THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Commentary
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1967
Editorials
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NU-OU Merger
There have been many rumors in the
past two months about possible disadvan
tages of a merger between NU-OU.
Students at Omaha fear that they will
lose their autonomy in many areas such
as student government, publications and
other student activities. University stu
dents have expressed apprehensions that
the merger would siphon off faculty which
already is sparse and over-worked.
Off the Hook
University students fear that the Uni
versity's budget will not be increased
enough to handle the new load and con
sequently students on the Lincoln campus
would subsidize the Omaha campus, there
by letting Omaha taxpayers off the hook.
No doubt there is some cause for con
cern any move of this importance will
necessarily raise many questions. How
ever, viewing the merger in the long-run,
it becomes obvious to the Daily Nebras
kan that the merger should be heartily
supported.
Clayton Yeutter, Governor Tiemann's
executive assistant and a former Univer
sity faculty member, has probably made
the most enthusiastic comment about the
proposal. He said the merger "will be one
of the finest things that has ever hap
pened in education in the state."
Lower Tuition
In the first place it will lower tuition
for Omaha students. OU students now pay
$18 per credit hour if they are Omaha
residents and non-residents pay $28 per
credit hour. All students pay a $30 a se
mester fee charge. The average yearly
tuition for residents is $600 while non
residents pay an average of $860.
If the two schools merge, OU's tuition
rates would come down to the University
rate which is now $334 yearly for residents
and $860 yearly for nonresidents.
For some 8,400 students, of course,
this is a decided advantage. For the en
tire state it is also an advantage. Many
students who cannot afford to pay high
tuition in Omaha, but also cannot afford
to move to Lincoln to go to school would
now be able to go to school thus, in
perspective, upgrading the level of educa
tion for Nebraska society as a whole.
Political Consideration
With the pressure off of Omaha tax
payers to pay for the operation of a mu
nicipal university, it is probable that Oma
hans will be more willing to support con
tinually increasing budgets for the Uni
versity. While not of primary importance,
this political consideration has been ad
mitted by top University officials.
A second reason why the merger
system is that it will provide for better
coordination between the two university's
campuses. Some critics have said that
competition serves to improve each in
stitution. In answer it may be said that
an improving system of state and junior
colleges provides competition in attract
ing top Nebraska students, and thousands
of other institutions in the nation provide
competition in attracting top faculty.
The entire Omaha plan will come un
der sole jurisdiction of the NU Board of
Regents. The six-man board would have
power to prescribe admission standards,
student fees and tuition, curriculum, de
grees to be awarded and all administra
tive officers.
President Retained
The present position of OU's presi
dent, Kirk Nfcylor, would be retained, but
the president would be under the present
Board of Regents. One provision of
LB 736, which proposes the merger, is
that "all rights and privileges of exist
ing (OU) faculty shall be fully protected."
The desirability of this streamlining
can hardly be questioned. While protect
ing existing rights, the merger would tend
to upgrade educational quality by elimi
nating unnecessary duplication, especial
ly in administrative matters.
Another advantage which is more in
the realm of hopeful speculation is that
the prestige of the University among Big
Eight and other larger state schools ould
increase. A larger and better-developed
school might attract top students and
faculty from across the country.
Some Confusion
The merger, which will be effective
July 1, 1968, if it is passed by the Leg
islature, will undoubtedly involve some
confusion and complications. But the de
tails can be worked out between the
schools.
What is important now is for Univer
sity students to support an act which by
all accounts is supported by every major
Nebraska government or educational of
ficial, to expand and Increase education
in Nebraska.
In Praise
In this editorial the Daily Nebraskan
would like to highlight eight very differ
ent students who it thinks deserve a great
deal of praise for a number of different
reasons.
Group of Eight
The group includes Gene Pokorny, Al
Spangler, Pam Hedgecock, Curt Bromm,
Phil Bowen, Marv Almy, Bob Samuelson
and Dick Schulze.
Pokorny to a great extent is respon
sible for making the University student's
present concern with education and its
value a campus issue. He was one of the
first to coin the term "total education"
and to explain what it should mean.
The organization of the Free Univer
sity and the leadership in organizing an
effective Arts and Science Advisory Board
are to a large degree because of Pokor
ny's work and intelligence.
Significant Sides
Spangler has shown his ability by
making students think and by presenting
significant sides to campus issue? as the
past president of SDS and presently as a
student senator. Spangler's untiring lead
ership at the Student Bill of Rights As
semblies and the Senate meetings have
often given perspective and energy to
ward solving campus problems.
An AWS president who stood for pro
gressive reform and meaningful coed
leadership, Miss Hedgecock proved her
self one of the University's finest AWS
presidents. She has helped to make prog
ress popular with the female population.
A difficult chairmanship which could
easily have been slighted because of its
complex issue, Bromm has made a great
effort at making the ASUN Legislative
Liaison Committee effective in its deal
ings with the Legislature. Bromm has
spoken well for the University students at
many budget hearings and has often had
to answer complex questions of the legis
lators for the students.
The Youngest
Bowen, the youngest in the group, has
proven one of Bromm's ablest assistants
in his work with the Legislature. He has
often provided an extra insight into state
government.
Almy is one senior who has proven
himself more valuable as time has past.
He too has been essential in helping
Bromm with the Legislature and is now
chairman of the extremely important Ad
Hoc Committee on Housing. Almy has
long been an essential man behind the
scenes and has lately proved himself ef
fective in many areas.
A graduate student who has never
lost interest in student government or stu
dent problems, Samuelson will always
have to rank at the very top. He has
shown leadership in the area of student
government for three years and very few
issues have passed without his influence.
Hardest Job
Schulze In many ways has the year's
hardest job designer and implementor
of the Student Bill of Rights. He has shown
throughout the year his careful devotion
to detail, accuracy and a seldom found
mixture of practicality and idealism. It is
likely that such a plan would have never
gone further than a student idea if it
weren't for him.
These eight are certainly not alone,
but they do represent some of the stu
dents at the University this year who have
proved effective leaders and outstanding
workers.
Poison Ivy
After purchasing my last ticket to go
to a dance to vote for somebody or another
anjl after buying some poor animal's left
leg to send the boys off to Chicago for
another week-end of fun, frolic, frivolity
arid education, I have finally come upon
a fair and honest proposal to get back for
every magazine, yearbook and ticket I
hove had to buy these pest years to help
a friend become a queen.
Tolkien Queen
I As a member of the Tolkien Society,
I am going to propose a Tolkien Queen
coiitest. How will the queen be chosen,
you ask?
! Well, personality, poise, grade aver
age, beauty, awareness of campus life and
activities will count for one per cent. The
other 89 per cent will rest on whoever
ells the most Hobblts.
These Hobbits will be genuine, and
all will possess the magic ring, which
means they can disappear at will. And I
have a feeling that since Nebraska's
weather does not appeal to the average
Hobbit, he will be Invisible most of the
( time.
1.000 Hobblts
We will also sell them cheaper than
you can buy them at any store, for after
all we will buy them in huge quantities
(we will have a minimum of five girls
from each house as candidates and to
even get in the preliminaries they must
each sell 1,000 Hobblts).
What with inflation as it is now, the
Tolkien Society will actually be doing stu
dents a favor by selling these Hobbits
for a mere $17.50. Actually, we'll prob
ably even Jose on the deal.
And since every queen must have a
prize, we too shall award a prize in
keeping with the glory of the title queen
on this campus a young, newly-married
Hobbit couple that does not believe in
birth control.
To Hail with the Queen!!!!
It's the American Way.
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Our Man Hoppe-
Discovery Of The Greeps
Arthur Hoppe
Herewith is another
chapter of that standard,
u n p u b 1 i s hed, refer
ence work, "A History of
the World, 1950-1999." The
title of this chapter, "How
the Greeps Saved Mankind."
it -k &
All looked hopeless. The
Arabs were about to attack
the Jews, the Catholics the
Communists, the Asians,
the Occidentals, the Afri
cans, the Colonialists and in
America nobody much liked
anybody.
Critical Point
It was at this critical
point in human history
that Dr. Schweitzer T. Pet
tibone, the universally re
spected anthropoligist, dis
covered the Green People
or, as they came to be
sniggeringly called, "The
Greeps."
"Greeps," wrote Dr. Pet
tibone in his historic mono
graph, "have green skin,
orange hair, pointy noses,
beady eyes and slavering
lips. They come in two siz
es: too short and too tall.
And they smell bad.
"While their brains are
undeniably smaller than
ours, they are fiendishly
clever. And though they
are lazy, shiftless and im
moral, they are driven by
greed to work night and
day at cheating their com
petitors and are thus re
sponsible for all business
failures throughout the
world.
No Pride
"They have no pride in
themselves nor sense of
family responsibility, yet
they are exceedingly clan
nish. Partly this is due to
their religion, which secret
ly seeks to take over all
governments, and partly to
their political system,
which they boast will bury
us.
"Born cowards, they will
fight at the drop of a hat,
but only with knives or oth
er unfair weapons. They
are also dirty, stupid, illit
erate, incredibly poor,
smoke opium, dress flash
ily, think life is cheap and
drive big cars. Their only
method of sexual expres
sion is rape and their only
form of greeting is: 'I want
to marry your sister.'
"On the plus side, they
do have a natural sense of
obsequiousness and when
treated as equals by a lib
eral, they will lick his
shoes."
Great Sensation
The discovery caused a
world-wide sensation. In
America, 50 States passed
laws relegating Greeps to
RON PFEIFER'S
A Handful Of Rain
Here we are again, Every week, without fail, it's back
to the Lowlands and their simple failures.
Magic Marie
Today, one of the simple successes is our' heroine,
Magic Marie. We step into her walled-off chamber where
she sits by a steamy window on the old Forester-type of
day, giving thanks to the men of Madison Avenue.
She leans back and exhales heavily, recalling her ex
periences in the Lowlands. She speaks softly of them in
hushed tones about her leaning against street lights and
wondering where she was at the time.
She goes on saying her earlier days were spent on
rainy streets and in lonely airports. Many a night she
spent waiting for phone calls that never came.
Something Else
She waited and she waited, growing tired of all that,
Somewhere, out In the deep valleys of the Lowlands, stood
a Flower Giver whom she had once cared for. He had
once been a dashing young man who had hoped to carry
her away from the Lowlands, to sweep her off her feet,
so to speak. But in his old age he had become somethine
else: a Flower Giver.
It seems he was a step behind in everything by the
time the change took place, He never realized his mis
takes until after the damage was done, and to his dismay,
public phone booths wore never his best friends. (Some
where there lies a logical tie-in.)
Now. as our heroine looks back on it all, she wonders
if he didn't cause more trouble than it was worth. The
question is open. Would the Lowlands be a decent place
with a few less Flower Givers?
the back of the bus, the bal
conies of theaters and sep
arate but unequal schools.
Country clubs added by
laws excluding Greeps, no
real estate deed was signed
without an anti-Greep cove
nant and the Christian Anti-Greep
Crusade made $10
million in its first year.
"Don't eat like a Greep,"
children were told. And
Greeps were blamed for
everything from inducing
elm blight to stealing golf
balls driven down the mid
dle of the fairway.
Arabs and Jews united to
defend the Holy Land from
Greeps. Catholics and Com
munists formed a Popular
Anti-Greep Front. And Red
China joined the newly-renamed
United Nations
Against Greeps.
Golden Age
At last the human race
entered the golden age of
tolerance, equality and
brotherhood--all men hap
py, secure and bound to
each other in their mutual
superiority to the lowly
Greeps.
Or
So It was that Dr. Petti
bone died, revered by all
as the founder of a n t i
Greepism. "Look here, Doctor," a
suspicious young reporter
asked him on his deathbed.
"How come nobody's ever
seen a Greep? I think you
invented them."
Dr. Pettibone raised him
self on one elbow in right
eous indignation. "I no
more invented Greeps," he
said firmly, "than the hu
man race Invented Niggers,
Wops, Kikes, Chinks or
Mackerel Snappers."
And all fair-minded his
torians agree that is abso
lutely true.
Daily Nebraskan
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. : . By Kelley Bakei
I originally Intended to write the great campus epic
when I began this poem but friends who have read it
have said it leans toward the mock epic because of the
subject matter. Actually, it could be classified as a modi
fied limmerick . . . modified in style but not intent.
This column could also be described as a reverse
racing form or an obituary for most of th people de
scribed. Again, the names of the innocents have been
changed to make it more fun to figure out who they are.
Thirteen haughty innocents dressed like elves,
Schlaf never rights the bill
We've really only twelve.
Twelve little innocents each looking for a son.
. Athos dropped bout everything
We should be minus one.
Eleven childish innocents playing in their pen,
Do'er is stuck with Tarry Schlaf
And now we're down to ten.
Ten devilish innocents all in a Una,
Rasputin never really was
So now there are just nine.
Nine spooky innocents with Just one trait,
Robin tried to print an egg
Which cuts the list to eight
Eight gunning innocents still in the race,
Legislators shot Whisk down
Leaving seven on the pace.
Seven shady Innocents with an empty bag of tricks.
Zoo Keeper left for Kansas U.
So all there are is six.
Six hoody Innocents yet remain alive,
Porthos slowly smiles away
To bring as down to five.
Five hustling innocents looking for a score.
Drug Store finally made a hit
Leaving only four.
Four remaining innocents really up a tree,
Flight leader flew away
To pare the group to three.
Three biased innocents didn't want a jew,
So they ousted Teddy Bear
And there remain but two.
Just a pair of Innocents basking in their sun,
All Meee got old and crusty
Removing all but one.
One skinny Innocent who wouldn't ever gun,
If his choosers had been smarter
They would have stopped with one.
If you add the group's accomplishments
And multiply by three,
You could count them on your fingers
And write tbem on a pea.
Poems are written by fools like me,
But it takes thirteen innocents to cover a tiny pea.
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Campus Opinion I
AWS' New President Writes
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Dear Editor:
For all the people that supported me In the AWS
election, I would like to say thank you!
A new year is beginning and hopefully AWS will in
the end be looked at as a progressive and more assertive
organization. For this to happen we need the support,
criticism and ideas from the populace, especially the
women students.
All are invited to come to the meetings. If they are
interested in speaking, we would appreciate notification
so we can put them on the agenda. Letters are always
welcome.
Through constructive criticism a better system can
evolve. If individuals are wondering who the represen
tatives are in their living unit, they are the AWS board
member, the AWS representative and the AWS worker.
These people are willing to (Lscubb anything pertaining
to AVS.
AWS does not have to be a "WAS" nor a "Has Been"
but an "Is." If we all work together, I am sure this
goal will be attained. AWS has come a long way since
March of last year through progressive leadership, and
I am sure it will continue.
Ann Wlndle
President-elect
Associated Women Students
Support University Theatre
Dear Editor:
In the spring young men's fancies turn to sidewalk
scribbling or so it seems. Or perhaps, there have been
gremlins out ate at night, defacing our campus with
ugly chalk marks.
At any rate, I feel called upon to offer an alternative
for those of you who don't want to go to Kosmet Klub's
latest attempt at culture.
I would suggest that rather than blow $3 (or even
$2,50)a,enn osmet Klub'8 "Irma 141 3uce" you invest
only $1.50 (see you have saved $1.50 already so take a
date) and go to see Mollere's "Scapln" at Howell Thea
tre. Not only will you see a tremendously better show
dm sure there can be no comparison), but vmi will
have dons a good deed and provided the Theatre with
some badly needed support. It seems the University has
been rather negligent in its support of the arts at Ne
braska. So again I urge you - if you want to see something
really good go see "Scapln."
The Watchful Must ,
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