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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Editorials Commentary Friday, March 15, 1963 Page 2 Forging ahead The unimpressive AWS election campaign final ly ended and as the newly-elected Cabinet mem bers rest for a week they will keep watchful eyes on the Congress elections. Then, as was promised In every candidate's election platform, AWS under a new constitution will forge ahead into new and better things. Miml Baker, new AWS president has said that two main objectives this semester will be a re evaluation of the key system and revisions in the handbook. In the midst of all the re-evaluating and in vestigating AWS plans to do, it should be interest ing if any legislation is proposed let alone passed. None of the candidates strongly committed themselves on any issue during the campaign and it can be questioned if they are really sincere about legislating a no hours system or introducing sophomore keys for next year. By the end of this semester AWS should have at least proposed a sophomore key system or pre ferably a no hours system with the intention of passing the legislation next September so new keys can be issued at the beginning of first semester. The key system should be reevaluated, yes, but such new rulings as allowing women to permanent , ly keep their keys should be passed this semester. The AWS handbook should not only be investi gated but changed not at the end of the new ad ministration's term but now. The outmoded rules ' are so obvious that a year of investigation will not be required. With the help of what hopefully will be a li beral Congress the Cabinet should have some defi nite programs organized for next fall. AWS needs to recover the rather tainted image ; of this past year but they won't by assuming an ; "it's sort of a good idea but the Administration v won't let us do it so why try" attitude, which was r so apparent in some of the campaign platforms. 2; AWS meetings next month will be revealing. ; '. Cheryl Tritt : Dan Looker (New momentum - Senator McCarthy captured 42 of the New ""Hampshire primary vote and prevented President Johnson from obtaining even a majority. If the cur rent trend continues McCarthy may be our next president. His biggest obstacle in his road to the White Jtouse is the Democratic Convention. But McCar thy is building a strong block of delegates. He won 40 of New Hampshire's 24 delegates, captured the entire Massachusetts delegation of 72 after LBJ gave up his campaign there, and pulled 16 delegates from his own state (Minnesota which has no pri mary). McCarthy already has 108 delegates befi -running in th next primary, Wisconsin's, on April 2. Johnson Is the underdog there and the peace candidate could easily win the entire 59-man dele gation. If McCarthy, with this growing momentum, wins California, Oregon (his chances are good in those states) and Nebraska he will go to the con vention with nearly 300 delegates. Skeptics will still scoff at this. After all Mccar ty Outlook V V I I thy has only entered six primaries and only 14 states even have primaries so he doesn't stand a chance, or does he? It takes 1312 steadfast delegates to stop John son. Can McCarthy do that? With the help of other party professionals he can. And he may now get that help. " On the basis of popular support McCarthy would be a sure winner. The Gallop poll cites 69 of the American people as favoring a gradual phase-out of Carthy's near-tie vote with LBJ in New Hampshire it an amazing rebuff for an incumbent president. ' Congress is growing more and more restive as American involvement grows and American suc cess declines in Vietnam. Last fall only 58 Congress men would sign a resolution calling for more Con giessional control of the war this week that num ber was 131. Robert Kennedy is "reassessing" his position. Hopefully he would back McCarthy but whether he runs himself or not, his opposition to Johnson would weaken the President's delegate strength at the convention. Kennedy could make matters extreme ly complicated for the Democratic party but any form of opposition to Johnson would at least make an open convention probable. Though any sort of prediction about the Demo cratic National Convention is impossible at this time, McCarthy has now become a real presidential contender and among the rank and file voters he has a good chance. These are times of great disillusionment and McCarthy is the only candidate with a good old fashioned honest image. Though not a young man, he seems to be the newest, freshest individual in national politics. Both Johnson and Nixon are plagued by a credi bility gap, a jaded, -professional image. Both men re openly ambitious and have an almost selfish aura aout them. Both have almost identical war policies Rockefeller and Kennedy have avoided too much publicity and have played their cards well too well. By waiting so long to decide on entering the race they have gained the reputation of being "opportunists," again, hardly a trustworthy image. McCarthy has a tremendous advantage. He alone appears honest, and believable, and at the same time intelligent enough to get us out of the very bad situation we are now in. McCarthy is clearly the man who could beat the candidates of both parties, especially with the growing unpopularity of the war. If his strengih con tinues to grow, if he can just get through the Demo cratic convention, he will be our next president. No! I Wr vwr to go Pmmns- wh you. Boy ! Is Twor Au. yoo o-uys EVER THINK 0? tttfcWL ARfc OTHER "THINGS N This WORV& youKNOw X V-OST My HfcM). youV. RttT THfeRE. IMPORT MAT. THN& m TWS VVOfcLfc. r1V HI r I "V uiiiniiiiimimiiiniinniiiiiiiiinimiiiiiiiiitiiiHHig Informer arrests i MTMttJ WOT , Tt A.S.VJ.H. you UKS. TO I PAKK? J (CPS) Ten persons, all students or former students, have been arrested on charge of marijuana possession as the result of "undercover ac tivities" by a local radio news man in Champaign-Urbana, 111. Don Clark, news director of WKID here, spent a lot of time hanging around local bars and restaurants with stu dents this fall and winter. He was especially friendly to the local draft resistance group and gave them good publicity on his radio station. But he was actually gath ering information about drug use and turning it over to state and local narcotic agents. The agents make the first arrests in late February and more are expected. Although most of the arrest were for possesion, officials claimed they primarily were after suppliers. Clark said 20 25 suppliers would eventually be arrested in Champaign Urban a and that federal agents had been given the names of suppliers in San Francisco, New York and Chi cago. The Daily Ulini, campus newspaper at the University of Illinois, called on Clark to resign from the radio station. "His actions are a serious breach of ethics, and if such practices are condoned, the impartial reportorial role of the press in modern soci ety will be made ludicrous." William F. Buckley, Jr. Sunset of the British Empire You would think that the Rhodesians had just finished executing Florence Nightin gale, her mother, and her father. The reaction to the ex ecutions is one of the strang est phenomena of our inscru table age. Consider. 1. India is furious. India is taking the position that the Queen's word must be final with a show of homeguardism quite extraordinary under the circumstances, the cir cumstances being that India was the first and major de fector from he Empire, that India would be the first to bowl out its resentment if the Crown were to intercede in a dispense a royal pardo.n. The further circumstance being that the Government of England which India is at the moment so avidly champion ing, has just finished writing into the statute books a law which officially declares that Africans of Indian descent may not come into England. An act of racism, one would think, which hardly argues the appropriateness of t h e moment to pursue the ven detta with Ian Smith. 2. Kenya is furious. Kenya has just finished, as we have seen, making its Indian-descended citizens officially second-class, which of course makes it imperative to side noisily with anyone who criti cizes a government which has done the same thing, only to black Africans. 3. U Thant is furious. Why? Isn't U Thant committed, above all other things, to anti colonialism? Why should U Thant yap about the author ity of the Crown in remote territories, it being his expli cit concern to undermine that authority wherever it emerg es. When last heard from, the United Nations was brooding over Puerto Rico. Surely U exercised by the United States overPuerto Rico. Surely U Thant would be more consis tent to have objected to Eng land's officious intervention in the purely internal affairs of a country which was self governing twenty years be fore the United Nations was a gleam in the busybodies eye? 4. The United States is fur ious. The State Department has announced that the exe cution, "we fear, drastically reduces the possibility of a negotiated settlement of t h e Rhodesian situation in accor dance with the six principles put forward by the British government." Quite right. But then why isn't the U n i t e d States sore at England, rath er than at Rhodesia? It is England, not Rhodes ia, that promulgated this cri sis. As a matter of psycholog ical fact, nothing could more surely have guaranteed that the execution would take plac than the granting of a reprieve by the Queen, the sole pur pose of which was manifest ly political, and everywhere obvious, namely to challenge once again the legitimacy of Rhodesia's separation in 1965 from the commonwealth. And then again, why is it the bus iness of the United States to comment on such internal squabbles as Rhodesia's with England: Would we welcome pronouncements by Harold Wilson on our arrangements with the Virgin Islands? Cont. on page 5 Professors speak Goin' down that highway If the United States sur vives the summer's urban re volutions, the collapse of a demoralized and beseiged Sai gon, the crushing of an inde fensible Dien Bien Phu called Khe Sanh, and the results of it all at the Democratic Con vention in Chicago, then it will be confronted by the fol lowing choice: Whether or not to continue on the road to Hell under Lyndon Johnson. In the case of a great country faced by Incipient disaster internal ly and 'externally, governed by a man bereft of leader ship and insulated from his country by advisors com mitted to policies already pro ven disasterous, the metaphor is no exaggeration. We have staked our prestige on the defense of an outpost in the north of the southern part of Vietnam, Khe Sanh. Surrounded by upwards of 20,000 troops, the 5,000 Ma rines there are in no position to accomplish any useful pur pose, but it would be nearly impossible to evacuate them. How did all this happen? Ac cording to Newsweek, "from a small initial commitment, Khe Sabn bas grown in both man-power and psychological significance to inch enormous proportions that today the base can no longer be aban doned without severe reper cussions ... No one, of course, planned it that way." Khe Sanh, of course, is not another Dien Bien Phu; there are significant differences. For example, the Communists have much better weapons this time. Still, it is conceiv able that future historians will mention the remains of those 8,090 Marines as their ulti mate tribute to the leadership and rationality of the present Commander in Chief. "No one, of course, planned it that way." Whether or not the results are as bleak as all this, it will be a great consolation to the survivors of the 20,000 .Americans who have died to date in Vietnam to know that Mr. Johnson is pressing reso lutely ahead. For this will ob viously insure that those 20. ooo (perhaps you knew one of them) will not have died in vain. And we may be hopeful that the President is so well insulated by advisors that no one has put to him the ques tion of how to insure that the death of the last American who dies there is not in vain. Again, in order that no new burden be added to the load which our President must bear, we may hope that no one has recently asked him whether all those hundreds of thousands of Americans who sacrificed their lives in past wars to end future wars will now be discovered to have died in vain. There will, of course, be individual citizens who are bitter about their losses; or in Mr. Rusk's word, "grumpy," like those South Vietnamese who lost every thing wben our generals de cided we had to destroy their cities in order to save them. The great division here over the war could perhaps be re moved If Americans under stood that, as the Administra tion bas said, we are not fight ing a colonial war. For no the war could perhaps be re moved if Americans under stood that, as the Administra tion has said, we are not fight r.y is willing to destroy the resources and kill the popula tion of that colony. Rather, it is being fought to prevent further Communist affronts to American Interests, such as the seizure of the Pueblo and a Communist takeover of Laos. It is being fought to demon strate that no matter bow weak and corrupt a govern ment may be, it can expect the United States to swiftly defeat all its enemies. And it is clear to all our adversar ies by now that these alms have been accomplished. It has been said that in the next few summers we face Daily Nebraskan March 11, UN to. m. No. n Second-elee Mttnae paw at Lincoln. Neb . TBI. EPHOVES filter 475-15M. Newa 4?J.SSI. StttnMi 471-n. Riibecrlptloit raio ere $4 Mr aemeater or for Ow jMml year. Panliabed Monday, Wedneeday, Thurday and Friday daring the bcIkwI year, except during vacation and enm pehodt by the atndente f. 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WtMNEKH ?rFr Bintneae Manner (Harm Frtandti P redaction Man far Charlra Nxteri Na tional Ad Manaaer Ueta Macheri Bookkeeper and ciaaetflad aoa maaaaer Car HnlllniirworUii Bnalnni Secretary Jan Boatman: SitbacrlntloB Manager hoct; Naieamen ma crona., inn utoaer. avatay reua, jttm otauaatex, Mitchell. Joel In, Lynn Womacque, an Internal threat greater than any In the past 100 years. How has the President shown his leadership in meet ing this threat? (1) While we destroyed the villages of the Asian country we seek to save, he proclaimed that "crime In the streets" and "violence" are not the Ameri can way. (2) He appointed a commission. (3) When that commission made its report, he said absolutely nothing for six days. Then, 'n the face of its call for a mobilization to prevent the division of the country he has sworn to defend from all enemies, external and inter nal, he said the report was thorough, but that it had not praised enough his own at tempts to fight poverty and establish a Great Society. In his first two years as President; LBJ showed a great deal of initiative. He couldn't seem to twist enough Congressional arms. And then he lost his freak majority in Congress and began forget ting about everything but his pet project over in Vietnam. The last serious statement I recall him making about the Great Society was in his Bal timore speech of 1964, when be proposed shipping it to the Mekong Delta. Nothing hag been seen of It since then. In short, it is not a change of leadership this country needs. It is simply leader ship. It is not greater respon siveness we need in the White House. Rather, it is a Presi dent who Is willing to consider the possibility that his oppo nents Might have reasons for disagreeing with his policies other than an objection to his style. Cater Chamblee The folk-rock sounds unlimited The Antelope Pavillion is a folk-rock band. Or an acid-rock band. Raga-rock? Blues band? Rock-and-roll? Labels are something else, sometimes. Yet the difference between one label and another is in this case no real difference. Put it this way: the Antelope Pavillion plays contemporary Amer ican popular music with imagination, style and occasional brilliance. It's members are Mike Dalton, guitar, vocals; Ken Rose, bass, vocals; Don Sutton, guitar, harp, vocals; Jake Jacobson, drums; Pat Brougham, harp, vocals; and Sarah Eichman, vocals. Vocally, they have undergone a tremendous im provement (though this is their weakest point), mainly because of Sarah Eichman. She has much to learn about working with a band and the band has much to learn about back ing a vocalist; but on numbers like "Somebody to Love" or "Respect" the girl is fine. Pat Brougham shows real promise as a blues singer if he can drop some very bad habits (a ten dency to drift toward black face, a tendency to be lieve that shouting is a substitute for emotion), and his down home harp playing is an asset. Rose and Dalton still approach their vocals with apologetic diffidence, anxious to get back to playing because its more fun, but both have improved. Instrumentally, always their strongest point, they are even stronger. Sutton and Dalton are im pressive guitarists (very different from each other, but both good). Dalton tends to blow more blues and Sutton tends to be more experimental, but both can do the other thing. Ken Rose is the best bass player in the area by a long way. His support for Dalton and Sutton is , solid when needed, his playing is creative in the best sense of the word, particularly his use of drone ficiency and dispatch. Sutton plays a strong harp; changed from a singularly inept drummer to a com- , petentone. ' i'k He is the weakest of the main four, but is no longer a drag on the others, doing his job with ef ficiently and dispatch. Sutton plays a strong harp, more expermental than Brougham's, but with roots when it needs them. The greatest improvement is in group dyna mics. Formerly, they tended to hit the pain thres hold after 47 seconds of preparation and stay there for 10 minutes of anarchy. Now they pace the freak out portions nicely, building gradually to climaxes, letting the free portions grow out of the orderly blues progressions. They play a mixture of styles, urban blues, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Yardbirds, Jimi Hen drix, the Cream, and do justice to all. They mix the styles well over each set and their no-nonsense approach to all their numbers means precious little dead time during a set. You can hear them tonite at 8 p.m. in the Union ballroom and from 6:30 to 8:30 as part of Emphasis 68 at Pershing. John Reiser Two victories: hopeful results Just what the impact of the New Hampshire primary results will be upon the Republican Presi dential picture is stil uncertain. Nixon people cannot help being encouraged by the results. Rockefeller enthusiasts, remembering " that 1064's winner there was Cabot Lodge, will not roll over and play dead. Probably, Rockefeller will become m announc ed candidate for the nomination sometime next week, in time to allow bis name to remain on the Oregon primary ballot. Rockefeller won the Ore gon primary in 1964. There is little question that, if he does bid for the nomination, he must go against ever-increasing odds, as the party's well-heeled and influential , right-wing polarizes around the candidacy of Nixon. As the Rockefeller campaign develops, what , , happened on the Democratic side of the New Hamp shire ballot will probably have its impact, too. The astounding showing of the unlikely Gene McCarthy could have the effect of motivating Rock efeller to present Republicans with some sort of alternative to the hawkish views of Nixon on the Viet Nam conflict. Clearly, the fact that Rockefeller has yet to enunciate his views on Viet Nam hurt the chances of his last-minute New Hampaltire write-in cam paign. If his Viet Nam position, when enunciated, contrasts with Nixon's In a way which finds ac ceptance within the rank-and-file of the Republican party, the Nixon drive toward the nomination may yet be halted. I feel constrained to comment upon one other election which took place Tuesday the run-off elec tion in Mississippi where civil rights leader Charles Evers lost in his bid to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mississippi's new Governor, John Bell Williams. Evers' defeat was not unexpected, for he ran in a predominantly white district and Mississippi is still Mississippi. But Charles Evers won a couple of victories, even in defeat, as he involved black Misslssippians in the electoral process for the first time in their lives and as he showed the pure courage to seek public office in the community where his brother, Medgar, was assassinated a few years ago. Lesser men perhaps would have turned to the advocacy of violence were It their brother who had been brutally shot down in his own home for advo cating peace and Justice between the races. Not Charles Evers. He took over his martyred brother's job as Mis sissippi field secretary for the NAACP and contln ued to work for the ideals for which Medgar Evers gave his life. This time, Charles Evers survived the primary but lost the runoff. Maybe next time will be a bright er story for Evers and for Mississippi. But if Medgar Evers could know that his broth er would dare to run for the United States Congress from their district and that Mississippi Negroes turned out in large enough numbers to put him at the front of the pack in the primary election if Medgar Evers could know those things I hyve tha idea he'd decide his life was not in vain.