TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1934.
TWO.
THE DAILY NEB R ASK AN
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Is the Student
Council Representative?
IN the Sunday issue of the Daily Nebraskan we
suggested through the editorial columns that the
Student, council system of representation be
changed. As point one in the indictment we stated:
"The Student council cannot be called a representa
tive organization." To support the Nebraskan's
contention we invite students of the university to
examine the results of the spring election In 1933.
This election was reported to be the heaviest
election on the university campus in recent years.
It would not be assuming too much to query: What
was the record breaking vote? What percent of
the campus population did it constitute? Did the
students voting represent 75 percent of the popula
tion? As a matter of fact, only 23.3 percent of the
university population participated in the heavy vote
cast last spring. Slightly less than one-fourth of
the student body found it worth while to vote on
candidates for the Student council.
Delving into a mass of figures on the spring
election we found some of the following results. Of
the 4,724 students enrolled in the university only
1,101 exercised their voting franchise.
Investigation into the individual colleges on 'the
campus revealed the following:
In the college of Arts and Sciences 28.3 percent
voted. Of the 1,446 students enrolled 410 cast their
ballots for council representatives. The vote was
heaviest in this college.
In the college of Agriculture 408 students were
enrolled the second semester of last year. Of these
146 exercised their voting franchise, or 33.3 percent
The college of Business Administration's repre
sentatives on the Student council were elected by
28.2 percent of the total college enrollment Out of
562 students, 169 went to the polls.
Of the 526 students enrolled in the college of
Engineering, 128, or 24.3 percent, exercised their
right to the ballot
The lowest percent of student voting was re
corded in Graduate college. One and four-tenths per
cent or 8 of the 556 eligible, voted in this election.
Twelve Dental college students, or 13.3 percent
of the total enrollment, exercised their voting fran
chise.
By far the highest percent was recorded at Law
college, where 95 of 152 eligible students voted. This
represents 62.4 percent
In Teachers college 119 student ballots were
cast from a possible 935, or 12.9 percent Pharmacy
college, with 10 students from among a possible 50
voting, represented 28 percent of its total enroll
ment These figures point to only one conclusion: The
Student council is not a representative body. In only
one instance, Law college, did the elected candidate
truly represent his constituency.
Praise for the
Extension Department,
IN spite of numerous epithets such as the "new
deal," the "forgotten man" and others, one often
hears the expression "unsung hero" connected with
the name of some person who performs a noble
deed perhaps several and yet receives no recog
nition. In the same manner can the term "unsung
department" be appended to certtin divisions of the
university, which conduct their work quietly with
out any bursts of enthusiasm, yet are progressing
rapidly in their particular fields.
The University of Nebraska extension division
Is one such department. Established in 1896 and
re-organized in 1909, this particular department
has enjoyed material growth until it has now taken
Its place among the leading branches of the univer
sity. Through its various undertakings it has
proved its worth not only to the university but to
the state as a whole.
The most recent enterprise of this department
was the supervision and establishment in connec
tion with the state government, of the CWA study
centers. The project, hailed by many as the first
enterprise pf its kind, required a vast amount of
preparation and detailed work before workable
plans were finally realized. Through the generous
' co-operation of this department of the university
many unemployed men and women of college aga
were given the opportunity to enjoy a college edu
cation with little expense.
Aside from this work, the division is constantly
keeping in touch with the high schools of the state
through its bulletins. Information concerning the
various activities sponsored by the university is
conveyed to the high schools in this manner. The
extension department is also in charge of the uni
versity's night classes. This phase of the university
has attracted many young men and women to study
university courses who would otherwise be unable
to enjoy its benefits.
In conducting its work through correspondence
courses, the division has also shown its worth. Since
the advent of the radio, a special service of carry
ing lectures and entertainments to the state and
.adjacent territory has been put into regular prac
tice. Its appeal is wide rural, grade and high
school teachers who cannot avail them. 'elves of resi
dent instruction, young people preparing ihuajselvea
for college or who are unable to pursue continuous
resident study, all the professions from ministers to
professional and business men all find tea offer
ings of this department of intrinsic value.
Regardless of the seeming lack of boisterous
praises and commendations, the fact resaalns that
the record of the division in itself bears out Us valu
able part it plays in our schema of education.
The Student Pulse
Brief, concise, contributions pertinent to mattera
of student life and the university are welcomed by
this department, under the us ual restrictions of sound
newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous mat
ter and personal attacks. Letters accepted do not
necessarily Indicate the editorial policy of this paper.
TO THE EDITOR:
In the midst of numerous tirades against poll
tics on the campus, more recently the Student coun
cil and prom committee in particular, the campus
Y. W. C. A. recently installed its newly elected offi
cers, without too much ado save a copious quantity
of favorable and adverse publicity for several days
before and after the event. The publicity reaches
its climax with the recent announcement of the as
sociation's aims and purposes for the ensuing year.
Being a member of the male sex, perhaps I am
treading on somewhat dangerous ground when 1
venture a criticism of this great and hallowed femi
nine organization of the campus, but what seems to
me a lot of "hooey" in the association has so irked
me that my feelings must fine! voice.
I had always supposed that a university Y. W.
C. A. was for the purpose of aiding all university
women to gain a better idea of religion, education,
and life. That was before I came to Nebraska. Per
haps the local unit is accomplishing that purpose,
and if so, all well and good, but the results of the
recent election of Y. W. officers and the results of
elections in past years, point more evidently to the
manipulation of Y. W. C. A. activities as a major
stepping stone to Mortar Board. I answer all dis
senters with this: Look back over the records of
Mortar Board selections each Ivy day and see how
many of the newly-masked have not been active in
Y. W. work. They are there but they are few. And
look further and see the cases of those who have
been prominent in other and not necessarily strictly
feminine activities the Daily Nebraskan, Student
council, Cornhusker, and Awgwan yet were left
out of the select circle. I will venture that the Y.
W. worker at no time puts forth more effort than
the girl who faithfully and regularly works on a
publication, yet the latter case and the Student
council are usually subordinated to Y. W. work.
But, someone may reply, women's activities are
supposed to be free of politics. That statement in
my opinion fairly reeks of hypocrisy, and for answer
I point to the well-taken-care-of succession of Mor
tar Boards which occurs so regularly from year to
year in most houses, a few exceptions granted. The
"in" Mortar Board cleverly pulls the strings and the
up-and-coming M. B. finds one of the choice femi
nine activity plums in her lap nine times out of ten.
Of these the Y. W. offices are among the choicest
morsels that may fall to one's lot
Yes, women's activities are free from politics.
Men's activities, the target for so much criticism,
have been turned inside out during the past year in
an effort to purge them of politics. Now, with that
noble enterprise well along, it would be timely and
expedient to thrust aside the veil of pretense and
see the expert and well oiled machinery which func
tions on the other side of the fence in women's ac
tivities. I believe some past masters of the Inno
cents would hide their face with shame at their own
amateurish efforts when placed beside those of their
feminine contemporaries.
However, perhaps I am wrong in my implica
tion of the campus Y. W. C. A. as a Mortar Board
plum. Perhaps the recently announced aims of the
group are firmly and sincerely and deeply en
trenched in the heart and soul of every good Y. W.
officer and worker. And, if I am right, the Y. W.
C. A. is still but one women's organization of many
to which my belief as stated above, applies. Let's
see what the girls have to say about it.
F. R. J.
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Contemporary Comment
Blaming It
On the Heather.
It could not be a fallacy to say that the average
student is not unlike the average human being since
the average student, the professorial attitude not
withstanding, is a human being. With this in view
it can further be said that the average student
seeks excuses for his shortcomings and failures in a
manner that is typical of humans.
So far there is no checkup on the number of
course failures made during the recent examinations
but for those students who did fail and are seeking
to relieve their conscience or explain to the folks
back home, there Is a way out. Blame it on the
weather. Of course, the idea is not new, but in its
very triteness there is strength.
For years people have been talking about the
weather, blaming things on the weather, writing
books about the weather until the whole country
has become weather conscious. It has become an
integral part of our national pastime conversation,
made inroads into our intellectual lives, and set up
standards of good taste in our social society. Now
instead of mumbling incoherent excuses to your
Aunt Emma about your failure to show up at her
week end party, you just point out to her the adver
sity of the weather and if she knows her social de
corum, which she surely does being your Aunt
Emma, an embarrassing situation will be safely
passed.
Such it is with yourself and your folks back
home. Merely point out in a firm manner that dur
ing the entire week set aside for the taking of ex
aminations, the weather was at its most adverse in
years. Further tell that your personality is such
that bright zipping days are the sort that bring out
your intellectual qualities and that rainy, murky
days have the opposite effect. Remind your folks
of how when you were a child rainy weather had a
depressing effect and then launch off into a techni
cal psychological discussion as to the reason for
this. This latter move not only confuses the issue
but offers an opportunity to display some of the
points learned in Psychology 1, and if handled cor
rectly, can even give yourself a feeling of impor
tance. Naturally the personality of the one to whom
you are attempting to explain these failures should
be considered. The proper approach, the proper
amount of finesse, and the proper amount of out
and out lying should be governed by these person
alities. But after all that is the individual problem,
each of which can be made to conform, however, to
the general system of blaming it on the weather.
Daily Texan.
We have finally discovered a professor who
"Xj;ally posU grades.
''With malice towaid r.une, with charity or all,
uiith firmness in the right as Cod gives its to see the
right, let us strive on to lmsh the nori( ue ere n; to
bind up the nation's uounds; to care for him uho shall
have borne the battle, and or his u'ldoui and orphan
to do all which may achieve and cherish a ;u.t and last
ing peace among ourselves and uifh all natums."
Abraham Lincoln.
Clearing Up the
Iotca-Trojan Melee.
Many an Iowan has left his native cornfield to
come to Los Angeles. That is not news. It is his
tory one of the great migrations of the world,
comparable with the movement of the kangaroos
from Asia to Australia and the gray squirrels from
New England to New York.
But when two athletes left the University of
Iowa and arrived at U. S. C, that is news. More
than news, it is an incident. It is an incident that
still lies smouldering ready to break into flames at
any minute, plunging this great nation of 130 mil
lion people into civil war.
Diplomatic negotiations have been opened up
but they are still open. Iowa charged proselyting,
and in all athletics there is no more horrible word.
V. S. C was indignant; the fair honor of the univer
sity had been besmirched; the stars and balls (bas
ketballs this time) had been blackened.
While the younger Trojan bloods called for war
and an invasion of Iowa, the wiser heads held back.
Diplomacy would be tried first Iowa, burdened
with corn, debts, and AAA experts, swallowed its
pride and apologized to U. S. C.
But the mighty Trojan was not satisfied. War
at any price, cried the warriors of the south. Mil
lions for Jones but not one cent for Iowa, read the
banners. Iowa had apologized but it was not the
correct type of apology.
The diplomats have now arrived at an Impasse.
A resort to armed force is in the offing. Iowa is
being blockaded on both oceans; and international
diplomatic machinery has broken down just an
other perfect example that the League of Nations
won't work, and that free wheeling is the "forgot
ten mechanism" of 1934.
At last word, the yellow press was fanning the
populace with atrocity tales; and the populace was
fanning itself in the face to keep cool after listen
ing to orators cry through the streets, "We have
met the enemy, and the whites of their eyes are
ours."
Frankly, we don't know whether U. S. C
"asked" the athletes to "go west," or whether the
boys Just sufferer', from an unhappy home life.
Maybe it vaa wanderlust new places, new faces,
new people "o do we don't know.
But for vny big-time college to make such a
fuss over two athletes seems immensely amusing.
Further, it is aiarsing. DJpUyjy ass rained in
ternational af airs and now, being thwarted by the
re-birth af nationalism, has invaded Intercollegiate
athletics.
After all, everyone remembers the Carnegie
Report-vStanford Daily.
Soma latellectual giants in this university
thought that the university players won from Okla
homa last week.
Ag College
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CARLYLE HODGKIN
VESPERS TODAY.
Miss Katherine B. Faulkner, In
structor in drawing and painting
in the fine arts department, will
speak Tuesday noon at the Ves
pers meeting at Ag college. Elinor
Price, home economics junior, will
have charge at the meeting.
New officers of the Ag Y. W. C.
A., as far as they have been se
lected, are as follows: Helen Lutz,
president; Elinor Price, vice presi
dent; Ardith Von Housen, secre
tary. Other members of the staff,
Miss Lutz said, have not yet been
chosen.
NEXT YEAR'S JUDGES.
The record made by the Ag col
lege senior livestock judging team
this year is no cause for celebra
tion. Their rating in the contpst at
the Kansas City American Royal
was not particularly good. At the
Chicago International it was worse.
One is tempted to speculate as
to the reason. Perhaps the contests
just caught the boys on "off days."
It hardly seems likely that that
would happen at both contests. Or
perhaps the men on the other
teams were just too smart for
them. Nebraska would dislike to
think that is true. Nebraska's rec
ord at the contests year after year
would indicate that it has not been
true in the past.
Another reason, and one that
has more basis, is that the Ne
braska team had insufficient prac
tice. The senior team this year was
first senior team to have to enter
the American Royal and Interna
tional contests without previous
experience.
It has long been the custom for
the junior livestock team to go to
Denver for the contest at the West
ern National Stock show. That
meant that before they entered the
senior contests, they had been
through one actual intercollegiate
contest. And anyone who has been
through an actual intercollegiate
contest will readily agree that
there is no substitute. Mere class
work will not fill the place of an
actual contest.
The senior team this year was
the first to go into such a contest
without the Denver contest as a
background of experience. They
brought home from both contests
scores considerably lower than is
customary for Nebraska teams.
Now what about the future ? The
junior team this year Lyman
Fowler, Louis Schick, Charles
Rochford, Vern Hirsch, Owen Rist,
Gail Klingman will be the seniors
next year. Will they, too, enter tne
Kansas City and Chicago congests
inexperienced ?
There was no contest for junior
teams at the Denver show this
year. But there is a contest for
junior teams from Ag colleges at
the Fort Worth. Tex., show the
first week in Mareh. Officials at
Fort Worth are attempting to build
up a real intercollegiate contest at
their show. They are offering at
tractive arrangements to encour
age teams to come. Doubtless a
large number of Ag colleges will
Government Funds Enable Hundreds
Wisconsin Students Continue Their
Education During Second Semester
F.dltnr'n note: Sunday's Dally Nehra.
kan carnrd a ttnry uihna of the govern
ment's plan to hfip uttirirnu through the
Civil Wnrki Administration. At prment
no definite arrangements have been made
to help student on the Nenraeka rampua.
The following artlrle taken from the Wte
ronhln Pre Buitetln Indicates that pen
dents t the rnlverslty of Wisconsin are
receiving aid from the state ty means of
recent action of lhat slate leglslaturt.
Hundreds of University of Wis
consin students are able to con
tinue their education during the
second semester of the current
school year by making loan from
the state not only for their inci
dental fees to the university, but
also for partial maintenance, as a
result of action taken recently by
the special session of the state leg
islation at the request of the uni
versity and state officials.
The loans are being made from
the fund of $150,000 voted by the
legislature last week in an effort
to keep needy and dserving young
men and women residents of Wis
consin in school, officials said.
More than 600 state university
students have already applied for
loans, it was reported at the office
of the university registrar.
Second Fund from State.
Loans from the fund, which is
the second to be appropriated by
the state within the past year, are
available to students of the state
university and other Institutions of
life rank in Wisconsin. The state
originally set up a 1170,000 fund
early last fall for loans to stu
dents only for tuition, incidental
and other fees, industrial commis
sion officials, who had charge of
the fund, pointed out
Under the provisions of the law
passed last week setting up the
second $150,000 fund, however,
students can borrow up to $150 for
tuition and fees, and an tditional
amount up to $60 for partial main
tenance. If a student had bor
rowed $100 for fees for the first
semester of this year, he would
now be eligible, provided his appli
cation was approved by the com
mission, for an additional $50 loan
for fees for the second semester,
and another loan of $60 or less for
partial maintenance.
1,947 Students Helped.
Students who have been or are
unemployed, and whose parents
are unable to aid them to continue
in school, are eligible for the loans.
Students desiring to obtain loans
may get application blanks from
the registration office of the school
they desire to attend. Requests
for the loans are then investigated
by industrial commission workers,
and if approved, the loans are
made.
Approximately $100,000 in loans
were made to 1.947 students for
the first semester of this school
year from the original appropria
tion of the state last fall. The re
mainder of this fund has already
been exhausted by loans to stu
dents for the second semester. But
with the additional $150,000 now
provided by the state for second
semester loans for maintenance as
well as tuition and fees, hundreds
of students who would otherwise
have to drop out of school and
swell the ranks of the unemployed
will not be able to continue their
education, officials declared.
be represented there. Will Ne
braska ?
It simmers down to this: If Ne
braska deems it worthwhile to
maintain its long time reputation
for good livestock judging teams,
then the junior team should be
sent to the Fort Worth contest
The college, the department, the
animal husbandry clubs, and the
team members themselves have in
the past co-operated in doing that
job. What can be done now?
Human Being Most
Important Animal.
States Professor
BY J. L. GILLIN.
Professor of Sociology st A. W.
The most important animal ws
have, both from the standpoint of
the cost of production and of so
cial usefulness, is the human be
ing. Health, education, morals,
integrated and soundly functioning
personalities, whether ia the coun
try or In the city are pf common
concern to both.
Illiteracy, whether in the city or
in the country, is of concern to
the welfare of all the people. Edu
cation which fits an individual to
function properly in all his social
relationships Is of the utmost Im
portance to all of our people. The
health of individuals is not a mat
ter of indifference to anyone, no
matter where he lives.
A wider understanding of the
fundamental unity of all of our
psople, whether city dweller or
rural resident, in the interests of
the welfare of all the people on
these fundamental points is need
ed at the present time. As indus
try and trade can not prosper
without the prosperity of the
farmer, so the home, the school,
public health, sound bodies and
sound minds cannot exist in the
city unless they exist also in the
country, and vice versa.
It is still true that the country
must provide the business men,
professional men, teachers, leaders
in every line of work, to supply
the demands of the city. Contrary
wise, if the rural citizen is not in
terested In the welfare of the chil
dren in the city, in the end the
rural district will suffer from the
lack of adequate leadership in
business, in education, in legisla-
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Individual nrrioa.
ORPHEUM GRILL
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tlon and In administration. In both
cases, only as strong, well trains
individuals are developed, whether
in the city or in the country, shall
we have that rank and file ;
strong, capable, co-operative nn
yet independent personnel which .
has been the glory of American
life in all the past, !
TO
BETA XI FRATERNITY
Y.M. Leader Has Traveled
Over United States as
Student Speaker.
HAS RELIGION AS TOPIC
"Jim" Hardwlck delivered the
eleventh lecture of his program to
the Theta XI fraternity last night
in a series of lectures to fraternity
houses and other student groups
on the subject of a man's religion,
He will speak befofe the Sigma
Chi fraternity today noon: Acacia
at 6 p. m.; and the Beta Theta Pi
pledges at 9 p. m. Thursday he
speaks to Alpha Sigma Phi at 9
p. m. and to Phi Gamma Delta at
6; Friday to Delta Chi house at 6
p. m.
Hardwlck has been traveling
over the United States In connec
tion with the Y. M. C. A. lectur
lng to students on the problem of
religion.
Hardwlck has delivered leeturos
to Alpha Gamma Rho, Lambda
Cht Alpha, Phi Alpha Delta, Phi
Sigma Kappa, Sigma Nu, Delta
Upsilon, Farm House, Beta Thets
Pi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Chi
Phi fraternity house.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
English-Classics 267.
English-Classics 267, Roman Lit
erature in Translation, will meet
temporarily in Room 101, Andrews
hall on Tuesday. Feb. 6, 1934.
O. W. REINMUTH.
Vesper Choir.
Trvouts for membershiD in tha
Vesper choir will be held Thurs
day and Friday, Feb. 8 and 9, at
4 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall.
Interclub Council.
There will be a meeting of the
Interclub Council at 7:30 Monday
night in Delian-Union hall.
Tassels.
There will be a meeting of Tas
sels at Ellen Smith hall Tuesday
evening at 7 o'clock. All members
are urged to be present.
ANNE BUKUMi,
President
Orchesis.
Orchesis will meet at the dance
studio in the Armory at 7 o'clock
Wednesday evening.
Barb Council.
Rsrh Council meetine will be
held Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock in room io, social aci
otifua hall Pinna for the Univer
sity Dartv scheduled for Feb. 17
will be discussed.
BURTON MARVIN.
Chairman.
Bible Class.
Bible class with Lutheran .stu
dents will be conducted bv Rev. Mr.
Erck Wednesday evening at 7
p. m. in room 203 of the Temple
building.
Student Council.
There will be a meeting of the
Student Council Wednesday after
noon at 5 o'clock in the council
room in University hall. All mem
bers are urged to be present.
JOHN GEPSON, President.
Corihusker,
All fraternity and sorority pic
tures for the Cornhusker must be
taken by 5 o'clock Saturday of this
week at the Rinehardt and Wars
den studios.
Since the World war, Dr. E. Guy
Talbot, western secretary of the
National Council for the Preven
tion of War, has traveled a million
miles studying the problems of
wsr.
Intellectual bull sessions are
proving popular at the North Da
kota State college.
Two Wisconsin coeds recently
advertised for Junior Prom dates
in the classified section of the col
lege paper. One generous gin
wanted a fraternity man not less
than five feet ten Inches tall and
offered to pay all expenses. The
other woman offered to pay part
of the expenses for a dark-haired
lad.
Professors at Mills College, Cali
fornia, defend the slang of under
graduates as a technical college
language. Iowa State Student
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