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EDITORIAL
Editor Norm Leger
Managing Editors
Cub Clein, Frits Simpson
News Editors
Louise McDIll. Busie Reed, M. J. Melick,
Gens Berg, Bruce Kennedy
Ag News Editor Myron Qustafaon
Sports Editor Bob Phelpa
"But Not Goodbye" to Open
On Wesleyan Stage Friday
It's eerie. It's supernatural. It's
hilarious. It's the University
Theatre's "But Not Goodbye."
Rolling along into the final
stages of rehearsal, the former
Broadway comedy will play at 8
p. m. Friday and Saturday on
the Plainsman Theatre stage at
Nebraska Wesleyan. Tickets will
be sold at the door before each
performance.
Basically, the comedy deals
with Sam Griggs, (played by Ed
Weisenreder) a jovial head of a
happy family, who thinks he has
made a bad investment as his
last deed. He dies at the end of
the first act, leaving his family
bankrupt. This means that his
son (Jim Fafeita) can't study
ship-building in England and that
his daughter (Ann Proper) can't
get married as she must stay
home and support her widowed
mother (Mary Sigler).
THINGS LOOK black and the
family is resigned to its fate when
Sam Griggs' partner, Tom Carter
(Mike Shannahan), comes through
with a profitable investment that
the two partners had made years
before. Carter, however, forgets
friendship and decides to keep the
profits all for himself.
The rest of the play deals with
the attempts of Sam Griggs, in
ghost form, together with his de
ceased father Benjamin Griggs,
(Clare Denton) also in ghost
form, to haunt Tom Carter into
paying the family its rightful
share.
THE PLAY was made into a
movie a few years back, starring
Frank Morgan. The title was
changed to "The Cockeyed Mir
acle." The play was originally
performed at the 48th Street
Theatre in New York City in
1944.
The showing at Nebraska Wes
leyan has necessitated moving
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Feature Editor Emily Heiiu
Society Editor Pat Nordin
Photographer Bill Poe
Faculty Advisor Bill Hice
Night News Editor Cene Berg
BUSINESS
Business Manager Irv Chrsen
Assistant Business Managers
Merle Stalder, Bob Axteil, Keith O'Bannoa
Night News Editor Susie Reed
scenery and lighting equipment
to the Wesleyan campus. Several
spotlights, together with the new
complex University Theatre
switchboard will have a new
home for two nights. The Plains
man Theatre seats over 500 peo
ple, the auditorium is designed to
provide maximum vision from all
angles.
Students May
Enter $5,000
Music Contest
v . , ; e Ann
i-iincoin competition in a $ j,uuu j
national music scholarship con
test will be held at Nebraska Wes
leyan University at 1:30 p. m.,
March 19.
This announcement came from
J. Dayton Smith, University of
Nebraska voice instructor and
state contest chairman.
Applications to enter the Lin
coln contest must be made with
Prof. Leonard Paulson at Ne
braska Wesleyan by Tuesday,
March 15.
Winners of the Lincoln contest
will compete with other regional
winners from over the state at
finals to be held on the university
campus in April. State winners
will compete in the national fi
nals in Chicago for the scholar
ships which include a $1,000 first
prize, four second prizes of $500
each, good at any school of mu
sic, and ten third place awards of
$200 each.
Entries must be students of
piano, voice or violin, be high
school graduates, must have stud
ied music two years. The con
test is sponsored by Music News,
a magazine.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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BY BRUCE KENNEDY.
JOHN L. LEWIS called another
two-week shutdown of all the
coal mines east of the Mississippi.
In protest of the nomination of
Dr. James Boyd as director of the
United States Bureau of Mines,
Lewis claims the strike will start
Monday. It will affect 400 thous
and soft and hard coal miners.
THE DEMOCRATS' attempt to
limit debate in the Senate was
overruled in the Senate Friday
night by a 46-41 vote. This de
cided victory for the Southerners
was a blow to the Truman admin
istration and its hope for speedy
passage of the civil rights pro
gram. The debate-limit was
brought up by Vice-President
Barkley in an effort to stop a
Dixie filibuster.
A MASS of cold air temporarily
halted the flood prospects as
lower temperatures allowed riv
ers and streams to tarry off their
overflow. However, warmer
weather is forecast for Sunday
and the following week. This
cold wave might not be too much
help.
TRUMAN'S request for uni
versal military training legisla
tion was shelved for the present
session of Congress. An investi
gation of the costs of the mili
tary draft law might reduce the
rmy strength. Funds for the
Army only provide for 667,000
men and the present strength is
709,000.
NU
Bulletin Board
MONDAY.
Ae Country Dancers meeting, 6
p. m., 305 Ag hall.
Biff Glassford interview, 4:15
p. m., KOLN, on Radio depart
ment's "Meet the Professor."'
From 4 to 4:15 p. m. and from
4:30 to 5:30 NU radio will be
broadcast over KFAB-FM, begin
ning today.
Kernels dinner meeting, formal
initiation, Ellen Smith hall.
TUESDAY
Gamma Alpha Chi organiza
tional meeting.
Music Sororities
Reveal Pledges
Mu Phi Epsilon and Sigma Al
pha Iota, honorary music sorori
ties, have recently held formal
pledging services.
Tuesday the following girls
were formally pledged to Mu Phi:
Kathryn Barnes, Peggy Bayer,
Shirley Brisco, Donna Doran, Jo
Ann Hansen, Carol Johnson,
Kathryn Newhouse and Margaret
Thomas.
New pledges of SAI were given
their pins at a Thursday evening
service. They are Kathleen Ma
harry, Pamela Kinne, Janice Lil
jedahl, Alice Harms, Glario San
dels, Lorene Brown, Joanne Wal
ters and Carolyn Waters.
A third sorority. Delta Omicron,
will hold formal pledging serv
ices next week.
Union Calendar
Tuesday, March 15
11 a.m. Convocation, Louis Fis
cher, ballroom.
4 p. m. Siesta Film, main
lounge.
4:30 p.m. Coke Dance, ball
room. 7:30 p.m. Craft Shop, base
ment. Wednesday, March 16
7:30 p.m. Square Dancing,
ballroom.
Thursday, March 17
8 p.m. Fine Arts Trio, Love
Library Auditorium.
Friday, March 18
9 p.m. Dri-Nite-Club, ball
room. (Tickets available Union Office)
Sunday, March 20
5-6 p.m. Coffee Hour, main
lounge.
7:30 p.m. Movie "And Then
There Were None", ball
room. Classified
SMART, distinctively styled gabardine sport
shirts In red, green or hlaelt that button
diagonally with pearl buttons. Featuring
two large saddle poekets, 17.98. Buy one
today at AVfcHS t IX) THING, 1400 O.
Constitutional Assembly . . .
What course the campus political upheaval will take
should be known as soon as the Faculty Senate gives its
answers to the questions submitted by the judiciary com
mittee. Three of them are, "What specifically is the prob
lem addressed to the Student Council representation or
'the faction must go ?' Does the solution of having an open
party system satisfy your groups, representing as it should,
faculty opinion? If not, what solution do you offer?
The point has been raised that if the faculty feels that
the Council as it stands now is undemocratic, or, at least,
not representative, how can the faculty feel that the same
Council is fit to pass upon what type of student government
would be representative of the entire student body.
If this point has any validity, then it would follow that
the solution to the problem must come from the student
body and not just from the Student Council.
The means to this kind of solution would be in having
a constitutional convention to consider revision of the con
stitutiony With delegates representing all segments of the
student 'population, the convention should be considered
representative enough of the students to reach a solution
which would be one of the student body and not just of the
Council.
The existing Council would establish some method of
accrediting delegates to such a conference i. e., seating
each person who can present a petition for seating signed
by, say, fifty other students. Once the convention has been
duly accredited and soated under Council supervision, it
should proceed to name its own committees and to work in
a democratic manner.
Such a conference would focus students' attention on
the problems of student government. Furthermore, the
body which will draft the constitution would be as repre
sentative as possible, since any interested parties would
have the opportunity to sign petitions for a delegate. There
is opportunity for both Greek and independent representa
tion in a number that would reveal the interest shown by
each group in student government.
There is another phase to the proposal. After the new
constitution or revisions to the present one have been
drafted, any group which is dissatisfied with the document
would be allowed to present a minority report. Then the
proposed constitution of the convention and any minority
supported documents would be presented to the entire stu
dent body for approval. A majority vote should determine
ratification.
If, for example, the independent students were in a
majority in the assembly and reported a constitution un
acceptable to the Greek representatives, the Greeks could
present a minority document. If in the general election the
independents failed to turn out in sufficient numbers to
pass the majority report, there could be no dissatisfaction
on the part of the independents if their proposed form of
student government goes unsupported because of their lack
of interest.
A constitutional convention called by the Student Coun
cil should prove both to the faculty and to students as a
whole that the Council is sincerely attempting to reach a
QAintinn tn t.hp nroblem in the most feasible, democratic
ajvrM vwa w r
manner. Should the faculty
. . a .
the Council will nave cleared useii 01 criticism Dy aavocai
ine a svstem of open parties as the most practical, working
solution to the problem.
Art Department
Plans Five Films
Presenting motion pictures as
a medium of art is the project
uf a series of five movies to be
shown by the University Art
department. The pictures will by
shown in Love library Friday,
March 18.
These pictures are in keeping
with the desire of the art de
partment to bring to the Univer
sity the latest developments in
the art world in any form," Prof.
D. W. Laging, chairman of the
Art department said.
The five motion pictures in
volve no surealistic effort, Pro
fessor Laging commented. The
pictures, produced by Maya
deren, are; "Meshes of the Aft
ernoon," "At Land," "Study in
Choreography for Camera," and
"Ritual in Transfigured Time."
"These pictures are not for
entertainment, but serious art
study," Prof. Laging, who will
lecture at the presentation,
added.
Students Parly
Elects Chairman
Carl Froendt was elected tem
porary chairman of the Students
Party Thursday evening at an
organizational meeting held in
the Union.
Approximately 40 delegates at
tending the initial meeting heard
Froendt and Ben Wall, organizers
of the party, explain the pur
poses and constitution of the
party.
Other temporary officers elect
ed were Morton Marcus, vice
chairman; Ben Wall, campaign
manager; Bev Sievers. secretary;
Bertram Cooke, treasurer.
Sunday, March 13, 1949
disapprove of such a move, then
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Two Ag Youths
To .Represent
NU in Project
Two Ag college students have
been named as Nebraska nomi
nees for the international farm
youth exchange project. They are
Maurine Steyer and Duane Sel
lin. Of the fifty youths selected
from the United States to visit
European countries next summer,
one is expected to be a Nebras
kan. Fifty youths from European
countries will also visit Amer
ican farm homes.
Miss Steyer, sophomore, has
won many state and -"national
awards in 4-II work. She is pres
ident of the Fillmore county 4-II
committee and is active as a 4-H
club leader.
Sellin, a 4-II clubber for nine
years, has received the degree of
American Farmer of the Future
Farmers of America. He is a jun
ior in the university.
Helen Ochsner, Ag colle'ge sen
ior, was one of 17 students who
studied European rural life under
the exchange project last sum
mer. She spent most of her time
with a farm family in Sweden,
also briefly touring other Euro
pean countries.
Thcta Nu Initiates
6 New Members
Six outstanding pre-med stu
dents have been initiated into
Theta Nu, pre-med honorary.
They are Russell P. Carter,
Granville E. Coggs, Fred F. Pau
stian, James P. Ramsaran, Ken
neth Sato and Jerold F. Stein-hour.