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Friday, Oct. Political monopoly NU's Political Void Filling From Right? nd implications Public political opinion, if it is sOL formed on the Uni versity campus, is being swept off its feet by the affection ate wooing of our own Goldwater Group. That the Young Democrats are being so badly beaten is not completely their own fault Somewhere within the ranks of the Young Republicans someone is keeping bis views to himself, which in the world of politics often as not spells self-destructjon. This speaks as badly for our Republican organization fiie Goldwater campaign speaks for it. The questions being asked are: Is the Goldwater Group a separate entity? apparently not; Or, is it part of the Young Repubhcan"oiani2atkm on campus? ap parently so. And if apparently so, isn't it remarkable that so solid a party could be formed in so short a time? If no agreement has been reached within the YR group, has the Goldwater faction decided to take over, for itself, the party? Are the YR's hesitant to express a split, which conceivably could be three ways? The Elephant has three, maybe more, candidates to back, each qualified in his own way. Several are being slighted. Deliberately or not, they are being slighted. To say the least. Rockefeller was a favorite. And U reiterate recent political speculation, a man named Nixon is again beginning ta look and act like a candidate. He's an wt-of-the-raee' man who many feel is the man t watch. TPith such a formidable group to pick from, isnt it gfcnange tat such an outward wall of unijty.was formed in such a short tame, practically eliminating Rockefeller and Nixon from the minds of student politicians when even on the Ttafawwi level the party is not quite certain? By the way, who are Scranton and Romney? Aa organization st fortunate as U have five leaders It seems has thrown over four of them for the mistaken advantage of having its man picked early in the ball game. Young Republicans, then, should remember that it is sta 80-20 thai Goldwater isn't their man. But at least, opposition, they' are to be commended for supporting someone, arenl they? A political party with such a dynamic national organ ization as the Democratic Party cannot it seems, afford to fall apart at the local level, especially at a University which, despite the shortcomings cf inexperifiiiCe, is the tree ding ground for a M of political thought Politics without tw sides becomes a game without rules. A political group that fails te keep fes r its candi date's same before the public eye becomes, through the degeneration f freely-formed public opinion to one-sided tarrow-mmdednesK, a party whose existence is difficult U Justify. Political parties are necessarily public Political parties as private clubs de not exist KkA only the parties suffer from such conditions, foough. The news media and the political party's sovereign public suff er desperately. The public becomes uninformed. And when ne party fails to operate, the news media be come, not by their own doing, a public relations service for the party that is active. 'When that situation continues, the media find tfbem aeJves forced to exercise unusual journalistic practice, a practice that when it reaches a certain point the media, for their own good, must cease. JOHN MORRIS 18, 193 Hey, Look Here! .on If Bill Jennings has seen the Rag lately, he might be inclined to say: Let's have 60 minutes of good, hard, racial discrirnination. The NU campus was a movin' place yesterday. When the Rag came out at 11 am, 69 people broke their homecoming dates before thev discovered that the lead story, seven columns wide, actually concerned Portland State and Long Beach State Colleges. The funniest thing about it was that it was clearly the fault of the Greeks. They should have realized that If the president of the college claims that two nisbees are eminently qualified, then by God they're eminently qual ified. However, it is not the pur pose of this treatise to dis cuss the advantages and disadvantages of integra tioneveryone else has done this already, and any thing which hasn't been covered up till now will be handled by Miss Prathia Hall later today. It is rather our purpose to ask why the Rag has sud denv decided to devote as much as 61' column inches to a subject which one of its own stories quotes as "a potentially explosive sit uation that is calmly work ing itself out". Are they pushing for a riot? If not someone better tell Student Council before tbev convince the Rag that if they dig hard enough they Letter of Gratitude On behalf of my frater nity brothers I would like to thank al those organiza tions which have expressed sorrow at the death of our house mother. Mrs. Edna Leonard. Mother Ed was an important part of com munity and campus affairs, ?nfl m-e deeply mourn her death a loss not only to her relatives and ourselves, but to the entire campus. Larry Rogers Delta Sigma Phi The Daily Nebraskan SOHW WtltS. smiraainf flttnr: .' BOi'IK. mw dHor:; TEVE STDOW filTSIE HITHBJ1CI.. dUUWT FETEKSCW. niuur uirf writer ; IAWW MiMA. WUKV fAKTSCBL, JOHNSON, jimuir tuff writer; J-ATTV KKAW. AKfclE CAJtStW. m'atlur, Shi rWTEJi.. phatoerairtmr MIKE SOOIi, wrtt edttar; MIKE JEFFREV. eirouUrtion munuxdr. MK MCE., utmcraftion mmwrj BM. GI'NIJCKS.. BOB OUNKIQB&M. PETE ibuu- SuMc-mtimn Ma 8 aer aameAer or 5 aw yaw. Entered at eaanO ltm matMr at the M ffioe in tLinmiln. kstirMka, under the ad of AudiKt 4. WSJi The JJully UMbraakan at jiutilnhn at gtgom l-L Vietaraaka Ilium. tor Mun ttw. Wettmaftay. Tftursuey. ff'nttey by Dniveraitr af UrHK atuctem under itbc juriachction of ithc Faoulw fcUBuimuntttea an Student fuliliua tiena. Putilicatlona hU toe 4rwnm jjenauraiu tor tone fiubooimninet or any auraon oulaiOr the (Uiuveraxtr. Member of ithe Mttoraakm tarn ae aauDstnte lur wtaat ttaer cauee o a armtall. n mav find enough integra tion news to fill 1 inches every issue. Maybe the Council can expand itself and censure President Ken nedy's foreign aid plan next week. (Watch out for a tab ling motion. Council). Anyway, since the Rag has provided us with all the news from the South and Far West, maybe next week it can concentrate on some of the news from the Maine area. We're sure many MJ students are curious as to what the University of Maine homecoming is really like. In regard to Miss Prathia KaH. the Negro appearing behind the cross on yester day's page one, we find it amusing to note that a member of the Student Non violent Coordinating Com mittee who has been re leased on $1,000 bail, should v c?s fASTA5liC- J JU KEXT Trl;S5U km. KS5 UOtfT BE BORN. ..Wll JW5T mB TD SMD M flKWEfl. ( UTILE 6115 sg mI irlMfi. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES SALUTE: ERNIE NIPPER Thene are nearly 13XJO pay tlrfhaDe is CSiM;ag;i Loc. It as Eraie Nipper's joh to eee thai the ri)ie from these busy phone k tyaltsmatically colHocAed. LVuie i B.A-, MA, 1959 ) a a Puhlic TeHephwae CoJleclia Manager wifb Illinois Bell in Chicago. T aooomplisb this immense ladL, Ernie Las a staff of 10 oltaAoi. He fiupervisee thesir traiiaaiif mad t jf pro cieduree for liiena to folio to heat mooamjjlits'b the ofletJi'jiift. t5 II Oil be set free in our own Stu dent Union. She undoubted ly coordinates non-violent tactics in "contributing to the delinquency of minors." However, if Prathia can toss a little wood into the fire she can probably irri tate our now sensitive Civil Righters and provide copy lor Monday's Rag .It would seem that Prathia would have enough troubles back in Atlanta. On the other hand, per haps a parallel may be drawn to compare the sit uation at Nebraska to that at Alabama. In the state of Alabama it seems that ev ery time that the people are ready to quiet down. Governor" Wallace decides to do some more campagn ing for the white vote next year, and all of a sodden there is a mob walking around on the loose again. What about here at Ne braska? M titterings keep V. O DO TONIGHT t 'BEST PICTURE f 12, RATALS WOOD m GEOSCC OiAKHta KM MOtXNO ALSO FIST SMOaTltlO OUTDOMtS f-4 j 1" Ctnar ROM UKEBO 3 HIT a1 ' aa fillip AIM IBIS'S by Lynn Corcoran floating around about the degree of complacency pres ent here but is that really bad? Is there no other way for the Civil Rights problem to work itself out than the Alabama way? We are surely not about to attempt to give a solution to the problem at hand. We instead ask if this particular problem is at hand, or rath er if it will be at hand due to the concentration on ra cial issues prevalent in Rag stories. Hitler once said that if you say the same thing enough times and say it loud enough, the masses will believe it right or wrong. Could the Rag have this ef fect on its readers? Integration now is un doubtedly a problem for other universities. However, Nebraska and other Mid western schools have been fortunate in that they have not vet been marred by ra cial ' incidents. Whether or not dissension exists in the We all ERASE WITHOUT A TRACE ON EATON'S CORRASABLE BOND Typing enwrs "mw ca CojrlsaiJe. The pocid ma tux of tiii psjwr mdxs it pmtMe ta erise withoot a bc just a orJiiuiy peodl erar. Resnalu: cJesn Iwliis. pnrfecsly typed pajiws. Nt tome yon sit down at the ktyboaird, mike do mitslte type on CorrisaMe! Your chtnioe of Gorotsnle ra liat, Biedjam, butrj wbt Onion Slim- I haady 100 thett patifits ami 599hw bast. Only Eaton miHet GoiritfisUe. eatow pate coronow K: riTTsnEi, Before fok prmotkm, Eraie was a Mamager m Ifode Park and smpm'iseJ nploye in a 195-OWL8Coiaer es chaiige. wi. there iqukkly t'-omviawd his maaageiaect that be owuJJ kw&e the tougher job he has nov. " Eraie 3fijw, LI many iuiJ:g mem, is infwtient to (sake tljinps fcappeai for his loonjpamy aad hioaselL There a! few planes wlaere smda reslleseniiess is enwre weleooDeJ rear.dt(3 than in the fta-praiag tielejAxiwe hmhmem. BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES and Steve Sydow mind of the student Is not apparent. What Is apparent, is that Nebraska nd these other Midwestern universi ties are fulfilling their pur pose by providing harmoni ous educational facilities to all, regardless of color. In reality, discrimination here at the University is but a word we encounter in the newspaper. Is it a function of the Uni versity to set a precedent for itself, or a precedent for others as stated by Tom Kort in his motion concern ing Alabama? Indeed. Ne braska would be setting a precedent for surrounding schools if our campus be came the scene of racial demonstrations. This is ex actly the tragic end for which we are headed if we continue to import integra tionist speakers and sensa tionally highlight the racial problems of other schools in our newspaper. It is the de cision of the students. make misiake ... ami