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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1938)
Variety of Events Keep New Union Calendar Includes Dances, Banquets, Motion Pictures. Nebraska's new Student Union building will be the scene of many events this week end, beginning tonight with the "house warming, and reaching a climax BYiday night when Orrin Tucker and his band will play in the new ball room. A variety of entertainment will take place in the building. Dances, banquets, and a motion picture show will attract the stu dent body and faculty thruout the remainder of the week. First entertainment to be held in the Just-completed Union will be the 'house warming' program tonight at 7:30. Ken Nelson's or chestra will play for a free dance beginning at 8:00 and ending at 12. Miss Marian Steel and Ken neth Van Sant. Union social direc tor and manager, respectively, will act as hosts for the evening. Tea Dance Thursday. Thursday, the Ivy day celebra tion will Include a tea dance spon sored by the A. W. S. board. The Bcck-Jungbluth orchestra will play from 4:30 to 6:30 at this all university affair which will fea ture cut dances. An admission of ten cents will be charged at the door. In the evening there will be dancing to recorded music in the ball room from 8:00 to 11:00, no admission being charged. Mr. Van Sant today reiterated Animal Husbandry Society Initiates 32 Members at Dinner Tuesday. Block and Bridle club, animal husbandry, honorary, initiated 32 ag college students into Its ranks yesterday In Ag hall at 5 p. m., with initiation followed by a din ner and business session. The 32 men initiated were a3 follows: Roper Cunningham Rox Brown KldrMm Bevtt Alfred Kunr Will Pltner Wyn Smllrv F(lin Rnuieic Ptul Rohertwn Vrn Reynnldsnn RMinrrl Spunclrr Thomas Rnncpar Ervm DndBJ Lfn Tupper lwii Klein Dfan Meal Ivan I.u t-awrenre Duller Kalph Birrs Montie Baker Richard Houcland David MrOilll Jess Skinner Rohert Rothwell Lyle Roberts Wilfred Gtnnebreaker Paul Slndt Marven Vaughn . Orrin Marry Tom Moatea Verlln Johnson Jff Rroadv Thane Davis of initiates is the This group BRIDLE INDUCTS M GROUP OF MEN pRETTY is the word, with a return to naturalness. If you wear your hair down ty day, you up it by night and continue to bedeck it with flowers. Jo Bowcn Beauty Salon 202 Federal Security Bldg. 64636 CONGRATULATIONS To the University of Nebraska on the completion of the new Student Vjuck. ftwddhiq HENRY VEITH COMPANY HARDWARE AND BUILDERS SUPPLIES 909 "O" Street The Student Union Building Built to last for Centuries with reinforcing bars and mesh. Furnished by GENERAL STEEL PRODUCTS CO. steel building materials 731 Stuart Bldg-. B2546 . TIIF. DAILY NEBKASKAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1. 1938 in Busy State his request that students refrain from smoking In the ball room until sand traps have been placed there. "I believe it is to the advan tage of the students to see that no body Is allowed to smoke until pro visions have been made to safe guard the ball room," said Van Sant. Tucker Plays Friday. The climax of Friday's program and of the Initial programs of the union will be the dance which will feature Orrin Tucker's music from 9:00 to 1:00. This band is recog nized as "tops" and the admission of $1.10 is nominal. A physical ed ucation dinner, engineers banquet, and law banquet will also be part of Friday's entertainment. The first Student "nton motion picture show will be held Satur day night beginning at 6:00. The initial show Will he ftn intnrosflno- picture of the Olympic games held m ocriin m iwjo. inis rum was smuggled out of Germany past, the Strict nazi cunrds and InHurio, a variety of shots covering the many stains wiucn maae up tne last Olympic program. There will be no charee for th shnur ntvior events on tap for Saturday Include me lassei meeung and luncheon at 9 a. m.; the Delta Omicron luncheon and musical from 12 to 1 p. m., and the Alpha Rho Tau banquet from 6 to 7 p. m. An eventful weelr will lu brought to a close Sunday with a Y. W. C. A. breakfast scheduled for 8 a. m.; a breakfast of the Newman Cluh at 11 m an Delta Gamma parent's banquet at i p. m. largest group ever to be Initiated into Block and Bridle club. Only men interested in animal hus bandry, who arc sophomores or above, and who have high scho lastic averages are admitted to the honorary. Following the initiation dinner was a discussion of the club's part in the farmer's fair parade. The club will be represented Saturday morning by a float drawn by a four horse hitch of Belgian horses. Recreation Courses Possible for Women Summer school women students who wish to register fcr physi cal education courses such as swimming for recreation only, in addition to their full schedule of six to nine hours, are now per mitted to do so, according to Miss Mabel Lee, head of the department. A number of students previously have been advised that this is im possible, but such permission is now given. The difference between Franco and Sherman's march to the sci is that Franco has to keep on marching to the sea. Lincoln tew Breaking Back on a bleak, cold January day in 1937, Chancellor E. A. Burnett and F. G. Taylor of St. Paul, then president of the board of regents, broke sod on the Stu dent Union site with such vigor ,OttlSWtlMhjCVUL I CommsmL One of the Prime Evils In the second ot the series on Dartmouth's prime evils and apropos to the selection of courses for next semester we present the faculty deadbeat. Of all the faculty types the pro fessorial deadbeat is perhaps the most dangerous for he gives edu cation in general a discouraging flavor. The course is everything to the deadbeat. He has developed it, treasured it, and nursed it along for God knows how long. In tlw process of protecting it from ad verse influences and innovations he has succeeded in having it tucked $way in the requirements for the Maior where von're sure to stumble over it. With his course safe in its trundle bed he has set tied back to enjoy the fruits of his labors. So he goes through his routine three times a week with time off for vacations. He trudges into class precisely eti time. Unwind ing the muffler and draping the mackinaw over & sill, he warms his hands and works on the win. dows and shades. Suddenly becom ing conscious of tne class he takes a very elaborate end thorough at tendance. The presentation of trie lecture is a masterful mechanical demon stration. After fumbling with the brief case and covering the desk top with assorted papers, he lets beam the sole smile of the hour and winds up. He knows he is j . r V ,, ; prepared and the class will absorb U'nat Via BQira Kit im lcrtiir V,,,1ca what he says. So the lecture bulges with self-assurance and antiquated , . .... . 1 data. Personalities become mere " r. , !.. collection of pet phrases and themes. .. ., , . Theoretically the class becomes invisible when the message from hi tim-Wftm Tlot i rnnvevpd to various notebooks. The delivery of me message needs no added appeal , T . , 7. . ... . absolutely assumed. Dry is hardly the word to describe the atmos phcre. Education in operation re sembles a victrola in some grave yard. The bell, welcomed by both sides of the desk, is the signal for the point of the day and he tot ters or strolls off, depending on his age group, to the seclusion of hia office. Completely lacking in color, fire, lnt Villain em Tipvr hmm in rr r v - " " ' 1 ' ' " r cited either way over an idea and only pasively indignant over his pet peeves, his lectures illustrate no imagination and surprisingly receive no response. He is the well adjusted professor who found out in his early years that it was a Hurculean task to start any rev- MiiHrtn mnnir th Tnrtmrilith lin- dergraduates and so quinly settled back into contented security and obscurity. Hia duties are twofold. He re peats his notes annually and keeps a constant watch against courses that dare to introduce new related material or cross departmental lines to shatter his status quo. If it is the day of his weekly office hour, his work wont be over until 2:Sn iinil then home h roes to take care of the dyspepsia and rest up for the next lecture. Beware of the faculty deadbeat when you make course selections. He'll wear you out. The Dartmouth. I y I f 1 Union Sod V I M XL." mmmmmmmmmmmamitum m Lincoln Journal. that watching WPA workmen were considerably astonished. The university officials had to whisk off several inches of snow before their pick and shovel hit into the hard earth. ARE COLLEGE STUDENTS VEGETABLES? In a recent issue of the Atlantic Monthly there appeared an article entitled, "Are Children Veget ables?" The thesis of this article is that modern society far under estimates the capacity of a baby's mind for acquiring and retaining knowledge. The author says, "... the knowledgeable folk, the ones who have picked up the best cur rent ideas of infanticulture from the highest authorities, are the most completely convinced that the new human being is a mind less vegetable, not only incapable of being taught anything of con sequence for a number of years, but actually damaged by the at tempt to teach him anything." The effect of the application of this attitude on the mental growth of infants is best illustrated in the author's analogy of the effects of running a lawnmower over a lawn in which from time to time a blade of timothy creeps in. At first the timothy shoots up at a tremendous rate of speed, but as the mower is repeatedly run over the grass the timothy grows at a slower and slower rate during the intervals, until it finally completes its growth as a rygmy specimen of its kind. A similar situation exists as re gards the mental growth of chil dren. "The infant intelligence en ters the world with sn inherent capacity for growth of which no one has ever yet ascertained the limit; and we promptly set bounds to its growth arbitrary bounds, bounds of our own preconceiving. The young mind puts out new Biwiiui oi amazing nea tn and L,. anrl we forthhwitn cli tnem j . ..... shoots of amazing health and down. The mutilated ertranlsm umuiuiiiuiinj una sensing mat 11 has a hostjle environment to cope disillusioned and sensing that it wan, resorts ror a while to freak ish and frantic behaviors: wit nc ": nuMiuer oi cnnaren naraiy out of the teething stage who are dis- the number of children hardly out traught, addled, peevish, almost impossible to interest. nr1 innn able of amusing themselves ex cept by experiments in deliber 1 3 Hr,""rni5 in aeiiDer- aic illiquid, in-me ena, me cnild unlearns its instinct of untram- mcied growth, for it finds that there is no other wnv in spf.fi. justmcnt, survival, or any growth whatsoever... When we have got through the season of running our lawn mowers over it, it is cam plete and mature and a dwarf." The practice of restraining an individual from realizing the full est possible development of his in tellect is continued long after the infant stage of life. Its most vicious aspect is found in the pub lic school svstem reducinc all education, not -IllKt tn . 1. . - . '. - uie general average, but even to the lowest mean, above a moron. Requirements have been progres sively lowered until today all in dividuals possessing even average intelligence, by the time they have reached the higher grades and the university, usuallv lose much of their desire for learning. The re-! sun or me attitude that children are vegetables has been the pro duction of persons who are little more than vegetables. Deplorable as it is that this at titude shapes the policy of the public schools, it is worse that it is held over in the formation of the curriculum and requirements of most American universities. A university is supposed to be a place where a person Maving more than an average rapacity for knowl edge will have an opportunity for Campus Argument Arose Over Student Union Site Regents Selected Location at 14th and R Corner Dec. 5, 1036. Where shall the new Student Union Building be located ? A year ago last fall this was the query on the lips of every university student and faculty member in Lincoln. Will it be located between Teach ers college and Social Sciences? On the northwest corner of 14th and R where Ellen Smith hall stands ? On the tennis court site on 12th St.? Every faculty meeting, cooking party and bull session buzzed with excitement. Opinion Clashes. Student council members Levin, disciplining his intellect and in creasing his knowledge. But when a person has managed to escape the stultifying effects of his previous environment, what does he find? Again he finds that the administrators, except in a few instances, regard him as a vegetable. Course requirements are kept ridiculously easy. Emphasis is placed on making valuable social contacts and engaging in extra curricular activities. No incentive is provided for indulging in stu dious work; on the other hand, he is confronted with discourage ment at every turn. His professors observe gloomily that their stu dents are too dumb to learn any thing; but they must at least be "entertained' in lectures it keeps them quiet Generally, then univer sity students are graduated, like the high school graduates who sub mitted to the influence of the atti tude before, relatively little more than mindless vegetables. The system is vicious because one generation reared in an en vironment discouraging to the de velopments of the intellect tends to retain the status quo and force it upon future generations. How ever, there is hope for change de spite this. Evidences are to be found today that there is both a revolt of the "vegetables" in the universities against the system of restraint and that the administra tors are coming to believe that students are not vegetables. It is coming to be realized that, as the author of the Atlantic article aays, "The content of a mind is a func tion and an implicit intelligence test of his environment, and we know nothing about its potential volume except by ita content. All our insistence upon defining the factor of inherent ability is sim ply a way of shirking the task of education and dumping it back upon nature." The increase in this realization is manifested in many universities thruout the land by the introduction of curriculum, re quirement and structural reorgan Bradley, Peterson and Marsh con ferred with university officials and Chancellor Burnett. Opinions clashed as officials advocated the northwest corner of 14th and R and council members favored the site on 12th st. north of Social Sci ences. Students interviewed by a Daily Nebraskan reporter put their stamp of approval on the site be tween Teachers college and Social Sciences. Then Saturday, Dec. 5, 1936, the regents decreed that the new building would be erected on the northeast corner of 14th and R, facing south. Officials felt that the location elected was desirable be cause it places student union ac tivities on the rim of the campus between classrooms and the stu dent resident area. ization of a nature similar to the new U. S. C. plan for reorganizing the college of letters, arts, and sciences. Southern Calif. Daily Trojan. LAYING OF CORNERSTONE MARKS UNION PROGRESS Publications of University Sealed in Metal Box To Commemorate. The cornerstone of the Student Union building was laid Nov. 5, 1937. At the ceremonies Al Mose man, Student Cauncil president, spoke on the plsce of the Union in student life; Prof. Earl Lantz reviewed the fight for the build ing, and Chancellor E. A. Burnett represented the administration. A metal box containing copies of the Daily Nebraskan, the Corn husker, the Awgwan, the Corn husker Countryman, and the Ne braska Alumnus, together with copies of the University catalog and bulletin, as well as documents signed by all the members of the Innocets and Mortar Board soci eties was placed in the corner stone. The student members of the Union board of managers were in charge of the ceremonies. EIGHT YEAR OLD DREAM BECOMES REALITY AT 7:30 (Continued from Page 1). ballroom and we sincerely hope that students will cooperate in keeping their ballroom free from cigaret burns." T.. it hundred prizes will be of fered the "first nightcrs." Each person entering the building will be given a number. Corresponding numbers will be posted thruout the entire building. Those finding their duplicated numbers will receive prizes ranging from candy, cards, flowers, dance tickets, to genersl 'ypDJlOlEL Sh a T E L s 4.. - - - Ll -s t Wft HATS to the Neii; Student Union Congratulations, college men and women, on seeing a long-cherished dream become a reality. You Deserve Your Success An adequate center for student activities on the Campus has long been needed. . . has long been championed by campus leaders. Nebraska can well be proud of the Stu dent Union, a building which ranks among the finest of its kind. P" 1 1 T"" I W-! prizes for men and women. Six free portraits will be given away by the Townsend studio and four 1938 Cornhuskers will be pre sented. Lasting Memorial. Standing like a sentinel guiding the destinies of student to student and student to professor coopera tion, the Union will be a memo rial to those who influenced the. $180,000 grant of WPA funda In October, 1936, the loyal alumni who helped furnish the building and the present student body which offers its three dollars for use of the Union. The building will see many cele brated personalities and things during its first month. Friday night Orrin Tucker and his or chestra will furnish music for the first Union dance. On May 13 the Beck-Jungbluth orchestra will play for the second affair. The din ing rooms will open Friday. CAMPUS TENSION INCREASES AS IVY DAY APPROACHES (Continued from Page 1). of the original campus between thhe administration building and U hall to the Student Union build- IN DAILY a STAVOR LI 14 Y""7IKE an old friend", Fairmont Ice Cream stands the test of time. Again and again its satisfying flavor brings paramount pleasure whether served at the fountain or dished at home. Try some. You'll like it be cause it is made with high grade ingred ients according to a tasty recipe, and blended perfectly by experts. Trait at tht aign FAIRMONT'S ICE CREAM The Peak of Quality One of llie Fine in the New Cafeteria and - . - - in Lincoln A. Q Rchlmmel J Manner OFF PAGE FIVE rcne Seller to Attend Phi Chi Theta Conclave Irene Sellers, recently elected president of Phi Chi Theta, com merce fraternity, will represent the group at the annual national convention in Pittsburgh. Pa., next month Acmmnanied bv several alumni of the honorary, Miss Sell- era win leave ror umcago June i whut-A she will loin delegates from the other middle western Phi Chi Theta chapters. '. ing. latest addition of th univer sity, where a subscription all-uni-versitv tea dance will be held from 4:30 until 6:30 with the Beck Jungbluth orchestra playing. Committees in charge of the ivy day program are: Maxine Durand, general chairman; Betty Cherney, ivy and daisy chains; Jean Marvin, notification chairman; Winifred Nelson, children attendant; Rosa lie Motl and Genevieve Bennett, flowers and favors; Marie Kotouc, Donna Hiatt, arrangements for the Ivy day luncheon and dinner; Jane Barbour, attendants' costumes; Eloise Benjamin, grounds chair man, and Martha Morrow and Jane Walcott, publicity. ft I Foods to he Served Student Union Soda Fountain i p -j ft: . I .'V ' r .'?:Vv '. r.f -1 K it. t . - to