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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1969 0 t ftmim tM0. PAGE 2 (ktmmmftMiKi T 1 I V. a' 53 .ft 1 i I .if 1 5 'i Hi h I i 1 i -4 I II a lis "I Residential The fast-forming concept of a residential college should bear special significance to several thousand University students the Greeks. Along with other experiments in education, the college is based on (among other things) the idea of living, studying and learning In an environment jnore personal, and hopefully better, than the University complex. ONE OF THE claims cf the Greek system Jias been that it offers the personal experience fiften lacking in an 18,000-student school. Ap parently, though, the Greek system haa not pro gressed with the University to offer associated liv ing conditions. Too many students still need association which explains the rise of IDA and dormitory government Greeks should note and support the Idea of the residential college. And then adapt some of the lessons to be learned there to their own living imits. S0"pi! (iJkf itv, it People buying happiness and manufactured fun. Everybody's doing what everybody's done. You can count on lots of people who can only count to one. Genuine Imitation life Philips Records has put $100,000 in the promotion and production of a new record album by one of their most stable groups, the Four Seasons. "Genuine Imitation Life Gazette" is the latest release for the Seasons and the biggest promo for Philips Records. ' The company has admitted that something like this is probably confusing for the American public, the approach is totally new and a slight bit complex. In" short, the Four Seasons get down to the real Nitty Gritty and that is bound to offend someone. THE RECORD jacket Is done in a newspaper format. All of the words to the songs are included within and mixed in with a variety of news shorts, ranging from "Human Torch has Misgivings" to "Hippie Cop Found Guilty on Pot Rap." To really do this album justice, one must listen and read it for a week . . . yes, listen and read. You have to try to get seven years of Four Seasons style out of your mind and you have to look through Frankie Valli's falsetto to find the real meaning of the words. The Four Seasons got together after a series ofengagments in clubs in and around New Jersey. Three of the four were with a group known as the Four Lovers, a name they kept for several months before adopting the name of a night club in which they were featured. They were joined by a former member of the Royal Teens whose big hit was, "Short Shorts," remember that oldie? FROM THEN on, it was all glory for the group. Their first hit was "Sherry" followed by a raft of songs in that genre. To add s o m t variety they recorded a set under the name of the Wonder Who and Frankie Valli even did some of his own. One of their songs, "Girl Come Runnin " was recorded in four foreign languages in addition to the best selling English version. In addition to several world tours they have planned another la conjunction with this new album. If you listen to side one cut one first the record starts with a real bang. "The king Is dead long live the king." And another select line, "No, my son, you've got to wait, the Prince of Peace Is sleeping late." Does this move you? -CUT TWO features a snotty commentary on a ""girl in trouble whose body clutters up the otherwise saintly garden of Mrs. Stately. Cut three features "Look past today. I'll be alone." Cut four, "Is she looking at me?" and so on and so on. - Terribly pesimistic, but realistic. After all, that's what life is all about isn't it? . . . realism and all that I'd rather you be the judge about the Four Seasons' attent at being realistic. Give the record a chance. At least, look at the jacket. ' Significance ft Wwftfi C "Now M cCarthy democrats bellicose by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak Washington Closed-door events at Democratic na tional headquarters here Feb. 3 left no doubt that the stubborn bellicosity of the old McCarthy insurgents has changed little since the Chicago disaster last August. Ostensibly, the meeting between leaders of the New Democratic Coalition (NDC) and Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma, Democratic Na tional Chairman, was to discuss party reform. In stead, it deteriorated into, a 90-minute demonstration of the angry gulf between left wing insurgents and Democratic leaders. THE CHIEF spokesman for the NDC Paul Schrade, the United Auto Workers leader from California who was wounded when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles demanded that Sen. Harold Hughes of Iowa be chairman of the party reform commission authorized by the Chicago convention. If Harris named anybody else, Schrade warned, it would be clear evidence he did not sincerely want reform. The approach by another member of the NDC delega tion Adam Walinsky, the most flamboyant and radical of Robert Kennedy's young aides was even more dis tant from civil political discourse. While backing Hughes for commission chairman, Walinsky threw courtesy to the winds In a merciless cross-examination of Harris on the seating of two white regulars as Georgia's Na tional Committee members. The response of the Campus opinion lot Dear Editort If the I.Q. of the kind of people who set elevators on fire was above monosyllabic com prehension, it would behoove them to stop their "flipping and grooving" In Harper Hall. This (Feb. 16, 1969 at 2:10 a.m.) is the fourth time something like this has happened. After the last time locks appeared on the trash chutes. Are they going to lock the elevators at 4:30 p.m. now? The city Fire Department is another bitch. Why don't they stay home and let the staff take care of things. Contrary to popular belief the staff is more than capable and more concerned than the firemen ever thought of being. " THE FIREMEN can't get their trucks close to any of the dorms, and by the way they walk up to them, they don't particularly want to. If there ever was a crisis, everyone would perish before the benevolent Municiple Services Extension got its ass up here. O.K., now, why, why, why, after the fire has been extinguished and the danger of this concrete and steel structure burning like a gas soaked cotton swab is parted are we still kept out of our beds in the cold? It must be so the staff can tell the "firemen" what has happened. Pity the poor policeman too, who has to guard the door for this purpose, 'cause he sure catches a lot of crap from us college kids. IT IS written that the next time God destroys LtaMbliaJMMmHHA Wktar nimniMii m ml nihiins Imi nw,r .as ..... V?7 if I know how Jackie tormented Harris was less than masterful. He staved off Walinsky with lawyer-like evasions, asserting the Georgia decision had been made before he became Na tional Chairman and that any reopening of the matter would be up to the National Committee's general counsel. That left the NDC delegation in a state of apoplexy. NOR DID Harris display great sensitivity by having as his adviser a Texan named George Bristol, a protege of LBJ aide Walter Jenkins and Hubert Humphrey's envoy last year to the South's white party regulars. To the symbol minded insurgents, Bristol's presence seemed proof that the reform-minded Harris was really intent o n perpetuating the Johnson Humphrey era. But even if Harris had yielded to the NDC by nam ing Hughes, they would not have been appeased. The insurgents are interested not in party politics but in in surgency. Thus the outrage of the Democratic left caus ed by Harris's selection of Sen. George McGovern of DAILY NEBRASKAN Second class postage paid at Lincoln, Neb Telephones: Editor. 47S-2588. News 472-2589, Business 472-2500. Subscription rates are W per semester or 16 per academic year. Published Monday Wednesday Thursday and Friday during the school year except durini vacations. Editorial Staff Editor: Ed Icenoglei Managing. Editor Lynn GottschaJM News Editor Jim Evtngw: Night News Editor Kent Oocksoni Editorial Assistant June Wagoneri Assistant News Editor Andy Wood; Sports Editor Mark Gordon. Netor ask an Stan Writers John Dvorak, Jim Pedersen, Connie Winkler, Susar Jenkins Bill Smltherman, Sue Schllchtcmeier, Sue Petty. Ron Talcott. Joanelle Arkerman, Bachittar Singh i Photographers Dan Ladely. Linda Kennedy. Mike Haymaa; Reporter-Photographers Ed Anson. John Nollendnris; Copy Editors J.L Schmidt, loan wago ner. Phyllis Adkission, Dave FUipL Sara Schwieder. Susan Masid. Business Staff Business Manager Roger Boye; Local A4 Manager Joe) Davtst Production Manager Randy Ireyi Bookkeeper Ron Bowltn; Secretary Janet Boatman i Classified Ads Jean Baer; Subscription Manager Linda Ulrichi Circulation Managers Bon Pavelka, Rick Doran. James 6 teller: Advertising Representatives Meg Brown, Gary Grahnquist. Linda Rlbinaon. J.X. Schmidt, Charlotte Walker. time R obinson must have South Dakota Instead of Hughes has little to do with Hughes as such and much to do with the tactics of protest. Hughes has become a rallying point for the In surgents mainly because the Humphreyites, who felt he did less than his best for the national ticket while being elected from Iowa last year, would not accept him as the commission's chairman. BUT APART from that veto, Hughes had no special claim on the commission chairmanship and certainly less than McGovern. Ken nedy men less volatile than Schrade or Walinsky regard the Hughes question as ir relevant to party reform. While passively recom mending Hughes to Harris for the job, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had no expectation he would be named and has not joined the wailing on the left. The real' reason for the wailing is revealed in a con fidential report by James Loeb, an esteemed liberal and veteran of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). The Loeb report, privately .Harper the earth it will be by fire, what is the able "fire department" going to do then? A distraught, slightly singed "citizen" Harper Hall. To the Editor: I heartily agree with Dave Buntais's evaluation of the University's 100th birthday party. Speaking now as an alumnus who was on campus during the event, I can only express disgust in the manner in which the "Convo" was staged by the ad ministration. Three days after my graduation in January I received a letter from the University. My initial reaction I first thought I was being called back for further service since It read (in sum): "As a leader among the students of this University we hope you will be in attendence at our Centennial convocation." I DID not go. I was amused that I was con sidered a student leader simply because I had written for the student newspaper. Other than that I have done nothing on this campus which would warrent such a label. The University must have been worried about student attendence in the first place or it wouldn't have sent out the letters. In looking back on my four years I cannot remember one speaker brought for an all-University convocation that inspired or even provoked student thought The only speakers I recall are those brought in by student groups or the Union. I don't foresee any change in the future, speaking (of course) as a student leader. Larry E. Eckholt felt . I" distributed in ADA circles, sharply attacks reform recommendations drafted just before the Chicago con vention by a panel headed by Hughes and loaded with anti Humphrey elements. "The (Hughes) report seems to me to disregard completely the major factor of leadership in any organization and particularly in a political party," Loeb writes. "There is a tendency to dessicrate the party struc ture, to insist on a theoretical democratic pro cess which would totally replace the element of party leadership." e CONSEQUENTLY, although Harris is more sincere in pushing party reform than the insurgents will ever admit, he could never meet their demands for a leaderless party struc ture. That suggests continu ing, uninhibited war between him and the insurgents. That the Insurgents want such a war was made clear last week in Schrade's private predictions that Hughes, having been vetoed as chairman, would refuse to serve on the commission. Hughes would then join Sen. Eugene McCarthy in the wilderness a totem for the insurgents. Hughes might have found when Harris rejected a compromise suggested by McGovern to make Hughes vice chairman. But after a conversation with McGovern last Saturday morning, Hughes accepted mem bership to further party harmony a matter with which he, as a Democratic politician, is far more con cerned than the Schrade Walinsky insurgents. (e 1969, Publlshers-BaB anydloaiej While the college crowd has been flocking to "3 in the Attic" and "Romeo and Juliet," I have been diddling around in "The Nigiit They Raided Mlnsky's," "The Brotherhood" and "The Stalking Moon." Since the first two have left Lincoln's screens, and I can not safely recommend the latter except to fans of Westerns (of which It Is not too bad an example, although overly pretentious and much too slow in action), my function as an arbiter of taste, a guide to cultivated consumption (what Pauline Kael calls "consumer guidence") is not really called for. Besides It is a silly function. The inane reviews of TIMS and NEWSWEEK, et al, although better than they used to be, are still guides to attendance rather than actual criticisms. ALSO, THIS whole notion of critics as guides to which movies it is proper to Bee drains the life from movies. That complete, if elementary, no. tion upon which criticism of other works of art is based the idea that a work must be judged by what is there, not by the artist's stated inten tionshas been avoided. In movie criticism, this has meant not necessarily the acceptance of the works of those who profess the "right attitudes" (not every Kramer film has been universally hailed, but each receives a depressingly respectful pat on the head for being timely, even the superficially timely "Guess Who's coming To Dinner?"), but rather the rejection of those which are not "serious" enough or which profess a few improper notions. The darlings of the Cahiers school of French criticism (Ford, Hawks and Hitchcock) are still not accepted in the U.S. despite the valiant and often boring attempts of our own school of critics. THOSE WnO go to movies for Culture and Art, and who just love foreign films, particularly If they're Deep and Meaningful and Symbolic, are the most susceptible. They force the artist to in dicate his overpowering seriousness if he is to be taken seriously (that is, if he is to take his place among the practioneers of the New art of the film. The most serious example of this silliness last year was the reaction to "The Graduate." I will admit right off that I enjoyed the film immensely and have seen it three times. I too joined in the hosannas after seeing it for the first time. But Nichols has not made a work of art; ho has facilely manipulated the audience, using all the right touches which college audiences are bound to fall for. He has a work that is not really perceprive but does contain some good observa tions. We love "The Graduate" because it makes us feel good. But can one merely say it's enter taining but shallow? Oh no if we fall for it, it's got to be Deep. SO HERE is the problem movies are not allowed to be what they are. I fear that the new audience does not really love movies they love their reactions to movies. Even so bad a film as "The Hunt" will be hailed because it is against inhumanity, against violence, and, by extension, against war. This is not to say that movies should have no pretentions. It is merely to say that the critic's function should be to point out what movies are, and in what ways the critic responds to them to give some notion of what Robert Warshow calls "the immediate experience," as well as to analyze that experience. Reaction and analysis are both necessary; un fortunately, the new audience seems to prize reac tion and pretend it's analysis. I REMEMBER overhearing a girl discussin? 'The Graduate" gush "I just loved the sym bolism!" I bet she just loves herself for loving the sym bolism, too. And so solipism marches on, while almost everyone applauds the "film generation." The Daily Nebraskan is solely a student publication, independent of the University of Nebraska's administra tion, faculty and student government. Opinion expressed on the editorial page is that only of the Nebraskan's editorial staff. Km i it ' y A fe' f ' ' 1 II It' l S 'ui is r ir . ' T'i .J- ll It . iV. it n i -1; mi,m w yod afar tks Mart cf wm to Lo&i M