Sunday, October 5, 1941'
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Well Established on Campus
Founded by YMCA Members
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Eight Colleges
Establish ROTC
Naval Programs
GREAT LAKES, 111. (ACP).
Kaval ROTC units are being es
tablished this fall at eight uni
versities and colleges, according to
Rear Admiral John Downes, com
mandant of the Ninth naval dis
trict The units are located at the Uni
versity of Notre Dame, South
Bend, Ind.; University of Colo
rado, at Boulder; Duke university,
Durham, N. C; Holy Crosa col
lege. Worcester, Mass.; University
of N?w Mexico at Albuquerque;
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, N. Y.; Rice Institute, Hous
ton, Tex., and Tufts college, Med
ford, Mass.
Meanwhile the navy announced
in Washington, D. C, that expan
sion of the program of enrolling
freshmen in naval science and tac
tics courses has increased to 27
the number of colleges having na
val ROTC units.
Total enrollment in the present
academic year is expected to reach
4.600, with a graduating class of
300. Last year's enrollment was
3,055.
The LQC Lamar school of law
at Emory university was the first
accredited law school in the south
cast. Hunter college students volun
tarily withdraw from school when
they fail to meet minimum stand
ards of scholarship.
Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
Shown in action, upper left, is the German band, composed of five
members of the co-operative group. Reading left to right they are
Albert Walla, Eldon Mathauser, Verne Moseman, Lester Lock and
James Jensen. In the background are, left to right, Lavon Haxby,
Bob Kellogg and Niels Wodder.
Carrying out their most enjoyable phase of co-operative living
are these members ihown in the dining room and kitchen of the house,
which is located at 511 No. 16th.
Dip; Business .
Library Officials Keep Busy
As Students Demand Boohs
... In All Departments
Book business is booming this
fall at the university library!
"Figuratively speaking," Miss
Margaret Rutledge, head of the
circulation department, reports
that the total number of booki
checked out to students from the
opening day of school, Sept. 15,
through the first of October, was
nearly 8,000.
Heavy Circulation Upstairs.
Unusually heavy circulation fig
ures come from the upstairs re
serve room where students spend
most time preparing short daily
assignments from volumes that
can be checked out for two-hour
or overnight periods. Eight hun
dred fifty-6ix books went out on
the record day,' Sept. 25, compar
ing favorably with the heaviest
day in September, last year, on
which 1,020 botks were checked.
Downstairs reading rooms at
tract a sUady reading group with
approximately 3,000 books going
out every month. This September,
2,792 books were checked from the
first floor reserve room in com
parison to 2,725 last year. One
thousand, five hundred seventy
eight this year and 1,500 last year
were taken for a two weeks'
period.
No Rush During Exams.
Contrary to popular belief, UN
students do not read more books
in the library during exam week
than at other times. Resolutions
for "fresh starts" at the beginning
of Rtmt8ters draw larger numbers
to the library than midterm cram
ming. Circulations for January and
May of last year are about aver
age with between 700 and 750
books going out on reserve each
month.
Miss Rutledge reports,, as an
interesting sidelight, that 1,850
books have been placed on reserve
in the campus library this year.
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Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
Exterior of the house, which owes its existence to the energetic
group of college students who kept the University from razing it by
repairing and painting, is pictured above. Known on the campus as
the Pioneer Co-op house, it represents not a house but a home to the
34 students who live in it.
Pioneer Co-op, only strictly co-operative boarding and rooming
house on the campus for men, now entering its second year on the
campus, is firmly established as a Nebraska institution. The house
Is the outgrowth of efforts for better living conditions made by enter
prising YMCA members in the fall of 1940.
Established in order to "promote co-operative rooming and board
ing houses on the University of Nebraska campus whereby students
may reduce the general costs of living, inspire fellowship, promote
co-operative spirit and social activity," the Pioneer house now shelters
not the original twenty, but thirty-four men students, who maintain
the house without hiring help, with the exception of a combination
cook and housemother. Playing this dual role is Mrs. J. L. Jacobs.
Last year when the house was in its embryonic stages, there were
twenty students living and working together in the house, which owes
its very existence to them, for the university had seriously thought
of razing the house.
35 Members.
The first steps in creating the organization were to rent the house
for $50 a month, draw up a constitution, furnish the house, and elect
a treasurer and steward. It was agreed that each member pay ?5 a
week for room and board, 53.75 of which goes for board. 15 percent
of the boarding income goes to Mrs. Jacobs. At the present time, with
35 students paying $20.00 a month the monthly income is $660.
Officers this year, who must be members of the organization for
not less than two semesters and receive the majority vote of the mem
bers at a closed business session, are Arthur Garbers, president; Ray
mond Miller, vice president; Nels Nordland, treasurer; David Carsten,
secretary, and Joe David, steward. One-half of their room and board
for their work is ieccived by the treasurer and steward. Robert How
ard, son of Senator Howard, was president the first year.
Dairy products are high on the food list, with more than $125.00
a month paid for them. The grocery bill amounts to $18 a day, $18
to $20 a week is paid to the cook and about $200 a year goes for heat.
Improvement of the house itself was accomplished by the boys by
taking the $150 they had in the bank at the end of the first year and
using it for nearly 30 hours on the one day rate by getting it Saturday
exercising their own ingenuity. They rented a sar.der for $4 a day,
night and returning it Monday morning. They fixed a rickety stair
way and did a lot of painting. For $80 and a lot of work they accom
plished what would have cost them $350 if theyhadhir ed the work
done. .
Christmas Dinner. '
The fellows splurged last Christmas when they spent $40 for
decorations and turkeys and invited the Chancellor and Mrs. Boucher
for Christmas dinner. Every Wednesday night, the men invite a pro
fessor to dinner to lecture to them.
Serving the meals is worked out systematically, with three of them
serving aa waiters at each meal. A host is selected for each table,
whose duty is to maintain order during the meal. After each meal,
every fellow carries his dishes to the kitchen where a dish . crew
washes them. Working schedules are made and the members work
when they are not in school or at some other Job. Nearly 50 percent
of the members have NYA jobs, while others do other types of work.
Ray Miller and Joe Divis act as sergeants-at-arms, and according
to the steward, they never have any trouble. None of the member
use intoxicating liquors and the front door is never kept locked.
Hour dances are a part of their program, now that the floors are
sanded, and the group has a German band, complete with a piano
which they bought for $7.
If a member skips his dish-washing duties, lie is promptly fined
25 cents. The fellows do their own laundry, with the exception of
sheets, and have a washing ncachine and mangle, but no vacuum
cleaner.
In order to make entrance for application, a man must be enrolled
as a student at the university, must meet all the provisions of the
constitution and by-laws, must pay a $5 entrance fee, must live in
the house, and must receive the unanimous vote of the group.
