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It has been said that
few Nebraskans in the
past 30 years have ever
died because they have
never really lived. So it
is also that very few truly
educated students ever
graduated from the Uni
versity of Nebraska
The reason for tne lat
ter is that students are
forgetting, or yet more ac
curately, are completely
ignoring the most signifi
cant area of all in order
to qualify them as fully
educated persons.
What is that area? It is
religion.
How can any student
reaCy call himself educat
ed when by the time he
is a senior he ha; not yet
faced, and satisfactorily
answered, the largest and
most difficult questions of
them all who he is, what
his relationship to his fellow-man
and to the world
around him is, and above
all his relationship to his
God.
Without answers to
these questions life is
meaningless.
Over the past 2,500
yean we have amassed
a tremendous amount of
knowledge n these ques
tions and yet today for
the college student there
is more confusion on this
subject than any other
academic field of endeav
or. "Our colleges, of
course, are the seats of
great spiritual confusion.
Teaching religion is not
permitted in any of the
tax-supported institutions,
though apparently teach
ing non-religion is permit
ted. So a biologist can
say that he does not be
lieve in God or that he
thinks man is an acci
dent" But if a religious
person said that biology
cannot be understood
without references to a
wise Creator, he might be
fired for trying to "indoc
trinate" his pupils."
Isn't this statement by
Louis Finkelstein, chan
cellor of the Jewish Theo
logical Seminary, in an
interview on the Ameri
can Character sponsored
by the Center for the
Study of Democratic In
stitutions, a truly accur
ate perceptive and alarm
ing observation to be
made in this space age?
Also adding to the stu
dents confusion is that
when they come to college
they hear supposedly in
telligent men denouncing
their God and their re
Next week this semes
ter's crop of laboratory
plays comet up.
Allow me to recom
mend Fred Gaines' "The
Ballad," which be both
wrote and directed. It is
being performed thrice
this Friday, Sunday, and
Monday.
I sat in b a dreu re
hearsal, and it was more
than worth the hour or
M t ran. Gaines, as many
of know, has done a
gee 4 deal of creative
writing, particularly short
f t r i e s, hat been pub
lished in Sciipr woo most
of the local awards, etc.,
and "The Ballad" is sur
prisingly good.
The surface story is not
complicated, "it't incom
p le t e, sketchy, but then
all dreams are ..." as
the narrator says. The
dialogue is graceful, and
a dreamlike quality is
carried through into a
dance, whidi it not at all
out of place. Music is
constructively used in the
background, and the light
ing is well done.
I won't give away the
story, but it concerns a
blind German immigrant,
hit young and pregnant
daughter, an Irish ne'er-do-well,
a young unidenti
fied boy and a good wom
an named Martha who
lives with the German.
There is an eerie, inde
scribable quality tt "The
Eailad." G a i e s uses
words as a poet does. At
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EDITORIAL
GAP VINE
ligion. By being in college
where intelligence is one
of the most highly regard
ed assets, many students
get the idea that in order
to be one of the intelli
gentsia they must give up
their religious preference.
In effect, what it
amounts to is a demand
of positivistic proof, in
black and white terms,
that God exists. This ul
timately leads to com
pletely throwing away the
virtue of "faith" and sub
stituting in its place the
"positivistic proof."
What makes the situa
tion even more appalling
is that men of equal or
superior intelligence are
not given an equal oppor
tunity to answer back to
those who in the class
room denounce the stu
dent's faith in God be
cause, as previously stat
ed by Finkelstein, "teach
ing religion is not permit
ted in any of the tax-supported
institutions, though
teaching non-religion is
permitted."
Another concern is the
one given by Robert Op
penbeimer in the Foreign
Affairs Quarterly:
'There is much theory
made in the U.S.: cos
mological theory, the
ory of genetic processes,
theory about the nature
of immunity, theory about
the nature of matter, the
ory about learning, about
prices, about communica
tions; but there is no uni
fying theory of what hu
man life is about; there
is no consensus either as
to the nature of reality or
of the part we are to play
in it; there is no theory
of the good life and not
much theory of the role
of government in pro
moting it."
Although this is what
today's student needs
more than anything else,
a unifying theory of what
human life is about and
the role he and his coun
try are to play in it. this
is what is being neglect
ed most in their days of
college life.
A truly educated man
is a total man mind,
body, and soul and to
willfully neglect any one
of these three parts of
the "total" man is to lead
an incomplete life.
An incomplete life in
this age of science and
exploding technology is a
meaningless life, for it
becomes impossible to
formulate or to under
stand what our national
a jaundiced eye
times, he seems a little
to preoccupied with words
per se, and the action is
hampered by this, but on
the whole, the play is
very effective.
As Carney Wagner, the
German, Stanley Wells is
wooden and seems unsure
of himself. Penny Daught
erly, who is played by Al
Thomsen, seems to be un
justifiably angry, but this
is resolved with the un
folding of the plot. Mau
reen Frazier's portrayal of
Martha is uneven, but
generally good.
The delight of the show
is the young couple,
played by Robin Dyas
and Terry Tice. As the
girl-woman. Miss Dyas
swings from one end of
the pendulum to the oth
er. She has a rare, re
freshing, unjaded quality
not seen much these days,
Mr. Tice's awkwardness
was justified for the most
part by the role he was
playing, although 1
wished that he'd stop
chewing bis words.
'The Ballad" JJi be
performed this weekend,
Friday and Sunday. Along
with ft on the Monday
roster will be Tennessee
William's "27 Wagons
Full of Cotton," directed
by Bruce Brandt, and Eu-
e a e g)'StUl's "Before
Breakfast."
Wednesday night't of
ferings for the theatrical
palate include: William
Saroyan's "Once Around
Friday, March 29, 1963
by george a. peterson
goals, purpose and chal
lenges are.
Sen. McCarthy of Min
nesota says:
"It is clear that the
challenge we face is a
total challenge. Even
though we could prove
that our philosophy is su
perior to others, that our
economic system is more
productive, that our edu
cational system produces
better scientists and tech
nologists than does any
other, that our form of
political organization or
our general culture is su
perior we- will still not
have proved our case.
"What we are called
upon to do is to take all
of these together and
prove that our total way
of life provides the best
way and the best hope of
man in his efforts to
achieve a fuller measure
of justice and happiness
and a greater opportuni
ty for self-realization and
perfection."
The challenge as seen
by Robert M. Hutchins,
president of the Fund for
the Republic, in a speech
sponsored by the Univer
sity of Chicago stated it
this wav:
"If the West has a fu
ture it is as the school
master of the world. If
democracy has a future,
it lies in struggling to be
what no big, advanced,
industrial country has
succeeded in becoming, a
community learning to
gether to govern itself
and to achieve the com
mon good."
Hutchins adds that
what we need above ev
erything else is a "na
tional idea of education
a n d a national program
to carry it out."
It is also safe to say
that to a growing num
ber of our country's lead
ers religion must be in
eluded in our national
idea of education and
without it we are ignor
ing an entire field that
needs to be academically
dealt with in our colleges.
There is a partial solu
tion to the problem. It is
recommended that Uni
versity of Nebraska stu
dents participate more
actively in the programs
furnished by their parti
c u 1 a r student religious
bouses.
By so doing, you add
the most important ingre
dient needed for a fuH
and meaningf ul education
the nourishment of the
spiritual part of man.
by susan Stanley
toe Block," directed by
Nelson Lee; "The Lady of
Larkspur L 0 1 i o n," Ten
nessee Williams again, di
rected by Phillis Knip
ping; and Max Beer
bohnrs "A Social Suc
cess," directed by Julie
Porter.
Sunday, April 7, will of
fer: Alfred Kreymborg's
"Manikin and Minikin."
directed by Linda Leuk
ine;; Edward AJhee's
"The Sand Box," direct
ed by Darlyn Zkkfeld:
and "Mooney'f Kid Don't
Cry," by Tennessee Wil
liams, directed by Elijah
Powell.
Tuesday, April f fea
tures Greteneu Van
B I o m ' s production of
"O'Flaberty V. C." and
Danny Pumerantz't rendi
tion of Arrabai's "The
Two Executioners."
Thursday, April 11. the
last evening of lab plays,
boasts this trio: MoWr's
"The Witch," directed by
Jan j Thomason; Noel
Coward's 'Turned Oak."
directed by Lorna Fisch
er; and Celia Pinru' ver
sion of Saroyan's "Hello
Out There."
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For Uniform Pride
TO THE EDITOR:
I should like to answer
George M. Padaga's im
plications about the posi
tion of the American Ne
gro that were part of his
letter to the Campus
Forum.
I I am sure that Mr. Pa-
daga is aware that the
I ills of the Negro such as
the Black Muslims, high
I crime rate, illegitimacy,
I slum conditions, and
I filthy domestic habits
have equally disgusting
I white counterparts. The
I thing he objects to is that
these conditions are more
I frequent, percentage wise,
I in the Negro race as
j. . . Which
I Means . . .
ETk Mlnrtac ArflsKtom mn take (m
1 DACHSHUND An ani-
mal that is half a dog
1 high and a dog and a half
I long.
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I DANCING Wonderful
s training for girls; it's the
first way you learn to
guess what a man is go-
ing to do before he does
I it
ft -a -ft-
I DARLING The popu-
lar form of address used
I in speaking to a person of
the opposite sex whose
I name you cannot at the
I moment recall.
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I DAWN The time when
I men of reason go to bed.
I DEATH The ugly fact
which nature has to hide,
I and she hides it welL
I DEBATE) The death of
s conversation,
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I D E B T The easiest
thing for a man to run
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DESK A wastebasket
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I DIAGNOSIS A preface
I to an autopsy.
j PFP Song
Relevance is the word
1 The sweetest we have
ever heard.
I Relevance is what we
I want,
I No more being irrele-
vant.
I r-e-l-e-v-a-vt:
I Relevant, Re levant,
Revelant!
RAH, RAH, RAH!
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compared to white peo
ple. Mr. Padaga would like
to know why this situa
tion exists. I shall be
glad to explain.
The answer lies in our
environment past and
present. From the Recon
struction Era on, the "of
ficially free" Negro nev
er gained the rights that
we hold to be "self-evident"
and "inalienable."
Along the way, some
concessions were made,
b"t to this day, a good
many Negroes cannot
gain the employment of
which they are capable,
obtain a decent formal
education, or vote in the
democratic tradition. Any
man deprived of these op
portunities cannot be ex
pected to rank high in
achievement.
The Negro has the abil
ity and the wilL but his
ability has been sup
pressed and his will brok
en toy our supposedly
democratic society.
Thus, Mr. Pagada, we
have the deplorable sit
uation you described in
your letter. I am of the
white race, and I am
proud of it. I simply feel
that the Negro should be
given the chance to show,
uniform pride in his race.
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Mar. 29, 1963
The American Student In
formation Service, celebrating
its Sth Axmiwrsarv, will award
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only authorized organization
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in Europe, on a large scale,
i.'j U.S. tud?nts.
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Send $1 for a 20-page Pros
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