'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. This library
contains over 100 diversified
titles by such authors as
Cleon Skousen, Russell
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the semester. In "The Right
Way," I have presented the
Conservative philosophy so
that you may be better In
formed when you choose
Conservatism as your
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In "My Creed," Dean AI
fange gives us a fine re
sume of the thought behind
this movement:
"I do not choose to be a
common man. It is my right
to be uncommon, if I can.
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."
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