WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1969
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Music hath power to sooth
the savage beast . . . or tell
someone you love them or
hate them. The gift of music is
an easy and fitting addition to
your shopping list and will
solve those perplexing, pro
blems of what to buy for that
bard-to-please person. .
Som records and sugges
tions of wbo to give ' them
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-Give "Abbey Road" by the
Beatles to a McCartney Death
Nut and watch him try to play
It backwards and forwards as
he pores through volumes of
literature looking for a clue.
-Give "Let it Bleed" by the
Rolling Stones to a pre med
student or a medic-to-be as
advice on what to do when
some patient calls in the mid
dle of the night. v .
Give "Harry" by Nilsson to
a cowboy, or a .midnight
cowboy if you happen to know
any.
-Give "Nashville Un
derground" by Jerry Reed to a
Nashville Utilities District
employee, or anybody else that
thinks that cowboys are
becoming the "in" thing and
that Indians really turn on to
peyote for kicks.
Give "Unicorn" by Tyran-
Dear Editor:
Yes, there is a place for the
Athletic Department in the
university. I am referring to
William Hoppner's remark in
the Dec. 10 Nebraskan, who
questioned that place.
The athlete derives just as
much good from athletics as a
history major does from his
field.
An athlete has a talent that
should be developed, like
anything else. It Is absurd to
classify which ability has a
place in the university and
which doesn't, on the basts of
the range of activities going on
In universities now. Too, a state
university is a place for all
kinds of people.
If we veto a person's chance
to participate In athletics, we
deny him the "pursuit of hap
piness." Then we do not have
an institution open to persons of
ail beliefs a stato universi
ty. Bob King
a a
Dear Editor:
With reference to the story on
the ASUN faculty evaluation
which appeared Dec. 12, 1 did
not say "that tho fact that any
person teaches at this
university indicates that he has
been adequately evaluated and
accepted." What I said was
nosaurus Rex to an an thro
major or the curator of your
favorite museum. . ,
-Give "Ready to Ride" by
Soutawind to a minibus driver
and watch alia pop the buttons
off his big red blazer when he
realizes what . they are
singing.
-Give "A lot Of lovin in this
old boy yet" by A. J. Marshall
to that wierd Uncle Frank who
always gives you a crummy
necktie or a wadded up dollar
bill and card. . .
-Give "Bodm'e" back to Rill
Cowsill Jr., who produced it.
Give "Memphis Swamp
Jam" to anyone you know who
has ever been caught poaching
alligators east of the
Mississippi. . ?
Give "The Magic Garden"
to your weirdy long-haired
neighbor who spends a lot of
time cultivating something out
in his backyard. Include a- list
of things to pack when going to
jail. , '
Give a "Summers Night
Montreal" to your favorite 1
Aer or anyone whose lottery
number is between 1 and 122. If
he lives in Nebraska give it to
him no matter what his lottery
number.
Give "The Band" by the
Open Forum
"that presumably a faculty
member's teaching has been
evaluated before he has been
given tenure by his col
leagues." Jack M. Sosin
Professor of History
Dear Editor:
Thank you ' for your com
ments on the necessity of a
Religion Department at the
University of Nebraska. What
should have happened long ago
is left up to us today.
There must be a realization
that the present Nebraska
School of Religion program Is
only a stop-gap measure at
tempting to provide students
with the opportunity to study
Religion a responsibility
which should be assumed by
the University of Nebraska.
Rather than the minimal
academic acceptance accorded
to Religion courses now, the
University of Nebraska should
have its own Department of
Religion with standards com
parable to any other depart
ment and a financial bracket
within the university budget.
Anything less than this would
be relegating a Department of.
Religion to a world of non-existence.
Dave Dressel ,
' ' Campu Pastor ; '
University Lutheran Chapel ' '
OOOOOOOOO
.J. JL Schmidi
Band to Husker director Jack
Snyder along with a brochure
on astro turf which he can send
to Bob Devaney as a belated
Christmas gift in hopes that
maybe next year we can see
the marching band do its thing
through all kinds of weather, no
matter what shape the field's
in.
Give "Nashville Skyline
Rag" by Bob Dylan to Clifford
Hardin in hopes that he, like
Dylan, will bring it all back to
the country.
Give "The Gilded Palace of
Sin" ; by the Flying Burrlto
Brothers to Helen Snyder so
that she can find out what the
girls, are really up to.
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Give "Needles and Pins"
and "Crying in the Chapel,"
two hot 45's from out of the
past, to Bill Fisher, Don Bryant
and Jim Pittenger with fond
regards from the Husker
Special, CSL and ASUN.
Give "There is No Place
Like Nebraska" to Durward
Varner and tell him to play it
again and again and again until
he is convinced.
Give of yourself each and
every day and remember, One
of the Joys of Living Is Giving.
Peace and Happiness.
Dear Editor:
I have been disturbed recent
ly by the casual manner in
which Americans and, in par
ticular, college students, have
been throwing around the word
"peace." As a college student
with friends draft age I am
concerned with peace, too; but
I feel that most people today
are skirting the real problem.
Years ago, a man named
James wrote: "Where do all
the fights and quarrels among
you come from? They come
from your passions, which are
constantly fighting within your
bodies. You want things, but
you cannot have them, so you
quarrel and fight." James 4:1
2. To have a changed world, we
must have changed people. We
must have a revolution!
The greatest revolutionary of
history was Jesus of Nazareth.
He took eleven men and
changed the world. Ills revolu
tion was of love and reason,
and It worked. Child labor
laws, abolition of slavery, and
the elevation of women cau be
traced to Jesus' influence. But
that was 2000 years ago, what
about today? Jesus is alive to
day and each of ns can know
Him personally. By Inviting
him into our lives, peace
results individually then cor-
porately. National peace and
love Is a result, of Individual
ace with God,'
Judy1 Wasson
White Christmas
means just that
What images- and symbols
come to mind in these trying
times as blatant charges , of
conspiracy echo hither and yon.
The latest target under con
spirators' attack is the idea of
a Black Santa Claus.
The auspicious duo of Fred
Lazarus III and W. G. Stuben
voll announced several weeks
ago that Cincinnati department
stores would not have Black
Santas this Christmas buying
season.
Lazarus is president of the
Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce and Stubenvoll is vice
president of the Retail
Merchants Association. Both
are high-ranking executives in
Cincinnati department stores.
"We don't agree that Santa
Claus is a racist symbol or is
Immoral read a statement
issued by Lazarus. "We felt
that a Black face would be in
congruous with the traditional
Santa image.
"This has nothing to do with
the quality of employment or of
anything else. It just doesn't fit
the symbol as kids have known
it," the statement continued.
"This hassle is extremely
unfair. We have worked harder
than most businesses to make
sure that Negroes get equal
employment both here and in
other cities," the statement
concluded.
It was the local chapter of
Rag semester ends
Today's issue of the
Nebraskan is the last until Feb.
4. With the danger of sounding
too nostalgic or redundant, one
can say this has been a vtry
interesting semester.
From controversies over
parking, RO'l'C, Vietnam, the
Athletic Department, Agnew,
and faculty evaluation to
discussions of the lottery,
moratoriums. Dr. Spock, Adam
Clayton Powell, and to perhaps
the biggest story of all the
new chancellor the semester
has had its eventful and
memorable moments.
The Nebraskan set as an ob
jective at the beginning of the
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the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference Which
asked for Black Santas.
In one brief categorial coup,
Lazarus (no relation to Mary's
brother) and Stubenvoll have
relegated Santa Claus to that
white sanctuary preserved for
flesh-colored bandages, sfcin
: colored hose, the president of
the Chase Manhattan Bank and
the President of the United
States.
If the symbol of a black San
ta Claus is incongruous in the
minds of white America, then
so is the notion of a Black man
being President or Vice-president.
Santa is the kindly
grandfather man who- gives
something good to someone
when that person is good. How
paternal are we with our white
grandfathers doling out
material goods based on the
traditional American reward
system.
"To refuse (a Black Santa)
purely on tradition, color and
race is a major moral blunder,
a collective insult to all people
of color and conscience,"
charged the regional director
for the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
Nowhere else is the
substance of racism more clear
than in the commercial symbol
of American Christmas.
semester to present an objec
tive, Impartial report of cam
pus and related events on the
news pages, and to strive to
present a wide range of opi
nions on the editorial pages.
Perhaps members of the staff
made progress in reaching
these goals, perhaps not.
But one thing is for sure:
putting out the Nebraskan has
been a lot of work, but for the
most part, very worthwhile.
Each member of the staff has
made a substantial contribution
to the newspaper product
which we hope was read and
reflected upon by the readers.
