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.........imiiiMHlllllllllllllllll I"""!""" mill!! Illlllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIHIII I lllliminnmiiiiiiHiMiiiiMH am pus wpiniwii frank Partsch, editor Mike Jeffrey, business manager Page 2 Thursday, May 13, 1965 aiiifititiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiEiiiKitMiiiiiiiiiiMiuiiitiiiiiii uii;:;iiiitttMrTiiiiiiiiitii'fiiiiiJMititiiJiiiiini.iiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiriiMiiiiMiftiiifiiUiiiTiiti:iiriiiiiiiiiiiiifiiitiJ from the student body. Of course, the promise of a new form of government undoubtedly encouraged many candidates, but in order to trust the constitution, we must have trusted the people who organ ized and wrote it. The Daily Nebraskan at this time expresses sincere appreciation to the members of Student Council and the Constitutional Convention for their service to the students. Not Forgotten As Student Council fades into the im mediate distance and into and out of the memories those remarkly short-lived in stitutionsof the student body, we are sorry to see the passing of a leader that most students consider head and shoul ders above the rest of us. The work and contributions, the constant fairness and honor, the humor and humanity of John Lydick are well known to his associates at this point, and we would only serve to labor an obvious point if we repeated them here. We honored him last semester as Outstanding Nebraskan; he is an outstand ing student of the University, both in terms of his service to this year's student body as president of Student Council and in terms of his service to thousands of students in the years to come as presi dent of the constitutional convention. Our early fear that the name of John Lydick would be lost in the transient society of this University was relieved yesterday with the creation of the John E. Lydick Award, to be presented to superior Stu dent Senate members each year for years to come. For John Lydick is not a name that should be easily forgotten by the students of this University. "In a general honest thought and common good to all," John did what he did out of his great dream for student government and the welfare and participation of the students of the future. Personally and editorially, we thank John Lydick for being there when we, the students, needed him. To The Last Man Although most of the critics of Stu dent Council postponed comment on this year's government to wait until the new constitution went into effect, the work of John Lydick and a suburb executive council helped to make this last year one of the best years ever known under the old system. Laboring under a constitu tion that must have surely been written before the fall of the Alamo, this year's group expanded the discount card pro gram to be a working benefit, extended some financial aid to foreign students, continued the Council probe into discrim ination on campus and served as a lead ing and unifying element in the recent tuition-raise uproar. These and others are projects well done projects and could not have been done without good leadership and a good Council almost to the last man. Interest in student government is growing, too. As Lyds"k mentioned at yes terday's meeting, 26 per cent of the stu dents voted in last week's election, com pared with 19 percent one year ago. Eighty eight candidates filed for student offices, compared with 36 one year ago. A weak, ineffective Student Council simply does not draw enthusiasm of that magnitude What Is It? "Student leadership" is a cliche flung around to such extent that we hardly know what definition to tack onto it. It is very difficult for any student to compare leaders from year to year, because each individual's outlook on the men around him and leading him changes so much between each academic year that he can-' not fairly compare student leaders. After three years of wrestling with the cliche, we have evolved the following de finition for "student leader." "A student leader, first of all. must be academically sound and probably car ries a grade average that is well above the all-University average. For he re alizes that his real reason for attending the University is to educate himself. "It is the realization of the necessity of self-education that in reality prompts him to take on 'leadership.' Becoming aware of the issues or problems on cam pus, he conceptualizes himself working for the solution. "With thoughts of eventual honor aside, he works with high effort with a du al purpose: helping his fellow students and educating himself." This, we think, is a student leader. It applies to several stu dents on this campus today. Disappointed Additional news on the governor's dis appointment: Lancaster County Republi can Chairman Jesse Poison said "Univer sity students are apparently more im pressed with political leadership than po litical speeches." An editorial in the Lincoln Journal said "Students who do not look beyond their classes to the great opportunities offered by speakers who come to campus are not making the most of their educa tion." And 3,500 students turned out to hear U.S. Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas speak yesterday. We do not think the governor's dis appointment a worthy subject for emerg ing this newspaper in a partisan battle. To Poison, we would say that we doubt if a personal boycott of Morrison was in volved, in spite of the fact that the dif ference between 60 and 3,500 is notice able. To the Journal, we say that 3,500 students heard Douglas when classes were called off. We still consider it our first duty to attend classes when we have them. FRANK PARTSCH ...jiiiiiiiiu.Lwpuiiiiiiii....ijiiiiiii''ii"umui Mtn. oriimTTnTTTrrT n " m "SmVii wvZmjr- mu 01944-1945 MauWn j 'Why the hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman?" The Daily Nebraskan VP. MABKHAM,, matwrlnc aHltari nVUAS Rf'TTKK, nrwi adilori Hon AMi nniV mrta MIiIoti l.YHH (llRriiBA, nl(tt nrm 4Jtnri rUWII, l. MI.'I.MNH, tralnr aialf mriirrt OTTVK JOEDAN, KK.ITM rN(, RICH MKIKH, WftVNK KKPI'W HK, Junior ala'1 writer. I JAMfft VV.KUHK, apart wnMirtl POM.T HIirNAi rnt, CAROM! W.HU, JIM KOKXHOJ, mw MlUorm HOW RYNf.AHHON, MIHZ KIDMAN, VV.TV. tAOK. MJNVIF. RAMMH. fii'.N, u..r,. l.inli JIM KICK, aaharrlptlan mnrl LYNN RATH IWH, atroolatlaa Binari KIP HllttCIIHACH, kataraplr. PkMW friMU, Etiwlma JWd, Itm iiu) wm. ftubarrlMlon raw ?3 ar aanutalar or Vi ft rear. Bntrnd nond rlaan mutter it (ha aoat offlet In Lincoln, Nabrailia, Wr Urn art irf Auauat 4. 1912. Tha ftailr Nabraaliao la tiuhllalwd at Boom tl, Nahraak llnloa, mi Monday, Wdnw1r, Thuradar ml Frfclar darln tha aclml raar, nw.pt during vaca Urn and final mamMalUm partial, and onra during Auguat U la aubllnliMl by tlnlv.raUr nr Ni-liratka atialrnt ndr tha Kinadlntlna (K tha Pamiltr Kubrommlttxa mi ftita1i.nl l'ubllctWn. puhllmtlona ahull ha lr from mnanrahlp br tha HubrnrnmlilMi or any aorann mitaida tha lnlvar. ally. Memlxra of the Kabraalua aia rmwnalhl lor what than cauaa to ha ruttad. Dear editor, Our governor visited our campus last Monday to give an address on politics as a career. His audience num bered about 50 students. This upset the governor. He was shocked by such in difference. He called it "a dangerous apathy" and said that it was "a reflec tion on our University and our state " Well I, for one, agree with the governor that such apathy exists. Nonetheless, I don't find it shocking. I would be shocked if it were otherwise. For whether the governor knows it or not, this is not a political gen eration. It's a generation that has been unable to find a room at the political inn. I'll try to explain. Like every generation of students, this generation learned the meaning of pol itics at college. And who did they learn it from? Their professors? No, that's academic! Their student professors? No, that's aca demic! Their national, state and local political leaders? Yes, and that's a shame! For what did they learn? I'll give you a sample. 5iiiia-i in iitiiiuiiitiiiiMtititiiMiiiEiiiiiiiiiiiniitiiiii ii tiitirttiiiitiii tut ittrtf iiiiti f niiMiit iiiuiiiiiiifiittitiitf iirtirtitiiiiiiitutii Childish Tirade Dear Editor I found Gov. Morrison's tirade against University students last Monday to be a childish outburst on the part of a person who is sup posed to be a leader. I feel that while his re marks may have been ac curate, he could have with held a blanket judgment. Anyone who schedules a speaker for 10:30 on a Mon day morning should have their head examined. And anyone speaking at 10:30 on a Monday morning should be forewarned. Many of the students, if not most, who are Interested in poli tics have classes at that hour check the most com mon hour for history, politi cal science, economics and other social science courses. So, with most of the in terested students occupied in the mundane chore of receiving an education, it is no wonder so few showed up for the talk. Gov. Morrison is probab ly right, however, when he indicated that all students should be interested in poli tics. I would agree that all should take an interest in their government but I dis agree that the Governor of a state should deliver an im promptu "sermon" to a group who was obviously in terested. PJS BB Shot Down Dear BB. The past Innocents Soci ety was this year respon sible for: Ivy Day arrangements The Frosh Hop the Innocents Pro tege Program. Innocents alumni round up Homecoming arrange ments Parents' Day arrange ments preparation and presen tation of the Innocents Scholarship Activities tro phy sale of all freshman beanies new student week pre parations the Missouri Victory Bell exchange the Innocents Memorial Scholarship an alumni publication selection of new mem bers (requiring about two and a half months of meet ings.) Remember, BB, all past Innocents were leaders in their own right, responsible to their own living units and several other organizations. Remember, BB, the past Society was concerned with maintaining their 7.3 ac cumulative average. And remember, BB, we are an honorary, not an ac tivity. I hope this note of ex planation assuages your grief. Mike Barton mmm m iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiciiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'i" linn m Live And Let Cry: Politics Over three months ago, a politically-concerned s t u -dent organization sent a letter to our governor sin cerely urging him to ex press his concern over the lack of federal control in the voter registration pro cess in Marion and Selma, Ala., by communicating with the attorney general in Washington. That organ ization was honored with this reply: "Thank you for inform ing me of the activities of the University Friends of the Student Non-Violent Co ordinating Committee. I am sure you know that I feel quite strongly that no citi zen of the United States should be denied in any way the rights guranteed by our constitution." The trouble with the gov ernor's feelings was that, as sincere and benevolent as they may have been, they couldn't be felt in Alabama . or in Washington. The rest, of course, is history. Black Sunday in Selma has taken its place in the an nals of "man's inhumanity to man." Jimmie Lee Jack son, James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo have joined those who "gave the last full mea sure , of devotion" so that "this nation, under God (might) have a new birth of freedom." And our governor still, I'm sure, felt "quite strong ly that no citizen of the United States should be de nied in any way the rights guaranteed by our constitu tion." Of course, he didn't feel any need to do any more than feel it. He didn't find it necessary to say anyting or to do anything. But that's politics. You have to live and let die. Oh, I know that the moving of a 28-day-old Ne gro baby from its "white" grave upset the governor. It bothered him so much that he even said he was sor ry. He, of course, assured everyone that it was all done in good faith. That's politics, too. Live and let cry (and don't forget to as sure them that it won't hap pen again.) Well, governor, the stu dents aren't interested in politics. They've visited that house and found it wanting. And so they've gone else where. But that's the es sence of politics. "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind." John P. Murphy i WEAR IT WHERE I NEt IT LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS CORKers by Lynn Corcoran Welcome home w, vzinepro w loan vcm JUT A YOU Ltn II.'' ZALE'S Do you qualify for $1,200 y guarantee for a full-summer employment? Why not come and see me? Daylc E. Johnson Room 345 Union Thurufay, Moy 13th, 1965 Fred Carstens of Beatrice, speaking for the tuition in crease before the legislature, said "it's wrong for these young people to believe that we owe them an education." Of course the students won't owe the state anything either as we graduate and leave it will we Mr. Carstens. Ron Psota feels that the first Engineering Senate elections are valid and his opponent's charges hold no wa ter, even though his one vote victory was psota close. Looking behind the scenes of President Johnson's An tipoverty Program initial allocations, West Virginia, of the Appalachia area, received a much-publicized $423,811. Scarcely noted was the fact that booming, well-heeled Tex as received 19,776,483. 1 wonder why' j Colossal Coachman j j 7:30-11:30 X Air Conditioned i 1823 "0" St. j For the hvHt In PLACEMENT PHOTOS EDIIOLM & BLOH1GIUEN PnOTOGHAPHEXIS 318 So. 12 U88K