THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, April g, 1918
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OPEN LETTER TO ENGINEERING STUDENTS
As reported by The Daily Nebraskan on
March 25th, the Engineering Executive Board has
recommended that the Student Council place on
the ballot for spring election the question of
whether or not engineering students are in favor
or a yearly subscription to the Nebraska Blueprint
for all engineering students. Also a recommenda
tion for the placing of a) special voting booth in
the Mechanics Arts Building for the accommo
dation of the students in the Engineering College
was submitted.
At the regular meeting of the Student Council
on the 31st of March, these recommendations re
ceived unfavorable action. The Student Council
felt that the establishment of a special votinr booth
for the convenience of engineering: students con
stituted unwarranted favoritism to one college. Be
cause the recommendation for the placing of the
booth in a strategic location Svas denied, it was
believed that as a result, an 'insufficient number
ot engineering studnts would avail themselves of
the use of the regular voting both in the Student
Union Building to warrant the inclusion of the
subscription proposal in the ballot for spring
election.
Because this problem has been discussed for
almost two years, the Engineering Executive Board
feels that this matter should receive immediate
attention. It is not the place of the Executive
Board to decide this question. Instead, it is the
duty of Engineering Students. Nevertheless, it is
the responsibility of the Engineering Executive
Board to place the facts before the Engineering
student body, and provide them a means of ex
pressing their opinions. Therefore, the Engineer
ing Executive Board will open a voting booth in
the Mechanics Arts Building early in May for that
express purpose. We strongly urge all Engineering
students to take advantage of this opportunity to
register their opinions on the proposal. Only upon
the basis of the expression of their approval or
dissent can this matter be decided.
Shculd the Engineering student body approve
mich action the proposal will then be presented
to Dean Green and the faculty of the college.
Following their approval, the proposal will be
presented to Chancellor Gustavson and the board
of regents.
Anticipation of forthcoming questions prompts
ws to provide, briefly, certain comparisons of the
Blueprint as it is now composed and as it is
proposed that it shall be composed should the
general subscription plan be adopted.
Because of space limitations resulting from fi
nancial considerations, it has been possible' in the
past for the magazine to print only two feature
articles per issue. Under the new system an in
crease of at least eight pages can be expected.
This will permit an increase in feature articles to
five per issue. In addition, departments such as
"Enginews,? (Engineering society news), Sledge,
Jr., and Engineering campus coverage in general
will be expanded and Improved. The place of ad
vertising will be discussed in the second of this
series of articles.
We fully realize that there also exist certain
questions, problems and criticisms. To enumerate
some subscription price, value of the magazine to
the individual, and circulation difficulties. These
Questions will be treated in the next article which
will be written by the Bluprint staff.
We encourage discussion and invite comments
on these and other questions which you may have.
Engineering Executive Board
Dear Editor:
I find Mr. Abbott's letter of Friday, April 2
somewhat amusing. However, when seriously con
sidered. as its subject matter demands that it
should be, the letter is weak on several counts.
Plan I demonstrates quite clearly that Mr
Abbott has failed to see the point of the action
of the fifteen university students. All armed forces
in the world claim to fight for peace. The George
Washington Brigade and the Arab League Volun
teers are fighting for peace, but ironically they are
fighting each other. Why? Because it has been the
history lesson of the ages that whenever small po
litical or nationalistic groups set about making
peace their own way, conflicts and war inevitably
develop.
The specific suggestion that we fifteen join the
armed forces of the United States was a good one
in 1789. For then the colonies needed a larger force
than any one of them could support to keep a
neutral peace among them. Now it is time to apply
that same principle that only a force representing
all nations can keep the peace.
Plan II suffers from the same fault as plan one,
that of choosing one segment of the world to de
cide what is right for the whole world. This ap
peals alike to Communists and to certain "100
American" or "America First" groups.
Plan III has the most merit. I have considered
resigning from life, but I am a sociable character,
and much prefer to wait, and join all civilization
when it commits suicide in the atomic war toward
which the George Abbotts so blindly lead it.
Sincerely yours,
Kermit J. Rohde
Mr. Miller:
This is to state that the spokesman for the
group of IS students who recently volunteered for
duty with an United Nations International Police
Force is Mr. Kermit Rohde.
The opinions of Mr. Eugene Berman are his
own and do not necessarily reflect group feeling.
The group action is primarily a general student
movement and is in no way dominated by any
single student organization, be ft Young Demo
crat, Republican, Federalist, fraternal organizations,
or otherwise.
The group policy is to accept all who sincerely
wish to work for peace through democratic action
regardless of other personal beliefs or affiliations.
Signed,
Mervyn L. Cadwallader
Mick Putney
Kenneth Purcell
Dear Editor:
Enclosed you will find twenty-five (25) cents
as my contribution to the support of Plan II as
proposed by Mr. Abbott.
The letter to President Truman, etc., might
seem to indicate the sentiment of those fifteen
distinguished personalities are those of a majority
of the G.I. students of the university. I seriously
doubt that this is true. Perhaps it should be noted
that Eugene Berman spokesman for the group of
fifteen volunteers, chief supporter of NSA on this
campus, a member of the student division of the
United World Federalists, two months ago an ar
dent supporter of Henry A. Wallace for president,
and now a prominent member of the Young Demo
crats is not a veteran. His was a serious decision
for a lad of nineteen to make.
Mr. Abbott's plan II, of course, would not give
us the world peace which we all so desire but it
would relieve us of a few "publicity hounds" and
"cheap politicians" on the campus.
Norman W Lundberg
Intercollegiate Press
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SIGNS OF SPRING .. .
The annual spring outburst of vandalism, the invasion
of private property and defacing of campus buildings
which is synonimous with the stirrings of the TNE's has
happened again.
And this time the sub rosa organization was. not con
tent with its usual painting of skull and cross bone insig
nia on the walks, porches and pillars of fraternity, sorority
and classroom buildings. The TNE's added a bit to the
notoriety which surrounds their organization by .doing ma
terial damage to one fraternity house, damage which un
fortunately for the so-called cloak and dagger boys was
observed by several members of the fraternity.
Things just weren t breaking nght for the ..TNE's on
their most recent excursion. They stumbled or. staggered
into the presence of more than a few fraternity men who
chanced to toe up and around" "during the arrival of the
late hour callers;
.Tnst whv this secret orcanife&tions seems to believe that
it has the:riht to deface university and private property
is a mystery. There have been years when the administra
tion has become sufficiently riled to wage a full-scale
campaign t& seek out the TNEmiembers wit han eye toward
demanding some sort of retribution for the damage done.
This year s extra touches by the now infamous or
ganization should certainly call forth the militant spirit
of authorities.
The TNE's have fallen a long way from the original
aims of an organization which was intended to unite campus
eadeit in the form of a kind of a fraternity ot good leilow-
ship from elements of many campus groups.
TNE on the University or Meoraska campus is way
off the track. To Nebraska students it means drinking
and dirty politics.
Onlv a hypocrite would contend that drinking or at
tempts to manipulate campus politics can be eliminated,
but the mutilation and wilitul destruction oi property is
something else.
Such deeds must not be allowed to occur and De dis
missed as '"college pranks." Intentional damage of prop
erty cannot be excused as a function of TNHj, and cannot
be written off as inevitable or as a periodic nuisance which
will be all right if ignored.
The wrongdoers should be held financially responsible
for the damage and if individual records demand, should
be suspended.
College life is no haven tor vandalism whicn onngs
jail and fines in common courts.
Burma Shave Stock Drops at Ag
The Farmers Fair Board has
gone on record as opposing all
smooth-shaven men on ag cam
pus! Revelation of the board's deci
sion came with the announcement
Friday of a Whisker Contest to be
held in conjunction with the Fair
this year. All men enrolled in
Ag college will be eligible for
competition.
Registration for the contest will
be conducted sll day Monday at
the Student Union. Registrants
must be clean-aiiavcn before they
will be accepted as entrants.
Chin ornaments will be judged
on the evening of April 31 by a
competent magistrate. The winner
will be awarded one (1) kiss from
the Goddess of agriculture, who
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will be presented that night. He
will also have the first dance
with said queen.
Charlie Brim, publicity mana
ger for the Fair, emphasized that
the whiskers will not be compul
sory on ag campus. He urged men
to compete voluntarily to help
convey the spirit cf the first
post-war fair.
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