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LEGAL HUSKERETTE
Waving pom-pom high in hand, Huskerette Tish Pedley
does not have to fear legal censure from law student
Robert Snell who discovered a Nebraska statute that
makes it illegal to wave a red flag, such as those used in
Huskerette performances.
Go Wave Your Flag-
Provided It's Not Red
By Nancy Whitford
Railroad employees can
wave red flags, construction
workers can use red flags to
mark road obstructions, but
University students can't
Med Application Due
Applications for 1962 ad
mission to the University of
Nebraska College of Medi
cine must be on file at that
college by Nov. 1, 1961.
Forms for such may be ob
tained at 306 Bessey Hall.
Report Violations
Appeals to Police
Anyone wishing to appeal a
campus traffic violation to
the Student Council Parking
Appeals Board need only to
report their appeal to the Uni
versity police.
Upon reporting an appeal,
the violators ticket becomes
void until the matter has been
reviewed by the Appeals
Board.
The . board meets every
Thursday at 5 p.m. in 341 Stu
dent Union. Those who have
registered appeals with the
campus police department ap
pear before the board and
present their case. If anyone
is unable to appear at that
time, they are allowed to sub
mit a written appeal to the
board.
Some Go
Students Tell
Editor's note: This story
Is the second in a series on
the migration of Nebraska's
young people to other
states. This article exam
ines student opinion why
they leave, or stay. Tomor
row, What is Being Done
About the Loss of Young
People from the State; Fri
day, Is the Grass Really
Greener Elsewhere?
By Tom Kotouc
To answer the question of
why youth are leaving Ne
braska is impossible unless
Nebraskans are familiar with
the attitudes of these youth
towards the state, its eco
nomic opportunities, its cul
tural level, .its educational
program and its recreational
facilities.
But first, what is the scope
of the problem how wide
spread is the exodus of our
youth?
The State Department of
Education in its report "The
1961 Teacher Supply and De
mand in Nebraska" has this
to say about our loss of
teachers from the state, a
group that totals about one
fifth of our college gradu
ates: "Of the 1,759 teachers
graduated from the 21 Ne
braska colleges and univer
sities in 1960, only' 852 or
wave red flags legally even
if they belong to the high
stepping corps of Husker
ettes.
The Huskerettes have been
presenting a twirling routine
utilizing large red flags dur
ing half-time performances,
but this isn't legal, reports
law student Robert Snell in a
letter to the Student Council.
Snell cited Sec. 28-1104 and
following of the Nebraska
Revised Statutes of 1943
which prohibits either display
or custody of red flags except
for railroad and construction
workers.
He said test cases of the
law in both Nebraska and
California Supreme Courts
had held it to be a valid ex
ercise of the police power.
Band director Jack Snider
said the Huskerettes had
made the flags from materi
al left over from previous
years.
"Red was the only material
we had and there was no
budget allotment to purchase
flags," he said.
"The flags would cost
about $10-$20 each if we pur
chased them," Snider said.
"We would be glad to receive
any contributions the Law
College would care to do
nate." Student Council officers said
they planned to confer with
the administration on the
matter.
48.4 accepted teaching po
sitions in Nebraska. This
compared with the 49.3
of the 1,629 graduated in
1959 that took positions in
Nebraska and the 46 that
remained in Nebraska to
teach of the 1957 gradu-'
ates."
The last figure available
from the NEA indicates that
58.5 of all teachers gradu
ating in 1960 under the four
year program remained in
their respective state to
teach.
More Come
Yet, the Department of Ed
ucation's 1959 report on the
same topic stated that with a
turnover rate of about 34 of
teachers each year, "more
teachers came ito Nebraska
than migrated out."'
Thus while we are losing
our Teachers College gradu
ates to business and other
states, we are able to hire
enough teachers from other
states to at least equal this
loss.
Steve Gage, a senior in
journalism and engineering
said: "I will be forced to
leave the state as my field,
technical writing, will special
ize me out of the state's em
ployment field."
Gage added, in the field of
sociology, the University has
been known for producing
some of the top social work-
Hungarian Student
Recalls Days of
October Revolution
Editor's Note: Edmund Lazar is a Hungarian gradu
ate student studying political science at the University,
He is a former news editor of Radio Free Europe and is
presently a member of the board of the Hungarian Stu
dent Association in this country. .
By Edmund I. Lazar
Hungarian refugee students on some 300 University
campuses, including the University are commemorating the
fifth anniversary ot tne Hungarian revolution
For those students, who
fought with their home-made
weapons against the 0 v e r-
whelming strength of Soviet
armor, this will be a day
never to be forgotten.
Although the revolution was
brutally suppressed, there
seems to be some consolation
that the revolution was not in
vain. On those tension-filled
October days history was
made in the streets of Buda
pest, and the leading roles in
this historic drama were
played by Hungarian students.
This is how it all started:
On October 22, 1956, five
years ago, students at t h e
University of Technical Sci
ences in Budapest adopted a
sixteen-point program whose
repercussions were destined to
be heard around the world.
The program included de
mands for "general elections,
universal suffrage, secret bal
lot, and the participation of
several Parties for the pur
pose of electing a new Na
tional Assembly, freedom of
opinion and expression, free
dom of the Press and a free
Radio."
The students also supported
the right to strike and a re
organization of the country's
economic and political life so
as to encompass the partici
pation of the mass of the Hun
garian people.
Withdrawl
Heading up the students'
proclamation was the demand
for the "immediate with
drawal of all Soviet troops
in accordance with the pro
visions of the Peace Treaty."
The students presented a
document containing these de
mands to the Budapest Radio,
with the request that it be
read as part of a news pro
gram. The radio directors re
fused to accept this sugges
tion, and offered instead to
read only five of the more
non-committal points.
The censor absolutely re
fused permission for the
broadcasters to read the sec
tions dealing with the with
drawal of Soviet troops, and
the demands for free press
and free elections'.
Unwilling to accept this
limitation, the students began
the distribution of their pro
clamation through their own
Their Attitudes Toward Nebraska
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This engineering student, studying at
the University of Nebraska, has reason to
leave the state upon his graduation. Majd
Tighi, a junior in civil engineering, is
from Iran and will most likely return to
PREPARE FOR THE LAST
Week of Cornhusker Pictures October 21
small publication. Within
hours, thousands of c 0 p i e s
flooded Budapest, and by the
next morning the city was
discussing nothing else.
Mass Meeting
On the afternoon of October
23, following a mass meeting
to honor the memory of a
Hungarian patriot, the student
representatives again re
quested the radio authorities
to broadcast the sixteen-point
program. There was another
refusal.
While the student delegation
waited for f u r t h e r negotia
tions, huge unarmed crowds
around the Radio Building
continued to shout the slogans
contained in the student man
ifesto. Secret Service police
then began to shoot into the
demonstrators.
The Hungarian Revolution
had begun.
There were two significant
aspects to the preparation of
this sixteen point program. It
was a student group, as rep
resentative of the altruistic
conscience of the nation,
which undertook to summar
ize the aspirations of a people
under Soviet control.
Student Group .
Second it was a student
group which undertook to dis
seminate the program, and
thereby sparked the most
widespread revolt against So
viet totalitarianism since its
inception forty-four years ago.
The Hungarian Revolution
was drowned in blood by So
viet tanks, but it remains, in
the inelegant phraseology of
Premier Khrushchev, "A bone
in the throat."
Although the Communist
rulers of Hungary, backed by
the Soviets, have consistently
refused to permit United Na
tions observers into the coun
try, through the famous "Re
ports of the Special Commit
tee on the Problem of Hun
gary," issued in 1957, and in
subsequent resolutions, the
United Nations has kept the
Hungarian issue alive as a
continuing indictment of the
oppressiveness of Soviet con
trol of the countries of bast
Europe.
Hungary has also pointed
up the international hypocrisy
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GOIN' HOME
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Gruenther
To Address
Red Cross
National President
Visits State Meeting
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther,
president of the American
National Red Cross, will ad
dress the fifth annual state
wide Red Cross Conference in
Lincoln on Oct. 26.
The University Red Cross
student group is working on
plans for this conference in
co-ordination with the 1 0 c a 1
Red Cross group. Some 500
other delegates are expected
to attend the conference which
will be held at the new Ne
braska Center for Continuing
Education.
General Gruenther has
served as National Red Cross
president since 1957. He is a
native Nebraskan and for-
GEN. GRUENTHER
merly served jointly as Su
preme Allied Commander in
Europe and Commander-in-
Chief of the U.S. European
Command.
Appearing also on the pro
gram will be E. LaMar Buck-
ner, a member of the Nation
al Board of Governors for the
American Red Cross and past
president of the U.S. Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. William E. Hall, direc
tor of the school of journal
ism, will moderate a panel
discussion. Other panel mem
bers will be Dr. Otto Hoiberg,
director of the Hall of Youth
at the Center; Dr. Oscar
Schneider, medical officer,
and Fred A. Brodt, assistant
director, both of the Midwest
ern Area Office of the Red
Cross.
In addition, the Lancaster
County Red Cross chapter will
present a pageant.
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his native country. But, how many native
Nebraskans, studying at their state uni
versity will leave their home state upon
graduation?
Fifth NU Art Object
Taken From Gallery
In Past 14 Months
A George Inness painting
valued at $1500 to $2000 has
been stolen from the Univer
sity Art Galleries, Norman
Geske, director of the Gal
leries announced Monday.
Council
Reviews
All Voting
The Student Council will re
view all general student elec
tions in the future "for the
express purpose of guarantee
ing their democratic nature,"
according to. Council President
Steve Gage.
"We are charged with the
responsibility of scheduling
and conducting all student
elections of general University
interest by Article III, Section
1, Part E of the Council Con
stitution," Gage said.
The Councils reserve the
right to review the structure
of any election such as Home
coming, Kosmet Klub and Stu
dent Council under its juris
diction, Gage said.
"In reaffirming the belief
the secret ballot is an expres
sion of the personal wishes of
the individual and not a tok
en to be purchased or co
erced, the Council instructed
Second Vice-President J i m
Samples to conduct the re
view of student elections.
"To clarify the meaning of
'review'," Gage said, "we will
study election procedures for
varous student elections to
ascertain their democratic na
ture and will then supervise
these elections to find if these
procedures are followed,
making recommendations on
any improvements needed."
Gage said that an accumu
lation of some irregularities
in student elections he had
observed over the past couple
of years prompted the Coun
cil's action.
He cited particularly the re
cent Kosmet Klub election.
Gage said Council members
observed several students at
tempting to vote more than
one ballot by presenting
other students' identification
cards at the voting table.
He said that he asked many
students to leave the voting
lines who were attempting to
vote in this manner. Accord
ing to the Kosmet Klub voting
regulations only those attend
ing the show were eligible to
vote.
ers in the United States. The
top three or four men in the
Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare are from
Nebraska. Yet when the so
ciology graduate gets $1,000
a year less here than in other
states, how can we expect
him to stay, he said.
10 Out of 40
Sam Jensen, a former sen
ior in law school, said last
spring about our law: "Ap
proximately 40 people will
graduate in our law class,
and I would say that not
more than 10 will practice
law in Nebraska. The rest
will leave the state or go to
work for a bank or go into
government work.
"I think it could be said
without risk of being trite
that these next few classes
to graduate from the Univer
sity may be the state's last
best hope," Jensen said.
In Monday's introduction to
Operation Exodus, the Alum
ni Association report showed
that of all University gradu
ates and former students (for
whom the office had address
ograph plates) 27,257 lived in
other states and 22,566 lived
in Nebraska.
But how do students justify
their exit from a state which
has educated and contributed
to their development for 18-21
years? What are the attitudes
of its college graduates and
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The oil painting, entitled
"Italian Landscape", is the
fifth object of art to be taken
over the past 14 months. It
was finally reported to city
police Monday, 35 days after
discovery of its disappearance
on Sept. 17.
Geske said that the theft
was reported to the Univer
sity police immediately but
not to the Lincoln police, fol
lowing the usual policy.
"It was requested by James
Pittinger, assistant to Chan
cellor Clifford Hardin, and
myself that Capt. Masters not
report this theft to the Lin
coln police. It was felt that
too much publicity might en
courage others to attempt the
same," Geske said.
Publicity
Pittinger said: "Mr. Geske
and I agreed that in view of
publicity given to previous
thefts, additional notices
would serve no purpose."
Geske said that he has no
idea how the painting was
removed. "Within the last 14
months," he added, "other
paintings, one drawing, a
bronze sculpture and a Ecua
dorian shrunken human head
have been stolen."
The painting, 11 by 17
inches, was bought from a
New York City art dealer in
1958 by the University with
Frank M. Hall Funds, funds
to be used exclusively for
buying art.
' The total value of the ar
ticles stolen to date is nearly
$8000 with the exception of
the shrunken head which has
only scientific value, said
Geske.
One Insured
Only one painting, worth
about $100, was insured and
it was rented by the Univer
sity from the Nebraska Art
Assn.
Pittinger said the University
insures only a few of their
objects and that it is not un
common for large art galler
ies to have objects of art -uninsured.
Geske said he believed the
latest theft is a part of a
general pattern, but not con
nected with an international
art theft ring.
World-wide thefts of famous
art have been reported lately,
puzzling police and persons
interested in art. A t n 1 e 1
would find it difficult and
hazardous to sell famous ob
jects of art which would im
mediately be recognized.
Geske said the painter or
the latest stolen painting was
one of the most important
American landscape painters
of the 19th Century.
Some Stay
students towards Nebraska
and her potentials or weak
ncsscs? Nothing Exciting
Tom Laging, fifth year stu
dent in Architecture, said
"there is nothing really exict
ing in Nebraska in architec
ture. The building trade is
not a boom state as it is in
Oregon with its lumber sup
ply and population influx."
"But the student will actu
ally leave the state because
there is no place for a per
son to get a really good ap
prentice program under an
outstanding master archi
tect," Laging said.
"As Nebraska becomes pro
gressive, however," Laging
added "there will be a defi
nite need for more and good
architects."
Mary Ann "Skip" Harris,
a senior last year in Teach
er's College, added "People
almost apologetically admit
that they're from Nebraska.
It's a general attitude and
it's really too bad. We don't
have mountains and"
"Dissatisfied"
Chip Kuklin, junior in En
gineering, said that he would
like to stay in Nebraska but
was dissatisfied with econom
ic opportunities in his field
in Lincoln.
"Yet I am strongly op
posed to the stagnant con
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