September 16, 1940
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DAILY NEBRASKAN
Much to do and enjoy
beyond the classroom
peps up college tempo
The political pot will brew
Lots of cooks fixin' that stew
Intrigue. Coalition. Excite
ment. Tenseness. Factions vie for
power. Liberals predict landslide.
Progressives certain victors. Barbs
dark-horse element. Politics. Se
cret conferences. Ballot boxes
sealed. Vote. Back your candi
date. Three times each school year
the student body ballot their fa
vorites into university offices. Stu
dent Council members, Ivy Day
tirator, May Queen, prospective
Innocents, all are chosen by uni
versity elections.
The election of the Ivy Day
orator is traditionally a test of
party strength between the liber
als and the progressives, campus
political parties, prior to the Stu
dent Council election which is the
true measure of political victory.
Last spring-, tho, the Ivy Day elec
tion took unprecedented impor
tance as a result of an unforeseen
eligibility ruling against the lib
erals' candidate for orator.
Not to be outdone, the liberals
and the barbs retaliated with a
coalition against the progressives
in the Student Council election,
thereby gaining a near landslide.
Political activity on the Ne
braska campus presents a thrice
yearly thrill to all students with
the slightest tendency toward hon
est log-rolling and pork-barreling.
The surprise element, the under
currents, the breathless watching
of returns, all make for a more
lively extra-curricular life on the
campus.
The show, you know, must go on
Drama here will never be gone.
Students with an eye on the
stage as thei" life work or as
their hobby have a chance to join
dramatic groups on the campus.
The University Players, founded
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in 1915, gives students an oppor
tunity to appear in public per
formances, to learn acting as well
as backstage work. In 23 years
the work of the group has grown
from production of one or two
plays a year to a definitely organ
ized season presenting five to
eight major productions annually.
Eligible sophomores, juniors,
and seniors may participate in
the plays for which tryouts are
held. The organization is under
the speech and dramatic art de
partments. The Children's Theater has
given a total of SI plays during
the last 15 years. Any student
may try out for these produc
tions. The Kosmet Klub, men's group
sponsoring two productions a
year, grew out of presentation of
a play given by five men in 1911.
Membership is now limited to 15.
From a corps of workers, new
members are chosen each year to
replace graduating seniors.
Orchesis is an organization of
girls interested in modern dance,
sponsored by WAA. They present
a recital each spring.
Football, baseball, basket-ball;
Intra mural brings them all.
On the gridiron, on the courts.
on the track, on the field, Ne
braska athletes, in both varsity
and intra-mural sports, work their
hardest for the thrill of the game.
Major sports at Nebraska are
football, baseball, and basket-ball.
Golf, tennis, track, bowling, hand
ball and volley-ball for the most
part comprise the intra-mural
sports. Intra-mural sports on the
campus are an important phase of
student life.
Each fraternity, each barb
group, everyone, enters the con
test of the season, sponsored by
the Intra-mural athletics.
Nebraska coeds, too, know
the secret of that glow in the
cheeks, and are just as enthusi
astic as the men are about their
sports. The girl athletes, under
the sponsorship of the WAA,
play basket-ball, field-hockey,
badminton, soft-ball and several
other sports.
But, overshadowing all other
types of athletics at Nebraska is
the sport of watching the pigskin
hustlers in Memorial Stadium. The
Cornhusker varsity this year en
ters its 51st season, opening on
Oct. 5 against the Golden Gophers
at Minnesota. Tradition has it that
'Biff" Jones' crews never lose an
opening game.
Pledge? I wonder if I should.
Don't worry, they re both good.
"To join or not to join."
That's the Dioblem that bothers
the prospective fraternity or so-
Tassels, Corn Cobs perform
valuable service for school
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rority member. Though their
members may be inclined to exag
geration, especially during rush
week, there are many advantages
to organized campus life.
Besides the obvious advantages
of living with a congenial group,
pledge finds that membership
oens the door to many other ac
tivities. His fraternity brothers
help him get started in whatever
activity may happen to appeal to
him.
There are 24 fraternities and
15 sororities where the prospec
tive pledge may find his choice.
The barbs, once considered too
loosely bound for organization,
are combined into their own
group. These are the students
not affiliated with social frater
nities. By paying his dues the
Barb is entitled to attend barb
social events and attend their
meetings.
Girls who do not join any of the
social sororities may find excellent
living quarters in Carrie Belle
Raymond or Love halls.
About two-fifths of the student
body is organized in fraternal
groups.
The Barb Council is the supreme
governing board for unaffiliated
students, the barb AWS league en
rolls barb girls in membership, and
the Barb Union Council interests
'barbs in extra-curricular activities.
During its last fiscal year, tho
! University of Minnesota had re
ceipts totalling approximately 12
j million dollars.
j There are now ,')50 Junior co!
i leges in the U. S.
New Jersey College for Women
lias a new course called "Ba k
' ground for War."
Each year 16 men are chosen
from a large group of pledges for
membership to Corn Cobs, men's
pep club. Any organized house or
barb group may enter as many
members as they desire into com
petition. The men chosen as mem
bers are selected according to the
amount of work they have done.
The first service undertaken by
the Corn Cobs this year is the
freshmen tours of the campus.
These tours last from 45 minutes
to an hour and may be taken
Monday through Wednesday.
Freshmen and new studentR are
shown the buildings and taken
through the library, where the
checking system is explained, and
through the Union building.
Sponsor rallies.
Throughout the year the Corn
Cobs sponsor all football rallies,
sell novelties and flowers at foot
ball games, have charge of basket
ball game programs. With the
Tassels they sponsor the Home
coming Carnival.
Officers for 1940-41 are Gerald
Spahn. president, Robert Simmons,
vice president. George McMuitiey,
secretary, and Jules Busker, treas
urer. Tassels are recognized on the
campus by their red and white
sweaters and skirts. This group
consists of the girls' pep club and
members of the national pep or
ganization. Phi Sigma Chi. Repre
sentatives from all organized af
filiated and barb groups of the
campus must have an eighty av
erage to be admitted to member
ship. Tassels sell Mortar Board party
tickets and Cornhuskers, and
usher at the University convoca
tions and concerts in the coliseum.
This year the Pep Queen will be
presented at the Corn Cob-Tassel
party after the Homecoming game
with Missouri.
Margaret Krause is president
for the coming year and will work
i with Marion Miller, vice presi
jtlent; Shirley Russell, secretary;
I Miriam Rubnitz. treasurer; Mar
I ion Cramer, notification chairman,
and Maryellen Robison, publicity
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The University of Vermont next
year wiil celebrate the 150th an
niversary of its founding.
The Louisiana Sttae university
zoology museum recently was
given a collection of skins of 300
rare birds.
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