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Vol. 47 No. 144
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Track Laurels
Nebraska Grabs Second;
Scofield Breaks Record
BY GEORGE MILLER.
There was a distinct golden tinge to the nineteenth
'annual Big Six track and field championships at Memorial
Stadium Saturday afternoon, for the Missouri Tigers, heavy
. premect favorites, did what was expected and piled up
158 16 points to replace Kansas University on the con
ference throne.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers had some uneasy mo
ments, but finally pulled out in second place ahead of the
defending champion Jayhawks.
i It was a Jayhawker who stole
Exam Week
House Rules
1. Quiet hours will be ob
served in all houses during
exam week except between the
hours of 12 noon to 1 p. m. and
5 p. m. until 7 p. m.
2. House chaperons may give
permission to freshmen to go
out until 10:30 on nights fol
lowed by no scheduled exams.
3. All privileges remain the
same during final week except
for the nights followed by an
examination which are 9:00
o'clocks for everyone.
4. Restrictions for down slips
shall continue through exam
week. (Note: No engage
ments after 8:00 o'clock.) No
special permissions will be grant
ed to persons with downs during
this period.
5. Housemothers may grant
permission to any student to go
home.
6. Because there are no ex
aminations scheduled for Fri
day, May 30, Thursday night
vill be a 12:00 o'clock night
for everyone and quiet hours
will not be in effect from 5
p. m. that night until midnight.
7. Men may be in houses
during regular calling hours.
However, quiet hours are in
force at 7 p. m. (No radios,
phonographs, or piano playing.)
'Daily" Reviews Campus Activities
BY TOTTIE FIDDOCK.
What a year! The old univer
sity shifted from last year's nor
mal running speed into high gear
with an activities boom and the
return of the practically extinct
male animal.
First event of the year was a
hectic sorority rush week which
ended with 284 girls wearing
shiny new ribbons and an ex
pression of relief . . . Fraternities
did all right, too, pledging 523
men during their open season.
A record enrollment of 9,500
started things off with a bang
. . . New Chancellor R. G. Gus
tavson postponed the beginning
of classes for two days until the
capacity registration was over .
Groans and Mimi Ann.
Coeds groaned over the new
. point system released by AWS
president Mimi Ann Johnson . . .
activity tickets went on sale . . .
the Pub Board named Merrill
Shutt Grant Cornhusker editor,
Phyl Teagarden Rag Grand High
Mogul -and George Shestak guid
ing light of the Awgwan.
U. N. gridmen suffered a 33-6
defeat at the hands of Minne
sota's Gophers . . . "Have You
Had Your X-Ray?" became the
campus password . . . Huskerville
turned out to be a boom town
. . . and the schol of journalism
welcomed Dr. W. F. Swindler
as its new director.
Nebraska trampled Iowa State
in the first home game to the
W
ins
the show despite the top-heavy
Missouri scoring total. Crew
cropped Tom Scofield blasted the
BIG SIX SCORING.
Missouri 158 16
Nebraska 91 12
Kansas 79 56
Kansas State 58
Oklahoma 52 13
Iowa State 25 16
newest record on the books, the
high jump mark, which he and
Dwayne Feekin of Iowa State set
last spring at 6 feet 4 Vi inches.
The springy Kansan cleared the
bar at 6 feet 7 inches, the best
leap of his career, to leave other
contenders far" behind. As a re
ward for his performance. Scofield
See MISSOURI WINS, pare 3.
Men's Dorm Applicants
To Learn Status Soon .
Men who applied for admittance
to the newly-constructed resi
dence halls will learn by mail late
this week whether or not their ap
plications have been accepted.
Over 200 sophomores, juniors
and seniors applied for rooms in
the new dorm, which will house
180 upperclassmen. All applica
tions were then pooled and a
drawing was held Friday.
Names of the 180 men drawn
are not as yet available for pub
lication, Assistant Dean W, C.
Harper announced Saturday.
Men selected will have until
June 7 to sign contracts for space
at the dean's office.
tune of 31-0 . . . Dake Novotny
and Don Chapin were elected
Junior and Senior class presi
dents, respectively . . . the crib
curtailed its dwindling chocolate
supply.
Fatal Fall.
After the first Issue, and many
threats, the Awgwan changed
hands, and fell into the lap of
Walt Simon . . . the AUF opened
its fall drive aiming at a goal
of $2,200 . . . and the Huskers
lost again, this time to the Iowa
Hawkeyes, 21-7.
Coeds cheered when the AWS
announced that all Saturdays
would be one o'clock nights . . .
hordes of Nebraskans migrated
to Lawrence to "K.O. K.U." and
brought home a 16-14 decision
for the Huskers . . . Betty French
was crowned queen at the .Farm
ers' Formal.
The Beta Sigs and the AOPi's,
using a pig and a goat for props
walked off with honors in the
"Who's Yer Hoosier?" contest at
a rally just before Indiana pulled
down a 27-7 victory over Ne
braska . . . and 16 gorgeous gals
were selected as beauty queen
semi-finalists.
All Was Merry.
Homecoming highlighted No
vember . . . Phyl Harris was pre
sented as Pep Queen . . . Elliott
Lawrence furnished the music
. . . and all was merry in spite
of the Mizzou win, 21-20 . . .
Rosa Bouton Hall and the Sig
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
28 Students
Get Johnson
Scholarships
Twenty-eight Franklin E. and
Orinda M. Johnson scholarships
for the 1947-48 school years have
been awarded university juniors
and seniors with exceptional
scholastic ability. The awards are
worth $100 each.
Scholarship winners arc Helen
Dengston, Daniel Dernd, Hugh
Bryan, Roy Coffey, Bonnie Comp
ton, Dale Dicknite, Mary Dunkin,
Donald Ediger, Delbert Fix, Eu
gene Griffiths, Leslie Guildner,
Ernest Hancock,, Robert Hansen,
Donald Hendrickson, Pauline
Holm, Billy Hope, George Kelley,
jr., Marian McElhaney, Cecil Mc
Vicker, George Miller, Amy
Mitchell, Aileen Oita, Ruth Peters,
Hans Rath, Paul Runter, Lois
Thorfinnson, Ila Ullstrom and
Donald Wiggans.
Uni Orchestra,
Singers to Give
Final Concert
The last musical event of the
year will be presented today at
4 p. m. in the Union ballroom
when the University orchestra and
the University Singers are heard
in a program of conventional con
cert music. Emanuel Wishnow will
conduct the orchestra, and Arthur
Westbrook and David Foltz will
direct the Singers.
The men and women of Uni
versity Singers will sing sepa
rately except for one selection,
Percy Grainger's "Australian Up
County Folk Song" sung without
words. A group of traditional
British numbers, arranged by
Fred Waring, including an Eng
lish sea chanty, an old Scotch
love melody, and an English bal
lad, will be sung by the women.
The men's three numbers in
clude Rachmaninoff's fast-moving
"Floods of Spring," Ernest
Charles' setting of the lyric poem,
"My Lady Walks in Loveliness,"
and Sigmund Romberg's well
known "serenade" from "The Stu
dent Prince," arranged for double
quartet and choral background.
In contrast to the modern num
bers which it performed at its re
cent ail-American concert, the or
chestra will play numbers from
the standard concert repertoire.
Chi's took house decoration wins
with the Pi Phi's and Sig Eps
winning laurels for their floats
in the parade.
The Daily Nebraskan acquired
an Ag Editor . . . Nebraska beat
Iowa State 33-0 . . . then lost
a chance for a Big Six-tie when
they dropped a 27-6 decision to
Oklahoma in the last game of the
season.
The Kosmet Fall Revue re
vealed Lois Jean Swanson as Ne
braska Sweetheart and Bob Mar
tens as Prince Kosmet . . . the
ATO skit was chosen best of the
eight presented.
Coeds' Delight.
Blue Car Benny became the
subject of "Rag" editorials . . .
the new Ag Union had its grand
opening and the TB seal cam
paign began . . . Sigma Delta Chi
was reorganized . . . and basket
ball games were a must
Ann Doudna took command as
Honorary Colonel at the Military
Ball where a capacity crowd of
5,000 danced to the music of
Chuck Foster . . . the formal
season continued with the Mor
tar Board shindig a week later
and another name band, Charlie
Spivak . . . eight eligible bachel
ors, Bruce Allen, Robert Keller,
Jack Hill, Kenny Younger,
Dwight Johnson, George Miller,
Gerald Moore and Gerald Gardi
Posts on Summer
Ncbraskan Open
A call for reporters, news ed
itor and assistant business
managers to staff the Summer
Nebraskan has been issued by
George Abbott, summer editor.
Interested students should
leave their names and phone
numbers where they can be
reached this summer in the
Daily Nebraskan mail box in
the Union basement.
The Summer Nebraskan will
be published twice weekly. First
issue will be printed June 16.
Huf f, Coslor
Receive Best
Acting Prize
For turning in the best per
formances of the year in Univer
sity Theatre productions, Marga
ret Ann Huff and Rex Coslor
were awarded with individual
"oscars" at the annual Nebraska
Masquers banquet, held Friday
night in the Lincoln hotel.
Judges
The winners were judged by a
faculty board comprised by a
majority of speech department in
structors on a basis of one or more
performances. Miss Huffs award
was for her performance in "Pyg
malion." Coslor received the
recognition for "Angel Street"
and "Pygmalion." Miss Jackson
won the award on her perform
ances in "My Sister Eileen,"
"M acbeth" and "Pygmalion."
Hall's award was granted on the
basis of his performances in
"Macbeth" and "Pygmalion."
Presentation
Presented by Charles Zoeckler,
theatre technical director, the Ne
braska Masquers special service
awards went to June Gast and
Dean Graunke for their outstand
ing services to the theatre.
In a masking ceremony con
ducted by Av Bondarin, and as
sisted by Arlis Swanson, Max
Whittaker, and Dallas Williams,
four Nebraska Masquers were
given the highest recognition in
theatre work when they were
brought into the Order of the
See HUFF, pace 2.
ner were elected by U. N. coeds
and presented.
Theatre.
The University Theatre gave
six productions during the year,
including "My Sister Eileen" and
"Angel Street." ... Convoca
tion speakers marked Paul Engle,
T. Z. Koo and Ben Kuroki . . .
and Marian Anderson, Kehudi
and Patrice Munsel were fea
tured concert artists.
Registration for second semes
ter was hardly over when Christ
mas vacation rolled around for
the 10,000 enrolled for the next
term ... Dr. Samuel I. Fuenning
was appointed new student
health director . . . the Pub
Board named Shirley Jenkins
Rag Chief and discontinued the
famous Awgwan.
Exams and black coffee be
came the order of the day . . .
Future Mortar Boards got into
the act . . . Shan Schnittker and
Mary Esther Dunkin were
elected to top offices in the YW
. . . Pris Flagg and Marianne
Srb copped the presidency and
vice presidency of the Home Ec
Club,-, . . Bernice Young was
named Ag YW head.
More Queens.
Ted Sorensen became YM
prexy . . . chosen by Jon Whit
comb, the Beauty Queens, Shir
ley Lierk. Barbara Busch, Sheila
Curran, Kay Hamm, Betty Chip
man, Mimi Loomis, Louise Meis-
Sunday, May 25, 1947,
Grad, Senior
To Represent
UN At Oslo
Betty Lou Horton and Mary
Ann Mattoon will represent the
University as two of the 200
United States delegates to the Oslo
Conference to be held at Oslo,
Norway, July 22-Aug. 1.
The conference was called by
the World Christian Youth Con
ference "to deal with and discuss
the international problems of to
day from the viewoint of the
youth of today."
RrprrneiilaUveg.
The Oslo conference will include
representatives from 50 nations,
totalling 2,000 youths. Four lan
guages will be represented and
spoken: English, French. German
and Scandinavian. This year's con
ference is the second to be held.
, . ..... ...J
Mary Ann Matlooa. Rrity lo Morton.
The first met in Amsterdam, Hol
land, in 1939.
Speakers at the conference have
been announced as Dr. W. A. Vis
scr't Hooft (Netherlands), who
will open the conference, and
Bishop Berggrav (Norway) who
will officiate at opening services.
Principal speakers and their sub
jects are: Rev. D. T. Niles (Cey
lon), "What God Is Doing in His
tory;" Prof. Jacques Ellul
(France), "Confronting Mental
Chaos;" Dr. Kirtley Mather
(U.S.A.), "Confronting Self-sufficient
Science;" Dr. Reinhold Nic
buhr (U.S.A.), "Man's Disorder
and God's Design;" Bishop Steph
en Neill (Great Britain). Sermon;
Mr. Chy-Wen Li (China). "There
Is a World Church;" Dr. Martin
Niemoller (Germany's famed re
sistance pastor), "Christ Is Lord
of the Future;" and Rev. Alex
Johnson (Norway).
Miss Mattoon, past president of
the university YWCA, is now
president of the Student Council
National YWCA. and a Danforth
fellow at Pennsylvania State uni
versity. bach and Pat Fcluer were pre
sented at a Valentine J"ea Dance.
The Interfraternity Ball was a
big success . . . coeds went all
hog on the Penny Carnival and
the Alph Chi's rolled into first
place with the slogan "Fortunes
Here for a Bright New Year" . . .
another fraternity, TKE, re
turned to the campus . . . and
the faculty sent a letter of af
firmation urging the appoint
ment of Lilienthal.
AWS sponsored Coed (for wo
mer only) Follies heralded the
presentation of Jeanne Branch
as the 1947 Typical Nebraska
Coed . . . The Alpha Phi's and
Pi Phi's were acclaimed for the
best skit and curtain act, with
the Thetas, AOPi's and Tri Dells
taking secondary honors.
Biff Deal.
Lorraine Landeryou was elec
ted Student Foundation prexy
. . . high schools invaded the
crib during the annual NHSPA
convention . . . the school of mu
sic presented the opera
gliacci."
The Red Cross aimed for $1800
as the annual drive opened . . .
women's elections revealed more
future Mortar Boards when
Tibby Curley took over the AWS,
Mary Dye, Coed Counselors and
Mary Ann Campbell the BABW
... a flu epidemic nearly closed
school for two days . . . and the
Se 'DAILY' REVIEWS, pase 2.