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Page 2 THE NEBRASKAN Tuesday, February 19, 1948 EDITORIAL COMMENT i JhsL (Dailif TkJbhaAkjcuv FOKTY-riFTH YEAR Subscription rate are fl.ot per umealer ar I I S far lha eollera year. $2.M mailed. Hintle rapy. S eenta. Entered aa rrond-elaita matter at the po.t affica in l.lnraln, Nebranka, ander act af Concreaa March , IHTO, and at apeeial rata of naUfe pravlded far in aeclion 1103, act af Oataber t. 1017, aathertied September SO, 1922. EDITORIAL STAFF ., . ar .ntor BettT I Mm Hnatoa Mnnac'ni : Kuitori i .' I'hyllla Trairarden, Shirley Jenkina Newa Edllora Mar All- Cawond, Phyllla MoKlorh, Jack Creaamaa. Marilyn Mryer, Marthrlla Holcomb Sport. Editor Ueorje Milter Suclrty Kdlfor Pat Toot BiKlnmn Manager Aoilnlant Bunlnraa Manater Irvulailoa Manager I51MNKSS STAFF ., .... lArralna Ahramaon . Dorothea Ronenher. IHinna Peteraon Keith Jonea, Phone t-BMS Must We Gripe? In a statement released Sunday, Chancellor C. S. Boucher pointed out the need for future legislative appropriations to insure the main tenance of the past standing of the University of Nebraska. It is encouraging to see the school officials putting out factual Information about the institution. Perhaps release of more such information, giving both the encouraging and discouraging sides of the present status of the university, might help eliminate the endless and often ill-founded habitual griping of Nebraska students. The editor of the school paper is in a position to hear everyone's troubles and gripes, real and imaginary. Frankly, we are weary of hearing nothing but student complaints that all the best professors are leaving for schools which pay better salaries, about the lack of adequate physical facilities, and the inability of the administration, faculty and students to work together. Granted that many of the gripes are based on actual conditions, there still must be something on the credit side of the ledger. For example, although no ratings of colleges were made during the war years, insofar as THE DAILY could ascertain, in 1942, the University of Nebraska ranked eighteenth in size in the United States and twelfth among state universities. Its credits are accepted by all colleges and universities, and in that same year, '42, students had enrolled from 42 states and 10 foreign countries and U. S. possessions. Nebraska students have gotten into the habit of criticizing their own school destructively. Their time could be more profitably spent in finding ways in which they can boost Nebraska, thereby raising the less adequate parts of the institution to the level of the many really outstanding departments and facilities. Passive griping will only send the university downward. It is time the students began to take pride in their school and themselves and to realize the esteem which the University of Nebraska rates in the nation. Ask some of your professors some time what they knew of the school before they came to the state. Then start looking at the pleasant side of the picture. JhsL (fak. Qojvl It has now been determined after last week's trip, that Denver is the best place to live, the best place to visit, and the best place to catch a cold in the United States. Met a most interesting Doctor of Political Economy at Denver university. At least, everyone told us he was a D.O.P.E. Checked on the Rockies and found they were just as beautiful as before the war, though students from the Colorado School of Mines found time to add a few moreautographs to the posts along Look out Mountain road, which is playfully called a highway. Was a real revelation, after weeks spent in the Crib, the Nook and the Union lounge, to discover at the speech conference, so many college students who had brains, ability and intellect, and who used them. Also garnered quite a bit of info on prob lems at other campuses. Guess Nebraska is luckier than we thought. Sam Warren did such a fine job pinch-hitting for us that we'll be afraid to let him do it again. Might find ourselves without a job. Comments aimed at us, along with bottles, glasses, Rykrisp and rotten love-apples, suggest that our return from the boroughs wasn't too welcome. After a couple of days spent holding well-worn sheets of Kleenex to a throbbing proboscis, we find ourselves feeling knee-high to an atom. We keep wishing a common cold weren't so common. Or that it would be fatal, and quickly, too. To the Editor: Without condemning or belittling as of bo value the topics usually discussed in the Nebras kan, we should like to encourage the appearance of more articles like the one in the issue of February 17, on the distribution of food to people of other nations. The official publication of the student body of a university should surely devote some space to topics that are vitally important. ("Vitally" is derived from 'vita' meaning life as contrasted with death, a physical and often moral condition which a lack of potatoes will inevitably bring about.) I believe the correct opinion in Sunday's arti cle of one of the students could be stated as fol lows: In order to promote peace we must avoid repeating those mistakes which this and almost every other nation made following the first World War. I should like to venture the opinion that we have already made many of the same mistakes. We have pulled almost every boner in the books, al though not quite as devoid of a sense of moral responsibility as a certain nation beginning with the letter "R" seems to be. As a result of our cor rect belief that we were fighting for a just cause, we won the war in our customary record time but forgot all about the consequences of victory. Under optimum conditions it would have taken perhaps three generations to nurse Germany as a nation back to political health. Now I wonder. At any rate, the City Sanitary Garbage Com pany still does a roaring business and those with the best knowledge of conditions elsewhere are not necessarily its worst customers. Richard Sundermann. Bob Hope's new contract with Paramount, signed just before he started in "Monsieur Beaucaire," will keep the comedy star at the studio until 1952. "California," is Barbara Stan wyck's first outdoor picture in which she does not ride a horse. Hunter College Offers Prizes For Essays Prizes totaling $12,S00 in Vic torv bonds will be awarded by Hunter college, New York, for the best essays on intercultural rela tions, announced Prof. Broderick Cohen, chairman of the essay committee at Hunter. Awards will be made to win ners in three categories. College and university students are to write on the general topic, "How Can American Colleges or Other Social Institutions Promote the Appreciation of the Culture of Other Peoples and Cooperation Among Them?" Contestants may concentrate on some portion of the topic. A first prize of $1,000, a second prize of $500 and 18 prizes of $100 each, all in Victory bonds at maturity value, will be awarded to winners in this group. "How Can the American Teacher Help to Foster Inter cultural Relations?" is the topic that teachers in colleges, univer sities, high schools and elemen tary schools of the continental United States may discuss in com peting for a similar group of awards. The essays for the two groups must not exceed 1,500 words. The third group of awards is limited to high school students in public paroachial and inde pendent high schools in the five boroughs of New York City who may write on the relationship of high schools in the development of nationality unit. Three special awards of $1,000 each in Victory bonds will be made to the schools which the student first prize winners are attending. The prize money has been made available by Lane Bryant, Inc., of New York City. The competition closes at mid night, March 1, and announce ment of winners will be made on May 15. A circular giving com plete contest details may be ob tained by addressing Hunter College, Diamond Jubilee Essay Contest, P. O. Box 7, New York 8, New York. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Llchty 1WV 1946, Chitg o Timet, lac ' "At least our striking secretaries are consistent, Dewlap! Their spelling is still atrocious!" .Mi V6? Bowl for Health at Lincoln Duck Pin Bowling Lanes Open from Noon lo Midnight 135 So. 13th St. Ag 4Y' Groups Schedule Joint Meet Tonight Ag YWCA and YMCA groups will meet jointly tonight at 7:45 in the home economics parlors, it was announced by Gordon Lip pitt, YMCA secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rice of the First Christian church, will talk and lead a discussion on the "Values and Importance of Home and Foreign Missions," as the main part of the program which was arranged by Co-Chairmen Francis Wagner and Carol Biid enbaugh. Wagner and Miss Brid enbaugh are presidents of the two "Y" organizations on the ag cam pus. Missionaries. Mr. and Mrs. Rice, prior to their work in Lincoln, were for many years missionaries in India, and according to Lippitt, are outstand ing leaders in youth organizations. The remainder of the program consists of worship services planned by Duane Foote and La Rayne Steyer. Barbara Stanwyck is buying husband Robert Taylor a four passenger airplane as a gift. Teresa Wright, who stands a little over five feet, two inches, in her nylons, is one of the tiniest stars in Hollywood, where her latest picture is Paramount's "The Imperfect Lady." Bing Crosby has made 35 pic tudse and has been under con tract for 13 years at Paramount. I' a i . a am par aa. Ivf PyaJH aa aiiaaai asajr. M 1'AHT time job for ntudrnta Intermtrd In whlnr nrwpaiNr advrrtiiln. Tall t-MHA nr rail at 5US Harklry building at 115 No. 12th. LOST llmwn Mhraffrr fountain pen. In orf around Andrew Mall, t all Z-ffAOl. 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