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Vets Get the Works
The university has muffed its first opportunity to make
good its stated intentions to welcome returning veterans
with open arms. The blunder has come in the registration
system in which veterans as well as new students were left
out until next week. In the meantime present students regis
tering this wcok are filling up all the desirable class periods
and the veterans will be forced to take whatever is left next
week.
The latest report received by The Nebraskan yesterday
morning indicated that 31 class sections and 29 labs were
filled up already and have been closed. Other closed sec
tions have been proclaimed since then. It stands to reason
that students who are in school now should have first choice
ordinarily, but certainly in the case of returning veterans an
exception should be made. Veterans should at least be given
the same opportunity as students who are now in school and
be allowed to register along with them.
Upon querying Harold Wise, chairman of the Assign
ment Committee, about the situation, we were informed
that the procedure would be to send lists of all class sections
and the number of people in each to every department. Then
each department could work out its own problems accord
ingly, either extending the class limits or creating new sec
tions. However, sections would not be closed in the first
place if classes were not too crowded for the teachers to
handle, so extension of limits on classes is unlikely. That
leaves the possibility of creating new class sections, which
will have to meet at any time that can be squeezed in. Under
the.se conditions the veterans will be left little choice as to
arranging their own hours and class schedules and will
probably find themselves with more afternoon and Saturday
classes than they cared to anticipate.
As a rule we are not advocates of special privilege. But
when we stop to consider that none of us would be here now
if the veterans who are returning had not interrupted their
educations in order to fight and keep our schools free, we
can see a ready justification for special privilege. We can
not help but experience a few qualms in behalf of the ad
ministration when we see how the veterans arc being "wel
comed with open arms." J. L. M.
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LETTERIP
January 16, 1946.
To the Nebraskan:
Is it any wonder the basketball team does no better than they
do with the puny, insipid support given them by students and their
own school paper?
Today's issue contained a full report (?) stuck in a corner on
the last page. Does not the team at least rate a full column?
We believe they have a fine team and with a little support would
be a better than average team.
Jeff Segar
Thil M. Sackbauer
Ajax O'Mear
Hal" Halbakken.
Murphy Expects
Heavy Advanced
ROTC Application
Applications for advanced
course ROTC training at the uni
versity are expected to be double
the university's quota of 125, ac
cording to Col. James P. Murphy,
director of military training.
Sixty students have already
applied with registration day set
for Jan. 21. Suspended Isrnce the
beginning of the war, the ad
vanced course will be reactivated
the second semester. Colonel
Murphy said that the heavy en
rollment is due largely to a re
vised program benefitting vet
erans: Veterans Eligible.
Any physically fit veteran be
tween 19 and 26 years of age who
served at least one year of active
duty and is enrolled in the uni
versity is eligible for advanced
training. Only junior and senior
students were previously ac
cepted. Advanced course students are
exempt from the Selective Service
Act. The new program increases
subsistence from $7.50 a month
to $21 per month and each cadet
officer will also be issued a com
plete uniform.
Opera Tickets . . .
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put on display on the campus and
in downtown stores next week.
Done in pastels, they feature
sketches from "Cavalleria," which
were done after students had
studied the script and listened to
recordings from the opera.
Council
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their own class. All voting stu
dents also cast a ballot for one
hold-over member and for two
members-at-large.
A new faculty member will be
chosen by the council at their first
meeting. This member will serve
with the other two faculty mem
bers on the council.
In some parts of Scotland, the
finding of a four-leaf clover de
notes bad rather than good luck.
One of the well-known and often-joked-about
eccentricities on this campus is the
custom of unlocking only one of a pair of
double doors opening into the various build
ings. The joke is that after going through
the same doors for a whole semester, stu
dents still wrench their arms grabbing the
wrong door handle. The mathematical ge
niuses, the indomitable logicians, the world
ly political thinkers of UN,' all are confused
by the simple problem of "left or right?"
Take Horace Hickenbottem, for example,
who is in a big hurry to get from one class
.to another on time and slip in a quick ciga-
ret and coffee for good measure. He goes
tearing out the south door of social science,
takes running cognizance and hits the left
hand door. His arm doubles up and his nose
contacts solid wood with a crunching thud.
Picking himself up off the floor he sways
over to the right hand roor and sheepishly
opens it, looking around to see if anyone
has witnessed the blunder.
Regaining his strength he rushes to the
Union, remembering his hardlearned lesson
that double doors open to the right going
out and the left going in. He grabs the left
handle, yanks at the door and starts
through. Knee and forehead are the colli
sion recipients this time, plus a slightly dis
located shoulder. Angrily he storms through
the right door, mumbling indecencies
against the "lack of consistency on this
campus!"
Finding himself in the mood for some
thing logical and consistent, he decides he
will go to his last physics lecture of the
semester today and heads off toward Brace
M Tttm Grub
The Navy lives and studies in a rather
old brick building across from the Adminis
tration building. . . I would like to give you
a little idea of a typical evening at home. . .
The time is Mon vening, about 9:00 .. .
the place. . . Na i. 11. . '. -
Every one oi cue trainees here right now
is contentedly going about his own or some
one's else business. . . Pete Graham is in the
telephone booth, apparently making a phone
call. ". . Bill Huxley, using my pen and paper,
is sitting at the next table writing letters . . .
more than likely to my girl friend. . . To
my extreme right at the desk marked
"Periodical Indexes" (this used to be a
library, we also have busts of famous
writers in the attic) Larry Gilling and Tom
Blomgren are trying to study. . . Larry is
wearing red pajamas and shower clogs, an
outfit which he usually does not wear on
the campus. . . In back of me eating a Dr.
I. Q. and discussing chemistry is Pete Jern
berg with Harry Lunde. . . Pete is eating;
Harry discussing. . .
It is now 10:20 p. m.; tattoo sounding 10
minutes ago; taps will sound in a very few
minutes, so until reveille (which incidental
ly is not too far off) a very goodnight . . .
Lab. Testing both doors gingerly, he gains
admittance through the right one without
catastrophe and soon is sinking leisurely
into his seat with relief. He is about to settle
himself for a peaceful forty winks when he
hears a horrified gasp from the class.
Opening his eyes he finds optimistic Pro
fessor Marvin putting the assignment on
the board for the first lecture of next se
mester! He comes to the conclusion that
the university has gone to the dogs, and
goes back to sleep.
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