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THE DAILY INEHRASKAJN THURSDAY. NOVEMBER' 13. 1930. The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Publlehed Tueaday, Wednesday, Thureday, Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic year. THIRTIETH YEAR KntereJ as second-class matter at the poatolfice In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congress, March 3. 1870, and at ipecla rate of poatage provided for in section UOJ act of Qctooer 3, 1017, authorized January zo, W22, Under direction of the Stuji-it Publication Board SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2 a year tingle Copy 6 cents S1.2S a nmeMer 1 a year mailed S1.76 a semester mailed Editorial Office University Hall . Business Off Ice University Hall 4A. Telephones Dayi B-68911 Night! B-6882, B-3333 (Journal) Ask for NebMakan ecJltoi. EDITORIAL STAFF Vltttem T. McCleery Editor-in-chief Managing editors ftobert Kelly Elmont Wane News Editors Francee Holyoke Arthur M'tcheo William McQaffln Eugene McKim Rex Wagner Guy Craig Sports Edtc Evelyn Simpson Women's Sports Fditor Berenlece Hoffman Society Editor BUSINESS STAFF Charles Lawlor Acting Business Manager Aaslstant Business Managers Norman Callaher Jack Thompson jMEMBERr 19 3 0 Tals paper la reproentrd far (antral adrertialnc ay Tha Ntbraaka fraaa Aaaoeiatlon. Wrangling Over a New Constitution. Conflicting opinions on the subject of stu dent government by the (Student council were expressed freely in the council's special con stitution session yesterday afternoon, local izing that its position on this campus is somewhat ridiculous, the representative body is taking steps to legalize and justify its ex istence. Its autiquated constitution, with broad and meaningless phrases, is about to be scrapped and replaced by a logical and definite one. How may this be accomplished? It is no simple matter, as the council found, to draft and accept a constitution. Most important in the new charter will be the definition of powers. In this respect the council has al ways been inadequate, its powers being purely of an advisory nature with the faculty or administration wielding the big stick. Paternalistic government has been tried and it has failed. Perhaps it was tried only as a regrettable alternative, but the administration has continued to govern student conduct without student smioort. It has shown little anxiety about the spinelessness of the stu dents. Tf conduct is to be regulated and controlled. 1 hose who are being ruled must have a hand in thp formulation of the laws. Students have had the principles of democratic government massaged into their skulls too many times to miss this point. The power of recommenda tion, which has been so generously given to the Student couucil in the past few years, is a farce. Nebraska needs sound student uuveiimient and unless it is instituted soon, undergraduate affairs will be on the rocks How mav the Student council go about litis matter of strengthening its powers? We be lieve that it will receive the cooperation of 1 he administration, for that group is not wittingly unreasonable. It is simply blind to the fine points of student control. Friction between students and faculty in the past has not generally been caused by the faculty's attempt to coerce the student body, but by its lack of reason. An excellent example of this is found in the segregation farce on the Kansas special. Assuming, then, that it will not Ie thrown foi a loss by the administration, where will it find opposition to its attempted creation of powers? The answer is found in the opinion of members of certain student organizations. The Associated Women Students hoard, a self-governing organization for women, is jealoufi of its strength. It would be pleased to co-operate with the council, but objects to direct submission to the body. Other organ izations way protest when they find the Stu dent council attired in its new regalia and wielding a heavy club over them. The Student council, if it expects to suc ceed in its present endeavor, must not be too considerate of these groups. It may retain them as desirable subjects, but not as parallel rulers. Another question which calls forth heated comment in council chambers concerns the degree of student control. Some believe that Nebraska should copy universities wherein all matters of undergraduate conduct are handled by a student council. Others maintain that the new move should be a cautious step, taken mildly and with the assistance of the admin istration. We caution the council in this regard. Revolutions are nasty, bloody affairs but they often bring about desirable conditions. An entire revamping of the council's constitution and a drastic change in the body's power? might call forth violent mud-slinging, but per haps it would accomplish something valuable ami necessary. Can the council go half way in its remodel ing? We fear that such a semi-effective move would Icriniiiiite in n slate of affnirs identical lo the present. A half -hearted change would menu that 1h; council, feeling uncomfortable ;;nd unnecessary in its former position, had gneveu. squirmed, ami seineo d;ick in uie same place. The matter is hanging fire. We hope thai interested students outside the council make known their opinions in the coming week.' that the council members may go into a final huddle with a fair idea of student sentiment. apparently so essential that they, too, provide 11 potent pressure on the student purse. Since human nature is so constructed that individuals are forever on the lookout for opportunities to snare a little lucre, any con trol or temperance of expenditures must come from those who constitute the buying public. in this case, students must summon up u fair amount of self control and gauge their desires in accordance with the fullness of their pocket books. Little attempt Is made to encourage stu dents to be cautious in their purchases. On the one hand we have high pressure salesmen exhibiting handsome warts to the siiident and scoffing at the idea of paying for them. "Charge it," they reply to the innocent stu dents' questions. The only opposing force which might discourage thoughtless expendi tures is the very limited state of finance. Hut when charge accounts are waved in Ihe face of an undergraduate, he is tempted to forget tliat even bills must be paid eventually. University of Nebraska students find this condition greatly accentuated. The campus, being shoved awkwardly against the business section of the city, provides a fertile field for many downtown firms. Lincoln boosters have 1 certain statistics regarding the thousands of lollars speut annually bv university students. It is a fine drawing card for Ihe citv, but tough on the average undergraduate whose finances are too limited to allow unwise ex penses. And it is almost a tragedy' to the parents of these spenders. ' Students must think twice before they sally into a store and purchase a new outlay of 1.1 rail . . ciotnes. iney must stop to realize that de ferred payments become uncomfortable when the shop begins to send final notices. The future may hold many possibilities, but the future has a tricky way of turning into the present. Dating and caking, too, are expensive pas- linies. 1 lie gallant young man who enter Ltains members of the opposite sex on the slightest provocation is bound to spend an annoying amount of money. Coeds might be more considerate of the financial status of their boy friends and thus improve their stand ing somewhat. Money is scarce in this section of the coun try. At least most university students feel an uncomfortable pressure. Sensible buying and the sacrifice of certain luxuries may give the student a less flashy appearance, but .it will ease many pangs of conscience at the end of the month. evening dress this winter. Isn't it fine that when the rest of the country is feeling quite severe financial burdens at this time Lin coln follow Paris? Oh, shades of Will L'og ers! Would llutl someone could protect us from Ihe follies of the asinine minority. Last year Princeton suffered untold ridi cule because some few fops decided that the rest of the campus was hopelessly old-fashioned; that the rest of the minims would see their point of view; so the "wise cuvs"' broke out in shorts." It took a lone time to sur- pros, such in I verse publicity. Hut shorts did not "sweep the country" as the style experts predicted they would. Nor will tasteful collegians be rightfully licensed of the foppery of full formal dress' with silk tops, etc., which formal dress requires. The tuxedo is informal dress and is quite beyond the cause of aspersions by contemporary critics of modern college. Why all this wasted time on a subject so inconsequential to scholastic bent? llecause most of us haven't the time to occupy our selves with coiiteinplnt ions of lickling the ego, as it were, in anticipation of brilliant feathers; most of us will be dumbfounded to see formal dress without formal appearances (someone will say "how about formal appear ances without formal dress?" but he won't see which appearances taste calls formal I and most of us will stop a minute' and laugh. Why address ibis to a Mudent publication? The Daily Nebraskan? Weli. the ld Awgwtm (bow your bends) is where this be longs ,at least in subject matter, but the Kag still carries on ! Again .cordially, MONSIKl'K X. L Paper Packs Idea for Big Ten to Give SI, 000,000 To Charity. Minneapolis, Minn. In a front page editorial entitled "Tackling Unemployment" the Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota school paper, gives Its approval of the plan of its athle tic director Herbert O. Crisler, thst tho Big Ten athletic confer ence donate $1,000,000 to charity. Crislrr suggested this Instead of playing a post season game for charity. inc Minnesota Daily opposes post beacon games and at the same timo believes that the Big Ten chould do something to alle viate conditions of unemployed. Worthy of Consideration. "The suggestion by Athletic Di rector Herbert O. Crisler that the Big Ten donate $1,000,000 to char ity out of its regular season foot ball receipts rather than play post season games to raise money is a proposal worth the weighty con sideration of the powers that gov ern the conference," the daily de clared. "There could be no more sin cere expression by Big Ten schools that they are whole heartedly in accord with contributing to the re lief ci the present unemployment crisis than an agreement by which each would dig down into its pocket and give a certain amount. Such a gesture would allow each institution lo participate equally in tha giving and each in turn would share equally in the prestige and recognition attendant with such generasity. Has Good Points. Pipes And Culture. Courses which have been found to he simple are scratched down in the undergraduate dic tionary as '"pipes." Kach semester a flock of students scrambles to get into these courses, having been informed that they re quire little work. Naturally, the first impulse of one actually interested m education would he to hrand iaon iooioau aione consumes these courses as useless offshoots of the in- ' enouK 1 time and energy of youug ,.., . , - .. men whose primary interest should structional st stem, ( lose inspection, however, be the getting of an education. The may reveal them as the courses most, con-I addition o! another game to an ducive to thought and most valuable from already strenuous schedule woulr cultural standpoint. (merely increase the burden which . -i , . i every player must carry. Then, When an instructor considers his sludenls , this plan would guarantee to char as mature individuals, enrolled in the univer-'ity a definite amount while under "The proposal hase many points in its favor. Every coach and ev ery player knows that regular sea- siiy for the purpose of accumulating knowl edge, he is wont to give them n long rope. His assignments may be indefinite and may allow room for original work and the stimu lation of mental faculties. Such courses, how ever, give the sluggard a fine opportunity to sluff and get by with a meager amount of labor. These leeches are present in any educational institution, unfortunately. They make it ex tremely difficult for a professor to conduct his classes in a manner which would be most profitable for the thinkers. It is necessary to compromise, then, amf season the courses with examinations and quizzes to check up on the undesirables. If professors would be more conscientious in their weeding out of tne seruns, education would he a more nificant operation. Pipes would such charms for the parasites. not sig hold MORNING MAIL Money, Money, Money Alvcayt Outicf.rd Bound. College life seems to be a tricky game of hide-and-seek, with scalpers of every sort at tempting to find and extract student money. Downtown firms are constantly battering away at the undergraduates' sales resistance and attempting to force bargains down their mildly unwilling throats. Sver'iiylng 1 en couraged; credit recounts are strenuously in vited. Social affairs nie so numerous ami To Open Panture. TO THE EDITOR: Bronchos need a breaking-in to make them useful, and children require a strong hand to correct their faults. The country's hopefuls get trained to their harness from infcicy through high or pre paratory school. Those who haven't learned how to conduct themselves by the time they enter college will, in all probability, remain refractory. The man who will derive real benefit from ollege life studies with purjiose. He has at tained to man's estate and envisages the re sponsibilities attached thereto. Universities exist for such as he. Few students have talents so matched that the same amount of time and effort will r,uf fice for each assignment. Deciding how to spend his time is a student's chief problem. and be can best arrunge his life himself. The fault of the modern education, and of the Nebraska education, is the absolute standardization of it all. Not enough of the tad citizens are sent inviiv, and none of those ommendable receive the rewards due them. Many fine universities have a roster j sometimes called the "Denn's List" of all ' c Indents who maintain a certain scholastic standard. These men are practically on their own resources, and need only attend class when they so desire, as long as they continue to enjoy the proper standing. Secondary school aims to prepare men for college, and a university is intended to pre pare men for life. How could our university do this better than 'by throwing those who prove to be ripe on their own initiative? A "Dean's List" at Nebraska would be among the richest of the "opportunities of the golden west." F. C. Lau5h J Know Pit Die! TO THE KDITOK: So the college boys in the "oppressed middle wist," according to local style authorities (Ihe clothing stoics), will be wearing foil me prist season game artanee ment the returns would be doubt fut. The weather, interest in the gsme and promotion expense are an variame ractors which cannot be predetermined. Furthermore, it would preclude any possibility that persons who bought tickets to a charity game might use this as an excuse to refrain from contrib uting to some other worthy char ity venture. "The plaa is not illogical. Every Dig xen scrjooi regularly reaps prorus irom us rootball ' season Under Mr. Crisler's plan the bur. den of this contribution could be distributed over a number of years on s deferred payment plan if institutions found that they were unaDio to give all of their share in a single year. University Will Aid. "The attitude of the University toward such a proposal is set forth Dy resident L. D. Coffman in a letter to Governor Theodore Chris tiansen, the gist of which is as follows : 'Our athletic department has planned for the use of its funds. The carrying out of these plans will add to the constructive de velopment of the university and they furnish some lelicf for the unemployment situation. But if the money which vill be used in this way can be used more to ad vantage when placed in other hands, the university will be the first to respond to a call that it make such contribution from its athletic receipts as the situation will permit.' ' "The Big Ten aiready has a rule prohibiting the playing of post season games. It has been the concensus of opinion that this rule should be upheld. In Mr. Crisler's suggestion, it seems, in an excel lent opportunity for the Big Ten conference to stick by its guns and at the same time take the lead in a worthy project that will bilug to it recognition and pral3e from the entire nation." COUNCIL DEBATES PROPOSED CLAUSE OF CONSTITUTION (Continued from Page 1.) should the university senate grant these powers to the council, it would then he the supreme gov erning body of the campus. All other organizations, governing bodiea, and extra-c urrlcuUr groups would be responsible to the Student council and would have only )iiich powers as might be granted them by the council, with this provision: Provided the university ad ministration does not deny the council jurisdiction over certain powers and actions of the sub sidiary groups. Off.nion Divided. Discussion, in the main, ranged about the powers clause. Opinion among council members was di vided Into two groups, those who believed the powers clause should contain a sories of expressly dele gated provisions, and those who believed that the "blanket" scope of authority outlined in the first division of the powers cluune would be suflicitnt to allow the council unlimited freedom of ac tion. 7 Bill McCleery, member of the constitution committee, contended that an express delegation of authority was absolutely neces sary unless the council wished to be placed in the same position of lmpotency which it now occupies. He pointed out that the council would automatically be denied any authority over such organizations as the A. W. S. board because its constitutional powers, already granted Dy the administration, would in all probability automati cally be removed from the coun cil's hands. Claims Powers Necessary. "It is either necessary." assert ed McCleery, "that we make all other organizations virtual coni mittees of the council who must look to us for power and authority to act or it is necessary to organ ize some parallel group among the men which will correspond to the A. W. S. board. At present we have an incomplete triangle with tne suiaent council at the top, the a. w. ts. association at one base and nothing at the third corner. Edwin Faulkner, chairman the constitutional committee, main tained that powers clause as pre' sented in the tentative draft was self sufficient. Calls Clause Unnecessary. "It appears to me," Faulkner in dicated, "that the council is aik ing only that which it deserves by means or uie all encompassing blanket clause which will give us complete jurisdiction, provided the administration does not enact too many denials of power. Our pur pose is to co-operate with the ad ministration to the greatest pos sible extent and we should natu rally expect them to deny us au thority on certain points which are as yet out of our sphere. I believe that we can expect a just consid eration Irom administrative pow ers and with that in view a series of expressly delegated provisions win not De necessary." Boyd Von Seggern, Ag college council representative, suggested a compromise by enacting a clause wnich delegated certain of the council's powers and also provided a Dianket clause which would per mit the council to extend its juris diction subject to approval of ad ministrative authorities. Would Give No Power. Certain of the council members believed that the new constitution should give that body no power over tne actions, conduct and regu lations over women students, be cause those matters should be left to the A. W. S. board. If such a condition is to remain, as pointed out by Prof. E. W, Lantz, faculty advisor to the stu dent council, campus government will continue to be a government witnin a government. This situa tion is impractical and it works against progress toward student freedom in managing their own af fairs, he believes. "There must be a supreme representative body and that body is logically the stu dent council since it is represented by both men and women members, all of whom are elected by popular vote," he said. Says Plan Not Feasible. When the question of allowing the president of the A. W. S. board to become an automatic vice pres ident of the council was presented by Esther Gaylord. present head of that group, the following reply was given by Alan Williams: "Automatic memberships to the council offices by virtue of posi tions in other campus groups are not feasible. Either the council must be the apex toward which all other groups look or el.se it has no placa as a student government group. 1 lie Student council should be allowed to appear as the solo governing body with complete au thority to delegate certain powers to other campus bodies such as tha A. W. S. board or it has no justifi cation for Its own existence. Its relation to other organization? should be analogous to the rela tion of our national governments to the statfs." Points to Kansas. The situation extant at Kan.sa3 university was pointed out by Rob ert Kelly, president of the council. At that institution there Is a men's council and a women's council, each with complete control over their re.-pective sexes. He believed it only 'logical to grant all power to the Student council or other wise organize a men's governing group comparable to the A. W. S. board. "This would make possible a balance .of power which would at least remedy the existing Inequal ity." he declared. Opposition to the granting of original and complete Jurisdiction to the council was sponsored main ly by Kay Williams, vice president of the council, and Esther Gaylord, who believed that It should have no control over the actions of the A. W. S. board since it was a rep resentative women's society with members elected by the vote of .' omen students. So until further developments at least, the new constitution of the Student council is in the controver sial stage. To all appearances it Is a contest for supremacy between it arid the A. W. S. board. The question also exists as to whether the council should make sure of Its authority by a complete series of delegated powers or whether it should merely pass a blanket clause and trust to the co-operation and faith of the administra tion in asking for concessions. A Vacationist's Dream. Spoof What's your idea of an ideal place for a vacation? Piffle A place where the fish bite and the mosquitoes do not, and where neither the bees nor the ho tel keeper stings you! Pathfinder. DEAN OF WOMEN GIVES ADDRESS ONJETIQUETTK. Dean Amanda Heppner spoke to the social staff of the Y. W. C. A. at Ellen Smith hall Wednesday evening at 5 o'clock on "The Eti quette of a Hostess' She stressed especially the work of a public hostess. "Business ability," she declared, is one of the chief requisites of a public hostess. She must also be a good conversationalist, be a good mixer, and possess a gret amount of tact." Miss Heppner speaks on this subject from personal e:cpcr iencc as a hostess on a Mediter ranean cruise. About twenty glrla were In attendance at tho meeting. "There are two sides to every question." Yes, nnd there are two sidca to a sheet of fly-paper, but it makes a big difference to the fly whicli side he chooses." Montreal Star. 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