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Panhellenic
Comes to Life.
Some time ago The Nebraskan, tired of list
ening to eoed grievances on sorority rushing
rule weaknesses, printed a few of the move
unreasonable and more unenforceable of the
present restrictions. In fourteen separate
points, jotted down after a casual examina
tion of the code, we commented on a few of
the more silly regulations.
Monday evening, the Panhellenic board came
lo life after a long period of dormancy, and
heLI a spirited discussion of the practice of
spiking," almost universally employed about
the campus. This time, there may be some re
sults. Methods of enfroeing severe penalties
were suggested for violations of the spiking
rule.
If the Panhellenic board does not go back
t sleep, the situation may be improved by
action. Spiking is not conducive to an order
ly, well regulated rush week among the soror
ities. There is no question but that it can be
completely eliminated, if proper penalties, and
methods of enforcing these penalties, are de
vised. If every sorority were forced to drop all its
pledges for a semester when convicted of spik
ing, there) would be no more of it. This is a
severe punishment, we admit, but the situa
tion demands such a penalty-.
Panhellenic can apply such a penalty, and
enforce it, if the group so chooses. If they do.
we shall doff our hats and applaud from the
sidelines. If they do not. we shall grow even
more disgusted with the silly, unenforceable
regulations that have restricted (in a purely
nominal sense) sorority rushing upon the cam
pus for years past.
There is every indication that some such
action may be taken. "We hope it is, for we
are sure that no other more will secure the
desired results.
There is one other point, equally essential,
however, that Panhellenic did not discuss Mon
day evening. That is the number of useless
and outworn rules remaining in the code, the
"deadwood."'. Many such items are found in
the present eode, and many others which, by
no stretch of the imagination could be prop-
eriy nioreea. unese must De eiiniinaxeu jj. a
workable system w to be achieved. Disrespect
of one sale breeds disrespect of another, per
haps mora important. . .
Telephoning of rushees, for instance. For
bidden by the rules, except to rushing chair
man or "her assistant." How can all calls
be traced, without stationing a detective in the
telephone office? Why the rule, when any girl
in the honse may eall herself "the assistant' ?
Kither devise practical enforcement, or remove
the rule.
Servioef o men forbidden in sorority rush
ing. Enforce it or remove it.
No rushing registration week. Hardest
thing to enfore ethat could be devised, we
think. Severe penalty might help.
.'o "conspicuous rushing" on campus at any
lime. Remove it. "It's merely another rule;
no particularly definite method of Raying who
violates it and who doesn't, or of enforcing
it at all.
During semester, a rushee may be only an
"occasional guest" at any one house. What's
"occasional" and what isn't? How enforced?
"Why not remove it altogether? Would sorority
rushing go to the devil?
No rushee may pledge who was a member
of local high school sorority. Why not, may
we ask? Remove it. It's universallly disre
garded. vv,rurties must submit expense accocuuts. for
rnsli nerk period. Reasonable, but disregarded
or evaded. Enforce it or remove it.
expose our own lack of knowledge, but per
haps someone else may care to answer who is
better equipped than we to do no.
Says the first of the heap: " Why i it that
the university retains the present drill field,
when new land in u less conspicuous place wax
purchased for drill purposes last yenr? Its
tmxight lines is a crime. Why continue the
thing in its preseut barren state, when it may
as we II be decorative as not?" We do not
know.
The second decries the "tough luck" of the.
University of Nebraska in athletics. "Why,"
says the 'writer, "do wo have what appears
to' be at times a champion football team, only
to end tip the season hopelessly outclassed by
a few less excellent teams?" We do not know
that either.
Number three grows piite wrathy over the
prospect of crowning a May Queen, and hold
ing Ivv Day Ceremonies in general, in April.
(Well.'we do not really care much when they
crown the May Queen.) Says the writer. Why
not have it in' J one, or the last of May?" We
do not know.
Number four leaps upon the administration
for its failure to do anything about the parking
situation. "It's terrible." she says, "to try to
find anywhere within seven or eight blocks of
the campus a place to leave my car. any day or
lanvtime. Whv haven t they none anyuuug aooui
it? Don't they care at all about the conveni
ence of the students, or would they prfeer that
the 'beautiful' drill field remain unhidden by
a few "ugly' cars?" We do not know.
Number jive airs a few more or less personal
racks. "Why do officials of the administra
tion speud most of their time at the state
house?" Aha! There's one we can answer.
Because the legislature is in session!
Number six returns to campus beautification
I Oh, outworn phrase!) with a request for in
formation on purchase of a number of marble
columns from the old station in Omaha. "Didn t
the university purchase $3,000 worth of these
columns for use in the campus planning proj
ect? Why don't they use them, then?" Well,
well. We can answer that one too. It's be
cause they luven't begun to consider what to
do first! 'incidentally, it'll take lots of money.
The legislators are a bit shy on some questions,
and cannot be easily approached.
.Seven says: "I noticed in the editorial col
umns of the first issue this semester that you
said Innocents might have a more difficult
time picking members this spring, since the
crop of good juniors was a bit small. Isn't
there enough juniors in this university that a
worthy membership can be selected for next
YELLOW JACKETS
HEAR MEN FROM
OTHER FACTIONS
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held a week ago In order to con
sider a student union building. At
that gathering, he pointed out, the
Blue Shirts expressed a unanimous
desire to participate in a drive for
a student union building. Neal
Gomon. who was present, ad
dreaaed Mi bodv from a Yellow
Jacket standpoint, and at that
time formulated plani. with Blue
Shirt leadera for a Tri-Kactiou
gathering which is to be held
Thursday evening in Social
Sciences auditorium.
Delphian Nash, acting at offi
cial Barb representative in hla ca
pacity as president of that group,
expressed the opinion that this
unison of campus tactions In the
hopes of makiri a successful stu
dent union drive is one of the big
gest things which has happened
at this school since the stadium
campaign. He commented favor
ably upon the student unicn build
ings which he had seen at Iowa
City and Lawrence, Kans., and de
clared that the barbs were willing
to work on any workable plan in
complete harmony with other cam
pus political groups.
MeCleery Speaks.
The crying need of a union
building for this campus was ade
quately illustrated by William Me
Cleery, president ol the Innocents
society who spoke before the Yel
low Jacket group:
"Unless on makes a serious
mental survey of conditions of this
campus the need of a union build
ing is apt to escape attention."
MeCleery said. "It is exceedingly
dangerous when students Jack a
place where they may gather at
will. As things stand at present
our social relations are largely
split up into different departments
and fraternal groups. Such a situ
ation is a social injustice to Uni
versity of Nebraska students. It
isn't tair that we should be with
out a facility which so many other
good schools are provided with."
Jack Expresses Need.
LeRoy Jack, treasurer of the
Innocents society, further ex
pressed the need of a union build
ing. "It is our duty," according to
Jack, "to make University of Ne
braska students "school conscious"
instead of fraternity and sorority
conscious. This can only be done
through a student union building if
it is to be done rightly. Some in
dication of the unifying effect it
would have was illustrated at the
senior class meeting last Thursday."
year's Innocents? Is there any reason for them ; wjjqjj SPEAKS
to plav politics in picking their successors
No. no reason at all. Hut then, politics are
always a bit unreasonable! lncidenatlly, re
mind us of it some lay and we'll tell you the
strange but childish tale of T. X. E. It's an
interesting lodge, even if it doesn't mean much
of anything any more.
Number eight grows practical, with a reas
onable suggestion. "Why not close Twelfth
street? Then the campus beautification project
might be carried a bit further with the addi
tion of a memorial mall across the drill field,
and the parking situation would be solved!
Can't ihe. administration close it?" We do
not know. And sometimes, tearing our hair,
we wonder if they do either.
Number nine, the bottom letter of the pile,
requests information on the construction of
union buildings upon other campuses. Ah,
maybe we can answer that, prettj' soon. We
are about to bust loose and run a series of
feature stories, wiih a few photographs of these
other buildings, so you and all your brothers
and sisters may get a fair? idea of how it is
beinp done.
At 1 hat. our score was
answered four out of nine,
take a hand at it now ?
not so bad. Wc
Will someone else
Funny, isn't it? One can never understand
why another person should come all the way
from California, or Xew York, or the south
seas, to attend the University of Nebraska!
AT ENGINEERING
MEET TUESDAY
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for all engineers." "Tie up to these
older men for you will need them."
Mr. Wright also pleaded with
those students attending the meet
ing to master the English lan
guage. The older engineers, although
thev know their subject extremely
well, usually have a difficult time
to put their thoughts across and
sell their ideas to others. That is
because they have specialised in
engineering and have not realized
that a mastery of English is a
fundamental basis for men in
every profession."
'Would Increase English.
When questioned by one member
of his audience he explained that
he would suggest decreasing the
number of required hours now in
engineering and replace them by
English and literature courses.
"This would enable the engineer to
make plain all ideas he tried to
sell, and make him a better execu
tive." be said.
Mr. Wright also spoke at a
luncheon at the chamber of com
merce at noon yesterday. He was
a truest of the members of the
faculty of the college of engineer
ing. He is now managing editor of
Railway Age. He has served as
honorary editor of the mechanical
engineering: magazine and has con
tributed to many engineering and
i railway publications.
K. U. REGISTRAR PLANS
TALK 10 GRADUATES
George 0. Foster Picks
High School Seniors
As Theme.
LAWRENCE, Kaa. High school
seniors and their college problems
will be the theme of a series of
talks to be given Thursday morn
ings through March over station
KFKU, by George O. Fc"ter, reg
istrar of the University of if.ansas.
Literally thousands of stcdents
of the University of Kansas, have
conferred with Mr. Fooler about
their college courses, and his
talks will be based on his years of
experience at the university.
The talks, which are to be from
11:15 to 11:30 each Thursday, will
be as follows:
March 5: A word to parents who
will send a son or daughter to col
lege. March 12: A four year college
course; Why? When? Where?
March 19: Preparation for col
lege. March 26: The college campus.
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Men Students Are to
1 1 old Join Meeting
A Joint meeting of men stud
ents will be held Thursday eve
ning In Social Soiences auditor
ium for the purpose of promot
ing the student union project.
All fraternities are to be repre
sented by a member of each
class, and all non-fraternity
men are urged to attend the
affair.
A tentative program has been
worked out which wilt call for
several talks and a round tabel
discussion of the plans for the
Nebraska student' building.
RE
inar held by Young, who recently
outpointed Atlla Tomlinson. an A.
A. U. national champion ot ivm.
Divine, too, will have a hard battle
to defend his rank against Sher
man Stephenson, a veteran 135-pounder.
In all three-years ine w. a. a.
has conducted a wrestling tourna
ment. Oklahoma Aggies have won
the team title, annually rolling up
many individual championships.
VanBebber was 165-pound cham
pion in both national events in
1930. with Caldwell winning in the
collegiate and Pearce in the ama
teur. Another Aggie. Earl Mc
Creadv. now professional, won
both titles.
Oklahoma A. & M. Team
Will Enter Two National
Tournaments.
STILLWATER, Okia. (Special).
Thirty wrestlers at Oklahoma A.
and M. college are on their toes.
trying for eight places Coach E. C.
Gallagher wui nil in choosing tne
Cowboy team to enter the two na
tional tournaments this spring
the national collegiate athletic as
sociation event on March 27 and
28, at Brown university, Provid
ence, ft. I., and the American ama
teur athletic union championships.
April 8, 9 and 10, at Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Although the regular season has
been finished, marking the close of
a decade of consecutive dual meet
victories for the Aggies, the thirty
grapplers have not broken training
and are practicing daily.
Start Challenge Matches.
Challenge matches through which
Gallagher will selcet the eight men
for the trips east and north will
be started next wecK. In reality,
the choices are made by the wrest
lers themselves, as Gallagher in
sists that the No. 1 man in each of
the eight weight classes must de
fend his position against all the
challengers.
The eight ranking Aggie matmen
now are Andy Hesser, 118 pounds;
Bobbv Pearce, 126; John Divine.
135: 'Walter Young, 145; LeRoy
McGuirk. 155: Capt. Jack VanBeb
ber. 165: Conrad Caldwell, 175, and
Joe McCrary, heavyweight.
Dotter is Out.
Chester Dotter, regular 175
pounder in the regular season, is
out because of an injury- Cald
well, who has appeared as a heavy
weight in most of the matches,
will be reduced to fill the light
heavyweight berth.
Strongest competition in the
challenges is expected in the 145- i
pound class. No. 1 ranking now be- j
WISCONSIN 0 GETS
NEW RADIO MATERIAL
Equipment Makes WHA Most
Powerful Madison
Station.
Additional new equipment re
cently provided for WHA, the Uni
versity of Wisconsin radio station,
has made this station the most
powerful of the Madison units.
With 750 watts at its disposal, a
50 percent increase, the university
station, is now in a position to
assume a prominent place in the
Wisconsin radio field, for its lane
of 940 kilocycles is a favorable
one.
To keep pace with the mechan
ical efficiency of the station, H. B.
McCarty, newly appointed direc
tor, is planning to develop the
programs acocrdingly.
Among other ventures in the
way of serviceable programs
planned for the near future are a
series especially interesting to par
ents of University of Wisconsin
students, and a vocational guid
ance series. The exact nature of
these programs will be announced
later.
The increased power that WHA
now enjoys is especially favorable
to the reception of farm and home
programs sent out at midday
when reception in the outlying
regions of the state is more dif
ficult. These programs of great
value to agricultural interests will
be continued at a greater advantage.
Engineering Students Still
Work on Nine Hour
Day Basis.
The general impression created
by talkies of alleged college lire
that the college student spends his
days annoying the fac. Uy and his
nights roistering over the country
side will have to be revised in the
light of an investigation recently
made Into the working hours of en
gineering students at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin,
Figures collected by the faculty
show that the engineering student
is still on the basis of a nine hour
day and a six day week.
The faculty of the college of en
gineering last spring sampled the
working hours of the students, and
a special committee, studied the re
sults and prepared a report that
has just been released.
The report shows that in the
sophomore year the students av
erage from 48 to 54 hours a week
spent in class room and in outside
preparation. Different courses
make varied demands upon the
students time. In the junior year
the averages range from 50 to 62
hours. The committee recommends
that time requirements be kept
witiiin the limit of 52 hours a
week, which is considered a rea
sonable upper limit,
HARASS GRANTS REQUEST
Kansas Coach Co-Operates
With California Head
For Movies.
LAWRENCE, Kans.- H. ' W.
"Bill" Hargiss, football coach at
the University of Kansas, has been
asked if it will be agreeable to
him for a representative of the
University of Southern California
to call for the purpose of obtain
ing material for an educational
scries of movies to be made tnis
spring. The request came from
Coach Howard Jones of Califorms.
Hargiss has replied that he is
willing to co-operate with Joccs
as spring football practice will be
on at the time the representative
will be here.
This film will take into consid
eration the various types of foot
ball as it is played in the differ
ent sections of the United States
and will appear as a series shov ing
the different styles of gridiron
tactics as used by the colleges of
America.
Today's Special Wed. )
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L6465 M3 Little Bldg.
llead'j'iiiirters for Sociul
Stationery. Menus. Pine,
('a nls. Programs. Fiat &
Sorority Papers, in fact,
everything the student
nec.ls in the printing lino.
Charlie Jones, Mgr.
The height of something or other is the case
of a newspaper correspondent who wired the
story of the medical convention to the Chris
tian Science Monitor.
200 BOYS WILL VIE
MORNING MAIL
Wfl aif not condemning Panhellenic board.
We are a jijilauding them for their evident inten
tion to set. To mske a practical code from the
present system will be hard to do. We wish
the board luek. Jt mav succeed.
So Tired of It All!
TO T11K KblTOf!:
"Whv ix it that everv last one nf the di. lend
ers of compulsory drill stand up and shoiil :! 'f of this
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: Examinations Are Planned
j For Graduating High
School Men.
LAWRENCE. Kan.-More than t
200 names of Kansas bovs. mem- ;
year's graduating ,
been submitted to :
the Summerfield scholarship corn-
about the '"great Russian menace.' instead nfmltlte at the university for con-!
Chicago civic opera coining soon
ihe usual "SJy dear, wasn't it woiid' rfiill !
it eame as anything else but world-J.imous
opera, wc wonder how it would be received . . .
On eujting classes: "There is no such thing
as eutting," one instructor reported the dean
of men as saying. Dean, where have you been?
Exposing
Our Ignorance.
"We dislike extremely to appear ignorant.
Nevertheless, we are about to do that very
thing. -During the past few weeks, a pile of
student letters has accumulated upon our desk.
They are all queries for information upon some
point or other, and queries for information that
we did "riot have. We have decided, however,
to print a resume of the lot. It will rather
arguing the merits of the dn!' ipiestion its-J .
They all say communism is directly related to
the anudrill agitation that is being felt over
the United fetatei, and let it go at that. They
offfer carloads of anti-Hed propaganda, and
not one ounce of anti-elective drill matter.
Did .someone so fill 1hcm up with Red-menace
fear over in the military department that they
think i'ue whole government of the country
will fall if Ihe University of Nebraska decides
in a sensible and sane manner that elective
drill is better in the school than compulsory!
The colonel himself said he could not prove
the. effect of any communistic influence. It's
evident h- just a wild idea that is instilled into
all advanced course R. O. T. (J. studenls in
j order to avoid too many questions. Why they
(all soak it up is beyond me.
Lxpect i Time was. perhaps, when the Auurican pub-
I' i lie fimlil he e.-iuilv tri-cn in nv kurt. of action
desired by a simple waving of the flag, or a
single shout of ''Red! Communist! Russian
menace!" We hope, for the future of civiliza
tion, that the time is past. "We are reasonably
certain that it is. Today should be an age
of reasou. If the world advances sufficiently
to reason for itself, rather than accept stray
militaristic propaganda, there is no reason to
expect that there will be another war.
Connections traced between communists of
Russia and sane American pacifists are in
tended merely for those unfortunate individ
uals who cannot reason for themselves. They
are used as an emotional appeal, to persons
who have no intelligence with which to accept
or reject a reasonable statement. Knough of
it, in a college daily. It's a silly waste of
space. A .SENIOR,
federation for the ten or more t
scholarships to be awarded for :
next year.
Preliminary examinations will be
held at Lawrence, Parsons. Wicb- i
ita, Great Bend, Concordia and .
Hoxie, and from the 200 prelimin
ary candidates a group of about
fifty will be selected to come to
the university for final examina
tion. First Summerfield scholarships
were awarded in the fall of 3929,
to ten boys, and eleven more were
selected last fall.
The scholarships, established by
Solon Summerfield, New York
manufacturer, and Kansas univer
sity alumnus, provide necessary ex
panse money for a four-year college
course for outstanding boys of
Kansas.
When the plan is fully in opera
tion, about forty boys each year
will be receiving the scholarship.
Mr. Summerfield has provided a
fund which will continue Indefin
itely to provide for the scholar
ships.
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