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Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1963
A BOOK TO READ:
Secular Campus
"God on the Secular Campus," by Richard Butler, O.P.,
which Doubleday published August 23, is a frank evalua
tion on the present and future position of religion on the
American secular campus. Father Butler, drawing upon
his long experience as a Newman Club chaplain, a member
of the Religious Education Association of the United States,
and the American Council on Education, discusses in this
book the acute restlessness being felt within the religious
foundations on the college and university campus.
Among the topics Father Butler discusses are: God and
Education; God and he Student; God and Administrators;
God and the Future on the Secular Campus. Although he
writes as a Catholic chaplain, in this book Father Butler
speaks of situations that will find cognizance with all reli
gions. .
He discusses the role that the religious foundation plays
In the students' theoretical, moral, and social problems,
as well as the intellectual challenge.
Richard Butler, O. P. was born in Salem, Mass. and
attended Notre Dame University and the Catholic Univer
sity of America. Upon entering the Dominican Order in
1942, he studied prilosophy and theology at the House of
Studies, River Forest, I1L He was ordained in 1949 and then
embarked on two years of study at the Anglicum Univer
sity in Rome, where lie received his Ph.D. in 1952.
He has taught at Xavier University, Loras College, and
The College of St. Joseph on the Rio Grande. This exper
ience, along with his work as Director of the Aquinas New
man Center at the University of New Mexico, has given him
a valuable opportunity to study first-hand the place reli
gion holds on the college campus, an opportunity he has
pot to admirable use in "God on the Secular Campus."
Father Butler is a regular contributor to several maga
zines including Commonweal, America, The Critic, Exten
sion, and the Catholic School Journal He is also the author
of "The Mind of Santayana," "The Life and World of
George Santayana," and "Rehgious Vocation. An Unneces
sary Mystery." In August of 1962, Father Butler was ap
pointed National Chaplain of the National Newman Aposto
late by the Catholic bishops of the United States to direct
the work of both Catholic chaplains and students organized
for religious, educationad and social purposes on secular
campuses.
Last Of A Series
Dear Editor:
In the last issue of the
Daily Nebraskan there was
a letter to the editor under
the head of "Negro Com
ments On Article," which
was, in essence, an evalua
tion of two columns written
by myself and a friend of
mine, Steve Sydow.
This particular letter con
tained what I consider to
be good, constructive criti
cism, and I thank Huey
Rowe-Anderson for his
thoughts.
Nonetheless, I would like
to expand on a few points
which were brought out for
the benefit of the reading
public
First and foremost, it has
been charged that our first
columns was incoherent
This is absolutely correct!
It was intended to be! We
both realized that many dif
ferent interpretations were
possible, but it was our pur
pose to get as many people
as possible thinking about
what we said. Did we not
succeed?
In conclusion, let me
make it very clear to every
one that we were not de
grading anyone, and in par
ticular we definitely were
not debating the competency
of any college president. We
were instead vehemently
disagreeings with the ac
tion which he took! We
firmly believe that any or
ganization which is formed
by a mutual exchange of
vows of its members should
not be told by anyone even
the President of the United
States who they should ad
mit to their organization.
However, everyone is en
tilled to his own opinion.
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Panhell Rush Book Adoption
Would Benefit NU Sororities
By Rick Spellman
College machinery is be
ginning to move and the
campus is taking on new
characteristics as colder
weather ' sets in-buildings
are suddenly further apart,
classes are smaller, more
people stumble ar.and in
hallways, and infernal heat
ducts steam and pun,
smothering spirits of leg
endary football players that
are barely audible as they
rummage around in the
dark.
Students-putting hands in
their pockets, closing win
dows, wearing shower shoes
and slippers, taking short
cuts through buildings. The
-tours spent building Home
coming displays and cases
against Homecoming dis
plays are behind us, and so
is the easier half of the foot
ball season, the easier half
of staying within financial
budgets, and the easier part
of studying.
Disregarding spot quizzes
and attendance charts, the
reluctant student and his
books have had little in
common until now. Im
. pressive and expensive "dis
plays" of books on shelves
that took six weeks to or
ganize tumble off to quieter
places. With an appreciable
amount of panic, summer
vacation unofficially comes
to an end and students be
am to worry about a per
sonal kind of homecoming.
Some e x t r a-curriculsr
groups are suddenly forced '
to become activities, vic
tims of their own planning.
In unison, ROTC squads,
platoons, and companies as
sault their buildings plac
ing our national defense
comfortably out of sight.
Car owners scramble for
antl-freeze, heater repair
shops, and Omaha.
If the first sign of crisp
air and falling leaves jars
dormant campus habits out
of bed, I'm glad it's finally
happened.
By Arnie G arson
I should keep my nose out
of sorority business, but the
fact that it's so long and
crooked both my nose and
sorority business) makes it
rather difficult to do so.
Panhellenic Council has
proposed a combined sorori
ty rush book one similar
to the IFC rush book. The
proposal has already failed
to pass in several sororities.
Why? I understand that one
argument against the book
is the fact that it destroys
the "individuality" of t h e
houses.
This, I should like to sub
mit as an advantage of the
proposed book, rather than
a disadvantage. Are sorori
ties afraid to nave each of
their bouses equally por
trayed in the book? Are
they also afraid to let rusb
ees make their own deci
sions and form their own
opinions about the merits of
each bouse, on the basis of
the members and merits of
the bouse itself.
It seems to me that clear
thinking high school girls
(the quality of which NU
sororities claim they want)
are perfectly capable
of making the "right" deci
sion without being previous
ly influenced by the house
which can afford to spend
the most money on us rusn
book.
Through the coordination,
limitation and equalization
of fraternity rush rules
(which admittedly still have
a long way to go) money
has been saved, the false
facades have been reduced
and the system on the whole
has benefitted.
I cannot help but wonder
whv sororities cannot show
their wares to the rushees,
as adequately and more ac
corately by way of a
planned, well organized
book which would be avail
able to all rushees for them
to make up their own minds
as to which is the coolest of
them all.
The book, too, as the IFC
has discovered, can be a
tremendous sales piece for
the merits of the Greek sys
tem. Ultimately, its effect
would be to improve the
stature of the XU sorority
system.
Another delightful argu
ment presented against the
Panhell book was the fact
that cost is no object to XU
sororities which spend much
less on rush than fraterni
ties, due to the fact that they
have no summer rush.
Again, I am too dense to
understand why it is not
"smart" to reduce costs and
benefit the entire system at
the same time. And anyway,
girls, this book which alots
each bouse four pages, could
be done w ith a phenomenal
introduction and closing sec
tion, perhaps in color, if you
still want to spena au una.
money.
Its potential as a power
ful proponent and talesman
tor the entire system as well
as each bouse is only limit
ed by your own imagination
and creativity, If you're will
ing to spend all that dough.
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Also, I understand that
this type of book would elim
inate persgjjl notes written
to rushHs c'th - rushbooks.
Is t h i s tea?;!? a disadvan
tage? Soiitf, like quite the
opposite to me. Rushees are
interested enough to read
the book from cover to cov
er anyway, according to IFC
studies. Here again, a stand
ardized guide for all rush
ees can only portray the
system in the best possible
light.
Someone mentioned to me
that it has been questioned
whether a general theme
could unify the book, as sug
gested by Panhell. What
more of a theme could you
possibly ask for than "Soro
rity ... A Way of Life", or
something similar. If this
could not unify the book, the
fault lies in the system it
self, not the book. To at
tempt to sell sorority as a
w hole or an individual house
on a trite or less-to-the-point
theme would again be
a degradation or at least
minimization of your own
ideals.
Sororities, as well as fra
ternities have some head-from-sand-pulling
to do and
a unif ied-effort Panbell
Rush Book would definitely
haul a few carloads of sand
off the surface.
The Daily Nebraskan
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