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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN - Thursday, February 13, 1947 EDITORIAL . COMMENT Page 2 Jul (Z)nL TkhhadJkaiv Member Intercollegiate .Press rOSTT-FIFTB rtAS dhaepintion rates ra $1.50 per semester. 02.00 per semester mailed, or ts oc Pfo the eone? i vearVM.OO mailed. Single copy 6c Published daily dur ng Jhe hooi year eepi Monday and SatJrdayavacationi and examinat on editor .. . IM NaroCajr, Jaek Htll Mull Editor . . . . ; V ' " " " " JrnM. Wall? Bcckrr. See OoUca w Mitors... itmn herriraa. Norm ra mum. . w Millrr Sport Hltor "JJ Omt JfM Sortrtv Editor " Charles BHsd Kg News Editor BIS1XESS STAFF Hainrn Msnsscr . . 4Utant Knnr Msssfrrs Orralallna Maafr Jim Vaa 1-aodlaraai" Could Flaxc. Al UfmM Krlla Joaws Faith Needed rr,. ; ;.i-a murontlv featured in the Daily Kebraskan on the Chicago Student Conferwcjis the resu t of the feeUng of some students of this and 296 other col leges that a national organization of students will help re lations between colleges and nations. ,,,.. When plans have been completed, the National Student Organization, will be an American branch of the Interna tional Union of Students and will foster exchange of stu dents Aside from this aim of the NSO, the broad purpose of the group in the United States is to promote student friendship and cultural activities. There are also in the prospective aims and activities of the NSO, some specific proposals which may give the students of Nebraska some thing to work on. One of these is to assure that all activity funds are con trolled by the students themselves. Taken literally, this means that all organizations will collect and disburse their own funds with no control exercised by the administration. At Nebraska, all organizations designated by the Chancellor, Dean of Student Affairs or Board of Regents, turn their mrmov in t n th Student Activities Office and can withdraw it only upon presentation of authorized vouchers. WhetheH or not this aim of the JNSU couia ever De reauzea on uus campus may depend on how much faith the administration has in the honesty of the students. The lack of faith indi cated by the present system has unfortunately been justi fied in the past. Another controversial aim of the NSO is its desire to establish measures to eliminate commercialization of inter collegiate sports, and to sponsor interracial and interfaith sports on a strictly amateur basis. Under the present sys tem of subsidization and segregation existing in many of the schools of America, students will have to reverse their trends if this aim is adopted. As emphasized by Chancellor Gustavson in his convocation speech, they will have to de cide whether it is more important to win or to participate in sports for the fun o fit Again great faith in the inherent fairness and goodness of human nature is necessary to make this aim the reality it should be. The NSO has a good cause, just as the UNO has a good cause, and both, if they can ever be worked out cooper atively, will serve to promote international understanding. Eventually perhaps, the leaders of the student organization may become the leaders of the United Nations. Representatives Plan Special European Youth Hostel Trips Special European Youth Hostel trips have been planned only after careful study and discussion by American Youth Hostel repre sentatives with the hostel asso ciations of the countries to be visited and their State Department representatives. It was generally agreed that the summer of 1947 would not be too soon to resume regular hosteling trips. Special arrangements are being made to provide inexpensive transportation for those who take the trips to Europe, for it is the dream of the AYH to have a float ing Youth Hostel which will carry thousands of hostelers from this continent to Europe, returning to these shores with an equal num ber of Europeans eager for the wonders of the "New World. This travel should reduce the , round trip ocean fare to about $100. Sailings will be scheduled around the end of June and will I return about the first of Sep- ' tember. . Central Europe. Hostelers, docking at Le Havre, j will go to Paris and from there i continue southward to the Ri- viera. Afler tanning in the warm- j ing Mediterranean sunshine, they i will bike northward to Switzer- I land and climb with rugged Swiss i movlaineers in the land cf the j Mauerhorn. Romantic Luxem bourg is the next stepping stone northward to Brussels, Belgium, GradjFaculty Fellowships Announced Miller, Johnson Awards Received Announcement of the Franklin E. and Orinda M.' Johnson faculty and graduate fellowships, and the Donald Walters Miller graduate fellowships, and undergraduate scholarships has been made. The rules of eligibility, duration and amount, and procedure for appli cation have been received from the graduate office. Frank E. and Orinda M. Johnson Graduate Fellowships This fellowship has been pro vided for by a 350,000 dollar es tate left to the University of Ne braska. Graduates of the Univer sity of Nebraska or other univer sities and colleges of recognized standing are eligible. An appli cant need not be in residence. Scholarship, character, aims, fu ture promise based on demon strated ability, and financial need will be considered by the univer sity research council in determin ing awards. Frank E. and Orinda M. Johnson Faculty Scholarships The purpose of these fellow ships is to provide faculty mem bers with an opportunity for full time scholarly and research pur suits. Anv member of the faculty who holds the rank of instructor or above is eligible, however, this scholarship is not granted for the purpose of pursuing work for ad vanced degrees. Appointments will be made for one or two semesters with re aDDointments not to be made ear lier than one year after termina tion of the previous award, im pends will not exceed 1,500 dollars semester, and the fellow will be relieved of all teaching and other residence obligations during the period covered by the grant. Amplication forms may be ob tained from the University Re search Council, Room 10, :ociai Sciences building, and the fellow shin will be awarded on a recom mendation of the University Re- ending their summer of cycling with a trip through the Dutch Lowlands to Amsterdam. On this trip, hostelers will find opportunities to speak French, German, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, and even the native tongue of little Luxembourg. There are so many historical and cultural points of interest in Central Europe with such divergent itin erary possibilities that general route schedules are planned only after studying the particular in terests of the group. The cost is $200 plus transportation from New York. Scandinavia. in the Scandinavian countries there are a friendly people anxious to reopen their trails to Amer ican -hostelers. After cycling through Denmark the group will leave from Copenhagen on a boat which will take them through the fjords of Norway penetrating the silence of the Arctic Circle. Swe- . den and perhaps Finland will fol low on the itinerary. The group will travel for 400 miles along the great Arctic high- ! way. the only motor road in the 1 world that runs to the Arctic ! Ocean, bike across great tundra ' wastes, and climb on one of Europe's largest glaciers. Tjie cost is $200 plus tra r ."-porta Ci from New York. British Me. I Over 10,000 Youth Hoi-.. J guct I passes were given Americans on furlough in England during the war. Returning home they said, "the only way to see and know England is to pedal the country side on a bicycle." The British Isles are not only rich in cottages, gardens, and historic buildings, but is the birthplace of Shakes peare and other immortal people. The boat will dock at South ampton, sending its hostelers across the British countryside to the shores of Loch Lomond, Scot land, where in 1946, 2,000 hostel ers met at the International Youth Hostel Conference; they then re turn to the boat through the bleak hills of Ireland. Hosteling is a favorite educa tional diversion for the cyclists in England, where there are 100,000 hostelers. Cost: $200 plus trans portation from New York. Explain Details of NSO Committee Organization The following is a report of Panel II, which was concerned with the organization of the pros pective National Student's Organ ization, at the Chicago Student Conference. This report is being made under the sponsorship of the Student Council for the purpose of ac quainting all students with the National Student Organization now in the process of formation. It was resolved that a national student organization be formed and shall include representatives of each college and university stu dent body in the United States, and representation of national stu dent organizations on the follow ing basis: That 10 percent of the executive committee of the NSO shall be composed of voting repre sentatives of the national student organizations, elected by these or ganizations; that no ' representa tives of organizations be seated on any other level of the iSO than the Executive Committee and the General Assembly; that the Presby Students To Elect Officers Election of officers for the com ing year will be held at the Pres byterian student house meeting next Sunday. Bill Miller will speak on "My Responsibility as a Christian in World Affiars." All donations for the box to be sent overseas should be contrib uted this Sunday. T. H. I. F. will hold open house Friday night, featuring games and refreshments. search council. Closing date for applications is March 1. Donald Walters Miller Under graduate Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships Eligibility extends to all stu dents above the freshman year in any of the schools or colleges of the university, including both un dergraduates and graduates. Re cipients of the scholarships shall be selected upon basis of scholas tic ability, aims, character, tem perament, and financial need. Candidates must have been regis tered in the university during the present semester. Three or more fellowships and scholarships of 750 dollars each are available for the next aca demic year. These scholarships do not carry remission of tuition. Students should fill out applica tion forms available at their dean's office and should file them with the dean of the college in which the student is registered. Applications for graduate students should be filed in the graduate office. Applications should be ac companied by a letter from the student which should include a detailed statement concerning ed ucational and professional objec tions. The committee requests letters from one or two staff members in support of the appli cation. Closing date for applica tions is March 1. participating national organiza tions form a Council, which will be responsible for the selection of the organizational representatives to the executive committee, and shall report to the General As sembly of the NSO shall have rep resentation based on approximate ly the same apportionment be tween college student bodies and existing national student organiza tions as exists at the Chicago Stu dent Conference; and that the Credentials Committee of the NCC shall re-evaluate the existing ap portionment so as to insure demo cratic representation. Organisation Structure In discussing the structure of the proposed organization, the panel decided that included in the structural make-up there should be: Regional Committees, elected representatives from the schools in- the region; a National As sembly, composed of representa tives from colleges and national student o rganizations and an Executive Committee, made up of four executive officers and any other representatives that the NCC wishes to propose in the constitu tion. A split came at Chicago over plans for a Judicial Council or Advisory Council. Those who fa vored the former proposed a group composed of an equal number of students and educators, with a student chairman, voting in case of a tie, that would have the power to review any legislation of the General Assembly on the basis that it does not conform with its constitution. Such a re view, if passed unfavorably, would require a 23 majority of the assembly to overrule it. Council Suggestions The proponents of an Adviscry Council suggested that a group of 21 prominent American educators be set up in the capacity f an advisory group that could do no more than make recommendations to the Assembly. This alternative was finally substituted for the first motion, but by the majority of only three votes, which means that this will be a controversial issue at the Constitution Conven tion. Membership requirements for the NSO were established aloig democratic lines, with, no in dividual being denied member ship for reasons of race, color, or sex. Ail delegates to any NSO meetings must be democratically elected by the student bodies of the colleges. No constituent member (co!!:ge student body or national stuf'?nt organization) will be obligated to follow the policies of the NSO. but that any cors'iluent body following policies directly opposed to the NSO would be subject to expulsion upon a vote of 23 of the General Assembly. 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