Sunday,' February B, 1944.
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Editor June Jamieson
Business Manager Charlotte Hill
Managing Editors Pt "Chamber-tin, Mary Helen Thomas
News Editors Leslie Jean Glotfelty, Marylenise Goodwin
Ghita Hill, Betty Lan Hnston
Society Laura Lee MundH
Sports Harold W. Andersen
BUSINESS STAFF
Assistant Btisinrss Managers Jo Marts, Lorraine Ahramson
t'ircnlatien Manager Bill Korff, t-"5SS
A Step Ahead . . .
At a conference on post -war adjustment ijj higher educa
tion last week. Chancellor C. S. Voucher told representatives
of Nebraska colleges and universities of a slrong need for
analysis of college-level curriculum. Delegates agreed that
educational programs must he made to conform with .job re
quirements arising from post-war changes in business, industry
and the professions.
The chancellor has an example on his own campus.
This week, at the university college of agriculture, three
prominent Xcbraskans, Gov. Dwight Griswold, William Jtffers
and Dr. Kdmund'R Lincoln, will discuss wartime problems
and the future of agriculture. Occasion is the annual meet
ing of Organized Agriculture, a group composed of state
agricultural associations and departments, when farmers and
business men spend three days studying the improvements and
changes in Nebraska's largest business.
The three-day session is one of the few projects sponsored
by ag campus and the extension division. Agriculturists arc
constantly on the watch for new ideas. The college falhers
forums and meetings on current problems availability of farm
labor and price control. New methods of feeding and plant
ing are evaluated. Debates are held between business anr
a gr icu 1 1 u re rej iresen t a t i ves.
Growing crops and feeding cuttle are not the only aspects
of agriculture, llural economics, chemurgy, nutrition each
has its place. Ag college professors and instructors have gained
national fame for research carried on in Lincoln and at the
various experiment .stations lhruout the state.
Here is an example of planning for the future, and it is
not new. Ag campus administrators have been following a
program of teaching for the next generation. Nebraska farmers
will be well prepared for post-war changes. What of Nebraska
business and professional men and women?
YOUR UNIVERSITY
Await Library 33 Years
BY JIDGE MASON.
In the Feb. 19, 1040, edition of the Daily Nebraskan stu
dents read this comment: "Fall term, 1!42, will have the
campus unanimously saying that goin' to the library is sure
pleasure!'' The writer was referring to ihe new Don h. Ixve
library for which plans were then being formulated.
Two years later, the students stood outside their beautiful
new building and watched ihe books being moved in in the
form of khaki-colored cadets.
This long awaited building, for which the students are
Mill waiting, was not inertly a project of the last live years,
as might he suspected, but has grown out of 33 years of plead
ing, debating; faculty discussions and student support. The
Nebraskan files reveal that campaigns started as far back
a V.Hl.
In lfl'24 the regents, in a little pamphlet labeled "Impor
tant, "cried out their indignation over the critical state of
library facilities. They maintained that it was "virtually im
possible" for a student to study in that library building.
Regents Grant Approval.
After a long struggle, plans wei submitted by Davis &
Wilson, Lincoln architects, and ihe board of regents gave thei
approval.
The $S(X),WX) building was completed in February, 1943,
but no books were moved in, for meanwhile the Japs had de
rided that Nebraska must house soldier detachments and the
new library was the obvious location.
On April 19 of last year, some 300 advanced UOTC stu
dent ere activated and moved into the library. March 30
saw soldiers with the air corps insignia making the library
their living quarters. May 25 brought army specialized train
ing uuifs into Ixvc and the building became a huge barracks.
Thirty-three years is a long time to wait for a library,
but somehow the waiting has become easier in the last three
years since Pearl Harbor. Even tho we can't use our build
ing, we have it now and we know that all its columns and halls
and floors and rooms are dedicated to the protection of the
great ideas that Mill some day be collected within its walls.
Love Memorial library has gone thru a trying ordeal
which we hope no other building on any campus in the world
will ever have to experience 'again.
Hell and High Water
By les Glotfelty
The "big girls" have been noising it
around that politics is dead at Nebraska this
year. We didn't believe it in the first place,
knowing Nebraska, but Mere darn sure it
"just ain't so" anymore.
'We saw one of the neatest little deals yet
in the recent publications board election of
Nebraskan staff members. And it wasn't just
the student members on the board either. May
be the faculty members of the board didn't
know what the score was, but somebody put
over a couple of fast ones somewhere along
the line. . The Nebraskan is the most non-par
tisan organization on the campus, and it a sad
note when would-be politicians forget that we
need ability as well as other things in the staff
members.
Tn his literary comp course the other day,
Dr. L. C. Wimberly dissertated on the subject
of fate. He read someone's essay implying
that our destiny is in the slars. In other
words, fate is dealing out our lives from a
stacked deck.. We don't get a chance to shuf
fle or cut, but take the ace of spades or the
two of clubs as it comes. Somebody is slated
for a royal flush and the rest of us are go
ing to maybe get a pair of dueces, regardless
of our own playing ability.
There are several of those so-called "jun
ior women" in the class, and from the thought
ful looks n their respective facts, we Ihnik
they Mould each like to be left alone with that
fateful stacked deck for a short minute or
two. So Mould we, before grades come out,
but not for the same reason. May G, "Day of
joy, day of tears, day of coalition," is three
months away, and it's amazing how coeds are
already getting that frustrated, l ean 't-sland-it-any-longer
appearance. Hy May they Mill
have Morn down to a soul-less hunk of proto
plasm. Heading the copy for this column over our
shoulder, Jo Martz remarked that the above
paragraphs ought to have a special head, "Ho
tween the Devil and the Deep Hlue Sea."
Letterip . . .
WeTalkTooMueh
To Nebraskan readers:
I think that every once in awhile it dawns
on each of us that there actually is a Mar go
ing on, but you'd never know it from our ac
tions. The general attitude around our campus
seems to be that it's the other fellow's Mar Ia
him fight it! So, we go to a movie when we
should be rolling bandages, we have the
"gang" in for bridge when Me should be host
essing at the U. S. O. and we talk too much.
Not so many days ago a stranger put in his
appearance on this campus. That stranger Mas
a very ordinary appearing man; you wouldn't
notice him in a croMd that is, you wouldn't
notice him unless you got a good lok at his
ears. He had the biggest ears you ever saw.
("The bigger to hear you with, my dear").
He had a camera, too, and he took some, very
interesting pictures of the Field House and
the new' libraray. And the questions he asked!
He'd lean on his cane and ask you pointedly if
you knew anything about the troops stationed
here. How many arc there? Where do thty go
after this? How do the soldiers like the army?
Any dissatisfaction? These and many more
questions he asked. And some fools answered
him, telling him all they knew. They didn't
know there is a war going on. They didn't
notice his queer accent. Oh no! Why should
they bother? He Mas jjust a harmless old man
Well, perhaps he was, and then again, perhaps
he wasn't. The local authorities didn't con
sider him harmless when they Mere notified
and I doubt very much if Adolf Hitler would
jons'ider him unimportant, either.
We've reid many times the sign saing "a
slip of the Up will sink e ship" but have you
ever realized that that sign might apply to
you? Some of us evidently haven't rcilliiW it.'
. . . Mail
Clippings
Pat Chamberlin, Censor
(It may not exactly qualify as V-Mail, but
they're in the war effort) :
BETTY NEWMAN, 43, Mortar Board and
president of WAA last year, is now a co-ed stew
ardess for United airlines on the run between Chi
cago, Omaha, North Platte, and Cheyenne, Wyo.
Bet is a Delta Gamma. .
BETTY GRIFFITHS, '42, is also working as a
stewardess for United Airlines, altho we can't
discover her run.
SECOND LT. BEN ALICE DAY, USMCR, is
stationed at Camp Joseph H. Pendleton, Oceanside,
Calif. Her work is connected with personel in the
post exchange. Lieutenant Day was sr Mortar
Board president of AWS two years back.
PVT. WARREN EISENH ART, Phi Gam,
varsity basketball guard, left January 15th for
basic training for the Air Corps. He is stationed
at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
Lt. E. A. HERZOG is studying radar at Harv
ard University. He received his commission in the
Marine Corps this fall, and was transferred to the
army for radar training.
LT. HOWARD MARTIN is "somewhere in In
dia" with the army engineers. He went overseas six
months ago.
CPL. PAUL SCHUPBACK Mas here recently
on furlough from the AST program at Iowa uni
versity whcie he is an A and L student,
midshipman arden means, Sigma Cm,
was recently back on the campus after his gradua
tion from Cadet basic school for the Merchant Ma
rines at Pass Christian, Miss. He will now go
"out to sea' for six months training, then back
again to the Merchant Marine academy at Kings
port, New York.
'
MAYNARD MILLER has graduated from boot
training at Camp Faragut, Idaho.
CADET JIM HAWKINS, Phi Delt last year,
returned last Saturday after a mid-term furlough
for his AST unit at Denver University.
LT. (j-Q() JOHN SCOFIELD has arrived m
New Orleans for naval internship. At UN, Lieu
tenant Scofield was a member of Sigma Phi Ep
silon and was a Phi Rho at Omaha med school.
AC LOUIS SCOFIELD, John s brother, is tak
ing advance bombardier training at Big Springs
Texas.
CECIL W. HEMING and RICHARD P. WARD
have received their commissions as second lieuten
ants and the silver wings of the AAF aerial navi
gator at San Marcos Field, Texas. Cecil was a
member of Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary bizad
fraternity.
PVT. BILL M UN SON, ATO last year, stopped
for a coke the other day in the giill enjoute to
Shrcveport, La,
Ten UN men were recently commissioned as
second lieutenants at Randolph Field, Texa, and
pinned their AAF silver wings on their blouse.
They are HARRY V. MEASE, DANIEL J. FISH
ER, LLOYD A. OLSEN, DALE A. THEOBALD,
GORDON M. UHRI, JOHN C. BAKER, RICHARD
V. MALEK, THOMAS C. McGOVERN, NATHAN
L. EASTMAN, and CURTIS W. GETTMAN.
CAPT. FORREST BEHM, DU Innocent, and all
Big-Six tackle, Just came back from two years in
Alaska and is on his way to teach English at West
Point for a change. . Captain Behm ROTC
cadet colonel in '40. His wife, Betty Groth, Alpha
Phi. will accompany him to West Point.
If you could have heard the information some
fools on the campus Mere giving the old man
Mho limped (and proved eventually that he
could run as well as yon or 1), you Mould real
ize just how important all of this is. So please,
the next time a stranger asks 3 011 personal or
pointed questions, ignore him as one soldier
did by saying "well, I'm from out of toMn
myself, bub.'
A "WORRIED STUDENT.'
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