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EDITORIAL
Thursday, May 16, 19631
W e're Si . rimng'
SOME STUDENTS have complained
this semester that the Daily Nebraskan
editorials and columns have been too
negative or too radical, too "blah" or
too repetitive, too violent or too much
'griping."
There is a torch of truth in all these
complaints. We feel there are some
things wrong wrong with the University,
wrong with student activities, wrong with
student government.
WE BELIEVE these things cannot'
be righted by refusing to recognize their
existence the arguments against them
must be said and repeated and repeated,
until the wrongs are no more.
After a semester of varying editorial '
comments, we are still griping.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES and the Stu
dent Council, in many ways, have still
failed to assume the responsibilities for
governing and serving the students, rath
er than themselves, and for providing
leadership for legitimate student goals.
But there are signs of improvement, par
ticularly with the Council's Masters' and
Senators' Programs. (As for student ac
tivities, it seems that they are still re
peating the same projects over and over
and over, year after year after . . .)
The administration still, by " and
large, seems to complicate and make
difficult the affairs of both faculty and
students, which could be better off if
left alone. Changes are v made, policies
are revised, unncessary rules are en
forcedmany without student consent or
-consultation. And, we find that quite oft
en our leaders are members of a silent
generation, a group which does not feel
In Arts and Sciences
that it is necessary to explain or defend
policies, rules or innovations. Could they
feel that students are here to learn and
be lead but not to lead?
The students still are saddled with
the outmoded three R's rules, regula
tions and restrictidhs. Women's hours,
social restrictions, point systems, all are
remnants of the past but still admittedly
serve some purposes but they deserve to
be revised.
THE UNIVERSITY is in a squeeze,
between tight-fisted legislators and the
urgent demands of increasing enrollment
and a greater need for greater knowl
edge. As with all state universities, the
battle pits administrators vs. adminis
trators in a frantic ring-around-the-Uni-versity,
often asking for money for im
aginery needs and ignoring the funda
mental educational crises, running
around and around, until they all turn
to butter. And then there are those who
say that our budget requests include only
the greatest necessities and, we agree.
No doubt our legislators are all buttered
out.
And the problems grow bigger and
more insoluble, and those with the most
at stake the faculty and the students
are listened to the least.
THESE AND the -other 1,000 things
that make us angry and impatient are
less urgent for that reason. The problems
are a facet of the overall struggle for
control between administrators and the
administrated, which unhappily, the or
ganization happy administrators prob
ably will win.
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There's something both
pretentious and spontan
eous about the way the
University Theater han
dles Shakespeare, and
last night's opening of
"Much Ado About Noth
ing" is an example.
In a tale of feuding
w o u 1 d-be lovers, slan
dered maidens, and crafty
bastards, members of Wil
liam Morgan's cast were
obviously enjoying them
selves . something that
can't be feigned.
However, it is beyond
this member of the audi
ence why directors of
Shakespeare feel obligated
to dress their cast in the
usual bloomers and
tights usually, the husky
fellows look ridiculous
and, even worse, feel that
way and show it.
But that is another
matter, and one that is
being debated by both
others more involved and
interested in it specifical
ly than I.
What was delightful
about yesterday night's
performance was the
manner in which the ac
tors managed to convey
the meanings of the lines
without getting all tan
gled up in the awkward
(to us) syntax and unfa
miliar words. You know
"forsooth" and all that.
As Beatrice, the sharp
tongned heroine, Maureen
Frazier was very, very
funny. Disturbing was her
frequent movements and
mannerisms which made
her appear more a bawd
than a fine (if sarcastic)
lady, to the manner born.
Miss Frazier's comic
flair, however, was far
from obscured. Her face,
as well as being lovely,
was an amazingly plastic
quality, and it's a pity
that she's a senior and
we won't have the chance
to see her develop even
more as a comedienne..
Fred . Gaines was gen
erally good in a difficult
role. At times, he seemed
to get carried away with
the sound of his own
voice, at the expense of
line meanings, - but this
was the exception. He did
manage very well to at
tain the varying levels re
quired by the part, and
was one of the finer play-'
ers of the production.
Hero, a "fair maiden."
was sweetly (pronounced
without sarcasm) played
by Marilyn Longo. She
was lovely to both watch
and hear, althoughain the
later "tragic" scenes she
seemed to lack the nec
essary momentary depth.
But the play is not too
serious, and if this was a
flaw, it was minor.
As Claudio, Hero's Be
trothed, Vaclav Hamsa
was below the level of the
other actors. Except when
he was speaking a line,
he appeared to be al
most indifferent to the ac
tion, and ill at ease.
Husky Jim Baffico, clad
lavishly in knee socks and
upholstery fringe, was
good. Although he didn't
affect the "Shakespearean
diction" of many of the
others (thank God!), he
spoke his lines with feel
ing and sincerity, which
the play deserves.
Frank Vybiral, as Leo
nato, Hero's father, was
fun to watch, but weak.
When he is good, he is
very, very good, and
when he is bad . . . oh,
forget it. Incidentally, he
handled the formidable
job of costuming the mot
ley crew very well, and
with imagination.
Elijah Powell displayed
a fine singing voice, and
little else as Balthazar.
It was nice to see that
by Jtusan Stanley
Sharon Binfield is being
let out of her casting
mold as a shrew she
really can be charming
when the Powers let her
be. : -
As members of The
Watch, Bruce Brandt,
Charles Armstrong, John
Turner, Curtiss Greene
and John Stohlmann were
grotesque something like
a prototype of Pamoi
Runyan. Very funny.
Most of all, "Much Ado
About Nothing" is fun to
watch because it suc
ceeds at chewing up
Shakespeare enough that
it's understandable both
verbally and plotwise.
But, oh, those bloomers!
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THE IJNIVERSITY asked for an
$S.9 million increase in state tax funds
for the coming biennium. The governor
recommended that the legislature give,
us something over $3 million. The budg
et committee usually doesn't go over the
governor's recommendations.
And the attitude, both campus and
state-wide, is "What difference does it
make whether the University gets all it
needs or not? The University will still be
there, won't it?"
YES, IT win still be here, but it
will be a different University than you
and I know today.
Take the chemistry, botany, zoology
and biology laboratories, for example.
By September 1964, lab space will not
be adequate in any of these physical sci
ences. So you want to take a chemistry
course next year. "Sorry," you may be
told, "you won't be able to," will come
the reply. And you needed that course
for your major tough.
GOING TO take any courses in Eng
lish, mathematics, philosophy, Germanic
languages, or Romance languages next
faU? That's too bad. Dean Walter E.
Militzer, Dean of Arts and EACCE col
lege, reports that not only these but vir
tually every department in the college
is understaffed, with these departments
being in particular trouble. Some teach
ers in the languages are working ten to
twelve hours a day, six to seven days a
Week to handle the teaching and research
load they have been assigned.
What does it mean to you? Simply
this you won't be getting the personal
attention after class for a particular
problem you may have. Your professor
wont have time, and your questions will
'go unanswered. Level of classroom in
struction win faU, too; just not enough
time to prepare.
WANT TO take graduate work after
you graduate? Maybe you better look at
m University in another state. You see,
come of the departments may have to
drop or modify their graduate programs
if the University doesn't get its needed
funds.
You may rationalize that it's really
very simple. AU you have to do is to
hire away enough professors from other'
schools to teach the students already
here and those that will soon be enroll
ing. Very simple, except how are you
going to attract them to Lincoln? In
schools in our area full professors are
already earning considerably more than I
We can presently offer them at the Uni-
versity, and the difference is greater for
Big-10, Eastern, and Pacific Coast Uni-
versities. (And were we to get our full
budget request, there would still be a
difference.) '
In the languages, the work load here I
is 25 per cent more and the pay and
fringe benefits less than other universi- f
ties in the region. A Chicago professor
who' was approached by the University 1
with our best offer simply replied, ""Are . 1
you kidding?"
DEAN MILITZER agrees that lan- f
guage and music teaching loads are J
keeping the professors we have. The abil-
ity and inspiration professors like Miner 1
(English), Ross (history), Chasson (phys-
ics), Burgi (speech) and Cronon (history) I
are impossible to replace with compar-
able teachers with our salary offers. The
result is that only teachers with less abil-
ity or experience can be hired, what you
learn from the course will be less. And I
with less work and more pay, else- f
where, who wouldn't leave? ' I
Yes, the college of Arts and Sci-
ences, the largest in the University, is
in a rather desperate situation. But one
professor in humanities put it this way,
"The last budget (1961-1963) hurt us ter
ribly. Anotoer one like the last one may
be a catiutrophe, because if we don't
have the money, well have to cut out
something, and that might be our gradu
ate program. Then we'll just be a teach
ers college and not a university."
PERHAPS YOU and I should say
something to our state senator about this.
Yes, perhaps we should ...
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(Author of "I Wat a Teen-age Dwarf', "The Many
Loot of Uotne hum , etc.)
HOW TO SEE EUROPE
FOR ONLY $300 A DAY: NO. 3
When all of you go to Europe during your summer vacation,
you will certainly want to visit Spain, where the tall corn grows,
The first thing you will notice upon entering Spain is the
Absence of sibilants. In Spain "s" is pronounced "tb" and
thereby hangs a tale. Until the reign of Philip IV or Guy
Fawkes, as he was sometimes called Spaniards said "s" just
like everybody else. Philip IV, however, lisped, and Spaniards,
having an ingrained sense of propriety and not wishing to era
. barrass their monarch, decided that everybody should lisp. This
did indeed put Philip TV very much at his ease, but in the end
it turned out to be a very bad thing for Spain. It wrecked the
assafrag industry Spain's principal source of revenue and
(educed the nation to a second-class power.
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with
A University coed, Su
san Stanley, conceived an
idea for a radio show in
early ApriL Her purpose
was to let University of
Nebraska internation
al students air their
thoughts and opinions.
. Called "The Four Cor
nell," Miss Stanley's week
ly radio show on KFMQ
features different national
ity groups each week.
Tonight at ft p.m. Miss
Stanley will interview Bill
Kaywood and Pete
Banghart, both of whom
came to the University
from the U n 1 n of South
Africa, They will be dis
cussing ""apartlilrd," the
rigid racial policies of the
Union of South Africa,
and they will explain how
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and why these policies
work.
Questions may be
phoned in to KFMQ dur
ing the broadcast
Concerning the recent
abolishment of the Union
Board of Managers . . .
The abolishment wOl
create aa advisory group
to take the place of the
present decision-making
beard. Ia other words, the
Board of Managers Is
handing over its gavel to
the Dean of Student Af
fairs ... the chair will
recognize administrators
and not responsible stu
dent workers.
Commenting later, the
Bean said that "Some per
f sons have been concerned
that the students responsi
bility is taken away by
this move, but I hope that
they will have more." But,
the last line of the reor
, ganization worksheet said,
"Subsequent statements
will be needed to further
define Toles and relation
ships of staff, students,
etc." j
It will be interesting to
learn the final decision.
And, it will be interesting
to find out if other stu
dent activities win have
done I
some reorganizing
for them.
Perhaps in years to
come, the Crib wUl be in
the Administration Build
ing ... no doubt, it win
be the center of student
and organization activity.
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As a result, Spaniards were all forced to turn to hull fighting
m order to keep body and soul together. Today, wherever you
go in Spain in Madrid, in Rarcekma, in Toledo, in Cleveland
you will see bulls being fought For many years the bulls
have sought to arbitrate tliis long-standing dispute, but tba
Spaniards, a proud people who use nothing but Castile soap,
have rejected ail overtures.
It k therefore necessary for me 'to explain bull fighting to
an3oue who is going to Spain. It is also necessary for me to
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But I digress. Let us return to bull fighting. Bulls are by
nature bellicose creatures who will keep fighting till the cows
eome home. Then they like to put on -pipe and slippers and
lkten to the "Farm and Eome Hour." However, the Sjianiards
will n jt allow the bulls any surcease. They keep attacking the
bull and making veronica a corn meal pancake filled with
ground meat. Bulls, being vegetarians, reject the veronica
and then, believe you xue, the fur starts to fly 1
To be perfectly honest, many Spaniards have grown weary
of tins incessant struggle and have left their homeland. Co
lumbus, for example, took off in three little ships the Patti,
tlie Maxene, and the Laverne and discovered Ohio. Magellan
later discovered Columbus. Balboa also sailed to the New
World, but he was silent on a peak in Darien, so it k difficult
to know what he discovered.
Well sir, I guess that's all you need to know about Spain.
So now, as the setting sun casts its rosy fingers over D Greco,
let us take our reluctant leave of Spain or Perfidious Albion,
as it k jocularly called. Aloha, Spain or Perfidious Albion, aloha 1
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