WEDNESDAY. APRIL 18, 1931
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Greek Men Take
A Progressive Step.
'J'HAT universities are liberalizing long standing
' social regulations governing undergraduate life
has been evidenced during the past year.
The most progressive step toward liberalizing
undergraduate- social restrictions was taken re
cently at the University of North Carolina with the
abolition of a moss covered rule which required that
no coed visit a fraternity house without the com
pany of a chaperon.
The rule is not uncommon. Many fraternity
chapters find themselves hedged about by many so
cial restrictions which were established decades ago,
and have since been carefully preserved in univer
sity archives.
The change at the North Carolina institutions,
however, has created no little comment among the
nation's collegiate press. Comments the Cornell
.Daily Sun: "It would be easy to moralize upon the
artificial restrictions that are placed upon our so
ciety; plenty of books have been written about them.
The action at North Carolina will variously be
called a progressive and retrogressive step; the uni
versity authorities will be termed liberal and radi
cal, or simply foolish. The working out of the plan
will be watched with great interest and its success
or failure will determine to a great extent future
public attitude toward college fraternities."
The North Carolina Daily Tar Heel, however,
took upon itself the duty of handing out some ad
vice in the way of qualifying the success of the
scheme. "If fraternities, however, wish to maintain
the approval of the people which will be secured by
this trust placed in them by the action of the high
ups, they must observe to the letter rules which ac
company the permission of the board."
The change at the North Carolina institution
is noteworthy. For many years fraternities have
been closely regulated by university administrations.
While the regulations, in all events, exercise little
hardship on the social activities of fraternity men,
they do little to encourage respect for fraternities
outside the university. The prevelant public attitude
toward fraternities seems to picture them as "dens
of iniquity." The numerous social regulations im
posed upon Greek chapters does little to discourage
the belief that once a young lady enters a fraternity
house she is no longer a lady.
In this respect, the recent action at North Caro
lina may be looked upon as a valuable opportunity
for fraternity men to correct this erroneous belief.
And so too might fraternities on this campus be
given the opportunity to place themselves on a par
with other organizations.
Somewhere in the archives of the university
may be found au ivy clad rule which forbids univer
sity women to visit a fraternity house without a
chaperon. This institution might well follow the ex
ample set by North Carolina,
The Nebraskan recognizes, however, that there
must be a set of social regulations for university
undergraduate life. But these regulations should be
revised, on necessity, to meet new conditions on the
campus. The fraternity chaperon rule, along with
several other items included in the university's so
cial regulations, might be well regulated to the ash
heap. In their place should be substituted regula
tions decidedly more .mature and reasonable in nature.
A yieic Council
Takes Office. .
"J"HE new university student governing body meets
for the first time this afternoon.
Characteristic formalities of the annual joint
session of old and new members will constitute the
day's business. An officer will present a review of
the council's accomplishments this year. The
resume should be brief. Then, as a parting ges-
. ture, the old council will supervise selection of offi
cers for the coming year.
The old council passes, however, inaugurating
two experiments in the Nebraska system of student
government today. First, holdover membership in
the council has been increased from four to eight
with positions equally divided between men and
women. Effected to infuse into the council a greater
element cf experience in the tasks which confront
it, the measure should prove meritorious. It should
. do much to eliminate one of the main reasons for
' the council's inactivity or failure to function as it
nhould, that of members' ignorance concerning
, campus affairs ever which the council has jurisdic-
' tion.
A parallel proposal, favorably passed upas by
the present council, which would increase senior-at-large
represent. tion from four to eight, might well
be considered this year by new members.
Installation of council members-elect more than
a month earlier than usual In an attempt to give
the new body a chance to become thoroly organized
and to prepare its program for immediate opera
tion, is the second experiment being started today.
The move should prove of benefit to the campus.
Much valuable time usually wasted during the fall
in planning and organization should be saved. At
it is, the new council will find itself pressed for
time wtih but seven weeks of school remaining in
the semester. This fact, however, should not pre
vent the council from adopting and putting into mo
tion at onoc, its program for the coming year.
The new council comes Into office at a time
when student activities are in need of a stimulating
Influence. It is a common attribute of new council
members to enter upon their duties with enthusi
asm and determination which is of but short dura
tion. Members-elect should not allow themselves to
be illusionad by rosy provisions of great accomplish
ments in student government without putting forth
much e i fort and hard work. They should go into
office knowing that a hard task confronts them and
that co-operation from every member is an absolute
necessity to a successful administration.
A vast field of student enterprise, untouched
by actions of previous councils, together with con
tinuation of some projects already considered fur
nish abundant opportunity for the new council to
do something worthwhile. The council would do
well, however, to not overburden itself ith an ex
cess of tasks in attempting to do a good job. Rather,
it should choose one or two major projects of vital
need to the campus, give those projects its full sup
port throughout the year, and see its efforts thru
to a successful culmination. At the same time, a
number of minor problems may be adequately han
dled and the machinery set in motion to pave tho
way for future councils to effect additional improve,
ments in student government.
The Nebraskan does not attempt to say what
should be the council's program this year, but a
number of projects present themselves as especially
deserving of attention. There is the perennial stu
dent union building project toward which the first
step might be made were a firm and vigorous cam
paign waged. Needed service to the student body
thru further development of a student council-controlled
second hand book exchange could be accomp
lished. Abolishment of antique and outgrown stu
dent regulations, progressive efforts toward a con
structive reorganization of the council, are other
matters worthy of effort. Some loose ends may
remain to be collected on the activity tax proposal,
or improvements may be made in the plan. The list
represents but a few of the many possibilities for
application of council endeavor.
The new council, in the very act of being
elected, assumed definite responsibility of accomp
lishing something and must now fulfill it. After
today, the new government is out on its own feet;
there will be no support but its own ability for its
adopted program. What it does it must do of its ;
own volition, spurred on by individual effort. There
is no constituency to which members must answer,
there is no one to force them to exert the full mea
sure of their talents. There is, however, a moral
and ethical obligation to the student body to be met
which does not consist of such weighty problems as
appointment of prom committees and arguing over
similar petty matters.
Inadequacy of past councils flings a distinct
challenge to the new body. The council should an
swer that challenge with all its resources and justify
in the eyes of a watching campus, its recent election.
now means change radical change, if you please
there is bound to be opposition.
But the fact that Mr. Roosevelt is not ai
tucked personally shows, first, that his choice of ad
visers is generally approved and cannot be success
fully challenged, and second, that his policies,
which necessarily are also those of his advisers, are
apposed only by selfish minorities. Tie college pro
fessors bear the brunt of most of tho ill-founded
criticism simply because they happen to offer the
best target. They merely consider the source, and
the source is all too obvious for anyone but a
"rugged Individualist" to miss.
As for Dr. Wirt when better spoolers are
made, the "Brain Trust" will make them. College
News Service.
Ag College
By
Carlyle Hodgkin
'YOUR PERSONALITY.'
Tuesday Ag college honored its talented and
hardworking students. The new members of Phi
Upsilon Omicron, Omicron Nu, Alpha Zeta and
Gamma Sigma Delta were announced. The mem
bers of some of 1934's judging teams were an
nounced. The twenty high freshmen in the college
were announced and duly awarded for their efforts,
rrof. H. J. Gramlich presented the morning's offi
cial address.
The Gramlich theme: develop your personality.
During the last few months Mr. Gramlich has been
much away from Ag campus. He has been in Wash
ingtcn representing the interests of Nebraska live
stock and dairy farmers in the legislature. He has
been rubbing elbows with the big, tough world. Per
haps there is in that a reason for one of his first
remarks to the student group, a remark, in effect,
that when you get out of the little puddle called
college into the big, rough sea of life, you probably
hope to create a big splash, but that probably you
won't. Probably you will find the going tough, the
waves big and baffling.
That idea arises out of the assumption that
college is a puddle by itself, not a real and valid part
of the bigger sea of life. And that assumption is
to a large part true. College is an artificial sort of
thing, a little, pleasant world all off by itself. But
there are those who wish that were not so much
the fact. Dean Burr is one of them; doubtless Mr.
Gramlich is another.
The only answer to that problem is to make col
lege more of an integral part of living, less a thing j
by itself. The problem is a knotty one. Dean Burr
doesn't know just how to do it. Neither does Mr.
Gramlich.
But once out of college into the bigger picture,
Mr. Gramlich points out as one of the biggest aids
to the student in a k-.'avy and unchartered sea is tho
development of his personality. The speaker did not
uttcmpt to tell his audience just what personality is,
but he pointed out optimism as one of the charac
teristics of the kind of a personality that help to
make one's life voyage successful. Optimism, he
sulci, helps one to get on with one's associates, helps
to make the going more pleasant, more enjoyable,
and therefore, more worthwhile.
THE OFFICIAL FUN-MAKER.
It's reasonable to expect that Thursday night will
be the most thoroughly enjoyed Farmers' Fair
rally this season that is, it will if present plans
materialize. Lorraine Brake, rally chairman, has
announced that L. C. Oberlies, Lincoln Telephone
company officer and member cf the city commis
sion, will be the evening's speaker.
Oberlies has been to Farmers' Fair rallys, many
a time in the past, and he is good. He can tell stor
ies, sing songs, do little dances, play the piano, and
speak seriously, interestingly and persuasively.
Everyone usually njoys him.
Perhaps his jokes and stories will not all of
them be new. Perhaps some of the students will
have heard him tell them before. But the way he
can tell them always brings down the house. The
Farmers' Fair board would probably be pretty safe
In offering a prize to the student who can come to
that rally and not have a huge laugh.
WE DANCE AGAIN.
Saturday night is the annual Ag college spring
party, the twin sister of last autumn's Farmers'
Formal. Not long ago there was no annual spring
party. It has come into existence in the past few
years. It has been growing rapidly with the years,
will be doubtless attended this year by a large ma
jority of the Ag students.
In one important way the spring party differs
from last fall's formal. It will not be an overalls-and-aprons
sort of thing. And perhaps that is just
as well. In the fall the tendency is toward the more
formal, cut-and-dried sort of gathering. The formal
comes as something out of the ordinary, something
different.
In the spring the tendency, since school is near
ly over and everyone is tired and looking for some
fun, is toward the more informal, get-together-for-a-party
sort of thing. The spring party, where
folks will be in their usual Sunday clothes, will
again be contrary to the trend, something interest
ing because it is different.
DRAMA A FEATURE OF
DEPARTMETALMCIir
Speeches, Pantomime ud
Shakespearean Scetises
Make Up Program.
Speeches, pantomime, Rn,i
Shakespearean scenes were fea
tured at the departmental night
sponsored by the dramatics depart
ment from 7 until 8 o'clock last
night, at the Temple building.
An effort is made to hold a meet
ing each month at which the de
partments of public speaking, play
pantomime, and expression are
represented. Only members of the
department of dramatics attend.
Miss H. Alice Howell, chairman
of the department of public speak
ing and dramatic art, stated re
garding departmental night, "We
strive to make it a family meeting
at which everyone has a chance to
become better acquainted with
each other. They grow into the
Studio theater and from there Into
the University Players."
SCHOOL WILL NAME
HIGH TEN PERCENT
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presented by the university sym
phony orchestra under the direc
tion of Prof. Carl Steckelberg.
An innovation will be seen this
year ns 2i) senior honor students
will be guests after the convoca
tion at a luncheon offered by the
Lincoln chamber of commerce.
The complete program is:
Oveitur. "Merry Wive of WindM.r "
Nicoll; by the University of NehrttK
school of music concert orchestra, under
the diivction of Carl Frederic Sleckelherc
Invocation, The Rev. William Ernest Low.
ther.
Address "The Humanitarian Illusion "
by Dr. Norman Koerster.
Students recognized for superior scholar,
sh'r-s.
Student organizations recnanired for high
scholarship prize and awards.
Presentation of Pershins medal.
The University of Michigan was
one of the first, if not the first to
admit students from high schools
on certificates.
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Brief, concise, contributions pertinent to matters
rf student life and t!ie university are welcomed by
this department, under the usual restrictions of sound
newspaper oractlce, whicn excluces all libelous mat
ter and personal attacks. Letters accepted do not
necessarily Indicate the editorial policy of this paper.
under lire from a
a 78 minimum scho-
Eliminating the 7lt
For Democracy's Sake
TO THE EDITOR:
Recently, the Innocents,
group of insurgents, adopted
lastic average ruling. Objections have been lodged
to this ruling, and seem quite logical. A considera
tion of those objections is quite in order at this time.
The University sanctions, and even sponsors,
two large classes of activity, namely curricular and
extra-curricular. Kor those outstanding in both
classes honorary groups have been established and
are maintained. Phi- Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, etc.,
care for those lcad'-rs in the field of curricular ac
tivity. Innocents care for those few men adjudged
outstanding in the iieid of extra-curricular activity,
or curricular activity. The sphere of activity mat
ters not as long as the candidate for the Innocents
is outstanding.
Four of the sixteen leading candidates for
membership in this year's society fall below the
minimum ruling of 78. These men are leaders, and
are openly recognized as such in their particularized
spheres of activity. The exclusion of these men is
not in keeping with the Innocents idea of selec
tion of membeis so as to constitute a cross section
of campus humanity.
Activities, their value and the work done by the
individuals on them, should be the PRIMARY cri
teria for membership in the Innocents, not scholas
tic honors. One third of the class eligible for grad
uation is eliminated by the holding of this 78 rul
ing. This move is undemocratic.
Scholasticism must be secondary in importance.
The selection of members should and must proceed
on the basis of work done, if the Innocents wish to
remain an organization of campus leaders rewarded
for their services and worth to the school.
INTERESTED. .
Cabinet Meetings.
The regular cabinet meeting of
the Y. W. C. A. will be held at
7 Wednesday. At 7:30 the meet
ing will adjourn for a joint meet
ing with the Y. M. C. A. cabinet
at the Temple, for a report by
Elaine Fontein on the international
relations conference held at Ge
neva, April 6 to 8.
Barb Council.
Barb Council will meet Wednes
day afternoon at 5 o'clock in room
105 of Social Sciences. At this
time plans will be made for the
year.
Barb Council.
Because of the conflict in time
with th.' Student council installa- i
tion and elec tion meeting there I
will be no Barb council meeting
Wednesdav. !
emphasizing the fact that the or
ganization is gaining rapidly in in
fluence in the newspaper field, and
stating the benefit that its influ
ence will grow in the future.
Mr. Doyie Buckles, editor of the
Fairbury News, who was a mem
ber of the University of Kansas
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, gave
a short talk in response to greet
ing by the Nebraska members, H
declared that Frank Edgecombe,
vetcrar -itor of the Geneva. Ne
braska. Signal, who was initiated
Tuesday as an associate member,
would be a valuable addition to
Sigma Delta Chi.
Men initiated into the Nebraska
chapter of the club are Lamoine
Bible, William Fisher. Burton Mar
vin, Jack Fischer, Wayne Patten,
Carlyle Myers, Don Sigler, Leon
ard Tangney, James Steward, Ral
ston Graham, Eugene Dalby. Har
lcy Cass, Henry Bostrom and Rob
ert Bulger.
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There will be a meeting of both
the old and new student council
members Wednesday afternoon at
5 o'clock in the council in Univer
sity hall basi-mcnt. At this time
the new oi'Jicers of the organiza
tion will be elected.
Sim pson. 1 een ker
ire W oeful Jack
Elder Is Reason
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Contemporary Comment
AMES. Ia.. April 17. Another
inch of length has been added to
the faces of Bob Simpson and G. F.
Veenker, track and football
coaches at Iowa State college. The
reason is not athletic outlooks in
their fields, but the fact that they
have just discovered something
that might have had a decided
el feet on past Cyclone history.
A review of past Iowa State
registrations reveals the fact that
one Jack Elder was enrolled at
Iowa State in the fall of 1925. This
same Elder transferred to Notre
Dame the next year, and may be
remembered by some people as an
all-American halfback as the win
ner of the dash events at many
trHck meets, including the special
100-yard dash at the Drake relays
in 1928.
Elder had never competed in
high school athletics, and his de
parture was not noticed until two
years later when he first began
competition for the Irish.
Dr. M irt (,t ts
The Rebound.
Aa we suspected and recently so stated, the
notorious Wirt charges have turned out to be "Just
gag"
The version of Professor Adolf A. Eerie Jr. now
eeema to be the one generally accepted that Dr.
Wirt was the victim of a practical joke, which ad
ministration opponents seized upon in order to
flaunt what they allege are the shortcomings of the
so-called "Brain Trust."
Professor Berle and other college professors
who supposedly are members of the "Trust" deny
that it exists as a body, which seems obvious when
we consider that President Roosevelt's advisers are
made up of a most heterogeneous collection of In
dividuals. At the same time, it is significant that the at
tacks on the administration are not aimed directly
at the president, but at this special group of advis
er Because the president has seen fit to use brains
plus commc n sense in directing the government and
because of the fact that a government of this kind
NEWSPAPERS LOSING
ESTEEM SAYS STOKE
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was contrary to the belief held in
former years when the reading
public regarded the newspaper as
a tremendous public service proj
ect being carried on by piufss
sional idealists.
And since God has lost his au
thority, the newspaper along with
other professions is examined with
a skeptical attitude by the public.
The speaker pointed out that the
public has adopted this attitude
not only toward newspapers, but
toward all other lines of profes
sional endeavor and the much
quoted saying that "you can't be
lieve anything that appears in the
newspaper" may be readily applied
to other fields of endeavor, rang
ing from doctors and lawyers to
college professors.
"The attitude of the public, how
ever, is particularly fortunate, for
we may expect the next genera
tion to be the slaves of no insti
tutions. Rather are we led to be
lieve that they will accept only
a very little from all professions,
fitting together in their own minds
well founded conclusions."
Preceding the address by Vr.
Stokes, Prof. Walker, director of
the school of journalism, outlined
the hi?toiy of Sigma Delta CW,
au
"I'm Going Home to Father :
"It's true I've preached economy; but a man has to
have some good looking shirts once in a while. And,
besides, it's Simons SHIRT WEEK and I have saved
plenty of money on the most gorgeous Ide shirts a
man ever wore they embroidered my monogram
on them FREE and they are going to pay for
laundering them the first time. Now, woman, here
tofore all you have thought about is dolling 'yourself
p it's MY turn now. GOODBYE."
