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EDITORIAL
NOW IS the time far all sweat
shirted, woodsey-ininded, loyal Nebras
kans to come to the aid of their Univer
sity and become cool, calm and col
lected young ladies and gentlemen.
Vicky Culien said , in an editorial
quite a while ago that we are the Uni
versity's best advertisers. We need a re
minder of that now.
FICTUPiE YOURSELF, a young col
lege aspirant walking down the street of
Hometown, Nebr., and meeting an at
tractive poised young lady from the Uni
versity of Nebraska. Wouldn't you be
snowed?
Many groups have gone out to sell
From the
Can Nebraska college
students be awakened?
If the following obser
vation by George Gallup
concerning the American
college student is true,
then does this country (of
which Nebraska is a part)
have even a remote
chance of survival in a
rapidly-changing world?
In an Interview on the
American Character,
Gallop, founder and di
rector of the American
Institute of Public Opin
ion, says:
I would sty that the
college-trained student of
today is not the equal of
his counterpart of twenty
five years ago ... I
would be willing to bet
that, in many areas of
general knowledge, we've
declined in the last tw enty-five
years."
In the same interview
the public opinion taker
who has had 26 years of
experience said:
" ... And the thing
that always amazes me
is hew badly informed a
lot ef oar college gradu
ates are. It is absolutely
shocking to one in our
business to see bow any
one can graduate from
college and be so ignor
ant about economic is
sues. "Apparently college stu
dents have never had to
distinguish, for example,
between federal spending
and local spending. And
when we ask college
graduates to cite the ad
vantages of our economic
system over that of the
Russians, half of them
cannot name even one
advantage. When we ask
them how much profit the
average business concern
makes in this country,
their guesses range from
i to W per cent.
"College graduates are
often ignorant about ge
ography. In one test, we
asked those who had at
tended coDege to put their
finger on the State of Il
linois on a map of the
United States and half of
them could not do it They
did not know how one
gets from England to In
dia by the shortest route.
"Apparently geography
Is something that has
been dropped from edu
cation in America. And
ales with geography,
questions abost popula
tion disclose shocking ig
norance. Most of them do
not have the faintest idea
of the population ef Chi
na, for fawtance."
It is with utmost alarm
that I must agree with
Gallup. However, I would
be the first to point out
thai there -certainly are
areas ef knowledge that
Possibly to New York
if yon '11 bear with my
small literary talent for a
'perfect afternoon fa the
big city":
Catch the subway at
SCth and Broadway, and
ride almost to the end of
the island, but get off one
stop to soon because it's
a perfect sunny day and
you want to enjoy it.
The cramped Village
streets are deserted; no
traffic becaase it's Sib
day, and aobody drives
into the city on Sunday.
There are a few min
ute s before the play be
gins, so get the ticket
and then stop in a tiny
art gallery and fall in
love with one of Gino Hol
lander's drawings of chil
dren. Fifteen dollars is
Time to 'Sell'
the University of Nebraska Builders
has devoted vacations and week ends to
the project, the University Band and
Singers have made tours, the Wesley
Foundation choir is going on tour dur
ing Easter vacation.
THESE SERVE their purpose, but it
is YOU, the individual, that can do the
most. YOU are Nebraska's greatest
drawing card.
If you want Nebraska's best athletes,
scholars and all-around good kids, get
busy and SELL! !
susie smithberger
GAP Vine
today's student excells in
over his counterpart if 25
years ago.
Several examples of the
more important areas to
day's college student has
more knowledge in is sex
and sports. Both males
and females are preoccu
pied with the former and
boys especially are pre
occupied with both. I am
willing to bet there are
more "bull sessions" de
voted to sex than any
other topic on campus.
Are these topics so im
portant that they should
command so much of the
students' discussion time?
I seriously doubt it. They
certainly dont help one
answer such questions as:
"How far can we go in
using law to control tech
nology? to give focus and
plan to our economy? to
control the runaway ar
chitecture of our cities?
to control our traffic
problems? to prevent the
commercialized misuse of
the airwaves?
"Are we to understand
the freedoms guaranteed
by the Bill of Rights
merely as immunities
from state interference
or as improvement
which the government
has a strong interest in
maintaining? Does free
dom result from govern
ment's acting under law
or from government's
withdrawing completely
from concern with certain
-areas of life?
"Is the government
obliged to see to it that
free speech, or religious
worship, or free assembly
is facilitated? or does the
government do its duty
by not doing anything?
"What about the duty
to facilitate the right to
know, the right to speak,
the right to be heard?
What about a government
supported TV network, or
newspaper, or national
theatre?
"Another concern is the
growing significance of
technology, automation,
and the changing nature
of work, as well as the
runaway activities of mil
itary science. Does for
eign policy control tech
nology, or does technolo
gy control foreign poli
cy? Do we have to
do whatever technology
can do?"
These questions are tak
en from an address by
John Cegley at the Amer-.
lea Benedictine Acade
my in Oiympia, Wash. It
was published in the
March bulletin of the Cen
ter for the Study of Dem
ocratic Institutions. (The
Center has a number of
free sample publications
that deal with the an
swers to the above. I
From HfereH
steep a student need
pay only ten? . . . still
a little steep.
Show time . . . back to
the theater, which can
only bedescribedas
"quaint"; a few steps
down to a tiny sunken
courtyard. The building is
covered with deep gray
siding contrasting with
slightly chipped white
doors. The stage door and
theater door are but a few
feet apart.
Inside, g couple of walls
have been knocked out to
make room for a semi
arena stage and 79-odd
banked seats. The sheet
covering the stage area
reads "The Fantastlcks"
in bright stick-like letters.
The story is, indeed,
"Fantastick" a happy
Friday, April 12, 19631
NU
by george a. peterson
highly recommend that
any serious, interested I
student send for their list f
of publications at Box
4068, Santa Barbara,
Calif.)
To me, the above types
of questions deserve more
of the students discussion
time than such trivial
questions as whether or
not Suzie "makes out" or
not, which seems to take
about 95 per cent of the I
students free discussion
time.
Now is the time of life
that students should be
debating these questions,
not merely waiting to an- -
swer them after gradua-
tion. I
I don't believe anyone
can prove me wrong when
I say most students feel
answers to the above I
questions are unimpor-
tant. I sometimes think
most students dont hold
the conviction anymore I
that learning for its own
sake, for the enlargement
of the intellect, is abso-
lutely necessary. I
In the words of Robert
Hutchins, students view
the great universities of
our country as "success i
schools." He says:
"The American educa- I
tional system in the last
fifty years has been a
system whereby young
people are fitted into the
environment . . . The rea-
son you go to one of them
is that you want to learn
how to get ahead, or that I
your parents would like I
to have you get ahead. I
They want to give you a
leg up the social or voca-
tional ladder. 1
"When this is the at-
mosphere of the institu-
tion, and when this is the
aim of the people who go
there, it is hard to see
how anyone could be
stimulated to take a crit-
ical view of the society. -
I believe that the purpose
of the university is to be I
a center of independent
criticism. But I do not
know of an y university i
that fulfills this role at I
the present time in the I
United States . . . there I
is not a true university I
in the United States to- i
day."
It is my hope that I
enough questions have I
been asked so that dur-
ing Easter vacation at I
least two per cent of the
students wake up and
start thinking of answers I
to some of these ques-
tions. That way when you 1
come back to school you 1
can discuss them with
other students and facul- I
ty members rather than
explaining how many I
times you got drunk, or
how many orgies you at- f
tended during vacation.
by vicky culien 1
and sad tale of two fath
ers in conspiracy to en
courage the marriage of
their son and daughter
and what they all learn
from the experience. It is
a play that makes the old
world look a little younger
when you come out into
the sunshine again.
The ten dollars must
have looked smaller in the
aura of the play, too, be
cause that drawing hangs
on my wan now!
It's too early to go
home, so hop back on the
subway, ride to the end
. of the line, and catch the
last Statue of Liberty fer
ry. A quick look at "Miss
Liberty" while munching
on a hot dog, and off for
home at the end of a sun
lit day.
Go
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Cherny
TO THE EDITOR:
In the light of the criti
cism of the UPP and its
motives in challenging
two of the IFC-slated can
didates to a debate, I
would like to clarify a few
points at this time.
The reason the chal
lenge was given to Mr.
Bucklev was two-fold.
First, the IFC had ap
proved their candidates
and is willing to
give thern financial sup
port. This has also oc
curred in the past and the
resulting Student Councils
have either not interested
themselves in or rejected
most of the p o i n t s in
cluded in the debate top
ic. It appeared to us that
this was more than a
chance association. I am
glad to receive Mr. Buck
ley's assurances to the
contrary.
Second, the lists of can
didates had not been pub
lished. Knowing the IFC
had picked its "slate" (to
use Mr. B n c k 1 e y's
quotes), we thought the
logical place to direct the
challenge was to the
group which picked these
candidates, which group
would presumably be
more familiar with the
candidates and their cap
abilities than we are. We
did not wish to be ac
cused of "picking" our
candidates to assure a fa
vorable outcome.
On Cheerleaders
TO THE EDITOR:
What's done is done,
but the resolution re
ferred to the Student
Council Activities Com
mittee regarding the in
validation and reschedul
ing of cheerleading try
outs was a recommenda
tion and not a call for
Student Council action, as
was misinterpreted in an
editorial in yesterday's
Daily Nebraskan. Had the
resolution been passed,
the Student Council would
have recommended an
other set of practices and
tryouts. The purpose of
the resolution was to in
form "the. Cheerleading
Squad that the Student
Council did not feel all
interested and competent
students were given the
opportunity to try out.
Since an unfortunate
misunderstanding did oc
cur, I think the Cheer
leaders should take an op
portunity to publicly de
fend their policies con
cerning the recent prac
tices and tryouts. Many
students are interested in
obtaining answers to the
following questions:
1) Why were notices or
Myths
TO THE EDITOR:
If you shall allow "me
a little space I'd like to
ask a few questions and
dispel a few myths on
the subject of race.
1) Most modern Ameri
can sociologists claim
that poverty, unemploy
ment, etc., breed crime,
disrespect for one's fel
low man; etc. Thus, they
qualify the large per
centage of crimes of vi
olence produced by slums,
especially those where
people of minority groups
live.
Now let's take a look
at Latin America where,
a it's well known, pover
ty and hunger and unem
ployment are more acute
than in any American
community. Yet, In pro
portion to population, Lat
in American slums pro
duce far less crimes of
violence such as murder
ing while in the process
of robbing, violent rape,
etc. In fact, in Latin
America, most murders
are the result of passion,
jealousy, etc.
2) In view of the above,
is there any truth then to
the popular belief that
some races are more in
clined to commit crimes
of violence than others?
PersonaUy, I do believe
this to be true.
3) In the beginning
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With respect to the
time, we wished to have
the debate before Easter
vacation so that the is
sues would be brought out
and the student body giv
en a chance to consider
them over the vacation.
I would like to reaffirm
my dedication to the prin
ciples expressed in the
RAM Gram editorial
printed in part in Wednes
day's Daily Nebraskan.
This was not intended as
an anti-Greek action. As
I stated in the Nebras
kan, our intentions were
to bring the issues before
the public. For the rea
sons listed above, we
chose to issue the chal
lenge to the IFC, through
Mr. Buckley.
I wish to apologize for
any violation of debate
ethics, but as I have not
ed above, the time was
short. As I also noted in
the Nebraskan, we did
not give ourselves any
special advantage due to
this shortness of time.
The challenge remains
open. We would like to
debate any two can
didates for Student Coun
cil on the basis of the
UPP platform. If anyone
is interested, please con
tact either Bud Kimball
or myself and set the con
ditions and time of the
debate.
BOB CHERNY
letters not sent to all the
living units and to t h e
spirit organizations?
2) Why were the new
available positions, exact
eligibility requirements,
dates and times of prac
tices and tryouts not fully
explained in the Daily
Nebraskan?
3) How did the Cheer
leading Squad expect to
provide all students an
opportunity to compete?
4) Why would it not be
possible to vacate the
positions filled Tuesday
night and schedule anoth
er set of practices and
tryouts, thus enabling all
interested students to try
out?
The Cheerleading Squad
and the judges should be
congratulated on their
fine selections chosen
Tuesday night. However,
there may be other equal
ly competent students who
could not compete or be
considered due to a lack
of information and com
munication. I think a public expla
nation from the Cheer
leaders could clarify this
situation.
SUSIE PIERCE
of Race
when the gods created
man, we were all equal,
all of us lived in caves
and were in the same lev
el economicaUy. Some of
these peoples (races)
managed to advance, cre
ate a civilization; some
were slower than others
the white European
but these not only man
aged to catch up, they
even surpassed the oth
ers. My own race, the so
c ailed Red race, managed
to bufld highly advanced
cultures in Yucatan, Mex
ico and Peru. Bat there
were the other dark
skinned races which, to
my knowledge, never did
produce anything except
perhaps the art ef stew
ing another human and
devouring him.
Now, I'm not saying
that these peoples are
necessarily inferior, but
111 say that for reasons
not clear to me, they
don't seem, as a group,
to have the drive other
racial groups have to
varying . degrees.
4) Is not what we call
"modern civilization" to
day merely mainly and
essentially White civiliza
tion? I think so!
I'd like some comment
on these questions.
JUAN MIGUEL RAMOS
Who Says So?
The Boogie Men
This is CouncU . . .
color it leading cheerlead
ing .. . This is Susie
Pierce . . . color her
' angry. These are the new
cheerleaders . . . color
them wondering. These
are the shafted tryouters
. . . color them aggitated
pink.
Maybe the selections
were kind of irregular.
This has been said by
many. But what good
does it do to talk about
this now, especially when
suggesting the possibility
of redoing the whole mess.
This would really be ri
diculous. Undoubtedly someone
felt he or she or his or
her's bud didn't quite
make it because of some
one's personality conflict
ing with ability.
I actually think this
whole mess could be
solved if they would have
chosen Husky the Husker
Yell King. Then no one
would have tried out. Then
we could have colored the
whole mess appropriately
railroaded . . .
See where the PBK and .
Sigma Xi tribes are hav
ing their recognition ban
quets. We have yet to fig
ure out why the program
is being printed on blue
books. AU kidding aside,
congratulations to NU's
outstanding scholars.
By the way, for any of
you who would like to
know, Dr. Ross supposed
ly failed to stop Pi XI ac
tivity here. If you'd like,
tromp up to their new
operating headquarters
in Omaha you might
catch a heck of a party
complete with the dirty
language and the poop
sheet.
Did you get a chance
to check out the live birth
of the chicks in the Un
ion? I went over to see
them, but the only one
visible was dead. Maybe
he drank some Union cof
fee. We read the headlines
in the Rag the other day
and saw that "Living Un
its Pick Ivy, Daisy
Chains." I can just see
the buildings around cam
pus being stripped of their
vines while the Lincoln
City Council screams over
the vacant daisy patches
in the city parks.
Naturally, these words
depict the coming of Ivy
day. The Mighty Mortar
Boards and the Innocents
start haggling over qual
ity versus quanlty versus
affiliation versus the flu.
The Juniors start becom
ing buggy and itchy, take
four baths a day, wear
suits to class, stop miss
ing their meetings, drink
more coffee (yagg) in the
Union, read the Rag re
ligiously, gather in small
groups to speak quietly to
each other and aU have
bought three dozen safety
belts self Installed.
The Student Council
elections really could be
heated. This whole mess
between the IFC and that
other group could cause
heat and more hard feel
ings. Wouldn't it be nice if
both groups would recon
cile themselves to the sim
ple facts of life the in
dependents chose to be in
dependents; the Greeks
want to be Greeks. So
who cares?
Campus politics should
be kept on the levels in
tended Issues and atti
tudes to make this place
a little bit better.
(I suppose that if there
Uagroupof Independ
ents who wish they
weren't they could organ
ize themselves and apply
to one of the many na
tional fraternities. Or go
through rush week.)
There was a man
named Dr. Michael Shug-
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rue who came riding into
the Nebraska Campus in
a Falcon (White). He took
a job with a man named
Chancellor and became
the man to do it all, think
it aU and actually did a
great deal of other peo
ples work.
Probably best known
for his raport with the
student body, Dr. Michael
Shugure is a Veal loss to
the campus. Sorry to see
you go, say the students
rightfully so.
You know, I was won
derin' the other day and
talking with an irritated
Rag writer who had a
column expressing discon
tent of. this guy leaving.
He said he couldn't write
it, but felt it was a real
shame.
Made me think too we
really don't see or hear
much from the man who
runs this place. I guess he
still works here, although
I wouldn't especially
with the attitude of many
state officials over how
much money education
should get.
Now is the time for all
good grads to romp back
to their University and be
in the Master's program.
Until the past week I
thought the Council was
referring to a new way
of getting a degree . . .
romp across the campus
and get a Master's. Then
again, I thought it was a
well deserved recognition
banquet for Dick Masters.
Or, maybe Sgt. Masters
had resigned too and the
green light on back-lot
drinking could again be
enacted.
Panhel has eliminated
the lower half of high
school graduating classes
from participation in
Rush Week. They also
have clarified what "spik
ing" is. Last year they
said room rush was out.
How can the girls have
any chucks during rush
week anymore?
Over vacation the MB's
and Innocents are going
around the state to pro
claim how great the uni
versity is. Wonder what
they will have to talk
about.
A hunting we wiU go.
The hunt for the myster
ious egg with the shekels
hidden inside is starting
for the troops. So far the
best clue seems to be that
it is hidden in the grass.
As soon as we know
whether they mean crab
grass or blue grass we
can all hunt in earnest.
The easter bunny vis
ited the University early
this year. Some of the lo
cal officials have eggs on
their faces, and will prob
ably have even more
when the final list
of resignations comes out.
Since NU doesn't seem to
be able to beat other
school's offers, the faculty
is joining them.
That's what comes from
putting all your eggs in
one budget appropriation.
Overheard in the corri
dors of this glorious insti
tution, "Boy am I glad
that vacation is here!"
Coincidence, so are we!
By the way, don't let
the safety patrolmen get
you, we Boogies want ya'
when ya' get back!!
t.b.m.
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