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Friday, March 27, 1942 DAILY NEBRASKAN - UN Gears To War By Alan Jacobs. Law With older students enrolled in law, this college is more beset by the problems of the war than any other college. Altho, judging from the last war, a new demand for j lawyers will be reflected after the., struggle by a swift increase in law j students. But meanwhile, the j army, and defense jobs are cutting deeply into enrollment, forcing : courses to be adapted and reduced where possible. But as for 1943. it is hard to tell what the status t,f the law college will be. j Fine Arts ! Altho a large drop in enrollment is anticipated, this semester's reg- J istration was surprisingly equal to last year's. Fewer students are expected to enroll in this college, but much extra-curricular activity will center here as students seek "escape" in time of war. Journalism Here is another school which will in all likelihood be dominated by women as war continues to take young men. Kmphasis of courses will be placed on background ma terial needed by writers such as international studies, history of wars and peace treaties. Altho the war will cause changes find reductions in the field itself because of paper shortages an 1 limited advertising, educators are confident that newspapers will ex ist as long as democracy continues. (Graduate With so many older students making up this college, its en rollment has dropped until there are more assistantships than quali fied students to take them. Es pecially in physics is the war de mand great. And it will be greater. For the research worker in grad college whose study is directly re lated to defense, another problem exists. The ban of secrecy will prevent students from publishing their research work in thesis form Military There is little possibility that ROTO courses will be condensed nto shorter periods, because of a nresent war department ruling However, the basic course now pives all the training needed for non-comrnissioned officers in the army, and the advanced course pives adequate training for offi cers. I 'rider a new ruling, this summer will iiKtik the end of ROTC sum mer camps. Men will be sent to special service camps following completion of the advanced course. I'll ys ical II du cation Present indications point toward expanding general physical educa tion program at the expense of re- ductions in interschool athletics. There is now a great demand for well-trained men and women, and that will be the major objective of the physical education department. As for athletic income mostly from football- it is expected to drop and expenses are being cut in anticipation. Extension If the university becomes an information center for the state, a larger share of that job must be carried by extension. Night classes, extension courses and field centers are being keyed to the war pro gram. , Summer Session d.mrn.r n Vir..l ut leu I for "Ui7 will continue to be organized into id. v,-.,.r fIir,n a icri r,urt r.f ih enrollment will be school teat hers, TONIGHT AT EIGHT! Lost Performance of Show's II Androcles ot the University Theatre Dept. of Speech, School of l ine Attn Gen. Adm. Mt p, , ,.- 30c Res. Mt pl & 55c Effort; desiring to get back into active duty during the emergency. Junior Division The Junior division may come into its glory during the war emergency with young students dominating the university. The division will be charged with giv ing these young persons the train ing they want in the limited time they have before being called into military service. Many prerequisites will be aban doned; testing and aptitude tests will be enlarged and emphasized. Almost any action will be taken as long as it better fits the UN educational program to the emer gency. This is wartime. And altho critics say that the university is in an "educational vacuum," action taken by the board of regents and predictions made by UN educators indicate that the University of Ne braska has already felt the effect of the war and is making plans for more violent repercussions. Already the university has made special arrangements for students entering the nrmed services and have organized two-year terminal courses, but what of 11-! 3? In reviewing the situation here, Ralph Reeder of the Nebraska Alumnus wrote in the last issue," "The university of 1943 will con sist of a faculty of older men and women, teaching students whose average age is considerably young er than now. It will be co-educa tional with emphasis on the coed. A majority of the students will be taking short, concentrated courses designed for war needs." Reeder warned of a small staff woikint overtime in overlapping fields while students in medicine, physics, chemistry and perhaps eventually in all fields will be assigned to essential war wor k, cf 1 fective at the moment of gradua tion. I Fewi r automobiles and more bi cycles are in store for the campus of 1913. Some fraternities will un doubtedly be closed. The extrava ; gance oi social occasions will be I limited bv the war, and there will be a dearth in the number of luxur ies as is evidenced by the present ; struggle to get coca-cola syrup, i And there will be more struggles, losing struggles as far as luxuries are concerned. According to the Alumnus ar ticle, here is what university edu cators forsee for the various col leges. Fiipiieering Altho this is the college offering courses most vital to the war ef fort, many students are dropping out to engage actively in the war. Three alternatives are offered en gineering students: () They may take the full course for technical duties in which men are badly , n,.,.,,.,; ,2) They may take a half course corict Titrating on informa tion of value in the armed forces; l3l They m.i.V take special government-provided training courses in drafting, shop mathematics, air craft assembly, radio, etc. The civilian jilot training program, now a couple of years old, is also sponsored by the college. For the future, more women are expected to enroll in the college as the war progresses. Already in augurated to a cert f: in extent is the policy of the army to require that good students complete their engineering course rather than leaving for the armed services. Agriculture Here too, a drop in enrollment Is : anticipated because of the need for farm workers. However. nintii ' courses will be offered, and women I will be. urged to take technical and the Lion II ll ducational irrogram Not training for the place they must fill in the nation's work. Busy now and busier later will be the ag extension division which has three aims: (1) to convince homemakers that they can contrib ute to national defense by care for home and children; (2) to in crease 4-H club work; (3) to pro mote "victory gardens' food and better diet. Dentistry for more With 100 percent of nates assigned to the its grad armv and navy, tiie college of dentistry is preparing for canacity registra tion, even to the point of anticipat ing a possible move into the middle-west by coast students if their own schools are bombed. Dentistry students are especially j classified in the draft, and a war , emergency course has been added ' to the college curriculum. Dentists ' serving in the last war are han- ! dling a lot of the instruction. Medicine As in the case of dentists, doc- ' tors are needed, and the army has ' set special exemptions for medical j students. The UN college's pro gram has already been accelerated ' with a three-semester schedule and ! no vacation period going into op- . eration probably by this summer. Teachers Finding and training teachers , for the expected shortage in Ne- j braska is the present problem of this college. Karly reports show greatest need for commercial, ath letic and science personnel. Attempts are being made to get students, trained for teaching, but who have left the field, to return. The educational field center idea, unique in Nebraska, will probably be expanded, and university spon sored correspondence courses will be increased. Inauguration of war production courses is also be ing studied. Arts and Sciences Future changes in this college are almost impossible to predict. Here will be felt the impact of il k A r-v i aVj i hv. - - lifm B I r . v .j' i las- l H II i in Vacuum shift in emphasis mts terminal courses go into effect and require ments are altered. War demands seem s-ire to cause mathematics, physics, chemistry, bacteriology and prc-med courses to flourish. New background courses such as Far Kastern and Latin Amer ican history, along with the geog raphy of these regions, and more of such languages as Spanish, Swedish, Noiwegian, Portuguese and Russian will be offered. Pharmacy Never was there such a demand for pharmacists, but the future picture is complicated by the fact that there are too many drug stores. Men trained in pharmacy are needed for military service, and the coast guard and marines Hoick Attends 4iinual Biology Meet in Boston Dr. Uarald O. Hoick, associate professor of pharmacology, will read a paper- in the pharmacology section of the 29th annual conven tion of the Federation of American Societies for Kxperimental Biology, which meet this year from 31 through April 4 in Boston,. Mass. In his paper. Dr. Hoick will present the results of his and his collaborators' statistical studies of the effects of anesthetics in the intravenous cat method of stand ardizing digitalis. His paper will tic presented dining the Friday morning session. Also presenting a paper in col laboration are Dr. A. R. Mclntyre of the school of medicine, and Mr. R. K. King, assistant in the mcd- ; ical college. This paper concerns the polarographic investigation of t local anesthetics. James M. Dille Lnri lAkcm I. Smith each of whom obtained their M. A. from i J- B. Burt, chairman of the de , Nebraska's college of pharmacy. ! pa I tment of pharmacy, will also and Robert H. Shuler, whi re- : attend this meeting as a dele ceived his M. A. in the depart- gate of the Nebraska association. .fL II Hill II HISS I i are enrolling UN students prior to graduation. It has been the policy to defer pharmacy students, but work in the college may be hampered by the shortage of pharmacy teachers and graduate students. Business Admin ist rat ion This college will feel the effect of the terminal courses with great emphasis on secretarial courses and a few other subjects that might fit students into the war program. Anticipated is an in crease in the number of women in the field of accounting because of the war, but lasting after the war. With a fourth of its faculty now on leave? for government work, biz ad college is giving remaining staff members more and varied subjects to teach. Rami (Continued from serenity returns to lov. Page 1.) Sleepy Ho). Following is the order' of the program: If Thou Hi- Near: Hsirh. Siin'hiy Miiriiliii: nl 4 tlnii : Hi-nrtd. Tlmi- ViiHTirun I'll-ci'S; A ltlltli- S"if: HilMrh. 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