THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKA?!
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Let's Have
A Real Band.
rOES membership in Nebraska's band mean
anything to its members? That question
has been running thru the editor's mind ever
since the night of a recent basketball game.
Before the game a band member was overheard
to remark that he was playing with the band
that night because he could get into the game
free. Later, at the game, a number of slurring
remarks overheard as to the way the band
played and how "lousy" it was, indicated that
this particular bandsman, and perhaps others
had their mind mainly on the game and not on
their music.
The incident was food for thought and out
of that thinking came these questions: Just
what does the band mean to its members? Are
they proud to be in it? Do they work hard and
contribute their best energies for its success?
Or is it a refuge from military science? A free
ticket to athletic contests? The answers sug
gested by the apparent facts are not altogether
encouraging or favorable.
Nebraska this year has the largest band in
its history. We should like to call it the best
band in our history. Perhaps it is. But we
cannot forget Homecoming Day when a snappy
Kansas band stepped out on the field between
halves of the game and demonstrated the quali
ties of a really good band. That is the kind of
band we should like to see representing Ne
braska. And that is precisely what we do not
have. In comparison to Kansas our band was
unwieldy, sluggish, spiritless. It seemed like a
contest "between the bungling amateur and the
polished veteran. The campus talked for weeks
about the excellence of the Kansas band.
There should be no reason why Nebraska
cannot, have such a band. Surely we have the
musical talent necessary. But we do not have
the right .organization nor the morale in the
band to make it the effective group it could
be.
In the first place, the band is too much a
refuge from abhorers of military training. On
the slightest pretext of playing, students will
grab a horn and seek the band to evade mili
tary science. And a large number of very me
diocre musicians get in in this manner. Others
use the band as an instrument to gain en
trance to football games and make the band's
trips. These two types of bandsmen have no
reason to be proud of their membership in the
band, they have no reason to strive wholeheart
edly to do their best to make the band a suc
cess. They care little if they attend practices
or not. And right there is a big difficulty to
begin with.
Again, there are a number of students
;with. sincere desires to play in the band who
can not play well. They somehow are admitted
to the band and then flounder around all year
or perhaps two years with little or no individ
ual instruction and after they leave they arc
little better players than when they entered.
Then there remain those band members
who are beyond doubt excellent musicians and
students who would like to see a first class Ne
braska band. But under the foregoing condi
tions there is little these few can do. Their for
ward progress is held back by the uninterested
and apathetic members of the band who out
number them. Their efforts are lost in the merry-go-round
tactics pursued by their fellow
bandsmen and their good playing is lost in the
off-key wails and booms of incompetent play
crs. ' Despite these troubles, it doesn't seem like
much needs to be done to improve the quality
of the band. Stiffening membership require
ments would work wonders. Weeding out mili
tary science refugees and athletic event chisel
ersvould at least insure an interested member
ship. Requiring students to be able to play bet
ter before being admitted to the band would
eliminate much difficulty. Finally instruction
on each instrument given to individual bands
men throughout the year, would improve the
band's ability as a whole.
Such revision of existing policies could not
but work to the advantage of the band, we be
lieve. That much needed improvement would
occur, wc cannot doubt. Certainly the band
would mean more to its members, membership
in it would be a source of pride and satisfac
tion, and the campus would be extremely grate
ful. Let's strive for a band like Kansas.
Student Employees9
Union Needed.
K today student pulse column, another stu-
dert addp his voice to the numerous com
plaints raised against certain downtown cafs
owners who are charged with exploiting stu
dent -workers. Despite some recent improve
ment in working conditions among offending
cafs, others apparently intend to continue the
unfair practices which they hare inflicted on
students in the past.
That such unfair conditions as may exist
in regard to student employment will not be
tolerated in promised by action on the part of
the university employment bureau and the stu
dent council, both of which aro investigating
the situation and taking steps to remedy it. A
number of cafes have already adopted more
liberal policies as a result of their activities,
while remaining offenders are now being ap
proached in regard to altering their present
treatment of students.
It is to be hoped that a satisfactory and
just solution of the employment situation in all
cafes and eating establishments can be worked
out without calling into action such drastic
measures as boycotts. This, results thus far
indicate, can probably be done. And if such is
the case, the present controversy will soon be
forgotten.
It is the Nebraskan 's belief, however, that
some permanent organization of student work
ers or some permanent agency to organize stu
dent workers each year should be set up to
forestall reappearance of this problem in the
future. Pledges and promises of today may
easily be forgotten in a moment of need and it
will bo extremely easy to slide back into old
and more profitable, even though exploitative
habits.
The student employment bureau under
Mr. Epp has made a move in the right direc
tion by offering its services to any and every
beleaguered student worker. While this will
be a big help, an organization of student work
ers should nevertheless be effected, we believe,
to prevent future employment troubles. Both
the employment bureau and the student coun
cil are in a position to sponsor such a move.
A union of student workers would bring
to individual students feeling of protection
and security in any discussion of employment
conditions which might affect them or menace
their positions. Today there are still many
students who are afraid to protest unfair con
ditions for fear of losing their jobs, while oth
ers arc wrongly under the impression that it
will do them no good to air their complaints.
Their attitude will not change until they can
stand side by side with other students workers
in demanding their rights and feel secure in
doing it.
The time seems ripe for organizing student
workers into some sort of union to insure a
fair deal at the hands of their employers both
now and i the future. The employment bu
reau or t .. .student council, or both, by taking
the initiative in organizing students into such
a union, could render valuable service to the
campus and probably settle the problem for
once and for all.
Birth of a Bandsman
To Cure
Inel igib il it ies.
Ineligibility of one or more promising ath
letes in almost every Husker sport seems to be
a perennial problem which crops up to plague
Nebraska coaches. If they are not worrying
about men who have not made the grade, they
must worry about the many who arc on the
brink and may topple over at any moment to
add to their troubles..
Ineligibility has damaged llusker showing
in the various sports on more than one occasion
as valuable men, needed in the field, remained
on the sidelines for academic reasons. Others
have managed to slide in under the wire in
time to compete a bit, but their stay is short
and they soon find themselves back in the same
old unhappy fix again. As the season for each
different sport rolls around, someone it seems,
is always in hot water so far as their grades
are concerned, and others are uncomfortably
The situation is the more distressing be
near the border.
c
This situation, of course, is far from pleas
ing to the coaches, who are the target for much
of the criticism directed at athletics. It re
flects discredit on athletes in general, giving
the impression that the athlete is inferior in
brain power. It. servos to create often among
the faculty a more or less antagonistic attitude
towards athletics. Scholastic deficiencies of
Husker gridmrn, in fact, were advanced as one
of the important reasons back of the unfavor
able faculty sentiment which, despite its vague
ness, prevented Nebraska from going to the
New Year's Sugar Bowl game. All in all, the
situation places all athletes at a disadvantage
by crediting them wiht a mental rating near
zero and an apathetic attitude toward class
work, before they have even been given a
chance to prove themselves.
The situation is the more distressing be
cause a majority of the delinquencies could be
prevented if individual athletes would keep
at their studies or work a bit harder. This
remedy, however, experience has proved to be
a failure. Some special precautions or steps
must be taken, it seems, if athletes are to make
a fair scholastic showing.
Numerous colleges in the nation have met
this problem effectively by various means, and
it would seem that Nebraska might profit by
their experience. In some schools, professional
tutors have been engaged by the athletic de
partment to keep athletes up ni their hours.
In other schools, student tutors have volun
teered their services, fraternity houses have as
sumed the responsibility of keeping athltcs
eligible, or the student governing body has
even taken care of the problem in some instan
ces by various methods.
c
Some will no doubt scoff at the idea of
tutoring or any plan of study help for athletes.
These same people would probably change
their tune, however, if they knew how many
outstanding Husker athletes arc at present in
eligible. At least three important grid posi
tions arc threatened next fall. Additional
cases may develop before the year is over.
And current sports are suffering their share
from this cause.
Perhaps tutoring is not the answer. We
admit the plan would have its difficulties. But
we maintain that any plan to remove even par
tially the threat of ineligibility which plagues
every Husker sport, and the stigma of scholas
tic deficiency which is attached to athletes in
general at the present time is worth the at
tempt. The athletic department might have to
spend a small sum for tutors, it might take a
little effort to get athletes to settle down to
business, but nothing would be lost in the at
tempt. Nebraska might then be able to use all
its athletic talents, its athletes might make a
fair record in their studies. Certainly some
thing shoit'd be done to correct the situation.
Why not give this remedy a try!
jill NEBRASKA ' BAfQ
STUDENT PULSE
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TO THE EDITOR:
It is certainly gratifying to mo that the
Daily Nebraskan is sponsoring a campaign to
investigate the treatment of university student
restaurant workers. The special committee of
the student -001111011 appointed to study the sit
uation will find that many students are being
mercilessly exploited in their efforts to gain
an education.
In August I worked for a time in a res
taurant where 50c was the value of three meals
served in payment for three hours' work; in
other words this was 16 2-3c for each hour.
Even after the owners made such magnificent
allowance, many items on the menu were not
served to the "help." No aprons or uniforms
were furnished, and anyone breaking dishes
was held accountable for their cost. It was
more than I could bear; so I got a job in a res
taurant where conditions contrasted greatly
with those at the other place (and here let mo
state I quit at the first place, was not fired and
now attempt to seek revenge). The workers in
the second cafe arc treated like equal human
beings. Three hours' work there is required
for three meals daily, but the employes may eat
almost anything on the menu, helping them
selves, except T-bonc steaks. Aprons arc fur
nished, and no charge is made for broken
dishes. They do not expect their boys to put
in a lot of overtime work for nothing. Too,
their boys are allowed to cat their meals dur
ing their work periods if business is slack.
Wc students, I am sure, will cooperate
fully with the committee in their actions. Let's
hope in some way the names of eating places
treating student help fairly can be made known
and patronized, while the slave drivers' places
can be shunned. It seems to mo that, students
will not be discharged wholesale because of this
campaign, as the restaurant men depend large
ly upon us students for cheap help. They can
not get other people to work for as low return
as students will accept in order to remain in
school. The sweat shop type of employer al
ways has a difficult time maintaining a staff
of adequate size after classes arc dismissed in
August.
Members of the faculty arc getting behind
this drive to sec that students arc treated fair
ly. A member of the faculty told me that some
of the professors had been discussing the situa
tion and expressed sympathy for the students.
It was this person's opinion that it gave Lin
a bad reputation when students' parents were
informed that many of the restaurant men
were treating their children very shabbily. 1
agree that it might cause many people to think
that all our business people were "sharp,"
which is far from the truth. Most of the busi
ness men treat student workers very well.
Perhaps the Lincoln Chamber of Com
merce could exert a corrective pressure upon
the minority of employers who are unfair.
This, too, is a suggestion of the faculty mem
ber mentioned above, and, I think, a ycry good
one, for the good business men of Lincoln arc
jealous of their city's fair name. We have
the means in our power and the intelligence, I
hope to put an end to exploitation of students.
H. C. H.
Republicans Lead in Poll of
Eastern College Students
A decided change from the tendency towards liberalism
demonstrated in 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt swept the
nation in one of the most momentous landslides in history,
seemed to be in order on the cast coast as a majority of the
students in sight out of eleven eastern universities and colleges
polled in a comparative college O -
TWO LADIES DISTURB
WEST POINT CADET'S
EQUILIBRIUM SENSE
poll indicated that they would cast
their ballots m tavor 01 me ie
publican candidate in the coming
oiortlnn Thn eastern noils which
were conducted under the direction
of student publications were pat
terned after the nationwide poll
nf th Ampriran Institute of Pub
lic Opinion and resembled the re
cent Nebraska pon.
The questions as to presidential
choice were stated in the follow
ing formr "For which candidate
would you vote toaay.' Kepuo
lican? Roosevelt? Socialist? Or
fhirH nnrtv?" Altho the Doll con
ducted on the Nebraska campus
asked the student 10 maicaie me
specific candidate for whom he
would vote the results are much
the same as those of the eastern
polls. Roosevelt carried a huge
plurality of the individual votes
while the republican party polled
as many or possibly slightly more
votes than the democratic faction.
Complete results from the col
leges polled were as follows;
Colombia Collcre.
"ct.
Republican 21
Roosevtlt 3.
Soclaliet 9-2
Third party U-4
Communist 11
Labor '
Farm-Labor
fUrrard Collfir.
Pet.
Rtpublloan 34.9
KoO8270lt 28.fi
Socialist 23
Communist 1.3
Third party 3.2
t'h Lw Junior Cnllttc
Tct
Republican It
Roosevelt 47
SolialtM 15
Third party 19
Rutsera L'nlvtraltr.
Republican
Rooterelt
Socialist
Third party
aie miTerBiir
Pet
Republican BO 9
Roosevelt , -4.8
fcocla.lt S
Third party
Dartmouth College.
I'ct.
Republican 4S.2
Rootirflt 24.4
Soclallit lO.fl
Thlrt ia.ny 11.8
"nlvertity of Penmlvanla.
Pet.
Republican C2.1
Rooie7;lt 31.8
Roelailtt 2.5
Third party 3.4
Cornell L'nlwntty.
Pet.
Republican 4 5.4
Rooievelt 34.3
Soclallit 8.S
Third party 6.8
Snarthmore Collect.
Pet
Republican 44.3
Roosevelt 27
Soclallit 21
Third party ...
Wetkilry College.
Pet.
Republican 7.l)
Rooievelt 28.S
Soclallit 10
Third party 3.6
Mount Holyoke College.
Pet
Republican 64
Roosevelt 19
Soc'alln 8
Third party 3
WEST POINT. (ACP). The
"equilibrium" of United States
army cadets must be preserved at
whatever cost, so the two attrac
tive young women who assisted at
West Points' compulsory dancing
classes last year have been banned
forever.
When Mr. and Mrs. George Rob
erts, of Tulsa, Okla., went to the
academy to teach dancing to thosa
of the cadets who didn't know how,
they took along as accompanists
two young women from their danc
ing school. It was a good idea,
but it didn't work.
"The vountr ladies disturbed the
equilibrium of the cadets learning
to dance," it was explained.
The two dancing partners who
came no near upsetting the acad
emy said they had "a swell time"
and didn't notice anything wrong
with their dancing partners. "It
was grand," said Miss Ann Tcm
plcton. "If we disturbed their
equilibrium I didn't notice it. I'd
like to go back,"
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Ag Barb Girls.
Meting of all ag barb girls in
tho Homo Economics miuaing
room 206, at four ociock inura
day afternoon.
Phi Chi Theta.
ti,i rM Tiiotn will meet at 7
o'clock Thursday evening at Ellen
Smith hall.
Alpha Lambda Delta.
Members of Alpha Lambda Del
ta will meet Thursday evening at
7:15 at Ellen Smith hall for a
taffy pull.
Sponsors Club.
The sponsors club will meet
Thursday afternoon in Ellen Smith
hall at 5 o'clock.
Sigma Delta Chi.
Sigma Delta Chi will hold a
business meetinpr Thursday after
noon at 5 o'clock in University
hall.
Mortar Board's Loan
Filings Close Jan. 17
With one day left to file for
Mortar Board scholarships,
Alalre Barkes, president of the
society, Is anxious that the
number of applicants be doubly
Increased so that the organiza
tion can fairly choose two
worthy senior girls. The two
loans will range between $50
and $75.
Girls desiring to file may ob
tain application blanks at Mrs.
Westover's office In Ellen Smith
hall, and must be returned there
before 5 o'clock Friday, Jan. 17,
the deadline. The applications
should be addressed to the Mor
tar Board scholarship commit
tee. Members of this group in
clude: Alaire Barkes, president;
Mary Edith Hendricks, vice
president; Anne Pickett, secre
tary; Gladys Klopp, treasurer.
Members of the advisory board:
Miss Amanda Heppner, Miss
Pauline Gellatly, Miss Florence
McGahey and Miss Margaret
Fedde. All loans shall have the
approval of this committee.
The amount of the loan shall
be in the discretion of the com
mittee, but no loan to any one
person shall be less than $50
or more than $75. There will be
no interest on the loans until
after the recipients have gradu
ated. In case the girls leave
school or otherwise fail to grad
uate, interest shall start accru
ing immediately.
Miss Pound at Meeting of
Fellowship Awards Board
Miss Louise Pound, professor in
tho English department, left for
Washington, D. C. Monday to at
tend meetings of the Board of
Fellowship awards of the Ameri
can Association of University
Women, of which she is a member.
The University of Chicago has
established a new chair of com
parative law. Prof. Max Hhcin
stein, Nazi exile, was given the
post.
Pel.
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