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Vol. 48 No. 46 Lincoln 1, Nebraska, Tuesday, December 2, 1947
Aksarben Court to Appear
In Military Ball Ceremony
Miss Emily Reynolds, Queen of
the Aksarben Ball, and her court
of Countesses and Princesses will
be present at the colorful cere
monies at the 1947 ROTC Mili
tary Ball Friday, Dec. 5, it was
announced Monday afternoon.
Miss Reynolds, surrounded by
her attendants, will survey the
ball and the presentation of the
Honorary Colonel from a special
box above the dancing floor. The
Aksarben court will be the guest
of the Cadet Officers' Association,
sponsors of the ball.
The Queen of the Aksarben
will be attired in her coronation
gown, a heavy dress of sea of gold
sequins, with long train and long
sleeves.
The twelve Countesses will be
clad in gold sequined dresses of
satin and marquesette. Five of
the Countesses are students at the
University this year. They are
Jeanne Branch, Martha Delong,
Audrey Forsythe, Sally O'Shea
and Rosemary Reynolds.
There are 24 Aksarben princes
ses. Twelve will wear American
Beauty rose-colored gowns, of
satin, elaborately sequined, and
with bustles at the hips.
Aksarben Princesses.
Twelve other Princesses will
wear identical gowns of blue satin.
Traditionally, the Countesses are
college and university women, and
the Princesses are residents of
Omaha who have graduated.
The Military Ball at the uni
versity is traditionally the dance
which opens the winter formal
season. Over 4,500 attended the
ball last year, when Chuck Foster
and his band played for the first
Military Ball since the war.
A quick perusal of old files of
The Daily Nebraskan shows that
the earliest Military Balls, from
the first in 1908, were closed af
fairs, open only to the military
department. The first balls did
have one feature identical with
present-day Balls the grand
march. In those days of Trust
busting 20 cent steaks and Teddy
Roosevelt, the colonel of the regi
ment marched with his best girl,
who thus became honorary colon
ell This year's Honorary Colonel
was selected by a campus-wide
election and by the 'Cadet Offi
Delegates Vote to Change
Big 6 Racial Limitations
Students officially represent
ing the student governments of
five of the seven Missouri Valley
Intercollegiate Athletic Associa
tion schools, acting in accord
ance with the previous stand
take" by a sixth school, unanim
ously passed a resolution that if
adopted by the faculty represen
tatives of the conference would
eliminate "racial discrimination"
in the association.
Meeting in Lincoln on Saturday,
Nov. 31, for a special confer
ence called by Harold Mozer,
Student Council president, dele
gates from Iowa State, Kansas
University, Kansas State, Univer
sity of Colorado, and the Uni
versity of Nebraska introduced
resolutions with, "having taken
into consideration the expressed
views of all conference schools
and the resolution passed by the
University of Missouri Student
Government Association, do unan
imously adopt the following reso
lution:" Provisions
The resolution adopted provides:
from Article III Section 5 of the
Rules and Regulations of the
M.V.I.A.A. the clause and the
personnel of visiting squads shall
be so selected as to conform with
any restrictions imposed upon a
host Institution by the sovereign
authority or the authorities that
govern said host institutions,' and
"(2) That there be added to Ar
ticle III section 5 the clause: 'Any
eligible student of a member in
stitution shall be allowed to par
ticipate in all competitive athletic
events at any member institu
tion'." The second section of the
resolution accepts by the stu
dent delegates followed almost
identically a resolution recently
passed by the Missouri Student
cers. Revelation of her identity
will be a highlight of the Ball.
Military Sponsors.
Until about 1925 the ball was
sponsored by the Cadet Officers.
When the university named the
ball as an all-school dance, the
military department stepped in to
help the student officers, and have
sponsored the Ball since that time.
In 1922 Pearl Lucille Swanson
was elected the first Honorary
Colonel. The students, to quote an
earlier edition of The Daily Ne
braskan, had "tired of watching
the colonel's lady monopolize the
grand march."
From 1925-28 the name of the
Honorary Colonel was revealed
immediately after the campus
wide election. In recent years it
has been the practice to keep her
identity secret until the night of
the Military Ball.
The Military Ball was held in
the Coliseum for the first time in
1926 when 300 couples attended.
In 1930 attendance had grown to
1,500 and the military department
was able to hire a name band.
Last year's Ball was the 35th in
the history of the school.
Attorney Named
Convo Speaker
Carey McWilliams, author, at
torney and staunch defender of
minorities, will address an all-university
convocation on "Organized
Racism A Threat to Democracy"
Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 11 a.m. in
the Union ballroom.
McWilliams is one of the most
outspoken authorities in the coun
try on the history of racial minor
ities in the United States, the
causes of race conflict and what
kind of a program is Necessary to
end racial discrimination. He is a
young California attorney who
headed the California division of
Immigration and Housing from
1939 to 1943.
He is famed for his debate on
the Town Meeting of the Air
against Philip Bancroft of the As
sociated Farmers, for his winning
of the Guggenheim Award, and
for his years of service to the
cause of better living and labor
conditions for immigrants in California.
Government Association which
provided, "Any student in good
standing of a college or univer
sity -which is a. member of the
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate
Athletic Association shall be al
lowed to participate in competi
tive athletic events at the Uni
versity of Missouri."
The reason for the similarity
was that Missouri, with Okla
homa, is one of the two institu
tions which until this time have
not allowed Negro athletes to
play on their fields, and it was
the opinion of the delegates at the
student confab that by accepting
a resolution put forth by one of
greater possibility of acceptance
at the faculty meeting on the
second week-end of December
when the problem shall be pre
sented. Mizru Instructions
Another reason for the accep
tance of the resolution as pro
posed by Missouri was that, by
Missouri's instructions, it could
be considered that they had voted
in favor of the resolution, theo
retically raising the total of
schools pledged to support the
resolution to six.
Ray Solomol, unofficial dele
gate from Missouri 6tated that
"The resolution passed by the
conference would be considered
consistant with that passed by the
Missouri SGA and it could be ex
pected that the SGA would sup
port the new resolution.
The official delegates were Don
De Lallunt, president of the
Student Council, Robert Miller
and Jean Kroger, Iowa State;
Lynn Leigh, Kansas university;
Don Ford, president of the stu
dent council. Kansas State; Leu
Rovira, president of the student
council, and John Zisch, Univer-
(See RACE, Pare t)
Third Dormitory
To Open; Will House 136
Livestock Team
Places Fourth
it International
University of Nebraska live
stock judging team finished fourth
in a field of thirty at the Interna
tional Livestock Show being held
in Chicago this week.
Individual honors on the team
went to Richard Wahlstrom, Oak
land, and Ned Raun, Minden.
Wahlstrom placed seventh high
individual for all classes in the
contest and Raun , was twelfth.
Dillard Huffaker was fifteenth
high individual for the contest.
Raun placed first and Wahlstrom
second in judging at the Ameri
can Royal show held in Kansas
City last month.
The Nebraska entry ranked
second in the judging of horses
and sixth in sheep. They were
awarded the famous Percheron
Horse Trophy for their ranking
in equine competition.
Other members of the Nebraska
team included Harold Cleal, Ains
worth; Rudy Tomek, Table Rock;
and Don Jensen, Newman Grove.
Prof. M. A. Alexander is the team
coach.
YW to Sponsor
Annual Greens
Hanging Dec. 3
Fraulein Hulda Zarnack, execu
tive director of the YWCA in
Germany, will be guest speaker
at the annual "Hanging of the
Greens" in Ellen Smith Hall Wed
nesday, Dec. 3 at 7:15 p.m.
"Hanging of the Greens" is an
annual event in which the city
campus YWCA invites the presi
dents of all women's houses, of
ficers of campus women's organ
izations, freshman commission
leaders and their assistants,
membership councils and the Ag
YWCA to join in decorating Ellen
Smith Hall. Dessert will be served
at 7:15 p.m.
Fraulein Zarnack is returning
home from a world's council meet
ing of the YWCA which was held
in China has addressed student
YWCA at UCLA and the YWCA
in San Francisco on her trip.
General chairman for the event
is Marian McElhaney. Other
chairmen are Adeline Kano, in
vitations; Janet Nutzman; ar
rangements; Gloria Pinney, pro
gram; Marguerite Nootz, dessert.
YW presidents are Shirley Schnit
tker, city campus and Bernice
Young, ag campus.
Reservations for the dessert
must be made at Ellen Smith by
noon Tuesday.
Vet Ballots
To Aid UN
Delegates
University veterans will be rep
resented at the National Confer
ence of Veteran Trainees in Wash
ington, D. C, Dec. 19 and 20, ac
cording to Keith Kittle, president
of the University Veterans' Or
ganization. The purpose of the
conference is to ask adjustment
of subsistence to rising costs of
living and to take up other vet
erans' problems.
In a telegram sent to all uni
versities and college throughout
the states, the national chairman
of the conference stated, "the suc
cess of this conference depends
upon national participation by
duly elected representatives of a
majority of colleges In a majority
of states of the nation. Main pur
poses of the conference is to see
that veteran trainees get all to
which they are entitled. Not more.
But certainly not less."
To gather information from the
UN veterans to be used by the
Washington delegate. Kittle has
requested that all veterans inter
ested in an increase In subsistence
fill out the printed form and de
posit it in one of the UVO sub
sistence boxes located in the
Union lobby and in classroom
buildings. The forms will be
picked up Saturday noon, Dec. 6.
Start Application Filing Dec. 3;
Nebraskans to Get Preference
Applications for rooms in Building "A" of the men's
residence halls, which will open in time for the second se
mester, may be filed from Dec. 3 to Dec. 19 in room 209,
Administration hall, the Student Housing bureau announced
Monday.
Facilities for 136 men enrolled in any of the under
graduate colleges of the university are available. Preferense
Registration
Procedures
Start Dec. 8
(Procedure outline for registration on
the Ag campus li on page four, column
one.)
Students will open registration
period for the second semester by
picking up their appointment
cards from the assignment com
mittee beginning Wednesday, Dec.
8. The cards will be in Love Me
morial library.
In order to give the underclass
men a break, the registration
tickets will be dealt out one at a
time into three piles, he first pile
to be set aside for Dec. 10, the
next for Dec. 11, and the third
for Dec. 12.
The order for picking up the
cards:
Dec. 8: Seniors.
Dec. 9: Juniors.
Dec. 10: Sophomores and fresh
men whose names begin with let
ters from A through I.
Dec. 11: Sophomores and fresh
men whose names begin with let
ters from J through Q.
Dec. 12: Sophomores and fresh
men whose names begin with let
ters from R through Z.
Complete Instructions for pre
registration conferences and in
regard to registration proced
ures are now available at the
Junior Division office, Univer
sity Hall, Room 1. Students in
the Junior Division are urged
to call for their copies im
mediately. Nets A. Bengston, Dean
University Junior Division.
Students should make appoint
ments with their advisers as soon
after Dec. 8 as possible. Failure
to do so will probably mean that
the student will have difficulty in
getting his program worked out,
according to G. W. Rosenlof, Reg
istrar. Students may confer with their
advisers far in advance of the
time they meet with the assign
ment committee, he added.
After a student's program has
been worked out and approved
by his adviser and dean, he will
report to the assignment commit
tee at the time indicated on his
registration ticket. The Daily Ne
braskan will prjnt the times for
assignment committee appoint
ments as they come up.
Women's Hours Change j
Tibby Curley, president offi
AWS, has announced the hours
at which all women's houses
will close on the weekends of
the Military Ball and the Mor
tar Board party.
Friday, Dec. 5, 1 a.m.
Saturday, Dec. 6, 12:30 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 12, 1 a.m.
Saturday, Dec. 13, 12:30 p.m.
Vets
Name
Marital Status Children (No.) Other Dependents (No.)...
Under P.L. 346 (G.I. Bill) Under P.L. 16 (Rehabilitation)....
Expenditures Per Month
Rent per month Insurance per month
Food per month Personal Items per month
Clothing per month Misc per month
Transportation per month TOTAL EXP. PER MO
How do yo meet extra cost? Emp'nt. . .Savings. . .Parents AM. ..
Deposit In T7YO boxes la Union Lobby or classrooms.
for
M
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will De given JNeorasKa resiaenis,
but non-resident students will be
eligible for the dormitory if not
enough residents apply. If there
are more than 136 applicants, a
lottery drawing will be held to
select students to live in Building
"A".
No Hours Enforced.
Rent in the building is $50 per
semester, or approximately $2.70
per week. There are no hours to
be enforced stating when residents
must be in the building either on
weekdays or weekends. Residents
of the hall will select a governing
body to establish necessary rules
and regulations.
Facilities of the building Include
a recreation room in the basement
equipped with radio, fireplace,
game room, lounge chairs, laundry
room and other facilities for stu
dent use and comfort.
Rooms Furnished.
Each room is furnished with
desks, chests of drawers, lamps,
closets, chairs, Venetian blinds,
asphalt tile floors and oak wood
work throughout. The beds, lo
cated in sleeping rooms at both
ends of the hall on all floors, are
equipped with innerspring mat
tresses, pillows and mattress cov
ers. Each occupant must furnish his
own linen and bedding, but there
will be maid and janitor service
and the rooms will be cleaned
daily and the beds made each
morning by the maids. The re
mainder of the building will be
cared for by a staff of workers.
The resident counselor, gradu
ate student, will help residents to
arrange social functions, intra
mural programs and other activ
ities in which they wish to partici
pate. Singers Present
Carol Program
At Union Sunday
University Singers will present
their annual Christmas Carol con
cert in the Union next Sunday,
Dec. 7, at 3 p.m. and again at
4:30 p.m.
The concert will feature per
formances by a brass ensemble
directed by Robert Stepp, the
men's section of the Singers di
rected by David Foltz of the De
partment of Music, the women's
section of the Singers led by Dr.
Arthur Westbrook, Director of
the school of fine arts, and a fi
nale which will combine all three
groups.
A limited number of tickets are
available to the public and may be
secured at the Miller and Paine
service desk, the Dietze Music
store, the Union or the department
of music. There is no admission
charge.
Girls!!!!
1 1 more shopping ' doys
till the Mortar Board Ball
Ballot
College.