TWO
DAILY NEBHASKAN
SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1939
The Council
The Bus Proposal
The King who asked the sage
for the shortest possible history of
man, received this answer: "He is
born, he puffers, and dies." Some
what analogous to this the most
brief resume of life -is the posi
tion of members of student coun
cils: "They are elected, they at
tend meetings, and they are
replaced."
But the man, in his few years
of suffering, attempts to attach
some accomplishment to his name
that will outlive his physical exist
ence. Likewise, though somewhat
against the odds from the outlet,
members of (he student council
attempt to do the same. Their
record, down through the last few
years, then, can be gazed upon
optimistically in this way:
lm mid SS: siaKfd Mirri'Knful flKht
for I nion hiiiUliiiK.
llCUi and 'SI: Aided In Una I Ion and
conl rul of futon.
III.'IX: AHNlstt-d In raniuim fleet Ion
reform.
Comes now the 1939 crop of
council members with an admir
able idea to provide cheaper facili
ties for transportation between the
ag and city campuses. With united
support and assistance on all sides
by members of the council, the duo
committee of the council, and with
some good timely advice, gener
ally lacking for these proteges of
student government, the duo com
mittee in charge of the bus propo
sition might succeed. Neither of
these, however, has yet been forth
coming. There is no question of the sim
ple fact that the two Lincoln cam
puses are too widely separated
both in distance and social activ
ity. It is the outgrowth of this
separation that students on either
campus cannot rightly mingle and
"know" those on the other campus
and, hence argue in words such
as these: "Ag campus courses are
easier than those on the city cam
pus," "N. U. has only a fair base
ball team because practices were
held on the ag campus," and "Stu
dents on each campus are in a sep
arate social class."
Clearly, it can be seen then, that
union of students the Union
building itself for which the
council and prominent alumni
campaigned so long, is being de
feated in its own purpose, not be
cause of improper management
but because of the economic prob
lem facing ng campus students
for reaching its facilities.
There is only one way of solu
tion a university inter-campus
bus line. Another is a way of assistance-insistence
upon a 5 cent
fare between campuses, proposed
by one who is a candidate for city
council.
Neither of these two ideas, both
heartily approved by the students
at large, will have a chance for
success unless the entire student
council begins charting its waters.
The polling, as presented in to
day's issue, is a remarkable ac
complishment by members of the
council committee, but the time
is short and the sea is often rough.
Action by all members of the
council and advice by those in
position to advise members of the
council are needed if this note
worthy proposal is not to go like
most regular council business that
"is born, struggles, and dies."
H. N.
300,000-,
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through a five man board of edu
cational land and funds set up for
the administration of the trust.
Administration at times careless.
At diflerent times members of
the board, recently uncovered data
suggests, have caielessly adminis
tered investments and may have
lined them toward private political
ends. Having no interest in the
educational system, the logical
conclusion of the report infers,
those political log-rollers have neg
lected to guard the funds fur the
interests in which they were in
tended. The amendment of 193G turned
over the duties of the abolished
office to the other members of the
Educational Lands and Funds
board, composed of the governor,
secretary of state, the attorney
general and the treasurer. A sec
retary supposedly to be chosen by
this board to administer these
funds to which the university has
a $900,000 interest, has not yet
been selected due to political
squabbles arising from a deadlock
between the democratic and re
publican members of the board.
If the university needs more
funds, the NKKRASKAN investi
gator declared it might be well to
look to the management of the
resources it already possesses, as
well as to the bare pocketbooks of
the farmers of the state.
Should be free of politics.
A trust of such a large amount,
the NEBRASK AN, supplementing
the opinions of a number of uni
cameral legislators, suggests,
should be freed from political
grafts and placed in the hands of
someone who has the Interest of
education r.t heart.
Bill 179, introduced in the uni
cameral this session proposes that
the stale superintendent of educa
tion should le placed on this
board, assuming the duties former
ly connected with the abolished of
fice. "The governor prides him
self at reducing the $15,000 ex
pense of maintaining the commis
sioner's office," the Btudent re
search worker commented, "but
has failed to make adequate pro
vision for the satisfactory hand
ling of his duties."
An early statute, passed soon
after the organization of this
board of control, placed the se
curity of the state behind the
maintenance of this trust. Any
losses, this statute declared, must
be replaced out of other state tax
funds. Nevertheless, the $300,000
deficit still remains, and no pro
visions have been made to prevent
future losses.
Bus-line--,
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who responded to the question
naire. In addition to this necessary
item of class expense, an outlay of
$146.89 based on the actual com
putations of the students was
spent on transportation to univer
sity affairs.
Adding to these figures the
$133.04 which these students spend
weekly on other forms of trans
portation, including of inter-campus
transportation amounts to
$r30.02, the report of the Ag bus
committee declared.
On a semester basis, using these
figures as the average weekly ex
pense for the period, the outlay
that this representative ag college
group expends amounts to $9,
648.36. These figures the committee
stressed are based on factual ma
terial, and represent the actual
outlay that can be expected as the
upper limit for the bus proposal.
$11,970.54 total cost.
Assuming that the remaining 19
percent of the college have costs
similar to these, a figure of $11,
970.54 can be taken for the total
amount spent per semester under
Union closes Thursday
The Union will be closed from
10:30 this Thursday until Tuesday
noon, April 11. The caftereria and
second floor dining rooms will re
main open until Thursday noon
while the Corn Krib will close at
10:30.
the present system.
Art Hill, co-chairman with Iris
Johnson of the Intercampus bus
committee, declared these sums
would be sufficient to operate two
large size buses between the two
parts of the university.
When questioning a part of the
faculty to sound out any objection
to changing the ag college class
schedule so as to leave 25 minutes
between the close of classes on the
farm campus and the opening of
those on the city, approval of the
suggestion was found.
"Not only could the costs of the
service be lowered," Hill stated,
"but also a greater volume of stu
dents could make use of down
town campus facilities."
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