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Vol. 44, No. 24
Lincoln 8, Nebraska
Wednesday, November 8, 1944
Author Speaks Tomorrow
At All-Campus
Lewis Browne, author and his
torian, will be the speaker at the
first of UN s all-campus convoca
tions Thursday at 11 a. m. in the
Union ballroom. His topic will be
What Went Wrong with Civiliza
tion?"
"See What I Mean" Mr
Browne's latest book, is a current
best-seller. He is also the author
of other popular books, including
"This Believing World," and
"How Odd of God."
He has spent the past twenty
years traveling and lecturing
throughout the United States and
Canada and in England, France,
Palestine, India, China and Japan
As a result of his travels it is his
opinion that the remote and mys
terious Orient is about to pass out
of existence.
Mr. Browne disproves Kipling's
statement that "East is east and
west is west, and never the twain
shall meet." He states that they
were already meeting when Kip
ling wrote the lines and that now
east and west seem well on the
way to an actual merger.
Greek Coeds
Climax Week
With Dinner
"The Greeks Mount to Olym
pus," will be the theme of the
banquet climaxing Panhellenic
Work Shop week Friday night at
& in the Union ballroom. Mary Jo
Kobes, president of Panhellenic
will preside and will introduce
the guest speaker, Mrs. Joseph
Seacrest, national president of
Kappa Kappa Gamma.
The price of the tickets is 70c
and they may be purchased from
the presidents of the houses.
Activities scheduled for the re
mainder of the week will con
tinue to promote friendship be
tween sororities and include the
exchange luncheons that will con
tinue through Friday. Wednesday
at 5 p. m. in Ellen Smith hall,
Pledge Training leader, Miss
Girard, past chairman of the
Panhellenic advisory board, will
address pledge captains and
pledge presidents. Everyone is in
vited to attend this meeting.
Thursday afternoon at 5 in
Ellen Smith, Jean Larsen, presi
dent of Mortar Board, will dis
cuss "What Should Wartime
Campus Activities Be?" At 7 in
Ellen Smith hall, Mrs. Carl Les
senhop, scholarship advisor of
Kappa Alpha Theta will talk
about the "Objectives and Tech
niques of Scholarship."
Faculty Members
Appear in Second
Vocational Series
Four faculty members will ap
pear at 7:15 this evening in Sosh
auditorium on the second of the
series of informative vocational
meetings sponsored by the junior
division Tor freshmen and inter
ested students. Dean Nels Beng
ston announced today that all
students who signed up to attend
the series are expected to do so.
Subjects to be covered in this
evening's session are: "The
Meaning of a Liberal Education,"
Dean C. H. Oldfather; "The Work
of the Technician in industry,
medicine, and public health,"
Prof. George L. Peltier "Careers
in Drama and Radio," Prof. Le
roy Laase; and "Requirements
and Opportunities in Pharmacy,"
Dean R. A. Lyman.
The series is being carried on
at the request of freshmen stu
dents who felt the need for more
complete information on profes
sions and vocations than could be
offered in the yearly orientation
course. The meetings are open
to all interested university stu
dents. , , .
Convocation
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Bizad Banquet
Stars
Talking
Freaks
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BY PHYLLIS JOHNSON
Barnum and Bailey will be put
to shame Wednesday evening at
the bizad circus spotlighted by
death-defying exhibitions of skill
the celebrated performance of a
talking cow and a sideshow of
Nature s queerest freaks. All this
and more, too, will be presented
at the bizad annual dinner in the
Union ballroom at 6:30.
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Armed guards will be on hand
to protect the spectators during
the dangerous appearance of the
uncontrollable Wild Man from
Borneo, Jim Abdnor. Bizad au
thorities wish to assure all circus
enthusiasts that every safety pre
caution will be taken during the
shrieking Wild Man s exhibition
A hidden talent in Bill Zinn will
be brought to light at the circus
when, after performing an ancient
fire dance and ritual, Bill . will
pacify his epicurean desires by
swallowing clouds of fire and
smoke.
Anyone sporting a beard of
more luxuriant and bushy quali
ties than that of the bearded lady,
Mary Helen Thorns, is entitled to
a reward so famous and un
equalled is the chin piece of this
freak of all freaks.
Genius along the animal line
will be found in the talking cow
whose vocabulary and intelligence
in answering questions has been
the source of amazement from the
Iowa state line to the Colorado
border.
Keeping the circus entertainers
in line will be Ringmaster Bernie
Unch.
AST Band Plays
For Union Dance
Saturday Night
Week end events scheduled for
the Union include a dance with
a buffet supper and the weekly
variety show, "The Hunchback of
Notre Dame."
For AST's and civilians, the
dance with the AST band will be
held from 9 to 12 p. m. Saturday
in the ballroom. The buffet sup
per will be served from 10 to
11:30 p. m.
Starring Charles Laughton and
Maureen O'Hara, "The Hunch
back of Notre Dame" is the
variety show scheduled for 3
p. m. Sunday in the ballroom.
No juke box dance will be
held either Friday or Saturday
according to Pat Lahx, director of,
the Union,
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Tassel Victory
Skit Highlights
Thursday Rally
A victory skit, presented by
the Tassels, will highlight this
Thursday's rally staged to incite
the Huskers to victory over the
Iowa State Cyclones in the game
Saturday.
The band will lead the rally,
beginning at the Coliseum and
proceeding to the Union where
the Tassels will give their skit on
the Union steps. The skit will be
preceded by songs and yells led
by the cheerleaders.
Each organized house on the
campus is to bring a banner bear
ing a victory slogan.
The rally must be held on
Thursday this week because of
the Pan-hellenic dinner from 6 to
8 on Friday.
Groups Get
Percentage
Ratings
The registrar's office has re
leased the scholastic ratings of or
ganized houses and professional
groups in percentage figures re
placing the 1, 2, 3, and 4 or deci
mal fraction terms formerly used.
The list includes the averages
maintained for the second semes
ter of 1943-44 and has been
changed to the new system for the
greater convenience of the stu
dents. The list is:
SOCIAL FRATERNITIES.
Delta tpslloa SI.Ati
Slirma Alpha Kpflllon 80.92
Theta XI 7B.24
Alpha Tan Omrc-a 7S.lt;
Phi Dflta Theta 77.0
Delta Tan Delta 70.60
Mirma hi 7S.06
Phi Gamma Delta 75.54
Beta Mema PhI 74.40
PM Kama Pal 7S.il I
Beta Beta Ta 7i.8
Beta Theta Pi 7.61
Hirma N M.S5
Mirma Phi Kpalloa 7.f
Kappa Hit ma 70.18
Sigma Alpha Ma , C7.88
SOCIAL SORORITIES.
Kappa Alpha Theta fti.M
Alpha PM 81. SZ
Delta Delta DeMa 81.S9
(See RATINGS, pare 2.)
Political Parties
Formulate Plans
In Open Meetings
Two new political parties form
ing on the campus are sponsoring
open meetings to explain their
respective organizational plans
and platforms to all interested
students and to receive sugges
tions and criticism.
The progressive party held an
all-campus meeting Tuesday eve
ning in Parlor X of the Union
while the Student Party for
Democratic Government will hold
an open meeting Wednesday eve
ning at 8 in Parlor Z of the
Union.
Hold Party Caucus.
The progressive party, which
is based on proportional repre
sentation in a party caucus of all
voting groups and an open party
convention, approved a plan of
organization to be submitted to
the Student Council at Tuesday's
meeting. The purpose of this
party is "to set forth worthy prin
ciples which will unite UN stu
dents, regardless of social affili
ations, into a forward movement
for the betterment of the Univer
sity of Nebraska and to nominate
slate of well-qualified candi
dates for all partisan elections
on the basis of the candiates' in
dividual merit.'
The Student Party for Demo
cratic government is organized "to
support democratic student gov
ernment, to nominate candidates
on the basis of real merit, to stand
for completely open and fair
political methods and to encour
age individual and thoughtful
voting." '
War Council
Begins Plans
For '45 Show
Students who wish to try out
for a part In the 1945 War Show
must have their individual or
group acts ready and a written
outline prepared in the next two
weeks, Ghita Hill, War Council
president, announced at a War
Council meeting Tuesday after
noon. February 9, 10 and 11 have
been chosen as dates for the show
with tryouts starting in two
weeks.
The 1945 show will be the third
to be held on a wartime Nebraska
campus. "Red, Hot and Blue"
held two years ago was followed
last year by the "War Show of
1944" which featured the contrast
between the Gay Nineties and the
present. Miss Hill stated that the
names of student and faculty di
rectors and committee heads and
the theme for the show will be
released as soon as tryouts are
started.
Any individual student or
group of students may submit
an act for tryouts. Brief written
outlines of the number of stu
dents participating, properties
and time required and the type
of entertainment are due in two
weeks.
Ex-Nebraskan
Finishes Thirty
Bomb Missions
MARINE CORPS AIR DEPOT,
Miramar, California. Marine
First Lt. Harry A. Detwiler, 22, of
Woodland, Washington, a dive
bomber pilot, has returned here
from the South Pacific where he
participated in 30 missions and
was credited with scoring a di
rect hit on a Jap ship with a 1,000
pound bomb.
The airman said the Jap ship
was caught in Simpson Harbor,
Rabaul, last January. "Because
I wanted to be sure of a good
hit," he said, "I dived pretty low,
even tho a lot of ack-ack fire was
coming up. "My bomb landed
amidships, and my gunner said
he witnessed two explosions as I
pulled out of the dive. The bomb
probably exploded ammunition
aboard the transport."
Lieutenant Detwiler's squadron,
operating from Munda, Bougain
ville and Green Island, also car
ried out bombing attacks on ene
my ground defenses in the Solo
mons and Bismarck Archipelago
areas. "Our first raids over Ra
baul gave us some hot action,"
the Marine airman said, "but
constant bombings leveled the
place. We had little or no resist
ance during the last sorties."
Lieutenant Detwiler attended
the University of Nebraska prior
to entering Marine Aviation in
July, 1942. He was commissioned
at Pensacola, Florida, in March,
1943. and was promoted to his
present rank the following Sep
tember.
Professor Employed as Liaison
Officer of WPB in Washington
Dr. Esther S. Anderson, asso
date professor of geography, on
'eave of absence for the duration
from the university, is now in
Washington, D. C, employed in
the foreign division of the War
Production Board. As liaison of
ficer of the foreign division, she
is responsible for the analysis and
distribution of all cablegrams,
airgrams, dispatches and reports
received from the state depart
ment to various divisions of the
War Production Board.
Dr. Anderson is also in charge
of research work and the security
of secret and confidential docu
ments of the foreign division.
Serve n Editing Committee
' The task of editing from 40,000
UN Debaters
Make Plans
For Season
With the announcement of the
national debate question, plans
for Nebraska participation in in
tercollegiate debate have moved
forward rapidly, according to Dr.
L. T. Laase.
Out of a temporary squad es
pecially chosen for the Iowa De
bate and Discussion Conference,
four were selected Wednesday to
make the trip to Iowa City, Nov.
13. Maurice Evnen and Betty Lou
Horton will carry the affirmative
with Mary Ann Mattoon as alter
nate and Bob Gillan and Tom
Sorenson with Bill Miller as al
ternate will taken the negative.
For two weeks they will go
through extensive preparation on
the question, "Resolved: that the
federal government should enact
legislation requiring compulsory
arbitration of all labor disputes."
This group was chosen on the
basis of previous experience and
availability for the concentrated
preparation necessitated by the
imminence of the conference. Dr.
Laase, chairman of the speech de
partment and debate coach, espec
ially stressed that this group was
in no way an indication of who
would be on the varsity debate
squad.
Dr. Laase stated that an op
portunity still exists for anyone
interested to sign up for tryouts
for the varsity squad. Tryouts will
not be held for about a week, but
anyone who would like to partici
pate in intercollegiate debating
should see Dr. Laase in the
Temple soon.
UN Council
Sets Deadline
For All Parties
All political parties on the cam
pus desiring recognition this fall
have a deadline Wednesday aft
ernoon at 5 to submit their party
organization plans and platform
to the Student Council for ap
proval. In accordance with the council's
new resolution that no political
parties are now in existence on
the campus, new organizatioi
plans which have been formu
lated must include the name and
platform of the party; the provi
sion for the election of a party
leader; the organization of the
party's faction and the' method of
determining the party slate of
candidates for all campus elec
tions. Such plans will be approved or
rejected by a majority vote of the
Council.
To date two oragnizing parties
have submitted outlined plans to
the Nebraskan for publication. All
party platforms and summarized
plans for organization will be
published in Friday's Nebraskan.
to 50,000 commodity items also
falls to her as she serves on an
editing committee for the prepa
ration of a supplement to the al
phabetic index of the standard
commodity classification.
The standard commodity c'assi
fication is a standard list of com
modities in code form. This classi
fication is to be used by the treas
ury for the disposal of surplus
war property. It is also used by
other governmental agencies and
business concerns for the classi
fication of property.
In addition to Dr. Anderson's
official duties, .the District of Co
lumbia branch of the National
League of American Penwomen
has elected her treasurer for the
year 1944-45.
