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THE NEBRASKAN
Friday, October 12, 1945
Ag vs. Miss Smith
How about the ag college cafeteria?
Numerous ag college students have wandered in the past several
weeks to file complaints and just plain "gripes" against ag college's only
place to eat.
The chief gripes against the cafeteria were as follows:
1. The cafeteria serves meals to anyone, whether connected with the
university or not, and for this reason, the students who have to eat there
have trouble getting in the place.
2. The cafeteria does not serve breakfast, which leaves no place for
many of the students to eat, particularly those who do not live in or
ganized houses.
3. The cafeteria's prices are higher than they need to be.
On the basis of these gripes, we spent last Tuesday afternoon talk
ing to Miss Florence Smith, foods' instructor in charge of the ag cafe
teria. We explained the gripes to Miss Smith and gave her the chance to
justify the policies of the cafeteria.
Miss Smith stated that the cafeteria served outsiders as well as
students and faculty because during the war there had not been enough
students to take care of the daily output of the cafeteria. She went on
to say that the cafeteria had the job of feeding many out-of-town groups,
such as attend various agricultural meetings in Lincoln. She further
stated that the cafeteria was now opening at 11:30 instead of 11:45 at
noon to enable more students to get through the line.
Now to us, her explanation seems inadequate. She. herself stated the
cafeteria has two purposes to serve the college and to provide experi
ence in institution management for the foods and nutrition students.
There are now plenty of students at a g to keep the cafeteria busy. There
is no other public place for the students to eat except one very small
cafe. Consequently, it seems to us that the cafeteria should serve the
students, faculty and staff of ag college, first, and then worry about the
outsiders. The outsiders can eat somewhere else, but the students can't,
and the college's first duty should be to its own.
The second gripe, that the cafeteria does not serve breakfast, is no
longer a legitimate complaint. Miss Smith explained quite completely
that the labor situation, which is at present tighter than it was at this
same time last year in the food business, has prevented the cafeteria
from opening for breakfast. However, she said, the boarding club is be
ing revived and the cafeteria will be able to serve breakfast in the very
near future.
The third gripe concerns prices. The students who eat at ag main
tain that the cafeteria prices are higher than those at the Union or other
similar eating places. From a cursory check, there seems to be some
truth in the gripe. We do know that the ag cafeteria figures that 40
of the price covers the cost of the food served, and that much of the help
in the cafeteria is furnished by the institution management classes which
actually pay a course fee for working in the cafeteria. Now we do not
know anything about cost of the hired labor or the overhead of the ag
cafeteria, which may account for the prices charged the customers. The
Union catering department, however, manages to support itself and yet
keep its prices on a lower scale, and the Union catering department does
not have the advantage of free student labor.
A general summing up of the facts on the side of the cafeteria as
given by Miss Smith and the facts on the sides of the students seems to
indicate that the ag college students have reason to feel that the cafe
teria is not fulfilling as it should its obligation to serve the campus.
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The physical education de
partment at UN is a very privi
leged group!
Physical education is a course
required for all students. There
are many other subjects at UN
which students must take to ful
fill group requirements and to
complete the course in a particu
lar college. Of these other re
quirements the alternative situa
tion is this: either take the sub
jects or you don't get your de
gree. We have no quarrel with this
policy, as we understand the
necessity for planlning a course
in order to confer a degree. 3y
this system a student who does
rot intend to get a degree may
come to university and take
whatever courses he feels are
necessary to prepare him for his
job. If a degree is the important
thing, the student can conform to
the requirements of the college,
most of which are subjects he
would have taken during his four
years anyway.
The physical education re
quirement, however, is an en
tirely different story. This is a
eourse which the student must
take, whether he or she intends
to pet a desrree or not, or else
he will be literally thrown out
of the university.
There are students who come
to college with neither the finan
cial resources to continue four
years and get a degree, nor the
necessity for doing so. These
students with limited money and
time are here to gain knowledge
of a certain subject thru a di
rected course of study by an au
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Troubles
Seems we have a little trouble
started already. NRO Herring has
been beating his brains out trying
to get a date with a certain
Joanie. Seems as tho a "Fiat"
man is beating his time. Tell you
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be doing alright. Whatever you
do boys, don't let the navy down
as they have a tradition of never
losing a battle or a woman.
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your one and only Jo Thrulson.
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man in question is dating some
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having his share too. They call
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Alpha Xi Lorraine Kinney has
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system of self education. These
students are required to spend
three hours out of every week
taking physical education,
whether they like it or not!
If they don't like it they will
have to find another school, be
cause they will be dropped from
their classes at UN unless they
register for physical education.
Why can't the physical educa
tion requirement be placed on the
same basis as every other require
ment? That is: either you take it
or don't get your degree. Why
must students who are interested
in knowledge, not the title
which accompanies it, be forced
to take a certain course or drop
everything?
Chancellor Boucher once
made the statement that
"American colleges and univer
sities are a training round for
democracy." What kind of a de
mocracy would the United
States be if the authorities
forced an individual to take a
certain prescribed job or get
out of tht country? The Uni
versity of Nebraska Is certainly
a poor example of democracy
when the administration can
tell its students to take a certain
prescribed course or ret out of
school.
If the chancellor and adminis
tration want to make UN as dem
ocratic as they say, then it is their
duty to make it possible for the
students to enroll in the courses
they wish and take the conse
quences. This can be done by
putting the physical education re
quirement on the same basis as
every other requirement.
The -principle involved is well
worth the consideration of the
administralior
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Bell scientists designed and developed many
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One particular type was standard for B-29s in
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