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EDITORIAL STAFT
Ediler . Hareld W. Anderaea
Manarinr Kditera Leslie Jean GletfeUy, Betty lea Hasten
News rdilor Janet Mason, Phyllis Tea(arden, Mary Alice
Cawoed, Shirley Jenkins.
Sports Fditnr Chark Petersen
Seriety Editor Betty Klnj
BUSINESS BTFF
Bnsiiiess Manlier Mildred Enrstrem
Assistant Resinens Minairu Lorraine Abramson, Shirley Staben
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Dark or Bright ,
Tomorrow, Feb. 15, the University celebrates Charter
Day, the 76th anniversary of its founding. It was on Feb.
15, 1869 that the legislature of the young state of Ne
braska issued a ehaiter for a state-supported institution
of higher learning and the University of Nebraska came
into being. ,
As the University enters its 76th year, it faces an un
certain future a future which may be either dark or
bright, according to the policies which the University elects
to follow during the years just ahead.
If that future is to be bright, if the University of Ne
braska is to prosper, two basic policies must be adopted:
(1) faculty members' salaries must be raised to a level
commensurate with the size of and rank of the Univer
sity, and (2) an intelligent, extensive postwar building
program must be carried out.
Faculty members are underpaid. There are few who
will dispute that statement, for the constant emigration of
outstanding teachers from Nebraska to schools which offer
better-paying positions offers clear proof that the state
ment is true, that the UN faculty is indeed underpaid.
Clearly, salaries must be raised. If the University
is to maintain a good faculty, if it is to hold its outstanding
professors, it must pay its teaching staff the salaries which
they deserve, salaries at least equal to those paid by other
universities of comparable size and standing.
One need only to look around the campus to find
proof for the need of an extensive postwar building pro
gram. Such ramshackle eye-sores as Pharmacy Hall, Ne
braska Hall, the Mechanics Arts building, University Hall,
and the former museum obviously should be torn down,
to be replaced by modern, attractive buildings with ade
quate up-to-date facilities. New buildings perhaps among
them a large, adequately-staffed infirmary should be
built to care for the constantly-expanding needs of a con
stantly expanding university.
To carry these policies into effect, the University needs
more money, a larger appropriation from the state. When
its appropriation is increased, when it receives the sorely
needed funds, the University will be able to pay its faculty
adequate salaries, will be able to launch an extensive post
war building program. Then, and only then, will the
future be bright for the University of Nebraska.
Les Said The Better
By Les Gloffelty
There is an old theory about the ground
hog popping out of the ground in February,
seeing his shadow and immediately disap
pearing again until the next February. On
a ground hog it looks good. The Student
Council, however, is a different kind of ani
mal. In January the council popped up into
the lime-light with a proposed investigation
of the university student health. A ques
tionnaire was sent around to all organized
houses for compiling of complaints about or
merits of the health service. The question
naires were returned to the Student Council
committee which was set up for the investi
gation has disappeared back into a deep,
dark hole.
Now it certainly is not up to us to say
whether the health service needs investiga
tion or not, or whether the survey of stu
dent opinion was a success, but we would
like to know what in heck happened. Is the
investigation still in process? What was
the student opinion voiced in the questionnaires?
Mail
Clippings
Harold Harshaw, Censor
"Bud" Bierman, Phi. Gam, writes from
Great Lakes, 111., that he is in the Great
Lakes Bluejacket Naval Choir. "Bud" is
a Hospital Attendant, 2nd Class.
Ensiem Willis Fenmson, '43, received his
commission in the Naval Air Corp at Pensa
cola, Fla., on Feb. 6, 1945.
"Hank" Greene, Phi Delt, is in Lincoln
on furlough. He served with General Fat
ton in France and was wounded in France.
Lt. Bill Robinson, Kappa Sig, is home on
furlough after spending several months
overseas. Bill has the ribbon for serving
with the British army under General Mont
gomery and the purple heart for being
wounded at Bastogne. Lieutenant Robin
son was with the 101st airborne group and
made 3 combat iumps. He rraduated from
Jthe College of Business Administration in
H943.
Peace Conference Previews
THE MINORITIES QUESTION. ,
J. O. Hertzler.
The minorities question usually
arises from the fact that some
Croups within or part of a larger
group having real or imagined
linguistic, racial, religious, nation
ality or some other cultural
uniqueness considers itself to be
disadvantageous treated by the
larger gioup.
The main areas presenting mi
norities problems at the peace
conference will be central and
southeastern Europe (as of old)
and south and southeastern Asia;
there may be reverberations from
l.ewhere, notably South Africa.
The main difficulties in the
rast have arisen from the fact
mat the majorities attempted to
forte cultural conformity, political
submission, and often also eco
nomic subjugation and exploita
tion upon the minorities. The mi
norities usually have sought cul
tural, political and economic op
portunity; frequently sso political
autonomy.
Cn ft oral Autonomy.
Both the experience of the past,
ralmly assayed, and humane
thinking, point to cultural auton
omy accompanied by unobstruct
ed cultural intercourse, free co
riomic opportunity, and the full
est political participation compat
ible -with the degree of political
competence of the minorities as
the basic considerations in the
treatment of minorities.
No single set of principles or
mode of treatment can be univer
sally applied among the varied
minority situations the world over.
Among the procedures which have
functioned more or less well in
one or more particular instances
the following are noteworthy:
Principle.
1. 'Home Rule," as in the case
of Ireland since 1921.
2. "Bills of Rights" effectively
guaranteed by some potent in
ternational organization, such as
those voiced in the ten "Minori
ties Treaties" and the five Dec
larations" of 1919.
3. Cultural self-determination
within wider political and eco
nomic unions ("federations") for
enclaves (po'keted minorities)
a in Switzerland most of the
time for centuries and the Soviet
Union progressively for a quar
ter of a century; anticipated in
degree in the proposed Czecho
slovak-Polish (Jan. 23, 1942) and
Yugoslav-Grecian (Jan. 15, 1942)
federations; and occasionally
mentioned for the Danube valley.
4. Plebiscites for the relocation
of boundaries for irredenta (the
sDilled over boundaries) minori
ties, as in the case of the Saar
(1935).
5. The heroic procedure of vol
untary and jointly agreed upon
compulsory exchange of popula
tions where other means seem to
be unworkable, such as the Turkish-Greco
Convention and the re
sultant exchanges beginning in
1923.
Combinations of these and oth
ers are possible, and new proced
ures will doubtless have to be de
veloped to meet these problems in
this present "interlocking" world.
Settlement in "home lands,"
sometimes proposed, offers innu
merable and apparently insuper
able problems of transfer, legal
settlement, dislocation of econom
ics both in the departing and re
ceiving areas, and new minority,
often including racial, clashes, not
to mention to each other as they
come together from their former
places of residence where they
have developed various class, edu
cational, economic and other per
sistent cultural diversities and
even biological blendings.
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