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- A Page 2 , EDITORIAL FOOTBALL TEAM Gotham Gotham Bowl ... a guarantee check in Jim Pittenger's hands ... a TV contract for live coverage . . . every thing for Nebraska. Day in New York City. It looks like all arrangements have been made and we hope that by the time this editorial is read that our foot ball team has departed for New York. Has there ever been so much con fusion and doubt connected with a bowl game before ... we doubt it. If Ne braska and Miami have been in doubt, we wonder what the reaction has been c TP """ r---gr-S -J; ,F S ft " O oSz Mason Letter Explained To the Editor: In the Nebraskan of Dec. 3, I compared a his torical prejudice, that of anti-masonry, to what ap pears to me an equiva lent bias here at Nebras kathat of the recent, Problem Of The Week by Pi Ma Epsilon QUESTION: A chain consists of 2,000 links. What is the least number of links that must be dis engaged from the chain in order that any speci fied number of links, from one to 2,000, may be gathered together from the parts of the chain thus formed? (Send your solution to 210 Burnett HalL The an swer will appear next week along with another problem.) SOLUTION: The ques tion last week asked that you "find all integers such that N is divisible by all integers not exceed ing the square root of N." N has at most 4 non-triv-11, prime factors. The integers are 24, 12, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2; and these are the only solutions. SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION Telephone 477-8711, ext. 2588, 2589, 2590 Member Associated Collegiate Press, Internationa Press Representative Na- tlonal Advertising Service, Ineorporatel." Published at: Room 51, Student Union, Lincoln 8, Nebraska. Mth i R tnum o-ckM ! mmUxt. Mtafa said, at thm tart rie la l.lwwln. Nraks Th fail Mettraafca la whtlhd fday. aydpMdar, TH'alffi and Fndv arta thm a"hl rear, asrvl taring -aru and mm af,tnd. and at durlni Aacwai. b? andnta af Ibr linlvfrallf nf 4bral(a ffnd'r thm nthnrira. baa at M CammiUaa mm SladeBt AMalra n as nprmlaaj LEAVES, PLEASE . . . Bound . . . MALFUNCTION somewhat unreasonable, apparently baseless cry against the sub rosas. I had earlier asked for some reasons for the out lawing of sub rosa mem bershipbesides that of secrecy and received in stead a sieve-like set of seven points. Still in search for some answer, I submitted an (appar ently ambiguous) analo gy, hoping to excite some reasonable response. In stead, Douglas replied (Dec. 10). I think there can be lit tle question that the au thor of that text exerpt was reporting a some what empty popular en thusiasm. He uses terms like "a 1 1 e d g e d 1 y," "strange enthusiasms." "rumor," and left little doubt that he thought the anti-masons a somewhat excitable ignorant lot. He uses the phrase "simple and ignorant folk" to de scribe them. In my letter I almost underlined the above words and phrases but decided not to. After all I was writing to col lege students able for most part to grasp mean ing counched sometimes in subjunctive terms. I was wrong. There is one or are some among us who do not understand even the most elementary analogy. Douglas did not, appar ently, even read beyond the first line and at that missed the final punc tuationa question mark. The masons were com pared to the sub rosas in- ii m Daily Nebraskan m mmrm mm raMiraiMfi amwr ow andiriiHi at "i nhrnm-nltl-f m m,mw PaniMnllmM aliall b trm trim editor at rnaMrtit n ibi van f tn nnbrnmrnttia or m i mi ' n7 p.. muidr li. Dnit-eMiiT Tb rr9m.-" - lor whal rrhnmri a, ims uchinkii rfF "" n1 Vnhn 7jHllnr Al,lnl Bmlnna Manacrra Rill Otrallrka, Rob ( nnnlnrham ClrrnlaUVm Mmntn lm TraaK" H'fllTilttlaf. mi.l na1n RdlWr Nra .ditar CwViSJSi Mnda Uta'l Wrllr Krir Phniaraniier Friday, December 14, 19621 We Hope in New York. With a strike on among the metropolitan press in New York the average man-on-the-street probably hasn't heard much that has been going on. This is good; otherwise they may have serious doubts concerning the san- ity of Gotham Bowl officials. But anyway, we will assume that the team has departed and will wish the best for them. No team has de- served this chance more than our '62 version of Big Red. It is a fitting tribute 1 to all of -them and Nebraska's coaching 1 staff. i fVyvOUvkJ sofar as they were or are hounded without sufficient or just reason. They were compared insofar as they have both been accused of being "office-holding cliques," "anti-democrat ic," and are secret soci- f eties. They are compared i insofar as they are or were the targets of many who seem or seemed to find in them a threat to motherhood, God, Country and Christianity. I do not condone or sympathize with Anti-masonry any more than I condone or sympathize with the hue and cry and over severe popular and official reaction on this campus to a group that paints an occasional in signia on sidewalks. In the future, 1 respect fully submit suggest that Douglas might open his Nebraskan with an unbi ased mind and have the person who read him my previous letter read it to him again this time ex plaining, slowly and clear- ly what those funny marks on the paper sig- nify. Sincerely yours, I James K. Taylor S iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiftiiiiiiimiMiiifl VbOUl IX'Uerfc 11 i si 1 Tim Vr"Br"-r II iZJTZZXrtZ'rlU Hwf. rsmain rpritmhl ad a rr. irit be trm of HWImn ma 1 Irrfu mmn an l Is S lodd and will be plard z .mtr rnt s 2 ii kan ,i vohiK-atiM. Lcmrtbr S3 .llr mn If dtld m am llM IQiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirE , flail, Nh-akan alafl mrr fHirannallT Ibrr nr. ar da. ar raa la k arinud ii rmn a n, WhllarUi 5 Vfmt, a,,,, s lam.ii. Ip Bnltrr. trnii""7r"t 5 Hnrlh. flr r.nccr n :. 5 8tlllllh.r.r. fnm MKHnnla s . ix,. ;:V.7iK 2We Belong, But Don't j By Rabbi Sheldon Edwards ' (Editor's Note: Folio w- ing is the text of an ad- dress given by Rabbi Ed i wards to the Bit: Ten Stu- dent Body Presidents Conference at SUI Satur- day.) All of us are or should be familiar with Newton's 1 Law of Motion. Simply stated it is that for every action there is a reaction. Most everyone accepts this when dealing with physical forces. My ques tion on this night is, why do we not accept this when dealing with our fel- " lowmen. i A smile begets a smile, Yet how often do we s m i 1 e? A helping hand restores someone's confi- dcnce and usefulness; 1 how often do we extend a helping hand? True shar- ing, not charity, helps someone over a difficult period and through diffi- cult times. How often do we truly share? What does the ancient j world of our fathers have to t e a c h us about this Twentieth Century in j which new marvels and new miracles are an al- most every day occur- rence? What does the age of 1 tradition with its rituals and its ceremonies have to say to this revolution- ary age of change with its tremendous problems and its awesome chal- lenges. 5 For every action there is a reaction. This con- 5 f 1 i c t between tradition i and change turns out to be an old tug of war that has been going on since ancient days, i Moses faced it as a mob of illiterate slaves were changed in 40 years i into an agricultural com- munity capable of settling in its own land. Moses foresaw the problems that his people would face in adjusting themselves to a new society. A generation I of new neighbors, the de- velopment of a new cul- i ture and new religious 1 patterns. I And so in his farewell address, just before he died, Moses gave them this instruction: "Remember the days of old, in order that you may understand how to live in each generation." What did Moses mean by this line which was I more of a command than I an instruction? He was simply saying that each generation will be con- I fronted with new de- mands and challenges. I His basic, fundamental needs go on, and these I remain with him through all the ages, and if you would know how to meet (J) the geek tne guid. BnH th, wigdom of the unchanging truths about man. In modern terminology, I the three basic needs of all human beings are: I The need to belong; The need to believe; The need to become. Looking about us, to- day, we might well be in- clined to feel that insofar as the need to belong and the need to believe are i concerned we a r e meet- ing them adequately. Cer- tainly in the United 5 States, belonging doesn't seem to be a problem. More than 120 years ago, i Alexis de Tocquevillc aft- 1 er a visit to our country wrote, "The common trait I of Americans is that they 1 are a nation of joiners." If anything we belong too much, we join anyming and everything, and who can say that we are not meeting the need to be- Inn 0 same miht he said of our need to believe, We live in a land that has stamped its belief on Us coins, "!n God we trust" and We maY Well iru , .. . fog Cflllcd a nation l De- T7. ,1 ,. ... I n ,.. lievers. Every flay in our pledge of allegiance we say, one nation unaer rnA" K 11 t B 1 V WC are meeting the second basic need, the need to believe. But even if we oeiuae ourselves into thinking that we belong and be- lieve, even we cannoi iooi - , .. t,i,itI OUrSelVeS intO inmKing . , , Dvnn Tin vine that We are even paying I;- fiiIpu tn thp third fll- I mension of man's needs, "1' v' . . 7 becoming. 1 If we are honest with I ourselves we know and We feel Keeniy our maa- WC ,, ,.:.,. equacy and our failure. Everyone OI US kliOWS that the law Of lift' iS grOWltl, ana UCaUl ana the negation of life is 'Remember Days of Old to Understand How to Live In Each Generation' stagnation and decay. Ev ery human being is a bundle of potentialities, and a living person con tinually seeks to bring them into actuality. And" when these potentialities for growth are exploited we fail in the art of liv ing. Nicholas Murray Butler, then president of Colum bia, made the statement, "The epitaph of the av erage American should be 'died at 30 and buried at 60.' " Premier Nehru of India several years ago" de clared, "The tragic part of our age is that in a world that is character ized by a tremendous pace of change, our civil ization finds itself spirit ually exhausted, and man with his complacent and fixed ideas is at a virtual standstill." Having ceased to grow and no longer able to face ourselves as we are, we run away from ourselves. We are forever taking a drive, making the rounds, and forever going places. What do e s belonging mean? It means identifi cation with a group. But how do most of us identi fy. We carry a member ship card. We are a name on a list or a plate in the addressograph machine. We belong. But what re ward and what fulfillment can there possibly be in this superficial belong ing? Admit it reaches nothing deep and satisfies not our need for identifi cation. But there is another kind of belonging. The kind in which one feels a part of the purpose, the ideals and destiny of the group. It means identify ing with its hopes, and aspirations, its struggles, its triumphs and its er rors and defeats. It means involvement in its affairs and busi ness, with its very es sence, in body, mind and soul. Over a hundred thou sand students belong to the student organizations and councils on Big Ten campuses. Some of them, perhaps, 25 per cent, vote in student elections. A few, perhaps as little as 5 per cent are active. But 95 per cent gripe, complain, criticize and attack the leaders whom they were too lazy to vote for or against. This may be due to the complacency arising from St. Paul Methodist Church 12 & M Rev. Clarence J. forsberg Sermon This Sunday ! "THE AUTHOR SERVICES AT Jerry Walker, trm"'nm ' " -J i ? Of- It . k The one lotion that's cool, exciting -brisk as an ocean breeze! The one-and-only Old Sp.ce exhilarate" .. .g;vcs you that preat-to-be-alive feling... refreshes alter every shave. ..adds to your a-.surance. .. and wins feminine approal every time. Old Sotr.e After Shave Lotion, the 'a society structure where the concept of the strug gle for freedom is only something one reads of in books. Student groups demand certain changes on cam pus and send members of the student council to plead their cause with the administration. The ad ministration, wise in the ways of students, knows that those representatives do not speak for a ma jority of the students. Need I tell you that, it is easy to reject or refuse a request. Everyone believes in student government, in democratic processes and in freedom. What kind of beliefs are these when the vast majority live by a code, if that is the word, that permits them to mouth these platitudes without conviction and with no willingness to sacrifice and to work. What do they really be lieve in? What rights do they really think they are born with? I think we might define these so-called beliefs as follows : A right to criticize, but not constructively; A right to complain; A right to expect a few to do all of the work; A r i g h t to blame but never give credit. Summed up, this is be lieving in democracy, ac cording to so many. With this kind of believ ing and this kind of be longing, these students can never become a bless ing to themselves, their country, and to the world. Belief in representative government means hav ing the will and the pow er and the determination to work and fight and re sist all of the pressures from those who will take these vital liberties away from us. To remain stub bornly f a i t h f u 1 to the ideals and values our fore fathers bequeathed to us. The future of the United States and our concept of a free and democratic so ciety is in danger if we fail, on the American campus, to breathe into our students an under standing of liberty, a love for liberty, and a reali zation that we must never stop working to preserve that liberty. Each of yon has a' thankless job. I imagine there is some glory in volved, but you will be re AND THE BOOK" 9;30 & 11:00 Intern Ministei ) r , y'-""""'" A . - I '; L.tr-, , , , , ,,, - , 1 ,S. t hM shave lotion men recommend to other men I Become membered not for y o u r accomplishments but for your occasional failures. If you are in this be cause you expect grati tude, then my suggestion is to get out, but I be lieve you are in this be cause you have the cour age of your convictions and are willing to put your money where your mouths are, to use a col loquial expression. Re wards? A sense of satis faction; a sense of ac complishment; and, an understanding that w i t h ou you and people like you, this our beloved country and its form of government would not long endure. It is difficult for me to replace so distinguished a member of our faculty as Dr. James Murray. (Mur ray was scheduled as the keynote speaker, but was unable to attend.) I can only hope and pray that I have been able to give a message with a small measure of worth. In closing, let me say this : I am perhaps square enough to believe that your present college gen eration is composed of a terrific bunch of kids. I have faith in them and faith in the country they are building and will run. If I did not I would not buy savings bonds. God bless all of you and give you the strength and wisdom and endurance to continue to serve. Niemano's Pizza Steak Spaghetti Where dining i$ a pleasure 620 No. 48 2 OIEieiD! 11G! 7 li 0. -.. " in. vl in"" i r-1 U L I UN JH a in in in. ,: : ' w r,ip.l..MI.L.MI,,II.U.ll.IUUU1.,..LI m mmnA