THE NEBRASKAN
Friday, January 5, 1945
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Editor Pa Ohamberlla
Manaiinc Editars ...Mary Lenlse Goodwin, Harold Andersea
News Editors Leslie Jeaa Glotfelty. Betty La Hastoa.
Janet Mason. Phyllis Tea.ardea
Business Manarer . .. ... M,rU
Assistant Bnsiaess Kanaiers Lorraine Abramssa. Mildrea Enrstrons
Society Editor ... HVe",
Snorti Editor Dick Dllsaver
Obviously Unfair . .
Coming more and more into the open is the under
handed effort of a small group of vindictive individuals
to oust Colonel Lawrence "Biff Jones from his temporarily-vacated
post of director of athletics and head football
coach at the university. The "get-Jones" movement began
while Biff was still coaching Husker teams and has grown
stronger since he received a leave of absence from the
university three years ago and, returning to active army
duty, assumed tne roie 01 director 01 amuruca ax
Point.
This attempt to raitorad Jones from his post while he
is in the service or nis counxry is oDviousiy umair. ere
he a poor football coach instead of one of the nation's
top-ranking mentors, the movement wouia sun De umair,
for the university is under a moral obligation to allow
Jones to return to his former post when his tour of army
service ends.
The point at issue is not Jones' ability as a coach or
athletic director; the point at issue is tne moral reputation
and integrity of the University of Nebraska.
The most encouraging note in the whole sordid picture
is the fact that the oust-Jones movement is backed by a
relatively small group of individuals. And most exasperat
ing to those thousands of Nebraskans who have a sincere
interest in UN athletics is the fact that this small group
is attempting to "get" Jones because of purely personal,
vindictive reasons. Biff was never an apple-polisher or a
glad-hander. He worked quietly and efficiently, doing his
utmost to perform his job in the best possible fashion.
He was hired as a football coach and director of ath
letics, and that job he performed with unquestionable ef
ficiency. He produced the only Nebraska teams to defeat
Minnesota and Pitt in modern times, and in 1941 he gave
the school its only Rose Bowl team. In doing this job
he undoubtedly stepped on the toes of a tew individuals,
and it is these same individuals, university officials and
private citizens, who are now trying to win Jones dis
missal The efforts of this group must be blocked. Let Jones'
splendid record as a coach be forgotten; fair play still
demands that he be allowed to return to his post at Ne
braska, as he indicated he wishes to do. If, upon his re
turn, the university officials in authority feel that he
should be replaced, let them take proper action. But to
discharge Jones now, while he is serving his country, would
be a disgraceful act, one which would bring only discredit
to the University of Nebraska.
H. W. A.
Lcs Said The Better
By les Glotfelty
Comine down the Union stairs to the Ne-
braskan office for the first time since before
vacation we were startled to hear an old
and too familiar beat of a typewriter.
"Hmmm," we said, "only one person we
know types with her toes like that."
"Who?" asked fellow news ed Lrou Hus
ton. "Donaldine," we answered.
A sudden burst of staccato typing ended
the question and answer game. There was
the sound of paper being torn out of the
typewriter and various snorts and grunts
which indicated that the typist was not
happy. We walked into the office and there
indeed was someone who looked like Donaldine.
Those few who bore with this malarkey
last year will remember Donadine as the
brilliant but slightly perverted schizophren-
iac coed who dug up dirt for the column
and, in trying times, even wrote it. At that
time, Donaldine was a pigtailed little girl
in orange rimmed glasses who spent her
time browsing thru old air conditioning sys
tems and leather-bound closets, thereby ac
quiring much information mostly imprint
able.
In May of 1944, Donaldine disappeared
along with the six bucks in our billfold, but
she left a tender note stating that her fore
sight told her that this year's Mortar Boards
would do nothing constructive, as usual, and
therefore, we would no longer require her
services. In the old days, Donaldine said,
the MB's did nothing secretly so that she
had to ferret out what they did nothing
about. Then in 1944-45, they were destined
to do nothing openly and Donaldine saw
her way clear to join the ranks of the unt
employed.
But apparently, here she was again. The
typist who looked like Donaldine unwound
her feet from the typewriter, knocked out
her pipe in one of Pat Chamberlin's new of
fice slippers and asked us for three bucks
until Tuesday.
Sure then of her identity, we greeted
Donaldine and introduced Lou to her.
"She looks like a dementia praecox to
me," said Donaldine.
"Take five bucks," we said.
"I don't think you'll like it here this
year," said Lou.
"Make it seven bucks," said Donaldine,
"and you ain't seen nothing yet."
Yes, the uninhibited Donaldine was home,
and as an ancient sage once remarked,
"That ain't good."
Publishes Work
Of Prof. Roberts
"The Storm on Lake Galilae,"
original organ composition by
Myron Roberts, professor of or
gan, has been accepted for publi
cation by H. W. Gray of New
York.
Another of Mr. Roberts organ
compositions. "Carillon," which
was performed at the First Ply
mouth Conp.egational Church last
Sunday, has also been submitted
to H. w. Gray for publication.
hereby nominate Bob Brown,
ATO, for UN Snowman because,
in the first place, I don't even
know the guy and therefore, as
far as I'm concerned, he has no
faults. In the Union almost con
stantly, he's never seen chasing
down cokes for blonde freshmen
or red-headed sophomores or any
coed at all for that matter. A man,
undoubtedly, and maybe he won't
melt. LES GLOTFELTY.
Snowball
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over vacation to try to match him
up with a UN man. Believe me
there is no Mr. Five by Five with
pieces of coal for eyes on the
campus. Anyway my snowman
melted and as he diminished to
nicer proportions. I remembered
a man Not Jim Abdnor, not Ed
Robinson, not Ernie Larson, not
Harold Andersen, not even Jim
Weesener. but still an ideal snow
man because he doesn't look like
the type to melt Now a snow
man who melts is no earthly good
to anyone, and therefore the ideal
one is a man who's rough and
tough enough to be impervious to
the charms of woman-Kind.
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