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    THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Editorials
Commentary
Friday, September 29, 1967
Page 2
Deferred Rush NO
Deferred rush should not be forced on
ihe University of Nebraska fraternities
and sororities.
Following careful consideration of the
reports made by Panhellenic and In
terfraternity Council and the arguments
offered by Dean G. Robert Ross, the Ne
braskan feels the burden of proof lies
against deferred rush.
There are several agruments put
forth as reasons for changing to deferred
rush.
Fraternities and sororities are push
ing the open rush period into times when
high school is still in session causing
complaints by high school principals and
a formal resolution by the Nebraska Asso
ciation of Public School administrators.
The Nebraskan cannot see that de
ferred rush would end this practice. De
ferred rush, by its own nature, would
merely prolong the rush period until
second semester or through the entire
freshman year. If administrators are con
cerned about this practice, it would seem
far wiser to force change of existing rules
to prohibit such a practice at all.
Deferred rush would allow the stu-
greater period, which no one can deny
will mean more costs. To those who say
this could be accomplished by limiting
the amount spent, the same could be done
for the present system.
The Daily Nebraskan finds two major
arguments which far outweigh any pos
sible benefits deferred rush would pro
vide. Deferred rush would confront the
Greek system, especially the fraternities,
with serious financial crises no matter
how long the transition period into such a
system.
- If the transition period were short,
there are those chapters which would be
unable to survive. The house would be
forced either to run with a great number
of empty spaces or to force Lincoln men
and apartment men back into the house.
And in many cases, these men are living
where they are because they cannot af
ford to live in the house but yet still want
The other benefits provided by the house.
If the transition period were longer,
it would mean taking quite large pledge
classes in order to prepare for deferred
rush. This could also present problems.
dent to look over the Greek system and
individual houses in order to make a
wiser decision.
Many of those students going through
rush have already decided to pledge. But
for those students who are unsure, pre
school rush week provides them an
opportunity to look over the houses. And
they are not forced to pledge. Nor is a
freshman forced to go through Rush Week
if he is unsure. If he feels he needs more
time to make a decision, he can go
through when he is a sophomore or apply
for open rush during his freshman year.
Pre-school Rush Week merely provides
those students who HAVE made up their
mind an opportunity to pledge.
Students should identify with the
University first, and a social organization
later.
This is fallacious merely because it
is impossible to identify oneself with a
group of 18,000 students. A freshman,
seeking companionship and help, will
naturally identify with a smaller group or
organization. The fraternities and sorori
ties are such a group which is willing to
provide aid and leadership to the fresh
man. Deferred rush would eliminate
some of the high costs of rush.
Instead of lowering the costs of rush,
deferred rush will prolong rush over a
PHOTO BY MIKE HAYMAN
First, there is only a limited number of
men who wish to pledge, and generally
these men are pledged in Rush Week.
Secondly, most fraternities who have
taken large pledge classes find that they
are not able to work successfully with
such a large group of men.
Clinching the case, deferred rush, no
matter what is said to the contrary,
would lower the grades of both active
members and potential rushees.
Freshmen will not forget pledging
just because it does not occur until sec
ond semester or first semester of the
sophomore year. Instead of allowing the
freshman to get down to books studying,
deferred rush would create a situation in
which the freshman would be more
concerned about where he will pledge.
Likewise it is foolish to think that just
because rush has been deferred one or
two semesters fraternity members will
not rush until just before the deferred
Rush Week. Because they will.
While the Nebraskan is the first to
recognize that the Greek system has
many problems, it feels that deferred
rush will solve few if any of them. In
fact, it will probably create more.
The Daily Nebraskan urges the Board
of Regents to reject the idea of deferred
rush for the Greek system.
Love-ins are notorious for generating
hate.
In Kansas City this summer a lonely
girl, dressed unattractively in a bikini
but caught up by the beat of the band and
the hippie warmth danced in front of a
crowd of people. Seconds later she was
undressed by the tenny-bop boys who
came looking for a different kind of love.
All afternoon, tenny-boppers paraded
their un-hairy chests, mocked the beauti
ful people and fought among themselves.
When they got tired of that they began
throwing the hippies into a nearby foun
tain. Police and canine corps waited anx
iously at the park's edge for any crisis.
Though one of the major objectives of
a love-in is to show beauty and love to
the straight society, often the only true
contact comes with a tap over the head
?roin a policeman's billy club. In New
York's Tompkins Square, 40 love-inners
who had obtained a park permit for the
event were arrested. The judges later dis
missed the charges and the hippies, true
to form, rewarded him with $3 billion in
play money.
But then warmth can come . . . grad
ually ... to the dedicated minority. The
long-sought unity comes with the unifying
fragrance of incense and colors whirling
to a tambourine beat. Dancing and hold
ing hands or blowing bubbles with new
friends brings life after years of the day-to-day
superficial contacts.
Senses are envlivened. A handful of
grapes shared with a friend turn to gold.
The band takes second place to the sounds
of leaves crackling under bar feet or soft
words whispered in a willing ear. Wear
ing an American flag or writing dirty
words on a long "hate sheet" can bring
a restful oversimplification of the world's
hang-ups.
A masquerade?
Only to those on the outside fighting to
get in. For the spectator the voyeur a
love-in is the loneliest place in the world.
Even for those on the inside, a love-in
can be a dangerous plaything a disj?uise
for next week's hatreds.
Ask yourself some serious questions
before you go to the park Sunday:
Do I have something to give, will I
give it or will stand on the sidelines with
the mocking spectators?
An I willing to risk the labels which
may be attached to me if I hug someone
of the same sex or read poetry to some
one of another race?
Can I appreciate beauty, truth, hon
esty and joy when I experience it? Can I
appreciate them for the moment and
then use thern over and over to find love
in the following weeks?
If you can answer yes to these ques
tions or think the love-in will help you
answer them, then the tambourines,
beads, bubbles, bare feet, the invigorating
October air and the exotic clothes will be
fun and mean something. Otherwise . . .
Welcome to another hate-in.
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by George Kaufman j
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Until the other day I had
been quite disappointed in
the student government and
student involvement in vital
issues of our time so far this
. year.
Last year there had been
all kinds of things to get in
volved in, like getting ap
pointed to the ad hoc com
mittee on the ad hoc com
mittee on the amendment to
the Bill of Rights, or some
thing equally important
and stimulating.
This year, the extent
of student involvement
seemed limited to a travel
ing debate on coeds' knees
in the letters to the editor
department of the Rag, or
deciding whether to carry
on the farce of Rush Week
before or after school has
actually started.
To my estatic happiness,
this all came to an end
when Associated Students
Society President Dick
Shucks announced the for
mulation of an ad hoc com
mittee on a Vietnam Refer
endum. "Now we're off to t h e
races," I said to myself as
I grabbed an official LBJ
10-gallon diplomatic hat and
headed for the Union.
I burst into Shuck's office
just as he was leaving.
"Look," I said, 'i hear
you're organizing an ASS
ad hoc committee on Viet
nam to give the students a
chance to voice their opin
ion on this very vital issue
U us all."
"Well, we were going to,
but ASS Senator Star Span
gler has organized an
ad hoc hoc committee op
posing student government
involvement in internation
al politics," said Shucks.
"Why, the nerve of the
guy!" I exclaimed. "It's our
duty as future leaders of the
world to be informed and
take an integral part in the
workings of our national
government. Why, that's
the way a democracy like
ours works; the President
is just waiting to hear from
his beloved constituents on
how they like the way he's
doing things in Vietnam."
I could see this had
brought tears to Shuck's
eyes and he slowly dried his
eyes on his official H. L.
Hunt fifty-star American
flag hankerchief.
"Well, if you decide to
from an ad ad hoc hoc com
mittee on Spangler's com
mittee, let me know," I
said. "By the way, how's
your fight to implement the
Housing Code going?"
"Just fine," he answered,
"We're getting a lot of sin
cere cooperation from the
Board of Rejects. After all,
you can't expect to change
a thing like that overnight."
I thought I heard that
somewhere before, I think
from Kent Numeister and
Terry Shaft. "Oh well," I
told myself as I left the Un
ion, "things like that don't
change overnight after all."
(A Yd) DoWy VrTo ?ELL- 16 YoOS
Dear Editor:
There are, I would argue,
tremendous opportunities
for self realization at the
University of Nebraska for
those who are fortunate
enough to have been alert
ed to those opportunities
and who have the motiva
tion and ability to benefit
from them.
One of these opportuni
ties is the Free University.
For the critics of the multi
versity who charge that the
course work has become an
academic rote game, and
that the multiversity is too
large and impersonal to
stimulate the student ade
quately, the Free Univer
sity can be a partial an
swer. A partial answer because
it offers people a chance to
learn about topics of imme
diate relevance that the es
tablished curriculum of the
University does not offer
and it offers people a
chance to participate in a
creative learning experi
ence that is student-centered
wherein discussion
and critical inquiry are
promoted.
For those who criticize,
but seldom propose, the
Free University is a propos
al. I ask you to make the
effort to find out if the Free
University can be meaning
ful to you.
Rod McCall
ting such distractions out
of my mind if a more press
ing matter is at hand. Af
ter all, "for everything
there is a season."
Secondly, Mr. Lee said of
my "type" that "Their
emotional and intellectual
involvement seldom rises
above the passing fancy
phase." I can sympathize
with Mr. Lee if he becomes
emotionally involved with
every pair of exposed fem
inine knees he sees in this
day and age. This reaction
is far from normal, howev
er, and not being a psychia
trist, the only solution I can
offer is that Mr. Lee seek
out a monastery in the
Mountains of Tibet, if for
no other reasons than the
preservation of his sanity.
From this hermitage he can
pursue his proposed life of
"concentration and devotion
to duty" without the need
less presence of woman
kind. From the top of this
mountain. Mr. Lee will sure
ly have reached his posi
tion ABOVE the "willing
victims of distraction."
As for me, I will contin
ue to support the right of
women to distract their
"willing victims" by dress
ing as they see fit. And if
I should end up the "gen
tleman who . . . will con
tinue to be distracted right
into the middle-class melting-pot,"
at least I will be
of some use to my fellow
man from my lowly posi
tion. Don Potter
Words
Gripes
Dear Editor:
Although I have no desire
to convert your Campus
Opinion column into a me
dia for a personal battle of
words with Mr. Lee, many,
of my colleagues have asked
me to speak again and I '
humbly bow to their de
mands. I will therefore attempt
to systematically analyze
Mr. Lee's "rebuttal" and
remark on each point from
my point of view.
First, Mr. Lee described
me as leading a "distraction-ridden
way of 1 i f e,"
which is the, "easiest way
out." Yet he complained in
his first letter that these
distractions were very diffi
cult for "his kind" to over
come. As I don't classify my
self as a type, I can only
spak for myself in saying
that I have no trouble put-
Dear Editor:
In last Wednesday's pap
er you printed two letters
concerning the new (?) East
Campus Union.
I agree with these people.
However, I realize that a
new Union wouldn't be in
keeping with the Board of
Regent's idea of "total ed
ucation." A new Union would give
us decent facilities and for
a "total education" we
need to learn to get by with
nothing or next to nothing
to work with or in.
Jim Ritta
(The Nebraskan reserves
the right to condense let
ters to the editor. Unsigned
letters will not be printed.)
Right Of Left
Rally time is here and with it the
perennial problems of avoiding the drunks
at the stadium, the toga-clad-torch-bear-ing
Alpha Tau Omegas at the spirit ses
sions, and the 30 foot square sign that
just fell from Cather's 13th floor.
Yes, Fans, football mania has re
turned to the University as always per
petuated by the vast intellectual masses
who sport slogans and signs much akin
to third grade rhymes.
Last year's contributions included
such favorites as "Bag the Aggies," Anni
hilate the Aggies," and "Plow the Aggies
Under."
Of couse for those students who
lacked ideas there was always "GO BIG
RED" (bigger and redder than the ene
mies more original signs) to fall back on.
The enemies, in this case, being the
house or dorm across the street.
The innocent reader may at this
point ask: "What enemies? Aren't we all
in this together?" Not where there's a
trophy involved, son, and the spirit award
is definitely a trophy.
At the sight of glittering metal what
normal, God-fearing, grubbers for the
gold would not have tears in their eyes
while visualizing such a specimen in their
trophy case.
However, as premature pride surges
through their chests, ideas of attack and
conquest also course through their brains.
Preparations are made, plans are laid
and it's off to the rally.
Marching off to the battle in a style
that would have pleased any Caesar, the
troops converge at the south side of the
Union, chanting all the way such notables
as "Kill the Kats," or "Go Fer the Go
phers." of "Cream the Cowboys," all de
pending on who t h e Cornhuskers are
planning to maul that week.
In full battle regalia which usually
consists of grubbies and an identifying
sweatshirts . the gladiators pursue the
elusive golden prizes clattering pots and
pans and waving banners as they proceed
towards the stadium.
Upon reaching their destination, the
plot thickens for the agenda calls for the
individual groups to step forward and
scream loud for that trophy: the nitty
gritty of the situation has arrived! !
As the judges eye the hopefuls the
group strives for louder and louder vol
ume only to be shot down at the last mo
ment by another group which has a
larger number of participants (oh well,
there's always open rush).
As the beaming winners snuggle the
booty close to their hearts, the defeated
foes slink slowly home thinking all the
way "We'll get it next week . . ."
-A.C.
Campus Opinion
Dear Editor:
We, the presidents of the
sororities and the fraterni
ties at the University of Ne
braska, have read both the
Panhellenic and Interfra
ternity deferred rush re
ports. We understand them
and their implications and
we support the recommen
dations of the reports fully.
Ken Hylander, Acacia
Mike Nernd, Alpha Gamma
Rho
Ross Groelz, Alpha Gamma
Sigma
G. Richard Russell, Alpha
Tau Omega
Doug Peter, Beta Sigma
Psi
Jim Shreck, Beta Theta Pi
Vic Hancock, Chi Phi
Ron Colin, Delta Sigma Phi
Leg Hellbusch, Delta Tau
Delta
Gene Hohensee, Delta Upsi
lon Tom Spilker, Farmhouse
Claude Bolton Jr., Kappa
Psi
Don Krebs, Kappa Sigma
Charles Langhoff, Phi Del
ta Theta
Bob Hamer, Phi Gamma
Delta
Lee Liggett, Phi Kappa Psi
Jay Brzezinski, Pi Kappa
Alpha
Eric Wood, Pi Kappa Phi
John O'Hanlon, Sigma Al
pha Epsilon
Jeff Kushner, Sigma Alpha
Ma
Bob Hanson, Sigma Chi
Art Ruzanic, Sigma Nu
John Jorgensen, Sigma Phi
Epsilon
AHen Williams, Tau Kappa
Epsilon
Bruce Taylor, Theta Chi
Ron Majors, Theta Xi
Tom Burger, Triangle
Randy Endelman, Zeta Beta
Tau
Ann Windle, Alpha Chi Ome
ga Sandra McGuire, Sigma
Kappa
Jackie Freeman, Kappa
Kappa Gamma
Jan Binger, Chi Omega
Susie Lincoln, Sigma Delta
Tau
Carrie Stoltcnbcrg, Phi
Beta Phi
Cindy Pauley, Gamma Phi
Beta
Jane Ross, Delta Delta Del
ta Roberta Glenn, Kappa Del
ta Nancy Fritzler, Delta Zeta
Ginla Bolick, Zeta Tan Beta
Pam Wood, Delta Gamma
Carol Kramer, Alpha XI
Delta
Susie Sitorius, Alpha Delta
Pi
Joyce Bruha, Phi Mu
Carol Strand, Kappa Alpha
Theta
Jan Buell, Alpha Omicron
Pi
Peggy Blue, Alpha Phi
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