The Daily Nebraskjn
Wednesday, December 6. 1961
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EDITORIAL OPINION I
Council President
Election Reviewed
What possible logic is behind the recent action of the
Student Council in which they unanimously defeated a
proposed constitutional amendment advocating an all
campus election of the Student Council president?
This is a question which many University students
have been asking since the Council decision one week
ago. If the amendment brought before the Council would
have been approved by the group, it would have ap
peared on the Council ballot in the spring and the stu
dents themselves would have had the final say as to
Whether they wished to elect their -own student govern
ment president. The students at the University were
not even given that chance by the Council. If there was
any doubt whether the students wished to elect this pres-.
ident, the final decision should have been theirs.
. According to a poll taken during the spring election
last year, the students voted 2 to 1 in favor of the pro
posed changes in the Student Council constitution to
change the method of the selection of the council presi
dent. Contrary to the opinion of some Council members,
the voters should have been clearly informed on the
essence of the questions concerning the Council repre
sentation system and the method of officer election be
cause the questions and issues were carefully explained
on the front page of the Daily Nebraskan at least three
times prior to the election (April 5, 28 and May 8).
A second reason against the adoption of the amend
ment was that the election would then degenerate into
nothing but a noisy gaudy campaign which would pro
mote a popularity type election. However, if Council
members would refer to past campus elections of this
type, even to past Council elections, it would be quite
plain that the Council election would not become a
popularity contest.
In the first place, University regulations and the Stu
dent Union regulations concerning use of their bulletin
boards and poster size would hamper flashy displays.
Also, the Council would still maintain the right to formu
late a set of campaign rules which would prevent cam
paigns which would encourage a popular voting contest.
There is one other quite important element which
the Student Council members failed to realize, that being
the fact that the Council would retain the ability to
slate the two senior students who they felt were best
qualified for the position.
We feel the argument which Council members pre
sented that the Council will not always select the two
persons who are most qualified to serve as president
is completely out of line. How does the Council now
decide on the presidency? They select the two candi
dates whom they feel will do the best job as president
f the organization and they choose between them. The
situation would be no different in an all campus elec
tion. The two most capable persons would be selected
for the slate by the Council members, the people who
know the two who would do the best job. The campus
could hardly go wrong in the selection of either of the
candidates if they were carefully chosen by the Council.
An all campus election would encourage the students
to look at the actual qualifications of each candidate.
They, as citizens of this University, should have the
right to select the arson who will head their student
government.
As far as the argu nt that political machinery from
outside the campus would attempt to install political ma
chines on this campus is rather questionable. Nebraska
is still a conservative state and far more than Just a
majority of the persons at this University would be
immediately aware of a liberal political machine that
started moving in on the campus. The response to sup
port such a group would be nil.
The Student Council for the first time this year has
really failed the students. They should have at least
given the student body the right to decide whether they
wanted their student government president to become
a democratically elected individual or to allow the Stu
dent Council presidency to remain a self-perpetuating
position unknown or not recognized by the majority of
the students. (A. M.)
Kansas Cowboy Asserts
His Constitutional Right
This week's Saturday Evening. Post contains an edi
torial supporting the proposed Prairie National Park in
the Flint Hills in Northern Kansas.
And Monday, Interior Secretary Stewart Udali was
"run off them thar hills." Udall and company landed
by Army helicopter In the proposed park and were
promptly met by rancher Carl Bellinger with a firm
"Yankee Go Home!"
Bellinger represented some 200 ranchers who oppose
giving tip their land for the formation of a tourist at
traction on grounds that "the vanishing prairie is a
plain, unvarnished myth."
The Post editorial favored the prairie park so that
"this generation and the generations to come can see
som remnant of the immense grasslands of the West
as they once were." The Post pointed out that If ap
proved, the area would undergo the work of original
restoration until K became a "paradise for ornitholo
gists.'' The Post concluded with "We need it (the park) to
help us save and remember the panorama of the Old
West. The synthetic cowboys of television are not
enough."
Authentic cowboy of Kansas Carl Bellinger and "rev
enoorer" Udall might have passed this conversation:
Bellingerr You and your men take that thar funny
alroplane and git off my land, Udall!
Udall: You can't do this, Bellinger, I'm the United
States Marshall. And this here's my deputy, Conrad
Wirth of the National Park Service.
Bellinger: Yeah?jWell this here's Carl Bellinger, and
this here's cattle grazin' land, and we don't need no
dude city sheepmen drivin all over hell on it takin
pictures and ruinin the grass.
Udall: Listen Bellinger we want to make you a
nice park where the grass can grow long and tall and
all yosr kinsfolk can see how it was when your pappy
first came here.'
Blelinger: What's in it for me?
Udall: Have yon ever taken any forestry? We'll have
an opening in . '
Bellinger: Git!
Udall: Bellinger, I'm tellin you you can't do this!
We'll be back!
Bellinger: 111 be waitin'.
And may ail of Kansas back him up.
(D. S.)
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Fraternity Problems
By
Most Nebraska students
fail to see and examine
problems related to the
campus. The occasional
person who does so de
serves a chance to ex
press his findings, even
though you and I'may dis-.
agree with them.
The pre-Christmas se
ries which I began last
week will be delayed. In
the article below, Joel
Lundak. junior double ma
jor in English and philoso
phy and a member of Sig
ma Chi, voices his beliefs
about two major prob
lems which affect the fra
ternity system throughout
the nation:
'Death of the College
Fratenrities' was pub
lished in the October Es
quire. The tone of the ar
ticle is hostile and sar
castic. In a few cases, its
author is guilty of wretch
ing from contexl quotes
of national fraternity of
ficers and others. But it
sets forth evidence to sup
port at least some of its
conclusions; and the evi
dence is startling or
should be considered so.
"Brower, the a u t h o r,
states that over the nation
many local chapters are
bucking national d i s
criminatory membership
requirements, and in
many cases have chosen
to disaffiliate rather than
give up their proposed
pledges. This is a reflec
tion of the changes being
experienced by the whole
society; and while no one
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Student Objects
To Graduation Switch
Dear sir:
As a senior planning to
be graduated from the
I ..University .next Junek. I,,
I wish to protest against
f the proposed changing of
s the graduation ceremon-
ies from the Coliseum to
Pershing Auditorium. This
I is one of our few campus
traditions and it should
not be sacrificed merely
I for the sake of a few
I hours' comfort. And as
far as the question of
ask whether a little dis-
comfort on one of the
most monumental days of
i our lives should cause us
to move the ceremony
I from a site which has so
I many memories and tra-
ditions for us to a city
i auditorium in which
i wrestling matches and
Grand Old Opera are pre-
sented.
I, too, ask "how precise
(each Student Council
member) was in polling
constituents" in their vote
of approval to the prtr-
posed change. Surely
there must be some other
I graduating seniors and fu-
ture graduates who share
I my opinion, and if so,
1 shouldn't our voices carry
some weight too?
Sincerely,
I Arts and Sciences
Senior Blasts
s
sCouncil Decision
to the editor:
I The S t u d e n t Council
should be congratulated
for its brilliant move to
help erase one of the few
remaining traditions from
the University of Nebras
ka campus.
The Council moved to
favor the change of Com
mencement exercises
from the Coliseum to Per
shing Auditorium next
June.
It is indeed too bad that
a state University with
8,000 students can't even
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University
Tom Easou
would dispute the right to
discriminate on the basis
of poise, personality, or
intelligence, few people
are willing to grant indef
initely to social organiza
tions the chance to do so
because of race, alone.
Most college campuses
are experiencing new dy
namism among students,
a marked change from
their apathy of the last
several years. It does not
seem likely that young
adults working for pro
gressive social reform
and intellectual enlight
ment are going to toler.
ate discrimination on such
a blind basis as it is now
practiced. If fraternities
are to avoid suffering un
der the new sophistica
tion, they cannot contin
ue embracing practices
found upon outdated
principles.
"A second major point
of contention, Brower
claims, is the fraternity
attitude toward scholar
ship. He says that fra
ternities pay only lip serv
ice to education, encour
aging "the easiest way
through;" and that when
they do work for grades,
their concern is only for
the appearance of high
marks rather, than the
academics t h e mselves.
There are, of course, in
dividuals who are excep
tions to this; but I, for
one, would agree with
Brower in generalizing
this way about the Greek
attitude as a whole. There
Nebraskan Letterip
hold its graduation exer
cises on the University
campus. The thought of
jumping into the cold,
bare world is not aided
by the thought of jump
ing into it from the cold,
bare Pershing'stage;" ""
This is the Pershing
Auditorium with the steel
beam rafters that Mili
tary Ball and Homecom
ing dance committees
have been trying to cover
with balloons and crepe
paper for the last few
years. Perhaps the Com
mencement committee
will disguise the "barn"
by dangling little black
tassles from the rafters
proper atmosphere.
But more than anything
else, seniors will be miss
ing the traditional walk
for the last time, SNIF
across campus, past the
Carrilon. It seems like
it:
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is, on the other hand, a
good deal of evidence sup
porting those why say the
mood of college students
is changing. There is an
increased interest in t h e
humanities, increased stu
dent political activity,
and an increasing number
of students doing post
graduate work. At the uni
versities which are pro
viding more student ac
tivities of an intellectual
as well as recreational
nature, lower percentages
of students are becoming
Greeks. This speaks for
itself. Unless they change
their level , of interests,
fraternities cannot expect
to draw the numbers they
have in the past when in
coming students become
more serious.
"It is not my purpose
to attack the Greek sys
tem on behalf of the
NAACP or the Faculty
Senate. I only want to
point out that there are
issues which jeopardize
the future of the fratern
ities, and that these is
sues are outgrowths of
characteristics v once con
sidered unimportant. Fra
ternities may well be
faced in the not far dis
tant future with the choice
of sacrificing certain
practices xmd attitudes or
their attributes and po
tential. It is my hope that
we Greeks will recognize
the signs of the times,
and not only conform to,
but lead social reform
and intellectual progress."
this would be a lasting
memory of our Alma Mat
ter. But who will remem
ber the mosaic mural on
the front of Pershing.
This campus is where
I go to school and this is
where I want to gradu
ate! A Maudlin Senior
Reader Objects
To the editor:
I object to the word
"fire" used in regard to
Jennings in the December
1 issue of the Daily Ne
braskan. This word was
used twice in headlines
and three times in your
editorial. The Board of
Regents neglected to re-
new Mr. Jennings' con
tract, which has the same
effect, but not the impli
cation of the word "fire."
Margaret Flory
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In frontier days a store
keeper had a scale (two
pan type) with accurate
weights. The beam broke
and he replaced it with a
branch of a tree which
was uneven and tapered.
He adjusted its bearing
point so it (with the pans)
balanced. A customer
wanted two pounds of
sugar so in an effort to
be fair, he weighed out
one pound and then re
versed the "position of
sugar and counterweight
for the second pound. Did
the customer win, lose, or
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