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page 5
1930s
HE
ATLY W E BR ASK AN
Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
NEGRO FRATERNITIES
ARE LITTLE KNOWN
Frats Nickname Each Other
In RivqlryApes, Polecats
1937-"Polecats" and "Apes" may sig
nify Putorius putorius and Anthropoi
dea to the zoologist and someing far dif
ferent to the average layman, but on the
Nebraska campus they signify two Negro
fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi and Alpha
Phi Alpha, between whom a keen rivalry
exists. Kappa and Alpha alumni chapters
are also found in Omaha, with the same
strong rivalry between members. One of
the chief outlets of this competition is
basketball.
Altho the existence of these fraterni
ties is practically unknown on the cam
pus, both have lively organizations. They
meet weekly at the Lincoln Urban League
building, Negro community center at
12th and U streets.
The oldest Negro fraternity Alpha Phi
Alpha, was founded at Cornell in 1906.
poooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The
Observer J
1932-Then there is Jane McLaughlin,
Kappa, who is every bit as screwy as last
year's editor of the Cornhusker student
life section said she was. Jane, however,
has an apt little phrase for persons who
aren't all they should be in the cranium.
She says, "they haven't got all their
buttons." And furthermore, Jane likes to
see her name in the paper which is really
the reason I am writing this.
As long as I have gone thus far I might
as well be fair and mention her insuffer
able bosom companion, Jean Beachly,
who is also just a little bit that way. Jean
is doing special research work with refer
ence to a Sig Chi pin and yet she was, at
last reading, still sending frequent scrib
bles to Keith Lightner, Alpha Thet, who
is blossoming into a Sioux City business
man.
I see by the paper that Julia Koester,
Theta, and Dick King, Fiji, are still
dovey about each other.
It was mean of her, I mean it was
mean of Mae Posey, Alpha Phi, to step
out on her steady last Sat. nite-I think
the situation needs a little 'clarifying.'
By the by, in case you don't know
about it, there is another Alpha Phi, Jane
Amidon by name, who is still vibrating
slightly at the thought of Bill McGaffin,
Sigma Nu guard of last spring. Bill is
doing newspaper work in town here and
'every once in a long while' he sees Jane.
George Waldo, who used to be seen
around the campus, is now toting bricks
on a construction job down at 14th
and "0." Then there is Charles "Silent"
Steadman, Alpha Sig, who is probably
the loudest man in school. Charles has
big ambitions, among them -Rhodes
scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, Innocents, and
business manager of either the Awgwan
(humour publication), Rag, or
Cornhusker.
It happened to Carlyle Sorenson the
other night. Sorenson, a Delta Upsilon,
for no extra good reason, was visiting his
heart in her apartment, (we have a special
opinion of fellows with girls in apart
ments, anyhow), when she got a phone
call from one of his fraternity brothers
who happened to be in quest of a date.
That is the old fraternity spirit one hears
hears so much abo if during rush week.
Today there are more than 100 under
graduate and graduate chapters.
Prominent Alphas include such Negro
personalities as the Olympic stars Jesse
Owens, Ralph Metcalf, and Cornelius
Johnson. The Beta Beta chapter at Ne
braska was founded in 1926, and this
year has more than 20 active pledge mem
bers. It sponsors every year a "Go to High
School, Go to College" educational
campaign.
Kappa Alpha Psi was founded in In
diana university in 1911, and has about
40 undergraduate and 35 alumni
chapters. The Eta chapter at Nebraska
was founded in 1927. This year it has the
largest Negro membership on the campus,
with nearly 30 actives and pledges. A
prominent Kappa is John Adams, Jr., of
Omaha, the only Negro member of Ne
braska's first unicameral legislature.
A third Negro fraternity, Omega Psi
Phi, is not represented at Nebraska. It
was founded at Howard University, Wash
ington, D.C., in 1911 and has about 20
chapters.
POPULAR
SLANG
Hot cha, Honked
Among Top 1 0
Most Chosen
193 3 -Co-operating with Funk and
Wagnalls Company which, according to a
letter received today is conducting a sur
vey of college slang, the Daily Nebraskan
interviewed collegians Monday for their
opinion on the ten most popular slang
words.
The survey indicated that the ten most
popular slang words on the Nebraska
campus are nurtz, lousy, smoothie,
screwey, scram, hot cha, crock, okey
doke, honked and squirrely.
No student who was interviewed ex
perienced any difficulty in thinking of
ten slang words. His difficulty was ap
parently in picking the ten most popular
from his slang vocabulary.
Lawrence Hall, managing editor of
the Daily Nebraskan and president of
Sigma Delta Chi, said "easy" and im
mediately replied with "gripe, nuts, get's
into one's hair, put in with you,
lousy, binge, gore, bull session, screwey
and scram."
Phil Brownell, the Daily Nebraskan's
other managing editor and president of
the Student Council, had no trouble
either and named his choices "hooey,
dummy out, squab, scum, rook, chisel,
rats, tickered, whamdiddy and crock.
H. Francis Cunningham, editor of the
Awgwan, selected "okey doke, plastered,
tanked, soft soap, baloney, screwey,
horsing, ga-ga, snukle pup and fish." Otto
Kotouc, business manager of the humor
publication, "just talked" and used these
words: "okey doke, chum, chap, honked,
scum, bunk, sissy, nurtz, hot cha and
squarrely."
When asked for his selection, Neil
McFaland, fraternity editor of the Corn
husker, said "Who me?," and named
"screwey, scram, nurtz, babe, jitters, hot
ch3, smoothie, hot shot, honked and
squirrely." Lloyd Loomis, president of
the Blue Shirt faction, replied with
"blotto, crock, schnitzie, fluff, lousy,
honked, nurts, hot cha and sissy."
UN Coeds' Dress Gets
Praise And Criticism
HEWIT BEST
DRESSED
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Helen Hewit has been elected as the
best dressed girl for 1937.
Nebraska Gets
$31,660 NYA
Allotments
1937-A total of 902 university stu
dents were shown to be earning part of
their expenses through employment on
the student aid program in a bulletin is
sued recently by the National Youth Ad
ministration. From the 22 other eligible
universities and colleges of Nebraska a
total of 1,101 students are engaged in
NYA work.
Nebraska college and university under
graduate students last December were
allotted $30,810 from the total under
graduate allocation of $1,770,533.
Receiving the benefits of NYA are 856
undergraduate students and 46 graduate
students.
WIN $500
FOR ESSAY
The Equal Rights
1932-Because "the present generation
of college women takes little interest in
the status of women," the National Wo
man' s Party is offering a first prize con
sisting of $500 and a trip to Washington,
D.C. and a second prize consisting of
$200 and a trip to Washington, for the
two best essays on any phase of the pro
posed Equal Rights amendment to the
United States constitution.
The amendment reads: "Men and
women shall have equal rights throughout
the United States and every place subject
to its jurisdiction. Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appro
priate legislation."
The competition is open to all under
graduate women students, carrying full
time college work. Contestants will be
provided with material seclected from
eleven years research concerning the legal
status of women. It is hoped, however,
that the contest will motivate original
research, as well as stimulate the interest
of college women in this question.
Nebraska Girls
Says
1937-"Nebraska coeds are more over
dressed than the girls of any other
campus." Such was the rather startling
statement made recently by a physical
education instructor to a girls' gym
nasium class.
As the class listened with varying de
grees of resentment, amusement and ap
probation, the instructor proceeded to
enlarge upon the foregoing statement.
This judgment is based upon experiences
as a student or teacher at Northwestern
and various schools in Indiana, Ohio,
Wyoming and other states. Nowhere in
the east do we find girls as elaborately
dressed as on this campus. Here the girls
appear not as though they were going to
a class, but as though they were headed
for a party. In Wyoming the other
extreme is found. Fellows in the college
there appear always without ties and
sometimes without shirts.
Much of the lack of appropriate
ness in dress, she continues, is due to the
distance from the place where garments
are designed and produced. We see a pair
of beautiful anklets-we have nothing
to wear them with and so we put them
on with a silk dress and wear them. We
see a beautiful dress, which in the east
would be worn only in the evening, and
we put it on for afternoon tea.
Another reason for the lack, she states,
is the fact that girls here dress more for
the approval of men, in competition with
other attractive eo-eds. No opinion was
voiced, however, as to whether or not the
stimuli for this competition was more
desirable than on other campuses.
A final thrust was made, not at the
manner of dressing of co-eds, but the ap
parel of males found decorating the
campus. "A football star goes out for the
evening. He may go to a play or to any
type of social event. Whatever it is, he
dons a football sweater-and that is all
that is needed to make him wonderful."
PROPOSED:
Abolishment of
All Fraternities
1933, NEW YORK-Columbia univer
sity this week was recovering from the
shock of the latest bombshell exploded
by editors of Spectator, undergraduate
daily, which proposes that all fraternities
on the campus be abolished.
For weeks, Spectator has hinted that
the university Greeks should not be taken
at their face value, but should be con
sidered as political groups, bent on con
trolling the student government.
These hints were crystallized in the
form of direct chrages when the paper
alledged appointments and elections to
student offices were dictated by a group
of ten leading fraternities, which sup
ported certain candidates as the result of
political "deals." These deals, the editors
charged, reached a low point when mem
bers of houses combined "cold blooded
ly" to auction off student offices "to the
highest bidder."
Likening the situation to "the sins of
Tammany" and the machinations of the
notorious "Tweed Ring," Spectator
boldly proposed as a logical solution that
the Greek societies be completely
abolished.