DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, December 11, 1942
Campus Parties Require
All-Out Student Support
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I By Carton Orodcrick j
Well, I sure have been busy for the last
few days on account of because I'm planning
on a big blackout party next Monday! It sure
should be a swell deal, too, on account of
because I have asked all the big shots on the
campus to be there and when you can get
Borne of these big shots in the dark over some
thing, it should be interesting.
Well, Callie and me is going to the Cement
Bored party Saturday over at the basketball
court We was going to have dinner with
some of the boys over at the Grand hotel be
fore the big shindig, but we changed our plans
and the gang is going to the All-American
cafe for dinner. Usually it's lunch the first
of the week when we eat there, but we is
really going to have a fine dinner there Sat
urday night so I guess it will be all right
Speaking of those swell lunches we 've been
having down there the first of the week. It
sure has been fun to sit around with all those
guys and talk over stuff. We eat a while and
then we gives each other the grip so as so we
wont forget it, and then we eats "some more
and then we practice tipping our water glasses
like it was something else besides water only
it never is at that cafe and then we eat some
more and we sure do have a good time. I
ain't telling you exactly what day it is that I
cat with the boys down there, but me and
Callie has lunch together every day except
Tuesday, so maybe that will give you a due
what day it is.
Well, after we have got our dinner down
our gullet we is going directly to the Cement
Bored party. I sure am anxious to see how
many of those Cement Bo reds get to the party
on account of because most of them are tied
up with other guys who aint here. Oh, 1
almost forget to congratulate Mr. and Mrs.
Helen Kelley who got hitched the other day.
Callie told me this Kelley babe is a Cement
Bored, and that all the babes on the campus
was trying to fix her up with some real smooth
guy who would make her forget she was mar
ried or glad she was married or somethin' just
for Saturday night of course.
Then there is other Cement Boreds who is
married or about to get into that state such
as Jean Countrydweller and Marge Spooning.
It sure should be embarrassing for all them
Cement Boreds to sling this big party and not
even have an escort themselves. But maybe
they can be content with just putting up the
decorations before the party and then going
out to Fred's for the rest of the night and
hating their own hen party and talk about
married life and its disadvantages at the time
of a Cement Bored party.
If there is any guys who would sorta like
to go to that there party Saturday night but
who is either not smooth enough to get a date
or is too bashful to ask anybody, I understand
that if you slip a piece of paper with your
name and telephone number (no other quali
fications) under the Cement Bored door up
at their roof garden in the Stoodcnt Union
building on fourth floor, they will call you and
accept a date. It is sorta like a matrimony
bureau on a platonic scale.
Speaking of blackouts like I did right at
first, I understand that the Alfa
hood is going to have a dance out at the air
base the night of the big blackout. That
should be mighty interesting and 1 think I
will put on my basic drill suit and get in on
koiae of that fuu, My lut irieud who if ita.
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There is a time and place for everything
and Saturday night is the time for the annual
Mortar Board party which will be hold in the
coliseum. Long a Nebraska tradition, the
party is always a vice versa affair with dates
footing bills all evening.
There is a definite time and place for par
tics on the campus this year. Even during a
war, students and the public, alike, need so
cial affairs of this type to keep up morale for
the long fight which we have ahead of us. The
university lias made it possible to continue
social functions of this type, although some
what limited and informal.
We are given the privilege of holding par
tics this year, but there seems to be a catch
someplace, borne students are not planning on
supporting this party Saturday niuht. A bitr
gcr name band is playing elsewhere in the city
which will draw some of the student trade.
This condition is regretable since, without
student support, the parties on the campus
cannot be continued because of simple fi
nances. 1 ct, it w:ll be impossible for students
to attend local dances all year due to gas ra
lioning and other transportation difficulties.
Students must realize that the best dances
on the campus are those which are universally
supported by the students themselves. If we
wish to continue dances on the campus, Sat
urday night should find all students who arc
A A . T . 1 0 1 . 1
aiienaing a dance oi some kind at tne coli
seum.
It may be a long, cold, dull winter if this
party is not supported, the attendance may
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serve as a Daromeier oi siuueni interest in par
ties on the campus and if not enough support
is given, the whole program of university par
ties may and should be curtailed if students do
not think them worthwhile.
We owe a responsibility to organizations
which make the effort to provide for our en
tertainment' If we fall down in this responsi
bility, we are not showing our loyalty to the
university itself. The time may come when we
will pay a good price to dance at the coliseum
to the corniest orchestra in the world.
Mortar Board members were not able to
obtain a name band for their party, and be
cause university curtailment of this practice!
and heeaus of the increase in ost. ef enter
tainment of this type. They have obtained a
good band whieh is able to provide music for
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good dancing. Students shouldn't ask for
more during this war year.
Those who do ak for more and attend
non-university parties off the campus, will un
doubtedly be the agitators for more university
parties in the future. Until the time comes
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when it is impossible to get on the campus ai
all for a party, we should support our own and
insure social functions later.
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Promoted to First Lieutenant
in the Army Air Forces on No
vember, BILL MORANVILLE is
now first pilot of a Martin B-26
bomber and its combat crew. . .
While in school he was enrolled
in the college of electrical engi
neering, class of 1942... He be
gan his flight training under the
Civilian Pilot Training program
and was sent to the Army Ad
vanced Flying School at Victor-
ville, California where he received
his first commission last July... Prior to the time he Mas as
signed to combat duty he was stationed at Barksdale
Louisiana... Now he is with the 47th (M) Hombcr Squadron,'
address unknown.
1ST LIEUTENANT VERNON HASTINGS is acting as
commanding officer of an Air Corps Mechanics school aMlie
University of Wisconsin at Madison. Hastings attended the
university in l'J.'i.S and 1939... A graduate of the class of VXil,
PVT. CARL EHLERS, is now flying with an air corps unit
stationed in England.
HAROLD L. M 'KNIGHT, who enlisted in the navy several
weeks ago, has becu chosen to sinr first tenor in tli X.nvnl
Station choir at Great Lakes, 111 He was one of four chosen
to sing with the choir from his company numbering some 120.
..ine choir appeared recently on a coast hookuu over the
Blue Network from Chicago... They will also broadcast on
the 11th and 18th of this month... After attending? a bnsinpss
school, McNnight enrolled in a pre-mcd course at Nebraska
where he was going when he enlisted.
A special release from the San Antonio Aviation Cadet
Center in Texas: "Before AVIATION CADET JOHN MER
CER, Jr of Lincoln. Neb., entered th air fnrws ktwit Via
summers excavating for fossils and mounting skeletons in the
university oi Nebraska museum.
Now. takin? his nre-flipht training at tho San Antnnin
Aviation Cadet Center to become a combat aircrew pilot, Cadet
Mercer savs:
"There are several skeletons I would lib i dl tn th
University of Nebraska collection of elephants, rhinoceroses,
horses, camels, dogs, cats, deer, antelopes and rodents.
"Among the last I would include Tojo and Hitler!"
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BT NORRIE ANDERSON
(Guest Columnest)
Mr. Bradley tells us that our column, Hoss
Sense, is strongly remincscent of halatosis.
In return to this materialistic criticism,
we oner to "Air. Chips" a criteria for improv
ing the curriculum of UNEB. Bradley is pro
duction manager of this yawn patrol.
7:00 Boy Scout giving wig wag signals.
8 : 00 Debate between two deaf and dumb
teams.
10 :00 Demonstration of saying it with
flowers.
11:00 Silent tribute to sleeping listeners.
12:00 Granting of diplomas by the Doo
litle Correspondence achnnl
1:00 Pantomine drama: In the Still of
tne Night.
2:00 Twenty different ways to yawn by
Len Dunker.
3:00 Chorus of "Ho-Hurn" by the state
school for deaf and dumb quartette.
tioned out at the air base told me that the
guys out there are getting all primed up for
the party that night and they have been doin'
it by not getting any leaves to come to town
for two weeks so they will be plenty glad to
see any girls.
Well, Callie and me is just going down
town to pick out my corsage for the big Ce
wtiit Bored mucr4!w guvifld Lcttcx op,
To rive the Whereabouts f some tit th fnrmra tliat -ara
have been able to run down: HILL RTIIIIT. Rtrm Kn last
year, is now with, the Army Air Corps ground forces operat
ing in raiesune...Tr JVUAjiSK, a 1338-39 student at the
university and a Sigma Chi was one of the Americans taken
prisoner on Bataan...BOB WOEST of Nebrska City is with
the armed forces in Alaska... LT. DALE E. GARST, UN
graduate in 1941, has been transferred to the 156th Inf.: 31st
Div, Camp Bowie, Texas, for active duty... LLOYD MAR
TINSON, Grand Island, holds a first lieutenant rating and is
now in training in advanced electronics at Harvard after being
selected from a large field for the advanced course. . .PHIL
VENABLE is a V-5 aviation eadet at the USNR aviation base
at Glenview. Illinois... GEORGK KITSKA u ;
742nd M. D. Bn. at Fort Lpjnwr vnc i.j v.
Ui?nn "JbwSI8 th,ngs up for tody next time, it'i
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