THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, May' 17, 1949
PAGE 2
Fishy, Fishy, Get Unhoohed! . . .
When The Cornh lsker put out its edition of The Daily Nebras-
kan this semester, it r.n an editorial about fish which may not be
as fishy as it sounded
In part, at read: "Once upon a time in the realm of King Neptune
there was a school of fishes, a' small school of fourteen members.
These fourteen little fish were strong in their own homes but weak
when they all got together. The reason they were weak was because
there was a big Mama fish who made them do her every bidding,
There was another large fish in the schol who was supposed to be
the boss but the big Mama fish even bossed her around."
It might be that this school of fourteen fishes is parallel to the
fourteen sorority presidents who are "weak when they all (get)
together" in Panhellenie meetings. The big Mama fish might be
the advisor of Panhellenic who makes them (the sorority presi
dents) "do her every bidding."
To bring our fish story up to dale, let us look into another
aspect of the activities of this said school of fish.
In this same sea there exists a school of male fish who spend
a good deal of time and energy swimming about the sea planning
entertainment for all the fish from all the different schools. Twice
a year they give a show which all the fish, whether male or female,
can swim to and see. However, these entertaining fish have had
difficulty in making their spring show a? good as it might be because
Mama fish will not allow the girl lish to participate. The girl fish
may attend the show, but they may take no part in it. While the
girl lish have expressed a desire to take part in the spring show and
are confident that they can do so and still keep their fins clean,
Mama fish has ruled that none of the girl lish will take part. The
leader of the entertaining fish, one of the largest fish in the sea, was
dcleated in his attempts to get girl fish in his show, in spite of the
fact that the so-called Mama fish has jurisdiction over only a minor
ity of the girl fish who swim in the sea.
To be less allegoric, there is something wrong in "King Nep
tune's realm" when Kosmet Klub, which wants to put on the best
possible spring musical revue, is defeated in the beginning by
having the east restricted to only male students. Why must it be
restricted? Not because the ruler of all women students, the Dean
of Women, has deemed it so. But because the powers-that-be of
ranhellenic, the group which represents only a minority of women
students, has declared that none of the members of that minority
shall participate in the Kosmet Klub's spring show. Why this de
nies the rest of the women students the right to- try out for the
show- is a question which is in need of an answer. That answer can
come only from Ellen Smith hall.
Coincidence
On the front page there appear two stories, both con
cerning the future well-being of the University. One reads
''NU Professor Leaves for Iowa Job" and the other reads
"Legislature approves eight million dollar budget for Uni
versity, a two million cut from the University's original
budget."
..The first story may or may not be the indirect result of
i the second, but supporters of
the University might as well
brace themselves to see
plenty of stories reading
"NU Professor Leaves." With
a two million dollar cut in
the working budget proposed
by the University, professors
at this university cannot ex
pect much encouragement in
the way of pay advances
here for the next biennium;
they might as well look for
greener pastures. The battle
of taxes vs. teachers is over.
The legislature's tax argu
ment has won.
GIRLS!
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POO? Foil
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The Good, if Futile, Fight . . .
Retrospection can be an especially discouraging thing
for an editor. He re-reads editorials and letters to me editor,
reviews campaigns and then views the results. He wonders if
a lot of steam has not been let off for little or no conse
quence. He ponders seriously the possibility that ten years
from now other editors will be praising the same gooa
things about University life and howling about the same
bad aspects of the college situation. He considers the proo
ability that the college newspaper may be headed in one
direction nowhere.
However, Ke can justify or rationalize, whichever may
be the case, that his ranting and raving, his hours of dis
cussion, investigation and editorial pursuit, may have stirred
reader interest and that information which students should
have has been given to them, regardless of whether or not
it has made any serious changes in the campus scene.
Whether or not the inches of editorial space dedicated
to that ever-present problem of cheating on final exams
have accomplished anything can not be easily determined.
Intuition, however, lends the suspicion that what has been
said has been ignored, if read, by both faculty and students.
One can consider whether or not our lists of the reasons
why students should contribute to the All University Fund
ever paid off, or if all our coverage of the UNESCO confer
ence got students out for the event, students who would not
have taken an interest otherwise. One can query his think
ing as to what good the big noise The Daily Nebraskan has
made in the past about book store prices came. One can look
at the totals of the AUF drive, the report of the UNESCO
attendance and the prices still being charged for books and
arrive at a pretty good answer. He can look around the
Temple theatre and make an assumption as to how much
good Daily Nebraskan campaigning did there. Next year, if
the spring musical review of Kosmet Klub still has an all
male cast, he can make a fairly good conclusion as to what1
results were gotten from the Daily's justified (our opinion,
of course) demand for a co-ed cast.
The editor even wonders just how important all of
these things are. He faces the contention of some that the
editorial space should have been devoted to things never
mentioned. He knows in his own mind the why and why not
of editorial campaigns but must realize that his answers
may not be the nght ones.
This editor has the pleasure of knowing that, whether
or not the college newspaper is headed in any particular di
rection, the students of the University are and in a direc
tion which the college newspaper can only commend.
Evidence of this was brought out in the Constitutional
Assembly. What The Daily Nebraskan did not and probably
could not accomplish the Assembly did. It provided for three
freedoms for students social, political and academic
which the Daily advocated early in the semester but did
little about. The Bill of Rights of the new Constitution pro
vides for these freedoms. That bill was passed by both af
filiated and unaffiliated students, if one cares to divide stu
dent population on that basis.
These three freedoms we will take up in the next three
days for the purpose of clarification and in the hope that
all students as well as their representatives to the Assembly
will sanction these provisions when the Constitution is put
before the students for ratification.
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Communist Leader Gerhart
Eislcr, who was taken off the
Polish liner Batory, Saturday, by
Scotland Yard men in Southamp
ton, England, was sent to jail for
eight days by a British magis
trate. May 24 was set as the date
for the hearing on American at
tempts to extradite Eisler to the
United States. Eisler is wanted in
the United States for skipping bail
pending appeals on conviction for
passport fraud and contempt of
congress.
SHANGHAI, the great city of
China, was virtually encircled by
Communists Mondav.
MRS. EDITH W. WILLKIE,
widow of Wendell L. Willkie, was
hospitalized in serious condition
Monday from injuries sustained in
an auto accident.
ROBERT C. VENNF.R, Lincoln
insurance man, and University
graduate, was unanimously named
school board president at the or
ganizational meeting of the new
board Monday morning.
THE NEBRASKA navy has a
new admiral. Francis P. Matthews,
newly-appointed secretary of
navy, was commissioned by Gov.
Val Peterson as an admiral in the
mythical Nebraska Navy, Monday.
w nal a ?nap
They tell a mad tale about the
prof who got tired of having
people call his course easy. One
day he rushed into the room,
pulled out a whip, snapped it
over the students' heads several
times and cried, "This is what
is known as a snap course."
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Tuesday.
The regularly scheduled dance
of the City Campus Square Dance
club will not be held Tuesday
night. The ballroom i.; unavailable
due to the cheerleader tryouts.
The House Rules and Library
Committee asks that all persons
who have checked out pictures
from the Union lending library
return them sometime this week.
Corn Cob meeting, 5 p. m., 305
Union.
Wednesday.
Aquaqurttes can pick up their
pins at the W.A.A. office in
Grant Memorial between 12 and
1 p. m. Wednesday. They may
also pay for their sweatshirts
then and pick them up at meet
ing on Thursday.
Huestis lo Head
Canterbury Club
Charles Huestis was elected
president of the Canterbury club
at the senior recognition banquet
held Sunday night. Other officers
include Philip Hatch, vice presi
dent: James Clinton, treasurer;
Sharon Fritzler, secretary; and
Jes sica Brown, recording secre
tary. Charles Pederson presided at
the banquet which honored the
outgoing officers and outstanding
members of the parish. Fritz Daly,
secretary of the Nebraska Alumni
assoc iation, was the guest speaker.
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