Thursday, October 24, 1940
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Our Councils!
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Recognizing the urgent need for a partial reapportionment of it mem
bership, the Student Council yesterday approved a proposed amendment to it
constitution, wherein another representative from the College of Business Ad
ministration and another from the College of Agriculture, both men, would be
added to the body at future spring elections.
The council also proposed that candidates for elections be required to
personally present elegibility certifications in future elections.
The proposed amendments will be voted at the election November 12.
There 6eems to be no good reason why both should not be unanimously ac
cepted by the student body and passed upon by proper administrative au
thorities after that
The council, especially rneisWrs who devised the amendments in com
mittee session, is to be commended for its action.
Committee work regarding elections, student employment, and housing
has been fine and result should be forthcoming. Already, statistics and facts
have been collected which will form a groundwork for proposals.
This unprecedented activity on the part of a Nebraska student council
marks what we hope is the beginning of & new era in student government and
control. Politics, as vet has played no part in council doings and should not
during the rest of this year. Should it enter, the work of the group thus far
will probably bog down. So far as we can see, the reason, or a good reason
that the council has been so efficient ia because the political ball has been
fouled into the upper stands.
While the Student Council forges ahead with a constructive and worth
while program, the Interfraternity Council remains relatively inactive. At
least, if any work has been done, it has not come in for general notice. A
rushing rules committee selected a few weeks ago has as yet not reported
any proposals for publication. Maybe the committe has a beautiful plan all
worked out. If so, no one knows about it save the committee members. And
n with ths other committees, publications, etc.
TW two councils, both of which should be powerful and effective, nav
been long standing gripes of those who would see them instrumental in im
proving this university. The Student Council has awakened and is working as
it should. The Interfraternity Council still sleeps . . . and it doesn't even snore 1
Barl) publication
managers ask
circulation help
Jim Young, manager of the first
barb publication, in address to th
Barb Union meeting Tuesday eve
ning, said the efforts of the staff
are toward a general distribution
of the paper to all students in the
Dafoe, business manager.
In asking for more help in the cir
culation department, said, "Our
purpose is to build up complete
circulation coverage for 4,200 un
affiliated students on the campus."
Other business of the meeting
included tentative nominations of
the Union's candidates in the com
ing election and appointment '
circulation managers Willard
Kumpf, Ralph Shaw. Ed Day.
George Gostas. Dave Marvin, Bob
Dewey and Ellis Ruby.
Barb women's
presidents meet
A meeting of the presidents of
the various unaffiliated women's
houses was held Tuesday evening
in the Union. Marie Louise Drake,
activities chairman of the Barb
ABW, expressed the need for
closer organization of barb girls
in order to make possible a varied
social and activities program. Un
der discussion were plans for fill
ing vacancies in AWS and Tassels,
gills' intramurals and hour dances
with barb clubs.
Alumnae of To wne
club to convene
Alumnae memoers of Townc
club will meet at 8 o'clock after
breakfast Sunday morning, to
which all active members are in
vited. Approximately 15 graduates
in Lincoln for the state teachers
convention, will be present Doro
thy Maxwell, president of the
alumnae organisation, will lead in
formulating plans for distributing
new a about activities of the To wne
club.
Freshman AWS
chose committee
Committees for work on tlxr
Freshman AWS handbook will be
named at meeting of the group
today it Ellen 8mith Hall, when
ether plans for the handbook will
be made. Marg Krause and Ger
ald Spahn will speak on Tassels
and Corn Cobs. A chairman and
a secretary selected from those
attending will be appointed for
each meeting.
Rifles announce
list new pledges
Twenty-three men were chosen
as new pledges in Pershing Rifles,
basic drill honorary, at their
meeting Tuesday. The new men
will be expected to attend meet
ings in uniform starting Oct. 2t.
The list of pledges follows:
'W Bab AMrich'
Time was when a newspaperman
or teacher or arctic explorer who
found himself getting feeble and
needing too many drinks to keep
his shattered neives from collaps
ing would simply retire to a place
in the country and spend his de
clining years doing nothing more
dangerous than writing his me
moirs. Then the lecture industry grew
up.
Now schools, colleges, prisons,
and other institutions are flooded
with literature advertising speak
ers who, in exchange for trainfare
and enough to buy a case of
scotch, will give the inmates the
benefit of their long experience,
a dash of philosophy and a spoon
ful of warning advice about Suc
cess, the whole thing being neatly
tied together by a series of nice,
clean jokes, strung together like
firecrackers and popping off as the
fuse bums its way along.
The benefits to be derived from
listening to these speakers haze
never been fullj explained and it
is not recorded that, upon hearing
such a lecture, a student ever de
cided to remold his life and live
for Higher Things. But it is a
pleasant way to pass an hour and
we are not griping about the idea,
only wondering how it is that the
Lecture Industry has grown by
leaps and bounds in recent years.
That is. we wonder what it is
about a man standing up before
a group of people and summing up
all he knows in an hour twhen he
could probably do as well in ten
minutes) that attracts us in droves
and makes us sit with our tongues
hanging out, straining our ears for
each gem of wisdom that falls.
Is it that me hope thus to im
prove ourselves so that someday,
at the end of our own long and
glorious career, we too can Join
the lecture industry, passing on all
our accumulated wisdom accom
panied with the cream of jokes
left over from the Orphoum cir-
Bizad dean talks
at Doanc Friday
Dean J. E. LeRossignol of the
bizad college mill go to Doane
College at Crete tomorrow morn
ing to speak at the senior recog
nition convocation on the subject
"A College Student's Responsibil
ity in the World Today."
LeRossignol will speak in Fre
mont Saturday at the fall meeting
of the Nebraska Writers' Guild on
"Keep Busy and Keep Faith."
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cuit? Is it that we hope thus to
grapple first hand with some gen
uine culture? Or is it just that
we want to be entertained while
being comfortably ass n red that
we are improving our minds?
Some speakers, of course, are
genuinely entertaining and man
age to teach us something at the
same time, a Herculean task. But
we could learn all they tell us with
a little interested reading. It is
the presence of the celebrity in the
flesh that draws us.
It is not what is said but who
says it that impresses us. If
Franklin D. Roosevelt says. "It's a
nice day" somebody is sure to fig
ure out that he means the coun
try is going to have a big com
crop, the price of corn is going
down, and therefore the govern
ment is planning to increase its
farm relief program.
An experienced lecturer can
merely clear his throat with a
preliminary rumble, shoot his
cuffs, brush a fly off his arm, wipe
his glasses, blew his nose, and say
"Ahem" and we are already con
vinced that anything be has to
say will be the gospel truth. We
never heard H illiam Jennings
Bryan and we don't know much
about what he said but we'll bet
ten to one people didn't give a
plugged free-silver dollar what
Bryan had to say. What they
crowded into hot tents and over
crowded opera houses for was to
hear Bryan's voice shake the raft
ers, watch him wave his arms,
pound the table, and put on a
grand one-man show.
Anyway, we are going to take
the next boat for Africa and lec
ture to the natives on "What
American Colleges are Like."
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They'll probably think we're crazy
and lock us up but there ought
to be big money in it until they
get wise.
Council-
(Continued from page 1.)
Working conditions of students
are also to be investigated.
Other problems.
Campus paiking situation, a
central booking committee for
orchestra for campus parties and
a discussion on the political situa
tion of collecting identification
cards were alo taken up but
tabled until a later meeting.
The first amendment presented
follows:
Article IV Section I Paragraph
I of the Constitution, regarding
council membership should be
amended to read as follows:
1. Twenty-four members appor
tioned as follows:
a. Twelve junior men, two from
the College of Arts and Sciences,
two from the College of Engineer
ing, two from the College of Busi
ness Administration, two from Ag
ricultural college and one each
from Denistry, Law, Pharmacy
and Teachers colleges.
b. Ten junior women, three from
the college of Arts and Sciences,
three from Teachers, two from
Fine Arts and one each from Ag
ricultural and Business Adminis
tration colleges.
c. One man and one woman
from the Graduate college.
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