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THE NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, April 23, 1946
EDITORIAL COMMENT
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Managing Editors Hiyllls Trarda, Shirley Jenkins
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Sports Editor Geonre Milk
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Circulation Manager Keith Jones, I'bone I-&2S3
Wake Up .
The University of Nebraska is well on its way to be
coming famous once again. As usual, however, it will be
due to their lack of committment on an outstanding issue.
It's about time someone started taking that proverbial walk
in the sun, or removing a few cobwebs which have obscured
their foresight.
When posterity speaks of this cherished institution of
higher learning it will not be in the sense of famous last
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woras, Dut iamous never spoiten worus.
The students o fthe university has taken a definite
stand on the current Big Six racial controversy but the
content of administrative statement might better be said
thusly: Quote . . . unquote. How can students ever hope to
accomplish a voice in state or national affairs when their
only voice in an institution of which they are a member
is indirectly silenced by a noncommittent peep of authority.
The students of the university have taken a definite
action of allowing Negroes to participate in Big Six ath
letics, and our own council went on record as supporting the
plan to the extent of Nebraska's withdrawal from the con
ference if the desired action is not accomplished. Iowa
State's Athletic Council lent their support to the measure
April 17 when Dean M. D. Helser, as chairman of the coun
cil, stated Iowa State's willingness to allow Negro participa
tion in the Big Six.
It is evident that the plan proposed by the KU council
is one of importance and will be taken before the Big Six
governing board. It might be well, therefore, if our own
representative on that board disclosed the stand he plans
to take in the matter. For once let the students know be
forehand the plan of attack instead of after, with a "well
it happened like this . . ."
The Student Council has made known its position in
the matter. Now let the powers that be do the same.
This is no minor problem so let's not again find our
selves getting just an E for effort.
LETTERIP
To the Editor:
Things have changed the veterans are returning, formals are
back, and social life and activities are reaching new height. In one
major aspect of college life only is interest on the decline.
A year ago last fall the YWCA Vespers were taken over by the
Religious Welfare Council and made all-campus, open to everyone
The project met with great approval for a few months; the service
men even had to be moved into the ballroom several times to ac
commodate the large number of students wishing to attend. By
spring, however, other things had captured the attention of all but
a handful. It was hoped that attendance would pick up in the fall.
but it didn't
Attendance at Vespers is not an obligation; it's an opportunity,
Continually complaints are heard that students don't have the time
or an atmosphere condusive to thinking and getting a fresh perspec
tive. The Vesper service is designed to fill this lack. It provides a
time in the middle of the week when students can gather in a quiet
place to thinking things through to the point of determining what
is most important to them. Regardless of what a person's beliefs are,
he can benefit from such a time.
Every Tuesday at 5 p. m. the service is held in parlors XYZ
For those to whom it is more important than a coke, a show or a
bull session it will become a regular part of the weekly schedule.
Sincerely,
MARY ANN MATTOON.
The Ask Can
by
Marthella Holcomb
You just can't win, you no sooner get your hands in the dish
water than your nose starts to itch. Some poor fellow was standing,
just idly breathing, in Campus Line Monday, when a bright lass walks
up, looks at him, and snaps, "Shut your mouth, you're not going to say
anything, anway." And they weren't even married.
Excellent example of adult humor, as evidenced by inmates of
this institution, is the current quickie about the man who took his
dog to have his tail docked. The Vet complained, contending that to
cut the tail so short would ruin the appearance of an otherwise
beautiful animal I don't care " stormed the man. "My mother-in-
law is coming next week, and I don't want any vestige of friend
liness to show."
Present gripe by both professors and scholars (not to be con
fused with Student Union students) is that with the advent of spring.
a mass exodus away from classrooms has begun. Stern measures are
expected fairly soon, with some near approaches already underway,
making it a bit difficult for those matriculators who don't consider
it beneath their dignity to appear for roll-call. Biggest offenders are
those whose interest in school is the "My folks made me come down
here," attitude. Chopin, calculus and cryptography are playing sec
ond, third and fourth place on some chicks' click parades. Laps of
the human race, that is.
Col. J. P. Murphy
Will Address Vet
Group on Housing
A regular meeting of the Vet
erans Organization of University
of Nebraska will be held at 7:15
p. m. Tuesday, April 23, in the
Union ballroom.
Col. J. P. Murphy, head of the
university ROTC department, will
speak to the group on housing
problems and how the university
plans to relieve the present crisis.
All veterans are urged to at
tend, according to Public Rela
tions Committee Chairman Rich
ard SinseL
Journalist Offers
Two Scholarships
Two Joseph C. Seacrest scholar
ships for university journalism
students will be presented May 6
instead of the one presented
heretofore, F. C. Blood, acting
director of the school of journal
ism, announced today.
ciassmen wun outstanding rec
ords, the scholarships carry a
$500 stipends All applications for
the awards must be in the journal
ism office by May 4, Blood said.
arrow, makes a sweet sport shirt!
Prof. Loeffel Announces
31 ill Annual Feeder's Day
Prof. William J. LoeffeL chair
man of the animal husbandry de
partment, has announced that be
tween 2,000 and 4,000 livestock
men from all parts of the state are
expected at the university on Fri
day, April 26, for their 34th an
nual Feeders Day.
Activities will begin at 9:15 a. m.
fcnd close at 3:30 p. m.
flRROW sports shirts are expertly cut roomy and free,
but not sloppy! These two, for instance, with quarter
sleeves ... in cool fabrics that are honeys in the wash-tub!
They're Sanforized-shrunk, that's why (maximum shrinkage 1)
Get yourself some solid whites or plaids in blue, tan, or green.
$2.50
Fir Floor
All Dressed For
That Coke Date
In The Crib?
Why don't you men play
ball and wind up on the
latest word from Florida.
which is that "dark" is the
style in sport shirts . . . and
Harvey's have just what you
are in need of . . . DARK
greens, blues, wines and
browns to protect you from
the sun's hottest heat and to
set you up right in THAT
girl's favor .....
That girl's approval will
also be met when you call
for her this Friday night
with a neat hat adorning
your head . . . One of the
newest shades in at Harv
ey's is 'called "sun burst'
and you will call it your fa
vorite for those grosgrain
bound and hand stitched
edges are just the smartness
necessary to accent your
new spring suit ....
How about a certain girl
on campus who, for the last
year and a half has been
going with a new Phi Delt
pledge, and now alternates
with one of those "hcriry-
chested (cough) men . . . .
You will BOWL "her" over
with an outstanding new
necktie selected from the
encompassing range now to
be seen at Harvey's ....
This MODERN neckwear is
eatured in designs of fish.
butterfly, bird, and duck
prints .... Tust the thing
or that "out-door man"
motif "
Man-way