qmm?M; mimh 'term OUR POLICY: Fair But Human Each semester at this time a new editor of the Ne braskan sits down and tries to tell his readers the paper's plans and policy for the coming semester which, of course, is impossible. The editor usually begins his spiel by asking himself several questions. What is a college newspaper? What is its function? Why is it different from other news papers? The editor most usually denies that the paper it controlled by any group or person. And this gives him feeling of confidence. After he has gained this confidence ... he boasts (hat the paper will be objective in its news columns, that Its editorial page will ran the gamut of all possible areas of human thought; that the sports page is complete, fair fend, also, objective. In the last paragraph Ihe concludes with an ostentat ious display of the bill of rights "Freedom Of The Ptess." Anything he has left out in the previous para graphs Is shoved into the last. These usually include a plea for interested workers to step down into a "rat race" and become a paid staff writer, and a plea for a greater . interest in the letters to the editor column. But, alas, we look at our bright, gleeming ideal and questions remain ones Which are impossible to answer. We ay that our news column will cover all areas" of interest to the University community, but there are 11, 600 students hi the University community with interests tanging from beer parties to political f anticism. We say our editorial page will be objective and free from outside pressure groups, but the Nebraskan is bien nially attacked for being a liberal tug boat in a vast bay of conservatism. We say we are free from the grip of the University's administration, but they are known to withhold informa tion "in the best interest of students or in the best interest of the University." This is true especially when biennial appropriations are being considered by the Unicameral. In other words students should be informed of administra tive news after it is made public through the public rela tions department not before. We say we try to keep the news columns free from Mas and prejudice, but what is evident is that every time a reporter writes a story he is, by nature, unavoidably exhibiting biases. What is most important, however, is that the Daily Nebraskan does not make the news. Although sometimes we wish that we could. You the student ... the presi dent of Student C o u n c i 1 . . . the president of the Resi dent Association for Men and the other innumerable campns organizations make the news. The Nebraskan re ports it. A paper that tries to do anymore than this ceases to be a media for communication, and is reconceived a vicious, selfish animal looking after its own wants, and not the audience it serves. This does not mean the Ne braskan can not present editorial information in as fair a way as possible to make an interest group see another viewpoint on a question, but it does mean that the stu dent creates the news and he always will. So, as we said it is impossible to tell you what we are going to do, because we don't know ourselves. The door to the editor's office is always open if you have time to come in for a chat about anything that has been irritating you. If you can't do that at least drop us a line to let us know bow we are doing. GARY LACEY YOUR RIGHT: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke . (ACP) The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State Univer sity, Baton Rounge, La., interviewed a number of students and learned: Most smokers are sincere, dedicated people who know what they want and how to get it. Some smoke only after dinner, some before and, for a few smoking IS their dinner. No one admitted to being a social smoker, as they felt they were under no pressure to smoke, and to do so was strictly voluntary. Since his first cigarette in grade school, the smoker has been plagued with insults heaved upon him by his greatest enemy, the non-smoker. Fortunately, they are but a small minority and no real threat to the advancement of smoking. The number of persons enjoying cigarettes today is un paralleled in history; their numbers are endless, and the result of it all is easy to predict: Eventually everyone will be a smoker. ... Children will be indoctrinated at birth by replacing filters on cigarettes with nipples. "No" smoking signs will be replaced by "only" smoking signs. Universities and otbsr social organizations will make it a prerequisite that all their students smoke, and grades win be withheld until they do. Fraternities and sororities will ban from member ship any pledge whose fingers are not nicotine-stained. Insist upon your right to smoke, and then smoke, moke, smoke. Pity those who dont, for theirs is a fading generation, soon to be forgotten, don't be buried by OUR ashes . . . tobacco, that is. The) Daily Nebraskan JOHN MORRIS, mansrfnc editor ; 8UTC HOVTK, news editor; STEVE 8Y DOW, iUB'S SMITH BERGER, GRANT PETERSON, senior staff writers! Larry asman. marv Mcnkff. gary miu-eb, frank partcu. SWArtl JOHNSON. Junior stuff writers; PATTY KNAPP, ARNIE GARSON, cow viHmi HAL FOSTER, Photorrapher, MICK ROOD, (port editor: KIKE JEF WVKY. circulation manager. JIM DICK, subscription manaKer; BILL GUN LICKS, BOB CUNNINGHAM, PETS LAGS, buriMM assistants. SHtMnripOoiui nrtrc 3 per semester or 5 per year. Entxred as second class matter at the post offioa la Lincoln, Nebraska, nder the act of August 4, 1812. The Daily Nebraska!! published at Room 51, Nebraska Union, on Mcmlur, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday by University of Nebraska students ewior th Jurtadiottoa, of the Faculty Subcommittee on Student Publications. PuMtcationa shall be fro from cenwrsiap by the Subcommittee or any person wMe the University. Members of the Nebraskan are responsible for what thwr cause to be printed. I Cork's Quirks i M U5Et TO PIKU A PRETTY 500t AfAt MVSElF, &ARRY." -BATTLE LINES FORMING- Question College Morals One of the oldest mutu al recrimination societies in existence is that made up the older and the younger generations. The older generation frequently suspects with alarm that the younger is morally bankrupt. The younger then steps for ward to defend its reputa tion. The focus of such ex change today is frequent ly the college campus and its m o r a 1 s or lack of them, depending on which side one is listening to. When people discuss college morals, they us ually are talking about sex, drinking and cheat ing on exams. PremartM sex in vary ing degrees is widely engaged in on the cam pus. This is accepted fair ly openly among the stu dents themselves. How ever the subject gets vig orous debate among them and many are troubled by it. To put this in moral perspective, some experts suggest that we look at research which indicates: The incidence of pre marital sex and illegiti mate pregnancy is lower among the college group than any other segment of society. Members of the college population at least those who stay, graduate, and often go on for graduate work have a high mar riage rate, an above av erage age at marriage, and a low divorce rate compared with rest of the population. As for drinking, college has long been the place where Junior had his first serious brush with al coholic . overindulgence. When his time came, his roommate was expected to hold his head and tend his hangover. There is little reason to believe this is much dif ferent today except that co-eds now are included. The college years are still those when the legal drinking age is reached, so it's not surprising, say many college counselors, that students first "learn to drink" in college. Such an experience is bound to have its rocky moments, and few esca pades that may cause blushes later. While such incidents are quietly toler ated if they remain quiet most wild drunken ness is not. Most observers of the college scene believe the heyday of the drinking or gy is past, but they admit some still occurs. Surrep titious tippling goes on, but is not considered a serious problem. Opinions on college cheating differ. Some administrators say students are so care fully chosen and so bright today that practically none need to cheat to stay in school. Others believe the keen er competition and the growing importance of a college degree have in creased pressure to cheat. Each year seems to (Continued on Page 3) a- THE DRESSY WOOL you've been waiting for: tleevelem, magnificently box-pleated from an empire velveteen belt, bow finished. S to IS. Red. 39.95 Bring you up to the minute coed fashions. Known for the correct dress, coat, skirt and sweater looks. quentms town & campus ,1229 R St. Soiled Rush Well, Rush Week is over and done with for another year, so now all good Greeks can relax and set tle down to their normal complacency. Gone are the free cigarettes, punch, doughnuts, and the good 'ol hard sell. Oh yes last, but surely not least, gone is the soiled bargaining, better known as dirty rush. It seems that there are still a few brothers yes, only a few in the system who believe it necessary to operate by the nega tive approach. Unfortun ately, being a fraternity member I might be ac cused of personal preju dice, but should this have been the case I would nev er have been able to con tinue beyond this point. However, other brothers from other houses have unknowingly contributed to this column in their talks with me. I have no intention of revealing any houses in v o I v e d or statements made, but I am instead directing a single question to new pledges and pros pective pledges new men to the fraternity way of life. My motive? Simple! I hope that in answering it you may be able to play a strong role In cor recting the situation. My question: Did the sssi by Lynn Corcoran house that you pledged have to point out to you any faults of other houses you may have been con sidering pledging in order to help you with your choice? If your answer is no, you might turn to page 3 and read the Claridge-Kir-by story. r If your answer Is yes to any degree, why do you suppose their actions were necessary? Could they have run out of fa vorable attributes to re late about their own house, or were they try. ing to protect you from an environment which would have destroyed you physically and mentally? If you can a c c e p t it, let's assume they were protecting you! Don't you think that you could have made these observations on your own or were you ready to make an obser. vation or two? Do you be lieve that rushees should be permitted to make their own decision, or do you think that additional help must be given to them in the form of D.R. D.R. will always sway a rushee towards it or away from it. Those of you who answered yes to my question: which way did it sway you? star U2 fe&ira (By the Author of -Rally Round the Flag, Boyr atj, "Barefoot Boy With Cheek.") ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, DEAR FRIENDS Today I begin my tenth year of writing this column in your campus newspaper. Ten years is a long time; it is, in fact, what some scholarly people like to call a decade from the Latin word deccum, meaning the floor of a ship. It is, to my mind, remarkable that the Romans had such a word as decatm when you consider that bhips did not exist until 1620 when John Alden invented the Mayflower. Alden, a prodigiously ingenious man, also invented the ear lobe and Pocahontas. m Ships were a very popular mode of travel especially over water until 1912 when the Swede, Ivar Krucgcr, invented the iceberg. Krueger also invented the match, which is a good thing, because without the match, how would you light yotrr Marlboro Cigarettes? I cannot overstress the importance lighting your Marlboro Cigarettes, for Marlboro Cigarettes, unlighted, provide, at best, only limited smoking pleasure. J0Sk dZCr laofi 'rZJKil V.si .f i ; f 'V ft lV ' k,JJM" few I mention Marlboros because this column is an advertise ment, brought to you through the school year by the makers of Marlboros. Marlboros come in soft pack or Flip-Top box. The makers of Marlboros come in dark suits with thin lapels except on weekends when they come in yoke-neck jerseys and white duck trousers. White ducks come in flocks. They an primarily fresh water dwellers, although they have been sue cessfully raised in salt water too. Another salt water deniien I m sure you will find enjoyable is plankton a mess of tiny organiHms like diatoms and algae and like that which float sluggishly near the surface of the sea. It is ironic that these creatures, microscopic in sine, should supply the principal source of food for the earth's largest animal, the whale. Whales, I must say, are not at all pleased with this arrangement, be cause it takes the average whale, eating steadily, 48 hours to gather a day's meal. This leaves them almost no time for water sports or reading Melville. It is a lucky thing for all of us that whales are unaware they are mammals, not fish, and could, if they tried, live just as well on land as in water. I mean, you add ten or twelve million whales to our Sunday traffic and you would have congestion that makes the mind boggle. But I digress. Today, I was saying, I begin my tenth year of writing this column for Marlboro Cigarettes in your campus newspaper. I will, in each column, say a few kind words about Marlboros-just as you will, once you fay that fine tobacco flavor, that pristine white filter, that supple soft pack, that infrangible Flip-Top box. These references to Marlboro will be brwsf and unobtrusive, for I do not believe in the hard sell What I favor is the soft sell -you might even call it the limp or spoy sell. I hasten to state that the makers of Marlboro m ten full years have not once complained about my desultory sales approach. Neither have they paid me. But that is of small consequence. Aside from fleeting mentions ot Marlboro, this column has another, and more urgent, mission: to cast the hot white light of free inquiry upon the vexing questions that trouble college America -questions like "Should the htuoent Council have the power to levy tariffs? and "Are rcommates sanitary?" and "Should housemothers be com pelled to retire upon reaching the age of 28?" Perhaps, reasoning together, we can find the answers. Per haps not. But if we fail, let it never be said that it was for want of trying. I thj-.nk you. ' eMMMawaiiulaaBi HZr yT f, !arlboro W bring pom mother WOT Mat Shulmun't unpndktable and unceruored col- IJriSi !UIPP' hrin' Vu hn Mered Marlboro, Wt in pack or box. wherever cigarette mrmldiU man LD KzJ U Lb LZJ Lh La "INDISPENSABLE" UL3LjJ ) A aW"A lit) Ticket Booth Nebraska Union 8:C0-5:69 until gone