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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, May 9, 1S51
Editorial Comment
Filial Exam Exemptions . . .
With less than two weeks of classes remaining,
few students can help but worry about finals and
their potential grade from a course. As that topic
Is mentioned, the question of what stu
dents to excuse from the finals pops up, and, as
usual, students as well as instructors are at odds.
Certainly any student who has consistently main
tained good grades for 18 weeks should not be
subjected to cramming and misery of that last test.
A student who presents a 7, 8 or 9 average at the
beginning of final exam week, won't benefit him
self by burning midnight oil two days before the
exam. This is true especially in case of seniors.
They are almost ready to reach out for that di
ploma. If they have made the grade this far, there
seems little reason to assume they will not this
last time
.Many courses do not have enough pre-final
week tests or means of measuring the student's
knowledge and in such instances, a final for every
class member, regardless of' average, is perfectly
justified. But when an instructor has given daily
or weekly tests througout the semester, he ought
to have a pretty fair idea what grade the student
should pull out of the course. If a student leads
his class scholastically, there seems to be little
reason for having him undergo another test to re
substantiate his average.
Many professors, of course, will stick to the cut
and dried final for everyone. But surely there are
faculty members who recognize they are justified
by allowing a student to bypass the final in many
instances. j.k.
Tradition or Nice Lawns
A "Campus Conscious Campaign" is what they
call it out on Ag. They call it tradition at Kansas
State university.
The Idea seemed to meet with success here at
the University Ag college, from all indications.
However, the situation at Kansas State seems
to be a little different.
Recently, the Kansas State Collegian, the uni
versity's paper, came out in an editorial, openly
rebelling against the efforts of one of the campus
organizations to stop jaywalking on the lawns.
According to the Collegian, cutting across the
campus lawn "symbolizes the casual abandon, the
reckless gaiety of college life."
Granted, the situation at Kansas State may be
altogether different from that which was encoun
tered on the University Ag campus. However, the
author of the editorial seems to think paths are
picturesque, and that most scenery lovers would
take footpaths in preference to a campus littered
with signboards.
Each to his own opinion, as the saying goes. Only
time will tell which campus that of Nebraska or
that of Kansas State is going to fare best under
the entirely opposite forms of treatment they are
receiving. j.r.
Tall Corn
Ag Union to Sponsor Annual
Starlight Terrace Ball May 11
, by Rex Messersmith ,
Want to dance? Not an ordinary dance, but one
out under the stars? Yes, this Friday night in
front of the College Activities building, the Ag
Union is sponsoring its annual Starlight Terrace
TjalL It starts at 9 p.m. and ends midnight. Bob
Russell and his orchestra will
provide the music and you ought
to hear this man on the trumpet!
Only 50 cents a person is the
admission charge so come on
over you guys and gals; this
promises to be one of the out
standing events of the year
sponsored by the Ag Union. Of
course, if the weather is bad all
the activities will be taken in
doors, but good weather or bad
it should be a "real deal."
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Ugly rumor has It that the proposed change
to the Ag Exec Board constitution did not pass
the faculty approval committee and is being sent
back to the Student Council for a rewrite. Some
people on campus, namely Delmar Wittier and
Carl Gerwick spent long hours on this with much
open discussion, and then final approval by the
present Executive board and on to the students
for a vote, which of course, was favorable.
And now, after all this, will their efforts be
In vain? The same rumor says that the change
was "loosely drawn" and not enough time was
spent on the technical details of the wording, etc.
It seems a shame to me that after all the pub
licity in The Daily Nebraskan, and all the mimeo
graphed copies of the thing were available, that
someone, either on or off the committee, did not
bring these facts before those who were work
ing on the project at the time.
Yes, it might look as if someone paid no at
tention to this before the time of approval. Sure,
it has taken nearly two years to revise the Stu
dent Council constitution, but the Ag revision
is only in the representation portion of the docu
ment and after taking into consideration the
amount of work that was put forth on this small
portion it sure seems that enough time was taken!
Only time will tell what happens.
Have you Ag fellows seen those good looking
trophies over in the case in the Ag Union? Those
are the prizes offered in the big Tri-K judging
contest next Saturday morning. Here is another
opportunity do show your skill and to improve
yourself along a line that one never knows when
he will need such experience in. After all, this
old world is made up of various sorts of contests,
and competition has never been known to hurt
anyone.
Here is something that takes a lot of , work
and planning to make it available, so let's get out
and take advantage of some free training."
It won't be long now before the various flow
ers will be blooming out on Ag campus. Remem
ber, it is strictly against the rules to pick these
beauties and a fine goes with each flower if
someone is caught with one. So don't make those
cops out there turn you in; they will probably get
their pay without it!
Preventing War
Dear Editor:
Did R. E. Anderson's criticism
of the Daily Nebraskan's May
my editorial make better sense?
At the most, his attempt to clari
fy terms only confused them. For,
to oppose strife and conflict to
the "Good honest competition,"
which they crown, is to corrupt
tneir very definitions.
Freud, who was prepared to
face human aggresive tendencies,
referred to two methods of pre
venting war in his "Open Letter
to Einstein." One method would
cut all ties of sentiment, bringing
about a worldwide but barren
social agreement. Competition,
strife, conflict, any form of dis
agreement would be excluded for
the sake of conformity, and ra
tionality would refute its emo
tional foundations. The anti-war
movement has frustrated itself
through the use of this method.
The realistic method of pre
venting war requires that we
cherish our inherent aggressive
tendencies, tendencies which lead
to progress of the kind that the
editorialist and I appreciate.
Rather than providing a ready
made, peaceful, intellectual
wasteland, this method expects us
to broaden our sympathies, to ex
tend our capacity for social faith
beyond single national, theocratic,
or ideological systems. It holds
that war comes about because we
are taken with the idea that
there is one, immediate, singly
vital conflict.
The war which impends will
come, not because man is com
petitive or striving or conflictive
in nature, but because he centers
his sympathy momentarily upon
a particular social scheme. When
we can feel that there are in
numerable conflicts of importance
and that individuals rather than
social groups are the source of
conflict, then we will be united
inseparably in an interhuman, not
in a temporarily international,
sense.
Yours truly,
D. E. Wehrman.
TNE' INVESTIGATION . . .
W. T. Seeu Reports to Council
On Mysteries of Honorary
A recent Student Council in
vestigation, designed to clear up
the many mysteries shrouding
campus honoraries, has revealed
the low-down on the most hon
orable. The report, compiled by W. T.
Seeu, tells the initiation ritual
how to become a pledge, status
of all alums, activities, fees and
rank in its field of the fraternity
which has become a real campus
tradition.
According to Seeu's report, the
honorary, Theta Nu Epsilon, uses
a mighty peculiar method to ini
tiate its new members.
Initiation Night
On the night of initiation (al
ways a night with the moon
bright enough so that you can
read the label of a beer can with
out external aid) all TNE pledges
are herded into a cattle truck
and taken to the Omaha stockyards.
There, the Seeu report con
tinues, the pledges are instruct
ed to paint skulls on the roast
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After the roast painting, the the report,
pledges must pile back into the According to the investigation,
cattle truck and return to Lin- it is easy to become a pledge of
coin. Once back on campus the
initiation again resumes opera
tion. Pledges are paired off and
the annual endurance contest be
gins. Winner's Reward
This contest involves each pair
of pledges being given a gallon of
gin and told to commence chug-a-lugging
it. The first of the two
to finish is allowed to drink the
rest of his opponent's gallon.
But it is after the endurance
contest that the .initiation really
gets going. The actives line up a
line of whiskey bottles three feet
long and pledges are to devour
the contents within a specified
time, or they cannot have any
thing more to drink lor tne next
hour. With a stimulus like this,
who would fail to finish the bot-
les?
There are many other strange
BBNU Schedules Activities
For People With Free Time
There is really no reason for all
the trouble being caused right
now by the actions of the well
known sub-rosa group. Accord
ing to the psychology books, it's
just a matter of placing people in
activities that interest and occupy
their time.
Now the BBNU. a new organi
zationton campus, have come up
with a new group of activities
that will keep any broadminded
young person busy and happy
and, most important of all, out of
trouble. Here's the list that has
just been released by the Nebras
ka chapter of BB. It is indeed a
list of stimulating pastimes to en
tertain anyone.
'Practice for the Army Tests9
Offers Basic Questions Help
"College men who take the
"Draft Deferment tests," to be
held May 26, June 6 and June 30,
will be faced with questions
which may well shape their fu
ture careers."
Pointing out that the results of
such tests may determine a young
man's future for some years, John
W. Barnes, head of Barnes and
Noble, distributors of "Practice
Stolen Goods'
'Variety Is Spice of Life9
Compensates for Dorm Fire
By Connie Gordon
The usual peaceful atmosphere that surrounded
the women's dormitory was absent last Wednesday
night when a fire broke out in the Iowa State girls
dorm.
Three fire trucks and approximately 500 students
answered the fire call and rushed to the dorm.
The fire was caused by faulty wiring on an elec
trical motor located in the pantry of the dorm.
There was very little damage done to anything,
except the nerves of those who live at the dorm.
But as someone once said, "Variety is the spice
of life." '
The University Daily Kansan, of Lawrence, Kas.,
reports the following from a Provo, U., newspaper:
'Provo high schonl girls are definitely committed
to hosiery."
"Reasons are that bare legs are not attractive,
and unclad limbs tend to undermine one's morals.
"Any girl who cannot afford to buy hosiery will
be supplied with stockings by the dean of women."
By the way, this news item dates back to Sept.
19, 1932, so don't take it too seriously.
The Daily Tar Heel reports that "according to the
Clsrkston Integrator, the mathematics department
ef the University ef Akron Is going to make it easy
for student to get hold of old tests.
The department is setting up a file system in
the university library which will include the ex
aminations of the previous four semesters.
Not a bad Idea, is it?
The Kappa Sig house of the University of Syra
cuse, really gets pancakes to write home about.
The reason: the original Aunt Jemiima, "creator,
expounder, and advocate of the pancake" is now
their cook.
Aunt Jemima had worked at another house on
the Syracuse campus before she started working
at the Kappa Sig house, but now, according to the
boys, "She's here to stay."
The Daily Kansan has made the following sug
gestion to the building and grounds department.
They should put on a comic opera, and they even
have a title for the suggested opera. It's "Vlgaro."
The Daily Utah Chronicle stated the following:
"An Illinois Institute of Technology professor has
announced a new protective-packing principle has
been discovered that permits objects as delicate as
an egg to be dropped from a plane without break
ing." The Chronicle commented, "Now if he would
only tell us why we should drop eggs from an air
plane. So much pilfered materials for now. FLASH.
Students Asked
For Yell Ideas
Don Devries, yell king for the
1951-52 yell squad, has an
nounced that starting today and
continuing for one week a "Bet
ter Yell Squad" compaign will be
in operation.
Devries stated that the only
way to develop a yell squad which
will be perfectly suitable tc- the
majority of students is to let the
students themselves decide
what it should be like.
If any students have ideas of
any sort lor new yens, new
sttunts, chants or merely gen
eral suggestions the yell squad
will greatly appreciate receiving
them.
A large suggestion box will be
placed in the front lobby of the
Union. The box will be at this lo
cation until Tuesday.
Students may also mail their
suggestions to Don Devries at
1545 R St.
For The Army Tests" said, "past
experience and guidance from
military men and educational
testing experts were used to make
it a practical text."
Picture of Process
In the introduction, the reader
is given a general picture of the
testing process, the I.Q. test, as
well as other tests.
The Selective Service Qualifi
cation Aptitude test is described
and the four basic types of ques
tions on that test are revealed.
They are:
1. Ability to read and compre
hend materials collegians must
study.
2. Ability to deal with words.
3. Interpretation of data . in
charts, graphs, tables, and dia
grams.
4. Arithmetical reasoning which
will require no advanced mathe
matical knowledge.
The book. "Practice For The
Army Tests," covers these four
types of questions. It also includes
illustrations to enable readers to
grasp the meanings of and an
swers to specific problems.
Dairy Judging
Winners Named
Winners of the Varsity Dairy
club cattle and dairy products
judging contest were announced
last week. The contest and Var
sity Dairy banquet were held in
April.
Newmans Plan
Full Week-end
All Newman clubbers are
urged to participate in the fare
well dance, the communion break
fast and the picnic scheduled for
this coming weekend.
The farewell dance will be held
also in the Union, rooms XYZ,
Friday at 8:30 p.m. During inter
mission there will be entertain
ment. The communion breakfast will
be held Sunday, at 10 a.m. at
Chef cafe located at 1309 N street.
The price of the breakfast will
be thirty-five cents.
TABLE TENNIS CLUB: This is
a new version of an old favorite.
The members will play the game
according to the old rules, except
for these changes. The table will
be round so that more may play
and friends will not have to be
left out. There will be no net,
the ball being hit only every
other time. While someone goes
to chase it when it bounces off
the table, the rest may chug-a-lug
a cup of tea, or -some other
thing.
HAPPY HOLLOW CON
STRUCTION GROUP: This is a
new plan for organizing young
people who have a desire to do
a worthwhile job. They will
paint various buildings, lawns,
sidewalks or anything they care
to. Just to be on the safe side
of jealous union members,
though, the paint will be com
posed of water find lemon juice.
This not only leaves no telltale
paint smears, but also is good
mix to have around in case the
Happy Hollow Group wants to
have a party-a tea party, that is.
Filled Cup
THE SALAMANDER SING
ING CLUB: For happy, husky
voices is this new club founded.
Each week there will be individ
ual contests to see which member
has learned the most . songs or
originated any. There will be a
traveling cup presented each
week to the winner. The cup, of
course, will be filled.
These are just a few of the new
activities planned for misguided
college students. Other interests
will be guided into clubs spon
soring knitting lessons, weaving,
art lessons, soda sipping and
gunnysack racing.
14th and P Offices
The BBNU urges all interested
parties to contact them at once
if they are interested in form
ing these new societies. Their
headquarters are temporarily lo
cated in the second booth, 14th
and P streets.
Scholastic standing is not im
portant. Talent along the lines
of the activity you wish to join
is essential. There is no initia
tion fee; in fact, there is no in
itiation. To be real truthful,
the whole organization will
probably soon be kicked off
campus. Now, is anyone interested?
this fabulous fraternity. One of
the main requirements is attend
ance at the proving grounds
(DB&G) at frequent intervals.
If an active sees a man at these
! proving grounds often enough the
potential pledge is almost certain
to be offered a membership.
Scholastic Average
Another important requirement
is the scholastic average. No
member or pledge is allowed to
have more than 17 down hours a
semester. The report emphasized
that thif. rule must not be broken
because in the words of the hon
orary's president, Brokenbottle
Belch, "We are in college to be
come educated and we must not
let outside enterprises encumber
the pathway to successful intel
lectual development."
If the prospective pledge can
meet these requirements and,
above all, show that membership
in, the fraternity would not en
danger this scholastic develop
ment, he is as liable as not to be
pledged.
After graduation, TNE mem
bers thank their lucky stars that
they were accepted into this re
spected organization. The report
mentions the statement of one
alum concerning how TNE mem
bership helped him get a job with
Metz.
Once a week the active chapter
meets to discuss current topics.
Many fine arguments resulted
from the recent liquor board con
troversy. The fraternity feels that
these discussions add something
vital to University life. "Some
thing that can't be found in the.
classroom," as one member put it.
Besides these talks, the club
engages in some decorating ac
tivity. They show true Cornhusk
er spirit when they add their deft
touches to the sidewalks, build
ings and livestock.
The report showed that it is
relatively inexpensive to belong
to this honorary. Dues of two
cents a week are all that are re
quired, but some sources hint that
the club's various social functions
do cost a little.
The report emphasized that
among the nation's TNE chapters,
"the Nebraska chapter is one of
the highest."
Membet
Intercollegiate Press
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To Give Recital
An interpretive recital will be
given by four speech students
Friday at 7:45 p.m., in Room 201
Temple.
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