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Violet Cross
Rumblings from
The Councilman.
NEWS that the Student council had suspended
eight organizations for failure to register their
constitutions with the student governing body was
a refreshing change from the usual run of things.
Action taken by councilmen Wednesday indi
cates, after a fashion, what the council might ac
complish during the course of a school year.
The suspension which we understand to be only
temporary actually represents a revival of council
investigations into the constitutions of student or
ganizations which started last fall with the Corn
Cob debacle. Steps taken by the council reveal
rather subtly two significant issues of importance to
the campus. The first indicates rather plainly that
many student organizations existing superficially at
Nebraska haven't a vestige of usefulness. For the
most part they are carry overs from the gay twen
ties when students reveled in the idea of belonging
to an infinite number of organizations. Many such
"affairs" died soon after their making. Others
rather obviously have continuea to function on the
strength of collecting membership fees and holding
an occasional meeting for a few faithfuls. Aside
from this they are practically non-existent
The council's action represents a small part of
a movement started by the depression. Students
could not afford membership privileges in organiza
tions whose benefits were none and fees many. In
deed student participation in activities has dropped
off considerably as a result cf the decline in influ
ence of this superfluous autocracy. Thinking stu
dents evidently realize that many of these so called
organizations have nothing to offer but a worthless
membership card.
This reactionary movement is a worthy one.
Its support by the Student council is highly com
mendable. Greater benefits might be derived, how
ever, by completely eliminating many student or
ganizations, eventually leaving only those which
have a definite purpose to fulfil. Obviously this
operation would require an infinite amount of legis
lation. As such, we feel that an examination and
revision of student organization constitutions is
worth while.
The council's stir to action during the past few
weeks, however, may bolster up the argument of
fered by its members that the student governing
body should have more senior representation than
is provided for at the present time. Sufficient evi
dence may be gathered to support this contention.
In fact, each year the council is apparently mcst
active during the second semester. This may indi
cate that junior members fail to realize their imme
diate responsibilities earlier in the year.
Viewed in this manner, the council's actions
toward reorganization may be justified. At least it
recognized the need of taking the council out of the
hands of activity-climbing juniors and placing the
responsibility for better student government in the
hands of senior men and women.
It is recognized that any changes in the Stu
dent council constitution must be a deliberate and
somewhat reflective process. The council, however,
should carefully guard against the ever present pos
sibility of allowing the movement to die in the hands
of a disinterested committee.
The Basketball
Season Closes.
lyjEERASKA'S varsity basketball team played
their last game cf the season Thursday at the
Coliseum with St Louis university.
Examination of Nebraska's record this year re
veals a none too successful season. The losses out
numbered the wins by a conclusive margin. But
this is not an unusual situation. Nebraska's basket
ball teams have enjoyed the cellar position or near
cellar position in Big Six circles for a number of
years. This year, however, we note that Nebraska
rests in fourth place in the conference. This should
indicate improvement
It may account, to a large extent for the in
creased student interest in basketball. Such an in
crease is noteworthy for it is commonly known that
basketball has not enjoyed student support for sev
eral years.
It Is encouraging to note, however, that Ne
braska's basketball teams, since Harold Browse as
sumed coaching duties, have consistently improved
from year to year. As a matter of record, they
bave landed a little higher in the conference stand
ings each year. Prospects for a better showing In
the future, we understand, are more than promis
ing, for Coach Browne has a nucleus of four letter
men around which he may build his team. Student
basketball fans may look forward to a better sea
son next year, if they believe in predictions
IViis May
Interest a Feu:
TO THE EDITOR:
The Iron heel has descended! The Student coun
cil has asserted its authority by ousting eight or
ganizations because they refused to comply with
the council's request that they turn in their respec
tlve constitutions to be approved by that governing
body. The Student council has acted. Now what
According to all Indications around the campus
Thursday, heads of those suspended groups are
laughing off the banning move with an accompany'
ing shrug of the shoulders. They see no possibility
of an actual snuffing out of their organizations
They feel that their organizations can go right on
functioning regardless of the Student council's ban,
All in all it is1 the general consensus of opinion that
the action taken Wednesday afternoon was merely
a sweeping gesture of much flourish but little Im
portance.
As affairs stand now the council has merely
made a logical, and certainly sensible, move in the
game of campus activities. It has no ultimate
power of jurisdiction or government unless the
board of regents and faculty senate concur in action
taken. Therefore the next development must be
either action on the part of one or both of these
two bodies sanctioning Wednesday's move, or com
pliance on yie part of tho effected organizations to
the Student council demands.
If those eight organizations play the game of
student activities squarely and are looking out for
the best interests of the extra-curricular life of the
campus, they will submit their constitutions to the
Student council for approval. Such a gesture would
indicate good sportsmanship, and would complete
another technical move in organizing campus ae
tivities in a logical pattern, one involving centralis
zatlon which is very necessary, both for the faculty
supervisors' convenience, and the students' con
venience.
If those eight groups submit their documents
for approval they will save the board of regents and
faculty senate from a lot of trouble, in that way
doing a good thing for student activities.
The council is moving in the right direction.
With co-operation of university organizations they
will develop what is now chaos into order. M. B
Contemporary Comment
Are Student
Activities Doomed?
a nouceame trend within the last few years
has been the local deterioration of interest in henor
ary and professional organizations.
The increasing indifference has not been due to
the lack of sufficient number of organizations.
Groups have been organized to further interest in
everything from bugs to fiddles, membership being
based on initiation fees, specialized accomplishment,
or political affiliations. In the much distant past,
the extra-curricular student barged from meeting to
meeting, paying various and sundry dues and voiC'
ing lengthy opinions in superfluous parliamentary
procedure. This individual was an organization
man and proud of it He believed it a mark of lead
ership and versatility to belong on a large scale; he
subtly boasted accordingly.
Conditions have changed, however. The organ
ization man is looked upon as little more than a
gullible goof who has the wrong slant on the worth
cf his activity. Meetings are sorry affairs if the
secretary succeeds in getting together a group at
all. Exceptions are to be found, of course, in or
ganizations that fulfill definite purposes, but these
are in the minority.
The cause of the dilemma seems to be in the
latter assumption that extra-curricular activity is
weak in its cellar structure. Probably the greatest
fault is the over-expansion of organizations. Soci
eties and staffs have been formed to promote inter
est where there is little or nothing in which to be
interested. Honorarics have been set up whose
standards are so low that it is no honor to belong.
These have served to drag down the worthy organi
zations to put all in disrepute.
Initiation fees have remained high when pock
etbook contents have gone at least a bit lower.
"How much?" is frequently the paramount question
and only question of an individual being asked to
join an honorary. The really worthy individuals
are all too often men who have absolutely no inter
est in extra-curricular affairs.
An optimistic assumption might be that the
present evolution is toward less but better organi
zations, both from a standpoint of personnel and
work accomplished. We hope that this optimism
will not prove to be unfounded. Missouri Student
A Patriot
Blows His Horn.
In a recent address before the convention of the
National Education association's department of su
perintendence at Cleveland, President William Lowe
Bryan declared that if people of our nation have the
will to live and to live victoriously they will sur
render their hard won liberty to no dictator. "We
shall live," President Bryan said, "through Valley
Forge and Gettysburg and whatever may befall to
maintain a state wherein good order and liberty
unite a democratic state made safe for the world.
Good order and justice with liberty that is the re
ligion of democracy."
President Brysn sees a hopeful future for the
United States despite the depression and the fact
that since the great war the world has moved from
democracy toward autocracy. The salvation of our
country, he says, lies in what the people, the youth
in particular, believe. If they are firm in their faith
In democracy, democracy will survive.
The fate of the United States after it has
weathered the great social revolution predicted by
the educators at their Cleveland convention lies with
what the youth of the nation believe and with what
they are taught by the educators of today. We are
facing without doubt the question put forth by Lin
coln in his Gettysburg address, "Whether our nation
or any nation dedicated to liberty can long survive.''
Other treat democracies of history have failed be
cause their people lost faith. We of the troubled
days of the twentieth century must not lose faith In
the democracy which is our great heritage. Indiana
Dally Student.
Ag College
By
Carlyle Hodgkin
ILL-FATED ORGANIZATIONS.
A G college students awoke Thursday morning to
find that two perfectly good organizations had
passed into oblivion. The two were Trl-K club and
Ag executive board. They were banished because
they had failed to submit their constitutions to the
Student council for that august body's approval.
Were Ag college students shocked to learn such
news? Well, Just think for a moment what the
consequences might have been. Suppose there was
no Ag executive board. Then there would be no one
to get paid for standing around in the way at every
Ag mixer. That would mean that the sponsors of
the mixer would make an exorbitant profit not
having to pay the board for its services and every
group on the campus would be wonting to have a
mixer every week.
It would be even worse than that There would
be no one to dole out the dates to student organiza
tions. The result would probably be that all the Ag
organizations would go to war over which should
have which night, and all friendship and co-operation
on Ag campus would be destroyed for ever and
ever.
Then there is the profound matter of positions.
It is in the nature of things that some students must
rise to positions of high honor and importance. If
there were no such positions to rise to, it would
simply mean that no one could rise, Ag executive
board is the pinnacle of eminence .to which one can
rise on Ag campus. Moreover, it is the indispensa
ble stepping stone to positions of still greater emi
nence on the city campus. The frightful conse
quences of that organization's passing into oblivion,
therefore, are perfectly obvious.
Tri-K club also was banished. That would mean
fewer meetings on Ag campus. And what could
students possibly do if they couldn't go to meetings ?
There would be nothing left to do but sit at home
and study. Students might degenerate to the point
that they started reading references and looking up
footnotes in text books. Some might even be driven
to independent investigations of subjects that caught
their interest before they came to college.
But, hsppily, no such dire consequences are
likely to occur. The executive board had bowed at
the feet of the high council and had been properly
reinstated long before the day was over. Tri-K had
not put in an appearance by evening Thursday. But
the agronomy boys were doubtless all busy sprout'
ing oats or counting weed seeds all day, and will
make all haste as soon as the day's work is done to
get back into the good graces of the high council.
TYPICALLY AN AG COLLEGE AFFAIR
nnHERE is something about tho Junior Ak-Sar-Ben
" that makes u more cnaractcnsucauy Ag coi
lege, perhaps, than any other activity sponsored on
the campus. It is a livestock show. Its whole theme
is livestock. And livestock keynotes the agricultur
al activity of the state.
One of the thoughts moat students associate
with Ag college before they ever enter is the things
they will learn there about livestock. They will
.learn to Judge horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs. They
will learn to feed all these kinds of animals. They
will learn to fit and show farm animals. And they
will learn how to appreciate good animals for their
beauty and excellence as well as their utility.
Courses in Ag college pivot pretty largely
around the animal industry. Freshman courses for
boys include general dairying, animal husbandry,
and general poultry production. Then come the
judging classes and the judging teams. And finally
courses in animal feeding, breeding, and marketing.
The girls have their fling at studying animals.
They take courses In meat cutting, cooking, and
canning. They have a meats judging team. They
take observation trips to the beef and dairy barns.
Some of them take courses in dairy or poultry..
Studies of crop production keep a sharp eye to
the value of the crops studied as feed for livestock.
Studies in engineering are concerned largely with
bow to house and handle farm animals most effi
ciently. Courses in agricultural economics devote
ample time to the economics of livestock market
ing. And bark of it all everyone in Ag college is
constantly aware that all the produce from a very
great number of Nebraska farms goes to market as
livestock products on the hoof, or in the egg bas
ket or cream can.
So there is reason to feel that the Junior Ak-Sar-Ben
strikes a real keynote in the life of Ag col
lege. Attendance in past years has tended to shrink
because the students in charge have thought of the
activity more as a showmanship contest than as a
livestock show that university students would enjoy.
But the committee this year has awakened to the
importance of its show. It has introduced a num
ber of novel features, and it's a safe bet that the
show Saturday night will be enjoyed by a surpris
ingly large number of both students and faculty
people.
And immediately after the Ak-Sar-Ben stock
show comes the Ak-Sar-Ben ball at the activities
building.
Observatory.
The university observatory will
hold open night for the public Fri
day night at 8.
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Seventeen Year Old Dog, University
neighbor, Follows Interesting Life
Students Perform Duty of
Taking Animal for
Daily Walks.
In the little house across the
corner from the library lives Mrs.
Allen and her dog, Betty Ann Al
len. Betty Ann is 17 years old, one
of the oldest dogs in Lincoln, and
leads an interesting life.
Mrs. Allen tells the story of her
first meeting with Betty Ann. "I
was walking along the street near
the old dog pound one day seven
teen years ago, when I heard a
dog yelping pitifully. The cries
were heart-rending, and as I have
always been an ardent dog lover.
Investigated. I found in a pen
heaped with the bodies of dogs that
had Just been shot a small dog that
seemed frenzied with fear. The
keeper explained that he was not
going to shoot her, as she had good
blood, but he intended to sell her.
demanded that he release her.
and he refused, pleading that sh-;
would run away, but I insisted
When she was released she came
and laid her head against my feet
and her eyes seemed to plead with
me to save her."
Mrs. Allen boueht the dog.
whom she named Betty Ann, and
has had her every since. Betty Ann
has many times repaid her mis
tress for saving her life by guard
ing against Invasion by burglars.
Betty Ann is very deaf now, but
she used to listen for the news
boy's whistle in the morning when
he brought the paper and rush out
to bring it in. During the time
when Mrs. A'len was in Europe,
she wrote letters and post cards
to Betty Ann, and Betty Ann
would carry them into the house
to the house-keeper to be read to
her.
Long ago Bettv took her first
ride in an automobile, and was de
lighted. To please her, Mrs. Allen
purchased a car toy the sale oi
some jewelry and Informed her
that it was her car. Since that
time Betty Ann always rides in
state upon a pillow in the back ,
seat.
University students who help
Mrs. Allen have as part of their
duties the care of Betty Ann. This
consists largely of taking her for
her many daily walks. Betty Ann
walks at 6:30 a. m., 10 o'clock, 12
o'clock, 2:30 p. m.. 4:30, 6 o'clock
and 9 :S0. These walks must be ex
actly on schedule, or Betty Ann
wails until taken out
One time when Mrs. Allen was
taking a trip she got a telegram
in Florida, saying that Betty Ann
was ill. Mrs. Allen caught the first
train home, giving up the rest of
her trip, to nurse the sick dog.
Betty Ann, says her mistress,
does not object to the music les
sons that Mrs. Allen gives, but
rather dislikes the banjo.
Dispite her years, Betty Ann is
quite spry, n is 10 oe nopea sne
will live to an illustrious old age.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Interest Group Leaders.
Interest Group leaders will meet
at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon in
stead of 4 as was previously an
nounced. VIOLET CROSS, Chairman.
BARB WOMEN EtECT.
Officers elected at the meeting
of Evelyn Diantond s Barb A. W. S.
group, at Ellen Smith hall Thurs
day at 5 p. m. were: Hazel Baier,
point chairman; Nora DeCory and
Beth Phillips, phoning committee.
Prom Committee.
The Junior-Senior Prom commit
tee will meet at 4 o'clock Friday
afternoon in the student council
room to complete arrangements
for the party.
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