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IIOIVIECOMING A C T I V I
TIES SPOTLIGHT this week's
festivities on campus as stu
dents twist and stuff crepe
paper for displays, campaign
for queen and try to get some
studying in on the side. This
year, the SDirit organizations
have reintroduced a tradition
on campus in the form of the
Saturday morning Homecom
' ing parade. Jimmy Dorsey's
Band will provide the music
for the dance tomorrow night.
COUNCIL TO INVESTI
GATE ROTC and make ap
propriate recommendations to
the Board of Regents. The
investigation will attempt to
find out if the student body is
in favor of compulsory ROTC.
It was pointed out that less
than ten per cent of the stu
dents that take compulsory
ROTC continue on to advanced
ROTC.
FRATERNITY MAKES
PLANS for admission to In
terfraternity Council (IFC) as
it becomes more active on the
University campus. Kappa Al
pha Psi fraternity, composed
mainly of Negroes, will pre
sent a statement of their aims
and purposes to IFC in the
near future. The group has
four actives and will initiate
18 pledges in December.
CITY . . .
LINCOLN UNITED FUND
campaign reached 60 per cent
of its goal this week with con
tions totaling $449,314. A goal
of 85 per cent was set for to
day in order to keep slightly
ahead of last year's pace.
SUNDAY CLOSING LAW
was followed by several Lin
coln merchants Sunday as
they closed their doors in com
pliance with the new contro
versial law. Other Lincoln
drug stores and grocery stores
stayed open and reportedly
were selling anything on the
shelves to customers. County
Attorney Paul Douglas said
charges of violating the law
would be filed against those
constantly open.
STATE
NEBRASKA UNICAMERAL
MET in the 74th special ses
sion in its history to consider
credit finance legislation and
items related to the 1963-fi5
budget. Legislation concerning
eminent domain powers for
watershed districts, licensing
provisions for bottle clubs and
authority for the Unicameral
to seek advisory opinions from
the Supreme Court will also
be brought up.
OMAHA POLICE AR
RESTED 49 Negroes who be
gan singing the National An
them during a regular meet
ing of the City Council. They
were demonstrating for an
"open occupancy" ordinance.
The 41 adults were charged
with disturbing the peace and
disturbing an assembly.
FINANCE INDUSTRY PRO
POSED credit finance bills
designed to reduce penalty
provisions in existing interest
rate laws. There is some di
vision within the industry as
to whether penalties in the in
stallment loan act should be
changed to interest only or
double interest. The four
measures the industry pro
posed are drafted so as to
give them retroactive effect.
NATION
AMERICAN SHIP STRAFED
off the coast of Cuba by an
unidentified aircraft. Later
Havana radio announded that
its planes attacked a ship in
that area which was carrying
saboteurs and arms.
HUNGARY BOUGHT CORN
in the first shipment of Ameri
can grain which will be sold
to Iron Curtain countries this
fall. The Commerce Depart
ment approved the shipment
by issuing a license for the
export of the 1.2 million bush
els of corn. This is about one
third of the corn the Commu
nists are expected to buy and
only a fraction of the $250
million worth of wheat this
country hopes to sell them.
"OPERATION BIG LIFT"
ran smoothly as the biggest
test of American airlift capa
bilities got under way. Bad
weather forced some planes
to land at alternate bases, but
nearly 4,000 troops of the 2nd
Armored Division were flown ;
to Germany from Ft. Hood. !
Tex., during the first 36 hours
of the exercise. Officers were
confident that the 14,500-man
division would be delivered in
Frankfurt, Germany, as
scheduled within 72 hours of
the first departures from Texas.
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DELTA SIGMA PHIS puts the finishing touches on
their buffalo head. The heavy mane was made by dieing
twine and separating it. Pictured, left to right, are Roger
Meisenbach, Ron Hilgenfeld, Tony Cass, Greg Kropp and
Mark McKay.
Vol. 77, No. 20
By Susan Smithberger
Senior Staff Writer
The time has come for all
good men and women to
finish their homecoming dis
plays, join parades, witness
the crowning of the queen,
and cheer the Cornhuskers to
victory. It's here!
Within a few short hours, at
6:30 p.m. the rally parade will
begin at the Carillon Tower
and proceed to the Union for
the rally and crowning of the
1963 Nebraska Homecoming
Queen. Her majesty has been
chosen by student vote from
ten finalists: Janee Band a,
CU Band
May Play
'Anything'
The University has invited
the University of Colorado
band to Nebraska campus for
homecoming festivities and
has announced that .the band
may play anything they wish.
The band was invited to
play in the rally parade Sat
urday morning.
Previously the rally com
mittee, composed of repre
sentatives from Tassels, Corn
Cobs, yell squad and the band,
had considered asking the
Colorado band not to play
Colorado songs in the Satur
day morning parade. .
They had felt that since the
parade was for promoting
Cornhusker spirit in down
town Lincoln, Colorado songs
would be out of place.
However, in light of past
tradition, they felt they could
not do this. Under advice of
Donald Lentz, music profes
sor, the group learned that
there is a tradition .among
bands to invite them to par
ticipate in any parade being
held when the guest was in
town.
4-H'ers To Attend
Chicago Congress
Eight University of Nebras
ka Freshman will be dele
gates to the National 4-H
Club congress at Chicago
UccemDer l-a, according to
W. M. Antes, state leader of
4-H for young men and women
at the University.
Names of the delegates are:
David Kraeger, Lynn Wulf,
Gene Wehrbein, Carol Boyd,
Kenneth Mass, David Cook,
Dona Holcomb, Jan Portz.
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Carol Bieck, Polly Brown, Ca
rol Lea Klein, Bonnie Knud
sen, Sandy McDowell, Mary
Morrow, J 0 a n i e Skinner,
Becky Yerk and Sally Wilson.
The queen will be crowned
by Chancellor Clifford Har
din. Her two attendants will
be presented also. The ten fi
nalists will ride in the rally
parade.
After the rally, homecoming
displays will be in operation.
Lincoln and University police
will direct all automobile traf
fic on the following route : be
ginning at 17 and R, west to
14th, north to S, east to. 16th,
north to Vine. There the traf
fic will be routed east and
west out of the University res
idence area.
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Ulums Begin festivities
Wifh' Hrrimls, Reunions
Homecoming is scheduled
for tomorrow, but many
alumni activities will begin
today.
This afternoon the "Cali
fornians for Nebraska" dele
gation will arrive at Munici
pal Airport on a chartered
plane. The 116 Californians
will attend the Homecoming
luncheon tomorrow and then
will proceed to the game,
where they will sit in the west
Service Award To
Former NU Dean
A former Nebraskan, Dr.
Clyde A. Nelson of Milford,
Del., will receive the distin
guished service award from
the University College of Den
tistry Alumni Association
here tonight.
A 1918 graduate of the Col
lege of Dentistry, Dr. Nelson
served as associate professor
on the University staff and
later as acting dean of the
College of Dentistry. In 1921,
Dr. Nelson joined the staff of
the L. D. Caulk Company of
which he was appointed di
rector of research, a post he
held until retirement in 1960.
Dr. Nelson served as den
tist for the first and second
Byrd Antartic Expedition and
for the Sir Hubert Wilkin's
Expeditions. He also served
three consecutive terms as
president of the Delaware
State Dental Society.
University
Complete
By Mark Plattner
The United States Staple
and Crepe Paper Co. Ltd.
has reported that sales have
nearly tripled in Lincoln.
The chicken farmer near
Nebraska Hall reports that
all of his hens have run
loose since someone stole all
of his chi'.icsn wire during
the night.
TfA,se are incidents that
could possibly happen dur
ing that frantic and hectic
week before Homecoming.
If you put all of these re
ports together, yon will find
the fact that Homecoming,
or the Arsonist's Revenge,
is upon ns. As the wind
blows the different colored
crepe paper (folded neatly
into little squares) around
the campus; displays are
finished.
The crib is empty. Teach
ers find that the average
grade on a test is a three.
This is all the result of
Homecoming.
What good is Homecom
ing? The display chairmen
have varied views on this
question. The main concen
sus is, "If it were canceled,
I would complain, if it were
to be continued, I would
gripe."
It is felt that working on
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The living units are asked
to keep their displays running
untill all traffic has been
cleared from the area.
A parade at 9:30 a.m. Sat
urday will go through the Lin
coln business district and
back to campus. Leading the
parade will be the University
band. Also participating will
be the Homecoming Queen,
her attendants and the other
seven finalists, the cheerlead
ers and the pom-pom girls.
The victory bell will also be
displayed.
The Cornhuskers will play
the Colorado Buffaloes Satur
day afternoon. The Queen and
her court will be introduced
to the capacity crowd. All
tickets for this game are sold
stadium. The expedition,
which was organized by the
Southern California chapter
of the Nebraska Alumni As
sociation, will, return borne
Sunday evening.
. Members of the University
of Nebraska College of Den
tistry Alumni Association will
hold their annual reunion to
day and tomorrow at the
Nebraska Center. This morn
ing a coffee hour was held
from 8-10. Elections and gen
eral sessions are planned for
this afternoon.
This evening a dinner-dance
party will be held at the Lin
coln Country Club starting at
7 p.m. Tomorrow the Dent
School Alumni will attend the
game as a group.
The annual Homecoming
luncheon sponsored by the
Nebraska Alumni Association
will be held at the Lincoln
Hotel. A social hour will begin
at 11 a.m. Saturday and the
buffet luncheon will be served
at 11:30. Around 300 alumni
are expected to attend the
luncheon.
Czech Club Announces
First Semester Officers
Officers for first semester
were presented at last week'6
meeting of the Comenius
Czech Club
New officers are: Jim Jan
ousek, president; Sophie
Fedorch'ik; vice-president;
Betty Walker, secretary and
Lavern Dvorak, treasurer.
Architects
Decorations
the displays help the fresh
men meet other people on
campus. The Greeks arc
united in a friendly compe
tition. Fraternities improve
relations with neighboring
sororities.
The displays bring credit
and beneficial publicity to
the campus. What better ex
ample of University spirit
and brotherhood can be
shown than through houses
working to build a display
that will be a credit to
them and the University.
It is also felt that it would
be better to have a dance
that the whole campus
would support, and show
spirit in this way. Due to
the costs in building a dis
play, the amount of time
taken away from studies,
and the fact that these dis
plays are up for only a short
time, many students feel
that the display part of
Homecoming should be dis
continued. But it seems that every
one will be out again next
year, doing the same fold
ing, cutting, stapling and
painting. The dances will go
on again, Negative Rain
Dances, to keep the sun
shining brightly on THE
Homecoming display.
Friday, Oct. 25, 1963
out, according to James Pit
tenger, athletic ticket direc
tor. The Lee Castle and Jimmy
Dorsey orchestra will play for
the Homecoming Dance to be
held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at
Pershing Municipal Auditori
um. The Queen and her at
tendants will again be pre
sented. Winners of the home
coming displays will be an
nounced at the dance.
University coeds will have
two o'clock hours that night.
Special permission is neces
sary for overnights, out-of-towns,
or going home.
Homecoming Traditions Include
Queen, Displays, Parade, Dance
Are you sorority and fra
ternity members seeing chick
en wire and colored napkins in
your sleep (that is if you get
any sleep)?
In 1942 there were no house
displays due to the War. In
that year, the Innocents
staged a scrap metal drive
for the trophies. They also al
lowed a $5 banner to be made
Ten Queens
Will Parade
At Half-Time
Nebraska's 1963 Homecom
ing half-time ceremonies pre
sented by the Marching Band
will feature the "Parade of
Queens."
This year, ten NU co-eds
who have previously held
titles will be the stars on the
field at half-time.
The Nebraska band will
form three different forma
tions for each group of girls,
and a separate one for this
year's Homecoming Queen.
The queens will be escorted
onto the field as their names
are announced.
Featured in the first group
will be the Army, Navy, and
Air Force queens; secondly,
Miss Rush-Week, Miss E
Week, and the Typical Ne
braska Co-ed. The Activities
Queen, Band-Supported Lady, ;
and Nebraska Campus Sports
Queen will be presented with
the third formation.
The honored Homecoming
Queen of 1963 has her own
formation and is escorted
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SORE FINGERS, colored bright red, are the results
of stuffing numberless bits of crepe paper in a Cornhusker
creature. The Beta Theta Pis and Kappa Alpha Thetas
have found these identifying characteristics on their
hands.
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ALPHA TAU OMEGAS reprint the nose of their mon
strous buffalo. Doing the work are Dallas Likens, Lynn
France, Gary Gettman and John StasiowskL
on the theme of the war ef
fort or the game. The amount
of scrap iron and the origi
nality of the banner won the
prize.
The alumnae from 1912
might be surprised and
pleased to learn that over the
years the maximum amount
for homecoming displays ha6
risen from $25 to $250.
Homecoming dances have
been held in the Union Ball
room, the coliseum, and now
in Pershing Auditorium. The
price of tickets has gone up
from 50c in 1938 to the pres
ent $3.50 per couple.
At the 1923 homecoming the
first house displays were in
troduced. Also during home
coming that year Memorial
Stadium was dedicated.
In 1930 tfie University re
ceived national recognition
for a huge bonfire. It was 40
feet across the bottom and
about 50 feet high. The ma
terials for the bonfire plus 50
gallons of crude oil to keep
the fire burning were donated
by various merchants.
In 1937 and 38 there were
no homecoming Queens. In
1938, however, the dance was
Sakai Retained To Edit
Asian Study Publication
Dr. Robert Sakai, professor
of history at the University
of Nebraska, was retained as
editor of Studies on Asia, a
publication of the 20-state Mid
west Conference nn Asian Affairs.
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spiced by a drawing for an au
tographed football signed by
the football squad and the
coach.
1941 saw another large bon
fireseven trucldoads of pa
per and boxes that had been
donated by various people. In
that year special trains from
Denver and Missouri brought
alumnae to the Homecoming
festivities.
In 1943, house decorations
were limited to $7 because of
the war. The government al
lowed no bonfires, so wire
works were substituted. Uni
versity students didn't know
if tfiey would have any cheer
leaders for the game that
year or not they were chosen
only one week before the
game.
The card section returned
to the stadium in 1945 along
with pep and enthusiasm.
There was a tug of war and
students burned the Jayhawk
symbol before the game that
year.
The fraternities and sorori
ties gave their homecoming
money to the Polio fund in
1952.
1959 saw the last parade
until now because of extra
expense and time required.
OOOOOO.
VJeekend
VJeather
Lincoln: Partly cloudy and
cooler Friday and Saturday.
High 65-70.
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