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Only Daily Publication For Students At The University of Nebraska f The Wetllier Mostly cloudy iidth drixsle in east, colder la west, bihi In 30 s. jtiin. Vol. 50 No. 80 Wednesday, February 8, 1 950 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Nash Amuses Students At Union Convocation Writer Describes '1111111010118' Verse Ogden Nash kept a University j audience in constant laughter Wednesday afternoon, when he I addressed them in the Union j ballroom. The light verse writer told the i convocation that the field of hu- mor offers tremendous opportun- i ities for young writers. j "This is particularly true of j writers of clever editorials in : newspapers," c o n ti n u e d the j spccmt-f . Speaking about the type of humor appearing in publications of today, Nash told the audience that humor today is generally a rehash of last'week's radio pro grams. People are interested to day, he says, in the gag (mere joke that has nothing to do with humanity) rather than good humor. Speaking on the topic "Midway Thru' Nash." the author named three compensations whirh he felt he received in his 48 years. They are: He doesn't get asked to dances anymore: pretty girls of fer him their seats on buses; and although 20 years ago he had only rounded shoulders, today he has the distinguished stoop. "Stoop" could be taken' in two ways, admitted the speaker. Best Remembered Nash told the audience that , one of the few verses which he has the most expectation of be ing remembered is "Candy is dandv; but liquor is quicker." was first presented to the public in Evar.ston. 111., on the 75th an- , nivrrsary of the W.C.T.U. The writer told the students and faculty that he had decided that he prefers to spend the rest of his years "saluting strange women and grandfather clocks'' rather than go throiiRh the con fusing process of changing con stantly from seeing classes to rer.ding glasses One of his verses Peek Aboo. I Almost See You." contained a detailed expression of ins feelings The audience received an un-u-i.al treat. Nash told them, by 1 is not telling them about his trip to Europe last summer. He said that he was so used to setting the seats in the trains and taxis which made him ride backward, that he was not quite sure of what he saw of the foreign coun ti ies. Always Late "Everything I did sec." said Nash "seemed to have just hap 1 ened before I got there." I saw turoi rereeding under my veiv eves." stated the speaker. He believes that a great oeal o. the humorous incidents happen to actors He told of one of thorn v ho frantically lowered his wile and child to safety lrom a second jlorv window when the house taught fire However, when it vas his turn to climb oown. he Flipped, and was caught bv his mother-in-law who had got to t o ninnnH hv the stairs. Nash Uild the group that he ie group that ne ,s topic was to be him'elf. but saia realized that hi .i.... n:ik.no ci.,rtacular haf. happened to him: nis bfe purely a personal one." He was in "obnoxious brat" when he v. a young, said Nash, and a!was wanted to write. His (list verse was written in 1912 on his eldest sit-i s wed (,m; ri-.v. It was: "Bcautifu: kpnng i heie. and has taken m (Continued on Pate ) Corn Shucks Names Six Section Head Six students have been n:.med t'i the positions of Corn &hu r.i Swtion Editors by Emtor FranK Jacobs. They are Pat Baldwin. Jim Cornish. Han is Cainabv Dave Doyle, Paul McKfc. u Pat O'Brien. The six new Section E'iit'-rs will assume their positions im mediate v with a si-' :' tonal staff meeting slated Vr Thursday at 3:30 p. m. The Vf cif the new Section Eojtors will 1 to write and formulate the features and departments for each issue. In announcing the new posi tions. Jacobs also icminded would-be writers and cartoonists that the Corn Shucks 1950 Lit erary Contest i still "alive and kicking." Cartoons, short stories, and essavs should be s"nt to the Corn Shucks office. Student Union. Deadline for cartoons is Eeb 20; thort ttones and essays. March 1. A mimeographed sheet of con tvt rules mav le urcured in the Corn Shucks" office. Rules al'-o of The Daily Ncbraskan and on bulletin obards of campus build- ' students are also reminded to ffet their corn fhucks sub'rip- noni out of storage, t-mil aimosi here. 'Larpcsl' CAiim To City Hospital Tliirly-eight fludrnt riuts-s bvame freshmen at ljiicoln Veral hospital sch-wl oi nurs- ig last week end at J",,n MetliodLst church it . .u- i. iir.ee 1 cadet roro. was diwntinued . . , am Lijr" i .1 1 i : i no. ' in !!... Th. tu.rit have ended hvt month, ot ure-clinif al train- N '"Tv (i "MIDWAY THRU NASH" Ogden Nash, famous writer of light ! verse, kept a capacity crowd in the Union ballroom well enter- tained Tuesday afternoon at a University convocation. Nash spoke on topics ranging from automobile driving to introspection, and . concluded his remarks with the reading of several of the light verses which appear in national magazines, and in his various books. j Nash Tells Reporters Of Writing Experience BY NORMA t HIBBUCK j In explaining the title of his Soft-spoken, casual, and very ' convocation speech, Nash said much down to earth, Odgen I triat "Midway thru Nash" comes .Nash told reoorters Tuesday that i he takes "from one and one-half: hours to two vears" to turn out ' one of the poems for which he has become famous. measured by his waist line, and "The writing is not as spon- , "how tall my daughters arc" taneous now as it was 20 years j (Nash has two daughters.) j ago," Nash said, "but poetry is I Students Alert something like pitching ball. College groups are the favor you may lose the drive, but the j ite audiences of Ogden Nash, De control gets much betterwiththeicau.se he feels they are alert, years." Nash admitted that he j and know what he is doing and has learned many of the tricks i has been trying to do. Nash feels of the trade in his years of writ- ing light verse. Work to Be Happy Nash believes that you must work at a business to lie happy, lie referred to his "time" in Hollywood, where he continued to get pav raises, but not work, t. Nash and his wife enjoy travel as very demoralizing. Nash said ing, and usually take a number it tok hune a year to get back of books with them when they in the swing of writing liaht start each tour. He added, how verse after his sojourn to Holly- ; ever, that they usually return wood. home with the books unread. 'r . , V I OI CI Oil JL Terms 1949 Busiest Year Deicmber maike-l the end of the Extei.. -:hii's fcusn-.-t year. Sen ires nii(ltd exct ered by almost t-n per cent t.'ie year be- i fo e The Division h;;s never failed to show giowth ea-h year suite deUiiied records were first The November iue of the . Cliri.tiaii Science Monitor car ried a feature article describing . the work f Dr. Otta Hoitx-rg in ; heli. in Nebraska communities helii themselvi-s. In co"raliin with tl " vari ous dcpartnii-i'ts of tl " Uruver Mtv. an intensified effort was begun to impiore the quality of induction bv co-re-poiifience and t fM'-oid 1he work in eve ning and off catm-us clas.'C--. Mrr l e Tie fnherMty campus and the ft;.te as a whole have used nio'e i udio visual aids in in duction fan ever before. Dur- me ll. i. (ii-t four morbus ui iuk iiims were ,(,' to l.'T clasM-s on the Urns ersi ty campus. Throughout the Mate' it is probable that moie than 25.000 elementary and high school cla-ses had their woik enriched by the showing f motion pictures, fiirnslril s and slides obtained from Extension Division. An experimental projei t the by ui.h the educational v.irld hopes to learn how to u mo tion pictuies with gieatcr effec tivere.s in teach.-!; has br-c-n carried out at Nebra.-ka. This proict was a four year undei taking of the Extension Division. V..J, 0 AuflrCSS -1U Alimill. BuiiqiK'l n alumni banquet 1 ; . . . , , : Founders d -v r-.lphratitig Werinesday. Feb 8. 6:3'J p. m., in lh- Union bailforn. Na h appeared at a trnon con vocation. Monday, speaking cn Midway Thru N'l'h." Chancellor R Ou-tavs'in is iU, Khed.ik-d to give a lejoit vnu.r (;laford the I- ri'.eiily ...? ;;,i!v. This m be ih's first appeaiance be- the coa fore an aiumn, , ?. A business nmu oe coii'iu- " '-' ' hi rom nis experience ot naving written in his youth, early ma- turity, and now "middle age." , Nasn defined middle age a being 1 that he can talk easier with them. He says that this fact gives him a 50-yard start in his speaking tonics. The University is the 37th stop for Nash in his current lecture tour, which began in October. X 3 r A t i : . : 1 RKI CTOSS HEAD Bob Mosher. bizad junior, was named as the r ew president of t'ie Hod Cross College unit la-t Saturoay. Feb. 4. He sucreeus Audrey Rosenbaurn. 4y- Students' Attitudes Vary offieeningEiiSB7iStelBiig BV EICENE WOHLNER In response to a Daily Ne braskan poll, representative stu dents had the following to com ment on the question: what ro vor think ABOUT EXAM STEALING? Harry Cook. A and S, "I think that ttu'ionts arc too lazy to studv. or that they don't know enough about the cojisc U p iss it. Tt at s probably toe ica ;on that they steal exams. I woulnn t expel triem though because it's as much the tea' hr-r's lauit as it is the students. Many of them leave the exams lying around in perfect reach of anyone who wants them." Rod Sawtell teacheis. "So rrnv in thf -.f,l do it and SO ' tew g't caught that it is unfair to punish tho e caught. Still if tt ry aren't puiu-hed in some way. it will only encourare others to cheat. Peihaps it's Pit of an iiiU-r-fiat fjdioii that is organized to t-t'al the finals and swear not to tell any in- o .erratum if tt.ev are caught . It may be just part of the service ; and they snould be made to take j plenty of daily grades. In oth a fraternitv offers you. I. for the xib ect at another time." ers, iike histiry, there is only a i .,,,,., i,. a f.t.al if it or.l . wovJi'iill uint a ii ii waj ofleed to me. X lend to i . Sh?mSi June graduates should make applications for degrees and cer tificates in senior checking room, B-9, Administration Building, not later than March 1. Office hours 10 to 3 daily and 10 to 12 Saturday. Mardi Gras To Feature Coronation Students attending the Union Mardi Gras open house Friday night will find themselves in an atmosphere much like the au thentic New Orleans Mardi Gras. Complete with the crowning of the Mardi Gras Queen, en tertainment will include dancing, skits and games. A preview of the entertain ment includes a New Orleans .Theater featuring acts by Dor- i othy Elliott and her marimba, I Bill Dugan and Harris Carnaby in a comedy act; Patsy Dutton in a comedy vocal, Elbert Starks ina dance routine, and Bob ftoe ser, pianist. Bob Smaha will emcee at the "Theater." The "New Orleans Casbah" will be situated in parlors XYZ on third floor. Bingo and card games will be played there. Dancing in the ballroom will be to the music of Riley Smith and his "jazz" combo. The Mardi Gras Oueen will be presented in the ballroom at 10:30 p. m. in the festive atmosphere of the occasion. Candidates for the title are Pat Berge, sponsored by Sigma Nu: Sue Eastergaard. sponsored by Delta Tau Delta: Nancy Dixon sponsored Dy Acacia: Jan (.nam- pinc, sponsored by Sigma Alpha cpsnon, ana juargarei inomscn, sponsored by Alpha Tau Omega. Votes may be cast for the can didates between 8:30 and 9:30 p. m. Friday night. The win ning coed will represent Ne braska at the University of Kan sas Sweetheart Ball. Union to Sponsor n v-v 0(111010 LlilllClIl ( 1 Square dance Saturday night From 8:30 to 11:30 p. m. Sat- uroay, Feb. 11, the Union will sponsor a square dance in the T"rirn Kallrnnm Aiim tn all TTni ,...,).,..- Loren Graham will do the call- ing for the evening's festivities, AHmiiccinn will hp 44 rpnts Adeptncss at do-si-doing and swingin' gals is no prerequisite for attendance according to the Ag Cainpus Threatened by Closure Textseliing Fate Stirs Comment The Daily Nebraskan's investi- gation of poss.ble closure of the Ag bookstore brought heated comment from both the At and city campuses yesterday. The A;' store will be shut riov.n if more adequate quarters can't be found for it. Two requests lor space have been refused. Rol ert A. Stewart, manager of the Unhersity bookstores, had this to say: "We are willing to give the Ag students a omplete book and supply store if given aoequate space in whwh to conduct op- erations. ISumerous requests oy students tor such a store and the extensive use made of the store we now have even thou:;h "'" ' ..tru " riefinne need for more aot-,uatc sii'all. convinced me mere is fa"i!iti ; 'The lack of cooperation ((ontnurd on I'aee i) live bv Christian prinicipals." ( think the exams ought to DC Student Bodr Suffers changed over to the Honor Warren Berggren, A and S, ' system, like they have at Stan "It's reallv unfortunate Ui.it j ford University. If finals are left theie should be such a thing on I as they are. they should count Neoraska's campus for it throws j only as much as an hour exam, a bad li'4ht on the entue stu- ; Those that were caught should den bodv. To expcll tnera is ! 1 placed on probation. Very bad, but the situation has got to few students would pass up the be stopid. Tl.o.-e who steal ex- 1 opportunity to get a final if they kms most not tie serious ttuotnLs i had a chance." , ...,a th, v houid be made ex- , arnpic. They thould think be- forc tnev do it. Thev might be rc-admitted later on if they can show good cnai a ter references, The finals aren't too hard. I feel that if exams arc too rough for me they aie probably too rough . Ior everyone and they will be j scaled up. If you really learn. you get leal giaoes Eugene Beier. Ag. "I don't think I'd kick them out. I'd make up another exarn for the course in moie advanced courses fhould and make it plenty stiff, too. If j only Aover portion, it should be the student couldn't pass the , moie of a generalization. Ex final, then he couldn't pass the ams should b handed back course. But if I were the in- coriect-d so that the student will structor, I wouldn't go to all ; see his mistakes. More tests i- that tiouble. Their credits m be . course khould be taken awpy I'onor Sfstrm Sucrested i . - ... -j-r j Maiy Lou Flaherty, teacrieis, 'Reese Names Committee To Organize Junior Class .nun I nam nil ill. ' i - ' ' s - ' ICourt.'hy of the Lincoln Journal) I lb KB KLLSfc VXilan8'"EiuTor Education Policy The veterans administration is preparing for the six-year pro- cedure of ending the veterans education program. This means that, with a few exceptions, veterar.s may not en ter the training program after July 25, 1951. After that date lney wul De aDle u' enane courses only in special cases. , Furthermore, when a veteran ' completes a course he will not be able to begin in another, even , '"'"' "c , "Vm fVjioi tlme lm unQCr lne ul Vjl UUI CAJIIC5 I.. .juu. regulations conform to the vet-I erans reaaiustmeni act which i ' stipulates that a veteran must ; Seventeen booths have been start his course within four years : entered in competition thus far. after his discharge or after July j The houses and their booth man 25 1947. the official end of the agers are Alpha Chi Omega, war ,Jean Steven: Alpha Omicron Pi, The 1951 deadline will not af- j Mary Lou Williams; Alpha Phi. fe- t veterans who enlisted or re- 1 Joan Hinds; Alpha Xi Delta, : enlisted under the armed forces Marilyn Reckeway; Chi Omega, recruitment acts of 1945 and Cecilia Pinkerton; Delta Delta 1946. It also does not affect those 4ih.,ronrl cinffi .Tlllv 95 194l. , or those still in the service. , - - ! T i Union dance committee, every-' ie ,n,.it.H 1 1 Males who ' would not come ! to the dance because they have no females for dates need not , stay away. The Union is provid- ing hostesses for all in the stag j line. Russian Roulette 'Lecture Fatal Death was the result of a lec ture by an assistant professor at Princeton university. The lecture on Russian roulette was deliv- end bv Allison W. Bunkly to a rup f MX friends gathered in his apartment. " was me most conwnting oi his shoit professorial career. It Listed less than one hour and of Booei y ended with Bunkly dead with a the Ag store. Stewart has said bullet in his brain. that the space now occupied on The game is played by placing : tnc yg campus is too small to a single bullet in one of tH" ! do blJ.srlcs efficiently, adecjuate twirlmg six chambers of the , , weaoon twirl.nfi the cylinder. an(i comfortably. He has full and pulling the trigger with the muzz)e pressed to the head. Bunkly son of Rear Admiral J.hI W.' Bunkly. retired, and K'ston?.'' .. jlH.d a permit for the weapon urp repilsals lrom articles he had written about the roveniment of Argentine iresi- drnl Juan D. Peron. I C. W. Hagcdorn. A and S. i "Stealing exams is about as low ' as a human can go. but too much . emphasis is placed on grades, i Stuoents arc not worried about learning the subject, they are i more interested in their grades, ; The grading system could be changed to just satisfactory ana unsatisfactory. Finals in basic courst? should cover the whole term foi the in- i formation is easy to learn. Those ; might be given. In most math : and English cour es there are i mid-term and the final. The j - - 1 1 final has to count a lot then. President Takes First Step Toward Promotion of Spirit Herb Reese, junior class president, today named a Junior Class council to find the means for organizing class spirit. The 11-person committee will work with President Reese to discuss class projects or functions for the coming semester. Named by the junior executive were: Shirley Allen, Sue Allen, Gene Berg, Bill Dugan, Betty Green, Knox Jones, Dick Kuska, Jan Lindquist, Bob Russell, Ben Wall and Bob Waters. Coed Carnival Ticket Sales Open Monday A charge of 25 cents will ad mit carnival goers to the 1950 Coed Counselor Penny Carnival in the Union Ballroom Saturday, Feb. 18. Tickets go on sale Mon- -j 1 r- i UlnU'annual7prinCg event, the ' Carnival is made up of acts and ' booths sponsored bv women's or- canizations on campus. Proceeds g0 to the Coed Counselor organ- i2aU0n. Awards ! Competition is nign for the award presented to the best-de- . boQtn Secondi thjrd anfJ nonorable mentions 1 'will also be awarded. Booths will be judged by a written vote of a group of j ..... , I aiies ana popcum m uC u., ueua, tsein nanoaii; ueua u...... ma uemai is muueii, vjcniiiia ... " ' i KaDna Alpha Theta, mary Jean Neeley; Kappa Delta. Mary Tavlnr- Kanna KanDa Gamma. Marilyn Peterson; Phi Beta Phi, : Ann Jane Hall; Sigma Delta Tau, ' Gloria Gensber; Sigma Kappa, Elizabeth Roger: Adelphi, Betty ! ; Carroll; lowne l.iud, wun noiw and Wilson Hall, Alice Harms. usiness Store Needs Bigger Space For Work The Ag bookstore will cease ; operation if it is impossible to ! find a new location for it in the near future. This announcement came yes terday lrom Robert A. Stewart, manager of both Regents and permission to go ahead with a j store, but so tar, he has been I refused the rooms for wnich he nas applic.d Investigating possible loca- lions, Stewart has asKcu permis- t0 u,e two rooms wcre denied. The first room chosen baMment of the Home I , . .,. ... r i CCJIIOIIIlL& OUIIUlO. 1IIC nti ' tension depaitment at first said ; the space could be given over to a bookstore, then reversed its decision. It claimed that the room was necessary for storage and preparation of displays. A( Union. Stewart then approached the i Ag Union board for an area now used for coat checning and other storage space. This request was also ocnied. The Ag bookstore has been op erating on a temporary basis to determine whether there is a delitute need and desire for such a store on the part of the stu dents. A poll taken last semester by the Ag Executive board dis closed unanimous support for a more adequate store. When Stewart conferred with W. V. Lambert to discuss the possioility of a more suitable lo cation, the Ag college dean agreed to help in any way he could. City Bookstore. If the bookstore is discon tinued. Ag students will have to corne to the city campus to pur chase their books. A new, larger location for the stoic would allow it to expand its stock of supplies which stu - dents need throughout the school year. It would also make ossi- ' power to modernize spelling "so ble keeping the store open longer i that we ne-d no loni"T write trie hours. ! ipeech of the middle ages," u A bigger Ag bookstore has been , advocated by Dr. Alexis. He part of a Daily Nebraskan ram- urges furthering the interna-n;.i-'n he?nii last vCar in its edi- tio-al use of the English langu- J tonal columns. The committee will represent their class at a meeting Thurs day, Feb. 9, at which preliminary discussion of class organization will take place. The meeting will be held in Room 316 of the Union at 7:30 p.m. First Action. In naming the council, Reese took the first step by a class president in recent years to form ulate an all-junior class program. Traditionally in the past, the fent', duties consisted almost f Planting a PW f lvy n Day- Reese was elected this fall in the first student election on the campus for a year. He was chosen hy write-in vote of University Party supporters, more than doubling his nearest opponent. Tne junior dass presidcnti in revealing the council's members, said he hoped to end the "presi- dent-in-name-only" taint of his office. He commented that the council forms "a cross-section" of ,ho rla Cleaning 10 uiurc. "Tbe junior class president now has no responsibilities," said Reese. "I hope, with the Council, that we can give the office soma meaning as well as giving the junior class some organized spirit." Among suggestions offered to Reese at the time of his election for class projects were: partici pation in the Junior-Senior prom, . M . . 1 t - : sponsoismp ui bius iu um- , versity. class meetings, picnics : and social functions. and others will be discussed by the president and his council Thursday night. iAIexis Files For Seat in Congress A University professor is dip ping into political affairs. Dr. Joseph E. A. Alexis, chair man of the department of mod ern languages and literature, is the first candidate to file for congress from the First Ne braska district. The candidate, who filed Mon day, cited his "keen interest in i (iv,.irty of fh l.lw-'n J"rni1) DR. J. E. A. ALfcXIS ! Political affairs," frequent visiu to study in Europe, "understand ing of international relations, plus "practical experience with farming problems in Nebraska" as some of his reasons for filing. Alexis, a graduate from Au gustana college in 1905, is a na tive of York. He also has studied at the University of Lund in Sweden, the University of Ma drid in Spain and the Univer sity of Paris in France. Freedom Significant Dr. Alexis, in a statement made when he filed, said: "We must never accept the principles of dictatorship and slavery." He pointed out that those who have spent time in countries where freedom "f expression is banned realize the significance of free dom here. "We must be on our guard here while we investigate the many schools of political thought elsewhere," continued the can didate, "and visualize the dang- ' ers of 'isms' of other countries, yn academy of English with I ije. kfc a tuay of baoic Ki'.r.ccs. ' lion ol new cdiiteis.