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EDITORIAL
Friday, May 18, 19621
INTERFRA TERNITY COUNCIL
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The fraternity half of the
Greek system indicated signs
Wednesday of growing maturity
and working toward a fulfill
ment of its obligation to those
it serves.
The Interfraternity Council
presented its member houses
with a seminar meeting on
pledge training and scholarship.
It has finally reached past the
initial stages of reorganization
and structuring into the areas of
developmental programming
and definite service to the fra
ternities on campus.
We are all aware of the criti
cism that has come to the Greeks
at Nebraska over the past few
years, from incident to incident
in pledge training, to revealing
facts of scholastic challenge.
Dean Eldon Park, Illinois,
made a very good analysis of our
system's pledge training. Bill
Buckley, IFC secretary, made
and presented Wednesday, a
program.
Probably the best statement
made by Buckley was "have a
program' Now is the time for
fraternities to develop their atti
tude toward pledges. Now is the
time for active fraternity men to
realize that you do not build men
by treating them as boys. Now is
the -time to realize the impor
tance of the pledge trainer be
cause he moulds the f uture of his
fraternity; he holds in his hands
the development of 20-3040
freshmen.
But the outspoken minority of
traditionalists, with what Buck
ley described as an attitude of
"it was done to me and my
brother before me and his broth
er before, and it will be done to
you," still hinders progress in
many houses.
any fraternity on this cam
pus looks to the future, it will 1
discard the past. 1
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IFC Scholarship Chairman 1
Dennie Christie also presented
the IFC with University facts on
averages. He pointed out that
pledging men in the lower half
of their class is a definite gam- f
ble as only 20 of them have a 1
chance of making the required
5.000 average. And that only
31 of those graduating in the 1
second quarter of their high
school class will make their av-
erage.
Christie said that "We must I
improve fraternity scholarship
and must start next fall by the
men we pledge."
The houses which have had
little success in initiating their
freshmen should pay heed to his
recommendation.
Another issue which was
stressed by Buckley in summing
the total pledge program was
that the fraternity should return
to a realization of its basic
ideals. Fraternalism can be in-
stilled in the freshman without 1
treating him as a child, without
making him subservient in all he
does. 1
It looks like the past methods 1
of pledge training will change.
Due to the continued efforts of
a strong IFC, the basis of fra-
ternity has been expanded and a
progressive giant step taken.
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Buckley quoted an article:
"Fraternities will live on if f
they die, however, they will die
by their own hands suic' los."
We are now convinced 'fter
Wednesday's IFC meeting, and 1
the attitudes that it generated,
that there will not be mass sui-
cide within the Nebraska Greek
system, but a re-awakening of
the responsibilities of the fra-
ternity to the development of an
individual. I
NV4 BERUN WM-L
Colorado's Brun
Will Lecture
At NU Campus
Prof. Ernst Brun, acting as
sociate professor in the de
partment of physics at the
University of Colorado will
serve as a visiting lecturer at
the University, Monday and
Tuesday.
Prof. Brun is currently on
leave from the University of
Zurich in Switzerland. He is
appearing under the auspices
of the American Association
of Physics Teachers and the
American Institute of Physics
as a part of a nationwide pro
gram to stimulate interest in
physics. The program is be
ing conducted with the sup
port of the National Science
Foundation.
The Visiting Scientists Pro
gram, now in its fifth year,
has enabled prominent Amer
ican physicists to lecture at
many American colleges and
universities.
Union Entertainment
Plans Moonlight BomI
The Entertainment Commit
tee of the Student Union is
sponsoring a Moonlight Bowl,
Sunday from 7 to
8:30 p.m. at the Univer
sity bowling lanes. During
the scotch double bowling, no
lights will be on except those
lighting the pins and the
lanes themselves.
Price is $1.00 per couple.
ICurtain Call
Other Editors Say . . .
Dr. Robert Chasson. head of the Uni
versity physics department since 1956,
has resigned.
Dr. Chasson is a man of growing repu
tation in his field, highly respected inter
nationally. His departure must be con
sidered a heavy loss to this state.
He spoke with candor of his decision.
He doesn't like it here. He will go to a
school he believes is more realistic and
more sincere in its determination to at
tain front rank. He doubts the Administra
tion's understanding of what it takes to
build a good physics department. But
most of all he has lost confidence the
legislature will give a sympathetic ear
to University problems.
Those are arresting statements. They
will bring a sharp reply from Nebraska
loyalists. They will be called one man's
opinion. It will be easy to castigate him
because his critics will be speaking for
home consumption.
But the critics will not win much be
cause their words cannot alter the facts.
One is that the department is not re
nowned. Dr. Chasson is truly a high
level physicist. His departure will weak
en the department by that much. What
he said about the legislature is largely
true. If his farewell was not graciously
spoken it is mostly of concern to Ne
braska. The nation has lost nothing. Dr.
Chasson is only changing his base of
operations, alleviating his own problems.
But the University and the state will
continue to have the disabilities he enu
merated and his departure does not solve
them. And they will not be solved until
the state is ready to define its position
on higher education and live up to it. If
it wants something for nothing, it can't
have it. If it doesn't want anything it
should say so.
The Lincoln Star
Wednesday evening in Howell Memorial Theater un
der the direction of William R. Morgan, the University
Speech and Dramatic Arts department presented the
opening of Sea Gull by Anton Chekov.
Unique in its presentation and portrayal, the re
viewer has encountered a series of mixed emotions
over the worth and value of this presentation.
Noticeably enough, action was directed on two lev
els. Initially, the play is presented through "An im
pression of humdrum everyday existence." Beneath
this outer layer of cursory action lies the hidden
meaning of this presentation. The lines of meaning lay
dormant between these two levels and the audience is
allowed to develop its own subjective evaluation of the
play's meaning.
Opening with a certain lack of grace, the play
progresses somewhat like the development of life. Each
act reveals a sudden growth in maturity and percep
tion. Climaxing in the fourth act, a certain revelation
is cast upon the audience. Nancy Wilson as Nina, a
then disallusioned romantic, captures the audience in
a series of rather long speeches which aptly prepare
the play for its conclusion. John Christianson as Con
stantine fulfills the audience's most morbid hopes with
a somewhat anticlimatic suicide. In all, he played an
extremely competent role as the aspirant, but frustrat
ed young author.
Unfortunately, scenery and effects complement the
play's common nature, and leave something to be de
sired. Some humor and life is interjected into the
"plot" by David Heffelbower as Ilya Afanasyevitch
Shamrefeff, and Wilma Wolfe as Pauline Andreyevna,
both depicting Russian country "boors." Jerry Mayer
as Semyon Semyonovitch Medvedenko shows progres
sive talent as an Integral part of the scene as the
play continues.
Larry Long as Eugene Sergeyevitch Dorn and Tod
Moore as Boris Alexeyeyiteh Trigorin show considerable
talent as actors, but lose this in their attempts to
assume the roles of worldy philosophers. Correctly, the
play shows no great degree of perfection, and corres
pondingly complements the nature of life so difficult
to obtain in any medium.
I recommend this play to anyone prepared to leave
the theater still thinking about it.
Dick Durfee
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