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Jo Stohlman, editor
Mike Kirkman, business manager
Page 2
Monday, March 7, 1966
The Next AWS President
In a letter to the editor, Jan Whitney
Hibbs, president of AWS, wrote :
"I'm sure all will agree that this has
been a revolutionary year for AWS at the
University. For the first time in years
women have taken an active interest and
have participated in the proceedings of
their governing body disagreeing as
well as agreeing with the actions and de
sions of the AWS Baord.
"The Daily Nebraskan, viewing this
student interest as a cue, has printed the
AWS slate and qualifications of each can
diate. The same information has been
made available in book form and distri
buted to all women's living units.
"Ignorance of the candidates'
qualifications can no longer be an ex
cuse for failing to vote in the AWS
elections. Applicable to the upcoming
elections is what Plato said centuries
ago 'The punishment suffered by the
wise who refuse to take part in gov
ernment, is to live under the govern
ment of bad men,'
' "Take part in your government. Vote
on Wednesday!"
' We can add very little to what Mrs.
Hibbs wrote. AWS has made great strides
Wris semester but there are even great
er steps that need to be taken, such as
keys for all women who are 21, liberaliza
tion of the demerit system, greater com
munication between students and AWS,
etc.
"".The worn en who will be elected
Wednesday will determine if steps such.
as these are accomplished. They will be
taken only if the women who are chosen
Wednesday are not only experienced In
AWS government, but also (and this is
more important) desire these steps to be
taken.
Three girls have been slated for pres
ident of AWS. All three, Barbara Beck
mann, Pam Hedgecock and Diane Smith,
have had extensive experience in AWS.
One of the three, Pam Hedge
cock, has Ideas and plans for AWS
which we feel are definite steps which
must be taken. Miss Hedgecock great
ly desires keys for Junior women who
are 21. She further feels that the de
merit system must be reviewed and
liberalized. One way in which she
would work for revision of the demer
it system is through the standards
boards of houses which would deal
with minor Infractions of AWS rules.
The fact that Miss Hedgecock has
well thought-out and constructive plans
for AWS is manifested by her ideas for
Coed Follies next year. Miss Hedgecock
has already suggested a Centennial
theme to promote the state Centennial
as well as AWS.
We predicate our support for Miss
Hedgecock, however, not only on her ideas
and plans for AWS. She has the desire,
the drive and the leadership absolutely
requisite to getting these plans and ideas
become reality.
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OPINION
Sorry
About That!
Being a compendium
and humor, selected
Editor . . .
of farce, absurdity
arbitrarily by the
Miss Hedgecock
ideal AWS president.
would make an
Lost Cool
By LIZ AITKEN
After absolutely zero re
sponse to my questions of
last week, this time I de
cided to go to my trusty
ouija board to find the ans
wers to my ponderings.
-Despite some margin of
error, this soothsaying In
strument is pretty reliable;
so, ., placing my hands on
the directional arrow I de
scend ' into a trance, and
whispering to it in a soft,
cajoling voice I asked the
board THE question that
everyone wants to know the
answer to Who will run
for ASUN offices this year?
Slowly, my hands being
guided by supernatural for
ces, the ouija arrow spelled
out a name, T-A-U-B-E.
You can imagine my aston
ishment that such a name
should appear first on the
list, but my ouija never lies.
After a short sputtering
fit, my ouija board started
in again to spell out the
future. The letters S-C-H-A-A-F
appeared and once
more I was amazed. I was
sure that, although this
likely candidate could cer
tainly pull the madras-collar
workers, he'd never get
Union support.
But once again the ouija
startH Its mysterious route
and spelled out the name
D-O-E-R-R. My faith in the
infallible ouija was again
severely shaken as I under
stood that there was danger
of the Law getting this can
didate. All of a sudden the ouija
jumped and started racing
around, swiftly pointing out
the letters, J-O-H-N-S-O-N.
Despite the ouija's obvious
enthusiasm, I wondered
about the effect of such a
name on Nebraska voters.
Then came a double mes
sage from the spirits in the
form of S-C-H-L-A-C-H-T-E-R-B-O-A-R-D-M-A-N.
It took me a few moments
to realize just what this
communication meant until
finally I recalled two stars
that shown brightly last
year but have since disap
peared. the ouija next spelled
H-A-N-S-M-I-R-E and I was
impressed with how deep
the ouija had gone.
The ouija perked up a bit
and whipped out with ihe
name S-N-Y-D-E-R. But I
didn't give that one a
chance; too many people
got p a r k I n g tickets this
year.
Finally, my hands guided
by powers from the beyond,
the ouija next spelled
truly amazing message. It
was transmitted something
like this: S-A-M-U-E-L-S-O-N
F-R-?-M-G-R-A-D.
With this before my eyes, I
threw down my ouija board,
never again to have con
fidence in it.
So here I am again, no
answers to my questions.
Will I have to appeal again
to my reading public? No
chance. I'd rather trust a
crazy ouija board than the
interest of Nebraska students.
A Man's View
Many University coeds, especially those who will be
juniors and 21 next year, have called the AWS seniors
"old fashioned" because of the "senior" clause in the new
key system.
Well, here's one man student who will be a 21-year-old
junior next year and thinks the AWS seniors were right.
Extra time does make a difference, especially for the
junior man who doesn't plan on getting married next
year.
Furthermore it would not work for half or a portion of
the junior class to come in at 1 a.m. and for the rest to
stay out all night long.
Before long no junior man would ask a junior wom
an out until he knew her age and no woman who has
been in the pledge class or started school or lived with an
other group of women in her own class is suddenly going
to like coming in before the others do.
If AWS wants to extend women's hours later In the
future they must first do two things: (1) Ask the health
center to distribute birth control pills. (2) Do It by class
and not by age.
Clean Young Man
Would you believe . . . 14,999 students
out 15,000 at the University have four
hour exams this week?
Today began as a bad day preceded
by a worse weekend. Inspiration did not
spark my nimble fingers when I sat down
to my trusty typewriter. I could think of
lots of things to write about, but none of
them seemed worth two paragraphs.
Trivia bespeaks a bad weekend . . .
Then there was the AWS Board
member who as seen coming out of an
apartment this weekend. Why bother to
change the rule that University women
cannot be in apartments without a 25-year-old
chaperone? It's easier to ignore
it, as probably most AWS members do,
regularly.
The editor of the Daily Iowan has a
new slant on meeting student apathy. He
announced his write-in candidacy for the
student government elections, with apa
thy as part of his platform:
"Student apathy must be meet firm
ly and strongly. All students must be
made to take pep pills daily in order to
reverse this deadly trend. This should be
done in an organized effort preferably
accompanied by questionnaires to be re
turned periodically to the Senate for prof
itable discussion."
(The questionnaires could be filed in
Drawer A. Then some gunner could give
a report on them just before elections to
honoraries.)
Seems the latest "in" fashion is t h e
green beret. Interest in the hat was
prompted, no doubt, by the "Ballad of
the Green Beret."
I don't object (conscientiously of
course) to the song on socio-economic-or-politlcal
grounds . . . just that it's a bunch
of schlock: bad singing, sentimental garp,
the Department of the Army's Public Re
lations Division contribution to the Teen
Scene.
"Ballad" was bad enough. Now
there's "Widow of the Green Beret." The
opportunities seem endless. ("Son of the
Green Beret, "Mother-in-law, Father",
etc)
We would like to add the congratula
tions of the Daily Nebraskan staff to
, Coach Joe Cipriano upon his selection of
Big Eight Coach of the Year by the Asso
ciated Press. He greatly deserved the
award ... the NU basketball team has
become as big a threat to other teams as
the NU football team.
Nebraska Union Rule of the Day:
"As a center of college community life,
the Union serves as a laboratory of citi
zenship, training students in social re
sponsibility and for leadership in our de
mocracy." (It takes a real leader to make it
through the lunch lines.)
For Nebraska's loss to the Colorado
Buffaloes Saturday, we're Sorry About
That!
Students' Spirit Appreciated
Dear Editor,
I'd like to thank the students who turned out for the
rally Friday noon. The adverse weather wrecked our origi.
nal plans, but the rally that we did hold in the Coliseum
was greatly appreciated by the team and the coach. I hope
to see this spirit continue. Thank you.
Steph Tinan
Tassels Rally Chairman
Blow to Equality
Dear Editor,
Yet another blow for women's equality has been
struck by the bold hammer of AWS. It's nice to see that
senior women are on almost as high a level as freshmen
men.
An onlooker
AWS in 'Real Context'
Dear Editor,
I find it difficult to believe that the majority of women
students at the University assent to the sort of program
proposed for them by Miss Dowling and her fellow admin
istrators. Granted that her plea of administrative conveni
ence is childish, is the real issue whether age or class
standing should govern the issue of senior "keys"?
Surely the intelligent and proper position to take is that
women have the same rights as men, and that admission
to the University community endows them with the moral
responsibility for their own actions. Though the legal re
sponsibility still belongs to the parents, surely there is no
reason to encourage the University, much less the directors
of AWS, to function as no mature parent would.
Men can govern (within broad limits) their actions and
hours at eighteen; so can women perhaps more compe
tently. The "key" system is no honor, but a reminder to
those who have them that they are simply the trusties in
the dormitory jail.
An intelligent parent allows his son or daughter, at this
age, to exervise his or her own reason and judgment about
the, hours to be kept, and about the limitations on his or
her behavior. A boy or girl thus made responsible, in my
experience, is much less likely to exceed the limits than
one whose parents adopt the totalitarian roles of policeman,
judge, and executioner.
Yet here we have the Association of Women Students
apparently approving an absurd set of restrictions which
don't even apply to three fourths of its members. It seems
to me that the AWS would spend its time better if it
joined with the Office of Student Affairs in a program de
signed to educate those parents who object to self-determinationin
a program designed to show how, in a free
society, citizens learn to be independent and responsible.
In short, Miss Dowling and her associates ought to op
erate in a real context, and give up playing silly games
in imitation of the worst features of "adult" society.
Frederick M. Link
Team Congratulated
Dear Editor,
I am a University of Nebraska student presently
studying at El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City on a one
year exchange program. I am writing this letter out of my
interest in the University of Nebraska basketball team.
I have always been a great fan and sit in the first row
at all home games. Now I have to be content with the
newspaper clippings that my parents and friends send me
of the games. Although, I like many N.U. followers, was
disappointed with the showing we made against K.U. last
Saturday, I still think we can win the conference.
The K.U. game to me demonstrates only the great
factor that the home town fans play in the outcome of a
game. I just hope that N.U. boosters will pack the coliseum
for the rest of our games and give the team the support it
deserves. Even if we don't win the championship, I would
like to congratulate the team and the coach on the finest
season we've had in many years.
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