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The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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Entered ni second .ginta matter at the P"""'"
Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of "ng.eit. March 3, 1879
and at special ran of postaaoa provided tor In section
1101. act ot October J. 1917. authorized Janujrv to. 1922.
THIRTY. THIRD YEAR
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Hodge Podge
For Sunday.
""THE student week, in retrospect, presents an in-
teresting picture of campus activities at their
lowest ebb. With the "Messiah" being presented at
the coliseum today, the advent of the usual number
of Christmas parties sponsored by students ar 1 or
ganizations, and carr.pus activiUen terminating or
postponing tlu'ir enterprises until the beginning of
the new year, the buzz of student activity is defi
nitely submerged with the approach of Christmas
holidays.
A bird's eye view of actur.l realities reveals a
passing scene of student enterprise marked, not for
Its general inactivity, but for the superficiality of
student interest in Its own work. The University
Players adding another to a long chain of successes;
the Mortar Board party- and its u:mal added spar
kle of interest; the revival cf interest in the activity
tax by the student council and that body's third un
successful attempt to settle the Varsity party issue;
and the announcement of the first Cornhusker dead
line. All of them commonplace and routine in the
student's life but to which his attention is subcon
sciously drawn.
Looked at in that fashion the happenings of the
week seem neither unusual nor important. But su
perimposed upon the routine of university activities
the steadiness of classes, meetings, and profes
sional and social functions, there appeared on the
campus horizon, without significant emphasis, a re
vival of student interest in two issues which give
promise of much student maneuvering and suffi
cient justification for the accompanying profusion
of editorial comment from the college editor's pen.
""PHE student activity tax, which is the perennial
concern of the Nebraska campus, is once again
revived by the student council, under whose guid
ance the plan made its most significant gesture
toward administrative approval last spring.
Under the plan set forth recently by the stu
dent governing body a student committee composed
of representatives from the Panhellenic and Inter
fraternity councils. Mortar Boards and Innocents,
and one representative each from the other major
student organizations will be appointed. As pro
posed under the existing set up this body will work
in conjunction with the student council in attempt
ing to gauge accurately student opinion on the pro
jected plan.
A vote similar to the system used last spring,
will be taken among the undergraduate population,
during registration for the second semester. The
results of the vote, in addition to the sentiment on
the question gained through the heads of the various
organizations, will comprise, briefly, the procedure
through which the student council will seek to gain
favorable action upon the student activity tax plan
when it is presented to the board of regents at its
spring: session.
Conditions now existing on the Nebraska cam
pus facilitate the alignment of factors In favor of
the plan exceedingly simple for the proponents of
the plan. Purely on the score of the disorganized
army of students' investigation Into its merits and
defects. Always the subject of much concern, and
the Inevitable undergraduate confusion in grasping
true significance of the blanket lax, the plan do
serves at least the sincere consideration of the stu
dent populationif it is to gain success or failure
A NOTHRR airin-j of the relative merits and d
merits of varsity parties made its voice heard
above the usual hum of student activity when the
student council again successfully dodged the issue
and postponed further action on the measure until
after the Christmas holidays.
Failing for the third successive time to iron out
the difficulties and prejudices amongst the Greeks
und the Barbs, council members were swallowed up
in a maze of confusing arguments for and against
the idea of varsity parties. Losing sight of the
original purpose of the plan -an informal party or
dance to be held in the university coliseum for all
university students the governing body wrapped
itself up in a myriad of arguments based largely
upon prejudice and fear,
Based, primarily, upon the premise that the
parties would be all university parties -for all stu
dents and not designated portions of the student
population the sore spot arises over the so called
class distinction between Barbs and Greeks.
Arguments for and against the party plan may
be summed up briefly. It is feared that under the
new arrangement the parties would not be any more
representative than they are now. Barbs, it is Indi
cated, would not attend parties controlled by Greeks.
The ridiculous situation that the council finds it
self encountering, becomes the more obvious when
it is pointed out that the parties, under the proposed
plan, would not be controlled by Greeks, but by a
committee composed equally of Barbs and Greeks.
The question, before a definite agreement may
be gained, involves unity within the student govern
ing body. Whether this body can sufficiently ad
just Its composure to meet the situation only time
may decide. If it cannot agree, Barb and Greek re
lation will mutually be retarded, if not damaged, for
it is only through the student council that Barb and
Greek interests may successfully be combined
toward any sort of unified action.
Haw a
Good Time.
CRITICIZING student attitude toward vacations
as harmful, "Student" in this morning's Student
Pulse suggests that the undergraduate's adolescent
anticipation of vacations is harmful to education.
He further indicates that true university students
should regard vacations with solemnity and vaca
tion periods, though desirable, should not be consid
ered childishly as a chance to "get out of school."
We admit, perforce, that to some degree univer
sity students are still relatively immature and do
not fully realize the value of the educational oppor
tunities to which they are being subjected.
The anticipation with which students look for
ward to vacations is not a habit monopolized by
them alone. Everyone, bound down to routine work,
not only enjoys recesses and change, but needs such
a change. College students, despite all ideas about
their carefree lives, conform to a fairly rigid routine
schedule. Working hours are not confined to any
set schedule and sometimes, perhaps before exam
inations, extend to periods prohibited by law in other
Industries.
Even the social pleasures which students in
dulge in sometime become a strain when combined
with other activities and school work, and though
few students would forego them, for needed sleep,
the vacation period brings relief. We hope that va
cation needs no defense. We think that students
need vacations and are justified in taking them.
Their attitude in welcoming vacations is not to be
taken as any sure indication that they do not value
their education or do not enjoy it. It is merely an
indication that a temporary change is desirable.
The Student Pulse
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Contemporary Comment
A'otr
At Mcbraska.
Once again fraternities, sorori
ties and dormitories have res
ponded generously to The Daily
Student's annual rail for cash con
tributions to its Christmas cheer
fund. The Daily Student and the
family Welfare society, which has
the responsibility of placing that
fund wher? it will do the most
good, deeply appreciate the rally
of these groups, particularly in
this winter period when the neej
is so intense.
Those who compose the groups
which gave to the fund never will
realize fully what heavy burdens
tiiey have helped to lighten with
the stern conditions under which
most of these unfortunates have
to struggle, they might have been
tempted to make even bigger con
tributions. To those students who
live in comfortable, furnace heated
homes here on the campus it is dif
ficult to believe thr.t not far dis
tant a family of ten could be
herded together in a humble, ons
room shanty without food, cloth
ing or fuel, and with sickness
among half the members of the
family.
Your gifts will do much toward
providing the common necessities
of life for these destitute families,
hungry, sick and despairing, on
Christmas day. We thank you,
again.
U hat Price
Education?
The state universities of this
country are facing the problem of
lowering maintenance costs with
out lowering teaching standards.
Recent legislatures have cut ap
propriations to the bone. In all
state educational institutions sal
aries have been cut, in some cases
more than 50 percent. The agri
cultural states have suffered most
In this respect, as taxes are not
being paid and legislatures refuse
to vote enough money to maintain
teaching salaries at previous levels.
The situation in privately en
dowed universities is better than
in the publicly supported Institu
tions. The salary scale of private
universities has always been high
er than the scales of state sup
ported schools. The difference Is
even greater at the present as sal
ary cuts at endowed universities
have been slight In comparison to
the reduction uf 20 percent and
over suffered by staffs of great
universities. At the state univer
sities it will be much longer before
higher levels are again instituted
than at the privately endowed
ones. The state institutions will
stand to lose many of their best I
men to private universities and to
other professions and businesses. ,
The University of Minnesota Is
well off in the matter of salaries I
when compared to the universities
of other agricultural states such as
Kansas, Oregon and North Dakota.
Salaries here were cut 10 to 20
percent while at the University of
North Dakota many were reduced
more than 50 percent. Salary re
ductions at other Big Ten univer
sities generally have not been as
great as Minnesota.
Another reduction in university
appropriations at the hands of the
legislature would entail further
substantial salary cuts. To hold
tthe abler professors when they re
ceive more attractive offers from
other schools will be increasingly
difficult. If this university is to
retain its high rank, the standard
of its teaching cannot be lowered.
The present salary scale must be
maintained If the university is to
keep its abler men. Minnesota
Daily.
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ELECTION 10 JANUARY
Purpose Is to Give New
Officers a Chance to
Form Cabinets.
The Y. M. C. A. cabinets on both
campuses announced Saturday
their decision to move forward the
date of the election from March to
about the end of the first semester.
The exact date of the election will
be announced early in January.
The reason for the change of
date is to give the new officers
time to form their cabinets and
carry on active programs before
the rush of spring activities.
The nominating committees are
for the ag campus. Vernon Filley,
chairman: C. E. Rosenquist, C. W.
Smith, Paul Harvey, and Elver
Hodges, and for the city campus,
C. H. Patterson, chairman; Joseph
LeMaster, Meredith Nelson, and
Carl Grill.
What,
AO Vacation?
Christmas vacation begins on
this Wednesday noon. Students
have been anticipating it since.
Thanksgiving vacation. A great
number of them, with the thought
of a vacation don't even bother to
get their lessons for the last few
days before the time when school
is dismissed.
Without a doubt, it will be very
evident In classrooms, the truth of
the last statement. Students will
attend classes wearily and without
abition, thinking only of the com
ing two weeks of leisure. If it
weren't for the rule of giving
double cuts to them for cutting
the last class period before vaca
tion, they probably wouldn t oven
bother to come to class.
There are four vacations during
every school year. One can see
what that means. If a student
thinks of a vacation for three days
before school is dismissed, he is
wasting a total of twelve school
days or in other words two
weeks and two days.
In order to acocmpllsh the de
sired purpose of a subject, every
minute alloted to classroom work
must be utilized and every assign
ment must be completed. Thus an
approaching vacation spells chaos
to the progress of class ana mucn
is lost from the course that should
be had by the students.
Thus the attitude of students to
ward vacations is harmful to their
education. When a student comes
to the university, it seems to me
thae he should think first of his
education and not of the "fun"
that he will have during the next
vacation, as most students do. In
other words, he should spend his
time getting education rather than
getting away from it.
I do not mean to say that every
student attending the university
has this attitude, but a great share
of them do. It seems to me that
when a person enters the univer
sity he should have something else
in mind than the thought of va
cations.
STUDENT.
Let's Start
On Time.
TO THE EDITOR:
The Intramural basketball tour
ney Is now about half through
During this tournament, I don t
believe that there have been over
six games started on time.
It seems as if teams could be
ready to start their games on time.
There is no reason for the unnec
essary delays in the playing of the
games. There is no earthly reason
why a basketball game should
monopolize the whole evening of
all the members on the team. If
the games were played off on
schedule, it would not take nearly
as much time as it does under the
present dilly-dallying system, and
something more could be accom-
pollshed by members of the teams
than the playing of a game of basketball.
Nearly every member of the
teams has his studying to do let
alone to play basketball during the
course of the evening. With the
present system of playing off the
games, a student who wishes to
participate in the tournament must
study until all hours of the night
in order to get his assignments. If
the games were started promptly,
on time, however, he would be able
to get his lessons and still get
through at a decent hour.
Why don't the officials of the
tourney do something about it?
Why can't they impose a penalty
upon any team which isn't ready
to start playing on time? Is the
group sponsoring the tournament
so inefficient that it cannot get the
games started on time?
I think it's high time for some
action to be taken on this matter.
If the fraternities would only get
together and start their games on
time, it would be beneficial to all.
R. A. B.
On the Iowa State college cam
pus 135 workers have started on
their jobs under the CWA. All
those employed so far are men, nut
forty women will receive jobs
soon.
Dramatic Club.
Members of the Dramatic club
are requested to report Tuesday
evening at the campus studio at
7:15 for a group picture. Formal
dress is required.
REG PORTER. President
BARB A. W. 8. LEAGUE.
There will be a meeting of Mar
garet Medlar's group In the Barb
A. W. S. league Monday afternoon
at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith HalL
BIG SISTERS SELECT
MEMBER.
The Big Sister Board has se
lected Vera Crawford to take
Gretchen Bender's place in that
executive body. Miss Bender, who
resigned, was the sophomore barb
representative.
According to a survey made at
Iowa State college, Conner vatism
is shown in the average under
graduate's choice of clothing.
Ag Board Sponsors
Yuletide Services
Ag Executive board is sponsor
ing its fourth annual Christmas
service Tuesday, Dec. 19, in the
Student Activities building. The
time has been set for 7:30. The
main feature of the service will be
the novel stage decorations. On
either side of the platform will be
a living Christmas tree made up of
ten girls.
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