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Page 2 EDITORIAL Editorial Policy . . . Let Them Now A COLLEGE newspaper should have a definite and individual personality which sparks from the editorial page. And, it is our hope that, during the current semester, we are able to ignite the sparks which should give the paper a special flare. The news pages of the Nebraskan contain an objective and accurate account of events, compiled in the interest of the readers. But it is on the editorial page that their cause is explained, argued or defended. Here, discussion of controvers ial issues are to be voiced, without fear or favor, in honest and open opinion. MATERIAL CONTAINED on the edi torial page falls under one of three categories: editorials, signed editorial comment and columns. Foreign Students, State Benefit The Student Council unanimously approved last . week a motion proposing the reduction of the tuition for foreign students to a rate equal to that of a resident of the state. This proposal would lower tui tion from $252 (present figure) to $132, or almost half as much. Yousef Meshiea, present ing the proposal to t h e Council, explained its ad vantages. The advantages of the plan were centered on the fact that this measure, instead of re ducing the income brought in by foreign students, would increase it. In other words, in a general view of the eco nomic balance, the weight would incline towards the state. More foreign stud ents would be attracted to Nebraska, and more money would be injected into the state's economy through tuition and living expenses. This point of view apparently solves the material problem Nebraska would gain money instead of losing Backwards . . . SEPTEMBER 19, 1930 students were applauding AWS for extending wom en's hours from 12:15 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. on both Friday and Satur day nights. NU dollies had overwhelmingly sup ported the extension of closing hours in campus elections the previous spring. YEARS LATER ... An other generation of stu dents are thankful for an extension of hours to 1:00 a.m. on the two weekend nights. In addition, the 12:00 hours on Sundays after vacations are a wel come change, as was standardized punishment for naughty little girls. But, let's hope the AWS Isn't going to be content for another 33 years. To begin with what happened the Sunday aft er semester break? I un derstand it wasn't consid ered an official vacation. frosting ' I've never seen a real zombie, but that doesn't mean there aren't any. I've also never seen a girl whose hair was well frosted, but there are ru mors. Anyhoo, IH be darned if I can tell wheth er it's "frosting," or the whole blamed dessert. What are you gals dunk ing your heads in anyway glue and Christmas tree leftovers? This peroxiding has got o stop too. After all, that's what the ROTC de partment waitf$ to use for rocket fuel, and how are you going to beat the Rus sian girls to the moon when yon have all the combustibles in your hair. SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION Telephone 477-3711, ext. 2588, 2589, 2590 Member Associated Collegiate Press, International Press Representative, Na tional Advertising Service, Incorporated. Published at: Room 51, Student Union, Lincoln 8, Nebraska. 14th &. R it by reducing tuition. Let us study the moral advantages of the new plan, which are many. A foreign student in the Uni versity learns and shares in a life under a demo cratic system. We must realize how important this period of our life is, and how much it means to the cause of freedom to prepare men from other countries in our schools. Possibly they have nev er lived before in a de mocracy. When they re turn home they will car ry out ideas of freedom to places where WE need them if we want to win the ideological race in the world. Communists are well aware of the poten tial of the new genera tion. And each year they pour billions of dollars in to education and scholar ship. Communist univer sities host students from all over the world, who pay no tuition whatsoever. Under our system of free enterprise, we prob ably could not afford to have free education, but a number of important Into the Future! Consequently, 11:00 hours were half-heartedly en forced. With no studying on the weekend schedule, perhaps the governing board felt it was impor tant for 21-year-olds to get their beauty sleep in or der to impress instructors on the first day of class es. Many colleges have ex perienced genuine re forms in women's hours over the years. Oklahoma women don't know what a sign-in or a sign-out is. Colorado maidens carry keys in their purses when they reach senior status. Vassar girls are allowed to have men in their rooms (as long as the doors are not locked). But things have changed at NU too. In 1930, freshmen were all wearing green caps, the total enrollment was around 5,000, women could buy genuine silk ... Or Dessert? by john lonnquistf The behavior of today's hairdos only goes to show the versatility of our girls. Without a versatile face, they can't wear a wigwam on their heads. I would imagine that too many spend too much on too little when it comes to mo(u)lding hair. It would be better to comb it once in a while. Really though, hair col ors have come a long way. A connoisseur can obtain a mix which is guaranteed to make mad emoiselle look as if 6he doesn't have any hair, to kill dandruff and other as sorted things (like hair roots). There's even a mix which will erase hair odor and, if the lady is Daily Nebraskan Entered vecon4 pon hi- id Lincoln. MeDrattaa. The Dailr Nrbraakan i publlahea Monday, WXInrulir. Thurdar and f rldar dut-lnf lb school rear, except durlnr vacation! and exam period, and nc durinff Aurual, br atudentt nf tbe Univemilr of Nebraska under the autnnrlra. tion l the Committee on Student Affair, ai an enreion S f atudent opinion. Publication under the )iriMiition of the subcommittee on 8tude.pt Publication. Khali be free 2 from editorial censorship on the part af tnr hubcomtnltte 3 r on th- part of any prraon oti'aide the lni rrsHy. The m-mber. of tbe Inlly H-braakaa atalf a-e peraonallr sS responsible for what they tar, ar do, or cause to be printed Febraary t, int. Monday, February 18, 1 9631 Speak Editorial writings are not signed as they represent the policy of the Daily Nebraskan. Individual opinions are voiced in either signed or initialed columns and in editorial comment by members of the Nebraskan staff and the student body. A selected staff of columnists has been chosen to add depth to the page in that they are able to examine and comment freely on issues. These colum nists are given complete editorial sov reignty and are not biased by the pa per's editorial policy. Any University student who wishes to contribute material for the editorial page is invited to do so at any time. AGAIN, WE emphasize that our pur pose is one of serving as the printed voice of the college community. by tony rodriquez steps can be taken to make education more available to more people. One step is the reduc tion of foreign student tui tion. We should make it easier for young people from other lands, who must pay a fortune on the dollar exchange, to get an education based on demo cratic principles and ideas. These students are immensely thirsty for demo cracy, prosperity, and freedom, and they should want to fight for it. We can help them, and we should. By reducing foreign student tuition we will not solve the entire problem. There will still be many who will not have the opportunity of a free education. But even small steps accomplish more than a stand-still. We know that the Beard of Regents will give very thoughtful consideration to this proposal. And we are confident that they will be convinced of its ad vantages not only the immediate advantage, but the long-range ones. stockings for $1.35 per pair, the Regents had just purchased the School of Music and the Build ers' Student Directory went on sale October 15! However, even red beanies, an additional 6,000 students, nylon hose at 79c, a music building scheduled for replacement and December Student . Directories are more notable changes than is the additional one hour per weekend for women. I wonder how signifi cant a campus election would be if it were to show that students felt there was a basic differ ence between the matur ity and judgement of an 18-year-old freshman girl and a 22-year-old senior woman. It was sufficient noise in 1930, but then fresh men beanies are a dif ferent color now. G. a physicists's wife, she can satisfy hubby by smelling like a nuclear reactor. When I was (more of) a kid, they used to laugh at boys who had "rooster tails." You know, hair sticking up on the back of the head. Well, comes spray net (America s own iron cur tain), and the girls adopt the rooster tail. Only they make their heads just one big rooster tail and call it a bouffant. This is another example of the female conspiracy to rule the world. They not only wear the pants in the family, now they wear male chicken hair dos. elaH matter, noplace paid, the Political Contrasts by chanes peek In order that new read ers may be as totally con fused as those who have stuck by this column for some time, this first ar- tide for the new semester is going to serve as a pol icy explanation. It is hoped that this will aid in better understanding the Republi can stand on the major po litical issues of the day This we believe: That government is con ceived with a specific pur pose which we define to be safeguarding the rights of the citizen against any and all infringement; That society is con ceived with a specific pur pose which we define to be the securing of material benefits of the national re sources for all the citizenry; f That the community of man called a nation can f work only as long as this i proper balance is main I tained between government ana society; That the system of free, nrivate enterprise accomp- 1 lishes more betterment for more people than any other 1 economic system known to man; I That when government enters into the field of ec 1 onomic activity as it is to- day, a large, needless bu ll reaucracy develops to the detriment of the free, pri- vate enterprise system. These policies and prin I ciples guide the campus Young Republicans in form- ing their stands on the im- portant issues of the day. I For example, we were op- posed to Medicare on the basis that the private en- terprise system contains the needed elements to care for I the medical needs of our aged, that it is the right of the individual to plan for his own medical care as 1 he sees fit, and that a gov I ernment program would in i volve needless bureaucratic administration (which must be paid for by the citizens in taxes). i Our stand on the farm bill was much the same. It was our belief that it is necessary for any controls to be voluntary in order for free enterprise to exist, and 1 necessary also for any ef 1 forts to be done on the part I of society or the individual in--order to attain private enterprise. These principles of course have been generalized and oversimplified for this col umn. Knowledge of them may, however, prove help ful to understanding the Republican viewpoint. ...Which I Means . . . : (Tbe ftflowtnr definition are taken from :the Dictionary of Wit. Wladom. and ; Satire.) COEDS College stu I dents who sign up for the I romance languages. COLLEGE Similar to I a laundry. You get out of j it just what you sent i but you would never rec ; ognize it. COLLEGE The land i of the midnight sons. COLLEGE - An edu j cational institution in : which any person compe tent with a pigskin is as sured of a sheepskin. COLLEGE An edu cational institution where the professors don't rec ognize ability and the stu dents don't possess it. COLLEGE - An insti tution where young peo ple are sent when they don't have sense enough to do other things well. COLLEGE - A place where fools are not made but are sometimes devel oped. COLLEGE (Coeduca tional) A match fact ory. COLLEGE EDUCATION Shows a man how lit tie other people know. COLLEGE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT -The chamber of commas. COLLEGE GRADUATE A graduate of an insti tution of higher learning who finishes college and his father at about the same time. COLLEGE GRADUATE One who gets a liberal education while his dad is getting an education in liberality. COLLEGE PRO FESSOR A man who is paid to study sleeping conditions among stu dents. EDUCATION A slow process of training the mind which would save fcalf a million lives if w ever were enough edu- I cated to read traffic signs. EFFICIENCY Using instant coffee to dawdle away an hour. The BRay of The Laughing by bob ray Once I joined a coffee club, and, since I hadn't yet become addicted to the stuff, I got the smallest cup in the building. There wasn't enough room on it to paint "Bob Ray," so I marked it "BRay." A Portuguese sailor named John Philip Sousa (I wish I could say I knew Vasco da Gamma, but that's really unbelievable) saw my name hanging on a cup hook above the urn and thereafter always called me "Bray." Ever since then I've drawn yawning mules on my coffee cups and wanted to write a column titled "Laughing Jackass by Gyre and Gimble In these times of AWS point system appeals, it is time that the origination of this system be brought to light, for only by the un derstanding of the historical implications of the pro gram, can the present day mix-up be understood. The whole problem began in nineteen-ought-t w e 1 v e when Abrosia Wubbles Snagglefang of Gumblepup py Gulch, Rhode Island, enrolled at the University. Being the first female to enter this institution of high er learning, she immediate ly presaged the arrival of the first dean of women, Prudent Banoot. For a time all was milk and honey for Ambrosia she was Ne braska Sweetheart, Ideal Nebraska Coed, CORN HUSKER Beauty Queen, Miss E-Week, Miss Block and Bridle and Sig Ep Sweetheart, only to name a few of the many honors she received during her first year of tenure here at Ne braska. At the same time she was the president, natural ly, as she was the only member, of Aquaquettes and Orchesis. She also managed to have the highest all women's average, although it was only a 3.2, but let's face it, majoring in orna mental horticulture on Ag Campus is a tough course. Now the plot begins to thicken. Ambrosia's b i g problem was the fact that she had several sisters. Seeing that Ambrosia was doing so well at the Uni versity as a literate and popular student leader, they began to come to school here also, and what with transfers, etc., soon all the Snagglefang lassies Agatha Wombat, Asperity Windsock, Aroostook Wise acre, Alvina Windex, Alex grease Wondroska and Ar gyle Waxworth, were at tending the University. In the beginning, things still went swimmingly for Agatha, because being as Prudent as her name, Dean Banoot said that girls could not participate in activities during their first semester at the University. Once again Agatha managed to be Nebraska Sweetheart, while at the same starting Ne braska's only sorority, Nu Omicron Sigma. Immed iately she was president of that and consequently of Panhel. Then the power struggle began. Once her sisters had a taste of power by being house officers, they too hoped to go into the big time of campus activities. Ambrosia was being beaten out on her home ground, and when Axelgrease got to be Sweetheart of Selleck i 1 '-Y- Kothing rasher for your hair than grease. Let Vitalis with V-7 keep your hair neat alt day without great. Naturally. V-7 is the greaseless grooming discovery. Vitalis with V-7 fights embarrassing dandruff, prevents dryness, keeps your hair neat all day without grease. Try Vitalis today. You'll like it! BRay." But I never really thought I would. I though Linda Jensen might object to the title of the piece because of its ini tials "L. J." but she said it was OK, and who am I to deny my editor? I was afraid, too, that the Univer sity students named "Bray" might not like their name being bandied about the by line, but so far they haven't said a thing. So that's how the column got its name. Now, I'll try to find some readers. I am the Rag's Ag News Editor and an Ag-Journal-ism major, so most of these columns will be directed to ward the 1,000 or so Quad, that did it. Already her sisters were usurping her other honors Alvina was starting her own sorority, because she had heard that the presidency of Panhel lenic had to rotate, and she wanted to hop on the gravy train while there was still time. The power struggle be came more acute when Ar gyle grabbed the offices of president of Builders, AUF, Union and WAA. Red Cross went to Asperity, and soph more Aroostook was cam paigning mightily for the presidency of Mortar Boards, which Ambrosia had started herself during her junior year. There was one thing that Ambros ia was sure of, there would never be a junior member of MB, and certainly no president, and she made tracks for the office of good old understandable Prudent Banoot. "Dean Banoot," she said, "stop this nonsense." Need less to say, Dean Banoot did not stop it, she just added to it by helping in the' formation of a system for regulating activities. "Thanks, Dean Banoot," shrieked Ambrosia, "and in your honor we will name the system the Prudent Point System." In less than twenty-four hours, the whole system was shot, and Dean Banoot had to sit through 12 hours of appeals until she was ready to throw in the towel and the Snagglefang sis ters with it. "You Snaggle fangs," she said, "can go and run your own business, this is too big a mess for me to handle," which was obviously her first prudent remark. At any rate, the Misses Snagglefang Ambrosia Wubbles, Agatha Wombat, Asperity Windsock, Aroo stook Wiseacre, Alvina Windex, Axelgrease Won droska and Argyle Wax worth retired, and in the dark of the moon around a smoky cauldron, in a few short days came up with their own point system, named AWS in their honor. With loving care, the intri casies of the system have been passed down from one AWS president to the next, until they have reached the present day almost intact, except somewhere along the line people other than Snag glefangs were allowed to be a part of it. If it had stayed in the Snagglefang family, there would be no need for it now because they have since returned to Gumble puppy Gulch to live happily ever after. Too bad they didn't take the system with them. -M.S. n IVitalicl Jaskass readers on Ag campus, So far my interviews with the Home Economics ladies haven't been good enough to print, so I'll try to leavo that writing to someone who knows what she's doing. Now that I'm down to less than 500 readers, I'll try to keep what friends I have in the Ag Union and Nebraska Center by trying to cover those beats this semester as I covered them last fall 1 may even improve with practice. I have written about the University's Vocationai Edu cation majors, and there should be some news and opinion from the Veterinary Science, Mechanized Ag, Horticulture, and Poultry , departments. I believe the i 80 or so students in Animal . U...Un.J. nnJ D U 1 i' xiuaucwiui ,y cuiu jaui;ii aim Range Management deserve a promotion for the Univer sity Rodeo in at least one column. So much for the column's purpose, now for the writ er's prejudices. All writers like every one else has prejudices, and they should forewarn their readers. We all know what prejudice is, it's pass ing judgement before the council for the defense has begun his opening argument. Wrong-headedness, in oth er words. I'm not going to write much about the Peace Corps. Ole Miss., or racial prejudice, except to say that I've shared food and bed room with every kind of North and South American, Asian, African and Polyne sian. AH I have to say about race is that all humans laugh and cry and bleed the same. But I do have other pre judices, and some of them will make my Ag readers wince. For instance, I've always been partial to red cattle and bay horses. This despite the fact that the only steer I ever owned was black, and as good to eat as any roan that ever lived, and despite the bliss ful days spent on my one and only horse, an anvil headed tricolor. Most of my prejudices concern people more than animals. My pet peeve is other people's pet peeves. When I hear someone com plain about how hard life is, he's prejudicing his case with me. No work is hard if you do it slowly enough. If you have to do it fast in order to get done, then ask for help ask me and I'll write you a want ad, or better, a column. You won't find any "think pieces" in this column. 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