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As
far as we are concerned, spring
sprang
officially yesterday.
weather finally arrived, convertibles sud
denly appeared out of nowhere and the
last of the snow melted, revealing count
less thousands of cigaret land cigar)
butts
Spring, in the past, has sprouted an
occasional blade of grass, motley robins
and a few less whimsical wonders.
One of them being the yearly battle
to amend the Student Council constitution.
This year has been a bit different, with
two entire semesters devoted to just
that, and. in our more sentimental mo
ments, we find ourselves missing the last
minute intrigue, lunch line petitions and
that inevitable technicality on which the
changes were overruled. Yes, times are
changing.
Or take the annual Greek Week re
sentment. Two years ago it was the styl
ish thing to do, sneak over to the Union
at 4 a.m. and extinguish the eternal
torch. Boo and hiss the pre-game prac
tices. We don't see much of that anymore
and this part we don't miss. The fact
that the torch is no longer displayed in
front of the Union has some bearing on
this; the fact that the man-in-the-class-room
is finally showing a little tolerance
and maturity has much more bearing on
this. This year, as far as we know. Greek
Week was quite successful, both in terms
of itself and in terms of its integration
into the rest of the campus. Yes, times
are really changing.
And then comes the election. Yes. we
are modernizing here, too. First the new
constitution and second the tentative de
cision to do away with organizational
slates have combined to lessen the effects
of the Split in pre-'campaign jockeying.
Efforts on several fronts to organize co
alition parties are drawing support, and
we see this as a furthering of a healthy
trend on this campus : a trend towards
maturity, tolerance and intellectual and
social liberalism.
This year has been marked by sev
eral unusual events (unusual, at least, to
our context as students). The discount cri
sis, the civil rights agitation and current
ly ths tuition rage have served to create
thought where once none flourished, dis
cussion where none penetrated.
We have talked before of a renais
sance. There is little doubt in our minds
that our campus world is undergoing a
very definite and (we think) positive
COIUlers
President Johnson has
said that this country leads
the world in science and
technology. It's true, too.
An American inventor has
finally perfected an electric
sheriff prod.
Anthropologist Hortense
Powdermaker of Queens
College reports that three
fourths of North Khodesian
native boys and half of the
girls, when asked what they
would prefer to be if they
could have non-human life,
replied that they'd like to
be birds.
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change. We predict that, in the next few
years, our University's financial dilemma
will be solved, that student government
wi1! make still further changes towards
modernization, that the Greek system will
retain its internal benefits without so
much of the above mentioned resentment,
that the Innocents and Mortar Boards
will gradually lose their campus political
connotations and become honorary, just
as they were intended to be.
Again we urge all students onward
towards new mental exploration, exper
iences and discussions. Many fear that
the world is passing Nebraska by. If so,
it is only because its people especially
its students are too lazy to visualize
our renaissance.
CREDIT HOURS FOR MEMBERS of
the student body government was sug
gested yesterday by a spokesman for the
council associates. Wrhile we (as a form
er member of the program) know there
is much good in the associates program,
we think that someone should explain to
these people the utter ridiculousness of
the program before they waste too much
time on it.
Credit hours should not be handed out
indiscriminately without faculty supervi
sion, because this would give everyone
the same recognition for merely holding
a seat on the student Senate. This would
obscure the real purpose, which, like it
or not, is service to the student body.
If some differentiation is to be made
according to services rendered, a faculty
member must evaluate the work of each
senator, which would eventually make the
Senate a model laboratory in parliamen
tary procedure nothing more.
TWO MEMBERS of the faculty and
administration have recently asked for
permission to make "off the record"
statements at Student Council meetings.
Iortunately, both of these statements turned
out to be out of context with the discus
' sion in question, and hence were not print
ed. There are exceptions to every rule, but
Jew to this one. When something is said
to the Student Council, it is said to all
the students. We request that anyone wish
ing to discuss this policy contact us.
WRITE TO YOUR senators, your par
ents and the governor. We assume that
the prevailing attitude is "let George do
it."-Well, friend, we have a clue for you
"George" is saying the same thing.
This means you.
FRANK PARTSCH
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Prophet On Campus
Dear editor:
A prophet on the NU
carvr-s? Saying that man
kind nss the potential !o
change the course of his
tory by taking responsibility
for his own acts? This was
Joseph Mathews of Chi
cago, roaring put the heady
doctrine that man can grasp
history and bend it in the
direction he desires. Man,
he said, can change the
drama that is mankind.
Six hundred students, fac
ulty members, clergymen
and citizens may have heard
this sometime-swearing
Methodis., in his angry
way. stepping hard on the
traditioal Christian toes of
his audience.
DID he speak with wis
dom, or with truth, as we
attempt to know it? If the
basic questions he aroused
continue to be analyzed by
the minds of 600 people,
will "truth" evolve?
To this listener, Mathews
said: (1) The concept of
God is not dead, but the
framework in which humans
traditionally view him is;
(2) Every human "has ar
rived in history'" at the mo
ment of birth and thereby
becomes responsible for his
acts as a human; (3) The
"victim image" inherited
from Victorian times, of
helpless man ruled by a
morally neutral environ
ment and fate was out
moded byarevolution
which is 300 years old; (4)
The meaning of life in the
20th Century is that hu-
Borrowing
Dear editor.
Mr. Zuehlsdorf t Mar.
29th) isn't the only one who
has had trouble with "bor
rowing". 1 have come to the
conclusion that the Union
south corridor is the head
quarters for a gang of
thieves. On two consecutive
Thursday noons (Mar. 18 &
25) 1 had books taken from
the rack above the coat
hooks.
The first time, I notified
all the bookstores immedi
ately and located my book
in one of them. It had been
sold the same afteroon.
The clerks were all very
helpful and I wish to thank
them. Some of their com
ments included "It's been a
bad year for that"; "Don't
leave your books any
where"; and "You should
have your books well
marked."
However, if It has been
such a bad year, why
hasn't something been done
about it? 1 did have my
books well marked and for
a week I kept them with me
constantly. Have you ever
tried to balance ten pounds
of books vs. one pound, or
less, of food through the
lunch line? Then Thursday
I slipped and lost another
one. This time it hasn't
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$3.00 $2.50 $1.50
mans have been, and are
being, thrust into history,
without any choice, and that
humans must decide what
they are going to do about
this. This is like a choice
between killing a tiger or
being eaten by it.
Mathews said we have a
choice when we arrive at
the crucial moment of our
lives. WTe can choose to ac
cept all of life as good,
knowing that we are com
pletely approved by God,
or we can accept all of life
as bad, and thus build a
shield of illusions to blind us
to the fact we have not ac
cepted the human responsi
bility of the 20th Century.
Mathews charged that the
"present-day slobs" who
can't manage their own
lives are willing and happy
to louse up the lives of ev
eryone else and pull others
down to a common level of
slobbism. Mathews bellowed
that not making a decision
about Selma, was in fact
making a decision about
Selma, and that those who
seek to ooze through life,
seeking about all else ac
ceptance, security and hap
piness, are natural-born
slobs.
Has or will anything
change? Has Mathews,
thrusting himself upon the
history of NU for three
days, changed history and
proved his own point? Will
his ideas continue to be dis
cussed? Tune in tomorrow.
Marv McNeff
Trouble
shown up in the bookstores.
Like Mr. Zuelsdorf's book
it contained valuable (to
me) notes and corrections
penciled in. As a conse
quence. I would like to have
it back; it was Physical
.Chemistry by Moore. I'll
even trade for it. I w a s
forced to buy another due
to assignments but this just
isn't the same and 1 would
like to have the original
back.
You'll say I should have
known better after the first
time. That's true, but that
wasn't the way I was
raised and 1 have always
trusted people. "Well, I know
better now!
I hope to warn others so
they might avoid the same
experience, if they care.
Keep your books with you.
Don't let the south hall thief
profit at your expense.
Judv Vitamvax
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Dear editor.
The current trend of the
so called intellectuals and
educators on our nation's
campuses advocating with
drawal from Viet Nam
greatly distresses me.
They seem to forget all
loo easily what happened
the last time we were so
free to hand a defenseless
peoples to a greedy tyrant.
The noble affair was -called
the Munich Agreement and
it climaxed in a world war.
Can they ignore the time
proven truth that commu
nism has never been satis
fied? Upon our withdrawal
f inally
Dear Editor,
Finally I have learned
something, and 1 must share
it with the rest of the Uni
versity. It seems that as a
freshman. I discovered one
single disgusting fact about
the University, those damn
wiggley drinking fountains
in Love Library.
I didn't mind being wet
behind the ears, but it was
infuriating to have a wet
nose and face every time 1
got t h i r s t y. Finally as a
senior, I have learned
enough about the hydraulics
of that fountain to maximize
drinking efficiency.
Almost four years of prac
tice has enabled me to lim
it the face washing "to only
a few drops on the nose
and chin. It's a simple mat
ter of holding one's mouth
open wide enough a n d
close enough to the foun
tain. By this method the
splash in undesirable areas
This Student Wants
Dear Editor.
In the Monday Daily Tve
braskan you said in your
editorial regarding student
action in opposition of the
proposed tuition hike that
everyone KNOWS what the
students want.
I also hear disturbing re
ports of a petition with 10,-
000 signatures and a mass
march to the capitol to pro
test the raise in the tuition.
1 am of the opinion that not
everyone KNOWS what the
students want, and I would
like to make sure that every
one knows what THIS stu
dent wants.
Most of the students rea
lize that, at this institution,
a quality education is theirs
for the asking. Most stu
dents reaize the $102 per
semester doesn't begin to
cover the cost of that good
education.
Most of the students rea
lize that the greatest share
of the bill is handled by the
taxpayers of this state. Most
of the students realize that
the facilities of this institu
tion of higher learning are
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it would only be a matter
of time before all of South
east Asia fell to their greed.
They are so free with
their 'help to the Negro to
win for him his God-given
rights and freedoms.
Doesn't t h e Vietnamese
have the right to similar
freedoms?
Prime Minister Chamber
lain told the British people
"Peace In Our Time" upon
his return from Munich. I
am more concerned with
peace in our children's
time.
John P. Butler
Learned
can be minimized.
Although this-progresses,
I think you can see the solu
tion is 'still somewhat un
satisfactory. Consequently, I
have decided what I am go
ing to do upon graduation.
Being an engineering stu
dent, I think I will get my
masters here at Nebraska.
My small contribution to the
improvement of this cam
pus will be doing my thesis
on the hydraulics of that
fountain.
I just know that with a
little bit of good engineering
data and analysis the prob
lem of Love's drinking foun
tain can be solved. This
little problem solved, the
University will be the per
fect University, as described
by Rev. Joseph Mathews.
'just think what a great
role the engineering disci
pline plays in a University
realizing its true identity.
Larry Coleman
worth more than the
$102
that we are paying.
Well, the gift horse has
finally balked. But, before
we shoot it right out from
under us, perhaps we ought
to consider our own obliga
tions to our own educations.
One look around the cam
pus, at the number of cars,
at the Hondas, at the stu
dents who can find three
bills for the Mancini con
cert (such as it was) at the
students who brave rain and
cold weather to participate
in the Greek games, would
convince me that the stu
dents of this University are
in position to assume a lit
tle more responsibility for
their own educations.
That $102 doesnt account
for much of the total cost,
and this state and the tax
payers therein don't owe us
an education. It's high time
that the mature and respon
sible young adults, who hap
pen also to be students at
the University, start accept
ing a little larger portion of
their educational costs.
Edward Jackson
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