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EDITORIAL
Informal Initiations .
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(Editors Note: The following article if reprinted from the
University of Illinois umpui dally newspaper.)
SHORTLY AFTER the beginning of this
semester, campus fraternities will begin
their respective periods of informal in
itiation. As the leaders of the fraternity sys
tem are painfully well aware, this is the
most dangerous time in the fraternity
year. It is during "hell week" that "in
nocuous" burdens are imposed on pledges
"to see if they measure up to the stand
ard of good ole' Sigma Sigma Freud."
And all too often informal initiation haz
ing has resulted in injury or death for
some of the pledges involved.
AS WE have stated in the past, we
support the fraternity system on this
campus. We, along with the officers of
the Interfraternity Council (and, we hope,
every thinking fraternity man), do not
want the system given a black eye be
cause some houses think it is tradition,
clever, or "fitting" to impose cruel and
thoughtless rules on pledges.
More than ever before in its history,
the fraternity system is on trial. Articles
criticize it; parents steer their children
Where Do We Go
From Here?
College kids wheeling
home, crawling into levis
and sweatshirts and plac
ing a beer firmly in one
hand and a cigarette in
the other obviously don't
make the best impression
on the townsfolk.
Before you look at an
other article, however, in
case the opening para
graph appears to be a
WCTU statement, let me
say that this is not meant
to be a soapbox oration,
nor is it directed toward
the condemnation of col
lege students, levis,
sweatshirts, beer or cig
arettes. What I really want to
tell you about is the Build
ers tour which was taken
to the western part of the
state by four members of
Builders and Dr. Shug
rue. This group spent three
days during the second
week of Christmas vaca
tion talking about the Uni
versity to high school stu
dents in McCook, Scotts
bluff, Gering, Sidney and
North Platte. ,
In the past, Builders
members and administra
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clear of it. All this because of the tradi
tion of hazing.
THIS PERNICIOUS tradition has, we
think, been overcome in the great major
ity of the fraternities on this campus.
Some houses don't even have a period of
informal initiation. The problem on this
campus is one of backsliding. A few
thoughtless activities can spoil the record
of a fine fraternity by a few moments
of idiocy. One wouldn't believe it neces
sary for fraternity men to think carefully
about treating other men as human be
ings, but because of the tradition this is
exactly the situation that fraternities are
in.
To realistic actives, who remember
"last year" or "when I was a pledge
. . . ", the wording in the Interfraternity
Council's "Principles of Pledge Develop
ment" may sound pompous or unbear
ably idealistic. But the principles set
down there must be followed.
WE HOPE that the coming period
can be free of any questionable tactics.
We hope so for the sake of the continued
existence of the fraternity system.
tion officials have visited
high school College
Nights, but they have
been looking toward a
more concentrated high
school visitation program.
However, publicity for
this project, has apparent
ly been inadequate, be
cause it seems that Joel
Lundak or someone was
screaming for a project
like this earlier in the
year.
The aim was not so
much to get more stu
dents a look at any
classroom dispells any
doubts about a shortage
of students but what we
are looking for now is
quality.
The University image,
in many cases, leaves
much to be improved.
The Public Relations de
partment works hard 365
days per year in order to
create a good image, but,
one beer drinking univer
sity student in the wrong
place can do much to de
stroy the effort.
The four students and
Dr. Shugrue were armed
with facts about outstand
ing departments and
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or on thr art ' any person outsidr the University The
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Monday, February 11, 19631
by vicky Culleni
people on the campus, as
well as the answers to
the usual questions asked
by college-bound h i g h
schoolers. Again and again people
said, "We didn't think you
knew the western part of
the state was here."
(Many good students
from this area of the
state go to Colorado, Wy
oming, or other points
west for college.)
The group did some
public relations work in
the alum area too, as they
stayed in the homes of
alums and had a chance
to bring them up to date
on campus events. It's
amazing how interested
many of them continue
to be. These are the
people, too, you know,
who will bring pressue to
bear on the legislature,
if anyone will. s
The results of this sort
of project are not meas-
urable, but somebody
cared about helping the
University's image. Linda
Reno, tour chairman, and
all the people who worked
with the tour, deserve our
appreciation.
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Reader Advocates
Male Supremacy
To the Editor:
I am starting a new
club called, "An Associa
tion for the Advancement
of the Male Species"
(AAMS)
After much perspective
thought on the subject,
we are, unfortunately, an
object of intense discrim
ination. When we are
born, women get all the
credit. While we are
alive, we slave and toil
to support women. When
we die, women get all
our property (one way or
another).
On top of this, we are
now faced with reading
material under the aus
pices of the fairer sex. On
behalf of my fellow men,
I make a fervent plea to
all male advocates for re
gaining our supremacy, to
rise up and attack this
pressure group with
'vigah'.
The Duke of Huntington
(Editors Note: In spite of
the fact that you are now
faced with reading mater-
lal presented "under the
auspices of the fairer
sex," you should realize
that, in our policy state
ment in the first edition
of second semester, we
stated: "The Nebraskan's
facilities will be available
to any official University
organization for any le
gitimate news."
If you decide to organ
ize the AAMS, you can
be assured that your or
ganization will be given
fair and equal coverage
in the Daily Nebraskan.
Even though females are
sometimes sensitive to ad
verse public opinion, a fe
male newspaper editor
must disregard her per
sonal feelings and face
each problem objectively.
Many best wishes for the
future of your organiza
tion.) Kead Nebraskan
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what my parents think
about spending a lot of
money on me. like i
didn't know how much
clothes and food cost 'til
they told me. then to
have me grow fourteen
inches in one year and
look like i do now. that
must really bother them
'cause after all, i guess
i do reflect their way of
life and all.
"I'm real skinny and a
clean foot taller than any
of my friends, mother
calls me gangly some
times, especially when we
go to buy new clothes, i
think she's getting kinda
scared of me, 'cause last
week she didn't switch
me like she used to do
when i threw my clothes
in the furnace, she just
told dad, and he gave
me another lecture and
raised my allowance
''cause i got real upset,
that's not really so bad.
sometimes i really think
i'm growing up until
i look at myself in the
mirror.
everybody kids me
about my face, everybody
except my parents, i
don't think they ever had
pimples, i've got to admit
that my face is more
chewed up than most of
the kids, and i try to
mall it up by filling all
the holes up with some
fleshy looking . stuff my
mother gives me. she's
really pretty subtle, 'cause
i'm so skinny, all the
bones i've got stick out
like pillars, and my face
is sorta square, greek
like, my mother says.
i'U bet i'm the only greek
alive, maybe that's why
everybody stares at me.
then she says that i'U be
real handsome when i
grow up. that's what
johnny's mother told him,
and he's the ugliest kid i
know, that's what every
body tells their kids, and
i think they do it so
they'll believe it them
selves, i mean, wl;o wants
to have a monster play
ing in the yard, i keep
telling them that i'm the
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way i am, then we always
go and buy some more
new clothes, sometimes i
really think my parents
are kinda stupid when
they do things like that,
i don't mind though, 1
mean there's nothing i
can do about it except
keep plasterin my face up
with that junk.
and the thing that real
ly bothers me, i guess, is
what my mother said the
other day when we had
guests for dinner, when
we have the relatives for
supper, the whole state
seems to show up. any
way, she said that she
could look at me for a
while, and just watch me
grow, right in front of her
eyes, that really bothers
me. if i'm going to grow,
i want to do it all by my
self, that sort of thing
gets to be pretty personal,
especially when every
body kids you about it.
i can't wait to go to col
lege, then i can get
away from all this, my
mother says i'm like the
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