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..1 ln!oi7 (SIESM 4 T V Thursday, December 5, 1963 FINANCE PROBLEMS: No Speedy Solution There was anger in the eyes of out-state, medical and dental students yesterday when they read the news that the Board of Regents had increased tuititoa in each of these areas from as little as $100 to as much as $230 per year. Nothing Irritates a human being more than when some one else is dipping into his pocketbook, especially when the funds are going for education. By the time a student gets to college, he has been getting a free education so long, he thinks higher education will be the same easy Tide. Not so. Need it be said that higher education is not a right; that it is a privilege for those who can afford it, for thosewho are ambitious enough to work for it, for those who are intelligent enough to qualify for a scholarship, or for those who play football. In Nebraska the problem of shouldering the cost has been a burden on taxpayers. Nebraska is an agrarian state. It has little industry to bolster its economy which In turn brings people who then pay taxes to pay for higher education. Under the present property tax structure there is a limit to the amount of money the University can expect from taxpayers. When Nebraska hits the saturation point and it is close students will begin paying through the nose. ' Next year some will begin paying. In semesters to come, in-state students will too. Students who are just making ends meet under the present tuition rate will find the chances of borrowing money under the National Defense Education Act are slim. The NDEA loans have been a panacea for some in the past. However, the financial aids department reported.yes terday that the University's share of this federal grant, has been cut by 10 to 15 per cent from last year, while the number of students requesting loans has multiplied. Financing education is a problem, and the outlook for a speedy solution is dim. 11 Good Job Unlike several students (who gave up drinking and smoking, wore a black suit for ten days, and didn't watch the game), I went to the stadium . . . along with 38,000 others. And I thought the team did a good job. Maybe it was in rather questionable taste ... but the fact remains that we have a team to go out and shout about, and a great deal of back-slapping should be done. You know, It's kind of an odd thing that the only ones that were really shocked about continuing the game were Nebraskar.s. During break I talked with college students from Ames and Iowa U. and they didn't say one word about our crude taste. Just congratulated the team for a great job. Jim Moore DfAR SAtiTA, fltaeE 6" A USX OF I WiW I &AMT. HfltJ 00 VOU SUPPOSE SANTA am CM AFFORD TO (SIVE AMi ALL THOSE TOYS? PmcmoHl DON T KIP YOURSELF.... EVERtTHING THESE DAYS 15 PROMOTION i i'll 6t if the. truth WKE'BWUflrr oi. you'd find BY SOME 616 EA5TCRN CHAIN GARY LACEY I f if , V , 1 t 'I YOU UNWtMlWfe, THEfE THIN6S Is This By George Peterson "This is indeed a s i c k country." "It was just one man and means nothing." These two statements, the first considered a profound observation by a University professor; the second, a superficial student observa tion, were both made in the wake of John F. Ken nedy's assassination. The first places the blame on each of us and the free society of which we are a part. The second dis misses the event as merely the work of a fanatic with only him to blame. But yet, it must surely be more than the latter. If it is not, how does one ex plain that upon hearing the news an NU student charged into a residence hallway and yelled, "Yippee!" or the airline passenger who shouted "Whee!" or the small town doctor who said, "Someone should have shot him a long time ago." Many questions have we I . V I I v? I I Because of painthe pain of arthritis, a mysterious crippler that attacks so many of its victims in their prime of life. Arthritis disables three times more women than men in the busy, productive years between 30 and 50 . . . the years a woman is needed by her children, who now are going through their troubled teens ... the years she is needed by her husband, for the comfort and compassion he must have as his career takes exciting, demanding strides. Because of the pain and crippling that comes with the swelling of her. hands, her knees, her joints arthritis robs a woman of her physical well-being ... and some times, her serenity, her peace of mind, her place in the family and the community. Arthritis can strike anyone, anywhere . . . women, men, even children. Today no one knows why. No one knows how to prevent it. But some of the best minds in the coun try are at work in research laboratories and in hospitals all over the nation, seeking solutions to the riddle of this mysterious, crippling disease. The work of these bril liant, dedicated men is supported by your contributions to the March of Dimes. The National Foundation March of Dimes Franklin & Roosevelt JFvunder kVL FOR US APUltf 'oNiy.'."? A Sick Country? to ask ourselves. Two of which are whether these isolated examples are not indicative of the hatred and bitterness within this na tion, and what the role of each of us have in fos tering these evil! Whether or not John F. Kennedy will be remem bered along side Jefferson, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt is not for us, but for history to decide. How ever, back in 1962 Carl Sandburg boldly wrote in an introduction to the book "To Turn the Tide:" "When our generation has passed away, when the The Daily JOHN MORHIH, manuring editor; SUE HOVIK. newi editor; SUSAN SM1TH BERGER, GRANT PKTERSON, FRANK PARTSCH. senior staff writers; LARRY ASMAN, MAKV McNEFF, JERRI O'NEILL, JERRY HOFFERBER. Junior staff writers; PATTY KNAPP. ARNIE CARSON, CAY LEITSCHUCK, copy editors; HAL FOSTER, photographer ; MICK ROOD, sports editor; MIKE JEFFREY, circulation manager; JIM PICK, subscription manager! BILL OUNL1CKS, BOB CUNNINGHAM, PETE LAGE, business assistants. Subscription rates $3 per aemester or $5 per year. Entered as second class matter at the, post office in Lincoln, Nebraska, under the act ot August 4, 1912. The Daily Nebraskan is published at room 51, Student Union, on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday by University of Nebraska students under the jurisdiction of the Faculty Subcommittee on Student Publications. Publications shall be free from censorship by the Subcommittee or any person outside the University. Members of the Nebraskan are responsible for what they cause to be printed. wwniiiiuiiiniuini ununiuiuniuiiumnwi "'''' ' " w.ij.mi.i.J'toi u.kiius if- - .,,,.,.,, ,, , , , , , . . , , . I t ranger to loved By Lynn Corcoran I suppose If there's nothing else to say -about public opinion, at least one can say it is consistent. In the days following the great tragedy of November 22, the Lincoln Star, the Omaha World Herald, and last, but not least, the Daily Ne braskan have all carried letters of protest and justi fication concerning the Ok-lahoma-N ebraska foot ball game. Undoubtedly the reading public owes the National So ciety for Mourning Instruc tion a vote of confidence for such statements as: Play now and mourn later is consistent with be lief that the individual is free to set his own course and live his own life. What Nebraska Repub licans are capable of does the same (produces stunned disbelief). If this is the considera tion the fall of the nation is near. tongues of praise and com ment now speaking have turned to a cold dumb dust, it will be written that John F. Kennedy walked with the American people in their vast diversity and gave them all he had toward their moving on into new phases of their great human ad venture." Maybe this is "no time for collective guilt" as a Wall Street Journal writer said, but let us hope that it is the time for that guilt which may lead each of us to the united action for which John F. Kennedy so desired and for which he paid the high est price. Nebraslcan her ones . . . Bud Wilkinson, Special Consultant and director for the President's Council on Youth Fitness, recommend ed to Nebraska officials that this game be played. Could we .assume that he had no disrespect in mind and probably felt as stunned as anyone, or would this be contraryno the views of the Society? An article concerning the President in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated con tains the thought: "Dozens of athletic events were can celed out of respect for the President, and dozens were played on the equally rea sonable grounds that the President would have want ed it that way." LITTLE MAN V0U MEAN iT'tALL THEORY. DECK THE HALLS The time lias come to think of Christmas chopping, for (he Yuietide will be upon us quicker thnn you can say Jack Rolmi non. (Have you ever wondered, incidentally, about the oripin of this interesting phrase "Quicker than you can say Jack Robinson"? Well sir, the original saying was French "I'Iiim viU qtie de din Jacques Robespierre." Jack Robinson is, as every one knows, an Anglicization of Jacques Robespierre who was, as everyone knows, the famous figure from the French Revolu tionjphqas everyone knows, got murdered in his Imth by Danton, Murat, Caligula, and Al Capone. (The reason people started saying "Quicker than you can say Jacques Robespierre" or Jack Robinson, as he is called in English-speaking countries like England, the U.S., and Cleve landis quite an interesting little story. It seems that Robes pierre's wife, Georges Sand, got word of the plot to murder her husband in his bath. All she had to do to save his life was cull his name and warn him. But, alas, quicker than she could y Jacques Robespierre, she received a telegram from her old friend Frederic Chopin who was down in Majorca setting lyric 3ll y io do to his immortal "Warsaw Concerto." Chopin said he needed Georges Sand's elp desperately because he could not find rhyme for "Warsaw." Naturally, Georges could not refus such an urgent request. (Well sir, off to Majorca went Georges, but before she left, ulie told her little daughter Walter that some had men were coming to murder Daddy in his bath. She instructed Walter to shout Robespierre's name the moment the bad men arrived. But Walter, alas, had been sea-bathing that morning on tho Riviera, and she had come home with a big bag of salt water taffy, and when the bad men arrived to murder Robespierre, Walter, alas, was chewing a wad of taffy and could not get her mouth unstuck in time to shout a warning. Robespierre, alas, was murdered quicker than you could say Jacques Robespierre or Jack Robinson, as he is called in English-speaking countries. (There is, I am pleased to report, one small note of cheer in this grisly tale. When Georges Sand got to Majorca, she did succeed in helping Chopin find a rhyme for "Warsaw" as every one knows who has heard those haunting lyrics: In the fair town of Warsaw, Which Napoleon's horse saw, Hinging cockles and mussels, alive alive of) But I digress. We were speaking of Christinas gifts. What we all try to find at Christmas is, of course, unusual and distinctive gift for our friends. May I suggest then a carton of Marlboro Cigarettes? WTiat? You are astonished? You had not thought of Marlboros as unusual? You had regarded them as familiar, reliable smokes whose excellence varied not one jot nor tittle from year to year? ' True. All true. But all the same, Marlboros are unusua' be cause every time you try one, it's like the first time. The ft" vor never palls, the filter never gets liackneyed, tlie soft pak is ever a new delight, and so is the Flip Top box'-Uach Marlboro is a fresh and pristine pleasure, and if you want all your friends to clap their hands and cry, 'Ten, Virginia, there" is a Sant Claus! you will see that their stockings are filled with Marl boros on Christmas morn. , c lm Mm The holiday seamn or any other season is the season to be jolly-il Marlboro is your brand. You'll find Marlboros wher- tet a lot to like in Marlboro Country, At any rate, the nation is indeed fortunate to have so many people available to step forward at a time of crisis and direct the actions of its people. I think it would be a bet ter thing if they would con c e n t r a t e on their own thoughts and not worry about those of others. The decision to play the game was made by responsible people after much discus sion. Should we try to sec-ocd-g u e s s them? I think not! I think Bob Devaney an alyzed the situation most conclusively: "When it is all said and done, only the good Lord knows whether it was the right thing to do." ON CAMPUS pit with (wMor of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" awl ''Barefoot Boy With Cheek".) wicMUswne