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THE NEBRASKAN
Friday, March 8, 1946
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Last Chance . . .
Ag campus students are at least being given a chance to try to
bring about definite action on the opening of an Ag campus Student
Union. Early this week the Ag Men's Social club began the circn
latlon of a petition giving the students an opportunity to express
their choice of a location for an Ag Union branch.
Some time ago plans were made for the inclusion of recreation
rooms in the basement of the new Foods and Nutrition building
When the building was completed the space provided was found to
be inadequate in the face of the increased enrollment, and the Stu
dent Union Board of Managers asked that some other, larger space
be provided. Since that request was made, at least six months ago
several sites have been requested by the board but no action has
been taken. Now the students themselves have gone ahead with a
petition asking for the use of the lower floor of the Student Ac
tivities building, in an effort to try and make the Ag Union a reality
as soon as possible.
There is no question of the need for recreation facilities on the
Ag campus. At present the only provisions made for ag students
are the weekly Thursday afternoon hour dances and occasional Union
sponsored square dancing programs. There is no place of any kind
on the entire campus where coeds and men may go for relaxation
and recreation. The only eating facilities available, other than the
ag cafeteria, which is open only during meal times, Is a small cafe
located across from the campus.
A majority of the ag students who live and have classes on that
campus are seldom able to enjoy the Union facilities provided on the
city campus. The Union board is fully aware that these students are
not receiving the benefits to which their Union fee of $3 per semester
entitles them. The board has a $20,000 loan from the Board of Re
gents with which to equip an ag branch, as soon as the necessary
space is provided.
Interested students and faculty have surveyed the situation and
believe the lower floor of the Activities building to be the most sat
isfactory possibility. This location would would be the most adequate
suggested in that the board could equip it and stay within its $20,000
budget, it is located in the same building in which all ag parties are
held, and it would not require a great deal of adjustment of schedules
to prevent interference with classes.
The suggestions that a new building be built or some kind of
surplus wartime housing units be reconverted were made in the
Union board meeting Thursday afternoon, but both were found highly
Improbable at this time.
The Ag Union has been under consideration for at least three
years. The Union board has been ready to go ahead and begin con
struction for the last six months. They are powerless, however, until
they are given the space on which to build. To date the ag admin
ist ration has been unable or unwilling to take definite action.
If the ag students want a Union which could possibly be put
Into use in the next year they will express themselves through the
petition now being circulated. Evidently they must prove their
interest if they are to get action, whether it be an approval of the
Activities building location or the final selection of some other site.
The Ag Men's Social club has set a goal of 80 percent of the ag
students, or about 80 signers for their petition. Aa of yesterday
they had about 300 signers. They have provided a booth in Ag Ilall
where students may have access to the petition. If the students want
a Union, even a temporary one to be used while effort are made for
the erecting eventually of a permanent Union, they must show their
interest. The patience of the Student Union Board of Managers is
wearing thin.
The Ash Gam
by
Marthella Holcomb
You're wrong, the reason the navy men eye left as they pass Ellen
Smith hall on the way to chow is not that they expect to see some
beautious damsel come brokenly out of the dean of women's office.
It's just that they're nature lovers. And celestially high up on the
cornices are to be found delicately fashioned wrought-iron flowers.
Seems some misguided artist long ago sought to compensate for the
lack of landscaping on the campus, by building a makeshift roof
garden. A rose by any other name would smell the same, architec
turally, these stink.
Thoce cryptographic messages hurtling through the air in the
Crib are not orders, as the freshmen, and other naive characters are
led to believe. The waiters have prostituted the old fire-house code
for good-looking gals. "86 in 12", we're told, signifies the girl in
booth 12 fa a whiz in chemistry, and "17 in 24" suggests the chicks
steeds to stand closer wader her comb in the morning's mad scramble,
which passes for rood grooming. Course they forget that poem of
Dorothy Parker's "Girls never make passes at boys who drop glasses."
) Off I lie Upcoi-tl
I By Jerry Oohn and
Aaron Schmidt
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Students have shown a great
interest in the country's leading
bands and the musicians who play
in them. We are therefore en
deavoring to present to you a re
view of the latest record releases
including the facts and oddities
connected with them.
The Thundering Herd.
Woody Herman and his thun
dering herd have come out with
more of their sensational music.
Their newest release is an Irving
Berlin tune, Everybody Knew But
Me, coupled with Let It Snow.
Woody lends his fine voice to
Everybody and really does a good
job. Let It Snow is played in the
strictly knocked out style of the
Herman herd, with the trombone
work handled by Bill Harris.
Woody Herman's band, for the
benefit of those who are thrilled
by Guy Lombardo's music, is the
group that was voted Bank of the
Year by the music magazines
Down Beat and Metronome.
You may recall several previ- i
ous records of the Herman group
such as Caladonia, Apple Honey,
Your Father's Mustache and
Goosey Gander. Soon to be re
leased by Columbia are Blowing
Up a Storm and Wildroof. Both
are instrumental numbers which
should be had by music lovers
Woody Herman can be heard on
his own coast to coast show every
Friday evening over CBS,
WHO?
Playing for the Junior-Senior
Prom on April 5th will be another
name band. Watch for "Amer
ica's Foremost Trumpet St Trom
bone Stylist."
While speaking of trumpeters,
we should mention an Omaha boy,
Sid Norman, who has just re
turned from a nine months tour
with Rav Pearl and his orchestra
Sid played lead trumpet with the
band, and is now back in Omaha
awaiting his call to the army. He
had just turned 17 when he joined
Pearl's band, and can boast of be
ing one of the youngest members
to play in a semi-name band
Have you any questions about
your favorite bands or musicians?
Let us know; we'll answer them
all
Doctor Gregory
Publishes Book
On Personality
A pamphlet by Dr. Wilbur S
Gregory, guidance consultant in
the junior division, which ap
peared in the March to June 1945
edition of "Character and Person
ality," has just been released to
the public.
"The Application of Telonomic
Description to the Diagnosis and
Treatment of Emotional Instabil
ity and Personal Social Maladjust
ments" discusses teleonomic
trends, explains their relationship
to emotional instability, personal
and social maladjustemnts and
mental hygiene problems. In his
pamphlet Dr. Gregory also pre
sents methods of analyzing
teleonomic trends for clinical pur
poses and reviews principles of
therapy and readjustments for
problems arising from teleonomic
trends.
Army Years.
Dr. Gregory defines a teleo
nomic trend as "a generalized
tendency to behave in such a
manner that a certain result seems
to be sought." According to Dr.
Gregory, a person who is trying
to show ofr and who is trying
to prove that he is superior to
others has teleonomic trends.
He has just returned to the jun
ior division after three years in
the army. He enlisted as a private
in 1942 and was recently dis
charged with a rank of captain.
Dr. Beggs, Dr. Sorenson
Leave for Regional Meet
Dr. Walter K. Beggs and Dr.
Frank K Sorenson of the teachers'
college will leave early next week
for Chicago, where they will at
tend a regional meeting of the
School Administrators association,
March 12, 13 and 14.
They will also visit outstanding
school systems in metropolitan
Chicago, noting results in experi
mental teaching methods, research
and curriculum development.
Dr. Stoneman
Tells Post-War
Life in Europe
A Lincoln audience received a
verbal glimpse of defeated Ger
many from Dr. Merle Stoneman,
assistant director of the univer
sity's extension division, at Love
Memorial Library Wednesday
night.
Dr. Stoneman, an aerial gun
nery officer in the U. S. air forces
in Europe, was third speaker in a
lecture series designed to clarify
Nebraskans' views on national and
international issues.
Geography.
The abundance of canals, rail
ways and roads as disclosed in
aerial photographs of Germany
proper, indicated the extensive
communications system employed
thruout the country, Dr. Stone
man said.
Using Munich as a "typically
bombed city" with its buildings
standing mutely gutted, 90 percent
of its business district destroyed,
railway station wrecked, its pop
ulace living in the shambles of a
dead city, the speaker gave a vivid
depcition of Germany today.
The small villages and rural
Citizens Discuss
Housing Shortage
In Open Meeting
Opportunity to learn about the
Lincoln housing shortage and to
express views and opinions as to
future action will be given veter
ans and other citizens in an open
meeting of the Lincoln Chamber
of Commerce Monday night at 8
in the Chamber of Commerce din
ing room.
. Questions may be submitted by
those present to representatives
of FHA, OPA, Real Estate board,
City council and Chamber of
Commerce, who will attend, as
will contractors and owners of
building material.
districts show few signs of the
conflict with the exception of
those where troops of occupation
are quartered.
Though few of them expressed
respect for the fighting ability of
the allied soldiers, many German
prisoners praised the fine equip
ment the allies possessed.
Dr. Stoneman stated that reports
of the prison camp at Dachau were
not exaggerated, and that it was
inconceivable the people living in
the vicinity were not aware of
Dachau's infamous practices.
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A bout 7,000 miles of coaxial cable will be added to
our plant during the next few years. Inside each
cable are six or eight copper tubes each pair a broad
communications highway over which two television
programs or nearly 500 long distance telephone calls
can travel. Giant plow-trains will "plant" much of this
cable deep in the ground-safe from storm and fire.
This construction is but a part of our activity in the
television field. Now in an advanced experimental stage
are plans to link coaxial cables and high frequency
radio relay system, to provide a nationwide television
network.
Our part in television is the transmission of pro
grams from one station to another. As this new industry
develops, the Bell System will be prepared to provide
whatever network facilities are needed.
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
