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Vol. 45, No. 7
THE NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, October 3, 1945
Cornhusker Returns
To Peacetime Policy
Bigger and better are definitely
the objectives of the 1946 Corn
husker staff as plans are revealed
for the publication of the first
peacetime book in three years,
"For as the campus changes back
to a peactime policy, so changes
the Cornhusker," stated Joyce
Crosbie, yearbook editor.
Using the theme "Nebraska
Plans for Tomorrow with Blue
Prints of Today," the yearbook
will picture the expansion of the
campus. The book will have
white leather covers and heavy
white paper, making it the size of
the 1913 edition, the last pre
war type of volume.
Schedule of pictures for the
various sections is nearly com
pleted. Organizations and acti
vities are now being contacted for
group pictures while staff photog
raphers have already begun tak
ing candid shots.
The current Cornhusker sales
campaign by the Tassels will close
Friday.
Council Honors
Ex-War Workers
At Donee Friday
War Council, in recognition of
all students who have in some
way contributed to the war ef
fort and final victory, is. sponsor
ing a dance in the Union ball
room Friday evening, beginning
at 9 p. m.
-v NRO students, returned vet
erans, War Council workers,
bandage rollers, baby-sitters,, Ne
braskans for Servicemen work
ers, war stamp sellers, any and
all students involved in some type
of work relevant to war activities.
are especially invited to attend
the dance, according to Council
president, Alice Abel.
Entertainment has been plan
need for intermission, and cokes
and brownies will be served.
NEWS IN BRIEF
BILL ROBERTS
Unity, basic necessity of prog
ress, received this weekend its
severest setbacks since the out
break of war in 1939.
Showing widening cracks were
both international efforts for
peace and home efforts to meet
the painful problems of. recon
version and maintenance of just
living standards through the
stormy years ahead.
London reports continued to tell
of unbridged differences between
the Big Five foreign ministers now
meeting there. Major block is the
problem of Balkan peace treaties,
and indirectly, American and
British recognition of the present
governments in those countries.
Attempts to compromise the
Anglo-American and Russian dif
ferences have thus far failed. Ob
servers are now talking of the
possibility of adjournment with
out any major agreement.
President Truman's leadership
in congress U visibly weaker than
ever before.
The full employment bilL part
of his 21 -point program, was
(See NEWS, Pare 4.)
DIEECTOEY LISTS OUT
The check list for the Stu
dent Directory will be at the
check stand in the Union, Wed
nesday, from lt to 6. It will be
in the Finance Office on A;
Campus Thursday, from It to
5. Every student anust check
his own name and address for
the Student Directory.
Dr. Wimberly
Publishes New
Book of Tales
"Mid-Country; Best Writings
from the Heart of America" an
anthology edited and selected by
Dr. Lowry Charles Wimberly,
professor of English and editor of
the Prairie Schooner, appeared in
book stores Monday.
The volume, published by the
University Press, contains short
stories, sketches and poetry, all of
which take the center of the
United States as a setting. Among
the contributing authors are
Katherine Anne Porter, Erskine
Caldwell, Wallace Stegner, Wil
liam March, Eudora Welty, Jessa
myn West, Walter Van Tilburg
Clark, Ruth Suckow, J. Frank
Dobie, Jesse Stuart, Mark van
Doren and the late Vincent Ste
phen Benet.
Clara Marie Allen of the Fine
Arts department designed the
vignette, Joseph Lotto did the
handlettering and Emily Schoss
berger, University editor, planned
the general format.
Olson Announces
Debate Meeting
Thursday at 7 P.M.
All students interested in de
bate and discussion will meet
with Mr. Donald Olson, director
of debating, Thursday at 7 p. m.
in Temple 203. '
Emphasizing that everyone will
have a full opportunity to gain
experience before tryouts are held
for the varsity squad, Mr. Olson
stated that students of all classes
and with much or little experi
ence are welcome.
Subject for debate is U. S. pro
motion of free trade. Trips will
be made this year to Iowa City;
kvanston, 111.; Denver, Colo.; Aus
tin, Texas; and elsewhere.
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Ex-G.I.'s want to forget the war
This desire was expressed by
more than a score interviewed of
the 364 ex-soldiers enrolled in
various colleges on the campus.
War vets want to forget all the
unpleasantness of Life in the serv
ice, and the war, because they are
afraid if they talk about them
selves it will mark them as dif
ferent, both with their instructors
and their fellow students. They
want to be like everyone else
just plain "mister."
From All Over World.
These veterans come from all
branches of the service and from
all the fighting fronts of the
world. There is the foot soldier
who slugged it out on Guadalca
nal and the Solomons, the tank
man who rode across France with
Patton's forces, the bombardier
from the Eighth air force in Eng
land, the medical corpsman, the
truck driver, the artilleryman, the
sailor who helped convoy supplies
to the southwest Pacific, the recon
pilot from the China-Burma-India
theater.
Less than a year ago being a
civilian at home was just a wild
dream. Some of the former GI's
have to pinch themselves to real
ize it. The shock of coming back
so quickly and unexpectedly has
left some of uiera a little bewil
dered and perplexed, but in the;
AUF Drive
Collects $32
In Two Days
In two days of covering the
campus for donations to the All
University fund, only $32 was
collected by AUF workers, ac
cording to Jan Engle, AUF di
rector. "Only four days remain in
which to collect nearly $3,000 on
this campus," Miss Engle stated,
and added: "Two dollars per stu
dent is an insignificant sum com
pared to what others have given
in this war."
Workers will continue to con
tact all students for contributions
to the fund in an effort to make
the university go over the top in
this drive, which is the only
opportunity students have to do
nate to the National War fund,
Nebraskans for Servicemen and
the World Student Service fund.
National War Fund.
The National War fund, which
(See AUF DRIVE, Page 3.)
Coeds Hear
'Step Lively9
ActivityPlans
The first meeting of the "Step
Lively" series, whose purpose is
to acquaint new coeds with uni
versity activities and functions,
takes place in Ellen Smith hall
at 5 p. m. today.
The presidents of A. W. S.,
B. A. B. W., Alpha Lambda Delta
and Coed Counselors will explain
their respective organizations and
tell the plans for the annual ac
tivities Mart, which will be held
Oct. 27 in the Union ballroom
from 1 to 3 p. m.
Booths, representing the vari
ous organizations at the activities
Mart, will be set up in the ball
room, and interested students will
have an opportunity to register
for activities. According to AWS
President Midge Holtzscherer,
freshmen will be permitted to
participate in activities following
the Mart.
same breath they'll tell you it's
nothing requiring services of an
"expert adjuster."
They've discovered it's kind
of hard talking "civilian language"
after being in the service so long.
And they're a little self-conscious
about the difference in their ages
and those of the regular under
classmen whom they generally
call "teen agers."
Many of the veterans were uni
versity students when they en
listed and have returned to fin
ish work on their degree. Others,
attracted by the generous provi
sions of the GI Bill of Rights find
it an opportunity to get a degree
which probably would not have
existed for them before the war.
"Hard to Study."
Duance H. Willey, 26, of Lin
coln, says: "Adjustment to student
life again after so many years of
service is a bit perplexing. When
I try to study, I find my mind
wandering. I tried to study in
the library it was too quiet. I
tried the Student Union it was
too noisy. But it's not as hard as
I thought it would be." Willey
was a squad leader with the Third
division which spearheaded the
drive on the Rhine. He was
wounded by a mine explosion and
was discharged in August.
The thing that bothers Willard
sits $300oO0
Nebraska's new armory is expected to be completed in six
months, according to Superintendent of Grounds Seaton. The
ground for the building, near 14th street by the coliseum, will be
broken today. The armory, estimated to be 120 by 160 feet, will be
used for teaching military and naval sciences, the army's drill floors
occupying the second floor, and the navy's the first.
New Law Dean
Reveals Special
Course Plans
Lawyers recently discharged
from the armed forces will be
offered a special "refresher"
course by the university college
of law which will reopen Jan. 7,
according to Frederick E. Beutcl,
dean of the college.
Changes in the lawwill be em
phasized in the six-month's course
Extending thru July 31 without
interruption, the course will also
be offered first year law students
It will be the equivalent of a full
year's course, Dean Beutel stated.
Registration will begin Jan. 3.
Dean Beutel began his new du
ties Tuesday after being named
dean of the law college on Sept
15 by the Board of Regents.
Before 1 ea v i n g Washington,
D. C, where he was assistant so
licitor for the Department of In
terior. Dean Beutel made arrange
ments with the Association of
American Law Schools for the re
opening of the university law col
lege, closed the past two years
due to the war. Dean Beuiel added
that he had interviewed pros
pective candidates for the college
faculty.
Lt. Col. S. Kiger
Receives Medal
Lt. Col. Stanley W. Kiger, for
merly of Omaha and a graduate
of the university in 1932, has
been awarded the Bronze Star
medal for outstanding work as
the assistant port commander at
Marseille, France. Col. Kiger en
tered the service as a first lieu
tenant in March, 1942.
Bunker, 26, of Lincoln, is his age,
He says he keeps thinking of his
classmates as "teen agers." Bunk
er, a varsity football player, was
in the army four years, two of
which were with the 26th divi
sion of the First army. He's ma
joring in geology.
Former first lieutenant Everett
O. Govier, 23, of Ansley, recon
naissance pilot in the CBI theater
for 14 months, expressed a gen
eral sentiment: "I just hope they
leave us alone. Sure, it's going to
be hard to get back into the swing
of things, but the veterans aren't
asking for special attention. It
just takes a little time,"
Paul W. Albre, 21, of Fair
bury, veteran ETO airman, said
this: "It's the darndest thing, but
I think most of us who have been
in the service are finding it hard
to talk to other students. It's
not that we are the silent type.
It's just that in the army your
interests are so different. It'll
probably take a little while to get
a store of information on civilian
life again so we can talk intelli
gently." Arthur D. Steel of McCook, air
corps bombardier in Europe and
in the service four and a half
years is so pleased with his re
cent discharge that he hasn't given
much thought to whether-he will
have any "problems." -
Builders of Love library, the
Olson Construction company,
holds the contract. Architects are
preparing plans for plumbing,
heating and electrical equipment
and installation, the bids for
which should be settled within
the next three weeks.
Alternate Section.
A $23,000 north section, de
signed for use as an alternate in
the bid, will be added if the
plumbing, heating and electrical
expenses run enough under the
$300,000 total allowed. This addi
tion would contain desirable
space for both the army and the
navy for storage and classroom
space. The present bid of $207,
000 would be $228,000 with the
section, leaving $72,000 for plumb
ing, heating and electrical con
tracts. If, however, these con
tracts do exceed the $72,000, the
north section will be excluded.
Drew Pearson
Lectures Tonite
On Capitol Politics
Speaking on "Washington
Merry-go-round," Drew Pearson
newspaper and radio columnist
will open the Town Hall series to
night at 8 p. m. in the St. Paul
church.
Together with Robert Allen,
Drew Pearson began writing the
column "Washington Merry-go-
round in 1932 and since that time
the two have become known as
minor political powers who both
frigthen and amuse senators and
other occupants of Capitol Hill.
They have published several
books, among them "Nine Old
Men" and "Nine Old Men at the
Crossroads" both of which deal
with the supreme court justices.
Pearson has traveled widely.
having covered stories in Eng
land, India, Australia, New Zea
land, Cuba, South Africa, China,
Japan and most of Europe.
To be featured on the series
are Lt. John Mason Brown, drama
critic, Nov. 2; Maria Osmena,
daughter of the president of the
Philippines, Jan. 28; Harrison
Forman, foreign correspondent,
Feb. 13; and Nora Wain, noted
author, April 12.
University YMCA
Meets for First
Session Tonight
Culminating the YMCA mem
bership drive last week, the uni
versity YM announced that to
night at 7:15 p. m. it will hold its
first organizational meeting in the
lounge in the Temple building.
Four commissions plan to meet
and make plans for their respec
tive groups. Tom Sorenson,
Chairman of the Political Effec
tiveness Commission and Bill
Roberts, chairman of the Faith
of Life Commission, and two
other commissions devoted to
World Relatedness and Personal
Effectiveness are the groups that
will continue the contacts, educa
tion and fellowship provided in
the YMCA smaller commission
groups.
TASSEL VACANCY
Coeds interested in filing for
ag-at-large vacancy in Tassels
should turn in their names to
the Union office no later than
Friday, Oct. 5. Filing date for
the barb-at-larte vacancy has
been extended also to this Fri
day, according: to Gerry Me
Kinsey, president.