The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, September 23, 1966, Page Page 2, Image 2
Friday, September 23, 1966 Page 2 The Daily Nebraskan Yes-More Teacli-iiis I 1 r 3 15 13 A "1 f-1 , One of the things this campus needs is more teach-ins or large discussions where 66th sides of contemporary problems can be discussed. '.' For this reason the Daily Nebraskan hopes that Students for a Democratic So ciety (SDS) will be successful with its plans for several teach-ins at the Universi ty this year. SDS is now making plans for teach-ins on Red China and Black Power. The Ne braskan cannot imagine few more worth while projects than the planning and organ ization of such discussion. We ourselves would like to know more about both of these topics and hear intelli gent speakers debating over what Black Power really means and if Red China should be admitted to the United Nations or not. If any organization on campus is now trying to think of a project which will make them useful to the University, we The Daily Nebraskan staff and the Cornhusker are not planning a woodsie. The news, copy and editorial staffs knew nothing about the story in Thurs the two publication staffs. YD, YR PRESIDENTS SPEAK: Donkey Serenade . " . is J 1 ' -. - .- - ? jo"- V , v By Sabra McCall Republicans say this year is "op eration comback." Come back to W h a t? Not since Teddy Roosevelt have the GOP' put forth a progressive image. Do we want to go or "come" back to the early 1900's? We lived through Herbert (a chicken in every pot) Hoover, later came Dwight (Caretaker) Eisenhower and we a 1 m o t bad to live with Tricky Dick Nixon. And The republicans want us to come back to them? "Never!" serenades the Democratic Donkey. We must move ahead to the fu ture. Lest we forget, the Democrats are the party of youth, vigor, and John F. Kennedy. We have the opportunity to elect a governor with these qualities of youth and vigor. Will you work to put Phil Sorensen in the chief executive chair of the State? The association is obvious I'hil Soren-. sen's older brother was President Ken nedy's chief aid and adviser. And this very nlgbt JFK's younger brother Teddy is campaigning for Phil Sorensen in Omaha. Several years ago Sorensen's brother noted the drain of youth from Nebraska. Phil Sorensen wants to keep the y o u n g people here in the state. There is an op portunity for youth to serve Nebraska by helping to elect a forward-looking candi date. The Democratic slate has leadership and positive persons from top to bottom. Take Governor Frank Morrison. According to the Governor, he is making a bid for the U.S. Senate seat that has been used to demean the office of the Presidency. He offers N'ebraskans the first pro gressive, forward-looking voice since Sena tor George Norrls. He would have more than the word "no" in his voting record. He would vote strictly the Nebraska line including flood control programs, de velopment of human and natural resources and for necessary funds which will relieve the taxpayer's burden. And take Clair Callan, whom Nebras kan know will do something for them in the House of Representatives. Just ask the farmer. Callan' opponent would have Nebras kan! vote him into office. What would this do to the State's two-party representation in Washington? I Tills state needs at least one Democrat in the House. Who else would work for a four year farm program, a Job corps in Lincoln (his opponent has called the war on poverty a 'dismal failure'ja watershed project financing and a new post office building for the Capital City. Thli is not "operation comeback" year, this is Nebraska's opportunity not to come back, but to move ahead. - TbJs is not a Serenade to lull you to sleep, but to arouse in you, a desire to make It the Democratic victory song that Is sung on Nobcmber 8th. Our Apology Left IE" - HI By Cathie Shattuck In case you're wondering where the mythical land of "Left of Right" may be found, I'll give you a clue. It's not near the J.B.S. (John Birch Society) or the Y.A.F. (Young Americans for Freedom) organizations. Young Republicans on the University of Nebraska campus are definitely not re actionary despite what some of our more critical friends may say. As a matter of fact we have even been labeled "the new campus left." But, left or right, it really makes no difference. It's consicience that counts and not Barry's kind either. Positive and progressive leadership is what the college students of today are looking for, and it is this kind of leader ship that we aim to supply against any and all odds. We are more than Republicans for we envision our role as that of the progressive leaders In a never ending effort to elect positive and progressive candidates to office. Each time there is an election we sup port all Republican candidates. At t h e same time we look to the future, when we or those of our political sentiments will compromise the ticket from top to bottom. This year the Republican party has a fine slate of candidates. We are working hard to elect them in November. In so doing we are gaining valuable experience. When the time is right, we will be ready to take over as the party's top leaders. Until then we will fight for our pro gressive cause gaining courage from the words of our first leader, "Forgive and Remember." Nebraskan Supports Foundation The Innocents and Mortar Boards met at Chancellor Hardin's house Thursday night to discuss with Builders and the Nebraska Foundation plans for student contributions to the Foundation. The Nebraskan will work closely with Builders this year in trying to educate students on the many things the Founda tion does for the school and how students possibly could take a greater interest in this organization which does provide the school with many fringe benefits. As Harry Haynie, president of t h e Foundation, often says the contributions people make to this charitable corpora tion provide the University with the "extras" that the taxpayers' money and the tuition fees can not afford to give. This is the first of many words that will be written in the Nebraskan this semester about the Foundation and we do sincerely hope that ail students will try to become better informed on the Foundation and how they may work with It to help the school. would suggest that more groups copy SDS's example by planning such educa tional discussions. One often wonders why it is that only groups like SDS have enough interest in world problems to study, debate and have opinions on different issues. There really is no reason why IFC, Builders, Panhellenic and other traditional organizations on this campus couldn't also do something for the education of an indi vidual and plan similar discussions oc cassionally. If one doesn't like SDS or some of the things it stands for fine. In many instances the Daily Nebraskan would agree with the criticism. But one should at least have enough courage to admit that this group and others like it in many ways are contributing more to universities than most traditional groups are as far as helping people learn to think and educate themselves. Appropriate measures have already been taken and a mistake of this type will not happen again! Wayne Kreuscher Of Ri&ht lmmwmm e.4 1 QLo JJLajl's, istJl A. r ' I Our Man Hoppe- They v re iomiiiir 10 laice The fiendish Chinese Communists, in their in sane frenzy to remake the world, have harnessed a force so awesome, so in credibly powerful, that civi lization appears doomed. I'm speaking, of course, of teen-agers. You've read, I trust, where roving bands of Chi nese youths, known as the "Red Guard," have been breaking into homes and stores to stamp out revi sionism in their elders by cutting their hair, burning their old-fashioned haber dashery and generally in structing them on the errors of their ways. Yes, the Chinese leaders have unthinkingly unleashed the unbelievable energy and unshakable dogmatism of the teen-ager. They are ob viously playing with forces no man can control. But what makes me shud der is the thought of the lightning-like speed with which teen-age fads spread. Any night, now, there may be a knock on my door. "Hi, there, Daddy-o. We were marching by and thought we heard a platter spinning In your pad here that sounded suspiciously like Guy Lombardo." "Guy Lombardo! Good heavens, I wouldn't play a record like that. You must have ha, ha heard the cat when I stepped on its tail. I was just curled up with this good book here. See? The Influence of Zen Existentialism on Bob Dy lan. " "Yeah, that's what it says on the jackets, but hadn't it over, pops. Hah! Just as I thought. Inside is a bound copy of Playboy. Burn it, Al. And where did you get that haircut, dad, off a pow er mower?" "I've been trying f o r years to get it longer, hon est. But at my age it grows slowly." "Your tie grow slowly, too, Daddy-o? Hand me the tape measure. Al. Look at that, under two Inches wide? You never heard of the Fat Max pops?" "I think the cleaner must have shrunk it." "Man, I never saw such a revisionist. And what's in that glass?" "Oh, just a little night cap." "Alcohol! We got the weed, we got the. acid and you want to turn on with that stuff? You don't like your liver, maybe?" "WelMia, ha-I find it kind of relaxes me and then when I get out there on the old dance floor to do the Twist, I . . ." "The Twist! The guy's a walking relic. Take h i m away, Al." So there I'll be, out In the street, publicly burning , rr rr i my Guy Lombardo records and wearing a sign saying, "I'm a M i d d 1 e-Aged Square." Which I am. But who wants to be reformed by teen-agers? No, it's we grown- u p s who are supposed to be running the world. And I say let's sign a Universal Teen-Age Ban Treaty before it's too late complete with threats to reduce their al (fan fJtUn Writes , . Who Would HaveThunk It? After many years of pro testing, long months of re search and much ponder ing, last year's AWS Board passed a senior key system not a radical, wild or unsupervised pro posal, but one that was car fully thought out and thor oughly planned. What happened, however, when it was to go into ef fect? A group of supposedly mature women who had not bothered to study the plan and do not have to live under the confines for the old system walked into the meetings and said "Forget it girls, you just aren't ready to set your own hours even if you are legally old enough to do most anything else?" And what did the sorority women do to combat this obvious alumnae irTfer ence? They smiled and said "Anything you say" and re leased public statements that it was their decision. Who would have thunk it? Yes, who would have thunk that any of the "irerity houses would knuckle under so reaiily when their mem bers were the one's who really knew what the sy stem was all about? And who would have thunk that their alums have such little confidence in the com mon sense of their colle. giate groups to autocrat ically veto a system they know little about? Granted, orientations and explanatory meetings were held with various alumnae groups last spring to thor oughly explain that the keys are of a special type that cannot be duplicated except at the factory, cannot be ex changed between houses even though they look ex actly alike and that a sy stem has been established to prevent misuse of them. But how many of these most honorable women real ly listened? And even If they did dis agree with the Idea, what moral or practical right have they to try to regu late the lives of those women of legal age? The alumnae stress they they "are concerned" about . -I ' tut M tit lue Arthur Hoppe lowance and cut off their television. Let's pray we can get the genie back in the bottle. Let's pray we middle-aged squares can find some way to go right on telling these energetic, dogmatic kids what to do. And let's pray, above all, that they'll go right on paying no atten tion to us. the Greek image. Well, if that image is to be one of and an autocratic system under which collegiates have no say-so in their own af fairs fine, for them. There are, however, sor ority women both in col legiate and alumnae groups who believe that the Greek system can progress to the level where it at least mea sures up to that of the in dependents in honoring the individual rights of one and South African Student Writes On Verwoerd EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is part of a letter received by University stu dent Robert Erickson from a while South African stu dent who attends the Uni versity of Natal in I'ieter manztburg. The le'.ler, which was written the day of South African Prime .Minister Hendrik Verwocrd's assas sination, gives this stu dent's personal view of the assassination and Yer woerd's policies. ... I feel it has been a tragic day for us in the real sense of the word ... It is shattering when this hap pens to one's country at the least expected time and at a time when South Africa has to stand together in view "of international on slaught. We have the South West Africa question to solve and there are many problems which face us. Whether one agrees with Dr. Verwocrd's policies or not, one must ad mit that he was a well-educated, dynamic Individual who had worked unflinch ingly for South Afrlcu. He gave this country an identity which has drawn the people together. 1 mean here that he saw the nationalization of South Af rica as a Republic no long er tied to the apron straps of Britain. He was a man wit n the courage of his convictions Remorse of Conscience! Let us look at the campus churches. For an en tire year I had been plann ing to blast them as t h e prophets of old blasted Is rael. How these Irrelevant lit tle clubs need a Jeremiah. But now I discover I can't start quite this way because last Sunday I experienced a most exciting event an "Agape" mass at the Cath olic Newman Center. "Agape" Greek word for love (would be too em barrassing I suppose to ad vertize a "Love-feast" in Anglo Saxon). Why the ex citement? For the first time on this campus in deed, in the state Roman Catholics had an opportun ity to realize a community encounter with Christ such as Christians of the first century knew. Communion was extended into an actual mean ("avec vin") and song was again relevant and hearty. Do you see what this could mean? If the more than one thousand Catholic students on this campus started tak ing Christ as seriously and with as much enthusiasm as was initiated at that "Agape", this campus would be turned upside down.- Revolution in chari table action! Servants at last! Agenbite of In wit! But we dare rejoice so soon? History is against us. Catholics are notorious for failing to act on the prin ciples of their religion. (Protestants we can excuse more easily because their principles are so nebulous that it is impossible to eli cit a unified action from them.) Pope John spoke boldly and clearly in "Pacem in Terris," but most U.S. ca thedrals muted his sound in the terra cotta of candle wax and altar societies. I say Catholics who stoned King in Chicago are every bit as bad off as those who tortured heretics and marched on Crusades. eventually take leadership. It seems ridiculous that 21-year-old women are not respected by their older sis ters and even more so that these older sisters refuse to listen to the facts regard ing the security aspects of the system. Yes, Virginia, AWS is making advances, but some old ladies in the Greek est tablishment are fighting them. Who would have thunk it? and although I oppo.se his policies generally, I felt that with him at the helm at least there would be moderation. The act of assassination Is horrible In any event, but this was so deceitful and so very ghasHy occurring In the House of Assembly. An act of violence like this is very degrading. What the future holds for us, I do not know. Those who might be eligible for premiership lack his moderation and vi tality and others lack ex perience . . . . . . We are all torn be tween w hat seems so wrong in theory and the almost impossibility of any change in practice. This problem of colour-consciousness is very complex and will nev er be solved by laws en forcing integration. I think you have proved that what is basically needed is a change in the ideas of the people and this docs not occur over night. Furthermore there must also be a cultural integra tion before u social integra tion, This Is what you can not appreciate as your Ne groes do not have a culture far removed from your own. In South Africa it is differ ent. The cultures are very far removed from one an other. Denisc MuHtcrt 0 fowl In his book "The Human Church," Father William Dubay said that the first step toward parish reform is to burn down the church es. Push the complacent Catholics out of their cozy ghetto and into the sunlight of this century. I suppose some kids at the "Agape" mass last Sunday feared they were in the midst of heresey. Dos toyevski's Grand Inquisitor suggested that any true practice of Christiani ty would be dealt with as heresy by institutional churches, but now we find it is not the institution but the people who lag behind. Probably half the Catho lic students on campus would rather doze in t h e i r pews while the good pastor tells them that "Playboy" is a naughty mag, than make an honest-to-God com mitment of themselves. Will it always be this way? Hopefully not. Father Donald Emming, the new Newman chaplin, will do a lot of good if he gets the chance. We'll have to wait and see if Catholic students can take their "Agape" out of the church and into the Stu dent Union, into the places on campus where "it's hap pening." (Note: In following weeks, Agenbite of Inwit will take a look at other campus re ligions, including a new group called B'hai). Campus Opinion . . . Olson Defends Sponsorship Dear Editor, In the light of recent ed itorials and letters to the editor about Homecoming displays. I would like to ex plain why Corn Cobs and Tassels resumed sponsor ship of this contest. In response to many re quests and criticisms from students and outside sources (local radio stations and Lincoln citizens), we took a poll of the eligible display participants. We found that sufficient interest was shown to war rant resumption of the con test and we felt that it was our responsibility, if not our duty, as spirit organizations to assume sponsorship. Con sequently we set up 4 divi sions to include all Univer sity organizations, not only living units. To the critics of our spon sorship, I can oniy say that entry into this contest is purely optional. Corn Cobs and Tassels merely provide the opportunity for those who are interested. Each campus organization Is composed of mature, ra tional individuals who are capable of d e c i d i n g for themselves if they can han dle the work or not. I hard ly think that any of these groups need someone from without their organization tod decide what is best for them. Jerry Olson Corn Cob Homecoming Chairman Daily Nebraskan Vol 0. No. 7 Sept. 1. 14 Sccond-clM ralMi paid lit Lincoln, Nfh. Memtjcr Associated Collegiate P r e 1 1, National Advertising Service, Incorporated, Published at Room 51 Nebraska Union, Lincoln, Neb., 68518. TELEPHONE: 477-8711, Ex tensions 2588, 2589 and 2590. 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