THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1931.
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The Politicians
Petition.
"THE so-called campus politicians are at it again.
This time they seek reform in the student gov
ernment and the management of student activities.
Just how they intend doing It la the substance
of two petitions which were circulated among the
student body for the past few days. Specifically the
two measures proposed first, that "the personnel of
the junior senior prom committee should be changed
from six men and six women in the junior class to
three men and three. women from each of the junior
and senior classes." The second petition, which
would amend the constitution of the student council,
states that "a standing committee will be appointed
from among the faculty to supervise the balloting
and counting of the votes in each and every campus
election, whatever the office or honorary position
being voted upon."
Neither proposal will perform completely the
miracles which its authors declare It will toward
cleaning up campus political corruption. This is
unfortunate, however, for something is needed to
throttle the office grabbing activity men at whom
the petitions are purposely directed.
A look at the facts reveals rather plainly that
the junior senior prom committee has been mainly
a political football. It has been a stepping stone for
embryo activity men and women to reach an obvi
ous goal membership in Mortar Board or Innocents
society. Students selected to the committee, as a
rule, were recognized for "pull" or political affilia
tion and not actual merit. As such, the committee
serves only one purpose: It labels its members with
the pedigree of senior honoraries.
As such, the first proposal appeared to be noth
ing short of a political maneuver. Coming as it did
on the eve of student council selection the petitions
smacked even reeked of the thing that it pretends
to eliminate.
The sudden altruism of university seniors was
little short of startling. But here altruism deserve
serious consideration for one reason: It eliminates
the number of pedigrees that will be handed out to
junior men and women. Equal representation of
juniors and seniors should be adopted If the affair
Is to be known technically as the junior senior prom.
The prolific discussions waged over this issue
were little short of monumental stupidity. The prom
committee has never had, and probably never will
have a function worthy of the name.
pHE second proposal merits more than a passing
glance. Faculty supervision of elections indi
cates rather obviously that there is sufficient evi
dence to support the charge of "dirty work at the
polls." Such an accusation, however, is not star
tling. Elections on the university campus obviously
are far from spotless. No one will deny that ballot
boxes have been stuffed. No one will deny that
tabulations have been distorted. Those in the seats
of power have consistently declared that such is not
the case. They have, however, failed to produce
evidence to support their statements.
For many years Nebraska students have charged
campus elections with being "corrupt." For many
years nothing has been done about it Thus, we
consider the second proposal.
We question whether a faculty committee would
clean up the election. The university pedagogues
with few exceptions, display little Interest in student
enterprise. Even if the council should be so fortu
nate as to find interested faculty members there is
no evidence to bolster the claim that they would
"clean up" elections.
There is one thing certain, however, which was
brought to light In this proposal The student gov
erning body has failed rather pathetically to stand
on its own feet and represent the best interests of
the institution. Rather has it been a body composed
for the most part of politicians and hopefuls, hope
lessly entangled with vested interests and political
affiliations. Most needed, then. Is reorganization of
the council, such a reform based primarily upon re
moval of that body from political machinations. As
such, the faculty supervision of student enterprise
finds little sympathy.
Neither provision can be adopted Immediately,
parliamentary procedure preventing such action.
Council members might well see In these proposals,
however, advance warning's that bode ill for thei
own well-being.
One thing is clear: Students of the university
will no longer tolerate the obnoxious display of
clumsy politics as has characterized, for the mri
part, student activities on the Nebraska, campus
The Creeks
Set a Price.
NO amount of ballyhoo and propaganda by the In
terfraternity council concerning the forthcoming-
ball can alter the thinking student's notion of
what a fair price of admission -should be.
The $1.50 which the Greeks named as the admis
sion price, can in no conceivable manner be justi
fied. It U too nigh.
Always an affair greatly anticipated by the
prom trotters of the university, th laterfrsternlty
ball ranks well up among th bigger affairs on th
campus social calendar. As we uaderstsnd It, the
ball is supposed to b an all-university event, open
to all students of the campus wbo chaos to attend.
In addition, it represents one of th two co-operative
enterprises carried on by Nebraska fraternities.
The other is th lnterfraternlty banquet held each
spring.
As th system has actually worked out th ln
terfraternlty ball caters only to th upper crust, the
gocially minded students of th university most ot
whom sr Greeks. This discrimination has been
effected simply enough, by th prohibitive pric
charged the student body. Even in the rah rah days
the Greeks kept the price ridiculously high.
Evidently they Intend doing the same thing this
year.
It goes without saying that the brothers of the.
jeweled pin overlooked two important Items before
setting a price. First, there is a depression among
university students much the same as there has
been among the men on the street. Students do not,
as a rule, have sufficient money to spend promises
ously on social affairs.
In addition, many university students refuse to
be swaahbuckled into attending these affairs purely
on the strength of orchestra ballyhoo. We question
seriously whether the band playing for this event,
or any others, merits the propaganda that is flaunt
ed before the student population.
As such, fraternity men on the Nebraska cam
pus would be much the wiser if they reduced theif
price within the means of the average student's
pocketbook. The profit-making motive has no place
In this enterprise. If the Greek would live up to
the democratic principles which this university was
founded upon which their own organizations were
founded upnn the Interfraternity ball would be
more of an all university party, and not an affair
for the prom trotters alone.
Misdirected
Patriotism.
I TNIVERSITy students had their fling at what is
known as pure garden variety American patri
otism Tuesday night when many of them attended
the president's ball at the Coliseum. For many stu
dents, and many others, attendance at this affair
meant loyalty to the nation's liberal minded chief,
and duty to their "God and country."
The party held on this campus, similar to those
held throughout the nation, had a dual function to
perform: First, to celebrate the president's birth
day, and second, to raise funds for the Warm
Springs, Ca., infantile paralysis foundation.
There will be no question but what popular sen
timent justified a birthday party in honor of the
president The foundation fur.u, fnr which 2 mil
lion dollars was netted, was presumably a success.
Unfortunately, however, a very small percent of
this fund will ever be realized by the inmates of
this institution.
Such a monumental piece of hypocrisy as were
the 6.000 balls held throughout the land deserves
little praise. The thousands of people, large and
small, who participated in this debacle were evident
ly guided by a perverted notion of what is better
known to politicians and statesmen as "patriotism."
Our government would become more of the de
mocracy that it is purported to be, if these same
people would spend as much time, money, and effort
in the interest of better government as they do In
the success of "birthday parties."
The Student Pulse
Brief, concise, contributions pertinent to matter
cf student life and the university are welcomed by
thia department, under the usual restrictions of sound
newspaper practice, which excludee all libelous mat
ter and personal attacks. Letters accepted do not
necessarily indicate the editorial policy of this paper.
A Student
Speaks His Mind.
TO THE EDITOR:
The University of Nebraska is supposed to be
an institution of higher learning. Its curriculum
contains courses pertaining to everything from art
to engineering and from medicine to business ad
ministration. In the midst of such an enlightened
institution, does it not seem queer that student or
ganizations will permit external commercial inter
ests to repeatedly take advantage of them?
Does it not seem strange that whenever a pre
sumably big orchestra is Imported for a university
function, the university is expected to pay an enor
mous fee for its services and a few evenings later it
will play at a local or Omaha dance hall for a frac
tion of the cost? A pitiful state of affairs is evi
dent when the students must pay twice as much to
dance to an orchestra at a university function as
they would have to pay elsewhere. Are the students
so childishly simple that they will permit such a
condition to go unchallenged?
It is indeed a reflection upon the university if
its leaders can not operate more efficiently than to
be repeatedly "sucked In" on as obvious an injus
tice. Perhaps it js too much to ask of as Irresponsi
ble groups as the university organizations but mcst
certainly if these groups wish to attract crowds to
their functions, they should strike better bargains
in the future. J- T. P.
We Agree
With You.
TO THE EDITOR:
After reading the editorial, "A Convocation or
an Absurdity?" which appeared in Wednesday's
issue of the Daily Nebraskan. I wish to voice my
whole-hearted approval of the article. It seems to
me that the university authorities believe that the
students are interested In the typa of convocations
which hsve been held recently, even in face of the
fact that only about four-tenths of 1 percent of the
students attend them.
If the Interest in convocations is accurately
shown by the number of students who attend them,
then they are a waste of time for both th students
and speakers. Why not abolish them altogether if
we cannot have speakers who will interest a large
number of the students? Is it because the univer
sity is putting up a front to deceive the rest of the
world? Maybe we have convocations so that we
can tell all of our friends who are not in the univer
sity, "Of course we have convocation very often."
Other than that we should have convocations
to appear well In the eyes of the world, there is no
reason for staging "farce." convocations. Couldn't
the money used on the convocations be spent to a
better advantage? The university might buy some
radios so that the students could listen to some good
speakers once in a while at least
Last semester some one suggested in this col
umn, that some local talent might be used in con
vocations instead of the usual "unknowns" which
might be of Interest to the students and then nave
a well known speaker at a convocation once or twice
a, year. Why can't we have some action In that di
rection? Even If the university could Hot afford to
resent a well known speaker more than twice s
year, the students would get something from it
They also would get chance to hear some of their
own talent and that wouldn't hurt anyone, in fact
it probably would create much Interest On the
other hand, with th present system of presenting
convocations, th students are getting nothing from
them.
This mess of convocations with mediocre talent
Is beginning to bore the students. If something Isn't
don soon, th Interest of the students in them will
be lost altogether. I would like to see some action
concerning the convocation situation. F. U. M.
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Starting their 1934 season with a narrow 43 to 41 win over Gustavus Adolphus college of St Pe-tersburg Minn Tuesday after
noon the Nebraska mermen pictured above now face a four meet schedule topped off with the Big Six compo tttion March 10 Last ye.
the team tied with Iowa State 44 to 44 in the Big Six meet, and this season looks for some more stiff competition from the Cyclone
SplaSSecially outstanding in the meet with the northerners was the work of Harry Kuklin, who won In the fancy diving event from
Hervig. nationally famed Gustavus Adolphus diver. Kuklin won by the narrow margin of 103 v to 103. ttnrlkA thtt .Pm. l...
This is Coach Sutherland's first year in the role of mentor of the swimming team, Rudy Vogeler having tutored the mermen last
season, when they tied for the conference title.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT .
Samuel Johnson:
A Remembrance.
Beginning with the time l.o rams
to London with a letter of recom
mendation and a three act tragedy
under his arm, Samuel Johnson,
famed lexicographer and literary
Hon whose 224th birth anniversary
was observed this week, lived a life
that fulfilled the popular concep
tion of the eccentric man of let
ters. His life was a series of
strange paradoxes; he was a friend
of the poor and he rebuked the
patronage of Lord Chesterfield;
his dress was usually slovenly, his
speech and behavior was blunt and
queer, and yet his social and af
fectionate nature and keen wit
gave him entrance to the best so
ciety of his period.
Robert Lynd, in his book, "Dr.
Johnson and Company," describes
him thus: "Poor, repulsively ugly,
uncouth, with disgusting table
manners, surly, irascible, a bully,
intolerant, dirtly, slovenly and ri
diculous in dress, eccentric, un
healthy, morbid and gloomy,
haunted by a bad conscience, tor
mented by the fear of insanity and
death one would say it was the
portrait of a sour misanthrope,
doomed to avoid and be avoided by
his fellow-man."
What a mountain of defects for
a man to conquer! And yet John
son's virtues counterbalanced his
faults, for he became the center of
a group of the most brilliant men
in the England of his time, and his
personality had such a deep effect
on the period's literature that his
nsme has been accepted as a con
venient guide mark to the literary
output of the eighteenth century.
Boswell, the famed chronicler of
Johnson, often used to arouse the
Sage's ire by his repeated desire
to know the why and what of
everything that went on around
about him. Once he exploded, "I
will not be baited with the what
and why: What is this? What is
that? Why is a cow's tall long?
Why is a fox's tail bushy?" An
other time he said, "Sir, you have
but two topics, yourself and me. I
am sick of both."
There was about Johnson a
childish spirit that remained with
until his death. If, while he was
walking through a park with some
friends, someone in his party
should happen to point out a tree
that he climbed as a boy, Johnson
would immediately cry, "Why, I
can 6warm it now," and would
start off to prove his boast He
would often startle his admirers by
climbing gates and going other
agile feats, even when he was
quite advanced in years. Once,
upon finding a rail which he used
to vault over as a youth, Johnson
peeled off his coat and wig and
Jumped over the fence twice, al
though he was seventy years old
at the time.
It is hard to reconcile the mo
ments of deep depression which
Johnson suffered with the mo
ments st which his volatile spirits
soared to their highest. Miss Reyn
olds describes a foot race he once
ran against a young lady who jad
boasted that she could run better
than anybody. The two set off,
and Miss Reynolds, in relating the
contest says, "The lady had the
advantage at first but Dr. John
son, hsppening to have slippers on
much too small for his feet, kicked
them up into the air, and ran a
great length without them, leav
ing the lady far behind him, and
having won the victory, he re
turned, leading her by the hands
with looks of high exaltation and
delight" Another time, not having
had, as he described it, a "roll" for
a long time, he emptied his pockets
of the trinkets they contained and
turned somersaults down the en
tire length of a hill upon which he
happened to be standing when
struck by his whimsy.
It was this very flair for the un
expected that made Johnson one
of the greatest comic figures of
literature. Dr. Johnson Is now so
well recognized as a wit that his
slightest remark is a cause for
laughter. One writer sums up the
great lexicographer thus: "He Is
almost unique as a comic char
acter: no other comic character is
at once so loved for his good heart
and so admired for his good sense.
Other comic characters are most
amusing in their misadventures:
Johjj3on is amusing in his tri
umphs. Daily Trojan.
Ag College
By CARLYI.E HODCKIN
6TT e"s7de only
Not half a dozen times In all the
examinations f i n a 1 , quarterly,
weekly, etc. I have sat thru in
four years of college has some
students failed to pipe the ques
tion? "Should we write on both
sides of the paper?" And there was
scarcely a time in all those exami
nations but that the Instructor's
prompt answer was, No."
If the instructor didn't tell the
class definitely not to write on
both sodes of the paper, he at least
indicated that he preferred that
they didn't Almost every one as
sumed that the correct way to
write examinations was on one side
of the paper only. Yet in every
class some naive lad presisted in
asking that question.
It looks now as if that persistent
few might prevail. This semester
just past instructors have begun
to show tendency to prefer that the
papers be written on both sides.
And in one final examination the
first time I have ever seen it hap
pen the instructor specified dc
initely before the examination that
every sheet be written on both
sides. The students who failed to
comply he admonished thus: "Just
look at all the good paper you've
wasted."
MEN GONE WRONG.
Two of them are hobbling around
the campus this week like they'd
been thru a couple of automobile
wrecks. Elmer Heyne is one. He
got a leg banged up playing bas
ketball. The thing was first hurt
during basketball days in high
school, be said; and now a bad
bump doe3 him up for a time.
Lewis Bottorff is the other.
Tuesday night at the president's
ball he was going in high gear.
Next morning he went hobbling
across the campus with a cane.
Was the president's ball too much?
Bottorff says no. His explanation:
Twisted an ankle Tuesday wrest
ling. Didn't hurt much then. At
the ball, while it was in action, it
hurt a little, not much. During the
ni?ht, while inactive, it got really
sore, hurt like. . .
REVERSED CYCLES.
An interesting, college-produced
habit of thought among students
is this: The cycle of activity be
gins in the fall, ends in the spring.
Now that is just the opposite to
the habit of thought rn the farms
from which most of tliem came
Out on the farm everything starts
in the spring the new pig, chick
en, calf, colt, and lamb crops are
coming along. The summer's farm
ing program gets organized and
under way. The whole round of
farm activity begins.
Then in the fall everything kind
of comes to an end. The crop is
harvested. The feed is stored for
the winter. Most of the machinery
is put away. About all there a to
do is take care of a few fall pigs
and milk the cows plus, of course,
odd jobs. Activity is at a low eblj
until spring.
In the college the cycle is Just
reversed. Activity starts in the
fall, thru the winter is the busy
season; it terminates with a grand
rush in the spring comparable to
harvest time on the farm and
then stops. Thru the summer is va
cation and rest time. And then In
the fall the round begins again.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Corn Cobs.
Corn Cobs wtU meet at 7:30
Thursday evening In the Temple
building. Spring party plans will
be discussed. All members must
be present Corn Cobs wishing em
blems may purchase them at Law
lor's sporting goods store for $1.40.
Dramatic Club.
Dramatic Club meets this eve
ning at 7:15, room 302 Temple.
All members must be present Con
tinued absence will constitute drop
of members from the roll.
FRED NICKLAS, President.
Barb A. W. S. League.
A mass meeting of the Barb
A. W. S. League will be held Thurs
day at 5 p. m. at Ellen Smith hall.
AH unaffiliated girls are urged to
attend.
held In the Activities Building on
the Ag campus.
The slection of the orchestra will
be announced soon.
The committtee in charge of
these parties is the Barb Council,
members of which are Burton Mar
vin, chairman: Wilbur Krlckson,
orchestra chairman; Margaret
Medlar, chaperon; and Vernon Fil
ley, In charge of decorations.
annOaTeditor
closes junior
CLASS
SECTION
Magee Announces to Be No
More Photographs in
That Division.
Lutheran Club.
The Lutheran Student club will
hold its monthly meeting Friday,
Feb. 2. at 8:15 In the Temple build
ing, room 203.
Social Dancing.
The Social Dancing class will
meet in Grant Memorial hall at
7:30 Friday evening. Instruction
will be given from 7 to 7:30 pre
ceding the regular dancing period.
TASSELS MAY PLACE
F(
Undergraduate Ends
Old Water Problem;
Returns to College
Girl Pepsters Plan Skit to
Be Presented at Game
Saturday Night.
Anne Bunting, president of Tas
sels, girls pep club announced Wed
nesday that a picture of the new
Phi Sigma Chi pins has ben re
ceived, and that orders for the em
blems may be submitted at any
time by Tassels members. Phi Sig
ma Chi is the name of the national
women's pep organization of which
Tassels is a chapter.
The motto for the Kansas Aggie
basketball game, which will be
played in the coliseum this week
end, is "Kover Haggles," and has
been printed on the cards which
w1U be distributed soon.
At the Kansas State game this
Saturday night, the Tassels will
prpsent a skit A practice is set for
Saturday afternoon in the coli
seum. Miss Bunting also announced
that the pep group members are
expected to usher at the Glee club
concert which will be given Feb.
18th.
"The Tassels are behind the team
100 percent," stated the club presi
dent, "and we want the students
to show much better spirit from
now on than they have so far this
season."
AMES, Iowa, Jan. 30. Wide
awake application of a partially
completed college engineering
course provided Rollin Bohning of
Clear Lake a job last spring and
summer and solved a drinking
water problem for the city of
Clear Lake.
Bohning, now a senior in chemi
cal engineering at Iowa State col
lege, majoring In water purifica
tion, recently revealed how bis ef
forts during a year's vacation from
college had eliminated the "fishy"
taste frcm the Clear Lake water
supply. He knew from laboratory
experiments performed here what
activated carbons can do In ridding
water of disagreeable tastes and
odors that are especially noticeshle
In the summer. So he asked the
city council for permission to work
on the problem that had been puzz
ling them for some time.
After Bohning had finished tink
ering in a homemade laboratory
the city added activated carbon to
its water according to his diree
tions. The objectionable odors and
tastes disappeared. The treatment
was pronounced affective last
summer and fall and will be re
sumad ajrain this ssrinar.
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HFIH VARSITY PARTY
WILL BE FEBRUARY II
Two Others Will Complete
Series of Events on
March 10, 31.
The fifth AU-University party
of the school year will be held on
Feb. 17 at the Coliseum. The four
previous parties were held on
September 18 and 30, October 28,
and December 8.
There will be two more parties
following the one to be held Feb.
17, one on March 10, and the final
one on March 31. These will be
SENIORS GET MORE TIME
Fraternities and Sororities
Must Finish Panels by
February 10.
As a definite step towards the
completion of the 1934 edition of
the Cornhusker, editor Woodrow
Magee, yesterday declared the jun
ior class section closed. All junior
students who failed to have their
pictures taken before yesterday
will not be included in the clan
panels.
"The co-operation of the junior
class, whose section we hsve just
closed, has been very good this
year," Magee stated, "and we are
well satisfied with the final re
sult." The junior section in the new
edition will be 35 percent larger
than the group of last year.
Senior Section Open.
The senior section however, is
not as complete as the junior divi
sion and it will remain open for a
short time, all seniors who bav
not had their pictures taken ars
urged to do so as soon as possible.
The date for the closing of this
section will be announced later.
The deadline for fraternity and
sorority sections has been set for
Saturday, Feb. 10. and all pictures
must be ,n by that time. While this
section s practically complete,
there are a few organizations that
are poorly represented. "It is a d"
cided benefit to an organization W
have a complete section." Mage
said, "and they should strive to
complete their group if they have
not already done so."
Better Representation.
At present with the exception
of the junior class which is much
larger, the number of pictures i
approximately the same as in the
yearbook of last year. Within the
remaining time the number is ex
pected to surpass last years con
sidersblv. With this in view th
new edition of the Cornhusker wiu
approach a 100 percent representa
tion of the student body more
closely than any of the editions U
recent years.
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