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Within a few short hours students will be climbing into
cars for the trip home and two weeks of sleep, play and
catching up on assignments that have been left neglected
or put off until this time. Again the Daily Nebraskan
urges its readers to drive safely.
This is not the time for a meaty editorial. It is the
time for fun and frolic. For exchanging silly little Christ
mas gifts that jump out al you when you open them, of
silly little Christmas gifts that have absolutely no use.
It is the time of Christmas shopping for gifts for those
close to you, of stretching your budget to its uttermost
limits.
It is a time of planning for the Cotton Bowl trip and
buying badges and horns to take along, or even a silly
little cotton ball with a big red N on it.
It is a time of high spirits and jovial people. Of Santa
Clauses on every street corner.
It is a time of thinking of New Year's Resolutions.
It is a time of sober thoughts. Of thoughts back to the
stable and the birth so many years ago. Of sitting with
the family and reading the passages so well known to all,
of attending Christmas programs where young voices
stammer out their verses.
It is a time of singing well known carols, of listening
to less-known Christmas music.
It is a time of little children running in to behold the
Christmas tree bedecked with lights and balls and with mys
terious packages underneath. It is a time of watching little
children. It is a time of a little of the child in each of us
coming out to enjoy the festivities.
In short, it is time for the Dailv Nebraskan to wish
you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a happy NEW
YEAR!
SUSAN SMITHBERGER
Thanks, Staff
The front page color sketch, a creation of the editorial
board, is our way of wishing our readers and our staff, a
very Merry Christmas.
It is also our way of recognizing the staff for long hours
of hard work, of asking their forgiveness for the scream
ing we've done. We feel lucky and thankful to have a hard
working and efficient staff this semester.
jtffflggA. SqimbblsiL.
The following column ap
peared in the 1944 Daily Ne
braskan. It was written by
Les Glotfelty. Twenty years
later, a few facts have
changed but the main of the
column is still appropriate.
It is surprising how little
the problems do change.
Add a financial problem, a
little larger staff and lost
reference books and take
away activity points and you
have the Daily Nebraskan
of today.
'"Despite trials and tribu
lations, hell and high water,
the Nebraskan staff can
still wish all its readers a
Merry Christmas. It is re
markable that the staff still
has any good-will toward
man or toward anything aft
er three months of all-this-and-it-ain't
heaven that has
happened this year.
"We started out this Sep
tember with a clean office,
five women staff members
, d one lone man. Four pa
: came out during rush
,sek with no reporters to
help. By the end of the first
week, the Nebraskan office
was its old self with papers
piled high on all the desks,
three out of four typewriters
out of commission, coke
glasses in rows all over the
place, and flies in the paste,
and still no reporters.
At the end of the first six
weeks, 60 freshmen signed
up to be reporters. "Fine!"
we said. So ten showed up
to work,
The Cornhusker filched
our paste, our copy paper,
our reporters, our typewrit
ers, and even a story or two
for the yearbook. Reporters
began to cower and hate us
as the office was filled with
screams of "Don't capitalize
university Go over to me
chanical arts and dig up a
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story What are his initials?
For Pete's sake, is this
supposed to be a story?
Rewrite it Who can cover
the convocation at 6 a.m.
tomorrow?" and so on thru
the night. But the reporters
stuck it out, probably be
cause they wanted activity
points, and a few of them
got their first byline.
"Meanwhile the business
staff went "ad mad" and
began to turn our beloved
paper in a shopping guide.
We threatened Martz (Jo
Martz, business manager);
Martz threatened us; some
body threw a bean bag that
has been here since year
one; two ad salesmen wan
dered in with five yo-yo's;
someone hid Gene Dixon's
hat on a steam pipe; every
campus organization
screamed at us because
they weren't getting enough
publicity.
"Pat Chamberlin lost the
key to her office at least
three times a week, the Crib
refused to let us bring dish
es down; nobody had a
match; we got a" Christ
mas tree, but the yearbook
ies swiped it back. The
telephones got knocked on
the floor and refused to
work except when every
one was busy and then they
rang every two minutes for
hours at a time.
"Right now two weeks'
vacation looks like heaven.
The Daily Nebraskan we
love with all our ink-stained
souls, and we'll be back in
two weeks, sitting on our
broken chairs, slinging copy
madly, trying our darndest
to put out a paper that
pleases just one person.
Happy New Year, and we'll
see ya.
AMEN.
Nebraskan
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Admiration?
Dear Madam :
I would like to make a few
comments on Roger A.
Elm's letter to your "Cam
pus Opinion.
I admire this young man
for his courage, indifference
and frankness shown in his
dribble presented to your
column.
Embracing an anti-inge-gration
slogan is his privi
lege, but I protest his em
bracing Christianity (sug
gested by his Protestant
alignment ) at the same
time. I want to know if he
is anti-Catholic and anti
Jewish, also is he afraid to
attack the Church like how
he attacks Negroes. I f e e 1
sorry for him.
I wonder if he would like
to take up a challenge and
have a debate with me pub
licly, say in the Union.
He seems to be an author
ity on how well Negroes can
function in the Greek
system. I would like him to
know that Negroes have
been functioning in systems
far more productive than
the one he mentioned.
It might be a shock to him
to know that Negroes are
presently functioning in sys
tems through which he is
benefiting in this country.
When will the egg reach
maturity? I (sigh) don't
know.
Yours respectfully.
Leroy O'Keane
Thank You
Dear Editor:
We wish to extend our sin
cerest thanks to you and
your staff for the excellent,
coverage of our Civil Rights
march in the Daily Nebras
kan. You explained our
case well. We expressed
our concern; we made our
witness. For all your. assist
ance we are grateful.
Friends of SNCC
Curious Pattern
Dear'Editor:
You are under bitter a1
tack on many fronts, which
is probably confusing to the
average student. When ex
amined more closely, a cur
ious pattern emerges from
these attacks.
You have been scorned by
a group of colonists attack
ing your conservatism; you
have been criticised be
cause of your stand on many
issues; you have been li
beled as a person.
The same groups, how
ever, seem to be behind
these attacks. The same
people, or intellectual types,,
who attack you now are the
very ones who were insensed
at your editorial supporting
Senator Goldwatcr for the
presidency.
They won Hie election, but
seem inlent on the vilifica
tion 'if their only real
stujnb Li? bio'jk on cam
pus 1he const rvatisin of
(he "di or f 'he Daily
Nebr?3':an
Congratulations on your
JLiST WHAT I NEEDED.'"
courage in standing for what
you feel is right, for carry
ing out your duties in the
manner your conscience di
rects ou.
C. C.
Sic, Sic, Sic
Dear Miss Smithberger:
This is your sic, sic, sic
critic writing to correct a
few m i s u nderstandings.
Perhaps I have given a
knock to the Lincoln Police
Department when they did
not really deserve it. If you
will look in the December
3rd Lincoln Journal on page
29. you will find an article
entitled "Parking List
Doesn't Name 250 Students"
which is in conflict with
your epistle to the Corn
buskers of December 2nd.
The facts are:
1. The Daily Nebraskan
states Mr. Scriven was
pulled out of bed at 4:30
a.m. to pay his parking
ticket or else. The Journal
states the officers asked to
have him awakened and
then gave him the choice of
paying his fines or having
his car towed away which
would cost him an extra
five dollars.
2. You state that there
were several other students
paying tickets there at the
same time; the Journal
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By Bob Weaver
Even though Newton Min
now d i d spend several
years as Chairman of the
Federal Communica
tions Commission, for all
his efforts, television in
large part remains a "vast
wasteland." Typical Corner
Pile. USMC, etc. There
seems to be a multiplica
tion of situation comedies
in which the only unbeliev
ably funny thing is the tech
icaily augmented audience
reaction.
?"or the past several years
the Columbia Broadcasting
.System has televised "The
Defenders," surrounding a
father-son law firm which
specializes in criminal law
and other significant social
issues. This program has
dared to touch on such is
sues as mental illness,
abortion, divorce, civil
rights, capital punishment,
academic freedom and oth
er questions confronting the
American society. The
questions presented are
neither cut and dried; nor
is an answer always pre
sented. The conclusion often
arrived at is the obsoles
ence of the law and of cer
tain individual attitudes.
"The Defender s". effective
ly dramatizes the questions
confronting America and in
this regard is one of few
bright spots in television
today.
This season has brought
another ' significant con
tribution to the video art.
Once asain Robert Saudek
Avvjcia'es, producers of the
HallMark Hall of Fame
quotes Mr. Scriven as stat
ing that there were no other
offenders there.
3. You also claim that the
police have a list of 2(0 to
250 NU and Wesleyan stu
dents with overdue tickets:
the Journal quotes Police
Lt. Donald G. Smith as say
ing that the list contains
289 license numbers all
out of Lancaster county
with the make of the car
listed, not the name of the
owner.
So how can the police know
who is a student, Miss
Smithberger?
Is your staff ill informed
about events they report,
or do they deliberately mis
represent the facts in the
stories they write? If the lat
ter is true, you have a
group of propagandists wor
thy of writing for Tass, and
if the former, you lead a
band of incompetents.
As for my spelling, my
letter was written in the
heat of battle over your lit
tle fair' tale. I must add
my congratulations on your
use of the Argumentum ad
Homineum, and if I may
add the Argumentum ad
Ignorantiam. Keep the old
typewriter hot with the
straight scoop in the future.
Sincerely.
Dennis E. Fayant
and Omnibus, scored in this
infant medium of communi
cation. His newest addition
is "Profiles in Courage," a
serialization of the biogra
phies presented in the book
of the same name by John
F. Kennedy.
This is the book that Ken
nedy wrote while convales
ing after a back operation
in the early fifties. Some of
the research on it was done
by Nebraska's own Ted
Sorenson and contains a
chapter on George Norris,
one of Nebraska's outstand
ing U.S. Senators.
Not only does the series
include excerpts from the
lives of the Senators por
trayed in the Kennedy
book, but also includes oth
er stories researched by
Sorenson but not included
in the final product. The
story of Senator Thomas
Hari Ben'on, who fought
for the Union rather than
the South during the pre
Civil War Years, was the
rn.;s! interesting to date.
Brian Keith'u portrayal of
the Missouri Senator was
excellent.
As with the Defenders,
the question posed is n o t
answered for the viewing
audience. It is only an
swered by and for the in
dividual who must summon
his own courage to meet
the challenge confront
ing he or she. As the Kennedy-voice-recorded
p r o -logue
states, thes' stories
of courage can teach, but
they cannot supply courage
itself. For that, every indi
vidual must look into his
own heart.
By Frank Partsch
Doddering old 1964 has
been a Strang one around
this campus.
It has been a year of cri
sis and change in areas con
sidered stationary since
Dean Bessey hung no-smoking
signs around the cam
pus. It has seen the emer
gence of religious liberals,
Youth for Goldwater and a
number of other un-status
quo movements.
What does it all mean?
Far be it from me to at
tempt an answer. I draw
from a former editor of the
Daily Nebraskan. who said
"No one but Phi Beta Kap
pas should attempt to ana
lyze campus problems."
I draw also from an un
known student who said
"Perhaps we are finally be
coming a BIG University."
And I draw from a well
known professor who sees
indications of dissatisfac
tion on the part of many
students.
Is it a broadening of
thinking or a narrowing of
thinking? Who can rightful
ly, tactfully and sanely
draw the final line between
radicalism and the dead
wood many "intellectuals"
see in today's rules for con
ventional behavior?
No one, I guess. It seems
that society acts, with laws,
morals and conventions fol
lowing, at tunes, somewhat
uncertainly. Therefore, bor
rowing a line from a third
grade teacher, I would ask
everyone in the world to be
responsible.
To every individual, I
would say chart your own
course, but try to see it
blending with the overall
picture nonviolently.
To every group, I would
say be fair when fighting
for your causes, but do not
compromise away your
principles for the sake of
the ever-present PR demon
which takes so great a toll
in the status-quo society
here at the University.
Misery Is..,
Wasting a formal favor on a guy who gets lavaliered the
next night to someone else.
Facing the thought of a black-and-white tube on New
Years day.
Contacts freezing to your eyes.
A dead battery at the end of a long day.
Losing your sports editor to the books.
Losing your books when out with the sports editor.
Losing.
Republican
By GEORGE DURANSKE
Merry Christmas from the Republican party both of us.
Democratic
By BOB CHERNY
Merry Christmas from the Democrat party all 190 million
of us.
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To the uncharted masses,
1 would like to see .ome
charting.
It is the uncharted mass
es who have besieged, the
Closet Case this year tfith
requests of "Why don't you
expose administration?"
"Why don't you expose the
Innocents?" "Why don't
you expose the worthless
ness of the female sex?"
Everybody wants blood.
At the moment, I can't see
too much in the Teachers
College growth that needs
exposing, most of the cam
pus leaders have done a bet
ter job of showing their
own merit than a columnist
could ever hope to do, and
my views on the female
sex, I think, should be sub
ject for another Case when
I have had more time for
research.
Why does everybody want
blood? Maybe it is merely
the vehicle of the unchart
ed masses to express their
dissatisfaction. It doesn't
matter what we knock, ap
parently, just so something
is being knocked. Last year
it was Student Council. This
year . . . take your choice
of anything status quo and
knock it.
To the 20 per cent of my
readers who have stayed
with me this far, I would
like to tell you both not to
expect a conclusion here.
I have charted my course,
and will expose myself
someday if things come to
that, but I am interested in
giving some food for
thought.
It reminds me of a little
old lady who once told me,
with tears in her eyes, "It
breaks my heart to see lit
tle children throwing rockj
at each other."
I've been laughing at that
for three years now, but it
is one way of asking man
kind for the tolerance and
cooperation and, if you will
pardon me, the brotherly
love each man is entitled
to.
