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LINCOLN NKBKASKA. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 10.11
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545 STUDENTS TO
GET FEDERAL AID
JVTorW Program First Put Into Effect on Campus Last
Spring Continuing Until June; $73,000 Will
Be Expended This Year.
REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL HELP ARE DENIED
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Government Ruling Requires Fifty Percent of Part
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iji lime tiinpioyniciii. v i
in University Last January.
More than 3,000 application blanks for Federal Emergency
Student Relief jobs have been asked for by students and pros
pective students of the university according to announcement
made by Dean of Student Affairs Thompson Tuesday. Since
there arc now over 1,500 application blanks returned and on
file, and as there arc only 340 jodsu
open, no more blanks are to
distributed. .
This federal program which is
directed by the FERA will give
545 men and women students part
time work on the campus that will
permit them to earn an average of
$15 per month thruout the school
year.
$73,000 to Be Expended.
Last February this job program
was put into effect for the first
time on the Nebraska campus, and
continued from that time until
June. The sum to be expended
this year is about $73,000 $8,175
per month.
Word from Washington has re
cently been received by school au
thorities stating that requests of
certain drouth-area institutions for
additional aid in the form of more
student jobs and more money per
job have been refused. Several
representatives from the federal
office of education and emergency
relief administration recently met
with school officials from Chicago,
Minneapolis, Vermillion and Lin
coln to hear requests for more aid.
Chances Evenly Divided.
Part time jobs will be given to
both old and new students in the
university. An even chance of get
ting jobs is being given freshmen,
transfer students from other
schools, and re-entering students,
along with students who attended
the university last year. A govern
ment rilling states that at least SO
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Meetings Are Sponsored by
Y.W., Big Sisters and
A.W.S.
Big Sister hobby groups. Y. W.
C. A. commission meetings, and
A. W. S. gatherings will again be
held this year for the pvvpose of
getting women acquaint)'! with
the campus and its activity.
Since freshmen take no active
part in the Y. W. C. A., that or
ganization holds freshman com
mission meetings, which arc dis
cussion groups. There are several
r roups at different hours so that
nearly all women can arrange to
attend one. Each group elects a
president and a secretary who be
come members of the freshman
cabinet.
Hobby groups, sponsored by the
Pig Sister board, meet in the eve
nings and take up hobhics in which
freshmen students are interested.
Alpha Lambda Delta is a fresh
man honorary scholastic sorority
to which all women making; an
average of 1)0 or above at the end
of the fust semester are pledged.
GROUPS 10 ACQUAINT
FROSH WITH CAMPUS
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Extra Curricular Activities Given
Approval of Prominent Educators;
Wide Choice Is Offered on Campus
Extra curricular activities have
received the stamp of approval
i from several prominent educators
after careful surveys of the part
and place of activities in school
life, according to statements pub
lished during the past few years.
Prof. F. Stuart Chapin. of the
University of Minnesota, after a
Comprehensive analysis of the
I hole situation, concludes that
rtra curricular activities serve a
$al function in developing that
ecial intelligence which has long
keen recognized in the 'green
4ciety' as an attribute of vaxt im
portance." Others of prominence
hi the educational field have con
curred with Prof. Chapin in this
tpinion.
I Wide Choice Offered.
( A survey of extra curricular
' activities at the university reveals
hat a wide choice is offered to the
ncoming students. One branch is
n student government, another in
he publications field and still a
hlrd may be classed in an athletic
ary. in aauiuoo uc e
3,000
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250 NEBRASKA HIGH
GET SCHOLARSHIPS
Marie Kotouc, Humboldt, Has
High Score in Contest
For Awards.
With Marie Kotouc of Humboldt
receiving the highest score in Die
tests, two hundred and fifty grad
uates of Nebraska high schools
were awarded scholarships to the
university for the year 1934-35.
These scholarships were author
ized by the Board of Regents and
were based on scores made in five
academic examinations taken by
the entrants in the contest. Those
making the highest scores in 250
schools received awards which are
good for all fees except matricula
tion, registration, and medical.
Second highest scores in the
tests went to Celia Sterner of York
and Albert Larson of Newman
Grove and Robert Reddish of Al
liance ranked third. Miss Kotouc
plans to enter Arts and Science;
Miss Sterner, Teachers college;
Mr. Larson, Engineering college,
and Mr. Reddish, Arts and Science.
Scholarships Awarded.
One hundred and three of the
scholarships awarded are for the
Arts and Science college; 74 for
Teachers college; 18 for College of
Business Administration: 18 for
College of Agriculture, and two for
Pharmacy college. According to
the compiled figures more boys
than girls received awards this
year.
Farh fully accredited school and
each minor accredited school was
eligible to enter at least two con
testants or as many as the upper
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SC.II EDI LE OF MAE
PARTIES ARRANGED
Seven larsity Dances Will
Be Held in Coliseum
TIi is Season.
Nine Varsity parties have been
scheduled for the coming school
yesr according to announcement
"made by Wilbur Erlckson. chair
man of the Barb council, which is
in charge of the affairs.
Dates of the events, all but the
last two to be held in the coliseum,
are Sept. 22, Sept. 29, Oct. 13. Oct.
27, Nov. 10. Jan. 19, Feb. 16,
March 2. March 23. The last two
parties will be hold In the Ag col
lege Student Activities building.
Margaret Medlar is vice chair
man of the council, and Alvin
Klccb is secretary.
great number of clubs end organi
zations, honorary and professional,
to which students may devote
some of their outaide-the-claas-room
time.
Heading the list of activities are
the two senior honorary societies.
Each spring a group of Junior men
are selected by the outgoing
seniors to constitute the Society of
Innocents, senior 'men's honorary
during the succeeding year. Serv
ice to the school in extra curricular
s.rtivities, qualities of leadership,
together with scholarship serve as
the bases of selection. A number
of projects are sponsored by the
group during the year including
rallies, wearing of freshmen caps,
the homecoming party and Dad's
Day.
Senior Women's Group.
Paralleling Innocents as
senior honorary society for women
is the Black Masque chapter of
Mortar Board. Each spring from
five to twenty junior women are
elected to membership from a
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GRADUATES
Apply
University Chancellor
Courteiy of Lincoln Journal.
E. A. Burnett.
Who will give the main address
of the morning at the general con
vocation held in Grant Memorial
hall Freshman day, Sept. 18. Fol
lowing his address the chancellor
will introduce the deans of the
various colleges and other univer
sity officials.
Raymond Hall
Opening Again
For Third Year
Approaching its third year of
c Raymond
Hall offers 170 university women
an. d..ive ana nioaern housing fa
cilities. The building, which is strictly
fireproof thruout, is Georgian Co
lonial in style with all the rurnisn
ings in harmony with the general
architectural type. The ground
floor is taken up by an assembly
or party room, a recreation room.
and storage and service rooms.
Living rooms and lounges, a social
room, a library, dining hall and
kitchen are to he found on th
first floor, while the second and
third floors are given over entirely
to student rooms with the excep
tion of two small living rooms lo
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Dean of Student Affairs T. J. Thompson Outlines
Student Job Situation; Presents Survey Results
Edllor'i NuK: la
JrMU of rrqantt atklnr for inferma
tlan about lodmt employment an
Itutfrnt eoKi froai porionn vliklni to
ttrnd the l-nlenlty of Nebrma the
following exeloilvo artlrle has e
written b Or. T. . Thompeoa. inn
of .indent affairs at the 'nlTrlty of
Nebr. t the reoaeit of The Boat
day Journal-Mar.
BY DR. T. J. THOMPSON.
Last February the federal govern
ment through the Federal Emer
gency Relief Administration Inaug
urated sn employment procram de
signed to assist other students in
taking up college courses. These lat
ter had in many cases delayed col
lege entrance as long as lour years.
The program became operative lor
the second semester. Shortly after its
announcement, the University of
Nebraska had 52J students working
at various projects about the cam
pus. Thev were employed a clerks,
stenogTaphera, janitors, laborers,
laboratory assistants, library assist
ants research assistant, et cetera. A
check of the collegiate classification
shows that 169 freshmen. 92 sopho
mores, 87 Juniors, 94 seniors, and 43
graduate students were given em
ployment. Incidentally, one of the most en
couraging features of the employ
ment was the fact that the students
were willing and anxious to earn
their allotment. There was not an
instnr rerjorterl Indiratlne that a
student believed he should receive
assistance without giving value re
ceived in work.
1 Cents An Hoar.
The students were paid 30 rents
'per hour. They were permitted to
learn from a minimum of 110 per
month, according to the amount al
.lotted them. Bv far the larger num
ber received 10 per month for
which they worked eight hours per
Iweek. About one -third of the total
dumber of 623 students employed
Iworked 12 hours per week for which
Ithey received $15 per month.
As the semester progressed and
It became possible to make an ap
praisai of the program. It became
(increasingly apparent that such em
ployment was of great benefit to
needv and worthy college students.
In fact, the result of favorable re
action to the program from college
and university administrators was
such that the federal government
after study has decided that a sim
ilar program with a few modifica
tions will be In effect for the school
year 1934-35. In order to qualify for
such employment, "the student's
financial status shall be such as to
make impossible his attendance at
college without this aid." and the
students "shall be of good character
and judged bv the usual methods of
determining ability employed by the
particular college, shall possess such
abilitr as to give assurance that
thev will do high grade work in col
lege. Propose Coataaaaie.
In the application of this em
ployment program tor the ensuing
school year, the University of Ne
braska proposes to continue it in
much the same manner as it con
ducted the prop-am during the sec
ond semester of last year. 8inoe the
Pnderal Anergency Relief Admin-
frin hM B""? , aju aambg.
For
SCHOOL AND CITY
OFFER GREETINGS
Students Are Welcomed by
Administration, Churches,
Student Organizations.
FOUR EVENTS FEATURED
Chance ors Reception on
First Saturday Opens
Social Season.
Dniinsr the flurry of firs:
week events the university ad
ministration, campus orpamza
tions, and city of Lincoln
ornuns will be concerned with
welcoming new students to the
campus and the city. our ouv
standing events include the chan
cellor's reception, Saturday eve
ning, Sept. 22; a party given by
the Bic Sister board in Ellen
Smith hall on Wednesday night
Sept. 19: a joint YM-YW party at
the Armory, Tuesday evening,
Sept. 18; and All-University
church night, Friday. Sept. 21. All
of these are annual events.
Heralded as the opening social
affair on the year's university
calendar is the annual chancellor's
reception. Here both new students
and old students of the university
are given the opportunity to meet
the administrative heads of the in
stitution, the heads rf depart
ments, and other members of the
university staff. No announce
ment has been made as yet con
cerning arrangements, but details
will be printed in the next issue
of the Nebraskan on Sunday,
Sept. 16.
Churches Open Doors.
Residents of the city of Lincoln
bid welcome to newcomers through
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DR. T. J. THOMPSON.
of average $15 per month allotments
from 10 per cent to 12 per cent of
the student body, the number of
average allotments will be increased
from 454 to 645.
In addition to the employment of
fered bv the Federal Emereencv Rf-
hef Administration, the merchants
and residents of Lincoln have al
ways been very generous in offering
employment to students. Through
such employment many students
have wholly or partiallv supported
themselves while attending the uni
versity. It is possible, therefore, that
students who do not qualify for em
ployment under the federal pro
gram may obtain employment else
where in the city.
Students desiring to attend the
university, whether or not they plan
to take advantage of the emergenry
relief employment allotments or
part-time employment offered by
Lincoln citizens, will quite naturally
be Interested in the cost involved.
In considering the cost of his edu
cation, the student should include
the cost of his fixed expenditures,
tuition fees, and books, and the ccst
of his variable personal expenses
which include his boaxd and room,
laundry, transportation, clothing,
amusements, and other sundries.
The "personal expense" is variable
and largely determines the "low
cost" or "nigh cost'" of a student's
education at the university. Some
students secure their education on
an amazingly smaJl amount of
monrv, others for no good reason
spend amounts that appear extrava
gant. The university seeks to en
courage frugality and modest ex
penditures on the part of its stu
denta Fee Payment Keaalrcd.
Students, including those on re
lief employment, except those hold
ing Regents Scholarships are re-
?ulred to pay the regular university
ees. The fixed fees Include 15
matriculation fee if not. already
paid i and a semestral health fee of
S3 and a registration fee of 1 The
tuiOon fee In the undergraduate
eolleees of Arts and Sciences. Busl
ines Administration. Agriculture.
yeachjn. snj. Eaf7"lKrlng f enenrls 1
TO NEW STUDENTS
iL-
Relief
I Dean of W omen I
id.:.
Courtesy 61 Lincoln Journal
Miss Amanda Heppner.
Who will tilav a Drominent part
in the Freshman day activities. As
Uean of women, Miss Heppner is
supervisor of women's activities
on the Nebraska campus.
Group of Exams
Awaiting Frosh
Entering School
Awaiting freshmen before they
register in the university is a
series of specialized academic
tests and a compulsory medical
examination. The academic tests
are given for purposes of place
ment of new students in courses.
A medical examination will be
given all new students, by the uni
versity staff physicians on Friday,
Saturday, Monday, and Wednes
day, September 14 to 19. Fresh
men are advised to appear at an
early date, time assignments being
made anytime after September 10
at the Registrar's off ice. The ex
amination must ix taken before
any fees may be paid and regis
tration completed.
A classification test in English,
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-Courteov Sunday Journal anrl Star
upon the number of credit hour
carried and the nature of the
course. That is, a semestral tuition
fee ranging from $1.50 per credit!
hour to $2.50 per credit hour for
academic courses is required, the
the $2.50 fee being required for the;
msjoritv of courses in which lnlior-;
atorv Instruction is given. The min-:
Imum fees, including tuition fee, for
a semester for a student who has
not paid his matriculation lee sndt
who carries no laboratory courses
will be a minimum of $26 for 121
hours credit. If he carries a five
hour laboratory course and rcven 1
hours of non-laboratory work and
has not previously matriculated, his,
lees win ee a minimum oi na
ditional courses will, of course, make
th fpes hieher .
The average cot.t of books and !
instruments in the non-professional,
undergraduate college courses of 14,
credit hours will range from $10 to
$15 per semester. !
A student may register for as1
many hovtfs as he believes he can
carry successfully, except he may1
not take more than 18 hours a:
semester. While a 12-hour course
is considered a mmimum, full-time
course, the vast majority of the
students carry about 14 hours. A
student granted federal relief em
ployment may not take less than 10
hours.
Room Costs tow.
The cost of room and board,
which ordinarily constitutes the
major personal expense of the
student, is modest in Lincoln. Good
board and room accommodations
sn be secured at prices ranging
from $5 to $S per week. Moreover,
a large number of students reduce
their board and room costs by
batching, working for a meal or
two. or for their room. In fact, it
is my candid opinion that Lincoln
offers better rooming conditions
and as good boarding accommoda
tions at as reasonable prices as may
be had bv students anywhere.
While the University of Nebraska
does not accept as good policy the
practice too often us-!d of stating
minimum costs, it is quite willing to
sav that a student may secure the
opportunities for an education here
as cheaply as at another institution
of like standing. We are, however,
willing to slate that the average
cash soent bv au students aurmg
last year, according to a study made
last spring, was $440. nils ngure
Includes the total average expend
iture of cash of all students for all
nurtxws and of every nature. This,
of course, means that many stu
dents spent much less cash than
this average amount. In fact, we
have records of a considerable num
ber of students who were non-residents
of Lincoln who paid all of
their expenses on as little as $100
per semester or $200 for the school
yer without outside employment.
The university cannot guarantee
employment to every student who
applies. That it is impossible under
present general unemployment and
drouth conditions to supply evry
student who applies with part-time
employment either through federal
aid or through other sources is ap
parent. The university does, how-em-,
maintain employment bureaus
that make every effort to give
students assistance in obteUlUDg
NEW STUDENTS TO
MEET IN
Prof. K. I). Scotl Is Presiding Officer for Convocation
in Grant Memorial Hall; Chancellor Burnett
to Give Address of Morning.
OFFICIALS DECLARE ATTENDANCE IMPORTANT
University Pastors.
Registrar, and Finance Secretary to Be
Introduced at General Meeting.
A special pro jiriini, planned for the orientation of new Mil
dents on the campus, will be held on Freshman day, Tucsdny,
Sept. 18, in Grant Memorial hall at 9 a. m. Prof. K. D. Scott
will preside at the peneral convocation and special music will
be given by the Fine Arts Ensemble under the direction of
W. T. Quick.
Accordinp to university officials Attendance at the convo.
cation and at the individual college conferences following the
general meeting is extremely important. Entrance requirements
and other points of special interest to freshmen will be ex
plained at the meetings.
POSSIBILITY SEEN OF
Student Council Committee
Leading in Planning
New Store.
Plans for the establishment of a
student co-operative bookstore, de
signed to handle exchange of sec
ond hand books among university
students, are rapidly being formed
by a student council committee,
Jack Fischer, president of that or
ganization, and Elaine Fontein,
president of the YWCA.
For the past two years a Swap
Book shop operated by the uni
versity Y. W. C. A. has been in
the Temple building, and has been
of service to students wishing to
sell second hand books and to
persons wishing to buy used books
at reasonable prices. The new plan
calls for securing of adequately
large quarters to handle a larger
number of books than the Swap
Shop has been able to take care of.
According to Fischer there has
been great need of a student book
shop that can be of service to all
students. During the past year
there has been considerable agita
tion in the student body for the
establishment of such an enter
prise. On several campuses in the
United St'ates student co-operative
bookstore plans have worked very
successfully.
V BOOKS W ILL BE 0
SALE AT YM AD 1 IT
Booklet Contains Calendar
Of Events and Lists
Activities.
Following Freshman convoca
tions X books will be put on sale
at the YMCA and YWCA offices,
in the Temple building and Ellen
Smith hall respectively. The publi
cation, a pocket-size pamphlet, de
scribes the campus, activities, con
tains Nchraska songR, and lists
members of organizations. Doro
thy Cathers of Omaha :s editor.
Included in the N book is also a
calendar of events of the year,
space beside each date for memor
andum purposes, and in the back
of the edition arc several blank
pages for notation of telephone
numbers, names, or anything else
of interest to the holder.
The Nebraskan has been unable
to obtain information concerning
the price of the booklet. Last year
the charge for freshmen was 5c
and for upperclassmen 25c.
Question of Future Education Is
More Difficult Than Usual for High
School Graduates, Says Chancellor
"This is a time when young men
and women who have graauated
from high school and are eligible
to enter college are doing much
serious thinking about their fur
ther education," declared Chancel
lor E. A. Burnett, head of the uni
versity Wednesday.
"This year the question is more
difficult than usual," he contin
ued. "In addition to the question,
shall I attend some college or uni
versity, are the questions of where,
what college, how is the expense
to be provided, is it possible to go
at lower cosis than formerly, can
I earn a part or all of the costs
as I go along, and will the advan
tages from such attendance be
greater than the costs in money
and effort.
"Education is more important
than the economic problems that
confront us. It is important that
old and young be kept active and
interested in some new endeavor.
Study in college or school is one
of the fine ways in which this may
be done. Educational effort stimu
lates high endeavor, whU idlcneaa
ARMORY
V Officials. Deans, Directors,
Burnett to Talk.
Chancellor E. A. Burnett will
give the address of the morning
and following his talk the univer
sity pastors, Y. M. and V. V. sec
retaries, deans, directors, regis
trar, and finance secretary will be
introduced to the group.
At 9:45 the general convocation
will be closed and the new stu
dents will adjourn to their various
college conferences. Agricultural
college freshmen will be taken by
bus to the ag college campus where
their meetings will be held in ag
ricultural hall with Dean W. W.
Burr presiding.
Arts and Science freshmen will
go to the Temple theater where Dr.
Arthur F. Jeness, assistant profes
sor of psychology and special ad
visor to freshmen, will preside.
The address of welcome will be
made by Dr. C. H. Oldfather, deaa
of the Arts and Science college.
LeRossignol to Preside.
Dr. J. E. LeRossignol, dean of
the College of Business adminis
tration, will preside over that col
lege's convocation to be held in
Social Science auditorium. The ad
dress of welcome will be made by
the presiding officer.
New engineers will go to Me
chanical Engineering building
where J. P. Colbert, freshman ad
visor will preside. Dean J. E.
Ferguson will extend greetings to
the freshmen and speak on "Pur
poses ot a University Education."
The School of Music convocation
will be held at the School of Music.
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F
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Senior Honorary in Charge
of Selling Caps to
New Students.
In keeping with a long-established
tradition. Nebraska fresh
man men students will again don
red caps this fall, according to an
nouncement made Tuesday by the
Innocents society. The senior men's
honorary organization is in charge
of selling the caps to the new stu
dents. Owen Johnson, president of In
nocents society, stated that the
caps have already been secured by
a downtown clothing firm. Fresh
men can purchase tickets for their
caps at the price of 50 cents im
mediately following registration in
the coliseum. The bearer of the
ticket then presents it at the cloth
ing store and receives the cap in
return. The caps are all red except
for the white numerals "3S" on
the front above the small bill.
Several years ago the Innocents
society broke off from an old cus
tom, that of asking the freshmen
to wcr green caps, and changed
over to the sale of red bead gear.
breeds discouragement and pnssi.
ble delinquencv.
Colleges Well Equipped.
"The colleges of the country and
the state university at Lincoln are
especially equipped to offer oppor
tunities to young men and women
who desire to pursue college work.
"There is nothing so in-portant
to the well-being of the .nan or
woman as his right choice of an
occupation." explained the chan
cellor. "At Nebraska, with its hun
dreds of faculty members, large
number of classroom buildings, and
libraries, the student has a very
broad field from which to select
his line of study. He is not re
stricted to one particular course."
Broad Training.
He explained that at the univer
sity if the entering student is un
decided about his life vocation be
may enter the college of arts and
sciences where he will pet a broad
general training, useful in any
profession he may care to enter.
High school graduates may also
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