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THE DAILY NKBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
tttitn A, Llnoln, Ntbratka
OFFICIAL STU01NT PUBLICATION
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Sunday mornlnaa during tha aoadamla yiar,
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SwSSCniPTSSra RATS
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Talaahanaa Oayi M1 Nlahti Ml. B4S3S (Jaurnal)
AaK Tar Naraaaan aanar.
IDITOKIAL STAFF
Elmant T. Walta IdNar-ln-eMat
Robart J. Kally AaaMlata tditor
Managing Kdltara
William Meftaffln C. Arthur Mltchall
Arthur Wolf iayd VanSagiarn
Evalyn Slmpaon utna MeKIm
Laanard Conklln Saarta tdltar
Francaa Malyoka waman a miw
Charlaa O. Lawler lualnaaa Manasar
Aaalatant Vualnaaa Managara.
Norman aallahar Jack Thampaon
Edwin Faulknar Harald Kub
SUB? tTTV-TSi
Silly Coed
Rushing Rules.
Women's self-governing bodies work, quite
efficiently as they ars, aay the coed repre
sentatives. Or rather, a minority of them. We
The Women' Panhellenie association has a
little gray pamphlet called their "constitution
A kvJvr:" It contains, in the by-laws, no
less than eight and one-half printed pages of
restrictions on rushing and pledging by soror
ities. Of these rules, many are disregaraea
entirely. Others are. unenforceable. Others, en
forced adequately, are silly and serve no useful
end. . ,
The entire code of rushing regulations used
hv fraternity men on this campus is printed
in full on the rush eard itself. These provi
sions, -while -we regard them as far from per
fect, contain no deadwood. What there are
of the rules are enforceable and helpful to an
orderly rush week.
Let us contrast this simple order obtained
among fraternities with the complicated, silly
mess presented by the sorority rushing code.
Going over the regulations imposed upon
coed rushers, we picked out fourteen points,
at random. Careful inspection would probably
reveal as many mora loopholes in the system.
Here are the fourteen w selected by a casual
examination of the regulations :
1. In general: No tpiking of rashees is per
missible. Tet everyone spikes rushees. Be
cause' everyone doea it, because the practice is
so universal, Hi rather difficult enforcement is
neglected. Instead of penalizing groups for
spiking, the advisory board penalizes them for
sending ruahee flowm, r some other silly
and inconsequential violation.
2. This advisory board no one knows ex
actly what it is, says one sorority girl it has
supreme authority in penalizing for rush rules
violations. Tet it is not a representative
board. Members of the board may break rules
as they will, and continue to penalize aeverely
other violaters of less important rules. Mem
bers of this advisory board are no doubt con
scientious at present, but future members arc
an unknown quantity.
3. Telephoning rushecs during rush week is
prohibited, except by the group's rushing
chairman, or her assistant. "Her assistant"
may mean anyone in the house. Hott, then,
enforcement! How, in the first place, can
the advisory board or anyone else check every
telephone call?
4. Services of men in entertaining ruahee
at e not permissible. Heh, Heh! We know too
many men who have been pressed into service
10 entertain sorority rushees, and "incident
ally, answer questions abou; sororities just the
right way."
5. Preferential bidding: Each boiority turns
in a list of approved rushees. Each ruahee
turns in her choice of sororities, first, second,
third . . . Eaeh sorority invariably draws as
pledges exactly the list they sent in aa "ap
proved." If this is not proof of spiking, what
an it mean?
b'. No rushing 'registration weeli. This
mans simply that freshmen girls must regis
ter unaided. Elsewhere on the campus the
competition is free and unrestrained.
7. No high school girl may attend, during
her high school career, a sorority party, for
mal or informal. If there are more than five
members of the sorority present, it is a rush
ing party. If there are five or less, it is not
a party. These informal group rushes go on
all over the state each sunmer. How, then,
enforcement? Why, in the first place, such a
silly rule?
8. More generally, no Lincoln high school
girl can be entertained at any informal social
affair; at which there are more then five mem
bers of the same sorority, and no members of
any other sorority. This is a year-round re
xtrictron. It is hard to enforce, and serves as
a moajis of catching violators only on rare oc
casions. Why such a rule? Says one coed,
"If my mother entertained at a tea, and in
vited any hih school girl, along with persons
not in school at all, I could not be present
wilbout incurring a penalty for my sorority."
9. There shall be no "conspicuous rushing"
on the campus at any time. What in the name
of merry heck is "conspicuous" and what is
not? '.
10. ;Jso sorority shall entertain a rushee ex
cept as an "occasional" guect. - We are about
out of adjectives. The rales speaks for itself
in proclaiming its own silliness.
11. Expenses for rush parties shall not ex
ceed $125 for the registration week period.
Accounts must be submitted . . . The provi
sioa is universally broken and disregarded.
12. No girl shall be pledged who was s mem
ber of a local high school sorority. We laugh
and laugh and laugh!
13. There shall be bo undignified probations
. . . Now just what, pray tell us. do they mean
b that? Fraternity paddling is at limea not
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without its dignity. ,
14. The entire code of by-laws, of w 1 e
rushing restrictions are a part. may be
amended by members of the raiihelU-nifl coun
cil. But spiking, we hear, was discussed quit'
frankly this fall .... A committee waa ap
pointed to invetitigate the situation in oilier
schools, nrenaratory to some action or other .
. . The matter hns been forgotten . . .
Losl we be rebuked as "mere men" who
nan linnti' mill HIilIi'I'sIhIkI IHiillillU o f the
women's own little world, we wish to sny that
each one of these points was brought to our
attention as the "pet gripe" of some sorority
coed or other. They should know.
. One thing about this Oury-Chnrch nt'fi.ir ;
Lota of people are finding out that there Is
such a thing as a federal council of churches,
aiid that there is a Mr. Leavitt, and. n .M'.
Hunt, and a Mr. ("avert.
Innocents back with the student union build
ir,.v r.p.iipt It tii'cnis none, the worst' for it"
temporary absence from the light.
Communists in China give wmninjf notices, i
signed with the word "Kill." And here we,
were just about convinced they were the most I
peaceful of all the pacifist organ iy.at ions. One
doesn't know just what to believe m.wmlnys.
does one?
Prairie
Literature.
Easterners sneer at the lack of In era ry ap
preciation found among the inhabitants of the
middle west. They complacently sit haokat
their ease and remark in a superior fashion
that someone or other has published n book
written by "a westerner" "some, wild melo
dramatic effort, no doubt"
Such critics are not entirely wrong; neither i
are they wholly right. The middle west has a!
literature all its own. Tt has writers who have j
become famous throughout the world. It pub- j
lishes books that attract nation-wide comment. !
It does all this but evidently docs it for the j
benefit of the eastern critics alone. For the
people of the middle west waste no time in
reading their own good literature.
Students at the University of Nebraska are
eveii less interested than older citizens of the j
state in its writers and its books. Considering
the allegedlv superior background of the col-.
lege man and woman, it is rather inexplicable,
this trend toward abhoiranee of good poetry
and prose. !
The fact, however, remains. Students arc
not interested in good literature not even the
fiction and biograDhv of their own country
and age. The opportunity is not denied th
far from it. Here on the campus is put
lished The. Prairie Schooner. Nebraska maea-ib
zine of the best current middle-western litera
ture.
Here on the campus, loo, The Schooner
languishes. Its circulation is very poor. It
has chills.
Out in the state, and in other states as well, jtg
the publication is extensively read, and praised :g
by all its readers. On the campus, it has very j
few readers to praise it. ifei
We can think of no w orthier cause crying ;-f.
for action. If each fraternity and sorority ra
took one subscription, the circulation would; Kg
take a sizeable iumn. And the cost, to each of ti
the Greek-letter organizations, would be but ; -
one dollar per year.
It is too good an opportunity to let sup,
for a dollar s worth of caking will do little for i g
the student in the way of giving him any sort rS
of an education. Caking conversation
the main, "Huh?" and "Unh-huh!
cultural, surely. i bs-
And there is a bare possibility that reading !w
good literature might be worth the tim andt
the dollar.
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lo arjNtr. uirHB. uirnnjfisi. miu niiiir tin im
sampus in time for their nine o'colck classes
and then fail lo arrive themselves.
PERSHING RIFLES INITIATE
Honorary Military Society
' Takes (n Twenty Men
at 5 Today.
Pershing Ri(1n, honorary mili
tary organisation, will initiate
twenty men this afternoon at Ne
braska hall, announces Captain
Claude Ollleaple. The candidates
for entrance Into the group are
elated to assemble at 5 o'clock.
The twenty men are: R. K, Hal
ter, E. G. Huddlcaton, Hidmrd
Rice, Ralph Moore, H. R. Winter,
Richard Aloran, L. E. Humphrey,
William Gordon, Miles Houck, R.
D. Joy, Edward E .Brodkey, F. R.
Byron, B. F. Clark, Clifton Cona-
way, Norman Jeffrey, W. B. Tot
ter, Robert Scott, R. F. 8wannon,
E. H. Weller and C. A. Sorenson.
CONItOY, HIT BY
MOTORCYCLE), IS
CUT AND BRU1SFD
John Conboy, University of Ne
braska freshman, reeclved minor
cuU and bruise , when be was
struck by a motorcyclo driven by
John Stepeck Tuesday evening at
Twelfth and R streets. Conboy
was taken to the Lincoln General
hospital where he was attended by
rw w. A. Cnmnbell. The driver
of the motorcycle was also InJuvcJ.
In the accident. Conboy la an Al
pha Sljrma Phi fledge.
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We understand someone is investipat
prospects of giving Awg-wan an ottiee. e re
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gratulaticns.
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MORNING MAIL
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TO THE EDITOR :
J read with considerable ainiiviueiil llic
letter ot A. A. -Miseiiauis, wherein lie s'Med
that h did not doubt Hie authenticity of ihe
colonel's accusations, and adds to the lisl of
communist-influenced organization llic labor
unions and the political parties. Vex, tin re is
indeed ground for apprehension when mir la
borers and our government turn "If'.-d," md
are mediums of communistic propaganda.
Since the war these sublle though unprinci
pled propagandists have been permeating
American thought with their Utopian ideals.
Let us not sleep. America awake! Commun
ism is upon us !
Paradoxical as it may seem, according to
Misegadis ". . . thousands of dollars are being
spent annually in this country to carry for
ward the message of communism . . . ' These
thousands pour annually oat of starving, des
titute, bankrupt Russia to pay an ". . . un
scrupulous preacher, teacher, secretary, labor ik
i . . L.i ? i. : . ' r-iL
leaner, ana politician ior sunny usinir m or
ganization to further the cause of comuiun-
t,
ism ...
'Tis indeed a blessing that bankrupt Russia
should assist these Americans, thereby lifting
a financial burden from our shoulders. A so
lution for our unemployment problems, maybe ;
The letter then states that when the ques
tions concerning "Who brought Rabbi Kahn,
Professor Todd, Clarence Darrow, Norman
Thomas, and others to Nebraska, arc cleared
up ... we will have to admit Colonel Oury ia
stating facts and fchould be asked to tell more
about the activities of these fanatics . . . ."
The Nebraska Bar association brought Clar
ence Darrow here, and the Y. M. and T. W.
are guilty of having secured Norman Thomas.
Nw, since this point his beea cleared up, and
the fanatics are revealed, we can turn to the
colonel for "more about the activities of these
fanatics, instead of condemning him for giving
some timelv warnings."
AMI SKI).
HERE'S SOMETHING
WRITE HOME ABOUT!
An Event
unparalleled since
the days when
"U" Hall was the
Monarch of the
Campus
IT NEVER WILL
BE AGAIN IN 1931!
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and HERE'S THE STORY
Eastern clothing firms know
that the only way
to restore normalcy
is to keep their
workers busy
their plants running
to peak capacity.
RESULT?
Special price concessions
to us on our
spring orders in most
cases LESS than cost.
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They're All New They're All Smart!
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Tailored by Hart Schaffner & Marx
and other Nationally Known Makers
iit in maw m mm.0
In 1930 Suits of equal quality, style and tailoring
sold at prices ranging to $55. In 1931 they're
selling at $35-$40-$45.
Every One Authentically University Styled
All celanese silk trimmed . . . perfectly tailored of all
wool hard finished Australian Worsteds Crashes
Imported Tweeds ... 1, 2, 3 button coats peak and
notch lapels rope shoulders new padded shoulders
conservative models belted sport models . . . new
spring colors Platinum Grey Willow Tans Silver
Blues Oxford Greys . . . All carry the Simon guarantee
of satisfactory service.
FORMERLY ARMSTRONGS
M MlU'Mlll Mil'
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