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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1932.
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The Daily Nebraskan
St-tion A. Lincoln, Nebi-Mh
OFFIC.AL STUDENT BL'CAT.ON
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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Barn Into
Ballroom.
First definite action toward providing a decent
ballroom where major student parties may b
held on the campus was taken Tuesday when the
Innocents society, after consultation with university
administrative officers, announced that proceeds
from the annual homecoming party Saturday night
will be used to start a fund to buy permanent dec
orations for the coliseum.
The decorations will consist of a wall hanging
of dark blue vclour which will surround the walls
from the balcony railing to the floor, leaving the
stage open. These walls may be drawn closer
toward the center to enclose only a portion of the
floor on four sides for smaller function . Tn- entire
ceiling will be slmt out by a canopy oi . blue
velour which will join the wall hangings arcui.l the
edges of the balcony. This canopy may be ruined,
leaving the balcony open when so desired. A mol ile
orchestra shell, indirect lighting system and floor
furniture complete the equipment.
ALTHOUGH the field house has been used for
several years for major parties and university
events, it is decidedly unadapted to such use to
which it has been put simply because there was no
other place where such parties could be accommo
dated. Decorations cost for these parties have been
high when there was an attempt to convert the
barn-like hangar into a .ballroom. In any cane the
acoustics were poor, both for speaking and music.
When, in the future, the new equipment is in
stalled, all this inconvenience will be eliminated,
furnishing Lincoln's largest ballroom for all major
events with the added advantage of keeping them
on the campus.
A few years ago a movement was started on
this campus to erect a student union building. Such
a- building remains today the geratest needed addi
tion to the university physical plant. It would be,
however, utterly foolhardy to attempt to create a
demand for it just now. The advent of ole man
depression just about the time the movement was
getting a good start set up a barrier impassable for
the present.
One of the greatest advantages of a union build
ing would be a student ballroom large enough to
accommodate all student social functions.
These in the past have been held in the coliseum
when on such occasions as the Homecoming party,
Military ball, Interfraternity ball, Junior-Senior
prom and Ivy day party that floor was the only
one in the city large enough to contain the crowd.
S'malelr parties, such as the regular fraternity and
sorority downtown parties, went to the hotels.
In the future these major parties can continue
2j be held in the coliseum with the decoration night
marc, which has haunted every student party com
mittee in the past, removed. The Betting for such
fventa as theatrical performances, freshman convo
cations, honors convocation, public speeches and
graduation exercises will be much improved.
.
ryHERE is one catch in the entire glossy picture
" 1 the decorations cannot be provided this year.
The coat will be about $3,000. It is estimated
that nearly $1,000 may be railed this year from
student organizations using the coliseum as a ball
room. The university, through Chancellor Burnett,
has promised some support. But since there is no
available fund from which the money may be bor
rowed, to be later paid back in installments, pur
chase must await the time when the total is on
hand.
" This is unfortunate. The present year, of all
years, is the one when students need to cut social
expenses. Could the coliseum decorations be pro
vided this year, the plan advanced by the Dally
Nebraskan for oo-operattvt fraternity ands sorority
paitles to be held, in that building would be adopted
much more roadily. With the coliseum presenting
its present uninviting appearance it will be difficult
to excite fraternities and sororities to any great
extent about the idea of holding parties there.
This difficuly is, however, but for a single year.
The new coliseum decorations will probably be
available for next year when for the first time con
venient facilities on the campus for holding major
student parties and other university affairs will be
provided. It is hoped other organizations u;iing the
coliseum this year will follow tho example of the
Innocents society in adding to the fund a large part
of the proceeds from their respective parties.
The ball has been started rolling. Who will give
it the next shove ?
Ambitious
Sophomores.
TiE group of sophomores who recently proposed
to gain a place in the sun by organizing to
enforce the freshman cap rule has finally, tho re
luctantly, In the face of adverse advice from the
Innocents society and student council committee
decided to abandon their noble project and sink once
more into the ranks of ordinary sophomores.
"Tis well. When this group of sophomores first
conceived the idea, they were to form a sort of
unorganized group of interested sophomores to visit
erring freshmen who refused to wear their rod caps
and "persuade" the latter to do no. Fair enough.
Hut then ambition entered. They drew up a
formal petition outlining duties, powers, member
ship, etc., and presented it to the student council.
They were not only to persuade the freshmen to
wear red caps, they were to choose the Dad's day
tug-of-war team- an insignificant task, really-they
were to form a central sophomore class organization
and do various and sundry other high-Hounding
things.
What the scheme amounted to was this: Re
vival of the Iron Sphinx, sophomore organization
which was abolished a few years ago because it
served no useful purpose in the university.
This campus already has too many organiza
tions serving no useful purpose. And too many who
might, but do not, serve any particularly useful
purpose. One of these latter is Corn Cobs, alleged
men's pep organization which has previously this
year come in for editorial chastizement.
This club as it now functions serves chiefly to
introduce into the campus extracurricular world
those "comers" from the several fraternities who
take Cob membership as the first step to fame. The
way the Nebraska cheering section functioned at the
last home football game is elegant evidence of the
way Corn Cobs performs its supposed duties.
The proposed sophomoie vigilance committee
would have had approximately the same basis of
represntation as Corn Cobs each fraternity con
tributing and the barbs allowed a certain number.
Every function which this committee proposed to
appropriate to itself could be performed by Corn
Cobs, which contains both sophomores and juniors,
fraternity men and barbs.
Rather than form a new organization to get
the future hot shots into the limelight, let Corn
Cobs be "reformed" so as to justify their existence
as something more than an agency for this.
Welcome
Teachers.
TEACHERS of the state convene this week for
the twelfth annual meeting of the Nebraska
State Teachers association. Many of the sessions
will be held on the campus, and the Daily Nebraskan
joins with the university in extending to the visitors
a hearty welcome.
Within the next few days a full program is
planned for the delegates, but they will have some
spare time, and then it is hoped they will take
advantage of it to renew old associations and make
new ones here on the campus. It is by going back
to their work with new enthusiasm and new plans
that they will profit from the meeting.
That, of course, is the reason for the conven
tion, but this year more than ever do the visiting
teachers have a duty to perform on their return to
classes.
It is not fair to say that the whole educational
structure is threatened, but it is certain that In
many localities grave danger of retrogression ex
ists. Educators everywhere have a watch to keep
over the principles of enlightenment for which they
stand, and this Is more true in Nebraska this year
than ever before. Reduced means prevail in every
district. In some districts conditions are worse than
in others, but nowhere must the fight be allowed to
slacken.
There is, too, the corollary. Although educa
tion must not be allowed to lose any of the ground
which has been gained at such cost, neither must
there be an extravagance now. The individual
teacher has another duty to prevent any needless
expenditure. Lost motion must be eliminated, and
the school system should emerge better, more effi
cient, than ever.
The Student Pulse
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"More on Temple Prices.
TO THE EDITOR:
. Ail student I asked for a rea
on why the Temple cafeteria
prices should be so unreasonably
iiigh, and as yet I have seen no re
ally. Not only I but the student
body generally as well wpks
lace to eat where food is assur
jedly clean, well-prepared, and
priced to meet the demands of a
none too well filled purse. Par
ticularly In view of the fact that
'the cafeteria is a university man
aged and established place in
tended to be just such a place as
I mention do I think it seemly for
an undclayed change in the Tem
ple practice to be instituted.
I asked whether the reason for
the existing high prices was in
competent management. I shall an
swer myself. It is.
I say it is Incompetent manage
ment because of the obvious fact
that the cafeteria Is equipped and
maintained dally to serve from
-four to five hundred persons, a
reasonably good day! and any good
business man knows that he can
not have four or five times the
necessary overhead expense and
till run on a competent basts.
Either overhead must be reduce a.
or more customers must be found.
In the case of the Temple cafe
teria, run by the state thru the
university, for the state thru IU
children, the logical step is to find
more customers (who. by the way,
should be easy to find, as they'r
all trying to be found by a suit
able eating-house.') But one of the
essentials of the place they'll pa
tronize is reasonably lowered
prices.
Look at it this way: There are
nearly 5,000 students and nearly
1.000 members of the administra
tive and instructional staff at the
university, ail of whom eat on the
average three meals a day, and
most of whom eat at least part of
these meals away from their resi
dences. Where but at the Temple
do they want to eat. If the Tem
ple is reasonable? It is certainly
most conveniently located.
I am sure that careful manage
ment can reduce the cafeteria
prices and actually make money,
not lose continually as it is now
doing. By lowering prices and ad
vertising extensively to introduce
the new policy, the problem is
solved. It sounds easy, and it is
just as easy as It sounds. Offhand
I think of a dozen examples of
price reduction and nearly as
many means of advertising. Any
one wno is paid to think up good
management principles could just
as quickly figure out twice as
many more and practice them. A
few posslbilltes are:
Matt Haf: Sir. 10: raduoad. !tc.
rWkad (Maun: Pnr. e , raduea. 4c.
FMa: Mnw. to; radueaa, S
fvirk chap: rtll, 14c lb.) I"o, lie
ah: radwad. .
aalad: Now. 10) 13c: radvead ..
On. half pint al Bilk: I quart, c, (;
raauead 4 ir le.
aandvwti: New IBle: radoead, B ft.
Sweat mix: ( 16 to 20c doaan Now, c
each; 1 or 4a.
The list could extend thru the
! entire menu (none too varied,
either), with from 10 to 50 percent
reductions. A little thought will
show that, properly n'anaged,
money could bo made at my sug
gested prices. Hamburger retails
for 3 lbs., 25c; beans, 3 lbs., 17c;
milk, 6c a quart; pork chops, 1 lb.
1 3 to 4 chops i 14c, the best grade
to be had, while other prices are
equally low. I quote no wholesale
prices, nor bargains straight re
tail prices.
Advertising could consist of
campus posters, possibly mimeo
graphed bills $1.50 per thousand),
and notices thru the university
mail to those persons it reaches.
The prices can be reduced, and 1
think the university owes it to the
people who FUpport it to recipro
cate by doing for them what it.
Doesn't everybody know how
things are?
SAME STUDENT
i Contemporary Comment
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The Day of Youth.
"Editors are always eager for
new viewpoints and the outlook
held by the rising generation."
So Kllery Sedgwick, editor of the
Atlantic Monthly expressed him
self regarding the future of youth
in the Hold ot literature. But this
statement does not stop here. It
mip,ht just as well have been made
concerning the rising generation's
future in any field of endeavor.
It is as though the entire think
ing public had expressed its feel
ings towards the possibilities of
youth. For since the youth of to
day will be the ciders of tomorrow,
it is only natural that the present
ciders are pleased when members
of the younger generation show
signs of promise. Certainly these
ciders "are always eager for new
viewpoints and the outlook held by
the rising geutiatlon"; they are in
terested to see who shall take their
places. And like all human beings
they are happy to give up their
responsibilities as noon as the
"viewpoints and the outlook" of
the youths show that they are able
to "carry on."
Oftimes it has been said that
this is the day of youth. Feople
with this idea point out numerous
young men who are taking posi
tions formerly held by old men.
They use that as conclusive proof
lhqt toriRv Is the dav of vouth. But
they forget that the old men who
are retiring were inemseives
vouths when they went into the
loos. And the ones whose places
thev took were also youths when
they were rirsi cmpioyeo. vy
th?n should anyone call this a day
of youth any more than any other
time?
In the correct sense every day
is the day of youth. Some youth,
however, have their day before
others do, since it is the youtns
themselves who determine when
ihnir Hbv shall come. Thev are tne
ones who are responsible for their
a J aV-.. .avaf
own development. Ana mey i
their own accord determine soci
ety's demand for them.
The youths or loaay can not uvc
hoping that their day will soon
come. Instead they must through
their own thought and achievement
prove that their day has come and
that they are fully prepared to
take charge.
Daily Tarkeel.
Abolishing Grades.
If I were suddenly and by some
mistake elected chancellor of this
university, the first thing I would
proceed to do would be to abolish
the grade system. The argument
as to whether or not It should be
done away with has points on both
sides, but I believe tnai tnose in
favor of It far outweigh those
against it.
I believe the idea as taken up
by one of the large universities in
the east with respect to the jour
nalism college Is profitable. There
a student may get one of two
grades a passing or a flunk. In
structors found out that students
worked much harder when they
did not know what kind of a grade
they were getting- They put forth
all the effort that was in them In
order that they might be classed
in the higher of the two grades.
Coeds and Marriage.
"College 'loos to girls what
brandy does .o hard sauce, it spoils
the taste without adding a kick,"
writes Nina Wilcox Putnam in an
article on college f..r women. And
she goes on to mourn the demise
of the old grande dame type of
woman with which history
splashes its pages. College, she
says, gives girls too great an in
dependence and sense of humor to
be anvthing but democratic and
how can we agree with her?
drab.
"College interferes with mar
riage, at least with successful mar
riage. . . . Let's keep our college
for the grinds" she suggests, "and
lot our mariaeeable girls strut
their stuff at home." Charming
girls don't last long in college, sne
thinks, because they don't get
credit for their appearance.
Mrs. Putnam can always spot a
college girl, because her hair isn't
just right, her clothes never abso
iniv rhif ptr "Last of all their
smart-aleek air and self-conscious
That is only logical, as we may
see.
The grade svstem as adopted ny
most colleges" and universities is
entirely unfair. Each instructor
has his own standard set as to how
high a grade a student may de
serve. Therefore, an "A" student
to one professor ioay be merely a
"C" student to the professor in
the same nubject across the hall.
The conclusion is that the grade
you get depends upon the instruc
tor you register for.
For proof of this we have only
to visit the classrooms themselves.
We may go into an English class
on the second floor and find it so
large that we cannot even find an
extra chair to sit on. We go across
the hal! to another class in the
same subject. Here we are amazed
to find a mere handful of stu
dents H is plain to see what the
reason for this is. The students
hiivc all flocked to the instructor
who has the reputation for being
a "snap." Information like that
spreads quickly, and it Is only hu
man nature to want to get the
most vou can for the least work.
This is not fair to cither the stu
dent or the instructor.
A number of students coming in
from the smaller high schools in
the state depend too much upon
the grades they get. Having been
used to receiving comparatively
high grades in high school, they
expect the same in university.
They are more concerned with the
grade they get than they are with
the practical value they have re
ceived from the course.
A number of professors tell the
freshman student the first day not
to worry about grades, as that is
not what counts. And yet the stu
dent is so filled with the fear that
he might not get a good grade that
be becomes panic-stricken and
cannot do his best work.
Down with the grade system!
Let the flag of equality and fair
ness wave over this great institu
tion! V. M.
Ready for Pall
HATS made
new !
Well . . . almost new . . .
they look spic and span !
CASH I CARRY
PRICES
Men's felts 68c
Women's felta 45c
Warcaty
V CLEANERS
toy Wythara, Jsa Tuelrar
221 No, 14th 83367
artificiality give them away. Her
son should never come to a co-ed-ucatlonal
colege, she says, piling
Insult upon Injury, and become in
different to the fair sex so early
in lire.
It is too bad that Mrs. Tutnam
should have tried her psychological
touch at something with which she
doesn't seem to have been familiar.
Let her come to Washington Stale
and see some of the charming girls
enroled here. Ask some of the
boys whether they like co-cds with
a grand sense of humor and hair
that perhaps isn't "Just right."
Ask them seriously if they don't
think that girls with mental train
ing and an understanding of the
problems involved should make the
best possible partners in successful
mariages.
Close mutual interests, common
ideals, a closed-in environment,
and the me Intellectual temper
have made college mariages the
most successful in the world, au
thorities declare. And a round yel
low moon for good measure, and
what value Mrs. Putnam's
ideas? S. Mc.
In support of the above view on
co-eds and marriage as given by
a Washington State co-ed, are cer
tain statistics gathered by the In
titule of FAnrily Relations.
Divorce ends one of every six
mariages. But only one in 75 sown
in college ends with divorce. Thus
does the institute evaluate college
romances.
It comes out strongly in favor
of college activities, pointing out
that the campus is replacing the
church societies as a popular mat
ing ground. College, said the re
port; 1. Gets young people accus
tomed to each other.
2. Aerlimates them to trials and
.in.'lrma ooonmtlnn hlu'n Hla.
appointments of life and sexes in
shouldering these problems:
3. And makes them generally
bet ter fitted for marriage at grad
uation. Washington Evergreen.
NEBRASKA MORTAR
HOARDS PLANNING
HOMECOMING FETE
Twenty-five reservations have
been made for the Mortar Board
homecoming luncheon to be held
Saturday, Oct. 29 at 12 o'clock at
the Lincoln hotel. Mortar Board
is reviving the traditions of having
a homecoming luncheon instead of
a round-up week banquet, ti-.h
Kansas Mortar Board chapter hn i
been Invited to tho luncheon.
HOME ECONOMICS
GROUP CONDUCTS
FRUIT CAKE SALE
The annual sale of fruit cakeu
by Phi Upsllon Oniicron, honm
economics sorority, will begin next
week, and all orders must be in
by Nov. 15. Those in charge f
tho sale are Teresa Llbershal,
Marlon Lynn and Muriel M of fit.
DANCING
TILL 12:00
AT THE
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HOMECOMING
PARTY
Thamon Hayes
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
SEE A COB
SEE A COB
Announcing Our
TWENTY SEVENTH
ANNIVERSARY SALE
and arc we celebrating!
Take a peek or three
at these listed items then
look over our windows
and you'll agree!
Ladies Coats -Suits -Dresses
$19.75 and $25.00 Values
Fashion's Finest
FURRED COATS, Valuesto $35
Lovely McCallum, Ingrain
HOSIERY, Regular $1,95 Values
Beautiful New
Fall and Winter Millinery
Men's Good Looking
Fall Suits, Values to $25
Hart Schaffner & Marx
$35 Suits
The Season's New
Overcoats, Values to $29.50
Regular $1.00
Neckwear
Men's Cossack Model
Leather Jackets
$1390
$2375
98c
$1.59
$145
$240
It-" y
750
55c
S2.95 and
Pigskin and Capeskin Gloves
$4-95 and $95
$1.85
"Just a Few of Scores!"
And
FREE FOOTBALL TICKETS
Nebraska vs Kansas Aggies
With Every Purchase of $15 or More
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