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The Daily Nebroskan
Friday. September 18, 1 99L
Tie Doors Open
The eight-page edition of the Daily
Nebraskan today is in honor of a building
of many namesthe Nebraska Union, the
' Student Union, the Pleasure Palace.
It Is a building which has been contro
versial since its beginning. Tuition was
raised from $80 to $90 several years ago,
with the $10 boost earmarked for construc
tion of an addition to the old Union, which
last spring passed the 21-year mark.
The chorus of howls which went up was
understandable. Nevertheless, if the stu
dents were to have an adequate place on
campus In which to relax, coffee, eat and
meet, it was obvious that the old building
was not spacious enough.
This week has shown fairly clearly that
the men who conceived and built the Union
were not far wrng. The Crib which many
had predicted would never be filled, has
been Jammed to capacity daily. The new
Round-up Room has served a greatly en
larged group. The College Nite Dance,
which replaced the Frosh Hop, was a suc
cess for the first time in several years
nd the drawing card was largely the
enlarged and improved Union services.
Students may well point with pride to
this building which is to house so much of
campus life. It offers facilities the old
building never could have such as the
commuter's lunch room, the bowling alley,
the barber shop, the movie auditorium,
the art gallery and the many party and
game rooms. And student money built it.
With the construction of the new build
ing, too, has come the establishment of a
new group to assist the long-established
group. It is composed of 10 persons who
serve in an advisory capacity and repre
sent a cross section of the campus, from
the graduate student to the foreign stu
dent and the affiliated student. Its func
tion, along with that of the old Union board
is to explore ways of maing the expanded
Union more fully serve the campus com
munity. It was the members of the Union them
selves who felt they could not alone think
for the campus as far as Union program
ming went. They were the ones who
worked on the constitution, who pushed it
through the Board of Managers and then
did the recruiting work necessary to estab
lish the new advisory cabinet which inci
dcally, has the voting power to outweigh
in matters of finance and programming,
the old Board.
It should be fairly obvious that last
year's Union Board, which instigated the
advisory cabinet, and this year's board,
which is faced with the almost overwhelm
ing responsibility of getting the new build
ing off to a good start, deserves a word of
thanks from the rest of the campus.
They have put in untold hours of work in
planning not only the week-end festivities
but the program for the entire year. They
have worked nights, week-ends and dur
ing the summer for one goal to make
this a good student union serve all facets
of the campus community.
At this point, it looks like they may
have a success on their hands.
A Husker Rally
. Freshmen will experience another first
In their college careers tonight. A pep
rally will be held prior to the football sea
son opener with Texas University on
Saturday.
As in the past, a nucleus of campus pep
sters cheerleaders, Tassels, Cobs, Ker
nels, pep band will meet at the Carillon
Tower at 6:45 p.m. From there they will
pick tip cheerers along the way in the big
march south on 16th Street and west on
R Street to the steps on the old side of the
Union.
A rally committee has arranged for
Husker Coach Bill Jennings to speak, the
band will play a few old favorites, cheer
leaders will lead in some rousing yells
and the 1959 Big Red team will be intro
duced. I
So far this is great. But a few details
have been omitted which warrant com
ment Somewhere along the way the purpose of
the first rally got lost and in its place
has prevailed an atmosphere of unconcern
for the team that group which is sup
posed to be the cause of the campus gath
ering. Concern for the success of the
Huskers has taken a back seat to concern
ever fraternities getting a banner or bell
back to the proper house in one piece.
Interest in the introduction of the sea
son's squad has faded and attention has
turned to a sort of formal introduction of
pledge classes a testing period to dis
cover which group pledged the most
heavy-weight champions.
Already this year there is talk of one
group going great guns in an all-out effort
to retrieve a bell from another group.
Until this mission is completed banners,
bells, two by fours and pledges will be
flying.
A minority group will continue its efforts
to pay tribute to the team, but if some
past rallies are indications of future ral
lies, they may be submerged in the battle
of the houses. Not that it has to be that
way there are schools which have tre
mendous rallies in which all the spirit is
for the school and the team rather than
for a smaller group.
We'd like to see it here.
Spoons Arc Nice
. Frankly, if our offices weren't in the
Student Union, we'd go elsewhere for our
coffee. That's because we like it hot and
good.
The new Crib, fine place that it is, is
not providing either hot coffee or good
coffee. It's more likeklukewarm sour mud
definitely not a thinking man's cup.
Also, spoons are nice. They help if you
like to measure your sugar.
From the editor's desk:
On Campuses 'n Things
By Diana Maxwell Of the five home games, it seemed as
. Saturday presents me with a tremendous though approximately S7V2 minutes of the
?roblem of ethics. You see, I was born in 60 were played in the immediate vicinity
exas. " of the north goal posts. Guess who had a
Now this is really a mark of distinction ticket entitling her to a choice seat on the
of a sort. If you don't believe me, tell 5-yard line at the south side.
oineone who doesnt Nevertheless I attended all games be-
know you that you hail V!- 'l . cause they serve the best caramel apples
from Texas and then sit 1 1 ". in town there. And did you ever notice
back and wait for the re- 'i V that the game can be dull as dull can be
action. Saying that you V'f i before you buy a hot dog or a caramel
are from Nebraska -I i 1 apple. Just when you get to the messiest
evokes no such antagon- ft 1 part of devouring the thing, some right
ism, nor does it present VC j 1 end sprints around on a 40-yard run for
the problem of imme- t your team.
diate and vehement . de- ' s The crowd leaps up. This necessitates
fense that claiming to be i I your also leaping up because you are now
a native Texan does. . L,w! sitting on the standing territory of the guy
Actually, it's ? great Diana in the row behind you. Your program falls
conversation op-ner ... to the ground. You try to retrieve it.
But what're you gonna do when your As you lean over, your caramel apple
team plays its opening game against the brushes the sleeve of the suede jacket of
Longhorns? the fellow in front of you. I'm not popular
I'm as gung-ho a Husker fan as most, at football games,
but geez! I wish they wouldn't play Texas. Besides caramel apples, I love to yell.
Not that I lived a great deal in the Big cheer and do other things which more
State, but even a short time there sophisticated spectators frown upon. Even
thoroughly Infects one with the sporting when I was a Kernal, and supposed to yell
spirit of the whole game of being a Texan. in return for those 50-yard line seats I was
Like when you graduate from high school conspicuous. I should have gone to a cow
there, local banks send you a real rip- bell school you know, the kind where
norting certificate proclaiming that you some enterprising student organization
are now a citizen of the Empire of Texas. peddles little ringers to clang at appro
How many empires allow their citizens pciate times during football and basketball
to root for the Scarlet and Cream? season. Pom-poms just don't make any
noise.
Football seems like such a long time in . -the
past. Maybe it's because I have sue- My staff requests that I publicly an
cessMly blanked out of my memory the . nounce that the air-conditioning was on in
lousy seats I had last year. our office Thursday. The temperature out
Those of you who attended last year's side was 46. All typos in the paper are
fames may remember that there was a due to the gloves we're wearing while
problem of geography on the playing field. typing.
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TEXAS jT
small talk
By Ingrid Leder
Tdltor'i nolr: The rlftil aaa four
roiumas on pure I of the Daily Nt
hraak&a has hrra traditionally a male
halliwork. For a trw polat of view,
however, enr fral rolumniot f-eooeatty
"hoe ta. Inrrid Leder rcpreseata the
dialaff aide Ihla year.
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I always look fonnard to
the first day of classes each
semester because the first
day has more suspense than
any other. This is the only
time when
I get to
class early
because I
like to see
who's going
to walk in
to the var
ious classrooms.
1 got my t
first sur
prise when Ingrid
1 entered my political
theory class Monday morn
ing. There was my last se
mester's economics instruc
tor sitting in the second
row.
At first I thought he might
be teaching the course and
was just sitting there help
ing one of the students fill
out a class card or some
thing, but it turned out that
he is taking the course.
Well, competition looks
rough this semester.
Briefcase Brigade
Zoo 101 turned out to be
another shock. I got more
frightened every minute as
one by one about 10 briefcase-carrying
grad students
walked in. They and some
10 ether students are zoo
majors.
I have nothing against
grad students or zoo ma
jorsmy main worry is how
to pass the course because
I almost flunked biology, a
prerequisite for this zoo
course.
Besides, since I'm nearly
blind I can't ever see any
thing through a microscope,
and if I could, I couldn't
draw It anyway.
Dun'. lab that afternoon
1 convr ced my zoo pro
fessor that I'm really
headed for great heights in
his course. While all the
other students were naming
all the different, worms,
spiders, clams and jellyfish
by their Latin names, I
couldn't even fill out my key
tag correctly let alone tell
a scorpion from a spider.
Well, I can see already
that I'm going to do well
this semester.
Apathy?
It looks like apathy is a
thing of the past, at least
as far as women students
are concerned. Several hun
dred upperclass coeds
IM THE OLDEN DAYS THIS UJAS
KN0U)N AS LKlTCtUtoWH
HOME ON HIS SHIELD!
signed up for activities at
AWS Activities Mart. But
what happened to the male
sex? Less than 25 men
signed up for organizations.
Perhaps it isn't k p a t h y
that kept the rest of the
male students from joining
organizations but their opin
ion that most organizations
do only busy-work. If this
is the case the fault lies
in the organizations and not
so much in the students.
Let's hope the S t u d e n t
Council will be successful
in carrying out its plan to
examine all campus organi
zations to see if they carry
out the objectives stated in
their constitutions.
Rush Week
continued from page 1)
worked satisfactorily and
would be continued next year
with a few minor changes.
1FC president George Porter
stated that he had received
several verbal complaints con
cerning a "booklet" published
by Beta Thela Pi allegedly for
rush purposes. Porter further
stated that there could not be
found in any IFC records a
rule prohibiting a fraternity
from publishing such a book
let. It has been an understand
ing among fraternities for sev
eral years however that the
rush book published jointly by
all fraternities under the IFC
was to preclude the publishing
of such books by individual
houses, Porter said.
Porter invited a motion from
the floor to set up such a rule.
Following a discussion in
which it was pointed out that
the Beta's alleged rush book
was in the form of an alumni
publication a committee was
set up to draft a resolution
prohibiting such action in the
future.
Wrong Number
Equals No Sleep
A one became a two and
a Lincoln family hasn't ,
slept much since.
Until this year's Builder's
calendar came out, the Ce
cil E, Wadlow family of Lin
coln got it's normal quota
of calls. But when thel
telephone number appeared
across a column from Chi
Omega, the Wadlows be
gan really hearing bells.
The second number listed
for Chi Omega should be
2-1516, not 2-1526.
Ingenuity
Perhaps in an effort to
solve the congestion prob
lem in campus parking lots,
the owner of one of the bitty
cars tucked his junior-auto
into one of the triangular
zones in the new Union lot.
His .tiny Citroen .fit per
fectly in the spot for which
there was naturally no
meter.
Campus police, however,
did not see the matter in a
favorable light and the
owner of the Citroen is also
the owner of a ticket.
j Letter ip
To the Editor:
I was faintly amused by
the title of an article oa
the front page of the Sept.
15 issue of the Rag: "Theta
Xi Cops Title From Farm
house." Either somebody
made a careless, bungling
mistake, or the editors
didn't consider it important
lo mention that one of the
Co-ops, the smallest in fact,
finally came through and
tied for high honors among
the men's houses.
The grade average of Pi
oncer House, Inc. (5.C75)
was entirely omitted from
the article.
It seems to me that an
apology is due. The boys
in Pioneer had to work hard
for that average, and they
deserve as much recogni.
tion as docs. Theta Xi.
A friend of the Co-ops
Edltor'i nMf: A correction appenrrA
in Wedneadav'a iaacta. Our poo'?ia
to Pioneer Houae.
WANTED
Four warrart t work for
meolt . . . contact Mr.
Roacn 7-2JS4 or Howard
Kenyoa 2-3120 . Sigma
Alpha Ma.
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