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The Daily Nebraskan Thursday, December 8, 1966 Page 2 1,111,111 IliMHIIIIHIIIIII HIIIIHI!IIHNIIIIIIIIIIIIinilllllHII!lltnillllllllllllllllllllllll!llll!!IIIIMj, 1 n I 'vn i . I Listen To The Students yudy lllahars " i ill 7 .1 K if I 1 1 1 ! V. Vi ft i A ' -a . r In I Students cannot really understand the complexities or issues of the University's budget. - Nor is it possible for them to have a complete and accurate picture of what part personalities, politics, state economics and other issues play in deciding the budget. All students can know for sure is what type of edu cation they are receiving and all they can do is to con tinue as sincerely as possible to let the school and state know the many things they find unsatisfactory about their education. If a citizen in the state or a member of the Legis lature want to know why the University is asking for more money, all they need to do is read the students' comments in one week's publication of the Daily Nebras kan. In past years the school has often been in some sort of turmoil or excitement at the time of the budget hear ings and the Legislature's sessions. These turmoils have included mostl yextra-curricular activities such as "panty raids" and "water riots." " But today University students have matured greatly and they are no longer concerned with "panty raids" but rather with their education. The people of Nebraska will see no riots on campus, but they will find plenty of turmoil about the sort of education students feel they are receiving at this University. Plans for a "free university" to supplement the school's classrooms, constant complaints about the "spoon fed" and often inappropriate courses and many other ex amples of the students' sincere concern for the educa tional level and quality of this school are not just ways of passing time. The students are sincerely concerned about the Uni versity and hopefully so are the rest of the people in Nebraska. When Chancellor Hardin says that the school Is in a "crisis period" or that the school could "slip rapidly" he is not just talking politics, but expressing the unfor tunate truth. When Curt Bromm described the University's many faculty and classroom problems at the governor's hearing, he was not speaking for himself but for thousands of students. Students really don't know if all the research pro grams and other important parts of an educational in stitution need the money, but they do know that many of their favorite and most respected instructors seem anx ious to leave for a better school and that it constantly be comes more difficult to even be enrolled in the classes they need. Furthermore students really don't know who Is to blame for this situation only that it is hurting them and their future. Nebraska's best students will not tolerate a halfway education much longer. In future yearsw8if the state really cant support a high quality or even above average in stitutionthe "best" students simply won't be here nor will they be Nebraskans. MnHiiniiiiuinHminmiiutirniiiiinniMumnftininnnrmiiiniminuiuuiuitfuniicuuiiiiuuimiuuacn I . i j Campus I I Opinion ' A Black Christmas Dear Editor: During the "Black Power" teach-in, I was reminded of the enormous distance that must be covered before we can in any way speak of progress in dialogue between the black and white community. We fail to understand that any judgment concerning progress has to come from the black man and I have yet to hear any truly black man speak optimistically about progress. It Is distressing that the Christmas season in many ways widens the gulf with Its show window style of Christ tianity that displays to the poor, goods that they cannot afford, to the broken in heart, a jocularity that cannot be shared, to the lonely, a togetherness that they cannot realize. The opulence of white power Is never so much In evi dence as at Christmas when everything Is white and love is channeled through white charities. This is why I am dreaming of a black Christmas and why I am contributing to a black charity (Stokely Carmicbael, SNCC, Room 803, 100 Fifth Ave., N.Y., N.Y. 10011 Hudaon Phillip United Campus Christian Fellowship Colleges Disappoint Mortar Boards JTX Dear Editor: Last Wednesday, Nor. 90, a front page article in the Dally Nebraskan Informed students of the partial failure of the pass-fail grading system for elective courses. The negative stand which many departments have taken on the system is both surprising and extremely disturbing to many concerned University students. Because of the approval of the system that was given by the Faculty Senate last spring, It wag understood that all departments, even (he ones most hesitant about accept ing the system's philosophy, would at least be wMUng to try the system for a semester and then basa lot ore deci sions ob the reactions of the instructors who had past-fall students in their elassroom. It seems Cat refusals were mala without considering such an experimental situation. Also, comments made in this article indicated that some departments are equating grades with educational Interest. Ideally many students should choose as elective course because of an interest to learn about that field, but this situation does not exist because of frequent con cem about grade competition in an unfamiliar field this is true of the A student as well as the D student. Should a high degree of interest in subject matter or grades be promoted in education? As for the limited classroom space argument, bow can a department predict the increased enrollment in their classes when discussing the pass-fail system? Statistics are not available, since the program is new to all depart ments. Black Masque Chapter Of Mortar Board Dally NtbrcjJtcn Vol. W. h. 44 ' TELEPHONE: 77-S7U. Extensions ttSS, tUi and tm Member Associated Collegiate Press, Natieaal Ad vertising Service, Incorporated. Fahlisbai at Aoam 11, Nebraska Union, Lincoln. Nebraska. ttmmrt mmm turn mm at Mbr Uw M 4 ! Tis tH&t fitfrriMMfcASj IS MlMtasst4 rtmr tanaf irM raw. Vr ttmtt mit m mm VmtnUr um at W HUHftC BsnMtfMSMIIltatittt SSSJ AtSyASMSf Mna Mama, In MM nmmttlm m Mihm ml Ik Xmii an waanaMa (Mat ta UftMta. Rakraaka- Mw4a?i arta fia mt f thmtmm M tmmmmm ml mm i tMlrMtM Mull tnm nwii mm UatranHr. M Oh mmmrn siKCET fcifcTfyi5 Talk I.I 1 . I St n COLUMNIST'S NOTE: This is the first part of a one-part application found In a Daily Nebraskan waste basket. Only the name has been changed to protect the guilty. NAME: Rosie Palms CLASS: Ain't got much. TELEPHONE: Removed OVERALL AVERAGE: Overall, I'd say it's not too good. AVERAGE EXPECTED AT THE END OF THIS SEMESTER: I'm average in everything. MAJOR: Animal Husban dry POSITION APPLYING FOR (rate by choice): 1. Roving reporter (It's 7 ."ly-K lip :j'llllllllllllllllllilllll!l!!l':!!llllllllllllllllll(!!!llllll!'i!lll):iUllllllllllllilllll!IIMIMIli ...NUtes I (By SKarea (Jo (Bennet . . Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la la la la la . . ." Behold two musical ways to be Jolly during this jolly season: 1. listen to other people singing and playing the seasonal songs. 2. Play and sing them yourself. You can't escape the first one music is all around you now; and unless you're a stone-hearted, h a r d- haaded, humbugging the songs of ceie- bratlon are bound to miect a bit of joy into your sys tem before the holidays are ushered out by joyless exam cram. The second joUy method for making the most of the bolldaze is being where the action Is and contributing your personal toot or war ble. If you've hesitated be fore, here is your chance to make up for time and opportunities lost. People are much more uninhibited at special times like these; therefore, you may not Shock as many people as you think if yon suddenly start exercising the oT vo cal chords to swing with tbe season. If you could use a little boost in your self confi dence, try giving yourself a singing lesson with a little fisychology between the ines. Take a look at some of those old traditionals that you've been barreling through every December. There is no statute against practicing the hymns and carols of your holiday heritage. Such music by the nature of its sacred history deserves some special treatment Examine the one you like to sing best . . . perhaps the one you can sing best. If you are familiar with the keys of the piano, play the melody but slowly please. Give yourself time to think. Turn on both ears full force. Pay particular rT BEGA" AS )p5jcH0PATHEr IFF I To vWtn MY H$& maw ytoU hEL meow mainly my hands that rove). 2. Mild Mannered Report er for a great campus news paper which fights a never-ending battle against the forces of corruption, evil and Administration. Three cheers and a beer! 3. Girl on the street EXPERIENCE: Exten sive. I would rather not disclose this on paper as my publisher has instructed me not to. Call evenings af ter seven. WHY ARE YOU APPLY ING FOR THE ABOVE POSITION: I don't want to be a Mortar Board. I want to fight for truth, justice and the American Way attention to the pitches. Re peat the spots yon know give you extra trouble. Then sing with the piano, testing and tasting one note at a time and seasoning each with care and rever ence. Concentrate on not letting your pitch waver from the one the piano Is producing. Once you've approached the entire carol in this an alytical, scientific manner, look deep into the words and let them guide you in connecting those now accur ate pitches and in reflect ing the general spirit of the song. The keys to pleasant sing ing are quite simply, ease and accuracy. Singing nat urally (easily) comes from good posture, good health, a relaxed attitude toward the sounds you make, en Joying what you're sing ing. Accuracy is a result of concentration, patience, de termination, practice and experience. Nature gave you a flexible voice and sensitive ears: used care fully and naturally they make if not a winning at least a bearable even pleasant combination. Naturally your season will be brightened by filling your calendar with special listening events. The Uni versity Singers have a tre mendous program coming up this Sunday, and on De cember 18th all the choirs will be Joining forces in the "Messiah". Churches and synagogues offer tremen dous musical meditation. Television and radio will be (If not already) soon boom ing with popular perform ances of sacred and secu lar favorites. But the holidays will never mean so much as when your music is part of them. This year, give your self a gift to remember a new awareness of the po tential pleasure In the world of personal song. Welcome! The Season's finest greetings to alllU TO - EXCEPT (like the Apian Way). Which brings us to the second important topic of the day: Does the chancel lor really exist? Rumor has it that he never returned from the last trip to Co lumbia and is hiding in Ar gentina. Fof background, we take you to a scene in the office of the Dean of Men and Boys (DOMB), also known as Dean Boss or the Great White Whale. The dialogue takes place between Dean Boss and Virgil Pilezer, an apartment dwelling senior majoring in pharmacy. BOSS: You are quite aware, I'm sure, of the cur rent controversy, er, dis cussion, between students and administration over our policy of assigning off campus housing. VIRGIE: Yes, I am, and I must say that I think . . . BOSS: Think? Students don't often think around here and I'm glad to know that at least one does. Since you're a thinking man, I'm sure you'll agree that ev eryone should be treated equally, regardless of race, creed, color or sex. VIRGIE: That's true. However, if it means coerc ing . . . 7& Our Man Hoppe The Unfair Life Dallas "Life," President Kennedy once said, "is unfair." a a a It's been three years now. In the wa tery autumn sunshine the winter rye is forcing up tender shoots, creating patch es of light green on the grassy knolL The dead leaves from the scattered oak trees crunch underfoot. There towers the Texas School Book Depository, square, solid and unchanged. How close it is. How easy a shot. Three girl clerks in bouffant hairdos skitter np tbe steps, laughing. There stands tbe wooden picket fence where some swore they saw puffs of smoke. There is the railroad overpass, where some say they saw more assassins. And here the three-lane highway dips. Here is where it happened. The trucks, the buses, the cars roar over the spot heading for Fort Worth and out across the Texas pla'ns. At tbe entrance to the little plaza through which tbe highway dips, near a huge statue of some pioneer and on a low wall behind an old historical obelisk, they have finally erected a plaque. It briefly tells tbe story. A bronze map adjacent shows the parade route and the location of a "John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza" a block away. Tbe memorial plaza is a weed-filled lot an Allrlte auto park. "They're talk ing about putting a two-story underground garuge there with a little park on top," says an old man. "But seeing it took them three years to get that plaque up, it'll take them six years to get the park." Behind the plaque is a row of 14 flora oXferingi. One a bouquet of wilting Runs- pbR SA?D, I Lie you 9 9 BY KELIEY BAKER BOSS: Coercing? Virgie, we don't coerce, we just suggest. Now if you want to stay in school, we strong ly suggest that you move into Selleck Quad tomor row. Fair enough? VIRGIE: Since you put it that way . '. . BOSS: We knew you'd see things our way, Virgie. Dean Spider and I have spent many hours working on this policy and we think it is best for all coerced, I mean concerned. After all, men should be protected just as much as women, right? Not to mention the "total education" advant ages of group living. We'll expect you tomorrow by 5:30. VIRGIE: What . . . BOSS: What about your room? Well, a janitor quit this morning and there will be room for you as soon as we relocate the brooms and mops. VIRGIE: But I have the chancellor's permission to live off-campus. I talked to him three days ago on the phone. BOSS: No, Virgie, you didn't talk to the chancel lor, you talked to his programmer. Hill During the past few weeks, more attention than usual has been paid to a particular campus issue the Negro "problem." Questions ranging from dating to academics have been batted about with lit tle change, or, as far as I can see, actually little in tention of making any changes. The arguments thrown out in conversations or col umns seem to revolve around the rather nebulous idea that, In a multitude of watys, "Negroes aren't ac cepted at the University." If appearances were cor rect it would seem that there were many, many Negro students at the Uni versity attempting desper ately to be "accepted" in to a campus community in which they will undoubted ly be a minority group for many years. As the over-used argu ments of "Negro accept ance" settle into rather bor ing redundancy, two choices seems to be apparent: Ne groes can either accept their position as an out numbered group on campus ' and propagate the status quo, or they could make a rather active effort to take some of the steps in being members of a campus com munity. Considering recent grum blings from Negro and white students alike, it could be reasonably as sumed that the first alter native is less than satisfac tory. So on to the second. How is it that some stu dents are involved in cam pus concerns to the extent that they may be consid ered an "accepted" part of the University? If, indeed, this Is th goal of a sizeable percentage of Negro stu dents, how is such a status attained? It would seem that the quickest, most effective way to be included in the activities of the University would be to become in volved, in some respect, in the activities and interests of the campus. I have noticed in person al conversations with Negro students and in Daily Ne braskan columns, a recur rent feeling among Negro students that they are not "welcome," "encouraged," or "asked" to be in cam pus activities. Activities are certainly not a cure-all for problems of the Negro students, but, as some of these students have commented, activities are at least an attempt to become involved in the Uni versity. If this be the case, why is it that Negroes are hardly represented, if at all, in NU organizations? The reason Is, primarily, that an organization would Arthur Hoppe yellow chrysanthemums, carries a faded note: "In loving memory from a Chris tian patriot." Most of the rest are plastic roses on styrofoam wreaths, advertising 'The James Haynes Gar," "The Demo cratic Council of Clubs" and the like. On the grassy knoll right next to where it happened two workmen are ly ing in the sun and a gardener Is moving sprinklers. The gardener was there when it happened. He doesn't mind telling about It. But be doesn't want to give his name. 1 heard the shots all right. Sounded to me like they all come from the same direction. But I couldn't swear to it, though." And then he went on to grum ble about the long dry spell and how "we haven't had but one little spurt of rain for months." Five tourists are now studying t h e map next to the plaque frowning and pointing like amateur detectives as they argue about where the shots could have come from. Downtown you can still buy picture postcards of the scene. "But one thing we don't want," Dal las businessman said uneasily, "Is to make a tourist altructlon out of it." And as I stood there amid the gas fumes and traffic noise of where it hap pened, I was suddenly and briefly filled with a great ra;e. It wasn't a rags at plastic flowers or secret guilts or crass commercialism or that the world goes on as it has always gone on. Nor was it that the scene of what wt think of as "a noble martyrdom" seems, on visiting it, simply a lousy place to die. What enraged me, I think was the full, shocking realization that life is so damned unfair. be foolish to award a posi tion to any person who has not proved himself caprMe, in some way, in that parti- ' cular activity. Since organi zations choose their officers from the ranks of the work ers, It is difficult to give consideration to a Negro student if no Negroes, are on the committee. Likewise, if a Negro, or any student, does not make the initial effort of joining a particu lar organization, little can be done by the organization itself. So Perhaps NU activi ties are not the answer at all. Furthermore, perhaps the comments about Ne groes and organizations are not representative of a gen- uine interest on the part of . , , these students. If however, these statements are at all true, the first step begins with, "I am interested in your committee and, if " you need some help. I -would be more than happy ..." Campus Opinion . Negroes Play Campi ius Role Dear Editor: I am writing to you in reference to your Nov. 30 column, "The Other Sheep." The writer felt that she was qualified to state her own opinions, so I am stating mine as equally. First of all, I disagree with the statements con cerning "the lack of unity among Negroes" because I am a Negro and don't find a lack as a whole but as a fraction, which is on a stray's part. The Ne groes seem to be united in a sense that they are a mi nority. But it is the one who segregates herself (himself) from her (his) own race by superior feel ings of wanting to be the attended one who isn't unit ed. Leaving parties, a n o n friendly attitude of primary jealousy, and simple re marks to or about other students on campus are Just a few descriptions of a stray sheep in my opinion. When these descriptions are ignored by others, the sheep feels unwanted and strays to a secluded place to eat its own feelings or faults. In other words, I am say ing that you can't get sym pathy for an ignorant, un sympathetic act. Secondly, I feel that the Negroes' role or part of campus life is not rationed wholly. The Negroes, Jews white, Chinese, Africans, and any other race are just as equal and will always be treated equal as a student at the University. If t h i s school was meant to be all white, there wouldn't be any polkadot, purple, strip ped or blue people admit ted. Some Negroes have tak en advantage of these equal opportunities and hold po sitions in many organiza tions. Just to mention a few, Sandoz Hall has two Negro vice presidents, and AWS workers is headed by a Negro. Our bowl-b o u n d football team, In which there is a great represen tation of different races, has many Negro athletes. So you see the Negroes are not ignored completely. Last of all, interracial dating is inevitable at Ne braska, Wyoming, Viet Nam, or tin-buck4oo. Ihave nothing against interracial dating because the ties be tween one race and anoth er are brought closer through understanding. Aft er talking with a few stu dents who engage in inter racial dating, 1 find that, because of "position on campus," the white girls trail the Negro athletes. The Negro girls get the same opportunity to date the same athletes, but the girls attitudes towards the boys' personal lives are what cause so much con flict. In other words, it is "a nose In everybody's bus iness" that hinders the girls' chances of dating a Negro guy. Just sit back, be cool, and drink your pepsi because arguing this point would only bring hurt feel ings. Catherine Keith EDITOR'S NOTE: The Dally Nebraskan has re ceived many letters both agreeing and disagreeing with tbe comments made by Brenda Lyle In ber "The Other Sheep."
