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Campys y I ' A H Frank Partsch, editor Page 2 IlilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllH 'Tax On Vice' A Our bipartisan governor thinks o u r nonpartisan legislature should have raised taxes on alcohol and tobacco. A n d horseracing profits. We have only token and prejudiced objection to this idea, but we believe that the state is currently caught in the throes of a tax problem requiring a much larger solution than the several hundred thousand or million dollars which these raises would add to the state's tax revenue. A state sales tax imay it rest, tem porarily, in peace) is an unpleasant thought, and a state income tax (may the former rise up and make it unneces sary) is an even more nightmarish possi bility when considered from the point of view of the individual. But Joe Blow, who owns half of Cherry County, doesn't think it too just to spend his life leashed to the property tax especially since fewer and fewer senators are being elected from Cherry County these days and more and more are coming from Douglas County to vote against a tax which would be paid by their constituents. We fear the state's mood has become one of domination by the majority, even at the cost of industrial expansion and better roads. A sales tax or an income tax would definitely hit more people than the ranch tax we are charging now. but we must draw the line across our selfish ness (we said selfishness, not individuality or political freedom.) The entire state would benefit. So many Nebraskans who have HiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiMiiiiiwiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim The volume and intensity of student frustration is now reaching a peak, so much so in fact that it has become the most omnipres ent subject of student con versation. By frustration I mean, of course, the difficulties of coming to grips with art and intellect in the present environment of higher edu cationdifficulties posed by the enormous problems which have beset institutions of higher learning in recent years. These frustrations are felt not only by students, but also by educators them selves. , Universities have at tempted, however unsuc cessfully, to overcome those barriers to learning which have been thrown up by the great expansion and diversi fication of educational enter prise in recent years. The schools have many, many more people to deal with, and they have many, many more tasks to perform than before. The result has been lack of attentiveness to t h e real needs and desires of students. Frustration is the outcome of inattentiveness. Since frustration is now a universally recognized feel ing in the academy, those who want to transcend it are seeking ways out. Very few make any serious at tempt to defend the schools as they now stand they are indisputably in crisis. What those who think and write about such things are now doing is to propound group action. These solu tions fall into two cate- Would you Ilk to worfc In a European retort this summer? PAYIf G JOBS IN EUROPE Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Thousands of jobs in Europe, in eluding resort hotel, office, factory, ales, farm, child care and ship board work are available through the American Student Informa tion Service. Wages can reach $400 a month, and A SIS is giving travel grants up to $390 to the first 000 applicants. Job and travel f rant applications and full details are available in a 26-page illus trated booklet which students may Main by sending $2 (for the book let and airmail postage) to Dept. M, ASIS, 22 Ave. de la Libert, Luxembourg City, Grand Duchy Luacmbourg. Mike Jeffrey, business manager Monday, March 1, 1965 Solution? Passing Through gories. One category is re form. The other is revolu tion. Admiral Rickover and James Bryant Conant are reformers although of clearly variant persua sionsand they lead well developed reform enter prises. Few as yet propound revolution in theory, al though an increasing num ber practice it. What is going on at Berkeley is rev olution. Closer to home we note the Gadfly, which is in fact a revolutionary organ a conscious ' effort to attract converts to the enterprise of subverting the established order. Reform and revolution are group social-political activities as such attempts on the part of organized groups to foist change on those who seek to preserve a deteriorating status quo. Most students, however, aren't as yet really inter ested in group enterprises as an escape from frustra tion. What they now look for is a personal, individual way of coping with an ad verse educational environ ment so that they can sur vive and prosper both now and in the future. They have neither time nor in clination to organize in their own behalf. If this be true, then the present task for individuals is not to become leaders or followers in reform or revo lution, but to join the search for a modus operandi, a pro cedure, which will get them through the barrier of high er education with a mini mum of scar tissue. It remains to be seen The Daily Nebroskon Plxin 477-8711, Extniil 2588, 2599 and i0. iMike Jeffrey, business manager I.KK MARSHALL, manaalnr editor: M SAN HITTER. ae rilim- ,. A It "J ed!'7,' " """orav. nim"',?. MFn l V VvrniBM i'HTrBCT; STI:VT KEITH IVR, Rl H ir.ir.n, mist. HRM 4 HRR. junior laff writemt HOR r;iRi . altant: PM.LV BHVNALDS, rAROLK RFNO " IY KriRKHriJ '..1, IV.N.N KAIHJI.N, rirrulatloa maiucen LARKV HKIIV. phntocraahrc. Subscription rates 3 per aemeer nr 5 per rear The Daili' Nebraskan is ;.oblihl at Room SI, Nebraaka Union, on Mutdar Wednesday. Thurnday and Friday during the atll year, except during vaca tion and final examinaiion period, and onre during Augunt It i i publixhed by Iniveraity o( !Seb.ka atudenta under the JuriadlcUoa thf Faculty Subcommittee on Student Publications. Publications shall be free from censorship by the Subcommittee or aony person outside the L'nlver- ted 01 Nebraskan are responsible for what they causa to be JR. MARCH 5, 9 IFC 12 pm, featuring the JAGUARS from Omaha $2.00 per couple Semi-formal Tickets Available at booth in Union bewailed the '"encroachments of the fed eral government" should at least be able to see That someone must kick this state in the seat of the overalls beiore it withers away completely. And it will, unless someone State or Federal adds some green. Take your choice, Nebraska. SPRING BROKE OUT this weekend with balmy days and the mellow nights that snap the confines of books and rooms and send students out into the elements. We hope it is not a typical spring here at the University. Several lights also broke out after Coed Follies, the combatants representing varirus creeds and ideologies 'different living units, we think. 1 This is poor. PooAhings happen in the winter, sum mer and fall, too (many girls were at tacked to the point of embarrassment by snowballers and snowstuffers) but we see the rash of spring fights as one of t h e poorest. The campus has begun to take on a new look: ancient institutions are being de fined and redefined and many students are looking beyond their own narrowness to ward real learning. But some would rather fight with the guy next door or across the street. Those of us who are working for a dynamic student body scorn this pettiness and appeal for its abrupt termination. FRANK PARTSCH whether there are feasible personal solutions, given the extreme anomie of high er education today. I for one have my doubts. I suspect that those who want a better, environment will ultimately have to hang together, else they will hang separately. The longer one postpones participation in reform enterprises for change, the more likely it is that revolution will become the only feasible means of effecting change. Reform might become superannu ated. Revolution is a most inefficient and dangerous method of changing things. Revolutions custom arily subvert the very ends for which they were fought, at least for a longtime. Cas tro's Cuba is a classic ex ample of this truth. My guess is that the following progression could occur as a consequence of frustration. If personal solutions prove impossible, then reforming activity might become gen eral. If reform fails, which is liktly if much longer postponed, revolution might come. This would consign us all to a long and dan gerous interlude the out come of which would be un certain at best. DAVID F. TRASK I'miiimimimiiiiiiiiiiiiwiiiiiwfiiu About Letters Tbo DAILY SF nR4KAH htrttx reaaVra 1 aw II tor riarnalraa afnlB mm rmrrrat iaalra rrfara)- la af rlrwantnt. Letter nail he flrne4. nmlata a eerlflible aaV drew. ne be free mt llkelen mm lenel pea names mar ee la rlnoVe' bat leen (be rbanre af aibli alloa. Utitlh? letter! anar be ed;ttj or orr.Hted. n:IIIIIIIIIIMIIIIII(IIIMmillll!lHli) BALL LINCOLN HOTEL YR Leadership - Dear editor. During the days of Feb. 17 to 21 six young Republi cans from Nebraska parti cipated in the Leadership Training School sponsored by the National Federation of Young Republicans in Washington. D.C. Although t h e School's main purpose was to train young Republican leaders in the art and techniques of political campaigning, the meeting was also an excel lent opportunity for all to discuss fully the various political, economic, and so cial ideas that we hold as individuals and as a Party. We all returned to our home states knowing that there are common princi ples which all of us can readily agree upon and can use to build progressive and more constructive propos als as alternatives to those sponsored by the Democrat Administration. We also realized that the record number of 700 par ticipants in the School are, and will continue to be, deeply committed to the Republican Party and see in it the best vehicle for the providing of political and The political and military situation in Viet Nam it no more mixed up than the traffic, Bill Mauldin report! in thit sketch from Saigon. During the recent itruggle for power in the government dubbed by Mauldin the "convertible coup" the normal Vietnamese traffic wat further congested by tanks in the streets. "I never saw so many tanks all American-built, by the ay and new," Mauldin reports. As for the traffic, he By Susan Smithberger BEWARE MEN! After Friday's performance of Coed Follies every coed on campus knows what she wants out of life, and es pecially her man. and how to catch him. This year's Follies ranks among the best ever given. Whether it was Vicki Dow ling's fine job of organizing and moving the show, or whether it was each group that turned in an extraor dinary performance, A.W.S. must be congratulated. The Chi Omegas again turned in the most outstand ing performance. They had good music, kept the act lively all the way through and had beautiful scenery. Their Egyptian dancers' costumes especially at tracted attention. They de served the victory they re ceived. The Delta Gammas, placed second, turned in the best performance this writer has ever seen this particular house do. They gave an amusing, though not too original, look at the United States through the PODUNK? 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Miss Dowling. as a high AWS official, does have a problem that problem which always besets these enterprizes launched p r i marily for the entertain ment of the "entertainers," that they are justified as money making projects and consequently must make money! So. our young players will have to PAY io giggle, etc. out front. If the AWS really needs money, why don't they give MVJUClrO eyes of an outsider. The scenery was colorful, and again the songs were lively. Third place Kappa Alpha Theta, too, showed good costuming. The pink bears were especially novel. The Thetas omitted the punch ending which seemed to be a part of every other act and what a relief it was! The Alpha Phi's gave their usual feminine act but this time omitted the fem inity in their voices, a fac tor which may have cost them a place in the win ning three. It's hard for this writer, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, to evaluate that house's performance. I tend to be either too lenient or too harsh, so I will say only that I enjoyed it very much and was very proud of the performance they gave. The Gamma Phi Beta's gave a lively, cute show, Lincoln's Finest HAI INN 1011 2nd Street West Lincoln presents SPECIAL BALI HAI'S $2.00 STEAK See Our SALAD BAR Your Favorite beverages Piano Music PHONE 435-9818 after 4 P.M. up this business of creating genial and propitious at mospheres, and levy a tax? They certainly have enough power. Or better yet, let AWS languish with out funds, thus forcing them to suspend "judiciary proc esses." But the girls won't hear of such a thing. They'd rather put up with AWS and keep the rite of spring, the Coed Follies, that launch ing of a new season's cam paign. "In the spring a young man's fancv IS MADE TO TURN TO THOUGHTS . . ." Mark Beech And More Beech Dear editor, The Interfraternity Coun cil (IFC) resolution "ac cepting" the new constitu tion (which isn't even com p 1 e t e d yet. nor legally adopted!) is a ridiculous and telling redundancy. The IFC has no business pre tending to consider docu ments, which, if passed in the spring election, shall become the proper will of the majority. I recognize any group's right to support or oppose, to campaign for and against any proposal; but for a describes it as "anarchy at best and truly wild." From the sketch, it is apparent that the gunners really couldn't decide in which direction to point their guns as their commanders were proclaimed first rebels, then switched their command back to the government without firing a shot. Mauldin found these tanks "eyeball to eyeball and bump ing each other with their gun muzzles not with intent to kill but because the tanks are big and the streets are small.' which was enjoyed by the whole audience. Having a special feeling about "Oliver" perform ances, I cannot help but congratulate M a r y Ann Griffins on an excellent showing. One had a hard time not visualizing the ac t u a 1 characters on the stage. It was a pleasure to view a group from the Omaha School of Nursing. They gave a fine performance, one which the school can be proud of. LOOK WHAT'S NEW ri 330 NORTH 13 i featuring BREAKFAST I HAMBURGERS FRENCH FRIES SOUPS SALADS PIES SHAKES YUMMYBURGER r And Many Other Sandwiches I SERVING HOURS: . 7 AM Soturdoy 7 330 NORTH 13 group to accept or reject on its own the mainstream of advance through govern ment, is spoil-sport, reac tionary and anarchic. But this isn't really what IFC wants to do. They are desperately interested in de fining their relations with the pending new student government, before the government has a chance to do this for itself thus the premature resolution with accompanying state ments toward establishing the presumption that "su preme" means ONLY re view of constituencies, and does not extend to activities or individual fraternities. But they have missed the point again. IFC fraternities and IFC activities are all components of the complete University, as a group and SINGLY. The new student government shall derive from all students, and shall exercise jurisdiction over the whole University per forming those functions de sired by the majority. I hope and urge that this IFC action, or any similiar, is not allowed to set a re striction or precedence or obligation over our evolving student government. Mark Beech CORKers A cosmetics manufacturer asserts that American women use enough lipstick each year to paint 40,000 barns bright red. a It would take 20,000 pounds of pressure to flatten a regula tion football to the point where it exploded. The average raindrop con tains about 6,000,000,000,000,. 000,000,000 atoms. a In England there is a "So ciety to Discourage the Use of Swear Words Among Parrots." to 4 PM AM to 1 PM u f ,.. ....vv-;.;-""''4 '" '