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2. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Thursday, April 4, 1940 Editorial Opinion Comment Bulletin Daily1Vedraskan 0ico Newspaper 0 Alert Tkm 7.000 Weals THIRTY-NINTH YEAR Offices Union Building Day 2-7181. Night 2-7193. Journal -2-3333 Member Associated Collegiate Prest. 1939-40 Membsr Nebraska Prest Association, 1939-40 Represents for National Advert'sing by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERV.'E, INC. 420 Madison Ave., New York. N. Y. Chicago Boston Los Angelet San Francisco Published Daily during the school year except Monday and Saturdays, vacations, and examination periods by stu dents of the University of Nebraska, under supervision of the Publications Board. Subscription Ratesare $1..00 Per Semester or J1.50 for the College Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy. 5 Cents. En tered as second-class matter at the postoffice In Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress. March 3, 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3. 1917. Authorized January 20, 1922. Editor-in-Chief Business Manager. ..Richard deBrown Arthur Hill EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Managing Editors Clyde Marti, Norman Harris News Editors Chris Petersen, Lud'e Thomas, Haul Svoboda, Mary Kerrigan, Morton Margolin Sports Editor June Bierbovver Ag Editor Leo Cooksley Don Bower, Bob Schlater, Star reporters this month . . Ralph Combs, Alex Mills. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assistant Beninese Managers Burton Thiel, Ed SegrUt Circulation Manager Lowell Michael ALL DAILY anslfnes editorials are the opinion the editors. Their views or pinion In no way reflect the tkttt tail ( the administration of the anivenlty. Coliseum Rental In a front page article in this Issue of the DAILY, John K. Selleck, University athletic bust- ness manager and manager of student activities, explains the reasons back of charges assessed campus groups engaging the coliseum for such student affairs as big all-University dances. Not infrequently since the building of the coliseum have accusations been made that such charges are excessive considering that they are to student groups staging student affairs in a student build ing. Most recently the Issue came up when it was revealed that this year's financially ill-fated Junior-Senior Prom paid out some $165 to the coli seum among its expenditures. Mr. Selleck's explanation sounds plausible and reasonable. The DAILY, for one, certainly does not feel that the administration is deliberately over charging students for use of the coliseum in an at tempt to profit from undergraduates' well-known weakness for parties. However, Mr. Selleck ad mitted to the DAILY editor that as far as he knows or could prove the basic charge of $50 or 10 per cent of receipts made for coliseum heat, light. Jani tor service, etc. may not be an accurate estimate of the actual cost of such items. There are no meters to measure heat and light, for example, and the figure stands merely because it was approved by the board of regents at the time the building was opened. Therefore it seems altogether possible that an investigation could be made which would reveal more or less exactly these costs and perhaps enable the board of regents to lower the basic charge. It is indeed renYettabr thai the coliseum It such that permanent decorations and temporary bleachers must be ntpectively put up and taken down and then again respectively taken down and put up whenever a party Is staged there. But such are the facts and there appears to be no way of getting around them. The only question here might be whether labor costs might not be shaved a trifle. One can find numerous examples which indicate that University labor Is quite expensive, or at least so it seems. For Instance, this year's Prom Committee spent nearly $35 to have the Candid Clippings Morton Margolin m Labor relations classes at the University of California have the opportunity of observing labor strife on their own campus among their fellow stu dents anfl employers, according to the "Daily Cali fornia," student newspaper. Until now wages in Berkeley have been low due to the overabundance of student labor. To rem edy the situation the AFL stepped in and organized the student waiters and culinary workers who then went out on strike for better working conditions. Right now several campus restaurants are being picketed by union members. Another university has wakened to the need for regulation of student activities according to the "Diamondback" of the University of Maryland, where the executive council of the student govern ment association is pressing the adoption of a point system plan similar to the one used here. Students don't have to accept the plan if a majority are against it. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL BULLETIN This bulletin is for the use of campus organizations, students, and faculty members. Notices for the bulletin must bo sent or brought to the DAILY office by 5 p. m. every day for insertion in the paper the follow ing morning. Notices must be typed or legibly written and signed by some one with the authority to have the notice published. The bulletin will appear, daily except Monday and Saturday, on page two of the NEBRASKAN. A new idea in convocations was tried out at the University of Cincinnati the other day when an educational movie was the convocation feature. The new plan doesn't limit convocations to just a few a year when celebrities are passing through. It also gives ine program commiuee a cnance to make their program more varied. TODAY LIBRA BY JOBS. Student wbo wish pnrt time positions In the library may tnk the annunl ex amination on Saturday, April S. Students are asked to apply as anon possible to MtM Rutlcdft-e at her office neur the loan desk on the main floor of the library. The examination will be held la the reserve reading room at 9 a. m. COKD COl'NSELORH. Nona Is the deadline for apperrjnss women to file their name In Ellen Smith for poNltkona a toed Counselor, accord ing to an announcement made by Mary Bullock, nrraidrnt of the board. SOAP CABV1NO CLASS. Soap carving and tlay modeling rlaaa will meet la mom SIS of the Union at 4 a. m. Free materials and Instruction will no furnished. The flaw Is open to all sta dents. GRADUATE COJPTEK HOUR. Next In the series of Graduate Coffee Hours will be held In the farultjr luoare of the I'nion at S p. m. M'THTRAN STl'DENTS. Lutheran stndrats will meet for the Gamma lelta Bible eleae tat roam ts of the Temple. SENIORS. Senior graduating In June should ptaos their order for cans and gown with either Longs College Book Store or the Co-op Hook store as soon ax possible. The militl charge la $2.50 for those receiving the Bachelors degree, 2.78 for the Masters and IS for the Doctor. These fees are not dae until the eaps and gowns are received three or four days before eommeoeemenU BARN DANCE CLt'B. Barn Dance rlub will meet st 1:M r- st la (.rant Memorial hull. Till CHI THKTA. Member of Phi Chi Theta will meet ha parlor A of the Union ai 1:30 p. m. HINFONIA. Member of Slnfonla will meet as park Z of the I'nloa at noon. GAMMA LAMBDA. Members of Gamma Ijunbda wUl meet ha room 31S of the Union at p. as. SIGMA ETA CHI. Members of Sigma Eta Chi will meet s roam IIS of the I'nlon at fl:M p. m. FRIDAY t'NION DANCE. I -re William, will ptay for the dance la the ballroom at p. ra. HOME EC. The Nebraaka Home Ee Asaociattoa wUl meet la parlors XVZ front 1 to 4 p. Bl. REQUEST PROGRAM. There will he a record request procraaa en the Carnegie Music set tat the faculty lounge at 4 p. m. (Continued from page 1.) There is one young fellow at the University of Kansas who got an unpleasant jolt this week. It seems that he cut classes one day to hitch hike home and get an extra day of spring vacation. He told his story to a motorist who picked him up on the way home. The motorist didn't say anything, but when the student returned he found he had been picked up by the chancellor of the university. scenery Incidental to the Prom Girl presentation built by University labor when it appears as rather obvious that with a little more resource fulness the Committee might have achieved the same effect frr a fraction of that expenditure. As for outside groups who wish to use the coliseum, the DAILY is in hearty agreement with the administration that charges along that line are not at all too high. The coliseum is a University building and although It is proper that the admini stration co-operate with the city of Lincoln in ex tending its facilities to some extent, the coliseum cannot be considered in the light of a municipal auditorium or convention halL Soon Lincoln will have its own auditorium and then the pressure now exerted by various group to use the coliseum will disappear. That will be welcome, since the Univer sity cannot afford to let its buildings be used by outside groups to the inconvenience of its own stu dents and faculty. At the same time, however, one may trust that all outside demand for use of the coliseum will not cease then since one must recog nise that revenue from such sources is invaluable in the building's upkeep, as Mr. Selleck points out Mr. Selleck Is probably quite right when M says that students would not wish the facilities f the coliseum to be made any less attractive at the price'of lower rental. Nor Is it likely that the administration In Its present financial circum stances could see its way to appropriating money to cover a part of such costs. And so if the pres ent charges made for student use of the coliseum really represent absolute costs and no more, then the matter of reductions might as well be dropped. But the DAILY feels It should not be dropped until such has been clearly proven to the satisfaction of all as the result of a new and com plete administrative survey of such costs. Selleck (Continued from page 1.) be taken down and put up sgain, another $50 goes on the bill for la bor costs. Naturally when one compares this amount with the $35 or so which is charged for th Student Union ballroom or the ballrooms of downtown hotels, the difference appears unduly gTeat. But the comparison is not really fair, stated Mr. Selleck, since not only la the coliseum much larger but its nviln function is not as a ball room, and consequently when one attempts to transform it Into such he must expect it to cost more than when he uses facilities ex pressly designed for dances. An other points is that the perma nent decorations are only perma nent so-called and the upkeep on them is not inconsiderable. For example, the canopy in use for the past six years already needs re placing which will mean sn ex penditure of some $1,000 in the near future. Money goes for upkeep. All money taken in from rent ing out the coliseum is placed in a separate rental fund which is used exclusively for upkeep and repairs on the building, explained Mr. Selleck. And If only university affairs could be counted on for this, he added, the fund never would be sufficient for its pur pose. But when groups outside the university engage the coliseum, they are charged a flat $300 for one night, and In the infrequent cases when such groups are al lowed to use the building longer than one night, they are aiwessed $200 per night. Mr. Selleck can recall numerous occasions when such groups have felt that they were being overcharged, but he stated that the position of the uni versity there is that the collneum belongs to the school and is in tended for the school's use. Con sequently the administration feels justified in demanding high rent als from non-school groups since whenever they use the building it Is not available to those for whom It is intended. Except for about $1,000 contributed by various cam pus organizations, the original cost of the permanent decorations has come from the coliseum rental fund. Mr. Selleck has big ideas for future use of this fund too, including the installation of a new and elaborate lighting system which could be used for big coli seum parties with quite grandioae effects. Reducing the charges for stu dent groups uning the coliseum could only mean either that par ties there would be necesarlly less elaborate in the future, as would be the case If the permanent deco rations were not kept up, or that the difference In the building's in come would be made up by funds from other sources. Mr. Selleck does not feel that the students would be satisfied with the first condition and he confesses a com plete unawareness of any feasible way to effect the second. Klechel, Walter Knight. OeorKe W. Kreps, D:ile A. Kuhe. Robert H. McCsmpbell, Robert P. Martin, James (. Mayfield. Morris Mot I, Robert L, Miller. Clark E. Miller. Edwin L Nekuda, l-cl'e J Menus, William P. Nilesoa. Donald C. NnrltKa, Virgil Nye, Robert M. Nve. Walter F. Obhtnk. Jack D. O'Hanlon. 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Graham, Kloyd A. Hnrurr, F.dwerd l Woenderllrh. John Van Vllet, Kdward J lhrerh. Mason r). Morrill, Clin ton R. Wilkinson. ta. Klrrt sergeant. T. Verne Moore Platoon sergeants, Byron R. Deck, Ralph O. Hetty. Pirgeant guides, Edgar Nevln, Charles t BrMjkley. . Bargeanta, TayW.r Lewis, Orove Cuo- (See ROTC, page 4.) CH.rr Harry! Last Pays! Karlaff Lagaal la "BLACK FRIDAY" aaf aulal nawtohrns s "IBS HOI Bl OF THK SKVEN GABLES" L. I T ..at. in y NEBRASKA1 nun litis. Mat. JOe..Evt. Bst. 20e..L. Floer Ke