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Ivy Day Weather reports put a damper on prospects for the day's events with showers predicted today after light rain in Lincoln yesterday. Hopeful Innocents-to-be, wear your mudguards! The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students VOL. XXXV11I, NO. 139. Z 408 THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1939 Engineers open displays tonight Over 700 students in college's seven schools cooperate in preparing gigantic demonstration More tliati 700 engineering students arc now working .t fever pitch putting the finishing touches on their 27th annual open house spectacle to he staged tonight from 7:30 to 10:30. All but the last few details have been attended to, and the show promises to be the most Interest ing and largest from the stand point of exhibits that the college has ever put on. With seven departments co-operating in preparing the show the visitor will be able to visualize the type of work done by students and graduates from all branches of the engineering college. Visitors to test strength. Focus point of the show will probably center around the dis play to be put on by the electrical engineering students. Here visitors will be allowed to test their strength on a strengthometer and their personality on a personality meter. These two instruments were developed by the students for the fihow. An exhibit featuring in verted speech and another display See OPEN HOUSE, Page 4. Laws take try Ion, cop takes laws Law is a fine thing if it's not again' you, decided nine unhappy would-be lawyers as they fumed out an unpleasant Tuesday night in a 6 by 9 cell at police head quarters. And all because they took undue interest in the engi neers exhibit at 12th and R! Perhaps the beauty of the spring night, or perhaps the ad vent of the annual engineer-lawyer campus feud stirring the bat See LAW FEUD, Page 2. Council elects 7 holdovers for next year Group allots new fine arts school 2 members; Will pick Union board Members from the junior repre sentatives on the student council were elected at a meeting of the council yesterday to form a nu cleus for next year's student coun cil which is to be elected in the coming spring election. Those who will continue to serve on the council aie: Janet Lau, Delta Gamma; Emma Schut tloffel, Sigma Kappa; Jean Mor gan, Alpha Phi; Marian Kidd" Kappa Alpha Theta; Roger Cun ningham, Farm House; Merrill Englund, Kappa Sigma; Bob Waugh, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Art Hill, Sigma Alpha Mu. Allot fine arts 2 councilmen. Following the election of the next semester councillors, a motion was made and carried that the school of fine arts should be re presented on the student council by two women members. With the approval of the motion by the fine aits department, which will be come the school of fine arts next See COUNCIL, Page 2. SCHEDULE OF FESTIVITIES Interfraternity sing 9:00 Ivy Day oration (by Willard Wilson) 10:15 Ivy Queen appears 10:45 Reading of Ivy Day poem 11:05 Planting of ivy 11:10 Recessional of May Queen 11:15 Afternoon. Intersorority sing 1:15 Mortar Board masking... 2:30 Innocents' tapping 3:30 AWS tea dance (Student Union) 4:00 Evening. Engineer and pharmacy open houses 7:30-10:30 Museum open house 7:30-10:30 Rubinoff and his violin, Fray and Braggiotti (coliseum) 8:00 NU Union celebrates first birthday Violinist Rubinoff plays tonight for building's anniversary program The Student Union building is one year old today. Long the dream of campus lead ers and university officials, it was just a year ago that :t was offi cially opened thru tiie efforts of everyone connected with the school from the chancellor to the indi vidual student. This evening, in celebration of the first birthday of its building, the union is sponsoring the ap pearance of Rubinoff, master vio linist. According to Kenneth Van Sant, director, the building has had a very satisfactory year. "It has been less of a financial burden than most unions" he said, but continued, "From the human side of the Union, however, we are far from accomplishing the real pur pose of the endeavor. That purpose is to give each and every student See BIRTHDAY, Page 4. Traditional ceremonies begin at 9 Sings, May Queen, poet, orator, Mortar Boards, Innocents on program Willi all other campus ac tivities at a standstill and slti dent interest focused on to day's traditional Ivy Day fes tivities, speculations and ru mors run wild as to tlio iden tity of tlio persons upon wliom. will he conferred the most coveled honors on the campus, namely Mortar Hoard and In nocents. Opening the ceremonies at 9 o'clock with the interfraternity sing, Greeks will vie for the vocal honors which have been held for the past two years by the Betas. Singing will be judged by Mr, Martin Bush of Omaha U., Mrs. Kathleen Miller of Council Bluffs, and Mr. Rupert Goodbrod of Mid land college. Appearance, selection of song, tone quality, interpreta tion and other factors will be con sidered in the judging of the most competent musical group. Sororities sing at 1:15. Intersorority singing will begin at 1:15, and will be judged by the same judging committee as the fraternity singing. Final entries in the sorority singing are: Alpha Chi. AOPi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi O, Tri-Delt. Delta Gam ma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta. Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu and Pi Phi. Fraternity entries number con siderably less, with only the Aca cias, ATOs, Phi Gams and the Betas entering the contest. This year, the Betas are attempting their third win of the Kosmet Klub trophy. If successful this year the cup will remain in their posses sion. The Ivy chain which will form See TRADITION, Page 2. fUl ITU Don I - J: ' '$X M ! y i 4 I v ;- f i y., V .,, . ; "-ST r vw -fc ' " $":- I V ' i V HOPE DRUMMOND. , , .J i BETH HOWLEY. v I ) i i BETTY MALLoT L 1' DORIS HARBERG. Ball reveals coeds picked by Carroll Annual presents eight instead of usual six; KFOR airs ceremony The campus got its first view of the 1939 Cornhusker Beauty Queens last night at 10:15 as the lights in the Union ballroom sud denly blacked out and the eight Carroll-picked beauties walked to the stage one by one, escorted by a glaring spotlight. Earl Carroll, famed connoisseur of pulchritude, was unable to limit his selections to the customary six because of the array of beauty. From his Theater-Restartmt in Hollywood, he named the follow ing eight cotds who will have full busker an Nebraska Beauty Queens: page xrtraits in the 1939 Corn u. Mr.i hoi.xi.x . hi. id. Ti-ftrhrr I. uiialfllintrd. KlitlHtr, M, f. l. ' 115 H. UKTH MOW I Onwhit . ft K. t. imnflllliilrd. 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