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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1951
.Tom Rscie.
Take Care Of Our Little Girls
Last summer a movie called "Take Care of My
Little Girl" appeared in theaters throughout the
state of Nebraska. It stirred a great deal of com
ment at the time, since it was a movie depicting
sorority life, mostly at its worst. Some sorority
and fraternity members were outraged at this at
tack at these time-honored college institutions.
Others accepted the movie as true in spots, but
exaggerated in others. Fraternity haters chuckled
with glee and said, "We told you so."
Coupled with, this picture was an article in Look
magazine by Rosanne Smith Robinson entitled "The
Great Sorority Swindle." It indicted sororities as
"citadels of snobbery" and charged that they lead
girls to "become expert in the tricks of the most
pathetic and selfish avocation social climbing
with all its opportunism and pretension." Mrs.
Robinson, a sorority member herself, resigned from
her sorority at the end of her Junior year.
A number of other articles on the same general
subject have appeared in various periodicals, but
these two generally received the most national at
tention. Both attacks contain a number of facts
which are unquestionably true, but the conclusions
drawn by both, in my opinion, are unwarranted.
Anyone who thinks that fraternities and sor
orities are perfect either has his eyes shut during
his college life or refuses to recognize their short
comings. I have not doubt that every one of the
incidents contained both in the picture and in
the article are true, but I seriously question
whether they are typical. These attacks are more
true at the University of Nebraska than I had at
first imagined, however. During the put rush
week, I kept my eyes open to see just what was
' going on. I got an eyeful.
In the movie, the heroine was pictured as a
sweet, sensible girl who pledged a sorority and
at the last minute saw her great error and de
pledged. The hero was a clean-cut, dashing in
dependent whose homely words of wisdom were
the deciding factor in the salvation of Liz Rogers,
the heroine. The villain was the drunken fraternity
man, whose foul deeds were known tar and wide.
The goat of the story was a poor, forlorn little
creature who was blackballed by the sorority's
ultra-ultra snob, Dallas.,
None of these are typical of students on the
average campus. Every independent student is not
a paragon of virtue, nor is every fraternity man
a drunken, carrousing sot There are a lot of both
kinds of individuals on both sides of the Greek
Barb line. (As far as success in later life goes,
statistics show that this is purely an imaginary
line.) There are too many Dallases on campus,
even though they may be few in number. In my
mind's eye, X could picture several individuals that
I know on this campus who would fit every one
of the main characters in the plot
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in silly get-ups and do silly things is bad, as long
as the health or school work of the individual is
not impaired. Parts of Hell Week can be fun, otlv
ers are rather harmful and pointless.
Snobbery was another place where the movie
and article hit very close to home. I have no
doubt that there are more snobs in fraternities
and sororities than are outside. Again, by
no means are a majority or even a large fraction
of fraternity members snobs. Snobbery is stupid
ity, and usually covers up an inferiority complex.
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The greatest danger to fraternities and sororities
is the stupid, snobbish people who form a small,
but rock-like core within them. When news of the
movie appeared, local sororities began receiving
letters from their national offices, denouncing the
picture in terms ranging from lukewarm to red
hot. The most sensible letter I read addressed to
a local sorority told the girls to see the movie, to
go with an open mind, accept the criticisms there
in, and reject the parts which were unfair. The
most asslnine letter told the girls to avoid the
movie like the plague and to denounce it as a com
plete falsehood. Such is stupidity.
The main point of the movie was that fraternities
and sororities had a lot of good points, but they
were not worth the people that they hurt When
the heroine asked the hero how fraternities and
sororities differed from other civic and fraternal
organizations, our hero's reply was "What about
them?" That, to my way of thinking, is a very neat
Sidestepping of the question:
Perhaps all honorary societies, civic clubs and
fraternal groups should be abolished. Such would
follow the same line of reasoning, since there are
any number of people who may be hurt by not be
ing asked to join.
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The picture did point out many of the faults
of fraternities and sororities. Hell Week drew a ma
jor share of criticism in the picture and justly so.
Fraternities and sororities are really not as im
portant as many freshmen think. They have ad
vantages and distinct disadvantages. If I hadn't
thought that there were more advantages than
disadvantages, I would never have joined one
myself. Bnt some of my good friends don't see
it that way at all, which is certainly their privi
lege. Fraternities and sororities fill an important
gap in campus social life for most students. They
do deprive a student of his right to think for
himself at some times. They are based on the
principle of brotherhood, which is in itself a
rood idea, bnt frequently falls short of that ideal
at times. Such is life.
i ao not think that fraternities and sororities
will be removed from campuses by any outside
group, i do trunk that these two groups could re
move memseives by then own stupidity. If they
Have your ever missed supper
in the Union cafeteria because you
did not know it closed at 6:30 p.m.?
Because several Daily Nebraskan
reporters have recently been
caught in similar situations, open
hours of several University offices
and buildings are being published
below.
To obtain maximum benefit
from the list, cut it out and keep
it handy. You might be surprised
at the number of disappointments
you can avoid.
Love Memorial Library: 7:50
a.m., to 9:20 p.m., Monday,
tnrough Thursday.
7:50 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Friday,
and Saturday.
7:50 a.m. to t p.m.: Football
game Saturdays.
Union Cafeteria: 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. and 5 to 6:30 p.m., Monday
through Saturday.
11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday.
union Dining Room: 11:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m., Monday through
Friday.
Regents' Bookstore: 8 a.m. to
5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
8 a.m. to Noon Saturday
Junior Division: 8 a.m. to
12 p.m., and 1 to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
8 a.m. to Noon Saturday
Student Health Center; 8 a.m.
to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
8a.m. to Noon Saturday
Office of Admissions: 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Monday through Fri
day. 8 a.m. to Noon Saturday.
Office of Registration and
Records: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon
day through Friday.
8 a.m. to Noon Saturday
Office of Dean of Women:
9 a.m. to Noon and 1:30 to 5
p.m. Monday, through Friday.
9 a.m. to Noon Saturday
Office of Dean of Student
Affairs: 8:30 a.m. to Noon and
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
8:30 a.m. to Noon Saturday.
Food For Thought"
The Futility Of War
(Editor's note The following Is an address by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur to the Massachusetts
state legislature, deliver on July 25. 1951. The Daily
Nebraskan reprints this address, feeling that it Is
worthy of consideration by the student body and
nation at large. From time to time, we will pre
sent these addresses as a special feature. We do
not necessarily agree with the views presented
herein, but consider the subject matter of cur
rent interest.)
Now that the fighting has temporarily abated the
outstanding .impression which emerges from the
scene is the utter uselessness of the enormous
sacrifice in life and limb which has resulted. A
million soldier on both sides and unquestionably
at least a like number of civilians r"
are maimed or dead. A nation hasf
oeen guuea ana we srana toaay
just where we stood before it all
started.
The threat of aggression upon
the weak by those callously in
clined among the strong has not
diminished. Indeed. nothing
has been settled. No issue has
been decided.
This experience again empha
sizes the utter futility of modern war its complete
failure as an arbiter of international dissensions.
Its threat must be abolished if the world is to go
on and if it does not go on it will go under.
We must finally come to realize that war is
outmoded as an instrument of political policy, that
it provides no solution for international suicide.
We must understand that in final analysis the
mounting cost of preparation for war is in many
MacArthur
wavs as materially destructive as war Itself. We
must find the means to void this great sapping
of human energy and resource".
This requires leadership of the highest order
a spiritual and moral leadership which our
country alone is capable of providing. While we
must be prepared to meet the trial of war if war
comes, we should gear our foreign and domestio
policies toward the ultimate goal the abolition
of war from the face of the earth.
This is what practically all mankind all the
great masses which populate the world long and
pray for. Therein lies the road, the only road, to
universal peace and prosperity. We must lead
the world down the road however long and tortu
ous and illusory it may now appear.
Such is the role as I see it for which this great
nation of ours is now cast. In this we follow the
Cross. If we meet the challenge we cannot fail.
But no end may be achieved without first making
a start no success without a trial.
On this problem of greatest universal concern,
unless we address ourselves to the fundamentals
we shall get no farther than the preceding gener
ations which have tried and failed. Convention
after convention has been entered into designed
to humanise war and bring it under the control
of rules dictated by the highest human Ideals.
Yet each war becomes increasingly savage as the
means for mass killing are further developed.
You cannot control war; you can only abolish
it. Those who shrug this off as idealistic are the
real enemies of peace the real warmongers.
Those who lack the enterprise, vision and courage
to try a new approach when none others have
succeeded fail completely the most simple test of
leadership.
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Some of the stupid, inane things required in Hell live up, as much as is humanly possible, to their
Week should make people stop and wonder. How- purpose, they can serve a useful and profitable
ever, X fall to see that forcing people to dress up function on college campuses.
Joan Krueger.
Election Problems
If the chancellor of a university were to resign
one spring and his successor were not found until
after the next school year began, that institution
would probably be in rather a sad state of affairs.
If public officials of the United States decided to
ignore the constitution and carry on without bene
fit of principles established in the document, the
country would quickly degenerate. Likewise, if an
organization were to completely disregard its con
stitution and not hold a scheduled election, the
group would lose quite a bit of prestige and ef
fectiveness. Yet that is the situation existing in one of our
campus organizations namely, NUCWA, Ne
braska University Council for World Affairs.
According to provisions in the organization's
constitution, which was adopted in 1949. election
f ffloers "shall be held at a meeting of the or
ganization In May of each year; such new officers
will assume office ... at the last meeting of the
second school semester of each year." Well, no
election took place and logically enough, no new
officers assumed office at the last meeting.
So NUCWA rests today without 1951-52 of
ficersjust those whose term legally ended last
spring, minus any officer who graduated last June.
But the election that didn't tke place is just
water over the dam now, so to speak, an the or
ganizationunder last year's remaining officers
and active members are making a last ditch at
tempt Thursday evening to revive NUCWA and
elect a new slate of officers.
e
This is no age to Ignore world affairs and no
atndent at the University should be completely
unaware of world events. It would be well to es
tablish an active and forceful organisation again
this year under capable leaders who will be
able to give the organisation its greatly needed
guidance. Any living thing will die without ade
quate treatment and NUCWA has had more than
Its share of braises.
Thursday night will tell the fate of the Uni
versity's only organization aimed directly at world
affairs projects. It would be a great move if
NUCWA becomes one of the leading campus or
ganizationsit is certainly based on a leading principle.
-Nancy Benjamin.
Survey Unveils Men's Cattiness;
Lipstick Rated As Top Pet Peeve
Iff quite a shock to find out that men are just
ss catty as women but, gir!s, it's true .
Now for the first time, it can be told a man's
conversation to another man about Women.
After a four-week intensive survey, the pet
peeve turned out to be (of all tWngs!) lipstick.
Lipstick on napkins, lipstick on sardwiches after
you take fc healthy bite, lipstick on shirt collars,
and putting lipstick on in public.
After the masculine tsalSgner gets warmed np,
the coBvemtioa also includes the way girls dress.
It centers en fads. "Why do' women wear those
silly scarves around their necks? They look like
they have colas."
Or, "If I see one more woman wearing green
or blue hose, Fm going to tap ber on the shoulder
and tell her where the insane asylum is."
the new fall colors rust and green and grey are
Of special note for Nebraska coeds who think
pretty, is a conversation over-heard In a local
hash shop ..... "You cant see 'em (women)
coming anymore. They just blend in with the
grass and trees and stuff."
The guys seem pretty satisfied with the tight
pencil skirts, ladies, but please, quit pulling your
girdle down arrepticiously in public.
If all this sounds like trivia, I think my fa
orite male Quote la a little more on the beam.
It goes:
. The trouble with women is . . . they just don't
understand us guys."
You can say that again, bud!
TC Adds Two
New Divisions;
UN, Air Age
Two new divisions have been
added to the department of edu
cational services this fall. Both
will be stationed in three rooms of
Teachers College Temporary L.
Sharing the three rooms will be
the United Nations and Air Age
Education Center with Ada Mae
Harms and Marilyn Link in
charge respectively.
A main office, filing room and
laboratory are being made avail
able to carry out the work of the
education division of the Univer
sity's UN educational center.
One of the division's first serv
ices wil be to provide meeting
room for 16 German teachers who
will arrive in Lincoln Saturday.
They will spend six months in
Nebraska for orientation and
traveling throughout the state.
The German teachers will be
part of 180 teachers brought to the
United States by the U.S. state de
partment for nine monthse study
of the life and education in this
country.
The educational services depart
ment, in recognizing these two
new developments, hopes to make
use of United Nations and Air
Age materials and ideas in the
social studies teaching course,
Keeping it up to date.
State Alumni
Elect Officers
New officers of the University
Alumni association were an
nounced at the June meeting. Dr.
Norman C, Carlson. Lincoln den
tist, will serve as president of the
group lor the coming year.
The new vice-president is Mrs.
Maurice Hevelone of Beatrice.
She represented District 1 of Ne
braska for the past two years on
the board of directors.
Robert A. Dobson, Lincoln, was
elected to a three-year term as
member-at-large of the executive
committee. Fritz Daly was reap
pointed by the board of directors
as secretary-trf-r- surer.
Newly-elected members of the
board of directors are John A
Wylie, Lincoln; Alice Crocker,
Omaha; Robert R. Moodie, West
Point; Mrs. A H. Easter, Hol
drege, and Richard D. Thompson,
Scottsbluff.
By Staff Reporter
There have been many, many
people, inquiring about the canoes
over the Nebraska Hall.
According to all available re
ports they are perfectly normal
canoes that have as much right
to be there as the Chancellor, but
there are always inquisitive souls
who like to know about these
things so your Daily Nebraskan
has taken over.
After all, it's the duty of this
very definitely up and coming
newspaper to keep you, the reader
lniormea.
Logic would tell any normal
person that the canoes are for
canoeing. This is quite true,
but the question remains, where
on this campus can one canoe?
Well now, our good old Uni
versitas has taken care of that,
too. 1 here's that delightful sunken
path between Andrews and
Burnett that is inundated every
time it sprinkles. No more will
you have to either swim or walk
the rails. Now, there will be
canoes to carry you from one
building to the other. Ain't life
grand? " '
Another use of the canoes has
also been suggested. Perhaps'
they can be used by loving
couples on moonlight nights.
For those that can't afford a
lake, of course. No doubt it can
be arranged so that mandolins
or ukes can be rented with the
boats.
If there is anything else you
would like to know about the
boats, in question, it would be
advisable to get in touch with the
PE department or do some super
snooping on your own. Maybe
you can buy one to keep; one of
those would look good on some
body's bulletin board.
Sixty-five Nebraska high school
bands will participate in NU's
annual Band Day, October 13,
University band director Don
Lentz announced Saturday.
The bands, with a combined
membership of 3,400, will stage
a parade at noon through down-
Wayne Plans
On Freshmen
In I.S. Game
groups were accepted, applica
tions from bands with a total
membership of over three thou
sand were rejected because no
more space in the stadium was
available.
Although Wayne's ambitious
Tartars will sport a pair of fresh
men in their opening lineup
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special show between halves of ponced in intercollegiate foot
the Cornhusker-Penn State foot- ball
ball game.
.H., a Jc.oach Lou Zarza will list Dick
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Craig, left halfback, as his only
untested starters. All the others,
including eight lettermen, will be
old hands. Iowa State will start
three untested sophomores and is
not likely to include more than
seven lettermen in its opening
lineup.
The 1950 Wayne backfield was
intact until Tn.'i ry cut down the
regular left halfback. At thi s nnint
Craig took over to give Zarza a
quick answer to that problem.
Dick Brown, the Wayne quar
terback, is listed as one of ths best
risers Iowa State will face this
One of the best tackles will
b -ank Dobrzenski, 235-pound
jm t. Along with Center George
Marth, Dobrzenski will present
just about as tough a defensive
problem as the 1951 schedule will
afford.
Aggies Attend
Market School
Sixteen University Ag students
attended a three day livestock
marketing school in Omaha last
week.
The Tartars will leave Detroit
Friday morning, arriving in Des
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Poets Have Chance
To Publish Works
The aNtional Poetry association
has Invited college students
throughout the nation to submit
contributions for consideration and
possible publication in the An
nual Anthology of College Poetry.
Closing date for submission of
manuscripts is Nov. 5. Each effort
must be on a separate sheet of
paper and must bear the follow
ing information; the name of the
author, his home address, and the
college attended.
Manuscripts would be sent to
the National Poetry association at
3210 Selby Avenue, Los Angeles
34, California.
Home fc Club To Hold
Picnic At Ag Thursday
The Home Economics club Is
planning a picnic to be held
Thursday. Sept. 20. at 5:30 era.
on the lower campus at the Col
lege of Agriculture.
Everyone interested In home
economics is invited, but the picnic
is to be held especially for fresh
man girls, so that they may be
come acquainted with members of
tne Home Ec club,
Swine Chisf Heads
Rooter's Day Talks
Dr. George A. Young, Jr., of
Austin, Minn, nationally promi
nent authority on swine diseases,
will be one of the principal
speakers at the University's
Rooters' Day, Friday, Sept 28,
Dr. Young, associated with the
Hormel Institute, will speak on
"Has Disease Undermined the
Swine Industry?"
Rooters' Day starts with an in
spection of the experimental lots
of hogs at the institution's swine
research center near Havelock at
10 a. m. Staff members of the
animal husbandry department will
discuss the experimental results.
Students are invited to attend
the meetings.
From seven in the morning till
five in the afternoon the students
studied techniques used in the
pens, yards, alleys and offices of
the Union Stockyards Company
and Omaha Livestock Exchange.
From the mile and a half
boardwalk that runs above the
pens the men had ample chance iMnin
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mings they learned in the less
realise atmosphere of the class
room.
The school was directed hv Wil
liam J. Loeffel, chairman of the
department of animal husbandry
and was sponsored by the Omaha
Livestock Exchange. The Ag
students attending were:
Rex Crom, David Danielson,
Howard Frey, F. W. Frost, Law
rence Fuchs, Vern Garwood, Le
land George, Ward Hansen, Ralph
Hansen, Ted Jeary, Phil Olsen,
Sterling Olsen, Harley Richard
son, Dick RusseL Bill Schneider,
and Deon Wunderlick
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