Friday, March 27, 1942
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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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. ,
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will continue to be organized into
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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
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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
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shift in emphasis
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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.
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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.
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J Geor ge A .Ereon fellowship, who
attend the meeting.
Upon the close of the conven
tion, Dr. Hoick will hurry to Clcvf
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, fif pharmacy at a special meet
ling held there April 7 of the U. S.
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