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EDITORIAL
Thursday, December 6, 1 962
UNIVERSITY SENG . . . SING!
Family Gathers at Holiday Time j
HEAR THEM BELLS?
The face of this University is most
certainly . changing. Apathy towards the
University appears to be ebbing and
spirit is on the flow.' This is seen in
the change of attitude in many organ
izations and students. There's a definite
positive atmosphere appearing.
Student Council showed it by pro
posing an idea that is brilliantly posi
tive. To a great many student the loss
of our traditions here at Nebraska has
been of great concern. Many have com
plained about it. A few of them got to
gether a day or so ago and discussed
traditions that are no longer observed
around here. Traditions that helped to
lift the students and University to great
achievements in the past, but are mun
dane to our "sophisticated" midwestern
campus today.
WHILE COMPLAINING ABOUT the
loss, a change in the conversation began.
If we have lost all of our traditions, why
pot start another? And so there it was
a positive atmosphere on which a world
can be built. So the group went to the
Student Council as constituents another
move seldom seen before to ask their
representative to introduce a motion pro
posing that the University hold an All
University Sing of holiday songs Dec. 19.
Deck the Halls and tra-la-la-la-la!
We have spirit. The Sing is a beautiful
Idea. Its gift is simplicity and its scope,
University-wide.
Students, whether Greek or independ
ent or Unicorn, whether full-time or part
time, graduate or undergraduate, mar
ried or single all are invited. Faculty,
adniinistrator, or janitor will attend. If
you are connected with the University
and are cot afraid of singing a few. old
holiday standards, then you are eligible
to join us in a no-barrier, festive sing.
IT IS PROPOSED to have it in the
evening at 7 p.m. on the old side of the
Student Union. Like a pep-rally, but with
out banners, queens or heros. Only good
will and high spirit. Maybe Huske should
be invited! Put a beard on him and a
bit of red clothing and we have a Santa
Claus! What about considering other lo
cations? Like in front of the library or
gathered around the Carillion Tower.
Yeah, hear them bells?
Why not have Chancellor Hardin ap
pear before the entire student body and
faculty before the University as a per
son, not just an administrator? When was
the last time the Chancellor appeared be
fore the entire campus en mass? Come
on Chancellor say a few words to us.
Lead us in singing "Frosty, the Snow
man." Hear the bells?
IT IS AN IDEA to catch the imagina
tion of our most "sophisticated." Think
about it. Our University-family gathered
together to sing. Council has backed it.
Builders and Union are working on the
details. IFC, Panhellenic, RAM, Uni
corns, AWS, Mortar Boards, IWS, Inno
centsall have been contacted and give
favorable responses.
Union is planning to hold an all-University
coffee after the Sing. AUF is
considering doing all the serving and
collecting a couple pennies per cup to
add to their charity collection. Builder's
are considering the idea of stringing col
ored lights. AWS thinks that it will be
easy to lift freshman women's hours to
a later time for the occasion.
Ideate . . . Ideate! A new tradition
has been conceived. A few years ago the
Union sponsored a tree-lighting tradition.
It failed. Why? Lack of co-operation. On
ly the Union was in back of that tradi
tion. Dec. 19 the whole University will
be in back of a tradition. All groups will
be sponsoring it. Living units both
Greek and independent will be holding
MUSIC CAN BE PROVIDED by Sin
fonia. Carillon Tower can provide misty
eyed background atmosphere. Hear them
bells? After the Sing, we can "snake"
back to the Union for coffee.
Cold? We'll sing anyway. Rain? We
will sing anyway! Snow? Sing University,
Sing!
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CONSUMER Soot5
GOTHAM BOWL BOUND . . .
Color It Red Big Red!
So Nebraska has received and ac
cepted an offer to play in New York's
Gotham Bowl on Dec. 15th in front of
national television cameras.
Good deal and good luck.
The team has been hoping for a bowl
game and certainly deserves to go. How
ever, they haven't practiced since the end
of the season almost two weeks ago
and they have less than ten days to get in
6hape for Miami of Florida which has one
of the top passing games in the nation.
But if the coaches and players think
they can be ready, which they do, then all
the best to them and their three day holi
day in New York City. A fitting climax
to a hard, but tremendous season.
There is one other problem we students
should face. WILL HUSKIE GO TO THE
GOTHAM BOWL?
It has been a fear in many hearts that
Nebraska would be forced to show this
ill-costumed idea in public away from the
people who could possibly understand its
proposed significance.
How will Huskie take to New York?
HOW WILL NEW YORK TAKE TO
HUSKIE? Will success -spoil Huskie the
Husker?
Students are scanning through their
family trees in an attempt to find some
distant relative who lives in or near New
York City. No? Maybe a friend of a
friend of a friend lives in the nation's
largest city. Keep hunting.
Mayor Wagner has invited President
Kennedy to stay over in New York from
his Friday visit to see the Gotham Bowl
game. Wouldn't that bring rise to all
sorts of political traumas. Maybe the
Young Republicans can get back at the
YD's by circulating a poster asking:
"Who will the President root for Mi
ami or Nebraska?" If the President does
watch the game, the University would
really have a problem:
"WHAT WILL JFK THINK OF HUSKIE?"
I a jaundiced eye
Lo and behold . . . right next to the Tick Tock Bar.
A coffee house. Our very own coffee house. Oh, oh.
Look, look. See, see. It has a garish purple piano,
spangled with sequins like a fancy woman. The wait
resses are wearing black leotards. Can it be? Why it's
The Purple Piano a brainstorm of our own University
students!
The coffee is expensive, but with it comes a real,
live show. On Wednesday, the opening night, it was
Jim Herbert's Dixieland jazz group a boisterously plea
sant bunch. In store for the following week were folk
singers, Jerry Coleman's jazz trio, and others. In store
for later programming are old flics. The potential for a
place like this is unlimited. It combines the best of the
Union's Suite Beat with a non-function atmosphere . . .
Let's hope that they attempt a "hootenanny" sometime
soon. The room that houses The Purple Piano has a
certain flavor that the Muzak-laden hotels will never be
able to achieve, namely a smoky, artsy-craftsy atmos
phere resulting from (1) lots of people in a small space,
(2) live music, and (3) an air of genuine informality.
Last Wednesday night, when The Purple Piano
opened, crowds of people, mostly students fromv the for
eign film, poured in to partake of its beauty. The cof
i fee, when and if it came, was lukewarm in tempera
i ture and flavor (well, what do you expect for a first
try ... most beginning housewives do a lot worse ...),
but both the customers and the performers were having
a ball. There's a cigarete machine and plenty of ash-
trays. The hours it is open are student-geared, and it
: seems a perfect place for a bull session, There is no
I cover charge, although they ask that each person order
i one thing per show (the customers are willing, if the
i service can be speeded up).
Best of all. The Purple Piano is honestly fake, if
i there can be such a thing. They don't claim to be par-
ticularly intellectual or profound. They may even have
! to hire a beard to sit around and lend the proper touch.
There are ten owners, several of them music students
who want a place to display their talents (which they
certainly have), and they recognize the need in Lincoln
: for a place where students can go after nine o'clock
I without having their IDs checked. Praise be. Go and
see for yourself ... one door east of the Tick Tock Bar.
AID WITHIN U.S.A. . . .
Peace Corps Goes Domestic
Working out social problems within
the United States with a "domestic peace
corps" is being considered. It would seem
that the idea, in one form ar another,
will become reality within the next year
or two.
Attorney General Robert Kennedy,
who has worked with the United States
National Student Association (USNSA)
and foreign students in the United States,
Is reported taking a leading role in dis
cussions of the domestic peace corps
Idea.
The domestic peace corps will prob
ably have a far different name, and will
not be connected with the international
Peace Corps in any way. A resolution
in the USNSA codification has suggested
the name "Youth Conservation Corps"
and others have been put forward.
As presently conceived, the domestic
volunteers would work for periods of a
year or more under supervision of local
authorities. Like the Peace Corps, they
would only be sent to areas requesting
their services. Areas of possible work are
Indian reservations, urban slum areas
and various forms of social work, such
as care of the mentally retarded and
recreation work.
The volunteers would come from
much the same areas as the Peace Corps
college students over 18 and retired
persons. The Peace Corps has room for
only about one of every five applicants,
and requires fluent knowledge of a for
eign language.
The Administration concedes that
domestic work will not be as glamorous
as work in a foreign country, but points
to a recent experiment where a number
of Corps volunteers originally trained at
the University of New Mexico for work
in the urban slums of Columbia. During
training, they were sent into slum areas
in New York City to do social work.
Many of those volunteers said they would
join a domestic group if one existed.
Other cabinet members reported in
volved in the planning are Interior Secre
tary Stewart Udall; Health, Education
and Welfare Secretary Anthony Cele
brezze and Labor Secretary W. W. Writz.
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A JOURNALIST:
What Is This Animal?
(ACP) From the J-Day special issue of the Okla
homa Daily comes this definition of a journalist:
Just who is the person who calls himself a journalist?
He's a scavenger hunter, weatherman, flat-foot, cig
aret fiend, historian, scientist, sportsman, adventurer
and mule.
Defined by some, he is an unselfish, unfailingly hon
est purveyor of in' rmation.
Ulten a journalist must
be a blundering elephant
persistent and driving.
Yet, he must remain
sympathetic, kind and
considerate. He must be
tactful and at the same
time frank and honest.
Being consistently in
consistent describes him
well. He is constantly
late for appointment, but
ever punctual on a dead
line. His basic fault, per
haps, is not having enough
time there is never
enough time to get all the
news. And so, he must set
himself up as a judge to
choose those events he
feels are most news
worthy and necessary for
his public.
Though it sounds in
congruous, a journalist is
an objective bigot.
He is a do-it-your-selfer,
jack of all trades but
master of few and a stu
dent of everything. ,
Physically, he may
appear unkempt. He is
usually casual and calls
everyone by his first
name. He ages early, but
most of the wrinkles are
put there by smiles.
What is a journalist? He
is a student of mankind.
Bell Rings,
I No Pro f . . .
I Now What?
I Students have their own
I personal way of doing
I things and judging things.
1 But one question that
I many are not sure of how
s to answer is "If your In-
I structor doesn't arrive
when the bell rings, how
I long should a student wait
I for him?
I You could sit and wait
i until the dismissal bell.
I YouTl be lonely, sitting
there all by yourself, but
you could wait. Better is
to adopt the standard
waiting periods, graduat-
I ed according to the in-
1 structor's rank, thusly:
Teaching Assistant
i if he isn't there when the
I bell rings, take a coffee
s break or go back to the
I house for a few "Z's."
Instructor wait five
i minutes.
Assistant professor 10
I minutes.
Associate Instructor
15 minutes.
Professor anywhere
E from 20 to tb timp whpn
h freezes over, depend
ing on his temper.
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(Editor' Note: This Is the first in
a series of weekly problems submitted
by Pi Mu Epsilon. national honorary
mathematics society. Solutions should
be sent to 210 Burnett Hall. The an
swer to this weeks problem and an
other problem will appear next week.)
QUESTION: Find all in
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divisible by all integers
not exceeding the square,
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COMMITTEES:
AN AGONIZING RE-APPRAISAL
To those of you who stay out of your student government
because you believe the committee system w just an excuse
for inaction, let me cite an example to prove that a committee,
properly led and directed, can be a great force for good.
Last week the Student Council met at the Duluth College,
of Veterinary Medicine and Belles Lettres to discuss purchasing
a new doormat for the students union. It was, I assure you, a
desperate problem because Sherwin K. Kigafixw, janitor of the
studente union, threatened flatly to quit unless a new doormat
was installed immediately. "I'm sick and tired of mopping that
dirty old floor," said Mr. Sigafoos, sobbing convulsively. (Mr.
fsigafoos, once a jolly outgoing sort, has bwn crying almost
steadily since the recent death of his pet wart hog who had
been hi6 constant companion for 22 years. Actually, Mr. Sigafooi
is much better off without the wart hog, who tusked him
viciously at least once a day, but a companionship of 22 yean
is, I suppose, not lightly relinquished. The college tried to giv
Mr. Sigafoos a new wart hog a frisky little fellow with floppy
ears and a waggly tail but Mr. Sigafoos only turned his back
(uk! cried the harder J
But I digress. The Htudent Council met, discussed the door,
mat for eight or ten hours, and then referred it to a committee.
There were some who Miffed tlien and aaid nothing would
ever le heard of the doormat again, but they reckoned without
In virtus Millstone.
Invictus Millstone, chairman of the doormat committee,
was a man of action lithe and lean and keen and, naturally,
amolter of Marlboro Cigarettes, Why do I toy "naturally"?
Because, dear friends, active men and women don't have tim
to brood and bumble about tlieir cigarettes.. They need to I
eerUiin. They must have perfect confidence that each time Uiey
light up they will get the same gratifying flavor, the same
fielectrate filter, the same soft soft-pack, the same flip top
flip-top box. In brief, dear friends, they need to be sure it'
Marlboro-for if ever a smoke was true and trusty, it's Marlbo.-o.
Get some soon. Get matches too, because true and trusty
though Marlloros are, your pleasure will be somewhat limited
unless you light them.
Well sir, Invictus Millstone chaired his doormat committee
with such vigor and dispatch that when the Student Council
met only one week later, he was able to rise and deliver tU
following recommendations:
1. That the college build new schools of botany, hydraulie
engineering, tropical medicine, Indo-Gennanic languages, and
millinery.
2. That the college drop football, put a roof on the stadium,
and turn it into a low-cost housing project for married students.
3. That the college raise faculty salaries by $.5000 per year
across the board.
4. That the college secede from the United States.
5. That the question of a doormat for the students union
be referred to a subcommittee.
So let us hear no more defeatist talk about the committee
system. It can be made to work I oirauu sbumaa
You don t need a committee to tell you how good Marlboro!
re. You futt need yourtelf, a Marlboro, and a let of tatte
bud. Buy torn Marlboro toon at your favorite tobacco
tountet.