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THE DAILY NEKRASKAN
THURSDAY, OCTORER 13, 1932.
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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Lincoln, Nebrasxa. under act of congress, March 3, 1879
and at special rata of postage provided tor In section
1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorized January TO. 1922.
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Editor
High School Rules
For University Students.
yMONG the "Rules Governing Organisations and
Social Functions," published by the Faculty
Committee on Student Organizations, and expected
to be enforced through the office of the Dean of
Women are the following:
1. All social gatherings, including those ot
departmental clubs, shall be held on Friday eve
nings and Saturday. NOTE: This refer to all
social functions, including banquets, which are
held or continue after 8 p. m. EXCEPTIONS:
Social functions may be held the night before
but not the night of a mid-week holiday.
2. All meetings of university clubs and or
ganizations holding later than 8 p. m. : .c' oc
cur on Friday and Saturday evenings, e c.-pt
by special permission of the Committee on Ce
dent Organizations.
3. SPECIAL PERMISSION: Departmental
clubs, not social clubs, may hold one meeting a
month on a mid-week nlaM after 8 p. m. Ad
ditional meetings must be held before 8 p. m.
or on Friday or Saturday night.
4. All parties, including picnics and student
migrations where women are present, shall be
officially chaperoned, etc
5. Card parties, dances and organization
banquets may not be held on Sunday.
To the above might be added some of the spe
cial rules applying to women: the 12:30 weekend
night rule, no smoking in sorority houses, etc, the
total to constitute a fair sample of the rules by
which University of Nebraska students are kept
pure.
young men and women almost ready to take their
respective places in life.
2. That students are not naturally bad, but will
if given the opportunity, exercise some temperance
and judgment on their own part In regulating their
personal conduct.
Chasing burglars and stopping riots Is advo
cated aa good training for football players at the
University of Oklahoma.
The cost of board and room in the dormitories
at Idaho is J250 lower than that of any other
college In the United States, according to a report
of the Carnegie foundation.
T"HE whole system is apparently based on this as
sumption: that university students, particularly
women, are inherently bad; that they can be pre
vented from giving way to their natural tendencies
towards evil only by keeping them constantly under
the surveillance of university authorities or their
representatives.
The practical possibility of legislating people to
good seems to 'have been pretty conclusively proved
for Americans generally by the results of national
prohibition. Just why the same methods are ex
pected to work for university students, we cannot
say.
It is our profound conviction that university
students have an inherent sense of honor, of what
is right and what is wrong; that students are not at
heart criminals who must be hedged about with
rules at every turn to keep these criminal tenden
cies in check.
We believe, moreover, that if students want to
be "bad," no amount of rules will keep them from
doing so. The very naivete of the assumption that
students can be constanUy watched is astounding.
University men and women are no longer nig
school students. They don't need a lot of blue laws
and administration sping to regulate their conduct
at least they wouldn't unless they had been ac
customed to this parental treatment. Moreover, if
they did need them, the rules wouldn't keep them
good. Students just don't act that way toward rules
that tell them just what they can and cannot do
every turn.
Students win and do break the rules. They "cut
loose" when released from the rules and they bend
their cunning to evade them. This Is not because
they desire to do what is wrong, but because rules
and rules constitute a challenge to strong-minded
young men and women. 'Twaa ever thus!
W hy not give the student at least the chance of
a suspect at law: Assume be is innocent until
pioved guilty
Unless the present "younger generation" is a
lot different tron those that have gone before,
they're not such a bad lot at heart Given an oppor
tunity to exercise their own initiative and be guided
by their own sense of right, wrong and honor, we
believe the reaction would be much more satisfac
tory than is now tbtained. And thetr attitude to
wards decency in bf havior and manners will be
changed from one of compulsion to one of accep
tance of right as the natural thing to do.
Only by giving the atudent this chance to gov
, err his own conduct can that natural good that is la
him be brought out; only in this way can be learn to
make the judgments and decisions that will be de
manded of him as an upright citizen once he Is re
leased from protecting academic walls.
The Nebraskan urges a revision of atudent reg
ulations with a recognition of these two facts:
1. That those attending the university ' are
CLU3 SELECTSCAND10ATES
Child Education Association
Names Prospects for
Advice Board.
The Childhood Education asso
ciation, the departmental club of
eieihentary education, aelected as
candidates for president: Mildrei
21pp. Gladys Zutter, and Lucile
Da via, Ti of whom are seniors.
For ; Ivisory board, juniors:
UarceHa Mason, Grace Young, and
Atline Hahn; sophomore 'a: Miidr.
Runnel, Josephine Kiker, and Anna
Marie Rhetus; Freshmen: Madel
ine Raymond, Doris Peru brack, and
Margaret Jonson, were selected.
The Advisory board consists of one
member of each the Freahxnan,
Junior, and senior candidates.
liie election will be held
Thunflgy Get. 13.
'Intellectual'
Activities.
""HE establishment of cultural activities such as
painting, sculpture, literature, drawing, music
and dancing on an equal basis with athletics Is what
we need."
That's what Samuel S. Flelsher, a Philadelphia
philanthropist, has to say about educational
changes, according to a recent Associated Press dis
patch. Unfortunately, space limitations made It im
possible for an amplified account of his speech to be
published, so Mr. Fleisher's bare statement is all the
material available for comment.
It is not a new thing, this advocacy of greater
emphasis on cultural "activities," as Mr. Flelsher
calls them. Thinking people for a long time have
made similar statements, and urged similar cultural
developments in education. Such cultural emphasis
It is generally admitted would be highly desirable.
There is, however, a fly in the ointment. In
spite of the value and interest such things as art
and literature hold for the serious student who has
become acquainted with them, it is difficult to con
vince the average undergraduate to that viewpoint.
Seldom is the teacher found who can present the
advantages of cultural education In a manner cal
culated to catch the Interest of the flighty under
grad. i
If cultural "activities" are to be activities, and
compete on common ground with the host of other
things with the glitter of social life and athletics
then they must be presented in a way to Intrigue
youthful interest The undergraduate is a peculiar
animal, and it is hard for him to build the fires of
enthusiasm without considerable bellows-blowing in
the form of informal social activity.
It Is extremely doubtful, of course, that true
culture can be introduced in this back-door fashion,
but at least it would be an introduction, and after
the student's Interest was caught It would not be
so difficult to continue his education. Classical
scholars, too, will be violently affronted by any such
idea, but it is an idea, and it might prove to be
Workable.
Stanford's R. O. T. C. has been benefited by
the addition of 21 more horses this year, making a
total of 87.
Iowa State has also erected one of th huge
timepieces now in use at Nebraska.
Those Caps,
Freshmen!
JOW to enforce the rule which says freshman
must wear red caps has been one of the most
perplexing campus problems for several years. None
of the many possibilities attempted to date has pro
duced results and if today one attempted to count
the men in the freshman class by the number wear
ing red caps on the campus, he would conclude that
there are few if any men in the class of 1936.
Practically every first year man in school
bought a cap when he registered. Where they have
now disappeared to is more than we shall attempt
to answer. But they are not seen on the campus.
Fraternities, through their own effective discip
linary systems, can if they will do a pretty com
plete job of requiring their freshmen to wear the
caps. Unaffiliated students however have no com
pulsion to back them in enforcing this Nebraska
tradition.
Whether or not the custom of the caps is worth
the chips has nothing to do with the enforcement of
it That aspect of it has been considered and de
cided affirmatively several times in the past That
can be considered ss settled for the present. What
la now needed is to discover a means which will
make the tradition live in practice as well as on
paper; to bring it back from the burial grounds
where the freshmen have put it by their failure to
wear the caps.
There are a number of possible solutions. In
the first place fraternities, barb clubs and houses
and the barb council could give more whole-hearted
co-operation than they now do. We believe that
were the freshmen told by authority that to wear
the caps is the thing to do, they would wear them.
Director Billy Quick of the ft O. T. C band is
to be commended for his action in requiring all
freshmen bandsmen to appear at rehearsals with
their caps on. A similar requirement by the entire
military department would prove he.pfuL The red
caps might replace the regular drill caps for fresh
men until after the Pitt game when the freshmen
may discard their caps if they win the tug-of-war.
One of hie most plausible movements toward se
curing universal observance of the cap tradition is
the sophomore vigilance committee now aforming.
This committee, supposedly, would bold court, de
termine and mete out junishment to violators. U
properly managed in a se-.ous manner, rather than
allowed to generate a freshman-sophomore feud,
this plan should prove effective.
It is unfortunate that Nebraska freshmen think
ao little of school traditions that such measures are
necessary to secure observance of this custom. But
that being the case, it seems the sophomore vigil
ance committee is the solution.
cording orchestra with Emma
Frltchard. who formerly was with
Coon Saunders orchestra, will fea
ture the opening of the Chanticleer
ballroom. Which was formerly the
Starlite Arcade, Friday, Oct 14.
Eddie Jungbluth and his orchestra
will play Sunday night
Joe H Byrnes is the author of
"Lets Have a Party." which be
made a Victor recording.
Recordinr ban! will play at the
Chanticleer ballroom every Friday
UMVERSITY YJI.C.4.
WILL HOLD RETREAT
Froth Journey to Camp
Kinnink at Valparaiso
Saturday Ere.
Tb snout! Fan Retreat for
f reahmen, sponsored by the univer- i 1
sity T. M. C A. wfli be held Sat- I
night Some of the bands that have urday afternoon and evening. The
on
VICTOR RECORDING
BAND PLAYS HERE
Honda evening,
been booked here are. Cliff Perrine
and hia Victor recording orchestra.
Stax Ramdall and his Brunswick
orchestra, and Danny Murphy and
his musical akippera.
Members of Dramatic
Department See Play
K. Alice BoweH, Herbert
Teane and ZoHey Lerner attended
the opening night of The First
Mrs. Fraaer." presented by the
Community Flay souse la Omaha
retreat win probably be held at
Camp Kinnink, near Valparaiso,
Nebr.
Cars will leave the Temple at
1:20 Saturday afternoon for thoee
wismng to uttend. A few more
cars are needed according to ai.
fred Adams who la in charge of
the undertaking. All men who wiab
to attend should notify the
T. M. C. A. office In the Temple.
ine anernoon wui be spent In
playground hail and ether games.
A wiener roast and talk feat
around the fireplace Q take up
the evening, and the return to Lin
coln wia be made about 10 clock.
Contemporary Comment
The Student Worker,
Much is heard at the opening of
the university year about working
one's way thru a college. Much ad
vice, good and bud, has been of
fered about the chances and neces
sities of self-support, whole or
partial, but until recently, one
question was still doubtful.
That question was answered by
a national survey recently com
pleted; it shows in certified figures
what actual percentage of students
"work" their way. In a survey of
o American colleges, which was
conducted by Professor Van Sickle
of the University of Illinois, it was
round tnat one-half of the male
student population earned part of
meir expenses, and that 15 to 25
percent were entirely self-support
ing.
All this is true In spite ot some
sentiment, perhaps a growing: sen
ttment, that permission for regis
iraiion snouid ne refused s man
who cannot complete a college
course without resort to himself
for support. It is to be hoped that
sucn a sentiment is not a crow
ing one.
A basic amount, enough to guar
antee support without self-help for
a semester or similar period, might
oe maae a necessity for entrance
rules, and should act as a heighten
ed Incentive for college attendance.
At Stanford, 60 percent of the
men work; last year 15 percent of
the Institution's students paid their
tuition with notes instead of cash.
A sum of 1,200 was raised by the
university community to provide
students with work. Incidentally.
President Hoover worked his wav
thru Stanford.
At the University of Chicago, 65
percent of the students are self-
upporting; the university granted
1,500 student loans in the last
year, more than ever before. The
university hunted student jobs by
leiepnone ana nouse-io-nouse can
vass, and instituted class training
to fit students for the jobs avail
able. Students who were more pros
perous raised a fund for needy stu
dents. At the University of Iowa, 2,228
students obtained aid thru the uni
versity employment service from
September l, 1931, thru June 1.
1932.
Perhaps it is true that no col
lege student can rely on himself
for support and still reap the full
benefit of culture offered him. At
least professors will likelv find
that the working students are not
day dreaming in their classes or
using the room as a convenient
place for sleep.
Daily lowan.
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.uenunng jiuaents
From Religion.
We should not be at all surprised
if the recent address which Dr
William C. Covert (official of the
Presbyterian Board of Christian
Education ) made to the students
of Princeton Theological seminary
has seriously shaken the religious
faith of many thoughtful young
men, not only at Princeton but
wherever his rather unsound and
unwise address was reported.
We know, of course, that there
are large numbers of religious
leaders who would prefer to do all
the thinking for students in mat
ters of religion, morals, and life
philosophies generally. Fortu
nately, there are many more who
realize that religious faith of any
suit is invalid unless it has been
tested by doubt and competition
with other points of view.
Dr. Covert is not of this latter
school, evidently. He would warn
students to beware coming into
any sort of contact with the
thoughts and views of non-orthodox
thinkers. On his particular
black-list occur these brilliant
names:
Prof. Max C. Otto.
Bertrand Russell
Walter Lippmann
Dr. A. Eustace Haydon
H. L. Mencken
Prof. John Dewey
Now, you simply cannot, among
intelligent men, advance any point
of view by opening your campaign
with an attack on the good faith,
judgment, and honesty of men who
hold opinions opposite your own; j
more especially is this true when
these same men have by their force
or cnaracter and intellect become
warmly dear to your listeners.
it would be rather difficult to
make a happier choice of modern
thinkers to whom thoughtful young
men ana women give their alle
giance of beloved respect than the
group Dr. Covert has sins-led out
for attack as being "responsible
more than anything else for the
belief that culture and tbeistic
faith are mutually antagonistic."
no are tnese men 7 Enemies or
religion? Hostile they are no doubt
to much that passes among the
unthinking for religion. Seekers
for the good life for men? For a
valid philosophy of life ? Every one
of them:
Prof. Max Otto, brave teacher of
brave ideals at Wisconsin. Ber-!
trand Russell, the British noble-!
man who crusades indefatigably
for individual liberty and courage
ous thinking; Dr. Eustace Haydon.
professor of comparative religion
at Chicago, author of the beautiful
"bible" of humanism, "The Quest
of the Ages;" H. L. Mencken, joy
ous smasher of ugly idols and last
ditch individualist; Walter Lipp
mann, who would see moral codes
brought to harmony with our time;
Prof. John Dewey, who would con
nect philosophy with life.
If Dr. Covert thinks that intelli
gent young men and women will be
held or led back to the arms of the
church by inveighing against these
men, he is in gross error. If there
is no place in religion for the ideal
ism and character of these men, re
ligion has become a poor thing in
deed. Wisconsin Cardinal.
Its cheering section and Its stunts
between tne halves. Even this fea
ture of Nebraska rooting might as
wen imve oeen aosent at the game
saiuruay. u was lousy. Interest
taken in me game by even the
cneer-ieaaers was decidedly nil
inis is a suoject which should
neea no comment from the student
Doay, nowevcr, tnis criminal nog-
leci or ieam support should be
dealt wun immediately.
Kecenny tne innocent society
tuuBuicu xvnow Nebraska
song ween. Tne interest taken in
this event was shown at the game
Saturday. There was no interest
whatsoever. Inattentiveness, spas-
mnmc cneerinj;, nave no place in
a true tjornnusiter cheering sec
ion. The effect upon the players is
noticeable. No team can hope to
win without student support and if
jsenrasKa spirit continues as it did
in the first game Nebraska will
lose every game this season.
Townspeople have alwavs ad
mlded the cheering section of the
university or Nebraska for its
wonderful team support. No at
tempt was even made by the lead
era to obtain this support Satur
day, i ne worn or Billy Quick and
his Nebraska bandsmen should be
highly praised. It was the only
evidence of student support during
me enure game. Any nign school
with an enrollment of above twen
ty pupils could have easily shown
more spirit than our Nebraska
students did. Approximately 1 per
cent of the Nebraska students
present at the game evidenced any
spirit whatsoever, maybe not that
many, ineir eforts such as thev
were are highly commendable, but
with a student body of approxi
mately four thousand students to
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draw from, Nebraska should be
able to turn out at least a mediocre
cheering section,
Au nerts! If Nebraska student
do not wish to support a teari
band tind athletics, turn the gato
open to Knotholers who showed
far more spirit than any Nebraska
student thought of showtng. It Is
a civic duty of every Nebraska
student to support the team. You
big pansies, yell! Or else let's plav
bridge and ping pong at the next
game and let the boys battle for
their ovn glory. Let's not have tho
girls ruining their lily white hand.r
or the "cakes" their effective tenor
voices by even thinking of support
ing the team.
SOME WHO CHEERED. -Sigma
Lambda, girls' art organ
ization, met Tuesday evening, Oct.
11, for the first time this season.
and plans for sponsoring Sunday
programs at Morrill hall were be
gun. These programs will consist
of talks on some form of art. They
will not begin for several weeks.
DEPRESSION RATES
New cut In Rent-a-Car prices
brings down our rates to almost
one-half of 1930 rates.
$1.95 Flat Rate la maile available
lr every day In the week (gimd
for 10 miles, insurance, and time
(.afternoon and night) to 1:00 a. in.)
Standard Rate on Fords, Dnrsnts
and Austins is reduced from 12c to
10c; time charge is reduced from
20c to 15c: Insurance or service fee
Is reduced from 50e to 45c: Ions;
distance rates as low as Go per
mile.
Special Announcement. New V-S
Ford available at allghtly higher
rale than renular four.
Only good cars furnished and our
lowest rates quoted to all custom
er j.
MOTOR OUT COMPANY
Always Open 1120 P Street
Phone B6819
The Student Pulse
Brtrf, ecnrlf contribution prrtl
u matter f student lit? mm4
the onlYerftlty are weicme4 hj this
epfimt-tit, under the oal retrit
t4n f tKHind newspaper practice,
whlen exrindr all libefoa) matter
and ierfofuil attack. lettem moat
Ise Mrnrd but name will be wita
bc4 lrotn pbltcatoa If a desired.
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We Are Disgusted!
TO THE EDITOR:
Sleepy don't-give-s-dam indif
ference on the part of the cheering
section to the work of the Nebras
ka football team is certainly not a
good evidence of Cornhusker spirit.
This school has long been noted for
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October 12. 1932,
Lincoln, Nfc&raska.
To the Students:
Our integrity is at stake! Every day dozens of students call at
the Lost and Found office for articles which they have lost on the
campus, but which have never been returned to the department.
The janitor in each building on the campus has been notified
and requested to return articles to this office. We know that they
will respond to our request.
If at any time you have lost anything on the campus notify us
of your loss, either by telephone, or better yet, in person. It also will
be greatly appreciated if you will bring to this office anything which
you may find, regardless of how small it may be. Even a glove may
mean a great deal to the loser.
If after one month the article which you have found is un
claimed, it will be promptly returned to you. Files will be kept of
each and every article reported to the Lost and Found department,
WE WANT TO HELP YOU LOCATE YOUR LOST AR
TICLES. May we have the co-operation of every studsnt, faculty
member, and employe' of the University of Nebraska?
Manager of Lost and Found Dept.
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