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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Sunday, March 10, 1940 ffhl IlAII.YiVi:Hnl!iMN 0km1 Newipapw 0 man Than 7.000 Students THIRTY-NINTH YEAR Offices Union Building Day 2-7181. Night 2-7193. Journal -2-3333 Member Associated Collegiate Press. 1939-40 Membsr Nebraska Press Association, 1939-40 Represented for National Advert:smg by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERV. E, INC. 420 Madison Ave., New York, f. Y. Chicago Boston Los Angeles San Francisco Published Dally during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacations, and examination periods by stu dents of the University of Nebraska, under supervision of the Publications Board. Subscription Rates are $1..00 Per Semester or $1.50 for the College Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, 5 Cents. En tered as second-class matter at the postoff'ce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. and at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, Authorized January 20, 1922. EditoTTinTchief 77.77. Richard deBrown Business Manager ArthurHill EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Managing Editors Clyde Martz, Norman Harris News Editors Chrit Petersen, Lucl'e Thomas, Haul Svoboda, Mary Kerrigan, Morton Margolin Sports Editor June Bierbower Photography Editor George Royal Star Reporters This Month Bob Aldrich, Hubert Ogden, Elizabeth Clark, Marjorle Bruning BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assistant Business Managers. .. .Burton Thiel, Ed SegrUt Circulation Manager Lowell Michael AM. DAILY annlgnrd editorials are the pinion of the editors. Their view or opinions In no way reflect the alti tude of the administration of the university. (Jiloriaifij peaL eahmt Comment continues on College Greeks vs Barbs But must it foe 'vs? University Greeks vs. Barbs. That sld favortte theme for collegiate controversies has been dusted off and given a new coat of comment in a recent issue (March 2) of the Saturday Eve ning Post where Margaret Weymouth Jackson harangues against the affiliated groups in her fictional "Goon Castle," and Fred H. Turner, dean of men at Illinois, appraises them as valuable features of college life in an article, "And Some Are Chosen." If "Goon Castle" is an expression of Miss Jack son's true sentiments, she just plain doesn't have any use for college sororities or fraternities. Her story tells of a young girl, Judith, who was not asked to pledge a sorority when she enrolled in the state university. At first she is overwhelmed by a sense of inferiority and failure and refuses to allow herself to like the girls living with her in the dormitory. Gradually, however, she sees what hor rid people live what horrid lives in the sororities and what marvelous people do what marvelous things in the dormitory, and so in the end she de cities that it was a stroke of fortune that allowed her to go through university unaffiliated and there after refuses to like anyone who does favor the sorority system. The weakest point in Miss Jackson's denun ciation of the sororities and fraternities is that she steadfastly refuses to allow one redeeming point in their favor or to find one single fault or weakness within the dormitories. All of the peo ple living in Greek houses are perfectly terrible and their lives therein are enough to raise the eyebrows on a sphinx. And all of the people liv ing in the dormitories are so sensible and good and kind that even a little snob like Judith fi nally has to admit it. Because Judith is a snob whether Author Jackson Intends it or not, and her sense of values Is not quite balanced. She thought that the purpose of coming to university was to Join a sorority and that anyone who didnt get pledged might as well leave school. So per haps the sororities were being just a little astute in not pledging her, since later she. is as much a snob against sororities as earlier she was for them. It is hard t be convinced by an argument which so obviously refuse to see another side especially when one thinks of the Important role that Greek organizations have played in the history of U. S. universities. In the first place if Judith really was the fine girl the author would have us believe, it is beyond imagination that no sorority would have asked her to pledge. It is quite possible that she might not have been asked by the group which she preferred, but certainly she would have had a very good second choice begging her to join. Any acceptable student with the desire and the money can find an organization which he will like and which will like him at least if we may take Ne braska as an example and we believe that we can. As dean of men at the University of Illinois, Fred H. Turner obviously is one who knows the inner workings of the fraternity system. He points out real-life examples of how fraternities have benefitted stud its who have come under their influence, and w they try to base their selection of members . real human values rather than artificial acquirements. Then very sensibly he explains that even so one can remain unaf filiated without having a blight cast on his life. A student owes his first loyalty to his university . and no fraternity wishes to alter that situation. A student comes to school to get an education with joining a fraternity quite secondary, and Greek organizations are as ready to recognize that as anyone. But man is by nature a social being and the college fraternity is consequently a natural feature of college life. All organizations must stand criticism, whether they be Masonry, women's clubs, labor unions, or churches, and fraternities have faults just like the others be cause after all they are made up of human be ings. But they exist because they meet a real human need a need for a strong, common bond which unites the individual with fellows who are congenial to him and who can help him attain what he could not attain alone. It is natural for one to wish to be identified with a group and it must be a relatively small group in which one can positively identify himself as an integral part. That is one of the drawbacks of a large dormitory, and inevitably one will find social division of the latter into floors as residents unconsciously atempt to set themselves up in more workable small groups. Probably the other major drawback of dormitories in the minds of fraternity affiliates is that anyone may live there and con sequently there is no way of selecting residents on any basis of congeniality, mutual interests, similar background, or any other valid bases for happy group living. The DAILY does not wish to set itself on the side of either affiliated or unaffiliated groups in this discussion. It merely recognizes that Greek organizations have played a valuable role in the development of this campus and of the thousands of men and women who have used it At the same time it sees no reason why students who for one reason or another do not affiliate themselves with a fraternity should not have happy, fruitful, and successful university careers. In other words, is there any reason for attempting to stir up an tagonism between the two groups or strike un flattering comparisons either way? Both come to the university for the purpose of securing an edu cation and each sets up residence here in the manner most their liking. To say that either should adopt the other's ideas is absurd. Both fra ternity houses and dormitories have their advan tages and disadvantages. It is up to the individual student to weigh them and decide which should be most agreeable and beneficial for him. As long as fraternities do not become mere residence halls, and dormitories do not become overgrown fraternities, there is a place for both and there is no reason why they cannot continue to exist to gether amicably side by side as valuable adjuncts of the college scene. Collegiana I ' J U 1- WORLDS LARGEST SUN-DIAL IS ON THE CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANILA (PHILIPPINES). IT 15 b5 FEET WIOC AND 40 FT. HIGH Albert and Thomas Palmerlee, twin algebra nstcuctors at the univ. of kansas, confuse students with duplicate faces as well as duplicate proglems Nk&O BLHIERSCFTHE U.OF ALABAMA FRATERNITIES HAVE. A FRATERNITY OF THEIR OWN -THE SKaMA KING UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL BULLETIN Thie bulletin I for th un of campus organization!, student! 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. Ilcation or at the registrar's office by 4 p. m. on week-days and 11 a. 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. Contemporary Opinion CRIBBING AND GRADING Cribbing is held to be one of the inevitable re sults of a system that places much importance on competition and grading. If a system must be em ployed that tempts Btudents to cheat on exams there must be careful supervision to see that all students take the exams with equal opportunity, and that students who do not cheat are protected from those that do. We are not discussing this subject publicly with out first having thought of the unpleasantness in volved. But we are convinced of its importance to the campus and we feel that although at times beneficial changes may be brought about by sug gestion to responsible persons, this problem should receive editorial airing. At the University of Cincinnati grades are im portantmany things depend on them rank, schol arship, jobs after graduation. Perhaps this is why cheating has become an institution at U. C. and its results are extremely harmful and extremely un fair. The student who does not cheat is the victim, the student who does Is usually the victor, and the instructor is unhurt in either case. There are many types of exams, the written essay exam, changed year after year is the one normally used on this campus. Cheating in this case usually takes the form of cribbing from notes or books, talking, and copying. Students are often plagued by people seeking information. Not to give is a breach of campus underworld etiquette you are no longer a good fellow. Instructors are loathe to "police" a room, and advisedly. When they main tain diligent watch the air of tension is disturbing, and when they do not, students cheat. Rubber on the sol of a shoe to turn the pages of a book; upholstery tacks on the bottom of a drawing board to slip it across the floor; girls with notes in their stockings; boys with notes in the folds of their sweater, on a pencil, or written on the palm these are some of the carefully worked out details. These facts may seem impossible, they may seem improbable but they are true. We are not crying "scandal." We are not con demning the students that cheat, the instructors, or the administration. Situations like these will arise wherever the pressure of grades exist. But we do say that the popularity of cheating has been grow ing. We do not like the spirit that it induces. And we claim that the student who does not cheat is entitled to some kind of protection. Cincinnati News Record. TODAY 8 VM PHONY CONCERT. The I aiverslty symphony orrtK-ttra will Rive a concert In the I'nloa ballroom at S p. in. 81NDAY KVKMNG CUB, Professor Clifford R. Hendricks, will siwafc st the meeting of llie Sunday Evening- ( lab of the Klnl I'lyiniialh rhnrrh at :M p. m. Ills topic wlU toe "Sctence as vrrday Uviiif." Le Rossignol named MC for Texas convention Dean J. E. LeRossignol of the bizad college will be toastmaster at the annual dinner meeting of the American Association of Col legiate Schools of Business April 19 at Austin, Tex. He will also take part in a panel discussion on the "desirability of a two-year ter minal course in business adminis tration," and "miscellaneous prob lems of business schools." MONDAY trrtl.K FORIM. Robert Surrey, are style scout In men's funhions, will conduct a forum at 4 p. m. la parlors XY of the VuUm. V ESTER CHOIR. VW Vesper Choir will rehearse at I p. m. In Ellen Koilth hall. RIvlilOT PROGRAM. There will be a record rrqut-Ht progrnni on the Carnegie niunle set at 4 p. ni. la the facalty lounge of the lulon. KKiMA DELTA CHI. Member of Klgnia Delta Chi will nave I heir picture taken at the campus studio at noon. Guilford speaks to Psi Chi Dr. J. P. Guilford, director of the bureau of instructional re search, wil address the Universtiy of Monnesota chapter of Psi Chi, psychology society, April 11 on the subject "Factors in Personality." Nomination Blank ALL-AMERICAN COLLEGE QUEEN CONTEST DAILY NEBRASKAN: I hereby nominate the following student, who is in good standing, as an entrant in the All-American College Queen contest anil mhm.i M.innri.h for Judging. " r Nominee's name lAddress Ht Wt Ate Signed Address U (Nomination blanks mast be ia DAILY Office net later tkaa ( p. a... March 13.) Winter to speak on psychology S. Adelia Winter, assistant prin cipal of Irving junior high, is the first scheduled speaker far a se ries of lectures in a new Girl Re serve leadership training course which will be held in Ellen Smith hall at 3:30 on Tuesday afternoon. The topic of Miss Winter's lecture is "Teen Age Psychology." The Y. W. C. A. and teachers college are sponsoring this course which will enable girls who wish to take up this work to have training and information. Certificates will be issued to girls at the end of the six lectures which will signify that they have had sufficient training for hand ling a Girl Reserve group. Smith takes new post Professor Linus B. Smith, chair man of the department of archi tecture, has been named one of a committee of three to present the college viewpoint before the Na tional Architecture Registration Board in its meeting at Louisville, Ky., May 20 and 25. Alexis talks to women Dr. J. E. A. Alexis, chairman of the department of modern lan guages, will address the Beatrice Women's club April 1 on the sub ject of "International Relations." TYPEWRITERS f.r SALE and RENT Nebraska Typewriter Co. IPS Ne. Itlh St. LINCOLN, H'.'TUJL 1-1157 FREE WITH THIS AD 1 round or fancy watch crystal Main springs $150 or Cleaning 1 Lowell's Jewelry Stores 143 So. 1tth 2-43SO 1923 O St. S104 Havelock Ave.