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Page 2 EDITORIAL Friday, March .2, 1962 NATIONAL STUDEN ASSOCIATION Should The Campus Vote? The Student Council has now voted twice to withhold affiliation vote from the student body over the National Stu dent Association issue. It was interesting to note that the vote margin slimmed from 19-7 to 13-12. It is very probable that Miss Herbie Nore will bring the motion up again next week and very possible that it will pass. It is the opinion of the Nebraskan that the motion should be removed from the table and the merits of an all campus vote at least discussed. It also is our opinion that the final vote for or against .affiliation should be left to the student body. We are very happy to note that this issue has finally generated not only inter est on the Council itself, but throughout the student body. However, everyone, in cluding the Council, is clammoring for more information, both pro and con. At this stage of the game, the Nebras kan has not developed an opinion or a philosophy in regards to whether or not we should affiliate with NSA. However, we have began to research the topic and have requested information from several sources. We hope to present both sides of theMssue as best we can and reserve the right of endorsement or rejection for a later date. We also wish to encourage Panhell and other groups to discuss NSA openly. The first Panhell session was, in our opinion, what they claimed it would be a dis cussion of NSA pro and con. The ses sion seemed to emphasize the pro and generally c6uld be called a failure in that most students (nearly all girls) left without any more information than they already had. It would be advisable to do a little digging and research before even holding sessions on NSA or any other timely topic. Returning again to the central issue of this editorial comment, we would like to wholeheartedly urge Miss Nore to con tinue her drive for an all campus vote, or at least the opportunity to discuss its merits on the floor of the council. It might be argued that the student body is not interested or informed enough to make the decision. But we might ask as one reader did in Thursday's Campus Forum, doesn't the individual student have a right to vote on whether he wants to be a member of NSA? We might also ask: Why promote stu dent "apathy" by not allowing them to vote? By stalling the decision, it is true that interest will increase. But it is also true that by stalling a decision, students might develop an "I don't give a damn" attitude and return to their "apathetic" shell. Congratulations to the Student Council for developing an excellent issue. We hope their study group will present information to and by students that will help us all to make up our minds about NSA. FRAN NY AND ZOOEY Shows Need for Tolerance By William Kemper First, this week I would like to clear up something from last week. My revue of ADVISE AND CONSENT stated "(Po litical decisions) can never be found in the reality of the present by men with a firm grip on their conscience(s) and their courage." That sentence should read "(Political decisions) can only be found in the reality of the present by men with a firm grip on their conscience ) and their cour age." Accuracy, the editor says, is the soul of journalism. Buddy Glass, Zooey's brother and an author, says in the book FRANNY AND ZOOEY that his greatest weakness as a writer is a tendency to be too clever. That is also a failing of Buddy's cre ator, J. D. Salinger, though perhaps net his greatest. In addition to being too elever, Salinger is complicated, obscure and "tedibly, tedibly intellectual, old boy." In the FRANNY part of the book, Sal inger introduces Francis Glass, senior at an eastern girl's school, aspiring actress, inspiring beauty and practicing neurotic on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She is on the Yale campus for a football weekend with one Lane Coutell, with whom she. says she is madly in love. That can't be because Lane is a stuffy, intellectual, egotistical bore. To rescue his heroine, Salinger lets her have the nervous breakdown before Coutell can lay a callous paw on her. That takes care of the first 42 pages. They are hard hitting and well-written. When Franny collapses, the reader nearly does too. When she comes to and her neurosis bubbles Poetically forth, the reader hat had all that his heart can stand. In Franny, Salinger has merely been a reporter, and a very good one indeed. The obtusity of his intellectualism does not overwhelm the reader because it is largely part of Coutell's personality. In ZOOEY, all this repatorial skill dis appears. Zachariah Glass (Zooey) is Fran ny's older, actor brother. He is the only one of four Glass brothers still living in the family's New York apartment with his parents and he, therefore, must cure his sister. From the beginning, the reader does not doubt that he will be able to do it All the Glass children, you see, are very bright. The reader may therefore, legiti mately ask why it takes so long and why is he able to do it at all and what is a "sempevirent" anyway? There may be a good reason. Franny's affliction takes the form of a religious fixation she is fascinated by a form of prayer, . repeating the name ..of . God -over -end -ovennrtfl it actually becomes a part of her. Franny is attempting to reject all the egocentricity, the mediocrity, the petty pomposity which she finds in everybody. Or to put it another way, she is trying not to be a phony. She is trying to do this by making her life, her whole being, God centered, rather than ego centered or man centered. But Franny leaves out one of God's primary ingredients tolerance. Without that, she is not religious, merely sanctimonious. It takes Zooey a long time to give Franny tolerance. In the process, he also gives the reader a sophisticated meta physical analysis of Buddhism, Hindu ism, Christianity and several more minor and exotic sects, all this in good old American slang complete with cuss words. In the end, it is not too bad. Salinger makes Christ seem real. He is much less the fairy story person of your fourth grade Sunday School class and much more the brilliant intellect, the superbly human, man-God that the bible makes him. As a strong statement of the Christian faith from a member of a class the in tellectuals where strong faith in any thing has become almost gauche'. Sal inger's book is worth reading. But read it with a dictionary handy. The author preens his own ego with his language. As I See It 7 On Monday, the people who attended the Panhel lenic discussion of the NSA heard John Nolan give exemplary material from both the pro and con positions toward the As sociation, and Warren Danskin discuss what seemed to be his own personal experiences in the organization. Mr. Dan skin referred to his ex periences in the NSA as "great," and proceeded to give examples of speakers he heard and peopi he visited with, presumably at NSA con ventions. Mr. Danskin never made it clear whether he regretted these experi ences, or was swayed to vote Democratic hence forth, or was able to ap proach them with a crit ical attitude and take them for what they were worth. He said the controver U ever NSA centered on the philosophy which un derlies the organization. This philosophy is to stim ulate students to know their own role as students in their own country and throughout the world, to study and endeavor to solve the problems which they, as students, share with others around the globe. Our decision will be on the basis of this philosophy: are we will ing to accept the respon sibility such a committal would entfil? Are we willing to ex press a concern for stu dents who live under dic tator ships and are de nied academic freedom? Will we sympathize and help students expelled from their schools for n o n-violent demonstra tions to secure the civil rights we have been fight ing for for 300 years? (The Justice Department does, you know.) Will we sponsor stu dents to study in the by joel lundak United States, to prevent them from accepting help from Russia, when our government sympathizes with them but is power less to take action? These questions stem from the "controversial" actions of the NSA. We, as students, on the Nebraska campus must decide whether or not we are willing to broaden our interests and begin studying and trying to solve some of the prob lems which we, as adult members of communities and our nation, will face and have to tackle with in a few years. We must also decide whether par ticipation in the NSA would be an effective means of doing so. I would join theTan hellenic in urging each student to follow the de bates and express an in formed opinion. Thp "ollegiate Council Continued on page 2' File 13 By SUE HOVIK Dates, dances, pin nings, functions, grades, bad teachers and the big lack of time are the main topics of conversr' t that float around this campus when two or more students get togeth er. Most students, and I don't think that this is an exaggeration, live in their own private world which consists of the territory guarded by the boundar ies of "R", 17th, 12th and Vine streets. Occasionally students venture out of th'. little city of their own to hit various Lincoln homes, apartments, shows, dances and restaurants How many times do you talk about such things as foreign or intemation al affairs, religions, philo sophies, etc? If you are like most of us, you don't get around to these topi, very often and when you do, you dis- wer to your amazerru ..; that you don't know enough about the subj ct to be able to talk intelli gently. Or, if you are one of the more fortunate stu dents, you discover that the conversation has ac tually been interesting and enjoyable. Why don't we talk more often on topics of a cul tural nature? Could it pos sibly be that we have for gotten all the aspects of the reason that we came to college? That reason is know ledge: in the social, aca demic, and cultural sense. "f I am not mistaken, the social aspect is being taken care of very well and the University is giv ing us the opportunity to fulfill the academic part of our education. However, nobody is pushing us into the cultur al part of the process of learning. This is left en tirely up to the individual but the opportunities are more than abundant for attending events of a cul tural nature. If you don't care for operas, singing and con certs, i e are many events .hiring art, in ternational affairs and lit erature. The variety of -events is numerous and provides for interests of every kind We should consider ourselves lucky that the option of going to these events or not is left up to us. At least one univer sity requires all freshmen to attend all-university convocations. That should not be the answer to this question, because if you don't want to attc-d these e nts you are not going to enjoy them or learn from them. I'm not advocating go ing all-out on a culture move. Other events, - -H -u and academic, are all an important part of our edu cation, but let's try to bring culture more" into perspective with the oth er phases of college life. 5OC0tOGV & . Daily Nebraskan Member Associated Col leglate Press. International Press Representative: Na tional Advertising Service, Incorporated. Published at: Room 51, Student Union, Lincoln, Nebraska. 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