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LINCOLN, JNKHKASKA, THURSDAY. MAY 4, 1933.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
COMMITTEE
BRINGS
IN FINAL REPORT-ON
ACTIVITY TAX PLAN
Group's Findings Approved
By Student Council to
Appear on Ballot.
Following a detailed investiga
tion by a special committee com
posed of student council members,
the final report of the findings of
that body were brought before the
student council last night in the
fi.,oi fmm which will aDDear on
the student ballot, and approved
unanimously by that body.
Designed primarily to benefit
those students who do not partici
pate in student activities at the
present time, the tax embodies
provisions for nearly every major
campus function carried on by
student participation.
The tax on activities, as pre
sented in the ballot presented by
Howard Allaway, chairman of the
committee, amounts to approxi
mately $9.30. It was stated at the
time by Chairman Allaway how
ever, that the figures were sub
ject to downward revision.
Purpose For Tax.
As set forth in the ballot form
approved by the council, the prime
motive for establishing a tax of
this type on the Nebraska campus
is to spread the cost of activity
participation over the entire stu
dent body, in addition to support
ing th existing activities with the
proper revenue.
Following the approval of the
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MUSEUM ML HOLD
Geology Department to Show
Phases of Work
Taken Up.
Many curious processes and ex
hibits will feature the museum
and geology department open
house in Morrill hall Thursday
evening, May 4, from 7 until 11.
The laboratories and exhibit rooms
will be open to the public, and
there will be students to conduct
the guests thru and explain the
various exhibits.
In the geology laboratories will
be shown students at work on the
various phases of the work taken
up by that department. Their fea
tured exhibit will be a process
showing how it is possible to dis
till oil from oil shale which is
plentiful in Nebraska. Another
laboiatory will be given over to a
group of students working on min
erals and rocks and explaining the
methods by which they are identi
fied and refined. There will be
charts and specimens showing the
rot k formations which underly
Nebraska.
The featured museum exhibit
will be the gigantic elephant which
was mounted a short time ago and
i the largest land mammal that
has ever been found in any part
of the world, while the laboratories
will le open to show and explain
the methods and processes of col
lodion and preparation for exhibi
tion. W. A. A. Outing Chili
Will Sponsor Picnic
A picnic sponsored by the W. A.
A. Outing club will be held Friday
at Pioneer park. All girls wishing
to go are invited to meet at the
Armory at 11:30. Each girl is to
furnish her own lunch.
(croups Will Mvttt in
Armory at 10 O'clock
All members of the Daisy
and Ivy Chain groups are
asked to meet at 10 o'clock in
the Armory. Daisy Chain
carriers are to be dressed in
pastel and Ivy Chain carriers
ar v be dressed in white.
OPEN
HOUSE
TONIGHT
Ivy Day Program.
9:00 a. m. Interfraternity sing
10:15 a. m. ...Ivy day oration
10:30 a. m. Daisy and
Ivy Chain processional
10:45 a. m. Coronation of...
the May queen
11:00 a. m. Ivy day poem
11:10 a. m. Planting of the Ivy
11:20 a. m Recessional
1:00 p. m. . Intersorority sing
2:15 p. m. Masking of
...new Mortar Boards
3:30 p. m. Tapping of ....
new Innocents
OF
FOR ENGINEERS TO
BE
Open House Will Feature
Experiments and
Displays.
Climaxing a week of activity
engineering students will wind up
their annual Engineer's week to
night and Friday with their open
house, Engineer's day, and ban
quet in the evening. A full week
of preparation and work has in
sured this to be a successful week
according to students in charge of
the affair.
Open house which will be held
tonight starting at 7:30 and con
tinuing thru 11:00, will feature
displays, exhibits, and experiments
in all the various departments.
Window displays in several down
town store windows have adver
tised a few of the exhibits which
may be seen at the open house.
Exhibits of Interest.
Demonstrations for open house
includes experiments and exhibits
of unusual interest. Two of the
most interesting experiments is
the campus exhibit by the students
in the electrical department which
consists of a photo-electric device
for separating white from black
balls and a novel three way sign.
In using the photo-electric device,
balls roll down a chute and pass
under an intense light. A photo
electric cell is located near the
light.
These cells are sensitive to light
and act like "electric eyes." When
a white ball passes thru, sufficient
light is reflected on the cell to
operate it and cause the current
to flow. This current is then
ampified and made more positive
in its action by means of amplifier
tube and thyrotron tube.
This amplified current is then
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TO COM IN SING
A. W. S. Board Will Sponsor
Annual Ivy Day
Event.
Beginning sharply at 1 o'clock
today fourteen Greek groups will
compete in the annual intersorority
sing sponsored by the A. W. S.
board. The three judges will base
their decision upon the following
things: .
Tone quality, 25; phasing and in
terpretation 30; ensemble, 25; se
lection of songs, 10; and appear
ance 10. The judges for this event
are: Oscar Bennett, music super
visor of Wesleyan university and
Homer Compton, also voice in
structor in this school.
The order in which the sorOrities
will appear is: Alpha Chi Omega.
Alpha Delta Theta, Alpha Omicron
Pi. Alpha . Phi, Alpha Xi Delta,
Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta.
Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta,
Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta,
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu,
Pi Beta Phi. If any group is not
present when it is railed, it will
be forced to drop out of competi
tion. All rules governing: this contest
ar the same as in former years
with the exception that chapter
songs may be used in place of orig
inal melodies as was the case in
previous sings. Ea.ch sorority will
sing two songs.
WEEK
ACW
II
FRIDAY
FOURTEEN
SORORITIES
E. REPORT
T BILL IS
E
Figure Half Way Between
Senate and House
Proposals.
A conference committee report
on the budget appropriations for
the coming biennium, which prac
tically split the difference for uni
versity appropriations between the
senate and house recommendations
was laid on the desks of the state
legislators Wednesday. Whether
or not the conference report will
be adopted by the house remains
in doubt as several members of the
house are determined in their op
position to increasing the appro
priations for the university and
the state normal schools.
The conference report proposes
an appropriation of $3,331,680, for
the university which is approxi
mately half way between the bud
get passed by the house for $3,123.
450, and ther ecommendation of
the senate for $3,557,250. The lat
ter figure is practically the same
as recommended by Governor
Bryan
Lumped Into One Sum.
The conference committee, how
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HOLDlERSlCTED
BY STUDENT COUNCIL
Group Adopts Activity Tax
Committee's Report
Unanimously.
The four members who will be
held over to next year's council
were elected at the regular meet
ing of the student council yester
terday afternoon. Those elected
srve are: John Gepson, Lucille
Hitchcock, Martha Hershey, and
William Eddy.
The report of the activity tax
committee, under the chairman
ship of Howard Allaway, was
made, and adopted by the council
unanimously. Three revisions
were made, however, in the pro
posed tax before it was accepted.
A report on the consitution of
the inter-club council was received,
and tabled to be taken up at a
later date. The final report on the
investigation conducted by the
council into the system of chap
eroning used on the campus was
approved. Full contents of the re
port will be published at a later
date, stated" Phil Brownell. presi
dent of the organization.
Explanations to Come
Final approval of the plans
for presenting the student ac
tivity tax plan to a student
referendum was given by the
Student council Wednesday to
its committee working on the
plan. A number of alterations
in the original plan have been
made and were approved by the
council.
A full explanation of these
various changes cannot be in
cluded in this issue of the Daily
Nebraskan because of lack of
space. The Nebraskan will con
tinue to give publicity to this
matter, particularly emphasiz
ing in the next few issues the
reasons for the changes in price
which have been made, and
the inclusion of items not origi
nally proposed for the tax
plan.
Today, am editorial explana
tion of the reason for the in
creased cost of student athletic
tickets is given. Watch the Ne
braskan for further explana
tions of various features of the
plan now definitely approved
for submission to the student
body.
CONFERENC
BUDGE
BE
LEGISLATORS
INTEREST GIVEN
IVY DAY EVENTS
Thomas lilair Predicts
Showers for Ivy Day
Prospects of fair weather foi
Ivy Day weie at a minimum, as
ihomas A. Blair, chief of the uni
versity weather bureau, predicted
occasional showers and little
change in temperature for today.
A bulletin from the Mortar Board
society yesterday stated that in
case of rain the opening event on
the Ivy Day program would be
held in the coliseum.
NTERSORORITY SING
STARTS AFTERNOON
EVENTS OF WY DAY
Naming of Senior Honorary
Society Merbers to
End Program.
The afternoon program of the
Ivy Day ceremonies will start off
with the annual sorority sins, in
which fouiteen organizations have
signified their intention of enter
ing. The event is sponsored by the
A. vv . S. board, which awards a
trophy to the winner.
The introductory speech, prior
to the masking of the 1934 Mortar
Boards, will be delivered by Mrs.
F. D. Coleman of Lincoln, national
president of the society. Masking
of the Mortar Boards will take
place at 2:30 p. m. The number of
girls masked varies from year to
year, there being ten masked last
year.
At 3:30 p. m. Dr. Condra will
speak briefly upon the function of
the Innocents society, and imme
diately following, the tapping of
the Innocents will take place.
The evening program of Ivy Day
will include the Engineers' Open
house, and Pharmacy Night, in
which displays, of the two colleges
will be made.
GANTT WILL TALK AT
ENGINEERS' BANQUET
Bion Arnold, Former Uni
Student, to Appear on
Program.
Rounding out the program for
the annual Engineers' banquet, the
climaxing event of Engineers'
week at tne university uie
committee in charge announced
Wednesday that Robert A. Gantt.
vice-president in charge of engin
eering operations for the Postal
Telegraph company in New York
City and a graduate of the univer
sity in 1909. had telegraphed
his acceptance to appear on the
banquet program Fiiday evening
at the Lincoln hotel.
The banquet program may now
boast of two speakers, both of
whom are outstanding in the field
of engineering and nationally
known in their profession. Besides
Gantt. Bion J. Arnold, well-known
consulting engineer of Chicago and
also a graduate of the university,
is scheduled for the program.
Verne Hedge, national president
of Sigma Tau, engineering honor
ary fraternity and prominent in
state and national engineering
circles, has lxen secured as toast
master for the affair. Chancellor
E. A. Burnett of the university and
O. J. Ferguson, dean of the college
of engineers, however, may be
called upon for informal talks.
A native of Nebraska, having
formerly resided in Falls City, Mr.
Gantt lias had an outstanding
career in the field of communica
tive utilities. After his graduation
from the university in 1909, he im
mediately entered the employ of
the Nebraska Telephone company
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Arrangements Are Made to
Broadcast Program
Over KFAB.
Student interest Tliiusl;iy
will center on Ihe tiaditional
Ivy Day ceremonies to be held
mi the "Ivy Dav pla vjrroiind
ween Administration and 1
halls, under the sponsorship of
Mortar Board society. In event of
snowers wnicn are. torecast for
Thursday, the Coliseum will be
utilized and all events run off as
scheduled.
Arrangements have been made
to broadcast the full morning's
program over KFAB. Gertrude
Clarke, member of Mortar Board,
stated.
A sixty piece band under the
direction of Billy Quick is sched
uled to open the program with a
fifteen minute concert at 8:43
o'clock. At nine, the interfrater
nity sing under the sponsorship of
Kosmet Klub, will begin, with fra
ternities singing in , alphabetical
order. Approximately eighteen
groups have entered the sing.
To Deliver Oration.
At 10:15, Ralph Rodgers, Ivy
Day orator who was elected to that
position by the law college, will
deliver the annual Ivy day oration,
speaking on "An Appeal to Loy
alty." This event has been held
in the afternoon in previous years.
Following the oration, the
trophy donated by Ben Simon
and Sons will be awarded the win
ner of the interfraternity sing.
At 10:30, the ivy and daisy
chains which herald the approach
of the May Queen processional,
will start from Grant Memorial
hall. All senior girls are eligible
to help carry the ivy chain and
are asked to dress in white for the
occasion. The daisy chain will be
carried by two girls from each of
the three lower classes of each so
rority, who will dress in pastel
shades.
Change in Leaders.
A correction in the leaders of the
ivy chain as announced Wednesday
list Margaret Reedy, unaffiliated,
as one of the leaders in place of
Margaret Eroady. Carolyn Van
Anda, Kappa Alpha Theta. wiil be
one of the leaders of the daisy
chain instead of Rosalie Lamme.
Other leaders of the procession
are Ruth Bernstein, Marjorie
Quivey, and Harriet Dunlap for th
ivy chain, and Mildred Huff, Mur
ial Moffitt, and Alice Pedley for
the daisy chain. All leaders have
been chosen on the basis of campus
service and activities, a member of
Mortar Board slated.
A picked chorus of two girls
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FIFTEEN WILL COMPETE
Winner of Interfraternity
Sing Will Be Awarded
Ben Simon Cup.
Fifteen fraternities will compete
in the interfraternity sing, spun
sored by Kosmet Klub, in the
event that opens the Ivy day cere
monies this morning. The groups
entered in the contest will sing in
alphabetical order.
The trophy to be awarded to the
winning fraternity is donated by
Ben Siujon's and Sons. The Magee
cup went into permanent posses
sion of Beta Theta Pi last year for
winning the event for three suc
cessive years.
Judges for the sing who were
selected by the Klub are: Cath
erine Kimball, former chorus lead
er and music instructor; Ed Walt,
proprietor of a local music house,
and H. J. McCullen, musician. Both
Walt and McCulla have been
judges at previous interfraternity
sings.
Ivy Day Chorus H ill
' Melt at 10 O'clock
Members of the Ivy Day
chorus are to meet on the
grounds north of Administra
tion Building near the throne
at 10 o'clock.