SunHory, March T2, TCT
THE NEBRASKAN
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The Joke Has Soured
Half of the candidates who filed for bal
lot positions in the annual university wom
en's election are ineligible because of schol
astic delinquences or averages below the
weighted 80 demanded of the "acivity girl."
This means that half of the sophomore
and junior women in the university who
are working in organizations supposedly
possessing the highest capabilities of lead
ership and scholarship have been unable to
maintain working balance between studies
and extra-curricular activities.
Postponement of election to give candi
dates time to remove downs has averted the
problem of a non-representative slate. It
has not, however, eliminated the danger of
a group of weak officers for important cam
pus organizations. Those who are elected
to high positions in activities cast the mold
for activity women to come. Present defects
will enlarge, until activity organizations oi
the campus reach the bottom of their pres
ent down-slope slide.
Nebraska students are allowing educa
tion and good grades to become the subject
of ridicule. They have lost respect for ser
ious study and assimilation of material that
creates conscientious, capable executives.
They have not discovered that the advan
tage to be gained from a college degree
comes through the effect on the person who
receives it.
It isn't hard to be dumb. As soon as the
principles ,of the leaders slip, the followers
can be expected to do nothing but join the
crowd. A little more applause for "brains"
would help raise scholastic standards. Less
approbation of boundless social and activity
life might change the attitude. Unless stu
dents remember that it's smart to be smart,
they are in danger of losing instead of gain
ing from their college experience.
Hell and High Water
By Les Glotfelty
Want to know who the new AWS prexy
is? Interested in knowing when your boy
friend is coming home ? Want to know who
the new Mortar Boards are ? Just come see
us. For a nominal fee we can fix anything
to suit the customer or at least that s what
we're told.
It seems that the friend of a friend of a
friend (implying that we do have a friend!)
and so on heard a couple of coeds (Ed's
note: Must have been freshmen) discus
sing campus doings yesterday. Talk gravi
tated around to picking over Coed Follies
awards, and one of the coeds made the
astounding statement that, "Glotfelty had
who was going to win Coed Follies all fixed
up hours before Ihe show even started."
Now, we are very grateful that you have
so much faith in us, and it is nice to feel
that we have super-natural powers, but
after all . We can't go around having
people think we can fix things like that
The Mortar Boards will think we are steal
ing their stuff to start with. Anyway, what
feeble power we have is limited to decid
ing whether we want a plain or chocolate
coke with our lunch.
We are awfully sorry that it wasn't us
who decided who was going to win the Fol
lies. We hate to disappoint our loyal read
ers who endow us with such magical pow
ers. When'they have faith enough in us to
think we can corrupt five faculty judges
Miss Guthrie, Miss Rausch. Miss Schwake,
Miss Schossberger, and Miss Frasier
brother that's faith! Donaldine and I (in
cidentally, Donaldine had nothing to do with
who won the Follies either) are flattered.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, we thank
vou.
Discontinuance of Professional Colleges
Would Reduce Cost of Appropriations
'Keillor' note: Thin in thr ninth In thr
aerir of arilrlr In thr uiilvrinlly bulletin
il nonlwar phinn lor I N which n prr-pitri-d
hy thr rhnnrelliir' family advisory
rommlttre, thr administrative council of
itrnn, and thr board xf rrtrntn. It In
hoped by thr Nrnrnxknn thut thrir nr
tlrlr may arqunlnt thr pnhllr Hh thr
university, nrrd for more ariVonntr apprii
riHtlonn.) Another way in which to re
duce the spread of university ac
tivities, in order to bring the total
program within the reach of ourj
resources, would be to discontinue
one or more of the professional
colleges or schools. In contem
plating such a step two points
must be kept in mind: first, in
most instances a professional col
lege was established in response
to expressions of widespread pop
ular and professional interest in
the particular professional field;
and second, in the instance of
each professional college or school
that we now maintain, even
though inadequately in too many
instances, there is a group of pro
fessional practicioners in the state
vho would immediately register a
vigorous protest.
This protest would likely be
made to the board of regents, but
if it were made to the legislature
it might lend to a special appro
priation item for a designated pro
fessional college; this might lead
to further designated appropria
tion items for other, and perhaps
all the other, professional col
leges; the final result might be a
university appropriation that rep
resented the resultant strengths
of special interest groups, with the
college of arts and sciences (the
veiy heart of any university pro
gram) getting what was left.
Thus, if any professional college
were to be discontinued, such a
step should be taken with a full
realization of likely resulting ef
fects upon th attitude of the
citizenry and the legislature of the
state toward the university.
Protest Discontinuance.
As for the discontinuance of
any department within any col
lege or school, no one of the pro
fessional colleges or schools will
concede that it has any depart
ment that is not necessary for it
to maintain accredited status and
the privileges of licentiates for
its graduates as practicioners
Even in the college of arts and
sciences, though there are some
departments that are not listed
as required for the award of an
A.B. or B.S. degree, there is prob
ably no department that we now
have that could be discontinued
without protests from students,
their parents, and their senators.
To be sure that resources are
not wasted, it seems that the best
we can do here is to watch care
fully the enrollments in each de
partment relative to the number
of staff members, and to see to it
that in each department we re
duce as well as increase the num
ber of staff members in the light
of enrollment trends. This w;
have done and are doing.
Give Generously or Niggardly.
Another method of improving
the performance of some colleges
and schools of the university
would be deliberately to strength
en these colleges and schools at
the expense of others by allocat
ing iuncis generously to their
budgets and niggardly to others
rast practice of the board of re
gents and the chancellor has been
to distribute available funds
among the colleges and schools a
equitably as possible in the light
of their respective current needs,
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Student members of AUF who
were directly responsible for car-
i-ying on the drive are Jim Howe,
director; Dorothy Carnahan, head
solicitor; Ghita Hill, publicity;
Virginia McCuIla, treasurer, and
Min Beede, clerical work. Betty
Stehlik, June Spellman, and Lewis
Kramer were head solicitors for
the co-ops, boarding houses and
fraternities.
Virginia Stuermer, Estelle Len-
neman, and Bob Henderson make
up the advisoiy board and Dr.
Curtis Elliott 5s faculty advisor of
the AUF organization.
though never on an exact pro
rata basis. The objective has been
to have the colleges and schools
share fairly equally in the good
and ill fortunes of the institution
according to funds available from
year to year and over a period
of years.
If the policy were adopted to
use the institution's resources de
liberately so as to develop a few
colleges and schools to a point of
high standing, allowing others to
become anaemic through financial
starvation, the loss of accredited
status of the latter might bring
public demand for larger univer
sity appropriations. Here again,
however, the institution would be
courting the danger of having a
special item placed in the univer
sity budget for a designated col
lege or school at the expense of
the university general fund. This
would force a reduction of the
budgets of colleges and schools
for which definite items were not
appropriated. In this event noth
ing would be gained in general
university standing by building up
one college or school and pulling
down another. In juch a game of
seesaw what goes up soon comes
down.
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Morlar Board . . .
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three senior girls will be given
the Mortar Board award of
achievement. This award is pre
sented for both scholarship and
activities.
University faculty women will
serve at the tea, and members
of the women's boards on the
campus will assist.
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Editor Jane Jamiesoa
Bnslnew Manager Charlotte Hill
Manat-inr Editor. P Ch.mkerlia Mary Helen Thoma
New. Editor. Lealle Jeaa (ilatfelty. Maryloama Ge.dwia
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Society Has It . . .
Rumors, Pins Travel Swiftly;
Fijis Say Wo Gal, No Nuthin9
. . . 1 1 Savs Here
International peace is the desire
of all, but peace on the campus
gets mighty dull as we begin to
realize right about now, however,
we're just finding out what hap
pened in the Rag office about the
time the big war show was over
that Friday so long ago it
shouldn't be printed in black and
white but Charlotte Hill may give
you the dope in black upon re
quest . . . the thing is, this job
about only the good die young is
fallacious as far as I'm concerned
and even the worst of is might
get our necks broken . . . speak-
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comparatively speaking office of
the university publication would be
excused by the majority of work
ers if only the army could be more
considerate of one thing.
Maybe it's just a teaser, maybe
it's supposed to be a secret, never
theless it's there and nothing can
be done about it. Found in one of
the drawers was one of Tommy
Dorsey's romantic records entitled
"The Night We Called it a Day."
What's so aggravating about the
whole thing is the thoughtlessness
of the owner. The least he could
have done was to stuff a vietrola
among the towels, hair brushes
and tooth powder so that the staff
could listen to the Pied Pipers and
type in rhythm. But then if one
turns the record over, one Bees
that it's just "One of Those
Things." '
German authorities in Norway
have complained to the . quisling
regime that efforts to educate
Norwegians in the use of the Ger
man language have completely
failed. The Germans complained
that the Norwegian obstinacy had
caused the cancelling of many Ger
man language courses because of
the lack of pupils.
ing of necks, there's SDT B-tty
Lou Foster whom I asked tor
gore and she ditln't give it to me
though she knew some - so I could
make something of her deal with
AST Jerry Brower but 1 guess I
won't.
Coming up is the AST dinner
dance at which will be seen Harry
Stutman with Alpha Phi Lois
Christie and can that boy dance!
Rain, rain, go away, come again
some other any could not be ap
plied to the AST we want them
to stay and never go away but you
know life in the army- well, don't
you ?
Fijis Rex Stotts, Jack Reese
and "Andy" Anderson were "off"
yesterday-to Omaha -They kept
trying to tell us there was to be
"No love, no nuthin' till their ba
bies come home" but how can we
believe Andy's baby wasn't home
and besides, boys, we know what
people go to Omaha for . . .
Two bits that "What's to stop
you?" is the theme of one AST
Bill Hall of New Mexico His
PiKA pin is itching to get next
to the anchor of new Delta Gamma
President Bonnie Hinrichs. we
think, and can you blame it? And
by the by, what is stopping you,
Bonnie? Conies a big rat rumor
that another pin is practically on
its way, this time from Sigma Nu
prexy Louie Kremer to ChiO Jan
Engle Of course, they aren't even
going officially steady as yet but
you know rumor fortunately.
ChiO Estelle Lenneman trucked
up to Davenport this week-end to
see pinmate Ed Heffcrman but
mainly her brother Bill wonder
what the main object of her other
trips has been since her .brother
hasn't always been near there?
Wonder who falls in and out of
love quicker than blonde bomber
"Bee" Manville and the lucky gal
always has a flock on her trail
tool "Best' we close with that . . .
happy week, all . . .
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