Pmt Sized Frosfi Crop
Girls Rush Rush Week; Frat Men
Relax Though Most Houses Open
Completes Routines
Itt spite of the dearth of men
returning to the campus thia fall,
most of the fraternities will oper
ate on as full a scale as possible
for as long as possible, according
to word received from W. C.
Harper, assistant dean of student
affairs.
Several houses, mostly those lo
cated off the campus, have closed
their doors for the duration and
many of the others have put up
room and board signs while army
officers have taken up quarters in
several fraternities. But with all
of this pledging still goes on.
Over on sorority row the story
Is some different. The largest
number of girls to have partici
pated in rushing activities in re
cent years are going through this
year. The total number is 380.
according to the figures compiled
In the Panhellenic office.
Rush wwk started Saturday
noon with open house and the
tours of the houses continued
throughout the evening until 10:30
p. m.. with time off for supper at
the dorm and Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon house, known as Panhellenic
house for this week. Party bids
were received at Ellen Smith
through Panhellenic on Sunday
morning and parties were again
resumed Sunday afternoon.
Rush week, streamlined to meet
war time restrictions, has been
arranged to coincide with regis
tration so parties have been ar
ranged at times when there is no
conflict with registration sched
ules. Parties are simple and unl
form with similar refreshments,
consisting of non-rationed items,
being served at all houses.
Preference luncheons, at which
time rushees will receiva their
pledge ribbons, have been ached
uled for Wednesday noon, which
is another deviation from the
usual procedure of holding it In
the evening. Thia luncheon will
conclude rushing activities.
Council gives rush rules.
The fraternity advisors council
has set up a group of rules which
the fraternities will follow in
pledging new men. These rules
specify that only, men duly regis
tered in the university who are
taking recognized college credit
courses may pledge. Uniformed
men are eligible to pledge if they
are registered in the university in
regular academic courses. This
eliminates the air crew and STAR
unit, but includes such mi as
dental students who are in uni
form. Rushing and pledging activities
are suspended from 8:00 p. m.,
September 15, until noon, Septem
ber 18, and no actual pledging will
take place after 9:00 a. m., Sep
(See GIRLS, Page 3.)
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Monday, September 20, 1943
Lincoln, Nebraska
Vol. 85, No. 1
Dean Boylcs
Will Reside
At Raymond
Mrs. Verna Boyles, dean of
women, will have charge of uppcr
classmen in the Raymond Hall
Make
to UN
Clhaini
Faculty
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Changes in faculty have been
made in the school of music and
the department of pharmacy.
Director Arthur E. Westbrook
of the school of music announced
the appointment of Miles Dress
kelL formerly of Teachers college,
Columbia university, as teacher of
violin and conductor of string
groups and the university orches
tra. He succeeds Samuel Gorbach.
who has resigned to accept a high
school teaching position in Coun
cil Bluffs, la.
Wide Experience.
Mr. Dresskell has a bachelor's
degree from Northwestern univer
sity and a master's from Colum-
hia. For five years he was dircc
tor of the music department at
San Joso state college in Cali
lornia ana lor two years he was
in the violin section of the Cleve
land Symphony,
He has studied in Europe and
du.I.-t, Lis 12 years at Columbia
he spent three summers conduct
ng tours to music shrines on the
continent.
Leaving Soon.
Dr. Joseph Bell Burt, professor
of pharmacy and chairman of the
department of pharmacy
pharmaceutical chemistry
CiiurlcKy Linrnln Journal.
DEAN VERNA BOYLES.
, . . moves to dorm.
dormitory and is residing this
year in the nfklcnce halls. The
first time a dean of women has
lived at the dormitories, thia
Change was made necessary due to
the war time shortage of trained
personnel.
Mrs. Boylcs will be assisted by
Miss Sallie Wilson, who was main
head resident of Love hail for
several years previously and Miss
Marione Johnston, former neau
resident of Raymond hall, now re-
aiding in Northeast.
The officers of the dormitory
chosen last spring will help in the
administration. They are: Presi
dent, Gerry Lyon; vice-president,
Thelma Pfingsten; treasurer, Bcv
erlv Bina; sochl cha'rmpn, Ann
Wellcr.siek, aid Amber Hasty.
Mortar Boards
Announce Frosh
Convocation Plans
Mortar Board announced today
that the annual freshman convoca
tion will be held Thursday at 4:30
p. m. In the Coliseum. The convo
cation' will begin In front of Teni
t)le with a rally and a parade led
by the Tassels. The program and
sneakers will be announced In
Wednesday's paper.
Cornhusker
To Include
Freshmen
. . . Viclurcs
For the first time in the history
of the Cornhusker and the unlver
suy, unuerciassmen pictures are
to be included in the 1944 year
book. The goal a picture of every
student in the university to be in
eluded In the Cornhusker.
Cards will be distributed during
registration stating dates for an
pointments with the photographer
Dates will be according to the
alphabet, and a complete list will
be published in the Daily in the
near future. There will be much
less confusion and complication If
each student will be careful to
have his picture taken during his
specified time.
"This is a special greeting to
the underclassmen from the Corn
husker," according to Eotty Hohf
editor of the Cornhunker. "Wc
hope everybody in the school will
bo in the book!" She also asked
that anyone interested in working
on the Cornhusker see her about
assisting during registration.
A contest will be conducted
among the sororities in which
free Cornhusker will be awarded
for speed and efficiency in hay
Jlng photographs taken.
and
at th
University of Nebraska, is leav
ng soon 10 accept a position as
deputy chief of the medical and
health supplies section of the
OPM. His headquarters in Wash
ngton, D. C, Burt has received
year's leave of absence from
the university.
Arthur K. Schwarting of Ohio
State university will take over
Burt's work. Schwarting received
his bachelor s degree at South Da
kota State college and doctor's at
Ohio State university where he
has been teaching for the past
mree years.
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Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
G. W. ROSENLOF.
reports smalt class.
New Activity!
Student Union
Has Wading
Care to go wading? If you
are a wading fan you should have
tried the Nebraskan office or the
Union basement store rooms along
about 6 o'clock Sunday morning.
When Inet White, food director
at the Union ,and Lester Krogh,
8torYm boy, arrived yesterday
morning they found the basement
hall running with water from the
Nebraskan office about half-way
down the hall.
The source of this freak flood
was an open window and a hose
It seems that someone had left
the hose running near the win
dow and when Miss White came
to work it was still going merrily
on its way with half of the Union
basement floating with it. It has
not been determined yet whether
or not the hose had been left
there to water the lawn or had
been used for cleaning purposes.
The 1943 wartime freshman
crop, estimated at between 800
and 1,000 students, turned out
last week for three busy days of
general convocations, meetings
with advisors, and examinations
which mark the week immedi
ately preceding the beginning of
classes.
The freshman registration is
Pbout 55 percent of normal. The
number of freshman women will
be about the same as last year
and other years, but the number
of men is about one-fourth as
large as last year, Dr. G. W,
Rosenlof, director of admissions,
said recently. There are 25 per
cent more women than men on
the campus.
Thursday morning at 9 o'clock
was the first general convocation
for all entering students. Dr. Ro
senlof presided at the meeting
and university pastors, deans, ad '
ministrative officials and the
president of the student council
were introduced. After the gen
eral meeting, students attended
convocations of their respective
colleges.
Thursday also marked the be
ginning of the classification and
guidance examinations. The fi'st
exam covered reading and college
aptitude. Friday's examinations
were over mathematics, social
studies and natural science. On
Saturday morning the English
usage examination was given for
all freshmen and transfer stu
dents.
The water stood about two
inches deep In the storerooms,
and the beans were swelling and
cereal boxes bulging. All of the
rooms along the hall were filled
to the extent that the water was
forced down the hall as far as
the furnace room.
The exact amount of damage
caused by the water is not known
yet and cannot be determined un
til things have dried off a bit, but
Miss White estimated it to be
about $200. All of the damage
was done In the storeroom where
the dry foods are kept.
Chancellor
Meets Frosh
At Reception
Approximately 7 5 0 entering
freshmen were formally intro
duced to Chancellor and Mrs.
Boucher, other university officials)
and freshmen facu'iy advisers at
the chancellor's annual reception
n the main lounge of the Student
Union Friday nieht.
Members of Mortar Eoard,
senior women's honorary, intro
duced the freshmen, of which
there were 25 percent moro
women than men, to Chancellor
Boucher. Other members of the
receiving line included Mrs.
Boucher; Mrs. Verna G. Boyles.
uean of women: Col. James P.
Murphy; Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Thompson, dean of student affairs,
and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rosenlof,
director of admissions and registrar.
Berne W. Enslin Is New
Director of NU Theater
And Speech Instructor
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B. W. ENSLIN.
Introducing Berne W. Enslin
new Instructor of speech and di
rector of the University Theater;
vital statistics: Height, 5 feet 11
inches; weight, 170 pounds: aire
27; status, married (all figures but
the last are approximate). De
scription: Slender and dapper,
brown wavy hair, hazel eyes, trim
mustache and the usual charm of
Uie poised dramatist.
uepiacmg joe Zimmerman as
Theater director, Kuslin comes
from a position as director of the
York (I'enn.) Utile Theater. II
has been director of drama tics at
Huron college, Huron, S. D., and
has instructed for two years at
Dakota Wcsleyan in Mitchell. Ens
lin received his MA from the Unl
versity of Iowa, has completed the
year of residence toward his Ph.D
and has spent a year as scholar
ship student nnd rehearsal direc
tor at the Goodman Theater, affili-
(Sce BERNE, Page 3.)
As Myron Roberts played th
organ in the main lounge, fresh
men faculty advisers circulate
among the new students and all
were served punch from a larc
bowk placed in front of the fire
place.
Following the formal reception
in the main lounge, a mixer danct
was held in the main ballroom
Music was furnished by the Juk
box.
Tassels Lead
Campus Tours
For Freshmen
Freshmen will be conducted on
extensive tours of the campus to
day, tomorrow and Wednesday by
members of Tassels, the women's
pep organization. Arranged by tlui
Junior Division, these tours are a
regular feature of the orientation
program for entering freshmen.
The students, who have been as
signed to particular tours, will
meet at the temple. A conducted
tour will begin every half hour
and will last for 45 minutes, end
ing at the Student Union. A spe
cial feature will bo a trip thru ths
; nry where the entire system
for the use of the library will ba
outlined and explained.