THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, February 19, 1952
EDITORIAL PAGE
Pranks: What Accomplished?
To consider a campus "prank" seriously, or gone. This call produced results; the police came
not. That seems to puzzle Lincoln police.
To tell on culprits or not to tell. That seems
to puzzle University students.
To consider a misdemeanor a "prank" or an
The not unusual paradoxy facing the campus
this year is thus: reports by some University stu
dents of lost property indoor and outdoor; and
the Immediate answer by police that it is impos
sible to trace down culprits because coeds will
protect them.
On one hand, organized women's houses com
plain because of missing: items ranging from
lawn chairs which are "exchanged" and "cir
culated" from house to house annuallyto ex
pensive end tables and easy chairs. However,
when any attempt is made to discover identity
of wrongdoers, as one housemother put it: "The
girls simply won't tell although they know who
does it."
A brief run down on some "lost" items would.
Include expensive pictures and picture frames,
lamps, end tables, chairs, ' lawn chairs, trophies
a little late.
Another case happened after Christmas va
cation when one v. omen's house was broken into
and some clothes spread around the halls. When
a private detective arrived, there was still a
flashlight on the living room floor, apparently
left by the intruder. However, the item was
ignored.
The danger of too much apathy by police offi
cials is obvious especially if University students
continue their prankish methods. Times when'
protection may be needed, police will consider it
merely another false alarm. j
University students probably earn a great deal
of the attitude. Check some of the fraternity
houses and you'll find many missing items. And
the pranksters are spurred on when the girls
laugh and think the entire affair is funny.
Housemothers no doubt become alarmed un
duly. However, it should be remembered they
can never be certain whether prowlers are
merely college fellows or real intruders.
It ia, unfortunate that University police and
(which may or may not ever return to Ihe orieinal
owner), candle holders and anything else that is citv Police take so !ihtly misdemeanors occurring
movable and does not require more than a handful on camPus- But " is also unfortunate that Uni
of persons to confiscate it. Many University stu- versity students men and women can not grow
dents with apartments in Lincoln furnish them
with odds and ends from organized women's
houses.
Because of the prankish attitude surrounding
any misdemeanor on campus Lincoln police have
the attitude that "some University fellows are
Just acting up again."
'
Not long ago, one sorority president phoned
the city police about someone removing a sign
from the front of the house. Time passed and
up.
We have a right as citizens to police protection.
As any right it can be abused, and we are abusing
it. One can not always tell when theft or prowing
is in "fun," if this can be classified as fun.
The root of the problem is simply for stu
dents to grow up and act like respectable adults.
This change would encompass ending, pranks,
vandalism and thievery; and secondly, putting
an end to shielding the culprite.
Although this part of the problem needs to be
What Am
I Doing
Sound-Off
Nebraska Democrats In Sad State;
Party Leaders Show Ljttle Originality
Tom Rische
The Democratic party in Ne-j state conven
braska is rather unique. Nebr- tion in Omaha
aska is one of the few states in 'endorsed Wal
the Union where the Democrats jter Raecke for
are more conservative (some call 'governor, al-
it reactionary) than the Repub-' though he had
licans.
That is not to say that all
state Democrats are conserv
ative, but . at least most of the
nartv leaders show little ori-
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the sign was taken. The president called again corrected, we still expect police protection, eveni s a" that aii state Republicans
icuiug yvuve 10 iuigei n uecause ine sign was u we are jusi college kius. J.xv
It's Up To Us
Carl Borgmann, dean of faculties, introduced
two mighty big "ifs" into the recent query of
whether the University needs or could afford a
full-time psychiatrist for students. "We've got to
find the right man at the right price" was Borg-
clause is that state taxpayers do not pay for
individual benefits to students. Taxpayers sup
port the purely academic activities of the Uni
versity. In view of this, present University theory on
mann's view of the main problem involved in the the appropriation of tax money, with which The
hiring of a psychiatrist. Daily Nebraskan finds no quarrel, it appears im-
Finding the right man might not pose too great possible to secure additional legislative appropria-
a problem, if, and when, the funds and the official tions to pay the salary of a full-time psychiatrist
approval could be secured for this proposed addi
tion to University services
A suggestion has been raised through inter
views with various faculty members and admin
istrative officials that the University salaries
, paid to an Omaha psychiatrist hired by the
graduate school of Social Work and the Lincoln
psychiatrist working with the clinical psychol
ogy department be combined to pay a full-time
psycmainsi.
The money paid these persons comes from
University appropriations granted by the state leg
lislature. They are taken from state tax money.
Funds, gathered through taxation of Nebraska
citizens, may be used only for "teaching and re
search" in regard to the University. This tax
money, used for "teaching and research" does not
Include funds to operate the Union, the dorms,
Student Health, or athletic enterprises. These or
ganizations exist with money from the student
activity fund which is part of student tuition.
Theory behind the "teaching and research"
Margin Notes
A capacity audience at the University Epis
copal Chapel Sunday evening showed that the
first observance of Universal Day of Prayer for
Students on this campus was successful. It is
encouraging to note that so many persons took
time from trivial activities of University life to
participate in a deeply significant service.
Graduate engineers of the University are find
ing "greener pastures" for careers within the bor
ders of Nebraska, Dean Roy M. Green of the en
gineering and architecture college revealed.
After years of migration to other states, it ap-
or that the combined salaries of the part-time psy
chiatrists would cover the cost of the proposed
psychiatrist.
The services of the psychiatrist who works with
the graduate school of Social Work cost the Uni
versity about $2,000 a year.
Various administrative officials, faculty mem
bers and religious men have voiced approval of
the need for a psychiatrist to administer to the
students. A great student need for this mental
help seems to exist at the University.
If found and hired, the psychiatrist would
help students with their various intellectual and
emotional problems. The psychiatrist would aid
students in adjusting to University life. The
psychiatrist would administer to the mental needs
of students as Student Health aids their physical
problems. And he undoubtedly could work with
the sociology, clinical and guidance departments
of the University.
Since this is the case, it seems logical that
money with which to hire a full-time psychiatrist
would be found in the student activity fund. The
psychiatrist would serve the students, mainly, and
not in a "teaching or research" capacity. Of course,
part of the psychiatrist's salary might be taken
from University tax money on the basis that he
work, part-time, with various departments of the
University. The remainder of this hypothetical
salary, a suggested $10,000, $12,000, or $15,000 per
year, would necessarily have to come from tuition
money out of the student activities fund.
Cutting corners in the allotments of the stu
dent activities fund or doing without the services
of certain employees or certain services, might
be accomplished. However, this step toward a
student psychiatrist is a bit doubtful at present.
Offiicals concerned with the allotment of the
activities fund would need to investigate and
approve this measure.
Another possible solution to the financial prob-
pears that Nebraska will be able to retain some of em of hiring a psychiatrist might be through the
its native talent. Recently less than a third of the addition of the necessary funds to the $80 per se-
graduates stayed here. During the past five years mester tuition,
over 55 per cent have discovered that Nebraska
offers the same opportunity in careers as other qUestion fo whether students will have a
states, psychiatrist to administer to their mental problems
The Daily Nebraskan hopes that the engineers rests squarely with the students. A raise in tuition
are not the only individuals who have found that or a cutting of financial corners in the student
Nebraska's pastures are as green as those offered activities fund, coupled with the salaries now paid
by other states. The Nebraskan suggests that grad- "teaching and research" psychiatrists for their
uates take at least a brief bite of Nebraska grass part-time labors will answer the question.
before they head towards other pastures.
Besides suggesting that Love library have a
book deposit slot on first floor, be more familiar
with what books have been placed on reserve by
instructors and remain open on Sundays, The Daily
Nebraskan wishes to recommend another improve
ment. This improvement is directed towards the li
brary checkers who are supposed to stop all stu
dents before they leave the library. When your li
brarian comes up with that multi-heard statement,
I just can't find your book, but it hasn't been
checked out" you can blame the checkers who are
responsible for hundreds of books a week which
pass under their noses.
Since the psychiatrist would serve, primarily,
the students, The Daily Nebraskan suggests that
University students, if in favor of the added
service, bring forth the answer to this finnacial
problem. The psychiatrist will be for our benefit
and through our efforts. R.R.
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Jaa Strffm. Hal Hauvlhalch. R.llr Hall
said repeatedly,
he was not a
candidate. The
sad fact is that
Raecke is the
only guberna
torial prospect
who had a
chance to win.
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Rische
are liberal, for the party lead
ers are generally fairly conservative.
That sad state of Nebraska , blematical.
Democrats was revealed when the The Democrats have been
Whether he will run is still pro-
in
Letterip
Trained Social Workers
To the Editor:
The excellent story by Sally
Adams in Monday's issue reported
that Mrs. Mary Prince feared that
one of her daily press releases to
the Omaha World Herald "left the
implication that she or the Board
of Control considered it within
the Board's responsibility to plan
University course work."
Mrs. Prince's sudden fear is
very strange. How could she
ever have doubted that she
would leave this impression? For
many months now she has is
sued an almost daily communi
que laying bare her soul on all
and sundry subjects in the field
of social work and social welfare.
This self-proclaimed expert on
whom no self-respecting profes
sional school of social administra
tion to my knowledge, has ever
awarded an order of merit has
been conducting a campaign of
terror directed at professionally
trained social workers in and out
of public agencies. And when she
feared exhaustion of her own
personal hysteria, she hired that
notable expert on problems of
social work administration, the re
tired Quaker Oats executive to
flatten out the remaining elements
of professional social work in the
public agencies.
And now PhillD drunk Philin
sober would be: "Of course," says
ivna. jrnnce, i wouia never nave
the temerity to sueeest such a
thing."
What Mrs. Prince is doiner to
social welfare is of course very
old. Time and time again the pro
fessional people have had to fight
the surrender of social welfare to
the ward-heelers and precinct
captains of the political party in
power. Mrs. Prince has elected
to do it again and is determined to
nil her last year as a member of
the Board of Control with "sound
and fury," and if anybody is inter
ested in the tale, he will find it
told in the daily issues of the
Omaha World Herald.
It is a fundamental rule of
administration, with which Mrs.
Prince would have been ac
quainted, if she had ever been
admitted to a professional school
of social administration, that
agencies and personnel should
be consulted on problems that
are of vital concern to them.
Neither the graduate school of
social work nor the department of
sociology has to my knowledge at
any time during the regency of
Mrs. Prince been consulted. Quite
the contrary. She has made it
very plain, every time she has
mounted her metropolitan news
paper rostrum, that she would not
invite professionally trained peo
ple to consider her problem.
The department of public health
of course vey wisely does not fol
low Mrs. Prince's policy. Indeed,
the more professional the depart
ment the more it cultivates the
training and skill of professional
people. In fact, I should go much
farther and say that a professional
job requires professionally trained
people to do it.
And if anybody should ask for
my reason, I should point to the
pathetic results which come
from asking a professionally un
trained person like Mrs. Prince
to do the ob. I should under no
circumstances ever consider ap
pointing a club woman, however,
charming, to head the Depart
ment of Public Health. The
logic of Mrs. Prince's position
would require staffing the ar
ministration of our state and
hospitals with people from mail
order medical schools. If Mrs.
Prince's philosophy is correct,
let the governor, who must
surely approve it, appoint club
woman and pensioners to the
staff of the department of pub
lic health.
If Mrs. Prince really wants the
advice and cooperation of profes
sionally trained persons, let her
start being honest about it. Let
her dismiss her World Herald
publicity man. Let her in the
manner of time-honored adminis
trative practices invite people
rather a sad state during the past
tew years. They have produced
few candidates who might have
been an improvement over their
Republican counterparts, even
though the Rpublicans didn't al
ways have a barnburner for a
candidate either.
Probably the Democratic party
reached its low when circlesquar
ing busboy, George Olson was
nominated for governor in 1944,
He was probably nominated be
cause of his Scandinavian name.
always an asset in Nebraska, but
it did the Democrats no good.
The only major Democrat elec
ted to office in the state during
the past ten years was Rep. Eu
gene O'Sullivan of Omaha, who
served one term, 1949-51. O'Sul
livan was certainly far from being
a great congressman, so in 1950
Republican Rep. Howard Buffett
beat O'Sullivan. Whether this
was an improvement or not is
questionable.
Walter Raecke and Clarence
Miles, former mayor of Lincoln,
are probably two of the abler
Democrats in the state. Both
made good races in 1950, Raecke
for governor and Miles for con
gressman, running far ahead of
the rest of their ticket.
The 1952 Democratic slate for
office in this state is far from
outstanding. Barring a major shift
in political temper, Republicans
will probably maintain their mon
opoly on elective offices. If Rae
cke decides to run for governor,
that race might be close. The
Omaha congressional seat might
also be in doubt. Otherwise, it
looks like a Republican year.
It is too bad the Democratic
party in Nebraska is so in
effectual. Most voters probably
feel that as long as the Repub
lican party is doing an ade
quate job in governing, there
is little reason to supplant with
a party that seems little better.
What the Democratic party
needs is new blood, not necessar
ily young blood, but new blood.
The old blood is rather sluggish.
Here?
Bob Rekhenbach
I listened to the Arthur
Godfrey show this morning
. . . only because Robert Q. is
substituting for Godfrey.
Robert Q- told this funny
which I'd like to pass on to
those of you who didn't
hear it
It seems that Max and Sam
were the only survivors of a
shipwreck and were subse
quently marooned on a small
desert island. They had been
there for several days without
food or supplies when, on
morning, Max spotted a sail on
the horizon. He jumped up and
shouted, "A sail, a sail!"
Sam, who was sleeping, rolled
over and groaned, "I'm starving
to death and he wants to go shop
ping, yet."
Going along with the recent fad
in the pases of this paper, let's
examine some of the conditions on
campus with a few short pointed
statements entitled "What I Would
Like to See, But Probably Never
Will."
Plenty of parking spaces at
eight o'clock. Dean Thompson
wearing a black hat. A smooth,
dry, parking lot behind the
Union. Mr. T. N. Edwards. All
the clocks in Sosh telling the
same time and, for that matter,
those same clocks reading eight
o'clock when the eight o'clock
bell rings.
Laughter in the Stat lab.. Sta
tistics abolished as a requirement
(rumor is that it has been). A
new Pharmacy Building. Mr. El
liot lecturing for one whole hour
without making a funny (I really
wouldn't like to see that happen).
Enough copies of The Daily Ne
braskan to go around. The price
of transcripts go down. An abso
lutely unbeatable registration pro
cedure. Ivy growing north of the Ad
ministration Building. The Stu
dent Council not investigating.
Freshman and sophomore class
officers. A building on the campus
suitable for theatrical productions
and dancing, for the exclusive use
of students at no charge.
A traffic signal at the corner
of 16th and R, and North 16th,
for crying out loud, left a two
way street. A big, spectacular
and successful College Days
program with everyone partic
ipating enthusiastically.
Obviously some of these com
ments are made in jest, jest foolin',
but the rest are meant as serious,
and, I hope, constructive sugges
tions. I'll leave it up to you to
figure out which are serious and
which are not.
with skill and training to discuss
her problems with her.
Let her stop impugning the
motives and attacking the in
tegrity of other people who may
differ with her on techniques
and procedures of administra
tion. Let her stop toppling over
straw-men with her great wind
of oratory about the "welfare
state." Let her start with the
assumption that other people are
no less s'neere and concerned
than she is.
PAUL MEADOWS,
Professor of Sociology.
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