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Owing to differences in tempera
ment and temperature after the recent
change In Athletic Board ruleB, these
"fraters" of tho grafter clan, partially
known as T. N. E.'s, who dislike the
novelties that have disturbed their
peace, are trying to Bet something a
doing. After blowing about voting for
the poorest men and trying to dis
credit the reform movement as a
"Barb" affair (this failing), they have
resorted to tho second floor of a down
town store, there to cogitate deep re
venge. They have decided in resolu
tions continued ad libitum and ad
nauseam to discountenance and de
nounce all combinations whatever, but
to lnslBt that all fraternities shall bind
themselves to support only men nomi
nated by the Pan-hellenlc (T. N. B.)
council. As Chancellor Canfleld once
said, "Malaria is always in the neigh
boring county." It must have been
the presence of strangers in their
But with the issue fairly stated aB
T. N. E. and tho hook openly baited,
fraternity men at Nebraska are not
going to lot a few malcontents formu
late a sorehead crawfish plan and then
call it "fraternity Bentiment." Theta
Nu Epsllon Is not tho prophet of the
athletic dispensation. "Greek" knows
and "Biirb" knows that the plan of
election has been unfair that things
wore getting too centralized. It will
treat all candidates with judgment In
thon be tho policy of overy voter to
stead of prejudice for even though the
old board were perfect In every re
Bpect, good athletic government could
never bo a substitute for athletic gov
ernment by all tho students of the
University. With the hlng clearly
understood, the fraternity men will
never Btand for this gross misrepre
sentation for fraternity sentiment that
lBn't University sentiment 1b "damned
and damnable.
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To Editor of Dally Nebraskan:
That the majority of University men
do not understand the importance of a
crlslB now at hand in University af
fairs Is plainly evident by the apathy
with which they, and especially tho
barbs, are regarding tho coming
Athletic Board election. They do not
seem to realize that there Is on at tho
present moment a light between those
standing for right and for principle aB
applied to the administration of ath
letics and the organization of T. N. E.
But, first of all, what Is T. N. E.?
It Is, according to Balrd's "Manual of
American College Fraternities," a
sophomore society firBt established at
WeBleyan University In 1870. Com
menting upon it, Balrd sayB, "Chapters
have been established at many col
leges and there Is good reason to be
lieve that many or them have been
established without the consent of the
organization aB such." And further,
"The society has taken a very active
part In college politics, and has been
severely commented upon in conse
quence. The fraternities quite gener
ally forbid their members to join this
organization, which has degenerated
and now has no sensible object or use
ful purpose."
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councils that led the T. N. E.'s to such
beautiful inconsistency.
Tho straw that the T. N. E.'s aro
grasping and gasping at, in dispair,
Is that the fraternity signers of the
recent petition ror a new system of
election have met in consultation with
prominent "Barbs" In order to work
together to get out plenty of good
men in this year's race. No unpreju
diced person who knows tho men in
question and recognizes tho fact that
they have nothing to gain or lose ex
cept the reputation of tho fraternities
to which they belong, and the athletics
of the University, can say that their
action comes from anything but Uni
versity sentiment There have been
no downtown meetings of "Frat" men
and "Barbs," at least. In political
aptitude T. N. E. 1b like the blind man
who will "fcot see, except with His
imagination.
This last sentence Is particularly
noteworthy, not only because of its se4
verity, but because it is a well-known
fact that within tho past few years
there has been a decided movement
against Theta Nu Epsllon by the na
tional fraternity organizations. Ex
amples of fraternities with such rul
ings are Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau
Delta, Kappa-Sigma and Delta TJpsllon.
Last year T. N. E. was denounced at
the University of Kansas as too dis
reputable to be tolerated by the au
thorities of that Institution and was
compelled to disband. Ten years, ago,
here at Nebraska, T. N. E. was called
upon the carpet by the Chancellor and
an agreement was then made where
by the charter of tho chapter should,
be returned, but from all appearances
that kind of charter does not give up
the ghost so easily.
For several "years at Nebraska, It
has run the Pan-hellenlc dance, and
last year at least, It had control of
the Athletic Board, four of the student
members belonging to, or at any rate,
working for T. N. E. As an example
of Its methods: Prior to the last Ath
lotlc Board election, one of the fra
ternities decided upon an antl-T. N. E.
man as ItB representative, but upon
placing his name with the committee
in charge of the ballots, were told they
had made a mistake, that they should
have elected another man. They
maintained their position for their first
choice, only to find tnat when the bal
lot was issued it contained the name
of the man suggested 1who was a T.
N. E. and not the name receiving
sanction. This savours of a manage
ment rather deliberate to say the
least. It goes to prove that the sacred
name of Theta Nu EpBllon is not above
reproach; rather, that the organiza
tion is an out-and-out ring of control
and a rotten ring at that. -But it is
effective; it has absolute control of
its members. Men In this University
have been known to play traitor to
their own fraternities for the sake
of this higher power.
Last Tuesday night this most phi
lanthropic aggregation called a meet
ing In a location not exactly "public
at which delegates rrom all the fra
ternities were present to discuss the
matter of the Athletic Board election.
With two or three exceptions, the dele
gates were T. N. E. elected only
the gods know how but elected to
represent their various chapters. At
this meeting It was proposed that
resolutions be drawn up denouncing
and condemning utterly any aggrega
tion or association, group or gang,
clique or combination, which should
have the abandoned brazen-faced au
dacity to put their heads together and
get iraternlty men to run for the
Board without what they called the
sanction of the fraternities. In other
words, they wish to censure, using a
polite word, those men behind the
reform movement who have encour
aged the three fraternity men, Cher
rlngton, Elliott and Collins, to enter
the contest on their own accord. Now
there is no attempt here to deny that
there has been organization in this
reform movement; such things can
not be accomplished without it. But
the charge has been brought that
this is the work of selfish political
grafters, Btrlvlng for their own ends
and favoring five men as a ticket.
This, of course, is denied, but as to
the truth or falsity of the matter, the
University public will have to take
ittf choice between the wordof honor
of the men who signed tho petition
presented to the University Senate
and the word of T. N. E. Which
"organization" would it rather truBt?
And, anyway, what advantage could
be coming to a group of seniors of
whom only one or two expect to bo
here next year? Despite tho charge
above, this group of men have declared
themselves in favor of clean athletics
under the administration of the best
qualified and the most nearly repre
sentative men of the school, elected
on a strictly non-partlsanshlp basis
and they still maintaining the posi
tion But what would be the purpose on
the part of T. N. E. in drawing up
such resolutions as described above?
To throw all possible sentiment
against these three fraternity men and
to elect, then, a ticket consisting en
tirely of barbs. And this is exactly
what T. N. E. is working for. It
has been busy among the non-fraternity
men of the school fostering among
them such notion as this: "Now there
is an opportunity to 'get even' with
the fraternities and to elect a full
barb ticket." Plainly, then, should
such a result come to pass, T. N. E.
could quickly turn and "queer" .the
whole reform movement as a r,uso
on the part of a barb organization to
get control of the board In revengo
upon the fraternities. Whether, as T.
N. E. apparently hopes, this would
result In a reaction beneficial to it Is
not the question. It is a question of
the defeat, or triumph of this reform
for square-prlnclnled, non-partisianship
representation on the Athletic Board.
It is just as selfish, juBt as narrow,
just as contemptible for barbs to at
tempt to gain complete control as it
is for T. N. E. These three fraternity
men running have had pressure
brought to bear upon them to with
draw, but they are maintaining their po
sition against T. N. E. each for himself.
And It Is up to the barbs of the school
to Bee that squareness shall prevail,
to see that for once, Theta Nu Epsllon
shall not have Its way, and hence, to
see that an all-barb ticket Is not
elected next Monday.
J. CARROLL KNODE.
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trying to root out the gambling evil
from among the students.
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