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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, October 16, 1947
Uncle Sam Foots GPs
Bills Via Vets Billing
By Lois Gobar.
Each semester Uncle Sam pays
for GI students' books and sup
plies through complicated proc
esses, one of which is Vets' Bill
ing. The Vets' Administration
arms each GI with an authoriza
tion slip that entitles him to cred
it for fees, books and supplies.
Beginning with "one" a year ago,
the authorization numbers are
now in five digits.
One tough ex-sergeant swore,
'If I have to sign my name once
more, I'll go back to Tokyo." The
maze of tables, partitions and
ropes through which he must find
his way makes him feel like a
mouse in a psychological learning
experiment.
The Advisor System.
A well-intentioned but tired
advisor cross-examines the sub
ject and issues the sentence, "You
are condemned to take history,
foreign language and English!"
Lines, photos and signatures
coming later, the vet penetrates
the book buyers, three deep at
the counter, presents his schedule
and authorization slip, and loads
his arms with brain food for the
coming semester. He proceeds to
the supply side for a - $4 note
book (paid for by the govern
ment), stands in line to be billed,
then staggers out the door to
ward home if he can pass in
spection by the doorman.
Billing the GIs.
Billing is the bookstore's way
to get the money for its products.
If one number or initial is mis
copied, someone may spend hours
correcting the error. Bills must
be accurately alphabetized, and
when twenty Smiths, five of them
Robert Smiths, are billed in one
day, there are complications! In
dex cards are alphabetized to
simplify the finding of expend
able supply cards, which entitle
each vet to $3 worth of supplies
that he can get any time during
the semester.
Costs of books and supplies are
added separately, then totaled.
Law students average $69 for
books. Art supplies are as high as
$32.25, and potential engineers
get $35 drafting sets, $18 kits and
$22 worth of books.
Figures are checked, rechecked,
sent to the official UN represen
tative at Regents Bookstore and
checked again. The University
pays the bookstore then bills the
government who checks to see
that no one got more than he was
entitled to and then pays the uni
versity. Uncle Sam bills us in the
form of taxes, and the vicious
circle of processes starts again.
Bengtson Attends
Research Meeting
Dr. Nels A. Bengston, univer
sity geographer and Dean of the
Junior Division,- left Wednesday
for Washington, D. C, where he
will attend a conference called by
the National Research commit
tee for October 16 and 17.
Dean Bengston is one of three
geographers in the U. S. named
to an 11 man subcommittee on
environmental protection which
will advise the council's division
in engineering and industrial re
search. Tentative plans call for the
committee to be removed to Bos
ton for further meetings after the
Washington conference.
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Dear Editor:
Like you, I am a student of
this University. I am a loyal Ne
braska football fan, as I am sure
that you are also. I have tried to
put. down on paper my feelings
about the coming grid battle be'
tween our Cornhuskers and the
Irish of Notre Dame. If you con
sider it to be printable, I would
like you do so. It might help.
Anyway, here goes.
This coming Saturday afternoon
the fighting Irish of Notre Dame
will meet the University of Ne
braska Cornhuskers in a renewal
of an old and heated grid rivalry.
This Notre Dame has one of the
strongest teams in the history of
their school and will probably be
spotted at least thirty points over
Nebraska, by the experts. Every
one knows these facts, but what
everyone doesn't know is the fact
that Nebraska could win this ball
game, if they were inspired and
enthused enough. Underdog teams
have risen up to destroy great
"unbeatables" before. Witness,
for example, just last year, little
Cincinnati smashing down the
great Indiana grid machine. The
point that I am trying to make is
this: If you are a real Nebraskan
and if you really want a victory,
come out and yell at the top of
your lungs at the rally Thursday
evening. If the student body will
only turn out erunasse and for
once really back up their team,
showing them that we are really
pulling for them and believe that
they can win, in spite of the odds,
perhaps an inspired bunch of
Huskers can pull a few surprises
out of the bag for Coach Leahy
and his vaunted green-clads.
There has been some talk on
this campus about the spirit of
Cornhusker football being dead.
Indeed, one would almost have
believed it had he been at that
so-called rally last Friday night.
Thank goodness the team didn't
have to witness that sad exhibi
tion. However, I am one who re
fuses to believe that this Corn
husker spirit, the spirit of Brown,
Weir, Howell. Luther, is dead. I
believe, rather, that it has been
asleep for a long, long time. Per
haps, the cheers of thousands of
Nebraska students Thursday eve
ning, resulting in a fighting, driv
ing, dying-to-win, scarlet and
cream eleven on Saturday, could
arouse this giant slumbering spirit,
the same spirit that in the past I
NSA Delegates Submit
Summary of Convention
A summary of the National Student Association as organized this
summer at the national convention in Madison, Wisconsin, has been
prepared for The Daily Nebraskan by official university delegates
to the convention, Jack Hill, and Betty Jeanne Holcomb.
The series- will make available to all students the information
presented in the delegates hour long report to the student council,
and in the informal sessions before the Innocents and Mortar Board
societies.
Four hundred and fifty colleges
witn total enrollment 01 over
1,200,000 were represented at the
convention held on the Univer
sity of Wisconsin campus Aug 20
to Sept. 7.
The 700 delegates attending
drafted the constitution and
elected national officers for the
year.
Hill and Holcomb reported leei-
ing on the part of the national
delegates that a nation-wide stu
dent organization was needed to
represent the interests of Ameri
can college students as whole.
Hope was that such a permanent
group could improve conditions
for students in U. S. colleges and
provide an official body to select
U. S. representatives in the grow
ing sphere of international student
activity.
NSA has a two-fold purpose:
The development and improve
ment of campus activities and stu
dent welfare programs; and the
achievement of closer contact be
tween American students and
those in the other United Na
tions.
Organization is on three levels,
campus, regional, and national.
On individual campuses NSA will
beat such other "unbeatables" as
Minnesota, Pittsburgh, and even
those supermen, the Four Horse
men of Notre Dame themselves.
Isn't it worth a try? Let's all be
Novaks and smash down to the
ground forever this feeling of de
featism that is so prevalent on the
campus today. If by some chance,
we can arouse this Cornhusker
spirit, then Irish beware! The stu
dent body, you and I, can do it if
we want to. Let's all be at that
rally, and send the team off with
enough fight installed in them to
do what every real Cornhusker
knows deep down can happen,
but is afraid to admit. Oust
O'Conner, sink Sitko. level Lu-
jack!
Yours truly,
George R. Schmid,
College of Agriculture.
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work through existing student
governments. Commissions will
be appointed to carry out special
NSA projects.
NSA will serve as a clearing
house for information on student
activity within the U. S. and
throughout the world. It will
maintain agencies for the compil
ing editing, and disseminating the
data to member colleges. It will
foster student-faculty cooperation
on student problems and curri
cula. Practical measures will be
undertaken to create democratic
and functional systems of student
government on its campuses.
On the international scale NSA
will aid programs f exchange
scholarships and program devoted
to the welfare of foreign stu
dents. The latter will take the
form of relief and rehabilitation
abroad and help for foreign stu
dents in the U. S. The associa
tion will plan and conduct sum
mer exchange tours in conjunc
tion with unions of students in
other nations.
Revenue to carry out the pro
gram of NSA will be obtained
from annual assessments of mem
ber colleges through local student
governments by the national and
regional organizations. Assess
ments are to be computed on
a per capita . basis according to
the enrollment of the school. No
college, however, will be assessed
for more than 10,000 students.
The national assessment for the
university this year would be
$369.
The university may affiliate
with NSA either through ap
proval of the association's con
stitution by the student council
or the student body as a whole.
In either case a voting majority
is sufficient for ratification ac
cording to the NSA constitution.
Kirsch Schedules
Tours Displaying
Art Faculty Work
Recent work of University of
Nebraska art department faculty
members will be displayed on tour
this all and winter. Prof F.
Dwight Kirsch announced three
traveling shows Wednesday.
Watercolors and drawings will
be shown in municipal and coll
ege art galleries and in high
schools in Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Michigan, Illinois, Texas, New
Hampshire, and Connecticut. ,
A show of drawings is being ex
hibited at Racine, (Wis.) Art Mu
seum at present, and from there
will travel to other galleries this
year.
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