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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER! 3, 1969
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
editorial page
Nebraskan
Unsaid holds key
The right claimed by the Athletic Department
to preclude selling of any concessions outside the
football stadium on game days is roundly attacked
in today's paper by Ken Wald and contributors
to open forum.
It seems though, that two major fallacies of
the arguments against the charity booth made by
Bill Fisher, the department's business manager,
have been ignored.
First, he contends that allowing one charity
booth would open the field to such organizations
as churches and charities. He overlooks the fact
that any non-campus organization could easily be
prohibited.
Second, he fails to recognize that the booth
was planned as a small, one-shot operation that
could in no way jeopardize the massive concession
business run by the Athletic Department.
It looks as if the Athletic Department has
. developed a giant paranoia from a small incident.
If this can threaten its operation, as it obviously
believes it can, there must be something wrong
with its operation that it doesn't want to talk about.
. . . Holly Rosenberger
."'JXU trust breaking
-Conscience-Conscious
by Ken Wald
Everyone seems to be quite concerned these
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tendency to strangle every other institution in our
snety. a is aDout time tnat someone focused wis
1 same concern upon the University's own equivalent
of the military-industrial complex the Go Big
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Department.
Two recent actions by this monolith indicate
that it sees itself as the center of the universe
around which all other lesser beings must rotate.
" " The first incident, publicized in Monday's
-' concessions stand near the stadium on orders from
the department's Business Manager, Bill Fisher.
According to Fisher, there were three solid
justifications for his storm trooper tactics.
..... First if nn rharitahle opunnizntinn via nllnwori
to cut into the business, fifty or sixty more would
follow. That's good thinking. Bill. If you let all
those people in, you and I both know what will
nappen id propeny values arouna nere.
. ." ... Then he contended that the purpose of the
doom was soieiy to tiesiroy our ousiness. rnis.
in spite of the two houses' announced intent to
donate the money to the Lincoln Indian Mission
;,Center. Apparently Mr. Fisher has achieved some
new Freudian insiffht that esranps the rest of vit
or he is the recipient of a divine revelation.
favorite phrase of Herman Goering and Adolph
Eichmann that "We have our orders." It didn't
work for Herman and Adolph.
Aside from the irony involved, there are some
very substantial issues. For example, the sponsors
of the booth bad received permission for their
enterprise from the Student Activities Office. By
lis very title, one would expect that branch of
the University's administrative structure to have
jurisdiction over such projects.
Yet Mr. Fisher claims that his mandate from
Tha Comptroller and some anonymous "University
authorities" overrides Mr. Eaglin's approval. Mr.
Fisher should be informed that the University exists
for the benefit of all its students, not just the
preservation of his bailiwick.
Earlier in the year, Mr. Fisher tried to exercise
his muscle in another way. He asked the Publica
tions Board to direct the cessation of printing of
the Husker Special, a football-oriented edition of
the Daily Nebraskan which was distributed on
Saturdays before home games. He claimed that
the special was in competition with his overpriced
official program and, by providing data that would
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cused the Nebraskan staff of significantly lowering
his monopoly's sales.
" His technique was even more specious than
his arguments. The board members in attendance
at the meeting asked him to send to them a short
letter explaining all his demands. The request was
made so that the Issues could be weighed more
rii v i 1 1 1 v in i r vu n .ucu nn win .amrm.fl
present.
- Fisher did send the letter but not under his
signature as asked it bore the Imprint of Bob
"Win one for the Gipper" Devaney. It was a very
subtle kind of pressure. If you're against the Coach,
you're against the University (not to mention God,
mother and apple pie as well). It reminds the
cynic very much of President Nixon's futile at
tempts to draw an invidious analogy between op
ponents of his war policy and supporters of com.
munism, and, by extension, totalitarianism. It has
even less validity.
In sum. the Athletic nenurtment mt (a ho
controlled. It must learn that It is not a law unto
Itself nor the grace and salvation of mankind.
It must realize that its presence is not a necessity
for the efficient functioning of this educational in
stitution. If It cannot play fairly, it ought not to play
at all. The government occasionally seeks to
dissolve conglomerates. Maybe it should begin with
a less conspicuous behemoth.
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Open Forum
Dear Editor:
The recent Athletic
Department vs. charity
fiasco left me with a number
of thoughts which served on
ly to bring back hostilities
obtained while participating
in campus activities a
number of years ago.
The first impression was
that the Athletic Department
had finally placed the straw
to break the camels' back. It
was now obvious that here
was the voice of . final
authority on this campus
telling us again of the
dominance of athletics over
rational decision making.
The students had at last been
given something to justify
the existence of this institu
tion of higher learning.
We could rest easy, the
system was now in good
hands a coalition of the
Athletic Department and the
university police. This idea
only tempted me to ra
tionalize not issuing the
charity booth sponsors a
permit to sell. After all, it
seems somehow unreasonable
that one organization could
"just wreck business for the
Athletic Department" and
the proceeds from the sale of
the permit may have pro.
vided for one more athletic
grant-in-aid.
After further analysis of
the subject It seemed that in
the end the final liability
rests with the Office of Stu
dent Affairs. Here was a
typical situation of one
branch of administration
giving permission where it
had no authorization to give
permission.
After all, selling at a foot
ball game, either before,
during, or after is obviously
out of the realm of student
affulrs. Selling implies profit
orientation, therefore a
function of the profit
motivated the athletic de
partment and campus police
($15 for a parking sticker?)
ignored. That is the Athletic
Department.
I enjoy football and the
other sports as much as
anyone, but I feel that the
right of the Athletic Depart
ment to have a monopoly on
concessions covering all
University property before
and during a game is
wrong.
The students "make" this
campus, including the
Athletic D e p art m en t . I
believe students have the
right to express their concern
for those In awed and the
right to set up projects to
raise money for those areas.
I do not believe that the
Athletic Department should
have the power to control
this right. As long as these
projects are not in the
stadium I fall to see how this
would seriously hinder the
financial stability of the
Athletic Dept.
I would think that con
cession booths and similar
projects for charity during
one footbull game, I.e.
homecoming, would be en
couraged Dy those who say
that Nebraskan students are
apathetic und are not con
cerned about the problems of
this world. I think that
Saturday's incident with
Farmhouse-Gamma Phi Beta
wus Indeed a study in Irony
and hypocrisy.
Ronald UrwlIIer
l ather Hall
iX'ur Editor:
"War, this monster of
mutual slaughter among
men, will be finally
eliminated by the progress of
humun society, and in the not
too distant future, too." said
Mao Tse-tung.
There is a serious side to
this ordeal. Someone made a
mistake, and thus messed up
some very noble plans for a
break In homecoming tradi
tion. I feel that the subject
deserves some student if not
administration attention. The
fact remains that some
charity was denied some
needed contribution because
the Athletic Department
cannot tolerate comoeti
tion. Jerry Andersen
Dear Editors
There is much talk on
campus these days of the
"establishment" and how It
controls our lives, a much
cited example Is the Ad
ministration. However, there
is one powerhead on this ca
mpus that is being totally
He goes on to describe Just
and unjust wars. Can It be
doubted thut the U.S. in
Vietnam is an unjust war?
Its constitution was born of
the American Revolutionary
War w hich was a just war.
By means of this constitu
tion the present war can be
ended, for it provides means
to end unjust wars by the
people through constitutional
actions of free speech, free
press, free assembly.
Puppet Thieu will fall
because of his ignorance of
constitutional rights. Nixon
himself is ignorant of the
basic powers given the peo
ple by the constitution, for he
chooses to Ignore public ap
peals. Very few Americans
voted for Nixon; and few
even bothered to vote. More
participated in the
moratorium tnan nave ever
voted for any American
President. It should be a
sobering thought for the ad
ministration, for Nixon is
afraid of the will of the peo
ple. C. M. Dalrymple
Dear Editor:
"Give to football what is
footbaU's," an editorial
which appeared in the
Nebraskan Nov. 6, perhaps
hit closer to home than most
people would think. The
crowning of the homecoming
queen during PP&M was a
prime example of cornfield
tact. But then naturally the
incident can be written off to
the fact that we are in a
"culturally deprived area."
This fact becomes painfully
evident when one hermits
himself in the corner of a
party, and listens to exciting
intellectual dialogue, such as
"I thought she was going
with an Alfa," or "Let's play
pass-out."
If we journey to the
"adult" world of parties In
Nebraska, we may find, "Did
you see the way Van Bronson
scrambled?" or, for the more
mathematically minded, "We
gained 135 yards passing, not
132 yards." Football fervor Is
fine, and since it is perhaps
me only way people in New
York know of Nebraska's
existence, we should support
it.
Here is a test of sorts to
evaluate the relative in
terests of NU students; first
ask them the names of the
NU quarterbacks; second,
ask them the name of the
Nebraska Lt. Governor, or if
you really want to go out on
a limb, ask them who wrote
"The Tragedy of Doctor
Faustus." Compare your
findings.
There Is a reason for the
barren intellectual wasteland
It can hardly be the instruc
tors' fault; they only have
the specimen three hours a
week. The majority of the
student's time Is devoted to
"peer-group placation."
pull out of the cow-path and
up to the expressway, we
must expend effort.
A writer in Playboy
several months back had a
rather valid insight into the
nature of the midwestern
university: "It's too bad we
can't lick cancer the way we
beat Iowa State." But then
it's your world.
James R. Smith
Dear Editor:
There are on this campus a
number of people who for one
reason or another have ap
proached the Tri-Unlversity
Project staff offering their
services in a number of
capacities related to helping
education serve our Indian
brothers over academic
hurdles. We at Tri-U are
much concerned over the
dropout rates in these and
other cultures. As our con
tacts with these peoples
widen our resources seem to
get thinner; we simply can
not handle the requests and
needs adequately without
additional resourceful peo
ple. Your help Is needed we
need manpower. We plan to
establish some tort of
tutorial program for our In
dian friends to strengthen
their academic life and
soften their problems of
"making it" la school. As
few or as many hours as you
coidd five to a child during a
week would be appreciated
by Tri-U and most ap
preciated by those children
striving to make It
Compare the number of
students at a play or music
recital with that of FAC or a
football game, Sad, Isn't it?
H has always been my Im
pression that college was an
Intellectual organism. The
only thing college students
support in Lincoln, besides
the team, it the liquor
store.
The reason why enter
tainers, speakers and the like
tend to shy away from here
is because they may suspect
that their efforts will not be
honestly appreciated. If you
were an entertainer, would
you want to play Lincoln,
Nebraska? The earlier men
tioned, smooth move it an
example of why you might
not.
But it takes more effort to
read a novel, go to a play, or
do individual research, than
it does to tramp off to the
game or dig up a date for the
party Friday. If we are U
No matter what your area
or degree of competence, or
whether or not you know
these kids' problems and-or
cultures you can be of
significant help. What these
people learn from you can
save many of them from a
tortuous, tedious and too soon
ending school life. What you
may learn from them Is no
less Important. We have
some 30 volunteers for this
kind of work now. We plan to
give people tome orientation
In Indian life and culture and
continuous discussion tup
port On November 13 at 1:30
p.m. In Room 11 ef Andrews
Hall there will be a meeting
of interested ttadeatt and
friends to discuss and plan
for aa active Indian tutoring
program la Wlnntbago, Lin
coln, perhaps Macy, and
perhaps Omaha,
All travel expenses w!H be
covered ell we ask for it
your time, tome of your
mind, and a great deal of
your tout
Paul Olsoa and students of
The Tri-Unlversity Project
Wait and watch
The confrontation this week at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha between the campus presi
dent, Dr. Kirk Naylor, and the Black Liberators
for Action on Campus (BLAC) poses a very real
problem for concerned observers Interested and
for the media that will have to give them informa
tion from which to form opinions.
This, as any situaMon, has a foreeround
represented by those on either side of the problem.
That foreground tends to obscure the really
important details, the background that led
participants to a confrontation situation.
Naylor's remarks have implied that he had
been completely unaware of the existence of the
problems BLAC presented to him. They put him
in the role of a conscientious administrator con
fronted with demands concerning situations he had
not realized existed, expected to take immediate
action without a chance to familiarize himself with
these problems.
Statements by Robert Honore, president of
BLAC, contend the opposite that Naylor has
been aware of a number of problems on the campus
but has ignored them, even when students have
tried to take steps through "the established chan
nel!" he suggested at first that they try.
Honore's representation of the situation has
been supported by a number of students and faculty
members at UN-0 who are quoted on the front
page of today's Nebraskan.
Such an attitude would justify BLAC's last
resort, a sit-in to produce immediate recognition
of the problems and opening of meaningful discus
sion toward defining and solving the problems.
Because of the murkiness of the situation and
because the media, as a result of the pressures
to get news out immediately which makes It
necessary that any news event be covered in a
piecemeal fashion, it is imperative that outsiders
reserve judgment until they are satisfied they
understand a very complicated situation.
Holly Rosenberger
OUTSIDE
the t
ower
by Michael Egger, David Pass and Tom Siedell
In recent years scholars and students alike
have become aware of the gradual degeneration
of our great universities and colleges. The trend
has accelerated rapidly since World War II, at
we plunge headlong into the abyss of a runaway
technology that threatens mankind with destru
ction. Universities and colleges have become glorified
vocational training schools designed to channel
skilled manpower into this technology, and are
increasingly dominated by industrial research,
government research, and business interests of
various sorts, all technologically oriented.
As a result our Institutions of higher learning
have been emasculated of their traditional and
still espoused purpose and intent, that is, to train
and stimulate the Intellect of their students and
teachers to enable them to make rational well
thought Judgments concerning the crucial problems
we now face moral, social, political, and
technical.
It is not at all surprising that this situation
should have arisen. The first seeds were planted
almost a century ago as the blossoming sciences
competed for a place in the educational system
along with traditional humanist disciplines. The
means of resolving the problem was the institution
of a system of electives, which eventually evolved
Into an academic major and our ludicrous system
of "group requirements."
No one questions the importance of scientific
disciplines in a liberal education; their system of
reason alone justifies their presence, to say nothing
of their value in describing the world around us.
Nor is the system of academic majors an evil
In itself, but it opened the flood gates of increased
specialization, particularly in the technical subjects,
at the cost of the individual's education. However,
the "group requirements" are but cheap lip service
to the traditional goals of the university.
But outside Interests are not entirely to blame
for the plight of our colleges, for much of the
trouble comes from well-intentioned students and
faculty. Two groups who unknowlnkly compound
the educational dilemma are the "social-action
relevantlsts" and the "technical-specialist relevan-
The former seek to do away with an re
quirements, including that of a sound education,
to enable themselves to rush pell-mell and un
prepared into current social problems of enormous
complexity. They demand Increased specialization
In curricula at the cost of knowing how to use
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Their cohorts In crime, the "technical-specialist
l T?T are,even more to blame. They demand
that their education be practical, that it train them
Sf 'L Pssibl fr technical vocation, and
lM 5? a I anyt?ng that ets M wy- t1"9
SI .m If0' ? our industrial-technical complex.
Such attitudes often coupled with lack of a truly
JlrST . d.uctl0. warm us of the uncontrollably
of the technology they hope to run.
..They fal to realize that a few corporate
jt ' CnUy wakln up to the fact that
!Vhe? ,ctnno contro1 their technological
2 Kei,J "fJire Waning to seek the help
1ivi?ual, w,th 1,10 carefully developed Judg
ment that comes only from a liberal educaUoa
We do aoc condemn student, coming to college
2 .W? tor. Pelr work Mnsitivity
f rodents and faculty to contemporary social pro
blems. What we do condemn la the forfeiture of
a liberal education to the technical-vocnttonal cur.
rjculum, and the trend towards specialized, but
ftea MDerflclaL modem problemt courses, which
f. "PrfbI because students lack the
Mckfround to appreciate them,
u urtUMte& lhU lttion mJ not exist It
It quite possible to acquire in the space of four
Ll"1 iuaUty eductln in the Western tradition
while at the same time fulfill an academic "major"
tatlsfying contemporary vocational and social
needs. The specifics of such a liberal education
will be the topic of our next discussion.
