Tuesday, January 9, 1962
Page 1
The Daily Nebraskun.
EDITORIAL OPINION
Better Calendar
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Needed for A11
With the ushering in of a new year countless new
, year's resolutions have been made by many people all
over the world. Resolutions usually run from the serious
to sublime. From the little boy who resolves never to
fight with his younger sister again to the President him- I
self who announced his hope New Year's Day that he
will do all he can to promote world peace.
Now that most of the campus population is again
settling down after the 15 day vacation, perhaps we might i
suggest a new year resolution in the interest of all. We i
are speaking of a lesson the faculty and Student Council I
calendar committees might well have learned. I
Of course we are speaking of the scheduling of I
Christmas vacation. No sooner had most students and
instructors finished their Friday classes (December 22,
three days from Christmas) when the midwest area of
the nation was stricken with heavy snows and strong
winds. In most areas the new snow aggravated condi-
tions. Literally every road in and out of Lincoln became
impassable. Trains either refused to run or were running i
far behind schedule. Plane and bus travel was next to
impossible. With only three days to travel, many stu
dents and faculty members panicked.
The storm surprised everyone including the weather
forecasters. It was too late to call school off in an at
tempt to allow everyone to reach their holiday destina
tion. The University administrators had little choice
earlier in the week but to continue to keep school open
regardless of the possibility of such a storm.
With most highways and bus, plane and train routes
overcrowded anyway, the late rush of students and
faculty only worsened the situation.
It to our feeling that the faculty sub committee on
the calendar and the Stuctent Council members dealing
with the same subjsct shouid remember Christmas 1961
and resolve to keep away from a similar situation in the
future '
(N.B.)
Staff Views
Over the Top
By Norm Beatty
With the new year only a week old, the past year has
been reviewed by many radio, newspaper and television
commentators. Although most of them have conceeded
that 1961 was pretty much of a black year, things are
looking better for 1962. In the area of .politics, this gen
eralization seems to Hold true for the
most part for one of our political parties
wbHa the opposing party cannot say the
same.
The Democrats have been in the
White House for nearly a year and their
dominance in Congress is old stuff. If the
RepebMca&s were Jolted with JFK's elec
tion when he was the ambitious senator
from Massachnetts literally scouring the
cation daring the presidential campaign,
certainly he must appear as a stronger
foe with a year's experience as the head
man under his belt. It might be reasonably said that
the entire Democratic party is stronger and more uni
fied under his leadership. The death of Speaker Sam
lUyborn has made Kennedy the undisputed leader of
his party. Kit disputes with the Democratic-heavy con
grew dt not seem to lessen his bold on the political
scene.'
PossMy the Republicans' biggest weakness is their
own lack of a single, strong leader. Although the
G.O.P. is still potentially powerful, its party organizers
are still attempting to account for the presidential elec
tion and their minority standing in the congress.
Technically, former Vice-President Richard Nixon,
Governor Nelson Rockefeller and conservative-minded
Senator Barry Goldwater may lay claim to at least a
portion of the party backing. In reality, however, none
of the three have the stature needed to give them the
support of their party in 1964 nor do any of them show
the "makin's" needed to uproot the Kennedy admin
istration. Nixon is losing ground fast in California
where he is fairing poorly in a mud-slinging guber
natorial campaign. Even the Republicans admit that
Rocky has hurt his own public image via his divorce
bout. Goldwater seems to be the most established of the
three frontrunners. The latest Gallup poll attests to
.this fact Within the next two or three years Goldwater
must continue to, increase his lead if he expects to
win tiie party label in '64. His biggest stumbling block
is his strong conservative philosophy 'now in black
and white in his novel entitled, "A Concience of a Con
servative." The core of die-hard conservatives within
the G.O.P. are behind Goldwater to the last man as
they fed Goldwater is their last chance to regain a
hold on their party. However, Goldwater himself will
readily admit that he needs more than this faction of
support if he is to be a serious competitor in the 1964
race.
Undoubtedly the Republicans realize their position,
or at least at the national level they do. First things
come first and the most immediate goals are the op
coming races for seats in congress. The Democrats con
tinue to lead in the early races but the Republicans feel
there Is reason for optimism for the remainder of the
year.
By now most readers must be wondering what all
this has to do with the University of Nebraska. Very
. little except the ironical fact that the Young Republicans
dominate the campus political scene mainly on the
weight of numbers while the national trend is favoring
' the Democrats. This bit of information is food for
thought as the battle lines again are drawn between
the two leading parties on the state and national level.
It does not seem improbable now that the YR's and.
the YD's wiH again square off after an extended lay-off.
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JUnited Nations Outlook
Opposition Conies From
By Eric Sevareid
When President de
Gaulle called Adlai Stev-
I enson to Paris last sum-
mer, during the Bizerte
1 battle, he greeted Steven-"
son by saying, "I am al-
I ways glad to see you be-
I cause you are always full
of hopes and," he add-
I ed quickly, "I do not
1 mean illusions."
After a year in what
has become the most
wretchedly trying of all
I diplomatic stations, the
gentleman from Illinois
f retains not only his bounce
i but his hopes for the
United Nations, maintain-
I ing that It is emerging
from its crises over the
secretariat, finances, Con-
go, Red China and Goa
stronger than ever. If the
most influenctial single
delegate in the hall of na-
tions thought and spoke
i to the contrary, the at-
mosphere would be de-
I pressing indeed. A num-
ber of respected and com-
petent observers entirely
agree with Mr. Stevenson,
and the wish to share
1 their optimism must be
something nearly every.
I ones feels.
I The difficulty is that
very large flies exist in
nearly all the supposedly
curativ e
ointments
g the Unit-
1 e d N a-
I tions has
managed
I to spread
I over its
1 wounds
1 this year
1 p a s t.
Since the
I Goa busi-
Sevareid
business a hollow sense of
hypocrisy is bound to fill
I the Assembly hall each
time one of the new little
i nations pleads for observ-
ance of the Charter. The
1 fact concerning the finan-
cial crisis that is signifi-
cant for the future1 is not
that an emergency bond
issue is being floated but
that 82 out of the 104 mem-
I ber governments put the
I U.N.'s welfare so low in
.1 their own order or priori-
ties that they fail to keep
I up with their payments
g to the organization. The
process of forcing Ktan-
ga back into the Congo
federation has a long way
to go, the UN's total in-
i volvement in the Congo
s has probably just begun,
and it is far too soon to
I think that the cold war
will be kept out of tribal
I Africa.
Twisr Contest One ladies
UAVtMC TBB KEEL
The League of Nations,
which nearly everyone
believed in, did very lit-
tie; the United Nations,
which so many disbelieve
in, has done a good deal
Yet certain ominous and
overriding shapes and
shadows envelop the fu
ture: One of the two giant
powers considers the U.N.
only in the light of its
manipulative possibilities
for its own world cause
(In all the 18,000 words
of the Communist Party
Congress manifesto about
the international scene
last year, there was not
one word on the United
Nations.)
At least one of the
world's second rank pow
ers, France under its
present government, re
gards the U.N. with the
utmost cynicism.
Enormous swelling of
the membership by admit
tance of the tiny, new
sovereignties, with more
on the way, is unalter
ably transforming the hall
of nations from a forum
to an arena. These gov
ernments have far less
interest in the ideal of a
world rule of law than in
the demolition of the rem
nants of the old coloniel
order, by violent means if
necessary, nd a good
many remnants remain
for assault
They are helping to re
place an old order, how
ever outmoded, with a
new disorder. We have to
understand that, when the
process of de-colonization
is completed, a new pride
may reign in these areas;
but peace will not. The
new nationalisms will be
have as nations always
have in their yeasty, adol
escent stages. In Africa,
ten thousands years of
tribal wars will not come
to a stop because flags
are designed and anthems
written. They will contin
ue under the name of
struggles for the sacred
fatherland.
A new order is coming
to the European world
in the last fifteen years,
it can be argued, more
progress towards peace
able n i t y has ' been
achieved there than in the
previous five hundred
years but in the south
ern reaches of the world
a new pattern of disorder
is emerging. For the first
time, in terms that affect
the globe, history is hap
pening below the equator.
The brooding, all-pervasive
force that will involve
the globe with these fo
rays and national ambus
cades is the cold war of
the two great power sys
tems. The agency for in
and one mon's wrisrworch
Is Good;
East, West
volvement will be the
United Nations, if it is
.still girt with any armor
at all. For it has taken
all quarrels of all collec
tive groups, so long as
they are called "nations,"
for its province; and,
though we may recognize
its reach, its grasp is by
no means certain.
The Western cause is
not bound and ordained
to thrive in all this. The
West, as Salvador de Ma
dariaga has said, seeks
"logic in ideas, order in
action and calm in feel
ings" while the Commu
nist cause seeks confusion
in ideas, violence in ac
tion and passion in feel
ings. It need not seek
very far. '
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Mr. W. H. Hawke, Division GeopbysicUt for Pan American at Cat per,
Wyoming, will visit this earn pus on Tuesday, January 9, 1962, to interview
senior and graduate students majoring in geology, electrical engineering,
pbyirs and mathematics.
Excellent opportunities and a promising future are
available in thi crowing com nan? for men who
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Literary Opinion
To the Rag Editor.
Congratulations on your
fine literary issue. The
fact that it was an abor
tion is unimportant, com
pared to the fact jthat you
tried. Tell me one thing,
however: what was it that
you tried to do?
I especially enjoyed the
searching and perceptive
treatment of the Athletic
Dilemma; it is rare to
find such insight in un
dergraduate writing, and
inspiring to see such sen
sitive use of the language.
Next to that, I was
pleased by the economic
treatise; .that work was
remarkable for its juxta
positions and oxymorons,
as well as for a depth of
understanding which
sometimes approached the
verge of the brink of God
like profundity. The only
contemporary author of
my acquaintance whose
works can approach this
m intellectual onuiance,
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However, I was puzzled
by the inclusion of the su
perfluous materials on
pages two and three;
these offerings, when they
were not shockingly sug
gestive (if not downright
obscene); were, to say the
least, not of topical inter
est. Furthermore I notice
they were not composed
by approved, recognized,
and authorized journalists.
I believe there used to be
some kind of magazine on
our campus entitled Scrip,
which published this kind
of unessential frivolity and
kept it over in Andrews
Hall where it belongs; I
would prefer that in fu
ture the editors of that
publication would refrain
from tyrannizing over
your most capable staff,
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with covers on front and
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