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J THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Editorials Commentary Thursday, March 21, 1968 Page 2 i i - Senate in bloom Spring arrived on the Senate floor Wednesday as after a long barren winter the Senators finally bloomed. The matter which pushed the many dormant wall flowers to the surface was of all things a proposal that two national senior honoraries begin chapters at the University. The proposal sugjvted an extremely chaotic method by which the two existing senior honorariet would compete with Blue Key and Cardinal Key for members. The reasoning behind the proposal seemed to be that additional honoraries would make anyone who , had ever been an assistant chairman of any or ganization eligible for the revered membership is one of the honoraries. Although the entire proposal is not feasible, it did contain a significant purpose, which of course, was not directly stated. If memberships in the senior honoraries were easily attained, the honorar- ies might lose their effectiveness and dissolve them selves. While the dissolution of the Innocents and Mor " tar Boards would be a great boon to the Univer sity's educational system, the addition of two more Z honoraries will only add insult to injury. The Senate tabled the motion for a week but where it belongs is under the table. : The Senators passed an important piece of leg " islation Wednesday proposing a complete overhaul : in the University's ineffective faculty advisor pro gram, have continued to see their advisors but rather practice the indelicate art of forging advis or's signatures. It seems absurd to continue a system which is ineffective for the majority of students and es pecially for those who really need good advisors. If faculty advisors for upperclassmen were free to counsel freshmen and sophomores and if they were also aided by student advisors, the results of V5. the improved system would be a lower drop out rate, higher grade point averages and, for many, " a shorter length of time required to obtain a degree. Cheryl Tritt Campus Opinion Dear Editor: We, Vietnamese in North America, speaking as individuals and independently of any political or religious organization, together voice our anguish ed concern over the war in our country. At the moment, in the name of the highest sounding principles, the parties to the conflict in our country are fast reducing our villages and ci ties to ashes and rubble, and, in the process, tear ing apart the whole fabric of our society. This is not a struggle for freedom and democ racy; it has become a war of genocide. By now, it is clear that there are limits to what American power can do in Vietnam; on the other hand, there are no limits to what American power can do to Vietnam. The words of the Amer ican Commander, that "to save Bentre it became necessary to destroy it," plainly reflects the mor al, political and military bankruptcy of American policy in Vietnam. To end the war before it is too late, we call upon the American government to heed Secretary General U Thant's appeal and stop all bombing of North Vietnam. We call upon the United States government, the government of South Vietnam, the government of North Vietnam, and the National Liberation Front to promptly reach a peaceful wet tlement. A lasting peace for Vietnam should be based upon the total withdrawal of foreign troops that will allow us, Vietnamese, to shape our fu ture free from all foreign interference. We urgently appeal to the world community, through the United Nations, to condemn, in view of their devastating effects on our people, the use of chemical warfare, napalm, and anti-per-sonel bombs. Finally, to prevent the ultimate crime against mankind we ask the General Assembly to forbid the use of nuclear weapons by any Dartv in this conflict ' Coordinators: SlDCereIy' Le thi Mai Van (Vale) Ngo Vinh Long (Harvard) Nguyen Quang Hoc (University of Montreal) Cong Huey Ton Nu Nha Trang (Berkeley) Le Ann Tu (Bryn Mawr) Nguyen Hoi Chan (Radcliffe) Nguyen Huu Dung (University of Montreal) Guyyen Namh Tuong (University of Montreal) Nguyen Ngoc Phuong (University of Montreal) Nguyen thi Loan Anh (Cornell) Nguyen Thu Huong (Macalester College) Nguyen Thuy Hoa (University of Montreal) Quan Tu Anh (Montreal) Dear Editor: . r ? hb- Tver's letter about his definition of black power; I believe the definition of black power is a very relative tluig, depending on the person you ask. From reports I've heard, a black militant's definition would be Whitey's blood running down a street corner gutter, a white mili tants: blackey's blood; a moderate liberal on eith er side of the color barrier: all the way from Let us reason together" to "Come to the sit-in tomorrow." I challenge Mr. Shiver's aim Peaceful Change. Can results so slow in coming ever calm the re sentment, the bitterness, the hatred, after so many years of feeling like second class citizen? The acrid smell of a burning borne can do a lot to cleanse the pentup anger in a man's soul, brt what if it is his own home? And how do you Siifle the cry of a dead man's wife? By telling her she can enter any restaurant she wants to? Let ns pray gentlemen and gentlewomen. We have done so little else. Phyllis Herman Dear Editor: About Alan Reed's fuss over the simulated communist takeover of Wahoo High School by John F. Kennedy College students Mr. Reed appears to feel that J.F.K.'s accreditation should be revoked because of the in cident. Why else would he protest to the N o r t h Central Association? He maintains that the couo experiment was invalid. Even assuming this to "be true a rather difficult thing to judge second-hand is an invalid experiment sufficient cause for revoking accredita tion? Isn't Mr. Reed threatening academic freedom at John F. Kennedy College by his action? It is a sad situation when one scholar would dsn others their right to experiment. , Susan Kaye O'Brien TU CfflFSNtJ! Uairiber of Seville' presented The Turnau Opera Play ers will present "The Barber of Seville" in English Thurs day night under the sponsor ship of the University Speaker-Artist Series The audience is swept into the high spirits of Rossini's three-act romantic comedy with vivacious music, lyric arias, brilliant show pieces, and wirllng ensembles. The Turnau Players repre sent a pilot attempt to take opera into smaller commu nities and at the same time give younger singers and production personnel valuable expreience. "Barber" is a work well suited to the intimate style of the Turnau Opera since the intricacies and ingenuities of the plot are enhanced and clarified when the opera is played on a smaller rather than the "grand opera" scale. Tickets for Rossini's ro mantic comedy may be ob tained froo of charge at the main desk in the Union. Joseph Alsop Nightmare of the future Washington An older man, nostalgically hankering for a simpler America, glumly packing for yet another journey to Vietnam, would prefer to say a cheerful fare well. Yet in honesty it must instead be said that all our immediate, fast - converging crises of the dollar, of the war and of our national lead ershipare downright trivial compared to what now lies ahead. It has taken some tLr.e lor this reporter to get through the whole of the vast, not very well-organized report of the President's riot commis sion. The report has been re ceived, so far as one can judge, with depressed indifference. Yet, the President, the Con gress and the country should instead be responding with the desperate, unanimous ac tivity of the people of a city remorselessly besieged the women twisting their hair in to bowstrings, the old gaffers grimly tak ng their places next to the young warriors, even the little children hur rying to carry food and wa ter to those who man the threatened walls. For this report's cold print, bolstered at every stage by columns of unanswerable sta tistics, is nothing more or less than an official portrait of the Amertcan-dream-turning-into-nightmare. We are not beseiged but we are sore be set, and by such a problem as this nation has not known since the guns at Sumter opened the Civil War. Furthermore, for all its strong, even emotional lan guage, the riot commission's report timidly understates the true horror of that problem. The heart of the horror is the series of statistical tables on Negro immigration to the cen ter cities, or white emigra tion to the affluent, rancidly complacent suburbs, and on the consequest future pattern of the great cities of Ameri ca. The nation's capital today, as this reporter has often pointed out, is no more than a huge black ghetto thinly concealed behind a pompous white federal facade. Today, Washington, with 66 per cent Negro population, and New ark, with more than 50 per cent are the two American cities with solid Negro ma jorities. But in only IS years (and probably in much less time) Washington and Newark are due to be joined by Chicago and New Orleans, St. Louis, and Detroit, Philadelphia, Oakland, Cleveland and Rich mond, Jacksonville, Balti more and Gary. And if the almost equally wretched Puerto Ricans are added to the calculation New York, and half a dozen other major cities must be added to the list. Cater Chamblee . . . Burton quartet paces new jazz Now the new voices are here and the songs they sing are strong ones. No better case for this thesis exists than the Gary Burton Quar tet (Burton, vibes; Larry Coryell, guitar; Steve Swal low, bass; Ray Haynes, drums on the first album; Bobby Moses, drums on the se:ond), the group that plays the finest jazz of our time. I know of no other group in the history of the art whose early prodcutions are as high in quality as Burton's first two, Duster, Victor LSP 3835, and Lofty Fake Anazrom, Victor LSP 3901. unless it be those of the Modern J a z i Quartet of 'good god, but its been a long time ago. Both albums are strong (Duster has more roots, Lof ty, more complexity) and both are worth picking upon. Gary Burton, whose ap pearance has changed from that of an earnestly serious graduate student to that of a singularly spaced out pop idol, remains the most tech nically proficient vibraphon ist in the history of the in strument. He's rather soft in his approach but no one comes :.ear him for richness of chord structure, for brilliance of at tack. His playing is a com pound of lush chords, delicate lines, and abstract purity of form that approaches the space age coldness of Hohn Caye. He lacks feeling for blues, a serious detriment In a jazz musician, but what ha does is worth doing uii what he does he does better than anyone else. Clark Terry said of Larry Coryell that he was the fin est bines gcitarist in 25 years and that would be since Charles Christian and that wcsld make him the second greatest jazz guitarist of all Coryell has the technique, the range, the rhythmic com plexity, the knowledge, of chord progressions, the touch of the best guitarist with the attention to sound as sound, the electronic experi mentation, the down home roots of the best acid-rock guitarist. One never knows the direc tion his flight, will take, but they will be high and soar ing. At one point he will overpower the listener with sheer sheets of sound, then he will suddenly be dropping lyrically beautiful separate notes Into the rhythmic in tensity of the booting drum mer. In the middle of an atonal passage he will deftly insert a B.B. King riff or a country and western thing that is amazingly right. He will be behind a bass solo and switch logically and inevitably to a broad whining drone as if he were playing a fretted theramin. Steve Swallow demon strates that the natural wood of an arco bass has a mel lowness, a tonal warmth, a lyrical potential for beyond, say, the best vacuum tube fender were assembled. The lyric beauty, the casual grace cf his solitare of course, the province of the musician, not the instrument, and the mu sician deserves much praise. Few other bassists are capable of the delivery be exhibits on his unwieldy axe, while always maintaining a light swinging drive (a heavier ier bassist, M i n q u s for one, would overpower this group. Lyricism and a very complex technical brilliance are their strong points, despite the deep blues roots of Coryell's approach to the guitar.) The drummer, Roy Haynes on Duster, .Bobby Moses on Lofty Fake Anaz ron, are loose enough over all that they don't hold down the other musicians with a too rigid beat for their mus ic, but have enough bottom to their attack to give their fellows a more individual stylist than Moses, pushing the soloist with a nervous persistence on up tempo numbers, forcing him often to extend himself beyond his intentions with insistent trim shots. To my taste, he drives the group better than Bobby Moses but Moses does well enough, and his lighter hand is more in line with Burton's own approach to vibraphone, a percussive instrument, af ter all. The tunes on the two al bums are totally varied, each one so completely an example Daily Nebraskan Vol 91. No. 12 SecoDd'Cl&vl tioatare naM mt fjnmla. Net. TELEPHONES Editor 472-J5M, News 471-SM. BustaM 471-ISM. Subscription rate in M w eemeater or in tor the academla year. Published Monday, Wednesday. 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Hollingsworth; Business Secretary Jaa Boatman i Subscription Manager Jane Itcea; Satesmm Das Cronk, Dan Looker, Bntby Dratta, Todd SUsxkier, DtUM Mitchell, Joel Davie, Lynn Womacque, of Its style and no other, that it is bard to believe the same group played them alL It is difficult to go from the mean acid-rock of "One, two, 1-2-3-4" to the delta roots of "Sing me softly of the Blues," from the clean baroque style of "Lines" to the dancing Joy of "General Mojo's Well Lord Plan," from the quiet sadness of "Mother the Dead Man" to the flashy sharpness of "Bal let" or the twittering icep cold computer brillance of the double tapping on "General Mojo Cuts Up" and believe it was the same four all along.' The musicians vary their styles drastically from cut to cut to fit the share of each tract. Vet each cut is recogniz able by the Gary Burton Quartet. The very stylessness becomes itself a style. The inevitability that the solosits will radically alter his ap proach to his song sever al times during its course, from chordal pattern to sin gle note flurries, rfom clean ness of line to broadness of twxture, becomes a from as rigid as a single minded de votion to the back-beat We know that Coryell will have more drive, more soul than Burton, that Burton's harmonics will be righer than Croyell's, that Swallow's Solo will impress ns with its lyric grace. But we do not know what form of blues Coryell will play when, nor which har monics Burton will play where. And Steve Swallow's grace is the kind of excited achievement we shall always admire. The Gary Burton Quintet is worth the attention of anyone interested at all in American music that is to nay, jazz. Al Spangler Leave Vietnam Writing about the war in Vietnam nearly two years ago, General Matthew B. Ridgeway said, "It is my firm belief that there Is nothing in the pre sent situation or in our code that requires us to bomb a small Asian nation back into the stone ages." But that is just what we were doing then, and we are still doing it now. Jean-Paul Sartre said it in a slightly different way: The United States is committing genocide in Vietnam. Another military man, Lt. General James Ga vin, testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said that "bombing attacks Intended to achieve psychological Impact through the killing of noncombatants Is unquestionably wrong. Likewise the attack of targets near areas high, ly populated by civilians, where civilians are likely to be casualties, Is also militarily as well as morally wrong . . , "But we continue to bomb and kill iWiieai.jaiMH;i Strange Day civilians. What Is more (and this requires some imagination), we've discovered that sometimes we have to destroy a village in order to save it. There have been some changes in our war pol icy. We changed the name of "search and kill" missions to "search and destroy," and the mili tary makes fewer pronouncements about an im pending victory. But the steady extermination of ou Vietnamese brothers continues and the GI's come home In boxes in ever-increasing numbers. And more and more of us at home are saying, "Let's get this over with." Howard Zinn (Vietnam: The Logic -of With drawal) has made a very reasonable suggestion: "Speedy withdrawl need not be shameful; this is not a Dunkirk situation where decimated troops, harrassed on the ground and air, scramble into boats and flee. The United States controls the air, the ports, the sea; it can make the most grace fu, the most majestic withdrawl inhistory." If, as politicians are fond of saying, politics is the art of the possible, then it is our job to insist that politicians expand their narrow view of what is possible. For surely it is possible for the United States to withdraw from Vietnam; if we do not with, draw, it is possible that genocide will occur much closer to home. Reuben Ardila Bridging the gap Literary and scientific groups in England are talking about J. Bronowski's new book: The Face of Violence in any cafe of the West End of London. They are, however, probably in two different cafes, because literary people don't like scientific people and vice versa, not even in London. Bronowski is a mathematician who takes li. terature seriously. He is the man who bridges the gap, between the "two cultures," and is the writer who doesn't balk when people start talking about DNA, Hamiltonian equations or combinatory topol ogy. He is a scientist who knows the great im portance of humanities, and who is able to see his work in perspective: The subject of the book is violence. In the au thor's opinion it Is man's symbolic gesture against the constraints of society. In all societies the In. dividual suffers a split personality. On one hand society nurses and sustains him, but he finds this pressure irksome and attempts to escape from its grasp. The destructive wish is depicted in the scapegoats who suffer for all the collectivity. Man wants to be a member of society and at the same time he wants to be an individual who is the real existential dilemma. To a certain extent Bronowski defends the right of the individual to be different. He writes, "The gesture of disobedience is a catharsis which we must not deny tc any man ... The man has a right to protest against communities; if he had not done so, he would-still be with the ant colonies." He is against the exploitation of violence, of course. Probably his ideas should be studied to getter with Loren's "On Aggression" and Ardey's "African Genesis" in order to obtain a clear pic ture of this controversial topic. A dramatic play constitutes half of the novel. The theme revolves around a former soldier who searches for a man who he thinks is a monster of cruelty. But when he finds him, he realizes that Us imagination has been overworked. The play won the Italia Prize in' 1951 as the best radio play of the two preceding years. The essay on violence is a new addition. Eoth the essay and the play are connected, however, and complement each other. Bronowski has written a very stimulating book, although one .-an not agree with everything and Tip1-0126 the suPerfial treatment of some topics. But in any case the book is worth reading