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Marilyn Hoegemeyer, editor
Mike Jeffrey, business manager
Monday, Nov. 1 , 1 965
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. Protests Cause
Greater Support
THERE HAS BEEN much discussion on campus
about the effect the conscientious objectors and draft-card
burners have had on the morale of our soldiers fighting
in Viet Nam. National leaders have revealed the fear that
anti-war demonstrations have hurt our image in South
east Asia and in the world.
Students here have pondered the same supposition.
Some have suggested that the members of the local chap
ter of Students for a Democratic Society be laughed off
the campus for their distribution of pamphlets outlining
the procedure to avoid the draft legally.
It seems the majority of University students believe
the government's policy in Viet Nam is acceptable, is the
right one or they believe that the policy set by our
elected leaders should be followed for that is the reason
we put them in office.
THE ECHOING VOICES of University students sup
porting the United State's role in the vicious, complex
war are welcome, are needed. The new surge of support
was demonstrated on several campuses where students
organized blood donation campaigns for the men in Viet
Nam.
There seem to be about four varying opinions about
support in Viet Nam. There are those who completely sup
port the U.S. policy and would gladly give their lives in
the fight.
There are those who verbally support the policy but
would rather someone else be chosen to "do the honor"
of protecting our nation and the world but they will fight
if they must.
A FAIRLY LARGE segment of the minority does not
support U.S. participation in the Asian war because they
do not believe in war for religious or "moral" reasons,
but are willing to donate their time for their country in
civil jobs.
A very small part of the minority actively, openly ob
jects to U.S. participation and seek to influence others
to avoid the draft. They encourage defiance of the U.S.
government, the law of the land.
Fortunately the majority of the American people falls
into the first two groups. The majority of University stu
dents is part of the first two groups.
MOST UNIVERSITY STUDENTS will not buy the
conscientious objector solution. But, it is not necessary to
laugh the draft-objectors off campus. As long as they
maintain the right to voice their opinions and objections,
within the confines of constitutional law, our form of de
mocracy can be preserved.
James A. Poulter of Ann Arbor, Mich., in wake of
recent demonstrations against U.S. policy in Viet Nam
placed an advertisement in the Ann Arbor News offering
to pay for a ticket for anyone who wished to move to
North Viet Nam or Communist China.
IT IS UNLIKELY that the conscientious objectors or
even the draft-card burners would take Poulter up on his
offer. They prefer the United States to either alternative .
country. They like the freedom of speech they have here.
So do we.
IN TIMES OF CRISIS in our history it was often a
minority group who openly objected to a government poli
cy who motivated the majority made them aware of
their position, clarified their stand, strengthened their
support of the government policy.
This process has happened at the University of Ne
braska and in the United States as a whole.
MARILYN HOEGEMEYER
Union Week Lacks
International Theme
This has been proclaimed International Week at the
University of Nebraska. The focus is on Germany.
THE NEBRASKA UNION is again the sponsor of the
event. German food will be served. German films will be
shown. German-made goods will be on display. It sounds
like German Week. It certainly will not be international.
Though we appreciate the efforts made to acquaint
the University community with the country of Germany,
we do not believe it should be passed off as International
Week.
Union officials and their committees are overlooking
a very important segment of the University population
who could provide a real international atmosphere the
foreign students, some 250 strong from over 40 different
countries.
IN PAST YEARS the members of Nebraska Interna
tional Association (NIA) have prepared a program, "Cul
tures on Campus" designed to acquaint students, faculty
and Lincoln residents with the dances, music, and dress
of those countries represented at the University. The
presentation was a part of International Week the most
important part.
To eliminate the participation of such a group is to
eliminate the last element of real internationalism.
WE URGE the members of NIA to overlook the
shortsightedness of the Union staff and to present "Cul
ures on Campus" again this year even if it is not a seg
ment of "International Week."
WE URGE those who organized "German Week" to
recognize the international program possibilities that 250
foreign students could provide if given the chance.
Such a chance would be a sincere gesture of friend
liness, a wanting to know, to understand about life in the
various countries.
THE OPPORTUNITY is one few midwesterners can
enjoy but in a university community. Nebraska Union of
ficials should be aware of that fact. They should see the
opportunity to present a REAL International Week. May
that realization come soon!
MARILYN HOEGEMEYER
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Motorbikes found Deadly
TAIL, WHERE YOU DRAWN' US?
Theatre Review
By Gale Pokorny
Yesterday as I gathered up my books
and papers that had been spread all
over the street, applied a tourniquet to my
left arm, put my right ankle in a make
shift cast, and covered the other assorted
wounds with bandages, etc. I contemplated
the red and white motorbike that had just
chalked up another one, its rider laughing
hysterically, disappearing down the street.
I came to the conclusion that from now
on I would have to be more careful .
crossing the street or I am liable to get
hurt.
Actually I was lucky, I could have
been schmixed by a motorcycle. These are
built quite a bit tougher due to the higher
speed at which they careen madly along .
and the greater shock they must endure
when they slam into some pedestrian too
fat to jump, too slow to run and too stupid
to stay indoors.
The motorbikes are more tiny and as
a result they force their riders to be more
particular (sort of like Pall Mall smokers).
They have to be choosy about who they
try to run down. Little kids and midgets
are real popular these days.
But if the motorbikes are at a disad
vantage due to size when compared
against their big brothers, they make up
for it through their ability to sneak up on
people. First of all they are smaller and
hard to see coming down the sidewalk at
a cool eighty miles an hour.
But even more dangerous is the
i thot thpv don't make. You
can hear a motorcycle aiming at you four
blocks away giving you ample time to
shinny up the nearest street lamp.
But those motorbikes make no more
noise than last year's mosquitoes and by
the time you realize that buzzing sound is
the voice of doom, the front wheel should
be just passing over your head.
But all is not hopeless for the people
who walk (or limp). There are ways de
vised by Cornhusker pedestrians to cope
with this new rash of sexed up bicycles.
Trial and error methods have shown that
the best way to cope with them is to exe
cute a "La Rubia" sidestep just prior to
the moment of bone-crushing impact and
then thrust the umbrella, that we all carry,
into the spokes of the front tire. True, it s
tough on umbrellas but it's even tougher
on front tires. The guy has to come to a
complete stop in order to pick the spokes
out of his teeth.
Other dastardly methods have likewise
been dreamed up, involving hand gre
nades and land mines in those little
briefcases that everybody carrys along
with their umbrella.
But then let's not be too hard on the
motorcyclists after all they are just re
leasing their penned up frustrations and
emotions and what better way to do it then
go out and smear somebody. Excuse me,
while I put on my goggles, now where did
I leave my black leather jacket. . .
Weapons Of Words And Wit Used
I nB ratal Production: 'Virginia Woolf,
Campus Opinion
Student Attacks Paper
A DRAMA of skin-tearing, blood-running,
bone-breaking action, all the more
brutal and destructive because it is done
by sociable, civilized, and intelligent
characters, has opened at the Universi
ty theater and will play on alternate
weekends for the rest of the semester.
There are no clubs or knives used in
Who's Afriad of Virginia Woolf, and no
one is physically injured except for an
attempted choking but the havoc
wrought on psyche and emotion is enor
mous, and the weapons are the civilized
ones of words and wit.
ANDY BACKER, in this modern com
edy of manners, plays on every octave in
his vocal range an very wide one and
on every emotional pitch that George is
capable of reaching: he is annoyed, an
gry, tolerant, charming, amusing, fright
ening, aggressive, passive, obscene, and
''ways in control. The energy and grace
with which he creates his role are breath
taking, and are matched in his exciting
use of small gestures and stage-business.
Except for a loose-limbed quality about
him, and a habit of dropping into a half
crouch every now and again, Backer's
body, as well as his voice, is completely
at the service of his acting. No one should
miss this performance.
LETA POWELL DRAKE, playing
George's wife Martha, has a more diffi
cult job to do in this play. The role is
written as a brassy, one-or-two dimen
sional character for the first act and a
half of the play, and the audience does
not see the depth of her personality until
the first few layers of her skin are pulled
away. Leta is a powerful, commanding
actress, with as much energy as Andy
has,, and when Martha becomes intimate
enough with George to tell him sadly that
their relationship has finally snapped she
grafts a moving sorrow onto her brassi
ness and blossoms into a role as full as
her husband. '
SUSAN REYNOLDS' playing of Hon
ey enforces a belief in her character even
though she is not the physical type Albee
and the other characters have in mind
she is not "slim-hipped," she is psycho
logically frail, and that's what really
counts. Susan creates a deliberately ab
stracted, and almost stupid, young wom
in who, if she could face the truth about
herself, would be ashamed of her sexual
failure. But she reaches hysteria before
she comes to self-knowledge, and refuses
to consider even the possibility of a
reality too fearful for her to face.
ROSS GRAHAM'S Nick looks good,
and many of the values which thev actor
and the character have in common work
toward the ends of the play. He is awk
ward in his new surroundings, but has a
basic confidence which probably could
never be shaken except by this play's
ruthless probe of truth and illusion. The
role of Nick makes fewer vocal and physi
cal demands than George and Martha do,
but they are specific, necessary, and dif
ficult in their own way.
Despite the brilliant diction, phras
ing, and dramaturgy of Albee's play, and
even granting the high order of acting
evident in this production, the issues of
Virginia Woolf, not to mention the point,
would have very easily been lost without
the sensitive hand of Dr. William Morgan
arranging the physical and emotional
moves of the actors. ,
HIS SPLENDID collaboration with
Charles Howard has produced for a set
ting a well-appointed, modern "early
American" living room which concretizes
the "national theme" in subtle and signi
ficant stage dressing: a suspended, three
masted ship (which looks a lot like the
Constitution), an old-fashioned rocking
chair, a huge American eagle over the
hearth at center, a grandfather clock
down stage left, and reversed, thirteen
starred American flag a battle flag
framed on the stage left wall. Combined
with the brilliant use of a baby's chair
for the mythical son, and an abstract
painting (done in elemental colors and
black) to actively symbolize Martha's
fantasy-ridden mind, and the stress upon
the parallels between the two couples, Dr.
Morgan has made comprehendable sense
out of a very obscure play.
More than that, he uses every acting
space on that great set, everybody posi
tion of his actors, every usuable space
relationship and every bit of stage busi
ness he could imagine to bring Albee's
masterpiece to life, Morgan's production
of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a
piece of genuine theater art.
Base-r
LBJ is reportedly holding out on per
mission for his daughter to be married.
We have it from a reliable source that
LBJ is waiting until Luci casi prove to him
that she is grown up enough. The word is
that she will have to prove this by beating
him in arm wrestling.
Campus Opinion
Two To Listen
Dear Editor:
I paid for two $2.75 tickets
Saturday night to listen to
Peter, Paul and Mary sing
not 5,000 miserable college
students.
Dirty Old Man
Three A Week
Dear Editor:
Why do freshman and
sophomore women have
three late nights a week
(Friday, Saturday, and Sun
day) while junior women
have only two?
.Dirty Old Woman
Dear Editor:
The time has come for
the Daily Ad Sheet to eval
uate its purposes in relation
to the University as a
whole.
Is its purpose to report
on the activities of the en
tire University or to mere
ly glorify its ad salesmen?
The last time your pol
icy on ad space was ques
tioned, your excuse was
that the University budget
hadn't been drawn up yet.
This is the seventh week of
school! Surely it has been
finished by now. And what
about the 50 cent increase
in tuition that was sup
posed to get the paper out
of the red?
It has also been argued
that there aren't any stor
ies to be published. How
ever, last Tuesday a mem
ber of a campus organiza
tion submitted a small ar
ticle on an open house
victory dance to the news
editor. Tuesday evening I
talked to a staff "writer
about it again. Both times
we were assured that it
would be in Thursday or
Friday's Daily Nebraskan,
but there was nothing in
either except ads of tennis
shoes and levis.
Now I ask you, which is
of more Importance, tennis
shoes or an activity of a
University of Nebraska or
ganization? This question is of utter
importance to the future of
this newspaper. If there
aren't more articles and
less ads there will come a
time in the not too distant
future when 5,000 copies of
the Dally Nebraskan will
rot in the boxes of Burnett
Hall.
Publicity Chairman,
Julie Clark
UNICORNS
Editor's Note: Unfortunate
ly the "article" submitted
by your organization was
omitted in the m a k e-u p
stage of our newspaper
production. But, can you
understand that were we to
print every organization's
announcements, meetings
and victory dances, the Ne
b r a s k a n would be filled
A BALLPOINT PEN!
On a purchase of one or more
paperbooks at the University
Bookstore tomorrow or Thursday.
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with them. We do not be
lieve that is the purpose of
our campus newspaper.
At no time have we ar
gued that there are not
enough stories to be pub
lished. That is not true. Our
staff is limited only by
time and space. We hope
the space problem will be
eased with the eight page
edition on Wednesday which
will require more time
than ever from our faith
ful staff.
If we ever discover that
5,000 copies or even 50 cop
ies of the Daily Nebraskan
are left in Burnett Hall
we will promptly stop de
livery there and place the
Nebraskan in other less
strategically located build
ings where students con
stantly search in vain for
the Daily Nebraskan. We do
not believe that will hap
pen. One Response
Dear Editor:
At least one organization
is responding to Professor
Trask's call for more edu
cation on contemporary
problems which appeared in
Oct. 14 Dally Nebraskan.
As Dr. Trask so aptly put
it, "Students look to the
faculty and administration
for leadership." This leader
ship, however, is not always
forthcoming, and as a result
many undergraduates feel
that their professors do not
take a personal interest in
them.
Increasing enrollment is
presenting a challenge to ef
fective education at the Uni
versity of Nebraska. It is to
this challenge that we hope
the students and faculty will
respond.
The History Club offers
an opportunity for students
and faculty to discuss Issues
of mutual interest on an in
formal basis.
Why not drop by, profes
sor? Larry Willmore, President
History Club
Yes . . .
plenty of
choice seats
available!
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