The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 14, 1952, Image 1

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Materialistic Idols of the col
lege campus will provide the
theme Sunday for the main ad
dress of University Day of Prayer
for Students.
The speaker, Dr. T. Z. Koo,
chairman of the department of
Oriental studies at the State
University of Iowa, will address
University students and faculty
members at 6:15 p.m. in the
'Day Of Prayer'
Participating in Universal Day
or Prayer is one of the few ways
to help overcome racial and re
ligious barriers in building a re
ligious community, according to
Mary Lou Hawk.
As general chairman of the
prayer day Miss Hawk said,
It is one of the most meaning
ful experiences I have had,
mainly because it is a world
wide project sharing identical
ideas for building world unity."
Program committee members
and student pastors share the con
viction that the day of prayer
VOL. 51 No. 83
To Expl
Discussions, a speaker and an the evaluation of workers will in
Illustrated pamphlet will explain dude attitudes, work habits and
activity work to University stu- purpose. A leader evaluation will
dents during the first annual parallel the worker's section,
leadership training conference j Techniques of evaluation includes
Saturday.
The session is open to all
students. Conferees should
register at 9:39 a.m. in the Un
ion. A 25 cent fee will cover
conference expenses.
William B. Bogar, Lincoln high
school principal, will discuss the
value of extra-curricular leader
ship in the field of human rela
tionship during the opening ad
dress. Discussion erouns will niMt
from 10:30 a.m. until noon. CofJRobinso'n, Dee Lovegrove, Don
fee will be served while the Noble. Jerry Johnson. Shirley
groups discuss leadership types
anA nnaiiri
and qualities.
Six techniques of leadership
will be discussed when the con
ference resumes at 1:39 bub.!
Students will attend the meet
ing tn which they are most In
terested. Topics and leaders are:
Interviews, Glenn Rosenquist
ana ueorge kg una, public reia
toons director; evaluations pro-'
cedure, Sarah Fulton and Arthur
Hitchcock, counseling service di
rector. Mass meeting procedure. Mari
lyn Coupe and Mary Mielenz, as-
sociate professor: parliamentary
procedure, George Cobel and
Bruce KendalL speech instructor;
" Elections. George Wilcox and
Frank HaUgren, assistant dean of
student affairs; and publicity,
Juanita Rediger and Ken Keller,
assistant director of public rela
tions. Miss Redlrer's publicity dis
cussion group will try to view
University publicity en city and
Ag campus and in Lincoln. The
relation of an organisation's
publicity to the public will be
discussed.
Miss Fulton has divided the
evaluation procedure discussion,""''
into three sections. A section on Secretaries win be present In
Daily Nebraskan Reporters Meet
All University students who are interested in reporting for
The Dally Nebraskan are urged to attend a reporters meeting
Friday at 4 p-m. ia the Nebraskan office. Union basement, Boom
29.
Experience Is not necessary. Fall details of reporters work
will be given at the meeting.
AWS
Hubka Announces Basis
For Candidate Selection
The criteria upon which can
didates for Coed Counselor board
positions will be selected was an-;
nouncea weanesaay o y Mary
Hugka, Coed Counselor presi
dent.
Women who file for positions
will be toterviewed next week by
Kr nhm Tha n
iors will select candidates for theitained to Smith halL
IS board positions who will ap
pear on the ballot in the spring
elections.
Applicants will be judged on
the following bases:
L Sincere Interest In the Ceed
Counselor program. ;
2. Creative ideas to contribute, j
X. Available time for meetings, j
i. Determination to continue in
school during the entire
year.
6. Number of AWS activity
points. (They can not face the
possibility of exceeding the maxi
mum number if elected.)
- Miss Hubka said that each ap
plicant will be granted a 15 min
ute interview at which time the
senior board members will ex
plain the Coed Counselor prop-am
and ask questions. Each ap
plicant will also have the oppor
tunity to ask questions and ex
press opinions.
A weirhted S J& average is re
Quired for board membership.
Miss Hubka also emphasised
that women need not have been
Coed Counselors to make appli-
' University Episcopal chapel,
13th and R streets.
His speech will follow a 5:30
buffet supper In the chapel under
croft and precede the 7 p.m.
prayer service.
Sunday will be the first time
University students have partici
pated in the Universal Day of
Prayer, sponsored by World's Stu
dent Christian federation in 56
To Bind World
will give University students
realization of an organization to
unite world fellowship for a day
of prayer.
That organization is WSCF
World's Student Christian Feder
ation. Unknown to University
students the world ernurj works
in common experience of faith and
action.
The Rev. Richard Nutt of the
Methodist Student house feels
"Tho TTnlnoivol rtn T"
future sources of World's Student
Christian activities on our campus
Coimv
Dun JcSwDuies
how to evaluate workers and theence. Planning board members
objectives of and how to run an
eva'uation meeting.
The topic of the morning cof
fee hoar is also the topic of sec
tion one in the conference
pamphlet It deals with types of
leaders such as "policeman,"
"we-must-get-results," "politi-eian.""good-fellow"
and "demo
cm tic-
fViffoo brair foanVnc are Sharon
IViMitr Psiinr XTuKrarwiTr flonoi
RansdelL Wayne White, Mary
iu,.v,i,. T-i:,-t.u -o nr,J
, r ""j iT Cu T CZZt ,-r. rw.eii rnpotinff the CounciL plan from this council lor c --em-
Johnson, Al Blessing and Dean that school in Council meetmg the CounciL Jphizing final examinations. vas
Linscott. Wednesday. To amend the : constitution m by at
Other sections m the pamphlet! Gale Demaree spokesman forjthis respect would call for a o-jgraduating teBjgn ex
present information on what the pharmacy students, told the thirds approval from the Council frQm tt finals on basis of
makes a group click, roles of lead-'Council that representation as It would then be referred to the Avenges
ememrsd observers man now set u? assures the re
organization, cUscussion techniques and dental school oe combm ti,e junior council
and publicity hints.
Campus leaders will find aids
in the sections containing in
formation on bow to schedule
meeting rooms, get advisory
help, schedule pictures and ob
tain equipment and supplies.
A table of parliamentary pro-
ceaure completes me parnpniei
which was edited by Miss Redi-
ger, miss ixiupe, m.iss uove
; grove, Miriam Willey and Robin-
' son.
Faculty members assisting with
the leadership discussions are
Royce Knapp, Curtis Elliott, Nor
man Thorpe, Willard Leeds, Henry
Holtzclaw, L L. Hathaway, Mary
Guthrie, David Sander, William
Hall and Helen Snyder. Ruth
Shinn, YWCA director, Sam Gib-
son, YMCA director and Rex
Knowles, Presbyterian-Congrega-
cation. Four seniors, six Juniors
and six sophomores will com
prise the new board. Each class
will be equally represented by
a nxf filiated and affiliated
women.
Filings for board poslions will
"main open until noon Saturday.
Application blanks can be ob-
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FILING TIME ... Susie Keinhardt (t). Coed Counselor board
member, helps Winnie Stols file at Ellen Smith while FbrUis
Kort It.), AWS board member looks on. Coeds are fiiing sp plica
tions for both orranii&Uona this week. (Dally N'ebraskaa I'boto.)
countries.
Ag students wW observe
Universal Day of iPrayer -with a
service at Evangelical United
Brethren church, 33rd and
Star, also beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Rev. Alvin Peterson, Lutheran
student pastor, will lead the serv
ice.
Organizations on Ag campus
participating in the day of prayer
In Fellowship
as continued tradition."
With specific reference to the
University campus Universal
Day of Prayer Rev. Sam Gib
son, YMCA secretary, said,
"This world wide student Chris
tian movement has been one of
the most influential and crea-
tive forces of the past half
century. It has served to draw the Chris
tian church together. It has em
phasized the worship of God,
study of the Bible and theology
and the political responsibility of
Christians, he said.
m nJl)lJUlruUU ltl
ereinic
each of the afternoon discus
sions to record conclusions for
future reference.
Mortar Board and Innocent so
cieties are sponsoring the confer-
'are Jo Raun, Nancy Button, Miss
Coupe, Miss Willey, Johnson,
Johnson and Robinson.
Pharmacy College Wants Representation
Would iMie Constitutional Amendment
A coalition of faculty and stu-
dent members of the school of
pharmacy presented v,ews on Stu -
a o.n-ii wnrpantation from
VSEZrtZ:? Z
toU intends of eacl i rfL
.ntt Mnrantafivi could not WOrk'iT, th( srtrinff elections.
ior DOUl oi vne senwu.
n,. i, ct,.ntc wnniHi
xuc iuiuuiav; ovui.
non inree oi me r T w
include one representauve irorn
each of the schools.
icn oi tne scnoois. . . .
A representative of the dental
school was not nresent at the
- . .
mftptinir Vuir ntt? tn tne effect
that they neither needed nor felt
a desire for a representative
'Choosing A Mate' To Be Topic
Of Union Coffee Hour Thursday
An informal coffee-discussion
hour on "Choosing a Mate" will
j- Thursday at 5 pjn. in Union,
Discussion wQl be lead by
Mr. and Mrs. E. Weaver. Mrs.
Weaver is a member of the
women's physical education fac
ulty, and her husband has called
many Union square dances.
This "Better Living Series or
coffee hour is being presented on
both Ag and City campuses ty cnairman; Lynn rvunxei; mem- tne 1S52-53 school year. All win
the Unions. Other subjects to bejbers; Ruth Sorenson, Jo La Shelle, ners of the award will be selected
covered will be marriage, finance
and fine arts.
post's
Fifteen Coeds To Serve
On '52 Governing Board
Freshmen, sonhomore and iun-
ior women may file for Associated
Women Students board positions
until Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Candidates will be interviewed
ifoy senior AWS board members,
who will set up a slate for all-coed
spring elections March is or i a1
From the slate, five juniors will
be elected to serve during their,
w -w S'
::J Siiwti;;;
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are Ag Inter-denominational
Youth Fellowship, Ag YM and
YWCA and Ag Lutheran Students
Association.
A period of recreation will be
held from 5:30 to 6 p.m., at which
time a supper will be served for
35 cents.
Following the supper, WSCF
prayer service will be held.
Rex Meyer, Ag college sopho
more, is in charge of the Ag serv
ice. On city campus, Dr. Koo, in
speaking of college idols, will be
concerned with the "search for
mature Christian faith and
qualitative self." He will de
scribe how students can better
chanelize their efforts and ideals
Into spiritual gro.vth.
Secretary of WSCF from 1934
to 1947, Dr. Koo has traveled ex
tensively throughout the world,
interpreting the Eastern Christian
student world to the West and the
West to the East He has received
honorary degrees from the
Chinese government, Colgate Uni
versity, Denver University and
Kenyon college.
While in Lincoln, Dr." Koo will
fill the pulpit at Westminster
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
A certain University male had
a red face as the result of a sub- i
conscious slip of the tongue.
He was completely submerged
in reading one of the latest ma
gasines while a fellow engineer
ing student was pouring over
his text books. The studious one
suddenly asked, "What is the
square root of six?"
Without looking up from his
magazine, our hero quickly re
plied, "2-7371."
"But that is the number of the
girl's dorm!"
Just what could this certain"
male have been thinking of?
caused a a0toJPT51?25 and
resenUfave from pharmacy ana
; J S'tafteoSK i
tabled until the next meeting oi junior class council, presemea a
n rh he sLbiect
?o wti&ation by theltudent bodyj
. (,at;on 0f
A reiegauon vl
four students
listed
the Council w ith a plan of parking
improvement. They cited, the eon-
jiAn rhiAnt narlnnff fafiliti;
KliCtouuca xv f .
mimvement to citeithe con
r n . . . t - fa mtie
and the lack of adequate parking
c , Ai7rW,n factors
w4tlull j i v.-v-. f" --r,
r .rs " ..r::J.V.-I.
m me campus uu&.uik aituatiuii.
No action was taken by the
Council, but the question will be
The Ag lectures and discus
sions will be on Wednesdays at
5 p.m. in the Ag Union lounge.
The same speakers will lead
similar discussions on city cam
pus in Room 31C at 5 p.m. on
Thursdays. Coffee will be
served after each discussion.
The Union convocations com-
nuttee is sponsoring iius oiscus-
sion. Sponsor, Bob La Shelle,
,cnanes swingle, von Meaa ana
Jean Davis.
senior year, five sophomores to
serve as junior AWS board mem
ters and live tresnmen
to fiH
sophomore board positions
year.
Coeds are asked to sign for an
interview with the senkrs at the
time they make their application
at Ellen Smith balL
In order to file, applicants must
meet the following requirements;
L Have a weighted S.7 aver
age.
2. Have earned by the end of
this semester a sufficient num
ber of hours to qualify them as
members of the class they wish
to represent. (89 hours for sen
iors, S3 for Juniors mA 27 for
sophomores).
2. Have no scholastic delin
quencies at the time of nomina
tion. Main functions of the AWS
board are making and enforcing
rules governing women's residence
houses, sponsoring Coed Follies
and sponsoring, with Kosinet Ktub,
the annual Ivy Day sing
Senior members and officers
of the board make up the AWS
court, which holds weekly ses
sions to counsel w itb coeds w bo
have broken AWS rules.
Another function of the board
is to regulate activity points of
University coeds. Lach girl is re
quired to have nj more than II
points under the newly revised
3 point system. j
Presbyterian church Sunday
morning.
A coffee hour honoring Dr. Koo
will be held in the Union lobby
from 3 to 4:30 p.m. All University
students and faculty members are
invited to attend.
The evening prayer service will
be led by Dr. Leroy T. Laase,
chairman of the department of
speech and dramatic art; Rev.
Richard Nutt, pastor cf the Meth
odist student house; Miss Alice
Otterness, of the National Student
Work board of the Lutheran'
church; Kay Guiles, University
student; Dr. C. Vin White, pastor
of First Presbyterian church; and
Dr. George W, Rosenlof, dean of
admissions.
An offering at the prayer
service will be taken for WSCF.
Thirty cents will cover cost of
the buffet supper.
As leader in religious emphasis
weeks in colleges and universities
throughout the country, Dr. Koo
snends manv of Ms weekends
j during the academic year in vis-
lung campuses ior uus purpose.
He has spoken to college stu
dents in many countries and has
been a leading figure in such
Guy Halferty, a state depart
ment official with the US Infor
mation service, will address the
Nebraska University Council of
World Affairs Thursday at 7:30.
Halferty has spent several
years in Malaya combating
wrong impressions of the United
States and trying to reach the
I j: j mrn;tu.i
meeting with the faculty.
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draw up their plan and submit it
approval at a later date.
flrtrt FlITTIS
To Ofer $300
I - f
H t Tnr4 fmrr4
Ul AWU nrrwivi
. . ... .
u companies has estab-
S -,howhio fund ith the
ITnivmil. Foundation, according
University Foundation, according,
to Perry W. Branch, foundation
director-secretary.
fund will provide a $300
scholarship for a senior
The
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VS-S VV r
.7 fr, ri?V f Fellowship (Those getting high mail scores
male student in the College of 't-uowsnip. be si lowed to enter the Ka-
Busmess Administration who has The meeting will be held at 7:30 tional Intercollegiate Bridge Tour
a special interest m consumer p.m. in Room 315, Union. Partici- nament
credit- . paUng will be Dick Hildebfand,t in conjunction with the Bfg
The recipient must be a grad- Rena Mae Willite, Ed Nilson and Seven match will be table tennis
uate of a Nebraska high schooL'Dick CampbelL chess tournaments. Three in-
have a good scholastic record and! Regular weeklv Bible studies diiduals from each school will
show promise of future success. are held in Room 223, Burnett haU, enter, the table tennis section, and
The scholarship, Branch said, is Fridays at 5 p.m. and at Ag Stu- two will represent their schools
one of the largest offered under- dent Center at 4 p.m. Fridays. iin chess.
graduate students in the Business
Administration college. The first
scholarship will be awarded for
by the scholarship committee of
the couege.
71TA flbnanac
Faction man: "Congratukte me.
Pve won the nomination.
Coed: (surprised) "Honestly?"
Faction man: "ICow, what in
thunder did you want to bring
up that point for?"
Reporter: "Haven't your opin
ions on this subject undergone a
change?"
Senator: "N"."
Reporter: "But your views, as
you expressed mem some lime
uext;asT
i Senator: Those were not my
views. Those were my interviews."
T A a. '
hixh temper-
ature should f
oe aoout
degrees with
partly cloudy
skies. Moder
ate winds are
predicted to
d I minlsh
Thin day,
and ram or
snow should
end some
time today.
One college
Snow
student: "I "think
this talk about a college man's life
being all wine, women, and song
exaggerated.'
Second student: "If certainly is
you never bear singing in a
dormitory."
First fraternity man: "Say,
Jim, I wonder if I could borrow
that blue necktie of yours?"
Second fraternity man:
"WhalTs the . maUen Couldn't
yon find U.V
'.'.
Collegiate: "Open this door."
Roommate: "Can't. Key's losL"
Collegiate: "Good gosh! What
would you do if there is a fire?"
Koommate; "I wouldn't go."
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world gatherings as the Oxford ;
conference, Amsterdam Confer
ence of Christian Youth and
Madras conference on the World
Mission of the Church.
A graduate of St. John's uni
versity in Shanghai, Dr. Koo re
ceived part of his education on
the "old classics" basis and part
in the modern system. He started
his career as an executive for the
Chinese railroads in 1909, later
turning to Christian student work
in China in 1919. He served as
secretary of the student division
of the YMCA of China and was
a member of the Second World
Opium conference of the League
of Nations in 1924.
Since then he has been one of
China's delegates to four of the
meetings of the Institute of Pa
cific Relations and an adviser to
the Chinese delegation to the
San Francisco conference in
1945.
During the war Dr. Koo spent
nearly three yearr in Japanese
occupied China, serving as lay
minister in Shanghai's community
church and as superintendent of
a maternity hospital.
Tihyr
diverse Malayan groups with
US propaganda. His problem
centers around the fact that US
movies of the "gangster" type
draw huge crowds and Malayan
newspapers play up discrimin
ating actions of the American
people.
In an attempt to correct im-
.pressions such as: the US is in -
fected with complete racial dis-
To
Add!
j crimination and chances of sur-' at the conference. They are to se
jvival on the streets of Chicago are lect a chief delegate and to list
oaa, tne ut is distributing litera-.'ne iirst three choices of nations
hire in Malaya through libraries. they wish to represent and send
Promotion of Voice of America the information to Charles Go
broadcasts is also an important m o n , UN Model Conference,
idcior in me program or truth,
The meeting- will be held in
Union room 316. Immediately
preceding it, at 7:15, will be a
Follies Try outs
The second series of tryonts
for between-act entertainment
for Coed Follies will be held
Thursday at 7 p.m. in Union
Room 313.
All women are eligible to
apply to Sue Holmes, AWS
committee chairman, at the
Kappa Alpha Theta .house
1545 S street Miss Holmes
stressed that those chosen to
appear in the Follies show will
not compete for honors.
There are openings for sing
ers, dancers, instrumentalists
and other types of short acts,
she said.
IVCF Meet TO Feature
Ca..J. n i
J,uaenl TUnei UlSCUSSIOn
A student panel discussion of
"I he Attributes of Cod" will be
featured at the regular Thursday
tmg :of Inter-Varsity Christian
P.M. Headlines
By CHARLES GOMON
Staff News Writer
Truman 'Keeps-Em-Guessing'
WASHINGTON Confusion
reigned supreme regarding the
possibility of President Tru
man's seeking re-election.
Every vistor coming out cf the
White House the past few days
has had a different story to
tell and each claims to get his
information direct from the
chief executive.
Rep. Sabath of Illinois got
the impression that Mr. Tru
man might make the "sacri
fice" and seek re-election if to
do so would serve world peace.
Benjamin G. Browdy, presi
dent of the Zionist Organiza
tion of America, said the
Beech Interprets Peace Talks
TOKYO Keyes Beech, for
eign correspondent for the
Lincoln Journal and Chicago
Daily News, outlined the feel
ings cf the American delegates
to the Panmunjom peace talks.
According Id Beech, "military
men on the scene feel that the
worst thing that could happen
would be for American impa
tience or political pressure to
force them to seek a sudden
military decion in Korea."
Beech points out that the
military situation has com
pletely changed in the last six
Allies, Communists
PANMUNJOM, Korea- Al
lied and communist negotia
tors agreed to exchange all
war prisoners within two
months after a Korean armis
tice is signed.
This decision was made in a
conference of staff officers.
The full truce-talk delegations
were in recess awaiting a
promised communist proposal
He left Shanghai, however, in
Sept. 1944, and reached Chung
king three months later, after
dangerous adventures escaping the
Japanese.
Hill III II III- !' "' "
DR. T. Z. KOO
r
Thursday, February 14, 1952
iress
short business meeting on
the
spring: conference.
Charles Gomon. chairman of the
conference committee, announced
ithat reports on progress being
'made in planning committee ses
sions will be made.
I He Stressed that anv nmanlreA
houses, relieious oreanizations.
! clubs of any type, or any group of
individuals may represent nations
imjlwa tsox, union.
Boys' Teams
Win Bridge
Tournament
Charles Wright and Harlan
Wiederspani Jerry Siegel and Jim
Foley are the two winning teams,
in the bridge tournament spon
sored by the Union activities com
mittee. ,
Ed Lewis and Don Williams,
Tom Colbert and Jim Knisely
placed second.
The four top place winners
will represent the University in
the Big Seven bridge tourna
ment to be held March 7 and
8. Teams will represent each of
the Big Seven schools except
Iowa State. Oklahoma, Colo
rado. Kansas State, Kansas
University, Missouri and Ne
braska will send entries.
The high eight from this local
TJl Zt It Jn
'SJST1'- -SfS
President told him he will
make up his mind in the next
10 to 15 days whether he
would run.
Abraham Feinberg, New
York hoisery manufacturer,
told reporters after his ses
sion with Mr. Truman that
the President hadn't made up
his mind and wasn't going to
do so in the near future.
Mr. Truman himself might
be following the keep-em-guessing
policy which the late
Franklin D. Roosevelt used be
fore announcing his candidacy
for his third and fourth terms
as president.
months while the truce talks
have been in progress. The
communist air force in the vi
cinity of Korea is now larger
than the U. S. 5th air force,
and it is now conceivable that
the allies might not be able to
hold air supremacy in a re
newed all-out war. Ground
commanders feel a communist
attack could be contained on
the ground if the Russians
don't enter the war, but they
are nt so sure they could
drive through to the Yalu with
the equipment now available
to them.
To Exchange Prisoners
for a full-scale Korean peace
conference.
The agreement on the ex
change of prisoners Just about
.winds up discussion on th
prisoner question execept for
one little detaiL The detail
envolves the most controver
sial question of all; U. N. in
sistence that prisoners shall
have the right to refuse repatriation.
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