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Frank Partsch, editor Page 2 MiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiimmiHimim On Some thought he was a beatnik; he certainly would have been considered a non-conformist today, with his beard and sandals. Others thought he was a two-bit politician; his support among the lower classes was certainly strong. His followers considered him divine; many of those who are not numbered among his followers concede that h 1 s was the answer to the problems of hu manity. Journalists' accounts of his life and death vary; he is given credit for sage quotations and superhuman deeds. One correspondent for the world's best selling publication quoted him as bless ing the meek, the poor in spirit, the peacemakers. But he was not opposed to acts of violence when he deemed them neces- Review Nancy, Sluggo And Crew Leave Diaper Sandoe Cold Editor's note: Bowing to popular pressure, Mr. San doe has agreed to review a comic strip for the benefit of our readers. By DIAPER SANDOE After viewing yesterday's Nancy, one is left with a distinct sense of anticlimax and dissilusionment . . , even disappointment. For one thing, the title character doesn't even ap pear in the strip. One won ders whether this is to sug gest her defection from life as a misanthrop, or wheth er she actually is in the strip allegorically. As soon as one settles on the latter choice as a possi bility, (and surely we have to make one choice or the other for the strip is named Nancy) one begins to feel that the rectangular shapes in the background of the THIS IS THE SEASON WHEM ALL THE BIRDS R.V.... Jobs ire available on the French Riviera this summer JOBS IN EUEiO Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Paying: job In Europe art , available in such categoric as i 1 TWG 15 Y THE V I ZIP! JiLi resort, hotel, office, galea, farm, factory, camp and shipboard work. Wages are as high as $400 month and the American Stu dent Information Service in giv ing every applicant a $250 travel grant. Job and travel grant ap plications and compete details are available in a 30-page book Jet which students may obtain by tending $2 (for tht booklet and airmail postage) to Dept. L, A Si S, 22 Ave. de la Liberty Lux embourg City, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Mike Jeffrey, business manager Friday, April 16, 1965 This Day . . . third panel are not really boxes as they at first seem, but are symbolic of the Four Horsemen of Apolcalypse and, consequently, the four levels of the human mind. One wonders whether Mr. Bushrriller, the author and layout man of the strip, in tends to attempt the ex tended allegory in later strips, or drop it like a hot (one) potato. One finds himself suspect ing that Bushmiller will simply let the allegory slide into psychological oblivion, and we will never find the real reason he has elected for one strip and one strip only to show psychological insight into Nancy by repre senting her as a series of boxes in a men's shop. The protagonist of Thurs day's strip, a lowlife by the name of Sluggo, is seen in the first panel as walking oooooooooooooooooooooo By Bob Bosking "To examine, review, ex purgate or change." A per son whose task it is to ex amine literature . . . and to remove or prohibit anything considered unsuitable." Poor Candy. Laying on the bookshelves, minding her very own business. Then all of a sudden, "Good grief, it's Big Daddy!" The city fathers, who guard the city's morals by night ( by look ing for chalk marks on tires . . .) and by day (those good-lookin' meter maidens). The Lancaster County crew gets reports (?) that Candy is obscene (?) so they suggest (notice the bland word; not coerce, threaten, order) that the retail book shops in the center of sin remove with all immediate haste a 200-page book. Something has been re moved from our environs. By what right and on what grounds? I submit that the threat of prosecution was there, either implied or not published in the news story. Are people 21 years of age and older implicitly imma ture, and basically sen sual? That's what the re moval implies. Did whoever signed the suggestion read the book? Were they shown passages in the book? Who com plained to them? What was UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE LAST DAY 0 aW PAPERBACKS-HARDBOUNDS ADDED TITLES TODAY RE-INVENTORY SALE On The Sale Table, Supply Section Lower Level, Nebraska Union sary. He once reportedly led a raid on a den of thieves and ejected them bodily from one of the city's public buildings. His life was a good example for human judgement. But he was misunderstood by the in group, arrested, and subjected to a kan garoo court, after which he was tortured and executed with common criminals. It was in this, one of humanity's most shameful weekends, that humanity was given a reason for existing. His comrades deserted him during the trial, only to return after his tri umph. He returned to say, "My peace I give to you." But his comrades, his believers and his followers have never completely accepted and practiced his word. People are funny that way. FRANK PARTSCH along with a sheepish smile on his face. In the second panel he fixes his eyes here Bushmiller resorts to the archaic form of using dotted lines to show a stare on something inside a store. We are not told at this time what Sluggo, (the lowlife, sees). In the third panel you remember, the one with the Allegory Slug go Lowlife, still with that sheepish smile on his face, is shown shaving his head with an electric razor. Fun ny? Now I ask you! In retrospect, Thursday's Nancy was not funny, nor was the artwork as good as that of say, Prince Valiant. What's more, the sound track was TERRIBLE. Still, I urge you to read the strip, if for nothing other than the deep social meaning of Nancy being represented by a row of boxes. the wording of the complaint and of the suggestion to re move? C'mon, Nebraska Book Store, show me some hair: order five thousand copies of Candy, sell them for half price, give 'em away for purchases of ten cents or more. Let the damned coun ty prosecute; we'll pass the hat, hire E. G. Marshall and let him read "Areopagitica" to the jury. What one of the county censors knows who wrote that and what its about??? The Daily Nebraskan l.EE MARSHALL, manarlnt editors SCSAN Rt'TTER, nrwa Klltori BOB HAMI'FI.KON, tporU editor! LVMS CORCORAN, lrM HUM editor; PRISCILLA Mt'LLINK, rnor stuff wrtlfri STEVK JOR DAN, KFITH SIOR, RICH MKIKB, HAVNE KRKUSCHKR, Junior taff writer J AMI S PKAHMK, (porta lltnti POM.r RIIVNAI.nS, CAROLE RENO, JIM KOKMHOJ, cony editor! : MCOTT KVMTAKSON. ARNIE PETERSON, MIKE KIRKMAN, PETE MOB, CONNIE BASMIISSEN,, fctulnna UMlntinlm JIM KICK, inscription minaceri I.VNN RATH JEN, elrru. latinn manafer; Kid Hlrarbnarb. vaotscrapbar. Phone 477 S711, Exlenwona 2MS, 2SM and 25'K). Suhacrlption ratea S3 per merter or IS per year. II la publluhed by tlnivcralty ol Nebraaka atudenta under h jurla- diction of the Family Subcommittee im Student Publication, publica tion "hall be free from crruor hlp by the Subcommittee or any pernon outnide the Unlverolly. Mem ber! of the Ndbraikan are reapon Mble for what they caune to be printed. - 75 Dear Editor, The infesting thing about Mr. Hammond's letter In Wednesday's paper Is not its obvious BIrchist attack on the fundamental princi ples of American society, but the pathetic paranoia which pervades that attack. Because most intellegent and sensible people believe in democratic institutions, and therefore condemn the Birch society as a group devoted to fascist goals, people like Mr. Hammond Dear editor, The SANE people, who demonstrated Monday, made some monumental blunders when they said we should negotiate the South Viet Nam war, which is civ il in nature. It is not a civil war and we should not negotiate. It is a war of communism ver sus democracy. The com munists have formulated Dear editor, It is personally discoura ging to me and my fellow military men to view and hear the protestations of groups like SANE, particu larly when students, our fu ture leaders, are involved. Yet, in a way, it reinforces my pride in a system of government that permits the freedom of expression. Allen Gerlach makes sev eral assumptions that have no foundation in fact and those lying in the "gray ar ea" are slanted to acheve his viewpoint. First, the war is not a civil war, it is aggression in violation of an agreement of July 22, 1954 which par titioned Viet Nam at the 17th parallel. The North Vietnamese violated this agreement, in typical Com munist style, in an effort to subvert the existing gov ernment in South Viet Nam by force of arms. It is not a losing war, but a war made difficult by lack of a firm U.S. foreign pol icy and sniping on the homefront by organzations like SANE. If Mr. Gerlach could extricate himself from the cloistered serenity of his environment and talk with the peasants, he purports to understand, he would find apathy. They care not who governs them but that they Lots More Jello Dear editor. Thanks to Mr Booth for his Wednesday letter in the Daily Nebraskan, express ing exactly the situation and views of 4-5's (by ac tual count) of the students at my house. We are all undergrads AND veterans, completely self-supporing. To Mr. John Edgar Smith's question of the worth of $20 per semester MORE, I can only say that food at our house has cost $18-22 apiece each, monthly since September. Forty dol lars more looks like lots more Jello with maybe enough change for a couple of cheap mag wheels AFT ER graduation. .lames Delaney . P.S. Edit this if necessary. Sorry I couldn't affor a typewriter tuition, you know, OF Pathetic Paranoia and Mrs. Brown naturally assume that those who do not share their delusions are of the "enemy." All who disagree, from Ohife Justice Warren down to the poorest Negro child demonstrating for the right to be treated like a human being, are either active communists or the dupes of the so-called "communist conspiracy." They, on the other hand, are true patri ots, who "know both sides of every issue" and "make decisions based on know ledge, not emotion." Monumental Blunders this war in a part of a con tinuing effort to conquer the entire world. We should not negotiate this war because, in ad dition to the fact that every president since Elsenhower has pledged our support to the people there, the com munists cannot be trusted, Laos, for example had ne gotiated neutrality imposed upon it in 1954, yet within the last year, communist Pathet Lao troops attacked SANE 'Discouraging' be unmolested in their fight for a subsistence living. There is no preference for either government. Most objectionable to me is the term "pilot project war" used by Mr. Gerlach. It would seem from this phrase that we coontinue in Viet Nam merely for the purpose of testing equipment and procedures. A mo ment's contemplation of the obsolete equipment (B-26, A-1E, T-28, and F-100 air craft) and the limited mod ern weaponry employed, plus the more than 400 dad sons, brothers, and fathers would discount this ridicu lous notion. Many students have ex pressed to me a fear that this war and future United States involvements may lead to a nuclear holocaust. The possibility exists that Viet Nam may lead to the use of nuclear weapons if intervention by another gov ernment occurs. Stop and think; is your freedom your democratic society, worth risking your life for, or will you be a party to apathy and resistance to the poli cies of officials you elected. The latter can only lead to subjugation of the way of life you eujoy today. If demonstrate you must, demonstrate for a country that is aware of moral ob ligations to right the wrongs of its own country and still be willing to sacrifice mem bers of its military to see that others may live In lands -WATCH REPAIR- campus BOOKSTORE The"Modaca" Tropical Suit in our Authentic Traditional Model 53 Dacron to hold the meticulously tailored tradi tional shape of this light weight eult . . . 25 worsted and 22 mohair for rich good looks. This handsome breezewelght i called Modaca . . , in a wide range of Interesting new colors. A tailoring achievement of College Hall, naturally. 1? Vv jV,i.f3fc I Counter-invective Is use less in helping people over come delusional states. In stead, one must patiently call attention over and over again to the absense of any facts which would support the delusions, and their possible basis in the over whelming need many peo ple have for a cause which will give meaning and di rection to their lives a cause which will become a simple, uncluttered, violent religion in a complex, un certain and secular world. Frederick M. Link on the Plain of Jars to ex pand their hold there and make it more secure. If the U.S. allows the com munists to permit armed insurrection in Viet Nam, in fact, to transport profes sional soldiers there to in stigate armed insurrection, they, once successful, will do it somewhere else and somewhere else until the U.S. finds itself fighting an Americanized "Viet Cong." Donald Ziegeubein.. not blighted by totalitarian government. Flag waving is far more honorable than sign carrying. I'd be happy to continue this discussion with any stu dent or faculty member at any time. Roger O. Clemens Capt. 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