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EDITORIAL
Monday, May 7, 1962
CONGRATULATIONS
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Top-notch Selections!
The Nebraskan wishes to extend its sin
cere congratulations to the Queen of the
May, the sweetheart of the campus, Miss
Sukey Tinan. Everyone that has had the
slightest contact with Miss Tinan will
agree that it was a wise choice.
Dean J. P. Colbert, Dr. Henry E. Baum
garten and Professor James Blackman are
also to be commended on their selection
into Innocents Honorary. Recognition well
placed by the retiring Innocents and well
deserved by the recipients.
Turning to the selections of Innocents
and Mortar Boards, one can see Leader
ship and ability personified. The o 1 d
crews really did themselves up right witl;
their selections, and the University should
be very proud of their choices.
Nancy Miller was an outstanding choice
for president of the Black Masque. She
has demonstrated her ability through work
in the Nebraska Union, her honaries,
scholarships and her sorority. She also
has a great group of women to work
with. We were pleased to see the Mortar
Boards select 12 girls this year.
Innocents Society has an excellent choice
for president John Nolon has proven that
he is deserving of the title of Top junior
What Other Editors Say
Time moves on and still he talks,
Not noticing the clock's swift hands.
He talks and fiddles with his chalk
And lectures, leaning on the stand.
Lunch draw nigh and on he goes,
We see no logical end in sight.
All stomachs growl and in the throes
Of hunger, we bemoan our plight.
Award Nominations Open
POME
When I think that I shall never see
A ballot without the IFC
All the money for the ad
To proclaim "these guys ain't bad."
SCBC enters the voting fray
With their troops the very same day
Both sets are a motley crew of dancers
They know the questions, but not the
answers.
Up go the posters in the Crib
Out go the slogans brittle and glib "
"I'm intellectual, I'm sublime,
Make the council position mine!"
Each little ad with one unique note
Don't forget to go and vote.
Epitaph:
And since I know that there won't be
An election without cries of "apathy,"
Teaming righteous Indication rises
But this one might bring a few surprises.
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ord is most impressive and his personality
even more so.
We can note in the Innocents Society
some real top men. How the retiring 13
were able to make their selections for
ranking and tackling is a difficult ques
tion to answer, but they did the best job
that We can recall in four years.
It is difficult, the old war horses say,
to make selections of this type. And as
usual, there are probably a few neglected.
But those who deserve the honor receive
it and we congratulate them.
We hope they will demonstrate to fu
ture students that which they signify
leadership, scholarship and service to the
University and their fellow students. Qual
ities that every incoming freshman and
actually every student at the University
should possess if they are to get the full
est possible benefits from college.
We would not be complete in our con
gratulations unless we mentioned two in
dividuals. Dr. Alex Edlemann made a
top MC, and Miss Mary Jean Mulvaney
Mortar Board Adviser, for the very
fine contribution they made to make Ivy
Day 1962 the best ever.
Now there's the bell; we close our books;
But wait! His mouth is open still.
Our faces take on anxious looks.
Resigning our fate with strongest will.
Never, I say, no never again
Will I take his class at 11:10
The Midland
We now move into the home strecthes
of the school year. Finals are three weeks
away. We, of the Nebraskan staff start
looking forward to the selection of the
Outstanding Nebraskans.
These awards are given on the basis
of service to the University by distin
guished student and faculty members.
Over the past few years, this award has
become one of the top and most coveted
on the campus, and the persons who have
received it have all proven their qualities.
We will now accept your letters of nom
ination for the outstanding faculty and
student awards. Letters are the sole basis
for decision. There is no Length or specif -cifications,
other than the simple fact
they must be signed.
So, get the letter in now. Awards will
be made the last Friday of school.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Don Ferguson
Jim Forrest
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Skill,
Dear Sir:
I would like to make a
critical reply to the let
ter written by Ulcerated
Awful Otto (which I hope
is a pseudonym), appear
ing in the Daily Nebras
kan Campus Forum on
May 2. 1962.
Otto's cloudy rhetoric
reminds me of that used
by the highly esoeric Ger
man philosophers of the
nineteenth century. H i s
basic thesis seems to be
that students at the Uni
versity of Nebraska are
"apathetical" because of
their chronic over-indulgence
in the forbidden
pleasures of alcohol and
sex. It appears to me that
Otto's analysis is a tire
some repetition of the an
cient Carry Nation Bil
ly Sunday beliefs: student
apathy equals evil equals
partaking of alcoholic bev
Friends, scholars, coun
trymen, lend me your
minds, and from this van
tage point I will attempt
to right the many and
varied wrongs worked up
on you by Herr Hatch,
the upholder of all that is
fine and pure in the Eng
lish language, the arbiter
of inter-lingual morality.
It would appear after a
cursory glance at Mr.
Hatch's article in the Ap
ril 12th issue of that
learned journal defensive
ly referred to as the
'Rag", that his insight
into this or any other lan
guage has been dulled by
a too frequent misuse of
his native tongue. But a
closer examination shows
him to be a veritable
"geyser of pish-posh." He
said he came before us to
bury language, and I
must confess that if h i s
article may be used as
a reference, his goal was
achieved magnificently.
But what is my com
plaint? It is two-fold: Bro
ther Hatch not only gave
us an abominably written
treatise deploring the
abominable use of Eng
lish by his brethren, but
also used two examples
that by no stretch of the
most vivid imagination
could be considered valid
for his argument. I make
no attempt to defend the
English department, nor
am I concerned with the
possibly hurt pride of the
Language departments,
for I'm sure both will sur
vive the silly syllogisms
of learned collegue Mr.
Hatch. But in all fairness
I think it should be men
tioned that their purpose,
in actuality and theory,
is not that of teaching il
literate students the "me
chanics" of the English
language, but rather is
their job that of expand
ing the student's know
ledge in the by-products
of this language. Isn't a
university often referred
to as an institution of
"higher 1 e a r n i n g?"
Granted this may be a
presumptions appellation
on the part of our humble
professordom (possibly it
takes up some of the
slack left by their pay
checks), but nevertheless
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Organization, Followthrough
erages and sex. Needless
to say, I think that Ot
to's analysis is painfully
superficial.
As a battle-scarred vet
eran of two years in stu
dent government at anoth
er state university, I
would . like to state my
personal analysis of stu
dent apathy on the Uni
versity of Nebraska cam
pus: 1) Hungry dogs prowl
and bark; well-fed dogs
sit still. If students do not
see campus political de
velopments as affecting
their personal lives, they
do not take part in such
activities. As a general
rule, college students are
from middle and upper
class homes ( well-fed,
well-housed, well-clothed,
etc.); why should cam
pus developments which
do not affect their secure
social or economic posi
Lend Me Your Minds
I somehow do not look
upon the "mechanics" of
English as fit fodder for
the fields of "higher
learning."
But the foregoing is not
getting to the core of
Hatchet's droll dispatch.
His verdict by implication
that the booksellers are
somehow allied en masse
against learning is out of
the realm of the palpably
absurd and hovers dang
erously near the preopos
trous. He mentions that
they often publish texts
with "many mechanical
mistakes." From whence
stems his wisdom: Isn't
it a fact that most gram
matical rules are rules
only in general, and that
the fear of those devlish
"exceptions" constantly
haunts the student and
causes the teacher to
blush and stutter?
And what is this bilge
that anyone can learn a
foreign language by living
in the foreign country for
"a short time"? Naive,
to say the least. It either
proves that he has never
done so, just as his ar
ticle proves that he has
never seriously enter
f.jned logic, or having
done so, is putting too
much value on whatever
superficial knowledge he
might have gleaned from
the unsuspecting natives.
The alternative is, ' of
course, that Mr. Hatchly
has a genious for learn
ing languages, for which,
if true, he should certain
ly be commended, but at
the same time cautioned
against using this talent
as a criterion, or as a bas
is for making his airy
generalizations.
And what of the langu
age departments not be
ing able t teach a speak
ing knowledge f their
language in the class
rooms? For one thing this
is not entirely true, and
for another, it is irrele
vent, for 'tis not their
goal, mein lieber Quatscb
er, any more than the
goal of the English de
partment is that of teach
ing conversational Eng
lish. And his allegation
that the knowledge of a
foreign language one
picks up in classroom
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tion deserve their inter
est? 2) Unchained dogs roam
the neighborhood and
town; chained dogs stay
put. It is an undeniable
fact, observable in all but
a very few American uni
versities, that student
government is a farce.
Administrators appointed
to their positions make
the policy decisions on ev
ery university campus,
and student revolt is not
allowed. The facade of
student government is
erected to maintain the
token appearance of stu
dent participation in the
educational decision
making process.
3) Experienced dogs
make the best hunters;
untrained dogs wear
themselves out running in
circles. Successful student
council politics, just as
any other brand of poli
is useless in the land of
the language is also utter
nonsnese. Perhaps his
personal experience and
inadequacy proved this,
but again that is no cri
terion. In short, his entire ti
rade would seem to stem
from a bad personal ex
perience with a foreign
language, or possibly he
drank some bad German
pilsner or some sour
French wine. This certain
ly is reason enough to
get riled, but at the same
time it is no reason why
the rest of us should be
burdened with his inan
ity or the various depart
ments castigated by his
petulant carping. But
enough of his Cant-Bury
Tales, and back to the
conjugations.
Terry White
Dept. of Germanic Si
Slavic Languages
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IWA will hold a recognition 1
dessert Monday at 7:30 p.m.!
in the Pan American room
of the Union. The price is
fifty cents a person. The ban-;
quet will honor independent!
women who are outstanding
in scolarship, as IWA workers !
and in campus activities.
UXSEA will meet Wednes-'
day in room 234, Student Un
ion, at 7:00. There will be a
panel' discussion of student
teaching.
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tics, demands manipula
tion, strategy, and a cer
tain amount of cunning.
Political decisions of im
portance are not resolved
by the niceties of parlia
mentary procedure, for
mal debate, or individual
crusades, but by plan
ning, organization, and
hard-driving leadership.
One must practice the
art of politics in order to
become proficient at it.
The answer to the prob
lem of student apathy is
the same as the answer
to apathy in .the general
political arena: political
skill, organization, and
follow-through. This is the
pattern which has been
proven successful in th
past, and will no doubt
continue to remain so in
the future.
Sincerelv vours,
Wendell Phillips
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