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Page 2 EDITORIAL Friday, March 30, 1962
' By Joel Lundak -
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What's Happening
Seldom and dangerous
lyis the subject of the
feminine bent on this
campus discussed. But
the.e comes a. time when
malekind has stood too
long naked, and must re
cover his lost overalls.
The problem is simple.
- We are being overrun with
a battalion of woman ac
tivity harlots, a scheme
ing, screaming, driving'
terrifying mob of female
floorwalkers who refuse
to accept their role as
progenitors of the race
and instead have pulled
and scratched their way
to leadership, organiza
tion, and activity. First
and second vice presi
dents, committee chair
men, discussion leaders,
floor whips, student gov
ernesses they crawl
through the windows of
the student union, like
vermin, ride the eleva
tors, mob the meeting
rooms, crowd the aisles,
infest the crib, the
Jounges, th e basement,
the barbershop and
they'll stop at nothing un
til they've chastized, de
apathized, moralized, uni
fyied, and hogtied the
whole union, campus, in
deed the state and the na
tion. ,
r a it
These dainty scorpions,
more so than the aver
age woman in trousers,
get their greedy teeth
into everything once re
served for man they
wear his clothes, his ties,
his shirts; they mock his
hair, his walk, his speech;
they have succeeded im
mensely at a reasonable
imitation of his figure.
Their immediate goal is
the sacred masks of the
mortar bores, the glee
and giggles of the sisters
and IFC on May's ivy
twine. But in their haste they
forget the logic and clar
ity of pure, simple hypoc
risy they confuse and
disguise their flight for
fancy in ten thousand
projects, which, from the
buildup these Madison av
e n u e she-wolves give
them, make the Berlin
airlift look like the Sel
leck hop. These alluring,
alluding lady astronauts
have managed to orbit
the previously tolerable
asininity ef man ten times
over.
Most of them come from
sorority row. Their houses
are partly to blame ev
ery young pearshaped
pledge who makes her
average first semester
and has learned how to
properly handle a bras
siere and girdle a discus
sion group is told that
she can make it. Honey
Dear People,
As I write this column,
I am assuming that ev
eryone can read the Daily
Nebraskan, that everyone
can read the notices post
ed in the Union, and that
most people who work on
a committee know-when
their committee meets.
Evidently, the University
of Nebraska Builders do
not share these assump
tions. Of late, an attempt
has been made by this
organization to compile a
list of weekly meetings.
The Meet Sheet, as this
production is Innocuously
called, is one of the most
uncalled for, unnecessary,
and completely redundant
innovations to be intro
duced on or campus this
year. Parkinson's Law
has been validated com
pletely when a committee
takes on a job already
done by the Daily Nebras
kan, the Union, and the
organizations themselves.
If the committees of this
organization are going to
create work for them
seJes, at least they could
think of some new type of
function, not simply a
repetition of a task al
ready adequately per
formed. A second rather inter
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pumpkin, you can be one
of them one of those
black masked, maverick,
mulvanyettes and not
just for herself, but for
the house, she should give
every effort, she should
buy, sell, yell, swing, sex,
and vex her way to ivy
day, We should be so
lucky that the grandstand .
might collapse on the
freshman-sophomore sec
tion. But there's one stipula
tion for the protege. She's
gotta put in eight thou
sand hours in skits, cam
paigning, yelling, singing,
moving some noteworthy
candidate for dream-queen
to another honor. The
protege, as will hers, is
obligated to drive the en
tire institution crazy, so
that her, big sister, and
some day she, may get
her wish the mask
across her ugly eyes, her
name in the World-Herald,
her mug in the Jour
nal, and the whole works
in the rag:
"Miss Eloise May Grip
tight, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley T.
Griptight, of Brightstar,
Iowa. Elosie May is a
junior in elementary
speech therapy, and is
in Lincoln Project, Red
Cross, Blue Shield,
Black Plague, Great
Dane, Fort Worth, YW, '
X and Z. Upon gradua
tion Elosie May plans
to hang around and
watch Tom Kotouc work
out."
So they go from door to
door, skirting. They won't
even let the men eat, for
cryin out loud. On elec
tion eve, or campaign
season, or just for the
hell of it, they come by
the thousands, to perform
their skits and sing their
ditties, making future
breadwinners stand up
and down at every two
minute entrance till the
potatoes are cement. The "
Newman Club never had
it so good. And the skits
for jumpin Judas im
agine having to sit
through a fourteen act
Coed Follies. They sing.
They dance. They act.
And all the while the lima
beans and mashed pota
toes are collaborating in a
pencillin culture on your
plate. But the show
goes one:
"Ellen Mary Smith is
the girl for you
She's great, she's cute,
she's forty-two
She wants your vote, 60
coo coo coo
Vote for Ellen Mary,
. that's what to do!!!"
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And then one of 'em-
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esting note about the
Meet Sheet is the obvi
ously poor taste of the
group who edited the
Sheet last week. Build
ers has as one of its ma
jor functions publicizing
the University, "building
a better University." Un
der what specific function
of Builders was the duty
to slam a recently penal
ized group construed? I
am referring to the state
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the Gretna high senior
class play lead steps out I
and gives you the cam-
paign pitch for some cow-
girl cutie. By this time
you are paying to vote for . I
her if they will . only
please go home to their
own dinner theater.
What is noteworthy
about the present move-
ment of the female activ-
ity animals is their di-
versification. Even yet
they are writing columns I
in our own school paper I
clever, subtle, jabbing, I
demanding lasting liter- I
ature which beats about I
our brains, claws at our
eyes, haunts our sleep. I
Not only the newspaper
but they're into every 1
thing. They march, they '
volleyball, they contribute
and solicitate, they drink s
and smoke, swear, chew,
and scream bloody mar- I
der if all nine thousand
of us don't show up at I
Student Council meeting.
But what is to be done
about this mass move of 1
matronly metermaids into
the campus political
world, into the previous-
ly male dominated world 1
of activity and campus
extracurricular? Good- I
ness alas tis too late.
Their male counterparts,
the Wednesday night IFC, 1
the "new breed," wants I
them to merge; they want i
to hold hands up the lad-
der of political omnipo-
tence.The IFC and Stu- I
dent Council want to I
share the pants. And thus 1
we must now not only en-
dure those suit and tied
male undergraduate jump-
ing jacks, but those pierc- I
ing, squealing, sopranoed.
sour beans are teaming f
up to drive us out of our
minds.
Someone take them I
away. Coach Devaney, re-
cruit tiiem put them in a
slush fund give them
money to go home. Take
these fair from our hair,
and let us only dream of
the blessed silence exist-
ing when only the magnif-
icent thirteen male blun-
derers are left to lead us.
But these sirens have got-
ten aboard our ship, and
will soon be at the helm;
calling for more coal,
more steam, they'll sail
us into the sea of tea;
the University will drop I
its academic schedule for
these buxom bucanneers
of the builders calendar. I
Education will be re- I
placed by activities, schol-
arship by feminine leader-
ship, academics by activ-
ities and the worst of it
all the new breed will
be moved from Wednes- 1
day night to Sunday aft- 1
ernoon. 1
ment, In what is sup-
posedly a list of meet-
ings, which read: "AL- I
PHA GAMMA RHO: Com- 1
plaining about the rising
cost of rabbit steak."
Yes, this is truly a
representative statement I
. about the University. Con-
gratulations, Builders, on
a new peak of efficient
redundancy and despica- I
ble taste. I
H. I
OJE NEED SOMEONE "ID SO OVER,
AND M1N6LE WITH THE OTHER
TEAM, AND FIND OUT THEIR
5TRENSTH AND WEAKNESSES-
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VOLUNTEER J
(Coartaar of Omaha World Herald) 5
. sity of Nebraska will cel
ebrate Greek Week. This
is to be a time to take
pride in the accomplish
ments fraternities and
their members have
made, a time to strength
en the bonds which all
fraternities share, and a
time to re-evaluate the
goals, purposes and
ideals of what we proudly
call the Greek system.
Such a week is spon
sored because we, as
Greeks, first of all,- sin
cerely believe that our or
ganization merits its own
existence, and does justi
fy itself; and secondly,
because we, like all oth
er organizations, face
problems which are
unique to our situation
but still very threatening.
It is because we do ap
preciate its immediate
benefits and believe ht the
potential of the Greek sys
tem that we pledge our
selves to make a consci
entious effort to face and
solve our difficulties and
shortcomings.
To anyone not closely
associated with a frater
nal group, it is difficult to
justify the existing dis
crimination we are at
tacked for, or our al
leged "snobbfchness."First
of all, I "would point out ;
that the very purpose of
the fraternity is to pro
vide an opportunity for
voluntary society where it
would probably otherwise
not be possible. We at
tempt to find men of qual
ity comparable to our
own, regardless of their
individual interest!,, and
base our friendship first
on common goals and
through the common ac
tivities provided by our
house as an organization.
This, of course, is only
the first step. We hope,
that the artificial bonds
which we construct
from pledge duties to
pledge sneaks will yield
to a deep rooted friend
ship derived from mutual
respect and compatibility.
In most cases it does.
We believe that there
4j-e certain qualifications
or characteristics prereq
uisite to successful frater
nal association, just as
there are for any success
ful friendship between two
men, and that they are
magnified because the fra
ternity is friendship mag
nified in size. I acknowl
edge that fraternities dis
criminate; but I would
point out that while we
are attacked primarily for
racial discrimination, that
alone is only one of the
many bases by which we
judge prospective mem
bers. We also select our
brothers-to-be judging in
telligence, appearance, at
titude, creativity, talent,
and even the ability to
pay the extra monetary
price of fraternity mem
bership. We realize that we are
often guilty of misjudg
ment, of accepting a su
perficial attraction in lieu
of a deeper character, and
that we sometimes miss
outstanding character be
cause of less outstanding
appearance. These are hu
man mistakes we do not
try to justify. We recog
nize our errors and try to
prevent their occurrence
in the future. Even recog
nizing this problem, we
still believe that our mer
its are not offset.
I would also point out
that as the values and at
titudes of the American
society have changed, fra
ternity membership has
been expanded to include
mauy who once would
have been excluded. As
prejudice is outgrown in
our society, it has been
and will continue to be
outgrown by the Greek
system. My point is not to
condone the unfounded
prejudices we hold, but
rather to show they are
not unrelated to the whole
society; and that we are
making progress in over
coming them.
I said that we have re
flected change" in the at
titudes and values held by
our society. It h in this
respect that we face the
greatest challenge to our
future. There can be little
doubt that students are
now entering the Univer- .
sity more mature, having
more definite purpose, and
are willing to work hard
er than they have in the
past. Improved teaching
on the high school level is
increasing their desire to
get an education, not Just
(Continued on page 3)
iconoclast
With the smell of spring
in the air, the flowers
gently begin to break the
earth's crust, the robins,
red-breasted, begin to
sing their happy songs of
earthworms, the ground
(according to the princi
: pies of economics 107)
becomes warm, scantily
clad coeds climb to un
telescopic heights in
search of ultraviolet rays
and vitamin D, Pioneer
Park becomes a pile of
prone, book-holdi'ig bodies,
and w certain junior, stu- -dents
(not to exclude
frosh, sophs, and sen
iors) begin to show their1
true color (black and
red).
Yes, with the coming of
spring all of these self
made pomposities can be
seen gamboling on the
lees (or' in the Colcsium
in presence of Inclement
weather, severe promis
cuous rock throwing, cer
tain rowdy drunks, the re
gional physicists frisby
tournament, or the or
ange blossom party; be
decked in their nco-harlc-quln
costumes like so
many Zorros, Lone Rang
ers, or Ku Klux Klaners
proseletyzing some more
of their ilk. It is indeed an
awesome sight. v
Prior to this day this
peculiar " breed ' of stu- :
dents (known more com
monly and Unionly as
pushers) flits from pillar
to post clearing up im
broglio, after imbroglio,
ruling without consent or
consultation with the
ruled,- i representation
with a great deal of taxa
' tion), garnering points,
and doling out their bless
" ings to the riffraff with
insulting largesse. They
run for things, sit on
boards, make speeches
to one another, confer
with - noted campus au
thorities, talk, speak, con
verse, talk in hushed
tones, whisper, shout,,
meet, assemble, agree,
gather, and generally . vie '
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among themselves for
coveted positions. To my
best knowledge this is an
accurate unconcise aggre
gation of how the pusher
spends- his spring days,
weeks, and months.
Universitetic extroverts
stand up! Stand up and
fight for your University,
your system or "I's." GO
TO MEETINGS!!
However, it has come
to our realization that
there are some students
who do not fight for their
University or dorm, but
merely for their sanity.
These people are the stu
dents who came to col
lege to drink, carouse,
lollygag and graduate.
These people are the stu
dents who come to college
to choose world calender
queens of the century,' to
measure girls' bodies, to
print "breathtaking"
' measurements. These are
the people who come to
college to find husbands,
wives, and to appease
their rich parents.
To Thee We Sing.
We as Universities wish
not only to conjole but to
applaude these people.
Yes, oh chosen ones of
ours, learn to drink, laugh
and be unreliable. This is
our world. Prepare your
selves. Once again we would
like to honor those real
people of our small mid
westeni campus. Those
whom we have found to
be an oasis in a desert
of social famine.
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William Dale Bowers Jr.
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