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THE NEBRASKA!
Friday, March 15, 1946
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
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Navy Ho!
The Letterio column today contains a letter from a
navy trainee with a justifiable complaint about the attitude
of some returned veterans toward the men of the campus
navy unit. We realize that it is only a minority of the re
turned GIs who have adopted this resentful attitude toward
the sailors, but even so it has created an unfortunate and
highly embarrassing situation for the navy men.
Obviously these uninformed veterans do not know that
at present the navy unit includes men from every kind of
ship in the fleet, from amphibious craft to aircraft carriers
and battleships. At the beginning of last term approxi
mately 85 percent of the men in the unit came to the campus
from active duty. In fact, a high percentage of the men
had been outside the states until within two or three days
before V-J Day.
Campaign stars are plentiful over Navy Hall way, with
one boy alone having earned 13 as a survivor of every battle
of the Enterprise. Both the European and Pacific theatres
of war are represented by veterans of the Gilberts, Guadal
canal, the Philippines, the South China Seas Operations,
Okinawa, carrier based raids on the Jap homeland, Iwo
Jima, Saipan and from New Guinea on up through every
spot in the South Pacific, to mention a few.
The men in the navy unit have earned their right to a
government provided education just as have other former
members of the armed forces. The fact that they do not go
around informing the world of their war experiences doesn't
mean they haven't seen their share. They are too busy
studying and taking part in university life to go around
pounding on desks and telling the world of imagined or
real troubles.
The Administration
Frequent reference is made by students, usually in a critical
tone of voice, to the lofty "administration, of the university. Every
one talks about the "administration" tfut -no "one ever appears to
really know who or what the "administration" is. :
The general government of the university is vested in a board
of six regents, elected from the original six congressional districts of
the state. The board makes the rules for the government of the
university, appoints a chancellor, confirms appointments of faculty
and staff, prescribes the duties of professors and officers and fixes
their compensation.
As chief executive officer of the university, the chancellor has
both educational and business supervision over the university as a
whole, subject to the rules and orders of the board of regents. In
cluded in the roster of administrative officers under the chancellor
are the finance secretary, operating superintendent, deans and di
rectors of colleges and schools, the deans of student affairs, of women,
and of summer school, the librarian, and the registrar.
The top ranking official advisory body of the administrative staff
is the University Senate which is made up of all instructors with
the rank of associate professor or above. This group acts as a general
advisory body to the chancellor, the board of regents, and the various
college faculties upon matters affecting the educational and admin
istrative work and policy of more than one college or of the uni
versity as a whole.
Another advisory group set up by the present chancellor a num
ber of years ago, and given official standing by the regents, is the
Chancellor's Advisory committee. Supposedly this committee, which
is elected by the Senate, serves as a hearing board for faculty sug
gestions to be passed on to the Senate, chancellor or regents. The
group has no power, however, other than that of suggestion to higher
authorities. Any member of the faculty may go to the committee
at any time with matters concerning any phase of the operating poli
cies or practices of the institution, but there is no guarantee that
action will be attempted on matters presented. Until recently the
Advisory committee has met only once or twice a year. The chan
cellor is chairman of both the Senate and the Advisory committee.
During the present year the Advisory committee has taken on
new activity and has adopted a plan of regular monthly meetings.
They have also elected a chairman pro tern and a secretary to pre
side at infoimal meetings held at the call of the chairman pro tern.
These constitute the official administrative offices and groups of
the University of Nebraska. '
LETTERIP
Today I was called a draft-dodger, a 4-F, and
was accused of sweating out the war with pencils
and books. Yesterday a similar incident occurred.
This is very hard to take, considering that I and
the other NROTC students here at the university
are guilty of none of these things.
I feel that the Nebraskan's Letterip column is
the only real means of expressing myself and the
rest of the Navy trainees because these aspersions
are never said to us as a group. AU the remarks
I've heard thus far were directed to me as an in
dividual by several veterans at a time. Trying
to explain anything to them at those times would
be useless considering the atmosphere they created.
We Navy boys are not draft-dodgers, nor 4-F's,
nor have we sweat out the war with pencils and
books. We are made up of men who have good
war records; men who have spent from one to
two years overseas; men who have been in the
service over three years; and lastly, men who
have not been overseas because they weren't old
enough, at the time, to be In service. Certainly,
any straight thinking veteran cannot condemn us
for this.
Finally, I wish to say that this Navy program is
a peace-time program. None of us have "missed
out on the war" through the NROTC system. I
am sure I am speaking for all the NRO's when
I say "Lay off, veterans, we've done our bit, too."
CHUCK ANDERSON.
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i2y Iflfjartliella J4olcoml
Must be spring, the politicians are in bloom again.
Looks a bit as though they hadn't finished moult
ing, however. After the great pronouncements of
policy, it's a bit discouraging to find many of the
registrants at the polls Thursday forgot which party
they'd been told to register for. Guess they were
all freshman pledges, and the "Scarlet F" has yet
to be burned into their foreheads.
Since everyone's expecting the intra-mural box
ing finals to be mentioned, we won't disappoint
you. Went to the boxing matches Tuesday night.
Boxing, that's when you see if you can "grW your
teeth longer than the other fellow. Most discon
certing it was, too, to see a predominantly feminine
ringside row of decapitated heads, each contem
platively chewing its cud, and letting go with an
occasional shriek. One eager little coed watched
contently till they drew blood, then studiously ap
plied herself to her knitting till the next bout
began. Just call her LeFarge.
i
Happily, they consider it the manly art of self
defense, 'cause that gives us an excuse to devote
our exercise time to bending the elbow above a
row of cherry cokes.
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Off the Ilccord I
By Jerry Cohn and
Aaron Schmidt :
One of the top records out this
month is Stan Kenton's Shoo Fly
Pie (And Apple Pan Dowdy),
coupled with I Been Down In
Texas, recorded under the Capitol
label. Shoo Fly Pie features the
outstanding voice of June Christy.
Texas gives the spotlight to four
vocalists, with June Christy, Gene
Howard, Ray Wetzel, and Stan,
"The Piano" Kenton.
Kenton has made many changes
in the band personnel since his
appearance at Nebraska Univer
sity last February. Stan has added
a bass trombone to fill out his
brass section to ten men. Kenton
seems to be having trouble decid
ing upon a drummer, as he has
had several; the latest one is
Shelly Manne.
Novel Arrangements
One of the oddities of Kenton's
band is that eight of the men, be
sides playing in the band, also ar
range the music. The featured
male vocalist, Gene Howard, also
arranges ballad numbers.
Kenton's first cross country tour
in 1942 was a miserable flop. To
show how public opinion can
change, at a recent engagement
at the Meadowbrook, in Newark,
N. J., Grace Barrett paid a
twenty-three dollar cab fare to
travel from New York to the
Meadowbrook, just to listen to his
music. Some drawing power!
The DeMarco Five
A new and different type of
singing group is the five DeMarco
Sisters. Recording for Majestic,
they have issued three records:
Chico, Chico, and It's Been a Long
Long Time; Hop, Skip & Jump,
and Flat River, Missouri; Blue,
and Sweet, I've Gotten On You.
The tune that really sends us is
their rendition of Blue. Their un
usual style in presenting this song
makes us feel sure that you will
enjoy it too. Fied Allen, realizing
their possibilities, has given them
featured spot on his Sunday
night broadcast. We predict a
bright future for them.
Dig you later!
Inflation .
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there is little likelihood of cancel
lation of currency," Prof. Arndt
said. "Our present reconversion
turmoil is not a struggle against
inflation but who will get the in
crease first."
Rising Prices.
Rising prices and stationary
wages are detrimental to the wage
earner, while industry and agri
culture will be tthe victims if
wages rise and prices remain sta
tionary, according to Professor
Arndt. In either case, he s"aid, the
investor class stands to lose be
cause it benefits most from low
prices and low1 wages.
The government is trying to help
these three groups by stalling until
goods can be produced in great
enough quantity to offset the
money abundance, and by slowing
down the inflationary rise to ease
the shock of the inevitable defla
tion, Arndt continued.
"We are a long way into infla
tion now, but our fears should
not be too great about a break
down of our economy and 'wall
paper currency," asserted Profes
sor Arndt. What ought to worry
us is who will pay the 'hidden
cost' of the war."
'University News' Prints
Article on Radio Studio
Radio activities of the univer
sity will be featured in the March
27th issue of the "University of
Nebraska News."
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"Sure, I've mado
41,000,000
telephones
. . . but ivhat else do I make?"
"I do make good telephones and I'm proud of every one
of them.
"But your Bell Telephone would be completely silent
without the other things I produce to go with it.
"Wire for instance. . . miles and miles and miles of it.
Acres of reels of cable... thousands of intricate switchboards
. . . delicate electronic apparatus to improve your long dis
tance calls. And that's only the beginning . . .
"That's just my manufacturing function for the Bell System.
(I've been at it since 1882.) I'm purchaser for the Bell tele
phone companies, too. I distribute equipment and supplies
to them throughout the nation. I even install central office
equipment.
"I've helped to make our nation's telephone service the
best in the world and the most economical.
"My name? Remember it . . .
"It's Western Electric !"
Western Electric
SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOR THE BELL SYSTEM