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Only Daily Publication for 9000 University of Nebraska Students rvrm u tnJ Vol. 50 No. 16 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Wednesday, October 5, 1949 New Council Poised for Action lJDuAjlAJ) Engineer Scholastic Competition Opens The third annual competition of the Engineering Undergraduate Award and Scholarship program of the James F. Lincoln Arc Weld ing foundation, was announced in Cleveland, O., recently. The funds go to Individuals and schools for the best papers pre pared by undergraduates on arc welding design, research, fabri cation, or maintenance. "A total of 77 awards ranging from $1,000 to $25 will go to students and $1,750 for 7 scholarships will be award ed to schools. Experience Not Necessary The competition is conducted to encourage engineering students to investigate some form of arc welding. All resident engineering students, including architectural and agricultural, regardless of previous knowledge of arc weld ing, may submit papers. The papers may cover a wide variety of subject matter and may be based on study or actual ex perience. Laboratory research, maintenance and repair of ma chinery, or a description of the welding design of a machine or structure are some of the sug gested fields. There will be one award each for $1,000, $500, and $250; four for $150, 8 for $100, 12 for $50, and 50 for $25. In the contest of two years ago a Uni versity of Nebraska student was awarded one of the $25 prizes. Awards to Schools The schools in which the three top awards are made will be given an equivalent amount for schol arships. These amounts will be used in the departments in which the award winning student is en- Spirit Committee Studies Migration Representatives of the Student Spirit committee are asked to meet Thursday afternoon at 5 p. m. in the Council room to discuss the possibilities of an official stu dent migration. The committee studied the pos sibilities of the migration at a Tuesday afternoon meeting and Eoz Howard, head of the com mittee, said that a conclusion will be reached this week. Student sentiment definitely seems to be in favor of an official migra tion. The definition of an official migration is a University spon sored train trip to an outstate football game. Groups represented in the Spirit committee are Corn Cobs, Tas sels, Innocents, Mortar Board, Student Council, the band and the yell squad. ElegisftirirlSepirfls ElEraGBDDirDOD,5" oft 94 A last myjute registration rush sent University first semester en rollment to 9,400, Dr. G. W. Ros enlof, Director of Admissions, re ported Tuesday. This is six per cent below a year ago, seven per cent below the all time high set in 1947 and 45 per cent above the pre-war average. Six Per Cent Decline Completed registrations at the end of last week totaled 9,359, and an estimated 40 students were yet to be processed, Dr. Rosenlof said. The six per cent decline in enrollment compares with a national average of 15 percent and a ten per cent drop previously estimated by University officials. World War II veterans total rolled. They will be divided into seven awards of $250. A copy of the rules may be procured from the dean of any of the engineering colleges at the University. The closing date of the competition is May 15, 1950. Local Board May Register 18-Year-Olds College and University students who become 18 years of age after the school term starts need not re turn to their homes to register under the Selective Service law but may register at the most con venient local board. Others not in college when they reach the age of 18 may register wherever they may be at the time. The law requires registration of all men with very few excep tions within five days of their eighteenth birthday, but there seems to be some misunderstand ing as to the place of registration. All the young man has to do is present himself to the nearest local board when iie becomes 18. The registration process is sim ple and requires only a short time. The data thus gathered is sent to the local board cVf the commu nity he terms his home and which has jurisdiction over him. When the registrant has a permanent address it should be given to regis tration officials. The law is also specific in it's requirements concerning obliga tion of a registrant to keep his local board informed as to any change in his address, or any change in his status under the act. Work on Tower To End Soon With the tearing down of scaf folding surrounding the carillon tower already begun, the campus improvement is only a few days from completion. Workmen estimate that the en tire scaffolding will be down in about three days. Another week will be needed to clean up, to paint the stairway, and to set some remaining stone. The carillon tower was made possible by a contribution from an alumnus. Work was begun last spring on the tower. Dedication ceremonies will be held Nov. 4. 3,863. This is 41.2 per cent of the enrollment, contrasted with 49.7 a year ago and 65 per cent in 1946. Ratio 3 to 1 Men students total 7,000 this fall, and the women 2,359 for an approximate 3 to 1 ratio. This compares with the pre-war ratio of three boys to two girls. Largest enrollment in the Uni versity was reported by the Arts and Sciences college with a total of 1,924. Engineering totaled 1,348 and Teachers College 1,343. Other totals: Agriculture 1,073, Business Administrattion 1,270, Dentistry 126, Junior Division 340, Law 279, Pharmacy 225, Graduate 856, Me dicine 334, Nursing 173, and stu dents at large and unclassified 68. 00 Ag Vole to Select Farmers Queen Farmers Foimal queen will be elected today. The polls opened this morning in the Ag union at 9 a. m. All students of the Ag campus are eli gible to vote. Five girls will be picked by the balloting; the queen and her four attendants. From the list of 29 senior home economics girls, who are eligible, each voter must pick five. Co chairmen of the election, Joan Raun and Don Knebel, stressed the fact that if the ballot does not have five names on it, it will be thrown out. Voting for the queen, who will be presented at 10:30 p. m. Friday evening during the Farmers For mal, will close at 5 p. m. today. All students are urged to vote. Newcomers to Ag Staff Head Departments The College of Agriculture has two new department heads. They are Dr. Philip L. Kelly, chairman of the dairy department, and Dr. Clyde Mitchell, chairman of the rural economics department. They replace Prof. H. P. Davis and Dr. H. C. Filley, respectively. Dr. Kelley is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Immedi ately after leaving schogL he went to work for the Minnesota extension department. He then went to Cornell University to study animal nutrition, and re turned to Minnesota where he acquired his Ph. D. in dairy pro duction. Formerly at South Dakota. Before coming to the Univer sity of Nebraska Dr. Kelley was head of the dairy departments at the University of Arkansas and South Dakota University. While in school, Dr. Kelley was a member of Block and Bridle, University 4-H club, Gamma Alpha, scholastic honorary for graduate students, and Farm House fraternity. Dr. Mitchell, the new rural economics head, graduated from the University of Texas and took a job with the Farm Security Ad ministration. He was awarded the Littaner Fellowship to Harvard where he studied for a year. He then resumed his job with the FSA. Studied at Harvard. In 1943 he was appointed al locations co-ordinator of the War Food Administration and later to the U. S. Department of Agri culture. In 1946 Dr. Mitchell traveled to Korea where he supervised the disposal of ex- Japanese agricultural and indus trial properties in South Korea. After his return from Korea, Dr. Mitchell resumed study at Harvard where he received his Ph. D. in rural economics. Ag Seniors Given Borden Grants Miss Laverna Acker, Bridge port senior, and Warren Newell, senior from Lincoln, have been awarded the Borden Foundation scholarships for high scholastic standing. The awards amount to $300 each. Miss Acker's scholarship, which is a Borden Foundation grant, is awarded each year to the senior in Home Economics department of 'the University of Nebraska who has achieved the highest average for her first three years of college work. Newell's scholarship is also granted by the Borden Founda tion. It is awarded yearly to the senior man with the highest aver age who has taken two or more dairy courses. Election Tops Work At Initial Meeting The pulse of student government will quicken again tonight as the newly organized Student Council holds its first meeting of the year. With the seating of the nineteen representatives chosen by campus organizations, the much-publicized Council will begin its work. Election of Officers. Top on the Council's docket of business will be the election of the body's secretary, treasurer, judiciary chairman and corre sponding secretary. President Roswell Howard will outline the plans and problems of the Council as a "tune-up" to the tackling of the group's two-fold purpose: Regular Council business and a new student government constitution. He will outline the committees of the Council and the immediate questions which confront the gov erning body. Introductions. Introductions of all new dele gates to the Council are slated during opening business of the or ganization's meeting. President Howard and Vice President Louise McDill will be presented to the Council, in addition to holdover members Phyllis Cadwallader and Fred Chael. Howard will wel come the new Council. Council Faculty Advisers, Miss Mary Mielenz and Dr. Curtis El liot, will be introduced. They will each speak approximately ten minutes to the 23 members. Dinner Cancelled. The first meeitng of the '49 50 Council, was to have been an informal dinner Monday, Oct. 3. Chancellor Gustavson was slated as the main speaker of the Coun cil meeting, however, and he was called to Washington Monday on urgent business. The dinner meeting with the Chancellor has been indefinitely postponed, but Howard reports that it will be held sometime on Chancellor Gustavson's return. No Complaints. Howard reported today that no complaints had been received on the manner of election by the 19 individual groups. Delegates were to have been chosen by a secret, written ballot. One question about represent atives which has arisen concerns the Council requirement that the representatives from organizations be juniors in the University, un less impossible. Only Innocents, Mortar Boards and Law Associa tion were to have chosen students other than those of junior standing. Frandson to Address First Meeting of YR3 The first general meeting of the University YI.1CA will be held this evening at 7 in the YMCA lounge in the emple building. Special speaker will be Phil Frandson who recently returned from Europe and is now teaching in the University geography de partment. At this meeting the "Y" will give its members the opportunity of joining one of its commission groups for the fall semester. The four commissions and their chair men are as follows: Bible Study. Bill Broaden, chairman. This commission will attempt to gain a clearer understanding of the na ture and content of the Scriptures and how they can be appreciated and applied in our world today. Recreational Service. Ralph Hanneman. chairman. This group will study materials Skits to Explain Studying to Frosh "How to study, and how not to study," will be the theme of the second of three programs on "Campus Know How," to be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, in Love Library Auditorium. The skits, which are original, will be centered around scholar ship, Janet Stratton, president of the AWS board, announced. Mem bers of the Mortar Board and AWS board, sponsors of the se ries, will participate in the presen tation. Information concerning honorary scholastic societies has been included in the sketches. These orientation meetings are designed to help the freshmen get acquainted with college groups before the Activity Mart, which is also sponsored by the AWS and will be held later this month. Nancy Glynn is in charge of plans for the Mart. The final of the orientation pro grams will be held Oct. 12. Fossil Identified By NU Scientist A University paleontologist, Dr. Maxim K. Elias, is the first to correctly determine the existence of a giant prehistoric cuttle-fish in North America. The fossil, discovered in Kan sas about 20 years ago, was so large scientists elsewhere identi fied it as part of a coral-like reef or as deposits of a new type of sea plant. With the aid of magni fication up to 600 times normal size, he was able to compare its structure with other modern and prehistoric types. In this way he was ntle to prove the fossil to be fundamen tally the same as the modern cut tlebone. The giant cuttle-fish, a distant cousin of the octopus, roamed the seas that covered Ne braska and Kansas 80,000,000 years ago. A reconstruction of the speci men is now on display in the Uni versity museum. The exhibit has been especially prepared for Oc tober, which is "Visit the Museum Month." and methods of group recreation and will sponsor recreational pro grams for institutions and under privileged groups. Social Action. Charles Goldsby, chairman. This group will study our campus com munity, and nation in the light of Christian and democratic princi ples. Understanding Our Churches. Wilfred Weare, chairman. This commission will conduct a series of visits to churches in the com munity and interviews with the ministers and pastors of the dif ferent churches in order to better understand their purposes and be liefs. All men students are invited to attend this meeting. It is called to your attention that this year all YM memberships meetings- will begin at 7, instead of at 7:30 as in previous years.