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The Daily Nebraskon
Monday, Decemoer
EDITORIAL OPINION
Senators Note:
Fires Can Kill
"We told you o."
This noted phrase might well be in order after the
fire In Avery Laboratory Wednesday night. Such a com
ment would seem likely to come from the State Fire
Marshal's office. An extensive inspection was made last
year In most of the University buildings and Avery
was one structure which supposedly needed fire protec
tion improvements. Now we know.
Surely the Unlnverilty officials would be justified In
passing the same words on to the state legislature.
Last year when the University did not receive its re
quested budget, it was common knowledge that the fire
hazards In the 50 odd buildings would go unchanged.
Now the state senators are reaping what they sowed.
Improvements in Avery Lab have been delayed due
to a lack of funds, according to Professor Robert Harris
of the Chemistry department. It is our impression that
this same story holds true in the other buildings which
were cited for fire hazards.
The state senators can feel fortunate that the fire
broke out during the night. Students attending class in
Avery could reasonably have been injured had the fire
occurred in the daytime. The only real loss is the project
student was building for his PhD, the equipment and
chemicals in the building, the section of building where
the fire occured and Injuries to two firemen. All of these
re Insignificant when we consider what could have been
lost had the fire broke out during class time.
At the next meeting of the Unicameral, the Univer
sity administrators must do more than request funds
for improvements In all buildings with fire hazards;
they must demand them. The state legislative body in
turn has a moral obligation to meet the demands no mat
ter the sacrifice. It is better to have a bankrupt state
treasury than death-dealing fire disaster.
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Parking Letter
Draws Comment '
Dear Editor of the Daily
Nebraskan.
I agree wholeheartedly
with Vert L. Hatcn's let
ter, "Parking Problem
Prompts Letter." Al
though it is a humorous
letter, it is exactly the
situation on campus Mon
day through Friday until
about 1400 hours.
, Until this week I parked
at a nearby parking lot
t mn r n - i in..
iur 94.au a ween, nus
week I have been trying
to park on campus, but
not always succeeding.
Driving around looking
for a place to park does
not actually save money,
'either. Furthermore I
have no other alternative
but to drive to the cam
pus. ; -
The first day I parked
on campus I arrived
twenty-five minutes before
my class, and by the
time I found a place to
park I was five minutes
late to class. I had given
up finding a place to
park and was on my way
home when I found one.
This it, of course, not the
way it should be, and I
know I am not alone with
this problem. A time or
two since this I have had
to park downtown and
pay money.
The way driving condi
tions are and people try
ing to get into a parking
place, I know the cars
are going to get banged
up a little. I drive a 1961
end do not care for a
scratch I have collected
already.
When a person pays his
tuition he pays for such
things as the Union and
the newspaper, so why
tot the parking? True, not
everyone uses the park
ing lots, but not everyone
uses the Union or the
newspaper either. It is a
very poor deal when a
person has to pay his tui
tion, pay for the right to
park on his own campus
and still pay when he
breaks a rule, and he is
still not guaranteed a
place to park, which is
the least he should have.
I would not mind having
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to buy a parking sticker
if I knew I would have
a place to park.
I believe this is a very,
very, poor part of the pol
icy of the University of
Nebraska, and they
should have to do some
thing about it. I feel
something must be done
to provide parking for
all.
a do-it-yourself shelter build
R. Stephen Looney ingi which is n0 program
at all.
Buckley Answers
MMUN Question
Dear Norm:
The reasons why Nation
alist China was chosen are
as follows:
1) Nationalist China is a
member of the Security
Council (There will be a
Security Council at the
Midwest Model U.N. at St.
Louis).
2) Nationalist China
thus has a veto, power on
the Security Council and
thus would be very influ
ential at the MMUN.
5) The University has
many noted authorities in
the field of Far Eastern
Policies and history and
thus would be ablet to send
a very qualified, informed
delegation.
4) The question of Chi
nese representation would
undoubtedly have come
up and thus our delegation
would have been in the
center of the controversy.
In other words, the Uni
versity would be a central
and key figure in the
MMUN proceedings.
5) This selection would
stir up interest on campus
and this interest is vital if
we are going to be able to
select a qualified delega
tion. The choice was made
. after I had talked to a few
members on the Council. I
received encouragement
from them. Before I sent
in the 'application I re
ported the choice to the
full Student Council in a
regular report of the U.N.
section's activities on the
Public Issues Committee.
The report was accepted
and I then sent in the ap
plication. Yours truly,
Bill Buckley
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jBomb Shelter Program
Are Indulging in 4Non
Eric Sevareid
The fall-out shelter
"scare" has already sub
sided as the President
turns to a program of
publicly constructed shel
ters for public institutions.
Those who sounded "hys
terical" about their safe
ty and those who sounded
hysterical about the hys
teria have quieted down,
and once again it has
been demonstrated to both
domestic and European
critics that, in the test,
the American people near
ly always act with stead
iness, no matter how un
steady many of them
talk.
It is an old story. When
ever the national leader
ship is unable to antici
pate a crisis with a clear
and firm policy we go
through a phase of public
confusion and excitement,
and out of this bable come
the ingredients of a na
tional policy. Appalling as
this process may seem to
members of smaller na
tions and tidier political
systems, there is a cer
tain method in the mad
ness. This country is a cross
section of half the human
race in all its eager
clamoring diversities, and
free to
speak his
mind. Of
ten enough
it is simp
ly not pos
sible for
g o vern
ment to
work out
and get
broad ac
ceptance Sevareid
for a peacetime policy on
a question involving every
individual, in advance of
an intellectually and emo
tionally chaotic shake
down cruise of the kind
we have recently wit
nessed. In the pro
cess, the people generally
discover what they don't
want, at least, and in this
case what they don't want
is a program of private,
The President is going
to have severe troubles
putting through his prelim
inary shelter program, in
spite of this rude educa
tion in the subject that the
people have been giving
themselves. But without
this preparation he could
hardly move a step.
As a contrasting exam
ple, the Prime Minister of
Great Britain can com
mit his country to the
grave step of seeking
membership in the Eu
ropean Common Market
a policy that will affect
every Englishman alive
before his people have
been seriously educated
in its significance. He can
do this because he oper
ates in a quite different
constitutional system and
possess 1 an automatic
parliamentary majority
which must follow him,
save under rare and ex
treme conditions. The
American President .has
no such power. He must
precede public enlighten
ment by a much shorter
distance.
Because of the breadth
of the American land and
the diversity of its peo
ple, waves of mass emo
tion . here usally involve
b:t a fractional part of
the population, one rea
son such waves are not
dangerous. It is tln the
smaller, more homogene
ous countries of Europe
that the mass emotions of
this generation have
proved disastrous for us
all Spain, Hitler's Ger
many and Mussolini's
Italy are obvious ex
amples and European
critics might reflect and
remember before they ac
cuse Americans of "hys
teria" in the face of pos
sible nuclear war and con
gratualte themselves on
their own maturity and
clam. The teacher and
columnist, Max Lerner, is
right when he says that
Europeans generally have
"terribly little awareness"
of the atomic facts of
liff TCiirnnoan tivetarin ha
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says, is just below the sur-
f and is more likely to
be "scratched into expres-
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Slon by the fact that the
wrilnrl is ininnnsnJ r
m,n Unprepared I Of
It.
Among our own people
who most strongly oppose
any kind of shelter pro
gram do so for one of two
reasons, and sometimes
both. They believe that
the shelters would give
only the illusion of safety
because people would not
have sufficient warning
and because the shelters
would not truly protect
even if there was ade
quate warning. This is
something no layman and
few scientists can feel .
any certainty about, be
cause the unknown fac
tors in such a life-and-death
'equation are so
many and so vital.
But many of the objec
tors also feel that having
shelters would produce a
war psychology in the
people, a mass feeling of
"let's get it over with,"
and thus reduce the
world's chance of avoid
ing the catastrophe. This
reasoning is hard to cred
it. Such people seem to
fear American reckless
ness as much as or more
than they fear Russian
belligerence, but the oc
casional utterings of in
dividual military officers
notwithstanding we are
simply not a reckless peo
ple. And while we have
not seen our cities in
flames as some Eu
ropeans have seen their
own, we have been thro
outhly sobered by a thous
and vivid protrayals of
what nuclear war would
be to the point where
'Dominican Intervention
Hurt US Image' Cronon
United States intervention
in the Dominican Republic
would hurt the U.S. image
more in the long run than
whatever short run gains
might be accomplished, E.
David Cronon, professor of
history, told members and
guests of Spanisn Club.
Cronon said he would like
to see the U.S. get back to
the principles of the "Good
Neighbor Policy." Kennedy's
"Alliance for Progress Pro
gram" would be one step in
this direction.
Cronon noted key problems
such as a population growth
rate of about 2.5 per cent as
compared to about 1 per cent
for the rest of the world. This
in turn affects education and
food (supply in Latin America,
he sjid.
He said that since World
War II there has been a prob
lem "as to whether or not the
U.S. should invest in social
istic ventures in Latin Amer
ica which differ from the
basic economic policy of the
U.S.
He said Elsenhower
stressed investment in cap
italistic projects which often
ended up in luxury apart
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Opponents
Sequitur'
our frightened children
ask their heart breaking,
plaintive questions.
Given the repeated break-
, down of genuine American
effort for peace through
disarmament over a 15
year period, it is impos
sible to regard prepara
tions defensive as well
as offensive as any
thing but measures that
tend to prevent war, in
complete as the guaran
tee may be. Soviet policy
has forced us to this un
happy position, and the
only alternative, this side
of a Soviet policy change,
is peace through surrend
er of our power, influence
and future as a great na
tion. Surely those who sign pe
titions demanding that we
forgo shelter building and
devote the many millions '
of dollars involved to a
"positive program for
peace" are indulging in a
gigantic non sequitur. If
they know practical
"peace programs" that
have not been tried, if
they know how to rid the
world of the horror that
hangs over us all, by the
spending of money, they
ought to let everyone in
on their secret.
(Dlitr. 1961, by Hall Syrnl., Inc.)
(AU RUhU Reserved)
ments and worked to the ad
vanatge of- the rich rather
than the poor.
"A socialistic regime is not
necessarily communistic. The
real test is whether or not the
country maintains a demo
cratic structure. It would be a
serious mistake to write these
countries off as friends just
because their economic policy
was not the same as ours,"
he said.
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Today Eloise asks: How
are we going to pick a
new coach to lead them
Cornhuskers (it's not how
you play the game, it's
whether you win or loose)
to victory. So, today,
Eloise suggests some
methods which could be
used.
The Old-Coaches-Never-Die
Method: Collect Jen
nings, Elliot, Glasford,
Presnell, Jones et all,
bring them to the union
for a cup, and let them
pick. They, if anyone
should realize the prob
lem at hand, (no, 15 head
coaches is just too many)
The Vacancy-Prospects-Picking
Method: Collect
Harold Lahar, John Ral
ston, Hank Foldberg, Jim
Meyers et al and let them
pick. They if anyone, don't
know what they are get
ting into, and anyway, it
might be better that way.
(now fellas, cooperate you
gotta pick someone.)
The Let-The-Studcnt-Pick-A-Coach-Method:
Oh,
but the Student Council
would never approve of
the election methods, and
someone might forget to
register the election or
something. Anyway, any
one knows the student
body isn't qualified to
elect anyone. Maybe an
inter mystic Student
Council committee could
do the job, (no, not him,
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THESE STUDENTS ON
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got all the'winners right,
he's too busy with Build
ers and AUF and Red
Cross to do a good job,
thanks anyway, Council).
The Plck-A-Coach-On-The
Merits of His
Ability - Method: I mean,
that's asking a little too
much, (yes, this school is
a little bigger than the
one he's from, but he
might grow to like it here.
Sure, we can hide some
students if the campus
looks too big).
The Let-the-Coaches-Ap-ply
For The Job
Method: The volume of
mail would Increase, that's
right. (WE REPEAT,
our address is: Univer
sity of Nebraska, Lincoln,
Nebraska).
The Let-Thunder-Thorn.
ton-Coach-Method: Of all
concerned, he's turned in
by far the best record
this year.
The Take-A-Poll-In-The-Union-Method:
We could
ask all the students in the
crib between 10 and 11
a.m. only if they had
three spiral notebooks,
smoked Rents, and came
from a high school under
729. (no, girls, coach fooU
ball you u n d e rstand.
Teachers College already
has a dean).
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