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iTheoBogiam to give
commencement talk
... on June 9
Dr. Robert W. Frank, professor of philosophy of religion and
Christian ethics at the Presbyterian Theological seminary, Chicago,
will deliver the commencement address June 9. Dr. Frank gave the
baccalaureate sermon at the university's 1939 commencement program.
Owing to a confusion with last year's baccalaureate speaker, re
leases erroneously announced Sun-
day that Dr. Albert W. Palmer,
president of the Chicago Theolog
ical seminary, would appear as
commencement speaker in June.
Four college degrees.
Dr. Frank holds degrees from
four institu
tions. He re
ceived his B.A.,
M.A., and D.D
degrees from
Wabash college,
a B.D. from Mc
Cormick Theo
logical semi
nary, an M.A.
from Harvard
university and
a Ph.D. from
N o r t hwestern
University. He
has also studied
at the Univer
sity of Chicago
and at the Uni
versity of Koln
Dr. R. W. Frank.
Lincoln Journal.
in Germany.
The commencement speaker was
(See TALKS, page 3.)
Rosenquist tells committee
Grass can't stand the manure
on the mall; hut that's not all
Guess what day this is! neither can we
Prof. C. E. Rosenquist, Interna
tionally known for his research
work on the growing of green
bluegrass astounded faculty mem
bers last night by saying "There
will be no grass on the mall thi3
year."
A bombardment of questions
from worried professors kept the
faculty meeting far into the night.
A hush of silence fell upon the
room as the botanist reached into
his well worn brief case and pulled
forth facts to back his statements.
With extreme attention focused
upon him, Dr. Rosenquist rose
slowly to his feet and read aloud
to his fellow colleagues "The
Momocotyledonous Gramineae
known as Sisyrinchium has been
sovered so heavily with nitrogenous
fertilizer that the lower internodea
are becoming enlarged and sub
globular or bulbous. Plants are
dying rapidly because the bulbous
internodes are now bursting
caused by the terrific pace of the
nitrogen fixation."
In other words, gentlemen, the
grass can't stand it!
Spring election filings deadline set for
Filings for the general spring
election to be held April 22 will
begin today according to an an
nouncement made yesterday by
the elections committee of the
Etudent Council.
Used for the first time in this
election, especially prepared filing
blanks may be obtained by all
prospective candidates at the of
fices of either the registrar, John
K. Selleck, or Dean Burr on ag
campus.
Filings deadline.
Filings for all positions must be
turned in to John K. Selleck's of
fice by 5 p. m. Thursday, April
10 except filings for positions on
the ag executive board which must
be In Dean Burr's office at the
same time.
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000
Lincoln, Nebraska
Gramlich talks
at ag Feeders'
Day program
Announcement has been made
by Prof William J. Loeffel, chair
man of the Feeders' Day program
at ag campus April 18, that How
ard J. Gramlich will again appear
as one of the speakers. Gramlich
is now secretary of the America
Shorthorn Breeders' association.
For years Gramlich has presided
over the annual gathering, and it
was through his efforts that this
affair has reached its high tradi
tional place in the minds of thou
sands of Nebraska farmers. He has
been responsible for seeing that
the program each year has con
tained some "unusual talent."
Simmons, Hosp,
Day go to Texas
IAWS meeting
Jean Simmons and Ben Alice
Day, accompanied by Dean Helen
Hosp, left yesterday for Lubback,
Texas, where they will attend the
Intercollegiate Associated Women
Students' Convention starting
Wednesday morning and lasting
until Friday.
Held bi-annually, the oenven
tion this year will take place on
the campus of the Texas Tech
nological college and will feature
"New Frontiers for Women" as
its theme. Group discussions will
center about social problems, cam
pus problems, and IAWS problems
in general.
Dean Hosp will be the speaker
at a luncheon Tuesday noon. Jean
Simmons is president of the AWS
board this year and Ben Alice Day
will succeed her next year.
In addition to the general eli
gibility requirements listed in the
box, each candidate must submit
when he files, an affidavit for eli
gibility for the particular office
signed by the registrar and the
president of the point board.
Each candidate for Student
Council, Publications Board and
Ivy Day orator should submit
three application pictures of
himself at the time of filing.
These pictures will be used by
the elections committee for pub
licity purposes. Candidates who
do not furnish pictures will lose
the privilege of the publicity
offered by the council committee.
The following issues will be de
termined and the following posts
will be filled at the election;
Students
Tuesday, April i, 1941
AWS sponsors
vocational talk
today in Union
Katlierine Clayberger
speaks on magazine work
for women at 4 today
Miss Katherine Clayberger, as
sociate editor of the Woman's
Home Companion, will speak in
Union parlors XYZ today at 4
p. m. on a variety of subjects
concerning magazine work. "How
the Defense Work Affects Wom
en's Jobs," will be one of her
topics.
Sponsored by the dean of wom
en's office and the AWS board,
Miss Clayberger is the second of
this year's vocational series
speakers. Royer, Hollywood dress
designer, was the first.
Conferences may be arranged.
Students who wish to discuss
the opportunities and abilities nec
essary for magazine work should
arrange personal conferences at
the dean of women's office for the
hour between 2:30 and 3:30 p. m.
today. Miss Clayberger will tell
(See UNION, page 4.)
IV s 15-inch skirts for UN
coeds, says Walton survey
In the last of a series of surveys
conducted among university stu
dents by Prof. Walton's psychol
ogy class, it was found that UN
coeds prefer their skirts 22 inches
above the ground, with variations
from 7 to 30 inches. Taking it
from the waist down Nebraska
Janes picked 15 inches as their
most becoming length.
The survey was started last
week, and asked two questions:
"How long do you wear your skirts
from the floor up?" and "How
Guess what day this is!
many inches is it from your waist
to the bottom of your skirt?"
Answers were tabulated from
among 150 women, 39 seniors, 42
juniors, 45 sophomores, and 24
freshmen.
Radical juniors.
The survey proved that juniors
are the most radical group on the
campus since 41 of the 42 voting
third year women preferred their
skirts less than 18 inches, and 22
of them wore their skirts 7 or 10
inches from the floor. Only one
broke tradition and wears her
skirt the prevailing 22 inches
above the ground.
Conservative freshies.
On the other hand, .20 of the 24
polling freshmen wear their skirts
20 inches or more above the floor,
Qualifications
1. Candidates must be regu
larly enrolled students carry
ing at least 12 hours.
2. Candidates must have at
least 12 hours credit for the
last semester they were regis
tered. 3. They must have completed
27 hours the two preceding se
mesters. 4. Candidates for Student
Council must have a scholastic
average of at least 75 for all
preceding semesters.
5. All candidates filing for
Ivy Day Orator must be eli
gible to graduate with the 1941
class in some college In the
university. ,
Pat Sternbera.
incarcerafed for antj-Greek activities
Indictments were issued by the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation yesterday charging Blaine Sloan, campus political leader,
and three of his associates with un-American bund affiliations.
Charges were made following study by government agents of
anti-Greek and pro-nazi activities in midwestern universities.
Sloan, unofficial reports declare, has for more than a year
been plotting to overthrow the Greek government, and is at
present in communication with Hitler preparing an all out Greek
offensive for late in April. The organization of more than 4,000
Nebraskans under the "anti-Greek" flag and with the commu
nistic "rule of the masses" for their creed, the investigators re
ported, would definitely force the United States into alignment
with totalitarian powers.
Sternberg leads demonstrators.
Other indictments issued by the court charged Pat Stern
berg, head of a secret society undermining the American polit
ical system, with leading a robed demonstration in protest
against the formation of women's parties. Such attempts to
wipe out the means by which the
voice of the people may be heard,
the FBI agents labeled as "Hit
lerian." Manure spreaders "stunken."
Associated with Sloan and
Sternberg in the plots were two
Guess what day this is!
men responsible for spreading
manure on the university malls.
Their activites, in causing such a
implying perhaps that the under
pins of first year girls are more
shapely than those of the junior
coeds. Sophomores were greatly
varied in their opinions, and sen-
Four debaters
go to Chicago
congress today
Four members of Nebraska's in
tercollegiate debate squad will
leave this morning for the annual
Delta Sigma Rho congress at Chi
cago, while, on the local front, the
second round of the intramural
tournament comes to an end.
Only intramural debate to be
held tonight will pit Alpha Tau
Omega against Zeta Beta Tau, as
Delta Tau Delta forfeited to Delta
Theta Phi, and Delta Upsilon had
previously been declared victor
over Sigma Mu..
Nebraskans attending the Chi
cago conference will be Jack Stew
art and Gene Bradley of Nebras
ka's affirmative team, and C. Ed
win Carraher and Eugene Curtiss,
who defend the negative side of
the question "Should the United
States declare war to aid Britain
in her fight against Germany?"
1. An amendment for reappor
tioning representation on the Stu
dent Council will be considered.
Universal subscription.
2. An amendment concerning
universal subscription to the
DAILY NEBRASKAN will be sub
mitted for approval.
3. Candidates for Innocents So
ciety will be named.
4. Student representatives to the
Publications Board one to be
chosen from each of the three
upper classes will be elected.
5. Representatives to the Stu
dent Council to be elected include:
two men and three women from
arts and sciences, two men from
engineering, one man and one
woman from ag college, one maa
manure snreaders
smell, the agents declared, were
aimed at guiding enemy bombing
planes to the university military
stronghold.
The case against the foursome
will not come before the court for
several weeks, since Sloan was at
tacked by intense nationalism and
came down with the German
measles. Well informed sources
(See SLOAN, page 3.)
iors split in half to make 19
women favoring the skirts under
12 inches and 20 liking them over
20 inches.
Reasons as to why the coeds
preferred their skirts a certain
length were written on the back of
the survey sheets, and produced
the following results:
"My mother wears hers 7 inches
above the floor and my mother's
always right."
"Twenty-eight inches give us
more freedom of movement."
"It isn't our fault we can't live
in Hollywood and wear bathing
suits in front of cameras all the
time, so we do the next best thing,
we wear our skits 30 inches from
the ground. UN professors appre
ciate it."
"I wear 28 inch skirts because a
certain ATO seems to like it."
"My folks expect me to make
PBK, and 22 inch skirts don't hurt
any."
"The final interpretation we
placed on the survey," explained
Prof. Walton after showing us the
figures, "Is just this: We have de
cided Nebraska women aren't
ashamed of their a legs er, I
mean, limbs."
April 10
and one woman from bizad col
lege, one man from dentistry, one
man from law, one man from
pharmacy, one man and three
women from teachers, two women
from fine arts, one man and one
woman from the graduate college
and two senior women to be nom
inated and elected at large by the
student body.
Ag exec board.
6. Representatives to the ag ex
ecutive board to be chosen consist
of two men from the freshman and
sophomore classes to be elected by
the men of ag college, two women
from the freshman and sophomore
classes, to be elected by the women
of ag college, and two members,
one man and one woman, from the
junior class to be elected at large
by all students in ag college.
