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Frank Partsch, Editor
Mike Jeffrey, business manager
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Our Policy:
With Student Body elections drawing near, we are
quite pleased to see the great number of qualified people
who have filed for election to the Student Senate and the
executive offices. We are also heartened to see the rudimen
tary formation of a political party system here at the Uni
versity, which we think could grow to supply the vehicle
from which officer candidates could draw support and from
which they could find a platform for their views. The
work of the party organizers is to be commended.
We have heard many questions to this point concern
ing the role of the Daily Nebraskan in the upcoming elec
tion. Today we will give a tentative outline of our election
plans, both to dispel some of the rumors about our sup
posed "kingmaking" and to acquaint all candidates and
interested voters about the value and duty of the paper
to publicize the election. .
In the past, the Daily Nebraskan supplied each can
didate with a questionaire concerning his platform. As the
questions were generally concerned with the definition of
student government, we feel that this system had little
purpose.
Wayne Kreuscher, our Student Council reporter, will
also cover the election. He has beun work on a series of
interviews with all Senate candidates, in which he hopes
to inform the voters enough about each candidate to help
them in making a good choice. In addition, we will accept
all press releases from parties, groups or individuals in
an attempt to give all candidates equal opportunity to
express themselves.
The editorial page will eventually come out in support
of a candidate for each of the executive offices and for
some of the Senate seats. We are open to columns support
ing any and all candidates again in the mood of equal
opportunity and will attempt to arrange as equitible
means of expression as possible under our space limita
tions. Perhaps this is a good point to interject that only
the editorial reflects the official policy of the paper, how
ever. We realize that, with the great number of candidates
who have filed for this election, this policy could possibly
run into difficulty, so we urge early and frequent visits
from those planning to present their views through the
paper, to assist us in making out a practical schedule.
Our new constitution has reached its first crisis that
of finding the best men to put it into operation. The Daily
Nebraskan approaches the election with enthusiasm and
urges all students and candidates to work for the best,
the cleanest, the most informed and the most mature
election in the history of this University.
A Case Of Beer
Overheard in the hall: "I'm riding home in a '64
Vette and a case of beer." Well, friend, our opinion of
you just dropped to the bottom. We don't mind your risk
ing your own life by speeding on unoccupied straightaways,
but when you so proudly speak of getting soused all the
way home, you are risking our lives as well.
We hope you are apprehended and that the book is
thrown at you with such force and effect that you will
never laugh about being a potential killer again.
FRANK PARTSCH
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Dear editor,
This letter is in reference
to an article which appeared
in the March 31 edition of
the Daily Nebraskan entitled
"Reds Will Bury America
Without Open Fighting."
Miss Langford, author of
the article, asserted her sup
port of the House Un-American
Activities Committee
(HUAC) on the grounds that
there is a real threat of
communist subversion in the
United States and that
HJAC performs an import
ant role in the control of
that subversion (the latter
point is not stated, but I
feel justified in assuming
that it is an important
premise.)
I do not here object to
these two propositions, ques
tionable as they may be, but,
rather, to the methods used
by the HUAC in carrying out
its purported task of inves
tigating subversive activi
ites and suggesting legisla
tion to keep those activities
in check.
The first of my objections
to HUAC centers around the
use of the power of sub
poena, whch it shares with
other Congressional commit
tees. HUAC may choose to
subpoena anyone, but, pre
sumably, they use their pow
er only when they have rea
son to believe that the per
son being subpoenaed is in
some way involved in an
'un-American activity;" it
is j u 8 1 this presumption
which causes problems.
Subpoena Becomes
Judgement
A subpoena to appear be
fore HUAC becomes a
judgement, or at least, a
charge, in the eyes of many
people, but it is neither of
these. The people called be
fore HUAC are only there to
be questioned; neither the
FBI nor HUAC is empow
ered to judge whether or not
the people in question are
guilty of participating in
subversive activities, but the
fact that a subpoena is ac
cepted by many as a convic
tion (would this University
Objections To HUAC
invite a subpoenaed speaker
to the campus when the
budget is before the Legis
lature?) is enough to make
HUAC a distributor of scar
let C's, which may detri
mentally affect the lives of
the wearers.
I also find objectionable
the fact that the people be
ing examined by the com
mittee are subjected to ques
tions without benefit of
cross-examination and are
allowed to make only those
statements which the com
mittee permits. The commit
tee is thus enabled to ask
leading questions (perhaps
unintentionally) which the
witness may not be allowed
to answer fully.
The mere fact that a com
mittee is able to ask a per
son a question concerning
his loyalty to his country in
a well publicized public
hearing and then deny that
person the right to answer
the question to his own sat
isfaction is a clear indica
tion that the powers of that
committee are in need of re
vision. Hearings Given Flair
The third objection that I
propose is that the hearings
of Congressional commit
tees are often given a dra
matic flair, in order to en
hance the political careers of
the members of the commit
tee. The Kefauver Commit
tee hearings on drugs are a
good example of how an im
portant governmental func
tion can degenerate into a
dramatic presentation.
HUAC's own dramatic
ability is attested to by the
film, Operation Abolition,
which was carefully edited
to heighten the dramatic ef
fect of the San Francisco
riots. The . accompanying
film, Operation Correction,
pointed out these attempts
at dramatization and the mis
leading Implications of Op
peration Abolition that the
riots were communist-led
and organized ( is a rare
person who leaves the film
without seeing these implications.
In the light of all the fly
ing goodies about the tui
tion raise, several students
have taken to retreating into
the world of fantasy the
ever present dream of the
completely free education.
1 devised my own plan
admittedly including many
weak spots for a four
year college education with
only minimal expense. You
do it this way: draw out
Listed
I am, of course, assuming
the validity of Operation
Correction, an assumption
which I consider justifiable
because of the fact that the
editors of Operation Correc
tion showed dates on t h e
scenes of Operation Aboli
tion; obviously, it would be
an unmistakeable lie if the
dates were not correct, and
the editors would have to be
unbelievably imprudent to
expose themselves to prose
cution in that way.
Operation Abolition was
shown o n 1 y as misleading,
which, of course, would not
expose its editors to prose
cution in that way.
Communist Dupes
The fact that the students
were shown as communist
dupes (people who unknow
ingly work for communist
goals) is only significant if
one assumes that all com
munist goals are bad. A
person who works for wom
en's rights might well be
shocked to learn that he is
a communist dupe.
In conclusion, it seems
that HUAC could accomplish
their purpose by relying on
the evidence gathered by the
FBI, rather than calling in
witnesses who are often un
cooperative ( a fact of which
HUAC must be aware, since
they call the same uncoou
erative witnesses time after
time.)
It is not the purpose uf
HUAC to discover plots
against the American gov
ernment, and it seems that
they might well leave this
pursuit to the agency to
which it has been entrusted,
the FBI. As far as deter
mining who is un-American
is concerned, HUAC might
well leave this task to the
Supreme Court, whose func
tion is the interpretation of
the constitution, and, who
therefore should be respon
sible for determining who
or what is un-American.
So, if HUAC is to continue
its activities, it should do so
only with sharply abridged
or completely abolished pow
ers of subpoena.
Ronald Paulson
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your schedule of courses
and then, by some sort of
clever ruse, become known
to each instructor to the
point that he thinks you are
a member of his class.
This eliminates tuition.
You take the tests, smuggle
them out of the classroom,
and grade them yourself.
You then calculate your
average, go to a prospective
employer and impress the
hell out of him with your
initiative. Sleep in the li
brary, take a shower in the
dorms,, eat there too, by
giving a random number to
the lunch line checker . . .
No, this plan has a lot of
drawbacks. Forget it.
I heard a better one a
month or so ago. You go to
CORKers
By Lynn Corcoran
Larry Drost of the Lin
coln Health Department sug
gests that NU girls could
do some leg work for the
clean-up drive. Pick the
ones that could use some,
Larry.
Quote of the week: "If
we didn't have any girls
around here everybody
would start acting like ani
mals" (John Valaika of
Cather). Sounds like you're
begging the question, John.
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the stereotyped rich kid
who wants the degree but
doesn't care about going to
class; you attend his classes
for him, collecting an exhor
bitant fee (paying your
living expenses.)
Then, after you have
taken your fill of courses
around the spectrum of de
partments, you retire to a
neighboring u n i v e r s i -ty,
where you apply for a
degree by examination, us
ing the knowledge you have
acquired from your profes
sion. (You pay for this out of
your earnings as a profes
sional student.) It assumes
that you are smart enough
to pass the rich kid's
courses. . .
Alternatives are a march
or a petition.
Ah, spring. ' I think I'll
call on Cosier and see if
he wants to get up a big
marshmallow roast . . .
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Fight For What?
Dear editor,
Lately, the Johnson ad
ministration has been firing
up trial balloons suggest
ting a commitment of land
forces in Viet Nam, equa
valent to a ratio of 10-12
American soldiers to one
Viet Cong guerilla, the
ideal being a ratio of 15-1.
This would mean a commit
ment of 1-1.5 million troops.
And for what? The pro
tection of a shakey, military
puppet regime which has
never had the support of
the people. Gen. Eisenhow
er stated "Had an election
been held at the time of the
fighting (1954) possibly 80
per cent of the population
would have voted for the
communist Ho Chi Minh."
fMandate for Change, p.
372.)
The war in Viet Nam is in
actuality a Civil War. Sup
port from the north for
the guerillas is minimal.
"North Vietnamese direc
tion and support of the Viet
Cong effort is not consid
ered more than 20 per cent
factor in the present guer
rilla advances" (New York
Times, Feb. 9, 1965).
American pilots are now
being given the chance to
bomb at random in North
Viet Nam. (Times, April 2,
1965). In other words, we
have abandoned the position
of a tit-for-tat retaliation
and are instead bombing at
random.
We scream about the
deaths of three "innocent
civilians" and yet we at
tempt to burn a huge sec
tion of South Vietnamese
forest (did we first evacu
ate all '"innocent civili
ans?") and we bomb North
Vietnamese villages to the
point of 90 per cent dis
truction (did we first evacu
ate all "innocent civil
ians?") We are supporting a re
gime which Walter Lippman
last April declared had "the
allegiance of probably no
more than 30 per cent of the
people." The regime is. in
fact, a "facade of civilian
government (Times, Jan. 7,
1965).
So we are not fighting to
preserve freedom and de
mocracy. Are we to gain a
strategic value from a con
tinental commitment? One
argument is that China
would benefit from the nice
production potential of the
area. Yet the experience of
the Chinese with agriculture
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strated their inability to
maintain agricultural pro
ductivity. Another strategic argu
ment is the so-called domin
ion theory. This theory
mountains that if South Viet
Nam falls, so will Thailand,
Malaysia, India, etc. Yet the
fallacy here is obvious.
Guerilla movements can
only exist with popular sup
port such as that enjoyed
by the Viet Cong. Thailand,
Malaysia, etc., have stable
governments which are sup
ported by the people. The
South Vietnamese govern
ment has never had such
support.
What, then, are we to do to
end the war which has in
flicted so much misery on
the Vietnamese people and
is taking such a steady toll
in American lives? One so
lution, advocated by a grow
ing number of U.S. Con
gressmen, is to seek a ne
gotiated neutralized settle
ment. If we negotiate now, we
may still be able to get a
neutral South Viet Nam. (If
we do not, we may become
involved in a larger war
with China.)
Senators Morse, Church,
McGovern find others be
lieve this sort of a settle
ment is possible. Five thou
sand intellectuals (including
many foreign policy ex
perts) who signed a petition
to the president last fall
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our only rational alternative
to further misery and pos
sible disaster.
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Robert Haws
Edward Cole
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