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EDITORIAL
Thursday, April 25, 1963
Engineering Week
TODAY MARKS the beginning of En
gineering Week, a series of events only
vaguely familiar to the average Univer
sity student.
Perhaps the most interesting phase
of the events to the non-scientific student
will be the exhibits on display during the
college's open house.
IN THIS increasingly scientific world,
it is impossible to disregard science as a
factor in everyone's life . . . or to regard
it as something which makes school "un
comfortable." E-Week is designed to let the layman
see what science is accomplishing and
what the University's School of Engineer
ing and Architecture, in particular, is ac
complishing. E-WEEK WILL project the Univer
sity outside its academic confines as it
puts on its one big show showing stu
dents, taxpayers and any interested per
sons something of what goes on in the
College of Engineering and Architecture.
Displays, exhibitions and lectures con
vey the message of engineering and of all
science to the layman. Here is taught
tangible evidence of what is learned and
accomplished at the University.
'THE UNIVERSITY of Nebraska is on
display when such activities take place
on its campus. And E-Week, from all early
indications, should provide a good dis
play. It is, however, a little difficult for some
members of the campus community to
realize that there is something more here
on campus than politics, intrigue, activi
ties, or whatever is holding their atten
tion. THERE IS a University, for example,
which is proud to show something of what
it has.
A Job
THE MASTERS Program evaluation
session gave the Masters an opportunity
to give their impressions and suggested
Improvements for the Student Council's
program. And, as we predicted earlier,
their remarks indicated that the initial
project was a great success.
Their enthusiasm for the program was
ihown when they commented, collectively
and individually, that they would like to
do much more for the program they
wanted to spend more time with the stu
deats and on the campus, and they indi
cated that their enthusiasm had become
ell Done:
greater after they had arrived on campus.
THEIR SUGGESTIONS for additions
to the program were good. They felt that ,
in the future the wives should be invited
to visit in the womens' living units. They
suggested that one or wo female Masters
should be included. And, they felt that
they could have had more time to visit
with students interested in their individ
ual fields of interest.
These suggestions are not bad reflec
tions on the Council's first effort with the
Masters Program. Rather, they indicate
that the first set of Masters are encourag
ing a continuation of the program.
Qualified Candidates
THE DAILY Nebraskan is running the
first set of profiles on the candidates for
Student Council in today's edition.
We are doing this as a service to the
student body so that they can be
acquainted with the list of candidates when
they vote May 8 for their college repre
sentatives. And, it IS time for our student
body to begin taking a sincere interest in
cur student government.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT on our
campus faces what we could call a "crisis
year." But, there will be no faceto-face
showdowns between students and admin
istration during the up-coming elections;
there will be no dramatic confrontation
with the issues placed clearly in the open.
The crisis will be more subtle than
that some may seem even more trivial.
And that is the reason it may prove to be
a "crisis year" because student govern
ment win have to work continuously, stud
iously and with maturity and, many
times, they will receive no public acclaim
for their work.
STUDENT COUNCIL must work in
minor areas where student self-government
is threatened.
Our Student Council must develop an
operational efficiency, a re-invigorated
daringness and,, most important, an insti
tutionalized . maturity. If it fails, self
government on this campus may be re
legated to a permanent status as an orna
mental fixture, without substance or
meazing.
MORE THAN in past years, fhe Stu
dent Council now must ask to become a
real part of the decision-making machin
ery of the University at the risk of being
considered presumptuous or brash. Stu
dents should begin to enter more into the
important decisions of the University.
The Council should ask for a larger
role in matters which directly affect the
student body.
THE ORGANIZATIONAL maturity,
above and beyond these other goals, is
what the Council members should aim for.
The Council should mean the Council and
not the Council president and his five or
ten hard-working, devoted colleagues.
Student Council must mature, as an en-tity-Miot
a collection of diverse individ
uals. Student government should mature
to the point where those who oppose stu
dent autonomy's rightful demands will not
be able to take comfort in the graduation
of a strong leader, but must always face
intelligent, well-taught students, trained in
the methodology as well as the ideals of a
strong self-governing student community.
THERE ARE students on this campus
who can satisfy these qualifications ....
there are students who have filed for Stu
dent Council positions who are representa
tive of these ideals.
Now it is up to the voting student body
to select the students who will contribute
to a mature, hard-working Council.
WE, AS the staff of the campus news
paper, will try to bring the candidates
and issues out into the open so that you
are able to evaluate the candidates' plat
forms . . . but, we can't determine if your
actual vote will be an intelligent one. We
hope that the space we devote to the candi
dates' profiles will not be wasted ... we
hope that each student will be an in
formed, interested voter.
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ONE OF the imperatives in education
today is the realization that all modern
learning general as well as specialized
humanist as well as scientific will have
to be continuing and self-feeding as never
before.
The old image of the liberal arts col
leges' product reminds me of the ripened
apple lovely and finished. I should like
to think of the college product of tomor
row more as of a tough plant, with roots
sunk deep, able to continue to grow in
dependently in a tough world.
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THE SECOND imperative is that
education must be taken with literally
deadly seriousness. The days of college
as a romantic luxury are as surely past
as are the years when a child's interest
in Eskimos was considered as valuable
as his competence in reading. We may
never know whether this is cause for grief
or rejoicing.
We know it is a fact.
WE KNOW that the leisurely, com
fortable All-American picnic is over.
We know that, whatever the continuing
value of the well-rounded man, sharpened
minds will be the cutting edge of survival.
After several months,
the loss of Republican gu
bernatorial candi
date Fred Seaton. in the
November elections is still
being analyzed.
Observers are saying
that the victory of Dem
ocrat Frank Morrison in
a state where the GOP
has a decided registra
tion edge was a political
phenomenon. Veteran
campaigners in several
post election critiques at
tribute the Seaton defeat
to a variety of circum
stances. No Issues
The campaign is viewed
as a battle between two
candidates projecting two
images and involving lit
tle or no issues. The so
called dispute over the
King Anderson vs. the
Kerr-Mills medical care
bill was in reality no is
sue at all. It failed to
arouse significant public
opinion on either side of
the question. Observers al
so state that aid to educa
tion, whether federal or
state did not provide an
adequate issue either.
Governor Morrison's
stand was not too clear.
What it amounted to, how
ever, was a compromise
between federal and state
aid whereby federal rev
enue would be returned
to the states to eliminate
federal control. This was
not a significant depart
ure from Seaton's view
and both positions did not
result in a disputable is
sue. Independent and
Conservative Influence
The independent vote
which decides many elec
tions did not materialize
in sufficient enough num
bers to give Seaton a win
ning margin.
Even more significant
than the lack of independ
ent support was the inac
tion by certain conserva
tive elements of the Re
publican Party. These
elements failed to jump
on the Seaton bandwagon
soon enough or with suf
ficient force to give an
adequate endorse
ment. The inaction took
the forms of a lack of co
operation in organization,
a lack of enthusiasm
throughout the conserva
tive ranks, and in some
cases almost open antag
onsim to the Republican
candidate.
This lack of enthusiasm
was also prevalent in the
Lancaster County organi
zation where a recent
change in leadership
brought discontent and up
heaval during the crucial
campaign period. The new
organization, however, did
deliver 14,000 additional
votes to the Seaton tally
over the 1960 total for
John Cooper. Disorganiza
tion was also obvious in
the Seaton camp which
did not work for maxi
mum effectiveness.
Fund raising played an
important part in the cam
paign, especially in Oma
ha and Lincoln. The ap
peals for money were
many and varied thus con
fusing the situation., Such
appeals included: the
county commissioner and
county clerk candidates,
Congressionaf appeals, the
Republican County Com
mittee, the State Commit
tee, advertising in the Re
publican paper, the appre
ciation dinner for Ralph
Beerman, the National
Republican Committee, the
Seaton group, and even
solicitations for Minnesota
Congressman, Walter
Judd.
The violation of certain
campaign techniques and
mechanics contributed to
the GOP defeat: Mr. Seat
on did not appear on tele
vision often enough. H i s
campaign appeared to lev
el off too early and con
sequently the election was
decided the day before.
Mr. S e a t o n's billboards
did not have enough party
indentification and the
message, "He wants to
work for you," was too
small.
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presumably failed to
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This was obviously a
personal victory for Gov.
Morrison. The incumbent
ran almost completely
without party identifica
tion. His Nebraskans for
Morrison group was sub
stituted for the regular
Democratic Party organi
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further disavowed any
connection with the New
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trip to Nebraska which
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FILLING A WELL-NEEDED GAP
Although my son is a college freshman, I am glad to say that t
he is still not too old to climb up on my lap and have a heart-to-heart
talk when things are troubling him. My boy is enrolled
at Harvard where he is studying to be a fireman. From the
time he was a little tiny baby he always said he wanted to be
a fireman. Of course, my wife and I Mieved that be would
eventually grow out of it, but no sir. the little chap never
wavered in his ambition for one minute!
So here he is at Harvard today taking courses in net holding,
mouth-to-mouth breathing, carlon tetrachloride, and Dalma
tian dogs. It is a full schedule for the young man, and that, inv
fact, is exactly what we talked about when last he climbed
upon my lap.
He complained that every bit of his time is taken up with his
major requirement. He doesn't have so much as one hour a
week to sample any of the fascinating courses outside his major
history, literature, language, science, or any of the thousand
and one things that apjieal to his keen young mind.
I am sure that many of you find yourselves in the same
scholastic bind ; you are faking so many requirements that you
can't find time for some appealing electives. Therefore, in to
day's column I will forego levity and give you a brief survey in
a subject that is probably not included in your curriculum.
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I have asked the makers of Marllwro Cigarettes whether I
might employ this column normally a vehicle for innocent
merriment to pursue this serious end. "Of course you may,
cray kid," they replied kindlily, their grey eyes crinkling at
the corners, their manly mouths twisted in funny little grins.
If you are a Marlboro smoker and what intelligent human
person is not? you would expect the makers of Marlboro to
be fine men. And so they are wonderful guys, every man-jack
of them good, generous, understanding, wise. They are each
tipped with a pure white filter and come in soft pack or Flip
Top box.
Uut I digress. We were going to take up a topic you ar
probably unable to cover in your busy academic life. Let us
start with the most basic topic of all anthropology, the study
of mun himself.
Man is usually defined as a tool-making animal, but I per
sonally do not find this definition entirely satisfactory. Man is
not the only species which makes tools. The simians, for ex
ample, make monkey wrenches.
Still, when you come to a really complicated tool like
linotype, for instance you can be fairly sure it was made by
Homo sapiens or else a very intelligent tiger. The question on
should ask, therefore, is not who made the tool, but what did
he do with it.
For example, in a recent excavation in the Olduvai Gorge a
large assortment of hominoid fossils was found, all dating back
to the Middle Pleistocene Age. Buried with the fossils was a
number of their artifacts, the most interesting bing a black
metd box which emitted a steady beeping sound. Now, of
course, soologistA will tell you that tree frogs make such boxes
which they employ in their mating activities (I can't go into
detail about it in this family newspaper) but the eminent an
thropological team, Mr. and Mrs. Walther Sigafoos (both he
and she are named Walther) were convinced that this particular
box was made not by tree frogs but by Neanderthal men. To
prove their point, they switched on the box and out came
television, winch, as everyone knows, was the forerunner of fire.
If there is anything more you need to know about anthro
pology, just climb up on my lap as soon as my son loaves.
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