THE NEBRASKAN'
Wednesday, April T2, 791?
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Paf Chamberlin, Censor
Pfc. ROBERT LUEBS, class of '43 and member
of Phi Beta Kappa, is one of five to graduate with
distinctoin in his class of 150 from a 9-month Far
Eastern Area and Language school at Stanford Uni
versity. He will stay on at Stanford for three
months post graduate work.
Pfc. Luebs was here this week on furlough
visiting his parents. He was accompanied by his
wife, Laurel Morrison, former president of the War
Council and also a member of PBK.
Midshipman DON PAPEZ, ATO, is now stationed
at Camp MacDonough, Plattsburg, New York. "It's
a good life," he writes, "with only a 24-hour watch
staring me in the face, and then there's Hotel
Witherill ..."
Don was circulation manager of the Nebraskan.
AAF silver wings of s. pilot and a commission
ss second lieutenant await MAURICE DINGWELL,
Phi Gam, this Saturday at Pecos, Texas. He will
be in Lincoln on his graduation leave.
BILL WELLINGER, Sig Alph, has been pro
moted to the rank of first lieutenant at Rosewell
Field, N. M., where he is in pilot's school. He and
his wife, the former Margaret Krause. DG, have a
new daughter named Margaret Kay.
HERBERT C. TEMME, class of '45, has entered
the AAF training command school at Yale Univer
sity for aviation cadet training in communications.
He was in engineering college here.
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Alaska to South Seas
A newsletter is sent periodically to for
mer Student Union employees, now in the
armed forces, by Miss Inez F. White, direc
tor of foods for the Union. Miss White
receives many letters from these boys, and
the newsletter is composed of interesting
excerpts from their letters to her.
Particularly interesting are two letters
recently received by Miss White, one from
Sgt. REXC. MILLER, m Alaska, and the
other from TS ALBERT HAMERSKY,
somewhere in the Southwest Pacific.
Sgt. Miller, who received his B.S. in ed
ucation at UN in 1943, writes that at their
remote outpost the only people they ever see
are a few Eskimos, and the pilot who brings
their mail once a month. He hasn t seen a
movie since last June, and "about the only
signs of life around the post are the white
foxes and large Arctic hares.
In a similarly remote environment, Sgt
Hamersky, who attended the university col
lege of engineering from 1941 to 1943, says
that the South Sea Islands have no actual
resemblance to those paradise isles pictured
in many movies, and that the heat is temfic.
One of their favorite diversions is to search
the islands for Jap skulls. In his opinion, the
skulls are very decorative when sandpapered
and varnished.
Both of the boys express their apprecia
tion of Miss White s newsletters, and say
that they would like nothing better than to
be back at UN nght now.
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The Nebraskan Demands
With the opening of filings for the general spring
election comes the inevitable report that factions are or
ganizing, that coalitions within factions are springing up,
that parties are making slates or splitting up.
And on the campus the confusion is spreading . , ,
with good reason.
This year the campus election situation, viewed from
the upperclassman standpoint, is drastically in need of revi
sion to fit the conditions prevalent on the campus. When
the Student Council was created, and election rules were
written, the majority of voters on the campus were males.
Parties and factions, sanctioned for men only, were written
into the Council constitution. Until 1941, women were
banned from politics by the Council and by the disapproval
of Mortar Board.
Then in the spring of that year, women were handed
a preferential ballot and allowed to vote by party. This was
followed, in the fall, by a Council vote to accept women in
politics as party candidates for office, as faction members.
As far as the Nebraskan can dicover, this is the final deci
sion in tne matter.
Now the campus population is predominately female.
Women do most of the voting. They run for office. They
do everything but conform to party politics, because they
have been denied the organization of a faction. In the fall
election, UN women voted a party preference "undercover"
because it was clamied that politics were illegal. The solu
tion was thought to be in the preference ballot, which has
since been condemned.
Now, in the spring elections, the coalitions are arising.
Those who file for offices believing that the absence of a
faction or a party primary means a clean election will be
disillusioned if the coalitions are at all successful. Those
who advocate clean poliitcs, whatever that may mean, will
find themselves ostriches who refuse to see the danger
because it is not obvious. And after the election will come
the cry of "dirty politics!" and resulting misunderstanding
among various women s organizations.
Here is the Nebraskan's belief: It is not within the
province of the dean of women, Panhellenic or Mortar
Board to decide the position of women in campus politics.
That prerogative rests with the Student Council, which
made the 1941 ruling. According to that statement, women
are allowed to enter politics openly, and without threat of
punishment for this activity. A group of women may or
ganize a political party or affiliate with any existing politi
cal party (Barb or Union) with the permission of the
Council.
The Nebraskan therefore demands a statement from
any person or group who wish to challenge the Council's
right to govern student politics involving women. It also
demands a reiteration by the Council of its policy as of 1941.
With all statements available to students through the
Nebraskan, questions on jurisdiction of various organiza
tions, and consequences of participation in political activity
should be answerable; and post -election cries of "dirty
politics" can be directed through this paper to parties,
factions or individuals, instead of being whispered in cor
ners by those who feel that they have been "knifed."
The Nebraskan is tired of asking that undesirable sit
uations be cleared up and getting no results. Let the
Council take the first step tomorrow to begin a movement
for a more definite policy concerning women m politics.
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