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RATIONALISM?
"Fraternity Life", a small adver
tising medium, publishes an article
this month entitled "Fraternity Ra
tionalism" which attempt to prove
that the present system of social fra
ternities is the best of all possible
systems operating in the best of all
possible manners. If a freshman
were to accept the article as Gospel
Truth, we fear his experiences would
be somewhat similar to those of Vol
taire's "Candide," although less ex
citing and extreme, perhaps.
Most interesting of all the num
erous clever arguments advanced is
that in which the author refutes the
charges of immorality. He writes:
"The charge of immorality has been
laid at the fraternity's door. It
should be apparent to every think
ing person that a fraternity man is
no more immoral than a non-fraternity
man Fraternity men play
cards, roll the dice and engage in
other games of chance even as non
fraternity and non-college men and
boys do throughout the country.
Fraternity men take a drink when
they can get it even as non-fraternity
men and non-college men do,
and they usually do not have any
more difficulty or any less difficulty
getting it than do the non-fraternity
and non-college men. The fraternity
man is a human being, a very human
being and this is why be acts, thinks
and feels just like other human be
ings even though they do not belong
to a Greek, letter organization or
never attended college."
This is an old and often-repeated
answer to the immorality question.
We cite this particular paragraph
"merely because it is representative of
the logic which is customary and tra
ditionally brought to bear on the
matter.
It is, we believe, founded upon a
false assumption.
author of "Fraternity Rationalism"
states that college men In general do
exactly the same aa non-college men.
We do not believe this. Few people
familiar with actual conditions in a
university such as this deny that mo
ral conditions are not higher among
non-college young people. There is
less necking, less drinking, and less
gambling among university students
than among other people of the same
age. ' And there should be less, be
cause university students, like fra
ternity members, are also a choice
groups. They are receiving educa
tional advantages not accorded to all.
They are being trained for leader
ship. They will be the cultured, re
sponsible, citizens of their respective
communities after graduation. If
their standards were not higher than
those of other people, it would be
high time to summon the Watch and
Ward society.
The conclusions which we believe
logic necessitates are: (1) Fraternity
men ought to be better than non-fra
ternity men, and sometimes they are.
(2) College students should main
tain higher standards than non-college
people, and they nearly always
do.
The author of "Fraternity Ration
through individual effort of the stu
dents. Our most noted agricultural auth
orities tell us that the solution of
the majority of the problems of the
farmer is through cooperation. Co
operation is being stressed in every
phase of agriculture. The Farmers'
Fair offers an excellent opportunity
for the students to cooperate, in fact
it is necessary that they cooperate
in order to put across this gigantic
undertaking. They are made to real
ize the benefits of working together.
College Press
THE LIQUOR JOKE
(The Daily Kansan)
"The liquor joke has been over
worked in the last few years, a
prominent faculty member said re
cently t6 a Kansan writer. "It is
o?d, stale, trite. I would like to see
it dropped from use by college pub
lications."
And so would many other thinking
people. The liquor joke has come
flrtttH to lis through the ages. But
I no ambition, no driving force In life.
An education, a home, children, an,
literature, music, comfort, happiness,
friends, integrity, honesty what do
these things mean to them? Nothing.
For tonight there's a "party at
Pete's and he has some real canaa
ian Scotch. Will I be there T I
hope to yodel!"
A nation cannot laugh at a thing
for si vpam. dav after day, and
then expect its young people to take
that thing seriously, lown alter
town, city after city, during the past
year has heard its laughter die away
in a wail of anguish, in haunting
sobs.
Isn't it time to stop laughing? Let
the college publications lead the way.
Calendar
Friday, April S3.
University Players Temple.
Co-Ed Follies Temple.
Phi Kappa, Spring Party K. C.
Hall.
Phi Delta Theta House Dance.
Alpha Theta Chi, Spring Party
Lincoln. Delta Gamma, Spring Party
Rosewilde.
Saturday, April 24.
All University Mixer (Mu Epsilon)
Armory.
Sigma Phi Epsilon House Dance.
Alpha Gamma Rho House Dance.
Fhi Omega Pi, Spring Party Scot
tish Rite Temple.
Delta Sigma Delta, Spring Party
Lincoln.
Delta Chi, Spring Party Lindell.
Cosmopolitan Club Party K. C.
Hall.
All Lutheran Club Mixer Temple.
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alism" draws conclusions which are since the passing of the prohibition
exactly the reverse of those which a
rational, unbiased person might be
expected to reach.
WE SECOND
THE MOTION!
In reality, it is not an argument
but an explanation. It advances no
evidence that fraternity men are
good, but simply admits the truth of
the charges, and then attempts to
explain them. And the writer seeks
to giv! the reader the impression
that the explanation is so perfect and ,
so satisfactory that the cnarges
should be dismissed as ridiculous and
un-callcd for.
He assumes that it is unnecessary
for fraternity men to be better than
non-fraternity men. He assumes
that it is unnecessary for college men
to maintain higher standards than
young men who do rot want to go
to college. Eoth are very, very bad
assumptions.
In the first place, members of fra
ternities are picked men. They are
chosen by the various organizations
supposedly on a basis of merit, per
sonality, and character. They are
impressed with the fact that it is an
honor' to receive a fraternity pin.
They are taught that they are the
cream of their class, and frequently
they actually are. Freshmen who
are not pledged by fraternities are
regarded as deficient h ome re
spect. They may or may not be,
, but such is the supposition. The av
erage fraternity man assumes that
they are inferior otherwise, he says,
they would have "made" something.
Is it not natural then, for an un
prejudiced observer to expect more
from fraternity men than from non
fraternity men? Should not the
cream of the class be higher than the
milk?
Furthermore, fraternities have cer
tain ideals. When a man joins such
an organization, he should be re
garded as one who has expressed his
approval cf these ideals, who has de
termined to seek their attainment
and who will refrain from such
actions as would cheapen them.
Many fraternities boast of these
idea's as the Rotarians do of
service. The non-fraternity man has
not identified himself with the ideals
of a fraternity, ne has not re
ceived the' training and supervision
which the fraternity is expected to
give its rew members. Should he
be severely censored for a moral slip,
a one boaU of higher ideals? Ail
pemon whe are deficient morally
should be cnnored, of course: but
the fialrrr.ity man's answer to the
cha'px-a rf tV r-a'irre i based on
...i. . ' , ti rw of the asaurhp-.
t. - ' ', t fn.-H Vvould warrant.
Here are two editorials taken
from The Cornhusker Country
man, monthly magazine of the
College of Agriculture. They
may well be read by students of
til colleges.
Educational Exhibits
An excellent feature of the 1926
Farmers' Fair is the educational ex
hibits, which will be given more at
tention than ever before. The best
means of showing the public what the
College of Agriculture is doing is
through the medium of educational
exhibits. Each department will show
some of the outstanding features of
its work.
The public is interested in the work
we are doing and they are anxious
to see what is actually being done
by the Experiment Station. It is the
duty of every student and member
of the faculty to exert their utmost i
efforts towards giving the visitors
at the Farmers' Fair a favorable im
pression of the College of Agricul-I
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vinced that we have a wonderful in
stitution and the public is anxious to
be shown that we are right.
Each department must cooperate
with the committees and be willing
to compromise with the Fair Board
in order to successfully accomplish
the purpose of the Educational Ex
hibits. Co-Operation
One of the greatest benefits of the
Farmers' Fair to the students in the
College of Agriculture is the training
they receive in cooperating or work
ing together. The Farmers' Fair has
grown to be the greatest student
activity in the entire University
through the united efforts of the stu
dent body. It could never have
present magnitude
law it has ceased to be merely a joke.
It has become deadly propaganda,
undermining the public morale. It
has sown the seeds of folly and sor
row in the minds of children. It has
changed the drunken sot from an
obioct of ridicule and contempt to
a wit, the life of the party. It has
wrapped him in an aura of lvholic
glory and placed a halo of mirth and
good fellowship above his head.
College publications are not alone
among the guilty. Newspapers, mag
azines, books, the country over have
laughed at prohibition and at drunk
enness. Now the jokers are coming
to themselves with a sickening jerk
to find their high school boys wreck
ed in body, mind and soul; their
high school girls with reputations
shattered, hope gone; their mothers
broken-hearted; their fathers help
less with despair.
The towns are filled with vicious
faced boys and dissipated girls with
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