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.v3 : .1 V;'. i S 5 ..V.: 1 ft 1 Vf ;V. A. f ' If! 'J Marilyn Hoegemeyer, Page 2 Several thousand students at the Uni versity each day face a number of hours work for a big and less than generous employer the University. Some students serve as janitors, mes sengers, waitresses, physical plant em ployees, or secretaries. Graduate stu dents are often employed as research as sistants, tutors or graders. All are caught in a problem which often occurs in a large university com munity. Employers in the city as well as the University itself are able to hire help for little more than slave wages. The University employer particularly should not exploit the student because many times the job is absolutely essen tial to help him get through four years of college. Actually the University of Nebraska is treating its student employees quite well in comparison to several other area campuses. There are approximately 2,820 stu dents employed by the University. The average salary earned is estimated at $1.15. Appreciate Protestors . . . Spur Morality, Are Watchdogs (ACP) Sure, we appreciate the anti-war protestors, says the University of Tennessee Daily Beacon, Knoxville. But why? Not because they have "made Americans aware of how important morale is overseas and caused united supporters of our boys over there." And we don't appreciate the anti-war protestors be cause their efforts have "backfired." That's ridiculous. THE REASONS we appreciate some of these protest ors is that they represent some very encouraging signs. First, these people are aware of and concerned with national policy. Unfortunately, American people are tradi tionally preoccupied with themselves and are willing to let the rest of the world go to hell. And, in many cases, our foreign policy represents this attitude. Second, the protestors are utilizing their awareness and concern by voicing, strongly and pointedly, their feel ings. By this action, they are "watchdogging" our gov ernment and the policies it makes. THIRD, AND PERHAPS most important they repre sent a trend in America toward personal involvement of citizens in what the country is doing. Perhaps the pro testors are accepting their share of the responsibility ev eryone must bear for the actions of his own community toward other communities. Finally, if the protestors are spurring a trend in na tional thinking, perhaps it is also a trend toward morality in government. Maybe our leaders feel that expediency in policy is the major criterion for its worth. But individu als in the nation may feel that morality is the only mea sure. If we appreciate what the protestors are doing, even if we don't agree with their stands, we can stop calling them names and give them credit for doing a job that our schools, newspapers, political leaders, and churches have failed to do. What with the population explosion and all, I think that this year I'd better do my annual good deed by helping old St. Nick make up his ever-lengthening Christmas list. So, here are a few of the suggestions I've thought up for him. For Charles de Gaulle, a new hat with a smaller head size. For those students driving to the Orange Bowl, wings. For Abel Hall residents, visas to visit the City Campus. For the Republican Party, a John Lindsay mold to help in their image building. For the University, one million feet of sod for their little men to put down and then dig trenches through. For the Union, red and green cash registers to keep in the spirit of the season. For people driving down 14th or 16th Streets, good brakes. For that friend of mine who claims I never say a look for the golden orches MCDONALD'S MENU 100 Pure Beef Hamburgers Tempting Cheeseburgers Old Fashioned Shakes Crisp Golden French Fries Thirst-Quenching Coke Delightful Root Beer Coffee As You Like It Refreshing Cold Milk Full-Flavored Orange Drink editor tudent Salaries good word about anything, a perfectly lovely word to be used at will, supercalifragi listicexpialidocious. For SDS, a dozen copies of "How to Win Friends and Influence People." For Student Health, a new bunch of clients who don't think they're dying of pneu monia every time they catch a slight cold. For the Phi Psis, a new play pen. For t h e University Thea tre, someone who's really afraid of Virginia Woolf, so they can quit asking. For that freshman who complained in a letter to the Nebraskan that he has been experiencing disillusionment (that there is no secret, ex citing formula to education in college), lots and lots of the facts he's going to need someday, injected in some painless way. m.m. Nebraskan Want Ads These low-cost rates apply to all claa flfled advertising In the Daily Nebraskan: standard rite of So per word ana) mini mum charge of 50c per classified Inser tion. Payment for the adt will fall Into two categories: (1) ads running less than one week In succession must be paid for before insertion. (2) ads running for more than one week will be paid weekly. MOTORCYCLE FOR SALE 19S0 Triumph Bonneville. 650 cc. Like New. S650. Call 432-7161 before 5 p.m. FOR RENT LARGE EFFICIENCY APARTMENT. Two upper classmen! $65 per month, utilities included. Also, FURNISHED ROOM, 25 per month. Call Glen Van Der Schaff or Hark Gilderhus 477-8711. extension 2332 days. Evenings 435-4044. rwo bedroom apartment: Harried couple or women; utilities furnished; board if desired. 432 S994 afternoon or evenings. Close to campus. FOR SALE TANDBERO Model 64 stereo tape deck. track. Half price. Call 432-0673. Mike Jeffrey, business manager Friday, Dec. 10, 1965 The minimum salary earned is 85 cents, according to Robert Scott, Univer sity, financial aid adviser. Several gradu ate students are earning the maximum University student wage, $3, he said. At the University of Oklahoma the average student salary is 99 cents an hour 92 cents for female employees. At Kansas State this year 1,205 stu dents are earning an average of $1.20 an hour. Comparatively the University, as an employer, is walking the middle ground. Student wages here are not the worst nor are they the best. There is room for improvement. But the fact remains that the vari ous individual employers, Nebraska Un ion, the libraries, the grounds department can only spend for salaries as much as their budget allows. That budget at the University is rarely large enough in any instance . We would hope that there will be an upward trend in student salaries as well as the number of jobs available. MARILYN HOEGEMEYER Basic Problem: oman Dear Editor: Although I realize that by writing this letter I j o i n the ranks of those called dirty old men by the AWS Board, I feel that something more should be said on women's closing hours. I grant that under the pres ent system one can raise any number of justifiable arguments for change or abolishment of hours, but how many of these are just adaptations from the basic problem. What then is this basic problem? Women have been from the beginning of time sec ondary creatures. They have been considered as posses sion of property, sometimes guarded out of utility some times out of passion; but al ways considered as second ary persons. As a result of this dis crimination came rebellion; from this rebellion came w o m e n's sufferage, wom en's armed forces, women's ,.. I ft f y "SETS.";. I 'ONE TO ONE C3i "EQUIVALENT 6ET6.... "NON-EQUIVALENT SETS.'!.. 'ETs OF 0NE".."STS OF TU)0. 'RENAMING TldO'.'.."SUBSETS.., "JOINING SETS."..'.' NUMBER $tN ltNCti7...rLHLtHULlC.. ALLIWANTTOKNOti) IS, HOU) AN0TUI0? is Equal equal employment and wom en in college. In all these fields men still are the superior force but, have been forced in an attempt to maintain male dominance to set up certain institutions. Now one of these institutions is being questioned women's clos ing hours. Is this institution still valid? Do we see fit that it should be continued? We're engaged in a losing battle, losing because we choose to lose. We have al lowed women in our univer sity, we have given them intellectual freedom, we have told them to be re sponsible, and now they are demanding a change in an institution. We have no choice but to allow this change. We must, in fact, assist them to be come equals, assist them in their use of logic and reason in the pursuance of t h e i r goals. UNCLE AL ""ir Stereo Tapes America's fastest selling pre-recorded tapes- .... r"-- 4 J ( '"" 1 j Vii,. Prices comparable or equal to stereo records... but with continuous uninterrupted music all on one 7" reel of break resistant four-track stereo tape. By the worlds best known popular and classical artists. Campus Opinion Afomen w llrciv Dear Editor: Once again the leader of the group that controls my life and morality has failed to recognize the problems that do exist on this cam p u s concerning women's hours. Contrary to her "person al feeling," some women are concerned with hours. Do you know, Miss Whit ney, why you don't hear from them? It's because of Just Any Dear Editor: Think of an axe. Just any old axe. Mamie De Smitzer has an axe. Although you may not think it normal for a girl to carry an axe, Mamie does. And Mamie is a girl. Mamie is small and sweet and affectionate and all the men at the blade sharpener's shop tell her they think she is cute. One day Mamie drove her funny little car to the NU campus. She parked it at a place where no other cars were. There were no signs saying how long she could park there. There were no signs saying she couldn't park there at all. Mamie was glad that the Univer sity provided such nice places for people to park their cars in. Mamie ran happily off to class. When she returned, she looked on her wind shield. There lay a parking Quoth The Haven Dear Editor: Thank you for displaying the ridiculousness of AWS thinking for all the world to see (in Thursday's Daily Nebraskan. But Miss Whitney, in spite of herself, said something revelent to the issue when she remarked that she has Base-rs By Bob Wethercll Protesting against the protestors seems to be the lat est thing to do, and we suggest that in keeping with the terminology of the old guard (teach-ins, sit-ins, etc.) a shave-in be initiated at which the bush be removed from the faces of the old pacifists and SDS types in answer to their old activities. .isiMiiSjssmw"1"'0'1 lliiliiiiiiiiililfllllij;).., ,;:n;:!:::!!I!;iit;::it;:u);:t;;. !::;ii:t::::::;:::i:r;;,, rm BOOK STORE: Concerne Enough the label that would be at tached to the women brave enough to fight the System. More than likely, they would immediately be branded as someone trying to effect changes in order to pursue an immoral life for an hour longer. I would also like to know from whence her "corres pondence from other schools" cometh. Was it from Denver University Old Axe ticket, expertly placed by the efficient hands of o n e of those nice campus police men. Mamie was infuriated. It was a five-dollar ticket. Without a moment's hesita tion, Mamie knew what she would do. She would take care of that nasty parking ticket. Swiftly she reached into her purse, drew out her axe, and lifting the weapon deftly over her head smashed that dirty ole tic ket to smithereens, and to parts of Atikoken, Ohio, too. What Mamie forgot was that when she sliced that ticket, she also smashed her windshield to smithereens (and to parts of. . . y o u know) and chopped part of the car hood. MORAL OF THE STORY Don't mess around with those keen-o campus police or you get the axe. Don't Axe Me nothing to fear when mere men complain about the Iron Hand. And therefore, unless a few (say 10 or 12) women can begin some action against the AWS mentality, I think I might never men tion the subject again. Dirty Old Man where the hours are two o'clock on weekends? Or from Wesleyan where wom en are granted a certain number of "late leaves" per semester when they may come in a half hour after regular hours, WEEK NIGHTS OR WEEKENDS? I can't find anything in my campus handbook that can match what either of these schools has granted to women students. The present AWS rules give no consideration for individuals. I'm sure there are some women who would rather study until eight on Sunday night and then go to a late movie but can't be cause of the 11 o'clock hours. Then there are those who go to Omaha to "The Sound of Music" or the cin erama and then drive like crazy to get home before the door is locked in their faces. And, since AWS hasn't been able to outlaw love yet, there are some couples who like to just sit and talk or plan or dream only to have everything inter rupted at 12:55 by a fran tic "We've got to get back to the house so I won't get late minutes!" Perhaps, Miss Whitney, you feel these are just iso lated cases with only a small minority of women involved. Does AWS disre gard the voice of the mi nority even though it is the only voice brave enough to speak? I can also see some nec essary changes in visiting hours and the demerit sys tem. One of the objectives that sororities pursue is to teach gracious living. Just how gracious is it to say to a male visitor, "Sorry, Daily Nebraskan TELEPHONE: 477-8711, Extensions 2588, 2589 and 2590. Member Associated Collegiate Press, National Ad vertising Service, Incorporated. Published at Room 51, Nebraska Union, Lincoln, Nebraska. Entered as second class matter at the post office In Lincoln, Nebraska, antler the act of August 4, 1012. The Dally Nebraskan is published Monday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the school rear, except during vacations and mm periods, by students of the University of Nebraska nnder the jurisdiction of the Faculty Subcommittee on Student Publications. Publications shall be free from censorshln by the Subcommittee or any person outside the University. Members of the Nebraskan are responsible for what they cause to be printed. For Your Younger Sisters & Brothers U of N Pottery Cups Piggy-Banks Trains V Books L-l-3 V Dictionaries ip University Lower Level ours o if ig you'll have to wait for her in the hall and then leave. It isn't visiting hours, you know."? Perhaps each liv ing unit could decide upon its own visiting hours. And how many women are slapped with late min utes and demerits in their own homes if they miss the curfew by 10 or 15 min utes? Not many, if any. Some type of demerit sys tem is necessary to en force the rules, but it too, should be more liberal than the present one. There is also something degrading about going to King's at 10:15 on a Sun day night and then racing back to campus before 11 p.m. while the high school juniors and seniors are still at the late show. Liberalization of women's hours is in order, whether or not Miss Whitney and her gunning puppets rea lize it. Women are not al lowed to develop responsi bility concerning their per sonal lives or to feel they have a part in deciding when they should come in. Changes can and must be made. I don't feel there would be a drastic change in the moral climate of the University if women were allowed to stay out later. What can be done at an apartment at 1:30 a.m. can just as easily be done at the same apartment at 3:30 in the afternoon. Until t h e discontented women on this campus make their feelings known, women will continue to live under old-fashioned, un bending rules. The challenge is there. Those of us interested in accepting it need your help. Polly Rhynalds Bookstore Nebraska Union sSfJv,- V r ft 5, ; rt ;