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Monday, November 18, 1963
MOCK ELECTION:
Proves Point
A Negro pharmacist polled more votes for governor
of Mississippi than the man who won the Democratic pri
mary held there last week.
Reports from that state show Aaron Henry, president
of the Mississippi NAACP, with nearly 80,000 votes to Paul
Johnson's 74,804. And Johnson, most likely will be Missis
sippi's next governor.
The unofficial vote, which, had it been official would
have elected Henry, was sponsored by Civil Rights organ
izations to dramatize the disenfranchisement of Negroes in
Mississippi
It was dramatic all right
T&se civil rights workers and students from Yale,
Stanford, University of the Pacific and former University
of Nebraska students, who helped conduct the mock elec
tion should be congratulated for their efforts.
We hope that tiie workers will continue to get support
from outside the south for future mock elections with more
planning, and that possibly University of Nebraska students
will be able to show their interest in the civil rights move
ment by contributing money, if not time.
From The GAP Vine:
Few NU Students
Because Religion Is
By George Peterson
It has been said that few
Nebraskans in the past 30
years have ever died be
cause they have never real
ly lived. So it is also that
very few truly educated stu
dents ever graduated from
the University of Nebras
ka. The reason for the latter
is that students are forget
ting, or yet more accurate
ly, are completely ignoring
the most significant area of
all in order to qualify them
as fully educated persons.
What is that area? It is
religion.
How can any student real
ly call himself educated
when by the time he is a
senior he has not yet faced,
and satisfactorily answered,
the largest and most diffi
cult questions of them all
who he is, what his rela
tionship to his fellowman
and to the world around
him is, and above all his
relationship to his God.
Without answers to these
question life is meaning less.
Over the past 2,500 years
we have amassed a tremen
dous amount of knowledge
on these questions and yet
today for the college student
there is more confusion on
this subject than any other
academic field of endeavor.
"Our colleges, of course,
are the seats of great spiri
tual confusion. Teaching re
ligion is not permitted in
any of the tax-supported in
stitutions, though apparent
ly teaching non-religion is
permitted. So a biologist
can say that he does not be lieve
in God or mat he
thinks man is an accident"
But if a religious person
laid that biology cannot be
understood without ref
erences to a wise Creator,
he might be fired for try
ing to "Indoctrinate" his
pupEs."
Isnt this statement by
Louis Finkelfftein, chancell
or of the Jewish Theologi
cal Seminary, in an inter
view on the American Char
acter sponsored by the Cen
ter or the Study of Demo
cratic Institutions, a truly
accurate perceptive and
alarming observation to be
made in this space age?
Also adding to the stu
dents' confusion is that
when they come to college
they bear supposedly Intel
II gent men denouncing
their God and their religion.
By being in college where
intelligence is one of the
most highly regarded assets
many students get the idea
that in order to be one of the
Intelligentsia they must give
up their religious preference
In effect what it amounts
to is a demand of positivis
tic proof, in black and
white terms, that God ex
ists. This ultimately leads
to completely throwing
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away the virtue of "faith"
and substituting in its place
the "positivistic proof."
What makes the situation
even more appalling is that
men of equal or superior in
telligence are not given an
equal opportunity to an
swer back to those who in
the classroom denounce the
student's faith in God be
cause, as previously stated
by Finkelstein, "teaching
religion is not permitted in
any of the tax-supported in
stitutions, though teaching
non-religion is permitted."
Another concern is the
one given by Robert Oppen
heimer in the Foreign Af
fairs Quarterly:
"There is much theory
made in the U.S.: cosmo
logical theory, theory of
genetic processes, theory
about the nature of immun
ity, theory about the nature
of matter, theory about
learning, about prices,
about communications; but
there is no unifying theory
of what human life is about;
there is no consensus either
as to the nature of reality
or of the part we are to
play in it; there is no theory
of the good life and not
much theory of the role of
governmentin promo
ting it."
Although this is what to
day's student needs more
than anything else, a unify
ing theory of what human
life is about and the role p
and his country are to play
in it, this Is what is being
neglected most in their
days of college life.
A truly educated man is
a total man mind, body,
"and soul and to willfully
neglect any one of these
three parts of the "total"
man is to lead an incom
plete life.
An incomplete life in this
age of science and explod
ing technology is a mean
ingless life, for it becomes
impossible to formulate or
to understand what our na
tional goals, purpose and
challenges arc.
Sen. McCarthy of Minne
sota says:
"It is clear that the chal
lenge we face is a total
challenge. Even though we
could prove that our philo
sophy is superior to others,
that our economic system
is more productive, that
our educational s y s r e m
produces better scientists
and technologists than does
any other, that our form of
political organization or our
general culture is superior
we will still not have
proved our case.
"What we are called upon
to do is to take all of these
together and prove that our
total way of life provides
the best way and the best
hope of man in his efforts
to achieve a fuller measure
of justice and happiness
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and a greater opportunity
for self-realization and per
fection." The challenge as seen by
Robert M. Hutchins, presi
dent of the Fund for the
Republic, in a speech spon
sored by the University of
Chicago stated it this way:
"If the West has a future
it is as the schoolmaster of
the world. If democracy has
a future, it lies in struggling
to be what no big, ad
vanced, industrial country
has succeeded in becoming,
a community learning to
gether to govern itself and
to achieve the common
good."
It is also safe to say that
to a growing number of our
country's leaders religion
must be included in our na
tional idea of education and
without it we are ignoring
an entire field that needs
to be academically dealt
with in our colleges.
There is a partial solution
to the problem. It is rec
ommended that University
of Nebraska students par
ticipate more actively in the
programs furnished by their
particular student religious
houses.
By so doing, you add the
most important ingredient
needed for a full and mean
ingful education the
nourishment of the spiritual
part of man.
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'Mature Point'
Dear Editor:
As a fellow student. I
would like to say that I
agree wholeheartedly with
the article, "Against Stu
dent Freedom" and want to
congratulate the author for
an objective and mature
viewpoint.
Many students seem to
feel that when they reach
the golden age of twenty
one, all restrictions that
have formerly shackled
them should suddenly fall
away. No longer .will any
one tell them what to do.
This would be fine if every
one were responsible enough
to take care of himself with
out hurting others, but un
fortunately this is not the
case so we need rules.
What too few people real
ize is that an adult must
sacrifice some freedoms in
order to gain others. Real
maturity is the realization
that there is more than one
"me" in the world.
Sincerely,
Sandra Scott
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CAMPUS INTERVIEWS
WEDNESDAY. DEC. 4
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Winds
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Change
Fear dominates the cam
pus leaders at the Univer
sity of Nebraska: fear of
constructive criticism, fear
of needed reforms. Compla
cency is crippling every or
ganization on campus.
Seniors feel that if they
keep quiet a few more
months, then it is no longer
their worry. - Juniors fear
that if they talk of changes,
they will lower their chances
for Ivy Day honors. Sopho
mores are too busy running
around to committee meet
ings to even consider new
ideas. And Freshmen don't
know enough about existing
structures to institute any
reforms.
Administrators should be
happy.
This year's crop of "stu
dent leaders" will cause no
controversies. This year's
"student leaders" will have
no creative ideas.
This year's "student lead
ers" are afraid.
Afraid of losing their
popularity; afraid of vitally
caring about campus prob
lems; afraid that caring and
reforming will consume too
much of their time, afraid
to assume the responsibility
of student leadership.
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in advance through your
College Placement Office
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Taiwan Seeks Revolt
By Colleiat Press Servk
Since the end of World
War II, the Chinese Nation
alist Government has occu
pied Taiwan in accordance
with General Order No. 1
issued by SCAP (Supreme
Commander of Allied Pow
ers). Nevertheless, in the
texts of the San Francisco
Peace Treaty and the Sino-.
Japanese Peace Treaty, the
territorial right over Tai
wan has been left under
mined. In 1949, as the result of
the civil war on the Chinese
mainland, Kuomintag led by
Chiang Kai-shek fled to Tai
wan. Since then, natives
who are indifferent to the
Kuomintang's fate, or ra
ther to say, China's, have
been under the ever increas
ing oppression of the Chi
ang's regime.
The Taiwanese who be
lieve that they should not be
ruled by Chinese made a
violent resistance against
China. On Feb. 28, 1947,
large-scale bloody riots oc
curred in the whole island
of Taiwan. But it was soon
suppressed. The National
ist Government started a
thorough reprisal on the
Taiwanese natives and in
ten odd days the Taiwanese
casualties were said to have
amounted to 50.000, includ
ing 20,000 dead. Obviously
the incident and the severe
suppression carried out by
the Kuomintang have in
creased the tension between
Chiang's regime and the
Taiwan natives.
The Taiwan natives seek
independence, independence
from both the Kuomintang
and the Chinese Communist
regime. The Kuomintang
Government in these years
has kept saying to the
world that it will invade
and recapture the mainland.
It has maintained that the
Communist regime on the
mainland is on the verge
of falling apart and that
Taiwan can easily destroy
the Communist regime. For
those Taiwanese natives,
the Kuomintang's counter
attacking on the mainland
is out of their concern. The
desire to drive away the
Kuomintang regime in some
way or another seems to
stem deeply in the hearts
of Formosans.
The Daily
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The Taiwan natives be
lieve that they will succeed
for these reasons:
The Chinese in Taiwan,
amounting to 1.5 million,
are not homogeneous. The
Taiwan natives and the
Chinese are by no means
united. Almost two-thirds of
all the Chinese in Taiwan,
who are also the poorest,
do not support Chinag's re
gime from their hearts.
Most of these Chinese have
neither family nor adequate
means of support in Taiwan.
They feel that their only
hope is to return t: the
mainland. Their intention to
go back is creating a dan
gerous head of steam that
will explode some day. It
is one of the chances for
the Taiwanese to uproot
Chiang's regime and get in
dependence. So long as Chiang Kai-'
shek is still alive, the
United States will never
quit her aids to the Kuo
mintang regime. But after
Chiang's death, things will
be different Most of the
policy makers in the United
States are clever enough to
be aware that Chiang's suc
cessor, Chiang Chinkuo, is
unreliable. There is a
chance that the United
States may quit her support.
Without U.S. support to the
Kuomintang, it is not diffi
cult for the Taiwanese to
overthrow the Kuomintang
regime and get independ
ence. The power of the Tai
wanese is growing day by
day. Today Taiwanese sol
diers are almost half of the
army. They are weak now,
because they are not af
forded weapons and ammu
nition. But they are increas
ing in numbers and some
day they will substitute for
the rest of the Chinese
army. Apparently, it will be
a great chance for Taiwan
ese to get independence.
Nevertheless, many Tai
wanese worry that it may
be too late to get prepared
by themselves alone. They
have another enemy, the
Communist China, which
grows stronger. That is why
Taiwanese ask the world to
maintain justice and not to
use Taiwan as a tool of bargaining.
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