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THE CAR SITUATION
In the news columns of The Daily Nebraskan there
appears today an interview with Dr. T. J. Thompson,
dean of student affairs, which outlines the present
status of the investigation of student cars for the Board
of Regents.
Many student leaders who had been consulted as
to the problem or who had been advised of the progress
of the investigation are already conversant with this
material. To many of the students, it will be interesting
to see the care and forethought which has been put into
this problem by Dr. Thompson and Professor Schramm,
following their appointment by Acting Chancellor Bur
nett to conduct the investigation.
The entire investigation has not been conducted
on a basis of establishing reasons for supporting cer
tain conclusions reached before investigation. It has
been conducted, on the other hand, in a sincere attempt
to find out what the situation really is.
Student groups at this University have been con
sulted as to the problem and remedies. Some are still
working on the question. Critical surveys have been
made showing that the problem is largely a Lancaster
county problem, rather than an out-state problem as is
the case in some institutions. Other schools have been,
consulted as to their problem and methods of meeting
it.
The result has been the conclusion by faculty
members to whom results have been presented
that there is much less justification for action than was
presumed in the motion last fall of the Board of Re
gents. Consequently, investigation will be continued.
To many students, it will be highly gratifying that
results up to the present, do not furnish sufficient
grounds for restriction without further investigation.
Of much more ultimate significance, however, is the
manner in which the problem has been attacked. There
has been no attempt to ride rough-shod over the stu
dent body. There has been the utmost attempt to secure
student view-point and cooperation. If the problem con
tinues to be treated in this manner, the student body
may rest assured that if regulations are enacted, that
they will be ones worked out after careful considera
tion as being for the best interests of all concerned.
When, the men vote for Prom Girl we wonder
how many are really going to be influenced by the can
didate's campus activities.
1 SO MOVE
The faculty committee on student organizations
yesterday followed up the recommendations of the stu
dent council for the abolition of class societies with
the abolition of the six mentioned by the Council and
also, Valkyrie, honorary social class organization.
The faculty committee has taken a most significant
stand upon this matter. They have taken the position
that if the students desire certain action, that it should
be granted, if at all feasible. In view of the absence
of outstanding reasons for retaining the societies, and
in view of favorable student opinion, expressed through
their governing body, the student council, the action
of the faculty committee was logically to be' expected.
At the same meeting, the committee took another
interesting step. Recognizing the change in conditions
today from the period when card-parties were prohib
ited, the committee repealed an obsolete regulation.
Repeal of such out-of-date rules from time to time will
be most helpful in securing enforcement ofrules gov
erning university students.
It was a valuable day's work by the committee
from the standpoint of the students. It should not be
forgotten, however, that there are other regulations
which might well stand reconsideration and revision.
YOUNG CRIMINALS
A visit to the state penitentiary is sufficient to
convince one that the hardened criminal is being re
placed by the fairly well educated, young man of col
lege years. At a recent meeting of the parole board the
morning was chiefly occupied by young men who were
seeking to be paroled out of the state reformatory, at
least a good part of the applicants were from that in
stitution. One of the youths had served three years for rob
bing a store and locking up the town marshall. A second
youth had served two years for being an accomplice
in an attempted store robbery. He had been the one
to stand guard while the store was being looted.
It is with a certain amount of pity that one wit
nesses such a session of the parole board. Young men,
apparently just at the age when they ought to be in
college obtaining something of an education, come up
seeking for another chance to do the right thing. They
are questioned, and scrutinized, and re-questioned, and
are dismissed after they have sworn that they will go
right if given another chance in society. No doubt
some of theip will grow into capable and self respecting
citizens, and there are others who will undoubtedly
come before the court again.
It is not an iron-bound rule that the university
man will always turn out to be an asset to society. In
dications are often directly contrary to this. But it is
agreed that the chances of a university student going
straight are greatly enhanced. He has a better sense of
what is right and what is wrong, and h3 has built up
a habit of moral discrimination.
One comes from a hearing of that kind with a
depressed feeling, and with a better appreciation of
what is being learned in college.
ANOTHER SUGGESTION
In a recent editorial attention was called to the
inconvenience caused at the library by refusing to un
lock the doors before eight o'clock in the morning.
The doors are now opened at 7:50 'In orde to allow
fi! iu.nt3 to chck in their books properly before eight
Vi'k classcu. This UM&fige meets the hearty approval
- i 1' a at uiVnls.
:'t another bit of criticism has been vilced by
J. T. :.i the &oap Box. Upon investigation it has been
To the Editor:
"All covered with dust it stands"; Eugene Field's
words might well be applied to the statue of Michigan
on the landing of the library stairs. And not only cov
ered with dust but with the dirt and grime of several
years. Statuary in school buildings frequently suffer
from embryo artists and lack of care. Why this should
be so is a mystery.
If a statue has any purpose at all in such a place
besides filling up space it must be to display an ideal
of beauty. How can this be accomplished when the
sculpturing is disfigured with unnecessary dirt?
Several years ago a civic club in an Omaha high
school cleaned up the building's statues. Some were
scrubbed with soap and water and others were painted.
The effect was immediate and miraculous. Why can't
something be done about that eyesore by the library
stairs? J. T.
In Other Columns
THE LECTURE SYSTEM
Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins college at Win
ter Park, Florida says, "The lecture system is probably
the worst scheme ever devised for imparting know
ledge. It assumes that what one man has taken perhaps
a life time to acquire by the most painstaking obser
vation, hard thinking, long-continued reflection and
perhaps the1 use of his creative imagination, can be
relayed or spoon-fed to another, who has not gone
through a like process. A lecture may serve to inspire
a student who has some familiarity with his subject and
to put in proper perspective in his thoughts thereon.
It invariably discloses the personality-good, bad, or
indifferent of the lecturer."
A lecture course at its worst is represented during
quizzes when the student does not dare to trust to
his memory. His notes are his only salvation and these
are composed of incomplete, incoherent sentences. Ac
cording to statistics only ten percent of the American
students study two hours in preparation for one class
period, ten percent do not study at all, while the in
tervening 80 percent spend from 20 to 50 minutes
in preparation for class.
Some students keep in mind only the grade they
want to make and not the idea of mastering the sub
ject. Every thing is mechanical because they do not
have to think things out for themselves. They take
down the most important statements that the instructor
makes and try to memorize these statements.
If it is true that a student remembers that which
he discovers by himself or that which he has to hunt
out, then Hamilton Holt's idea would result in a better
equipped student. The Oklahoma Daily.
A SCHOOL FOR MURDERERS
On perusing back copies of various metropolitan
newspapers, there are certain stock headlines which re
occur again and again as items of predominant interest
throughout a given period. During the Lindbergh period
which is now on the wane the favorite phrase in big
type was: "LIN'DY TAKES ANOTHER HOP" or "AS
PARAGUS ON TOAST, AT WHITE HOUSE FOR
LINDY." During the Hickman period now at its zenith
the popular headline is: "HICKMAN BELIEVED IN
SANE" or some other phrase dear to the hearts of
sensationalists andore gluttons. But if the great let
ters used to tell of the every day actions of a mere
man are quite harmless, it is a different matter as re
gards the blood-curdling homicidal write-ups devoted
to murders. The man who shoots his wife in a very ob
vious and clumsy fashion rarely gets beyond the second
or third page. The chap who uses a bread knife, does
his own post mortem, and taunts the police with boasts
of his cunning and devilish brutality is sure to find a
place on the front page with Lindbergh and the presi
dent. If people have turned awav of late veara from tVw
chilling murder stories of Edgar Allen Poe it is because
some newspapers have outdone. Poe at his own game.
Whereas Poe was content with vivid impressions, the
newspapers insist upon rendering an exact understand
ing of the situation, wheTe the murderer stood, what
implement he used, how he made his get-away, and
other points of interest to the up and coming young
crook. Diagrams are employed if necessary, methods
used by the police are discussed. But above all, the de
tails, the horrible ruthlessness of the slayer, and the
attitude of the victim are colorfully portrayed. The
effect of such accounts upon the general public cannot
be said to resemble that produced by a blood and thun
der detective story upon an excitable youth, for in the
case of the newspaper, the story itself is shadowed by
the sombre fabric of reality. Men of responsibility see
life's problems in the pages of the daily paper. But
twisted minds of morons, perverts, and the rabid "dogs
of society" nurse the latent germs of their hydrophobia
upon these murder stories. Every detail is treasured
away in a volcanoe of evil, a seething whirlpool of sup
pressed desires, the subconscious mind of the potential
criminal. When the wavering balance of restraint and
self control is overthrown, mad-men are ready with the
experience of a thousand murders behind them. They
have learned in the newspaper school by studying their
lessons on the front page. They know how to slash a
juglar vein, how to torture their victim, how to avoid
the police. They are careful not to fall into the errors
of their predecessors.
Men fear most what they do not understand. The
terror of the unknown is as old as human life itself.
How would the potential murderer regard a law which
worked surely and swiftly but in silence, a retributive
justice of which he knew nothing except that it wa3
powerful and certain? Would he reconsider his act if
he knew that he was to fight a battle for his life after
wards, not on the public stage with a law court whose
every device and weapon was known to him, not with
a thousand sentimentalists crying mercy for him, but
alone with his counsel before the' law? Would he hold
his crime in a different light if he had never read of
other such crimes, if he believed himself alone, a Cain
among men? If he had not a hundred precedents for
the deed, he would be rather at a loss as to how to
proceed: his abnormalities would never be subjected to
the exaggerating inPuenca of initiation. In faet why
pander at all to the suppressed desires of the "Hick
man" with lurid tales of murder and crime?
The Minnesota Daily.
Social Calendar ,
Friday, Feb. 10
University Players, Temple
theatre, 8:15 o'clock.
Delta Gamma formal, Lincoln
hotel.
Sigma Phi Epsilon formal,
Rosewilde.
Pi Kappa Alpha, freshman house
dance.
Alpha Gamma Rho, house dance.
Saturday, Feb. 11
Phi Mu formal, juincoln hotel,
(Venetian room).
Sigma Kappa formal, Lincoln
hotel (Ball room).
Omega Beta Pi, house dance.
Delta Zeta, house dance.
scholastic averages of students oper
ating cars with those not operating
cars. He pointed out that the orig
inal motion of the Board of Regents
anticipated no sudden, inconsiderate
act, but merely provided for an in
vestigation of the situation here and
at other schools to see what regula
tions, if any, would be advisable.
Investigation in Student
Car Issue Proceeds
(Continued from Page 1)
automobile proposition was taken up
by several student groups. The In
ter-fraternity Council considered the
matter and presented suggested rec
ommendations for regulation if any
restrictions were to be made. Their
suggestions were in general approved
by the Panhellenic Council. The
question of student cars was also
gone over by Innocents and Mortar
Board, and by a joint faculty-student
committee. Results of the in
vestigations to date were also pre
sented to fraternity presidents and
vice-presidents at a meeting last Sun
day.
As a result of the investigation to
date, Dr. Thompson reports that he
feels there are only two reasons for
regulating student cars. "Granting
that students operate cars with the
permission of their parents," stated
Dr. Thompson, "for the University to
prohibit the use of cars, it must es
tablish either one or both of the two
following:
"1. That there is a relationship
between scholastic attainment and
student operation of cars.
"2. An increased moral hazard due
to the operation of cars by students."
Dr. Thompson expressed himself as
believing that parking congestion is
not sufficient reason for car restric
tion. Congestion can be handled
by proper parking," he pointed out.
"The University should recognize
that it is a motor age. It should
provide parking space for those who,
because of necessity or convenience
or both, bring cars. As to parking
on the main thoroughfares, that can
be handled by cooperation with the
city."
Lincoln is Larger
That student operation has not
been restricted in any city of any
size was also pointed out by JJr.
Thompson. He callej attention to
the fact that the University of Illi
nois was located in a town of 30,
000; Indiana University in a town of
18,000; the University of Michigan
in a town of from twenty to twenty
five thousand whereas Lincoln and
its suburbs have a population of well
past the seventy-five thousand mark.
Investigation will go on this se
mester, according to Dr. Thompson.
Included in the efforts during the
semester will be a comparison of
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'Dark Horse'
(Continued from Pag 1)
"oily-sixes" and "slippery-sevens,"
but certainly something went amiss
in yesterday's election.
Rumor did think for a while that
tho co-ed groups not to be outdone
by tk less fair sex, had organized
into political factions, and were sys
tematically planning their May
Queen caucuses. If this was done,
certainly some co-ed politician failed,
if Rumor's May Queen, the non-sorority
non-Mortar Board co-ed, is
crowned on Ivy day. Well such
things have happened, even With the
"oily six" and "slippery seven," the
senior class president this semester
you know.
Of course, we can't say definitely;
no one but those in the selected thir
teen could give you the straight
"dope," but by the downcast faces,
the swollen eyes and a number of
other things, well, Rumor is willing
to vouch for the non-sorority non
Mortar Board queen.
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