THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
' Station A, Lincoln. Nebraska
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UNIVERSITY OK NEBRASKA
Under direction of the 6tudent Publication Board
TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
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Oscar Norling
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Managing Editor
Asst. Managing Editor
Asst. Managing Editor
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Florence Swihart
Dean Hammond
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dames ivot.
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS -
MrrothK.As.?er,0n Xrile'tal.
Beuy Thornton Otho K. D. Vilbis.
Mary Louis. Freeman Fln'saM
Fth.lyn Ayres Florence Seward
Richard F. Vette
Milton McGrew
William H. Kearns
J. Marshall Pitser .
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, Circulation Manager
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"CONGRATULATIONS"
Nebraska men rallied to the cause, and by last
evening assured the success of a Cornhusker cheering
section, which depended upon the sale of approxi
mately 600 tickets to fill section G in the Stadium.
There had been some doubt as to whether this inno
vation would be accepted by the student body, but the
crowd waiting for tickets yesterday dispelled all fears.
The success of the ticket sale means that the
athletic authorities will immediately begin making blue
print plans for the home games this fall. For each con
test some novel idea will be charted for the cheering
section. Blue print plans will be posted, and one or two
practices before the games may be necessary. Each
man in the section will consult the plan to see what
his duties will be for the following game.
While plans are being made to organize the cheeT
ing section, energetic Nebraska workers will be inter
viewing Lincoln business men regarding the donation
of large colored cardboard sheets to be held up en
masse to form figures at the games. The red caps of the
rooters' section will form the background.
ing difficulties. The editor is In perfect accord with
"Gil" concerning the fact that rules and regulations
are easily evaded.
One of the most distressing occurrences of rush
week, and one of the most unnecessary, is the practice
of concealing rushees from competing fraternities. It
is a rare fraternity man who has not gone after a
rushee only to be told that the man is not there, when
both parties know that the rushee is in the house at
the time.
In the long run, no fraternity profits by such
practices. As long as all do it, they will all get some
men in that way, that they would have lost otherwise.
On the other hand it is a disadvantage to the rushee,
preventing his having a full opportunity to make a
free choice of his comrades for his college life.
To attempt to reform all rushing evils in a single
stroke would be foolish. This particular evil, however,
has been handled at other institutions. The University
of Colorado rushing rules for men has rather ade
quately taken care of this problem.
All dates are placed on one card. Every fraternity
has to turn its date list in. Every fraternity must de
liver rushees to the house where their next date is
and at the proper time. Failure to have the pledge
at the house where he has a date may be punished by
prohibition of pledging, a penalty which few fraterni
ties are willing to risk incurring for the slight advan
tages possible from hiding a rushee out.
Here is one practical rule, rather easily applied,
which has helped solve one rushing problem on an
other campus. If Nebraska fraternities really want to
clean up their rushing Bystems, similar measures may
be enacted here through th medium of the Inter-Fraternity
Council. Such a measure would not be a cure
all for the tactics arising from cut-throat competition.
It should however, curtail one of the major evils of the
present rushing system.
Notices
Sophomore Manager
All sophomores wishing to act aa foot
ball manager this season should report at
the stadium aa soon as possible. Senior and
junior manager will be there to meet thos
who turn out.
Iron Sphinx
Iron Sphinx will hold an important meet
ing Wednesday evening at PI Kappa Alpha
house.
Alpha Kappa Pal
Member of the Alpha Kappa Pat frat
ernity are requested to meet Thursday at
7 o'clock, at the Commercial Club rooms.
Csro Cwbs
Corn Cobs will meet Wednesday even
ing at 8 o'clock in the Temple building
for election of officers and selection of
new members. I
Student Council )
The student council will hold its first
meeting Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock
in Tempi 204.
IN THE VALLEY
By JACK ELLIOTT
Coach Adrian C. Lindsey, the Ok
lahoma football mentor is putting hi
pigskin charge through the opening
pave under a (weltering Oklahoma
sun according to tht Oklahoma Daily.
Forty warrior wearing the color of
the Sooner school went through the
opening practice, tackling and body
blocking, drilling on (tiff-arming and
side-stepping. Lindsey (pent his
time on 22 linemen, working on
pinch blocking, straight body block
ing and cross blocking.
football coach who ia giving his pig
skin luggers a double workout every
day on account of the late start.
Hugh McDermott Is out assisting
Lindsey and is coaching the backs,
putting them, through fundamental
plays and a series of blocking.
Nebraska's football games, in the past, have been
just football games. In the East and on the Pacific
Coast, contests of the Nebraska-New York caliber have
been made gigantic spectacles by the use of cheering
sections, the formation of figures, and the capers of
the campus pep organizations, such as our Corn Cob
chapter. If at least some of these plans can be adop
ted on this campus, Nebraska will havimade one more
step forward in its football program.
Perhaps some students will think there is an over
emphasis of such a minor thing as a cheering section
at a football game. It must be admitted that the school
can run along smoothly, keep up its scholastic stand
ards just as easily, without the fuss of buying any red
caps, and holding colored carboards at football games.
It is purely an entertaining and advertising
scheme. Football is jne of the principal forms of re
creation on this campus, as on any other, for the stu
dent body. Why not add to this as much as possible,
making each football game not only an exciting one,
but a spectacle for the visitors?
CURBING THE CREEKS
In the Soap Box today appears a spirited denoun
cement of fraternity rushing tactics. It would be fool
ish for a Nebraska editor to defend the practices em
ployed by the majority of the fraternities on the cam
pus during rush Week. Competition has become so keen,
the problem of regulation so difficult, that a good many
questionable tactics are now employed. The surprising
thing is that fewer critics of the objectionable rush
week features have spoken.
Fraternity men as a whole are cognizant of the
situation. Most of them regret that they have to resort
to questionable methods to secure the men they want.
As "Gil" points out, cut-throat competition is so keen
that all fraternities have had to fall in line to pledge
their rushees. Fraternities, individually, cannot better
conditions.
Unless fraternities are willing to co-operate with
the Inter-Fraternity Council, jt is doubtful how much
that body could accomplish in the way of solving rush-
The Soap Box
(with apologies)
Daily Nebraskan readers are cordially invited to contri
bute articles to the "Soap Box", a column presenting student
opinion. This paper, however, assumes no responsibility for
the sentiment expressed herein, and reserves the right to
exclude any libelous or undesirable matter.
To the Editor:
The conduct of the recently completed fraternity
rush week again brought to the attention of those in
any way affected by the fraternity system, the utter
lack of control of rushing on the campus. In view of
the acknowledged failure of the Pan-Hellenic rushing
rules to be carried out in practice although they are
still in use on the surfac.', one hesitates to suggest
any form of regulation.
Competition among fraternities has become so
keen, however, that fairness is no longer possible. The
cut-throat method has been adopted by so many fra
ternities that failure of the others to fall in line means
failure to secure pledges.
Rules and systems have tht tendency to become
mere mechanical contrivances which do not affect the
inner workings of a system. Regulations have been
devised which have helped the situation in other schools.
The Inter-Fraternity council made two important
changes here last year, prohibition of pre-season Lin
coln high school rushing and shortening of the rush
period. Both rules were abused in certain quarters
but they were on the whole helpful moves.
Fresh from another week of intensive, cut-throat
competition, the time seems ripe for further attempts
to improve rush week methods. The editor of The
Daily Nebraskan has wisely refused to make any
promises as to what he will achieve. Here is a major
student problem, one affecting friendly relations of
all fraternities and the college lives of some hundreds
of students. Perhaps he can aid in suggesting remedies
for the distressing actions which were repeatedly en
acted during the recent rushing period.
GIL.
To the Editor:
The rulu, taking from the University women not
living in the dormitories, the fifteen minutes between
12:15 and 12:30 is causing considerable comment
among sorority co-eds. It does not seem possible that
the great bulk of the women on this campus should
be made to sacrifice to the few living in the campus
buildings. Coming to the University in the future, if
such continues, one will feel as if she is entering a
seminary or "cemetery" where co-ed skeletons roam
about on campus drives, and dieting is "the thing" (the
gulping of food, you know, is very reducing.)
The cancelling of that once granted fifteen min
utes from 12:15 to 12:30 comet, as a shock to co-eds
many of whom, in view of such hour rules at other
supposedly up-to-date schools, had ideas of granting
even a later hour than 12:30 on some nights.
B. A.
THE
SPECTATOR
I have learned from his own words
that Addison was a Spectator by nat
ural inclination, since he was a man
of few words who but rarely took ac-
tive Part in the Affairs of men, but
was satisfied to be a Looker-on. This
Spectator, on the contrary, is not a
man of few words although mayhap
he wishes he were; and he entertains
Grave Doubts that there are in this
day any such men, for it seems to him
that the Babble increases rather than
diminishes, as the world moves on,
and in a time when Education is so
rife that any man can make a claim
to Culture there are only a few who
iii Tnf know slmost everything and
are qualified to speak much on any
thing. But perhaps Babble would be toler
ated in men if it were not for the
Lingual Activities of women. Only
yesterday I was reading a disserta
tion in a very popular magazine
which purported to dispense instruc
tions upon how to be a successful Co
ed or Prom-Trotter, and stress was
laid on the need for a Line to her
v.-lio would be a Hot Mama; and it
o-?cured to me that this was advice
r-;7'orfluous, for even the raost cas
i 1 observer knows that girls in High
.'. l.ool are taught this long before
I y teat-li Hie Campus, the result be
x tiiiit every hnoest Co-ed knows
i'.te --tl, vtid 1.. a. line that Gets
rd to Co-eds I remark-
( , : r t!ay upon my entrance
I;i!y Nebraskan office that
vi. II-worn Tradition was being
. . li t:.ia r as ever, for in the
Editor's office were a number of
Painted Women paying obnsiance to
their superior in countless T&ys such
as only a woman and e, coquette can
devise; and I observed too that the
Editor was severely bored, and I be
thought me that things are as they
should be, for it has been the cus
tom of Co-eds for years to crowd the
office of the Editor, who is also ac
customed to being bored.
But I began this observation in
the accepted manner of apologiz
ing, and what I meant to say was
that I am not a true Spectator since
I can not bring myself to violate the
traditions of my time by being a. Si
lent Observer. Yet even the mani
fold powers of the United States of
America, and even the threat of the
Constitution and its Amendments can
not prevent a man from spectating if
such is his wont; and therefore I
shall proceed.
. I have overheard some say that it
is indeed a sorry age we live in when
Co-eds must be in their respective
lodgings before 12:15 on the Social
Nights which are such Beacons on
the mental horizon of these Co-eds,
And to be sure, there is on the Cam
pus dissent to this bold stroke of the
Dean of Women, but curiously
enough there is also much approba
tion of it, although this latter is con
fined to those Co-eds who are not
L 1- 1. X- 1S.. '
uiuurLuiiuie eiiuugn m live ia Bururi-
ty dwellings but must be content
with university dormitories. The key
to the situation I found in the fact
that dormitory Co-eds formerly were
required to be safely at home by the
bour of midnight, while their sisters
in the Greek societies were granted
a half hour more with whir-h K.
guile their Male Partners with their
famous Lines. The Dean of Women
apologetically announced that ,
new ruling is a compromise between
tne two factions, and the murmur
ings on the Campus followed. A
one wishing to possess a measure of
the Co-ed's mental capacity may pro-
iiuaDiy study this new affair which
now occupies the minds of each and
every true Hot Mama.
FRESHMAN VESPER
SERVICE IS HELD
(Continued from Page 1)
Y. W. C. A. every day at 10, 11, 3,
and 4 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall and
also on ' Thursday evenings. The
speaker urged in closing, that every
freshmaa girl make arrangements
through the Y. W. C. A. office, to
enter one of these groups.
Miss Erma Appleby, Y. W. C. A.
secretary, gave a welcome to fresh
men women at the close of tho serv
ices.
An association of women students
hag been reorganized at the Univer
sity of Indiana and is startine the
new year with prospects of strong
success. The purpose of this organ
ization is to aid the new students to
select their studies, and make them
better acquainted with the University
and its program.
More than 700 students, who
otherwise would have been forced to
withdraw from school, have been
aided by the Students' Memorial
Loan Fund at Texas University.
Fifty-seven candidates answered
Coach Cappon's call at the University
of Kansas and the Jayhawker coach
put his men through two hours of
punting and forward passing. Elev
en lettermen were among the fifty-
seven who reported for the initial
workout. Cappon has two weeks to
drill his Jayhawker squad before the
opening Missouri Valley game with
the Grinnell Pioneers at Grinnell
field on October 1.
o
Grinnell College of Grinnell, Iowa.
Nebraska's third foe on the 1927
football schedule ha started foot
bail practice and i pointing for the
Nebraska game at Lincoln on Oc
tober IS. Coach Watt, the pioneer
football coach has but two lettermen
back from last year, which mean
that the Iowa school will hare a foot
ball eleven composed of sophomore.
Despite her lack of seasoned mate
rial Grinnell faces the hardest sched
ule in many years. Nebraska and
Wisconsin are two newcomers on her
card, both of which will be high
lights on the schedule this season.
Penn College, Kansas Unirersity,
Drake, Marquette, Washington, and
Iowa State complete the Pioneer
schedule.
Coach Lindsey .of Oklahoma Uni
versity is another Missouri Valley
Duke Ayres will be back at center.
Good prospects for guard positions
are seen in Fischer, Roe, Kern ana
Keasev. Ray Galbraith of Algona,
guard on the Cyclone team of two
years ago, is again on the line, lioll
owav Smith, giant colored tackle
from Detroit, has spent the summer
juggling castings in a Waterloo
foundry, and is looking forward to
a great season.
Missouri Unirewity has an abun
dance of veteran football material
from tha ore-season outlook. Bert
Clark, who posed at the receiving end
of the nationally famous Stuher-to-Clark
forward pass combination last
year, is favored for the signal calling
job, in the first backfield, though it
i known that Coach Cwinn Henry i
not yet decided, but consider Cap
tain Flamank and Tuttle, two other
veterans, as possibilities. In the
backfield there are three positions
that are certain, and thev are Captain
Flamank, Tuttle, and Clark, but the
fourth berth is the one that is worry
ing Coach Henry.
The University of Kansas hss an
athletic program that includes con
struction of a great field house and
development of athletic fields, in ad
dition to the completion of Memorial
Stadium. One of the larger units
planned is a great field house 600 by
640 feet, to be placed on a tract just
south of the main campus.
classroom drill last e.ening, as Coach
Ernest Bearg and his husky Corn
huskers perfected numerous plays
and formations. Half of the practice
session was spent inside the stadium,
the Nebraska- mentor holding the
first skull practice. , .
A short drill on the airline attack
was the opening number on, Beargi
program for the evening. Going from
this, fake and passing formations
with a few tackle and line smashes
thrown in for good measure, was the
extent cf tha outdoor practice.
Four different elevens were form
ed for the signal practice and as yet
none of the positions oh the first
eleven have been definitely settled.
Dan McMullen and Clarence Raisch,
the pair of 210-pound guards were
working oh one of Bearg"s new
tackle smashes with "Dutch" Witte
and "Chief" Elkins carrying the ball
behind the interference. Defensive
and offensive plays took a part of
the practice session and then Bearg
took his string of Cornhusker foot
ballers behind the closed doors of
the stadium for an extensive skull
practice.
From r.ow until the opening Mis
souri Valley game with the Ames
Cyclones, the Nebraska mentor will
push his football proteges to their ut
most as the Iowa State eleven is com
ing to Lincoln to even the defeat the
Huskers handed them last fall.
Coach Noel Workman, the Ames
football coach is pointing his foot
ballers for the Husker game, concen
trating on offensive plays for the
opening game. "Al" Holman, star
half back and Red Hill, reserve half
from last year's team, are two backs
that Workman is figuring on for
I ig gains through the Cornhusker
line.
A total of 1,080 caps and 1500
handbooks have been received at Ok
lahoma University. The caps are
being sold for 75 cents and the hand
books are given away by the Y, M.
C. A.
Six hundred students attended the
mixer given by the Y. M. O. A. and
the Y. W. C. A. at Kansas University
this last week. The program in
cluded games, stunts, school songs
and musical numbers.
Grinnell offers many opportunities
for activities. The departments of
athletics, debating, journalism, music
and special clubs need new material.
FOOTBALL PRACTICE
IS WELL UNDERWAY
Coach Bearg Concentrates on Play
Formations a Time for
Ames Game Nears
Football practice on Memorial Sta
dium field took on the aspect of a
"Joe College"
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