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Friday, May 13, 1966
Outstanding Nebraskans
The Daily Nebraskan takes great pride
in honoring Dr. William Morgan and Larry
Frolik as Outstanding Nebraskans.
A look at their endeavors and accom
plishments at the University makes the
word "outstanding" seem inadequate,
somehow.
The letter nominating Dr. Morgan,
who Is director of thr IMversity Thea
tre, said that his ' ceaseless activity
to improve theatre and education at
the University; his constant willing
ness to give of himself and his great
talents to students, actors, and co
workers; and his enviable record of
achievement in his chosen fields of ed
ucation and drama truly represent the
spirit of the Outstanding Nebraskan
award."
We can do little to express our feel
ings better about Dr. Morgan. The work
he has done with repertory theatre at the
University speaks well of his professiona
lism and interest in theatre promotion for
the University.
Larry Frolik. has compiled a record
wh:ch also places him in the field of Out
standing Nebraskans. An excellent schol
ar, he also found time to be interested . . .
in his University and his community.
Larry Frolik's interest and con
cern in the University is exemplified
by the work he did in student govern
ment. His nomination said that "his
impact there has been so great as to
change student government's future di
rection for the better."
He is a critical student . . . critical of
his University, of student government, of
discrimination He thinks, he discusses, he
seeks to solve problems.
Yes, "outstanding" seems a little
inadequate to describe Dr. Morgan and
Larry Frolik. The Daily Nebraskan ex
tends congratulations and a thank
you to these two men.
30
A semester's love affair is over. After
about 50 issues, and about twice that many
editorials and columns, the Daily Nebras
kan and I part . . . now we are "just
friends."
I have looked forward to writing
this last editorial since the first day
I came to the Rag. I have looked for
ward to writing the more natural "I"
instead of the traditional "we." I have
looked forward to calling my paper
the Rag, not the Daily Nebraskan. I
have looked forward to saying things
about my paper and staff that I couldn't
ordinarily say.
I came to the Rag enthusiastic, scared
feeling responsibilities. I came to the Rag
knowing that it would be hard work. I came
to the Rag expecting hard work from my
staff.
The Rag and I got along well from the
start ... we really hit it off. I believed
that the paper should be honest, should be
forceful when necessary, should be under
standing, should be ethical. So did the Rag.
And so did the staff. The Rag and
I met a lot of people. We did a lot of
talking, we did a lot of thinking, we
did a lot of worrying.
The Rag and I worried about many
things ... the University's future, the
paper's future, the students' future.
We worried about lack of money, stale
curriculums, teachers with tenure who
didn't teach. We worried about tuition in
creases, and sometimes we worried about
student government.
The Rag was a faithful pal.We had a
platonic relationship that sometimes, at 2
a.m., grew passionate. We liked each other.
The Rag and I liked our staff, too.
We got the hard work we expected
from them. I rarely complimented the
staff, but the Rag did quite often.
Sometimes her headlines and copy
were full of pride.
I was proud of the staff because they
not only worked hard up to 50 hours a
week but they also worked well together.
The Rag showed this cooperation.
The Rag's news editor "filled" six
pages almost every day. The Rag's man
aging editor laid out the pages, then often
went down to night news with the night
news editor and me until the wee hours
to see that the pages were put together.
The business manager saw to it that
the Rag could boast expanded pages, more
money for pictures and cartoons.
A sports editor became involved with
the Rag after his work on the Cornhusker
was over. Reporters and copy editors saw
the Rag more hours every week than they
saw class.
And then there were the unpaid,
but MP's of the staff ... the car
toonists, the columnists, the workers.
These people helped make the Rag a
truly student newspaper.
All these people became involved in
the affair I had with the Rag.
Sometimes I wonder if I loved the Rag
enough Yes, I gave her my time, I gave
her my worries, I sacrificed my grades
for her.
No she deserved more. There was so
much more we could have done if we could
have spent more time together.
But now the Rag and I are "just
friends." Oh, I'll come down and visit her
next year, sometimes I'll probably even
write to her: I know I'll work to help her
when I can.
But now she has new suitors.
They'll love her, too, and someday
they'll feel the same melancholy at
being just friends.
Jo Stohlman
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By STEVE ABBOTT
Every so often a surprise,
like when ASUN senator
Dave Sensensy takes a
mimeoed ASUN constitution
seriously enough to go be
fore Student Court about an
apparent irregularity, like
when Carl Davidson got his
hair cut, but the surprise
I want to talk about is of
a different sort. Whenever
I find that "education"
under the "System" doesn't
interfer with my "learning"
I'm surprised.
One such recent happy oc
casion was a paper I was
asked to write on Albert
Camus. Let me share it with
you. I was standing in Love
Library trying to hide the
fact I was reading Camus's
Notebook! 1935-42 (got
- to put on the cool stud ASUN
Senator image now you
know, and books like that
might make people sus
picious of me . . . radical,
wild-eye, etc.) and BANG
I read this fantastic little
jmment on travel. Since
most of you will be traveling
somewhere this summer the
comment should inter
est you, too:
"What gives value to
travel is fear. It is the fact
that, at a certain moment,
when we are so far f r o m
our own country ... we
are seized by a vague fear,
and an instinctive desire to
go back to the protection of
old habits. This is the most
obvious benefit of travel. At
that moment we are fever
ish but also porous, so that
the slightest touch makes
us quiver to the depths of
our being.
"We come across a cas
cade of light, and there is
eternity. This is why
we should say that we travel
for pleasure. There is no
pleasure in traveling, and I
look upon it more as an
occasion for spiritual test
ing. If we understand by
culture the exercise of o u r
most intimate sense t hat
of eternity then we travel
for culture.
"Pleasur Jakes us away
irom ourselves in the same
way as distraction, in Pas
cal's use of the word, takes
us away from God. Travel,
which is like a greater and
a graver science, brings us
back to ourselves."
Now, what'b all that
about! Well, I don't expect
all of you to clip that thought
out and stick it in your bill
folds for further reference.
For instance: the ticket
taker says to the girl:
"Miss, may I see your tick
et to deepest Africa?"
The beautiful coed re
plies: "Umm, I'm afraid
I've lost that, but here's
the most fantastic eye-opener
by Camus (coed winks).
He's from Africa too you
know."
You never know, however,
maybe NU will take the
goddess Stupidity off the
throne, and replace her with
the goddess Reason. If we
can convince the G r e k s
this move is actually lonser
vative (man, ;iKe the pre
cedent was set before 1800)
mayba je'Il have a chance.
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Dead Week '66
Sorry About Thatl
Being a compendium of farce, humor and
comment, selected arbitrarily by the Edi
tor .. .
Finis: The Editor, singularly under
whelmed by the avalanche of apathy which
greets the publication of this crier's col
umn, is ending this old foolishness in the
hopes that it will be buried with similar
disinterest. Providing the press holds up,
there will be no subsequent columns. (This
is the end.)
Historical Note of the Day: In 1539,
the Floodgian Time Zone has Friday twice.
In 1963, University of Nebraska, Flotsam
and Jetsam get together to study for fin
als, decide it's a waste.
Thought for the Year: This is the
last Daily Nebraskan this school year.
The Faculty Committee on Student
Affairs passed the AWS' proposal for sen
ior keys yesterday . . . unanimously.
The questioning was perfunctory . . .
as everyone knew that the proposal was
so sane, logical and important to women
students that it had to be passed
We hope that women students next
year will not grow fat on these few
crumbs.
What is really needed here ... as at
similar institutions of nigher learning, is
an Institution for Greater Responsibility
on the Part of Women Students.
And the responsibility Isn't some
thing that should have to be doled out
on an AWS platter; rather It is a re-
sponsibility that should exist by virtue
of the fact that women who are 20 or
21, have reached their third and fourth
years of college, are not, by-and-Iarge,
influenced in their conduct (study or
sexual behavior) by the rules imposed
on them.
No need to harangue on the fact that
attitudes toward sex or studying are pret
ty much determined by the third year of
college; no reason to expound on the fact
that rules might make undesirable be
havior more inconvenient, but they certain
ly aren't a prohibiting factor.
(Sigh . . .) Maybe someday all will
grow up to the facts.
Looked over my first editorial yester
day. (For some insane reason, I thought
it might be amusing to do so.) The title
of it was "Goal: To Grow With NU."
And one of the statements I made then
was "the Daily Nebraskan is not now in
dicative of the growth of the University."
Thanks to the help of many interested
persons (mostly the staff), I can say truth
fully that I think it now is ... or pretty
closely approaches it.
People who write letters to the edi
tor don't get any money for it, usual
ly don't get any praise either. Well,
we'd be the last to thank anyone for
writing. (But It was nice to hear from
you.)
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your studying go?
With a feeling I'm sunk, and I'm going to
flunk,
What else would you like to know?
For all those who are glad this is the
last "Sorry," and for all those who are
unbelievably happy this is the end, we'll
forever be Sorry About That!
Lost Cool
By LIZ AITKEN
The year is nearly gone.
There's nothing really ex
citing left to write about.
The football team was suc
cessful, Homecoming elec
tions were muddled with
politics, the faculty evalua
tion booklet saw its begin
nings despite myriad ob
stacles, student government
finally did something and
stopped the tuition rise, then
red robes had their annual
scrimmage, and so on
through the year's events.
No, there is nothing much
to write about except finals
(which, granted, is a pretty
significant nothing for a
couple thousand male stu
dents over eighteen). There
have been several editorials
and editorial columns in
the Rag advocating final
exams that are merely hour
exams.
I think this is wrong. A
final exam should be just
what it says, an exam
which tests the student's
knowledge over the entire
course. After all, one vain
hope of education is that the
student can retain some of
the concepts he has learned
In the class a little longer
than a few weeks.
Before all of you finals
panicked, sleepless and har
ried students burn me in
effigy, let me qualify my
stand.
A comprehensive final
depends heavily on the
quality of the instructor if
it is to be a worthwhile test.
A final over the entire se
mester's work is justified
only if it concerns itself with
broad and comprehensive
trends that have been d i s
cussed during the course.
A justified final should
not be a request for Isolated
facts or dates that were
learned 17 weeks ago. Rath
er, it should be a general
question that allows the
student to pull in the facts
that he thinks are signifi
cant to the topic and trace
the developments of related
movements.
This is a real final; b u t
admittedly certain courses
lend themselves to this type
of final far more than oth
ers. History is an excellent
example of a course that is
perfect for a general-question
type final exam.
Other courses, like phys
ics or chemistry, don't fit
into this pattern but t h e y
too can be more than just
an hour exam. The ques
tions that are asked on
these finals don't have to be
a list of obscure facts dat
ing back from the first
weeks of the semester but
they can be finals that re
quire a thorough knowledge
of previously studied ma
terial in order to handle
the tested material.
There are a lot of holes
In this demand for good
comprehensive finals. It
takes Intelligent men who
are good teachers to make
np good exams, especially
an exam that must meas
ure a student's entire
knowledge of a course.
And as every student and
most professors know, our
faculty does not exclusively
consist of good and intel
ligent men.
I realize that with the
finals schedule set up as It
is, many professors are
faced with grading finals
within a matter of hours.
With this task staring them
in the face many of the fac
ulty choose to give their
students objective tests
rather than essay exams.
Objective tests can't help
but be mere hour exams or
lists of obscure facts from
the first parts of the semes
ters. While I can sympathize
with the professors that
make this choice to ease the
strain, I cannot back their
decisions. Just like the stu
dents, professors should be
willing to make en extra
effort at the end ,of the
year for the cause of com
prehensive education.
What's more, like any
other worry-wracked s t u-
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Support for Threat'
Dear Editor,
Threat has once again boldly marched forward to take
a controversial stand on one of the most pressing moral
issue's of our day: racial discrimination. It presents the
facts through a dialogue which took place is the Union,
takes a firm position on the issue, and offers suggestions
for positive action by socially concerned individuals.
The NU Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinat
ing Committee fully endorse Threat's stand and com
mend Bill Phillips and Bruce McSpadden for focusing at
tention on an overt injustice that is usually carefully sup
pressed. We feel that the time for honest discussion and
evaluation is overdue.
Threat has raised the question. Are we going to con
tinue to encourage, practice and promote racial discrimi
nation? Few are willing to openly answer, "Yes," but how
many are willing to hide behind their silence? Such silence
must be interpreted to mean, "Yes!"
Is that your response? Do you agree with the sorority
and fraternity advisers quoted in Threat? We don't know
nor care which advisers were quoted. That's incidental.
But we do know and care that the attitudes they ex
pressed continue. We find it distressing that such ideas
should exist anywhere in our society; we are appalled that
they should be supported by anyone in the position to in
fluence so many people.
Decisions made by the Greek system at this university
affect not just its members, but almost everyone connected
with the oampus. NU's Greek system is notoriously power
ful. Does this power carry no responsibility?
We feel that it carries a great deal of responsibili
ty. Individual houses cannot hide behind the system. Nor
can individual members hide behind the skirts of their
houses. This is a moral question that demands an answer.
It can no longer be ignored.
The challenge has been raised. It is a threat. Are you
going to turn and run, or are you willing to honestly dis
cuss the implications of the issue? Will you accept your
responsibility?
"Coward, take my coward's hand."
JoEllen Williams, President
Friends of SNCC
IFC View of 'Threat'
Dear Editor,
I would like to take this opportunity to evaluate the
publication Threat and at the same time give the IFC's
view on the subject dealt with in it. First of all, I feel
the editors of the publication used a very short-sighted
and deceitful way of gathering their "facts" for their arti
cle. At no time were any of the officers of the IFC con
sulted about the problems as seen by the Rev. Hudson B.
Phillips or the Rev. Bruce K. McSpadden. We would have
been glad in the past and will be very happy in the future
to sit down with them and explain the Greek side of the
picture which is lacking in their publication.
Also, the two persons interviewed were quoted out of
context and were themselves amazed at what they. were
supposedly responsible for saying. No notes were .taken
on the conversation which took place in the Union over a
cup of coffee. Also, the two interviewed were not aware
that their remarks in any context were to be used in any
way.
I myself find it hard to believe men of their positioi
would publish something using the method they employed.
I find that whole part of the publication libelous. I quote
from their own publication, "Talk to key individuals . . . '
I would hope that in the future they would do so.
Looking from an IFC point of view, we realize there
is a problem. Steps have been taken to alleviate it. In
the first place, there are no restrictions as to who may
participate in our rush week, other than grades. Men of many
races and religions have and will continue to do so in the
future. Also, at approximately this time last year steps
were taken to remove discriminatory clauses from house
constitutions that explicitly stated that they could not have
a Negro member.
We are proud to say that no fraternity on this campus
has a clause like this and that no fraternity can be a
part of our Greek system that has a clause of this nature
in their National constitution unless they can receive a
waiver on this. This enables all men to be considered on
what is of value character, morality, and social com
patibility. As far as religion goes, all I can say is that
religion is a matter of free choice race is not.
Speaking for myself, there are Negroes in my frater
nity nationally and this does not worry or bother me one
bit. I believe that these members were selected on a basis
that judges a man by standards other than color of skin. I
would also hope that any person would be judged similar
ly by our system.
Maybe this sounds idealistic to you but I have had an
opportunity to work during the past month with Bob Pick
ens, president of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, and cannot
help but think a man like this would be an asset to many
fraternities.
I would hope that this letter will help clear up any mis
understandings. Again, to the publishers of the Threat, the
officers of the IFC would be happy to sit down and talk to
you about this subject or to anyone else who might desire it.
Gary Larsen,
IFC President
Living Costs in Co-ops
Dear Editor,
In yesterday's Daily Nebraskan, Edward Bryan, direc
tor of University housing, stated ,"The cost to the individ
ual is only three dollars per day for room and board. Where
else can a student live this cheaply in Lincoln?" He also
said that the charge for room and board in the dorm is
$725.
Cornhusker Co-op members pay $2.60 a day for a total
of $656 per year, for room and board. The other Co-ops
have similar rates
Leroy S. Schoen, Corresponding Secretarj
Cornhusker Co-op Inc.
Theatre Coverage
Dear Editor,
On behalf of the University Theatre, I would like to
n m 'opportunity to express our sincere thanks to the
Daily Nebraskan and in particular to Bruce Giles for your
cooperation in the past year.
We feel that cur repertory system has been very sue
eeisfuU this year, and we are pleased that we will be able
to offer our plays again next year in repertory.
A major share of the credit for the success that w
.aHeK?.nl1Td U glven to the Daily Nebraskan for its help
in publicizing our efforts this year
Thank you again.
Richard Maulsby, Publicity Director
University Tbeatr