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Vol. 49 No. 135
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Thursday, April 28, 1949
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Freshman
Registration
Postponed
Junior Division students will
register beginning May 17, Dr.
Floyd Hoover, assistant registrar,
said today.
Though all other University stu
dents will begin their registration
for summer and fall courses May
4, the Junior Division registration
will be delayed to give advisers
more time to work with their ad
visees. Even students with more than
27 hours who are included in the
Junior Division will complete their
registration May 17.
THE ADDITIONAL time, ac
cording to Hoover, is designed to
give beginning students more con
sideration in making their choice
of study. It will provide oppor
tunities to discuss requirements,
interests, aptitudes, backgrounds
and goals of the individual stu
dent, he commented.
Because the first year or so of
University life is so important in
the formation of the student, spe
cial emphasis must be placed on
the Junior Division student and
his program, said Dr. Hoover. The
University recognizes this prob
lem and will seek to meet it by
allowing closer contact between
adviser and advisee, added the as
sistant registrar.
Dr. Joseph Alexis made the fol
lowing statement today to stu
dents registering for langage
studies next fall: "Attention is
called to the fact that students
may fulfill the 16 hour require
ment in foreign languages by tak
ing any language that is given five
times a week during the first year.
This means that any of the follow
ing languages may be chosen
Czech, French, German, Italian,
Russian, Spanish or Swedish."
CHORUS AND orchestra for
See REGISTRATION, page 4
Constitution
Convention
Opens May 3
The first session of the Con
stitutional Assembly will convene
at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3,
according to Bob Wallace, steer
ing committee chairman.
At that time delegates from 21
organizations will meet to consid
er revision of the Student Counr
cil constitution. Work on the re
vision will be done In committees
and at general sessions.
Eight organizations have regis
tered the delegates with the
steering committee. These organ
izations arc: BABW, Coed Coun
selors, Red Cross, Tassels, Corn
Cobs, Vets, Panhellenic and ISA.
The remaining organizations must
submit a list of delegates to the
steering committee before noon
on Friday or they will loose rep
resentation, Wallace said.
DELEGATES must also select
a committee preference for work
during the conference. A list of
committees which will be set up
was stated in letters sent to all
organizations to be represented.
Each group is asked to make a
placard for use at the assembly.
The card should be made from
heavy white paper, 4" by 12" and
should bear the name of the or
ganization. These cards must be
turned into The Daily Nebraskan
office by noon Monday.
The assembly will hold five
regular sessions in the Union ballroom.
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DON VETA as Snootful, the detective, adroitly slips a garter on
the shapely limb of Bill Mickle, Fatima. "Too young to know"
Harry Geissler watches in amazement. The three men are mem
bers of cost of the Kosmet Klub show, "Let's Change the Subject."
Diaper Plot
Down at KK
By Dede Meyer.
Men in all manner of costume
cluttered the Nebraska Theatre
stage Tuesday evening for the
opening of the annual spring
musical presented by Kosmet
Klubbers and cast.
The show, entitled "Let's
Change the Subject," was au
thored by Jack Solomon and di
rected by the local Circlet The
atre's George RandaL
A rather gossamer plot, splat
tered with hackneyed gags and
stilted music routines, wove
around a certain priceless safety
pin missing from the royal diaper
of England's infant prince. Faced
with national catastrophe over
the issue, Prime Minister Clement
Schmatlee, played by Frank
Wright, tossed the whole matter
over to Scotland Yard, one mem
ber of which was Cocker Spaniel
Snootful, a quick-change artist
whose psuedo-French accent
sounded almost authentic. "Mon
sieur" Snootful was adeptly
handled by Don Veta, who, it
must be admitted, did what he
could with lines the script pro
vided.
SNOOTFUL, incidentally the
show's lead, went off on the scent
of the stolen diaper pin, while a
chorus line of members of the
UN grid squad, dressed as nurse
maids, got chuckles from colleg
iennes in the audience. This rou
tine included the usual business
with the tennis balls.
Apparently an all-male cast re
quires impersonated harem danc
ing girls; hence our hero found
himself, in the second act, in the
palace of the Sultan of Arabia,
chasing the lost pin and one Fa
tima, a luscious oriental damsel,
played by William Mickle, over
potentate's divans and through
curtained seraglios.
AN UNEXPLAINED bul none
theless nonchalant Egyptian
mummy, Leonard Pachman, waa
dered from behind a drapery and
danced with Fred Golan, as Eig I
Falls
Show
Says Critic
Zombie, the Sultan's henchman,
and this particular routine raised
the show momentarily into the
realm of entertainment.
With the third act came event
ually a happy ending and a rather
unsubtle satire on Britain's foreign
See KK SHOW, pare 2
Goddess of Ag Will Reign
At Cotton Denim Dance
Are you tired of going to dances
cooped up in a suit or a tux? If
you are next Friday night is your
opportunity to take off your shoes
and howl. Put on your denim
overalls and have your gal wear
her cotton dress and attend the
Cotton and Denim Hop at the Ag
College.
This gala occasion, which Is the
official opening of the Farmer's
Fair, is going to be abounding with
activity. Jack Swanson and his or
chestra will furnish the music,
and dancing will begin at 9 p. m.
There will be the presentation of
the latest royalty of all, the God
dess of Agriculture and the
Whisker King. Of course the God
dess will pet her traditional kiss
from the Whisker King followed
by the first dance after the pre
sentation. THE GODDESS was chosen
from a group of eligible girls by
an all Ag College election, but her
Identity will remain a secret up
to the time of the presentation.
Contestants for Whisker King
will be judged at 5 p. m. Thursday
at the College Activities building
by Dr. T. 1L Goodding and Prof.
M. A. Alexander. The winner,
whose identity will also be kept
secret till Friday night, will be
selected on the basis of the best
growth since March 23.
Tickets for the Hop are on sale
all this week in the Ag Union for
12 per couple, including tax. They
may also be obtained from any
Farmers' Fair board member or at
interim Committee
Fv3ay Replace Council
Spring elections have been cancelled.
This was the substance of a report made to the Stu
dent Council by Dr. Curtis Elliott acting on a decree of
the faculty committee on student organizations and social
functions.
The committee met this afternoon and passed the rec
ommendation which was based on a report submitted by a
Publication Board
To Appoint Staff
Of Summer Rag
Interviews for staff positions on
the Daily Nebraskan's summer
edition will be held April 30, ac
cording to Dr. William Swindler,
chairman of the Publications
Board.
The positions involved are those
of editor and business manager.
The interviews will be held at 9
a.m. in the Faculty Lounge of the
Union.
Application forms must he filled
out by each candidate. These
forms are available in the School
of Journalism office, 310 Burnett.
They must be returned by 5 p.m.
on April 29.
Mil Phi Epsilon
Elects Officers
Elinor Hanson is the new pres
ident of Mu Phi Epsilon, national
music sorority.
Other officers named recently
are: JoAnn Hansen, vice-president;
Elaine Putensen, recording
secretary; Kathryn Barnes, cor
responding secretary; Kathryn
Newhouse, treasurer; Carol John
son, warden; Peggy Bayer, his
torian; and Donna Doran, chap
lin. Seven new members, the active
and alumni chapters and the pa
tronesses attended a supper after
formal initiation Sunday.
JACK SWANSON
... to Play at Ac
FOLLOWING the dance will
be an out-of-doors rally. At this
time the pits for Saturday eve
ning's barbecue will be lighted.
There will be singing and skits
during the rally. Barbecuing this
year will be done by Prof. W. J.
Loeffel, chairman of the animal
husbandry department.
Connie Crosby is chairman of
the dance, and Donna Rudisil and
Jack Baird are co-chairmen of the
barbecue.
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sub-committee headed by Elliott
and a report by Council president
Dale Ball.
The cancellation will affect only
the election of a new Student
Council. Other organizations
whose membership is selected at
spring elections will not be ef
fected. Elections for these organ
izations will be held May 12 as
scheduled previously.
IN SPEAKING of the suspen
sion Elliott said that the commit
tee considered the alternative of
holding elections on a party basis
but ruled it out believing that the
problem could be attacked more
easily on another basis.
Since this move cancels stu
dent government for next fall
temporary provisions will be made
to carry on the work of student
government. The president of the
Council will appoint a committee
to work with a sub-committee of
the faculty committee on student
organizations and social functions.
This joint committee will in turn
set up a basis on which an in
terim council to carry on stu
dent government can be estab
lished. THE PRIMARY function of the
interim council will be to work
out a basis for a permanent coun
cil. The temporary group will
probably be asked to consider the
question of representation and of
constitutional revision.
The suspension of Student
Council election comes as the
climax to a semester-long discus
sion of the status and effective
ness of the present Council.
The abolition of elections does
not necessarily mean that the fac
ulty is critical of the present
Council or its members, but is
done rather to" condemn the en
ire system of student govern
ment as it now exists, Elliott
pointed out.
NU Radi o lo Air
Railroad Comedy
For those fond of amusing tales,
both fantasti? and clever, the ra
dio section of the speech depart
ment is presenting Dan Peters
and Casey Jones in their "Authors
of the Ages" program tonight.
The story, to be aired at 9:30
p.m. over KFOR, tells of an in
dividualistic railroad engin e e r
who got "damned sick and tired
of riding into Marietta, Ohio on
the same route every day." As a
result of his boredom he manu
vered fos train onto the state
highway, and the complications
which ensue make an enjoyabla
tale.
Author of the fantasy is Wilbur
Sehramm, assistant to the presi
dent of Illinois State university
and director of research there.
Schr; -n was formerly director
of Jounralism at the University
of Iowa, and institgated the noted
Writers workshop at Iowa.
Corrections
Alan Brooks Amsden was in
advertently left out of the list
of honor seniors to be recog
nized at Honors convocation by
the Registrar's offke. He is an
Arts and Sciences senior, ma
jor in c in journalism.
The Daily Nebraskan omitted
the team of Berkheimer and
Filiate in reporting the junior
class results of the Alien Moot
Court sessions. They drew a
bye in the recent competition,
and will continue to compete In
the senior contests next year.