The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 22, 1965, Page Page 2, Image 2
Marilyn Hoegemeyer, editor Mike Jeffrey, business manager Page 2 Monday, Nov. 22, 1965 flis B h KM Our mighty king, football, has suf fered a blow to his enormous ego, Christ mas vacation will not be changed. University students and professors whether they attend the Orange Bowl or not are expected back in classes Mon day, January 3. WE SAY, HURRAH. Each year the question arises. Are we attending the University for an aca demic learning experience or for the ex tras like watching Big Red Go and Go and Go? THERE IS MUCH TO BE SAID for the activities both social and serv'ee which are an important part of any student's life. But there is a great danger that the "extras" become the main in gredient of the college diet. We do not deny the contribution the Cornhuskers have made for the state of Nebraska for the people. Many have with a top ranked team lost the perpetual inferiority complex that has plagued our state, almost from the beginning. The na tion now knows where Nebraska is lo cated. They have heard about the Corn- BUT, WITH THEIR CONTRIBUTION1, the Huskers have become almost a regal band. The spectator sport has become at Nebraska an almighty game that no one misses. Students who wish to attend the Orange Bowl game will complain that while they will be supporting our Univer sity and our team they will also be ex pected to return in a day to the classroom, lectures, exams. WE DO NOT BELIEVE there is a conflict. Those attending the bowl game, particularly those who drive, will simply not be in class on Monday, January 3. And they should not attempt a quick, un safe trip home, Many of the same students, were the vacaton set back two or three days, would probably not return on the appointed day anyway. THE "NO CHANGE" in vacation will permit those who choose to view the Husk ers from an easy chair at home to con tinue with their academic schedule at the appointed and proper time January 3. We are pleased with the decision. Our king, football, may realize that he is, for tunately, not an absolute monarch. THERE ARE OTHER KINGS at the University though they might not: have the glittering crown and glory given the Cornhuskers. Pledge Sneaks Disgusting Pledge class sneakery was present in its most most unlady-like and disgust ing form Friday afternoon. It was appal ling. NOT ONLY WERE "ACTIVES" tied to trees, marked with lipstick and made the laughing stock of much of the campus, but the actions of the pledges prompted some of the college "men" to get in on the a-ct. The tactics stopped traffic at times and finally prompted the Campus Police to tell the men to stay out of it and the girls to stay out of the streets. We are not blaming the pledges not exactly though they should know better than to conduct a private, tranditional battle in public in such a disgusting manner. THE PLEDGE SNEAK TRADITION itself has been out of hand for several years now. A sneak if conducted In a more intelligent, sensible manner could be a rewarding experience rather than end ing in a public row which Infuriates most and is a poor amusement for others. THE PROBLEM goes back to the "pledge" treatment which has been con sidered necessary to make the lowly fresh men more humble. Only when the actives treat their proteges as individuals can they expect to receive respect from the pledges. The present pledge sneak is out-mod-ed. The Friday afternoon display should cause some Greek houses to take note of what is happening to their Greek tradi tions. We hope it will. Gathers Skit SparEcIed Some believed the Kosmet Klub show was an improvement over last yeaT's per formance. Others, most of them upper classmen, found the usual year-to-year similarity in various house's skits. Most agreed that the skit with the sparkle was Cather Hall's rendition of Noah's Ark. The lines were excellent. The theme was most original. It simply lacked polish. The reason Cather's skit was not as smooth is evident to almost everyone. The Cather men could not be collected and compelled to practice as often as the fra ternity men. We didn't expect Cather would win a Kosmet Klub top-three prize because of the campus politics that govern their award giving Nevertheless they provided the audi ence a nice break, some clever satire, a welcome change in the ordinary. Those who wrote, directed and participated in the skit are to be commended. Courage Not Remorse This day two years ago brings sad dened memories to the American nation. Not that John Fitzgerald Kennedy would have wished it that way. Courage is the virtue he admired most in an individual, as his brother, Robert, notes in the preface to Kennedy's book, "Profiles In Courage." John Kennedy would not have desired that the American public remember the tragedy of November 22, 1965. But rather, he would have hoped that the force, the effect that he had as the youngest presi dent of the United States would be remem bered. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy said only re cently that she hoped that the American people would soon think of her husband in his active, ambitious, youthful months in the White House rather than in a saddened, remorseful way about the tragedy of his death. Her words spark of the courage John Kennedy so much admired. November 22, 1963, cannot be erased from the minds of the American people but it should not be the only day in the life of Kennedy's presidency that holds import and impact. May the ideals, the hope, the courage which John Fitzgerald Kennedy showed in his public life be an example for all. MARILYN HOEGEMEYER Notes From The North Pole For those of us engaged in campus activities and pastimes walking our pet dik-diks, fixing our Hondas, siphoning ga-s, etc., the prospect of worthwhile endeavor or thought often seems far-reached, indeed Irrational. Nevertheless, every human life needs a goal, and every goal a means to reach it. To engage otherwise is to shirk an obligation, to destroy oneself. There are groups which advocate the worthlessness of life, its tediousness, and worse, its total lack of purpose. There are other group marked only by their apathetic nature toward anything resembling serious thought, if not thought in general. To do so is to deny life, to become an agent of its destruction, to become, in a sense, an apostle of death. There is, you are telling yourself, small correlation between this and four odd years of your life you spend here. Small, perhaps, in the case of the medical student who may be later faced with the prospect of destroying one life to save an other? Small in the case of the business student who may be tempted later in life by shady methods? Small in the case of any student later confronted with some thing alien to his previous throughts? These university years, in their small est sense, are the period of your life for you to decide, by yourself, what the rest of your life will be. To borrow a page from another book How do you stand, sir? S. Claus Daily Nebraskan Member Associated Collegiate Press, National Advertising Service, Incorporated. Published at Room 51, Nebraska Union, Lincoln, Nebraska. TELEPHONE: 477-8711, Extensions 2588, 2589 and 2590. Bubscrlntlon rates are 14 per temeiter er M for the academic rear. Eatered a lecond class matter at the post atflce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under the act of Amuat 4, Wit. . D"''' Nebraakan la published Monday. Wednesday, Thursday and rriday durlna the .rhool rear, excepl tabm?tt .. '2L?t'Z M.ri0.di" "'-.S,' " iT, ot Nebraska under the juritdlrllon .1 the Faculty MlsuT iC. u. ? i..mh." -"ih Pl'c"llI" ,h" "" censorship a, h. Subcommittee or any person putsMa the University, Membera ( the Nebraskan are responsible loi wbal they eause te be printed. EDITORIAL STAFF HOEGEMEYER i manasina edllor. CAROLE RENO) news editor. JOANNE STOHLMANl sports 5?' 'M "" B"B WETHERELLl senior staff wlrters, WAYNE KREHSCHER, Junior st.fi !., JULIE MORRISON, STEVE JORDAN. JAN ITKIN, BRUCE OILE8, DIANE LINDl1ST, TONY MVERS Sim B ENCElT MVM plmE' Port lent, JAMES PEARHE. cony editors, JACK TODD, POLLY REYN- BUSINESS STAFF a..?"i''w,"5ir5I"J?E 'EFKV "" assistants CONNIE RASMTTKSEN, BRUCE WRIGHT, MIKE KIRK- I mtob & miff mmrn ' d 1 .mB imStmm IKL W I V &f'H fUsilsilsW XaT . ,JK-1i"r iff1" vt, in!.)1")' IT'S NOT THE DAM5ER, MAN - IT'S THE HAIRCUT." Campus Opinion Header Continues Joust Over Chinese History Dear Editor: At the risk of boring your readers with an extended debate on Chinese history, I would continue to joust with Lloyd Lee, whose ex clusively cultural view of history leaves me amazed. 1. Mr. Lee cannot get me to agree that the compari son of present Chinese im perialism with that of past dynasties is superficial. Mr. Lee to the contrary, I be lieve that most Chinese his tory scholars would admit that imperialism and poli tics have played a consid erable part in the history . of that nation, though this is not to denigrate the role of art, literature and reli gion. History texts on most countries deal considerably with politics and war, and not very many decades ago dealt almost exclusively with such topics. Chinese Communist expansionism compares not only with that of the Mongol and Manchu dynasties, but also with the imperialism of such "native" dynasties as the following, with approximate dates: Han (200 B.C.-200 A.D.), T'ang (620-875 A.D.), and Ming (1340-1626 A.D.). These dynasties extended or maintained Chinese con trol over parts or the whole of Indo-China, Tibet, Korea, Sinkiang, Mongolia, and ii iftW H i-TI ask uw M0 I TOOK THE LAST n I piece of cake TELL HIM WHAT HE DOESN'T KNOU) UON'T W(K HIM ... Manchuria. Chinese, right ly or wrongly, look back on such history with pride, much the same as British, Dutch, Portuguese, etc. re call with nostalgia their imperial days. Chinese Communists certainly re ject cultural tradition but accept and glory in the im perial past. 2. It is inaccurate to think of the "native" Chinese as completely separate racial ly and culturally from the conquering Mongols and Manchurians. Those two adopted much of the Chi nese way of life, particular ly the Manchus, who in the irreverence for Confucius out-Chinesed the Chinese. Racially, the Chinese d i d not have pure bloodlines either before or between the two "foreign" dynas ties. Invading Thais, Ti betans, Turks, and Mongoli ans all intermixed with the native Chinese before the main Mongol conquest; and before the Manchu dynasty, the Manchurians were dominated by the Chinese, who frequently intermar ried with them in border ing and coastal areas. 3. The political compari- son of Communist China with dynasties of old need not be restricted to imperi alistic similarity. The fa ther of democracy in China, For A Penny Dear Editor: It seems as though the worth of a college woman has decreased to a penny a minute. Isn't there a word for buying a woman? Dirty Old Woman Congrats Dear Editor: I would like to add my congradulations to those you have already received on your part in putting out what is probably the most complete and interesting Daily Nebraskan since the second semester of the 1962 63 academic year. Frank Partsch Sun Yat Sen, was also In clined toward socialism and greatly admired Lenin. This, the present central ized economy is not com pletely without precedent in thought, if not action. 4. My implication that the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia are more re spectful of the powerful and expansionist Chinese Com munist government than of the decadent, semi-democratic government on For mosa (the i .heritor of Chi nese culture) is not to say. as Lee misrepresents m statement, that "all over seas Chinese are Commu nistic." Though generalh capitalist in inclination and in way of life, the overseas Chinese hope to use the power and influence of Communist China to fur ther their political and so cial standing within the countries where they re side. The socialist minority includes in its ranks the most prominent overseas Chinese politician, Lee Kuan Yew, the head of the new state of Singapore. Sincerely, F. S. La Croix l ) r aVfisi namn m n i i.in miir.su .i - n HAVE PUN WORKING IN EUROPE. WORK IN EUROPE Luxembourg-All types of summer jobs, with wage to $400, are available in Europe. Each applicant receives a tra vel grant of $250. For a 36 page illustrated booklet con taining all jobs and application forma send $2 (handling and airmail) to Dept. N, American Student Information Service, 22 Avenue de la Liberty Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Isn't there anyone who knows WHAT CHRISTMAS tS ALL ABOUT?" (dHAT H00 00 NOT KNOlO (Jill not Do vou Any PHYSICAL CAMA6E ! f -"'" j 1SS6 by IM Failuia Synaii.au, Int. Ajl Hhl isuiwd, CHARLES M. SCHULZ'S newest cartoon book, "A CHARLIE BROWN truly delightful Christmas story, t perfect gift for both youngsters and oldsters. 48 pages, full-color throughout. 2.5p ( your bookstore, THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY SUBSI9HK( OF THi CUES MIRROR C0MRINI Cleveland, Ohio 44102 Bv Bill Oltman n intP?c-tion of"l4tn and S (by the union) has got to tai lnt section in the world. could just i mere on the curb and watch classes pass all day long. people carry only a secondary interest to me. The aEiS thf avfragt 2 SKS back and honk It hZ Thl thSSs pass, I don't like that kind of CnhniS KTnd'lU the Volkswagon It gently buiniK Posteriors until it can inch its way through the masses But I think I like the Volkswagon. It's like a 3y puppy. I would like to pet it-with two quick karate 0hC'vS hahsegS be my pet peeve. Especially on days when few people are going to classes any day under 10 degrees) aid he intersection is relatively clear, you 11 see the Vet setting back about twenty yards racing its motor just waiting for someone to try and cross This kind of ominous sight is enough to send many of the brave-hearted back to bed. I wonder sometimes how the excuses to the teachers run: "Well, you see there was this Vet that was gonna attack me ... . It used to be that my favorite kind of car was a new model economy type. They will come at a steady pace with a forcefulness that you can't help but admre. I lost my respect for these yesterday. 1 happened to look up at such a car, with a look of triumph for had just success fully side-stepped its onslaught and I noticed that the driv er had her arm covering her eyes. Yeah freshmen worry about the stoplight on our fam ous intersection. Upperclassmcn? They wonder what stop, light they are talking about. Rye 3nsp Surprise! Thanksgiving nears. Here are a few things to be thankful for: Star athletes to elect as princes. Nov. 22 coming only once a year, allowing only a lim ited capitalization on tragedy. Plenty of time to support the team and get back into the grind of classes. Vacations that are real vacations, all play and no work, except for three papers to be written, four books to read and two months of slipping to be tightened up. Thoughtful campus cops who keep an eye on inebriated and aggressive athletes. Sober athletes. A two o'clock night allowed to adults, that is, if they have 60 cents. (Oh well, that's only two cans of beer md one Slim Jim.) The conspiracy in the English department which re quires 1. that instructors teach the same literature selec tions but with opposite attitudes, and 2. that ail English papers are due on the same day. Cliff's notes they give an even clearer idea of a novel than reading the first and last pages. Numbers with which to identify one's self: Social Se curity number, draft card number, license plate number, ID number, room number, phone number, class seat num bers (let's see, 47 for sociology, 108 for botany, 92 for math, or is that botany and . . .), speeding ticket number, and oh yes, number 13 on the grade scale. Have a happy! DuPonl Reg. T.M. Of -a1 7 Hhe most luxurious Hopsack blazer of 55 Dacron polyester45 Wool, that holds its shape sensationally. Style that's right- ot a right price... only $2Q95 ratts. . am. 1 1 1 1 iTTr" Students Divisior Brookfield Industrie 1 290 Avenue of the America; New York 19, New Yor! I "- nt 11 re r - ' DIAMOND RINGS SONNET .... FROM 100 jrjr- J? ,