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flUflHHMHHflflfllflfll ISdl Marilyn Hoegemeyer, editor Mike Jeffrey, business manager Page 2 Friday, October 1, 1965 Voters' Decision Approximately 84.700 signatures on the referendum petition insures that Nebraskans will have a chance to vote on the controversial income tax issue on the 1966 ballot. Undoubtedly LB797 will be defeated. No one but the tax-burdened property holders will consider voting for the measure. The earlier announcement this week that the AFL-CIO would be against the measure adds to its probable defeat. It would seem that the labor unions would favor an income tax. The other alternative is the sales tax which would seem to be the worse of the two alternatives for AFL-CIO members. It is obvious, and has been for some time, that the state can no longer be financed by the property tax alone. LB797 provides a partial answer to the future money needs of the University and the state as a whole. Its defeat would mean a cut or at least a stationary budget for the University as well as for the state. The result will be a University and a state that can not grow. The University should not be put in such a position, nor should Nebraska. It will be a significant decision in 1966 for the voters of the state. 'Welcome' Letters Students have grown accustomed to inconveniences and administrative mistakes caused in part by our large number mistakes in registration that often cancel gradua tion plans, lack of adequate seating for the football games. But to receive notification that you have been drafted because the University has not sent your enrollment card to the selective service board can not be forgiven. Several students fully enrolled at the University are in this unfortunate situation, and for them it is certainly no small error. It would seem that the early August pre-registration date would allow time enough for the Registrar's office to review the draft information forms and send them to the selective service board before students arrive on cam pus. This is apparently not the case. An administrative ex cuse Offered Thursdav was that thpv havp nnr vot mm. piled a list of student? enrolled, but hope to have the forms sent to the selective service board by the end of the week. A check with a deputy state director of the selective service office indicates that the forms were sent by Uni versity officials but the information was inadequate. The number of hours for which the student was enrolled was excluded from the necessary information. The cards are being adjusted by administration. Mean while students are receiving the "welcome" letter from the President. Officials have promised that the forms will be in the hands of the selective service board by October 15. This date is no help for the students who have received papers asking that they report October 28. It is obvious that the problem is not as difficult for those from smaller communities where the draft boards are aware, in many cases, who the University students from their area are. In the metropolitan areas, an individual, a name be comes nothing more than a number. And who would be lieve that a number really is a student at the University of Nebraska? Selective service officials have said it is the responsi bility of each man to prove that he should be deferred from immediate duty. Every student involved will no doubt use every ef fort to prove that he is indeed a student at the Uni versity of Nebraska. But it was an administrative error. The forms were simply not sent in time. Those involved have everv right to be furious. The situation should not have occurred We trust that every effort will be made through the registrar's office to see that every draft notice made be cause of the error will be retracted. Marilyn Hoegemeyer f Rf f R (Vf' 1 InU1 sri '" Saturday Night Starting At 9 P.M. j Poison Ivy The real reason I'm writ ing this column is in the hope of getting some just reward like a letter per haps. I mean, really, when I was a freshman in t h e dorm I didn't mind too much not getting any let ters, after all my roomie didn't get any letters either. We just shrugged it off to having illiterate friends. Oh, sure, once in awhile my roomie would get a bro chure from the WAVES and I'd occasionally get a pam phlet from the Army (need less, to say this was quite a blow to my ego), but they didn't take the place of a real letter. I'd sure fake a lot. though I'd read it in tently, carefully hiding the soldier's picture on the front, and lau' at the con tents (I always laugh at that which I don't under stand. I've found this es pecially helpful when I have a prof who tells jokes. In fact. I find myself laughing quite a bit in class. ) But, nevertheless, I'd trot down to the mailbox daily and find nothing. I knew be forehand that it would be empty, but it had gotten to be one of those terrible habits like getting up in the morning and not stepping on cracks. If anyone was standing near my empty mailbox. I'd muster a smile and say, "My roomie must have already gotten our mail." Of course, my roomie used the same line when she went to the mail box. This worked out quite well, until one day we showed up at the mailbox at the same time the se cret was out and our repu tations were shot. Everywhere we went, and we only traveled together, now. there were cliques laughing, pointing, heckling us. This taste system had its advantages, of course. I lost weight because I could no longer run into the ('rib for a Coke. Finally, the proper au thorities received word of our wanton misuse of the mailbox and gave us warn ing that unless we received some mail soon our mail DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOREIGN SERVICE careers Mr. Abram E. Manell, Foreign Service Officer will be on campus October 5 to discuss career opportunities. A film, "The Unending Struggle," depicting the work of the Service, will be shown. See your Placement Advisor. HARAAOMV box would be given to some one who had a boyfriend overseas or an overzealous mother. In a frantic attempt to save ourselve?. my roomie and I tore out coupons, ripped off box tops and sent for every free sample in sight. But to no avail even the great American econom ic system failed us. We were truly mailless. Glumly, I went over to Student Health to have the combination "36 left, 32 right, 36 left." removed that I had had tatooed counter clockwise around my navel. In a desperate suicide attempt my roomie ate some dorm food. For the remainder of the year I kept myself busy dodging the carrier pigeons that were forever trying to drop sundry trivia on my head (no, Clyde, Sundry trivia is not a nice way of saying what you are think ing). Yes, even admini had failed us and had resorted to carrier pigeons to send us our downs, campus no tices, etc. Today, I am desperately trying to pick up the pieces of my shattered life (and also still dusting the pigeon feathers off my clothes.) but momentarily I have solved my problem. I joined a record club. No longer do I have to look into an empty pigeon hole (with my deepest apol ogies to the pigeons). Monthly I get a colorful catalogue in a plain brown package, a record, and a threatening letter from the record club for nonpayment. p.b. Speakers Ban Overruled Columbus. Ohio (CPS) After months of protests and debate, the Board of Trustees of Ohio State University have altered their controversial speakers ban ruling. Under the change in the ruling, all recognized OSU organizations will be able to invite the speakers they want to campus as long as their faculty adviser approves. This means administrative approval of controversial .speakers will no longer be necessary. The nine-member Board of Turstees approved the change in the 14-year-old ruling by a four to three vote. Two members of the board were absent. A new member of the board voted in favor of the change. Phase IV By Roger A. Elm The Nebraska Union Talks and Topics Committee, un der the enlightened leader ship of chairman Liz Ait ken, has promised to bring to the campus a number of interesting and vital speak ers. Another project the committee has suggested is the beginning of a 'Hyde Park' forum, to be held in the lounge of the nion. The idea behind a 'Hyde Park' forum is to make possible a sounding board for student and faculty opinion. The original Hyde Park is a small park in the middle of London, Eng land, where for centuries, speakers, talking on any topic that concerns them, have been able to publicly air their views without fear of slander charges. The basis of any open forum is ideas and people to present them. The only other thing that must be present is the lack of any Adminis tration censorship of sub jects or speakers, but cen sorship in the form of stu dent rebuttals is a necessary and desirable thing that w ill make this open discus lion a useful intellectual ex- j perience. The slate of speakers sug gested by the committee certainly are a departure from the sometimes dull, usually bland variety that have been presented in the past. Herbert Aptheker is t h e leading theorist of the American Communist Party and on the staff of the Center for Marxist Studies in New York. Now Is Not The Time Dear Madam: I wonder just how many students have thoughtfully evaluated the question of homecoming displays. The Innocents Society made the first move in discouraging the tradition by no longer offering the awards cus tomarily given for the best displays. The Innocents have shown their disapprov al and being a respected group on campus, I dare say have influenced others. Next, the living units voted to determine whether they wanted to build as in the past, not to build, or to sup port a new idea. ". . . al most all women's living units indicated that they de sired to build . . " but ". . 15 of the 27 men's living units said they neith er wanted to build nor to consider another plan." Of course this is only approxi mately two thirds of the living units; why should that carry any weight? The annual Homecoming displays are the only real public relations we have with the Lincoln community and the rest of the Nebras ka public. Consequently, we are not just participat ing for selfish reasons but for the good of the s t a t e. Nebraska, you've heard so often since Sports Illus trated got hold of us, has finally been "put on t h e map," and this is good for the public; it raises morale along with spirit, while Fulton Lewis. Jr.. Is well known to most all of us, and is a noted news commenta tor. Paul Goodman, a radical democratic socialist, is on the staff of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washing ton, D.C. He opposes the war in Viet Nam and stood in favor of the students in the Berkley demonstrations. Governor George Wallace needs little or no introduc tion. He is the present Gov ernor of Alabama and is a vocal segregationist. Victor Reisel is a crusad ing labor columnist who was blinded by acid thrown by union hoodlums. Mario Savio was the most publicized leader of the Free Speech Movement on the Berkley campus last year. Swingllne 11 Divide 30 by 2 and add 10. What it the answer? (Aniwttt below) 2 You have a TOT Stapler that staples eight 10-page report or tacki 31 memo! to a bulletin board. How old it the owner of this TOT Stapler? Thiiisthe Swingllne Tot Stapler (including 1000 .t.plei) Lari.r ii CUD De k Stapler only $1,49 No hig,.r th.n a park of ,um-but pack! Hi. punch of a big deal! Refill. availabl v.fywh.,.. Unconditionally u.r.nte.d. INC. Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 oo ucn no uian iootiM ll'tpu.q aM) t,l '3u,d piie .ooq -aiou 01 ,N jX.m ,u, Xq , p.q lou .1 qilqM-,,- j.ideig mi A.q no.., ... moVE ., BWn1o! WJMk mm increasing a healthy patrio tism for the state. This is not exactly the ideal year to let up on traditional spirit, nor, for that matter, to tam per with it at all. How much time do those ball players spend working for you? This is just going to be another thorn in the side of a state who is losing all her young people. The problem is partly that Kosmet Klub falls en tirely to close to Homecom ing. True, but if the "no" voting men's living units would re-adjust their think ing they would certainly sea that manpower has in creased and if everyone would do his part the KK crutch would crumble (KK could select a better date in the future, incidentally). And the money! Homecom ing displays are just for fun, yes, but it's for the alums and the rest of Ne braska. God love 'em; we need 'em. How in the heck much do you suppose it costs to maintain a foot ball team (the root of all this evil anyway)? Today we are constantly hearing publicity to push "Nebras kaland" and yet we are trying to destroy the small part we do as the largest body in Nebraska. Can you think of a more spirited, well-directed, and friendly way of tying a bond between Nebraska and its largest in stitution of learning? 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