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DAILY NEBRASKAN
, Thursday, October 1, 1942
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News Editors Gecrge Abbott, Pat Chamberlin, June Jamieson,
Bob Miller, Marjorie May.
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BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
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All anslfned editorial are the opinion of the edilor and ihould not be
nstrued to reflect the views of the administration or ( the university.
WAR Homecoming. . .
With one long breath the Innocents' society announced yes
terday that Homecoming decorations would not be appropriate
this year, and in their stead laid plans for a scrap contest for
all organized groups on the campus.
"While this announcement came somewhat as a surprise to
many, some groups had already made known to the Innocents
that they would not enter the decoration contest because they
felt the frivolity would be unnecessary during this year of
emergency. It should follow, t her fore, that every group on the
campus should enter the scrap contest wholeheartedly and work
conscientiously to make the scrap pile in front of the different
houses as large as possible.
Lincoln will soon have a city-wide scrap drive, and with
ine naxionai drive in progress it seems appropriate tnat me stu
dents on the campus should do their bit. The showing we make
here will serve as an indicator over the state that university
students in this state are conscious of the war effort and are
participating in constructive war programs.
Jt is also appropriate that the scrap contest be combined
with homecoming since the Homecoming weekend is naturally
a weekend of fun. If ever a college student needed to have
fun mixed with hard work and service, both to the country and
to the university, that time is now.
Students will find a source of scrap in the homes of many
of their alumni, in many places around town, and perhaps even
right here on Ihe campus. A central place for Lincoln students
who are unaffiliated to bring scrap will be decided upon by the
War Committee today and designated later. This is a univer-Rity-wide
project and should not be kept solely in the organized
houses.
f every student will assume responsibility in the drive, it
can hardly fail. This is the first of several worthwhile war
projects which are being planned for this year. If this drive
gets, off to a good start, the remaining will have a goal at Avhich
to shoot.
This Collegiate World
(By AiMM-iaU-d ( ollfKlate Pre.)
Colleges accelerating their programs might do well to have
their men and women students study in unmixed groups to
avoid time-wasting.
That is the opinion of Dr. F. Kenneth Berrien of Cogate
university, who draws his conclusion from a psychology depart
ment report on "How Quickly Do Students Start Studying?,"
as compared with a similar survey conducted by D. C. Troth
of the University of Illinois.
Studying the behavior of 100 students, ."0 men and 30
women, during the first ten minutes after they bad seated them
selves in the University of Illinois library reading room, Mr.
Troth learned they spent 40 percent of the time conversing,
aimlessly leafing book, using vanity cases, writing or reading
leters and "just looking around." None of the 100 students, he
discovered, spent the entire ten minutes in study. Moreover, the
women in the group were more given to non academic activi
ties in the ten minute period than the men.
The Colgate study, based on observation of ?." men under
conditions as similar as possible to those at the University of
Illinois, showed that only 11 percent of the students began con
centrating on their studies as soon as they were seated in the
library.
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By Jay Richter
ACP Correspondent
September 28, 1942.
WASHINGTON. (ACP). Interesting because of his recent
official connection with the government is C. A. Dykstra's re
cent analysis of the official government viewpoint toward col
leges. Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin,
headed the national draft machinery until appointment of Gen
eral llershey. "The government," he said in an address be
fore the American Library association, "considers America's
institution of higher learning as key center in the war effort."
"At no time in hiwnan history have universities seemed so
important in a national effort as they are right now in the
United States," Dykstra maintained.
"Universities and colleges are reservoirs for the recruiting
of fighting men, of specialists for national services, and teach
ers of men in training," he declared. "Their laboratories are
being used 24 hours a day and their plants in general are being
made available for national service. Their facilities are being
used instead of providing new facilities in many areas.
"The government without question considers them a war
time necessity and it is using them as they never have been
used before. Moreover, it is indicating in no uncertain terms
that it wants these institutions to carry on their regular train
ing and educational programs so that we may have a supply
of men who can meet the challenges of next year ,and the year
following and so on into the days when we hay have peace
again. It does not want to face the fact of a lost generation ef
educated leadership."
America's national policv at this time contemplates the
maintenance of vigorous and comprehensive educational pro
grams, not in spite of the fact that we are at war, but because
the war effort and the peace effort to follow require such serv
ices as universities have to offer. Dykstra explained.
"Such a policv requires from universities adaptability, re
sourcefulness, an awareness of national needs, selflessness and
devotion to the national effort, and willingnes to put first
things first during a period of world conflict," he asserted.
"To do this does not require the sacrifice of standards or
the relinquishment of long time objectives. It means only a
temporary redirection of certain activities and changing em
phasis where it becomes necessary. Our task in gneral remains
the same, the education of the new generation, the making of
citizens, the pushing outward of the boundaries of knowledge,
and the serving of our country and our generation m practical
ways, which will make our national life more decent and whole
some.
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by
Carton Broderick
THINGS I WOULD LIKE
TO SEE:
Daffodils in the spring covering
the mound south of the new li
brary. But it isn't spring and
daffodils don't grow on the cam
pus. Daffodils are pretty, don't
you think?
TNE's at a homecoming lunch
eon in the Union ballroom. Menu:
Cream chicken on toast, tutti
fruiti salad, lady-finger dessert.
Several prominent Nebraska alum
nae as after-dinner speakers.
All university buildings topped
by cupolas to house wayward hom
ing pigeons. More cupolas, more
white spots. Every pigeon in the
country knows that Nebraska is
the White Spot of the Nation.
ROTC cadets firing blank bul
lets with a live round thrown in
now and then to make them real
ize that war is not fought with
dummy cartridges.
THINGS I WOULDN'T LIKE
TO SEE:
Forty-five women and one man
left on this campus.
Betas and Sig Alfs canceling
their annual exchange dinner.
Another promi prof granted
leave of absence 10 teach in a ri
val school.
Fifteen men on a dead man's
chest. "Death, where is thy
sting."
YW cabinet members holding
meetings at Freddie's again. Too
unpatriotic with the tire situation.
Lcbsock's is much closer. Private
rooms, too.
Presnell with a runny nose and
watery eyes this week end.
Anybody else's name at the top
of this column.
Leaders
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and time of staff meetings are as
follows:
Sharman 1: Lois HHnsen, Tues
day, 4:30 p. m.
Sharman 2: Time to be set by
group. No leader. (Mary Lockett,
adult adviser for both groups.)
Comparative religion: Joyce
Junge, Thursday, 5:30 p. m.
Each and His Own Brush: Bar
bara Townsend, Wednesday. 5:30
p. m. (Miss Katherine Brush,
adult adviser.)
Vespers: Betty Eonebright,
Tuesday, 4:30 p. m.
Vesper choir: Roma Biba, Mon
day, 5:30 p. m.
Social service:
Knitting: Bessie Hilbenthal,
Thursday, 4:30 p. m.
Red Cross; Catherine Wells.
Beginning Social Service
Work: Mary Ellen Beach
ley, Tuesday, 4:30 p. m.
Advanced Social Service: Bon
nie Hinrichs, Thursday, 4:30
p. m.
Estes Co-op Group: Lois
Gaden, Wednesday, 4:30 p.
m.; Joan Martz and Myra
Colberg, Thursday. 4 :30 p.m.
Tiny Y: Dorothy Carnahan,
Wednesday, 4:30 p. m.
Creative Arts: Jackie Young,
time to be set later.
Marriage: Priscilla Mosely and
Hazel Abel, Monday, 4:30 p. m.
Office staff: Janice Cook, Mon
day or Wednesday, 3:30 p. m.
Moral Men in Immoral Society:
Helen Gogela, Wednesday, 4:30 or
5:00 p. m.
Office
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ent, the annual fall show will be
held on Saturday, Nov. 14 and at
that time fraternities and soror
ities will vie for individual skit
honors. Laughlin will ftnd out
letters to all groups informing
them of tryout dates in the near
future.
As it la an honorary organiza
tion, the ranks are filled with
pledges who qualify by the amount
of work put in during the year.
An opportunity will be given for
prospective workers to meet ac
tives at a smoker next Wednesday
evening in the N club rooms. An
additional announcement will be
found in the Daily Nebraskan
early next week carrying full de
tails. Tracy Gone.
An additional loss to the armed
forces was Don Tracy, junior mem
ber, who is in the medical corps.
Laughlin indicated that the or
ganization would not add any
others to fill the vacancies.
Members of the club include:
Max Laughlin, Frank 'White, Don
Young, Dick Harnsberger, Bob
Schlater, Alan Jacobs, Paul Toren,
Bob Miller, Tom Drummond, Bob
Henderson, Charles Drake and
Jack Higgins. E. F. Sc hramm is
tthe faculty adviser.
