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Maurice Johnson
Does the University
Need a Lobby?
rEFINITELY submerged under the more trivial
traditions of Ivy Day was the plea made by the
Ivy Day orator. His advocations were unusual. But
far more significant were the implications involved
in his plea for a university lobby organieatlon in
this state.
Said William Eddy: "Realizing that the past
year have been serious ones, termed times of eco
nomic depression, and that all business interests
have been forced to cut their expenses to the bone,
to meet reduced incomes, it is admitted that the
university has followed the universal custom. All
very well for the past, but what about the future;
the university does not exist for the past and pres
ent alone. Stringent economy unwisely will quickly
undo all the labor fif year. Paid lobbyists hav
succeeded in sponsoring their causes ta a worth
while conclusion, but there has been no one to work
for the welfare of the school."
The way to save the university from further
disaster is by creating the most powerful and ex
tensive lobby organization In the state. Every
student, former student, graduate student, and sym
pathizer should be a lobbyist for the school not a
paid hireling, sponsoring a cause for individual
gain but a conscientious supporter for a cause.
With a well organized lobby system established
there would be no more cause to worry about the
best Interests of our school. Now is the time to
start this campaign."
Mr. Eddy quite obviously strikes a note which
has been the subject of controversy since the advent
of the depression. He raises a question which may
not be answered with a few glib phrases: Does the
university need a lobby?
JyjOST of us like to think of the university as one
of the state's greatest institutions. The univer
sity, many feel, should be a major factor In the fu
ture development of the state. Its graduates should
reflect cultural training which it may be assumed
Is the major virtue of higher education. The uni
versity and Its purpose should not be Identified with
other tax supported enterprises.
Its position is unique in the state's program.
It should be considered distinctly apart from the
various other services which the state offers its citi
zens. Briefly the character and intelligence of Its
government depends, in large part, upon the educa
tional system and more particularly upon the cali
ber of its university.
But apparently this is a utopian conception of
higher education.
The last session of the legislature disillusioned
many who labored under the impression that the
university is beyond the pale of political machina
tions. No one will question the reduction of the uni
versity's appropriations. It was the natural sequel
to a severs depression. Unquestionably lower taxes
were the order of the day. But the process went
further than this. It virtually amounted to mak
ing the university a political football. Salaries were
Investigated, recommendation made, and appropria
tions slashed much in the same fashion as other in
terests were mauled over.
The University, in substance, was put on the
same basis as other departments of the state gov
ernment Teachers and professors were compared
to brick layers, plumbers, and filling station at
tendants. Not a hand was raised against this un
scrupulous practice. Very little organized effort
was made to defend the university and its princi
ples. Beyond the campus little was accomplished.
At the same session of the legislature, 197 lob
byists were registered at the state capitoL There
were, in addition, many "representatives" of vested
Interests. Corporations, public utilities, and private
concerns frequented legislative halls. And as Mr.
Eddy points out, many of them secured satisfactory
results.
Located in this state and elsewhere are 22,000
graduates of the University. There are, besides,
those directly connected with the university's ac
tivities, former students, and sympathizers for edu
cation. Many of them are leaders in their com
munities. Around this group might be built an
' active, functioning, well-organised lobby able to
compete w.th paid lobbyists.
If the last session of the legislature is typical,
then the university might well examine the pood
billties of organizing an effective lobby. Certainly
It must be perfectly clear that the university will
not get its yearly manna by cowering on bended
. Vaee before the politically powerful.
The Nebraskan does not believe that this uni
versity, or any other, should be forced to Indulge la
political machinations to gain a much needed end.
Its record should be evidence enough to satisfy the
' most politically minded. Or should the university.
It seems, attempt to sell the merits of higher edu
cation to politicians through a highly organised
lobby?
The practical minded, realising the effective
ness of a well organieed lobby, will quite naturally
favor this development. The Idealists and patron
saints of higher education will gasp, and rightfully
so, at this suggestion.
The Council Adopts
Sew Hush Rules.
pUATEKNlTY rushing rules for next fall were
officially announced by the Interfraternlty coun
cil Saturday morning at which time rush cards were
also released. The usual race and scramble to reach
rushees first and secure the most favorable dates
for rush week again was evident and fraternities
apparently got off to a flying start in their annual
campaign for new members.
More than ordinary interest has been displayed
by houses this spring in formulating rushing regula
tions for next year. The weight of the depression
still presses heavily on the house of the Greek. With
a number of consolidations during the paBt semes
ter bringing thst fact home only too well, It is to
be expected thst fraternities will exercise excep
tional efforts in rushing during the summer months
as well as during the regular fall rush week.
Revisions in regulations for next fall's activi
ties indicate that fraternities are "heads up" to any
thing that will improve their status. Outstanding
among changes effected in the 19S4 rush rules is
abolishment of the preferential system. The over
whelming vote by which the bid plan was rejected
within tht council some weeks ago seems adequate
proof of its unpopularity an unpopularity which can
be traced to the fact that the system worked to the
dlsadvsntage of a large number of houses during
its operation last fall.
Also relegated to disuse by the council is the
rule prohibiting a rushes from pledging for one
month if he pledges no fraternity at the end of rush
week. With these two exceptions, rush rules for
next fall are practically the same as for this yesr.
It is interesting to note that the InUrfraternity
council rejected a change in rush rules suggested
by the recently formed and all-powerful alumni
council, that rushees be permitted to remain in
houses over nigiit. Made with the intention of
strengthening the Greek cause, the suggestion met
with little sympathy in the undergraduate council.
However, the alumni group's recommendation that
the financial data on costs of each house, such as
dues, board and room, special assessments be made
available to rushees thru the Dean's office has been
adopted by the council, a move which marks a big
stride forward toward a fairer deal for the rushee.
But despite revisions and new ideas snd im
provements in rushing rules, there are always some
chronic kickers snd cranks who whine loudly and
long after rush week is over if their particular
house should happen to achieve poor results. So
Jong as that type of fraternity man continues com
plaints will be heard against the system of rush
rules in effect. And again, so long as there are
houses which wilfully break any and all rules, and
other houses which know it and fail to report such
deviations, there will be no successful rushing sys
tem. The relative merits of any set of rushing rules
may vary with shifting conditions but whatever be
the system, its success is measured by the extent to
which fraternities observe its regulations. If Ne
braska fraternities are to make a success of these,
their new rushing rules, each house must place it
self on an honor basis, not only in its own observ
ance of the rules but in reporting Infractions by
others. Just to what extent this will be done is a
matter of some conjecture. The results next fall
should prove interesting.
Rural Schools
On the Upturn.
1HE future for school "maams" is getting brighter
so far as jobs are concerned. Figures and statis
tics released by Professor Moritz, director of the
educational service in Teachers College, in today's
Nebraskan reveal an upward trend.
The report indicates that out of the 91 high
school teachers in this state dropped in 1933-34, 62
will be replaced next year. Further figures showed
that 49 out of the 82 grade school teachers elimin
ated will be returned.
This survey which Director Moritz prepared
represents a cross section of the schools in the state
and whatever trends may be in evidence in these
schools undoubtedly are reflected in the state as a
whole. It is for that reason the Nebraskan views
with interest the actual outcome of the investiga
tion. Most significant of all was the fact that SO
percent of the courses dropped during the past year
will be returned to the curriculum or substituted.
Mr. Moritz explained that in several cases the whole
departments were being restored.
Training received in the lower grades and high
school decides, in large part, the effectiveness of
an educational system. In these years of general
education the fundamentals of "learning" are
gained. This foundation must necessarily be solid
to give them a proper base for higher education.
To secure this desired end it is important that
high school and grade school teachers be, at least,
capable instructors. The damaging rural school,
"economy" effected during the depression has of
fered little incentive for capable teachers to enter
this vital portion of our educational set-up. The
few "staying on" have received wages on a par with
or below proper subsistence level.
Just what effect this will have on the future of
the teaching professions remains to be seen. While
the upturn noted by Director Moritt offers little en
couragement, it may serve as a much needed stimu
lant for the present
Ccntenporsry Consent
Professors Use
Carbon Copies.
The time is just around the corner for univer
sity professors to be invited to make graduation
addresses to high school students in various parts
of the state. This June, oratorlcally leaking, will
be no different from preceding years, ar.d there
will be some half a hundred members of the fac
ulty speaking to the high school graduation claaws
during the latter part of this month. But we have
a faint suspicion that the commencement addresses
will be merely carbon copies of those delivered In
the prosperous days of 1923 and 1929. For what
reason the speeches of those yeara were standard
ised and set as a precedent is taexplaiaable.
It la no secret that the high school graduate
of the past four years has been bsdly misled. The
commencement day orator, no doubt, has played a
large part in giving the high school senior visions
of "green pastures which are to be found just over
the hill" The college freshman can still hear the
!
false echo of the graduation address in which the
speaker boldly asserted that any student with a gill
of ambition and initiative can with a college educa
tion step forward Into a white collar Job. The
speakers have told the anxious high school students
as they have told many other graduating classes
that college education will assure them of economic
Independence.
But what the commencement speaker failed to
disclose was the fact that more than three-fourths
of a million other school students will be seeking
college educations and will be seeking employment
the same time they will.
The advice to the advisors is, therefore, that
commencement addresses be brought down to earth.
The high school graduate will socn learn that the
pretty pictures painted him on that beginning day
were nothing but mirages, so why not tell him the
facts from the start? Daily Texart.
Browsing
Among The
Books
Maurice Johnson
VTHEN "Designed for Reading" appeared last
month In its yellow wrapper, a new omnibus
volume was added to the many already on book
counters. This book anthologizes some of the best
things which have been printed in the Saturday Re
view of Literature during the past ten years, and
includes the work of such authors as Edith Whar
ton, Christopher Morley, Henry Seidel Canby, and
Lytton Strachey. There are essays, poems, stories,
and reviews. To anyone interested In contemporary
judgments this book is valuable. Samples: George
Santayana writes: "No mora sentimentality ... or
intellectual snobbery; sway with the aunsot glow
and the organ peals overheard in a churchyard. Let
us have honest bold dogmas supported by definite
arguments: let us re-establish our moral sentiments
on foundations more solid than tradition or gentil
ity." Says Leonard Bacon:
Then Mencken, by a secret sorrow stung,
His old wounds aching, answered the Anarch
young.
"Nathan, while I have strength and fountain
pens "To write at large of homo booblens . . .
"You and mvself shall ever be secure
"In our snug rotary-club of literature . .
The Spring copy of the Prairie Schooner will
be on sale this week. Of one story to appear,
"Pride," Editor Lowry Charles Wlmberly says that
it has a good chance to bo the best story to come
out this month in any magazine.
Although most readers are weary of war books,
Vera Brlttaln's "Testament of Youth" cannot be dis
missed with a shrug. Kather than being a bloody
"All Quiet on the Western Front" sort of book, Vera
Brittain writes in the I-was-happy-and-look-what-the-war-dld-to-me
style. Autoblographically, she
tells how her peaceful college life was changed to
bewilderment, how her fiance and brother were
killed, and how she gave herself in nursing Bcrvlce.
This book is highly dramatic.
The entire Spring copy of the Hound and Horn
magazine is devoted to Henry James. Numerous
critics write of "the finest novelist America ever
had" with startling contradictions. Edmund Wil
son says that although James was one of the "cool
est headed of novelists" his tone was often old
maidish. And Qlenway Wescott tries to connect
James with D. H. Lawrence, who was the anathema
of old maidishness.
Henry James is an important figure in Edith
Wharton's reminiscences Just published: "A Back
ward Glance." This book came out serially in the
Ladles Home Journal, and advertising blurbs say:
"The most distinguished volume of reminiscences of
the year is this chronicle of a rich past." Novelist
Whsrton, herself, writes: "No bug has yet been
found big enough to hold the universe, and the con
tents of the biggest bag is only, In the last resort,
a selection."
Personal nominations: The most startling book:
Robinson Jeffers' "Thurso's Landing." The most
quiet book! Wills Cather's "Shadows on the Rock."
The most playful book: Aldous Huxley's "Brave
New World." The most bewildering book: H. M.
Tomlinson's "Gallions Reach."
Probably no nvm of great importance has been
published since Archibald MacLelsh's "Conquista
dor" in 1932. MacLeish combines beauty and dig
nity with experimentation. He writes:
And the honey of
Sun is slight in their teeth as a seed's taste
What are the dead to us in the world's wonder?
RISE IN TEA0HINO
SALARIES PREDICTED
BY MORITZ SURVEY
(Continued from Page 1.)
school year affected comparatively
few of the teachers, the percent
ages ranging from 2.9 percent for
grade teachers to B,D percent for
superintendents. The survey re
port explained thesa by saying that
in most such cases new persons
had been hired at lower salaries,
rather than actual decrease in
wages.
Director Moriti explained that
he wanted to ascertain trends, and
verify through actual contact with
schools in Nebraska so as to have
a basis to form an opinion of the
orturatlonal conditions. "I was in
terested," he said, "not only in
whetner some or ins oraauc cum
of last year had been recovered, 1
but whether departments were be
ing restored."
The report indicated that out of
ninety-one high school teachers
dropped in 1933-34, sixty-two would
be replaced next year; and that
forty-nine out of eighty-two grade
teachers eliminated would be re
turner! More than 80 narcent of
the courses dropped during the
past year will be piacea deck in
the curriculum or substituted, the
survey shows.
"There Is a trend," said the di
rector, "toward more social sci
pnroa In the schools. Political dis
turbances recently have caused
parents to Winn meir cnuaren 10
know about those things which
concern them economically. We
find more economics, history, po
litical science ana civics nsing
added," he pointed out.
A survey of 156 colleges and
universities shows that the schol
arship averages of frsternity men
in the majority of these institu
tions are higher than those of
non-fraternity men.
Oar new Rent-a-Car rataa let fn
drive near))- twlea as mark for the
same man'. Nrw ran are brine
added u ear luw. luanlta lor the
business yon have flvae at this year.
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GREEK COUNCIL
ANNOUNCES NEW
RUSHING RULES
(Continued from Page 1.)
accepts the pin. Other changes
were few.
Rules governing fraternities are
as follows:
1. Rushing will ha Hosed from nooi,
Thursday, str.pl. , until tima for tha first
rush date.
1. Fraternities may provide rushers with
transportation.
i . -.....&.. mmmitlM ahftll hive
charge of film the rushees' dates at the
lntertraternity omce.
4. Kech fraternity shall sumbit a list or
Its holdover pledges to the council before
the start of rush week.
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O. i u '--- " - -
of their pledges before announcement or
same ny tne juaiciary wtmmiut..
rii., r.t anv f IhA BhOV fU S
by any member of a fraternity subjects
the rratrmny to a imp -
ISO, to be levied by the Judiciary commil-
7 . , imbu ho filed with this
committee for trial. The above rules ap
ply to alumni as wen as 10 acuvr mem
bers and holdover pledges of ths fraternity.
Rules fcr Rushaes.
Those rules governing rushees
are:
1. No nishre may have more than onr
date per dav with the same fraternity, nor
may he have more than three dates with
the same fraternity during rush week.
J. No rushee may in any way display
a pledpe button previous to 12:00 p. m.
Tuesday of rush week.
3. It Is the responsibility of the rushee
to keep every date up to 12:00 p. m. Tues
day that he has filed. Dates on Wednes
day may be broken.
4. lais shall In no way be split be
tween two or more fraternities. The full
date must be kept with one fraternity.
No rushee mav remain in any fraternity
house at anv time other than during his
bona fide dates. A rushee may not use a
fraternity as his place of residence during
rush week.
No fraternity man shall communicate
with any rushee other than by phone ex
cept during bona fide dates.
7. Every rushee must file a list cf Mb
dates, hv mall or in person, at the lnter
fratemltv Council's office, 11(1 Morrill
Hall, prior to his first date, but this does
not prohibit rusheee from making and fil
ing new or additional dates after rush
vt?t?l( fftftrtfi
d. The list of dates submitted by the
rushee shall be accepted as correct in case
of differences between it and the frater
nity's filed dates.
. Any man who breaks a pledge dur
ing the first month of school will be pro
hibited from pledging any other fraternity
until tha second semester.
10. Violation of any of the above rules
prohibits the rushee from pledging until the
second semester.
"Fraternities have been subject
to intense criticism by the legisla
ture in the past," Schramm com
mented. "There has been agitation
by this body for intervention by
university officials to set up a bet
ter system of rules."
This sentiment followed closely
upon the objection of Supt. M. C.
Lefler of the Lincoln schools who
charged that fraternity men had
been taking students of Lincoln
high school to parties, shows and
other entertainments, so that their
work in school had dropped alarm
ingly. "Fraternities must live up to
their rules this year if they expect
to be independent of outside inter
ference," Schramm warned.
Y. W. PLACQUE TO
HONOR MEMORY
GRACE C0PP0CK
(Continued from Page 1.)
Y.W.CA. has ordered for its
headquarters building in New Tork
City, and one for the Grace Cop
pock Memorial chapel in the Na
tional Headquarters building of
the Y. W. C A. in Shanghai. China,
a gift of campus women here. Chi
nese women raised the money for
this chapel directly after Miss
Coppock's death In 1921, and it
was dedicated in October, 193S.
The entire board of directors of
the National Association of China
is Chinese, an achievement for
which Miss Coppock worked from
her earliest days there.
Ten years ago the university
Y. W.CA. which for some years
previous had helped to finance
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Miss Coppock's work in China,
started raising a fund in memory
of Miss Coppock. Interest had
grown with the increase in funds
and a committee worked for some
time to find a suitable memorial.
The plaque has been designed by
Elizabeth Tattle Holsman of Chi
cago who also designed the plaque
in memory of Dr. C. E. Bessey.
MUSIC PANHELLENIO
GIVES FIRST ANNUAL
PROGRAM TUESDAY
(Continued from Page 1.)
evening. The program is as fol
lows: I hear a Thrush at Eve Madman.
April Morn- Batten.
Wiegenlied Brahms.
luet Lucille Keilly and Uura Kim
ball, Sigma Alpha lota.
Aus Melnem Leben Smstana.
String quartet Eunice Bingham. Fran
ces Smith, Marian Dunlevy, Garnette
Mavhw, Mu Thi Kpsllon.
Oh Had I Jubal'a Lyree from Joshua
Mendelssohn. . .
Vlssi D'Arte, Vlssl D'Amore from "Tos
ca" Puccini. A ,
Charlotte Klesselbach, Delta Omicron.
Calabrese-Bazzlnl.
Bernlce Rundin. Delta Omicron.
Meditation Squire.
Garnette Mavhew. Mu Thi Kpsilon.
March Violets Oad.
The Swan urleg.
Sing Thou Sing Jarnsfelt.
Black Roses Sibelius.
Mrs. I. C. Munger, Jr., Mu Phi kp
sllon. IntermesiB. Op. T, NoNi 4 Brahms.
Rhapsody, Op. 119. No. 4 Brahms.
Marguerite Kllnker, Sigma Alpha Iota.
All White is . . .
Ail Right
Among college fellows
this season.
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