Daily Nebraskan
Monday, September 20, 1982
Those were the days, when yearbooks were
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Commentary by John Koopman
Page 14
Where have all the yearbooks gone?
College just isn't the same anymore. There
are no yearbooks, no proms, no long,
raccoon-skin coats, and professors are
sometimes called by their first names.
Some small colleges still have yearbooks,
but UNL hasn't had anything resembling
a yearbook since about 1971.
The earliest yearbook in the archives
is dated 1884. The 1884 book was, for
some reason was called "The Sombrero."
It wasn't called "The Cornhusker" until
1906.
For pure comic literature, the year
books of the 1800s take first place. Since
they didn't have any photography to speak
of, they were forced to write about campus
happenings of the year in both poetry and
prose. If you think what's written on the
bathroom walls of Richards and Burnett
halls is funny, you haven't seen anything
until you've read a century-old yearbook.
Students had not yef developed the
modern students' fervor for Nebraska
football. The head of the athletic depart
ment was quoted as saying that "any fool
can play football, but baseball is a
science." Rank him with Neanderthal Man.
Most fans think this could be the year
that Nebraska goes undefeated and wins a
national championship. But this team may
have a long way to go until it can compare
with the football ream of 1904.
Not only was that Nebraska team un
defeated, but it also shut out all of its
opponents that season. Never mind the un
faithful among us who would point
out that Nebraska played teams like Lin
coln High School and the Haskell Indians.
To toughen themselves, the schedule was
later changed to include the Kirksville
Osteopaths.
In the fall of 1901, the Nebraska Hes
perian was changed to the Daily
Nebraskan. officially became a part of the
university. One of its early editors was
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nickname as the editor and three-quarters
of a century later, the name is still with us.
Most of the fraternities and sororities
at UNL are old and most are listed in the
yearbooks. The Iron Sphinz fraternity and
the Mystic Fish sorority are old and most
are listed in the yearbooks. The Iron
Sphinz fraternity and the Mystic Fish sor
ority are two that, somehow, didn't survive
to present times.
The outlook for the future seemed
promising, however: "The future for the
University of Nebraska is bright. Being
endowed with such rich land grants,
the value of which, at the present rapid
rate of immigration, will be speedily en
hanced, it is almost certain that in the near
future the institution will be immensely
wealthy - a condition necessary to the
successful management of a college
destined to be a great center of learning."
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Clockwise from top: Students Grafting Apples, Junior Basket Ball
Team, University Hall. (Captions from 1904 Sombrero).
Wedekind . . .
We promoted a resolution on financial aid by the
state Legislature and the board of Regents, sent infor
mation with students back to their hometowns and
sponsored local meetings for discussion, and sponsored
a UNL letter-writing campaign last spring.
To answer, then, the question posed in the guest
opinion: "Why did ASUN Senate even bother with
its resolution?"
First, financial aid is an important and relevant is
sue to students and the university community and as
such it certainly is within the realm of issues that the
ASUN Senate and the Government Liasion Committee
should deal with, as long as they do so in a responsible
and credible, manner.
The resolution was an official documentation of the
senate's position, authorizing GLC as the official student
lobby to speak on behalf of UNL students, and it was
a means of relaying information to students.
It is also important to note that state senators and
the office staff of our Congress members have exnressed
their appreciation for the input given. The impact, of
course, is difficult to measure. In this particular instance,
the veto of the bill in question was overriden and four
of our five people in Nebraska's Washington delegation
voted to override the veto.
To assume that ASUN was solely responsible for the
veto override would certainly be an "illusion of
grandeur. I make no such assumption. But I can't help
but wonder if some people might question the impor
tance of the financial aid Issue if the ASUN Senate and
GLC made no effort to voice an opinion about something
so close to home as financial aid is here at UNL.
Dan Wedekind
ASUN president
Nebraskans'
real income
shows rise
Nebraska's median
family income was
slightly below the
U.S. average, ac
cording to census
information compiled
by the College of
Business Administra
tion's Bureau of Bus
iness Research.
Donald Purscll,
director of the Bureau
of Business Research,
found that Nebraska's
median family income
was below that of
Kansas, which had
$19,575, Iowa with
$20,243, Wyoming at
$22,497, and Colo
rado at $21,485.
Metropolitan coun
ties had the state's
highest median in
come. Douglas Coun
ty lead with $21,629,
followed closely by
Sarpy and Lancaster
counties.
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