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Vol. 44, No. 85.
Lincoln 8, Nebraska
Wednesday, April 18, 1945
Legislature
Hikes Budget
At University
The state legislature's appro
priation committee recommended
Monday an over-all increase in
the aniversity's budget of $8,-S8C-.600.
an increase of $1,16.215
over the budget for the closing
bienniam and $594,600 more than
recommended by the governor.
Under the new policy, most of
K aniversUv't budcet can be
spent under the discretion of the
board of regents and the chancel
lor. Anwinr specified items are
1M thousand dollars for improve
ment of the animal husbandry de
partment, agronomy and path
ology departments and 280 thous
and dollars for agricultural ex
tension, an increase of $48,590
over the extension division budget
for the past two years.
Although no specified sum was
named to be used in granting the
request for an increase in salary
by university faculty members,
the committee anticipates that
the rerents and the chancellor
will make salary increases total
ing $176,860 a year.
Thela NusTap
New Members
Saturday Nite
In a secret ceremony Saturday
right in the Union, three students
were taooed members of Theta
Nu, honorary pre-medical society
Blindfolded, the initiates were
administered the rites by the ac
tive members of the society.
Lee Gartner, Ward Olney and
Hal Schwamb are announced as
new members of the society,
whose members are elected on
bases of out-standing scholarship
and high personal qualities. Presi
dent of Theta Nu, Bill Hancock,
stated: "Theta Nu, due to the war,
has been forced to abridge
greatly its activities, yet maintain
its high standards. We welcome
these three new members, and
congratulate them -upon receipt of
this honor.
Members of the organization,
presided over by Bill Hancock,
are Richard Sunderman, secretary-treasurer,
Robert Calkins,
Henry Penner, and Robert Keck-
ler. Dr. Shuk, of Wesley an. was
present at the ceremony. Drs
Shuk and Wade are sponsors of
the society.
YW Conference
Meets at Midland
College April 20
Co-chairman of the YWCA dis
trict conference, Mary Ann Mat
toon, announces that the confer
ence will be at Midland college
this weekend, April 20-22.
The conference is called "Lead
ership Workshop" and its purpose
is to teach leadership through ac
tual experience. Speakers will be
Dr. L. T. Laase of the speech de
partment, Bill Miller, Maurine
Evnen, and visiting speakers are
Dr. Beth Leinbach, of Columbia
university. Miss Lois Crozier and
Mr. Charles Hulac, regional secre
taries of YW and YM respectively.
Among the delegation to Mid
land college will be Shirley Hinds,
Bette Lou Horton, Mary Ann
Mattoon, Helen Laird, Myrlee
Holler, and JoAnn Rapp.
Schedule Deadline for
Senior Announcements
Tomorrow is the deadline
for ordering senior announce
ments, according to Jean Rem
taenia, senior class president.
Announcements can be or
dered at the Nebraska Book
store or at the Co-op Book
store. The price Is ZZie each
and only one style of an
nouncement Is available.
Dorm Women
Open Sacred
Halls to Men
BY SARAH MURRY.
Men will have their big chance
to invade the Dorm Friday night
when the Dorm-ites plan to turn
540 No. 16th into an open house
Invitations have been sent to all
organized houses and any other
civilian men on campus are urged
to come in and legally view the
interior.
Pauley Martz and her crew of
hostesses will be on hand to show
the men around the first floor
rooms . . . not upstairs, this time.
Such rooms as the Knotty Pine.
Library, Music, downstairs recre
ation rooms and the three parlors
will be open for inspection.
Last Till 9:30.
The big event will last from
until 9:30 and plenty will be going
on in the way of entertainment,
promised Chairman Amber Hasty.
Dancing will proceed the whole
time in the ballroom and the pro
verbial bevy of beautiful women
will be on hand to dance with the
visitors. During the course of the
evening refreshments will oe
served by Peggy Leach and her
committee.
This is the only opportunity the
men on campus will have to go
on an excursion of the residence
halls.
New Teachers
College Group
Holds Fun Fest
The Union ballroom April 19
from 7 until 9 will be the scene
of the first party given by the
newly organized Teachers College
association. Suzanne Pope, presi
dent of the association, Tuesday
revealed the plans for the Fun
Fest.
Highlighting the evening's en
tertainment will be a suitcase race
by the Teachers College faculty.
The rest of the evening will be
devoted to games and songs. Ad
mission is free and refreshments
will be served at cost.
The purpose of the Fun Fest
is to gain membership for the
association and to explain its pur
poses. Mortar Boards
Appear at Omaha
Schools Today
Leaving for Omaha today were
the Mortar Boards, who will
speak before high school assem
blies, discussing university life,
including courses offered, social
activities and athletics. The trip
is sponsored by the Student
Foundation.
The Mortar Boards will appear
at Central, North, Benson, Tech
and South high schools in Omaha
during the day. They will an
swer questions the high school
students ask about the university-!
Students Divide Half and Half on Controversy
Over Abolishing Sororities and Fraternities
Erought into the limelight
as
result oi a recent amcie in a
national magazine, the issue of
abolishing Greek letter social or
ganizations has sprung up anew
on the Nebraska campus. Believ
ing that students should be given
opportunity to express their in
dividual opinions on the issue.
The Nebraskan Tuesday con
ducted an informal poll on the
campus, asking, 'Do you favor
the abolition of fraternities and
sororities? ;
Results reveal that the vast
minority of UN students are in
favor of sororities and fraternities.!
It was observed that responses
Lasch SpsaEis at LHlonors Convo
Campus Men
Again Enter
Ivy Day Sing
For the first time since the
spring of '42, men will participate
in the ivy uay sing 10 oe neia
May 5, according to Midge Holtz-
scherer, AUS president
All organized houses who wish
to revive the Inter-Fraternity sing
must take the name of their di
rector, singers and title of the
song to Ellen Smith by 5 Friday.
The same rules will apply to
both coed and male groups. All
organized houses or groups ex
cept honoraries may participate
in the sing, and not more than
25 members may represent any
group.
No Medleys.
No medley of songs may be
sung nor can the same song be
used for two consecutive years.
Alumnae may not take part in
the singing but may assist in the
preparation if they have not been
connected with the music profes
sion. The director of each group must
be a member ef the group, and
must be enrolled in the univer
sity. After their performance in
the sing all groups must remain
for possible recall.
Each group is assessed one dol
lar which must be paid to Eliza
beth Curley, Residence halls, be
fore April 26. No special cus-
tumes may be purchased for the
sing.
Modern Language
Group Sponsors
Films of Brazil
Three films featuring Brazil's
cities and industries, sponsored by
the modern language department,
will be shown tomorrow at 4 p. m
in Sosh auditorium. "Brazil's Fish
ing School,' a film on the train
ing of Brazilian boys in all arts
of fishing is the story of the fa
vorite project of President Vargas
Reporting on the mining of
quartz is presented in "Brazilian
Quartz Goes to War." "Belo Hori
zonte shows the story of Brazil s
city with a plan.
Former Student,
Pic. Cone Cables
News of Safely
Pfc. Irwin Cone, former UN stu-
ident, sent a cablegram to his par-
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ems in uncojn wun me ursi
word his parents have received
about him since the war depart
ment notified them on Jan. 26,
that he was missing in action with
the Seventh army in France.
Private Cone graduated from
Lincoln high in 1941 and studied
at the university in the engineer
ing college for two years before
his entrance into the army in
June 1943.
followed very closely on oreek
barb lines, those members of so
cial fraternities favoring them and
non-members being generally op
posed to them. As non-members
greatly out-number members.
more students favored abolition of
the organizations than urged their
continuance.
Magazine Article.
This most recent flare-up of
the issue was precipitated by an
article in the April Woman's
Home Companion by Mrs. Glenn
Frank; and the issue has occa
sioned editorial comment in Lir-
coln newspapers as well as dis-
ssion a the campus. Mrs,
450 Students Receive Honors
For Excellence of Scholarship
Defending democratic planning in his speech before a
filled Union ballroom at the 17th annual Honors convoca
tion yesterday morning, Robert Lasch called full employ
ment the greatest single contribution this country can
make to the economic welfare of the world. Mr. Lasch is a
graduate of the university, a Rhodes scholar and at present
on trie eauonai sum. ui mc
Modern Dance
CluhHighlights
Folk Festival
coeds under the direction of mod- meeting the same requirements,
ern dance instructor Dr. Aileene.Many prizes and scho.arships
Lockhart will highlight the Folk,
Festival being held in the coli
seum at 8 p.
m
Saturday.
This
is the
fifth annual
folk
rii,i cri h th TJnroln
Council of Folk and So uare Dance
clubs which consists of 11 square
dance clubs of Lincoln. Five hun
dred men and women will appear
in the festival.
The Flamborough Swoid dance,
an English country dance, is cli
maxed when the eight coeds par
ticipating interlock their swords
so that one sword supports them
all. Taking part in this ritual
which was previously given by
teams in England, are: r eggy
Malv.
Eunice Way, Frances Bleick,.
Bonnie Calmer. Fern Freeman,)
Frances McPherson. Marian Wal
lasky and Betty Kokes.
Orchesis Presents Exhibition.
Members of Orchesis in the tra
ditional full-dress costume will
oresent an exhiDiuon oi inei
Theater Waltz.
Following the grand march will
be the opening dance '-Portland
Fancy." Lincoln men will do the
calling for the dances of the eve-
ning which contisi oi aoicuers
Joy, Buffalo Gal, Irish Wash
woman. The "Good Old Days" are to be
portrayed by early American folk
dances, such as the Schottische and
the Dolka. At 9:15 a picked group
representing all of the clubs will
give a demonstration oi the scnoi-
tische.
Costumes of the late 19th cen
tury will be used and the orches
tra will consist of fiddles, piano
and such other instruments which,
make up a typical country dance
orchestra, according to Mrs. Fred
Putney, chairman of the festival.
Spectator tickets may be pur
chased at the Y.W.C.A., from tne
Lincoln Recreation Board and at
the door of the coliseum.
Awgwan Ad Solicitors
Meet Thursday at 1 p. m.
All ad solicitors for the
Awgwan and those interested
in selling ads mill meet in the
A we wan office, Thursday at 1
p. m., according to Stuart Gold
berg, advertising manager.
Frank, wife of the late president
of Wisconsin University and a
former sorority member, charge
the Greek letter organizations
with fostering class consciousness
and falsely emphasizing social
position.
Answers typical of those given
on the UN campus to the .ques
tion, "Do you favor the abolition
of fraternities and sororities?" are
these:
RUTH KORB, affiliated: No.
Tney do more good than harm.
DICK CAPEK, affiliated: No.
(See STUDENTS, page 2.)
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The convocation, presided over
by Chancellor C. S. Boucher,
honored the scholastic excellence
of about 450 students. Among
those recognized for superior
scholarship were 29 seniors head
ing the honors list. Alo honored
were students in the upper tea
percent of each class in each col-
leee and student organizations
were awaroea.
Seven Seniors.
Seven senior students were in
the uuoer three percent of their
class and also on the honor lists
for four years. They are: btep
See LASCH, page 4.)
Goddess of Ag
Rides Saturday
At Celebration
. seniors win reign SUpreme
i n ir Mmn,is Saturday to cele-
....! A riav with
presentation of
Agriculture and
at 4:00 p. m.
the Goddess of
her attendants
Weather permitting, the goddess
will be crowned out-of-doors on
the natural stage of the east cam
pus, flowers wui oecoraie me
slaee and special music will ac-
company the program,
Drotrram. beeinnir2 at 4.00.
t.m include a skit previous to the
., Julie Crom and
Melvin Jones will review Ag coi
lege through its entire existence,
turning the pages of a scrapbook
as part of the review.
Six Attendants, Goddess.
Following the skit, six senior at
tendants to the Goddess of Agri
culture will be presented and cli
maxing the alfair, the goddess
will be reveiled.
In former years, the presenta
tion has been made in connection
with
the annual Farmers Fair,
each spring for people of
(held
the state and surrounding terri
tory, wun the war,
(See GODDESS.
the farmers
page 4.)
UN Peace Parley
nesiuis in nans
By Other Schools
! The miniature peace conference
recently held here bas brought
forth many queries from other
universities and bas resulted in
the planning of like conferences
all over the nation.
The University of Alabama has
written to the YWCA about the
peace conference as well as Kan
sas State wbo will have one next
fall patterned after Nebraska's.
Students have been asked by
tbe represenatives of the various
women's clubs thruout the city to
come and talk to them about the
peace conference, Virginia De
Forest and Grace Steckley will
speak to tbe Republican Woman's
Club. May 5th.
Wednesday Marks Last
Day for Clothes Drive
Wednesday is tbe last day of
tbe United Clotbes drive!
Bring all clothing to tbe box
in tbe Union lobby. Tbe drive
is being conducted by tbe War
Council at (he university, Ac
cording to Marilyn Adler,
chairman.
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