Students Urged to Take Action
On V. ofN. Budget Legislation
There is no place like Nebraska!
How true, brother, how true. While surrounding states
this year have seen fit to increase the budgets of their tax
supported colleges, what does Nebraska do? It prepares to
give the University of Nebraska its worst financial shelack
ing since 1933.
Last week the budget committee of the legislature com
pleted work on the biennial appropriations bill which allots
funds to state agencies.
In common parlance, the budget committee gave the
University the old heave-ho, the bum's rush, the knife in
the back. We can't speak for others, but to us this was a
disgusting shock. We understood from press accounts that
(1) the Governor had already recommended cutting the
University's tax fund request from $10,000,000 to $7,800,
000; (2) that aside from the recommended slash, the Gov
ernor's budget figures carried a hidden cut of an additional
$1,200,000. As we understood it, everybody was looking to
the budget committee to straighten things out. Instead of
straightening things out, the budget committee made mat
ters worse by proposing that a third slash of $400,000 be
added to those already recommended by the Governor.
What does all this mean? It means that the budget
committee is asking the University to get along during the
next two years on less money for operations than it has had
during the current two years. To us, that just doesn't make
sense. It is true that farm price levels have dropped since
the first of the year, but it is also true that University
operating expenses have not.
What does all this mean to you and me? It means that
we're getting short-changed, on our education. Right now
the University doesn't have the money to employ the in
structors it really needs. As a result, classes are over
crowded, and with the budget set as it is, there will be no
relief. And we're not kidding when we say that with a
budget like the one that is being proposed, some of our
more promising instructors will go someplace else. We
won't like to see them leave, but that's not the point. The
point is, what about us? We're the ones for whom this
University is run. We're the ones who will be thrown into
competition with the graduates from Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming, and. yet, even the Dakotas who
this year have seen fit to build up, not tear down their
universities.
Nebraska students want a fair shake and we're not
getting it. We won't get it from this legislature unless
somebody gets on the ball, to coin a phrase.
Normally, we don't like to see guys get their arms
twisted. But this is not normal. This is the legislative year
of 1949 in Nebraska, of which their is no place like. What
we'd like to see is some steam from the University's 10,000
students the ones who are the real victims of this politi
cal fiasco.
How to put on the steam, that's the question. A march
on the Capitol would be dismissed by senators as spring
time exuberance of what they would call "immature judg-
ment. But word from the home tolks mat would De aa
ferent. That would be an unmistakable, serious voice.
The thing to do is to write home NOW in a week it
will be too late. WRITE RIGHT NOW and lay this thing
out cold. Tell the home folks to contact these Nebraska
senators of ours and straighten them out. Unless somebody
does, believe me, there will, indeed, be no place like Nebraska.
Cornell Probation
Problem Probed
The controversial probation sys
tem is being reviewed by a facul
ty commitee at Cornell College.
The general trend of thought
among faculty members on that
campus regarding, the problem of
probration seems to favor the
putting of probation in the hands
Kosmet Klub Huskies . . .
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HELPING TO HOLD up the Prince's pawnts i nthe Kosmet Klub
musical, "Let's Change the Subject," are these six stalwarts of the
gridiron. Not enrolled in any nursing school, Ihe gridiron graduates
do a dapper diaper job. Lined up in teh usual order are Charlie Too-
good, Ardie Means, Jerry Solomon, Moon Mullins, Jim Godfrey, and
Bob Schneider. Tickets for the show are being sold by Kosmet Klub
workers for 75 cents and at the box office before each show. "Let's
Change the Subject" will be presented Tuesday at the Nebraska
Theatre and Wednesday at the Lincoln high school auditorium. Fun
will start at 8 p. m.
of the probationers' advisors. This
would make academic probations
strictly a matter between the in
dividual student and his advisor.
The problem is being considered
with two main points in mind: (1)
what that grade average should be
to stay off probation, and (2) the
penalties attached to probation
which involve loss of scholarship,
financial aid, employment and the
opportunity to engage in extra
curricular college activities.
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B49 Honors Convoeftlosi
Junior Division
Appointments End
Students in the Junior Division
are required to finish pre-regis-tration
conferences with their ad
visers before May 4th.
Appoints with advisers, if not
already made, must be made at
once. Students are requested to
arrange now for appointments
with advisers, and tofbe sure to
report promptly at the hour set.
Delay in making or in keeping
appointments is likely to involve
delay in meeting with the as
signment committee.
NU Yell King
Applications
Due Friday
Pep-minded upperclassmen will
have a chance to compete for the
ttile of 1949-'50 Yell King this
week.
Any male student who will be
enrolled as a
junior or sen
ior for the
ctming aca
demic year
and who meets
the scholastic
r e q uirements
for participat
(
ing in extra
curricular ac
tivities may be
considered, ac
cording to Ir
win Chesen,
lJ
Chesen
member of a two-man commit
tee of the Innocents Society which
will facilitate the election of the
new Yell King.
Granted the power by the Stu
dent Council last fall, the Inno
cents Society will elect the new
King and, at a later date, super
vise the selection of the new yell
squad.
Candidates for Yell King will
enter the competition by sub
mitting letters to the Yell King
committee of Innocents. The let
ters should contain the candi
date's qualifications and his ideas
for management of the yell squad
and the student cheering section.
These letters must be sent to the
committee, in care of the Inno
cents Society, Student Union. The
deadline is Friday, April 29.
The new King will be named
before May 9, according 1o Che
sen. and the new cheering squad
will be selected after that date.
Lalst year the committee which
selected the new cheerleaders was
comprised of the presidents of
Mortar Board, Innocents Society,
Tassels and Corn Cobs and the
Yell King.
State Feeders
Convene at Ag
The 37th annual Feeders Day
was held Friday in the Agri
cultural College Union.
This convention, to which all
farmers, ranchers, and their
wives were invited, was spon
sored by the University of Ne
braska Animal Husbandry De
partment together with the Ne
braska Live Stock Breeders and
Feeders Association,
The men's meetings dealt with
problems of livestock feeding as
well as telling of the results of
experiments and research made
with livestock feeds and feeding
during the past year.
The women's meetings were
centered around the home in the
most part, although world and
literary problems were also discussed-Following
adjournment, the Ne
braska Live Stock Breeders and
Feeders Association held their
annual meeting to elect officers.
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LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
NU to Honor 1500 Students
For High Grades Tuesday
Charles S. Johnson, outstanding American educator,
will address the annual Honors Convocation to be held at
10:15 a.m. Tuesday at the Coliseum.
Over 1,500 students from all parts of the state will be
honored for high scholarship in their studies. Between
8,000 and 10,000 parents, friends and interested citizens are
expected to attend the event, the only all-University pro
gram of recognition for excellence in scholarship.
Rabbi Samuel H. Baron of
South Street Temple, Lincoln,
will give the invocation.
Dr. Johnson, president of Fisk
University Nashville, Tenn.,
since 1946, holds honorary de
grees from four universities in
cluding Virginia Union, Howard,
Columbia and Harvard.
In 1921 he became research di
rector of the National Urban
League and in 1928 joined the
Fisk University faculty. In 1930
he was awarded the William E.
Harmon medal for distinguished
-achievement among Negroes in
the field of science.
OTHER HONORARY positions
include membership on a U.S.
commisison to reorganize educa
tion in Japan in 1945; UNESCO
conference delegate at Paris and
Mexico City; executive commit
tee man on U.S. national commis
sion of UNESCO; delegate to the
World Council of Churches in
Holland (1948) and many other
organizations dealing with racial
problems.
He is. the author of several
books dealing with race, relations
and southern social economy.
All classes wil be dismissed
from 10 to 12 a. m. Tuesday for
the convocation.
Students Form
International
Affairs Council
Nebraska University Council
for World Affairs.
New name. New organization.
NUCWA will hold its first mass
meeting Wednesday, April 27, at
3 p. m. in Parlors XYZ of the
Union. Dorothy B. Robbins, act
ing director of education work of
the American Association for the
United Nations, will be on cam
pus to speak at the opening meet
ing of NUCWA.
The new United Nations or
ganization, under the direction of
Claes Uggla has been setting up
a program of activities during the
past months. Originally known as
the Collegiate Council of the
United Nations, the name of the
organization was changed to
avoid confusion with CCUNR,
Citizens Committee for United
Nations Reform.
The mass meeting will open in
formally, and coffee will be
served. Following Miss Robins'
talk, Uggla will present a general
picture of the organization. Stu
dents will then hear the depart
ment chairmen discuss the activi
ties of their committees.
THE TOPIC of Miss Rot ins'
talk will be the "United Nations'
Role in Post-War Europe."
The AAUN college program ad
visor, after a summer of study in
Europe, is now making her sec
ond tour of midwest colleges. Liv
ing among students in England,
France and Switzerland and
working with them at confger
ences in Geneva and Paris, Miss
Robins learned what they think
about international affairs and
about their interest in increased
contact with American university
life.
Miss Robins is now developing
plans with US student leaders for
increased American-foreign stu
dent contact as a practical means
of furthering the aims of the UN
charter.
Sunday, April 24, 1949
Appointment
Cards Ready
For Seniors
Appointment cards for the fall
term registration will be avail
able to seniors Monday accord
ing to Dr. Floyd Hoover, assist
ant registrar. Students may get
their cards at Temporary B.
The schedule for the rest of
the week is as follows:
Juniors A thru L, Tuesday.
Juniors M thru Z, Wednesday.
Sophomores, Thursday.
Junior Division. Friday.
IX ORDER to register as a sen
ior, a student must have 89 credit
hours earned to date, not includ
ing hours being carried currently.
Juniors must have 53 to 88 hours.
Sophomores, more than 27 hours.
Students not included in these
categories will register in the
Junior. Division,
Dr. Hoover stressed the fact
that it is important for students
to get appointment cards on the
days listed above for their
classes. That is, seniors must get
cards on Monday.
The cards not only include fall
registration appointments but
also registration for the summer
session.
Experimental
Theatre to Give
Cobin Drama
University students will have
the opportunity to view a live
premier Monday evening when
the Experimental Theatre stages
"Due Unto Caesar" in the Tem
ple at 7 p.m
Written by Martin Cobin, pro
fessor of speech and drama at
the University of West Virginia,
the allegorical drama tells of a
man's struggle for peace.
The play is slated for another
performance before the members
of the Central States Speech con
vention at Omaha, April 29. In
giving a synopsis of the plot, di
rector Max Whittaker stated:
"The story mainly concerns
Christopher Mann, a professor of
literature, who suddenly finds
himself at the head of a people's
army in a struggle to overthrow
the enemy's occupation troops.
"Mann is a humanist, and, al
though he believes in the cause
he leads, is forced to resort to
violence which he abhors. He
carries on an effective guerrilla
campaign and closes his mind to
the death and destruction around
him until he is forced to make
a decision which reverses his des
tiny." In the leading role of Christo
pher Mann will be Gaylord Marr.
The rest of the cast is as follows;
Margaret Dutton as Mann's wife,
Maria; Ed Weisenreder as the
governor; Max Lee as Mark; Jack
MacDonald as Genghis; Michael
Shanahan as Goliath; Don Nichols
as the priest; Elaine Lamphear as
Grandma; Mary Lou Thompson
as Zaro.
Dennis Vernon as Eric Glen
nel, the prisoner; Abe Katz as
Grand Marshall of the Armies;
Doc Secord and John McEvoy as
generals.
