THE DAILY MEBRASKAN
Friday, May 17, 1946
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How To Be an Editor. . .
You do not have to be crazy but it helps. So with half
of the wits you ought to have you pretend to edit a paper.
You blast the administration. You annoy the faculty. You
berate the deaf student body. You find causes. You fight
for causes. Fight that is, with a club. You lose clauses:
You try to be on the side of the good, the true and the
beautiful.
What does it profit you? Your enemies stop speaking
to you. Your friends start loving you. O. K., so you are
unloved. No one takes you seriously. You might as well
sell peanut butter in the Congo as be the editor of a campus
newspaper.
But you love it. Five mornings a week you get to pour
your heart out to readers who do not have enough intelli
gence to understand the legend of the three bears. You
hope that someday the students will be sharp enough to
kiss the faction boys, "Goodbye." That someday the boys'
tools will learn the name of their party before they come
down to vote so they don't have to ask the election officials.
You hope that some da ythree tired pug uglies will stop
monopolizing the men's honorary society, and give honor
where honor is due. That is, if it is really honor and the
activities and the last few membership rosters have made
it doubtful honor. You hope that the organized veterans
will put down their clubs and make a try at being students
with at least 80 averages. You wish you they would come
down and repair the hole their fists made in your desk, be
fore the next editor takes over.
You hope jthat the students will never again pay
seventy-five cents each to see a show that not even grape
fruit filled brassiereres, sported by the best of fraternity
row, could make funny. You hope that the Student Coun
cil will throw away its constitution and admit that it is
nothing but a pack of happy-go-lucky picnickers. You hope
that someday the closed corporation owning the coliseum
will toss away its gun and stop robbing the students every
time they want to throw a shindig within the sacred pre
cincts. You hope that someday the innocent, corn-fed chil
dren who infest these halls of learning will wake up and
realize that the only way to get a better university is for
them to slave, and pray and build it for themselves.
But you are only tired, old home re major who has
written too many inches, who has met too many deadlines
Perhaps in your last moments you ought to thank the fac
tion for the barrel of coke, with which the boys tried to win
you. Perhaps you ought to tell the Kosmet Klub that you
really would have joined if you had just had the twenty-five
dollar initiation fee. Perhaps you ought to let the Innocents
keep their red robes. There is a clothing shortage after
all.
You should not be bitter all of your life. You have no
ticed a few good, clean Nebraska boys and girls who may
yet save the world. (You may even run for the state legis
lature yourself some day.) Inspiring a university, com
munity is a hard and bitter task. But you have loved every
minute of it. You would do it again if you had the chance.
Lincoln Chapter
Of Cornhusker
Grange Initiates
The Cornhusker Grange. Lin
coln chapter of the National
Grange, initiated 16 new members
at ceremonies on ag campus last
night. Students of the Nebraska
College of Agriculture accounted
for 15 of the new members.
The National Grange is the old
est farm fraternal organization,
and the only one of its kind in
the world according to Dr. H. C.
Filley, an active member. Mem
bership is open to anyone inter
ested in the study of farm problems.
A SDecial meeting for the in
itiates will be held at 7:30 p. m.,
Tuesday, May 21, in the animal
husbandry building on the ag
campus.
The Ash Can
by
Marthella Holcomb
There are some people who say it's foolish to
register ahead of time for next fall . . . after all,
they can always find a class somewhere. Must
have been trying pretty hard for one lad we know,
who found himself registered for girls phys ed,
home economics and five eight o'clocks. No, we
wouldn't say it was crowded. . .
Most people, least of all the gentleman involved,
don't know we have a speaking acquaintance
to Commander' Fitts, but we do. Each morning,
rain or shine, he drives by us as we stand on our
corner waiting for the bus. And especially on
rainy mornings we have quite a piece to speak to
his retreating license plate.
We'd better sine a swan son?, so many people
will be so disappointed if we don't. Best method
might be to list a few of the major achievements
of the year:
Most satisfying column of the year to us as an
Individual was our tirade on ocular assistance . . .
and the grateful appreciation of fellow sufferers.
Biggest faux pas of the year, and certainly these
were many, was the unfortunate slip in regard to
our ag friends. (Those we had before the column
came out.) Hope we've patched it up since then.
We like to think that our discription of the
Union was our most artistic accomplishment, and
the item on the soup-eaters one of the most mem
orable. Not that the Betas don't remember our
comments, or that the Navy didn't remind us each
and every time we said the wrong thing.
Walter Winchell can say what he wants, we've
made our own contribution to the language, as
witness click-click, Plowed Ground high and B
for Barefoot.
Greatest disappointment of the year was the
faction letting May Day slip by without sending us
a May basket though we did not enjoy the noose
and dandelions they contributed.
Not that we often eavesdrop, and far be it from
us to listen to grapevine reports, however, we were
more than delighted to hear that our sorority girls
were warned that there was a rule against bloc
voting in student elections.
Without casting- checkerboard aspersions, we
think it might be nice to have some such govern
ing1 body over the fraternities. We can just see a
childing finger pointed to our Heart Lodge, Dia
mond Boose, Sweetheart Boys and Last Bat Not
Leasts, warning- the lads against skullduggery.
How sadly nostalgic we could become when mental
ly resnrveying- the nocturnal activities of the dear
lads, and their smoke-filled conferences. Not to
be confused with bull sessions, there was no Idle
conversation in these matters . . tt was as eat
ud dried as a Union Independent caucus.
Consolation, we keep telling ourselves, lies in the
Dear Editor:
This letter is concerned with the problem of rais
ing tuition from $25 to $75 for non-resident stu
dents. This raising may be fair for American stu
dents from another state, yet for foreign students,
this will have a very deep effect which will be
recognized later.
Although usually foreign students do not pay
their tuition, because their governments are re
sponsible for that, yet efficiency of these govern
ments for sending missions will decrease as these
expenses increase.
In Egypt, for example, aiming to increase the
relationship between neighboring nations, foreign
students pay nothing- for their tuition In all
Egyptian colleges.
I have an opinion that if tuition must be raised,
it is better to restrict this increase to American
students only.
Yours truly,
Mohamed Oloufa
Cairo, Egypt
fact that when people complain, gripe, and torment
us, they at least have read the stuff.
We were extra happy to hear the treatment that
the delegation from the Student Council received
in the office of the boys home room teacher here
at Plowed Ground. Seems now that someone has
finally admitted one of the many so-called govern
ing bodies don't govern. Never know when you
might .want to know that.
We've made some fine resolutions for next year,
which we might as well air and get credit for
making, since we won't get credit for putting them
in practice.
1. Discover if there Is some basic reason why
undergraduate lab assistants get paid forty cents
an hour, while graduate students doing the same
work get a dollar or more.
2. Find out why the brick sidewalk by Nebras
ka hall is left to twist a third generation of Ne
braska ankles.
3. Learn why rattlebrains suffer through four
years of college with no idea what they're here
for, unless it's to locate date-mate.
After a year in Botany, we've at last found the
key to campus identification techniques. Verified
by observation on picnics, Crib duty, etc., said
philosophy runs: "You cant always tell their
genes by looking at their jeans."
We could apologize for all the cracks we've made
at various and sundry individuals during the year,
but most of them aren't regretted, so we don't
think well go through the formalty. Anyone with
an account to settle can find us in our hole in
the basement most any afternoon during summer
school. Pub board notwithstanding, we arent
through with the Daily, and there's life in the old
gal yet. Obviously.
Bulletins
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
Intrr-Varnlty Christian Fellowship will
hold a phulc and devotion as Antelope
Park fanlight. Abe Kdiger has charge of
the regular Timday meeting at 7:30 p. m.
In the Union, room 316.
Pace Breaks Old Record
Nancy Jean Pace, daughter of
Dr. Donald M. Pace, University
of Nebraska associate professor of
physiology, broke a 35-year tradi
tion of the pharmacy college. .
For the past 35 years male
faculty members of the pharmacy
college have fathered only sons.
Innocents
Hold Alumni
Round Up
The traditional Alumi Round
Up banquet of the university's
alumni Innocents association has
been scheduled for May 25 in
the Union.
Ellworth Du Teau, former
alumni secretary will preside at
the banquet at which Judge
Adolph E. Wenke of the Nebraska
supreme court and Harry B. Cof
fee,fee, former Nebraska con
gressman and now president of
the Omaha Union Stock Yards,
will speak.
Many to Attend.
Invitations and announcements
have been mailed to alums
throughout the country and reser
vations have been received, ac
cording to Bob McNutt, class of
1943, chairman of the alumni
Innocents reunion banquet.
McNutt announced that the
alumni banquet, one of . the
events of the 1946 Alumni Round
Up, will have large attendance.
A reunion luncheon at the
Union, Saturday noon, May 25,
marks the opening of the Alumni
Round Up.
Nancy broke this tradition. She
was born Thursday at 2:45 n. m.
Weight: seven pounds, four
ounces.
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