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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN i! :3 a 'I 5 I M 1 ! ; ;j ;,;! f .? ! ; il i W J :? i I I ; ; 1 ! f ! ; l i; m P r i : h:j Si I i m. w j : IM: iiii? ii i , . t t i r j . ; it j. : 31 i x '-. - : f ! C . .; I ; u :i! u . ; ;!: f ;! 1 i i J . J i ' I . i ' i i ". i ' j il I I he Daily Nebraskan Property ft THE UNIVI0KS1TV OF NEBRASKA Lincoln c. a. sorense:: KJitor-ln-Chlftr aTuiik Man.iKinK KdUor. . . .K. V. Koupal Associate Editor L- O- inatt REPOnTORIAli STAFF Ivnn n. Iieeile Irving T. Oberfelder J. C. Beard Lester Zook Everett J. Althous HHter " F W. McDonald Marg. Kauffman R Grablll Harold O. Klnt? Chiiri-- M. Frey Jamos A. McKachen I it Olassey tennctt C. vlgf W. jacobsony T. W. McMillan , J. L. Ciilttn Quelle Leyda SPECIAL FEATURES Wh0 fLoVeASbran Society column Camilla Leyda Cartoonist eKylS Athletics Henry K-yia Business Manner W,,8" ru!? Asst. Business Manager.. Russell F. ClarK Subscription price $2.00 per year, payable in advance. Single copies, 6 cents each. EntereT at the postpfflce at Lincoln. Nebraska, rs second-class mall matter, under the Act of Congress of March i. 1879. . THURSDAY, JANUARY 21. 1915 What is th3 beautiful in art? We know very litle as to the mechanical rules, but we have noticed that the picture which receives the most praise is the one that suggests more than is painted. Our humble opinion is, then, that the highest compliment that can be paid to a picture is that it takes you away from itself. It is a window into an outside world where the eye sees what it wishes. CONGRATULATIONS, Y. W. C. A. It has been our secret belief for some time that in many respects women are more progressive than men. Now we have positive proof. In explanation: According to the constitutions of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. V. C. A., active membership is limited to mem bers of the evangelical, or what is known as I he orthodox, churches. Catholics, Christian ' Scientists, Uni tarians and people without any par ticular creed have been excluded from active membership in the Christian Associations. They have been allowed to join as associate members and pay dues, but not to hold office or go as delegates to conventions. Now the remarkable thing is this: The College Y. W. C. A. Convention, which met at Chicago during vacation, by a vote of 78 to 1, recommended that the eligibility clause of the con stitution be amended so as to admit into full membership women other than those -who belong to evangelical churches. This will not go into force until approved by the National Y. V. C. A. Convention which meets in June at Los Angeles. But the proposed change indicates the fine spirit of col lege women. It is concrete proof that they have outgrown religious intoler ance and prejudice. By adopting as a condition for membership, not belief In certain church dogmas, but char acter and conduct, they have covered themselves with glory and won the respect of all thinking people. And now that the women have taken this forward step, why should not the Y. M. C. A. do likewise? Are the men less democratic and more intolerant than the women? Come, boys, re membering that this is the twentieth century and tLat you are trying to do work among university men, why not make the test of active membership in your association character and man liness instead of membership In an evangelical church? If you do that the adverse criticism you now face will to a great extent abate of itself. Again, hats off to the Y. V. C. A. girls. They have shown themselves to be democratic and remarkably free from religious bigotry. LOST Pair noseglasses In case, be tween Armory and 14th and Q Sts. Finder please phone B 6450. 78-22 THE FORUM Editor Daily Nebraskan: ' In asking for your votes for Editor-in-chief of the Dally Nebraskan, I would call your attention to the fol lowing facts: I have had two and one-half years experience on the Dally Nebraskan In cluding two semesters as managing editor and one semester as associate editor. In addition, I now hold an Important position on the 1915 Corn husker staff. If elected, my efforts will be directed towards making the Daily Nebraskan an example of. good newspaper work and a powerful expression of the best student opinion. KENNETH M. SNYDER. To Daily Nebraskan Subscribers: I believe the editor-in-chief should take an active interest in making the Daily Nebraskan a good, live, repre sentative paper one that would cred ibly reflect upon our institution. If elected I shall devote a reasonable amount of time toward making the Nebraskan the best paper possible. In this connection I shall co-operate in any effort looking toward the estab lishment of a school of journalism whereby the Nebraskan editors and reporters could be more effectively trained for their work. J. C. BEARD. To Subscribers of Daily Nebraskan: . I wish to call attention to the fact that I have had city newspaper ex perience, and have also held various positions upon the Cornhusker, the Daily Nebraskan, and Awgwan. At the present time 1 am rewrite man on the Nebraskan, and was chosen for the position by Mr. Sorensen, present editor of the paper. If the voters at the polls will consider these things, I am sure there will be no doubt that I am able to edit the Daily Nebraskan in a newspaper-like manner. Respectfully, BURTON S. HILL. Candidate for Editor-in-Chief. To Daily Nebraskan Subscribers: Journalistic Activities: Awgwan Staff (3) (4). Senior Managing Editor Cornhusk er (4). Charter Member Sigma Delta Chi. Policies: An investigation of the advisability of the estaolishment of a student Union. A "Rag" campaign to get more Ne braska High School graduates to the University. The removal of noise-making insti tutions from the vicinity of the Uni versity. The rendering of student affairs more democratic to the end of making the graduate a more practical citizen to the state which has educated him. If you believe In these policies I solicit your vote for Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Nebraska. CHAS. II. EPPERSON. STUDENT RIGHTS AND THE FACULTY Editor Dally Nebraskan: lAre the students aware of the fact that they are not given the rights that are due them, as students at an Insti tution of learning which enjoys the standing among colleges, that the Unl verity of Nebraska dues? Do the stu dents here know that the rights en joyed by the students at other lead ing colleges of the United States and at the universities in Great Britain are denied them? I do not believe that they do. I believe that, if they were really awake to the state of affairs they are in, they would not be satis fied until a change Is made. The present situation Is deplorable, Why? Because the students are given no more freedom than the average high school student, they are given no more responsibility than the average high tchool student, and they are given no more credit for common Fense and good Judgment than the average high school student. The average age of freshmen men students Is twenty years and the average age of freshmen girl students is nineteen years. This is just the age. when they should be relying upon themselves, and just the age when they should be given as much responsibility as possi ble, in order to bring out the . best there is in them. Yet, the students, who are supposed to have the full rights of citizens of this great com monwealth, Nebraska, are treated as children by the faculty of the state university. Under this state of affairs, a faculty committee, known as the Committee on Student Organizations and Social Functions, makes a set of rules gov erning all student activities and social functions. This committee decides how long a student shall study, when he may go to parties and how long the parties may last. The members of the committee even go so far as to try to decide for the students what they shall eat. They decide whether a student may take part in dramatic or glee club presentations or elocution recitals. In fact, they encroach upon the rights of 6tudents just as much as possible, even prying into the domestic affairs when ever they think such investigation might be interesting. A select university dancing club Is organized. The plan is to have one i mid-week dancing party every two weeks; a fine hall in the most re-! spcctable part of the city is rented; the party is planned carefully, insur ing good order and respectability. , Many tickets are sold and complete ar rangements made. The day of the party comes along, and like the old cow who stood perfectly still until the pail was full of milk before she kicked it over, along comes the Com-1 mittee on Social Functions and says, "No, you can have no dancing parties on weekday nights. There must be no parties after eight o'clock except on Friday or Saturday evenings." At the same time a movement was under way to organize a dancing club among non-fraternity men. Plans were made to have a week-day party, once in every two weeks, at the same select place as the other parties and some of the younger, more progressive faculty members were Interested in it in order to sponsor this new activity. Such a party would have been a fine thing for the non-fraternity men, for It would have provided a place where good wholesome recreation could have been obtained, where any man would not be ashamed to take his own sister or his best university girl friends. But the action of the faculty "committee, on ihe first proposition, put a damper up on this plan and it had to be aban doned. And now, as a result of this action ( on the part of the committee the only mid-week social recreation for men students Is to go to the poorly ventl-1 lated, unchaperoned public dance halls in the poorly lighted districts of the city. Or the students gamble away their time and money In a smoke filled pool hall. Then if they get into bad company and disgrace themselves and the good name of the university. they alone are held to blame. Never a thought is given the fact that this Is very often a direct result of the lack of interest In etudent activities simply because they are so suppressed by the Committee on Student Organizations and Social Functions. I believe that all this can be reme died very easily by giving the stu dents their just rights. The professors of the corfittee are, no doubt, under the impression that they are doing the right thing to promote a higher stand ard of scholarship. Now, If that is what they wish to do they should sim ply raise the standard of scholarship and then place the students upon their honor, make them responsible for their own conduct, let them understand that i they have some faith In them as men G A PAID Second Hand Books COLLEGE BOOK STORE FACING THE CAMPUS. The Best Impression possible of a dance depends pn three things (aside from those present, of course) the music, the re freshments, and the PROGRAMS. We can furnish om-thffd of a successful dance. See us for the programs. 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