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OFFICIAL STUDINT PUtLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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THIRTIETH YEAR
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1103 act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 20, 1922.
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News Editors
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J ' I II II . 1
The Case for
A Union Building.
PRO
"A center for all student activities."
f'A unit for development of real student
spjrit."
"A suitable place for university convoca
tions, and conferences."
J'A place for all students to lounge, loaf,
or- study, fat their spare moments between
classes."
'A large, well-furnished theatre and audi
lOtitrtu. "
''An adequate building for university
dances and social rents."
'Faculty ekd rooms."
."Clean, up-to-date cafeteria and dining
roOTI3" for banquets, dinners and other such
meetings."
"Tudent publications offices."
'jAltmmi meeting place."
CON "
An unshakable indifference.
If students ttt Nebraska want a union
building, ftey will have to ask for it. They
will have to get right up and howl for it. They
will hare to work for it.
In the balance sheet-above, the whole ten
points favoring: a union building: are overbal
anced by only one point: Student indifference.
Everyone knows, or everyone soon will
know, if we an push th learning process
along a bit faster, just what a union Wilding
is. Everyone knows, or soon will know, just
how badly fhe University of Nebraska needs
such a building. Our eampus is a barren mess.
It could be beautiful. It will be, eventually.
Students could help the process about 100 per
cent if they were interested enough in their
own welfare to boost a union building.
WILI THEY DO IT 2
Awgwan was all wady to go to press, we
hean, and then the student censors got busy.
Xow the staff calling for more copy J
"Te can't think of any more raggers about a
student anion building. Maybe this will do
just a weH. It's s dever as any of the others.
Wanted
One Quorum 1
Reward k beiiyg offered by the Student
council members for any information leading
to the discovery of One Quorum, lost last eve
ning at 5:30 o'eloek. The Quorum, we hear,
attended the meeting at its opening, but she is
reported to have disappeared soon afterward.
As a result, no business could be transacted.
What with the appointment of a perfectly good
senior publications board member, and what
with the discussion of a perfectly good consti
tution, and what with this, that, and the other
l.o be considered, the escape of the Quorum
was rather disastrous.
Really, folks, we cannot let this happen
a (ruin. What will the faculty think? Even
now they are fighting the idea of allowing the
eligibility clause to remain in the final enact
ment of the new Student council constitution.
They are fighting it because they "do not
think the present accomplishments of the coun
cil have justified giving it this serious re
sponsibility." We thought they were mistaken.
Perhaps they were right, at that. Jf no quor
um, no legal action. If no legal action, how,
then, to decide questions of eligibility or of
anything else?
The Student council wants to run the
school. ... It hasn't shown any particular
ability to do so, thus far.
To got anywhere at all in its campaign for
more governing power, it will have to under
stand, first, that a quorum is rather a nice
thinjr to have at every meeting; and, second,
that some evident ability to handle its much
soiiglilil'ter duties must be shown.
One solution: Charge a Fee when the quorum
departs !
fraternity
Freshmen
Fraternity freshmen are an unusual lot.
They are so downtrodden. When one pauses
to reflect, it seems almost a tragedy. Why,
until the Interfratemity council fixed things
up, they were denied initiation into their re
spective lodges if they had flunked any sub
ject. It was too bad. How can anyone expect a
freshman to pass all his scholastic hours? It's
ridiculous. The theory of the thing seemed to
be that every freshman had to take a flock
of required subjects, whether he wanted to
take thum or not. Then, Oh unreasonable
world I he had to get a passing grade in every
subject to be eligible tor initiation.
Now everything is rosy aain. A freshman
can flunk a course if he wants to, provided he
gets good enough grades-in his other work
to make his total average for the semester
seventy-two or better. We are all for it. Let
them flunk all their hours. Who cares? They
might make better fraternity men, according
to the standards evidently prevalent at ISe
Liuftka. As a matter of fact, there seems to be no
reason to believe that any freshman who can
not successfully carry his fourteen hours or
so, the first semester, can ever carry sufficient
hours to be graduated. After all, require
ments are requirements, bless 'em! And if
a freshman must register for them, he must
pass them, whether he wants to do so or not.
If he cannot do so, he will .never get any
where in this university. And, accordingly,
why initiate him?
Ot course, a flunk is recorded as forty-five
percent. And it would, in most cases, result
in a grade lower than the requisite seventy
two. But that is something else again. Why
permit initiation of . men who cannot pass
freshman courses, especially, required fresh
men courses i
At that, there is an air of distinction at
tached to the wearing of a cap and gown. For
instance, a certain prize fighter wears one on
the parade to the ringside, to demoralize his
opponent or something.
MORNING MAIL
Waving the Flag, as Usual.
TO THE EDITOR:
Apparently what is humor to some people
gets under the skin of other individuals.
The former editor states he does not know
what communism is. Apparently he does not
read the daily papers either. Nearly every
day contains an account of communistic dem
onstrations in some important city in the
United States.
Communism is directly related with the
movement for the abolishment of compulsory
military drill. The depression which the United
States as well as the rest of the world is in
offers a foothold for communistic ideas.
Surely you are an American at heart and want
to see our government stand. Then why did
you advocate non-preparedness when you did
not understand communism and other world
conditions? Let the good old common sense
of our American people decide. You know.
If one studies the situation intelligently he
will find that our government is always first
in peace movements, but only fools would ad
vocate complete abolishment without the same
steps being taken by other countries.
WThy not study preparedness instead of ad
mitting you have no knowledge of conditions?
If you have no knowledge of communism then
why advocate non-preparedness when you do
not have all the facts? J. H. B.
Tiro Wise Moves.
TO THE EDITOR:
The Interfratemity council did two wise
things at its meeting the other night. It passed
a law which would permit students with a seventy-two
average to be initiated regardless of
failures and conditions against them. And it
passed a rule which will permit a seventy-one
and one-half average to count as a seventy
two. Many times previous to the passing of these
rules, a student would have a seventy-two or
even better average but could not be initiated
because of conditions or failures against him.
It seems only fair that after a person has
worked hard all semester and finally obtained
a grade high enough for initiation, he should
be initiated even though a condition or a fail
ure mar the record. Students, because of the
compulsory system, often have to take subjects
they have no aptitude for and never could mas
ter. They often flunk or condition these. Be
fore this, such a flunk or condition would keep
a person from being initiated. Now they will
not.
The seventy-one and one-half rule seems
commendable and not a lowering of scholastic
standards as some people declare. It is a rule
which is generally observed by most profes
sors. Under the old steadfast rule, students
would be kept from initiation just because
their average lacked a fraction of being seventy-two.
Now they will be taken in on an aver
age a half per cent lower. This is much fairer
because many times persons who deserve ini
tiation would not be taken in simply because
of a fractional difference.
So congratulations to the Interfratemity
council for the passage of two wise and timely
measures. May the good work continue.
ALREADY INITIATED.
Mismanagement.
TO THE EDITOR-:
Among the various popular disparagements
on the present state of our Alma-Mater-to-be,
it would hardly be out of place to call atten
tion to the discouragingly laz system of ethics
peculiar to the caretakers of the different
buildings. Every once in a while one comes
across a new example of nothing else but
gross carelessness in the management of cer
tain functions of the university. As my wit
ness :
A few weeks ago many persons were kept
waiting and a great deal of trouble ensued as
the result of lack of proper supervision of the
lighting system in Morrill hall. The occasion
was none other than the Beaux Arts ball, and
the circumstance the. usual lack of adequate
help when a fuse blew out while pictures were
being taken.
Again, just yesterday afternoon several stu
dents were kept waiting for exactly nothing
at all in the Temple auditorium something
else to laugh at) while some teachers in the
French department Mho ought never to
have been troubled by such details in the first
place tried to locate. someone who knew how
to connect a radio properly. Needless to say,
much disappointment resulted.
Perhaps the university is not obliged to as
sist in such cases. And then, too, perhaps
there are no persons who could ever assist.
We sometimes wonder.
ANOTHER OBSERVER.
LOOSE THREADS
By Gens McKIm
The closing days of the short
session of the seventy-first con
gress which adjourned at 12 noon,
Wednesday saw several bits of im
portant legislation either enacted
or done away with,
. enter among: these was the pass
age of the veterans' bonus bill by
both houses of .congress over the
president's veto. This bill provides
that veterans may borrow up to
50 percent on their service certi
ficates.
President Hoover and Andrew
Mellon were both opposed to the
enactment of this measure, holding
that the government was not in &
position to finance tne loans.
Advocates of the bill held tnai
the release of one billion and a half
dollars tor immediated expending,
will prove a valuable means of re
lieving the business depression to
say nothing of the aid it will give
to the veterans.
Whether the president and Mr.
Mellon were riarht, or whether the
congressmen favoring the bill and
the service men were right will be
seen as the loans are meted out.
The Muscle Shoals bill as pro
posed by Senator Norris of Ne
braska which provided for the dis
position of the gigantic power and
nitrate plants by proposing federal
control over the war-time proper
ties, was vetoed by the president
after it had passed both houses of
congress. The senate in the clos
ing hours of the session upheld his
veto.
In vetoing the bill Mr. Hoover
proposed, In place of the Norris
plan, that the states of Alabama
and Tennessee Bet up a commis
sion with representatives from the
national farm organizations and
the amy engineers to lease the
plans "in the interest of the local
community and agriculture gen
erally." Congressional action on the vet
erans' hospital bill, which will pro
vide for an appropriation of $20,
877,000 for additional hospital fa
cilities which will be administered
by the director of the veterans'
bureau, was completed when the
house agreed to accept the above
mentioned amount.
A deadlock existed for several
days, but was broken when the
house yielded in its Insistence
upon its bill which called for $12,
500.000. The senate adopted the house
resolution that $5,000,000 be set
aside for immediate hospital con
struction. This measure, the last major
piece of legislation which was In
doubt during the closing hours of
the session, now awaits the presi
dent's signature.
Notable in international affairs
during the past week have been
the naval accord reached between
France and Italy, and the truce
signed between Mahatma Gandhi
and his followers and British au
thorities. The naval accord is one more
step toward total world disarma
ment in the opinion of Arlstide
Briand, French foreign minister.
M. Briand said that the move,
"was merely the prelude to the
rapid ending of all Franco-Italian
problems.
This agreement reached between
Paris and Rome precludes any
possibility of a naval building
race, which at times has threat
ened to undo the efforts of the
London naval conference of a year
ago. The pact reached at that con
ference between the United States,
Great Britain, and Japan, has now
become a five power treaty, in
cluding France and Italy,
In his speech before the cham
ber of deputies in which he de
bated the foreign affairs budget,
M. Briand accused Russia of be
ing the most armed n?tion, with
the strongest army of Europe."
The truce arrived at between
Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin,
representing the British crown,
ended the civil disobedience move
ment which had lasted for almost
& year, and had caused untold suf
fering among the 320,000,000 na
tives of the Indian rub-continent.
The truce provides the Gandhi
and the nationalists will partici
pate in framing a new federal gov
ernment for India and that natives
living along the sea coast may
gather manufacture and sell salt.
This latter had previously been the
sole right of the British monopoly.
Gandhi had Instituted this pas
sive resistance campaign against
the "salt tax" because it aroused
public feeling among the natives,
affecting every native who had to
pay the salt tax.
i BEHIND
'!fMvri THE
Tassels President
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Courteay Lincoln Stat Journal.
JULIENNE DEETKIN
Who was elected president of
Tassels, pep girls organization.
AT.
Poland Miller
Even his best friend wouldn't tell
him so he paid $2.50 and went to
the Prom.
We suggest that at the next pre
sentation of a Prom girl there be
available a Murad or two. It
might help, you know.
Prom, we believe, is a shortening
of the word "promenade," meaning
to walk and in the college sense,
to be walked on.
Since novel presentations seem
to be in order we suggest that the
May Queen be let down from some
high spot in a basket. Or just
dropped, which procedure would be
much more effective.
V
She was t mere slip of a girl
Dancing Keeps Yeu Young
LEARN TO DANCE
Special Rates in
Ballroom Dsnclng
Borncr Sisters
New Location
1536 P St.
Private Studio
Phone B4819.
hardly enough, we say, despite the
day and age.
W W W W
Baseball will soon be back. But
we must remember mat it isn i
the only spring sport that's played
with the aid of a diamond.
Quibble aa they may over mili
tary science, many a young cadet
will look back in the year to come
and dream on the "platoonlc'
friendships he may have formed.
In Chicago, a gang sent a beau
tiful blonde woman to inform a
rival club that they were out to
kill. Nothing like a "fair" warning.
We hear a great deal about the
Wickersham commission. Truly,
we think the whole committee is
a sham, and its efforts are getting
wicker and wicker. Terrible!
A great logician carries his
theories to the extreme. He actu
ally keeps several ferocious dogs
to guard his "premises."
W W W W
All Austin owners are advised to
take corners cautiously. This
avoids the possibility of scraping
one's shins on the curbing.
We thought Sandy might give
us a bite of his apple but he was
Scotch to the core.
"Shoot if you must, this old gray
head,
But I'll be darned if I'll dye," she
said.
"California Students Labor for ;
Diplomas" so reads a head-line in
the Rag. I suppose here at Ne
braska it's just a matter of step
ping up and taking it off the silver
platter.
"Why not try our medium as an
agent to help you?" rants The i
Daily Nebraskan. If we must re
vert to such help we prefer to call ,
on some such spirit as Houdini, or
Lodge.
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We would like to extend a greet-
ing and a best wish to Brother t
Conklin, but Shucks, what s the
use. !
ered to be a vacation which ts In
terrupted as seldom as possible by
serious studies, and at the same
time the greatest opportunity for
self-betterment which society has
to offer.
Doctor Cutten in an address be
fore the student body at Colgate
university, criticized the student
attitude toward education, saying
that altho parents deprive them
ntve of si but the necessities In
life In order that their children
may obtain a university aegree,
students after they are in the
midst of college life are content
to receive a minimum of educa
tion. "Indeed they seem to be re
solved to get the least possible re
turn for the money and the time
they are spending."
Doesn't Get Education.
"The modern student is not so
anxious to get his money's worth
out of his instructors and his col
lege," Doctor Cutten affirmed. "In
former times professors attracted
students from all parts of tho
country and were forced by the
students to give the best of their
services for their salary, dollar for
dollar."
Declaring that the value of an
A. B. degree is that it serves as a
letter of recommendation, Doctor
Cutten stated that It does not
Your Drug Store .
It von't he long now 'till Spring:.
Stop at our Soda Fountain
on the way.
WHITMAN CHOCOLATES
GILLAN'S CANDIES
The Owl Pharmacy
143 No. 14 A P Sta. Phont B10C8
guarantee success. A graduate,
according to Doctor Cutten, is of.
ten criticised after1, a year or so
of trial in business, because of
"lack of intellectual funds," which
means, as it does in the case of
checks, that he has no credit In
spite of his degrees and potential
power.
Pour Years Wasted.
"It signifies that his four years
t roiig were idled away and
his rhW concern w to evann
the work that was assigned to
him."
Most of the unemployment to
day, in the opinion of Doctor Cut
ten, has been caused by the en
croachment of the machine on tho
work that the hand laborer used
to do. "Education in this machine
age Is a valuable asset and the
only place that men are not ex
posed to mechanical competition
Is in the field of mental labor,"
the president stated.
THURSDAY I
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RECTOR'S
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SUBJECT MARCH 8
? "The Organization of it
the Self" j
Cutten Says Students Look j
For Vacation and !
Betterment. j
COLGATE UNIVE R S I T Y '
The most puzzling enigma of pre-1
sent day education in the opinion
of Dr. George B. Cutten, presi
dent of Colgate university, is that
four years of college are consid-
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