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Monday, November 19, 1951 PAGE 2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN 5 - 1 s; t 4 i 4 Tom Rsche. The Council Was Timid A proposal to have freshman and sophomore class officers was discussed a week ago ai the Ac tivities Workshop. Presidents of the various organ izations on campus discussed the much lamented campus spirit situation. To my mind, and those of several other organizational heads, the concensus at the workship was that the University should at least try a plan for freshman and sophomore clasa councils. Yet when the Student Council met last Wednesday, the proposal was sent back to the new class officers for further study. This is the third time that the proposal has been sent back to somebody for further study. By this time, It should be one of the best studied proposals on campus. The fact remains, however, that It 1 not. Someone said he didn't think anybody at the workshop was In favor of having freshman and sophomore officers. "What would they do?" he asked. This statement seemed to take council mem bers back. A motion to have freshman and sopho more class officers died for lack of a second. A motion to Investigate the possibilities also died for lack of a second. Thus the motion was sent to present junior and senior officers for further study. Aparently few on the council knew enough about the proposal ' to have strong opinions one way or the oth-jr, so they timidly said nothing. The proposal has been kicked around for quite a while. Proposed originally by Aaron Schmidt, president of the senior class last year, its provisions are as follows: Either class officers or a class council should be chosen for the freshman and sophomore classes. These officers would handle class af fairs and matters affecting their group only. They would be part of a larger plan to gener ate some spirit and some interest In this Uni versity among underclassmen. The idea behind the plan is basically to retain ome of the "rah-rah-ism" of high school for the University. When students enter the University from high school, they are full of pep and vigor and enthusiasm for their school. They enter Uni versity and find that enthusiasm for the school is not currently In fad, so they lose their pep. If they had some organization of their own to govern them, they might be better citizens of the Univer sity. What could councils do? They could sell fresh man beanies. They could work on student dances If they were able to actually participate in school functions on the basis of being equal to others, in stead of as workers, there might be more Incentive. They could take stands on issues, or sponsor con tests. These might be attractive to a freshman or sophomore student. But after two years of inac tivity, the junior Is not likely to start bubbling with class spirit. No good fairy is going to wave her magic wand to make a junior enthusiastic when the sophomore never was. A council plan would take several years to show its effects. A one-year trial would prove little. The first year would be a trial, but It should not be a trial of the entire plan itself. School spirit, long dead, could not be resurrected in a year or even two. What this plan will take is time. Rome wasn't built in a day. Neither can school spirit be built in a day. The attitude of some council members is sur prising. They seem to be afraid to try anything. Maybe this specific plan Is not the answer, but nothing would be lost by trying it and a great deal might be gained. Timidity never improved any situation. The only possible loss would be a few people's time, but it might well be worth the experiment. College Days Story (Cont.) (The views expressed in the Science Continues To March Forward But Field Of Human Relations Neglected Charles Gomorv People, after all, are the most unpredictable and irrational of God's creatures The inconsisten cies of the human mind are apparently the result of our superiority over lower animals in that we theoretically have the power to reason. We have the capacity for making studied decisions, and paradoxically we also have the power to mak mistakes. Our scientific advances are unparalleled in history, but where man must deal with fellow creatures he falls far short of the mark of real achievement. tion at home which threatens to deprive us of potential leaders through threat of deliberate murder of the reputations -of public men. How much more difficult it is to resolve the little personality clashes which we have with our associates in dorm or house than to give advice on what France's policy should be toward her North African colonies. We cannot, at times, understand the behavior of our closest friends; we cannot overcome the temptation of personal gain at the expense of our For example, the department of defense an- fellow men. In fact many of us have not learned nounced that deaths among wounded soldiers in Korea are one-third less than in World War IT and that 70 per cent of our casualties have returned to duty. But we can't explain, even to our own satisfaction, just why we are fighting in Korea. Chemists can tell us to a hundredth of a degree and a thousandth of a gram the properties of sub stances about which the average citizen has never heard, but lack of intelligent diplomatic analysis has sent our representatives home from countless international conferences with heads bloody from the blows of enemies whose only advantage lies in their brutal denial of the fundamental rights of individuals. Until we understand people, we cannot deal effectively with them. Anyone who stops to look about him is amazed J at the fund of knowledge which we lack in the field of human relations. We are surprised and shocked at reports of war atrocities in Korea where man murders man for political gain, but we are little concerned with character assassina te recognize what is morally right. Any senator who advocated the use of our $60 billion defense budget for a gifrantic cam paign for brotherhood with our ideological ene mies would at best be considered impractical and at worst laughed out of the capitoL Any promin ent citizen who proposed such a plan would run the risk of tar and feathers. The unfortunate thing is that the critics would probably be right, if a little extreme. We would undoubtedly be re warded for our pains by the loss of our chance to exercise our reasoning powers, because revo lution has seldom been found to be the way to peace. Perhaps the key to the solution lies in a realiza tion of our inadequacies, a determined effort to understand what is in the minds of those who have been taught beliefs different from those we have been taught, and patience to endure those charac teristics of society which only evolution may change. Dear Editor column are those of tne writer ana not necessarily those of The Daily Nebraskan.) Dear Editor: I have noted, with a great deal of Interest, both the written and oral comments of the past day or two, following the presentation to the Student Council of the Engl neering Executive Board's pro posal concerning College Days. It has become clear to me that both sides of the question are now open for public inspection the cards are on the table and the combinations of play to follow can result in only one of two con clusions, to wit: 1. Either, several years hence, the University campus will proudly present a College Days program of which we can all be proud and which we "will sup port vigorously, or 2. The Issues of today will disintegrate into an inconclu sive finale which will allow the opportunities which are ours (the entire student body's) to slip past and do irreparable damage. It would anDear that both groups have thus far made mis takes. Are we, as a student body, and the encineers as a minority, capable of pulling ourselves to gether in a realistic fashion? Are we capable of rising above the personalities (both sides) which apparently are a large part in the problem? Do we have the genuine interest in the University which will be reauired to challenge our selves to solve the problem to the best interests of the institution? Let us consider for a moment just why, in my opinion, we nave clashed. We all know that inertia pertains to the tendency of a body to remain in motion or at rest. We knnw that the clutch m the trans mission of an automobile is to hpin nlare the automobile into mntinn in a eraceful and com' fortable manner to overcome the inertia with minimum disturbance, whpn the clutch is engaged too rapidly, nature's material may not be able to sxana xne suras nu something has to give resulting in damage, distress and repair Dins. Is our trouble that we (both sides again) are attempting to snap the clutch? Possibly this is one of our first difficulties, but there are others. We are all going to be pas sengers in this automobile. Where are we going? Are we big enough to take time to plan our trip to choose a road from which all of us can be thrilled by the scenery which flashed by? Who is eoine to drive this car? Ts it. to be one eroup or an entity representing all groups? (One of the mistakes oi tne engineers was, possibly, in offering to be the driver.) I am sorry that The Daily Ne braskan's headlines last Thursday flashed our condemnation ot col lege Days for we approve of the idea, we honestly do. I am asking the Nebraskan to reprint our let ter at the close of these remarks so that you may read it carefully. We have a venicie to piace into operation. The engine is running. How are we going to direct its energies? I sincerely hope that the Student Council and the administration will move slowly as it is probably best not to disturb the pro- Ag Union Building Progress Reported By Committee Head Doe Reynolds--- I suppose you Aggies have been wondering if topic of introductions. The next discussion in the the Ag Union Building committee has made any series be the week after Thanksgiving. progress. Well, I finally got in touch with the presi dent of the committee, and here is what has been done. Material and money for the building of a new Ag Union are not available at the present. The $1,000 that could be obtained by the floating of bonds is not enough to start construction and the restriction on building materials would not allow them to start if enough money was avail able. So, until the present situation changes into -a more favorable one, the committee is stalled on any plans for buildinr. However, architects are working on the plans for the new Ag Union. They are also working on plans for the building of two new men'rdormitorics on the Ag college campus. Under the direction of Mary Lou Huse, the new Ag Union activities director, the present Ag Union Also, don't forget the Ag Union's Saturday Night Cabaret. More and more students are at tending it every week. Last Saturday a variety in its entertainment was featured by having stu dents do the entertaining with songs and vocal numbers Also, students attending the cabaret enjoyed television and dancing. The amino acid requirement study ends today" at noon. And just in time, too, because the six girls on the food test can now go home and enjoy a big Thanksgiving meal. The test began Sept. 19 Results and details of the test should be announce soon. If ycu Aggies are going to get your tickets for the Home Ec Smorgasbord, you had better hurry. There are only 250 available, and they are going fast. The smorgasbord is not only planned by the NU BULLETIN BOARD Monday At Union: Builders board meet ine at 4 p.m.: Board meeting at 5 p.m. Union recreation committee at 4 p.m. Tuesday Union: hospitality committee, 5 p.m. Cornhusker pictures: Nu-Med, 12:30 p.m. in west stadium. Saturday, Nov. 24 Corn Cobs and Tassels will meet at the usual time in the east stadium to put out the card sec tion lor the Oklahoma game. Alain Features Start Varsity: "Behave Yourself," 1:49, 3:43, 5:36. 7:39. 9:44. State: "Never Trust a Gambler," 1:26, 4:11, 6:56, 9:41. "Roadblock," 2:47, 5:32, 8:17. Esquire: "Mad About Opera," 2:00, 7:39, 9:19. rrams of this school year but to devote our planning to next .year spring of 1953. Sincerely yours, HOWARD DUNCAN President, Engineering Executive Board Engineer's Proposals (1) The College Days Board as it now exists be considered de funct on the grounds that it does not have a constitution approved by the Student Council. (2) Since there is no other group on the campus that is en tirely representative of the stu dent body, we would like to sug gest that it become the responsi bility of the Student Council to prepare a constitution for an ac tivity that is similar in nature to Engineers Open House, but which includes the entire University. The entire text of the Engineer ing Exec Board's letter appeared in Thursday's Daily Nebraskan. ISA To Decide . , , To the Independent Students: Last week there was an editor ial which gave the position of the Independent Students' association. It was stated that the Sock Hop last Saturday night was going to make or break the organization depending upon the success of the dance. The dance was a financial loss. On the other hand, most of the people there considered it a social success. Because of the interest and enthusiasm of those present, the organization has been given another chance. Several individ uals have made up the financial loss. I really don't know what more the Independent students want. I certainly hope that the paid mem bers of the ISA buckle down and! make something of the organiza tion. I was thoruoghly disgusted to find Saturday night that half of the people at the ISA meeting a week ago voted to have the dance, no matter what, didn't even come themselves. This Saturday. Nov. 17. Colo rado university and Omaha uni versity are sending official ISA deleeations to meet with our inde pendent group. It is important that we have a delegation to attend the meeting. Further announce ments will b- made in the Daily Nebraskan. Remember, that ISA is the organization of its members and the effectiveness of the organiza tion depends entirely upon its members as a whole. BRISTOL TURNER KNUS On The Air Monday 3:00 Music from Everywhere 3:15 Coffee Royal 3:30 Authors of the Ages 3:45 Authors of the Ages . 4:00 Jockey Jamboree 4:15 Jockey Jamboree 4:30 Shake Hands with the World 4:45 Sweet and Lowdown 5:00 Sign off BY ANN OILL1GAN Society Editor Last weekend and the "lost weekend" ran synonomously around campus circles. Guys and gals evidently decided to celebrate the long-awaited Thanksgiving vacation. For instance, the Phi Delts de cided to celebrate with a bowery party. Julie Johnson dated Fos ter Woodruff for the occasion, Beth Alden was with Chick Bat tey, Dorothy Elliott was with Dale Capek, Carol Sievers and George Mink were there, as were Louie Roper and Shirley Ledingham and Barb Wiltse and Dick Gerlach. Beta Slgs held a "barbary coast" affair. Dates included Bert Wartchow and Shirley Hallbock from Iowa State, Walt Flicker and Stevie Allen, Dick Huebner and Pat Ball, Dick Pearson and Mary Lou Helbush, and Paul Scheele and Glenda Pearson. Eddie Susby, of radio rangers fame, was the chief entertainment at the annual DU Stable Stomp. Dates included Jerry Barton and Mary Jane Mapes, Kirk Lewis and Gretchen Hein, Howard Den nis and Dodie Newman, Jack Baugher and Mimi DuTeau, Dick Asmusscn and Jean Wilson, Dick Peters and Sally Seveska, John Gibbs and Bev Taylor, Bob Mc Kee and Marli Mooberry and Bob Johnson and Al Stehly. Bob John son and Jo Winkler and Bob John son and Barb Hershberger. In cidentally, these are three differ ent Bob Johnsons! Kosmet Klub-ing Friday night were Kay Kinscy and Don Boh mont, twins Jerry Roe and Joan Roe with Ann Skold and Jack Holmauist. respectively. Barb Jones and Milt Dcwhirst, Jo Wal lace and Don Dutcher, Muriel Pickett and Dick .Schilling, Jan Jaco and Larry Chafer, Bev Brown and Dick Mead, Marlene Mcuui lough and Ed Bridges, and Lianne Farrall and Larry Dunning. "Hunters" at the Saturday night Farm House party were Rex Messersmith and Mildred Athey, Charles Stuber and Peggy Mulvaney, Wayne White and Joan Meyers, Joe Edwards and Paula Scharman, and pin mates Clayton Yeutter and Jeanne Vierk. Some of the dates to the Theta Xi "French Party" Saturday night were Joan Meyer and Vaden Miller, Joyce Hays and Al Blaha, Jo Johnson and George Schantz, Jean Steffen and Mark McCoy, Lyn Albers and Denny Mitchem, and frequent daters, Jane Haylett and John Woolley. Dressed as ubangees at the Phi Psi house Friday night were Don Collins and Mary Flynn Dick Hovendick and Dot Hanson Joe Smith and Hope Miner Bob: Sievers and Donna Borgaard Artie Westcott and Don Noble and Betty Due and Paul Kruse. "Partying" informally at the Delt house Saturday night were Susie Stoehr and Don Woods Bill Adams and Mary Hubka Ted Simonson and Betty Pepler Jim Adams and Dee Garrett and Bob Hasebroock and Gracia Eythe. Attending the AOPi dinner dance Saturday eve were Faye Nelson and Nancy Sa- Flsher, Ruth Cibson and Bob Jaenlke, Liz Miller and Jack Etten and Bicky Nedrow and Dale Hahn. Dates to the ZBT no-theme party included those of Marv Steinberg with Bev Wilson, Leo Schmidt with Nanette Cowles, Ron Minkin with Jan Ickes, Bruce Hollander with Barb Turek and Monte Herman and Charney Taub. Sigma Nu's and dates at the Gold Rush party were Bill Knud sen and Jewel Claussen, Lyle Alt man and Jo Lamb, Stan Slpplt and Jan Bull and Ted Heerman and Corky Clore. At the Terrace Hall dinner dance were Jo Raben and date, John Mulvihill, Emmarie Shramelc and George Ellis, Suzanne Nelson and Dan Tolman and" Irene Rob erts and Ralph Hall. And Pi Kapps at their "Harbor Lights" party included Dick Hus mann and Marilyn Tyson, Don Leonard with Jo Folmer, pinmates Jerry Reinhart and Jean Nelson and Paul Stevbe and Joan Fred ericks. "Hide-out" partners at the Sigma Kappa gangster affair In cluded Wilma Klndhart and George Bauer, Edee Kutllek and Russ Morgan, Marlene Dumke and Owen Otto, Fat Wiedman and Merle Hansen, Ann White and Bill Renner and Kay Siewert and Lee Blair. But in spite of all the parties, Gene Everett reports that he spent a quiet Saturday evening at home in the company of Faye Emerson, while Joe Ponsiego pre ferred the company of Janet Leigh. Is TV getting that good? Congrats to the Sigma Chi pledge sweetheart finalists Bar bara Blackburn, Mary Fuelberth, Pat Graham, Jan Harrison, Muriel Pickett and Connie Sehnert. ;;i;::::i;:J. V; i;SU::f I I I aa ! - I -nee ACKerman, and Kenny Marilyn Monroe: Is she the New Harlow? J Find out in I IAm IUTi Get vnur rnnv todav r j Now Flaying Ji-L. 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