Friday, December 15, 1944
THE NEBRASKAN
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Mr . Pat Chamberlln
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Ktwi Editere Leslie Jeaa Glolf.lly. Betty Laa Haitea.
laaat Mas.n, Phyllis Teagardea
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Asaistaat Bniiaeaa Manager! Lorraine Abrameea, Mildred EnfMrem
Beeirty Editar Helen Geodwin
B porta Editor Dick Dilsaver
Home Ec
Since the first class of two students in 1907, the home economics
department has graduated more than 1,500 students, who have, for
the most part, remained within the state, contributing to its de
velopment as teachers, hospital dietitians, home demonstration agents
and extension specialists, food service directors, researchers, and
more "eeently, government and war workers supervising the food
service for groups of soldiers or war plant workers from canteens
to the huge bomber plant cafeterias.
Wherever in Nebraska a meal is found, generally there is found
woman who plans it, buys it and cooks it. Theirs is an important
job, even more urgent in crises suchVs drouth, depression and war,
when the proper care and feeding of American families depends
upon the daughter, wife or mother.
Love co-operative dormitory and the new food and nutrition
building, recently added to the physical plant of the home economics
department at ag college, are tangible proofs that the state has come
to realize the importance of home economics to the well-being of
Nebraska.
Right now, however, the department is just about working at
the maximum efficiency of which it is capable with its depleted
and as yet unreplaced staff. Some years before the war, the Ne
braska home economics department was rated alongside of lead
ing mid-western home ec departments, such as the one at Ames,
la., but by now, its reputation has slipped, due primarily to staff
ing deficiencies. The physical plant problem, which previously seri
ously hampered the department, has been removed with the recent
addition of the two buildings
A strong graduate department is needed to train home eco
nomists in dietetics and research, and to develop such a strong
department, graduate assistantships are necessary to encourage
promising students. Suitable equipment for research of the staff
and of the graduate students will be required if advanced degrees
are to be granted, and, in order to answer questions constantly
coming into the department from people of the state, additional
research staff members are needed.
The department also feels the need for a new home manage
ment house to supplement the two already in capacity use. The new
house they would prefer in the form of a duplex which will simu
late conditions in both farm and town houses of different economic
levels.
Additional residence halls are also desperately needed on ag
campus. At present there is provision for only about 75 girls to
live on that campus, and not taking into consideration the incon
venience to the students of traveling daily from city dorms to ag
classes, there is little extra available space for women in the city
campus dormitories. With these additions and improvements, the
Nebraska home ec department could easily surpass its previous
record of excellence.
The Rhythm Front
A real hep band greeted dancers in the Union ballroom Satur
day night at the regular Union student dance. Led by Leota Sneed
and Lob Evans, and composed entirely of UN students, this band
really came in for the superlatives.
The band is a combination of two student bands, the Gamma
Phi's and an "assorted" men's group, both of which tried out for
war council's War Show separately, and then combined forces. It
is the first UN student band ever to have both men and women.
Pat Lahr overheard the War Show auditions and promptly signed
them up to play for last Saturday, and to judge from the applause
from the floor, return performances are going to be demanded.
DID YOU KNOW . . . that the Union ballroom has a "sus
pended" ceiling and that four people were walking around on "top"
of the ceiling at 9:52 p.m. during the dance Saturday night? And
that 'the Union has a secret sub-basement, to which not even P. Lahr
has the key?
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Les Said The Better
By Les Glotfelty
Much as we eniov looking forward to
Christmas vacation, we can't help, at this
particular time of year, looking back, too,
taking inventory of the things we accom
plished or learned this past year. Most im
portant of the acquired knowledge are tne
following facts taught us good good old
experience.
1. Strawberry lam, when improperly
sealed, blows up if kept too long, and
spreads itself admirably on curtains, walls,
bedspreads, and anything else within twenty
feet.
2. Rome may have been conquered in a
day but Spanish Can't be.
3. Sweet rolls, peanut butter and crack
ers, slightly turned cider, pickles, cheese and
crackers, and cake, in that order, cause
acute indigestion, particularly when eaten
at 2 a. m.
4. The Lincoln banks do not appreciate
drawing money on them after our own is
used up. Neither does pop.
5. Our biology book was written in lyoa.
That is why it says professors are human.
6. The burglar alarm on the fire escape
works.
7. Rones ruins' from the ceiline make it
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much easier to get around in an uncleaned
room.
8. A college education is extremely im
portant if we want to be a success at cross
word puzzles.
9. There s no place like home.
10. Thank heaven for small favors and
two weeks vacation, before the students bite
off each others heads.
If we started naming the things that were
wrong with the class presidents election
Tuesday, it would take more space than
the Nebraskan can afford. Just a few are:
No one watched the ballot boxes as students
deposited their votes; ag campus ballots
were not validated as they should have
been; there are only two ag Student Coun
cil members and they cannot, by them
selves, regulate voting properly at ag; at
least eleventy-six people who had no con
nection with the Council were running
around during the vote counting; and so
on. The main point, however, is not what
was wrong at that first election. UN had
taken a big step toward cleaning up politics
... - Mail
Clippings
Pat Chamberlin, Censor
GIL RYDER, Sigma Chi, is on campus this
week on a furlough. He is being transferred from
AST at the U. of California to Med School at the
University of Utah.
ART SMALLEY, Phi Gam, was also dashing
about campus on his way from Penn State AST
to the University of Maryland.
--
First Lt. BILL LOEFFEL, Farm House, is home
on a ten day leave from Spokane, Wash., and is
waiting shipment orders.
Cpl. L. L. "STEVE" DEVOE, Phi Delt, is home
on a convalescent furlough from the Bushncll
General hospital, Brigham City, Utah. Steve was
wounded in action in Germany. He wears the
purple heart and the presidential citation.
Cpl. R. W. "SLATS" SCHLATER, ATO and for
mer editor of the Nebraskan, is "somewhere in
England." In New York, he ran into Lt. 'CY"
ROMAN, Phi Psi, who told him his brother-in-law,
Lt. "BILL" GIST, was in town. Since then
they have discovered both are in England, but to
date have been unable to get together.
MILLICENT PETERSON has just completed her
training course as an air forces service pilot at
Sweetwater, Tex. She was a senior in home ec
at the time she entered training.
Lt. BERNARD E. INGRAM, '39, is "now in
France, commanding an Italian ordnance ammuni
tion company. It is a company of prisoners of
war that have volunteered to serve the Allies."
Lt. Ingram continues: "The American officers life
in an old French chateau, which incidentally was
a show place in its day. We have a smaller of
ficers' mess presided over by two Italian cooks
and the things they do with this G. I. food is out
of this world!"
and elections and this election was the first
test of the new party system. It is more
than i fortunate that things had to be so
generally messed up. Whether there really
was anything dishonest done, or whether
it was just a general mix-up will never be
known. When UN votes again the Council
will do its part to keep things right, and
from there on, its up to all of us to play
it right and comply with election rules.
Churches . .
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Union. The Christmas spirit will
dominate the service Rev. H.
Erck, university Lutheran pastor,
will speak on the topic, "And His
Name Shall Be Called Wonder
ful.'" The girls' choir will sing and
Miss Charlotte Filter will accom
pany the hymns.
Dicken's "Christmas Carol and
special Christmas music will be
played on records at the Presby
terian student house Sunday eve
ning at 5:30, followed by a fel
lowship supper at 6:30.
Sunday morning at 10:50 a. m.
the special candlelight service
will be held at First Presbyterian
church.
Carol Programs Planned.
Sunday evening at Westminster
church the annual Christmas
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carol program will be presented
by the four choirs of Westminster
church.
At six o'clock Sunday evening
a lunch will be given at First
Baptist church, followed by a
Christmas music service.
At 8 p. m. there will be the
hanging of the greens at the
Baptist student house and at 9 a
Christmas play will be presented.
Strands of radio-opaque fiber
glass yarn now are incorporated
in surgical sponges. If a sponge
is left inadvertently in a wound,
it may be detected by X-ray.
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