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TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 193$. Daily Nebraskaii Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice In Lincoln, Nebraska. under act of congress, March 3. 1879 nd at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103. act of October 3. tS17. authorized January 20. 1922. THIRTY. SECOND YEAR T Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs. day, Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Single Copy 5 cents 92 a year $1.25 a semester 93 a year mailed 91.75 semester Mailed Under direction of tho Student Pub lication Board Editorial Otrlce University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4. Telephones Day; B6691: Night, B6882 or B3333 (Journal) ask for Nebrai kan editor. To Stir Us From Our Complaisance. yHE complaisant attitude of ac cepting whatever is as the de cree of God and the will of the people is a habit which college students, no less than American people in general seem to have im bued within them. This stability of mind and emotion is, perhaps, a valuable trait of temperament which has enabled this country to weather many stormy periods without serious uprisings or vig orous discontent. The attitude has its weak points, however, particularly when it blocks progressive movements and the tendency to think things thru, to realize inconsistencies, and to attempt to weed out noxious insti tutions in our life and civilization. One of these noxious institutions is war and all the machinery and at titudes which perpetuate the spirit and the fact of war. Few will disagree with the state ment that war is a noxious in stitution, but few will take the time and trouble to arouse them selves from the attitude that war is a necessary existing evil or attempt to point out some of the possibilities for eliminating it. lIRBY Page, the speaker sched uled by the student forum commission to speak at a meeting in the Temple cafe teria on January 25 is one of these few who has the energy and the thoughtfulness to point out wherein we are allowing war to be perpetuated. He has the courage to dissent from the com plaisant attitude and to speak out freely against some of the things which most of us accept as estab lished beyond possibility of change. Kirby Page is not an iconoclast, a radical long-haired railer at everything that is. He has a sane realization of facts and of the psy chological attitudes of people which make those facts exist But his courage and thoughtfulness en able him to disagree with things which he believes are wrong. He can frankly indicate, for example, why the ROTC helps to perpetuate the spirit of war without trembling before the epithet of "pacifist" hurled at him by army officers and other exponents of prepared ness. He admits that he is a pacifist, and he is thoroly consistent in his convictions. He is not a pious up holder of his convictions in the face of facts which make it im possible to adhere to his convic tions; he has practical remedies for the ills which he points out. ""po students who have thought about the requirement forcing students to take compulsory drill, llr. Page's attitude will be pro vocative of further thought. To students who have not even thought about the requirement nor about its relation to war, Mr. Page will provide a stimulus to con templation whether one agrees or disagrees with him. There are all too few opportuni ties for students on this campus to hear a speaker capable of stirring them from the lethargy of satis faction with what is. Outside the classroom there is little that is of fered to lead the thinking of stu dents into problems of deeper sjg- nificance than examinations, dates, and room rent. If such a speaker is incapable of drawing out a crowd of lis teners, then we shall be convinced that the Nebraska student body is incapable of ever learning any thing or thinking about anything which they are not forced to soak up. For Service Or for Profit. yE SWAP SHOP no, old chap py, not a new tea room where Moon-struck students may swap yarns between classes, but a co operative student book exchange will open this week in the Temple building in time for the book sell ing and buying rush which marks the change of semesters. The piratical conditions under which students have been forced to buy and sell used books in dealing with the established campus book stores being one of the Daily Ne braskan's "pet peeves" this semes ter, we are highly gratified to see the plan for a student-operated co operative exchange brought to fruition. But we are disappointed in at least an equal degree to see the extent to which the plan I adopted has strayed from the orig inal purpose. When the Daily Nebraskan at tacked the "second hand book racket" and advocated a co-opera tive exchange, it did so with a view to saving money for the students When the student council dele gated the project to the Y. W. C, A. it had, we think, the same idea in mind; for it set 10 percent as a reasonable service charge to cover the operating expenses of the ex change. Now, however, through "joker" in the provision made by the council, we find the Y. W. C. A. plans to charge, not 10 percent, but 20 percent twice the amount stipulated by the council. It finds its authority for the increase in an amendment attached to the council's provision stating that should 10 percent prove insuffi cient margin to defray operating expenses, the service charge could be raised enough to provide reve nue to meet these expenses. This amendment was attached to the council's provision when a representative of the Y. W. C. A. declared that it might be necessary to rent a room for the exchange; that if the Y. W. C. A. had to pay rent on a room, the project would not be self-supporting on a 10 percent margin. It was understood by council members at the time that, if a room were available from the university and without cost, 10 percent service charge would be sufficient. Now, in the report given to the council last Wednseday, it is an nounced that the university has provided a room at no cost, but that the stipulated operatitj mar gin of 10 percent has been doubled anyway. The council acted wisely in demanding an expense state ment before this increase will be ratified. Action will be taken next Wednesday. self-supporting on a 10 percent fee. Why cannot the Y. W. C. A. op erate its exchange on the same margin? This is the question the Y. W. C. A. must answer to the satisfaction of the Student Council this afternoon. "JHE issue resolves itself into a question as to whether the book exchange is to be operated as a service to the students or whether it is to provide a source of revenue for the Y. W. C. . A. If it is to be the latter, then the purpose for which the exchange was originally approved by the council is subverted. Unless it is to provide a profit for itself, where can the Y. W. C. A. find justification for charging a 20 percent service fee? The co-operative book exchange unlike a private business, will pay no rent and assume no risk of left-over stock; for it will buy no stock. In return for books left with it, it will give students cer tificates which entitle them to the sale price of the book (minus 10 percent or 20 percent service fee) only when the book is sold. A stuHent-operated co-operative book exchange on the College of Agriculture campus has now been in existence several years and is Will They Get Tlicir Money9 s Worth? J7CONOMY is the watchword of the democratic party in this state and particularly of the pres ent administration and legislature. The budget presented to the leg islature by Governor Bryan pro vides for drastic cuts in appropria tions to all state institutions which are receiving substantial portions of the taxpayers' money. This cut made in appropriations will seriously curtail university activities, yet despite the realiza tion of this fact, sentiment has seemingly been preponderantly favorable to the cuts, and a gen eral air of resignation has been adopted by the university in the face of the cut. The Nebraskn has already stated that some cut in appropriations is justified, not be cause the university is wasteful of money, but because the taxpayers must have their taxes reduced and cutting is the only way to achieve such reduction. Notwithstanding this reduction made on top of previous reductions in years past, the legislature, or perhaps we should say, certain elements in the legislature are pro posing an investigation into uni versity as well as other state institution expenditures. 'J'HE legislature and the people of Nebraska are entitled to know how their money is being spent. But the wisdom of undertaking ex pensive investigations when econ omy is so necessary and possible revelations of waste are so ex ceedingly remote is to be seriously questioned. The competency of a legislative Tll UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS 1 1RST SEMESTER, 1932-1933 Laboratory classes meeting for several continuous hours on one or two days may avoid conflicts with other classes of the same nature by arranging that their examina tions occur as follows: Classes meeting on Monday or Tuesday may be examined on the date scheduled 'for the first hour of their laboratory meeting; Wednesday or Thursday classes on the second hour of their meeting; Friday or Saturday classes on the third hour. TIU RJSDAY, JANUARY 19 Classes meeting at 8 a. m., Tues., Thurs., Sat., or any one or two of these days. 5 p. m. Classes meeting at 11 a. m., Tues., Thurs., Sat., or any one or two of these days. 9 a. m. to 12 m. 2 p. m. to FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 a. m. to 12 m. Classes meeting at 10 a. m., five or four days, or Mon., Wed., Kri., or any one or two of these days. 2 j. m. to p. m. Classes meeting at 1 p. in., Tues., Thurs., Sat., or any one or two of these days. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 S a. ni. to '0 a. m. Classes meeting at t p. m., Mon., Wed., or Fri. 9 a. m. to 12 m. All Freshman English classes 10 a. ni. to 12 m. Classes meeting at 7 p. m., Tues or Thurs. 1 p. m. to 3 p. m. Classes meeting at A p. m., five or four days, or Mon., Wed., Fri., or any one or two of these days. 3 p. m. to I p, ni. Clausen meeting at S p. m., Tues., Thurs., Sat., or any one or two of these days. MONDAY, JANIARY 23 9 a. m. to 12 m. Classes meeting at 9 a. m.. Tues.. Thurs.. Sat., or any one or two ut these days. 2 p. m to ft p. m. Classes meeting at 2 p. ni., five or four days, or Mon., Wed.. Fri., or any one or two of these days. TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 ' 9 a. m. to 12 in. Classes meeting at 9 a. m., five or four days, or Mon.. Wed.. Fri.. or any one or two of these davs. 2 p. m. to ftp. ni. Classes meeting at 3 p. m., five or four days, or Mon.. Wed.. rri., or any one or two of these days. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 9 a. m. to 12 m. Classes meeting at 10 a. m., Tues., Thurs., Sat., or any one or two of these days. 2 p. ni. to( ft p. m Classes meeting at Up. m., five or tour days, or Mon., Wed., ru., or any one or two or tnese days. THURSDAY, JANUARY 2 Classes meeting at 11 a. m., five or four days, or Mon., Wed., Fri., or any one or two of these days. i. Classes meeting at 2 p m., Tues., Thurs., Sat., or any one or two of these days. 9 a. m. to 12 ni. 2 p. m. to ftp. 9 a. m. to IS FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 Classes meeting at 8 . m., five or tour days, or Mon., Wed., Fri.. or any one or two of these davs. 2 p. m. to ft p. m. Classes meeting at 3 l m.. Tues.. Thurs.. Sat., or anv one or two of these days. SATIKDAY, JANUARY 2 9 a. m. to 12 m. Classes meeting at 4 d. ni.. five or four davs. or Mnn uvh Fri.. or anv one or two nf thpfi riav 2 p. m. to ft p. m. Classes meeting at 4 p ni., Tues.. Thurs.. Sat., or anv one or two of these days. Contemporary Comment l I 1 o sire irtfinsauia imuiiiuih The academic world has iong been familiar with the rhyme which describes the Harvard en vironment, with somewhat dubious accuracv. as the "home of the bean committee to determine what the jand the cod where Cabota speak university snouia spend lis money for and what it should not spend its money for is also to be doubted. How on earth a perusal of the fin ancial proceedings of the univer sity would place such a committee in the position of recommending to the legislature where the uni versity should cut out functions is more than we can understand. It seems logical to believe, in the absence of even a breath of suspicion that finances at the uni versity are not being handled in ccordance with sound adminis trative procedure, that the severely crippled resources of the institu tion are being distributed as well as can be. We are inclined to place more confidence in the judg ment of men who have been con nected for some long time with educational problems in general and university problems in particu lar, than in a temporary legisla tive investigating committee which has never had any background for determining educational policies. 'J'HE only advantage we can see in a legislative investigation is the possibility that the legislators may have their eyes opened to the fact that the university is trying to do the best it can with the rela tively small resources it has at its disposal. Perhaps the investigators may learn that some of the uni versity buildings are nearlv eady to collapse. We doubt, how ever, that the legislature and the people of Nebraska will get their money's worth from such alarums and excursions. only to Lowells, and Lowells speak only to God." There is a less fa miliar stanza which boasts of the great difference in the social cli mate of New Haven. Recently a colleague in another institution in formed me that some unknown poet has addde to the cycle by pic turing our university site as the "home of the beef and the ham, where nobody speaks to nobody, and nobody gives a damn." Experience on this campus has convinced me that there is suffi cient truth in this characterization of our university to make it worth considering. Students who have taken courses with my colleagues or myself frequently pass us on the campus the next quarter with out a sign that they ever knew we existed. Efforts to raise the level of faculty-student contacts above the plane of polite forma'.ity, while not entirely unsuccessful, do not meet the same ready response which they do in other institutions Some instructors feel that there is more than the usual tendency on the part of students here to con sider them as their natural ene mies. The workings of the new plan should correct this last men tioned evil, but there is a danger that the introduction of large classes will increase rather than moderate the general chill. What is the explanation of this situation? Dcs a metropolitan atmosphere necessarily produce a sophistication hich scorns equally the small-town booster spirit and the. mixing of business and friend ship, so that human contacts aris ing from official relations must re main in that atmosphere? Or do students consider professors as mere walking encyclopedias of their subjects, useful repositories of knowledge when that is in de mand, but otherwise valueless ? Or have the professors generally talked so much of their researches as to give the impressions that they are too busy and Important to be bothered with individual stu dents and their problems? If this last be the case I think I am be traying no professional secrets when I say that there are few of us doing any research so import ant that the world would suffer seriously if we took the time from it to talk over anything within reason which a student cared to discuss with us. We have a university which is supposed to be helping to lead the middle west to a higher cultural level, but it is a sorry culture which neglects the human element and the warmth of personal in terest characteristic of a matured and refined society. If we succumb to a materialistic metropolitan en vironment to student indifference, or to faculty short-sightedness, we shdall have done our job badly. By a Professor, Daily Maroon. A Central Cafe and Hotel Under New Management Meet your friends at the Central after the dance or show and have a lunch. Our prices are reasonable. You will be served by University Students. We appreciate your business. SAM A. LAWRENCE, Mgr. Books bring the most money at Long's College Book Store. Adv. Toothachs were common to pre historic Indians, the head of the school foscial science, University of Oregon, discovered after con ducting a research on the subject. Second Semester Class Feb. 6 Full or part time practical training. classes in Select the subject that will help you most to achieve your goal. Phone B6774 Lincoln School of Commerce P&14 W. A. Bobbins, Pres. 1 1 4 t 7 in ? i