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"Page 2 THE NEBRASKAN Tuesday, March 26, 194fi EDITORIAL COMMENT7 J Jul (Daih TkbAa&kcuL FORTY-FIFTH TEAK Subscription rates are $1.00 per semester or $1.50 for the college year. 12.50 mailed. Single copy Sc. Published daily during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacations, and examination periods, by the students of the University of Nebraska under the supervision of the Publication Board. Entered as Second Clas Matter at the Post Office in Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103. act of October 2, 1917. authorized September 30, 1922, BLSlMiSS STAFF Business Manager Lorraine Aammsoa AesisUnt Business Manafer Dorothea Kosenberr, Donna Pelfon CtrculaUoa Manager Keith Jones. I'bone t-SSSS " EDITORIAL STAFF Editor Bettr la Hasten Managing Editors Phyllis Teagarden, Shirley Jenkins Kews Editors Mary Alice Cawood, Phyllis Mortlock, Jack Cressmaa. Dala NsTatny, Martbella Holcomh Sports Editor Qeorge Miller society Editor fat Tool Off the Ilceord By Jerry Cohn and Aaron Schmidt Bright Future A year's search for a man to head the school of jour nalism was brought to a close Sunday with the announce ment of the appointment of Professor William F. Swindler, chairman of the department of journalism at the University ABC of Idaho. The appointment of a full time head of the depart ment and the acquisition of adequate quarters in the new building point the way for rapid development of the journal ism school during the next few years. Inadequate appropriations, staff and equipment have put the school a long way below maximum efficiency in re cent years. Last year's enrollment of 76 students was the lowest of 20 years. This year's of 148 is almost a 100 increase. The largest enrollment was 254 in 1937 and 38. Since 1924, 20.1 of the people who have entered the school have graduated and 8 have received journalism certifi ates. Obviously there is great room for improvement. Professor Swindler's experience speaks well for his abil ity to undertake the enlargement of the journalism depart ment He has a varied background of training, including four college degrees, actual newspaper reporting, publicity writing, editorial writing, free lance writing, extensive teaching, and a great deal of research in his specialty, law of the press. He has had close contact with the state newspapers in Swindler laano ana inaugurated the publication of a senes of service bulletins for newspapers. According to reports he is a popu lar instructor with students and knows the practical prob lems of journalism. The appointment of a new director will bring to an end the excellent job of pinch-hitting Professor F. C. Blood has done as acting director during the last two years. While he has been in the department Mr. Blood has laid a firm ground work for expansion. For the first time he has made journal ism courses available to freshmen students. He has re vamped courses making them to give students really practi- i cal training. He has made valuable contacts for the school with the high school journalism classes. The three campus publication staffs have a great deal for which to thank Mr. Blood as a result of his work as chairman of the publications board. He has maintained an 1 Latest Decca kick seems to be coupling different vocalists sing ing novelty tunes with Guy Lorn bardo's Oik. The Andrews Sis ters first recorded Money Is the Root of All Evil and Johnny Fe dora. Now, Hildegarde is waxing a disc called One-iy Two-iy and accompanied by Guy Lombardo Woody Herman again makes the spotlight with his concert to be presented at Carnegie Hall on Monday night. Igor Stravinsky wrote "Ebony Concerto espe daily for the Herman Herd. Stra vinsky based his idea for this concerto on a special arrange ment of Bijou, written by Ralph Burns. Its first radio airing will be heard on Herman's Friday night program at 7 o'clock over Dunham. Sonny Dunham is broadcasting over CBS from the Hippodrome way down in Tennessee. You will have an opportunity to see him in person at the Junior-Senior Prom on April 5. Tickets are be ing sold at the N Club for $3 a couple, so get yours now! It seems as though a musician can't make a decent living now adays. Les Brown and His Band of Renown take $4,000 per night, plus a 30 percent cut of the gross gate. Then there is Louis Prima, currently playing a four week stand at the New York Strand theater. For this engagement, he will take out $12,500 per week. This makes a new record for the Strand. Can anyone loan us five until Friday? (Continued from Page I.) is expected to improve laboratory work. A newspaper reading room four times the present size is planned. All classrooms and all but two of the offices will be on the third floor. More than half of the, basement, and nearly half of tne third floor will be devoted to journalism. Indefinite plans call for removal to the new building in January, 1947. or in the fall of 1948, depending upon the speed of construction. An improved and diversified curriculum is expected under the new reorganization plan, which will be worked out under the di rection of Dr. Swindler. It is not intelligent, sympathetic interest in their problems and been work in journalism here, as the consistently ready with constructive suggestions. The stu- school is empowered to grant only dents have enjoyed working with him, partly because they bachelor's degrees and certificates, have felt that he enioved working with them. September 1. WSre Off at Last ... We're off tomorrow, suitcases in hand and books in suitcases, for the first spring vacation since 1941. After four long, vacationless war years we are once more headed for that revitalizing week's break in the second semester grind. We're off to enjoy home cooked meals, picnics and sleep, to read those back history assignments and work on at least one term paper. We're getting away to have time to find out once again that we are really individuals after all and not just machines that turn in papers, scan books and at tend meetings under the constant pressure of college life. .ui. "-i;"rr , waomy n "w"uu Other members of the school's wim uui w iji n an iimue up wi says nerej, ready lor tne last staff are James E. Lawrence, pro six weeks and tnree days of school. Ready for the iunior- lessor; Raymond A. McConneii senior prom, the Kosmet Klub show, honors convocation (hurray, classes are even dismissed for that one), Engineer's Week, Ivy Day, the Union birthday party, the last play of the year, finals, baccalaureate and graduation. Have fun this week, kids, there are big things ahead! When Swindler's appointment becomes effective September 1 Professor F. C. Blood, who has served as acting director of the school since 1944, will resume his position as professor of advertis ing and sales management. Last chairman of the school was Harold Hamil, who in 1944 joined the editorial staff of the St. Louis Star-Times. The journalism faculty will be further augmented this fall by the return of Professor R. P. Crawford, who has been on de tached service with the GI uni versity in Florence, Italy, and is now in Washington, D. C. Del egates (Continued from Page I.) Dunkin, John Ellis, J. P. Street, and Lloyd Jones participated in this group. Leaden Presiding at the conference were co-chairmen Tom Sorensen, university Y.M.C.A., and Marie Knapp, Midland college. Discus sion leaders were Gordon Lippitt; Bill Miller, Y.M.CA president; Rev. Sam Maier, Presbyterian stu dent pastor, and Mildred Taylor, Y.W.CA secretary. The two-day conference closed after accepting the invitation of Doane to hold the fall meeting there. Delegates from the university were: Gretchen J3urnham, Mar tha Clark, Bob Dickenman, Jim Donnely, Mary Esther Dunkin, Mary Dye, John Ellis, Ruth Ann Finkle, Shirley Hinds, Betty Lou Horton, Don Jester, Lloyd Jones, Ed Jordan, Marian McElhaney, Marilyn Markussen, Bill Miller, Pat Neely, Harriet Quinn, Bill Roberts, Shirley Schnittker. Tom Sorenson, John Street, Beverly Swartwood, Phyllis Teagarden, my uis warren, Sam Warren, Jackie Wightman, Betty French, Ed Klanecky, Lillian Lock, De lores Nielson, Beth Noerenberg, Merv.-yn Row, and Frences Wagner. jr., R. F. Morgan, William Hice and Harold Andersen, instructors. Dr. Swindler did extensive ad vanced research in law of the press for his MA and PhD de grees. He reported and did edi torial writing for the St. Louis Star-Times, correspondence for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and publicity writing for the Wash ington university newg bureau, as well as free-lance writing. Masquers (Continued from Page 1.) Theater, has announced casts for the two prize-winning one-act plays from the contest sponsored by the Nebraska Masquers. Characters in-"New Tomorrow," a drama concerned with Dost-war problems of a young returned vet eran, are: Reporter, Bill Lucas; Marc, Gaylord Marr; Kitty, Ann Proper; Murphy, Rex Cosier; Chaplain, Robert Wheeler; Kath arine, Lois Jarman, and Mary, Ar lene Marylander. Student director will be Blanche Duckworth. Students taking part in "The Wrong Answer," the story of a man who hurt himself by telling the fortune of others, are Jean Simpson, Phyllis Snyder; Mr. Harvey Jackson, Dean Wells; Joe Bates, Jim Zoubek; Don Collins, Herbert Spence; Mrs. Jackson, D. Ann Richardson; Arzelda Stans berry, Barbara Berggren, and Bob j Lloyd, Dede Meyer. Student di-! rector will be Peggy Kirschman. ! The Ask Can by Marthella Holcomb Shades of Dogpatch, and Available Jones' cluttery of fice! No wonder smiles broadened Thursday when Ray mond A. McConneii. ir.. announced to his class that was "available" after 2 p. m. each week-day. Ummm . . . and to think we're tied up at the office until 5. Feel just like a real backwoodsman, since we heard the wild ducks going north one warm night last week. A lamp on the study table the only illumination, soft breezes nuffinor starched curtains, their muffled chatter-chattpr ns they winged over on their yearly pilgrimage made us think, & for the first time in months, of the. beloved and ill-fated wanderer, Richard Halliburton. All the intelligentsia spread in thick layers over the Union Thursday night for the PBK-Sigma Xi banquet made those of us hoping to win the prized keys on a 72 average feel about as sharp as a week-old single-edged blade. Our single claim to fame is that we're the only non-athlete on campus who ever received more than a smile from Thin Man Stroud. He even took the trouble to tell us that the rumor about him being married wasn't so. So there . . . is where the line begins. Oral, that is. Not only can you tell the newly initiated pledges be cause they're the only girls with lonesome little sorority pins, but you can tell the fellows who have lately fallen in love. Minus their frat emblems, they wander around dis consolately rubbing their sprained wrists and ankles. The space between the hanging and the cigars is an evil period ot lull-dress showers and such other perverted entertain ment, or so they say. Then there s our f nend the literary Erentleman. who the other evening was reading "The Black Rose," which skips a few years or a decade even, every second chapter. Finally gave up in disgust, and slammed the offending l I A A 1 . . oook against tne DuiK-nead, screaming, "l want to read a novel, not a mystery." And when you leave on vacation don't smirk and say you re going to have a wilder, woolier time than anyone else away from campus. Because you're wrong, we are. THIS IS THE ATOMIC AGE EVERYTHING MOVES QUICKLY DON'T GET LEFT BEHIND! Get yor Prom dote and buy your ticket now, before vocation storts. JR.-SR. PROM APRIL 5 Tie kH $250, plug 50c lax May be purchased from: "N" club members Student Union Office Student Activities Office T