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.
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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.
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Ball reveals
coeds picked
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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
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business manager, as master of
ceremonies, the presentation was
broadcast over radio station KFOR
from 10:15 to 10:45. The Beck
Jungbliith orchestra played for the
See BEAUTIES, Page 2.
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