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
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HARDWARE AND BUILDERS SUPPLIES
909 "O" Street
The Student Union Building
Built to last for Centuries with reinforcing
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steel building materials
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. 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
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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
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data. Personalities become mere
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collection
of pet phrases and
themes.
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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
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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 -
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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Trait at tht aign
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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.
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Foods to he Served
Student Union
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