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'The Right Way' Wednesday, January 22, 1964 DONT DO THIS: To Athletics! The question has arisen on college campuses across the country whether or not we are placing too much em phasis on football and other athletic activities and, by do ing so, disregarding the main purpose of a university or college academics. Do universities and colleges push their athletic abili ties too far are we really aiding Nebraska by offering scholarships to top out-state athletes who, upon gradua tion, leave the state to secure more profitable positions elsewhere after reaping the benefits of a college educa tion? And are all these athletes good students during these four years? What about the free tutors who are em ployed when an athlete receives a "down slip." Does he pay the going rate of $3 an hour like most students? The answer is no. Instead the athletic department employs student tu torsfree to the athlete to insure a high enough scholastic average to stay in the game. And what Is the inevitable force behind this pushing of college athletics the administration, the students, the pub lic or a combination of the three? Football has the support of the public. Would the football fans who flock from distant parts of the state be this enthusiastic to drive hundreds of miles for the knowledge gained by touring Elephant Hall or the three million dollar Sheldon Art Gallery? Is there one spectator, whether an alum or an en thusiastic football fan who is not cheering the team on and who, after a winning season, does not brag about the qualities of this team and its players? As in most states, but even more so in Nebraska, a winning football team and the players who make it give Nebraskans something to be proud of. It also pro vides these spectators with a chance, to participate to identify themselves with Bob Devaney and his explosive success. When a school is well represented throughout the na tion whether sportswise or scholastically, it influences pros pective students who tend to choose the schools that are in the public eye. A school which is in the public eye, of course, can not help bettering its image. This is just good public relations. Good public relations begets more good players, more good players beget a bigger and bet ter football team. It becomes a vicious circle which many a school can envy, and one which is not always the easiest to get started. For those people who criticize intercollegiate athletics we can only ask Do you have the right to question an activity which gives so many people pleasure and helps so. many boys, who would not otherwise be able to afford a college education, a chance to make good? Of course you have the right because that's the American tradition criticize until you have the issue so clouded that no one understands it. But, don't do this to athletics! By Steve Stastny "There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one." Henry David Thoreau During this past semester, there has appeared on our campus a new force con servatism. This new move ment is not decreasing, but is increasing. It is in every aspect "The Right Way." The Nebraska Youth for Goldwater, one of the new est campus organizations, is concrete evidence of the strength and vitality of this expanding movement. The objectives of this organiza tion, now numbering over 100 members, are not only to send Senator Barry Goldwater to the White House, but in doing so, to awaken and extend the in dividualism upon which our freedoms rest. In this time of moral and political crisis, young Con servatives believe that the honor and dignity of the individual must be the ulti mate objective of the State. The Constitution, which has restrained government from the concentration and abuse of power, is the best ar rangement for achieving this goal of personal free-, dom. As outlined in this docu ment, the purposes of gov ernment are to administer justice, provide for the na tional defense, and to pre serve internal order. The other duties of government remain with the state and local authorities. When the Federal government super sedes these legally consti tuted duties, it means a sac rifice of personal liberty to an impersonal bureaucratic State These beliefs are being furthered not only in words but in action by the Youth for Goldwater. One example of this action is the forth coming Goldwater Rally scheduled for the Republi can Kick-off Dinner, "Go Day", in Pershing Auditori um on January 29. Another Conservative ac tivity is the appearance of the Young Republican Li brary, located in the YR cubicle in Room 345 of the Student Union. 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I seek opportunity, not se curity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen and dulled by having the State look after me. I want to take the cal culated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to suc ceed. I refuse to barter in centive for a dole.I prefer the challenges of life to guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of Utopia. I win never . cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and una fraid, to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, 'This I have done. All this is what it means to be an American." Nebraska n Circulation: 6,000 niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiium The Daily Nebraskan JOHN MOHRIS, managing editor: SUE HOV1K, news editor; SUSAN SMITHBERBER. GRANT PETER SON. FRANK PARTSCH, senior staff writers; LARRY ASMAN, MARV MoNKFF. 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