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r Fill!) AY. FEBRUARY 21. 1036. TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN - i t . t i 'A A .4 : 1 'i Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska. 1935 Member 1936 ftssoe'ded Gollc6ioie Press Thli oaoer Is represented for aeneral advertising by the Nebraska Press Association. Entered as second-class mutter at the P0,',c.7 'n Lincoln. Nebraska, under net of conflie.i. Maich J. 187B, and at spacial rata of po.Uue provided tor In ''' 1 103. act of October S, 1917. authorized January BO, Mil. THIRTY-FOURTH VCAR Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday morningt dunna the academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 1 50 a year Sln0le Copy S cents 00 a zM a year mailed ' a aemetter mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall t. Builneee Office University Hall 4A. Telephones-Day I B6891 Nl0ht: B6S82- B333J (Journal). Official student publication of the University of Nebraska In Lincoln, Nebraska. IRWIN RYAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF TRUMAN OOERNDORF BUSINESS MANAGER EDITORIAL STAFF MANAGING EDITORS Geoiga Plpal Arnold Levin NEWS EDITORS Jnhiuton Snipes Dorothy Bantl Jane Walcott Eleanor Cllibe Don Wagner oelrtv Editor Lnulie Vagee Women'. l Edllor- 'Bn. Hunkin. BUSINESS STAFF ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Bob Funk Bob ShellrnbiM-g Bob Wadhams Circulation Manager Stanley Michael Are Girls To Blame? DISCONTENT still rei.uiis in the department of physical pduciition for women. Ciirls are yet insisting: Unit tlicy suffer from a lack of tolerance find consideration on llie pjivt of this particular department. They express the view that in their contacts department heads fail to take into account uint hin' but the field of physical education. Innumerable instances occur in which be cause of this single hour, which dictates such unreasonably rigid requirements girls cannot become initiated into sororities. It is not the place of the Nebraskan to argue the relative merits of sorority initiation lmt it does seem unfair that one course should universally place such prohibitions upon students. A brief time ago there appeared in the Ne braskan an editorial entitled "Girls Injus tices" in which wonderment was expressed at the cause of these constantly recurrm"' diffi culties. Quite comprehensive in scope and re quiring some time to master, these restrictions and mandates set forth by the physical educa tion department arc not particularly inviting of good will. Attempts lo secure the confidence and good will of the student body is a function of any department assuming: the role of guidance, and such a role it should assume in an institu tion of learning. But it seems tlmt some de partments fail to adequately recognize this function. Why must this department consist ently be a source of irritation? Why cannot harmony exist between 1he students and the departments? Certainly all the fault does not rest with the students. The cause of unrest should be traced and corrective measures applied. Almost unanimous is the expression of opin ion by junior girls. After two years of work in the physical education department with one accord they walk out with an air of relief. Rather than making the subject inviting and attempting to hold the interest of students the deparment seems to lye content to rely upon the fact that attendance is compulsory. They do the same thing in Germany and Italy. Hut the Nebraskan maintains that if they must ad here to the same tactics pursued in Kuropean countries at least they might offer it in a more attractive manner. ,Tt is far from an enjoyable task for an un dergraduate to attend school bearing in the back of her mind an unpleasantness. The ne bulous unpleasantness can easily assume a po sition of positive dislike, which dislike can as easily spread to other things, .lust as one bad apple can spoil the lot so can one disagreeable task embitter one's entire perspective. The nndesirable portion of the apple should be re moved. This week seems to be the final deadline for any makeup activities. It last semester's in completes and incompletes from this semester due to late registration are not made up by ti o'clock Friday no credit will bo given. This is rather a stiff rule to impose upon some. Such a short period of time in whit h to redeem one's self for back work, no matter how extenuating the circumstances, is merely flunking them in a more subtle manner. The unrelenting rigor of the rules is lamentable. With the opening of second semester the de partment of physical education for women promulgated a list of regulations. These still exist in their original form. The arbitrary rule requiring no unexcused absences with the pun ishment that if a cut is taken, double time will have to be made up is childish in its principle. Punishment as a means of reform passed with the medieval age. Adoption of a more tolerant attitude coupled with greater consideration for the students would aid immensely the cause of the depart ment of physical education for women. It is time to attain harmony between the students and the department. Such a program should be instituted without delay. STUDENT PULSE Brief, concise contributions oertlnent to matters of student life and ths university are welcomed bv this department, under the usual restrictions of sound newspaper practice, wnlen excludes all libeloue matter and personal attacks. Letters must be signed, but name will be withheld from publication If so desired. Skipping. Five students in a Political Science class at the University of Chicago skipped class in or der to hear Ruth Bryan Owen speak. The Uni versity officials cannot decide what should be done in such a case, since there was to be a test in the Political Science class that would give ihem grades for record in the resristrnr's office. Some of fhe officials feci that these students should be given full credit for being progressive enough to know what they are try ing to educate themselves for, and attending something that would be of vital interest to their modern way of living. Other officials believe that these students should be required to attend the class and be in keeping with the rules of the instructor. Which way would ex hibit the most good? The noted American flulhority, Colvin, on education for High School and College stu dents states, in his book on higher education, that the main purpose in securing an education is to aid the individual in determining the best course for him to follow in life. These five students were surely in keeping with their po litical science subject when they attended the lecture. Mrs. Owen is somewhat of n diplomat and can grve some very interesting advice con cerning political affairs. These people were surely hearing the experience of a lady that has put her political science into practice. They were, of course, not in keeping with the regulations of their college, but it would appear that they were gathering helpful in formation on their subject. They perhaps heard points in political diplomacy discussed by "Mrs. Owen in such a concrete manner that they will never forget them. The instructor may preach on some of ihe points made for a week and then not get it. neross, while these people in one hour heard and understood the practical side of the science. They are to be admired in the fact that they were strong enough lo carry out their own convictions. This seems to indicate, that their college is teaching them how to find and fol low the things they know will benefit them most in life. They might have stayed in the class that day and heard the instructor make practically the same points that he made the day before and if Ihey understood them yes terday the class would surely be a bore. They would have one full hour of dozing and in stead of sharpening their wits they would tend to create lazy minds. A. C. CONTEMPORARY COMMENT Education And Progress. In limes of anxiety and discontent when dis content has engendered the belief that great and widespread economic and social changes are needed, there is a risk that men or states may act hastily, rushing to new schemes which seem promising chiefly because they are new. People catch at expedients that have a super ficial air of practicality, and forget the general theory upon which practical plans should be based. It is education and its proper applica tion that people should look to. Modern doctrines of equalily have discred ited the ancient view that the chief aim of in struction is to prepare the few wise and good rir Ihe government of the state. It is not upon this world but also upon the material things of this world, power and the acquisition of terri tory, industrial production, commerce, finance, wealth and prosperity in all its forms, that the modern eye is fixed. Modern education should have three chief aims : One aim is to fit the student, to be at least, explorers, even if not discoverers, in the fields of science and learning. A second is to fit them to be leaders in the field of action, leaders not only by their initia tive and their diligence, but also by the power and the habit of turning a full stream of thought and knowledge upon whatever work they have to do. A third is to give them the taste for, and the habit of enjoying, intellectual pleasures. Many moralists, ancient and modern, have given pleasure a bad name because Ihey saw that the most alluring and powerfully seduc tive pleasures, pleasures which appeal to all students alike, were indulged to excess, and became a source of evil. But all students will have pleasure and ought to have pleasure. The best way of drawing them off from the more dangerous pleasures is to teach them to enjoy the better kinds. Moreover the quieter pleas ures of the intellect mean rest and greater fit ness for resuming work. At the present time, however, there is a real danger in some quarters at least of unduly emphasizing the specifically vocational, or "practical" side of education. The man of affairs knows little or nothing of young minds and their limitations, or of the educational values of the various studies in a school curri culum. He is prone to choose subjects chiefly or solely because of their immediate practical utility. Thus in his view the chief reason for learning a modern language is that business communications will thereby be facilitated. Strong pressure is being brought to bear to commercialize American education, to maks it subservient to wealth and convert the students into a money-making mob. A nation cannot last as a money-making mob. It cannot with impunity it cannot with existence go on despising literature, despising science, despising- nature, despising compassion, and concen trating its soul on pence. Daily Kansan. A Little Kit Drastic. Unbelievably drastic was the action taken several weeks ago at the University of North Carolina drastic far beyond the demands of the situation. Forty members of the student body of the Chapel Ilill school were suspended from college by the student council for viola tion of the university's honor system. 'Word that many Tarheel students were cheating in their examinations reached campus leaders and they carried their stories to Presi. dent Graham, who heard them, deplored the existence of "organized cheating" and gave to Student President Rufus (Jack) Pool and his council full authority to discover and pun ish all offenders. Acting contrary to the advice of the attor ney general of North Carolina, the investiga tors raided the apartment of a 1934 graduate and Phi Beta Kappa who confessed and gave the leaders a list of his clients. Through the aid of a phenomenal memory and the help of numerous assistants and a set of pass keys, Cartland had conducted a business which sup ported himself and his mother. His ''cheating service" had provided examinations stolen from professors' rooms, or acquired in other ways, lie would eilher sell the questions or provide answers at n stipulated price. Acting on this evidence, which incrimi nated some !IS North Carolina students, the council voted to suspend 40 of them from the university. The most amusing bit of the entire story came when one of those suspended charged several of Ihe council members, including President Pool with cheating: after severe questioning he withdrew' his charges. Then, righteously rising up, Pool announced thai he "liad cheated during his freshman year, along with the other members of a French class," and sat down awaiting vindication and expee tion, well knowing that freshmen were usually "forgiven" for any breach of the honor sys tem. The council voted unanimously to suspend Pool. With such organized cheating, it may seem that dire punishment should be meted out, else the honor system will fail to operate and will not fulfill its purpose. v u i t e true, but does the dismissal of 40 students, 1he depriva tion of 40 college educations, and the actual ruination of the careers of at least a fourth of that number seem to be the proper punishment in an institution where the purpose should be education, not punishment. Cheating should draw some penalty, yes; but such drastic action is entirely beyond all fairness or justice. Any school following the honor system will benefit thereby and ils use is advocated for all schools not already employing it S. C. included hut. there never is any point, to be coming fanatical about a principle to the ex tent that all reason and fairness are forgotten. Daily Trojan. A Racket That Pays. " Police court news the other day," editorial izes the Topeka State Journal, "told about the destroying of a couple of slot machines con fiscated by the police. As the machines fell to pieces some forty nickels fell to the floor. Twenty dollars a machine isn't u bad return for a week ami it is likely the machines are emptied every other day. Say there are '200 machines in a lown the size of Topeka, and the number is likely two or three times that many, it means $8,000 a week in this one town." "Can you visualize the nickels from school children who should have spent it on lunch and the nickels from hard working people who could ill afford the loss? Kight thousand a week means tMIK.OOO a year just from 200 machines. Easy money nnd lots of it." "If we must have such a racket why not the city or the government own the machines and rake in the enormous profits? Then the money would at least do some good in the way of re dueing taxes or helping out in relief. If they can't be put out of business Ihey should at least be controlled and made to work part of the time for something worth while. Daily Kansan. Hire CABiWL HONOKAKY, PKOFKSSIOM L I KATEKIMTY MRKCTOIiY Identification of honorary and professional Greek letter fraternities has al ways been an annoying problem due to the lack of any adequate and accurate directory. In publishing this list, which has been prepared from the files of the dean's office, the Nebraskan suggests that the reader clip, paste, and post the list where it may be used as a handy reference. Advertising R. O. T. C. 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Seventeenth in Series Of Recitals Finished liy Week's Program Wednesday was the seventeenth conceit for the advanced students in music, thirteen teachers pre senting a weekly, public convo cation. The program was as follows: Spross, Lord Jesus in Thy Mercy, Mary Cassel (Mrs. Van Kirk). Rachmaninoff, Prelude in O minor, Kobert Kurdit k (Mrs. Hosst. . Bohm, Still wie die Nacht; O'Hara, The Fool Hath Said, "There is No God," Viola Curry (Mrs. Thomas . Hcnschcl, Alorgen Hymne, Al fred Reider (Mr. Tempel). Arensky, Etude, F snap, Evelyn Stowell (Mr. Schmidt). Wagner, Walther's Prize Song, from "Die Mcistersinger," Mai jorie Smith (Mr. Steckelberg 1. Schubert, Wohin; Swedish Folk Song, When I Was Seventeen, Rose Dundcr (Miss Wanner). Debussey, Reflections in the Watei, Desta Anna Ward (Mr. Chenoweth i. Wteniawski, Polonaise in M Ma jor, Eunice Bingham (Mr. Molzer). Tschaikowsky, Adieux, forets, from "Jeanne d'Arc," Ruth John son (Mrs. Polley). Moskowski, Caprice Espagnole, Harry Flory, jr. (Mr. Harrison). Wieniaws'kl, Scherzo-Tarantelle, Henry Brahinsky (Mr. Wishnow). Paladilhe, Psyche; Scott, Lulla by, Elsie Mansfield (Mr. Kirk patrict ) . Beethoven, Allegro con brio, from "Quartet in F Major," Ibcrt Wishnow, Le petit ane Blanc, Henry Brahinsky, first violin, Welch, viola, Ruth Sibley, 'cello Neva Webster, second violin, Jane (Mr. Wishnow). PKOF. RAPP DESCKIBES M1NOAN CULTURE. Instructor Talks at (.lassies Club Meet On 'Modern'' Aspects Minoan civilization, destroyed some three thousand years ago yet surprisingly modern in many respects, was the subject of a talk given by Albert Rapp, I i.itructor in Classics, at a recent meeting of the Classics Club. "Modem" aspects of this civil- ization, the speaker pointed out, I included not only plumbing sys l terns, but also rodeos with cow- girls as well as cowboys, and i women's dresses almost identical with evening gowns of our own times. Mr. Rapp discussed also I the influences of Minonn civiliza tion on certain legends of the Greeks. j Musil on the same program in cluded a Russian sleighing song and other pieces, sung by Marcel la Luux. AG Y.M.CA. DISCUSSES YEAR'S PROJECTS. Mr. Hayes Announces Organizing Cabinet 'On Toun Campus The first meeting of the Ag ricultural college Y. M. C. A. cab inet was held last night at the home of Mr. a D. Hayes, local "Y" secretary. Howard Peterson, newly elected president, led the discussion on plans for the coming year- Meth ods of raising atendance and mem bership were also reviewed. Officers for the year elected recentlv include. Peterson, presi- l dent; Laverne Peterson, vice pres- I 1 1 . . .J lUllnnn Anra.ilB UP. retary: Mr. Hayes also announced plans for the formation of a cab inet made up of Y. M. C. A. mem bers on the city campus. Typewriters an Vakasi for sale or not. TTsad aMthtnsa en easy ytjnnenta. Nebraska Typewriter Co. IN N. It SL BZM7 Read it and weep in the New Masses: "There is one hope in the world: Communism. Everything else has been tried and has failed." What this country needs is a good five cent revolution. O rtgoo Daily. 16c Gasolene Motor Oil 10cto30o Gal. Heating 00 64o Gallon HOLMS PHONE B3998 W RULINGS EXEMPT SEN IOKS; JUNIORS MUST MAKE ADJUSTMENTS. (Continued from Page 1.) tions are subject to penalty by the A. W. S. court. Publications Boosted. Included among the major changes, affected by the new A. W. S. system tre: Managing edi tors of the Daily Nebraskan are now in class A, (n contrast to for mer placement in group B, while news editors are B activities, pre viously being in cIsbs B. In gen eral all publications people will be pointed higher. Treasurer of W. A. A. will now be the only excep tion to the rule of placing an of fice of this nature in class A. Be fore it was a B activity. In contrast to the policy of placing some activities higher, the point system committee has changed the position of A. W. S. council members, who are presi dents of all organized women's houses. They are now in group D, formerly being in the higher class, B. "We hope all houses will co operate In not electing activity OFFICIAL BULLETIN Palladlnn. Pulludlim literary society will meet Friday evening, Feb. 21, in the Tcinplo building at 8:30 o'clock. Newman Club. Members of Newman club will hold a leap year party Friday eve ning from 7:30 to 9;30 at the Catholic community center. women to the position of house presidency, as this has proved to be too much of a burden to carry with a full extracurricular pro gram," stated Miss DcPutron. One of the grandest changes on Ag campus is the placement of members of Junior-Senior Farmers Fair board in class A, while this position has always been a D ac tivity. Tassels have also been "pointed up," now occupying place B, with a previous rating of "C." Presidents of all departmental, honorary, professional clubs and societies have been lowered to class C, their former place being in group B. Members of these or ganizations will not be pointed, an important change in view of the fact that they were a C activity. No Points for Prom Committee. Members of the Junior-Senior prom committee and Coll-Agrl-Fun will receive no points, because of the temporary aspect of their service. The status of those participat ing in activities which has not been greatly changed includes: Presidents of such organizations as A. W. S., W. A. A., Coed Coun cilors, Tassels, Student Council, and editors and business managers of the major publications on the campus, Daily Nebraskan, Corn husker and Awgwan. Others which remain unchanged are: Board members of A. W. S., W. A. A., Y. W. C. A., and such staff positions as staff editors of the Comhusker and Awgwan. In groups C. and D. the following positions are the same as before: W. A. A. sports board and intra mural icpicsentatlves; Y. W. com mission leaders, interest group leaders, staff members and fresh man cabinet; coed councilors and hobby group leaders; student council members; reporters and society editor of the Nebraskan, and staff members and editors of the Comhusker and Awgwan. In group D, the placing of the various activities remain the same as listed on the chart with the exception of A. W. S. council members. l COLLEGE WORLD "Smokers, name your poison," is the title of an article appear ing in a recent issue of Reader's Digest. Professor Plesch of Uni versity of Berlin names the fol lowing poisons as being in tobac co: nicotine, ammonia, sulpho-cy-anides, and arsenic. And still the professor smokes. The latest luxury cinema to strike Paris is the new Snack movie. Film fans pay an entrance fee of 35 cents, which includes seeing a picture and eating a free snack. During the film, ushers pass plates of sandwiches and French pastries. Personal happiness is almost synonymous with personal inter ests; the wider the range of the latter, the higher is the degree of happiness. Lillian Whiting. The sense of humor is the oil of life's engine. Without it, the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so haid. no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes before a Evanston, 111. Although the budget committee of Northwestern university has declared that be cause of the already large deficit, no new courses can be added to the curriculum, students here are pressing . for a second semester course on war. The Mogul for Nebrtiska Men 127 No. 12th "We need fight. Students should be willing to go to any extreme even to getting kicked out of school if they actually believe in something." Prof. Ernest Laucr, Northwestern university. Oklaho ma Daily. "No wonder there's a lot of knowledge in the colleges the freshmen always bring a little in and the seniors never take any away." Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president emeritus, Harvard uni versity. That college seniors are 5 per cent moie radical than first year men was revealed in a question naire survey which has been con ducted at Washington university. Co-eds were proven to be more conservative than college men. I do not think much of a man who is no wiser today than ha was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln. Oklahoma Daily. t UNDER 9CHIMMEL Direction 16tel Is Proud to Be the Host of DELTA DELTA DELTA Saturday Evening HOME OFTHE ; : ThswPrstryBhop