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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Editorials
Commentary
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.Mdny fraternity pledge programs next fall will
become as outdated as Greek Week games if the
Interfraternity Council today approves a proposal
calling for the establishment of pledge training
contracts to be. presented to fraternities insuring
progressive pledge training methods.
""The pledge training contract was borrowed from
a similar program adopted recently by Indiana Uni
versity - The contract requires such inclusions in pledge
programs as guaranteed study Lours, enforcement
of no-physical hazing rules and prohibition of any
- "nfcdge power" services which would be detrimental
to a pledge's scholastic achievement or good health.
Few of the contract's stipulation are new addi
tions' to the Nebraska IFC's policies. During the
past few years many progressive pledge training
guidelines have been adopted but until now IFC
obviously has not had an effective method for en
forcing these policies.
( The pledge-training contract would be enforced
bit, IFC executives who would have the option to
' enter unannounced any fraternity house which had
signed a contract and start asking freshmen ques
tions concerning their pledgeshlp.
If the executives would find pledge paddle marks
r evidence of the Old Guard method of produc
ing fraternity men, the pledge contract would be re
scinded until active members reformed their habits.
J " -And what could be more of au incentive to re
. form pledge programs than to have a prospective
member tell a rush chairman he refuses to pledge
- this house because it doesn't have a signed pledge
Z training certificate.
"It seems inconceivable that IFC representatives
I would oppose this proposal since the majority of the
contains policies that should already be in effect.
- If IFC approves the pledge-training contract,
r the University's fraternity system will become a
'.- leader in promoting progressive pledge-training pro
- grams.
: Cheryl Tritt
Rodnev Powell
) Trust and obey
: .-Well, here we all are, back at dear old Ne-,
bfa"?ka U after spring vacation. So much excite
ment before we left the SAF report and the
'. Faculty Senate's change in the grading system.
So much excitement still to come Spring Day,
-. Ivy Day and even (heaven forbid!) final examina-
) Yes folks, another year is rapidly drawing to
, a close, and it is time to once again take stock of
our situation and decide here we're going and all
that.-
This is not a frivolous task; indeed it calls for
seriousness, high moral purpose and a strong de-
termination to tell it like it is. No flinching before
I the harsh, brutal, searing realities can be tolerated
; fersqeb, a quest for the truth.
I liave before me the results of one such un
compromising search for where it's at. Inspired by
thejrandor and power of the SAF report, the lone
crusader who completed this document on "Exper
iences in Total Education" asks to remain anony
mous. I shall only be able to present excerpts from
this amazing report, but have no fear, the entire
document will be out soon. And now on with the
show.
fart I: Students, Cars and Feeding of Same.
Students are usually nice, only sometimes they
; are not This is not, however, sufficient cause tor
; the denial of visiting privileges or for the punish
ment of spending a night in the box. Mature reflec
tion will reveal to all that students, faculty and ad
k; ministration, working together as a fruitful whole,
can solve most problems just by talking about them.
- Part II: What Total Education Means to Me
I Total education is not a sterile process. To be
totally educated is to be immeasurably enriched
; in mind, body and spirit. Administrative restrictions
- are a necessary and vital part of this process of
! total education, for how are students to learn what
they me to do what the boss says if not through
I our educational system?
I Tart III: Total Education: How to Achieve It
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I To receive the full benefits of a total educa-
tion, it is wise to keep the words of Alfred, Lord
; Tennyson in mind: "Theirs not to make reply,
' Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and
die."
One may, of course, at times speak of the
need for educational reform and student partici-
; pation, but we all know that this is acceptable dis-
' sent-since there is little fear that substantive change
; will jesult. Therefore, it is possible to work ma-
. turejy, and responsibly through the proper channels
Part IV: Total education: Exotic Variations
Today's questioning students are not all satis
fied with simple total education. Some, in fact,
may press very strongly for changes and, in order
to maintain the system, it may be necessary to
compromise, with them. Therefore, it is permissi
ble to have a limited pass-fail system and even a
Free university. If such changes fail to placate the
muWrity, reassert the ideals of the one true total
education by instituting an important reform; for
insjalice, make the grading system more precise.
PafTV: Total education: The Answer to Our Prayer
"It is obvious that without total education our'
lives- would be significantly shallower. We would
no"bnger be concerned with tests, grades and other
important features of the total educational process.
It is time for all of us to consider carefully the
alternatives offered by irresponsible extremists and
then to reject them.
As someone in administration wisely said, "Only
,-te-wand obey."
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William F. Buckley
Lost between the subject and verb
It must be very discourag
ing to be a politician. Here is
the governor of the most in
fluential state of the union,
running hard for the presi
dential nomination of his par
ty, richer even than Bobby
Kennedy, abetted by one of
the two or three most expen
sive speech writers in the
English-speaking world, ad
dressing the editors of j u s t
about every newspaper in
America, delivering a much
heralded speech in which he
managed to spend 150-billion
American dollars and you
know what the headline is the
next morning?
In one of the nation's most
liberal newspapers, devoting
maybe second most linage in
the country to national and
world affairs? "Rockefeller
SpeechHeard in Silence."
Surely Mr, Rockefeller en
visioned other headlines?
"Rockefeller Solves-Problems
of City," might have been
one. Or, "Rockefeller Magnetism-Wows
Editors" would
have been satisfactory. Or
even, "Rockefeller Speech
Brings GOP Raves." But the
reporter (Mr. David Broder,
one of the nation's best) was
as uninspired as the general
audience, as uninterested in
what Mr. Rockefeller ended
up saying as the editors who
heard him.
A total of two sentences
from the massive speech was
reproduced in the morning
paper way off, toward the
end of the first-page story
which began: "Governor Nel
son A. Rockefeller of New
York made his long-heralded
debut as a 'non-candidate'
yesterday, delivering a thirty
minute speech on urban prob
lems, uninterrupted by ap
plause, to the luncheon meet
ing of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors at the
Shoreham Hotel."
What happened?
Well, to begin with, the
speech was so heavy with
rhetorical pomposity that it
would have required a Saturn
IV Booster to launch it. Would
you like a taste? "Our time
of testing now follows like a
twin heritage of challenge
from both these earlier ages
(Lincoln's and Roosevelt's).
The signs of peril and the
chances for leadership rise
as high on both fronts: from
within and from without
our nation. For we are not
only struggling to build peace
in the world. We are also
striving to live at peace with
ourselves."
If you believe that I select
ed the single worst passage, I
give you the peroration
which, I have a paralyzing
suspicion, somebody at Rock
efeller's shop a c t n a 1 1 y
thought was eloquent . . .
"I believe deeply in such a
new government, such a new
leadership, and such anew
America.
"We as a people, have
right now a choice to make.
"We must choose between
new division or new dedica
tion. "We can live together as
bullies or as brothers.
"We can practice retribu
tion or reconciliation.
"We can choose a life of the
jungle, or a life of justice.
"We cannot have both.
"We cannot live for long
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"We must choose."
We must cut the crap.
Really, we must. And it Is
an objective Indication that
such emptinesses are boring,
that they bored the audience,
and bored the reporters, and
permanently traumatized the
musers.
"The audience reaction,"
says the account in the Wash
ington Post, "was noted with
concern by some Rockefeller
For President sponsors in the
room. One of them said after
wards, 'I hope this convinces
Emmet Hughes (the Rocke
feller adviser and writer
whose stylistic touches were
evident in the text) that it will
take more than the power of
his words to nominate Rocke
feller." A pity, really. Because Mr.
Rockefeller is a v e r y able
' man. His delivery is first
rate. He has great facility for
extempore talk, and his ideas,
if one excavates them from
all that lard, are worth pon
dering. For instance, the recogni
tion that the private sector is
five times more resourceful
than the public sector, and
that if the cities are to be
saved, it will have to be
largely by private enterprise.
For instance, his observa
tion that we are spending five
times as much money sub
sidizing our rich farms, as
our poor cities. But it takes
men of archaeological pas
sion to find Mr. Rockefeller's
Ideas in Mr. Rockefeller's
current prose. Next time, he
should furnish his audience
with a trot.
Two divergencies cause Polish strife
Warsaw, Poland (CPS)
The sit-ins, strikes, and riots
at Warsaw University and
the Warsaw Polytechnic
School which have resulted in
hundreds of students being
arrested are reflections of two
diverging trends inside Po
land: an Increasingly pro-Russian
regime with distinct Stal
inist tendencies; and
an increasingly anti-Russian
populace.
"A year ago," says one
student at Warsaw Universi
ty, "the regime still had
some popular support. But
now they have lost almost ev
erybody's sympathy the stu
dents, the intellectuals, the
farmers, the workers, the
military nobody supports the
government except the high
est level of the party bureau
cracy." Such discontent has been
brewing for some time, but
the student protests which
are now making news begaa
much more recently, when
discontent flared up over the
closing of an anti-Russian
play at the end of January.
Anti-Russian sentiment is, of
course, traditional In Poland,
and has been strongly pres
ent since the country was
partitioned and occupied by
the Russians in 1345. But
since 1956, and particularly in
the last two years, it has be
come increasingly difficult to
express publicly such
ions.
opin- dor. The order could not be
The play which was cen
sored, "Dziady," is a Polish
classic written by the 19th
century Polish writer Adam
Mickewicz, and is normally
considered to be an unim
peachable part of the Warsaw
theatrical repertory. The play
contains anti-Crarist rather
than strictly anti-Russian sen
timents, but this particular
production strongly empha
sized the anti-Russian aspects
of the play in the broadest
possible way with the actors
shouting each line and wait
ing for the applause to die
down before proceeding.
The play was ordered
closed after the third per
formance, which was attend
ed by the Russian ambassa-
carried out immediately,
however, because tickets for
the next few nights had al
ready been sold. When the
news of the impending clos
ing became public, crowds
gathered around the theatre,
forced their way into the
building for the remaining
performance, filled the aisles,
the halls, and even sat on the
stage, while even more
crowded Into the lobby or
waited outside. Shouts of
"freedom for art" and "free
dom for Mickewicz" (the
author) were at times so fre
quent and violent that the
actors could not continue.
After the performance, the
audience, which was largely
composed of students,
marched to the central
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square in Warsaw and dem
onstrated outside the mas
sive palace of Culture in pro
test against the regime's po
litical censorship. Special po
lice were brought in from
Poland's newly enlarged
school for riot police "Goled
rinow," just outside Warsaw,
and in the ensuing conflict
more than 50 students were
arrested.
Most of these were released
after a short period, but three
were held and tried for dis
trubing the peace, which in
Poland can be a fairly seri
ous offense. One of these
three was the son of a promi
nent party member be was
released with a light fine.
The other two were sentenced
to six months.
This obvious favoritism
only intensified public opin
ion and, together with other
evidence of official corruption
and stricter official controls,
has helped prepare the ground
for the massive demonstra
tions which Poland is now ex
periencing. ' Compared with student
movements in Western Eur
ope and America, the Polish
students are politically more
conservative. On the other
hand, considering the impli
cations of being expelled from
a university in a state where
all employment comes from
the government, they are also
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Larry Grossman
(Border CustomsJ
S The border areas shared with our North Ameri
can neighbors, Canada and Mexico, are geographi
cally similar to the adjoining land in the U.S. When
one crosses into Canada there is no physical dif
ference in the appearance of the land. The same
high plains covered with wheat in. Montana extend
into the province of Alberta, the same forest and
lake country of Washington continues into British
Columbia.
Crossing into Canada is like going to another
part of the U.S. People look the same on both
sides of the border, dress the same, live in similar
kinds of houses and speak the same language. '
Canadians speak their English with a trace of
a British accent and make constant use of the
word ayeh (pronounced like the letter A) much
as we use the word huh. But Canada, except for
its slightly evident British heritage, presents the
U.S. border crosser with no substantial change.
Mexico is an entirely different story. As one
travels south in the U.S. towards Mexico, he en
ters a zone of gradual cultural transition in which
the presence of Mexican people and the Spanish
language becomes increasingly more prevalent.
In Texas, from San Antonio to the border, nearly
everyone is Mexican. The people are usually bilin
gual or speak a curious language called alternately
Texmex or Splnglish. When the border is actually
reached, be it at Laredo, EI Paso, or Nogales,
the people are 100 Mexican and the English lan
guage disappears. It is hard to believe that it is
still the United States.
But even though the U.S. side of the border
is entirely Mexican, it does not prepare one for
what waits on the other side. Mexico is an ex
plosion of life. The streets of the border towns at
all hours of the day are jammed with shoppers,
vendors, strollers, and loafers.
The staccato sound of Spanish mixed with the
ringing of bells on taco carts and the roars of diesel
buses without mufflers creates a discordant sym
phony of ear splitting sounds. The smells of strange
spicy broths floating out of street stalls, the fetid
odor of garbage and the omnipresent exhaust of
partially combusted gasoline hang in the air.
One's first reaction is that there are a lot of
people in the town and many must be out shop
ping at this hour of the day: But this idea quickly ,
disappears when one sees that everyone is always
out on the street. In short, the Mexican lives" his
life outdoors using his home for meals and sleeping.
One is seeing the entire population of the town.
One December I crossed from El Paso, Texas
to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. The bus from down
town El Paso passed over the sleepy Rio Grande
. on the International Bridge. On the Mexican side,
the driver stopped momentarily to let on two boys.
One had an accordian and was blind. He stood in
the front of the bus and sang a raucous song in
. Spanish while his brother went down the aisle col
lecting dimes and pesos.
I got off the bus no more than 100 feet from
the International Bridge. Standing on the curb was
a weathered old man with an enormous tray of bot
tles hanging from his neck. He rang a giant bell
and called out the virtues of the waters of San
Juan de los Lagos, only three pesos complete with
non-returnable bottle.
A donkey cart moved down the middle of the
street pushed along by the angry honks of an an
tique school bus stacked full of afternoon shoppers.
The bus accelerated wildly through the crowded
streets laying down a cloud of black exhaust as
if to cover its escape.
My attention was now caught by a line of peo
pie waiting in front of a shop a short ways down
the block. The women and children in the line
were buying their daily supply of tortillas being
stamped out automatically by a large Walter Mitty
machine.
Next a man rode by on a bicycle balancing an
enormous tray of hot rolls on his head. The tray
had a space for his head and he wore It like a
giant sombrero. He was followed by a bike loaded
with chickens In crates balanced uncertainly be
hind the rider. All this was happening a few feet
from the line marking the International border!
Mexico is Indeed another country.
The change one undergoes when crossing into
Mexico is great. This results naturally from Jha
contrast between a rich country and a poor one.
But even more important is the difference in two
cultures with different values and outlooks on Ilkfe.
It is impossible to make a Judgment as to wheth
er one culture is better than the other. Hopefully
you survive the initial shock and learn to dig ths
new culture on its own terms.
1 cannot but feel a bit of the absurd whenever
I enter Canada or Mexico. The act of crossing an
arbitrary line and entering an area ruled by a dif
ferent government seems quite artificial.
The land wp.s there before man created his
states and marked off (he limits of his control.
But then it does one no good to ponder such mat
ters. Just be sure your papers are in order.
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