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Vol. 50 No. 68
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Friday, January 6, 1950
Temple PIot MeA
Enthusiastic and hopeful re
sponse among faculty and stu
dents marked the news of the
plans for remodeling the Temple
building, according to an in
formal poll Thursday.
Several instructors and direc
tors in the Temple were con
tacted, and their reactions to the
remodeling plans indicated that
all were glad that such action had
been taken.
"The remodeling plans for the
Theatre should and can accom
plish .three things," Mr. Dallas
Williams, assistant professor of
dramatic art, declared. "First,
the action will increase seating
and attendance facilities of the
Theatre. The old Theatre is very
uncomfortable and is not con
ducive to enjoyment of a play.
The remodeling plans should rem
edy this.
Improve Conditions.
"Secondly, the plans will im
prove the working conditions in
the Theatre and in this way will
increase the functional, workable
opportunities for acting.
"And lastly, the plans, through
better working conditions and
through adderi facilities, will
make for better calibre of plays
and may well increase the num
ber of plays," he said.
"An acting laboratory works in
much the same way as a Chem
istry laboratory," he explained.
"A chemistry lab would not be
much good without equipment.
An acting lab depends on equip
ment too equipment that we
have been sadly lacking. By in
creasing the laboratoy equipment,
I feel confident that the Univer
sity Theatre plays will be more
and better."
Similar Fcelinps.
Other Theatre officials regis
tered similar feelings. Instructor
in Speech and Dramatic Art Max
Whittaker said that work will be
more convenient and plans to en
large the stage making it flex
ible enough for many kinds of
plays will be welcomed.
See Temple, Tase 4
NU Sludents
Study Abroad
As Exchanges
Three University students, Don
ald Crowe, Robert Home, and
Helen Caha, are studying in Swit
zerland and Czechoslovakia this
year as exchange students from
the University of Nebraska.
Crowe and Home, are both in
Switzerland, Crowe at the Univer
sity of Zurich and Home at the
University of Lausanne. Miss Caha
is studying at Charles university
in Prague.
Mr. and Mrs. Home and Crowe
spent their Christmas holidays
bicycling in Austria and France.
Foreign Students Here
Three foreign exchange stu
dents are studying at Nebraska
this year. They are Walter Willi
from Switzerland, Claude Hannezo
from France, and Vladimir Lavko
of Czechoslovakia. An art instruc
tor from Nebraska U., Hal Wil
meth, is at the University of Flor
ence in Italy on a Fulbright schol
arship. The three Nebraska exchanges
were arranged through the Inter
national institute. Students inter
ested in the program may contact
the registrar's oftice. Two ex
changes, one for summer study in
England and one for the winter
terms in Denmark are now on
file. Additional information will be
available in the near future. Fur
ther announcements will follow
in The Daily Nebraskan.
Those interested in the Henry
Fund scholarship for study abroad
should contact Dean Goss of the
graduate school These applica
tions must be postmarked not
later than Jan. 10 for considera
tion this year. Dean Goss also has
the necessary information about
Fulbright scholarships.
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Dallas Williams
Council Admits
3 Members: .
Total Now 26
(Kditors Nnte: The Ditily Nebraskan in
the imt has introduced its readers to the
new members of this year's Student
Council i.s they were appointed. Three
new members are presented below.)
The past semester has found
three new members added to the
rolls of Student Council Norma
Jean Myers, Virginia Guhin and
Al Potter.
Representing Women's Athletic
Association, Associated Women
Students and the Military Sci
ence department, the three
students were elected to the
Council by their organizations.
They were elected on the ba
sis of standards set up by the
faculty. These organizations, how
ever, were given representation
in the Council this fall.
This raises the number of
Council members to twenty-six.
Miss Meyers, representing WAA,
is a member of the board of that
organization. She is a cabinet
member of YVVCA and a member
of Ddta Gamma sorority. She is
a junior in Teachers college.
A junior in Teachers college,
Miss Guhin represents AWS. An
AWS board member, Miss Guhin,
is a member of Coed Counselors
and YVVCA cabinet member. She
is a member of Alpha Chi Omega
sorority.
Al Potter, graduate student in
the college of business adminis
tration, represents the Military
Science department. He is amem
ber of Scabbard and Blade ROTC
honorary, and Phi Delta Theta
fraternity.
Ag Official lo Join
ECA Tour Abroad
A. H. Maunder of Agricultural
Extension Service at the Univer
sity of Nebraska has been granted
a four months leave of absence to
join the Economic Cooperation
Administration staff in Europe on
a special mission, it was an
nounced recently.
Maunder's services were re
quested by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture and the University
by ECA. In Europe, he will assist
in making a survey and study of
Extension Service programs and
needs among rural people in the
Marshall plan countries. Maunder
will be working with M. L. Wil
son, federal director of Extension;
Paul Miller of the University of
Minnesota; and Dean Deering of
the University of Maine.
The Nebraskan will report in
Washington on - Jan. 14 and will
then go to Paris where he will
make his headquarters.
Court Interest Lukewarm;
ajority
Filings Due
Today
for
Rasr, Shucks
All applications for second se
mester paid staff positions on The
Daily Nebraskan and Corn Shucks
must be filed by this afternoon,
Friday, Jan. 6.
Application - blanks are still
available at the office of Bruce
Nicoll, adviser to Student Publi
cations. His office is on the second
floor of the Administration An
nex, Room I (1125 R street). Ap
plications should be returned to
the same office by 12 o'clock
noon.
A prerequisite for students fil
ing for application is a 4 average.
Staff positions on The Daily
Nebraskan open for application,
are editor, two managing editors,
five news editors, feature editor,
sports editor, society editor, ag
editor, busines manager, three as
sistant business managers.
Corn Shucks positions to be
filled are editor, two managing
editors, business managers 'and
two assistant business managers.
File for One Position.
Only one position will be al
lowed to be filed for by each ap
plicant, but they may indicate on
their application a willingness to
accept a position subordinate to
the one .applied for.
Applications for editor, man
aging editors and possible business
manager, will appear before Pub
Board Friday afternoon, Jan. 13,
at 4 p. m. The place for interviews
has not been announced.
Those applying for other posi
tions will be interviewed Satur
day morning, Jan. 14, at 9 a. m.
in faculty lounge, Union.
The Publications Board, head
ed by Dr. Roger Shumate, will
meet three times. Jan. 6, Jan. 13
and Jan. 14. Students selected for
the positions will be notified fol
lowing their appearance before
the board.
New Program.
Dr. Shumate, in announcing the
opening of filings, stated that a
new program to revitalize Uni
versity publications will be initi
ated next semester.
The program would assist stu
dent staffs of the two publica
tions to broaden the content of
these publications and make them
more informative to the entire
student body and faculty.
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Dr. Phillip Bail to Address
First Semester Graduates
Dr. Phillip M. Bail, president of
Omaha university, will be the
speaker at commencement exer
cises in the Coliseum, Saturday,
Jan. 28, at 10:30 a.m. for about
650 first semester graduates.
Dr. Bail, who went to Omaha
in 1945, will serve for the second
consecutive year as January com
mencement speaker when he ad
dresses this month's graduates.
He has not announced his topic
yet.
A graduating class of about 650
is indicated by present figures.
This is considerably above last
year's total of 550. Letters of in
struction regarding caps and
gowns are being sent to those
graduating. This is the 20th Janu
ary commencement.
A graduate of Missouri Valley
college in 1920, Dr. Bail received
his Ph.D. from the University of
Iowa in 1931. He was president
of Chase college in Washington,
D. C, from 1935-1940. He served
as dean of the College of Educa
tion tMi a dlrt'Ctor of Butler uni-
Against
Daily Nebraskan Takes
Poll of Student Opinion
BY BETH RANDEL
Student interest in the current issue of establishing a
Student Court on the University campus is only lukewarm,
but many more students oppose its formation than believe
such a governing body is needed here.
Acting Group
To Present
Program
Sixteen freshmen will present
an acting recital Friday and Sat
urday, Jan. 6 and 7, as a climax
to a semester's work in the Fresh
man Acting group.
Selections from celebrated
three-act plays will make up the
one-and-a-half-hour show. Start
ing time will be 7 p.m. both
nights, in the Experimental The
ater room of the Temple, 201.
Scenes will be acted out by the
frosh from such plays as "Ah,
Wilderness!," "Joan of Lorraine,"
"Death Takes a Holiday," "The
Little Foxes," "Stage Door," "The
Pirate," "The Silver Cord" and
"Mary of Scotland."
Open to All.
The acting recital will be open
to all interested students and fac
ulty members though restricted by
a limited auditorium capacity.
Students taking part in the
sliow are: Alice Meyers, Wesley
Jensby, Ward Lindley, Marjorie
Line, Diane Downing, Mary Kay
Tolliver, Virginia Kochler, Beatta
Schlueter, Ramona Van Wyngar
den, Dorothy Elliott, Vernell
Lewis, John Moore, Lucille Law
rence, Gertrude Carey, Betty
Stratton and David Sissler.
Will Include Settings.
All scenes will include set
pieces, costumes and lighting ef
fects. Technical work will be done
by students of Stage Craft classes
as a laboratory project under
William Ellis, technical director.
The Freshman Acting group
meets there times a week as an
extra-curricular activity under
Dallas Williams and Max Whit
taker, University speech and
dramatic art instructors. Students
are selected for the group on the
basis of tryouts at the beginning
of the semester.
From the TJncoln Journal.
Dr. rhilip Bail
versify from 1940 to 1945, when
he went to Omaha.
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Proposal
Such were the indications of a
student poll, the results of which
were tabulated today.
More than 450 students were
asked the question, "Do you think
there is a need for the proposed
Student Court? If so, do you think
the constitution now being dis
cussed by the Student Council
sets up an adequate court?"
Of those questioned, 192 an
swered "No." Only 192 answered
"Yes." The number of those stu
dents who admitted that they
"didn't know a thing about it,"
although the constitution has
been printed in lull in The Daily
Nebraskan and given consider
able discussion, reached the over
whelming total of 155.
Results of the poll were:
Yes: 24.
No: 397c
Refused to answer: 1 T .
"Don't know anything about
it": 32.
Oppose Court.
That a number of students were
not in favor of the court was pre
viously indicated when three uni
versity students appeared before
the Student Council last month
and presented their views oppos
ing the proposed court.
. Conducting the poll was a force
of newly-recruited "poll-cats,"
who encountered the students on
campus, in organized houses and
by telephone calls. Impressing
them most, they reported, was the
apparent lack of any student in
terest whatsoever in the Student
Court.
Quips from persons who said
they did not favor the establish
ment of the court "ranged from
"It's a farce" to "As if we don't
have enourh 'disciplinary author
ity' as it is."
The latter remark was made
with reference to a statement by
Don Sterns, judiciary committee
member, at a recent council meet
ing when he explained that the
two functions of the new body
should be "disciplinary authority
and advisory power."
Court Needs Power.
"The court might be OK." vol
unteered one student, "but it
wouldn't have enough power
here." He was skeptical about its
success on this campus and added
that if would still be controlled
by-the administration and result
in no benefits to the students.
A number of students said only
that they were "vaguely aware"
of the proposed court, but had no
See Court, Page 4
Demand Extends
Calendar Sales
Due to student demands the
Nebraska Calendar will go on
sale again in Union booths. The
Calendars are still selling for one
dollar. 1
Twenty-eight scenic views of
the city and ag campuses are in
cluded in the Calendar booklet
Because of the space allotted for
engagements, it can also serve as
a diary or college memory book.
Photos of well-known Nebras
kans who attended the University
fill two pages. Among these are
Willa Cather and General John
Pershing. Mrs. Norris sent spe
cially the latest photograph of
her senator husband for the Cal
endar. Nancy Portor is the editor of
the 1950 Calendar, which is pub
lished by the University of Ne
braska Builders. Photography wrs
done by Tom Reynolds aad Eill
1 Moorhouse,