ra
dio station KFMQ receives
the most hardy endorsement
of myself and of my wife.
George A. Sullivan,
Graduate teaching assistant
To the editor,
Just a brief word of
praise for your effective
espousal of KFMQ's con
tribution to the cultural life
of Lincoln. A large propor
tion of my friends and ac
quaintances share my en
thusiasm for the high qual
ity radio programming that
Herb Burton has brought to
this community.
The trouble is that most
of us are too passive in our
acceptance of KFMQ, and
in our support of the firms
that buy the station's ad
Mv6imk
l4a rVl.p.!Ht..
Letterips
vertising time. If we ever
lose KFMQ for want of rig-
orous support from the sta-
tion's listeners, then it will
be hard indeed to lend a
sympathetic ear to glib
complaints about the steril
ity of local radio program
ming. Incidentally, this same
passivity or indifference),
often coupled with facile in
dictments of local cultural
resources, also applies to
the support of other high
quality cultural programs
such as the periodic con
certs of the music faculty,
and the Art Department
shows.
Alan P. Bates
Chairman, Department
of Sociology
To the editor.
Thank you for your edi
torial on KFMQ. Under the
present standards of enter
tainment, our children are
certainly not getting a bal
anced diet for balanced
minds. Our political candi
dates are elected on the
basis of jungles and slo
gans. Our music consists of
immature sentiments pre
sented by immature sing
ers. Our children need no
imagination. Every emotion
and adventure is thrown at
them from the TV screens,
and in the form of unpleas
ant advertising.
A sense of humor cannot
be developed through
watching obnoxious c h a r
acters on a child's program
jabbing fingers into each
others' eyes while emitting
weird sounds, and other
wise committing laughable
little acts of marder or
mayhem.
We all need a little pri
vacy of mind. Good music
is a private and personal
(Autlior of "1 Wet
hum
TILL WE MEET AGAIN
Seven yean sow I have been writing this column lor the
makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, and each year when I oome to
the last column f the year, my heart is gripped by the soma
bittersweet feeling. I shall mm you sorely, dear readers, In the
long -summer days ahead. I shall miss all you freckle-faeed
boys with 'frogs in your pockets. I shall miss all you pig-tailed
fcirte with your gap-toothed giggles. I shall miss you one and
all your shining morning faces, your apples, your marbles,
your jacks, your little oilcloth satchels.
But I shall not be entirely sad, for j'ou have given me many
a happy memory to sustain me. It has been a rare pleasure
writing thin column far you all year, and I would ask every
one of you to oome visit me during the summer except there ia
no access to my room. The makers of Marlboro Cigarettes,
after I miwvid several deadlines, walled me in. AH I have m
a mail slot into which I drop toy columns and through which
they supply me with Marlboro Cigarettes and such food aa
will slip through a mail slot. (Far six months now I have been
living on after-dinner mints.)
1 : ,T,ir-.,'iSErjJ LulSS.
iH in iiini rwqmmm
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Marlboros
liave not wallnd me in. Tliey could never do such a cruel thing.
Manly and muKcular they may be, and gruff and curt and direct,
but underneath they are men of great heart and eweet, com
panionate disposition, and I wish to take thin opportunity to
itate publicly tliat I will always have the highest regard for
the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, no matter how my lawsuit
for back wage comes out.
I am only having my little joke. 1 am not suing the makers
of Marlboro for back wages. Tliene honorable gentlemen have
always paid me promptly and in full. To be sure, they have not
paid me in task, but tliey have given me something far mora
precious. You would go far to find one so covered with tattoo as I.
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Marlboraa
have not covered me with tattoos. In fact, they have engraved
no commercial advertising whatsoever on my person. My suit,
of course, is another matter, but even here they have exercised
taste and restraint On the back -of my suit, in unobtxuaiva
neon, they have put this fetching little jingle:
A rc your tute bud out of killert
Art you bond witii mutkmg, neiylibor?
Then try tiiat splendid Marlboro filter-,
Try Qui eswUent Marlboro fleigltbor!
On the front of my suit, in muted phosphorus, are pictures of
the members of the Marlboro board and their families. On my
hat is a small cigarette girl crying, "Who'll buy my MarlWos?
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Marlboro,
have been perfect dolls to work for, and so, dear readers, hava
you. Your kind response to my nonsense has warmed this old
thorax, and I trust you will not find me soggy if b this final
column of the year, I express my sincere gratitude.
Have a good summer.vBtay healthy. Stay happy. Stay
TUt maker, of Marlboro, and tiie new unaltered kint.iz
Philip Morri, Commander have been happy to bring you
thi, unvenred, free-wheeling column all year long. Aow if
we may echo old Max: Slay healthy. Stay Itappy. Stay loot.
' thing. It expands the mind,
the imagination and allows
room ana urne ror inoagm.
Music can be a background
for good reading, if one
has not forgotten how to
read.
Why is a relaxed mind
not more receptive thai
one .keyed to the breaking
point by "Association by Ir
ritation" Advertising?
I have been calling people
and asking them to sponsor
KFMQ. I consider this a
civic duty as well as a good
advertising venture. Many
larger cities cannot boast of
supporting such a station.
I think it is a splendid rec
ommendation for Lincoln
that it has and wflll
Mrs. W. P. Vandergriff, Jr.
Graduate Students
Continue Rivalry
To the editor.
How can this Rassputin,
Rassmokky or Rasmus sea
or whatever his name is)
be ignorant of this Univer
sity's most celebrated per
ennial graduate student?
Rassmokky is obviously a
freshman who, if he takes
any chemistry courses, will
get to know Prekop.
Prokop should have con
siderable knowledge on the
history and activities of the
Innocents Society since he
has been around here long
enough to become the first
graduate student to retire
emeritus.
Prokop complains about
the "soil scholars," but who
has more spare time than
"run-of-the-mill graduate
students" who compete in
all intramural activities
from marbles to basketball
and who write letters to the
Rag with regularity.
Alan Stockland
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Tmt-am Dwarf "Tht If any
t Dotne Lnllu , etc.
PAM1.C BUTTON
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