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THE NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, March 26, 194fi
EDITORIAL
COMMENT7
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FORTY-FIFTH TEAK
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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
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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
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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
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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
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