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With the thrill of Nebraska's win over Oklahoma
fresh in their minds, many Nebraskans turned their
television set on last Friday expecting to thoroughly
enjoy NBC's "Chronolog," which was featuring a
documentary on Cornhusker football.
But something went wrong. The glow of the Big Red
mania palled as television viewers beforehand were
treated to a segment on the human misery surrounding
the situation in Pakistan.
A Johnny Rodgers punt return or a Jeff Kinney
touchdown run seemed rather insignificant and
meaningless after one had viewed in living color the
atrocities of the Pakistan army and the stench of the
living dead in refugee camps in India. After viewing the
trouble in Pakistan and India it seemed that football
crazy fans in Nebraska and the rest of the nation were !
living in a dream world.
Undoubtedly the craze over football does serve as an
escape from the problems of the world. But in many
ways this is good since life would be very depressing if
people didn't have something to turn to as a temporary
diversion from problems.
Football in Nebraska has served a very important
function. It has provided thrill and recreation to the
fans. It has helped unify the state since football is about
the only thing Nebraskans seem to agree on. It has been
a source of pride to a state that seems to suffer from an
inferiority complex. And it has put Nebraska on the
map of the nation.
Football is important to Nebraska, but it should not
blind the state to pressing problems. After all, football is
only a game.
Open the doors
This October the NU Board of Regents hammered
out their decision on the controversial conference on
human sexuality in closed sessions.
However, this was nothing new since the Board
regularly meets behind closed doors to discuss
important issues. When the Regents do have public
meetings, the sessions usually lack extensive debate and
often appear to be well rehearsed.
The UNL chapter of the American Federation of
Teachers (AFT) recently joined a growing list of groups
who feel the Regents are violating the spirit of the
state's "open meetings" law. In a letter to President
Varner the AFT said: "Testimony at Professor Stephen
L. Rozman's trial and other available information raise
serious questions concerning the Regents' use of 'public'
meetings to 'arrive' at decisions already made in
private."
The need for greater public debate stems from the
fact that the public needs to know not only the
decisions of government, but the reasons behind the
decisions. The performance of the Regents can only be
adequately judged when the rationale behind a decision is
known, the competition of ideas that produced it and
the alternatives that were open.
The Board's extensive use of closed meetings is
occurring despite campaign statements by four Regents
who won election last year that they believed in open
meetings and public debate of issues.
The Regents' extensive use of closed sessions has
gone on too long. If the campaign statements are to
mean anything, the Board should open its door wider to
the public.
Gary Seacrest
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Greg Hickman is
associated with a new
UNL student group called
"Brother," an offshoot of
men's liberation.
We have a unique
chance at this point in
time, to stop and really
check out what our
culture is all about.
Further, it seems to me
that this "checking out"
should be one of the major
aims of education,
particularly higher
education. But it is not
and you and I had damn
well better take that on
ourselves.
The first place we have
to start is with ourselves,
not institutions, systems
or establishments. We have
to find out where we are.
That may not be too easy.
Women started in fairly
loud, but non-violent
revolt after thousands of
years of harsh treatment
by both men and society.
And they are going about
the business of creating a
humane egalitarian society
out of this heap we now
have.
Men have reacted in
ways that have totally
covered the Spectrum of
rationale, indignation,
heated protest, hardline
chauvinism, even violence.
One the other side, the
feminists have also seen
attempts at honest
understanding, passive
indifference, quiet
Canada doesn't want to play USA
by Evert Clark
Newsweek Feature Service
OTTAWA--The border between the United States and
Canada has always been referred to proudly--by both sides-as
the longest peaceful border in the world. In fact, in the 104
years since Canada became a nation, Americans have come to
regard it almost as the 51st state--a quiet, friendly country
thriving on its proximity to the U.S.
Now Canada is rebelling at its image as the U.S.'s obedient
stepchild to the North. In public statements and private
meetings, Canadian officials are letting the rest of the world
know that their country has muscle and a mind of its own.
The result has been a distinct worsening of U.S.-Canada
relations, and the two countries are beginning to behave like
housewives who loathe the fact that they are forced to share
the same back-yard fence.
Where once Canada could logically have been expected to
toe the U.S.'s foreign-policy line, the govenment of Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau has been railing against American
involvement in Vietnam and American policy toward Cuba.
Where once Canada would have been among the first
countries to support the U.S. in the United Nations, it was
recently one of the first to oppose the unsuccessful American
position on dealing with Communist China's admission to the
UN.
The American twitch that set off the latest -outburst of
anti-U.S. feeling in Canada was the 10 per cent surcharge on
imports announced in August by President Nixon. Canada has
long been America's foremost trading partner, closely linked
with the U.S. economy.
American industries and individuals control all but 5 per
cent of Canada's automobile industry, all but 10 per cent of its
electrical industry, all but 15 per cent of its mining industry
and all but 40 per cent of its chemical industry. Nearly 70 per
cent of Canada's total exports are sold to the U.S., accounting
for 13 per cent of its total gross national product.
Canadian officials are convinced that the surcharge will cost
Canada some $900 million in the next year alone and will
mean the loss of about 90,000 jobs -an alarming figure in a
country where the unemployment rate is already 7.1 per cent.
So economic resentment is perfectly natural.
But Canadians are worried about much more than just
diversifying their economic base away from the U.S. "They are
complaining about pollution from our tankers, thermonuclear
tests at Amchitka Island and environmental problems along
the border," says one U.S. official.
They are also worried about the inundation of their
country with cultural Americana. Through the years, many of
Canada's communications media have become so thoroughly
Americanized that the rich Canadian cultural heritage is rarely
presented to the people.
Canadian radio and television stations have traditionally
borrowed heavily from the U.S. to supplement the meager diet
of programming produced domestically. The Top 40 musical
hits on radio usually were all written, performed and produced
by Americans.
But now the Canadian Radio-TV Commission has issued
new fiats designed to Canadianize broadcasting. By October
1972, both the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting
Corp. and the privately owned CTV network will have to
reorder their schedules so that at least 60 per cent of all
programming is Canadian.
And the Top 40 records will take on a definitely Canadian
accent. A minimum of three out of every 10 records played on
music programs will have either to be performed by a
Canadian singer or packaged by Canadian producers.
And there has recently been a major public outcry against
the so-called "Americanization" of Canadian education. As of
1970, Americans held more than 25 per cent of all university
teaching jobs in the social sciences, and in some departments
at some schools they comprised more than half the whole
teaching staff.
Despite all the bitter recriminations, no one suggests that
any truly damaging rift between the two countries is
imminent. "We are quite concerned about out independence,
our continuing existence as a country," says one member of
Trudeau's government, "but this does not mean that Canada is
turning its back on the U.S. I don't think there could be any
doubt as to where we would stand when the chips were down."
Still, the days of placid good-neighborliness are gone, and
probably for good. And to many Canadians, theircountry's
new posture makes eminent good sense. "After all," says one,
"we became a country in the first place because we didn't
want to be part of the U.S."
sympathy. There have
been a radical few that are
sincerely and actively
seeking to do what can be
done to make some of
these changes part of
reality instead of talk.
We are starting a new
student group on this
campus called "Brother."
Although we are an
offshoot of men's lib, we
basically want to further
what we think is a people
revolution in this country.
We think that the
feminists can't do it
themselves, men and
women have to force
themselves, and let each
other abandon the
stereotypes that strangle
us all. What we call
"society" is made up of
men and women.
The group wants
to serve as a forum by
means of rap sessions,
panels, talks, guest
speakers, Free U. classes.
We are even in the process
of organizing the second
annual "Master America
Pageant", so ably put on
last year by the Informer.
This pageant seeks to serve
as a satircal put-down of
flesh peddling.
I f people respond
honestly, we will be here
to stay. We need each
other to love, feel, talk, to
be ourselves and to see
that this society has
alternatives to the
different life styles
humans require.
We must all recognize
that there have been
injustices on both sides
and usury all around. Men
have been locked in just as
harsh a stereotype and role
as women have. We men
are guilty of a lot, so are
women.
We want to look at the
conditions, traditions,
I o g i c(?) that say men will
not be emotional, that we
must live up th the "what
kind of man reads
Playboy" image, that you
have to be a football
player to get along with
the beautiful girls or
anyone else.
I won't repeat the hurts
of womanhood. They are
fairly'well out in the open
and wrong, and we want
to help.
Men are oppressed in
other ways. Men take no
part, or little part, in
raising the children of our
society. Sex role
separation prohibits both
men and women from
realizing our total
sexuality and humanism.
Why must we live up to
the roles put forth by
John Wayne, cowboys and
the Green Berets?
And what about the
total financial
responsibility of the
family being the men's
job? When was the last
time you heard of a man
getting custody of his
children in a divorce, or a
woman paying child
support? Are children
given to women in these
circumstances, regardless
of their fitness as people
and parents, because
tradition says they should
bear and rear the children?
And finally, we agree
with Benjamin DeMott
when he says this
"Revolution" must get
beyond sexuality and on
to other things, but we
think we have to start
here.
If any living unit or
group is interested in
having us hold a discussion
on this topic, please
contact Tom Lonnquist,
Student Activities
Speakers Bureau
(472-3330).
jeffrey hart
Where professors lead
During the 1950's, when I was a senior at
Columbia, a group of us asked one of our
professors what it was he wished to produce as
a teacher. Did he want to produce other men
like himself, college professors, experts in some
aspect of English literature?
No, the Columbia professor replied, he did
not necessarily desire to produce other literary
scholars like himself. What he wanted to
produce, he said, were men like Walter Bagehot.
This Victorian Englishman had been an
accomplished essayist and classicist, but also a
public man. He had been active in politics. He
could write with equal authority not only on
Milton or Virgil, but also on the British
Constitution or on foreign affairs. In his career
he joined the study to the public forum,
literature to politics.
Often, during the past few years, I have
pondered that reply. We habitually affirm that
in the United States civilians ought to have the
last word on military matters and on decisions
affecting national security. Yet, on the other
hand, it seems to me that our colleges and
universities are signally failing to produce a
body of informed opinion capable of thinking
responsibly about world affairs.
These thoughts have been stimulated anew
by a conversation I have just had with a
Dartmouth senior in my office. He is
intelligent, he is adept at the interpretation of
literature, but he does not have much notion at
all of how the world looks to the men
responsible for formulating policy. I found him
to be almost entirely private in his interests,
and in this to be disturbingly typical. His
sentiments on public matters turned out to be
merely carapace-like defenses of that privacy.
He knew, he thought, that the Vietnam war
had been a "mistake" though he was mute
when asked what options he thought the policy
makers actually had in the early 1960's when
our engagement began, or what course of action
as the war developed would have been
preferable to the one actually pursued.
National mobilization in 1965? Tactical
improvements? No, the war is "immoral", and
we should concentrate on "domestic
problems" opinions he had reached not by
sober reflection but by a process of osmotic
absorption from the surrounding culture.
I tried to cut through this cant. Jn the early
1960's. I noted, the policy-makers in
Washington faced the real prospect that a
constellation of Communist powers was
emerging in East Asia and the Pacific
Basin-China, North Korea, North Vietnam,
along with a Communist-aligned Indoesia under
Sukarno. Such a grouping, it was entirely likely,
would organize the dynamics of Asia against us.
Through political momentum-demographic,
economic and military-such a grouping might
easily attract to its side the industrial power of
Japan, subvert the Philippines, absorb India,
and gaze with intense interest on the empty
spaces of Australia. As Walt Rostow has
written, the result could easily have been World
War III.
That a plausible case could have been made
for such a scenario, and that Vietnam decisions
played a part in preventing its realization, came
as a dazzling revelation to my college
senior-whose IQ, after all, places him within
the upper one per cent of the American
population.
My point is that we are producing in our
colleges and universities a student population
overwhelmingly private in its interests, and
lacking any conception of the realities of
international relations. This being the case, it is
difficult to see how our national interests can
be sustained over the long pull, or how we can
stay the course in the challenges that are sure to
arise even after the end of the Vietnam war.
Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
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