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DAILY NEBRASKAN Tuesday, September 23, 1941 fcdihohiaL ftommsmL 2 Scholarship Compared When the semi-annual scholarship report was re leased from the office of the dean of student af fairs yesterday the usual comments were made and some appeared in print in newspapers throughout the state. One newspaper had the Greek groups "lagging behind" other organized groups. Com ments such as "the average is going up" or the 'average is going down" were heard. Consequently we have made a study of the rela tive scholastic ratings of undergraduate groups for the past 10 years. Most of the opinions voiced and printed proved to be unfounded. The scholarship ratings since 1931 ran approximately the same as they do now. The all-student average for the sec ond semester of last year was 2.424. This would be approximately 78 if a numerical average could be accurately computed on the basis of 100 percent. This average is slightly higher than any average during the past 10 years, but is not more than one or two tenths of a point higher, which would prob ably mean that the averages up to now have been anywhere from 75 up to 78 for the student body. Every semester such professional sororities as Omicron Nu, Mu Phi Epsilon, Phi Upsilon Omicron and such professional fraternities as Sigma Delta Chi, Phi Mu Alpha and Sigma Gamma Epsilon have topped the scholastic lists for the entire school. Every semester such organized houses as Wilson, Loomis, Howard and Bouton halls have headed the lists for organized houses. These facts are easily understood because all of these professional and house groups have for their basis of selection of members or residents a high scholastic average. Something would be wrong with them if they did not carry off the top honors. As for the Greek groups, every semester has seen a different alignment of ratings. But to say they t.re now "lagging behind" the other groups is fool ish because their basis of selection is not primarily on scholastic attainment and therefore they cannot be expected to top the groups which have high scholarship as a prime requisite. Therefore we don't think everyone should get so excited about who is on top and who isn't. If every student can contribute to the general average of the university and it continues to rise one or two tenths qf a point each semester, the university will continue to rate as one of the top schools scholas tically. That is the important thing. Behind the News By David Thompson I was interested Sunday night in listening to the American Forum of the Air hold an extemporaneous discussion on the very controversial subject of "Freedom of the Seas." The forum was composed of Hamilton Fish, U. S. Representative from New York; Amos Pinchot, noted Pennsylvania lawyer; James Cromwell, former American Minister to Canada; and Professor Elliot, former head of the Department of Government at Harvard and now an official in the OPM. The former two represented the isolationists (Congressional in type) and the latter duo represented the interventionist viewpoint. In previous forums "Ham" Fish has always come off with the last word in regard to his well known "rubber and tin" war, but he met his match Sunday in Prof. Elliot who came from his office in the OPM with a battery of figures and estimates to counteract Representative Fish's usually embaras sing questions. He also was prepared with a num ber of his own embarassing interrogatives. Fish lost further ground when he and his colleague dis agreed on the subject. What interested me most was the fact that after a half hour of heated argument the three parties, excepting Mr. Pinchot, unanimously agreed that they favored the intervention of our navy in the sinking of vessels bearing the U. S. flag in all waters in our defensive zone. They went on also to agree that these waters included the waters to and from the sources of our vital defense materials. The stipulation did not Include vessels flying the Panamanian flag or vessels carrying supplies to Britain beyond Iceland. To all this Mr. Fish agreed, but he would not agree to the protection being ex tended an inch beyond Iceland or to vessels of other nations bearing defense supplies to the U. S. He seemed fairly confident that our own merchant ma rine could handle the shipping of our defense needs. All on the program were in agreement that, in case of a German victory in this war, we would maintain our traditional right to trade anywhere on the seven seas by force if necessary. 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