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PACE TWO
THE DAILY NEBRASKAX, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 29. 1937
An Imaginary W ound
Library V
To The Editor:
"Why the sudden interest in the condition
of the university library? Certainly the uni
versity needs in this direction are not marked
ly fit-enter than they Mere a year airo at which
lime a new library Imiljinp campaign mijht
liave had the success that was won by a fool
hardy Student Union campaign.
I say foolhardy and I mean it. The Stu
dent I" uion luiildinsi was the largest ease of
wholesale squandprinjr that our national jjoy
ernment lias ever lieen yirivileped to foster.
Spending with Mind, reckless abandon and
never a thought about decaying hooks under
a leaky roof.
Today, however, a new editor lolls upon
the throne. Perhaps he is trying to show that
he is educationally minded, hut T-strongly
suspect that his motives are similar to those
of the vagrant who was at Ihe helm before
him. "I'm editor now, and I must promote
something."
However. I'm for the editor 100 percent.
And the point of this editorial seems lost. It
will not be. if 1 can make we mortals realize
what fools we lie.
There are nine pieces of const met ion
needed on the Nebraska eampu. or rather nine
were needed a year ago. Ninth on this list is
the Student Union building that is now near
ing completion. First, in all manner of intel
ligent thinking, was the university library.
Today the temple of the coke sippers is
lieing gloriously erected. The glad house of
the (reeks a depredation of any contem
plated construction within the next five years,
and paid for. in part, hy those who will sel
dom, if ever, have occasion to enter if. It is
fin everlasting monumental tribute to the igno
vance of the press and the lengths to which an
fditor will go to "pivniote something."
CARL R, YOST.
To Carl 1. Yost:
The Nebraskan's interest in a new library
is not sudden. As explained in yesterday's
editorial we did everything but bribe the leg
islators to pass the ten year building bill Inst
spring in order that the university's plight
might be ameliorated. 'We failed, the admin
istration failed, and numerous friends of the
university failed bv one vote.
Since the need for a library is the most
crying: of the many needs, and since the state
planning board is now active and will even
tually recommend legislation, we hit upon
the leaky old book barn as the best means
of dramatizing the whole building situation.
Your letter. Mr. Yost, calls up once more
the old question. "Why a Union building when
a library is needed so badly?" Why has the
Kebraskan over a period of six years cam
paigned for the Union, when other Iniildings
are a matter of life or complete decay to the
university? The present "promoting " editor's
three years experience as recalcitrant re
porter mi staff worker concerning this cam
paign may typify your own attitude. Mr. Yost.
In the bitter light of the facts, however,
the Union drive was not foolhardy. Frankly,
it was the Union or nothing, a hui.ding that is
Festers;
ersus Union Building
any hope of getting almost half the cost
from the federal government. They chose
'the practical course and won. If the next
six years are favored with as many "pro
moting flagrants" as the past six have been,
the library too may be realized. It will have
to be done thru the state legislature, not the
students and the federal government, but
we have been making friends at the state
house for a long time now.
admittedly a luxury to an institution like Ne
braska, or no building at all.
To understand this anomaly of luxury
amid dire poverty, it is necessary to know how
the Union has been financed. The federal
government made an outright grant of 45 per
cent of the $100,000 cost. The remaining 55
percent is carried as bonded indebtedness, the
bonds to be retired by student assessment.
Financing any building by student as
sessment is questionable. The structure is
paid for by a few generations of students, who
are pinched for funds to support themselves,
and used by many generations. This is un
just. Financing a Student Union, an extra
currieular activity building that will house
student phases of university life over and
above the regular educational needs which
should be provided by the state, may eome un
der the line of justification.
Furthermore, the Union is something
a large number of students wanted. Whether
we like it or not, most students do not con
sider the university as primarily an educa
tional institution. To many it is a social
service institution a time marking haven
where one can probably enhance one's earn
ing power while acquiring the social graces
and having a good time. The Unionis not
"""r;rtnt with such a conception of a
uuiversily.
P.ecause upward of 3,000 students signed
petitions calling for a Union, the building has
been built with the understanding that stu
dents will pay for 55 percent of it. Student
agitation for the activities center reached a
head just at the time that the government was
making its 45 percent grants to other schools
for two arid three buildings. This was fortu
nate. We have a Union because we could
match the federal grant. Nebraska clings to
a maddening pay as you go plan, and for all
the slate provided, the university would have
gone without any building.
The agitation fr a Union might just as
well have been for a library, you will say, Mr.
Yost. No. A library will cost a million dollars.
It doesn't have the appeal to the students nor
to the alumni, who are paying $75,000 for fur
nishings in the Union, that the activities cen
ter has. You can't ask a few generations to
pay more than a million dollars. You would
even have trouble getting sorority and frater
nity dnnations and $10,000 from the publica
tions board as the all important start toward a
library.
This task looked too big to the Nebras
kan editors six years ago when the agitation
was started for a Union before there was
The House That Very
Little Jack Built
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hr-.'kr -r nm.ia vi.th -ick morrar.
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Fperial ra'e of poitare provldeil for Jr.
ti'ion li(i3. art of Ortober 3, 1817. au
thorized January
Lt Timej TcniQrt
Johnny Mack Brown "Carnival
"Boothill Brigade" " Oueen"
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DEAN EUEE PRAISES P0
TENTIAL AID IN 'EVER.
NORMAL' GRANARY.
( Continue 1 trom Vnge 1.)
tlve year, paying freight charges
to get it to n.arket; and the r.ext
farmer it forcel to buy jt back,
paying freight (haiRea to return it
to the farm. "Ch;et sdvanta?e of
the ever-normal Rrariary." Dean
Eurr Btatea," u that it will tend
to keep the corn in the r.eiRhbor
hon." In the operation of ih Ver
ririrmal pranhr' the poverr.ment
v. i!l loan the farmer a sm -quiva-ierit
to a fair price fir hi jrriiin
H; corn cnba will th'n be sealer
nd h.'irj a. property umir a
mortpatr''. If the market price on
eorn poes up, the farrc-r will Ml
Cut at a profit an.l r f.ay ttie pnv
emment loan. If the rr aiket goe
down, he will mmply let the gov
ernment have the corn.
No ETfect on Student.
Passage of the ever-noimal
fTanary measure will have little
effect on the number of tuWi1.l,
able to t'o 1o Ihe Vr,ivernity of
:Ybrki, Pcin B:irr lhinlts.
"We have the heaviest nostra
tion tl;l yt-ar in the agricu'iiual
rollcfe that we have ever had." he
declared, although the crop in
the state have not been Rood. Ptu
rjer:t5 are coming (Io-ati on a ?hoe
ntnr.g anj a lot of th--m are work
ing their ways through. I don't
ee Hon- they get by, but they're
here."
22 Annul nplay
Meftinp: of Orfhei
Twenty-two girls attended or
chef,), Welnegday evening at
Grant Memora) at 7. A del Jverhon.
prenKier.t of the club, gave the
lnrtruc-tions. T!:i. is the third week
df the fix weeks' trial period for
fr'shm'-n. After that there will be
try outs to ce who is eligible for
the club.
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teachers.
It would be swell, we thought,
to say, "study this," and then give
a spine-roller of a quiz on the as
signmentto sort of get even with
the instructors we've had.
But we don't want to be any
more.
We don't know just how, but
you can tell a school teacher, at
least during the convention. A
lot of them look as though they
had been freed for a few days from
an awful task.
We asked them about their ex
periences as Instructors. Are they
jammed into conventional ideas by
the pressure of public opinion?
How much free thinking and free
teaching may an ordinary teach
er do?
Necessarily, these statements
are anonymous, with classification
only as to sex. Take them for
what they are worth.
Number 1, A Man:
"I have taught for 14 years,
and I have yet to have anyone tell
me what I can or cannot teach.
Beyond fulfilling the requirements
of the state, there have never been
any restrictions placed on my
courses. Naturally, I follow the
text, but I have so far been free
to interpret that text to my pu
pils tn my own way.
"A teacher is just expected to
behave himself. If the gets into
trouble, it's his own fault."
Noumber 2, A Woman:
"In the 13 years that I have
been teaching -and they've nearly
all been in one school I have
been subjected to school board
criticism but once. At that time,
I, as a teacher of science, dared
to criticize the theory that the
world was created in a matter of
a single week. Immediately, the
board was up in arms, and I was
called upon to explain by atheism.
A little healthy curiosity didn't
hurt their blessed children any.
but their parents failed to see it
that way.
"I was finally able to get out of
that difficult situation, and since
then have avoided trouble by stay
ing away from that subject. I do
feel that that incident is typical in
the smaller towns in the state,
where school boards dominate the
faculties."
Number 3, A Man:
"I think that in the smaller
towns, as a general rule, the teach
er, in a majority of cases, has a
chance to express himself. I've
never been in a community yet
where I couldn't teach a subject
as I pleased.
"In the larger schools, I have
heard you can't, but in the 11
years that I have been teaching,
if I have wanted to teach a course
a certain way, I've found that I
could. I have had no trouble with
school boards."
Number 4, A Woman:
"There has never been any par
ticular pressure brought to bear
on either myself or my teaching
methods. I have found that the
teacher who knows her subject
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mav co ahesd and teach it as she
sees fit. , ......
" teacher is in ratner a mm-1
n .....t nne dement in any com- ,
munity expects her to take part in '
all the church and social mm u-.
while another group docs not want
ho,. tr tf.k.1 nait in any: r,o, what-,
ever she does, she is between two
fires.
"Whrther slip wants to be or not.
a teacher is looked tip to as a
model of behavior, and as sum mic
is expected to do the impossible
to please everyone."
Number 5, A Man:
As nn Instructor of 17 years
standing, I have found myself in a
number of dilficultics in towns in
v.-hirli tli, reneral attitude toward
a teacher was anything but good.
PRE-GAME RALLY
TOPS PEP SHOWS
OF YEAR TONIGHT
(Continued from Tage 1.1
organization may enter in rally
competition.
Winds Up in Stadium.
The parade will follow 16th from
U to R where it will head east for
nne hlnclr Flown 17th the crowd
will go to O street and march west
IX THE INFIKMAP.Y.
Nadlne Boodlean, Deadwoorj
S. Dak.
Marvin Plock, Lincoln
Eugene Shanahan, North
Bend
Robert Hansen, Lyons
Arlo Klutn, Lincoln
Dismissed.
Philip Kleppinger, Beatrice
Ogden Riddle, Bartley
Andrew Oliver, Grand Island
for four block. When 12th is
reached, the parade will turn
north for the stadium.
That everyone on the campus
may attend the pep gathering, th
rall'y committee requests that nil
houses delay their hour dances un
til after the rally is over.
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