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would be allowed to wither away in committee, the
possibility of the final passage of the bill has stirred
up much comment.
One consoling feature to the opponents of the
bill is the amendment which makes the law take effect
only after two years in which time the fraternities
and sororities will have time to readjust themselves
to the changed conditions.
The opposition to this bill has centered around
the following two main arguments:
1. That the new bill is ill-advised now in the face
of the lack of dormitory facilities.
2. That the bill will in effect make rushing ex-
The Campus Pulse
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"Lon", E. F. D. &
Florence Swihart
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 13, 1927.
UNESCAPABLE CONSEQUENCES
Another salvo of letters in Campus Pulse this
morning. Each one of them brings out some phase of
the much-wrangled fraternity problem.
D. N. has another appeal. "A Barb" answers with
some wise advice to inferiority-complexed barbarians.
fiil av. D. N. is all wet. And K. E. W. reviews some
southern fraternal history.
In this array of four letters is represented a con
venient cross-section of campus thought on this ques
tion. The letters, two from fraternity men, and two
from nonfraternity men, are worth reading.
Clarifying somewhat his first letter printed last
Sunday, D. N. reiterates his belief in the possibilities
of non-fraternity organization against tho grasping
power of fraternities. He cites history to show that it
was possible in the past, and is confident that the same
can happen again. He wants to prod the nonfraternity
men from their cowed complacency, and arouse them
to some action, some assertion of their personalities,
He drops some hints which seem to show that his letter-
writing campaign is but the opening wedge in a leal
campaign to organize nonfraternity men.
Talking and writing alone, as The Nebraskan
pointed out Tuesday, will accomplish very little even
N. really is going to change campus conditions even
for only a short time, his talking and writing will have
to be backed up by some form of substantial organi
zation. And as soon as that organization is formed D. N.
will run up against difficulties. He cites, previous cases
of non-fraternity men organizing. If he cited just a little
bit further he would also add the fact that most of the
leaders of that nonfraternity organization (at least
the one of four years ago) became fraternity men
themselves a semester or so later, with the exception
of one man who became a fraternity man three years
later.
To make effective such an organization of non-
fialeruily men, D. N. would Lave to have the genius
to pledge all his associates not to join a fraternity dur
ing their college career. That way and only that way
could he maintain his organization intact against the
fraternities he hopes to fight, because those fraterni
ties, as "Gil" points out, have a nasty habit of reaching
down and pledging promising nonfraternity men who
display any signs of leadership. In fact that's one of
the biggest .reasons why they are able to keep aheid
in all campus activities. If their men can't get ahead
. they pledge those that have got ahead.
We are rather inclined to believe that D. N. is
somewhat of a reformer by nature, for only a reformer
could have his naive trust in the efficacy of enactment (
and pudden organization to eliminate social and ac
tivity conditions which have persisted for thirty or
forty years by the very inherent nature of the groups
which make them. The esprit de corps, exaggerated
and exalted self-opinion of groups which have existed
on this campus anywhere from ten to forty years, can
hardly be eliminated in two or three weeks or even
two or three semesters of spirited campaigning. Even
a Billy Sunday revival would fail to have any perman
ent effect. No, the conditions against which D. N. is
aroused are an unescapable consequence of the frat
ernal system which colleges and universities have per
mitted to spring up within their gates.
While we are "indebted to R. E. W. for giving us
definite proof that many people come to university for
no other reason than to make a fraternity or sorority,
yet we can not escape the feeling that of all arguments
in favor of fraternities, his are about the weakest.
One of the greatest and at the same time gravest
charges against fraternities has always been that they
foster a spirit of fraternal loyalty at the expense of
loyalty to the University. What clearer proof for this
could be presented than R. E. W.'s statements showing
tliff foiling off in enrollment at M!aijni and fVint.h
Carolina after fraternities were abolished?
To make matters worse, B. E. W. shows that Mis
sissippi and South Carolina suffered a serious football
slump as a result of the abolishment if fraternities.
The inference is that athletes preferred to go to neigh
boring universities where fraternities were tolerated.
Now athletes who love their college or university
only for the fraternities it harbors have hardly enough
of that good old alma mater spirit so dear to coaches
cheerleaders, and bonfire enthusiasts to be worth both
ering about. It, would seem quite degrading, in fact,
if a college or university should tolerate any particular
set conditions simply to increase its enrollment of
athletes.
That R. E. W.'s arguments along athletic lines and
Lis dire predictions that Nebraska might ink to he
bottom c the pit in Valley circles need not be taken
fcerioctsly, is indicated by the glorious athletic history
of such schools as Notre Dame, Princeton, and Harvard
where fraternities either are altogether banned or are
decidedly frowned upon.
To make R. E. W.'s arguments even more ridicu
lous might be mentioned the opinions of many to the
effect that the continued success of Notre Dame on
the gridiron can be attributed in large part to the ab
sence of green-eyed fraternity jealousies among the
tend over a whole year instead of confining it to onc
week early in the fall.
At first thought either of these objections seems
valid enough. Let's take a look at the first one,
though, about lack of dormitory facilities. This reason
is in reality quite superficial in the light of the amend-
ment which makes the bill operative only after two
years of readjustment.
Every thrifty fraternity and sorority if it wants
to keep the business management of its house on a
sound footing will increase its sophomore, junior and
senior membership enough to make up for the loss of
freshmen. The additional upperclassmen taken in
will empty just enough rooming houses to take care
of the incoming freshmen. And besides the rooming
house situation is elastic enough to take care of any
small increase in demand which might result in spite
of this shifting of fraternity membership.
There is very little basis then for disapproval of the
bill on this ground.
The second main objection concerning rushing is
probably very much exaggerated. Granted that the
new bill will result in all-year rushing, is there any
more evil connected with that than with the system
of all-year and all-summer high school senior rushing
we now have in vogue? And is there not just an im
mense amount of all-year rushing going on right now
in spite of the freshman pledging rule now in opera
tion?
As for interference with studies occasioned by
any of the all-year rushng, it will very likely be a great
deal less han the present interference with study oc
casioned by fraternity life to which the bewildered
freshman is not accustomed, without mentioning the
loads of interference occasioned by excessive freshman
duties around the house, and without mentioning times
of downright interference intended to "take the cock
iness out of the freshmen."
The chances are that freshman scholarship under
the new rule would increase materially because the
freshmen would all be on their toes to make a credit
able enough showing to be asked to pledge a fraternity.
They would really have to "make" a fraternity in
stead having the supposed honor thrust and forced
upon them before they have even enrolled for a single
class.
Now for some positive benefits of the proposed
bill.
In the first place such a measure will eliminate
at one stroke a large number of pin hounds who come
to the university just long enough to make a fraternity
or sorority.
In the second place such a campus reform will
mean that there will be at least one year of equality
for all students in the University. This is a benefit
recognized by the alumni committee on dormitories
which made its report a few months ago. It is a
benefit which was well described a few weeks ago in a
lead editorial in the Omaha World-Hearld.
If tue second-year pledging bill is passed, it will
mean that young men and women will form their
first contacts with the University through the Univer
sity rather than through organizations 99 per cent
of which originated at other schools and all of which
-are dominated by selfish interests which nearly always
have precedence over University loyality. There will
be a closer and more healthy relation of every student
with the Uiversity direct, instead of vaguely by way
of a fraternal group.
And the fraternities, themselves will benefit in the
end. Membership in them, and especially the pledge
period, will become the result of merit openly recog
nized on this campus. It will be something to work for
(if it is that valuable after all). There will be fewer
broken pledges, and fewer ex-pledges who had to
leave school on account of poor scholarship or other
difficulties. There will be fewer mal-adjustments such
as we now have as a result of our mad, irrational sys
tem of rushing.
The biggest reason of all why so many on the
campus are opposed to the bill is that it is something
new. There will be new and strange chapter problems
to wrestle with. No fraternity is quite sure of the
course it will have to steer, probably not quite so sure
that it can stand out over a whole year of rushing
wherein the freshmen could have their eyes open and
cooly survey the field.
Whether the bill is ultimately passed or not makes
little difference, though. The basic advantages and
disadvantages of the fraternal system will still remain.
In Other Columns
ZZCO:iD-YEAR PLEDGING
r$ itf.t Cr.r.iUe yftsfcwfojr pWd on second rcad-
'. l 3 ft bill nakii mandatory second-year
: .t ile UuiveraiLy. The decisive vote Indicates
a I '1 v '. :i rrcbably pass on third reading. From
I'; v 2 i j i i V. e lionise where its fats is problero-
' r-"h r, a frprSs to the campus
1 i had to I'Aiev that the bill
Lass "Society"
In spite of the dictum of Arthur Brisbane that a
dog biting a man is not news but that a man's biting
a dog is news, the evaluation of news is not merely a
matter of "playing up" tho unusual or that which will
be talked about. No doubt tatloiJa most nearly carry
out Mr. Brisbane's remark; college papers, on the other
hand, should and do the btet of them recognize the
fact that news is of two sorts that which createj much
gossip, conversation, and comment but which really
does not report an event affecting the lives of many
purple and tnat which, though it may pass almost un
read, is a report of an event fundamentally changing
the mode of life of many persons.
Thus, if the college paper wereto follow Mr.
"Jrfbane, it wouH taie in heavy nead-ii:e that a
ncpnt survey of Iht campus showed that nine coeds
remained unkissed, and in a corner of tha back page
it would report tin fact that one of the icadmg edu
cators of the coun'ry had been added to c;e faculty.
Thtre is no doubt but that the campus wou'.d be agog
m its conjectures a to who the nine coeds were and
'.'. it would fail to remember, even if ij should see,
the name of the eJucator.
Of course no college editor, no matter how much
of an idealist he mighi be, would for a moment con
s.'riei the e!iminatii ci all news except that which
uttally affected thj jhysical and mental liva of his
readers; no newspipe- would be read if It failed to
recognize "human interest." But there is much more
thtr lists of guests at fraternity dances to lz cast into
linotype slugs.
Consequently, The Silver and Gold, at least during
the spring qnarter will curtail its society page. Men
fai ciMds about the tampus (Thank God and the board
of readmissions that there are not very many of them),
who care only for the "society" in The Silver and Gold
must be satisfied with rather brief reference to that
phase of collegs life which affords excuse for legis
latures fn their faiinre to ps educational appropria
tion bills,
Colorado SlWer and Gold
To the Edit
Campus:
There seems to have been a gen
eral misunderstanding of the mean
ine which I meant to portray in Mon
day's article on "Wake up Barbs."
In reality, no plan was submitted at
all no campaign of organized op
position suggested in a systematized
way, as one which would alter the
present social status. My real object
was and is, "to get the attention of
the 'Barbs' and to instigate a little
feeling of independence and self- ex
pression in their midst." Only after
this has been done can the present
condition be in any respect mitigated.
I appreciate the editor's com
ments and yet take issue on one of
his statements for Mr. Editor
Don't you think that if the feeling
which is current among Fraternity
men the feeling which they think
justifies them in occupying their fic
titious position were to be stamped
out and the fraternity and sorority
houses made not as mere eating
houses but homes, that after all this
would be a better school for it?
Would not this weed out the "small
town social recognition?" And I ask
you "Don't you think it possible
if not to enact this state of affairs,
! at least in some respects to curtail
the monopolizing grasping of the
Fraternity in all fields of endeavor
at the University and at the same
time give the "Barb" a chance to as
sert his independent personality? I
admit it has been conceded an al
most impossible task' and yet all that
would be a "Barb" organization.
Now to "Lon". and E. F. D.
what refreshing tonics to soothe the
minds of literature absorbing stu
dents yet it savors as does most
written and unwritten speech on this
campus it savors of fraternity pol
ish, a polish which is indeed glossy
the outside. What food for
on
thought from those on the other side
of the fence not a high board fence
but a picket fence and what facts
and conditions are so hard to see as
those that are so glaringly present
before the very eyes of people!
What notable lines and passages!
What profound words "Lon" quoted
and used to denote the anticipated
opposition. I should feel totally ob
literated in a sea of sarcasm and
yet I am only amused at "Lon's"
jesting wonder if he capitalized his
hidden genius by participating in the
late staged "University Night"? At
the same time I wonder if "Lon" was
sitting across from the University of
Nebraska, at the bookstore -enjoying
one of those delicious (5) min
utes of eating, joshing, study forget
ting entertainment while he was so
engrossed in portraying a hidden
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Little more than four centur
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to the civilized world. It can
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American food. First cousin to
the tomato (and to that "black
sheep" of the nightshade family,
the "bull nettle") it rivals in
importance rice and the banana
as a universal food.
Here in America the potato is
regarded as essential to a meal
ts is bread. Probably 99.44
per cent of the population
would resent being asked to eat
a full meal without the ubiqui
tous potato cooked according to
individual preference at the
time.
At the Central Cafe every
three-division plate dinner con
tains one portion of potato.
Sometimes mashed; at other
"American fried",; at still
others, Lyonnaise. The potato
is included in the same manner
as bread and butter that is,
is not specially charged for; but
, of course, it makes up part of
the cost of the meal.
French Fried, 15c, Shoestring,
15c; American Friad, 10c;
Hash Brown, 15c; Lyonnaise,
20c; Cottage Fried, 20c; and
Mashed, 10c are' listed in the
Central Cafe's printed menu.
These prices are for a la carte
orders. ,
The Central's equipment for
turning out French Fried and
Shoestring potato was designed
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(Te be saaiUeued)
touch of humor which I em sure that
he possesses? '
Now as for E. VF. D. who I feel
really has a refutation to my prema
ture article of yesterday. Yet how he
mixes absurdity, bias, white lies and
spring! I wonder if he wrote in inter
ludes or as inspired? He mentions
implied, latent possibilities of the
"Greeks" to alter the social status
which was taken up with strict cor
rectness by the editor. He, the editor,
is indubitably right when he states
that the present condition will re
main as it is, if left to the discretion
of the Fraternity yet the editor as
well as the campus cannot conceive,
it seems, of an organized "Barb"
yet is it not possible? Look back to
your annals did it not occur. a few
years back? And it can be done
again! E. F. D. may find loopholes
in the contents of my articles yet he
must admit the possibility of that
which I advocate.
Lets hear from the "Barbs"!
Again I say "Wake Up Barbs"! Note
How true was Monday's article on
"White lies" how strikingly true
and apparent in the relation between
the "Frat" and "Barbs"!
Signed D. N.
To the Editor:
Inasmuch as there seems to be
a barb versus fraternity discussion
going on in the Daily Nebraskan col
umns the time seems appropriate to
express an idea that has long been
in my mind.
It seems to me that the difficulty
reaches back into high school days
when the senior class is looking for
ward to the . institution of higher
learning. Conversation is almost ex
clusively of "next year" and the uni
versity, and nine-tenths of this con
versation is about fraternities and
sororities.
Now until thi time the h'h fchool
senior may never have heard of the
greek letter organizations. They are
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mysterious, and that Is always in
triguing. The rumor goes out that
one must "belong" in order to be
of any importance on the campus. As
though membership in any organiza
tion could automatically increase or
decrease ones real value! In fact I
have a vague memory (which I can
smile at now) of being told that
greek letter members would no con
descend to speak to non-fraternity
students. -..
I haven't an idea in the world
where these rumors come from. It
is not improbable that they originate
in the minds of these same higli
school seniors, who, knowing very
little about it all, enlarge and elab
orate on that very little.
Now the high school senior grad
uates and comes to the university.
He doesn't make a fraternity I ob
ject however to the inference that
this was necessarily because he never
had the opportunity.
He remembers the rumors. He is
very proud, and very sensitive. He
highbrows the fraternity man first.
He isn't going to give the Creek,
and opportunity to snub him.
tht Where he ml3 his
mistake. The fraternity man has S
desire to snub him. but after tio
or three attempts to continue ths nM
time friendship in the old time wav
decides "Well, Jones ha, chan
since he came down here," and lt.
Jones alone. 13
If the barbs weren't so eerlaat
ingly sure of their own .
they wouldn't have any difficulty whJ
them would get out and do some
thing instead of whining because th
greek letter organizations hold them
(Continued on Page Three.)
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