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THE NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, March 1 3, 1945
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
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Time for Action . . .
Students are a critical bunch. We have a great deal to
say about the way we think things should be done in this
university, always excusing our failure to change the situa
tion with the plea, "There's nothing we can do about it."
Now we're saying that we should have a voice in the
selection of the new chancellor. This time there is some
thing we can do about it. In fact, something is already be
ing done about it. The Student Council has authorized a
committee of students to determine the qualifications stu
dents would like to see in the new chancellor, arid suggest
to the Board of Regents examples of candidates who would
fill those quaifications as far as possible.
This committee obviously cannot determine the opinion
of the students in these matters if the students, not on the
committee, do not express themselves. A hearing has been
arranged, consequently, to be held at 5:00 p. m. today in
Room 315 of the Student Union, at which time all interested
students are urged to come and talk over with the commit
tee their ideas on qualifications for the new chancellor and
suggest names of possible qualified candidates, stating the
reasons they feel these candidates are qualified.
Through this hearing, a letter to the committee sent to
the Student Council office, or consultation with any mem
ber of the committee, interested students have every oppor
tunity to make themselves heard. This is our chance to have
a voice in the course this university will take during the
next few years.
Simple Mathematics
For those who haven't been subjected to the rigors of
higher mathematics, here's a simple problem. If there are
5,000 people and each one of them contributes two dollars,
how much money has been given v Answer i $10,000.
But here is an even harder one to figure out. With 5,000
available people, only a little over $1,000 has been con
tributed to one of the worthiest causes anyone could im
agine. .
But trying to make university students part with a
dollar except for a new pair of nylons or a couple of tickets
to a show is a task that has baffled many a group trying
to collect money for anything.
Somehow students cannot seem to realize that human
ity is more important than one coke or that service is more
important than a pair of 51-gauge nylons. The coke and
nylons won't last but the effects of services rendered by the
Red Cross have bee nfelt in years past and will be felt even
more in years to come.
When determining the goal which could be reached by
the campus, workers cut it down to the bare minimum of
$2,500. A contribution of only 50c per student would push
the drive over the top in one day.
Mathematicians aren't the only ones who have trouble
figuring out why 5,000 times 2 or 1 or even '2 doesn't equar
$2,500. Men in occupation troops, veterans, men in hospitals.
starving children in Europe and civilians struck by disaster
will wonder ,too.
Veterans
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the house a formal doctrine of
aims and purposes of the or
ganization, which he and the
executive committee recom
mended be adopted and attach
ed to the constitution when it
was submitted to the senate. It
read: "This organization fosters
free and open discussion of all
issues, and may officially take a
stand upon a controversial mat
ter, except that no political
party or candidate will be en
dorsed. No person shall be de
nied membership or office in
this organization because of '
race, creed, political party, or
affiliation with any other or
ganization." A heated discussion ensued con
cerning the limiting nature of the
political clause, but the doctrine
was approved, and placed on file
with the constitution.
Elect Committee Heads.
Election of committee heads,
nominated the previous week, was
held in the regular business meet
ing. Bill Young was chosen social
chairman, Nelson Parrish mem
bership chairman, Carl Booton
housing head, and Craig Johnson
athletic chairman. In addition,
George Schmid was tabbed ag
college representative. Booton
went right to work with a plan to
supplement lagging community
efforts to supply veterans with
housing. He organized a workers'
group to keep in contact with Lin
coln landlords personally, in or
der to give veterans first chance
at any possible openings.
The vets also went on record
unanimously supporting the Stu
dent Council recommendation for
the change in the dates of spring
vacation, while whistles and roars
of approval indicated support just
as unanimous for a proposal by
two city girls for a YMCA-spon-sored
mixed club for vets in the
basement of the YWCA.
The next meeting has been ten
tatively scheduled for Wednesday,
March 20, at 7:30 in the Union
ballroom.
Kosmet Klub . . .
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the Union. All organized men's
groups on both Ag and City cam
pus are urged to send workers to
the meeting and membership in
Kosmet Klub will be based on the
amount of work th; workers do
for the Klub, annouk.-ed Folda.
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By IfladliJL J4o(coml
Tonight's the night for that swimming
party the phys ed department dreamed up.
Swimming party, that's a legitimate excuse
for sore, muscles and amateur strip tease.
Freddie Hamlin has positively guaranteed
not to appear in his tank suit, so it'll be safe
for us naive undergraduates.
Monday afternoon we had to play ama
teur fireman because some stupid student
had dropped a still-glowing cigaret butt into
the receptable of a smoking stand in the
Union lounge. It's at such moments we ap
preciate why the university students in
America aren't the guiding political factor
they represent in Latin America and Euro
pean countries.
We've always felt more than a bit jealous
when we read of foreign students demon
strating for this or that reform, and won
dered why we couldn't do the same sort of
thing here. And now we know the answer.
No one with any sense at all would slit
the leather coverings on the game room
chairs. No student worthy of the name,
scholar, would build a bonfire of waste pa
per on the tiled floor of the men's room. No
scholar would stoop to stealing (and that's
exactly what it is) the books purchased
from student funds and placed on open
shelves in the Book Nook.
One of the worthiest recommendations
we've yet heard for Nebraska was that the
student body here is,1 for the most part,
representative of the upper middle-class
American family. Most of us worked for any
allowance we got as kids. We weighed the
merits of a milk-shake or dessert when he
had lunch downtown, because during the
depression we weren't allowed to have both.
We got "blistered" if Mother caught us with
our feet on the sofa, and Dad took care of
the disciplinary problem if we mutilated his
razor-strop. Now that we're away from
home here at the university, however, any
things seems to go.
News in a
Nutshell
BY BOB BEASON
WASHINGTO N In answer to the
charges against soviet Russian made by the
United States, the Russians have charged
that the United States has tried to broaden
the leftist regime in Bulgaria. Secretary of
State Byrnes has flatly denied that the
United States has broken a Big Three for-,
eign ministers' agreement or has tried to
further the leftist regime. The agreement,
which was made at Moscow last December,
was that the United States and Britain
would recognize Bulgaria if the government
were broadened .to include two members
who would "really represent" the opposition.
President Truman's famine emergency
committee has pledged to give foodstuffs to
all peoples of starving Europe, regardless of
color, creed, or religion. The committee has
asked the American people to eat less wheat
and less fats.
According to an announcement coming
from the Senate, the labor committee has
junked the Case strike control bill for a
complete new measure.
LONDON Prime Minister Attlee told the
house of commons last Monday that Win
ston Churchill, in his Fulton, Mo., speech oT
March 5, had "stated very clearly he spoke
for himself only." Atlee said the govern
ment was not called upon to "express any
opinion." Churchill's speech has been at
tacked very bitterly by Pravda in Moscow
as advocating a British-American military
alliance that would break up the United Na-
tions. -United
States protests to Russia against
the continued presence of red army troops
in Manchuria and the removal of industrial
machinery from that section of China may
have been bolstered by a similar British
complaint.
CHUNGKING Chinese nationalist.. a. n d,.
communist reinforcements have been re
ported to be moving to Mukden, where the
rival forces are battling after sudden with
drawal of Soviet troops from that city.
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