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rensem NcaGiied o wm Leader LfU s UN Vol. 49 No. 83 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Wednesday, February 9, 1949 Ag Y Presidents Announce Installation of New Cabinet Ag YM and YW cabinet mem bers who were installed on Feb. 7 at Warren Methodist church have boon annunoced by LaVerna Acker, YW president, and Stan Lambert, YM president. Newly elected YW officers are Miss Acker, president; Irene Wel lensiek, vice-president; Alice Bos well, district representative; Polly Ludlow, secretary, and Dorothy Bowman, treasurer. HEADING THE YM are Lam bert, president; Bob Epp, vice president; Warren Monson, district representative; Merwyn French, secretary, and Tom Lambert, treasurer. Members of the YW cabinet are: Mary Travis, social chairman; Evelyn Young, Tuesday evening worship; Irene Wellensiek, Thurs day morning worship; Joan Sku cius, music; Charlene Eggert, con ference co-op; Annette Stopkotte, membership; Maxine Radin, world service; Joan Raun, literature; Marilyn Nielson, Bible study; Donna Rudisil; know your com munity; Alice Anderson, social problems of agriculture; Marilyn Boettger, social service; Mary Frances Johnson and Maurine Steyer, religious welfare council; Norma Long and Mary Alice Marshall, freshman commissions; Muriel Nelson, program; Phyllis Goisman, publicty; Ruth Fischer and Marilyn Doolittle, Magnet correspondent. YM CABINET MEMBERS in- Scven Soloists, Ensemble Hold Music Recital Seven soloists and a brass en semble will be featured in the School of Fine Arts recital at 4 p. m. Wednesday in the Social Sciences auditorium. Participants will bo Jeanette Dolezal, pianist; Marjorie S. Farmer, vocalist; William Wurtz, flutist; Carolyn Waters, pianist; Marlin Killion, trumpeter; Jean ette Hause, violinist: Jeanne Wood, vocalist. Ensemble mem bers are Eugene Stoll and Dean Bushnell, trumpets: Jack Snider, French horn and Charles Curtiss, baritone horn. BETTY DEBOEfl, Patricia Gerhold, Jean Leisy, Dorothy Taylor and Dorothy Schneider will be accompanists. Concert Ktudr. f mmor D'hnnzi Miss loi n! Nocturne Curran Mrs. Farmcr Muj. TeBer Concerio in C Majir-Ani-so Quant? Mr. Vurt7-Miss OrrhnM Lnt dans Jh filame Peliu.ssy Mi.ss Water Fantasia 1i Concert Boeculnri Mr. Killion-Miss Leis Danse Espannole-' La ia Krcve" dFa!la-Kreibler Miss Hause-Miss Taylor Serenade FtrausK Miss Wood-Viss St'hneider Quartet No. 5. Ktrst Movement Ramsoe Ktt-semMe Penny Carnival to Mil M U Campus Saturday Gay nineties shows, photograph shops, penny and ring tossing games, barkers and hot dog stands will all contribute to the gay spirit ol Penny Carnival Sat urday afternoon. The annual event sponsored by Coed Counselors will be held Feb. 12 Irom 2 to 4:30 p. rn. at Grant Memorial. Tickets are now on sale for 25 cents from any Coed Counselor or may be obtained at the door. Everyone who attends must have a ticket. NINETEEN organized groups and sororities have entered en tertainment booths. First, second and third prizes will be awarded on the basis of continuity of theme, originality and artistic talent. Last year Alpha Omicron Pi received the first place trophy, while Alpha Chi Omega and Towne Club won second and third stalled include: Don Wiles, depu tation; Virgil Ganzel, membership; Rex Messerschmidt, social prob lems in agriculture; Howard Tem ple, Bible study; Darrell May, know your community; Rex Crom, Mountaineer editor; Homer Fish wood, Tuesday evening worship; George Wagner, Thursday morn ing worship: Ken Mohling, social chairman; Dale Flowerday, pub licity; Owen Brainnrd, "N" Book; Jerry Shafer, freshman commis sion; Neal Baxter, music; Harold German, athletics; Bob Craft, historian. Colorado Installs New Test System Following more than a year of experimentation and close inspec tion of the honor system of study ing, testing and theme writing, 117 of Colorado college's 213 courses will participate in the honor sys tem next semester. A new era in academic proced ure and efficiency was predicted under the system by President William H. Gill. European. Mexican Tours Offered at Budget Prices European and Mexican tours are available to students, teachers and social workers, through the Laborde Travel Service. Two trips are being offered, a tour to Europe and to Latin America. They are the first steps in a travel program sponsored by the Cooperative Bureau for Teachers, envisaging travel as an essential part of education. The objective is to reduce fees, through group planning, to a cost far be low thatof independent travel. UNDER THE PLAN a tour to Europe and return with four weeks in Switzerland on an all inclusive travel and recreational trip, may be made for $520. The trip may be made by air from Bradley Air Field, Conn., direct to Geneva on 55 passenger Transoceanic DC-4's. Reconverted troop carriers, accommodating about 12 to a cabin, will carry Wayne Considers Improved Study Three-week course designed to help students in the study of spe cilic subjects are being offered this year for the first time at De troit's Wayne university. The courses have grown out of inter est by the students in how to best study foreign languages, mathe matics and other specificfsubjects. General instruction in reading and study efficiency have been offered for several years and have been expanded thru student de mand. prizes respectively. Student vot ing and faculty judging deter mines the winning booths. Ice cream, hot dogs, cokes and other refreshments will be avail able at the carnival. Jan Coch ran and Dorothy Borgens, Coed Counselor board members, are in charge of the event. Foltz Directs 250 Prep Vocalists Prof. David Foltz, of the Uni versity School of Fine Arts, was guest conductor and critic at a vocal clinic in Fairbury on Feb. 3. Approximately 250 high school musicians from Endicott, Steele City, Hebron, Nelson, Deshler, Be atrice and Fairbury took part. During the morning and afternoon group rehearsals were held and in the evening a massed concert was presented. Gratis to Hold Religion Forum "The Place of Religion in Col lege" will be the theme of a forum discussion to be held Fri day evening in Room 316 of the Union. The forum will be sponsored by members of the Graduate club, with Hal Scheidt as mod erator. Speakers in the discus sion will be: Dr. Clarence E. Mc Neill, professor of economics; the Rev. Rex Knowles, Presbyterian Student House pastor and Bill Reuter, Y.M.C.A. student presi dent. In planning the forum, Scheidt said, the Graduate club hoped to provide discussion on a sub ject "too long ignored." "We hope to bring the opinions of a faculty member, minister and student before our members to perhaps find some answers to this vital phase of a college student's life." The forum will be open to any university student or faculty member interested in participat ing in the discussion. It will be gin at 7:30 p. m. Friday. students by sea. Sailing will start in July and a definite schedule wfll be announced in February. Reservations must be made early since space in boats and planes is limited. INDIVIDUALS must make their own passport and visa arrange ments. A $50 deposit is required on all reservations. Payments may be made in two installments, on April 1 and May 1. Further information may be ob tained from Laborde Travel Serv ice, Inc. 1776 Broadway, New York, 19. New York. Phi U Begins Picture Rental Set Toclt vice Any student may get a print of a famous picture today for 25 cents at the Home Economics building. Although it sounds like a bar gain day sale, this actually is the first day of th eart loaning serv ice sponsored by Phi Upsilon Omicron, home economics hon orary society. Many prints of art works are available for students to borrow which would fit into any room. Students may borrow pictures for a period of a semester hr more for 25 cents a semester. The pur pose of the loaning service is to enable students to enjoy and dec orate their rooms with well known and recognized works of art. This is the second time the pictures have been loaned out. The project was started last se mester and since then many prints have been added to the col lection. A booth will be situated in the Home Economics building today and tomorrow where pictures may be rented. The collection which is available may be seen in room 115 or in the first floor hall. Robinson Gels Nat'l SAM Award For being the senior with the highest scholastic average in the national fraternity of Sigma Al pha Mu, Ben Robinson has been awarded the Hyman I. Jacobsen Award. A pre-med student, Robinson was told of his honor at the fra ternity convention in Los An geles, Dec. 29 to 31. Robinson is secretary of the Nebraska chapter of the frater nity, publicity chairman of Nu-Meds and a member of Theta Nu. Rosenthal to Help Lead Conference Discussions Ted Sorensen, Law college sophomore, has been named as the moderator for the model UNESCO conference on the campus Feb. 16-18. He will be assisted by Dr. Albert Rosenthal, head of the new school of international relations at the University ot Denver. Sorensen is a member of the University debate squad, past president of the Y.M.C.A. and F.E.P.C. chairman of the Social Action committee of Lincoln. He was a candidate for a Rhodes scholarship. Assisting Sorensen to lead the conference like an international meeting, Rosenthal will use his experience in UNESCO and international relations. He acted as the government liaison be tween the United States, State department and UNESCO. The speakers for the three-day student conference have already been named. They include Archi bald MacLeish, statesman and author: Constance Roach, educa tion director of the U. S. com mission; and Walter Laves, for mer assistant director general of UNESCO. Chancellor Gustavson. a U. S. delegate to UNESCO, will also address students. An inter national pageant has also been planned for the conference. Summer Study Offered at Oslo The University of Oslo. Nor way, will again hold a summer session from June 27 to Aug. 6, for American and Canadian stu dents who have completed their sophomore year. The university will provide a staff of lecturers and will guar antee the educational standards of the courses. All classes will be conducted in English, and an American dean ol students will be included on the administrative staff. The following courses will be offered in sciences: flora and vegetation, arctic vitamin prob lems and oceanography. The humanties courses will con sist of: the dawn of Norwegian literature, recent Norwegian lit erature, government and political institutions, social problems and public health, contemporary Nor- vjr v .,,.. Ted Sorensen. State Legislature Considers Bills Pertaining to University Two of the proposed bills per taining to the University are being considered by the Nebraska state legislature. Legislative bill 204 relating to the University hospital has been referred to the Miscellaneous Ap propriations and Claims commit tee and is still in committee. The proposed bill provides for the cost of care and treatment of indigent and needy patients treat ed at the University hospital. IT ALSO provides for certify ing to the auditor of public ac counts amounts due from coun ties charged with such costs and for certifying amounts due to the county clerk of each county hav ing such patients. The bill concerns . a levy to be known as the University Hos Editorial IncitesDebate The Nebraska Book Store has made arrangements to meet with Cub Clem, managing editor of The Daily Nebraskan at 9 a. m. A'ednesday. Clem wrote an editorial satire entitled "The Same Old Story" in the Sunday, Feb. 6, Daily Ne braskan concerning University students' problems in purchasing books. The Nebraska Book Store called Clem over the telephone asking him to meet with a representative of the store. Clem talked with this official this morning. Full details will be learned later. ISA to Ballot For Sweetheart At Bum's Ball A Nebraska Independent Sweetheart, to be presented at a spring dance and entered in a na tional contest, will be chosen from the candidates of organized houses or clubs. Primary ballot ing will take place at the Bum's Ball, Feb. 18, according to Cecil Middleton, president of ISA. Organized houses or clubs are invited to submit two to four con testants, any independent girl be ing eligible. Names of candidates are to be turned in at the ISA mailbox in the basement of the Union. FROM THE iinalists chosen at the Bum's Ball, the winner will be chostn by a committee of prominent Lincoln businessmen. The winner will be presented at a spring dance and her photograph will be sent to the ISA national headquarters. A National Inde pendent Sweetheart will then be chosen at the National ISA con vention at Urbana, 111., April 21 to 23. The Bum's Ball ,to be held Feb. 18 at 9 p. m. in the Ag Union, is sponsored by the ISA. Tickets are 60 cents per person or $1.20 per couple and may be pur chased from any ISA council member. Prizes will be given for the "best-dressed bum of '49." wegian politics, social problems pertaining to women and children in Norway, foreign policy of Nor way, Norway and the Marshall Plan and the industrial develop ment of Norway. In addition to these specialized courses, there will be general courses in hu manities and sciences. Anyone interested in the Slim mer session at the University of Oslo should address inquiries to Oslo Summer School Admissions office, St. Oiaf college, Northfield, Minn. pital Fund levy, the money rai.-cd by such levy being used for the operation and maintenance of the University hospital when, appro priated by the legislature. LEGISLATIVE bill 177 has been heard by the Budget com mittee and is now on the legis lature's general file. This bill proposes the amendment of sec tion 85-125, Revised Statutes of Nebraska, 1943, to prescribe the source and use of the University Cash Fund. It determines what funds shall be deposited with the state treasurer and provides for the retention of the prescribed funds. Two other bills, legislative bills 282 and 285, relate to University cash fund3 and are scheduled to be considered Feb. 14. Rag