FIRETRUCK:
; Wednesday, February 12, 1964
FROM THE RIGHT-
Change Partners
l The University's Youth for Goldwater Club has caused,
sd far this year, much controversy and has gained for
itself much publicity. From those two, however, is lacking
an important ingredient for success prestige.
The club's growth ceased. Four members o fits execu
tive council resigned, including Douglas Paine, its first
president.
" Chuck Marr, state director, then took over the club,
lit made promises of meetings, speakers and of forming
new clubs on other campuses in the state. The first
meeting was a success and people were enthused, but
since then these have not happened and the club has fallen
apart.
The formers of the club at the beginning would not
be satisfied with support and publicity through the Young
Republicans, so they set up a club of their own. Since,
Goldwater's publicity on the national level has fallen off
and the club has suffered even further loss.
For these and maybe some other reasons the .Youth
for Goldwater Club has turned toward the Young Republi
licans. Rather than getting publicity of its own, the club
has tried devices such as sending the Goldwater girls in
full regalia to the meeting at which Governor Morrison
addressed the YR's.
Before that meeting the Goldwater group tried to get
the YR's to carry a vote supporting Goldwater. Charles
Peek, president of the YR's blocked that move.
Peek has been running an educational program for
the YR's and has upped attendance to 60 to 90 people,
considerably higher than the 20 or so attending before.
The YR's have had meetings with speakers, including Gov.
Morrison, a democrat, state Senator Terry Carpenter, and
most of the other state Republican leaders.
It is Peek's philosophy that it is the duty of the YR's
to support the national party and its candidate for the
presidency when he is selected. At that time the group
should make a partial shift to a campaign organization,
not before.
When Marr; took over the Youth for Goldwater it
seemed as though there would be no conflict between the
two clubs. Now, however, some Goldwaterltes are buying
memberships into the YR's. It is more than coincidence
that elections are coming up in March. At that time Peek
will resign and more than likely Steve Stastny will be
elected to his second term as YR president. Further specu
lation leadgJEo ihe obvious conclusion that shortly there
after a vote will be called. With some Goldwater support
ers in the YR's now, plus those moving in from the Youth
for Goldwater Club, plus a Goldwaterite president, Gold
water will carry that vote and the YR's will become a
Goldwater Club . before the national Republican Party
even enters convention.
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Peek has Ihe prestige to stop this invasion while he
is YR president, but he will be out in March. The Gold
waterites probably will not move en masse till then any
way. In addition, if he did try to block their entry into
the clutr, and he could probably make it stick, it would
be unethical and besides he does not know most of them.
' Rest assured that none of what the Youth for Gold
water dut has done is illegal. It is just bad logic.
The club was formed because it is not the purpose of
the YR's to support Goldwater till he is selected, if he is.
If Goldwater should not get the nomination there is no
need for the club. If he should get the nomination there is
still no need because the duties of backing him, as the Re
publican candidate for the presidency, would be assumed
by the YR's.
The point is that all this might weaken the Young Re
publicans just to get support for Goldwater. Then if Gold
water does not get the nomination, what good will it have
served? The Youth for Goldwater Club could serve a
purpose by giving him their support alone, rather than
subverting another group. But, of course, it seems as
they have let their own club fall apart.
Marr is quite clever and he could pull it off. There
does not seem to be a way to stop him and his club from
overtaking the YR's.
Mt is obvious, however, that when four members of
a club's executive council quit, including its president
who has always seemed to be a staunch conservatist, as
the!' man whom the club was formed to support is, that
something is wrong.
It is doubly regretful and unfortunate that the nature
of ihe club reflects upon the candidate. Goldwater is a
national political figure. That, in itself, makes him a part
of all that is vital in American politics. It is too bad, in
this case, that the image of Goldwater is shadowed by the
inefficient operation of a temporary club.
Spare
Suggested reading: THE
INHERITORS.
William Golding, author
of LORD OF THE FLIES,
has surpassed even that
well-known work with a nov
el published last year en-,
titled THE INHERITORS.
Golding, an amazing com
bination of Insight and in
tellectual imagination, has
been laid to be at his best
when writing of man's prim
itive mind. That he certain
ly does in THE INHERI
TORS as he tells about the
beginning of modern man.
Whether the last of Nean
derthal and the beginning of
Cro-Magnon men clashed as
they do in his tale, Golding
mnjkes their meeting believ
able and describes vividly
JP&vts
the nature of man just be
fore and at the verge of rea
son. The challenge of co-existence
between the two types
of men are not unlike that
of today, except that it is
. tempered by the strange
suspiclsions of man's primi
tive mind, and the reader
experiences an odd attitude
of repugnancy toward and
sympathy with Neanderthal
man.
The first novel-type ficton
about primitive man of this
quality, THE INHERITORS
gives contemporary man
much of the truth lacking in
current literature. William
Golding is imagination and
truth at its best.
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By Bob Weaver
The first month of the
second semester is usually
the scene of increased
pledge training activity on
campus. PI e d g e s dress
in suits while going to
class, sleep in class, and
work after class and into
the early morning hours.
This is a brief description
of what is known as Hell
Week, Help Week or, more
accurately, pre -initiation
week activities. Many uni
versities, especially in the .
east, have eliminated fra
ternities because they find
Hell Week activities (and
sometimes fraternities in
general) incompatible with
one's educational goals and
the goals of the institution.
Certain persons, however,
recognize that a fraternity
can be a vital force on any
college campus not as a
hindrance, but rather as an
aid to individual education
al goals. Besides, the in
tangiblesbrotherhood and
fellowship and the tangi
bles such as room, board,
and society, the fraternity
can be a part of one's total
educational career. The
fraternity can provide cul
tural and other educational
ly stimulating experiences.
In effect, it can become a
part of the university itself
and its goal of inspiring de
velopment, excellence and
accomplishment.
It all starts with pledge
training, the fraternity
freshman receives his first
impressions of not only the
goals tf the fraternity, but
of education in general dur
ing that seven months pe
riod known as pledgeship.
I're-initiation week is only
the culmination of the to
tal pledge training program.
The visit this week of Mr.
Ted Robinson, Director of
Fraternities at Iowa State,
will give each fraternity a
chance to discuss the goals,
problems and suggestions
for their pledge program
with an impartial and sym
pathetic expert. Mr. Robin
son will also discuss the
role that the Interfraternity
Council and its junior part
ner can play in fostering
constructive pledge training
on campus with both
groups on Wednesday and
Tuesday nights respectively.
Although he will be talk
ing with only the officers of
each house, it is hoped that
his ideas and suggestions
will reach each fraternity
member. It is important
that all fraternity men be
concerned to some degree
with their fraternity's
pledge program, other than
late Saturday night during
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Goldwater Leader Replies
Dear Editor:
In reply to the statements
of Douglas Paine concern
ing Nebraska Youth for
Goldwater (N.Y.G.), I feel
a clear explanation is due
to your readers.
First, the N.Y.G. club on
campus has 103 members
as of this date. Its growth
has slowed because of the
club's observance of t h e
month long moratorium
Senator Goldwater asked in
respect to the late presi
dent. Second, N.Y.G. has in
creased its membership by
200 since December mak
ing a total of 359 members.
True, we have only one
organized club, but we do
have N.Y.G. members at
Doane College, Omaha Uni
versity, Duchesne, five
Omaha high schools, Mid
land College, Scottsbluff Jr.
College, and Fremont high
school. We have members
In the towns of Alnsworth,
Crete, Waverly, Brownlce,
Norfolk, Burwell and Fair
bury. Third, we do charge one
dollar for membership in
N.Y.G. All are invited to
join. The proceeds of our
membership sales go to-
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fraternity system, but also
for the, sake of the univer
sity itself. Pledge Educa
tion Week, February 11-13,
is one particular time for
' consideration of those goals.
ward the nomination of Sen
ator Goldwater.
Fourth, N.Y.G. does not
function as a part of Young'
Republicans in the state.
We do have many Young
Republicans as well as
Democrat members of
N.Y.G. working for the
Senator's nomination.
Fifth, N.Y.G. has spon
sored rallies in Omaha and
Lincoln. Each rally was
well attended. For example,
the recent Go-Day Rally
held during the NU finals
period drew fifty-five stu
dents. Sixth, the members of
N.Y.G. are well aware of
other candidates for the Re
publican nomination, and
we look forward to the
time when they all express
their views as clearly as
has Senator Goldwater.
Seventh, Mr. Paine was
never president of N.Y.G.
He was acting chairman of
the club on campus for a
short period in October and
has been inactive in o u r
organization since Decem
ber. Charles James Marr
State Chairman
Nebraska Youth for
Goldwater
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Class As Good As Instructor
By Arnie Garson
A course is only as good
as its instructor! ,
For the last five years I've
been listening to freshmen
and sophomores complain
that there are no "good"
courses available for them
to take. They argue that all
the specialized upper level
courses require prerequisite
beginning courses.
But at the same time,
juniors and seniors invari
ably moan that once they
reach the upper class level,
they really can't find all
those good courses they've
been looking forward to.
The complaint of a typical
senior scanning the class
schedule bulletin is that the
promised land of good
"meaty" courses doesn't
exist, after all.
I would like to contend
that this problem is only a
weakness in the student and
not the University. The key
to the promised land lies
in the instructor and not the
course content.
An instructor at his best
- is only a stimulant to a stu
dent's ambition and intelli
gence. This does not neces
sarily involve transferral of
knowledge via the sacro
sanct lecture method.
A course taught by an in
structor who makes his sub
ject interesting who makes
his students want to come to
class and stay awake who
creates the desire within
each individual student to
seek the knowledge of the
area is the course of the
promised land.
And ironically these in
structors are not teaching
courses exclusively for up
per classmen. Many of them
teach courses in beginning
principles which are avail
able to freshmen and sopho
mores. True, we are all here for
an education, and ideally,
the instructor should not
have to push us to accom
rpiish our goals. But too of
ten, required courses are
approached negative
ly. However, a good profes
sor could and should be able
to pierce the shield. Instruc
tors should accept as part
of their job, the task of
making the student want to
learn the subject matter
they are presenting.
Television classes In eco
nomics or any other area
for that matter, wholly vio
late this principle. The per
sonal communication is lost,
the student sleeps, the sub
ject becomes just a bore. A
professor once told me that
the instructor must accept
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over half the blame when
a student sleeps In class.
On the other hand, at what
other University in the coun
try is principles of insur
ance considered one of the
most interesting courses of
fered? Insurance by its very
nature and content is dry,
dull and boring unless you
really want to study it. But
at Nebraska all of Doc El
liott's courses are charter
members of the promised
lands and one is even open
to sophomores!
Many instructors have
earned reputations for suc
cess fully communica
ing with their students-for
instilling desire to learn and
presenting knowledge itself.
Among them: Drs. Hough
and Garner in the English
department; Dr. Esquenazl,
Spanish; Dr. Torrence, busi
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Copple, journalism; Dr. Jor
gensen, physics; Dr. Win
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surely hundreds more whom
I just don't know about or
slip my mind.
But sadly there is still a
lot of dead wood or more
appropriately, "dead" pro
fessors who build a brick
wall between themselves
and their students each time
they open their mouths. We
all know them and have
tolerated their classes more
than once.
So the course with the title
which attracts 98 per cent of
the student body is at best
a flop when taught by a
flop. But a course in sand
pile analysis could conceiv
ably offer a stimulating and
rewarding experience that
is if it's taught by an in
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