THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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lil'd oria Itif Speaking
Those 12:30 Nights!
This issue of the DAILY includes the results
of a survey made concerning women's hours at va
rious coeducational institutions over the country,
including Big Six and Big Ten schools. This is
the second in a series of surveys made by the
DAILY this semester on popular issues, the first
having been published some time ago on the subject
of central campus orchestra booking agencies.
Just a most Nebraska students would expect,
the majority of schools polled are more lenient in
the hours enforced on women residents than is Ne
braska, although contrary to what most Cornhusk
ers probably believe, this university does not have
the strictest regulations in the country. Iowa State
easily takes honors there with its 10 o'clock week
nights, 11 o'clock Friday nights, and 12 o'clock Sat
urday nights -all of which sounds very dull indeed.
The situation at K. U. is almost exactly like
that at Nebraska except that the procedure for
special late leaves sound rather too involved to be
useful. Indiana, Iowa U., and Ohio State women
are also subject to hours similar to Nebraska's
although 1:30 and 2 o'clock special leaves are men
tioned in regard to the big all-university dances.
The west coast sounds like a Nebraska stu
dent's idea of heaven so far as this particular sub
ject is concerned. Stanford and the University of
California have 2:30 Friday and Saturday nights
while at California all other nights carry 12:30
leaves. Really big occasions at Stanford call for
3:30 nights.
At the University of Washington and at North
western, Friday and Saturday night leaves run to
2 a. m., with women at Northwestern given 3
o'clock permission for the three big dances of the
year. At the University of Texas, rules provide
that women be in by 1:45 on Friday and Saturday
nights, 11 o'clock on others. Nebraska's nearby
neighbor, Missouri, also allows 1:45 permission for
nil Friday Juries lasting until 1 a. m., while for
regular midnight dances on Friday and Saturday
evenings coeds are allowed until 12:45 to return to
their residences. Michigan rings curfew at 1:30 on
Friday, 12:30 on Saturday, and 11 on Sunday.
Last group covered by the survey includes
schools with regular 1 o'clock permission on Fri
days and Saturdays, and here are found Minne
sota, Kansas State, Illinois and Purdue. At Illinois,
the four biggest parties of the year last until 1
a. m. and on thise nights women have 2:30 permis
sion. Similar exceptions for big formal parties
are made at Minnesota.
The most apparent conclusion which one can
draw from the survey is one which students here
have been drawing for many years: Nebraska could
ease up a little on its rules covering hours for
women without running the slightest danger of be
coming too liberal. Few students quarrel with the
10:30 regulations on week-day nights although it
may be noted that many schools allow 11 o'clock.
After all, those nights are Intended for study and
10:30-is not unreasonable and coincides with library
hours. But 12:30 is really very early on Friday
and Saturday nights when one is young and hav
ing a good time. Although dances begin at 9
o'clock, It is an early bird who is able to arrive
much before 10 what with the exigencies of din
ner, dressing, collecting of dates, parking and what
not That leaves only two hours of dancing, and
even less If one Is to avoid the crowd.. Refresh
ments after such affairs are practically de rlgueur,
and with eating places crowded at that hour it
means gulping a coki, carrying one's shoe string
potatoes: along in a napkin while racing bock to
women's residences on two wheels. Rush, rush,
rush It is and gripe, gripe, gripe is the result.
The supremely satisfactory solution to the sit
uation would be 1:30 nights with dancing from 9:30
to 12:30 and an hour for eating and getting home.
However, most students would ask for nothing
more radical in the way 'of improvement than regu
lar 1 o'clock nights with occasional 1:30 permission
for special occasions Just as 1 o'clock leave Is given
now. Lincoln blue laws might be bothersome as
far as extending dancing hours beyond midnight at
ThuvA, (RoJundupL
By Norbert Mhnkn
KALEIDOSCOPIC COMMENT.
With events in Europe changing with kaleidos
copic rapidity it becomes virtually Impossible to
comment upon the latest developments in the cur
rent war. Almost before any news account hits
the presses it will be supplemented, superseded, or
negated by another dispatch.
Out of the mass of conflicting reports which
come to us, certain conclusions appear evident.
Chief of these is that the war in Europe has en
tered its most critical stage. Hitler for once spoke
the truth when he stated that on the present cam
paign In the Netherlands and Belgium rested the
fate of Germany "for a thousand years." Vic
tory for the nazis In their current drive would mean
that Goering's seemingly all-powerful air force would
establish air bases In Holland from which it could
bomb the British Isles into ignominious defeat and
temporary oblivion. If the present campaign is
critical for Hitler, it is certainly more of a crisis
for France, for England, for the democracies of
the entire world.
PROTECTION FUSELI STYLE.
The invasion of the Low Countries illustrates
once again that democracy and totalitarianism can
not exist side by side. No one will give any serious
attention to the nazi assertions that their action
was occasioned by a desire to protect the neutrality
of the two smaller nations. Neutrality means
nothing to a man of Hitler's stamp, who views
democracy and international morality as an admis
sion of weakness. To his point of view there is
no such thing as "staying out" of the present con
flict. Consider the list of nations that have fallen
prey to his aggression. We may omit the earlier
victims, Austria, the Czechs, Poland. Norway and
Denmark, who remained neutral throughout the
World war, regarded as outstanding examples of
the beneficient workings of democracy, found the
practice of neutrality no defense against totalitarian
aggression. Holland, also neutral throughout the
last war, whose territory has not been invaded for
130 years, whose government leaned over back
wards to maintain its neutrality during the pres
ent crisis, is today bombed and burned by the same
ruthless "protectors." One after another the smaller
democracies disappear, each German conquest lead
ing only to the desire for greater conquests.
REALISTIC ROOSEVELT.
Most gratifying is President Roosevelt's warn
ing against the all-too-common belief that some
"mystic immunity" is this country's because of its
geographical separation from the European conti
nent. This realistic view of the situation has been
all too slow in being announced.
Until now we have followed the rules of neu
trality, not as agreed upon by international law,
but as dictated by Hitler and Goebbels. Hitler
threatens to let loose a horde of submarines; we
respond, not by protesting, but by sweeping out
ships off the seas, while the bones of the American
sailors of an earlier era who freed the Barbary
coast of another type of international piracy rattle
in their graves in futile protest. Goebbels an
nounces that his Interpretations of neutrality in
cludes the denial of the right to publish any views
on the morality of the nazi program. Many Amer
ican newspapers respond by carrying the "hands
off" attitude to absurd lengths. The voices crying
out In defense of those principles which everyone
was proclaiming a few years ago have become so
few as to be virtually unheard in the wilderness.
those affairs which charge admission, although it
is altogether likely that something could be worked
out. And even If dances continued to stop at 12
there is every reason for allowing an hour's time
to get home, as has been pointed out.
Chief objection raised to extension of hours al
ways concerns the effect of such action on student
morals, absurd as this sounds to students. An an
swer to this is almost too obvious to cite, but au
thorities cannot forget that university students are
grown persons who must be credited with some
sense of personal responsibility and cannot for
ever be kept in the guardian eyes of chaperones.
And it would be very difficult to prove that the
morals of Nebraska students are any better than
those of studer.ts at Michigan, for example, or
that out-state students are morally straighter than
those who reside in Lincoln and need not be home
by 12:30.
Considering the amount of pleasure which It
would afford students, some extension of women's
hours at Nebraska would seem to be one of the
easiest and most worthwhile student reforms which
authorities here could effect In no way could such
action harm the student body since it Is not pro
posed to do away with all rules on hours or to
institute extreme changes. All that is asked is a
revision In line with changing student life and
changing national habits, and what could be finer
than to add another half -hour or so of pleasure to
those evening which most graduates remember as
among the most pleasant in their lives. We're only
young once, you know.
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TODAY
NKWMAN OWB.
Members f the Newman club will meet
In parlors A and B of the Untea at 1:M
a. m. for breakfast.
TOWNE CMS.
Towao dab member will awt la par
lors X and Y af the I1 atom at : a. sa.
UNIVF.RHITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
The University IJbrary aaaorlatlaa will
meet hi parlor I of the Union at S a. at.
MONDAY
aKqi'RMT PROGRAM.
Then will be a program reaaeat
niuiiie pluyed on the Carargle Mualo net
In the faculty loaage af the latoa at
4 . m.
ORCHKSIS M&HKRMAL.
Orrheals wtH rehearse in the Vmim haaV
room at l:M p. sa,
TOWNE (Ll'B,
Members af the Towns flab wtS snast
at p. m. la parlor A af the 1'iioa.
YOUNG ADVOCATES,
Young Advocates, Art-law society, wis)
hold their annual pirate May if. Mr.
Cochran, per -law adviser, ana aawoaaeed
thai tlrketa mnt be purchase by .May la.
Whelan announces ...
Four supervisors to defend
crops against grasshoppers
Names of the four district su
pervisors helping defend Nebraska
crops against the annual grass
hopper "blitzkreig" were an
nounced today by Prof. Don B.
Whelan, entomologist at the Ne
braska agricultural college who is
directing this year's anti-grasshopper
campaign.
Whelan also reported the ap
proximate time 'hoppers are ex
pected to hatch in different sec
tions of the state. Poison bait
plants probably will start their
mixing operations between May
20 and June 1, he said.
The district supervisor in north
eastern Nebraska, with headquar
ters at Norfolk, is Alfred C. Cur
tis, who will receive his master's
degree in entomology this spring
from Kansas State college. He
was employed in Kansas grasshop
per control work in 1938,
Charles F. Keech, who received
his master's In entomology from
the Nebraska agricultural college
in 1934, will be the southeast Ne
braska district supervisor with
headquarters at Lincoln. Last
year, Kecch was district super
visor in the Norfolk area.
Reappoint Hauke.
Harold Hauke was reappointed
district supervisor in southwest
Nebraska, with headquarters at
North Tlatte. A graduate of Grand
Island college, he also received his
master's In entomology from the
University of Nebraska in 1934.
John F. Brandenburg of Denver,
Colo., is the district supervisor in
northwest Nebraska, with head
quarters at Alliance. Last year,
Brandenburg supervised control of
grasshoppers on range land in
Wyoming. He has also done pro-
Sigma Xi
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partment of botany; O. C. Col
lins, astronomy; W. S. Gregory,
psychology; H. Winnett Orr, med
icine; and W. F. Weiland, en
gineering. Five faculty members of the
University of Nebnitdta and 40
graduate students have been
elected to associate and active
membership in Sigma XI. national
scientific honorary society, ac
cording to announcement Satur
day by Dr. K. R. Washburn, de
partment of chemistry, who la
secretary of the local chapter.
The faculty members elected to
active membership are O. U.
Clark, department of botany; O.
C. Collins, astronomy; W. S. Greg
ory, psychology; H. Winnett Orr,
medicine; and W. F. Wetland, en
gineering. The annual Initiation banquet
will be held at 6:45 p. m.. May 22
at the Studert Union. Dr. M. G.
Cuba of the department of mathe
matics, retiring president, will pre
side, and Dr. Emma Anderson of
the department of botany, who
was president in 1938-39, v 111 give
me principal address.
The following have been named
to associate membership:
Harold V. Anderson, Yuma, Colo.,
geology.
r-Mfi-e P. Rohlender, Omaha, collrgs of
nrnicine.
ai.ii. ..tta Cash, Deadwood, B. D.,
geography.
Margaret C. Dale, Knos, Penn., geog
raphy. Oliver DeOarmo, Lincoln, chemistry.
William r. Glassmlre. Lincoln, chem
istry. Howard Hopkins, Listoo, Ind., phar-w-acy.
William R. Horn.y, IJncoln, geology.
Inland K. Johansen, Uncoln, agronomy.
Kloyd H. Kxhlrr. Marion, la., chemistry.
iKinald R. Mstblasen, Hebron, physiology
an pnarmacoiogy.
Robert T, McUearhln, Lincoln, cheat'
lstry.
I re gory C. Msysr, Georgetown. Tag.,
chemistry.
Maurice W. Miller, Lincoln, agronomy.
ia-a inrKn, vrayne, cnemigiry.
Albert H. Mosemsn, Oakland, agronomy.
Mary K. Motl, Mullen, geography.
Howard it. Peterson, t'rovo, Utah,
agronomy.
Charles K. Pllrher, Uncoln, agronomy.
Richard Clair KiPPIe. Uncoln. aooloev
Emily Katherlne Shepard, Oak Park,
in., mimi economics.
Arlla Todd, Hangor, Mlrb., soologr.
Robert A. West, Casper, Wyo., l.ac
Isrlology.
For active membership:
Tom O. Andrews, psychology,
(eaorgs B. Arnold, Lincoln, chemistry.
fessional pest control work for a
private company in Denver.
L. M. Gates, Nebraska state en
tomologist, is again assistant state
leader of the grasshopper control
campaign. And A. A. Gardner of
the U. S. Bureau of Entomology
and Plant Quarantine is represent
ing the federal government in the
Nebraska area, with headquarters
at Lincoln. Gardner was commis
sioner of agriculture in Wyoming
for a number of years, and last
year was district supervisor of
grasshopper control work in Colorado.
Pool talks in Omaha on
Norway fjords, fjelds
Dr. Raymond Pool, chairman of
the department of botany, will lec
ture 3:30 p. m. Sunday In Joslyn
Memorial, Omaha, on "The Fjords
and Fjelds of Norway." He will
illustrate his address with colored
slides.
The theme of his address will be
a survey of Norwegian natural re
sources, natural land formations
and features, and the way in which
the people of Norway have become
adjusted to these things over a
period of centuries. He will also
cover aspects of cities and institu
tions in Norway.
Orchesis
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hats to represent the different
races in the United States. Each
dancer is given an opportunity to
create her own pattern in accord
ance with the drum boat in Percussion.
The group presented dance re
citals in Dorchester Tuesday and
Nebraska City yesterday.
Members of Orchesis who will
participate in the Union demon
stration are: Marcia Beckman,
Dorothy Jean Bryan, Teas Casady,
Betty Cox. Betty Groth, Betty
Mueller, and Kathryn Werner. Ac
companist will be Betty Jean
Horner.
Orln R. Clark.
Oliver C. Collins, suslstsnt DrofrMmr
of agronomy.
James Z. Davis, St. Louis, Mo., medi
cine.
Wllber Bmlth Gregory, psychology In-
gtructor.
Chris P. Kelm, IJncoln, chemistry.
Walter Klrner. Uncoln, botany.
Prank L. Marnh, Uncoln, botany.
Irro. M. Mueller, Central City, botany.
Cheater W. Ofelt, agricultural chemistry.
Mward K. Orcn'.t, Omaha, soology.
Dr. H. Winnett Orr. Lincoln, surgeon,
nominating committee.
Joseph Uovd Parker. W inUngton. lei..
chemlntry.
James l, qultt, Uncoln. chemistry.
Oliver J. Brherer. Uncoln. corwervktlon
snd survey.
Weidon O. Shepherd. Colorado stats
college, sgronomy.
William P. Utermoli en. Kansas uiiy.
Ka., chemistry.
Jacob Wagner. Mlnatare, medicine.
John R. Weaver, Uncoln, botany.
Orrin J. Webster, North Plaits,
sgronomy.
Walter F. Wetland. Uncoln. asaociaia
professor of mechanical engineering.
Women teachers In New York
schools are absent twice as often
as men teachers, a Btudy shows.
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