The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, April 04, 1963, Page Page 2, Image 2
9- Page 2 EDITORIAL Just 'High School Prank'? THROUGHOUT THE semester ve have applauded and recognized the ma ture judgment of college students. Dur ing a recent attack on the student news paper and the University, we empha sized the fact that University students snould be given the opportunity to prove, that they conduct themselves in a digni fied, responsible manner. However, we seem to have mis judged the maturity of a few members of the student body. THE INTERFRATERNITY Council,, as a part of their Greek Week obser vance, placed a burning torch in front of the Union as a symbol of Greek uni fication. This torch, loaned to the organ ization by the Gas Company, was an Innovation for the Greek Week obser vanceand, it was an addition which the Greeks felt gave a more authentic spirit for the week's activities. Peace MUCH HAS been said about the Peace Corps, but it seems that few peo ple understand the organization's struc ture. No doubt, many University students are interested in the program, but they have not had the opportunity to talk with . someone on the "inside." On the surface, the organization seems to pre sent a wonderful opportunity for young people to serve their country and dem ocracy while receiving an education in diplomacy and world understanding. WE SHOULD be informed on the Peace Corp, because it seems that the My father had a small estate in Nottingham shire; I was the third of five sons. My name is Cytis Cesume . . . The events preceeing my entrance into the township of NebEcole are trivial and unimportant. The facts are that I am here now and that I have been here for fifteen hasty years . . . I entered NebEcole an agnostic. But quickly committed myself a Chri shion in as much as a segment of the Chri shion group were the first people I encountered and convinced me of the merits of their life . . . As a loyal Chrishion, I soon got into the thick of NebEcole life; a life which I equally as soon visualized through the bi focles of Chrishion Eyes. And, only recently, I I. Ask EDITOR'S NOTE: The following letter ni received toe Ute lor publication in lt Friday'! Cam pus Forum. The eo-wrlters askrd that Interested people meet with them In the Crib on April 1. How ever, alnce the letter ii being pub lished late, the editor asks that the two writers rontact her H the? re still interested In taking part to dlienasloa. If ther are, an nammeement win appear in the Campos Ferua. TO THE EDITOR: In the Daily Nebras kan's Campus Forum there appeared a letter from Mr. George Pada ga. He asked if he were accepted by the Negro race. The answer is No! For as long as people, black or white, think as you do there will never be respect for any of us. In order to be respected, one must show respect. , The Black Muslims thrive on Negroes. Who shows this negative type of thinking such as yours. If you would have come across the viaduct once in a while, you might have gotten to know some nice people. Mr. Padaga, we are going to answer your questions. "Why is the highest rate of crime in Chicago frem the Negro district?" Our answer is accord , ing to sociologists, the highest crime rate occurs In the slum areas. This ii where you have the largest Influx of the for- SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION Telephone 477-8711, ext. 2588, 2589, 2590 14th & R Member Associated Collegiate Press, International Press Representative, Na tional Advertising Service, Incorporated. Published at: Room 51, Student Union, Lincoln 8, Nebraska. Baslnew Manager Clrroiation Mnnager Rnhse -tntlon Manager Assistant Business Managers Honor alaoajing Editor , OaSsT,,). Corp Speaker program will be expanding in the years to come. And, many Nebraska graduates are serving in the infant volunteer pro gram. We have the opportunity today to talk with Dr. Clarence Josephson, . a Peace Corp representative, who will be on the University campus. WE SUGGEST that all interested stu dents attend the luncheon in 240 Student Union or "the question and answer period at 3 p.m. in 334 Student Union. As University students, we should be informed. The hovels of Cesume have felt experienced enough as well as capa ble enough to take on a leadership status in Neb Ecole politics ... to run for a position on the town ship board. This is where the story begins and, quite possi bly, ends. As a Chrishion, I nat urally looked to the Chri shion political group, the InterFederation of Chri shion Thinkers (IFCT), for support. However, a Chrishion dogma concern ing income status left me unqualified. I have an income of only 502 pounds a year (a situation which involves another story within itself); the IFCT qualification is 550 pounds. NebEcole itself required only 500 pounds for eligibility. for Racial Discussion eign-b o r n and the Ne groes. Now it is mostly Negroes because being white, the foreigners have more rights in this coun try than we, who have labored and toiled our sweat into the face of this country. The foreigners can move out of the slums within a few years and be accepted by your soci ety. But, being black, we can never be fully accept ed by your society. It is a known fact that slums breed crime and other distasteful activities. Mr. Padaga, the letter that you have written is the most ill-prepared question or answer on discrimination we have ever read. It shows that you know little or nothing about people, black or white. This type of think ing one would expect to come from an ignorant person, a person who has never seen a University ty or doesn't expect to see one. We guess that this ' is one reason we have universities to teach people like you to think before you speak. If you don't learn any thing else at this Univer sity, please learn one thing: poor people, black or white, can do very lit tle for themselves. They expect people like us to help them, people who Daily Nebraskan Entered as second class matter, postal paid, at the post office In Lincoln. Nebraska The Dally Nrbrasksn la published Monday, Wednesdar. Thursday and Friday during the school year, eioept during vacations and exam periods and once during August, by students of the University of Nebraska under the aiithortia Hon of the Committee on Student Affairs aa an expression of student opinion. Futiliratlon under the iurlsdlcllop of the subcommittee jn Student Publications shall be free from editorial censorship on the part of the Subcommittee at on In- pjrt of any person outside the University. The members of the Daily N 'braskan ataff are personally responsible for what they say. or do. or cause to be printed. February . MSS. BUSINESS STAFF Bill EDITORIAL SI AFP . Thursday, April 4, 19631 Some, however must feel that the i torch is similar to the spooks and goblins which haunted them following their "hor- s ror story-telling sessions" during child- hood. Could some members of the stu- i dent body feel that the torch is looming in front of them as a big, bad boogie 1 man, a symbol which has to be torn down before they are satisfied? Or, do I they feel that, once in a while, it's fun to resort to typical high school pranks? WE DON'T feel that the few who have chosen the path of childishness in extinguishing the flame and cutting the I gas hose represent the entire Independ- I ent population on campus. Nor, do we feel that the situation represents a Greek-Independent battle. y Rather, it seems that four or five I individuals, and maybe more, have't yet grown up. We sympathize with you. Where to turn? Would I dare seek sup port from the United Pro letariates for Progress (UPFP), a group then battling the Chrishion po litical faction for power? Or, could I strike out on my own with possible limited aid by way of the SCAB (Scientific Citizens Approach of Conserva tism), a middle of the road sect, ideally, with the betterment of Neb Ecole in mind? The latter two choices, I decided, would be po litical suicide. I had bet ter wait for my next chance, which will come up in another 15 years, with the assurance that, by then, I will be quali fied for IFCT support. But, then, why must I be forced to put if off . . . -d.b. are supposed to have an education. All this talk about your experiences in Chicago Why don't you cross over that lilly white viaduct and get to know some of these people? Better still, get to know some of the Negroes who are your fellow students. Or, do you think that you are still on the other side of the tracks looking down on us? You have judged the entire Negro race (more than 20,000,000 people in the United, States) by what you have seen in Chicago, a city which has done very little for the betterment of t h e races as a whole. These questions are too broad to answer in full in the Campus Forum, because they neither have time nor space to give this subject their fullest attention. Therefore, we would be more than delighted to sit down and discuss this matter with you. In fact, we challenge you and your supporters to a dis cussionnot a debate, but discussion to discuss this vital social problem. By the way, just as there is white trash, so is there black trash! JO DORIS RAMSEY JIMMIE ORMAN - John Zrllinurr Mike MscLetin Gunllcki. Bob Cannltiffham. Peter Lave Jar Grott. sUndi Jfmtmi . . .Gary Lacey Problem Of The Week By Pi Mu Epsilon PROBLEM: Two sub marines pass one anoth er at Point "P." Sub "A" is traveling against the current, sub "B" with the current. An hour later they are 50 miles apart. Then "A" shuts off its engines and drifts back. Simultaneously, "B" turns back, too, but maintains the speed of its engines. The submarines meet again at point "P," 2 hours and 40 minutes aft er they first passed one another. What is the speed of the current? , Bring or send answers to this week's problem to 210 Burnett. The solution will be printed next week along with another prob lem. SOLUTION: The solu tion to last week's prob lem: the horse can graze over approximately 29,490 square feet of pasture. The following people were not mentioned as being solvers of the prob lem two weeks ago: Lane Isaacson, Gene Bailie, Helen Hargens," Loren Pohlmeier, Dennis Thasker, Art Stock. Which DIET A plan, general ly hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. DIFFICULT - That which can be done im mediately; the impossible, that which takes a little longer. DIGNITY One thing that can't be preserved in alcohol. DILEMMA A politi cian trying to save both his faces at once. DIPLOMAT An honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. P WHO- Faculty Employees-Students WHAT- SEAT BELTS Friday April 5 Thursday April 11 2-9 p.m. North entrance of the Student Union $5 per ticket from any Innocent The Reflecting Mirror I would like to thank my ghost writer, yesterday for saving my time. That, however, was not an ex cuse for him to waste his, as he did with h i s review of 'Fiorello'. Those who attended" the Kosmet Klub show were probably impressed with its presentation and spent an enjoyable night in Lin coln while more worldly friends travelled to Oma ha for a Rock and Roll, uh, Jazz concert. 'Fiorello' can stand for itself Mr. Ghost Writer. Superlatives are unneces sary. The blase and the erudite will say it w a s amateur, but it wasn't performed for them, was it. It is enough praise to the cast, workers, direc tors and organizers to say that the best add for next year's show would be a reference to this year's show. There was a pleasant feeling at 'Fiorello'. But, it couldn't counteract the stigma of hoppy students returning from Omaha late that night who were still feeling the beat. Nebraska is criticized for its lack of culture, meaning art. It is t h i s Means . . . DINNER A time when one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. DIPLOMACY The art of being able to say, "nice doggie," until you have time to pick up a rock. DIME A dollar with all taxes deducted. DIRECTORY (Tele phone) The only books without obscenity. DIRT Matter in the wrong place. DISCUSSION A meth od of confirming others in their errors. -University of IMAGES very thing that discour ages the attempt to create something of art in this state. There are many who are not w 11 1 1 n g to even try to appreciate it. s It is more discouraging that there are students who do not even take a slight interest in what other students are doing. There are those who had friends in the cast of 'Fi orello' who were so lax as to not even wonder what I they were doing and how well they were doing it. An artist's reward is applause, admiring muse um probers, prolonged sit tings with a book: He thinks he has something to give his audience and he gives it as best he can. In Nebraska and at the University he works for nothing. He gives what he has to an intellectual void, near void. Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco all have it. So does Nebraska, even if not on the same level. The difference is they do not have to come to Nebraska to get it. Nebraska feels it must go to them. Nebraska can produce it. It just will not realize it. Ever wonder why they think You are a clod. Another image less pu trid, even a little admi rable, now exists at the University that of the University Party for Prog ress (UPP), which is nev ertheless, in desparate need of a public relations man. An organization like the UPP is by its nature and environment open to much criticism. So is the Student Council, Interfra ternity Council, Panhellen ic Council, Residence As- On feline (Author of "I Wat a Teen-age Dwarf," "Tht Many Love of Dobie GxUit," etc.) HOW TO GET EDUCATED ALTHOUGH ATTENDING COLLEGE In your quest for a college degree, are you becoming a narrow specialist, or are you being educated in the broad, classical sense of the word? This question is being asked today by many serious observers including my barber, my roofer, and my little dog Spot and it would be well to seek an answer. Are we becoming experts only in the confined area of our majors, or does our knowledge range far and wide? Do we, for example, know who fought in the Battle of Jenkins' Ear, or Kant's epistemology, or Planck's constant, or Valsalva's maneu ver, or what Wordsworth was doing ten miles above Tintera Abbey? If we do not, we are turning, alas, into specialists. How then can we broaden our vistas, lengthen our horizons be come, in short, educated? Well sir, the first thing we must do is throw away our curri cula. Tomorrow, instead of going to the same old classes, lot us try something new. Let us not think of college as a rigid discipline, but as a kind of vast academic smorgasbord, with all kinds of tempting intellectual tidbits to savor. Let's start sampling tomorrow. i "A We will begin the day with a stimulating seminar in Hittite artifacts. Then we will go over to marine biology and spend a happy hour with the sea slugs. Then we will open our pores by drilling a spell with the ROTO. Then we'll go over to journalism and tear out the front page. Then we'll go to the medical school and autograph some casts. Then we'll go to home economics and have lunch. And between classes we'll smoke Marlboro Cigarettes. This, let me emphasize, is not an added fillip to the broadening of our education. This is an ewntial. To learn to live fully and well is an important part of education, and Marlboros are an important part of living fully and well. What a sense of com pleteness you will get from Marlboro's fine tobaccos, from . Marlboro's pure filter! What flavor Marlboro delivers! Through that immaculate filter comes flavor in full measure, flavor with out stint or compromise, flavor that wrinkled care derides, flavor holding both its sides. This triumph of the tobacconist's art comes to you in soft pack or Flip-Top box and can be lighted ' with match, lighter, candle, Welsbach mantle, or by rubbing two small Indians together. When we have embarked on this new regimen or, more aeeumtply, lark of regimen-we will soon be cultured as all get out. When strangers accost us on the street and say, "What was Wordsworth doing ten miles above Tintern Abbey, hey?" we will no longer slink away in silent abashment. We will reply loud and clear: "As any truly educated person knows, Wordsworth, Shelley, nd Keats used to go to the Widdicombe Fair every year fc v PoeJry"wriln8 contests and three-legged races, both ot which they enjoyed lyrically. Well sir, imagine their chagrin when they arrived at the Fair" in 1776 and learned that Oliver Cromwell, uneasy because Guy Fawkes had just invented the !Em?5ienny had cancfilIl all public gatherings, including the Widdicombe lair and Liverpool. .Shelley was so upset that he drowned himself in a butt of malmsey. Keats went to . London and became Charlotte Bronte. Wordsworth ran blindly "?.tot the '"'est until he collapsed in a heap ten miles above I intern Abbey. There he lay for several years, sobbing and kicking his little fat legs. At length, peace returned to him. Ha looked around, noted the beauty of the forest, and was so moved that he wrote Joyce Kilmer's immortal Tree . . . And that, smart-apple, is what Wordsworth was doing ten miles above Tintern Abbey." t' 1IHIII Mat Hhulmsa a y Poet and peasant, ttudentsand teacher, ladies and gentle, menall know you get a lot to like In a Marlboro available Wherever cigarette are told in all 50 State. . by johrs roerrij sociation for Men, and the rest. But why is it so obvious here? Why are students on other campuses more interested in organi z a 1 1 o n s? Why do they show pride in being part of them? Why do they not degrade what is called here a 'gunner'? Why do Nebraska stu dents not understand the purpose of a campus or ganization and quit plead ing indifference while their little world shrinks about them and they find themselves lost in yester day. An enthusiasm is need ed. A courage to contrib ute is needed. A will to work is needed. An ambi tion to fight into the tide and then fight to the front of the tide is needed. These are all latent, hid den behind an invalid in feriority. If more would partici pate, or at least show ac tive interest, maybe more would get done than de structive criticism and people writing newspaper columns asking organiza tions to do more or ask ing students to do more. Discreet idealists are in demand. The UPP, regardless of external faults, might be held together by these ideals. No o n e has to a g r e e with UPP's policies, but there are better ways to criticize than facetious at tacks on the character of its membership. There is in the UPP a courage to be different and exist at the same time. Here, then, is an accomplishment in itself. with