THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Commentary
MONDAY, MAY 1, 1967
Editorials
Baby There Is Action
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Baby, the Unl
verslt isn't such a bad place at all!
What "a discovery! Don't insult us Bnd
call us a cultural wasteland. Don't call
.ni g bunch of hopelessly dull country
boys. Because if you are here there
can be action.)
What's a nice person like you doing
in a place like this. I mean really, what
do you think you're doing here? It was
probably your Mom and Dad who had al
ways expected you to go to college, and
because you wanted to get away from
home, the university seemed just far
enough distance. Or was it that all the
other seniors in your high school were
planning college careers and you don't
want to be separated from your friends
or lose your status?
Maybe you had already completed your
graduate work and you and your wife
thought you could make better advance
ment as a professor at a university which
was more in keeping with your own cuU
tural background. Or when coming out
of high school, you had the choice of
wearing a blue fraternity blazer or a
khaki field jacket, and you finally de
cided that blue had always been your
favorite color. Perhaps you could see a
better chance of finding a potentially suc
cessful husban' here at the university
and chose not to be a sales girl down
town after all.
Well, now that you're where all the
action is, baby, what is the action? It
isnt dialing the phone yourself and ask
ing Mom and Dad for a little extra spend
ing money or going for a coke in the
Union to watch those guys in beards and
wire-rim glasses and not have the cour
age to talk with them. Nor is it action
for the newest prof in the department to
stay home to correct 120 extra, essay
tests while other members of the depart
ment are attending a conference in San
Francisco.
If you are the one who chose fraternity
blue over Army khaki, action isn't get
ting up early for your military science
class and then sneaking back to your
room before anyone sees you. And for the
sweet young thing who is looking hard for
someone to love her, action isn't catching
the bus Cor her part-time job of validating
parking lot tickets for a downtown de
partment store. There must be a better
way of staying where the action is and
getting more out of it
BOB SAMUELSON'S
In the rush to get to the high paying job,
the altar, the department promotion or
the student body presidency, you'll prob
ably miss most of the real action. The
action, interaction and human dialogue,
out of life. A part of that comes from
the textbook and the lecture, but the more
Important end is in you and other per
sons. It's the huddling together for
warmth and understanding, action and re
action, interaction and human diaglogue,
the wanting-taking and the having-givlng.
Learning to live where the action is
requires loosening up enough as a pro
fessor to ask a few of your students to
your home for some coke or coffee and
an evening's conversation, or to accept
their invitation to a party or for a beer
after your night class. For a student it s
skipping an uninteresting class to sit with
other students and discuss how you feel
about premarital sex, lack of need for
student government, a professor's views
on comparative religion, or about why
you just can't seem to open up to people
without fear of blowing your cool.
Getting the most out of life is talking
to your 60-year-old next door neighbor
about how it was when he was your age,
or taking the time out of your busy
schedule to sit in on a juvenile court hear
ing and talking afterward with a few of
the losers. Probably one of the better
ways of getting the most out of life is to
find in other persons the qualities and
characteristics you enjoy, and want from
them, the things they can give you. Bend
them, push them, pull them, and manipu
late them, but without intent of hurting
them, and develop a trust in them and
the freedom in yourself to encourage
them to do the same with you.
It is in this place, where the action
is, that you can practice with other per
sons how best to live and enjoy life. You
will meet success and failure in this ex
perience of change and come to really
know other persons and finally begin to
define and better understand yourself.
But you can't have any of this ac
tion until you free-up enough to take it,
and taking cny of it means to replace it
with part of yourself. Where is the ac
tion, baby? Take a look around. Take a
look inside. How much of living do you
want to take today?
by Tom Helzer
The Collegiate Press
Service
All The Lonely People
(EDITOR'S NOTE: In his column for
the last several issues of the Daily Ne
braskan, Bob Samuelson, former second
vice president and senator ef ASUN, is
concentrating on student government, its
history and its power at the University.)
Last installment we discussed a short
history of ASUN's development, its phil
osophy, and one of its most important
accomplishments, the Faculty Evaluation
Booklet. We discussed at some length the
rather rocky road toward its approval by
the Faculty Senate Subcommittee on Stu
dent Affairs. We came to the conclusion
that because students had faith enough
to stand up for what they believed, they
were able to overcome administrational
opposition to the booklet.
Instead of taking up the second of
the four major accomplishments of ASUN
as was scheduled for this article, I shall
turn toward a matter of very pressing
importance. That is the Faculty Senate
Subcommittee on Student Affairs and its
rather dubious role in the University ma
chinery. Procedure Unclear
We mentioned last Thursday that
Vice Chancellor Ross is the chairman of
this subcommittee. It is not clear whether
or not a subject of student concern must
be approved by the entire Faculty Senate
after it passes this subcommittee, before
it goes to the Board of Regents for final
approval.
Neither is it clear j Jst what the Board
of Regents must approve, for sometimes
it does not consider matters of importance.
In the instance of the Faculty Evaluation
Booklet, the Board of Regents was merely
informed of its imminent publication and
gave no formal approval. The criterion for
whether the Board of Regents is called
upon to give approval of student requests,
actions, or projects seems to be whether
or not the Office of Student Affairs wants
the measure to be vetoed. The Faculty
Senate seems to be getting bypassed in a
wholesale manner in almost every in
stance. Visiting Hours Proposal
The most recent case-ln-point of the
Board of Regents acting as a veto for
the Office of Student Affairs in the coed
visiting hours proposal. This proposal was
passed by the subcommittee and then
voted down by the Board of Regents after
Dean Ross spoke against the measure.
Dean Ross was acting in a two-fold ca
pacity at the Board of Regents meeting
he was representing his office of Stu
dent Affairs and also he was representing
(supposedly) the subcommittee whose
vote he went against in speaking against
the visiting hours proposal. This is a clear
case of a conflict of interests.
The reason this is a clear case of
conflict of interests is that the Board of
Regents is not well informed on what
goes on at this University especially
where students are concerned. This
is common knowledge among students and
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faculty alike. The Board of Regents re
lies as does Chancellor Clifford Har
din on the Office of Student Affairs
for knowledge of what is happening among
students at the University. The Board of
Regents, the Chancellor, and the students
are aH fortunate in that the three prin
ciple decision makers of the Office of Stu
dent Affairs, Dean Ross, Dean Helen
Snyder, and Russell Brown, are all very
intelligent, dedicated, able and well-informed
people. If any of these three peo
ple ever leave the University and their
power is turned over to others the stu
dents could have an intolerable situation,
but this is beside the point.
Duality Should Cease
The point is that the Office of Stu
dent Affairs is a small body and no mat
ter how diligent and intelligent the peo
ple are, they are people, and as people
they can make wrong judgments and de
cisions. Also, because Dean Ross cannot
act fairly upon matters in which either of
his dual representations differs from the
other and because the Board of Regents
is at best an innocuous figurehead and
at worst an uninformed detriment to the
progress of the University, this dual rep
resentation should cease.
Another important question is wheth
er the Faculty Senate should have a sub
committee on student affairs with the pow
er to make decisions which negate
but seemingly do not affirm student
projects or innovations of student policy.
ASUN has not seen any need to set up a
student subcommittee on faculty affairs.
(It has set up a committee for closer
student-faculty liason in order to bring
closer harmony between students and
faculty which is an admirable goal).
Skeleton Bill
But the Bill of Rights and the pro
posal of the Ad Hoc Housing Committee
are now before this committee for its con
sideration. Why the Bill of Rights must
gain approval from every body from the
subcommittee on up is a mystery to
many people. While it is true that the
principles affirmed in the Bill of Rights
are more apt to have immediate accept
ance by the administration if the admin
istration is allowed to approve them first,
what will happen is that they will give
approval to those articles of the Bill with
which they have no disagreement, and
they will not approve the special amend
ment on housing and anything else which
might cause them administration or pub
lic relations difficulties.
We will then be left with a skeleton
Bill of Rights which will have no import
ance or meaning. There was No re
peat No special approval of the amend
ments which were passed in the spring
of 1966, and there is no reason why this
spring's amendments, of which the Bill
of Rights is a part should need approval.
Once these amendments were passed by
the students they were AFFIRMED. (Did
the colonists send their Bill of Rights to
King George for his ok)?
It was one of those days,
white clouds scudding
across a blue sky, yellow
green buds swelling In the
park. Another spring, as
fresh-colored and new as
eternity's first. How good
it was to be alive.
On the newsstands, in the
stark black and white, the
papers told how the world
was that day.
A Russian cosmonaut,
trapped in his capsule, had
fallen four miles to the earth
below. In Bonn, President
Johnson was discussing nu
clear proliferation with the
Germans. In New York, Gen
eral Westmoreland made a
major address on the war in
Vietnam.
The Peaceful Snatch
Is war an inevitable pattern of human behavior?
That is the central question. v
If your answer is yes, then the debate is ended.
We can only count our bombs and wait for the in
evitable destruction of the world ... and yet, werent
there other patterns of behavior that men once thought
were inevitable and intrinsic to human nature that have
proved not to be?
Gandhi Confronted
What about human sacrifice? What about human
slavery? What about the caste system that Gandhi
confronted?
The solution is tht we must change our wys of
thinking from merely being against (which focuses and
fixes our whole attention on what we want to forget)
to being for. In this case, being for human dignity. For
loving persons Instead of manipulating them as objects.
The hang-up is that we figure that there must al
ways be somebody we can categorize as the bad guys
(we're the good guys of course), somebody we can use
as a scapegoat. Must that hostility control us? I dont
deny that we'll always have some hostility and dis
agreements. My point is that we needn't lose our heads
and fly off with the mouth and the bombs. We need
to de-escalate the emotions.
Nursery Rhymes
Critics of the war as well as war supporters may
be accused of losing their heads in these times of
crisis. I'm not Just thinking of MarUn Luther Kine. I m
thinking of my self too. It's very hard to be rational
when nobody listens, when the government seems total
ly remote from our influence. Its very frustrating br
ing to talk to a brick wall. Somehow shouting at the
wall seems a better release for our frustrations (la
huff and 12 puff, and I'D 'alow the White House down . . .
Yes, ell of life can be reduced to nursery rhymes).
All I ask is just one week that will not be an "anti-"
week for us. Be for something or, tetter yet, someone.
Maybe be for reforming yourself as yot think it should
be done.
Don't be antl-PSA, anti-SDS, anti-hippie, anti-Greek,
anti-Negro. I mean maybe it will seem like a pretty
big vacuum at first, but then that tells us something
about ourselves. If anyone must be reformed this
let's Just work on ourselves at you yourself thins; it
should be done.
There's sort of a silent pray-in scheduled for Wednes
day, but I'm not so sure we need to be urged to
make that scene. I'd probably go myself but for you
. . . only you know what you need. Make yaw wn
scene this week and take yourself seriously. That s the
start of human dignity.
founded on debate, and he
sees every protest as evi
dence of crumbling morale
and diminishing resolve . . .
This, inevitably will cost
lives American, Vietna
mese and those of our other
brave allies."
The old man in the chefs
cap turned to denouncing
cheap wine. The smiles of
his listeners broadened and
they applauded tolerantly
when he paused. Across the
street, a blind lady with an
accordion sat in the sun
singing.
"I was delighted," said
the General in New York,
"to learn of the two MIG
bases bombed today."
"Somewhere, over the
rainbow . . ." sang the
blind lady. She had a thin,
flat voice, yet it carried
well through the clatter of
, ... the streetcars, we roar or
DV Steve AbDOtt the buses. It sounded wist
' ful and beautiful.
"I foresee in the months
ahead," warned the Gen-
His troops, said the Gen
eral grimly, "are dismayed,
as I am, by recent unpa
triotic acts here at home."
Outside the five-and-ten,
a thin old man in a chefs
cap, a tatterdemalion over
coat and white spats was
talking into a baby blue toy
telephone hung about his
neck. "The Lord says re
pent," he announced, cup
ping the receiver with his
hand. "Are you ready to
die?" No one answered.
The enemy, the General
said gravely in New York,
"does not understand that
American democracy is
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Campus Opinion J
Coed Shocked By Policy
Dear Editor: . M ...
As a senior who has thoroughly enjoyed and taken
full advantage of a senior key, I was utterly shocked to
day upon hearing that Dean Helen Snyder has contacted
the Campus Police Department concerning what she con
siders an abuse of the system.
According to a fellow senior who has been questioned
by the campus police about this. Dean Snyder h a s
asked their assistance in "apprehending" senior girls who
use their keys to stay out with their dates and i i i -park.
She has requested that campus police ask to be
shown the senior key for proof that the woman is a senior
and then take the names and addresses of these women
found parking after regular women's hours and give tne
names to her. , . . ...
I cannot help but question her motives for doing this
and ask what she intends to do about these "infractions
or "abuses." .
Whether a girl stays out till 12 -- or 1 - .or .2 - w
even 3 or 4 - studying at a library (yes, Virginia, there
are some still open then) or parking with a date is none
of her business.
She consented to the key system philosophy on the
grounds that a senior woman is a mature, responsible
person able to conduct herself as she deems right, is
Dean Snyder now denying this concept, saying that she,
Dean Snyder, ought to at all times be able to slap the
hands of those using keys in a way Dean Snyder con
siders improper or, perhaps, immoral.
The senior kay system can work only when senior
women have complete control of their own actions and
conduct. Its purpose is thwarted when Dean Snyder de
cides to attach any more regulations and personal De
lief. to its operation. Patricia L. Layma,
Catlier Amendment Endorsed
DearEditon thirteenth floor from the Cather
Executive Council, although functionally meaningless, has
pointed up many inadequacies in the government of the
hall not the least of which is the fiasco that is erron
eously labeled "the hall legislaUve process."
Cather government is now an oligarchy. The Execu
tive Council conceives, debates and passes laws without
considering the sentiment of the Individual residents. Con
' sequently the present administration had met a forcible
backlash in response to the recently enacted by-laws, de
crees if you will. ,
President Bruce Bailey, not insensitive to pronounced
public opinion, has now proposed a constitutional amend
ment that would subject any proposed by-law to the ap
proval or disapproval of the members of the individual
floors. Under the proposal, a floor would consider the
pending bill, vote on it, and Instruct its president to vote
in the Executive uouncii as me nuui vui.
This we feel, would endow Cather government with
the representative character it so desperately needs. Once
instituted this amendment would provide a framework
within which the other difficulties plaguing the hall could
be remedied. ...
We fully endorse Bruce's proposal but at the same
time wish to make it unmistakably clear that prompt ac
tlon must be taken now. Any government incapable of
giving a redress of grievances shall not long enjoy the
support of its people. Cather 12
Trivia Contributed
Dear Editor: x 4 .u .
This is just a short note to contribute my bit of
trivia to our campus newspaper. Recently there have been
several completely unimportant errors in your paper and
I feel that every cosmopolitan Nebraskan should know
th! S"is not a member of the Ivy League even though
it is located east of Ohio. Pembroke is not a university.
It is the Women's Coordinate College in Brown Univer
sity Classes at Brown are coed with only one faculty
and "brokers" live and eat at a separate campus a few
Checking on quotes and facts once in a while may
ProveuseM- Eugene F.Maleski
Outside Art Defended
Dear Editor: . . .
The complaints about the art department's "sculpture
garden" can easily be answered.
The students working out-of-doors are working there
principally because there is not enough room inside the
building. This was not the fault of the art department but
rattier, a lack of funds with which to build an adequate
building.
We have been suffering under the lack of space for
many months and with the coming of warmer weather,
it was decided to move some of the students outside. I
am certain that the work being done by the art students
adds very little to the eye sore that the campus already
is this spring, and we can all stand it a few weeks
more. .
ian wnamoeriaiii
eral in New York, "some
of the bitterest fighting of
the war."
There was"a candy store
down the street You could
smell the peanut brittle,
warm and sweet
"There are civilian casu
alties in Vietnam," said the
General, "and these are of
SSmSnd'men'' WRA Complaints Tested
A girl with long hair was
passing out flowers with a
genuinely lovely smile. Two
sailors stopped and they
laughed gently together.
"I must honestly say that
I am concerned about cease
fire proposals," said the
General bluntly. "Inevitably
it will be a military ad
vantage to the enemy and
a detriment to our side."
On the way home, I
paused on a hilltop and
watched the sun set nakedly
In the ralnwashed air. And
I felt for the first time (it
always seems the first
time) how incredibly pre
cious life is.
How precious it is to me
and to the old man and
the blind lady and the pretty
girl and the sailors. How
equally precious it must be
to each American soldier,
to each ally, to each Viet
namese, friend or foe. How
Incredibly full and joyous
and replenishing the world
seemed.
Not the stark black and
white world of newsprint
and battle plans and global
strategy in which our lead
ers live. I mean the real
world. And never, as on
this spring day, had the two
seemed further apart
Dear Editor:
I would like you to print this letter for one reason.
I wish to see how much power is behind the complaint
that WRA is unjust and-or unduly severe in its rules
and the punishments based there on.
Would anyone who feels that they have a legitimate
complaint against WRA please call 432-4815 between the
hours of 8 p.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday,
or between 10:30 a.m. and noon Sunday, from the time
of printing of this letter until the dorms close (please ask
for Terry Weymouth).
If these complaints prove sufficient in number and
validity, they will be presented in or offered as evidence
for a formal case to the Board of Regents, the Faculty
Committee on Student Affairs and WRA.
If this letter proves unfruitful, there shall be no al
ternative but to assume that complaints are based on
chance miscarriages of justice and rumor.
Terry E. Weymouth
Daily Nebraskan
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