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COLORADO STUDENTS:
Two weeks ago Gov. John Love of Colorado proposed a
tuition increase at state-supported universities in that
state.
At the' University of Colorado in Boulder the 40 in
crease would mean that in-state students would pay $142
Instead of the present $104. Tuition for out-state students
would be increased an even $100.
Boulder reacted in its usual quick and valiant manner.
Two thousand students boycotted classes Wednesday, Feb.
5, to attend a rally protesting the tuition hike. Student Body
President Carlton Stoiber said the demonstration was to
show the legislature that "the feeling is strong enough
that it would require an event like this to demonsrate the
concern."
The next day Stoiber and his counterparts from Colorado
State University and Colorado State College presented a pe
tition with 12,000 signatures representing the three state
supported schools to Gov. Love in protest of the proposal.
An edi orial in the COLORADO DAILY at Boulder said,
M. . . an increase in tuition of the magnitude proposed by
Love is economically, socially, philosophically and politi
cally dangerous. But, simply to identify the danger is not
enough. It must forcefuly be brought to the attention of the
citizens of Colorado and of the state legislature."
An editorial in CSU's COLLEGIAN asked, "Who
cares?"
It complained that less than 200 CSU students were
sufficiently disturbed over the proposal to raise the tuition
to demonstrate. It added, secondly, that students there
have no concern over where their student fees go when
they allow candidates for offices there to run unopposed
Apparently, it costs students at CSU about $18 a year for
these elections, organizations, etc. THE COLLEGIAN
pointed out that that added up to only $130,000 a year.
The editorial went
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why Gov. Love thought he could get away with raising
tuition. He need only to look at the record of CSU students
to be assured that they, at least, will not miss a few more
dollars per year. That strikes close to home, where it hurts.
Ever wonder why the University of Nebraska never gets
the money it asks for? Ever wonder why tuition goes up
here? Ever care? What if parents stopped sending money?
Ever wonder about a breakdown showing where each stu
dent's $132 goes? Ever organize as a student body to form
some kind of a justified protest?
No, well then, just keep on paying, without even know
ing. You'll be asked for more.
Spare Parts
Two Decades Experience
Backs Sevareid Column
"l may occasionally an
noy some readers, but I
rarely bore anybody,"
claims Eric Sevareid.
And few will deny either
ability to the sophisticated,
amusing and mildly cynical
news analyst who has been
newspaper reporter, auth
or, radio, TV commentator,
and now is syndicated col-
' Eric Sevareid
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umnist for The Hall Syndi
cate and the Daily Nebcas
kan. i Hii column on Interna
tional, national, economic
and military affairs which
he has been covering dis
tinguished for about two
dozen years will appear
Mondays on the editorial
page of the DAILY NE
BRASKAN. Sevareid began as a copy
boy on the MINNEAPOLIS
JOURNAL in 1931 before his
A.B. degree at the Univer
sity of Minnesota. Later he
served as a reporter on the
Journal, then on the MIN
NEAPOLIS STAR.
In 1938 he expanded his
horizons, joining tha Paris
edition of the N.Y. HER
ALD TRIBUNE, first as a
reporter, then as city editor.
After a short trick as night
editor of United Press in
Paris, he joined the Colum
bia Broadcasting System in
August of 1939 as a Eu
ropean correspondent,
Monday, February 17, 1964
thin
H i s voice became fa
miliar to listeners through
out the U.S. during the war.
He Was With the Vrpnnh
Army and Air Force in
France and Belgium, then
broadcast news of the
French capitaulation from
Tours and Bordeaux. His
voice has since been heard
from many parts of the
world, including England,
Holland, Belgium, Luxem
bourg, Mexico, Brazil. So
effective were his news an
alyses that many were col
lected and published as a
book, "In One Ear." Re
cently he has been analyst
and moderator on some of
CBS' important domestic
news and background pro
grams. Sevareid claims no "ex
pertise except perhaps in
the political and diplomatic
areas," but he has gone
from the small town of Vel
va, North Dakota, his birth
place, to the great capitals
and news centers of the
world, from a dirt farm to
acquaintance with the
world's great, from cover
ing baby snatching and Min
neapolis meetings to com
menting on world war and
world conferences.
In addition to "In One
Ear," he wrote the juvenile
"Canoeing with the Cree,"
the best selling "No So Wild
a Dream" and, more re
cently, "Small Sounds in
the Night." He has written
for such magazines as the
SATURDAY EVENING
POST, LOOK, READER'S
DIGEST, HARPERS, THE
REPORTER, THE NEW
REPUBLIC, THIS WEEK,
AMERICAN LEGION MAG
AZINE, BOYS' LIFE, ST.
NICHOLAS and HARPER'S
BAZAAR. He is president
of the Radio Correspondents
Association.
"I'm deeply interested in
the whole current develop
ment of western society,"
he observes, "in all its
manisfestations from its
preoccupation with gadgets
to its philosophical phase of
mind." 1
'IS HE LEANING oM IT OR HOLDING IT UP?
ERIC sev are id
US. Must Keep Its Head,
Nice Guys Can Finish First
This country Is now in a
period of its international
life that was always inevit
able and repeatedly pre
dicted by the politically
w e a t h
er-beaten.
Our poli
cies, pres
ence and
our simple
are
b e i n g at
tacked in
Europe, the
Far East.
Sevareid the Middle
East, the Mediterranean,
Africa, the Caribbean and
in Central and South Ameri
ca. The attacks are serious
and specifically motivated,
as in Panama or Indonesia,
or temporary we hope
and without reasonable
cause, as in Ghana and Cy
prus. They are not coming to an
end any time soon. Indeed,
the next wave of anti
Americans called "stu
dent," though they do pre
cious little studying, in sev
eral southern capitals that
are now quiescent. They
will make Panama and
Guantanamo the nominal
excuses for their organized
prancing and prattle, and
the local Communists will,
of course, be at the heart of
it.
Riots make better news
than quiet construction, and
any number of well meaning
but innocent Americans
will feel sick at heart under
the impression that the
whole world loathes the
United States, and that our
foreign policies must be fun
damentally misconceived
and everyone failing. We
have some tears of remorse
to shed, but not that many.
For most of these difficul
ties there was never any
practical preventative, it
was not possible to set doz
ens of tribal clusters free
under the guise of nation
hood and not expect them to
behave like tribal clusters
for a long time, until they
sort themselves out. It was
not possible to leave vac
uums of power lying
around, as in much of
Southeast Asia, and not ex
pect yellow imperialism, in
the mode of Mao or of Su
karno, to .replace white im
perialism. The Communist
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revolutionary movement Is
a fundamental fact of the
century. It has preceded, on
two levels, direct power
confrontation between the
great Communist powers
and the United States, and
subversion in smaller, un
decided countries.
. We could hardly expect to
calm down the direct con
frontations as we have pret
ty successfully done by
strength and firmness, and
not expect an increase in
subversion in many places
with the aim of eliminating
our local influence, black
guarding us and rattling us.
If we allow ourselves to be
rattled and behave rashly,
we are fools and will prop
erly deserve the results.
Our trouble is not that we
have behaved unwisely in
all these trouble spots. Our
fundamental trouble is that
we have taken on too much,
too soon. We have overex
tended ourselves, not neces
sarily in money resources
but in our resources of per
sonnel, expertise, emotions
and a 1 1 e n t i o n span. An
American secretary of state
today is a man trying to
play a hundred chess games
at once, often against op
ponents who play by differ
ent rules or no rules, and
no man can discharge this
task with a high winning av
erage. We took it all on too soon
in the sense that we hadn't
yet got rid of impedimenta
carried over from the nine
teenth century, when we
had no foreign policy to
speak of but many concepts
Profits Spur
Dear Editor:
I found an article which
may interest the students
on the NU campus. It ap
peared in the November is
sue of THE PROGRESSIVE,
article is quite lengthy so I
will only take excerpts from
the article to convey i t s
meaning:
"Proprietors of places of
public accommodation in
Dixie have long feared that
if they admitted Negroes,
Southern whites would boy
cott them and ruin their
business. Their fear not
only turns out to be largely
unfounded, but it appears,
at least on the basis of one
study, that integration
brings such enterprises
more patronage than be
fore." Among hotels, motels
restaurants, taverns, night
clubs, and other establish
ments serving or hiring Ne
groes, THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL reported after
canvassing Souhern cities:
"Only a few report suffer
ing any lasting economic
consequences" and "a size
able number, in fact, de
clare that business has been
better than ever,"
Virtually zero trouble
that made us feel good. Per
haps the basic one was of
a messianic nature, the
idea that because we had
built something new here,
in contrast to blood-stained
Old Europe, this new thing
could be built, and quickly,
anywhere, including dim
mest Africa and over
crowded Asia. To this con
cept we added unworkable
working rules of procedure,
including the self-deceptions
that all sovereignties
are equal whatever their
power, and that we don't in
tervene in the internal af
fairs of other nations
Since we are frequently
obliged to ignore both prop
ositions, we suffer the pangs
of moral conflict within
ourselves.
This is what amuses De
Gaulle, who has no inten
tion of sitting on his hands
for a generation until we get
our practical and moral
ducks lined up. The fascin
ating thing about the old
cynic in the Elysees Pal
ace is that he upsets the
powerful by using the weap
ons of weakness. France is
only strong enough to dis
organize; it is not strong
enough to re-organize. Put
another way, he uses the
tactics of .Judo he causes
the powerful to flounder in
the direction he wishes by
sudden disengagements.
Still, nice, lumbering guys
don't have to finish last.
Not if they learn to keep
their feet and their heads,
select their targets carefully
and pay no attention to the
claques in the gallery who
are trying to rattle them.
Integration
(about one-fiftieth of one
per cent difficulty) was felt
by Harvey's Department
Store in Nashville. Out of
60,000 customers with
charge accounts, only 13
have closed their accounts
because the Tennessee store
desegregated its lunch
counter in 1960. The store
president, Fred Harvey,
states, "We're getting
plenty of customers to re
place the hard headed
ones." In Atlanta, 14 hotels
recently announced they
would begin accepting Ne
gro guests attending con
ventions. Within a day they
had received bookings for
conventions with 3,000 dele
gates. These findings by the
conservative JOURNAL
should be pondered by con
servative Congressmen who
fear that the Administration
proposal to end discrimina
tion in places serving the
public will cause the owners
financial loss. The reverse'
may well be true. Now,
not only morality and the
Constitution call for inte
ration but the profit mo
tive may join in the cho
rus." Douglas Paine
insight Slsewhere
'Charlie my boy, oh . . .'
For many years govern
ment officials have b e e n
talking about the probable
future of the French, tell
ing us to watch out, because
De Gaulle would not be
content to be a second rate
power.
It is, then, a little amus
ing to see the shocked look
on these same faces when
the French opened relations
with the Communist Chi
nese. Why they moved as
they did is a moot point.
Several reasons have been
offered.
The open rift between the
Soviets and the Red Chi
nese has seemed to form a
gap in the foreign policy of
the West. French Ambas
sador Herve Alphand has
told our state department
that France hopes to fill
that gap.
The announcement ot
their position assures all
that they are not forming
a "two-China" policy; that
rather they view that por
tion of the world as under
two governments, Formosa
and the government of Chi
na. The agreement was in
no way to imply approval
of the political expressions
of Peking.
The French announce
ment fell on the eve of the
anniversary of the French
German reunion. That un
ion called for consultation
before making any major
diplomatic moves. There
was none in this case so the
anniversary "was met with
little jubilation.
The French colonies also
reacted quickly. Madagas
car's reaction seems to typ
fy colonists' feelings. Mad
agascar has announced its
inability to go along with
De Gaulle.
Most important was the
reaction of the 7,000 French
in Viet Nam. Violently anti
Communist and in the midst
of a pitched battle with the
Red forces, these French
patriots felt sadly disillu
sioned. It seems strange to
these thousands to fight the
Reds on the one hand, and
make agreements with
them on the other.
Pressed the hardest by
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the issue were the Nation
alists on Formosa. Their
first reaction was to break
all ties with the French
Our government has urged
that they wait. It seems to
be our hope that by wait
ing the Nationalists can
come out of this fray vie
torious. The Nationalist govern
ment doesn't seem very
pleased with our advice.
They still consider the pop
ulous of the mainland their
patriots, separated from
their true government by
the Communist tyranny.
No one is forgetting, how
ever, that if this is to be
considered a crisis of major
proportion, the battle will
be fought on the diplomatic
level. It is to the advantage
of the French that it be so.
Our biggest fear seems
now to be that this will
open the way for recogni
tion of Red China in the
UN. Such a recognition
would put us in a difficult
position as we still main
tain troops in South Korea
and are still committed to.
protecting the island nation
of Formosa. The French
may regard, however, our
failure to respond to Chiang
Kai-shek's pleas after
World War II as a tacit ap
proval of the existing situ
ation. More important than the
UN is our own position as
a nation. We have long
been urging Europe to take
a more active part in world
affairs. France has now
done so. The situation has
called forth America's dip
lomatic disapproval, but
now our state department
has to decide how to treat
De Gaulle. Washington will
be busy for some time de
ciding whether to treat De
Gaulle's nation as that
country which openly di
verged from our foreign pol
icy regarding the East or
as that country which came
to our aid in the recent
Cuban crisis. That De Gaul
le still feels he has been
shunned by the United
States will not make our
task any easier.
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