DAILY NEBRASKAN
September 16, 1940
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Charting a course demands
accurate calculations, so
Appearing in this first edition of the 1940-41 DAILY in a fraternity costs
Burvey, compiled by NEBRASKAN reporters jmd editors. In the form of
homontal-vertical chart, the survey is much similar to the one published in
last year's opening edition.
The DAILY, in publishing this survey, was forced .'se figures furnished
by officers of fraternity houses; figures on file n. the interfraternity
council and fraternity management offices were iioi available for publica
tion, but were available and still are, to any rushee participating in rush
week.
Inasmuch as tonight is pledging night on fraternity row, the NKIHIAS
KAN feels it is within its realm of service to provide rushees, especially those
whose financial status has much to do with the selection of a fraternity, with
figures and facts on all fraternities. The chart showing numbers of Innocent
the several fraternities have had over a period of years is another service.
Hushing is a serious business and the DAILY feds honesty is the best policy
to follow. To settle some questions that may arise, these charts have been
printed.
Kushees haven't time to investigate everything they should investigate
about the fraternities rushing them; nor do many of them know where to
find information that is reliable.
The DAILY does not guarantee the accuracy of all figures, presented
in the survey. Houses that are known to have extra assessments have, in
some cases, purposely or unintentionally, neglected to include those assess
ments in their quotations. All fraternity assessments are supposed to be on
file in Dean Harper's office in the Administration Building.
The Interfraternity Council has registered an informal protest, assing
the NEBKASKAN to "cooperate" and not publish the figures it has obtained
from the very members of the council. Yet, sveuil--iHnipps i.i Hie council,
asked individually whether ..tbey olvjecfed, said they did not.
Agaia, we do not guarantee these figures; they are as truthful as the
fraternity men who quoted them.
will concentrate and begin a successful career, others of you will take your
studies lightly and try to get the most out of your social contacts. The former
are to be admired, the latter respected in their positions m individuals who
have a right to govern their lives and actions as they please.
Your university education is an investment that will yield rich dividends
if you invest wisely.
Start thinking freshmen!
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Before many days have passed, you'll be hitting the books. Some of yon
Administration council acts to
safeguard Nebraska students
A new school year starts with the ominous note that events in Europe
may affect the very nature of our American educational system. Yet, enroll
ment figures at this university will probably show that the shadow of eon
scription has not decreased the university population.
Not many of us will fall under the terms of the Burke-Wadsworth bill,
but those of us who do should go ahead with whatever plans we have made
for continuing our education. This university assured all students that the
rail to colors will not result in financial or educational loss to any appreciable
extent when its administrative council adopted the following provisions:
"A student of the University of Nebraska, who, after registering and
taking up work in residence, may enter any one of the military services of
the United States by enlistment, as a member of the National Guard, or
as a result of conscription, will receive a refund of the tuition fee he has
paid for a course for the current semester, provided he is in good standing
and provided his withdrawal is at a time in the semester too early for
him to complete the bourse for credit under any plan approved hy the
instructor or dean concerned.
"In each course the instructor and dean will endeavor to provide a plan
for the later completion of a course for credit that may be interrupted on or
after midsemester by entrance into military service. In many courses, partial
credit can be given for partial completion of course requirements. In many
instances work can be resumed a year hence at the same poitit where left off
due to entrance upon military service."
The ruling is plain. The university administrative council should be
commended on its immediate action.
The course ahead this year, in spite of conscription and the threat of war,
for college student, is to study and pursue collegiate careers as if the world
were peaceful and serene.
Here 's what fralern ities cost
Fraternities
I j Nan.
House Bill I Duel
iH. MemT. Menl
Initiation
PledgeAs'ee.
Fret Intents
Basic
Fee
Pin
Eua
Acacia
Alpha Gamma Rho.
Alpha Sigma Phi...
Alpha Tau Omega
Beta Sigma Psi....
Beta Theta Pi
Chi Phi
Delta Tau Delta
Delta Upsilon
Farmhouse
Kappa Sigma
Phi Delta Theta. .. .
Phi Gamma Delta .
Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Sigma Kappa .
$43.50
$28.00
$42.00
$47.00
$28.00
$48.00
$43.00
$39.00
$46.50
$29.00
$46.50
$47.50
$45.00
$46.00
$37.50
$ 2.50
PI Kappa Alpha . . $38.00
Sigma Alpha Epsilon..
Sigma Alpha Mu
Sigma Chi
ftigma Nm
Sigma Phi E.psilon
Theta XI
$45.00
$39. 50a I
$38.50p
$47.75
$48.00
l
$46.50
$38. 60a
$36.00p
$11.50
$ 4.00
$ 8.00
$12.00
$ 2 .50
$15.00
$10.00
$10.00
$12.30
$ 5.00
$11.50
$12 00
$12.00
$12.00
$ 5.00
$ 6 00
1 Mon.
Dinner
$14.00
$ 8.50
$12.00 I $10.00
year for
linit'ted
m'bers
$12.00a
$ 8.00p
$11.00
$ 8.50a
6.00p
$10.00
Year
Zeia Beta Tau.
. $47.50 $17.50 $11.25
I I Inc. I
I lunches
$41.25
$20.00
$50.00
$35.00
$15.00
$55.00
$40.00
$50.00
$60.00
$10.00
$45.00
$55.00
$60.00
$50.00
$35.00
$36.50
$50 00
$9100
$65.00
$60.00
$50.00
$50.00
$7500
$15.00
$10.00
$15.00
$17.00
aveiage
$ 2 .50
$ 2.50
Extra
I Extra
$16.50
javerage!
$15.00
$25 00
$ 5.00
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Rushing rules
to be enforced
Council nets lo prevent
alleged illegal rushing
President and rush chairmen
of all fraternities were called to
meet with member of the Inter
fraternity Council Thursday after
noon for notification of complete
enforcement of the? rules and reg
ulations governing rush week.
The meeting rose out of Inter
fraternity Judiciary Board action
on Tuesday in which It wa s
pointed out that during the last
three years, the Council had not
taken severe steps to enforce rush
week rules. At that same meeting,
regulations were revised to fit this
year's needs and provisions were
made for enforcement with any
infraction by any houae bringing
a maximum fine of fifty dollars
and suspension of social, pledging
priviliges for at least one semes
ter. Streamline structure.
The Judiciary Board also
streamlined the structure of the
Council with the most important
change involving the appointment
of officers of the Council as the
Committee on Committees with
full power of appointment. Offi
cers of the Council also serve with
three faculty members as the Ju
diciary Board. Officers of the
Council are Tom Horn, Sigma Chi,
president; Jack Cole, Sigma Nu,
vice-president; Chris Petersen,
Kappa Sigma, secretary; Clark
Kuppinger, Alpha Tau Omega,
treasurer.
The complete lit of an frater
nity pledges and re-pledges will be
published tomorrow.
Daily progresses; Offer
first 20-puge edition
Beginnings come and begin
nings go, but the 1940 Rag
steps out with the biggest set
up in some 60 years.
Progress In the modern man
ner gives you this granddaddy
of all DAILY NEBRA8KAN8,
20 pages of studes, activities
and ads, In the biggest issue
sine the 79rs.
Flaunting mors pages than
the flag has stripes, this edi
tion breaks vK record In
NEBRASKAN h story.
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With the publication of this
paper, the year more or leas offi
cially begins. And when the year
begins, we too have begun to
begin.
But first, for a worm's eye view
of what is to come in this space
which the editor feels has been set
aside for reflections built upon a
foundation of deliriums.
This column has no plan. You
never know what you will read
here for we never know what we
will write here. However, we can
promise from time to time bits of
tangy tales from our correspon
dent at large, Sir William Cappis,
a noted hangover from one of the
many boisterous parties held by
King Arthur's Knights of the
Roundtable. There will often be
phlegmatic prose from My Girl
Saturday, a mystic miss who flut
ters a mirror by looking into it
and who should be someone's Girl
All Week.
Then occasionally, there will be
incredible incidents taken from my
now half completed book, "Gulli
bles' Travels" which will involve
sojourns into the world of Eccen
tricity, Ridiculousness, and that
strange land bgnlering on what
some choose to call Insanity.
Mayhaps, there too will be times
when we shall indulge in our own
peculiar type of writing which the
nation's leading critics choose to
call "surrealistic, paralleling the
trend in modern art"
We have many worthwhile pro
jects in mind. Man may be won
derful in that he has learned to
fly like a bird but we have yet to
figure out how to sit on a barbed
wire fence. That will take great
thought, powerful ponderings.
Right now, we're stuck on it Of
course, we too will be quite busy
with , our own little acreage where
we are now busily engaged in
raising all the cucumbers that
people are cooler than.
And so we shall sit back on the
nearest ash tray, stroke last year's
beard, and face the stark realiza
tion that our ideas won't work
unless we do. So we have begun
to begin.
EDITOR'S NOTE.
The chart on thw page im
printed for the benefit of fra
ternity rushees because:
1. It is your editor's belief that
every fraternity on the campus
has been guilty at some time or
other of misrepresenting its costs.
There are two reasons for thia:
(a) the over-zeal of fraternity
members during the stra4n and
competition of rush week, and (b)
lack of knowledge of proper costs
hy all fraternity members.
2. Fraternity rushees, until last
year, generally were oblivious to
the fact that they could find all
costs for any particular fraternity
from the office of the interfrater
nity council.
3. In an effort to encourage the
Interfraternity Council to publish
and furnish to rushees before rush
week a booklet showing costs of
each fraternity. Such a publica
tion would enable rushees to for
mulute a budget before they leave
home. This would aid fraterni
ties by: (a) lowering the amounts
lost on bad risks, and (b) by de
creasing the number of pledgee
lost because of financial stress.
This chart k in no way in
tended to:
1. Indicate the merits of one
fraternity over another.
2. Bring any embarrassment to
members of the Interfraternity
Council, the Interfraternity board
of control or associates.
3. Attach mote Importance to
students experiencing rush week
in the fraternity houses than to
those who seek to remain unaffili
ated. 4. Misrepresent the true coats
of any particular organization.
All information was obtained
through interviews with, in all
cases, presidents, house managers,
stewards, or treasurers of all
houses. In all cases, those who
provided the information knew
they were providing H for pub
lication. The DAILY does not guar-,
antee their accuracy, but if eelai
positive that all are the correct'
figures given it The information"
was gathered by reliable atalf
members who have no reswn t,
misquote or change flree given
by any fraternity.-d.
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