THE NEBRASKAN
Monday, September 18, 1944
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Editor Pa ftaabwiii
Manuring CdHors lary Lowtne Gmtiwin, Huron Aaderor
Vr-ws L,itr luMlir Jean Crhfel', Brtty Lh Maaoa, Mary JsrreH
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Assistant Hnoiness Maiitrtn MMrud lorrt Atrmiwn
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UN Belongs to the Frosh
The new, the large, and the enthusiastic Class of '48
has a big job on their hands throughout their four years
of oolleg-e.
Those of us old-timers who have seen the university
faJQ from its rroud, pne-war standards of student attend
aiwe. facultv membership, extra-curricular activities, and
cf course, of social life, are heaving great sighs of relief
at the as yet unofficial, but highly encouraging, registra
tion firures which promise a 10 to 15 percent increase
over last year's all-time low. This, we haw a feeling, is
oin to be a good year.
Every university in the country, not just Nebraska,
hit the bottom of the World War II cycle last year. This
year, 1944-45 will see colleges on the upswing again.
And the people who will bring the university back
into its own and push it up higher than before the war
are not the juniors and sensors of this year. 1 Trey re war
time Issue, and definitely old hat. It's the underclassmen,
the Class of "48, on whom this responsibility rests.
Let" s review some of the peacetime traditions which
will live again when the Frosh, 1,050 strong at this date,
take over. Men wall compete in student publications again:
the Nebraska will retain to a daily basis, the Cornhusker
will go back to its old, larger size, and the Agawan, campus
humor magazine once again be seen.
Men's organizations will revive : Corncobs, the Httsker
pep organization, Kosmet Klub, dramatic and general agi
tation club, and the Innocents, senior men's honorary and
student university steering committee.
Once again UN will have a formal dress season open
ing with a military fcall and losing with the Junior-Senior
Prom in the spring. While out at Ag the Farmer's Formal
will highlight the weeVs festivities of the annual Farmer's
Fair. And the Engineering College will again sponsor the
yearly Engineers' Week, complete with banquet and dance.
Fraternities and sororities will fued again; football
games will be the leading spirit of autumn, and classes
will be more fun with "that good-looking guy" sitting
across the aisle.
Yes, it's the Freshmen who will shape the campus of
the future, a normal, happy campus building its place in
a world of peace. This is the task the '"old hat" upper
classmen are asking the incoming Class of '48 to do. And
we wish the Frosh the best luck and the best time ever
at Nebraska. Dig in, Frosh; the school is yours!
Seems like we spent many inches last
spring telling about how we weren't going
to write a coluwm ths year something
along the order of the old proverb, "Sleep
ing dogs dost tell lies" or somhing. At any
rate, the old fatal lure got x nd in spite
kf the unendurable orderL of the Ne-
braskan office, here we are pounding it out
again. As a concession to the faculty and
other people, the name has been revamped.
That way we can fool people into thinking
this is a different column and a different
writer.
Having been 800 miles away in Wyom
ing all summer, we are not up on the lat
est about the latest. Apparently 75 per
cent of the last year coeds got married, 24
percent of them got engaged, and the other
1 percent was us. Freshman and new up-
perclass coeds are simply over-running the
place. Rush week is the usual mess with
rushees running around in hats and gloves,
which they never see the rest of the year.
Politics is, as usual, non-existent at this time
of year, and the-always-good-for-the-unex-
pected Mortar Boards are bent on keeping
pit that way. Harold Anderson, Nebraskan
managing ed, dug up a little frosh for sports
(editor to take the place of J. P. Miller who
hwent the GI way. The student council is in
for a clean -up we hear, but whether the
(council is going to clean up the rest of UN
lor whether the council itself gets the going-
fover, remains to toe seen, -War (Jouncii
prxy Roberta Burgess isn't back this year
which is too bad, and BWOC Virginia Stuer-
mer goes to med school in Omaha, which
means she has to run the many things she
runs by remote control, and if anyone can
do it, Stuerraer can.
All of which means less than nothing to
the myriads of new students, but they'll
catch on only too quickly, and it will still be
less than nothing to the majority of them.
Which reminds us that it is most impossible
to write an interesting column the first
week of school. With that remark, which can
have a period after the word "column" only
too well, well sign off until something happens.
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For leieure-trme activities the
Union provides lounges, card and
ping pong rooms, a music room
with a large collection of classioal
records, and a Boole Ndk -with
cui'itatt magazines, -newspapers
and test-sellers in recent books.
The Union also offers free check-'
ing service, chedk cashing service,1!
telegram facilities, a lost and found
booth, and ticket selling booths.
The TJniorfs activities program;
will begin Saturday with an AST
dance, open to the entire campus,
witfi the AST band playing. This
will be the first off a series off two;
dances a month throughout the
school year. There will be a va
riety show Sunday, "'The Cat and
the Canary," featuring Bob Hope
and Paulctte Goddard.
This fall the Union is feeding
the army oti only the second floor
dining room in order that partors
X., Y and Z may be open for
parties. The faculty homecoming
dirmeir will toe Sept. 22.
Peppers are rich in vitamins C,
B and C.
There are three species rf cul
tivated barley. .
Castor oil now is used in the
prodactM rf perfumes.
Brazil became marpenoem of
Partugwl, Sept. 7, 1S82.
Same species f the bamboo
plant attain a height of 120 fret.
Witk the accelerated program overseas, Y-Matl
is kavin Ms dtfficnHies eolleetmc e -Nebraska
lieutenants, majors, privates. Mort than ever be-
parents, who art hereby wrred mail ar brine
ta ike Nebraska! office news of Hwsaers now ht
the army, navy, marines ar merchant marine.
Where the fcMows are siatoined, What they think
about where they are, and what honorary or fra
ternal affilUtions they had at VK. The mailbox
is distressingly empty!
COL. WALTER C GARDNER, Fed Artilrery
ROTC instructor and sponsor of the F.A. honor
ary Scabbard and Blade, has been transferred
from Ft Sill to Camp Gruber, Okla. CoL Gardner
was sent to Ft. Sill from the university a year
ago. At UN, he was also executire officer o tha
Ag F.A. branch of ROTC.
JOHN MCCARTHY, Beta, is sww sweating it
out at OCS in Camp Barkley, Texas.
LT. BUZZ DALTON, Acacia Innocent a few
years back, is now stationed in Haw. His wife,
Mortar Board-Alpha Chi Marg Bruriing, is wi
Omaha on the World -Hera Id staff.
LT. JACK LET-TffEDY, Sigma N lest year, is
"somewhere in England." Chi-O Lois Metcalfe, his
wife, is back at UN, as is Theta Peggy Lemon, who
is now Mrs. Stan Maly. LT. MALY, Sigma Nu last
year, is now in England, too. He and LT. LES
BlCKLEY, Phi Deft, went overseas together last
summer.
LT. ROLAND FINLEY, ATO, and LT. FRANK
MATTOON, silver-tongued orator of the Beta
house, ere about to leave on manemers from Ft.
Leonard Wood, Mo. Mrs. Mattoon, Gamma Phi
Treva Muchmore, is returning to Lincoln today.
LT. JOHNNY BAUERMEISTER, Bta Sig and
former news editor of the Nebraskan, is home on
graduation .leave from OCS at Ft. Berming, Ga.
He will be stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss.
CPL. BURLMARIIN, DU, is here m furlough
from Buckley Field, Colo.
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