THE DAILY lSfclllUSKAN. TH-SIUY. SEPTEMBER 27. 1938
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR
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A Distorted
Point of View
The Daily Nelu'askan reprints a letter sub
mitted to the Student Pulse column today not
because it agrees with the author's argument
but because it feels duty-bound to clarify the
situation before it becomes a campus issue.
Why should anyone but students be per
mitted "to use student tickets? A bloc of 5,500
seats has been reserved for student use only.
That is what the great majority of students
want. Last year, when some were turned out
of the student section because of unscrupulous
ticket maneuvering by other students, their
protests were loud enough to call out the Lin
coln police.
. The "common practice" of a student pur
chasing an activities book to attend a few
games and to allow a friend or relative to at
tend others must be stopped. This is student
exploitation, not athletic board exploitation.
Students buy their season books for if'li on the
condition the books are non-transferable. That
is the only way an undergraduate student sec
tion can be maintained.
It all boils down to this ... do students
!want to keep their own section intact or do
they want to traffc in scalping and in under
mining one of their undergraduate privileges
', fhe student section?
revamping cannot be done thru a mimeo
graphed addition or some other cheaper device.
Will You Be an Asset?
freshman, why did you come to college!
Did you come only to have a good time?
Probably you will succeed, but what a pity
to waste four valuable years in a university
when you could have just as pood a time
somewhere else. Yes, you will find others here
for the same purpose. You will see them at
dances, at parties, cutting classes, sitting in
the Union. But they are no more credit to the
university than you will be. Sorry, but the
university does not need you if you are here
onlv for a good time.
Phi Tau Theta I
Meets Today
Dr. Gessinger Speaks
On Religion, College
Dr. E. L. Geissinger, Grace
M. E. pastor, will speak and lead
a discussion on "Religion and Col
lege Life" for the opening meet
ing of the Phi Tau Theta regular
program tonight at the Wesley
foundation.
The Methodist fraternity will
launch its pledging program with
a stag party Oct. 18, with Vice
President Dean Sterner in charge.
An outline of the year's program
has been released by Program
Chairman Otto Wocrner.
"Individual Character Building,"
carried out by discussion groups
led by prominent persons in such
fields as science, business, govern
ment, literature and social activi
ties will be the theme tor the open
ing semester. Mrs. Quisenbcrry of
the Student Union staff has been
secured as leader for the last
topic.
During the second semester
"Community Character Building"
will be emphasized by considera
tion of such problems as juvenile
delinquency and inter-community
relationships.
In the social program, joint
meetings with the girls' organiza
tion, Kappa
Drs. Clements, Weaver
Collaborate on Volume
Discuss Plant Life '
In New 'Ecology'
Contrary to the often express
idea that the physical .changes of
the earth's surface have long since
been completed, a new edition of
"Plant Ecology," states that many
and varied are the transitions still
to take place. Authored by two
university professors Dr. J.. E.
Weaver, famed for his grass and
plant root studies, and Dr. F. E.
Clements, now with the Carnegie
Institute ,the volume Is recognized
as one of the leading books in its
field.
Dealing with the almost miracul
ous changes that take place over
a long period of time, the book de
scribes in detail the transformation
of a body of water into a densely
fnmatori reeion. the breaking up of
rocks by the persistent species of
J lichens and mosses, as wen a
other transitions.
View Dispersal Agents.
Then, from a discussion of the
origin, development, and structure
of vegetation, the authors take up
in log-icnl sequence such topics as
plant migration, soil types, con
servation, together with the plant
and forest regions of the North
American continent.
Plant liberation is best
iff
J jsC& . miiaiisiiasnriwm
DH. J. C. WCAVCR
Lincoln Journal.
deals with the ver present ques
tion of the gardener-are the seeds
nf last vein- valuable? They point
out instances of seeds having beeiw
illus-1 uriH fn dentil of three feet in
trated by the example of the Rus-; bottles in moist sand for a
period of 50 years, ui uiese
Where Do You
Find Yourself?
From the Utah ChronlcM.
Freshmen will discover that stu
dents divide themselves Into three
groups the fun-getters, the grade
getters, and the real students. To
the first, four years here will bring
a superficial polish and ease, a
taste for light-minded witticisms,
and the ability to go on a mnge
like a gentleman. The second will
acquire the ability of assimilating
large quantities or jummea infor
mation. They will be easily rec
ognized by the aptitude for tak
ing orders and toal inability to
direct others or themselves, a lack
of will power, and a certain men
tal numbness whicn causes them
to remain passively under the in
fluence of any environment in
which they happen to be placed.
For these two groups, a college ed
ucation Is neither good nor bad. In
reality, they never have come to
college and they probably never
will.
The third class, the real stu
dents, will view college as an im
mense intellectual and emotional
adventure a huge human labora
tory to be utilized in providing
them the means of self-realization.
They will be the people that will
remember that professors are just
human beings that they are both
stupid and bright In the same
ways that other people are. They
will maintain that the university
is here ror mem ana not tney for
the university. They will refuse
Phi, have been ;
sinn thistle, which was introaucea
in South Dakota in 187 with im
ported flax seed Ten years after
i-'.,..i a t'h'.v iii pnthurl its beeinninEs in this country, this
n parlors XYZ ol the Student plant had migrated to all the states j p(lflrance 0f Weeds in gardens
Union, ! east of the Rockies from the Gulf 'vhich ,,ave bcen kt,pt free of the
Two new instructors are con- io me umtaian . ! pests for several years,
rr m . A I rnni'oil n1 ' .... i ...
ducting classes this year in the ro-
in for their
niance language department Jon
Ashton and Dr. Emile V. Telle.
five out of 22 species were still able
to germinate. This, the authors of-
fer as the explanation m mc m--
The agents of dispersal wind. rnmntitinn between several
water, animals, man. the force ot j ,nccrg 0f plants is discussed, as
gravity also come
Ashton is here through an ex-1 share of discussion
change arrangements and has
taken over the classes ot L,ioya
i . . . i - ' iv. . -
uiii von ro up 10 mm a liiiirni v or n a i v u
most certainly lo so. for '"e. wn ls l.
is reallv determined. It is
have the time and money.
Plant Competition.
Hitting the Bookstore
Announcement of a faculty investigating
committee to probe the regents' bookstore ami
its. textbook activities comes as sweet music to
the ears of students who long have clamored
for some sort of an official probe.
It is to be hoped that the faculty commit
tee, authorized last June by the faculty sen
ate, will not waste its time and efforts exam
ining minute details of management. The Daily
Nebraskan undertook last week to show that
! regents' and independent bookstores had equal
prices on new textbooks ten percent off list
price which cannot be misconstrued as mis
Trvanaeeme'nt of the regents' bookstore.
What the Daily Nebraska n feels should be
carefully scrutinized are the yeur-in, year-out
charges directed against instructors who often
change textbooks used in their courses;
charges against University instructors who
write texts for their course and prescribe them
lo their students; charges that books are
changed too frequently, and charges thai
motives of authors of new editions are far
from educational completeness.
The investigato-y body might also probe
into the possibilities of establishing a book ex
change system with other Big Six schools so
that University students would not be "sluek"
each year with undesired books. It is dis
heartening to many students who need that
money derived from the resale of their used
books to be offered a few paltry cents in re
turn for books purchased at several dollars
each. If such a plan were feasible, it should
merit the consideration of the probers.
Another matter for faculty inspection is.
frankly, the royalty question. Book-writing
professors who assign their classes to buy their
own texts and each semester or school year
make a few revisions that nullifies past tomes
should be put under the microscope, too.
Changes of fact and figures can be appreci
ated, but it is difficult to appreciate why the
ority? l on will
anyone c;ni who
not hard if yon
Perhaps you will become president of your
house, but that is easy too, if you are a good
politician and will submit to fraternity dis
cipline. But you could get all this without
attending a university if only you would join
a lodge. You are another whom the univer
sity does not need. Your place is on 2Sth
street.
Did you come to be a campus politieiuii
You do not learn very readily, or your high
school experiences would have taught you
that the school politician is among the most
useless of persons. He is playing a game, a
selfish same, a game where the goal is self
aggrandizement at the cost even of self-esteem.
You will be a sure success if you join
1 lie right Iratermty, il you have no particular j rush chairman. "Is that somebody
scruples, and if vuu know the right "hovs." j coming up the stain""
But von onifht 'to have hicher coals. The i P' fpsilon's president laid his
university does not need you.
Did you come to collect small gold keys?
That is easy, too. if you join the right fra
ternity, if you are a back-slapper, and if you
believe that "traditions" and ceremonies and
sweaters are hnything more than the play
living of persons not, yet mature. Yes, you
can get the kevs. but the university does not
need you. t
Your comiig hi re is a mistake if yon are
interested only in having a good time, join
ing a fraternity, being a politician, or col
lecting keys.
Perhaps vou have not vet
university lias changed, its aim is no longer i ii.lpM around the house Come
to be "rollegiate," in Ihe usual sense of the ' on. Hodges . . . Just entering
word, but to be scholastic, in its highest' U. C. L. A. I suppose, eh?" .
sense , "We" "
,V i , , , , 1 "Don't look so abashed Hlx.ut it
If you caiiie here for knowledge, the urn- j Hodpes. btiK freshman isn't so
versitv welcomes you. It needs you. The awful. Ha. hH, ha. Well, come on
development of an academic spirit on the
campus is impossible without you. the serious
student. Revision of Ihe curriculum of the
College of Inciters, Arts, and Sciences, pre
sentation of Ihouijlit-provokiiiB lectures, es-
hfil.-.Klie mmil.'ird fur i cize If you're not the student type
holders of student offices-all these
simply as a lramework upon which the earn-Jout u., our llUle s(.n.ft. JUKt be
est endeavor of yon, a serious student, must i twfen u: and the registrar."
A chapter on paint dormancy i on the development of plants
isconsin working for his Ph. D,
degree. The new instructor re
ceived his A. B. degree from the
University of Washington, and
more recently was teaching and
studying at Wisconsin.
Dr. Telle rejoins the faculty
after a teaching period at the
Citadel college at Charleston. S. C.
He obtained degrees from the Uni
versity of Toulouse, France, and
Ohio State. In addition to having
taught at Ohio State. Middkbury
college and Harvard, he has done
considerable research in the con
gressional library at Washington.
Pledging .
Is Important
"My God'." gasped the bouse
cigaret hastily on the tray and
gaped out the window. "Yeah . . .
Get him! Hang a pin on him! Get
him! Don't let him escape, for
God s sake -and Pi Upsilon's."
vi ll get him! I'll get him.
The rush chairman beamed out
on the porch. -'Why hello, my
friend. Come right in. We were ex
pecting you! ... I suppose you got
our letter . ."
"No. I . ."
"Meet Jimmy Ja.-per, nor pt evi
dent. Jim. this's . . ."
"Stoopy HYidgcs. I . "
"Glad to know you Hodges.
heard that theA'
moral
rt imniw in mv in. biased tasa on your character,
opinion I-" standards, intellectual power
"But" I will you take a pin?"
"Hodees! Don't be nervous, fel-1 "A pin?"
low. After I have explained the
financial setup you can ask me
questions about entering the uni
versity, or how to make a hit with
the babes on the row, or how to
win A's and influence professors'
"Yeah, but"
"Now! The monthly rate adds
up to thirty-nine dollars and nine
ty cents. Now that's inexpensive.
Other houses sometimes charge as
much as forty dollars, and darn
it, I mean that's too much. Yes
sir. Ours is a great saving. Why,
figure it out for yourself. In one
month vou save ten cents, in a
year, a dollar twenty; in two
years -why in ten years you've
saved tweive dollars . . . enough
to pay the special laundry rate.
But that's one of the secrets un
folded to ton upon initiation. I
woman i warn 10 inne. j.m. """istoopy Hodges, and I m
it rigni now.
"I --"
"Well Hodges, now that you've
seen the house, heard about the
finances, and now that all the
brothers have seen you and all
to soak up opinions like a sponge
until the opinions make sense In
their own minds. They will study
hard and get the best grades they
can when the work required wiil
contribute to their own develop
ment, but they will refuse to waste
their time performing nonsensical
tasks even though they are forced
to take a C instead of an A as a
result of their non-conformitv
also is the question of varying soil Tney wju participate In most stu-
fertility. and the parts wmm wa-jeni affairs, read books not re
ter, temperature, and light play qi,e(j 0f them, form opinions of
their own. As a result, the respect
of both classmates and instructors
will come to them, and besides,
they will be the recipients of a cul
tural heritage which will clarify
their minds and teach them how to
make life good and t beautiful.
'A nlPW nin num meir cuiii-ru euucmion rnev
BUI-- I ..Uilitiop ,,. n.jll mn.n
"Will you? on.hnr. a
"Hodges, did vou see that rather
rough looking lad who was . parked j pnj , mQ iQ J rf
in the library reading Little Loidj .
Fauntleroy?' He is the champion j DUSineSS Meeting
the 'champion' wrestler of U.C. Prospective members of Phi
L.A. We use him to handle rush-, Sigma lota, honorary fraternity in
ees who are . . . contrary. You romance languages, will be dis
get me?" I cussed and voted upon at a busi-
"Yes, but - -" nxss meeting tonight at 5 o'clock
"Now. HERE'S YOUR PlN-jjn room 109 of U hall.
Take It!"
"Thank you. I - -"
"Congratulations, Hooges.
"I know you will be pleased in
your selection of fraternities . . .
Now what were you oing to ;
6av?" i
I lust wanted to say I'm ,
not en-1
rolled in the university, and I'll ,
never be able to, and furthermore ;
I'm the new laundry boy who will
come here every week . . . Hey, 1
somebody, get some cold water!"
allfnmla Hail? Pniin.
It is urged that all members of
Phi Sigma Iota be present Dr,
Willis Bowen. president of the or
ganization, will preside.
KEEP-U NEAT
DRESSMAKING SHOP
All kinds of alterations and
repair work.
Dresses shortened, 75c up.
MRS. LESLIE.
211 N. 14th B6808
In the study and lake a look at
the trophy . . . er . . . the books.
We of Pi Vpsilon pride ourselves
on being the studious type."
"Look. I . . ."
"Nonsense Hodges, don't apulo-
build a university for seekers after know ledge.
Southern California Daily Trojan.
A Grim Thought
Even though Joe College screams 1o high
heaven about the high cost of the educational
process, he may consider himself fortunate in
not having a gas mask handed out with his
activity ticket.
1
Student 1
Pulse
team now. that they nave to h"jY.W.C.A. BeginS
Isn't this school a place for ed-1 T.-! .
ucstion and not exploitation? isn't VeSDerS I OQQy
amateurism a word that is twisted
To the Editor:
I was astonished at the recent
decision of the university board In
regard to the use of student ac
tivity tickets. Their ruling is at
once unfair and entirely uncalled
for. According to the board's lights
the only persons who will he able
to use these activity tickets will
be the actual purchasers, to wit,
the students.
Prior to this time It hs been a
common practice for a student to1
purchase an activity ticket, go to
one or two fames and then allow
a friend or relative to attend a tike
number. Hence the student's cost
is considerably lessened, his de
sire to see at last a few games ls
satisfied and the number of persons
attending even the minor fames is
correspondingly raised.
The university evidently feels
that such privileges should be de-
nied those students who are not
in "velvet" frqm a financial stand
point. The board does not seem
to realize that the vast majority
Of the students In the university
are not yt the upper financial
atrata. It takes the attitude that
anyone should have sufficient
money to buy whatever he may de
sire. , Or is this move merely another
"attempt by the university to fur-
ther exploit the rights of the atu
..flMits? Doesn't the school make
Vmmjh money from the football
and abused bv the university board
only insofar as their own financial
advantage is concerned and not In
any connection where the good of
the students ls In question?
Are the students of the univer
sity to be denied one of the last of j
their few privileges because or inr
money lust of the university board,
or will the students have courage
enough to defy a ruling that will
deprive them of their seats In the
stadium that they might be sold lo
persons not. In any way, connected
with the university?
I suggest that the students peti
tion the university board to strike
out their recent resolution, surely
the school's desire for money is
not so great that the students
must be denied the right to see
their fellow students play football.
William Van Warning.
Miss Ostlund to Greet
Freshmen Women
Enther Ostlund, new Y. W. C. A
student secretary, will welcome
freshmen girls Into Y. W. and ex
plain the organiration st the first
vesper service at Ellen Smith hall
this afternoon at ft o'clock. Miss
Ostlund was Y. W. C. A. secre
tary at Ohio Wesleyan previous
to her appointment at Nebraska.
Mary Ellen Osborne, chairman
of the vesper staff, will lead the
worship and read the devotions.
The group will Join in community
singing.
All freshmen women are espe
cially urged to attend and a cor
dial welcome to all university
women is extended.
BULLETIN
Now affiliated with the American
Institute of Chemical Engineering,
the Chemical Engineering society
has Invited all chemical engineer
ing students to attend a free din
ner and smoker Wednesday at
6:30 p. m. In Parlors XYZ of the
Student Union. Freshmen and
sophomores are especially invited
as
Phalanx, military honorary, will
meet today at 7:00 p. m. In the
Student Union. Members must
wear uniform and saber .
The Rifle club will hold its first
meeting of the year Wednesday In
Nebrssks Hall 20.V All university
students carrylnj 12 bouraln fvd
standing are welcomed. A special
Invitation ls extended to freshmen
and sophomore drill students.
Members of Orchesls will meet
with their new sponsor. Miss
Shirley Bennett, Wednesday at
7:30 in Grant Memorial hall. Miss
Bennett, Instructor in physical
education, is replacing Miss Clau
dine Moore, previous sponsor, who
ls now teaching at the University
of Florida, Business, including the
matter of tryouts, will be trans
acted. Alpha Theta. agricultural hon
orary, will meet Wednesday at o
p. m. In the crops laboratory on
the ag college campus. This will
be the first regular business meet
ing of the year.
"I
"Now this is the library. Hodges.
We called it the study . . . then we
got back our grade averages. See
that picture up on the wall there?
"That's Freddy Firk who founded
Pi Upsilon back in 17S6. He was
a wizard. A very smart guy. Yes
sir. a demon . . Phi Beta Kappa.
Y. M. C. A. and DSC . ."
"I . . ."
"Don't be nervous. How do you
like our collection of books?
Marvelous, isn't it? We read them
too. .. .sometimes. Yes sir, one of
the main objects of Pi Upsilon
fraternity is to educate its mem
bers. We keep in mind that the
primary aim of every college man
is to get an education. We don't
make our members ff anything
which miht interfere with their
grades. No, sir."
"Sir, I-"
"Great selection of books, too.
The "Arabian Nights." the you
will note "Unexpurgaled" edition
of the "Arabian Night." Very
educational. Then there's "Lady
Chaterley's Lover.' that tattered
volume there Yes sir, its amaz
ing the amount of reading the
boys do"
"Sir. there is"
"Here now, let's go Into the
dorm. Dont mind that "Women's
Lounge" augi on the Uoors,
Hodges, it's just o lie of 1he boys'
cornv Eacs. Ha. ha, ha. That's
where we sleep, if we get home
In time.... Now who the hell
stacked thime beer cans in the
cor Er, Hodges, 1 believe there's
someone sleeping In that is we
shall we go Into the office? We
run discuss the financial vclup of
Pi Vpsilon.
"But"
"Now Hodges, we of Pi Upsilon
pride ourselves on being the
cheapest fraternity on cam 1
mean, we think that our system
of finances is the most inexpen-
JIvl (pMmkk. fiwrniaiion,
Styled
by
Hollywood
Tuesdoy end Wednesday, the Feoture-ot-troction
of Foil Fashion has its Premier shewing in our
Store . . . Clothes styled by Don Richards, Hollywood's
famed Fashion Observer. He re ore Clothes that "do things
to you"; that set you up with that clever ease which is so
emphatically apparent in the manner of dress adopted by
the Screen's notably fine dressers.
Every Model shewn reproduces, exactingly, in fashion
and fabric, on original style-development from the circle
of Hollywood's smartest Custom Makers.
It is o Style Event fcr young men, without precedent
ct the price . . ,
"YOUR DRUG STORE"
If it's note book'i, history paper
or typing psper, we have It.
Noon lunches, quick service.
THE OWL PHARMACY
St. at 14th
rr.t DELlVERYl
airx
S35 and 37 50
Don Richards Is Here In Person