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NEBRASKAN ASKS:
Provision Reversal
There are approximately llVfe thousand University of
Nebraska students of some sort living in Lincoln. They are
now officially counted as part of the Lincoln census.
Because the students are here in Lincoln, Lincolnitcs
can claim their way to fame through (1) Sheldon Art
Gallery (2) Morrill Hall (3) outstanding educational work
in the departments of Pharmacy, Dentistry, Agriculture,
Journalism, English, Law, History, Physics, Chemistry (4)
research in all those and other fields (5) Gotham and
Orange Bowl winning football teams, to name a few.
Students account for a lion's share of downtown busi
ness. It isn't strange, then, when only the businessmen,
that it the over-the-counter salesmen, treat students as
they would others.
University Administration has posed barriers to in
dividual student freedom. So has the local city govern
ment and, in turn, the local police force.
All three were evidenced in the City Council's week-old
decision to limit the number of students who could rent
a house in a residential district to three. University Ad
ministration has given half-hearted public support to the
provision adding to already existing housing rules. And
the police force, according to the Mayor, Dean Petersen,
has trouble enforcing any disturbances caused by stu
dents living in these houses.
It is difficult to figure how the police force would
have so much trouble enforcing intermittent public com
plaints about house-dwelling students when they do such a
fine job of policing local taverns where students congre
gate and of expertly placing abundant parking tickets on
campus-parked cars. Could it be more enjoyable to per
form the latter two functions while enforcing the former
is considered bothersome? City Attorney Ralph Nelson
justifies the provision on the basis that students do not
belong in the residential districts.
By their contribution to this community the DAILY
NEBRASKAN feels that students are qualified to live
where they choose and that the City Council is wrong in
limiting the number of students who may rent a house.
It has already been said that it may not be financially
feasible in a majority of the cases for less than four stu
dents to rent a house. In addition, who and how many
want to live where, is a personal matter of the students
So the DAILY NEBRASKAN argues on principle as
much as fact against this seemingly minor provision and
hereby formally asks the University Administration to ask
the Lincoln City Council for a reversal of that part of
the concerned provision that pertains to students.
Sex Saviours
Dear Editor:
I'm writing to say that I'm
in complete accordance with
Mr. Hiner in his beautifully
written article on the "sex
revolution." I was a victim
of this revolution myself. I
lost my virginity at the ten
der age of thirteen. The girl
who seduced me (herself
a hopeless fifteen year old
derelict of the revolution)
told her friends of our re
lationship, and soon my rep
utation was virtually irre
deemable. The word spread! Soon,
every girl in town had me
figured for a pushover, an
easy make. I too joined the
ever growing horde of loose
living teenagers rushing
blindly toward moral obliv
ion. Luckily I stumbled on
to an article (I can't recall
the publication) the theme
of which, as well as some
of the wording and exam
ples, was surprisingly rem
iniscent of Mr. Hiner's
work.
Fortunately for the world,
there are those who concern
themselves with other peo
ples' morals. These self-appointed
guardians of the
moral fiber of the masses
take upon themselves, un
Thursday, April 23, 1964
'All-Knowing'
selfishly, various burdens.
They strive to impose their
own thoughts concerning
moral issues upon other
people in the form of cen
sorship, prohibition (in
varying degrees), and
through articles like that
written by Mr. Hiner.
These noble crusaders are
able to push on knowing that
their set of standards is
right for everybody.
Yes, push on Travis Hiner
and those like you. Save the
world from itself. Censor
the magazines, the movies;
go into the bedrooms of
America if you must, but
whatever save us!
Jack Stout
EDITOR'S NOTE: Unfor
tunately for those who try
to teach the value system of
our way of life, Mr. Stout,
there are people like you
who laugh at their efforts.
Nobody is trying to force up
on you their own thoughts
and conceptions of right.
They are merely trying to
teach you how to live mor
ally according to the rules
of our society. Nobody is
trying to save you, they are
just trying to help.
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REVOLUTION IN SEX-
University Rules And Regulations
Cause Students To 'Grow Up Absurd'
EDITOR'S NOTE: The
following article was sent
to the DAILY NEBRAS
KAN by the Collegiate
Press Service. It is print
ed as part of the DAILY
NEBRASKAN series on
the collegiate "sex revo
lution," which was spurred
by NEWSWEEK's "Mor
als On The Campus."
By Roger Ebert
Editor, DAILY ILLIM
The American undergrad
uate lives in a goldfish bowl,
and his personal life is too
often treated as the prop
er concern of his university.
He is numbered, regis
tered, pinched, prodded,
advised, and regulated into
a tightly bound corner of
conformity, and then told
not to move for four years
lest he lose his chance at
the diploma jackpot.
His learning experience is
presented as some
thing which can live and
grow within the most tight
ly restricted environment
which adult society provides
outside of prison. This en
vironment, of course, is the
college campus.
The undergraduate is in
sulted with restraints on
his private life which no
19 -year-old factory worker
would put lip with for a se
cond. He is belittled by a
disciplinary system which,
in many cases, is only a
step above the arbitrary
rap on the knuckles which
was meted out 50 years
ago by authoritarian school
marms. And, most dismally, he is
the victim of university reg
ulations which are wishy
washy, namby-pamby eva
sions of their subjects.
Take, as an obvious exam
ple, the subject of under
graduate sex. Is there a'ny-
one in this reading audience
who pretends to know what
the University of Illinois
officially has to say about
sex?
Study the rule book for
hours; you will find no spe
cific mention of this central
and important problem. But
you will find an inaudible
hodge-podge of veiled ref
erences to sex. The Univer
sity has women's hours,
housing regulations, social
regulations all designed,
in large part, to make it
very difficult for students
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lot what they cause ij be tti -nled
Pulls another
to develop meaningful,
healthy and sound personal
relationships.
In fact, these highly insti
tutionalized University reg
ulations make it almost ne
cessary that the social con
tact between many students
will be superficial, fleeting,
and conducted within the
organized hypocrisy of "ex
changes" and other such
desperate measures to cm
bat complete social stagna
tion. In o f f i c i a 1 statements,
deans and college adminis
trators say they are con
cerned over the "growing
college youth. Yet, they
seem blind to the fact that
modern universities are the
cause of a great deal of this
promiscuity, and that regu
lations supposedly designed
to curtail it often help bring
it about.
In recent weeks, DAILY
ILLINI readers have been
told of a co-ed who got a
ride to her dormitory in a
squad car after University
police found her in a parked
car with her boy friend.
There is no evidence that
this couple was doing any
thing improper. A good
number of other cases,
many of which include hu
miliating interviews with
deans but never result in
formal disciplinary charges,
are based on what seems to
be (who knows?) official
disapproval of "pro
miscuity." Yet administrators seem
blind to the situation in
their own dormatory loung
es, where as many as a
hundred couples may be
"making out" in full view
and in a brigntly lighted
room. If there is anything
sacred and a'thing person
al, and anything valuable,
about the exenange of af
fection and love between a
boy and a gin, a public
dormitory lounge is nof a
satisfactory place for such
activity.
What situation breeds pro
miscuity more the couple
in a parked car on a resi
dential street, or a hundred
couples in a brightly lighted
lounge? It would seem to
me that, under the latter
conditions, a genuine ex
change of affection becomes
cheapened, public and
tawdry. (Of course, the
car is not a civilized substi
Sit
switch
tute for the lounge, only a
more private one.)
At many universities,
dormitory room rules have
been adjusted so that cmi
ples may visit in each
other's rooms during spe
cific periods, say on Sun
day afternoon. No dire con
sequences seem to result
from this simple social con
cession. Activity is now un
derway at the University of
Wisconsin to provide simi
lar reforms, and at the Lni
versity of Illinois such re
forms are even more des
perately needed.
If our deans and admin
istrators need first-hand in
formation on how pathetic
and furtive the situation
has grown, I invite them to
make an inspection tour of
dormitory lounges this
weekend and then consider
deeply some of the implica
tions in Paul Goodman's
phrase, "growing up ab
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Vievj from Tho Right
By Dick Rccker
As the smoke clears from
the first round of the 1964
political campaign we see
some things taking shape.
In the Republican camp we
learn that a Lodge victory
with 35 of the vote in a
state with 4 electoral votes
is the greatest upset since
David played deadeye with
the slingsnot. But a Cold
water victory of 64 in the
fourth largest state in the
Union really is a terrible
showing.
A more far reaching pri
mary battle has been fought
in Wisconsin. There in an
unusual turn of events Gov.
Wallace from deepest Dixie
won 34 ot the vote in a
Democratic primary. Many
Liberals have attempted to
explain this vote away. The
usual explanation given is
that 25 of the Wallace vote
total came from the Birch
ers and the Goldwater peo
ple. Under Wisconsin's cross
primary rules these people
could vote in the Democrat
ic primary.
This argument does not
have complete validity.
True many Republicans par
ticularly the old Taft Re
publicans were anxious to
pay back the Democrats for
the many years they fouled
up the Republican primar
ies. But as TIME maga
zine wrote "But there were
indications that nearly as
many Republicans last week
jumped party lines to vote
for Reynolds as for Wallace.
For example John Byrnes'
home district, heavily Re
publican, went for him by
63 in 1962 and is likely to
do so again . . . But in the
presidential primary Bry
nes got only 40,000 votes as
45,000 votes for Reynolds
and 22,000 for Wallace. The
clear implication was that
thousands of Republicans
with a chance to express
themselves on a key issue
split more or less evenly on
Firetruck:
With Cycle
Sub Rosas
By Arnie Garson
The theory of cycles has
proved itself again. Spring
is here and it's been over a
year since the crackdown
on the sub rosa organiza
tions. And the paint on
doorsteps, red in color and
in the shape of a large dot
with a bar underneath it is
fresh.
That the sub rosa organ
izations could or decided to
start up again is not sur
prising. That they have evi
dently attracted new mem
bers and are donning war
paint is rather surprising.
First of all, the real
threat of getting kicked out
of school would be enough
to scare off any student who
gave the slightest damn
about his education.
And when, not if, they do,
their fate will almost cer
tainly be expulsion. It is
entirely possible that the
painting is the work of
pranksters, not associated
with sub rosas, but it is al
most impossible to believe
that pranksters would risk
their education for the sake
of a few strokes of the
brush.
So there are evidently
still students enrolled at the
University who hold the
paint brush of the sub roses
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civil rights."
The thing of deep signif.
ance to Democratic strate
gists is that Wallace ran
strongest in the staunchly
Democratic Polish and Itali
an districts. This seems to
indicate resentment against
Negro attempts to desegre
gate the union and neigh
borhoods around Milwau
kee. Wallace's victory is a.a
ing for the obstacles he ov
ercame. His chief obstacle
was pointed out strangely
enough, by that leading
journal of the zombie press
the NEW REPUBLIC.
T.R.B. pointed out this fact
in his April 11 column. "It
is rather fortunate on the
whole that the man who met
the challenge is Wallace.
Shrewd Dixie politicans
may be sorry that it is an
all-out racist who is carry
ing the police-dog-electric
prodstick mentality into the
South's appeal for Northern
support."
Wallace, to be sure, care
fully refrained from any ra
cist talk during the c a m
paign but he still represents
the worst possible image of
the South. One can wonder
what a statesman like Sen.
Bryd would have drawn in
the balloting.
It would be ridiculous to
assume that the vote was
for Wallace as a man. He
claims it is a vote against
civil rights and coming from
a Northern progressive
state it indicates widespread
dislike of the bill. This may
be but it seems safest to say
it's a vote of fear and un
certainty. A fact worth noting if
Wallace's vote and Brynes'
were added together the
state could easily be 'won.
Should the Republicans
nominate someone who is
less extreme on civil rights
than the Democrats he is
apt to pull a sizable vote
North and South.
Completed,
Reappear
in higher esteem than the
quill of education.
There have been rumors
for some time that parts of
the three former NU sub
rosas were reorganizing.
Many took it for idle talk.
But if the talk was idle,
the paint isn't.
But most significant, it re
mains disgusting that the
sub rosas were able to
arouse enough interest
among the younger mem
bers of the campus society
to establish an organization.
Most here today don't re
member the days when the
sub rosas were strong
enough to get and maintain
control of all campus or
ganizations. Such activity is not the
mark of socially or morally
responsible human beings,
much less of students of
higher education.
Sub rosas in themselves
do no good for the mem
bers themselves or the Uni
versity. But the cycle has
again completed its circle
and we can only wait for
the administration to tear
it to bits again.
And again, when, not if,
this happens the entire stu
dent body will again be dis
graced, but relieved.
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