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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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; As political speeches begin to generate
something less than fever-pitch excitement over
t&CASUN election, educational concepts and im
plements are becoming the apparent issues.
-"Some of these concepts are good, though not
original. Some are bad.
' Presidential candidate Ray Vavak, for instance,
has called for student representation on the Board
of " Regents, student control over out-of-classroom
lif$ pass-fail grading and a faculty-student teaching
committee.
LN ADDITION to the fact that these suggestions
do not distinguish him from the other two can
didates, there are some serious drawbacks to his
campaign: .
Z(l) he does not present sufficient plans to im
plement his ideas;
tI(2) The belief that defense tax money can
-ke channeled into education is rather naive,
""especially in light of the current trends of the
military-Industrial complex:
(3) He caHs for ASUN interventions in the
Greek system, an attractive mirage that is im
practical. " TO DEVELOP this third criticism:
Vavak calls for deferred rush, initiatives to
L'tessen discrimination, and the liberalization of
pledge training. Although the second two are clearly
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Johnny Cash Is Dylau without a metaphor;
a dark brooding crooner who walks a tenuous line
between salvation and despair.
Richard Goldstein
And Johnny Cash sings on a new record with
Bob Dylan! Dylan's Nashville Skyline features
Johnny and Bob singing together in the song, "Girl
From the North Country," an old Dylan song which
has been featured on an album previously.
- Upon first listening to Dylan's new album I
was rather befuddled. Sessions two and three
brought me around and I realized that Dylan was
proving his versatility once again. He has written
country before, and now he is singing it too. Country
-music, the most realistic, pure and simple music
. . . next to blues.
Other notable cuts on this album are, "Country
Pie," "Lay Lady Lay" and "Nashville Skyline
"Rag." If you dig Dylan, or Cash or, if you really
like country music, pick up on this album.
!ncu.uriB this weekend. Lincolnites have to
do without Hot Sweat and Bubblegum. Little An-
thony and the Imperials will be in concert on
East Campus Friday afternoon with their very
old, very original soul sound. Then, Saturday night
comes Spyder and the Crabs, one of the Midwest s
oW standby soul combos. It will be Interesting
to see just how many of the original group are
still playing.
Spring Day features the Flippers, another
famous Midwest show band who really broke it
up with "Turn on Your Love Light and other
soul show style music. That same weekend also
features a group which varies from solid hard
to wlshy sweaty rock, The Grass Roots.
The Roots have a Golden Record to their credit
"Live for Today." Their latest hit was ' Lovta
Things " Their newest release. "The River Is Wide
S on?'that has been widely done by the stalled
hard groups of today.
The interesting thing about this WJJJ
thev videotaped 10 hour-long concerts of themselves
SstSd the films with a crew which Included
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If &g Sat Knd of thing; sight with sound.
My hat goes off to Clyde Clifford and Radio
station KAAY In Little ko. r-
gram of hard rock-Bleecker Street. It Is a welcome
sound In the air waves that have become stale
with the bang-bang of sweaty rock. Keep It up.
Next week, my last column ... and the Schmidt
List, of everything musical that turns me off. completely.
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desirable (and perhaps the first one, also), ASUN
Is not the vehicle by which to effect change. Pro
gress must come from within the system, with
the prodding of IFC and Panhel.
And, too, Vavak fails to suggest ways of ending
prejudice outside of the Greek system. It Is just
as strong in the dorms as in the houses.
BOB ZUCKER, the second presidential can
didate, has been placed on the spot of explaining
his failure to produce the Faculty Evaluation Book
this year. He does explain how the book should
be, ideally. But he has yet to explain how he
failed to put out a book at all.
Aa perhaps someone should explain what hap
pened to the funds appropriated for the Book
about $500.
He should also be explaining why the students
were not allowed to vote on permanent NSA affilia
tion this spring, since he is the University's NSA
representative.
While some aspects of both Zucker's and
Vavak's platforms are valid, there are as ex
plained reasons for reservations on both men.
As for the other presidential candidate, Bil
Chaloupka, his program is being defined today
and will be in the Nebraskan Friday. Hopefully,
he will be able to offer methods for accomplishing
his goals. Methods which apparently are lacking"
in the other two candidates.
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Plau ahead . . . Ivy Day cometh
Fred Starrett
Yet another side of ROTC
The irony of the nation-wide ROTC dilemma
is that the freediom-crusading people to whom
ROTC has fallen into disfavor, wish to deny, for
no explicit gain of their own, a freedom to
others.
There is a case against allowing academic
credit for ROTC, and I do not deny this, just
as I do not deny similar cases against academic
credit for: journaism, football, art, music, P.E..
and. in effect, everything else not directly descend
ed from the Renaissance. By such Fine Arts as
music and art I mean that the participation and
not the appreciation should lose credit.
IN FACT, I think a strong case at this
University, could be made for dropping six hours
credit for everyone who took freshman English
1&2 prior to the 1968-1969 term. The incongruity
of these arguments keeps creeping back like an
Irksome lover. This "liberalizing" element wishes
to improve by weeding and restricting an entirely
honorable goal, proposed with the purist intent:
to make the curriculum more suited, intellectually,
to higher education.
There seems to be, however, a more serious
backlash Involved, and it is at this point that the
rational and the emotional collide. This backlash
is a frustrated strike at the Viet-Nam conflict and
the military-industrial complex. Since the students
and certain interested faculty have picked ROTC
from among the wide range of suitable candidates,
I don't feel that this assumption is rash or unin
formed. Because this is to som degree, then, an emo
tional backlash, I feel those deeply concerned have
failed to weigh the advantages of the ROTC-
University bond they wish to divorce.
SINCE ALMOST everyone between eighteen
and twenty-six opposes the draft, in favor of a
mercenary army, and since most of those people
seen on TV protesting ROTC are between these
ages, a curious paradox occurs.
This paradox is that, being unable to end the
draft and the conflict, they would still venture
to seal off one readily accessible avenue of escape.
The more important reason in favor of ROTC,
though, Is the admitted liberalizing effect it has
on the officers' corp.
These two points are aimed, admittedly at
merely retaining ROTC, and not credit for the
courses. The reason for this is simply my fear
that, as the East and West go on this issue so
goes Nebraska.
At Harvard, after ending credit for ROTC this
year, the students have expressed the opinion that
ROTC should not.be taught on campus at all.
This, I feel, may be one of the first real excuses
we have given our elders to call us rash and
unobjective.
OUR HEADS are so deeply buried in today
that we cannot see the possible repercussions of
our desires in the future. I feel that it is the
duty of my generation of Idealists to look beyond
the relish of an end to the draft, to the possible
future danger of a volunteer army and strengthen
ing of the military-industrial complex.
So, if the issue is intellectual and the desire
being expressed is to return to a more pure com
munity of scholars, then the demand for credit
removal should include all the evils of industrial
craft I mentioned above. If this is an isolated,
frustrated jab at the military-industrial complex
then be clear there, too, and include research grants
which may result in military technological adv
ances, and any other related area.
Campus Opinion
The real true color blood red
Dear Editor,
When a Viet Nam veteran comes home he
faces the same problems as men returning from
all wars, and that is mainly readjustment. But
even though he must learn to readjust, the man
has changed and he will never be the same. He
has seen and done a thousand things you have
not dreamed of, and no amount of readjustment
can make him forget.
However, when he comes home he will be
looking for a place In life with a desire to live
peacefully with everyone, and the color of one's
skin doesnt seem to matter anymore. The com
radeship developed on the battlefield between
blacks and whites carries back to the States. For
when veterans get together, they get along fine
because they know blacks and whites can live
together, and peacefully!
I think perhaps it might open their eyes. There
Is only one color on a battlefield, and that is
blood red! For that is the law of combat, and
God how she makes It clear! Yes I said clear
clear tn that when you get down to the nitty
gritty there is no compromise because when
blood Hows its red man, red!
Veterans coming home don't worry about living
together because they know they can. Instead they
find the people at home are the ones who haven't
changed. They are still the same narrow minded
people as when he left.
When the veteran comes home he Is happy
at first, happy because he doesn't have to shave
with cold water anymore, happy because that four
letter word he said at the breakfast table went
undetected, happy because the world really didn't
come to an end when he discovered that his girl
back home could no longer accept him for what
he is, hapny because down at the local pub they
still serve" cold beer, happy because he has a
dry place to sleep, but most of all, he's happy
to just be alive.
THEN ALONG comes some narrow minded
civilian who has never been out of the state of
Nebraska and tries to brainwash him Into believing
that blacks and whites can't live together without
growing a beard, letting your hair grow, carrying
a sign or brick ami going to the local protestor's
demonstration.
Well I think it's a lot ot mid! Why in the
hell don't people dm something constructive for
a change like sending a few Christmas cards to
ir boys in Vict Nam this year or woik towards
a low cost housing project for University veterans
going to school on the G.I. Bill However, building
brick walls, blocking entrances, and sitting in. is
really accomplishing a lot to some people 1 guess,
but It seems to me there ought to be a better
way!
Warren Storms
Dear Editor:
After viewing the results of the recent Student
Union Photography Contest we are completely
disgusted. Never have we seen such a poor selection
of winners from such a good range of entries,
It was apparent that the Judging discriminated
heavilv in the favor of purely art photography.
Nowhere in the announcement of the contest was
it made apparent that it would be an art photo
contest.
The Student Union Board executed the contest
very poorly. First there was a poor selection and
an inadequate number of Judges. Secondly, with
the large number of art type photographs submit
ted, a separate category should have been
created.
If the contest was to have been judged on
a purely objective basis, a better and more
disinterested range of judges should have been
provided.
Two tneu coutd hardly do an adequate job
of judging such a wide range of photographs that
were submitted. A panel of Judges with a broader
range of experience surely should be considered
In the future.
It Is obvious that art photography can not
possibly be judged on the same plane as other
types. It Is only one aspect of a very broad field,
just as pure art is only one part of the whole
field of art.
When it was apparent that a great deal of
art photography was submitted, a special category
should have been created. As It turned out. the
Student Union Photography contest turned out to
be more of an exclusive art department competition
than representing the whole university.
If the photo-contest is to be judged on the
basis of what is deemed art photography, then
it should be called "The Student Union Art
Photography Contest" and not the misnomer that
was applied to it.
John Villeud rfi
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This next to last column of the year "(sob'
will necessarily be somewhat disconnected, for
there are several things which need saying an !
have not yet been said, as well as several thin ;
which need repeating. For instance:
1. Norman Mailer's "Beyond the Law" prove 1
to be everything Mailer fans had been hoping fo".
I was impressed by the suggestiveness of muc
of the dialogue, and Mailer's playful (in the b"
sense) ability to work with ideas '( particularly t'1
bit about the young prisoner who on!" had
concepts In his mind.) The whole film seeme '
artfully messy; the wipes, dissolves and closeup ;
all contribute to a cumulative effect of disorder.
THIS IS precisely the sort of t'i!m which need
to be seen in Lincoln; contrary to Holly Spence'
opinion in the Sunday Journal-S'ar, we need t
see less of the inflated Hollywood products whk .
are nominated for the Academy Awards, and moi .
personal films.
2. This brings me to another sore point
the Sheldon series. There seems to be almost n
consciousness of it on campus. People set asi'
alternate Wednesday evenings for the film sociel1
but forget that Sheldon has been showing a goc
series on the other Wednesday evenings (as we.
as Sundays .
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IN FACT, two of the best films shown in Lincol
this year ("Fire on the Plain" and "Forbiddi i
Games") were at Sheldon, but the audiences wer
pitifully small
3. As the end ol the year approaches. 1 fir
that my didactic impulses are rising. Because n
this Intellectual need, I must spew forth exhort
tions to the benighted maws of readers. The
are my suggestions to improve your critic
faculties, to make you see movies properly, I
make you true euanoisseurs of the art of th.
cinema:
Read Pauline Kael's two collections
criticism, I Lost it at the Movies and Kiss Kis .
Bang liang. They are both available in paperback
with the latter just out in bookstores ail over Lr
coln. One could also do worse than spend an h"
or so carefully studying her essay, "Trash, A: .
and the Movies," in the February Harper's.
READ ANDREW Sams' The American Cinema
It cogently states the auteur theory (I.e., th.
movies should be looked at as basically the ere
tions of the director, and that directors shou
be judged by the body of their work) and hi
splendid listings of over 6,0Xt films by directo
Finally, don't trust any critics. They're all ju '
expressing their personal prejudices and askir
to be admired for their brilliance. A group
despicable folk.
4. I see (once again in my faithful Sund;--Journal-Star)
that "The Graduate" is returnir '
to Lincoln this weekend at the 84th and 0 Drtve-l:;
Still fighting (and losing to) those damned didact:
impulses, I must say once again what I ha
said before it isn't the best film of last year.
It may be the one which one likes the mo.'
which reinforces one's prejudices the most, whi'
exploits one's wishful thinking the most, but bes..
no.
THE BEST ANALYSIS I have seen of the fill
and the audience reaction to It. as Jac
Braekman's absolutely, Indeed astonishing!
brilliant essay in the July 27, 1968 New Yorke
I can not praise this piece too highly If y
care about that movie at all, you simply mu
read It. I am par.icularly struck by his explanatio
of Benjamin:
" 'The Graduate' hlng?s upon Benjamin's I
terestlngness, and it is an Interestingness not
much portrayed as established by tautological c
vention: People who don't say much and wl;o 1
pained in frequent closeups are deep and Interestir ',
because why else would they be pictured that
way?"
Doesn't this projection of one's own feelin
into the passive Itenjamln account for the film
popularity, particularly among Inarticulate, strug
gling, but basically swell collegians?
From all evidence, Benjamin Is us inept a
most of us, but he wins in the end lalthoi' i
Nichols rppurently did not intend the ending !
be totally happy - remember the closing t
of the o'utu faces?), and that makes us feel goo I.
Enough everything important is in Braekman's
essay. Read it.
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