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THE NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, September 26, 1945.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
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No Thanks to Lew . . .
No thanks to Mr. Lewandowski!
If one of UN's traditional dances, the Homecoming
dance, is a success this year, it will be in spite of the best
efforts of the coliseum and A. J. Lewandowski, director of
athletics at the university.
For many years the Homecoming dance, on Saturday
night following the Homecoming football game, and the pre
sentation of the Pep Queeen at that dance has been one of
the big university parties. Homecoming this year is with
Kansas U on Saturday Nov. 3 and the Homecoming dance
has been scheduled for the coliseum on that date.
When the Tassels, who sponsor the dance, went about
making plans, they discovered that the Student Activities
office in the coliseum under the direction of Mr. Lewand
owski had booked Count Basie and his orchestra in the
coliseum for Friday night November 2, the night before the
Homecoming dance, with the activities department, and in
directly the university, getting the profit from the dance.
That in itself was two strikes against the Homecoming
dance the following night. But to top that, the Turnpike
has booked Glen Gray and his Casa Loma orchestra for the
same night as the Homecoming dance. All of which adds
up to three strikes against one of UN's best parties.
Now obviously, nothing can be done about the Turn
pike, for it has no connection with the university. Mr.
Lewandowski, however is a very different thing. We won
der if he remembers that for years the Tassels and the
Corncobs, men's pep organization, have worked like beavers
to promote school spirit. They have sold season football
tickets, given school spirit a shot in the arm, particularly
during the past few years when we had no reason to have
any spirit, they have conducted rallies before games, and
in general supported the athletic department when everyone
else gave it up as a lost cause.
Mr. Lewandowski seems little concerned with all this.
He blithely scheduled a name-band for the night before the
Homecoming dance while he must have known what that
would do to Homecoming dance success. The activities of
fice should get a nice little rake-off from Count Basie, but
it's a little hard on the students who have koncked them
selves out helping "Lew."
With the competition from "Lew" and the Turnpike,
the Homecoming dance is behind the eight-ball. We don't
know what the Tassels are going to try to do, but the solu
tion would be to switch homecoming to Friday night, Nov.
2, instead of the third, and let Count Basie be the Home
coming dance band instead of a good lead for "Lew."
How about it Mr. Lewandowski? Isn't it about time
you started helping the students and organizations that
nave been helping you!
Snipe Huntin'
with
JMre Mum
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Organizations come and organ
izations go and then there's Tri
Pi. The latter never exactly went
through the process of coming but
iust seemed to be here before the
biggies (nickname of the author
ities) had a chance to recognize
it. Then it didn't exactly go either
and yet few people would be
so rash as to say it is still func
tioning. The fact of the matter is, Tri
Pi is sort of hanging, with its
lynchers being the president of
council and the dean of student
affairs. It was a nice idea, hav
ing a club made up of greeks and
barbs, men and women, whose
purpose would be to gathr so
cially and have a little fun. The
founders decided that the first
gathering should be a dinner
where everyone could come and
get acquainted. But to have a din
ner you- have to have the well-
cnown root of all evil, and the
logical process seemed to be to
make assessments.
So friends and neighbors went
out upon the campus to sell
tickets. Everything was going fine
and all was quiet on the mid-
western front, until someone
made the innocent blunder of
casually mentioning the young
and glowing organization to Edith
Pumphrey.
Tri-Pi's rrowth was stunted! It
seems that in order to form a
new organisation on this campus
one must go through the official
channels of the student council
for recognition.
Tri-Pi was immediately de
clared null and void until proper
application should be made. But
to poor Edith it wasn't as simple
as all that. Her duty as official
representative of the . student
council was to retrieve all the
money which had been paid for
tickets and return it to the right
ful owners. Her's and the dean's
headaches were increased when it
was discovered that no records
had been kept of the people to
whom tickets were sold after all,
recprds weren't needed for their
purpose because they could find
out who the Tri-Pi's were by
asking the names of those who
appeared at the banquet. (Big
groan from Edith).
Then to complicate the matter
further, and add the last hilarious
note to the episode (to those with
as distorted a sense of humor as
ours) the money somehow cot all
mixed up with the Cornhusker
yearbook's funds.
It would be safe to guess that
Edith Pumphrey would no doubt
appreciate it very much if those
students who bought tickets
would let her know so she could
return their money. And don't be
Phi CM Theta, ttlM hold a meeting; m
Nsrtor X of the Ink) We4aaa- at
: p. m.
Stndent Council still nnM It tint meet
ing on Wednesday at 6:04 p. m. In room
SIS of the grade Colon.
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Students
to the
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Lincoln's Exclusive
CARD
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215 North 14 St
lit ft took Soatb af
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OPEN EVENINGS
w. a. MHit aa. ,imml
Caiamis Bleaiiiiers
It's a new rage that's
sweeping the campus
these charming beanies
in the scarlet and cream
of dear old Nebraska U.
They look dashing and
saucy and are just right
for school. Every coed
will want one to wear to
the game Saturday and
to all future campus activities.
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too discouraged because the Tri
Pi's can still go through student
council and present the club con
stitution for recognition. All they
have to do is present "ideals"
which the council members "deem
worthy of justifying the club's
existence on the campus." Them's
big words, ain't they? ?
Church Night . . .
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them in sintrinp. mixers, pames
and refreshments. Ann Christian
sen, of Our Savior's Lutheran
church, will be in charge.
A party at the club room of the
University Episcopal church is in
store for Episcopalian students. A
general mixer will begin at 8:30,
and will be followed by a dance.
James Lewis, head of the city
recreation department, will be
master of ceremonies.
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