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Vol. 47 No. 109
WN Asks Largest
Bladge,!3, in Hisfloiry
Appropriations Committee
Hears Gustavson Speak
The university is, in common
with universities all over the na
tion, asking for the largest budget
in its history, Chancellor R. G.
Gustavson said before the legis
lature's budget committee hearing
on the university's appropriations
Wednesday.
The Chancellor, university
Comptroller John K. Selleck and
Don Kline, Teachers college
senior, gave brief reports to the
legislature at the hearing.
War Tears
The Chancellor said that schools
failed, during the war years, to
train students properly, and were
forced to let all but absoltuely
essential repairs and replacements
wait.
Now, he continued, obsolete
equipment must be replaced and
repaired to meet the university's
tremendous increase in enrollment
with more teachers and more
classroom space.
He cited as an example of the
need for classrooms, the 94 sec
tions in mathematics, all of which
are crowded at present.
The university's budget is made,
Gustavson explained, in this way:
Each department head estimates
the number of students expected
to enroll in his department and
submits this number of his dean,
who checks it and explains the
-estimates to Gustavson and Sel
leck in a conference with- them.
Present Budget
The present budget of $10,103,
000 was arrived at in this man
ner, the Chancellor said. ,
Some of the budget funds must
come from student fees, Gustavson
continued, an dthe remainder, $6,
500,000 is what the university
asks the legislature to grant
Even without increased enroll
ment, the increase in maintenance
costs would be sizable, Gustavson
Regional Housing
Delegates Plan
Conclave April 1
Members of the Nebraska and
western Iowa federal public hous
ing authority will meet at the uni
versity April 1 td discuss man
agement problems.
Attending will be the regional
director John Lang and the area
manager, W. H. Wolever of the
management section of Federal
Public Housing authority's Chi
cago office.
Other educators and representa
tives from both Iowa and Ne
braska will air their views on the
subject.
Hindu to Discuss India's
Problems at Convo Today
Dr. Sripati Chandra-Sekhar will
discuss economic and social prob
lems facing India at a convoca
tion in the Union ballroom at 11
this morning.
Speaking on "Poverty and Pop
ulation in India." Dr. Chandra
Sekhar has first-hand knowledge
of India's problems. He was born
in south India in 1918 and at
tended an American mission
school. In 1938 he graduated with
honors from the Presidency col
lege of Madras. He specialized in
Indian economic problems, which
have since been .his major in
terest At Pennsylvania C
When the war interrupted his
studies in London, he came to the
pointed out, because of higher
prices.
"This is as honest and realistic
a budget as we know how to pre
pare," the Chancellor concluded.
Kline
Kline, who followed Gustavson,
said that he would not try to en
large upon the Chancellor and Mr.
Selleck's reports, but would in
stead try to bring before the legis
lature his personal observations,
as a student, of the university's
need for the requested appro
priation. Although he was asked to speak
by the University Veterans organ
ization, Kline said he was repre
senting the entire student body.
His observations included the
case of a boy who went to the
speech department for a hearing
check. His hearing proved to be
normal, but the boy said he could
not hear his teachers. The answer
his last name began with W,
and he was placed so far back in
large lecture halls that he could
not hear the lectures.
In answer to the accusation of
Representative Fred Mueller of
Kearney that Kline was accusing
he previous legislature of failing
iO consider aspects of the situation
that could not have been known
to them, Kline retorted that he
was not attempting to criticize
previous legislators for anything,
but to place current problems of
the university before the present
budget committee.
Enrollment increases, Kline es
timated, would continue up until
1951 at least, and possibly longer.
Commissions in
Regular Army
Open To Vets
Applications for commissions in
the regular army will be accepted
until April 15 from student vet
erans attending Nebraska colleges
and universities who were com
missioned officers during the war,
and who will complete their ed
ucation for a degree before July
15, 1947, CoL Howard J. John,
professor of military science and
tactics, was informed by the War
Department Saturday.
"The plan offers an opportun
ity to those who left the service
to complete their education," CoL
John said.
Qualified students are asked to
apply for complete information
from the Military Science depart
ment, Room 205, Nebraska HalL
Successful applicants will be inte
grated with the regular army
sometime later this year.
United States to do research work
for New York. Princeton and Co
lumbia universities. He is at pres
ent lecturer in the department of
oriental studies at the University
of Pennsylvania.
He is a frequent contributor to
American periodicals, the New
York correspondent for a chain
of Bombay newspapers, and au
thor of the book. "Fact and Pol
icy." and the forthcoming "India's
Population Problem."
Lucid Speaker.
Dr. Chandra-Sekhar is a lucid
and witty speaker, and is "a young
representative of the period of
India's transition," according to
Hans Studinger. professor in the
New School for Social Research,
at New York.
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
PHe AgjmmH' IP Fit?
ISdSmiedl lb CwuhgM
"Macbeth"
Cast Opens
First Night
Players Interpret
Dramatic Lines
BY NORM LEGER.
While still somewhat in rough
form, the University Theatre's
production of "Macbeth" pre
sented 'to first nighters an inter
esting study in Shakespearean in
terpretattion and production. The
players, on the whole, delivered
their lines with intelligence, if
not always with the dramatic in
tensity demanded by manw of
Shakespeares lines.
Playing the part of Macbeth,
Henry Lee turned in a commend
able performance on virtue of
the fore e and strength of his
characterization. None of his
lines were missed as were some
spoken by other players. How
ever, he did not have the emotion
behind his cdassic speeches, "It
this a dagger which I see before
me?" and Tomorrov,-, and to
morrow, and tomorrow . . ." to
enthrall the spectator. The
espeeches were more oratorical
than dramatic. On occasion Lee
did have the emotional feeling in
his speeches to charm his audi-
See MACBETH, page 8.
Rifle Group
To Witness
Atom Movies
The Pershing Rifles will hold
their annual banquet today at
6:15 p. m., in the Student Union,
according to George Burr, Cadet
Captain and toastmaster of the
banquet In addition, after din
ner entertainment will include
movies of the atom bomb test
and army combat films.
Honored guests will be Colonel
H. J. Johns, P. M. S. & T., Major
M. J. Reynolds, National Persh
ing Rifles sponsor, Captain W. D.
B rod beck, Local Pershing Rifles
sponsor, Cadet Colonel IL Swartz,
Regimental Commander, Cadet
Lieutenant Colonel R. Cooper, Na
tional Commander Pershing
Rifles.
History of Rifles.
Pershing Rifles were founded
by General John J. Pershing at
Nebraska U. in 1894, when Persh
ing was commandant of the Ne
braska R. O. T. C. unit From
1894 to 1940 over 30 chapters of
the Pershing Rifles was organ
ized. The war drove the major
ity of chapters into inactivity, but
the current year found these again
being reactivated. National head
quarters has been established at
Nebraska, the present National
Commander is Cadet Colonel J.
Robert Cooper. The Rifles are
growing in strength and in the
second semester of activity on
campus, their present strength of
30 members includes 4 officers
and 26 men.
Those in basic training can be
come members by attending meet
ings held at Nebraska Hall every
Tuesday at 5 p. jxl. Membership
requirements include an average
of 80, or above, in Military
Science and a proficiency in the.
manual cf arms drill.
Qroiap Defends
Charges Made
BY JACK HILL.
Charges levied against the
Cornhusker party were partially
defeated last night at the student
council's weekly meeting.
Dale Ball, bizad sophomore,
brought a complaint to the floor
of the council that the Corn
husker party, lone campus polit
ical group, had "violated the
spirit, and in a sense the letter, of
their constitution. Ball requested
that party registration, which he
charged was summarily closed,
be ropened, or that party affil
iations be stricken from the bal
lots in next week's campus elec
tion. The council voted against Ball's
proposals but decided to publish
an open letter to the Letterip col
umn of Friday's Daily Nebras
kan "chastising" the party's meth
ods of voter registration.
Chief spokesman of the Corn
husker party was chairman Ward
Zimmerman, who pointed out that
party membership forms have
been circulating on campus for
the past two months and that
"every effort has been made to
get the most representative and
maximum number of signatures
on them."
Charges and countercharges of
dirty politics were exchanged as
various spoksmen for the two
groups made clear their views on
the controversial subject
Prof. Roger Shumate of the
political science department, and
the Cornhusker party's faculty
sponsor, explained to the council
Coeds to Apply
To Counselors
Conferences for girls who filed
for Coed Counselors will be held
beginning Monday, March 31 thru
Friday, April 4 and again on April
14, according to Beverly Jackson.
Girls are to report at the time
for which they signed up without
further notification. There has
been some misunderstanding as
to whether the conferences started
this week or next
KK Workers Begin Sale
'Aksarben Nights' Tickets
Tickets to .the Kosmet Klub
spring production, "Aksarben
Nights," are being sold by all
Kosmet Klub members at a price
of 75c each, according to Van
Westover, business manager. The
tickets sold by the workers are to
be exchanged for seat reservations
at the Temple on April 14, 15, 16
and 17. The show will run for
three nights, April 17, 18 and 19.
Written by Dave Andrews and
Bill Wiseman, "Aksarben Nights,"
is under the direction of Max
Whittaker, speech department in
structor. Assistant directors are
Av Bondarin and Bill Palmer,
Kosmet Klub members.
Returned Yet
Playing the lead role of the
veteran .who has returned to his
alma mater is Bruce Coffman who
sang in the Sigma Nu skit of the
Kosmet Klub show last falL
Doane Kiechel plays the part of
Lenore, sweetheart of Horace Bis
kett, the veteran.
John Carson, who last appeared
at the Ag Union opening with his
ventriloquist act has the part of
Newsie, a newspaper boy who in
terrupts the characters and plot
Thursday, March 27, 1947
events preceding the charges and
stated that while he did not like
to take sides in a student political
argument he felt sure that "if a
large number of students were
prevented from registering, the
purpose of the party was de
feeated." In a discussion of the closing
of registration, where the point
was made by Ball that the only
notification of such closing ap
peared in The Daily Nebraskan
on the morning of the deadline,
Shumate agreed that there were
grounds for saying that ample no
tification was not given.
He concluded his remarks with
a re-emphasis of the fact that the
party's purpose was defeated if
a large group "was so prevented
either by accident or design."
Zimmerman made the point that
despite Ball's charges, the Corn
husker party was a "coalition
group and open to any students
willing to subscribe to the party's
declared objectives."
Walt Rundin, law collge coun
cil representative, led questioning
from the floor and commented
that the issue involved was one of
See GROUP DEFENDS, page 2.
Cornhusker
Party Names
Candidates
Registered members of the
Cornhusker political party nomi
nated candidates to be put on the
slate for the ApriJ Student Council
election when they met Tuesday
night in the auditorium of Social
Science.
Ballots listing candidate's names
were distributed as voters entered
the door. These ballots were de
posited in a box when the meet
ing closed.
Ward Zimmerman, party chair
: in, presided at the meet and
Prof. R. V. Shumate of the polit
ical science department was in
troduced as a sponsor of the or
ganization. to explain the show to the audi
ence. Two schemers who are intent
upon ruining the morale of Ak
sarben University students are
Yorlick and Schultz, played by
Lynn Reid and Doug Peters. Reid
was in the University Theatre's
production of "My Sister Eileen,"
and in the summer production of
"Imaginary Invalid." Peters was
also in "My Sister Eileen" and
will appear this week in "Mac
beth." Dugie Doyle has the role of
the college president Al Sage
plays Professor Meek, and Paul
Weltchek, editor of the college
newspaper.
Dance Director.
The show will feature a pony
chorus consisting of twenty men
who sing, dance, and double in
minor speaking parts. Donna
McCandless is directing the
dances. Miss McCandless has di
rected dance numbers for two
operetta productions at Wesleyan
U., and is in charge of social danc
ing classes given In the Union.
Dave Haun's orchestra will play
for "Aksarben Nights." Only
1,650 tickets are on sale for the
show, and all sesits will be reserved.