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Editor
Business Manager.
.June Jamieson
..Charlotte Hill
Managing Editors.
News Editors
Pat Chamberlin, Mary Helen Thorns
.Leslie Jean Glotfelty, Maryloaise Goodwin
Ghita Hill, Betty Lea Hasten
White Tie or No?
Faculty members have left themselves wile open. Students
coking in the Union last Saturday night saw faculty couples
dancing in formal attire the same attire ruled out for students
as being unpatriotic and contrary to university pelicy of main
taining a good reputation throughout the state.
A Letterip in the adjacent column crystalizes opinions
which have been circulating about the campus in the last few
days. Students, who questioned the policy of giving up formal
attire in the first place, are bewildered by an apparent about
face in faculty circles.
Now the subject has come up again. All winter, organiza
tions have been requesting permission to have formal affairs.
This permission has been granted, with the restriction that all
formal affairs must be held within a house, and that no mem
ber may appear outside Ihe house in formal attire. Naturally,
the appearance of faculty members in public places causes stu
dent comment.
Originally, the idea was to cut down on elaborate parties
to show university participation in wartime living. Letters from
servicemen overseas were filled with comments indicating that
the so-called "sacrifice" was merely laughable. Still the cam
pus maintained its policy, while smaller colleges, some of them
stricter religious institutions, kept up the formal social func
tions. Now, with faculty members apparently adopting a new
policy, students want a clarification of the issue. Pan-Hellenic
Council and Student Council are the obvious organizations to
ask an explanatin. Perhaps there is a legitimate one; if so, the
students want to know it. Here is a question of student-faculty
relation which could be and should be cleared easily.
Postwar Planning
Contest Awards
Total 50,000
Prizes amounting- to $50,000 will
be awarded April 12 to seventeen
college men and women who enter
the Pabst Postwar Employment
contest.
Entries in the contest consist
of plans for postwar employment
and ways of overcoming the dif
ficulties which will be present at
such a time. Winning plans will
be turned over to proper govern
ment agencies and research bu
reaus on postwar employment.
Dr. Frederick C. Mills of Colum
bia University heads the faculty
members who are acting as con
sultants to the board of judges.
The first prize is $25,000; the
second, $10,000; and there will
be 15 prizes of $1,000 each.
Bengston Speaks
To State English
Teachers Group
Nels E. Bengtson, dean of the
junior division, will give a ten
minute talk at the meeting of the
Nebraska Council of Teachers of
English at the University of
Omaha Saturday, March 4. He
will speak on "What we should
like students to know about Eng
lish when they leave high school."
Dear Editor and UN Studentss
Hail, fellow sheep of Nebraska!
So we're griping because we can't wear
formals out of our houses. We're griping be
cause we didn't get a;iy voice in the decision
to suspend formal parties until after the
duration. Well, it's our own darn fault, so
let's do something about it.
What if that all-powerful faculty com
mittee did take it upon itself last fall to de
cide that the students could not wear for
mals, and has since held a party once every
month to which many members came in long
dresses. Don't start cursing the faculty
They can't help it if the students allow them
selves to be led around by the nose like a
bunch of sheep!
On July 10, 1942, the military depart
ment started making arrangements for the
next military ball, and decided that it could
not be formal due to the expense involved.
Later, the senate committee on student or:
ganization and social functions, acting upon
comments received from townspeople con
cerning the unpatriotism of formals in war
time, banned formal parties on this campus
to protect the reputation of the university
in view of future appropriations. Since that
time, the faculty has shown by its action in
holding semi-formal parties in the Student
Union ballroom (the latest one was last Sat
urday night) that they do not agree with
their former decision that being seen in for
mals is detrimental to the university. The
students are in perfect accord with the atti
tude of the faculty on this point because
both USO groups and respected town groups
have had enough formals this year that one
can go down town almost any Saturday
night and see couples attired in formal
dress.
Yet, the students still abide faithfully
by this obsolete rule like good little children.
Tassels are mad because they can't hold a
formal initiation. All the sororities are mad
because they can't have their traditional
formal banquets. Every group is mad be
cause if it has a closed formal the members
aren't allowed to run out of the house for a
minute to get a coke without changing their
clothes. A few of us are mad because the
students don't realize that it is toward
themselves that anger should be directed.
Here is the plan, and no one who loves
fair dealing can read it and promptly forget
the whole thing. Each Pan-Hellenic delegate
in her own house should bring up a discus
sion on formals and ask where the line
is drawn. Then eacn delegate snouid
take the decision of her group to a Pan-Hell
meeting where all the decisions will be tabu-
V Mail
Clippings
Pat Chamberlin, Censor
Second Lt BILL ROBINSON, of the famous
Kappa Sig Robinsons, is back on a short leave
before reporting to Indian Town Gap, somewhere
in Pennsylvania." He has been transferred from
tank destroyers, Camp Hood, Texas.
Second Lt. JOHN JAY DOUGLASS, ATO In
nocent and man-about-Lincoln-Omaha-and parts-east-and-west
last year is now instructing in the
acedemic department, anti-tanks, at Ft. Denning,
Ga.
Who knows, Lt. Douglass will probably run
into some of those UN fellows who recently left
Love Library for OCS at Ft. Benning. Tnerea
BILL GIST, CLYDE IRWIN (Delta Sig), JOHN
BOTTOROFF, FRED CASSIDY (DU), JOHN
AFPX)RD (Beta), BILL McBRIDE (Beta Innocent),
ERNTE SMITHERS (Beta), and CHARLES DUDA
of the football Dudas. Classes start March 2.
Cpl. BOB SCHLATER, under whose editorship
the Nebraskan won an All-American first honor
rating from the Associated Collegiate Press, and
who was another of those ATO Innocents, has been
transferred to the ai corps. He is now facing bat
teries of tests during the next six weeks at Keesler
Field, Miss. He went to Keesler from Ft. Leonard
Wood, Mo.
The third in the Big Three of Last Year's Sen
ior Innocents composed of Schlatcr, Douglass, and
Malcott, Second Lt. DAVE WALCOTT of the Phi
Psi.Theat hut has been sent back to Ft. Sill, Okla
where he will take a specializzed course for three
months before returning to Ft. Bragg, No. Carolina.
In the meantime he has been visiting his new home
in Waterville, Maine.
Second Lts. TIM MORSE and JACK STEWS
ART recently ran on to each other while "doing"
the town of Nashville. Tenn. Lt. "orse is on
Maneuvers. He is a member of I ... Kappa Psi,
and Lt. Stewart belongs to the ATOS. Wonder
just what the latter was up to in Nashville ?
Cpl. BOB L1CHTY, Beta about three years
back, recently returned to the states from two long,
dusty years in India. He was stationed at Delhi
with a photographic squad, and made frequent trips
into the Chinese and Burma sectors as well as
covering India. He was sent back to attend a new
OSC school in air corps administration in Miami,
Fla.
lated and the majority will rule where the
majority is affected.
Come on, you delegates! What say we
get on the ball and kill off the Nebraska
sheep. JANET MASON.
New Activities Call for Additional Funds
(Editor's not: Thin I the fourth In the
series of articles In Ihr university bulletin
of postwar plana for UN which wan pre
pared by Ihe chancellor's faculty advlnory
committee, the administrative council of
deans, and the board of resrents. It In
hoped by The Nehraskan that throe ar
ticled may acquaint the public with the
university' need for more adequate appro
priation. New Demands.
When it is suggested that the
University's progTam of activities
should be kept within the re
sources available for maintenance
of creditable quality, it should be
realized that the university almost
every year is requested to under
take one or more new activities.
At the present time three inter
ested groups in the state are ask
ing that the university undertake
two new programs of research and
one new instructional program.
The university would be glad to
add each of these three activities
to its current program if sufficient
money were provided.
Difficulty Exists Today.
When the university indicates
that it now has great difficulty in
operating its current program
with the resources available, a
group interested in a new type of
activity is likely to indicate its
willingness to endeavor to get a
special item placed in the univer
sity appropriation for its specific
activity. But there is an adherent
danger in sucli, procedure. It would
serve no useful purpose if a spe
cial item were inserted in the uni
versity appropriation for a new
activity, but with an accompany
ing reduction of like amount in the
university general fund (which
supports all the colleges) and with
no increase in the total appropria
tion for the institution. This would
force the university to make a
still greater variety of bricks with
no more straw.
Such procedure the designation
of funds for a specific program
might lead to an ever increasing
itemization of the appropriation
at the expense of the non-itemized
bulk of the university program in
the university general fund. An in
crease of itemization in the uni
versity appropriation would be
wasteful and educationally be
cause it would make the use of
funds less flexible. The members
of the Board of Regents, elected
by the voters of the state, are re
sponsible for the wise administra
tion of the funds appropriated for
the university by the legislature.
Meeting every month they are
able to keep in touch with the
changing and emergent needs of
various parts of the program and
allocate funds accordingly. The
possibilities of efficient adminis
tration by the Board of Regents
are in inverse ratio to the amount
of itemization in the biennial ap
propriations. Current practice is
sound and should not be changed.
If the university is to be ex
pected to operate a program after
the war as extensive in scope as
before the war and maintain cred
itable standards of performance,
an appropriation from tax funds
not less than 25 percent greater
than for the biennium 1941-43
(based on the dollar value of 1941)
will be needed. This would be an
increase of only 11.6 percent in
the total university appropria
tion which includes Federal funds,
fees and cash collections. What
stage current inflationary trends
may have reached by the end of
the war cannot now be foretold.
If the current trend in the cost
of living is not soon brought un
der effective control, all salaries
should be increased.
If the Legislature, after the
war, should believe that the state
either cannot afford or does not
want to increase its investment in
higher education as much as in
dicated above, then it would seem
that the Board of Regents will be
confronted with the necessity to
consider ways and means of re
ducing the scope of our activities
in order to have creditable quality
of performance in what we at
tempt to do, and still operate, as
we must, within the limits of the
funds made available for our use.
Society . . .
There's Nothing Like It
BULLETIN
AIKANE.
Alkane, the YM-YW Inter-raclal club,
mrrts at 1:SO Thuntday evening at the
home of Dr. O. H. Werner, 1814 Lake
street.
COED FOIJ.IES.
Participants in the toed Follies style
how will meet Wednesday afternoon at 8
In Ellen- Smith hall.
STUDENT COUNCIL.
Student Council meeting will be held
Wednesday at 6 in room SI 5 In the Union.
FIRST AID.
Red Cross first aid rlass will be held
Thursday evening at 7:00 in the lakm fac
ulty lounge.
RED CROSS.
County solicitors of the Red Cross will
meet at 5 o'clock Thursday in room SIS
of the Union.
Leap Year day, Feb. 29, took
society editor Laura Lee Mundil
to Chicago to visit pinmate, Cliff
Land s folks, so the old maids sit
in the manless Rag office and
write about spring, candy pass
ings and weddings.
Janet Gibson, Gamma Phi, has
redecorated her room with a pic
ture ot Dorsey Kindler, Sig Chi.
Too bad, ASTP Bill Burns wasn't
more photogentic!
Some get around, others know
their way around, but Mary Louise
Goodwin hunts her way around.
Goody, who was taking a gang
of Pi Phi's to Shirley Johnson's
wedding at David City showed
them half the state of Nebraska
before finding David City. For de
tails of the ride home see Jo
Martz.
Rumor has it that Betty Mahan,
Alpha Chi, evidtntally believes in
leap year, as Bob Smith, Beta,
was wearing her diamond. This
week poor pledges will have some
thing else to polish!
Thetas House Warming.
Theta's house warming showed
big changes in the Phi Psi house.
Ernie Larson's room showed a
new brand of perfume on the
dresser. Marty Malster and Doro
thy Gallup showed the new bed
room attire, even to blue boots.
"Must be the Thetas as the Phi
Psi's never dressed like that,"
quote Pete Anderson.
Someone who bears watching is
"P.nll TUr.: cn Tn j .
inciacii, oig r.p uoes ne
go in for arrow hunting or key
snatching? Either game sounds
fun!
Johnny Green is teaching Joyce
Sterner, Alpha Chi, new navy ma
neuvers. The army can also be
mighty cagey when it comes to
operations. For additional infor
mation see "Press" Cochran,
ASTP, school Nina Scott, Delta
Gamma.
The reason the Beta's phone
isn't busy and the house is so
quiet is that Johnny Dean, Tom
Hoard, and Bill Olson have be
come Uncle Sam's noise makers.
Poor Jim Borgoff is losing all his
buddies.
If on these lonely afternoons
or evenings you have nothing bet
ter to do, listen to the eorncrib's
arrangement of "A Good' Man Is
Hard To Find."
War Loan
(Continued from Page 1.)
vealed Mary Louise Goodwin,
chairman of the blood doners com--
mittee at the war council meeting
yesterday afternoon. Students will
go to the bank at the St. Eliza
beth's hospital after they have
made the necessary preparations,
which will be in the near future.
Wednesday and Saturday morn
ings will be set aside for univer
sity students, who wiil register
beforehand through war council
representatives in organized
nouses.