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Page 2 JIxsl Thbha&Iicuv FOKTT-F1FTB IIAB Sabtcrlatlaa Katei ara f I M Per Semester ar fl.M fer the Cellef Tear. tf.M Mailed. Single eepjr. ( Cent. Entered aa een-cUnj Blatter at the t at fire in Linealn. Nebraska. aaar Aet af Canrress Mareh S. il'.S, anal at tneeial rata f aata(e BraviaX far in Bectien 113. Aet af Octebar t. 19IX ibariaa 8en temaer Wit. KDITOBJAL STArF raitar Lealie Jeaa Glatfelta Maaacinr. Edilera B'ttr Laa Hasten. Janet Maaan Neat Editara Phyllis Teaar4ca. Mary Aiiea Cawaaa. Skirley Jenkina. BiU akerla Snort. Editor Gearre Miller Society Editor Betty King RIKIVFSS STAFF Bninrn Manager Assistant Baiinesa Manager.. Cirtalatian Manager So Long, Biff. . . Nobody knows much about it, but v According to a copy-righted story in the Monday World-Herald, Col. Biff Jones won't be coming back to the nuiversity. Per usual, the Board of Regents and the Ath letic Board are keeping the cards under the table. All we know is that Colonel Jones advised the World-Herald by telephone that he would not be coming back to UN and that he would release the university from its contract with him. His contract would expire shortly after the 1946 season. The World-Herald reported that Biff's decision is based on a letter from the Board of Regents and the Athletic Board, which apparently was anything but cordial about the Biffer coming back here as football coach and athletic di rector. It is a well known fact that the arm-chair quarterbacks of the university and Lincoln never liked Biff much mainly because Biff refused to kowtow to anyone and because he ran things the way he thought they should be run in spite of the best efforts of some Lincoln businessmen and mem bers of the administration to tell him his business. The fact that he was a good coach and popular with everyone except soire of the "big guns" with enlarged senses of their own self-importance seems to have made comparatively little dif ference. If the World Herald is correct, the Biffer won't be com ing back. Members of the Athletic Board refused to com ment on Jones reported decision, so once again the members of the university and the interested people who support it can only sit and guess what happened and why, until, some day, maybe, the Regents or the Athletic Board will release a smoothed-over. high-sounding, sweet-smelling statement of their altruistic reasons for their action or inaction. SsiaJbiv VyialsL dL Jwutaboid BY SASHA SLAPFACEOTTCH. If you of the fairer sex think you are the only ones who suffer nervous distraction from want of attention, the desire to make an impression, and last (but certainly Jar from least) of all, the LUST (how I hate that word!) for a date, YOU'RE NUTS!!! Til grant that you may worry yourselves to the point of col lapse for 33 weeks during the school year, but you certainly have your revenge and Ah! How sweet! from Nov. 10 to Dec. I, the period from the initial an nouncement of the annual Mortar Board Party until its actual pres entation. This is your moment and how you use it! If you think you have known (or have seen) a case of nerves, please settle for this, '-YOU AINT SEEN NOTHIN YET!" Bats Brains Out. For 8'i months we bat our brains out trying to gain a flicker of attention and (if I may make so bold as to suggest it) an in- finitesimal (Webster's Collegiate page 515) amount of affection. But what does it avail us? The grand announcement is made but the days creep by and we fail to hear a sweet, seductive voice softly whisper the magic words, 'Do ya want to go to that d n Mortar Board Party with me huh?" And the days tumble over each other 5n1o another week and things in the house begin to fly. -Pledge, clean up that pile of fingernails!" Another week passes. My hair falls (or, in the casts of some of the more fortu nates. it is merely whitens), the lines in our faces deepen, we age a year with each passing day we're old before our time in body and in spirit but the flame ct hope still smoulders within us. Four, five, then six more days pa ps. We're weakened. We're sinking fast. We are able to rouse ourstJves from our delirium only long enough to gurgle, 'Quick Doc! You gotta gimme another shot! Please Doc, just one more. Ohhhhhb! Biding Heaven's Hit. Something jangles in the back ground and we hear ourselves nutter, "But Pete, I dont want to play them bells, I want a hsrp!" Our death-rattle is interrupted by ... Lorraine Akramaa Skirley Hamate. Dara'hea Besenbert Slaart Harriaaa QhkA. Out Qiudnnv a rasping pledge-like cry, "Hey Satch! Some babe wants to talk to you on the phone." With a trembling hand the receiver is held to the ear. Then Sophie's "out-of-this-world" voice grates against our ear drum. It is file like in its eagerness. "That you Satch? Huh? Well look, Satch. it's like this. Vic Vapor huh? Oh you know, the flyboy from out at the Base! Well he cant come to Mortar Board Party tonight, so I thought Td give you a call. Sure I want ya to go, after all it ain't Vic's fault he's gotta be the Colonel's call boy this month to earn his $245, is it? Ya say you'd just love to go? O. K. Ill be over in 15 minutes! We sink back, too shaken to move. Then IT hits us! We've finally been invited! WE'RE goin to the Mortar Board Party. -Pledge! Quick! My morphine! My cane! My wheelchair! Careful of these bodies on second floor hall! Those poor guys just couldn't take it Too bad. Tsk. Breta Peterson Joins Law School Staff in January Miss Breta B. Peterson, UN graduate, has been appointed librarian and instructor in law at the law college, which will open in January, announced the Board of Regents last week. Graduating from the Law Col lege in 1939 at the head of her class, she practiced law with the firm of Peterson and Devoe, Lin coln. She was elected in 1945 to Lin coln's city council, the first woman to hold that position. Activities. President of the women's di vision of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce in 1942-43, she is also a member of Lincoln's Council of Social Agencies, Social Welfare Society board. Camp Fire Girls, Junior League and Board of Health. While an undergraduate at the university Miss Peterson was a member of P-i 'a Y-rr. Mor tar Board a -.3 c a i'.I.a DJta THE NEBRASKAN 1 DfL I CONVJEIDSATTBCN i 3 4 By Don Grube tj i ;rv:?.'. . 4vv -. : 'tsc; '. i....i:.rv:.-:rJ Training to Nebraska from all parts of the country, the NRO's returned to school Monday, but only to sleep. . . The few days we were gone from Navy Hall they thought it would be fun tp surprise us, so they put up a lot of new orders and changed all the old ones ... we were all confused for awhile but we are happy again as we look forward to Mortar Board Dance, which as you probably have heard is being held this week-end . . . When Morton Wells brings his baton down on the first beat Saturday night the chics and their "guy dates" will start dragging each other around the floor . . . Marilyn Davis will be seen with glamor ous Julian Hatton ... he will be wearing a Snipe Huntin9 with J1DGE MASON The by-word in campus circles as well as out-state and country groups now is, "What's the deal on Biff Jones?" No doubt the stu dents who, like us, came up to school after Biff had left and knew him only by reputation and rumor, are as bewildered as we were yesterday when we started out to find the "facts." The whole question arose this year when a joint meeting of the Athletic Board and the Board of Regents was called, about two weeks ago ,to discuss the athletic program for the year. Among other questions which came up was that Biff Jcnes' contract which stipulated that the position of athletic director and head coach would be opened to him for the '4 football year. According to an article in the Nov. 25 World Herald, it can be assumed that a letter was sent to Biff Jones by the Regents and Athletics boards concerning the fulfillment of the University's contract with him. The World Herald article intim ated that the letter offered Biff the coaching and director job for one year and after that only the job of director of athletics. The actual contents of the letter nave not been revealed to the press by either board. The article stated further that Bill anticipated releasing the uni versity from its obligation to him because of the dissension which existed both among members of the two boards and also among university alumni and other per sons. He maintained that for the rebuilding job which Nebraska has ahead, it -must have the backing of all regents and all members of the Athletic Coun cil." And he said: "Pretty plain- ly, I will not have the backing of these men." After reading this we were in terested in two questions, as doubtless many other non-informed students were. (1) What acUally was the pre position made by the ciiiversity to Biff Jones in that leU?r. (2) What wm the tme cause of the opposition eneoontered to Hi" rrinrning. Then the chase was on. To answer the first question we journed to Dr. Scott's office. Aft er an interesting talk to the chair man of the Athletic Board dis appointed us by concluding "as for the newspaper, you can quote me as saying, 'NO COMMENT ". We left him with the assurance that wherever we were in the world when he resigned from the athletic board and was in a posi tion to comment, we would come back to hear it. Next, over to see Lewandowfki, who was even more determined to prevent us from gleaning the con tents of the letter to Biff. By this time wc understood why the newspapers were speculating so freely. The obvious attemp to keep the contents of the letter protected from the public, parti cularly after Jones himself had signified his willingness to bring the matter into the public eye, was enough to arouse anyone's curiosity. From here our path led to the Chancellor's office, where the brush-off became almost humor ous. Our persistent questioning brought only the comment that Biff "was informed that it is the desire and intent of the board to keep faith with the contract." As we already kner this, we tried every approach we had learned once in journalism class to find out what else was in the letter, but evidently the Chancellor had had experience with our kind be fore. His defense were impregn able. Our last resort among univer sity authorities was Mr. Selleck. By this time the question had changed to: "Why wasn't the con tents of the letter made public?" "Didn't want to embarrass Colonel Jones," was the reply. Wondering what could be em barrassing about offering a guy a job as director and head coach at Nebraska, we were now con vinced that there was truly a "catch" somewhere. The only other comment he would make was, "I think the letter is very fair to his best interest." Then Mr. Selleck expressed his own personal admiration for Biff Jones as a football coach, and we put two and tv j together And the whole thing suddenly became clear. The important thing went much deeper than the mere con tents of a letter or the remarks Biff made to the World Herald staff member. We recalled talks we had had with many Nebraska fans and alums, and opinions we had heard on both sides. Link ing the varied opinions of these people with the attitude of the university authorities, the situ ation became strangely clear and simple. Contrary U what the World Herald has maintained. Biff Janes apposition Isn't led by a "Few Lincoln bnsinessmen" with chips on their shoulders. Granted there does exist snch opposition, and there are those who oppose Biff for petty, selfish reasons. But these do not constitute the major ity. Men like Mr. Selleck. some other members of the KegenU and Athletic boards, businessmen, farmers, former If ushers and others oppose Biffs return to JJN for a reason which has bo maliciousness In it whatsoever. And that reason is you stu W M i !rW2n I VlT "Vii ri i -ii'--- -rsir '-' - .-..,.v, . ., . c. .. ;teM(MU Don't let this picture fool you VTc don't guarantee that the gals will bt magnetically attracted to jour Arrow Tie. But here's what you can be sure of: Eye pleasing colors. Pattern you'll go for. Plus a special lining that resists wrinkles. See these attractive ties at your Arrow Dealer's. t ARROIV SHIRTS and TIES UNDERWEAR HAWDXER CHIEFS SPOZTS Sa'SZTS Wednesday, November 28, 1945 dark blue suit with gold accessories . . . Margaret Huff, after absolutely no delibera tion asked lovely Bill Gard to be hers for the affair . . . After sitting by the telephone for days, curvacious Rusty Peterson was finally asked to the hop . . . the lucky gal is Lois Gillette . . . Shirley Campbell has taken it upon herself to sling NRO Kamerling around the floor ... he is also wearing blue. No more cribbing during the afternoon, girls ... no more quiet dinners in out of way places . . . because every night at 6:30 in back of Navy Hall we line up and muster for chow! . . . after we arrive at the Union and go thru the chow line we muster again, just to make sure we attended dinner . . . ah yes, wonderful food we have here. Carrying on polite conversation in the Union today was NRO Wallace and Jo Gras mick . . . sitting beside them, also carrying on a conversation, was Chuck Peake and Jeaneeeeeee Stevens . . . It's Crib time now friends, so until Thursday here's to good romancing . . . dents, your parents and your rela tives. For, you see, it takes more t. than a thorough knowlege of football plays and techniques to be a coach and director at Ne braska. There isn't one of these men who oppose Biff objective ly, who would not grant that he is a wonderful football coach. But Biff Jones isn't a gladhander! Tnd that's what it takes to main tain a successful team at UN. It is one of the coach's jobs to encourage athletes to attend Nebraska and play football. This is done by visiting the farms and small towns and homes about the state and getting acquainted with the parents and the boys. It is done by speaking at club meet ings and attending banquets and shaking hands with them alL People enjoy this recognition, are flattered by this attention and are thus convinced that they could send thMr boy to college. It won't do to have the assistant coach or other staff member make these contacts not while the big guy's around for he's the one they want. We and our parents and our relatives are the ones who are responsible for the situation that it takes more than a good foot ball coach to make a good foot ball team at Nebraska. There is no solution: you can't have a team without men. It is just that Biff Jones doesn't like speaking and "making con- tacts" and consequently is not successful at it, and he knows it. He also knows, better than many of his friends and enemies, what is good for Nebraska. The only truly regrettable situ ation that exists now is that the Board of Regents has still not hit a happy medium between open meetings and strictly closed ones. Perhaps if they would expend some of their energy in putting out official statements to the press, they would not have to ex pend so much in answering re porters' questions.