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t Trie DAILY NEBRASKA! Wednesday, Janmtry 17, 1940 Editorial Opinion Comment Bulletin Student Ripples in the Academic Sea . . . or . . . The Best Interests of the Students Are . . . Students of this generation have an eye for realities. They are not the proverbial movie type of campus beaus and belles, not the children of a etable society. Our present college students are well aware that the world is changing fast and that no one is looking out for their hides and their well being unless they do a little of it themselves. Those who raised eyebrows at yesterday's editorial might just as well realize that. To propose the question: "Will students some day govern their own university or college," how ever, would be the blowing of a "silly bubble." But to say dogmatically that students are going to have a greater voice in the academic policies of the institution is a truth that will remain un changed even by those who know such a situa tion might bring criticism upon him and some of his colleagues and cause a tidal wave to come from the calm academic sea. Students here will someday demand that they be allowed to ripple the sea of administrative policy. They have been doing a lot of thinking and talking, come of it wishful of course, for a long time. But when the shoe pinches hard enough, they'll throw it into the water. What do we mean? We mean that for the best interests of the students, they will demand a hand In the prepara tion of the stew of requirements, curricular prob lems and departmental mechanics which is to be cooked up. They are going to demand a voice in the determination of a policy whereby the uni versity can better contribute to the happiness and welfare of student, alumni, faculty, and the so ciety which they represent From their position now in which they wish they could make certain suggestions to their professors, they will go fur ther to demand that they be able to openly and publicly evaluate the abilities and methods of each faculty member. They will demand the dismissal of those em ployees of the public payroll in the institution who are haughty, unjust, or indifferent in dealing with Btudents, or those who do not have the ability to raise their pupils to higher levels of fairness or sensibility. They will demand correction for those who seem to misunderstand or ill-treat or seem un interested, just as every taxpaying parent any where in the state, however poor and unimportant he may be socially, will demand assurances that any classroom in our public university be a haven for his child, and that whatever teacher in this motley crowd of courses his child might get, will be his . natural friend. The student newspaper, acting In the Interests of the students and not solely as an administra tive "house organ," will be the first. It will seek to know the problems from the very beginning and not merely accept printed doctrines handed down as solutions prescribed for the best interests of the students. It will seek admission to meet ings where discussion will give it the true facts that might do away with noisy publicity aimed at the institution by that portion of the press which thrives on sensational Irresponsible headlines. Most Important of all, however, is the fact that Btudents will examine their professors. They will pass judgment in the form of reaction surveys which take into account everything from the course, Stoop Shom &ChrU retrnQQtfl Quotable Quotes Deportment Bespeaking the wisdom and observation of the 18th century is Artemus Ward who said, "The happy married man dies in good style at home, sur rounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all he sort of rota away, like a pollywog's tay." The FBK, who want to donate his life to wis dom, shunning an admiring lassie, "Thesis my last affair." Brlgham Young, at his best, declaring his ad miration of and patriotism to the Yew Nlghted States: "I regret I have but one wife to give to my country." The undertaker during those fretful and trou bled years now called the "depression": "11 it comes to a case of do or die die!" The cynic who didnt love bis neighbors be cause he didn't have any: 'The ugliest of trades have their momenta of pleasure. Now, if I were a gravedigger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of en joyment" Jennet once said K. Any drunk, any place explaining hii, condi tion to any kind of an audience: "X lot of Uvea have been ruined by whiskey but look at all of the big ships that have been wrecked ty water." to the professor and the textbook. Opinion surveys about the desirability of the course and methods of the professor will be published for the sake of those new students seeking the best. That idea has already been put into effect at several institutions and was recently used for experimentation purposes in one college of this university. It will give the well-Informed professor a chance to know without much loss of time and energy and on a board basis how the textbooks used, his section leaders, and his own teaching look to his students. It will also protect the good teacher who so often becomes at the mercy of haphazard gossip on the part of those few socially-prominent, well-to-do, spoiled students who are used to special considera tion and do not receive it. The general reaction on a broad basis of the entire class will protect him. By the same token, the students as a whole are also protected against the imposition of a teacher who curries favor with those socially important who then sing his praises in their respective circles, thus giving rise to a reputation of excellence with the other members of the class would soon show up as utterly fictitious if they but had their chance of becoming officially articulate. It will put those professors who are Impos sible on the spot. It will make those responsible for letting that kind slip In more responsible in the future. So far the mistakes of these latter had to be excused by the fact that there was no dependable means of knowing, only thru some chance hearsay, how any te.icl er was doing in his classes. Some chairmen of departments were often from the start by nature and temperament not suited to be leaders and hence were of no help. Whole departments have at times been blighted in this manner. Such reaction surveys will correct this evil. And the students, who will do the demanding, will have a chance to make definite proposals now useless now dangerous. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL BULLETIN This bulletin It for the use of campus organizations, students and fac ulty members. Announcements of meetings or other notices for the bulletin may be submitted at the NEBRASKAN office by 5 p. m. the day before pub lication or at the registrar's office by 4 p. m. on week-days and 11 . m. on Saturday. Notices must be typed or legibly written and signed by some one with the authority to have the notice published. The bulletin will ap. pear daily, except Monday and Saturday, on page two of the NEBRASKAN. dt Vl&WA Davis, Loos, Mahnken GLEE Cl-VB SINGERS. Application for trynnts tor the univer sity sinters Mid the mon's nice flub may be made thin week at the office of the school of most. FAtTLTY SCHOLARSHIP LKCTVRE. Dr. Theodore A. Klrssrlbarh, department of agronomy, will ritsrus "The Mode of Agronomic Research" at the K a e a 1 1 y Scholarship Iectnre program " 19 in the Cnlon. The address will follow a din ner to be held al P. m. lean O. i. Frrirasnn la in charge. BARB WINTER PARTY. Holders of bar membership cards may rail at room S07, Stndent I'nlon for their barb winter party bids. Tickets will go on sale to the pnbHe Feb. 1 at ftOe a coo pie. PRESBYTERIAN STCDENTS. Presbyterian slndents wfl1 meet today at noon In Parlor X of the I'nlon. MU FHI EPSILON. Members of Mo rhl Epsllon will meet today at 7:30 p. m. In room 209 of the t'nlon. SCRATBOOK HOBBY GROUP. Serapbook bobby group will meet to- ORCHESIS. Members of OrrhrMs wiB meet tonight in Grant Memorial studio at ":15. LVTHERAN STrBENTS. I.nthe'ran stndents will meet for the regn lu session of t.amma Delta Bible class at S m. tomorrow In room 203 Temple. DENTAL FACULTY. Members of the dental faculty win meet tomorrow at 6:30 p. m. In Parlor C of the Union. RELIGIOUS COUNCIL. Members of the Council of Religions Welfare will meet tomorrow noon la Par lor X of the Union. SIGMA TAtT. Member of Sigma Tan, engineering hon orary, will meet tomonww at 6 lift p. m. In Parlor of the I'nlon. P1NF0NIA. Slnfonla will meet tomorrow at noon In Parlor I of the Union. 8. A. M. E. Members of the Society of American Military Engineers will meet tomorrow at 7 p. m. ta room 813 of the Union. MASADA. Maaada will meet tomorrow at 7 P. m. In room 31S of the Union, ay at 4 p. m. la room SOS of the Union. CORN COB8. No more regular meetings of Cora Cob will be this year. All fntvre meetings will be announced In the DAILY. ASCE. Member at the American Society of Civil Engineer will meet today at 7:30 P. m. la room SIS of the Union. GAMMA ALPHA CHI. Gamma Alpha CM win meet today at P. m. 1st room S16 of the Union. SIGMA ALPHA IOTA. Sigma Alpha Iota w10 meet at t p. m. today la room 316 of the Union. DELTA OMICRON. Delta Omlrron will meet today at Y a. at. la the Union. MATINEE DANCE. A matinee dance win be heM today at B p. m. tn the Union ballroom. tMadenta mnst present IdenUneatlon cards for ad mittance. SKETCH CLASS. Next meeting of the Union Sketefc etas will be held today at ft p. m. tn room 315 of the Union. A male model will be provided. Mr. Alberts will Ins tract. STUDENT COUNCIL. The members of the Student Council w1B meet today at S p. m. In the rampn stadia to have their picture taken for the torn busker. PUBLICATIONS APPOINTMENTS. ApnlicaUoa for following position an the stndent publications will be received by the publication board nntil p. m. today. DAILY NEBRASKAN. Editorial: Editor-in-chief, two managtnr editors, five news editors, ag rampn editor. Bnslness: Business manager, three assistant bnslnes managers. Awgwaa. Editor, managing editor, bnslness man ager, two assistant business manager (unpaid). Application blanks may be obtained at the office ef the school of Journalism, Uni versity hall 104. Material already an fit need not be duplicated. PHI SIGMA IOTA. Betty Ana Duff and Selma Hill win speak at a meeting of Phi Sigma Iota today at 7:30 at the home of Mr. Frank Hemline, S22 Sooth 21. SECOND SEMESTER REGISTRATION. Order of Early Registration. CLASS SCHEDULE. Applies only to students registered dar ing the first semester of 1939-40. Dates for seeing adviser Jan. 15-20. College of agriculture Jan. IA-1S only. See your adviser at his fflce hoar. Present Identification card with picture at registrar's office for credit book. If eollege of agriculture stndent secure credit book at Dean Burr's office. The dean of women may be consulted, but her signature Is not required. lav your "application for registra tion" and a statement of yonr outside activities with the deaa of yonr col lege, whs will approve yonr roarse. Pay fees hi Memorial hall presenting Mentineation card with picture aH col leges, Friday, Jan. 26, a. nv-4 p. m. ; Saturday, Jan. 27, a. m 12 n ion; Mon day, Jan. 29 to Thursday, Feb. 1, a. m. 4 p. m. (Including noon hour). Registrar Woa Is not rompkte smlil fee are paid. A late fee will be charged all student whs da not see their advisers and whose applications are not In the office of thetr respective deaa by Jan. 20 (nonn) also to those who do not pay their fees by Feb. 1. A late fee for gradnate student and Lincoln city teacher will be raarged after Feb. 17. Changes In registration or assignment will not be considered antli Monday. Feb. S. CANDIDATE-ITIS. Candidates take more than their share of news today. On both the national and the state fronts it is the activities of aspirants for various offices which take up a considerable share of space. A poll taken by Look magazine announces that 41 percent of the members of congress believe President Roose velt will be nominated for a third term, but that 60 percent believe he will not be re-elected. At the same time another publication, the United States News, also views third-term possibilities. Its pub lisher, David Lawrence, states that the president will announce either on Jan. 20 or March 4 that he "does not choose to seek a third term." In the normal course of events, we tomorrow may expect the word of two "authorities" that there will defi nitely be a third term. The president, who alone knows his plarm, retains that sphinx-like silence, and there are thoae who wish that others would also do so. A fitting climax to a particularly odlferous Louisiana political contest came with the arrest of James A. Noe, one of the gubernatorial hopefuls, and bitter opponent of Earl Long's machine. As serting that more than 10,000 registrations in the election have been made from vacant lots, ware houses and alloys, Noe had Instructed workers to take pictures of any persons who attempted to vote on fake registration certificates. Such things aren't done in Earl's backyard, and for his troubles Noe took a free ride to a police station. PUTSCHISTS PUT OUT. Fascism of the American style was unearthed with the arrest this week of 18 members of the "Christian Front" organization by the FBI. The news of the abortive and rather puerile plans of the organization caused a little ripple of surprise. Did we say fascism American style? Rather, It fits the universal pattern of fasclstic movements the masking behind a religious front ("Long live Christ the King! Down with communism" said the leader at the same time adopting as first action a pro gram of racial hatred and persecution.) Other stand ard pattern features include membership of dissat isfied military elements, violence, terrorism, and an eventual dictatorship The episode leaves us to wonder, "Where was the Dies committee, which failed to devote adequate attention to this most aggressive of un-Americans?" Other questions might include, "What's the connec tion with Father Coughlin, and also the Christian Mobilize? ' Student Pulse . . . Student and faculty member are invited to write letter to thi column. letter thou'd not be longer than 300 icord$ and mutt be ligned. Uni instructor condemns 'house organ' information To the Editor: The Best Interests of the Uni versity a House Organ" suggests that the university is sort of a mole-like institution that lives un derground most of the time. One might read in this suggested trend that if the environment has not eliminated the vision, the process of elimination was well advanced. The real hypothesis of this "house organ" doctrine is that the university is an unpopular special interest whose public support can not be justified. It therefore takes an astute politician administrator to fool or corrupt the legislature enough to keep the institution aiivc. If there was an open avowed policy of giving the public a clear, active, uncontrolled, na tural picture of the institution the public might come to have confidence in what is done there. In fact there is every reason to believe that the public would be proud of its own university if its information was not dressed in the suspicious garb of a "house organ." "House organ" informa tion and "no Information" are alike the devices of dictators and the American public Is sensitive to the least tinge of such in fluences whether they be in poli tics, education, or business. A Member of the university faculty. rffo DailySiWebmskan 0icioJ Newipap 0 Most Than 7,000 Students THIRTY-NINTH VEAR Offices ....Union BuilCing Day 3-7181. Night -7193. Journal 8-3333 Member Associated Collegiate Press, 193940 Member Nebraska Pros Association. 1939-40 Represented for National Adve rt i iriQty " ' mm NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. INC. 420 Madison Ave., Now York, N. V. Chicago Boston LosAngeles San Francisco Published Daily during the school year except Mondays and SsturdsyeT vacations, and examination periods by students of Ui University of Nebraska, under supervision cf th Publication Board. Subscription Rate art B1.00 Per Semester or 11.50 for t) Col leg Voar. 1.50 Mailed. Slngl copy, 6 Cent. 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