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lEnagfiac? ESay goofflUlls yeses' p?gE?SG Deprtt ion Ll P' 6ft itOAfk 000 tit J Vvjve. one,', but tke 9i- education is bir A Light in the dark Vh. ImlyOIeBHASKM Vol. 40, No. 81 First Big Six meeting gets With Oklahoma's late arrival at 6 o'clock last night, the first Big Six Student Council convention got underway here yesterday with 13 delegates from outstate repre senting Iowa, Kansas, and Okla homa. Missouri was the only school unable to send represent- atives. Beginning with a general meeting at 3 p. m., the conven tion yesterday afternoon also included the Nebraska discus sion group at four. Various phases of student government and general plans for the con vention were discussed at the two meetings, both of which were presided over by John Mason. A dinner last night highlighted the day's events. Dr. David Fell man of the Political Science de partment spoke on student poli tics, and Pat Herminghaus gave a dance. Red roses were used to dec orate the table. After the pro gram the evening was spent in formally Toy the. 25 attending Council members. Today's session will begin with a discussion group at 10 . led by Kansas State on the topic, "Political Parties and How School Elections are Handled." A luncheon will be held in Par lor X of the Union, after which Iowa State's discussion group on "Services That the Student Council Can Perform On the Campus" will start at 2 p. m. A tour of Lincoln and the city and ag campuses under Bus Knight's direction will take up the hours between 3 and 5. Im Five Nebraska coeds desire to compete with male shyiocks While many Nebraska coeds come to school just to have fun, there are five pretty "portias" in law school at the present time. These young women who are working to become full-fledged lawyers include: Sarah Bonnie Miller, Theda Chapaton, Betty Peterson, Maxine Barker, and Lotus Thurkelson. Sarah, who hails from Wall Lake, Iowa is one of the two jun iors in law college. She has wanted to be a lawyer since she was in the third grade even though at that time she was a little young to know her own mind. Sarah is a progressive student for she has the honor of being one of the top six junior students chosen to write for the Nebraska Law Bulletin. She is a Phi Beta Kappa and hat received an A. B. o (s'tncer spirit bm Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students Lincoln, Nebraska Council under way mediately following the dinner at 6, Kansas University will lead their meeting. Tomorrow's events include an agricultural discussion group on ag campus at 10 a. m.; luncheon at 12; Oklahoma's discussion of their student council constitu tion at the Cornhusker Hotel at 6:45; and attendance at the In- (See COUNCIL, page 5.) Daily, AWS to publish calendar To keep students informed con cerning campus activities and ad ministrative notices the DAILY and the AWS board will publish a calendar of campus activities each Sunday beginning this week. Called the DAILY NEBRAS KAN AWS calendar, the new service will be distributed free Monday afternoons to all stu dents who do not have access to copies of the calendar printed in the Sunday edition of the DAILY. Extra copies nay be picked up in the DAILY office; Deadline for any announcements organizations may wish to include in the Campus Calendar, will be Saturday morning at 9 a. m. Turn in notices for the calendar at any time before the deadline in the DAILY office. degree. Sarah hopes to get a government job or to work in the field of criminal law. Theda, who works at the Union check stand is a senior law stu dent. She believes that a marriage and career mix and at the present moment is being seen with an engineering student even tho the feud between lawyers and engi neers is still being carried on at full speed. Theda wants to get a job in Department of Justice in Washington, D. C. Betty Peterson, "Pete" to her pals, it a Kappa Alpha Theta and comes from Nebraska City, while Maxine Barker or "Max" hails from Crofton, Nebraska. Both are freshmen and "Pete" hat attended Lindenwood and ' "Max" hat been a ttudent at , Wayne Teachers College. At the (See. EHYLOCKS, page 8.) Vletsk v Ayxittcd IrrU Assc.irbi6n American Unuer(iiie.& nf Is retofTi ted tKrouVi o tt nati'orv Reflected over nation Friday, February 14, 1941 Coed group sponsors Penny show Opens tomorrow at 2 ; Counselors donate profits to Love Memorial Features of the Penny Carnival which opens tomorrow will be varied and unique according to Mary Bullock, president of the Coed Counselors, who are present ing the show. Draft evasion meth ods, formulas for obtaining fra-, ternity pins, and personality char acters can all be secured for a price. To be held in Grant Memorial gymnasium the affair will con tinue from 2 to 5 p. m. and will feature games and dancing. Va rious sororitie and organized groups have planned the booths, which will be judged by partici pants. The group sponsoring the win ning both will be awarded a new cup. Last year the Alpha Chi Omega's won the cup for the third time and were entitled to keep it. Both menand women are In vited to attend the affair. Tick ets being told by the Coed Coun selors cost 15 cents, 5 cents for admission and the remainer for food or booths. This year the Carnival will have a check stand for the first time in history. Thus no one will need to wear his coat while dancing or "having fun." "The money made at the Car nival will be used to furnish a bedroom in Love Memorial hall on ag campus," explained Miss Bullock yesterday. Musicomedy deadline today Announcing that four plays had already been submitted for the an nual Kosmet Klub musicomedy, Leo Cooksley, Klub president urged those who have not yet turned in their manuscripts to do so before 5 p. m. today. Time cannot be extended for those whose plays are not com plete, Cooksley declared, for it is essential to make the selection of the play Immediately and get the work of production under way. The show this year will open the 22nd of April with the first cast where women are really women in 15 years. In addition to the prizes given .to playwrights, an award of $10 will be given to the person sub mitting the best song. - the. "But i5 not ?P pelebrates 72m uiraiuay tomorrow Commemorating its 72nd birthday tomorrow the university will present &3 the main feature of its Charter Day program an address by Wendell Berge, distinguished alumnus recently appointed assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division of the department of justice in Washington. Berge will speak at an all university convocation at 10:15 a. m. in the coliseum. Hi topic will be "The Function of the University in Strengthening De mocracy." A great need in this country, he believes, is the con tribution of the university to strengthen the nation's institu tions and the philosophy and be liefs of its people against the dangers threatening them. Just two years after Nebraska became a state its citizens, acting thru the legislature, chartered a state university on Feb. 15, 1869. The first building, University hall, was erected and on Sept. 7, 1871, classes began. There was a fac ulty of seven and a student body of 20 in the single college of liter ature, mathematics, and natural sciences, plus 110 preparatory stu dents in the Latin school. Altho suffering from cuts in its appropriations during the Coed Follies group selects show chairmen Annual all-women affair features skits, rurtain acts, Best Dressed Girl Dorothy White, chairman of the Coed Follies for 1941, yesterday announced the names of the chair men of the various committees. Presented annually by the AWS, the Follies this year will be held on March 27. There are three parts to the show: Skits, curtain acts, and a model contest Announcement of the selection of the Best Dressed Girl will climax the event The committee chairmen are as follows: Style show, Ann Craft. Skits, Betty O'Shea. Correspondence, notification, anJ doormen, Susan Shaw. Presentation, Etn Alice Day. Publicity, Janet Curley, with Bitty Ann Roach, assistant Tickets, Eetty Newman. Best Dressed Girl, Marian Stone. Stage manager, Margart Krause Wellinger. Chaperons, Jean Simmons. Balcony manager, Pat Stern berg. Curtain acts, Ann Hustead. Program, Natalie Burn. To answer the questions asked by participating groups, a list of the points on which the BDG can didates, skits, and curtain acts are Judged will be printed In the DAILY NEBRASKAN within the next week or two. All entries for the BDG and modela should leave their names in Ellen Smith hall before Friday. dead! Unsteady light last decade it continues to build for future service to tht state and its citizens. Many additions have been made in the past two years including the Student Union, Julia Love and the Northeast residence hall for women, and now under construc (See CHARTER DAY, page 8.) Capitol Personalities .-imut, Journal. WALTER RAECKE. . . . received degree in army "I graduated from Nebraska's law school in 1917. Like many other boys, I was in the army be fore I was out of school. In fact I received my degree in an army camp." That, in his own words, is the beginning of Senator Wal ter R. Raecke's career. Today he is serning his first term in the legislature as a representative of Hall and Merrick counties. Senator Raecke is a member of one main committee, appro priations. He works on the sub committee which deal with the capitol building and state of fices. We asked the senator how many bills he had introduced. His im (See RAECKE, page 5.) Pul board delays action on Bar!) At a meeting of the publications board yesterday, the question con cerning the continuance of the barb paper was taken up but fur ther action was deferred until the board meets again next Thursday. The board sanctioned the ap pointment of Randall Pratt as ag editor of the DAILY and ap proved the salary for this position at $5 minimum and (10 maximum a month.