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EDITORIAL
DAILY NEBKASKAN
THURSDAY, FEBKUARY 2, 1939
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Entered at trcond-clnns matter at the
poatofflre In Lincoln, Nrbraaka, under act
of congress, March 8, 1879, and at special
rale of puMacr provided for In section
1108. act of October 8. 1917. authorized
lanuary 20. 1932.
The Union proposal
If not wheels of progress, at
least wheels of motion, received
their initial thrust last night when
the Student Council president ap
pointed a committee to investigate
the Union building proposals sug
gested by Director Van Sant. Be
fore taking definite action the
council will await the outcome of
various interviews with interested
and well-informed people on the
campus, and of reports they will
probably request from the many
universities where a similar plan
is already in operation.
In the belief that this scheme
may prove to have such deep
seated connections as to pertain
to a large proportion of the cam
pus, and inasmuch as there are
probably many others like the
writer of today's Student Pulse
letter who find themselves in the
dark, the DAILY NEBRASKAN
wishes to remind its readers that
simply because complaints have
not been flooding the present set-up
is no sound basis for refusing a
revisal that may produce even
greater satisfaction. This fact be
comes even more apparent when it
is the successful director who is
the greatest proponent of the
change.
Summarily the proposal can be
boiled to two simple considerations:
ri. Inauguration of an execu
tive system which would be op
erated in addition to, and under
the direct supervision of, the
present student-faculty board.
The executive group could, in
time, be given full authority over
entertainments, projects, con
tests, minor house policies, and
the myriad of other activities
which student ingenuity .is cer
tain to propose.
2. Division of this system into
a board of chairmen who would
direct the activities, and a group
of workers who according to
their efforts and ability would
eventually be promoted to the
positions of chairmen.
Study of this plan will show
that it is essentially that employed
by the Publications and is similar
to the selective method used by
the Kosmet Klub. In both of the
above, records of accomplish
ments and recommendations as to
ability play the determining roles.
And, as may be contrary to gen
eral belief, "student desires" are
not only brought into considera
tion, but are given the most
weight.
How else can the students
more assuredly guarantee them
selves a Union operation wholly
in accord with their own ideas
and their own desires than one
in which the students themselves
are conceiving the functions and
carrying them into action. Even
if it be argued that they who
will probably take part in the
work are not necessarily repre
sentative of the entire student
body, it cannot be denied that
their interests and understand
ings will indubitably bring them
closer to such an ideal than a
graduate director could ever
thrust himself.
StudswL
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To the Editor:
After analyzing your editorial
"For a 'Student' Union board" in
the Daily Nebraskan for Feb. 1,
1939, it appears that you are not
in favor of representative student
control or are not consistent in
your arguments.
First you and your reporter
make a plea for a Student Union
to be directed by students and
then in the last paragraph of your
editorial, advocate that the Stu
dent Union board be selected on a
merit basis ns is the case in re
gard to positions on the Daily Ne
braskan and Kosmrt Klub. Since
when have the students' desires
been consulted in these two activi
ties? I am not necessarily defending
the present system of selecting the
members for the Student Union
board, but I am a firm believer in
the representative system of con
trol for the Student Union.
Relegating Union Board mem
bership and control to the volun
teer and activity student, will in
no way insure that student wishes
will form the policies of the Union.
By student control, I understand
government of the Student Union
according to the wishes of 6.000
students, not those of a hlearechial
hoard or group as exenplified by
Kosmet Klub. whose membership
or control can by no stretching of
the imagination be said to be rep
resentative of student desire.
It is admittedly regrettable that
there are not a larger number of
students on the Union board in
proportion to faculty members and
that some student members are
not active.
I, perspnally, have . heard no
complaint from the student body
that Mr. Van Sant is the "Student
Union Dictator," but rather that
he has attempted to co-operate
with each student and every stu
dent group In making the facili
tics of the Student Union available
to them.
When a majority of the student
bodv becomes dissatisfied with the
manner In which the Student
Union is governed, they will doubt
lessly let the Union board know
bout it. Until such a time ,it Is
the perogativc of the student body,
cial director, or the editor of the
Daily Nebraskan to influence the
control of the Student Union ex
cept as they represent the wishes
of the student body.
M. N. Oelrich.
Players to do
Shakespeare
'Comedy of Errors' is
scheduled for Feb. 14
The University Players will pre
sent as their fifth production of
the year Shakespeare's "Comedy
of Errors," it was announced yes
terday. The play, one of the lesser
known and seldom produced
Shakespearean plays, will open
Feb. 14 and continue thru Feb.
18.
The play is woven around the
familiar theme of mistaken iden
tity. In this case the plot concerns
two sets of identical twins, con
tinually being mistaken for each
other.
The currently popular musical
comedy, "The Boys from Syra
cuse," now playing in New York,
has the same plot with lines and
situations borrowed from the
"Comedy of Errors."
The production was originally
written in five acts and eleven
scenes. The players will divide it
into two parts with no act or
scene division. All chances of
scenes will be indicated by large
printed caids. The drama will be
presented on a semi-modernized
Shakespearean stage.
"Comedy of Errors" is the fint
of Shakespeare'H plays to be pre
sented to student audiences in sev
eral years. A spring Shakespear
ean festival, which used to he pre
sented after the regular plnyers
season, was discontinued due to
lack of student interest.
BULLETIN
The tap dancing hobby group
will meet todnv at 7 o'clock in
Eilen Smith hail.
Tankstercttes will meet this
afternoon at 5 o'clock in room
101 of Grant Memorial. Plans for
a pageant will be discussed.
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