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The Nebraskan
Monday, May 22, 1961
Calhoun
Just A Thought
By Dave Calhoun
Back in the dark ages, just after women got the right
to vote, somebody got a bright idea to help the coeds on
this campus. They started an association called AWS. The
first thing they did was to devise a point system, estab
lished "to aid girls by guiding their choice of extra-curricular
activities."
Before going any farther, let me say
that there are many good points about
the Nebraska Associated Women Stu
dents. This doesn't mean the AWS Is per
fectdon't think It Is, because it isn't.
Back to the subject for today. The AWS
point system.
According to the AWS handbook, there
are three functions of the point system.
The first is to increase the efficiency of
campus organizations by providing them
with officers who have sufficient time to
devote to the proper execution of their duties.
The second is to benefit the individual student, pro
tecting her health and assuring her time to fulfill satis
factorily her scholastic requirements by guiding her
(selection of the number of extra-curricular activities
In which she can participate.
Finally the handbook says the point system functions .
by benefiting the campus as a whole by distributing
activity offices among the many students capable of
assuming responsibility.
In the back of the same handbook is a list of the
points allotted for the various activities. The current
maximum is seven points. This may seem a large
number, but when you realize that a high position in
two organizations can account for the maximum, it
doesn't seem like much.
I agree with the theory behind the first point In the
AWS handbook. The point system would theoretically
Increase the efficiency of campus organizations by dis
tributing the responsibilities. However, who is in the
best position to judge an individual's capabilities the
AWS board or the individual? If a woman who is nine
teen years or older can't judge her capabilities by now,
no AWS board, point system or anything else will ever
be able to do it.
The students attend this University to gain not just
on education. One of the biggest by-products of this
University is the lessons in living which we learn con
tinually. Beside taking 11 o'clocks on Monday, Wednes
day and Fridays, we learn how to live with others and
how to take responsibilities.
One other argument with point one .... if this
point system is going to increase the efficiency of cam
pus organizations, why hasn't the efficiency increased?
The second function is equally fallacious. By using
the emotional angle "protecting her health" the au
thors of the handbook have again missed the point
completely. Sure, girls aren't as rugged as their count
erparts, but how rugged and physically fit do you have
to be to be president of a sorority?
No one will ever deny that our first responsibility is
to the University and that one of the best ways to ful
fill this responsibility is by receiving top grades. But,
once again, this is a personal matter. If the student,
himself, doesn't want to earn good grades and or does
not want to put in that little bit of extra effort, nobody,
but nobody will ever change his mind.
The final function smells of politics. And to think
that AWS will ever be able to equally "distribute
activity offices among the many students" on this
campus is about as remote as the Liberals running the
state of Nebraska.
In plain English, AWS should stop trying to be a wet
nurse to the females on this campus. Most of the coeds
on this campus are capable of judging their capacities
for themselves why not give them the chance?
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Pros and Cons Given by Students
For Senator's Cold War GI Bill
The Bite's Worse
More Views Given
On FM Radio Issue
To the editor,
It hit me like a thunder
bolt when I absent minded
ly turned on the FM radio
this morning and found
there was nothing on the
air. I had heard the an
nouncements all week long
about how they were .going
to have to curtail their
broadcasting time, but it
just didn't shock me until
this morning. I understand
you had an editorial in your
paper last week in support
of KFMQ and I thought you
might like to know how a
housewife feels about this
station.
First of all I'm sure I
speak for a lot of us house
wives who enjoy something
more satisfying than popula
music while we do many of
the humdrum tasks around
the house. Washing dishes,
making beds, ironing clothes
all seem to go so much
faster and easier with the
music KFMQ provides. '
Second is the value it
brings to our children
to hear a Beethoven sym
phony or some folk songs
instead of the never ceasing
rock and roll or sentimental
ditties heard on almost all
the AM stations. These
children are the future lead
ers of A m e r i c a, and how
can they learn to appreciate
the best in life if they are
not given an opportunity to
hear it when they are young.
We came here from a
metropolis on the east coast
where we had purchased an
FM radio. One of the
things we hoped for in our
new home in Lincoln was an
FM station. We were really
surprised to find not one in
this college town. When Her
bert Burton started the sta
tion, we were thrilled at the
prospects of being able to
hear some truly good mu
sic on our radio again. It
seems' incredible that he
cannot get the financial
support to operate the only
FM station in this area,
surely business men realize
there are many of us who
refuse to listen to the radio
at all unless it provides
something more valuable
than popular music.
I sincerely hope your cru
sade will result in KFMQ's
returning to a full broadcast
day and never again having
to be curtailed.
Mrs. Sydney Allen
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Mint News Editor pt Deaa
The Daily Nebraskan believes this ques
tion deserves the thought of every student
and faculty member at the University. It
is therefore presenting an article with the
combined arguments of the pro and con.
The Veterans' Readjustment Assistance
Act of 1961 was introduced into the United
States Senate on January 11, 1961. Hear
ings were held during January. The final
hearings are scheduled to be held during
the next week or two in the Subcommittee
on Veterans Affairs of the Senate Commit
tee on Labor and Public Welfare.
This bill, (S. 349) was introduced by Sen
ator Ralph Yarborough, (D. Tex.) and
was co-sponsored by 30 senators. If made
law, this bill would provide readjustment
assistance for veterans who served in the
Armed Forces from January 31, 1955, to
July 1, 1963, the termination date of the
compulsory draft law.
Educational and vocational training as
sistance would be offered to veterans who
served more than 180 days at a rate of
Vi days education and training for every
day served. A minimum of 36 months
benefits are allowed under the provisions
of this blU.
The monthly allowance for full-time col
lege training is $110 per month for the vet
eran without dependents, $135 per month
for one dependent, and $165 per month for
more than one dependent. No allowances
are paid for any period of education prior
to September 31, 1961.
Vocational rehabilitation training for dis
abled veterans and loan assistant is also
provided for in this bill.
Against the Bill For the
(Richard Basoco, graduate of the Uni
versity in 1960, is currently a member of
of the United States Navy and is stationed
' at Washington, D. C. Basoco plans to con
tinue his education, following his tour of
duty. Editor)
By Dick Basoco
Whatever peacock plummage is spread
to camouflage and justify the Veterans'
Readjustment Act, let us recognize the
fact that Senator Yarborough's S.349 is
merely designed to serve a group of "vest
ed interests": namely, those individuals
who have served more than six months
(honorably, of course) in the armed serv
ices. Some time ago the Wall Street Journal
editorialized against the bill saying that
we should not, in effect, have to bribe our
young men in order to get them to be will
ing to defend the country. While this may
be true, ideally, I do not feel that one need
resort to such "flag-waving" to determine
that the basic reasoning behind the meas
ure is not applicable to the existing situa
tion. I must say that it is high time some
of us tried to see a little beyond and act
a bit above vested interests, but perhaps
I would not object to the bill so much were
it not for the fact that almost all of the
arguments supporting S.349 are based on a
false premise.
According to both Senator Yarborough's
office and the Assistant Secretary on the
sub-committee studying S.349 at present,
the bill is "almost exactly" the same as
S.1138, which passed the Senate but died
in committee in the House during the last
session of Congress. The fundamental rea
son given for the need for a Post-Korean
War GI Bill now, as then, is that, just as in
the Korean War and World War II, young
men are having to interrupt their school
ing to take up arms, despite the fact that
we are not "at war."
Although I happen to believe that we
are, in fact, engaged in a war at present,
that may well be beside the point. The
point is that, by fallacious reasoning, S.349
would attempt to enable "bona fide" stu
dents to continue their interrupted educa
tions. This, of course, is a fine idea and
one which served a useful purpose after
WW II and Korea,, but the difference is
that at that time educations were indeed
being interrupted. In large measure, this
is not the case today. Men are not being
' drafted at present until between the ages
of 23 and 26, by which time certainly
most serious, "bona fide" students have
at least received their baccalaureate de
gree. In addition, only 1,500 men across
the entire nation were drafted in April,
and, according to the offices of the Selec
tive Service, about the same number were
scheduled to be called this month. When
only 30 men per state, on the average, are
being drafted, I find it a bit difficult to be
lieve that many higher educations are be
ing "interrupted" to any degree certain
ly not enough to warrant the $15 billion
expenditure expected to be necessary to
set up the program.
It must be said that there are those who,
like myself, have in a sense had their edu- a
cation "interrupted" by serving longer "
than six months before going on to gradu
ate school. However, we or, at least, I
made a judgment in college to avail our
selves of the benefits (as well as the po
tential hazards) accruing to an officer in
the armed services. If we had not wished
to do so, we could have ignored the ad
vanced ROTC programs and gone directly
to graduate school. S.349 would suggest
that we should not only have our cake but
eat it too. Clearly, the government should
not feel compelled to subsidize the educa
tions of either those who were not inter
ested in continuing their educations be
fore they joined the service (as is true
with most of those enlisting directly out of
high school, having "nothing else to do") .
or those who intend to do so (continue
their education) anyway upon release
from military life.
Even those who, for various reasons, fall
into the catory of "they would if they
could but they can't" go on to school after
their tour of duty do not really require a
measure such as S.349. Testimony given
during the hearings on S.1138 indicates
that veterans are generally better stu
dents than non-veterans; this being the
case, surely many will be able to obtain
scholarships to ease possible financial
burdens. In any case, a "loan guarantee
program open to all students," favored by
the then Senator John Kennedy, would be
a better, more realistic approach to the
question than- S.349.
Those who say that S.349 will "pay for
itself" in the long run cite the veterans
who availed themselves of the WW II GI
Bill: "they have raised their income level
to the point where they are now paying an
extra billion dollars a year in income
taxes to Uncle Sam." This, presumably,
is because, having finished their school
ing under that Bill, their earning power
was considerably greater than when they
were called into the service. Again, the
fact remains that educations interrupted
then are not being interrupted now; there
ics no reason to suppose that income to
the government in increased taxable rev
enues will be much different than it would
be without S.349.
Proponents of S.349 also plead that those
who serve for longer than six months un
dergo an unusual hardship because "only
a minority of the draft age group actu-
(Don Benett is a sophomore in the col
lege of Arts and Sciences. Before entering
the University, Don served a tour with the
Navy. Bennett is currently news director
for University radio station KNUS.
Editor)
By Don Bennett
An educated nation is a strong nation!
Senator Yarborough, when introducing
his Cold War GI Bill to the Senate, main
tained that the United States must make
its educational system and the products
of that system preeminent in the world,
and emphasized the value of established
programs, specifically the previous G.I.
Bills.
The Korean War and World War II G.I.
Bills have gave the nation 450,000 engi
neers, 180,000 doctors, 150,000 chemists,
physicists and other scientists and about
230,000 teachers. The Soviet Union is now
educating more than twice as many engi
neers, scientists, and doctors as the Unit
ed States.
Eductaion is one of the major keys to
a successful future for this nation, one of
the main methods of maintaining a strong,
unified notion. This bill is a small part of
an overall program to place education in
the hands of those who might eventually
benefit the nation.
Why The GI Bill?
Because this bill will aid those persons
who have, as a group, one of the most
severe financial difficulties in obtaining a
college education. The foremost opponent
of previous attempts to make similar bills
law has been the military, which main
tains that present military conditions do
hot justify such a bill.
The military has emphasized that condi
tions are not the same as during the
Korean War. True, insofar as war is con
cerned, but the purpose of this bill is to
provide an economic transition for the
veteran who desires an education. The
economic problems of the Korean veterans
were no more serious than those of the
present day veteran.
The purpose of this bill is not to give a
cash reward to the ex-serviceman. It
would give him education. The Korean
bill did not provide a psychological re
adjustment for the Korean veteran, it pro
vided him with an education which it was
felt that this man was worthy of. The
economic conditions have changed little
since the Korean War.
The military has stated that this bill
would seriously affect reenlistments. The
Cordiner Pay Raise, passed in 1958 for
service personnel, was enacetd at an an
nual cost of $500 million dollars to induce
personnel not to return to civilian life.
This bill, if enacted, would provide about
$300 million yearly to educate those per
sonnel who do return. It has been shown
that the reenlistment rate rose steadily
during the period the Korean bill was in
effect. Altogether, the United States is
now spending about $48 billion a year on
the cold war, and the amount spent on a
proven sound investment toward educa
tion is relatively small.
Why the G.I. Bill?
Because the bill is a sound investment.
Basically, it is a self-liquidating invest
ment. The Bureau of the Census reports
show that veterans who received benefits
from previous G.I. bills are paying the
government a billion dollars a year in
taxes more than if they had not received
this training. These bills will have entirely
paid for themselves by 1969.
Unemployment is becoming a critical
problem in many areas of the United
States. The numbers of servicemen pour
ing into civilian life create keener com
petition in an already critical area. Those
jobs which are available require education
and training and the veteran generally
does not have this training or this educa
tion. Nebraska is one of the most inexpensive
areas in the nation where a college educa
tion may be obtained. In the East, the cost
of an education almost prohibits the vet
eran from receiving educational bene
fits unless he has other financial sources.
ally serves an extended tour of duty."
To me, this is even more reason why we
should not cater to this group. It is the
few, not the many, who would be affected
by S.349; and it would be the even fewer
who would merit its provisions. If these
individuals are, indeed, serious students
merely wishing to . continue their school
ing, all that need be done is enable them
to do so by scholarship (some of which
go unclaimed every year at Nebraska)
or by loan; ''paying" for that education
should be neither expected nor required
of the government.
If I disagree with many other state
ments, I subscribe fully to the view that:
"Without these services from the best of
our young men, those who are strong in
body, alert in. mind, and guided by inner
moral courage and a belief in democratic
principles" our nation 'could not survive.
But it seems to me that the "best of our
young men," "guided by inner moral
courage and a belief in democratic prin
ciples," will not feel unrewarded for serv
ing their country if S.349 is defeated. It
has been all too evident in the past that
we have taken a "what's in it for me?"
attitude in local, domestic, and interna
tional affairs, and I firmly believe the
time is long since overdue for a change in
that policy.
It was with a near pang
of nostalgia (just a n e a r
pang, however) that I
tripped ever-so-lightly to my
local campus bookstore this
past weekend and picked up
my graduation announce
ments. It gave me a really
exciting feeling to see that
everything w a s in order,
that at least someone felt
confidently that I was going
to graduate (with my name
and college spelled cor
rectly yet), and that, best
of all, the faculty was an
nouncing my graduation. I
guess if the announcement
comes from this close to the
top there's no point in giv
ing way to any qualms
about the coming com
, mencement.
For those of my dear, de
voted readers who have so
faithfully followed my col
umn during the past semes
ter and have hung relent
lessly upon every dripping
word, I thank you. For those
of you who have never
read a word I have written,
may I say that you are
probably among the smarter
of the group congregated in
this soon-to-become-only-a-misty-memory
cluster of
ivy-covered halloweds.
And so, another semester
of blood, sweat, and tears
is about to end. This will
be my last effort for the
dear old Nebraska Rag; my
thanks go to his editorship
for putting up with this bit
ot mockery and mishmosh
every week. And now a few
destined goodbyes before I
depart:
Goodbye to campus
queens beauty queens,
engineering queens, dairy
queens, rodeo queens, fra
ternity queens, Greek Week
queens, May queens, 16th
Street queens, Sadie II a w
kins queens, Pi Xi and Phi
Beta Kappa queens, Phal-
By Barbara Barker
' anx queens, Homecoming
queens, Palladian Literary
Society queens, and any
others who might notably
bear such ethereal titles.
Goodbye to Mortar Board,
may your tribe increase.
Goodbye to the red-hoodies,
may your T's decrease.
Goodbye to the School of
Journalism, which has never
ceased making college a
continuous four-year c h a 1
lenge (or should I say
threat?).
Goodbye to professors like
the insane Dr. Elliott, who
are able to combine factual
instruction and intriguing
facts-of-life data into one in
conceivably educa
tional course.
Goodbye to late-evening-early-morning
intellectual
meetings-of-the-minds, In
which all world problems
are solved ingeniously
through the joint efforts of
collegiate masterminds.
Goodbye to the fun-while-it-lasted
party at the infa
mous, recently-razed Park-O-Tel.
Goodbye to tricycle
races, chariot races, egg
rolls, Student Council elec
tions, punched-full-o-holes
e.d.'s, rabbit races, Miss
University contests, Olym
pian frisbee matches on S
Street, spirit trophy races,
cow-milking races, and good
grief what will be next?
Goodbye to the Crib, all
of its constantly-mirthful
employees and its thick-as-mid,
black-as-night second
cups. Goodbye to . . . well,
goodbye at last to all the
other provocative factors
entering into the w e 1 1
rounded but sharp-edged life
of the ever-mindful college
intellect, and goodbye, last
of all but certainly not
least, to dear old Nebraska
U. Someone once said
there's no place like it.
Barnstorming
his
his
the
With only four more days
of class left to the semester
and the 1960-61 school year
and only one more news edi
tion of the Nebraskan left,
it becomes time for the
Barnstormer to cover
typewriter, clean out
desk and exodus from
Ag campus beat.
Before leaving for the last
time, barring any unfore
seen decision on the part of
tne subcom
mittee o n
Student Pub
Iica 1 1 o n s
next week
e n d as to
who is going
to be where
on the 1961
fall semester
Rag staff,
B arnstorm
ing wants to
make an announcement
Believe it or not something
is going to be done about
the Ag Student Union.
Coming as a climax
several months, even vears
of often desperate cam
paigning for improvements
in Ag Union facilities by
Forrest
to
By Jim Forrest
nearly everyone on Ag cam
pus, the Union Board of
Managers met last week
and decided to renovate the
Del, which is Ag Union'i
counterpart to tha city'i
Crib ... in a general sen&y
Although the exact amoe
of money to be invested in
the renovation and the e$
tent has not been complete
ly decided upon, reports art
that the Board's exeoutrv
council has been authorized
to pass a proposed plan for
renovation on the basis of
recommendations from the
Ag Union staff. More infor
mation is expected to be re
leased later on this week.
The changes in the Del's
crumbling facilities are ex
pected to begin in June and
be completed before the be
ginning of the 1961-62 fall
semester. The only sour
note to this announcement
is the apparent postpone
ment of any plans to build
a new Ag Union until a fu
ture time when finances are
more . adequate. However,
Barnstorming does want to
congratulate the Board for
its long needed action.
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U.S. foreign trade is boom
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college graduates trained in
that field, according to inter
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The American Institute for
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post-gradimte school in Phoe
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of young college graduates
genuinely Interested in a ca
reer overseas with U.S. busi
ness or government.
R. S. Roberts, vice president
of The American Institute and
widely-known foreign trade
authority, who last year com
pleted 11 years in Brazil as a
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the originator of the first su
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said that U.S. international
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representing a 17.2 average
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the earnings from thpsp for
eign investments at $3 hfllinn
j700 million. U.S. foreign sales
totaled $64 billion, with de
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$43 billion of the total.
Roberts, a 1948 graduate of
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major role played by the 3,000
gtaduates of this 15-year-old
school in the meteoric rise of
U.S. foreign trade.
Senator Barry Goldwater,
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best-trained and most highly
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ambassadors." He described
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78 foreign natiohs.
Graduates in liberal arts,
business administration, and
science are sought annually at
The American Institute for
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500 U.S. international business
and banking firms. Fifty per
cent of the 1960-61 graduates
had college majors in liberal
arts or sciences. Forty-five
percent had majored in busi
ness administration.
Cited by U.S. and foreign
industrialists, educators, and
high government officials as
America's most effectual Insti
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ing of college graduates in for
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day-to-day foreign trade tech
niques, the living culture of
the peoples of world market
areas, and a foreign language.
Recruiters from U.S. interna
tional firms have made it clear
that they equate general cul-
tural knowleriponhilitv -
erly-adjusted attitude toward
an overseas career, and apti-
iuae wnen they select Insti
tute graduates.
About 250 carefully-screened
young men are graduated
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course of study lasts two se
mesters and starts from the
beginning both in September
and in January.
Industry and government
officials say there is no insti
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where, determined college
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groom themselves for a lucra
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(For more detailed informa
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ine Rpfricrnr tu- a
r-t: . . 1,lc American
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