THE NEBRASKAN
Sundoy, Moy 6, 1945
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Nothing to Do? . . .
On Friday, May 6, 1938 the editorial in the then Daily
Nebraskan stated that "Seemingly there is a lack of things
in which students can concentrate their attention." The
editorial went on for ten inches to advocate the establish
ment of new activities for the students to participate in,
more things to keep them busy.
For us on May 6, 1945, it is virtually impossible to real
ize that there could ever have been a time when students
could deplore the dearth of things for them to do. Not only
are the days of 1938 gone forever, but seemingly the uni
versity and its students have gone to the opposite extreme.
Now, the deplorable fact is that the students spent possibly
the busiest semester of their one, two, three of four years
on this campus.
This semester, as always, the university has held the
annual and traditional activities and ceremonies which have
become a part of the tradition of UN. There have been the
usual convocations, the usual Ivy Day, the usual elections
conducted in an unusual manner, the usual Coed Follies,
the usual Penny Carnival, and all the other "usual" activ
ities of a normal college year. These activities have man
aged to keep the campus busy enough for a considerable
number of years. But they were not enough, it seems.
So, just to give the poor, idle students something to do,
we had innumerable little activities added to the extra-cur-riculars.
Thruout January, February and March there was
the Peace Conference. kThe Peace Conference was one of
the very few thoroughly worth-while activities which pop
ped up this year. Then came dandelions in the next-to-the-last
week before finals when most of the students had un
ending work to do. And throughout the whole semester,
Pan-hellenic and the other organizations governing wom
en's doings have sent out weekly notices to the coeds list
ing in alphabetical order the things for the women to do
that week shows to the Air Base, scrapbooks for soldiers,
and all the rest of it from A to Z. The coeds have been
particularly hard hit by the overwhelming upsurge of
"things to do."
Now the Nebraskan is not criticizing the "things to do"
individually becaue many of them have been worthwhile.
But it is an undisputable fact that the students, with the
exception of those who have stayed home and studied in
a way practically foreign to the mass of students, have had
so much to do dictated by their sorority, their heads of or
ganizations or some other force that they haven't had the
time to get organized all semester.
Little known is the fact that the university faculty had a
x meeting not long ago and decided that the scholarship of
the university as a whole was the lowest it has been for
many, many years. This disinterest in formal education on
the part of the students can be blamed on many things,
but directly concerned is the terrific concentration of extra,
extra-curriculars this semester, concentrated to the point
where the ancient adage about not letting one's studies in
terfere with one's education has become too true to be
humorous.
Extra-curriculars are fine when they remain purely
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"extra" something to do when studying is done, some
thing not required, something not judged by how many
coeds in a certain house do so much.. It is only when the
"extras" become the primary concern of students, when
they are so concentrated in a few months time, when there
are so many of them, that they become an evil.
We may not long for the days of. 1938, and now that
school is almost finished for another year we may not even
care. The best we can do is hope that the extra curricular
brainstorms of 1945-46 be taken as they were once meant
to be as "extras.'
L. J. G.
Larson . . .
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Tassels, Home Ec Club and
Coed Counselors; Miss Rotton is
a member of Kappa Alpha Theta,
Student Council, Pi Lambda
Theta, Alpha Rho Tau, Pi Beta
Kappa and Coed Counselors; Miss
Witt is president of Alpha Phi,
member of Panehllenic and vice
president of Pi Lambda Theta.
Daisy chain leaders were Dor
othy Caress, president of Alpha
Omicron Pi, treasurer of Tassels,
member of Coed Counselors;
Mary Kumagia, member of Ag
YWCA cabinet and BABW Board;
Jane McElhaney, president of
BABW, member of YWCA cabi
net, Coed Counselors, Pi Lambda
Theta, and Alpha Lambda Delta;
Martha Nickerson, governor of
Women's Resident Halls, presi
dent of Delta Phi Delta, member
of AWS Board, and the univer
sity orchestra.
Edward Segrist, jr., was crown
bearer for the Ivy Day festivities.
Sarah Jo Hiatt and Martha
Brownlee were the two flower
girls.
Elsworth DuTeau, secretary of
Alumni Association, was the com
mentator for the afternoon's program.-
He paid tribute to the In
nocents, honorary senior men's
society, which has been inactive
during wartime. Thirteen alumni
YWCA cabinet, Pi Lambda Thta,
Alpha Chi Omega and president
of Aikane; Miss Kobes is presi
dent of Panhellenic, past presi
dent of Delta Delta Delta, mem
members of Innocents led the en
tire court procession into th
coliseum. Those participating
were: Stewart Elliott, '10, presi
dent of Innocents Alumni Asso
ciation; Charles Drake, '44; 14.
Clyde Martz, '41; John Mason,
41; M. G. Volz, '25; Dr. Glen T.
Warren, '23; Ray Rice, '11; Roy
Wythers, '22; Harry L Reed, 20
Harry Ankeny, '13; Ralph Mostly,
12; Lt. Col. H. R. Turner, '24,
and Earl Eager, '07.
Following the Ivy Day Oration,
Leslie Jean Glotfelty, junior class
president, and Jean Whedon
Remmenga, senior class president,
planted the traditional ivy.
"Miss Mabel Lee, director of
physkal education for women,
recently returned from New York
conference with leading physical
educators from Chile, China and
India, whose visit had teen ar
ranged by the state department.
A group of about 25 physical edu
cators from the United States and
Canada were called together for
the conference with them on the
Postwar Planning for Physical
Education.
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