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Vol. 41, No. 9.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Tuesday, September 23, 1941
iarb Onion fleets with Frosh
Unaffiliated Leaders Explain
Activity System
Unaffiliated men will have their first chance to find out about
barb activities when barb union holds an open meeting in parlors X
and Y of the union tonight at 7:30.
All men interested are urged to attend, Dave Marvin, union presi
dent, said yesterday.
Three speakers will explain barb union activities for the year.
Bill Homey, talking on the intra-mural program, will describe barb
athletics to new members and guests. This fall's football club sched
ule begins Oct. 7.
Besides submitting the barb
council's treasury report, Bob
Dewey will speak on the social
program for the year and Blaine
Sloan has planned a brief talk on
the organization of the district
system started last year.
Intra-Mural Program Planned.
New clubs to participate in the
athletic program will be explained
and organized in order to be ready
for the intra-murals in October,
Marvin announced. ,
In issuing a call for Corn Cob
workers Monday, Don Steele urged
barb sophomore men meeting ath
letic elegibility requirements to at
tend the Corn Cob rush smoker
in the coliseum tomorrow.
Final checkup yesterday re
vealed that barb council cleared
$80 on the first dance of the barb
bomber series held Saturday night
in the union. 750 unaffiliated stu
dents attended the party.
Poll Sci Prof
Edits State
Pamphlets
Three new research pamphlets
on Nebraska governmental prob
lems are scheduled for release in
Courteiy of Lincoln Journal.
R. V. Shumate
two weeks by Roger V. Shumate,
professor of political science.
Director of research for the
legislative council, Shumate's com
pilations are concerned with: "As
sessment and Collection of Prop
erty Taxes in Nebraska," "Taxa
tion and Regulation of the Produc
tion of Oil and Gasoline," and "Set
tlement of Claims against the
State." The reports wjll be sub
mitted to the legislative council for
final approval on October 6.
Besides compiling research re
ports, Shumate, as executive secre
tary of the legislative council,
edits the Nebraska clue Book, a
handbook of Nebraska state gov
ernment
The council drafts bills and
amendments for the senators when
the unicameral is in session and
furnishes information to the sen
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In Union Tonight
University Literary
Prairie Schooner Begins Fifteenth Year
Prairie Schooner, oldest literary1
quarterly in its field, enters its
15th year as it comes from the
presses the first part of next week.
L. C. Wimberly, editor of the
quarterly, stated that manuscripts
from all parts of the United
States and often other countries
are sent by the hundreds into his
office to be considered for publi
cation. The "Schooner" is ranked
for merit with the nation's best
publications and foremost authors
have won their spurs in its pages.
Next issue contains articles
written by several well-known au
thors. Included in this list are
five Nebraskans, two who are stu
dents in the university at the
present.
Subscriptions sell for one dollar
a year or 30 cents a copy.
Jesse Stuart, of Riverton, Ky.,
whose poetry, short-stories and
novels have been published widely
in America, appeared for the first
time in the Schooner in 1930.
Jack MacDonald shows up with
his second article. He is a news
paper editor and his work has
been published in such magazines
. . . Identical
Names Confuse
New Frosh . . .
Twin trouble is bad enough but
having identical names is worse.
Registration day Roy Edward
Johnson's from Lincoln and Roy
Emory Johnson's from Beatrice
troubles began. Each got -the
other's materials when they began
to register. They met each other
when they tried to straighten out
their troubles in Mr. Ralph Be
dell's office.
There they discovered that they
are both in the college of music.
They both have the same classes
in military science, education, and
university singing. They both are
blonds, are about six feet tall, and
weigh about one-hundred fifty
five pounds.
They both like singing and
dancing. They both are barbs and
they both attend all of the union
dances. They both drive '36 Buicks,
wear size 9',i shoes, and are 18
years old.
Their only complaint about uni
versity life is that no one seems
to know who is Ed or Emory.
Cheerleaders
Try Out Today
Six additional cheerleaders will
be chosen in tryouts this after
noon at 4:30 in the Daily Ne
braskan office, according to an
nouncement made yesterday by
Jack Stewart, chairman of the
Innocents committee, which se
lects the group.
Sophomore and junior men are
eligible for the tryouts if they ful
fill the general university eligibil
ity qualifications. All interested
are urged to report to the Daily
Nebraska office this afternoon.
Publication Board
Selects Yearbook
Manager Today
Business manager for the Corn
husker will be chosen from three
applicants, Ed Calhoun, John
Cockle, and Hugh Wilkins, by the
Publication Board this afternoon
at 4 p. m.
Selection of the men last spring
was postponed because Calhoun
and Wilkins were declared ineli
gible for the position because they
were overpointed.
Publication . . .
. . . With Articles by Students
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Courtesy of Lincoln Journal.
L. C. Wimberly
Counselors
Must Report
On Sisters'
Beginning this week, Co-ed
Counselors, divided into groups of
12, will turn in reports on the
four freshmen girls assigned to
each, and will discuss the prob
lems of those girls with a board
member, Harriet Talbot, president
of the organization announced at
a mass meeting Sunday at Ellen
Smith. This is the first year that
the counselors have been required
to turn in the reports in their "Lit
tle Sisters."
Names of the approximately 500
freshmen girls were distributed
among the counselors. The Coun
selors are to contact the girls this
week and are to continue to see
them for at least a month.
Another rule instituted last
spring with the election of the
board dealt with attendance at
the meeting. Counselors will be
dropped from membership when
they have missed three meetings
without acceptable reason.
Card Section Easy, Well---
Workers Spend Six Weeks on Plans
Probably most Nebraska stu
dents and fans take the card
stunts at the football games pretty
much for granted, but it's no
small task to work out the de
tails of planning these ingenius de
signs which fill those monotonous
interludes between quarters.
The average student, undoubt
edly, thinks of John K. Selleck's
office as the place where they
take in money for the games, but
the workers in the office spend
six weeks each summer on card
displays alone. They must make
a card for each student for every
game and there are seven entries
War's impact has swamped the
University's military department
with scores more upperclassmen
motivated toward taking ad
vanced drill. Applications for the
course this year, Col. Charles A.
Thuis, commandant of the uni
versity ROTC cadet corps, dis
closed Monday, already total 35
percent more than last year.
Altho complete figures for ap
plications in the advanced course
have not yet been compiled to in
clude fall registration, 438 appli
cations were received this year for
advanced training, while in 1940
only 325 were received.
At the same time there were
as Esquire, the Saturday Evening
Post, and Scribner's. In this num
ber of the Schooner he appears in
collaboration with James A
Sheehy.
Paul W. Harrison adds his bit
to this month's issue by writing
"The Misfortune of the Robber."
This article was written from his
experiences as a medical mission
ary in Arabia. Rudolph Umland of
Lincoln, Neb., State Supervisor of
the Nebraska Writers' Project, is
a freauent contributor to the
Schooner and many of his articles
have been reprinted in eastern
magazines.
Robert Aldrich, son of Bess
Streeter Aldrich, is appearing for
the second time with an article
entitled "Three Parodies." Aldrich
is a student at the university. An
other student is Currin Shields,
who at the present time is doing
graduate work at Wisconsin. Dr.
Eiseley, former Nebraskan, has a
sonnet entitled "October Has the
Heart." Shirley Kushner, a Uni
versity sophomore, appears for the
first time.
. . . As Fall Falls
Summer Is Only
A Memory . . .
At 4:33 this afternoon students
may feel a few icy blasts, see a
few footballs floating thru the
breeze and some of the weaker
sex running for reversibles. The
reason: It's fall.
The last breath of summer with
gentle reminders of spending
sweltering days at the beach will
all be a memory because there
just ain't going to be anymore
summer this year. The autumal
equinox which is something that
nobody quite knows about but
everybody always talks about like
they knew all about, will have
been reached and that is why it
is officially fall.
Incidentally the aforementioned
icy blasts may only be in the mind
since a few more is over and fall
is here and it's going to happen at
4:33 this afternoon. Watch for it!
on every card. In other words
is a monumental task.
it
Then too, there are minor ca
tastrophies to be reckoned with
like the year the colored cards
were extremely stiff and someone
Union Activities
4:00-5:00: Newman Room 315.
7:00: Phalanx Room 313.
7:00: League of Evangelical
StudenU 316.
7:00: Newman Club.
7:30: Barb Union Interfrater-
nity Council, music room.
only 150 more applications than
vacancies in 1940, as compared
with 240 more applicants than va
cancies this fall. This 60 percent
increase of applicants with ratio
to the vacancies was swelled some
what by a larger carry-over than
usual of returning juniors and sen
iors coming back to school.
With this increased number of
applications, selection of men to
fill the vacancies is naturally more
difficult, according to Thuis. In
explaining the basis upon which
vacancies are filled? the P. M. S.
& T. of the cadet corps empha
sized the fact that general scholas
tic standing, as well as scholar
ship in military science, are noted.
Of those accepted to fill ap
proximately 133 vacancies, 77
were in the upper third of their
respective classes scholastically,
with an 85 average or above in
military science. Coincidentally,
exactly one-half, or 219, were
above the average of their class
scholastically and had at least an
80 average in military science.
Colonel Thuis estimated that at
least 40 more applications will be
added to the list of 438 when fi
nal figures are compiled.
Corn Cobs
Hold Smoker
Col. C. J. Frankforter, chemistry
professor and Corn Cob advisor,
will speak to the new pledges at
the first Corn Cob smoker Wednes
day at 7:30 p. m. in the N club
rooms of the coliseum.
Permitted to attend the smoker
is any sophomore with athletie
eligibility. Work for the first rally
before the Iowa state football
game will be assigned at this
meeting according to Don Steele,
president of the pep group.
Over 45 new men are expected
to attend the affair. Workers in
Corn Cobs receive three activity
points and in the spring the 16
pledges with the largest number
of hours, given on the basis of
work done, are elected to active
membership.
Council Holds
First Meeting
First student council meeting
of the year will be held Wed
nesday at 5 p. m. in room 315
of the Union.
YM Entertains
Ag Freshmen
Opening meeting of the fresh
man council of the Ag YMCA will
be tonight at 7 p. m. in the Ag
Hall. Joe Claybaugh, '43, will
speak on "What I'd Do If I Were
A Freshman Again." The discus
sion will concern the problems and
choices that face freshmen.
was hit in the eye by the corner
of one. It is at crucial times like
this that resourcefulness counts.
Now, the cards are of softer card
board and in rather soft colors
if any shade of red can be soft!
The designs are made up by lo
cal commercial artists who make
blueprints in color of each stunt
for all the games. These serve
as guides for the staff which
makes the instruction cards for
the students.
Card stunts have almost be
come a tradition at Nebraska now,
as they have been part of the
football games for the last tea
or twelve years.