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editorial
Fifties folly
In recent weeks, many national news
magazines have heralded the coming of a
new or, in fact, old-movement. According
to these magazines, the 1950s are making a
comeback in a big way.
Cataloged as part of the movement are new
trends in fashion, art, music and
entertainment. Apparently the new style has
transcended the saturation of former manias.
One truth is becoming increasingly
clear-America of the 1970s rapidly is
becoming America of the 1950s-mind, body
and soul.
Surprisingly enough, the movement seems
to have hit Nebraska simultaneously with the
rest of the nation.
Most of today's adults think of the 1950s
in what are unreal and supremely romantic
terms. Those in their early 30s remember that
era as a period of extreme calm. A time when
good-old-1 ke-who-won-the-war was president
and Negroes were all right if you didn't have
to live next door to them. Old What's His
Name was vice president then. And the most
important thing anyone had to worry about
was his date to the weekly sock hop.
Having grown up in a time when no one
can remember when things were simple isn't
always easy. Longing for a less-complicated
life, people (especially young adults) seek a
return to the simplicity and in its own way
decadence of the 1950 world.
All this would be extremely good if it
weren't for that stormy decade that
interceded. If the horizon-expanding and
revealing events that spanned the 1960s were
somehow to be blipped into extinction, the
new movement would be perfectly
reasonable. But they haven't been, and it isn't
reasonable.
Nonetheless, the return of the 50s marches
on. The 1972 political campaign is the most
apathetic in a decade. And the only news
coming out of the University is "Who
switched the cards in the card section?"
Within a year Joe College will be back on
campus.
But the problems will still go on. Pollution,
discrimination, poverty and war won't go
away, they'll just be ignored. And won't that
be swell.
Hey-bop-a-re-bop.
Jim Gray
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"How can anybody vote for a man like McGovern who's always
changing his position?"
'Lights! Camera! Obfuscation!"
Keeping Senator Curtis Senator Curtis . . .
While the opposition candidate can only carp and
criticize, the incumbent office-holder seeking an
election-year referendum on his service must defend
his positions, his record, and be able to point to
concrete accomplishments during his term of office,
And as his 72 year-old opponent slings the mud, Sen.
Carl T. Curtis is doing just that; justifying his stands
and reminding voters of the wealth of things he has
achieved for Nebraska and its people.
On matters of special concern to young people,
Sen, Curtis has demonstrated a career of constructive
accomplishment, A look at his record shows his
unqualified support for education. He has said yes to
the school lunch program, federal aid to impacted
areas, the Equal Education Opportunity Act (April
19711, the Health Professions Educational Assistance
Act (July, 19711, and the Indian Educational Act
(October, 1971).
Relating specifically to the University of Nebraska
and other colleges, Curtis has supported tax credits
for tuition payments and the comprehensive Student
Loan Program.
Jack Ritchie, assistant director for financial aids at
the University, related to Different Drummer Sen.
Curtis' unceasing efforts to get increased funding for
the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) loans,
representing a total of more than $1 miNon in
financial aid to more than 1,700 students annually.
When funds for the current fiscal year got cut in
Washington, the senator's protests resulted in a 10 per
cent supplemental increase for NDEA funds.
Thanks to Sen, Curtis, the astronauts on their
December moonshot will dine on Nebraska Space
Bread and Nebraska Space Ham, both products
developed on the NU agi iculture campus by Nebraska
faculty and students led by Drs, T.E. Hartung and R.
Burt Maxey. As ranking minority member of the
Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee,
Curtis was instrumental in getting NASA to designate
Nebraska for the food research project.
As a member of the Senate Agriculture and
Forestry Committee, Sen. Curtis participated in the
writing of the landmark Rural Development Bill,
signed into law by the President last August. On the
initial recommendation of NU President D.B. Vomer,
when the Rural Development Subcommittee (of
which Sen. Curtis is the top-ranking GOP member)
was conducting hearings in Lincoln (and McCookj
last September, Curtis attached an amendment to the
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bill providing faculty and students of land arant
colleges, including NU, with a leadership role in the
assistance of rural communities in their development
programs.
Faculty and students, especially those in
agriculture, economics, engineering, and architecture,
now have an opportunity to assist in the planning and
execution of developmental projects financed in
whole or in part by the federal government.
The institute, a center for educational and
vocational research, development, demonstration and
information, is soon to begin a major project for the
reorganization and preparation of new vocational
materials for institutions which need to update and
expand their facilities to provide career preparation
and information, especially for the mentally and
physically handicapped.
Always on the lookout for activities and projects
of benefit to Nebraska citizens, Sen. Curtis and his
staff have been involved with EDUTEK from the start
in providing "advice, consultation and assistance,"
according to Anne Campbell, Director of Public
Affairs for the University and a prime mover in
EDUTEK.
A budget of $488,000 has been requested by
EDUTEK for fiscal 1973, an increase of about
$200,000 over this year's budget, and the senator is
doing everything within his power to see that this
sorely needed additional federal money is made
available.
Carl Curtis carries one of the biggest committee
workloads in Congress, In addition to being on the
Agriculture and Forestry Committee and serving as
ranking minority member of the Aeronautical and
Space Sciences Committee, he also is second ranking
minority member of the Joint (House and Senate)
Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation and second
on the powerful Senate Finance Committee.
These slots give our junior senator immense
authority and influence within the Senate, d it is
testimony to his strenuous effort and exhaustive
preparation that he exercises his responsibilities with
such skill and technical expertise.
A popular Washington-based newsweekly
described him as "a virtual dynamo of energy as he
goes enthusiastically about the real work of being a
U.S. senator" without grabbing for headlines and
publicity.
It also should be rioted that Sen. Curtis has voted
for every civil rights act enacted during his time in
Congress, favored all sound and reasonable
anti-pollution measures, voted for the constitutional
amendment to lower the voting age and is credited
with being the senator responsible for the creation of
the Special Committee on Veterans Affairs in the
Senate.
Don't swap a great record for a poor promise.
Let's keep Sen. Curtis Sen. Curtis.
daily nebraskan
Wednesday, October 25, 1972
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