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Y EDN KSi)A V , FKHKIJAK V 22, 1933. i HE liAlLY NhBKASKAN two Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entered d& second-class matter at the oostoffice in Lincoln. Nebraska. under act ot congress. March 3. 1879 and at special rate ot postage provided for in section 1103. act ot October 3. 1917. authorized January 20. 1922. THIRTY. SECOND YEAR Published Tuesday. Wednesday. Thurs day, Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic year. Single Copy 5 cents $2 a year $1.25 a semester $3 a year mailed $1.75 semester nailed SUBSCRIPTION RATE Under direction ot the Student Pub lication Board Editorial Otrice University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4. Telephones Day; B6891; Night. B68S2 or B3333 (Journal) ask for Nebras kan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Phil Browi. Associate editor F. Laurence Hsu MANAGING EDITORS Dick Moran Lynn Leonard NEWS EDITORS George Murphy Lamoine Bible Violet Cross Sports Editor Burton Marvin Society Editor Carolyn Van Anda Woman's Editor Margaret Thiele BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager. .. .Chalmers Graham ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Bernard Jennings George Holyoke Frank Musgrave The Massacre Of the Innocent. A N OTHER victim has been caught in the eligibility ma chinery which requires student of fice holders to have completed at least twenty-seven hours during the preceding year. No scholastic delinquencies or poor scholarship of any kind are concerned in the present case, that of an applicant for Prom Girl. It is simply an other case of the working of the arbitrary limitation of the twenty seven hour eligibility requirement. It is true that participants in student activities must be gov erned by scholastic requirements. Obviously a student who is unwill ing or unable to do satisfactory academic work is for good reason barred from consideration for ex tracurricular activity. But such rules as are made to uphold this ideal of "scholarship first" should be designed to actually accomplish the purpose and not to catch stu dents who have done and are doing satisfactory work. The rule we are referring to does discriminate in frequent cases against students who have done good scholastic work. The require ment that twenty-esven hours must have been made during the preceding year bars the following groups of students who may have tine scholastic standing; 1. Students transferring from other schools with good scholas tic records. They cannot partic ipate in student activities until they have attended the Univer sity of Nebraska for one year. - 2. Students who for one rea son or another have been forced to drop out of school for a se mester or more. 3. Students who during some preceding semester have worked so that they have been unable to take a sufficient number ot hours to allow them to conform to the eligibility requirements. The rule provides for no consid eration of circumstances in such cases. It may be that students who are too lazy to take and make twenty-seven hours in a year of school work should be barred from participating in activities. But in the cases we have mentioned it is certainly unjust to apply the rule. It is a poor rule which works with such unequal force. Sfme provision needs to be made to alter this rule. Either the re quirement should be entirely done away with and eligibility be de termined upon purely scholastic records, or else there should be a flexible provision of the rule which would allow dispensation to stu dents who have legitimate reasons for not having made twenty-seven Jiours during the preceding year, and who have satisfactory records otherwise. ( leaning Up t Dirty Job. t HE Student council committee studying the chaperone situa contributed a real piece of con structive work if it is able to sug gest any plans for improving the relationships of students and chap erones. The problem is an execp tionally difficult one to handle be cause the defects in the chaperons system are largely a result of at titudes. Students in general seem to con sider it a chore to be nice to chap erones. Rather than perform the unpleasant duty of "meeting the chaperones" they often prefer to allow their chaperones to sit iso lated in some corner and never go near them during the evening. Or if they do feel obligated to intro duce thmselves to the chaperones. the ceremony is performed in per functionary fashion, which consists usually in a fisby handshake, an awkward pause, and an attempt to terminate the brief interview as speedily as possible. Imagine the pleasure of chaper ones who must bear with an entire evening of isolation or of these un comfortable interviews. Their only relief is offered by having other congenial chaperones with whom they can converse enjoy-ably. But if a group of chaperones is uncon genial, the suffering and boredom of an evening thus spent must be well nigh intolerable. OERHAPS this picture is painted too black. There are students who know and like the chaperones they invite to their parties. These students enjoy talking or dancing with these chaperunes. The chaper ones likewise may enjoy the op portunity to talk to students they know and to meet other students who are at least gracious and poised enought to conceal the fact that they are struggling hard to think of something to say. But the fact remains that too many students look upon chaper ones as necessary evils. And too many faculty members and others called upon to act as chaperones, consider it a chore, the sooner dis patched the better. There is little use in urging students to "meet the chaperones," if they hate to do it. Performing the act as an obligation yields no pleasure to either students or chaperones. Nor should their be a necessity for faculty members to act as chaperones if they merely do it as an unpleasant task which they feel is a part of their job as faculty members. IT should be possible to remedy A the situation in several ways. In the first place a list of faculty members who enjoy chaperoning parties should be compiled. As of ten as possible these people should be utilized. The chances are that such people will also be popular with students and the strained re lationships will not be so apparent. In the second place whenever one of these faculty couples is called they should be asked to in vite any friends of their own or to suggest other faculty couples they might like to have chaperone with them. In this way they would at least be guaranteed an evening of pleasant conversation with friends. Finally student organizations should exercise more care in se lecting chaperones. There should be an attempt to choose individuals who are known to at least some of the members of the group spon soring a party. If students know who their chaperones are, and do not feel constrained to meet them, the attitude that it is an unpleas ant duty will tend to disappear.. The results of the questionaire yvvwvvvvvvv FRESH TOASTED AND SALTED NUTS TRY 'EM The Nn I Slioppc PECAN STORE 119 South 12th St. &HELLED NUTS SALTED NUTS CANDIED NUTS 4. NUTS AAAAAAAAAAAA sent out by the council should help materially in suggesting some remedies. But the council cannot itself change the situation over night. Because it is a question of attitudes, there must be co-operation on the part of student organ izations and of individuals. VOTING FOR YEARBOOK COVER CLOSES TODAY Rough-grained Leather Done In Cherry, Black, Silver Proves Most Popular. Balloting for the choice of a cover for the 1933 Cornhusker will close today at 5 o'clock. The seven covers that are being voted on are displayed at Long's book store where the poll is being taken. The cover that has been most popular so fr in balloting is of rough-grained leather done in cherry and black and trimmed with silver. This is the first time that students have had opportunity to choose the cover for the year book themselves. A new idea in the 1933 issue of the yearbook will be the presenta tion of the Nebraska queens. The Queens section will be headed by the five coeds who will have re ceived the hiehest number of votes in the balloting by the purchasers of the Cornhusker. Gretchen Fee. last year's May Queen: Pat Miller. Nebraska Sweetheart; Clarice Hads, Far mer's Formal Queen; Jane Axtell, Honorary Colonel, and the Junior Senior Prom (iirl. who will be chosen next week, will have their pictures included in the Queen s section. Each cueen's picture will cover a full page with a large nine by seven flesh-colored engraving and a small full-length photo about six inches high in one corner. VARIETY OF TALENT SHOWN AT TRYOUTS FOR 'BAR-0 RANCH' (Continued from Page 1.) "The unusually large number pres ent for the first tryout indicates that the show will present a large number of different entertainment features." Further Tryouts Planned. The play calls for a maximum of forty-nine parts, all of which will be utilized if the talent is avail abe, the tryout directors indicated last night. Further tryouts will be held soon to complete the cast as soon as possible. Directors Yenne and Thompson issued an appeal for more men to take the parts of women in the chorus and for eight persons to take the parts of Spanish dancers. "We will need several more small men to imperVonate women in the chorus, and eight Spanish dancers, four men and four others to im personate women," Yenne declared. Further tryouts will be held on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 26, in the Temple at 2 o'clock, Thompson said. At that time an effort will be made to complete the cast and select the members of the choruses so that work on the production may definitely proceed, he stated. HAM ARD TO START SCHOLARS9 PARADISE School Makes Plans for l onndini; of Society Of Fellous. CNS. Accepting a plan long advocated by its retiring president, A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard uni versity this week preapred to es tablish a vertiable scholars' para dise. Following a joint meeting of the NECKTIES CLEANED 3 for 25c Freshen up your neckwear. They come back to you bright and clean, with round edges just like new. V at riAtrnr B-3367 Wythers-Tucker Harvard corporation and the board of overseers of the university, it was announced that President Lo well's plan for a society of fellows, composed of college graduates who would work for no degrees or other academic honors, would be placed in operation this year. Twenty-four young men, picked for their promise of contribution to knowledge and thought, will be ap pointed for three year terms to carry on independent creative work and study. They will be known as "junoir prize fellows," will receive a yearly salary of from $1,25.0 to $1,500 each, free board and room and free use of university facili ties. Selection of the twenty-four will be left to a special board, and the scholars will be chosen without re gard for a distribution of academic subjects. They will devote "their whole time to productive scholar ship, and preparation therefor, free from academic regulations or degrees." They will receive no credit for courses and will not be candidates for any degree. LEONARD IS ELECTED AS INTERFRATERN1TY COUNCIL PRESIDENT (Continued from Page 1.) tives who have not yet turned in money for the tickets sold were re quested to do so as soon as pos sible. Lynn Leonard, the new presi dent, is a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and comes from Ainsworth, Neb. He is managing editor of the Daily Nebraskan and vice president of the Corn Cobs. Robert Thiel is a member of Acacia fraternity .assistant busi ness manager of the Cornhusker and secretary of the Corn Cobs. Lloyd Loomis, Pi Kappa Alpha, was president of the Blue Shirt faction last semester and is a member of the Junior-Senior Prom committee. Joe Schramek is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and a member of the In terfraternity Ball committee. s Coeds Accorded Many Cour tesies As Time for Mortar Board Party Nears (Continued from Page 1.) outdo them as hosts for an eve ning. It is understood that measures are being taken to eliminate cer tain situations which embarrassed women at last year's party. Rumor has it that traffic cops will be on hand to regulate the afterparty rush to the checkroom which last year resulted in considerable delay, and in many cases, violation of the "12:30 limit for men." Porters may also be present to assist ladies to and from the checkroom with un wieldly masculine coats and hats. Scalping of hat and coat checks will be strictly prohibited. Men are warned that eating corsages this year will be considered a gross breach of etiquet, and will be pun ished fittingly. All men who have not yet been asked are advised to exercise their masculine wiles in the two remain ing days, if they hope to be dated. A University of Alabama profes sor hoarded several hundred dol lars in a box a few years ago. Re cently he went to get the box and found a live rat in it and the bills chewed to fragments by the ro dent. TTlhinrTngs QDCEnOTJ (FcoouoTJcrij And what's more, things are still being lost. The classified ad department is maintained pri marily for the lost and found service. Watch the column if you've lost anything. And if you've found anything, regard less of how large or small it may be, bring it to the Daily Nebras kan office. If after a month it is unclaimed it is returned to you. SCHEDULE OF STAFF ED Y. W. C. A. Cabinet Will Have Groups Meet to Reorganize. Y. W. C. A. cabinet members have announced their schedule ot staff meetings. The staffs will convene to be reorganized. The schedule is as follows. The social staff of which Helen Lutz is chair man will meet on Wednesday at 5 o'clock, while the membership group, with Jane Boos as chair man, will convene at 4 o'clock Tuesday. The church relation staff will meet on Wednesday at 5 o'clock under the guidance of Donna Davis while the vesper staff will meet with Willa Norris on Wed nesday at 4 o'clock. The vesper choir, with Marion Stamp as chairman, will meet Monday at 5 o'clock. Elizabeth Rowan will meet the industrial staff on Mondays at 4 o'clock and Bash Perkins will con vene with the finance staff on Wednesdays at 5 o'clock. The pub licity group will meet with Elaine Fontein on Wednesdays at 5 o'clock while Muriel Moffitt and her program and office committee will meet on Thursdays at 5 o'clock. The girl reserve staff under the leadership of Breta Peterson will meet on Mondays at 4 o'clock and the Ag staff which is headed by Genevieve Jeffries will convene on Thursdays at 5 o'clock. Meetings of the project staff under Ruth Cherney are scheduled for Mon days at 5 o'clock while Lucille Hitchcock will meet discussion groups on interest basis, "Know Your Legislature," Tuesday at 11 o'clock. "Family Relations," is the topic of the discussion group headed by Dorothy Cathers which will meet Wednesday at 5 o'clock. Virgene McBride will hold a session each Thursday at 5 o'clock to discuss "Current Events and Books." Miss Bernice Miller, secretary of the Y. W. C. A., holds gToup- discus sions each Friday at 3 o'clock on "The Life of Jesus." Any university girl wishing to work on one of these staffs is wel come and is asked to get in touch with Miss Miller, Jean Alden, pres ident, or the girl charge of the group she desires to join. STUDENTS AM LOW FEES Stanford University Finds It Impossible to Cut Costs. ( CN S ) . Financial difficulties now perplexing Stanford adminis trators make it impossible to meet student demands for lower tuition fees and living costs, Almon E. Ross, controller of the university, said this week. The Stanford Dally recently re ported that 100 students claimed to spend only 30 cents per day for food. sure sttnDO MEETINGS ANNOUNC te. 'h at the university will have