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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 193$.
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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
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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.
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