The Daily Nebraskan
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1969,
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- Aw.
The Bird of Paradise
The egg hatched and the bird flew away
except in Nebraska where it remains sweltering
in the incubator.
It is hoped that AWS can shed its rule-making
plumage and take flight into some meaningful pro
grams for University women.
The first progressive step can be taken by
abolishing the reactionary attitude of working
: members of the organization. Only by recognizing
' the faults and trends of an institution can mean
. ingful reform be accomplished. The defensive
nature of the AWS leaders may be admirable,
but intentional silencing of other's ideas cannot
be tolerated. The freedom of the press to question
students on vital issues should not be suppressed
by a vague warning. It is hoped that AWS Congress
women can be encouraged to think and form
honest evaluation's of their role and the role of
the organization to which they are devoting their
time and effort.
THERE HAS BEEN a token attempt to make
the program area of AWS equal in emphasis to its
rule making function. However, the emphasis
should be entirely placed on a relevant program
composition with the gradual phase-out of the rule
making function. The pace of the changes may be
slow,, but it must be encouraged and not stifled.
The resistance will be present, but it must be
overcome. The necessity is evident, and it must
be met. "
The programs could include meaningful
seminars on the role of women in a community,
the careers available to educated women, and the
stimulation of rational prbgressive thought. The
University coed should be made aware of her role
in the society which her academic life is "prepar
ing" her for. The future of AWS depends on its
ability to adapt itself to the pertinent needs of
its constituency. ,
The role of granting privileges and fostering
responsibility can only be the goal of an in loco
parentis organization as AWS is. The maturity of
today's college women demands that this role be
abandoned and a relevant role assumed.
AWS has made fruitful reform attempts in the
past, but new demands are being placed upon it.
AWS must respond to the demands and the
needs of its members. Where is the real leadership
coming from and who is doing the stifling?
Will the Phoenix arise?
Lynn Gottschalk
z:FAC column . . .
America has come
Ha long, long way
by Ed Icenogle
jj America land of freedom of choice, country
of consumer sovereignty has come a long
way.
In the beginning, when there was no choice,
American Negroes had a resounding social
monopoly. There was only the black nigger.
BUT AS generations passed, American blacks
- lost the monopoly. Students forfeited their disguises
of raccoon-coating and football-fanning to don social
awareness and involvement. And with this involve
ment have come the demonstrations against
society's diseases and protests of its hypocrisy.
Having unsettled the status quo and having
nettled the status quoers, students have gained
(besides social awareness) a new label: student
niggers. As the new term gained national pro
minence, it became less fashionable to keep using
"' blacks as whipping-boys. Students had become the
"' object of blame for civil unrest, instead of Negroes.
Now, rather than barring blacks from the polls
- In the south, the battle cry was for withholding the
, vote from under-21ers everywhere.
BUT WHAT WILL happen when we all tire
of student niggers? What can be the next step
in this curious manifest destiny? After blacks, after
students, some group must step forward. Some
minority should be ready to substitute for a change.
Just in time came the 1968 presidential elec
tions. Fortunately, so many minority groups have
emerged that everyone can now have his own
private faction for scorning.
Middle-of-the-roaders can have their pick of
either Gene McCarthyism on the left, Richard Nix
onism on the right or American Independent
Partyism in the wrong. Everyone else has his
political opposite to attack.
BUT THE MOST likely candidate will be the
Republican party, which must be the most powerful
minority in a long time in America. Tens of millions
of dollars were spent by the Republicans this year
to achieve the status of political niggers. No matter
what goes wrong in Vietnam, for instance, GOP
will get the discredit And the same in other areas.
History has turned itself inside out. No longer
is the minority status, the scapegoat role, avoided.
Now men seek it out
AND SO, students and blacks, hold fast to
the vestiges of your suppression. One of these days
&ai status may be valuaU.
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Comment
ry
George Kaufman . . .
The End of the World, William's way
It's been a strange year,
and the melancholy
gloominess of this Autumn
would seem to say that if Man
must destroy himself, this
would be a good time to do it.
Somehow it would be fitting
now, as the trees and nature
itself prepare to die also; the
demise of man would
sublimely blend with the pre
ordained death of his world.
It has been, at the very
least, a profoundly moving
year, like something out of
Shakespeare with it's heroes
and villains and murky
depths in between; and with
the not-quite-real dramas
among the men above Men
who move among poweY and
greatness.
It will take a while to forget
the noble Eugene McCarthy,
who "loved Rome more" when
he moved to unseat his chief.'
The noble, aloff, misused
perhaps unusable .
McCarthy who is now assailed
with acid words for attempt
ing to preserve integrity in a
business which allows for
none.
Ge6rge Wallace, the villain.
But not to all, not to all.
George Wallace, the embodi
ment of Iago, whose words
speak two languages:' he
charms, unless you listen too
carefully, unless you look too
far beyond.
And Robert F. Kennedy.
"Bcbby." Who will ever be
able to forget that magic day
at the Coliseum? Bobby:
alive, energetic, touching the
crowd, heckling back at
hecklers, winning admirers.
And the sad days which began
on a triumphant night in Los
Angeles. The knowledge that
it wasn't, after all, a sickness
in Houston or Texas. But a
sickness in Memphis, and in
Los Angeles and in Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Suddenly the man who had
been most alive was dead, the
campaign didn't matter any
more; anyone else would win
by default. He lies beside his
brother now, and who will
follow? Still they make the
silly jokes about assassina
tion; still the plots are un
covered on Johnson's life, on
Nixon's life, on Humphrey's
life, on Wallace's life, on
McCarthy's life . . .
But before those dark days
were the best days of all.
Kennedy and McCarthy were
winning big everywhere ;
despite the talk they were
headed toward a big win in
Chicago and probably in the
nation.
But one bullet nullified the
hopes of all these days. It
took only one dark day to
obliterate all the bright tones.
From that day on, the drab
old faces returned: the
Humphrey doll saying 'I am
in complete agreement with
the president but I am my
own man'; the Nixon doll,
trying just once more for ac
ceptance, just this last time,
then we'd not have Dick Nix
on to kick around any mare.
But the drama has now
been played out to it's dreary
conclusion, the Nixon doll has
his acceptance, but perhaps
he doesn't know at what
price yet. He has a new smile,
but all else is the same.
And now it would seem
right that the curtain should
close, perhaps allowing the
cast one last bow, of course.
And then we can let the clams
take their turn in a few
million years, or perhaps the
otters or the rabbits, it
doesn't really matter.
But, please, let the end
come with a bang, not a
whimper. There was so much
to hope for that the human
race deserves a big finish, a
shattering climax, with all the
dolls shrieking in horror and
yelling 'How could it have
happened.'
Shakespeare would have
liked it that way: a silent
stage strewn with the bodies
of the characters, with not a
sound.
Our man Hoppe . . .
The comeback kid comes hack for more
by Arthur Hoppe
Good morning, insomniacs.
Its time for the Awful Late
Show, featuring that awful old
movie, "The Comeback Kid"
starring Dick as the
middle-aged Kid, who hasn't
won a fight in 18 years, and
Pat as his loyal wife.
As we join them today, The
Kid has climaxed his long
struggle up the old comeback
trail, surmounting defeats,
adversity and Five O'Clock
Shadow. At long last he has
won the title! By a split
decision.
That's him, jubilant in vic
torya Band-Aid on his jaw,
one eye slightly swollen.
The Kid (Happily).: He
never laid a glove on me.
(solemnly) But I want
take this opportunity to say
what a great and courageous
opponent he was. One of the
greatest. He never quit
fighting. And I admire a
fighter who never quits.
Pat: But you've been
saying for months, dear, that
he was nothing but a no-good
bum.
Tie Kid: That was before I
licked him.
Pat: Well, dear, I'm
awfully proud of you. Anu
now that you've achieved
your goal against
overwhelming odds, will you
keep that promise you made
in 1962 and renounce the
sordid fight game forever?
The Kid (aghast): What,
quit now? I'm the Champ!
Don't you realize what that
means? Fame! Fortune! At
last you can throw away that
old cloth coat. We'll be living
on easy street.
Pat (dubiously): You mean
all our troubles are over.
The Kid (taking her in his
arms): They wrote me off as
a has-been. But I got off the
floor and did the impossible.
And now, baby, you and I are
going to enjoy the sweet fruits
of victory . the adulation of
the crowds, the love of the
country, the . . .
Pat (happily) : And no more
fights, Kid?
The Kid: Not for four years.
It's going to be just you and .
. . (The phone rings. Pat
answers it.)
Pat: It's one
handlers, Kid.
of your
The Kid: Probably just
wants to congratulate me.
Hello? What do you mean the
press is already speculating
whoU be my sparring mate in
1972? You can tell them I'll be
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loyal to good old Spiro T.
Whatshlsname forever. Well,
four years seems like forever.
Yeah, I know only a minority
.of the fight fans are with me,
but I'll win 'em over. I'll be a
real crowd-pleaser, you'll see.
A slugfest on Capitol Hill?
Sure, I know our boys are
outnumbered. But we'll give
'em a battle. Yeah, I know
there's a war on. Just make it
clear it isn't my war. We'll fix
it somehow. Riots in the
ghettoes? Pollution in the
streams? What about the
press? Are we getting a good
press? Nasty cartoons
already, eh? Spiteful colum
nists, huh? Okay, okay, I'll be
right there.
Pat: (as he hangs up):
Where are you going, KM?
You promised you wouldn't
fight for four years.
The Kid: (bobbing and
weaving as he goes out the
door): I know, baby, but I got
to keep in training. A right to
the public sector, a left to the
impacted areas, a jab to
Brezhnev's brisket, a right
cross to the new left . ., .
Pat: (disconsolately after
he's gone): The only thing I
don't understand is why he's
so happy they have him U
kick around again.
Chronicle Features
hinde report . .
Will floaters
settle down?
hv Rov h-d Kyans pH P-rt v!t
0"rr,v'iK Ms. The reason why C ':e
R-";1. TtenuH'can' state rr'rman. is qui?'y
I"'' Gov. John Rn W'I'tVs nfe o eonver' to
R?"iiib'ioanim helns reveal the amorphous shape
of post-election po'i'ieal !ife r D?an Smith.
Reed, a wealthy, young businessman here who
Is becoming a leading Southern Republican, las
no scruples whatever about the Governor's white
supremacist outlook. He has long envisoned a lilv.
white Republican party (majority) and a black
Democratic party (minority) in Mississippi. What
bothers Reed is that Williams might bolt the
Republican party before his seat there is warm.
ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI Republican aritculat
es Reed's worries this way: "I'm afraid the first
time there's a picture in the paper of Dick Nixon
shaking hands with some nigra, John Bell would
say bye-bye."
Williams today fairly represents the bulk of
Deep South white voters. Having found the national
Democratic party .utterly incompatible, they have
been a floating, partyless mass through the 1960s.
Voting for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and switching
to Geroge Wallace in 1968, they have proved an
tithetical to the national majority.
Now, these Deep South floaters typified by John
Bell Williams are eyeing, somewhat suspiciously,
the forthcoming Nixon administration to see
whether it has a place for them. The Republican
leaders typified by Clarke Reed are eyeing,
somewhat suspiciously, the ex-Democratic floaters
to see if they really are ready to become loyal
Republicans.
THERE IS reason enough for Republicans to
be suspicious of Williams. Stripped by the
Democratic caucus of 20 years of Congressional
seniority as punishment for endorsing Goldwater
in 1964, then-Congressman Williams made noises
about becoming a Republican in 1965 but finally
Tan for Governor as a Mississippi Democrat. Just
before this year's residential campaign, he con
ferred with secretary Reed about the possibility
of backing Nixon but then, as expected, supported
Wallace instead.
When a late August private poll commissioned
by the Republicans showed that Mississippi would
be carried overwhelmingly by Wallace and Nixon
would run a poor third, Reed abandoned any cam
paign here. Mississippi Republicans were silent this
autumn, their money shipped to the national -campaign,
and Gov. Ronald Reagan of California was
even discouraged from coming here on Nixon's
behalf.
Besides recognizing reality, the non-combat nt
stance was designed not to anger supporters of
Wallace (63 per cent of the vote on Nov. 5). Having
irrevocably discarded their Lincolnian birthright
and rejected the Negro vote, the Mississippi
Republicans now must cut into the Wallaceite red
neck vote to become a viable party here.
THE NON-COMBATANT strategy bore fruits
immediately after Nixon's victory with pre
Republican sounds from Wallace backers, notably
John Bell Williams. His' public statement that he
might switch to the Republicans was followed bv
a telephone call from a Williams aide to Reed
seeking assurances that the Governor would not
be embarrassed by a repudiation if he embraced
Republicanism.
But Reed, while saying nothing, is not about
to turn his party over to the Governor's machine.
Understandably enough, regular Republicans here
have been pleading with Reed not to sanction a
Willaims takeover. Beyond that, however, is the
doubt over how long Williams would remain a
loyal Republican once Nixon handles his first civil
rights crisis. Thus, Williams is not likely to turn
Republican in the foreseeable future.
Without Williams, statehouse-o r i e n t e d
Democrats won't convert either. Moreover, Rep.
Sonny Montgomery, a highly-regarded second-term
Congressman who would prefer being a Republican,
won't switch in order to help protect committee
chairmanships in Washington held by Mississippi
Democrats. The best hope for converts is in the
legislature (where influential State Sen. James
Arden Barnett turned Republican this week).
DESPITE THE absence of a stampede to
Republicanism, Wallace voters here have no other
likely home. Hoggin Carter in, the Greenville
publisher who leads the state's loyalist Democrats,
wants to expand loyalist ranks beyond Negroes
and a handful of white liberals into the red-neck
vote, but his is a goal that, if attainable, is a
decade away. Few politicians here think Wallace
can seriously build his American Independent Party
on the state level.
.Accordingly, the Mississippi majority remains
partyless, alienated from the main stream of na
tional politics, it may wen eventually enter tht
Republican column, but based on the sterile minuet
currently danced by 'Chairman Reed and Gov.
Williams, that day seems some time off.
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