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Vol. 48 No. 58 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Thursday, December 18, 1947
Registration
To 2600 ,
Thursday
Students holding 'registration
numbers from 1800 to 2600
should report to the registration
quarters in Love library today,
according to Mrs. Ralph Bedell,
head of assignment committee.
Students with numbers from
2600 to 2800 may check in the
afternoon to see if there is a
possibility of their being regis
tered at that time.
A list of closed classes com
piled up to the time of 2:15,
Wednesday afternoon include the
following sections:
Econ 210 M. E. 211
Econ 107 Econ 203
Bus. Or. 172 M. E. 220
Zoo 102 Econ 115
E. M. 225
A new section which has been
added is
English 1 Sect. 1, 2 and 3
Sect. 1 Lab 2
Sect. 3 Sect. 2
Lab A Sect. 04
Sect. 8 and 10 1 MWF Ag Hall
Students are urged to secure
from their advisors the names of
three alternative courses which
can be used in case of closed sec
tions. If each student has three such
alternative courses it will rarely
be necessary for him to return to
his advisor if he has trouble mak
ing out a suitable schedule.
6No Persians'
Says Council
In Charter Ban
"Persians," a proposed organ
ization labeled as a "secret po
litcal fraternity" was denied
recognition by a Student Council
vote of 19 to 4 at the meeting
Wednesday.
Bob Wenke, law college rep
resentative and chairman of the
constitutions committee, hurled
the "secret" charge during dis
cussion following his committee
report. Portions of the Persians
constitution were quoted by
Wenke to substantiate the com
mittee request for council dis
approval. He insisted the docu
ment was too long to be read in
full before the council.
Wenke charged that the or
ganization would be undemo
cratic when questioned by John
Hayes, graduate college repre
sentative, and Mrs. Arliss Swan-son-Patterson,
senior at large.
Elect Best Man
Ben Wall, addressing the coun
cil for the Persians, claimed the
constitution had been misin
terpreted by the committee. Wall,
an Arts and Science freshman,
stated that the Persians wished
to help elect the best men to
campus offices since they are
becoming more important.
To Wall's assertion that the
organization intended to work for
tolerance and campus improve
ments, Wenke replied, "Isn't that
the council's business?"
In passing the motion to deny
the society recognition the coun
cil recommended that the com
mittee provide the Persians with
detailed suggestions for an ac
ceptable revision of the constitu
tion. Interviewed after the meeting,
Wall stated he would not appeal
the rejection to the University
Senate Student Activities Com
mittee until a revised constitution
designating Persians as a po
litical party had been submit
ted to the council for action.
Military Ball Charges.
Investigations of Military Ball
finances and charges made stu
dent organizations renting the
coliseum to be conducted by the
campus improvements commit
tee were authorized in a council
resolution. Dale Ball, chairman of
the committee, announced that
preliminary contacts have been
made.
When objection was made that
Military Bail tickets were' higher
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THE NUMBER'S UP Assistant Registrar Dr. Floyd Hoover (left)
checks The registration cards of Jeanette Nelson and graduate stu
dent Louis H. Ouren as they prepare to register for spring semester.
Humor Magazine
Sales Start Today
Sale of the December issue of
the Corn Shucks featuring the
finalists of the legs contest will
start this afternoon in the Union.
Copies will sell for 20 cents.
All subscribers who live in any
organized houses, including wom
en's dorms, will receive their copy
at their respective houses. All
copy for the February issue
should be turned in to the Corn
shucks office by Jan. 5.
Coetl Counselors Entertain
At Christmas Tea Today
At the annual Coed Counselor
Christmas tea this afternoon
from 3:30 to 5:30, 20 Coed Coun
selors will receive recognition
awards for outstanding achieve
ments and co-operation during
the first semester.
Award winners will be selected
on a basis of points earned under
the organization's credit system.
All freshmen, new women stu
dents and coed counselor big sis
ters will attend.
Pouring at the tea table will be
Mrs. R. G. Gustavson, Miss Mar
jorie Johnston, dean of women,
and Miss Mary Neilenz and Mrs.
Elvera Christiansen, Coed Coun
selor sponsors. The event will
climax the groups first semester
activities.
Union Closed Tonight
For Employees Party
No crib Catherines tonight! The
Student Union will be closed to
tht student bodv at 7:00. so that
the Union employees may have
their annual Christmas pariy.
Student meetings already sche
duled will be held In rooms as-
iicned unless the croup has been
notified otherwise.
Saturday noon the Union will
close for the vacation period, to
e-open Jan. 5.
If citlt to Audition Talent
For Const to Coust Hromlcast
Tiilnt smuts for the Horace
Tli.l.U chnur will hnlH on audition
for university students Thursday,
Dec. 18 at 6:30 p. m. In Room 11,
at the School of Music.
Students chosen from the uni
versity and hum Creighton unl
vorcitv in Dimiha will be fea
tured on Heidi's half-hour musical
show which will originate in Oma
ha bunday, Jan. 4.
New York Vets
Information concerning New
York State's bonus for World
War II veterans, which foes In
to effect Jan. 1, 1948, has
been received by the Veterans
Consultation Board. Any vet
erans who are residents of the
state of New York and who
wish to obtain information with
respect to this bonus may do so
by reporting to the office of the
Veterans Consultation Beard,
101 Mechanic Arts Hall.
J. P. Colbert
Director
Ag College
Registering
Moves Fast
Registration is moving along
rapidly on ag campus, according
to word from Dr. C. C. Wiggans,
who is in charge of the assign
ment committee for ag students.
The procedure is being carried
out with a minimum amount of
effort on the part of the students,
in keeping with the new plan put
into operation this semester.
No cards are issued to ag stu
dents and they are not required
to visit the assignment committee
in person. Advisers turn in the
worksheets filled out by the stu
dents to the assignment commit
tee which assumes the respon
siblity for obtaining places in
downtown classes.
The same precedence being ob
served on the city campus pre
vails in the ag plan. In other
words, senior and junior sched
ules will be considered at the
same time the corresponding
groups are being interviewed on
city campus.
All junior division students will
be required to take their work
sheets to the assignment commit
tee when they register. However,
they will not be interviewed until
after the holidays.
'47 Cornhuskc
Gets National
lop Honor Rate
The "Cornhusker" has done it
again. In recognition of its merit,
the 1947 "Cornhusker has been
awarded the "All American" hon
or rating in the twenty-seventh
national critical service of the Na
tional Scholastic Press Association
at the University of Minnesota's
Department of Journalism.
The "All American" honor rat
ing is the highest rating that can
be attained by a high school or
university.
During the past nineteen years,
the Cornhusker has been award
ed the "First Class" honor rating
thirteen times, but only twice be
fore in Its history has it received
the "All American" rating. These
honors were bestowed upon the
Cornhusker in 1929, and 1934.
The 1947 "Cornhusker" staff in
cluded Merrill Grant, editor, Dean
Skokan, business manager, Jo Ac
kerman, Jo Fankhauser and Mims
Weeth, managing editors, and Jer
ry Johnston, art editor.
Will all persons not having
picked up their 1947 Cornhusker
please do so immediately at the
Cornhusker office. All such books
not called for by Jan. 5, 1948 will
be sold.
Holiday Fling for Rag Staff
The Daily Nebraskan staff is
planning a Christmas party to end
all Christmas parties at 1 o'clock
Friday afternoon, to be held In
the Rag office. All reporters, as
well as regular staff members, axe
Invited to attend.
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Seven Positions Now Bring
Maximum Activity Total
Activity point values for men were announced Thurs
day by Stan Johnson, president of the men's point board.
The new point ratings go into effect immediately.
"Candidates for any office must file on blanks' avail
able from the Student Activities Office," Johnson said.
"The board must certify .the applicant's eligibility in regard
to activity points before scholastic eligibility is checked by
the registrar.
The board will not permit any
one to file for an office which
would overpoint him.
Men who are overpointed must
eliminate the excess points before
the beginning of the second
semester, Monday, Feb. 2, the
board announcement stated. After
that time anyone becoming over
pointed will be required to resign
from the last activity or office
acquired.
A file system is being set up
by the board to list each man's
activities.
Men's organized houses will be
asked to send a list to the board
of all members holding office or
otherwise participating in cam
pus activities. Unaffiliated men in
activities will be required to
register, their points with the
board the week following Christ
mas vacation. A booth will be set
up in the Union for this pur
pose. "The point system is primarily
tp prevent an individual becom
ing overloaded with activities or
accumulating too many prestige
offices," Johnson explained.
"Points are not a reward,"
Johnson said, "they are given not
in recognition of achievement or
honors attained but to spread the
work and glory of campus ac
tivities around."
"The new ratings," he said,
"were made to simplify the sys
tem. Point values were assigned
from one to four upon recom
mendation of the heads of the
organizations. Since the old scale
ran up to five it was necessary
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English Dept.
Ol
)ens Student
Poetry Contest
Announcement of a poetry con
test open to students of the Uni
versity was made Wednesday by
the department of English. First
prize is $35, second prize is $15.
Walter Kidd, Oliver Evans and
Bernice Slote of the English de
partment are sponsors of the
contest. Poems must be original
and can not have been published,
in whole or in part. Entries must
be submitted not later than 5
p. m.. April 15. 1943 to the Eng
lish office, 103 Andrews Hall.
The complete rules:
1. This contest is open to un
dergraduate and graduate stu
dents regularly enrolled for at
least twelve hours of study in
the University of Nebraska.
2. The poem or group of
poems submitted may be ex
pressed in any form and on any
subject but may not exceed 200
lines.
3. Each entry must be original
and must not have ben published
in whole or in part.
4. Each entry must be dis
tinctly typed, double-spaced, on
only one side of the sheet, 8x11
inches.
5. Thre copies of each entry,
two copies of which may be car
bon, must be spbmitted not later
than 5 p. m.. April 15. 1948, to
the English office, 103 Andrews
Hall.
6. The name of the contestant,
his address, and the title of each
poem submitted shall be en
closed in a sealed envelope ad
dressed to Poetry Contest, but no
name shall appear on any manu
script. 7. Neither the judges nor the
donors of the prizes shall be held
responsible for the loss of or
damage to any manuscript sub
mitted in this contest.
8. If, In the opinion of the
judges, no entry qualifies for the
first prize andor the second
prize, either or both awards will
be withheld.
9. The decisions of the judges
shal be final unless there should
be a tie. In case of a tie. the
manuscripts concerned will be
ranked by three other judges.
Pevosedl
Board Names
Engineer Week
Co-Chairmen
Names of the co-chairman for
the '48 Engineers' Week were re
leased Wednesday by the Engi
neers Executive Board.
Max H. Bailey, mechanical en
gineering senior, and Richard M.
Green, chemical engineering sen
ior, have been appointed to the
coordinate the activities of the six
engineering departments in prep
aration for Engineers' Week.
Engineers' Week is the out
standing activity of the year for
Engineers, and has been tenta
tively scheduled for Friday,
April 30 and Saturday, May 1,
May Day. Exact time of the Week
will be fixed later pending action
of the University Senate tonight
on adopting an all-university
Week, incorporating the various
college weeks which have always
been held separately. Under the
proposed all-university week, En
gineers' Week, Farmers Fair, Ivy
Day and Pharmacy Open House
would be correlated with each
other.
Engineer Week
Engineers' Week will include
an Open House of exhibits; En
gineers Field Day which consists
of competitive athletic events be
tween the six engineering socie
ties; the Engineering convocation;
and the Engineer banquet.
Jobs of co-chairmen Bailey and'
Green will include co-ordinating
activities of the six engineering
societies, A.S.M.E., A.I.C.E., A.S.
C.E., A.I.E.E., the Agricultural En
gineering Society and the Archi
tectural Engineering Society.
Student Group
Presents NSA
To Chancellor
Five members of the National
Student Association committee,
sponsored by the Student Coun
cil, met with Chancellor R. G.
Gustavson yesterday to present
to him the proposed organiza
tion and plans of the NSA.
The five members, who were
delegates to the Regional meet
ing in Kansas City, are Robert
Coonley, B. J. Holcomb, Stanley
Johnson, Norm Leger and Har
riet Quinn.
Two biggest items to be dis
cussed were the financial obli
gations the university would
have to meet as a member of
NSA and student body interest
in the organization in getting the
NSA national and regional con
stitutions ratified and an active
group concerned with NSA ac
tivities. Chancellor Gustavson, point
ing out the great difference be
tween European and Far East
students and students in the
U. S. in the part they play in
influencing the national policies,
favored the expression of student
opinion and commented that
"this is the age of pressure
groups."
NSA, when ratified by three
fourths of the schools that were
represented at the Madison con
ference last summer, will serve
as a means for expressing na
tional student opinion.
Condition of Prof. T. Ilullock
Ileported 'lletter' Iiy Hospital
Lincoln General hospital re
ported last night that the condi
tion of Professor T. T. Bullock
is "better." Bullock is a profes
sor of economics and business
law.
His hospitalization was due to a
fall he suffered Monday In the
Social Sciences building.