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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1946)
Sunday, November 24, 1946 THE DAILY NEBRASKA cunpu5 i By Mary Lou Blunicl Students on the Indiana uni versity campus place more long distance calls on Thursday eve nings than at any other time dur ing the week. The ca.lls, all placed within an hour or so, swamp the company's switchboard, to the ex tent that operators report that they can tell Thursday without looking at the calendar. The tele phone company, since it doesn't listen in on the calls, of course, has no explanation to offer for the Thursday rush, but some of the students explain the situation very well. Thursday night is a good night, they say, to call home to request funds for the weekend, or to report to their parents that they will spend the weekend at home. The number of parents now at tending Iowa State has passed the 1,000 mark. Most of the fatb its and mothers who. are going to school are veterans, and many of them live in special college hous ing areas. One of these areas, Tammcl Court, includes in its population over 280 children, This does not includes children of students who live in trailers, near the area, or the second or third child in families with more than one child. According to the assistant director of Pammel Court, there are 1,246 students n the waiting list for veteran nous ing, and of this number, 463 have children. Recreation for the chil dren is provided in the court. The Daily Iowan speculates as to how many children, in 20 years from now, will be back 'midst the scenes of their childhood going 10 college. The scholastic average at Syra cuse university has increased but some students on the campus have aoutts as to what cause i the in crease. One student, in a letter to the editor, makes the accusa tion that students are openly passing tests by unfair means and not by hard study. He further states that the majority of pro fessors know what is going on during tests. '-Before we do any more cheering about the increase in the all-university scholastic av erage," the letter suggests, "let's consider the point that this in crease may be due to bigger and better schemers, not scholars!" Nonchalant Attitude Prevails As Wee People Invade Crib BY ELLIE SWANSON There 1 was minding my own business . . . reading a letter the girl across from me in the rib was reading from her true love. The part c. the letter which espe cially amazed me was that he saw her every day, but he felt that he couldn't express his deeper thoughts unless he wrote them to her As I was saying, however, there I was -minding my own business &uaaeniy, lor no apparent reason wnatsoevcr, i had to raise my voice irom a medium shout to a forceful scream in order to make myself heard. The crib was in vaded by wee people. Who Are They? Who were these wee folk, yeu ask? The Music Clinic is in town and the high school students are getting their first glimpse of the big university. Feeling that it was my responsibility to duly impress them, I took it upon myself to ap proach a typical looking lad and give him the opportunity of con ferring with a real college girl. "What do you think of the uni versity, little boy?" I asked, pat ting his fuzzy head. Peering meek ly around with his big brown eyes, he stammered, "Sloppy looking campus." "What especially im presses you about the it.xol?" I continued, ignoring his blasphemy. "The students are so indifferent to me," he sighed, lowering his long lashes slowly. "Don't let that worry you," I encouraged him, "they'll love you when they get to know you." Timid Reply. ai tnis point i looked at my watch and remembered a previous engagement with my laundry man. "I've got to go now, sonny. By the way, what's your name?" "Dake Novotny," he answered al most timidly. "Well, good luck to you, and I know you'll make some thing of yourself some day." I strolled off casually wonder ing why that name struck such a : i .' i i my mind. i struggled through a particularly bustling crowd, fought for approx imately ten minutes and ended up head first in a bass horn. Well, that's life ... do a good turn for someone and you'll probably end up getting the lowest blow. familiar note in COSMOPOLITAN CUB. CoMnniMillfan club will nwt in I nion room 815 thtu afternoon at 4. All member air aKkf-d to attend. AO SOCIAL ci.ru. Ag Men' Social Club will mrri on Mon day a 7:30 p. m. in room SIX of Ac nail. A new step in university recog nition oT community needs has been marked through the estab lishment of a practical one-year training program for industrial nurses at Wayne university, in the center of the thickly clustered industries of Detroit. Leger,Raynard Chosen as Dail Staff Members Norman Leger and Philip Ray- nard have been appointed news editor and ag editor for the Daily Nebraskan, it was announced Sat urday by David Fellman, chair man of the Publications Board. Because the appointments were made in the middle of the semes ter, applicants for the positions appeared only before Mr. Fell man. At the beginning of the second semester, all staff positions will again be open for re-appointment and new appointments. Leger's other activities include A. U. F. inter-fraternity solicita tions, Corn Cob worker, ,and cheerleader. Raynard is active in the Varsity Dairl club. 46 Freshmen Like All Others Still Confused Since freshmen have been on the campus for about two months now, it's about time there is a check-up to see if they really "know"" the campus. First of all, I think that the girl who was inquiring last week where the Phi Beta Kappa house was should be straightened out. She's been wondering why they haven't asked her to -any rush parties. They've kept it pretty wen nidden, out there s a vague rumor going around that thev have an underground tunnel on the corner of Sixteenth and Four teenth streets (probably used to be an air raid shelter.) Misguided Boys. Then there's the poor miseuided boy who is thinking Quite serious ly of pledging Innocents or TNE. He hasn't made up his mind yet which organization should receive the benefit of his presence. Some one ought to get him in a little corner and give him a few instruc tions. One little pledge, who goes with a fraternity pledge, asked me quite seriously one day how long I thought she should go with the boy before taking his pledge pin. And she wanted to know why a pledge couldn't borrow an active's pin to hang on his girl until he got initiated. Well, they have to learn sometime. Sneaking Out. There are also those pledges wno Know more than they are supposed to and manage 'to have week-night dates in spite of their house-study hall rules. The first step is the hardestwhen they go meeiuy up to the hard-hearted scholarship supervisor and stam mer out their gigantic reasons for "absolutely having to study in the library tonight." Once out of the house and away from glaring ae tives, the procedure is Quite simple. They trudge wearily into the library, plunk their sixteen reference books down on the table in the farthest corner (where their dates wait patiently) and put up a great pretense of eagering away ior a yy average while coyly mak ing eyes over the encyclopedia untannica. In spite of the bewildered looks and meek attitude of freshmen and pledges, I'm afraid they know mm talk Bakery and Luncheonette THE TALK OF THE TOWN Me4t Your Friends at Qur Luncheonette Delicious Coffee, Food and Pastries 1310 0 St. i o o 0 6,5-0 0 o o . 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