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DAILY NEBRASKAN
.Wednesday, April 15,1942
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Junt Jamtrson, Helen Kelley, Marjori May.
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raanUtratma or of the nrvexsHy.
Campus Awakens
To Ballot Call
The political pot is abrewin' on old Ne
braska campus again.
With the annual spring election just a
few days off, both factions Barb and Union
are eyeing carefully the actions of each other
trying to figure out just which way the wind
is going to blow. Both machines are out look
ing for votes which promises to make this
election a very interesting one, because of the
important issue invovlved.
The Barb students under the guise of bet
ter student government are submitting to the
students an amendment which would nullify
the present system of representation on the
Council. Rather than the Council representing
the various colleges and groups on the campus,
the amendment would have the Council mem
bers elected at large thus representing no
particular group. There are many merits to
the proposed, and there are many drawbacks
one of which being that the membership of
posed almost entirely of "popularity kids."
the student legislative body would be com
An important merit to the proposed change
is that those elected would be more represent
ative of the student's wishes.
These are ponderable arguments. They
sound very good. An outsider would think the
students at the university are deeply concerned
with the theories of government. THE FL.VIN
TRUTH IS THAT THEY AREN'T. THE
BARB STUDENTS WANT THE ELECTION
RULES CHANGED BECAUSE IT WOULD
GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO AT
TAIN A MAJORITY ON THE COUNCIL.
THE AFFILIATED STUDENTS ARE IN OP
POSITION TO THE AMENDMENT BE
CAUSE IT MIGHT IMPAIR THEIR LONG
AND POWERFUL HOLD ON THE COUN
CIL. Thus, when students go to the polls they
aren't voting for or against better student
government. Their vote at the polls next week
will decide for sometime in what faction will
rest the majority of the Student Council for
a number of years.
If the election this year is quite close
with the unaffiliated students given a bare
majority of the positions open, the majority
in next year's Council would, perhaps, still
rest with the Greek students because last week
eight holdover members were chosen all of
them affiliated. In order to establish a clear
majority the barbs would have to do away with
the holdover members which they propose to
do. WHATEVER ARGUMENTS ADVANCED
IN BEHALF OF THE PROPOSAL ARE JUST
PRETENSES. WHATEVER ARGUMENTS
ADVANCED AGAINST THE CHANGE ARE
ALSO MERE PRETENSES. However, if the
issue was wether or not to have holdover
members, all students should vote for retain
ing them. There is enough confusion the way
it is now at the first of the year even with the
experience of those persons who were mem
bers of the Council the year before. '
Thus, at the polls next Tuesday the stu
dents will decide only one very real issue
whether the unaffiliated or affiliated students
will run the Student Council. We have but
one warning to offer. DON'T BE SHEEP.
LOOK BEYOND THE END OF YOTJB NOSE.
FERRET OUT THE REAL ISSUE. DON'T
LET A BUNCH OF POLITICAL BALLYHOO
ERS AND TIN GODS PROMISE YOU
"GOOD, CLEAN STUDENT GOVERN
MENT," AND BELIEVE IT.
Dear Editor:
Something smells in Tharmacy and it
isn't the chemicals or the dead dogs. The ob
ject of our disaffection is the Student Health
Service.
There are evil rumors about the fresh
man who entered the office at 3:15 with a
serious case of scarlet fever and was refused
treatment that day because the doctor had to
rush over to the stadium to look after our
"bread and butter boys." We don't believe
that one; but we do know of numerous eases
which are almost as bad.
What good is Student nealth to the stu
dents if the treatment is refused them On
page eight of the Student Health Service Rules
and Regulations appears this statement: "A
student with a sore throat, a fever, a headache,
a rash, or any unusual symptons of any kind,
should report at once to the clinic." Of what
use is a rule like that if a student with a
sore throat and a fever is refused treatment
on the grounds that the doctors are too busy
giving examinations for swimming classes?
What good is immediate report of a disease
if a student must wait for three hours in an un
friendly atmosphere only to be told that he
must come back some other day.
Even when the good doctors condescend
to give examinations, their work is incomplete
ly and antagonistically done. They are curt
and harsh and unfriendly. Perhaps they are
overworked and underpaid; we don't know.
But if that is true, then the university ought
to pay them mor and supplement the staff.
Students pay about $16,000 a year for the
service (if we can call it that). Yet manv
students would rather pay a private doctor
an extra fee than visit a Student Health de
partment in which they have no faith.
The director of the service has told a
number of university audiences that there has
been no major epidemic on this campus since
Student Health was instituted. Perhaps the
students keep themselves unusually healthy
for fear of having to endure the even greater
pain of trying to get treatment in the ill-
housed, understaffed, discourteous Student
Health service.
Very Truly Yours,
Leonard Lewis
Art Rivin
P. S. You could die on the doorstep there
if you had forgotten your identification card.
Editor's note: Much more can be accomplished to rec
tify the alleged situation by constructive criticism rather
than name calling.
National Survey Finds
Fraternity Average Is Higher
Than Non-fraternity Average
. . . For 12th Consecutive Year
Fraternity scholarship is higher
than non-fraternity scholarship
for the 12th consecutive year, ac
cording to a survey conducted by
Dr. Alva E. Duerr of the Manu
facturer's Trust company of New
York City.
The nationwide survey included
the scholastic records of more
than 75,000 undergraduates of
2,389 chapters belonging to 60 na
tional fraternities established at
180 colleges and universities.
The margin this year is the low
est it has been since the survey
began, with fraternities Bhowing a
.036 per cent rating above that
of non-fraternities. This has been
attributed to disturbed conditions
resulting from tL-j national emer
gency. In the East, the record was set
by Washington college in Mary
land, where the average was 23
percent better; and in the west
(including Nebraska), by South
ern Methodist university with 8.5
per cent above the all-men's average.
Great was the appreciation of camp men
at Cody, especially Nebraska students, as $100
was raised for the bat and ball fund.
The president of the Innocents was in re
ceipt of a' letter from A. P. Blockscn, general
in command at the camps.
His letter of appreciation reads:
"Dear Sir:
"Our athletic officials informed me that
they have received a huge contribution for the
athletic fund of this division the result of
"Tag Day" at Nebraska university.
"I wish to assure you that the evidence
of loyalty on the part of students at the uni
versity is appreciated and the donations will
be utilized to the best advantage. Alhletics
have a part in our system of training as it
tends to furnish diversion but more important
develops initiative and promotes leadership,
both essential in developing an army.
"Again I wish to thank all of you con
cerned and assure you that the spirit in which
the money was given is appreciated to the
fullest extent,"
OJL GtiWL fajitptlMA. I
By liana Lee Citiiu
An open forum entitled "What's Right
and What's Wrong with Fraternities" began
Greek Week at the University of California.
Constructive criticisms were directed promar
ily at over emphasis on social affairs, political
control out of proportion with their size and
excessive financial membership barriers. The
primary values of fraternities included the
ideas that membership is a house develops
personality, gives men certain high ideals to
strive towards, and are the best means of
making permanent friends in college.
Music Students
Present Senior
Recital Today
Alpha Rho Tau, Pi Kappa
Lambda Announce New
Members List at Temple
Students of musical distinction
or high scholarship who have been
elected to Alpha Rho Tau and Pi
Kappa Lambda will be announced
at the music convocation in Temple
Theatre at 4 p. m. today.
Pine Arts students in teachers
college or the college of arts and
sciences are eligible for mem
bership in Alpho Rho Tau, while
those persons working toward a
bachelor of music or a bachelor
of music in education degree are
eligible for membership in Kappa
Lambda.
Senior participating in the sen
ior recital at the music convoca
tion include: Mary Jane Cham
ber, pianist: Keith Sturdevant,
tenor; and Ernest Ulmer, accom
panist. Following is the program to be
presented:
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Zoology Grad
Student at UN
Prints Article
Dr. Leo H. Petri, a graduate
student in zoology and biology of
last year, had his article, "Two
New Dicrocehid Ttematodes from
Birds," printed in the national
biology magazine, "Transactions
of the American Microscopical So
ciety." The article dealt with the
studies he made of two species of
birds while taking his graduate
work under Dr. H. W. Manter,
professor of zoology.
To collect his information, Petri
studied species of Eurytrema col
locted by Helen Davie, former
university student, and also
species of Athesmia collected by
Dr. Manter during the Third Allan
Hancock Expedition to the Gatya
gas Islands in 1934. The two sped
mens will be placed In the United
States National Museum.
Amiy Promotes
UN Engineering
ROTC Director
Maj. Arthur T. Lobdell. director
of the engineer unit of the mili
tary department has been pro
moted to the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel, according to an an
nouncement from the military de
partment. Pony Chorus . . .
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lost the spotlight the moment the
chorus appeared on the stage, but
they kept the play going when the
chorus was changing costumes.
Norris Swan, whose legs won
all sorts of praise, did a good Job
as Mrs. Updike, wife of the presi
dent of Bagatelle, played by Rob
ert Black, Uni Theater veteran,
the best actor on the stage.
Looking Professional.
Eringing back memories of Vic
tor Moore in "Louisiana Purchase"
was George Blackstone, who had
everybody giggling at bis charac-
War Program . .
(Continued from Page 1.)
prepared to take care of any num
ber of freshmen or other students
falling into the age classification
who desire to enlist next fall,"
commented Dean Bengtson, head
of the junior division.
The telegram from Knox, m
full, read:
University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Neb.
America is counting upon the
nation's college freshmen and
sophomore classes to provide fu
ture officers for the United
States navy. To this end the
navy offers your college a spe
cial plan by which freshmen and
sophomores between the ages of
17 and 20 may enlist Immediate
ly as apprentice seamen but at
the same time can stay in col
lege and continue their regular
course at least until the end of
their second college year. We
need to enlist 80,000 such young
men in the coming weeks and in
March of next year they will
have the opportunity thru class
ified examinations to qualify
for special training for commis
sions as aviation, deck or engi
neering officers. This special
college program which is known
as the V-1 plan is democracy's
intelligent a . practicable way
of meeting America's urgent
need for thousands of young col
lege trained officers without
breaking down our educational
system or forgetting future need
for trained men for civilian life
after the war is won. A commit
tee of prominent educators has
assisted in the formulation of
the V-1 program. Beginning
April 9, members f this com
mittee and officers of the navy
will hold a series of regional
meetings to explain the V-1 plan
to representatives of the col
leges within each region. You
are urged to send an authorized
representative to your regional
meeting and you may be sure
that your wholehearted co-operation
with the entire plan will
be greatly appreciated.
FRANK KNOX,
Secretary of the Navy.
terization of Maximillian 'Tm in
corsets," Pott
Bill McBride and Darrel Peters
in the romantic leads, acted with
confidence. Their singing of
"When Dreams Fall Thru," a song
that, with a few breaks, can be
come a hit, was very good.
The songs were surprisingly ex
cellent for products of university
students, and Jo Weaver, dance di
rector, devised some queer but
amusing dances for the show.
Prof. L. A. Martin, director of
the play, written by Bob Aldrich,
did some good casting with Fred
Voigt Randall Salisbury and Bob
oeiwicK perceet lor their parts; so
were "Professors" Buzzy Dalton,
Ed Faytinger and Millard Cluck.
Altho last year's show wih
women in the cast was fairly suc
cessful, it was good to get back
to the traditional Kosmet Wub
show with all of its horseplay and
fun and pony chorus.
Tickets for "Pott Shots," which
is to run thru Saturday night, can
be purchased from any Kosmet
Klub worker and should be ex
changed for reserved seats at the
Temple theater box office to in
sure good seats, WaK Rundin,
president of the Klub, said last
night
An athletic field at the College
of St Scholastic, Duluth, Minn.,
covers one-third of the 160 acre
campus.
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