The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 03, 1965, Page Page 2, Image 2
, 4 13th (!)f Jftwrr- AWiJyrt Hoegemeyrer, editor Mike Jeffrey, business monoger Poge 2 Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1965 WMMIIIMHNIIMIIMinilHiniHIIIIIIIIMlllllllMHIIIIIIIIIItlfllllllllllllllllllilllMNMIIIIMIIilllMIHIIIHIIMIIillMin Abel Hall Fire THE LAST in & series of fires at Abel Hall Sunday night ignited a roaring blaze of controversy and sharp remarks. There is nothing humorous about the situation. No one 'would like to see the newest residence hall on campus in smoking shambles not the Lincoln fire de partment. University officials, tax paying citizens or even the residents of Abel Hall . TO INSINUATE that all 1056 residents of Abel enjoy running Outside at 11 p.m. to cheer firemen fighting a blaze in their university home is riduculous. The majority are just as disturbed probably more so than the firemen who answered the call. Yet, we hear reports of students booing the firemen who were king their job, we get letters from students who concoct a satire on the Abel Hall fire escapades. We won der if these students realize the impression they create. THE SMARTTES who think they are being cute are ruining their chance to be accepted as intelligent adults. The attitude of the students toward the firemen could influence their respect for all Abel residents. The possibility that the fire was started intentionally by an Abel resident should not be overlooked. Who would know better than the Abel residents if there is reason to believe this possibility. STUDENTS SHOULD not be afraid to provide any clues which would help officials solve the mystery fire problem. Students should show their eagerness to help solve the problem rather than hindering a liason be tween them and fire and University officials. There is also the possibility that an "outsider" set the loaded trash chute on fire. Trying to regulate the coming and going of visitors in Abel Hall is like trying to regulate the citizens of many of Nebraska's small towns. This fact is often overlooked. There is also the possibility that the fire was accidental. THE INVESTIGATION by Abel Hall residence direc tors, the Campus Police, the Lincoln Fire Department and the State Fire Marshall should reveal exactly what did cause the Sunday night fire. Residents of Abel Hall should help in the investigation and the "clowns" should conduct themselves in a manner more befitting University of Nebraska students. MARILYN HOEGEMEYER An Intellectual Mature Today we present a discussion of an intellectual na ture. The topic: history and science, their inter-relation and their differences. A similar essay will appear weekly in the Daily Nebraskan. The purpose is to provide a vehicle for academic thought on this campus. This week's contributor is Lloyd Lee. a graduate stu dent in chemical engineering from the Republic of hina. Future articles will deal with political, historical, cul tural, scientific and social questions though they may not be answered. Rather the emphasis will be on the exploration of thoughts and ideas. MARILYN HOEGEMEYER History, Science Differ in Method FEW PEOPLE understand Oswald Spengler when he says that while science deals with the become, das Ge wordne, history deals with the becoming, das Werden. History is in no sense a collection of facts pending scientific treatment. History is localized in space and time, stamped with a cer tain place and a particular period. But science, as R. G. Coll ingwood puts it." lives in a world of abstract universals, which are in one sense ev erywhere and in another no where in one sense at all times and in another at no time." THE NARRATION "We watched sunset that eve ning," is in this sense his torical; but when we assert that "The sun rises in the east," the statement is true, irrespective of whether it was yesterday, today, or to morrow, and thus it bears a scientific sense. It is by the particularity that we recog nize history, and by univer sality, science. Facts observed In the "be coming world" can be uti lized as raw materials in constructing theories in sci ence. This has actur ''y been practiced in all scientific studies. But when events are under this perspective, their meaning in the living his tory has already been de prived. NAPOLEON ATE a b a d pear on the eve nf the Wat erloo campaign, thus he lost the war the next day. We call this form of statement historical. But when we pur port to extract the formula tion, "If X has a rotten pear such that it upsets him, then Tie will lose the war the fol lowing day," we do not call this form of statement his torical, we can call it, at 'most, sociological, and so ciology is a form of science. It is Napoleon himself who bears the import in his tory; not X, a thing non existential. THE ARGUMENT is true that science can assist the "tudy" of history; b u t we ihould be aware that science 1s not the substitute for his tory. The theory of homeo itssis may shed light on the understanding of the tides of history, but the existence of history is not to glorify the theory of homeostasis. History immanently de mands a methodology of its own, the Physiognomic, nod the Systematic. It is from the domain of becoming that history springs. And it is one who can differenti ate Life from Nature really who appreciates the de marcation of history from science. Lloyd Lee Notes from: Oswald Spen gler: Dcr Untergang des Abendlandes, and R. G. Col lingwood: The Idea of History. J5T f o a Ktt fRGH Ad Parade At Halftime Communism Restores Chinese Minorities Dear Editor: Regarding Lloyd L. Lee's attempted refutation of Drs. Trask and Sakai on Chinese history, it would seem that Lee himself has furnished faulty reasoning and infor mation. Most likely, in the von- text of political discussion and debate, Trask and Sakai were not implying a continu ity of culture and religion from olden times into the Chinese -Communist Tegime, but wcTe only concerned with the imperialistic com parison. As Lee says, "the Mongol and Manchurian in vaders of China were for eigners; but they came to stay, and their history merged with Chinese history. Those invaders made a great contribution to the growth of China as a nation. The restoration of Chinese power in modern times began under Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek, but the Communists have well nigh completed t h e process. In writing of the over seas Chinese in Southeast Asia, Lee is apparently un aware that many millions of these large racial minorities are proud of the rebirth of China's power and influence in the world. Observers in Singapore, Malaysia, Thai land., etc. have found this new pride only partly off set by doubts about Com munist ideology and tactics. The Chinese minorities, largely excluded from politi cal power by the native gov ernments of Southeast Asia (except Singapore) and see ing that these anti-Chinese governments are generously aided by the U.S.A., are forced to look to Communist China as their champion. Sincerely, F.S. La Croix Daily Nebraskan TELEPHONE: 477-8711, Extensions 2588, 2589 and 2530. Member Associated Collegiate Press, National Ad vertising Service, Incorporated. Published at Room 51, Nebraska Union, Lincoln, Nebraska. Entrrnd as aaconn mass mailer at Ar aoit afflna In Ltarala, fcrask, nndrr thr act nl Auinft 4. 1912. Thf Daily Nrhraskan Is DiihllihMt Monday, VVpdnemlit?. Tbitmav and Friday during thr school rar, axrem during vacations and exam aerlods, ny Ktlidrntn al the University at Nenratka under the Jortsdlr.ttaa at the Faculty Subremmitler on fttmtnM Publications. PnMlcatlnm shall he tree from eensnrfMn hv thr StnVnmmlttae or any person nutanle the Onlverslt?. 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Subscription rates are (4 par semester ar M lor the academic Tear, mw i h ''mi mm Wk gr"yf aX I've just thought up an excellent part time profession for someone harking about the campus with n ingenious mind and little cash. It's organizing the balftime advertising at football games. Anyway, I suppose advertising is the most descrip tive term for those banners and assorted demonstrations that clutter the track at each game. For tnstanoe, tfte Fiji fc-e m occa sion paraded around in app-triate Fijian semi-attire usually in November, for some obscure reason. At the last game, there was the ATO's Sir Lancelot (Sir Galahad? I always get them confused, but there's one whose heart was pure) on horseback, which woke everyone up, al though I've forgotten the point of the whole forav. Last year, even the Milford Trade School had a banner; just think, some ambitious young man might even organize some national advertisers just like the detergent people on TV, Look at all the golden opportunities for our organizer. For Abel, he can ex-en-tually have a demonstration of firebugs for their alums and visiting arsonists. The Phi Psis could feature Duchess, although the poor dog couldn't tarry enough kep to even slightly dent the thirst of a crowd like the one we get at games. Our man could really outdo himself and got an ele phant for the YR's some election war. For those with martyr complexes, he can arrange for pairs to carry 10-foot pa per banners in 28-mile-an-hour breezes. For those djing to picket, he can have demonstrations on anything from the war in Vie? Nam to the Union Ski Trip- which will satisfy their piwims without getting anybody mad for the sim ple reason that five minutes later no one will be able to say whether the pickets were for or against. . U our young professional really does his wk well; H I m ctx? on the effects of banners on the voting babits of poop lm attention of the candied apple seller any. ww if he prows that signs are an in valuable asset to those running for van us exalted campus positions, he can ex pand his operation. Rather than Uniting it to the intermission, when it is sensibly not allow ed to interrupt the viewing of the show the signs can go around al during the second half, when this Apparently is allowed to interrupt the viewing of the SMTn'stad of seeing a Dud to W h i te pass, w will be delightfully entertained with a poster saying, "Vote Smarts i Ms Gillicuddy for Campus Hero. Right in front of us, during a Wachholtz field goal trv, will be a cleverly done banner, complete with chorus line, extolling t b e charms of Hermione Van Schmacklebow er, candidate for Harvest Honey. If our budding entrepreneur worked it right he could do all the signs and get a discount on materials. The business would get so big he'd have to hire assistants, thus strengthening the local economy. How could anvone be against such a plan, m.m. Campus Opinion- Honorary Causes Abel Fire Dear Editor: We feel that the Nebras Van has not been giving proper coverage to one of the top social events on campus, the weekly Abel Hall fires. We realize that, being outsiders, your re porters cannot get the whole story, and we have taken it upon ourselves to see that they get the lull amount of publicity due them. Sunday night's fire was sponsored lay Pi Rho pledges, freshman arson honorary, Abel chapter. The alarm was turned in "by the Abel IV publicity chairman. This week's guest firemen were from Engine Company No. 13. Abel II poured and a record attendance was re ported, topping last Friday 's event by 500 participants. A pre-fire rally w-as held prior to Sunday's -event with the State Fire Mar shall leading cheers of H'Glow Big Red" and "X)n To The Cinder Bowl V Tickets for next week's exchange fire with Pound Hall are on sale now out side the Abel TV trash chute. It will be a date affair, with Nero and the Fiddlers play ing in the west parking lot. Heavy attendance is pre dicted, despite rumors of student assistant brutality. There have also been ru mors that the Innocents will revoke sponsorship of the fires, claiming that students spend too much time in par ticipation and preparation of the events, de-emphasizing scholastic achievement. Fire Queen candidates for the coming week will be in terviewed in the North lounge Wednesday after noon. A contest sponsored by Pi Rho actives will award a date with Abel Residence Director Mr, Richard Fowler to the per son most closely predicting the time of the alarm. Abel Hall is currently ranked number one not spot on campus, by both the AP and ITI, hotly pursued by the Pillars. Ceorge Kaufman Mickey Brazeal DeLayne Peck 01im Barjenihruclh Poignant Message v IF n - WW our uuarreis 'CHEER Of, COWtm. IN AMERICA. NttlVEJ ARE RlQTlNS FoR PEACE' .se7nere Editor's Note: the following docu ment presents the feelings of the people f South Viet Nam about the war the ' United States Is waging there. THEIR POSITION contradicts what the Johnson Administration has been say ingthat the Vietnamese people desire U.S. participation in the war. This message was written by an offi cial of the United States economic aid program, Richard S. Browne who lived for six vears In Indo-China in Cambodia from 1955 to 1958, then in South Viet Nam from 1858 to 19fil. BROWNE VISITED South Viet Nam again this summer and returned with this plea from the people. It should be read by every student interested and con cerned with the realities of our foreign policy. The article Is reprinted from the November issue of Ramparts which is published monthly by Ramparts Maga zine Inc. SHORTLY BEFORE I left Viet Nam in 1961 to return to the United States 1 sol emnly promised a group of my Vietna mese friends that I would devote great effort to informing the American people of the widely and passionately held de sire of the Vietnamese people to be free of the oppressive Diem government which the United States was imposing upon them in the name of freedom and democ racy. Like many foreigners, the Vietna mese people felt certain that once the American people understood what Diem and his government were really like. America would withdraw her support and the "Vietnamese people would be free to form a government of their own choice. EVENTS PROVED otherwise, how ever, and "Washington was able to perpe tuate the myth of Diem as a popular lead er and of South Viet Nam as a great de mocracy until a few Buddhist monks, whose devotion to liberty and to their re ligion was sufficient to overcome the hu man instinct for self-preservation, chose to cremate themselves In the streets of Saigon. With the horrified attention of the world then focused on South Viet Nam, Washington was obliged to withdraw its support from Diem, and the wish of the Vietnamese people for this removal was Immediately demonstrated. I HAVE RECENTLY returned from making a brief revisit to South Viet Nam. Once again I find myself commissioned to bring a message back to the American people from the people of Vietnam and once again it is a message which directly contradicts the official view Viet Nam which Washington propagates. This time I found the popular spokesmen for vir tually all elements of the population (ex cept for the refugees and the military of icer class )not only reflecting vigorous op position to American policy in Viet Nam but also voicing a great deal more skep ticism concerning the ability oi the Amer ican public either to gain access to truth or to exert Influence over their (United States) government. THE 1SG5 MESSAGE which the -people of iet Plea I'kvt Nam (religious and intellectual spokesmen except for Northern Catho lic refugees now residenlt in tine South working class people, students and, from secondary sources, peasants) wish me to transmit to the American people is a plea that the United States immediately cease the wanton destruction of their country and people and permit the Vietnamese people to work out their own internal dis putes free from the unsettling effects of foreign interference. POINTING TO the modem aircraft, heavy weaponry, bombs, napalm, etc,, which the United States has introduced into the Vietnamese dispute and which have transformed it from a mild, all-Vietnamese ground action with rifles and gre nades into a full scale international war, they ask: "To what avail all this destruc tion? It has served only to make the oth er side stronger." DESPITE THE TACT that the vast ma jority of South Vietnamese do not seem to be particularly enamored of the Com munist ideology, there is great indication that the affront to Vietnamese independ ence and national pride which the Ameri can takeover has occasioned has pushed many non-Communist Vietnamese into the ranks of the National Liberation Front (NLF), concerning whose fierce na tional pride there is no question. The spectacle of tall, wealthy, white Ameri cans ordering the Vietnamese around, either overtly or through United States approved stooges, is too much of a throw back to the hated colonial period to be stomached by many Vietnamese, and those who don't openly join the rebels are likely to be at least as helpful to them as they are to the government. In the Viet namese army this attitude is increasing ly displayed by a rising rate of -defections ?r by what the American troops call cowardice," lack of incentive, or p o o r morale. y DEMORALIZATION IS, of c o u r s e, widespread in all echelons of the Viet Nam populace, for although it is generally ac cepted by the South Vietnamese that the NLF will ultimately be the victors whether on the battlefield or at the .con ference able-the people find themselves unable to prevent their country from being destroyed in a futile military con fron latum whi ,cn insists on being acted rTfrede,ermined conclusion. m.mV i ,At,LR t0 fiee his county com- nevprtl'i thp HVeaee VetnSe would nevertheless greatly prefer this fate to a continuance oi the unimaginable destruc United States which feels that stonpinc Vienn 11 hf Unhmited sacrifice Most sen fih fh d "0t Share this E J ?' th(y wish we would go and fight our quarrels elsewhere. thJ? HAT IS EVL,! niore "Arming to &h an Seeine Us ,ush tneir country c"mmuni.sm. is seeing us pusn J further mto the clutches of ig neighbor