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THE DAILY NEBKASKAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1937
What a Half 3Iill Levy
On $1,000 Would Accomplish
(Th fallowing t-ible of figure thowt the build
ing! necem.iry to th city cumpui nlono and their cost
estimated In ttte report of the board of regent! to
the Ut legislature. Buildings are arranged in the
order of the urgency of their need.)
New library $975,000
University classroom bldgs 400,000
Electrical engineering bldg. . 500,000
Auditorium seating 1,800.... 175,000
Addition to Morrill hall 100,000
Art gallery 500,000
Teachers college H. S 150,000
Administration building 250,000
Student health bldg 150,000
Land 120,000
The imperative need for the first building
on this list, the library, hns been adequately
presented during the past week. The Lincoln
Journal and Star and the World Herald have
taken up the hue and cry. If these newspapers
are followed by other influential journals in
the state, the neeessary public consciousness
of the university's retrenchment for lack of
buildings will be established.
It is Iho hopo of the Nebrnskan that the
library will be emphasized as the spearhead of
the university building campaign. Full reali
zation of the building condition on the campus,
however, is vital to any campaign. The five
structures listed after the library must be built
before the state's No. 1 educational institution
will he even with the board, before actual
progress becomes thinkable.
A brief resume of the conditions making
these buildings necessary is this: U hall and
Nebraska hall, classroom buildings, must bo
abandoned, despite the fact that present class
room space is congested; engineering facilities
are curtailed and engineers being turned away.
There is no decent medium sized auditorium
on the campus. The coliseum with its poor
acoustics is too large and too expensive for
most purposes. The Temple is small, poorly
equipped and poorly built. Neither is appro
priate for lecture and art programs, which
should comprise a large part of university life.'
Morrill hall, housing the university mu
seum collections, is overcrowded, altho many
specimens and works of art are being stored
rather than exhibited. The need in regard to
larger quarters for the art gallery and for
arcnaelogical and paleontological displays
especially suggests itself, because the mu
seum is of interest to grade and secondary
school children and to many adults in the
state.
But prior to these urgent needs comes
that of the library. The fact that many build
ings are required on the campus, only sug
gests that a start must be made. The place
to start is on the library.
He thought it the only legitimate activity on
the campus.
Mike's faith in the Schooner was a faith
in Doc (Editor L. C. Wimberly). "Doc's a
strange chap," Behlen was fond of saying,
"he's always looking for something different.
He bridges the gap between the commonplaces
of today and those of tomorrow. He's against
anything that establishes ruts in our thinking,
be it science, religion, or the craze for two-bit
hero worship."
Behlen will be glad to know that his
friend Doc is off to another ten years of
Schooner editing.
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potloUlte In Llnroln, Nebnifkit, unlir
act of cormreia. March 3, 1N79, and al
Mike Behlen
Will Be Glad.
Herbert P. Behlen everybody called him
"Mike" but nobody knew why was a strange
kind of activities man. He came to the univer
sity from Columbus, Neb., in 1933. He got
into what might be called, by a stretch of the
popular conception of the term, activities. He
worked his heart out at it, but nobody ever
heard of him.
Behlen used to keep the boarding house
awake until the wee hours pounding out cir
cular letters that went to every state and na
tion in the world. Sometimes he had them
mimeographed, but usually it cost too much.
He was always drawing cartoons or painting
signs which he put up on the campus. Once
he worked out a display whose dimensions
were 8 feet high and 30 'feet long. The boys
in the boarding house were a little peeved at
his blocking up the whole upstairs corridor,
but they said little, because they liked Mike
and figured that a guy who was that sincere
must have something.
Mike organized campaigns with the Tas
sels and the Y. "W. C. A. He was always mak
ing speeches or talking shop to newspaper
men. Sometimes he took time off to write.
He wanted to land a story. He said if he could
land one story, he'd figure his college days
were worth while.
Behlen left the university early in 1935
because of lack of funds. He turned his ac
tivity oyer to a friend with a long pep and
instruction speech.
Mike will be glad this week when he gets
his fall Prairie Schooner. He will bp glad to
know that the activity on which he spent the
best part of his short college life has survived
the ugly perennial fall rumors that it had
breathed its last.
Behlen, as Schooner business manager,
used to circularize the world for subscriptions.
He advertised it with signs. He got the cam
pus sales organizations to sell it. He wanted
to write a short story for it. He believed in it.
The Union of Course,
But Now a Lihrary.
(Excerpts from an article in the Lincoln
Sunday Journal ami Star by Constance Syford.
University of Nebraska graduate.)
Our Student Union nears completion. Its
lounges, its great hall, its dining rooms, its
browsing room, its geographical centralization
of student activities will go far to build a
genuine opportunity for an increasing culture
in the student body. It is a halfway house of
which we may well be proud and to which all
who can should contribute something. But
to stop at this goal would be to create a new
evil of exaggerated interest in social and extra
curricular activities an evil which, indirectly,
the union itself seeks to avoid, by promoting
that "contagious" spirit which should better
balance, thru fellowship, the varied interests
and activities of a united and happier student
body. Presumably the emphasis is on "stu
dent." Certainly the new Union is a first step
toward a still greater Union which will come
onlv when the, book instead of the pine or the
pigskin becomes the symbol of its ideal. But
the book demands contemplation. And con
templation demands quiet, comfort, ami that
seclusion which a beautiful treasury of books
should offer the eager mind.
No Contagion of Culture.
Above our parched prairie stubble,
warmed by the glow of prairie sunsets sur
passing any over Monte Mario or St. Peter's
in Korne, looms our prairie eapitol. But on the
university campus a small red building offers
bare and shabby comfort to greet the young
student eager for his first great adventure in
learning. Good general reference books, a
handful of rarer ones, a very few for the
deeper researchers there are somewhere
crowded and stuffed and therefore unseen in
the inadequate quarters in which staff and
students work without the atmosphere of
books that they may see as living representa
tives of the past and present. Of any inviting
comfort, too, there is little to produce that
"contagion" of culture and of scholarship
which awaits the will the will to give of a
generous people. 1
Our Nebraska eapitol is inspiring. Our
Student Union is one step toward a greater
fellowship of students, on the moral and so
cial side. But there still remains a sad need
for that stimulus to the spirit of scholarship
and of intellectual endeavor, for that oppor
tunity for the widening of intellectual hori
zons and the deepening of vision, for that
heightening of cultural ideals which the
world of books, made available thru an ade
quate library, alone can produce. A library,
adequate to the needs of the varied intel
lect, should become would become the
haven of a student's spiritual individuality,
the source and home of his intellectual free
dom and power. "Ignorance is the curse of
God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly
to Heaven" Shakespeare had a character
say in Henry the Sixth.
Bulwark Against Unreason.
The state of Nebraska was built by pio-nt-er
men of learning and of culture. It can
tie true to their vision and dream it can grow
only as the knowledge of the past, preserved
in libraries, is diffused widely enough in
youthful minds, to temper and give balance to
the daring of the future. This is the great
purpose of a university. It is for this that the
citizens of Nebraska forget crop failures and
stock market comets and business uncertainty
and national whimsies and vagrancies, risking
their last savings in that life trust fund and
insurance policy offered their sons and daugh
ters in a university education, the safest of all
investments a bulwark against any tide of
unreason. Let all ot us spcetl, hy generous
contribution, thru legislative appropriation
and private endowment, a great and beautiful,
an adequate university library, the ever living
mind and soul of the university, the measure
of its potentiality.
It won't be long now before the
Student Union building' Is com
pleted, and that panacea for cam
pus ailments will bo going full
blast.
Many benefits were clulmed by
the backers of the movement
which swept the building Into be
ing. Dire results wore predicted
by those who opposed It. Among
the latter was the unknown gen
tleman, who had his reasons and
stated them last year in his vitri
olic "let 'em eat cako" letter to
the Ncbrnskan.
In that epistle, ho raged, to the
effect that, when a university,
needing a new library and lacking
the barest essentials in classrooms,
erects "a monument to the herd
Instinct ol its 0,000 students, truly
the inscription over the door ought
to rend 'Iet 'cm eat cake!'"
What dues the student on the
campus tiling of the .Student Un
ion? What benefits will it per
form? Erna Motl, Graduate college:
"It will concentrate student ac
tivities in one place. It will center
thcni all at one point; and, by
placing them side by side, It will
be much easier tor the one dcsir
ous of entering an activity to
evaluute the various activities and
make a choice between them.
"It will give to the university a
center for both activities and so
cial life which we lack now."
Bizad sopho
George Cameron,
more:
"As I see It, the barbs will have
practically all the benefits of the
Student Union, in that it will make
available to them countless social
activities which they cannot take
advantage of at this time.
"All the Btudents will gain, how
ever, as it will provide a place for
mutual acquaintance which is
surely needed, and which has so
far been entirely lacking.
'One thing should bo watched
it way provide a means for ad
ditional graft. In any organization
there is ample opportunity for
graft, but in the Student Union,
unless it is exceptionally well
managed, there will be a wonder
ful opportunity for someone's per
sonal gain at the expense of the j
whole campus."
Hazel Lawrence, Teachers college
sophomore:
"Hy providing a place for stu- j
dent activities offiees, meeting,
and reading, the Student Union j
will be a much nepded addition to I
the buildings on this campus. Of
especial benefit to those who are
affiliated with no social organiza
tions, it will serve the whole cam
pus by bringing the individual
students into closer contact with
each other.
"The cafeteria is a wondeful
Idea in itself. Too many of the
students have nri decent place at
which they can eat, and at the
cafeteria, they will be able to se
cure good food at a reasonable
price."
Anonymous, Arts and Sciences
junior:
"I have a rather peculiar atti
tude toward education. I feel that
no amount of knowledge benefits
one unless one ran use it. The dis
cussion of lectures and of books
gives you far more than sitting
and dozing in a class, listening to
a very boring prof for an hour.
And it is there that the .Student
Union building will serve its pur
pose. Where can you go now to
talk over some new theory or
idea? Practically nowhere."
Leo Butler, Engineering colloge
sophomore:
"Although other buildings were
needed much more, the Student
Union will have its advantages. It
will relieve the congestion in some
of thu buildings, ami provide many
social benefits for the students.
"The cafeteria and the informal
library are two of the best ideas
that have bcon proposed around
here for a ling time. Then, it
should bring the students closer
together by providing a common
meeting place. It will probably do
much to break down the barriers
that fraternity men build between
themselves and the barbs.
"I only wish they'd get it fin
ished."
Alma Glade, Teachers college Junior:
It will be wonderful . . The
Student Union building at Minne
sota has unified the campus. In
stead of each little group having
n party in one corner of the cam
pus, they all have them in the
student union. Then tne miu
lng has brought the students into
closer contact with one another
and they co-operate with each
other for the school. That same
thing can be done here.
Katherine KHbuck, Teachers col
lege senior:
"On the whole, I am very fa
vorable toward it. I hope, however,
that we may have a new library
soon. If there are any objections
to the Student building, they must
be based soley on the fact that
it went through ahead of the li
brary. "The building will localize the
campus activities that are now
scattered all over, and by local
izing them, it will make for a bet
ter spirit between organize! ions
and between students."
Mark Rasmussen, Arts and Sci
ences freshman:
"A pretty good thing , . . I've
been told that the library should
be the center of student activity,
and I do not feel that it is true.
A library may be the center of the
intellectual life of the student, but
it cannot serve as the student ac
tivity center. This function Rhould
and will be performed by the Stu
dent Union, doing just what its
name implies, forming a union of
students, bringing them closer to
gether, building a better university."
BUSINESS WOMAN TALKS
TO Y.OESPER GROUP
Miss Wisncr Will uiscuss
Significant Living
At 5 Today.
Significant Living from the
Business Woman's Viewpoint" will
be the topic of a talk by Miss
Mildred Wisncr, head of the per
sonnel department at Miller &
Panic's department store, at the
meeting of the Y. W. vesper group
this afternoon at Kllen Smith hall.
The address will be the second ot
a series of discussions entitled
'Significant Living."
Virginia Wheeler will lean uic
devotions. Under the clirecuon oi
Maxlnn l'ederle. the choir will sing
the. recessional and processional as
well as a special number. Fran
ces Marshall is chairman of the
vesper htaff. The service taxes
place at 5 p. m.
NU-MEDS HEAR GRIFFITHS
Head of State Hospital
To Speak Wednesday.
Dr. P. G. Griffiths, superintend
ent of the Lincoln state hospital,
will speak nt the Nu-Med society
at the Grand hotel nt 8 p. m. Wed
nesday. This is the second meet
ing of the group this year and all
pre-mrd students are invited. Any
former members are still mem
bers. All new members will have
a clues of 511 cents. Approximately
80 students attended the last
meeting.
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(Continued from Page 1.)
coop, they should call it a pig
sty," Ernie Bays. "When those
guys get thru in that box up there,
it simply is a sin."
Broken glassware, cigar and
cigarette stubs, crumpled papers,
odds and ends and all hard enough
to clean up, but the hardest part,
according to Ernie, is to clean the
tobacco juice splotches from the
windows. Spittoons or no spittoons,
the reporters always aim their
Juicy quids at the nearest open
window. If they hit, it's a hit. and
if fiey miss it's still a hit, but it's
a lit le harder to get off.
"And the bottle." mourned
Ernie, "it's just too, too sad." The
Nebraskan staff members tried to
console, surely It can't be as bad
as all that we said. "Ask Joe
there." said Ernie, pointing to the
Nebraskan's taciturn sportswriter,
Joe zeiley, "he II tell you it's so."
"Yes," said Joe, "it's pretty
bad."
Miss Nan Gerry, lnstuctor in
case work, Is to conduct an insti
tute on "Recent Trends in Case
Work Factors" at the Nebraska
conference for social work 6tate
meeting to be held In Grand Is
land Oct. 17, 18, and 19.
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