TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1932.
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BUSINESS STAFF
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George Holyoka
Pledging vs.
Being Pledged.
TE Interfraternity council meets tonight to
battle through once more one ot the most per
plexing of undergraduate problems rushing. The
problem is this: How to formulate and enforce a
set of rules which will be fait to both fraternities
and rushees and which will eliminate all strong-arm
and throat-cutting practices in rushing.
In the 7at, every year has brought a change in
the rules and another failure to bring order Into
the procedure. One fundamental and ons practical
difficulty underlie each failure:
1. Tnt system Is based on the presumption
that the rushee Is to be pledged rather than to
be allowed to pledge st his own choice.
2. The fraternities do not cooperate to en
force the rules becsute each, being guilty of
some rules violation, does not report the viola
tions of others for fesr of the eonsequences to
itself If an honest effort to snforcs the rules
should be made.
Although the use of actual force In putUng on
the button Is disappearing, the "sweat session" re
mains the tactical basis of operation. "Spiking"
la the object of the whole procedure. No pretense
at letting the rushee get around to as many houses
as possible and make his selection on the basis of
a comparison of relative merits is made. To get a
man "sewed up" and then keep him hidden from
other houses until he Is pledged is the aummum
bonum -of rushing.
Few with a knowledge of real conditions will
deny this. None but will acknowledge that this is
entirely unfair to the prospective pledge and frat
ernity brother.
IN MEETING the needs of the situation the sorori
ties on this campus are ten years ahead of the
fraternities. From the adoption of the preferential
pledging system by Panhellenlc In 1922 dates the
era of orderly rushing by sororities and the end of
criticism both from within and without on this
score.
Under the present system, the rushee visits all
sorority houses to which she is invited, attending
rush parties at specified hours. In pledging, she
signifies her choice of houses. Each sorority "bids"
those rushees to whlhc it offers pledgeahip. These
lists are balanced against each other and, in the
end, each girl pledges the house which she had de
cided is ths one she wants and each sorority has
those girls which it desires among its members.
Ths rules are rigidly enforced by a committee
on which faculty and alumni members of the Pan
hellenlc council hold a majority.
The system is fair and equitable. Allowing for
inevitable twists in administration, it accomplishes
what it sets about to do.
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When tha Interfraternity council meets tonight
a plan to set up this preferential system with a
faculty committee to enforce it will be presented.
The time has come for the council to act for
once and for all. The trial and error method of
finding a solution to the rushing problem has failed.
A system based en the needs of ths actuation must
be adopted now if the criticism which is yearly
heaped upon the fraternities on this point is to be
stopped.
A Warning
To the Greeks.
SCHOLARSHIP reports recently released by As
sistant Dean Harper show several encouraging
trends. Most important is that the general average
for all students in the uulverslty has shown an al
most uninterrupted climb for the last five years.
Another gives the fraternities on this campus
Just grounds for pride: The fraternity average has
followed the all student average in its five year
rise. While this is commendable and tho Greeks
may take due credit, there is one glaring blotch on
the record. For the second semester last year frat
ernity men fell below non-fraternity men in scholar
ship. This black mark on the sheet is doubly re
grettable in view of the up hill fight fraternities
have recently been successfully waging to gsin re
cognition for their genuine accomplishments In the
face of deep-seated adverse public opluion.
It is a widely accepted conception that frater
nity scholarship is regularly lower than the average
for university men. To those who hold this misin
formed belief, what last se. aitrr's report shows
was only expected. Fortunately for the fraterni
ties, it is unfounded. For eleven out of the past
eighteen semesters, Including last, fraternity rncn
have outranked non-fraternity men in grad?. Last
semert'jr's slip nov makes it harder to impress this
record on the general public.
Fraternities, despite thslr lonj; establishment,
continue to hold a precarious position in public
opinion. The all-too-plentiful criticism of college
students in general ususlly finds its point of in
cidence on the fraternity sy3tem. Fraternity men,
in the public eye, thanks to novels and movies of
college life are a gang of hall-raisers, out to spend
their dads' money, who go to school for the fun
of it and end tip In d. t. wards.
To combat this widely prevalent idea is the
fraternity's biggest problem. That there still are
vulnerable points on which tha fraternity system
can be legitimately attacked aggravatas the prob
lem. By a rigorous program of internal reform the
fraternity system has removed most of the grounds
which once Justified the criticism still levlsd at it
and have made themselves a valuable part of the
educational system. The scholarship line is one of
the proudest flaunted by every fraternity during
rush week. Rushees are told how study hall, en
forced quiet hours and Initiation requirements all
give the fraternity man a scholastic advantage over
the one who does not "go." They should and us
ually they do.
But now comes a slip-up. Fraternities have let
down on the scholarship fight. They have reopened
an old hole In their defense against the attacks
which continue.
A new semester brings a new start and a new
chance for fraternities to regain the ascsndency in
the scholarship scale. What, if anything, are they
going to do about it?
COMMENTATIONS
BY JACK ERICKSON.
Church Sight
When Friday night rolls around and the uni
versity decree that there be no dances on that night
i being enforced, the more sophisticated of stu
dents will undoubtedly feel themselves badly
treated. In fact they will probably be "griped,"
and It would not be at all surprising to hear them
say so.
But Friday is the an.ual All-University Church
Night, and on that evening it is customary that
social activities be suspended. The evening has
been set aside primarily for the purpose of ac
quainting new students with the activities Lincoln
churches have planned for the student population
during the year. Such a cause, it Is felt, is worthy
of being accorded the courtesy of being allowed to
function uninterruptedly.
There Is, of course, an element among the stu
dents whiclt does not agree with these sentiments.
In any community with a population as large as
the enrollment in the university there is bound to
be a dissenting group to any project, and especially
la this true of as controversial .a point as religion.
It is not at all unreasonable, however, for this
group to step aside for a night and allow Lincoln
churches full privileges of entertaining student in
terest. On only two occasions during the year does the
administration request a suspension, of social
functions on the annual All-University Church
Night in the fall and the evening of Good Friday
In the spring. It is not asking- too much for the
Nebraskan to join with the administration in a re
quest for observance of All-University Church
Night Friday.
Stone Dart Found in Scotts
bluff Quarry Proves Valua
ble in Study of Nebraska
Man 10,000 Yean Ago.
(Continued from Page 1.)
The point was surrounded by
bison bones and pointed toward
the face of the bank. It rested not
more than three Inches above the
Bnile clay.
The article was about one foot
back from the original edge of the
bank and one and one-half feet be
low the original surface. It was
completely surrounded by bones,
laid nearly horizontal and pointed
outward.
The point Is two and three
fourths inches long and has max
imum width of one inrh. The slse
and leaflike shape indicate a dart
rather than arrow point. The chip
ping la moderately good. It lacks
the longitudinal groove but In gen
eral closely corresponds to one of
the types found in the Folsom
bison quarries in New Mexico.
22 Milts From Scottibluff.
The fossil bed In which the
point was found is situated about
300 yards north of Signal Butte
and on the north bank of Spring
creek. Scottsbluff Is about twenty
two miles northeast of the sits.
The exposed fossil layer is threo
fect thick, more than twenty feet
long and was opened about six
feet back from the face. The layer
rested directly on the Brule clay,
and is In an old river channel
composed of water-worn pebbles
of Brule, commonly seen in chan
nel deposits of western Nebraska.
Above the channel material Is an
overburden of about fifteen feet of
fine sandy material.
The lcyer is exceedingly rich In
fossil bison bones, some of which
are articulated. The tonos dis
tinctly differ from those of the
modern bison and approach bison
texanua in form.
In evaluating this find as proof
of pleistocene man in America, we
are forced to consider two ele
ment, la the first place: Is the
stratum pleistocene! in an un
glaciated area such as western
Nebraska, the stratigraphy must
he largely detjrmlned by fossils.
Dr. Barbour carefully studied the
total situation, and besides the
fossil bison be discovered fresh
water and land snails, and pelecy-
pod shells such as are commonly
found in the western loess. In addi
tion to these were the fossil hack
berry seeds, Celtls besseyl, which
are common in western Nebraskan
from tha pliocene upward into the
pleistocene. Dr. Barbour consid
ered these very significant.
The presence of many articu
lated bones bars the possiblily of
the stratum being redeposlted
pleistocene. Dr. Barbour is cer
tain that the deposit is pleistocene.
The second problem is that of
tha possibility that the point may
be intrusive to the bone layer.
Unfortunately the point was not
sufficiently below the surface to
tally to eliminate the possibility of
accidental intrusion thru earth
cracks or gopher holes. However,
the fact that the point lay flat and
was surrounded by bones makes
such a possibility at least unlikely.
The fact that the artifact pointed
outward eliminates the possibility
that it may have been shot into
the bank. The fact that the ar
ticulated bones rule out the possi
bility of redepositlon also elimin
ates that external factor as a pos
sible explanation of the associa
tion. Dr. Barbour and I came to the
conclusion that although conditions
do not permit us to he absolutely
positive that the point fottnd by
Schulti was made by a pleisto
cene American and shot into a now
extinct bison, the facts do lead us
toward that position. Taken in
conjunction with the other finds,
the evidence for pleistocene men in
America Is accumulating.
1911 Graduate Viiiti Campus
Tint Time in Twenty Yean ;
Admires Many Changes and
Buildings.
(Continued from rage 1.)
school. The houses were quite
scattered, too, and not arranged in
sorority and fraternity rows mi
they are now. The very finest and
most Impressive house when I was
In school was the Delta Tau Delta
house, which the Zeta Beta Tails
now occupy. But then my brother
belonged to that fraternity, so I
may have been prejudiced," the
laughed.
Ween she was In school, Julia
Nagle Carlson was prominent in
activities. She was the secretary
of the senior class, had the lead
ing feminine role in the senior
class play, was on the committees
for May Day and the Senior
Prom, and was also a member of
Phi Beta Kappa.
"While we are all in school, I be
lieve we are fully occupied with
me rush or our activities and fun,
she stated, "but it is when we re- j
member those college experiences, i
with the wisdom of years, that we 1
appreciate the full meaning of
such an institution as our univei-i
sity. Ism glad that I have seen !
the development of these twenty- j
one years, but I know that when I .
am day dreaming I will remember
the old buildings, and I will people
them with my own classmates."
LINCOLN: As seat of the re
publican and democratic state
headquarters this city will bs the
scene of much of that curious
brand of human activity known as
"Politicking." Students who have
any interest at all in things out
side their own smug little campus
sncinl sphere might do well to ob
serve political spell-binding tactics
at first hand. II is a lesson in
st.rpLejry for anyone to keep a
clone ' watch on the news dis
patches which emanate from the
office of Governor C. W. Bryan.
No matter what the curb-stone
philosophers may say there are
few men in this state who can
draw symphonic melodies from
the hnrn GtxinTS of Duhllc opinion
in Governor Bryan's fashion.
NEBRASKA: As concerns var
ious elrction racs in Nebraska
there are ii.mia interesting mat
ters to eor.sll"r. Take the case of
Dwight Grlnwoltl. for instance. As
the grand old party's candidate
tor Vie gubernatorial chair Mr.
Griswnld hns been trying a "Huey
Long." He hss a sound truck fit
ted up and is making speeches on
the right of him, speeches on the
left of him, and speeches in be
tween. The reason I say "Huey
I .ons," my friends, Is because the
"Louisiana K1nrftsh" inaugurated
the sound truck .stunt some time
ago.
Thnre was one time when Sir
Huey turned the tide of an elec
tion in two days with that sound
truck of his, barging up and down
tho state, amplifiers going full
blast, farmers standing awe-struck
in their fields. But whether the
good folk of Nebraska are as
susceptible to the same sort of
tactics still remains to be seen.
But if you have talked to persons
F.bout Dwight unsworn, you win
notice that they usually mention
his "straight-forward appeal."
THE NATION: Since we have
started in this fashion we shall
confine today's column solely on
comments political. After all,
there are few events on the na
tional scene which are more ab
sorbing at present. For the mom
ent lei's consider the:
Democratic Situation: As polit
ical publicity methods go there
pre few which are more baffling
than the present democratic
rreedo. Shortly after his nomina
tion P.oosevelt issued a story pre
dicting his own election by an
overwhelming majority.
It was only Friday. I believe,
that Roosevelt's master manipula
tor, Jim Farley, predicted that the
democratic candidate would carry
all forty-eight states. And yester-1
day morning Cactus Jack Garner
came forward with this:
"There is justification for pre
dicting (thai) the democratic
victory will be measured in a
lead of 10 millions at the lowest
calculation.''
What 1 am wondering and what
you are wondering, regardless of
our respective sympathies, is "how
long can our champions of the for
gotten man play the part of the
conceited ass and get away with
it?" There certainly must be a
limit to everything. But let us con
sider the:
Republican Case: The present
while house magicians are not en
tirely out-hocused-pocused yet, la
dies and gentlemen. In truth they
have many, many tricks up their
sleeves. Somehow or other you
Just can't beat the republican cam
paign managers for good clean
fun. Or otherwise.
Take this case of their poll. In
stead of going to the masses for
'straws in the wind' they will take
a trial poll of the "country's best
trained minds" as listed in "Who's
Who." r"ow one would think that
anyone able to afford a space in
that t-ne, (I understand the price
per insertion is about $125, altho
1 may l a little wrong), certainly
owes an obligation to republican
prosperity. But seriously, if one is
at all familiar with the whence of
the component parts of the repub
licans, one can easily understand
how a "Who's Who" poll is quite
likely to show a definite trend
toward Hoover.
Nor think you for a minute, pop
ulace, that Ted Joslyn, Hoover's
press agent secretary, is batting
out publicity stories daily to no
avail. Nor think you either that
Mark Sullivan, who attempts to
pose as a half-way impartial polit
ical commentator, is giving his
syndicate service any stories
which do not contain some subtle
"Hooverlzing." And have you no
ticed the manner in which G. O. P.
campaign contributions have perk
ed tip following Hint Maine election
affair? You will enjoy following
this campaign. It is one of the best
in years.
Contemporary Comment
About Mencken.
A Dodge county reader of The
World-Herald saye that "the farm
ers are all up in arms" because of
what Henry Mencken is saying
about them. "A man by the name
of Parmenter," he reports, is try
ing to make them think that
Mencken's utterances reflect "the
attitude of all the east," which, in
short, is that "anyone who wears
overalls ought to be shot just to
be put out of his mtsery."
Nobody should be disturbed by
Mencken. He is the nation's
champion Later and its foremost
intellectual snob. He loathes man
kind and shakes his pudgy fist in
the face of Omnipotence. He
sneers at what others revere, spits
on the commonplsce virtues, and
finds little excellence anywhere
save In beer. wine, bawdy books.
Indolence, rich foods and him
self. None but college sophomores
take him seriously, and they soon
grow out of it. He has been re
viling in the "Bible belt" and the
"cow states" for years, and If he
could arrange a general massacre
of all their inhabitants he would
go to it with gusto for the first
five minutes of slaughter. Then,
bored and tired, he would waddle
back to his beer mug and his cave
of gloom.
There is no need to worry about
Mencken. God made him, for some
Inscrutable purpose. Just as well
let him live and yammer and gob
ble and guzzle to the end of hts
appointed days, a megalomanlc
stewing in the ecatacy of his own
misery. Omaha World-Herald.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
CAMPAIGN STARTS
ON TUESDAY NOON
(Continued from Page l.)
William Devercaux, in charge of
Cornhusker contest rallies; and
Jack Erickson, in charge of pub
licity. The Innocents committee
will be assisted officially by the
following women students:
Jane Youngson, in charge of
contacts; Jane Axtall, publicity
assistant; and Jane Robertson, in
charge of luncheons.
The complete list of prises for
the Cornhusker all-campus student
a'.hletlc ticket sales drive Is as fol
lows: First To man and woman sell
ing the highest number of tickets,
providing a minimum of 150 are
sold by contestant, an all expense
trip to Southern Methodist uni
versity game at Dallas, Tex.,
Dec. 1 1832.
Second To man and woman
selling second highest number of
tickets, providing a minimum of
100 are sold by contestant, rail
road fare and football ticket to
Minnesota game at Minneapolis,
Minn., Oct IS, 1932.
Third To any sales person
(except winners of flr.it or second
prize) selling fifty tickets or more,
railroad fare and football ticket to
Kancas game, at Lawrence, Kas.,
Oct. 22. 1932.
Fourth To avny sales person
(except winners of 1st. 2nd, or 3rd
prise ) selling twenty tickets or
more, a reserved seat ticket of ad
mission to any out of town game
on Nebraska's 1932 schedule.
REFOHK OUH
TIME
-rum Tha Unity Nrhrnt.in Mln furl
101 ana init.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
Reason tickets for the seven
football games were offered at
$2.50.
Hendinc in the Daily Nebraskan:
"Students Are Slow." This, how
ever, referred to registration. Fig
ures stood at 697.
Quite a funs resulted in Lincoln,
when student waiters volunteered
to work for 15c an hour, compared
with the 25c an hour, union wait
ers were charging.
An ad: "Booth (football coach
then! will Invite you out on the
field if you wear a suit made by
me ... I cut them 'chesty' so that
jeu look big and swell ..." Also:
"Billiard pailor for enterprising
young men ... No saloon at
tached ..." Ah ... the good old
days . . .
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
Varsity squad appeared with
twenty-five membeis. Chick Hart
ley was csptain.
The new sorority rushing system
of "preferential bidding" was tried
out for the first time.
A bit of wit and humor from the
days when women were pure:
''Helen's cheeks are like roses."
"Aren't you laying it on pretty
thick T"
"No, but Helen is
Jack Best, Nebraska's "grand
old man" returned to Nebraska.
Tha Pally Nhraakan maintain a lallv
column unrir thla haari containing all of
ficial notlcca of orKnlr.atlon m-ftlng, or
announcement of general fnlerejtt In atu
rtenta. Anyone may have alien notices in
aerted by calling tha Pally Nebrankan of
fice before 7 j. m. lh day before the
notlca It to appear.
Vesper Choir.
Tryouts for Vesper choir will be
held In Ellen Smith hall on Fri
day, Sept. 23 from 4 to 8:30 o'clock
in the afternoon and on Saturday
morning, Sept. 24, from fl till 12
o'clock. Both singers and piano
accompanists may try out.
Commercial Club.
A meeting of the Men's Com
mercial club will be held Wednes
day evening In the Commercial
club room at 7:30 p. m. All active
members are urged to be present
by Norman Prucka, president,
AwQwan.
All members of the Awgwan
business staff will meet in the
Awgwan office at 3 p. m., on Wed
nesday, Sept. 21.
Republican Club.
All students interested in the
Republican club are requested to
meet in room 108 in Social Sci
ence building on Tuesday, Sept.
20 at 3 p. m.
Sigma Delta Chi.
Sigma Delta Chi will meet
Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 21, at
3 o'clock in the Awgwan office.
Tassels.
Tassels will hold a meeting at
.Ellen Smith hall at 7 p. m. Tues-
day evening.
Pershing Rifles.
There will be a meeting of all
members of the Pershing Rifles in
the basement of the Nebraska hall,
Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock. All
old members are urged to attend.
Men's Glee Club.
Tryouts for the men's glee club
will be held Thursday evening at
7 o'clock in room 219, Morrill hall.
Kosntet Khib to Pick
IS'ete Room for Yean
Koamet Klub members wll
hold an Important meeting on
Tuesday afternoon at S p. m. In
prof, icnramm's efflce In Mor
rill hall. Arrangements are to
be made to secure permanent
club rooms for the organlra
tlon.
T
THE STUDENT
PULSE
Second-Hand Books.
TO THE EDITOR:
On the level, I dislike gripers
and griping, but I feel I must tell
the campus at large my reactlsn
to the low trade-In return we re
ceive for textbooks traded or sold
to the book stores as compared to
the relatively high price for which
other students later buy back the
Identical books.
I haven't talked to the bookstore
proprietors, but the prices I was
quoted on eight books I took to
one store were so out of proportion
to their true values thai I am of
the opinion the students are being
Imposed upon, and extremely at
that.
I took a rather large text to this
store. The book's original price to
me, new, was a little over S3.AV
This store offered me $1.40 trade
in value. If I had sold it to them,
the store in turn would ask at
least $2.50 for it as a used book
from the next student who bought
it, making the margin of profit too
large, I think. I prefer to keep the
book and try to sell it for aboul
$2.60 to some other student, there
by not losing as much as by sell
ing to the bookstore. Nevertheless,
my margin of loss is too great.
At another time I took seven
small French readers which co.t
me an average of seventy cents
to the same store. It offered mo
twenty-five cents for all sven.
Were not millionaires.
EDEEB.
H I ITU BKRRV ELECTED
SORORITY PRESIDENT
Sigma Alpha lota, national pro
fessional musical sorority, an
nounces the . recent election of
Mrs. Ruth Berry as president of
Nebrsska chapter. The newly
elected officer succeeds Miss Lu
cile Harris, Kansas City.
Mrs. Berry, is a senior in the
arts and science college snd is
studying violin under Prof. Carl
Frederic Steckleberg.
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SO-CALLED "BARGAIN" CORDUROYS . . .
OR CAMPUS CORDS?
!Much OBLiGEDr-Sherlock, but your services aren't
needed. University men are great detectives when it comes to discover
ing the real buy in corduroy trousers.
Wherever songs end with "alma mater", you are almost sure to find
the style-wise undergraduates wearing light-colored Campus Cords of cor
rect shade.
Gentlemen, scholars and judges of good corduroy appreciate the hip
fit and straight-hang of Campus Cords. Distinctive, but not extreme.
Campus Cords resist age stubbornly, and easily withstand the countless
ordeals by cleaner or laundry.
Let your own eyes convince you. See the 1932 Campus Cords at a pop
ular store near you. Look for the name, please Campus Cords.
ELOESSER-HEYNEM ANN CO.
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Also designers snd makers of the Campus Cord Cossack Jacket swagger,
washable; Ciwiijw Bucks, those distinctive tan SiOleskin trousers; and Campus
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