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Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
VOL. XXXV1K ISO. 131. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 27. 1938 FIVE CENTS
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Union Signs Orrin Tucker
Saucsl CampbstIL
PRACTICAL
THEORY
It is the comnvm complaint of
university students, especially the
seniors (excepting the engineering
mental giants that there are all
too few practical courses offered
in the curriculum. Activity work
ers use this complaint as an argu
ment against "bookworm in g and
as a point in favor of activities
which are supposed to teach one
how to get along with his fellow
men and women.
It is a bad thing to become em
bittered against a university edu
cation and to feel that one has
become a sucker by spending time
and money for erudite but im
practical courses. Of course, right
away the philosophers will ask for
a definition of what is "imprac
tical." We donl intend to solve the
problem of the utility of higher
education in this space. Some other
day, perhaps. It is merely our wish
to brighten the corner where we
are by giving you some practical
tips on classroom behavior so that
you may spend your time in the
classroom to the best possible ad
vantage. Sleeping.
Take, for instance, the prob
lem of sleeping in class. To
many students it is no problem
at all, at a cesutt f constant
practice. But by a great many
more, advioe is sorely needed.
Nearly everyone, at some time,
has gone to class against his
better judgment when his head
felt thicker than a mystery plot
and he found himself nodding
like a yea-man at a convention
of dictators. Not being versed in
the art f sleeping in class un
noticed fay the instructor, he has
found himself behind the eight
ball. (It is a tittle off the pres
ent topic, but it is rumored that
spaoe behind the eight ball is
very crowded these days and
there is standing room only.)
For the benefit of the student
who doe not know the finer points
of sleeping In dans undetected we
have noted the various methods
i-mployed by experts along that
line unit hereby set them down.
First, be prepared for the future.
When the class first meets and
scats are being; chosen at random,
pick out one of the middle rows.
This might seem foolish at first,
but look at the psychology behind
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Ivy Chain Participants
Practice Today at 5:00
All coed who are to take par
in the Ivy day ceremony May S,
will practice today at S a. m.
in room 203 of the Temple.
Purpose of the meeting is to
learn the processional song.
William C Tempel wiH direct
the singmg.
Every organized woman's
housa mm the campus is entitled
to send one senior, one junior
and one sophomore representative.
Men Air Views of 'Hades'
Ladies9 Stand on Women
Howell, Deger Hold Theory
Of 'One and Only Girl
For Every Boy.'
Campus comment grown daily
over tlie "women are all the
same" philosophy of the current
Kosmet Klub show, Hades' La
dies.' AlUio pTO and oon arguers
may be found among both sexes,
it seems that In general the men
tend to agree at liast in part with
author John Edwards, while the
women gravitate toward a rebut
tal of the 1 henry.
Feeling that the question offers
Interesting possibilities. the Ne
bruskun ims undertaken a 7oIl tif
the opinions held by various stu
dents. Since the show carries tin
Jl ouUa cast nd. a tuuauMxi by
REGENTS
AFFIRM
SIAPP REVISIONS
FOR NEXT TERM
Faculty Turn-Over Installs
Wadsworth as Romance
Language Head.
Eh-. Harry Kurz, chairman of the
department of Romance Lan
guages,, was granted a leave of
absence for the coming year at
a meeting of the University Board
of Regents Tuesday morning.
Several other faculty changes
were approved including the ap
pointment of C Eeitrand Schultz
as instructor in the depaitment of
geology and the retirement of
John M. Chowins, veteran me
chanic in the physics department
who is the school's oldest em
ploye in point of servioe, having
been employed 51 years.
Wadsworth Acting Chairman.
Dr. James K. Wadsworth was
named acting chairman to take
the place of Dr. Kurz who next
year wiH assist in organizing a
department of romance languages
at the newly established Queens
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Weektv Council Broadcast
Describes Annual Ag
College Affair.
Nebraska's Kampus Kalendar,
the weekly quarter hour program
under the sponsorship of the Stu
dent Council, broadcast last night
at 8:15 over KFAB a word-picture
of the events which are slated to
take place on May 7 on the Ag
campus when the annual aimers ,
Fair is in progress.
A dialogue, supposedly taking
place on the grounds of the fair,
was presented by LaVerne Peter
son, president of the Farmers' Fair
board and Ted Doyle. The script,
patterned after candid camera
shots, accurately described the
planned parade, horse show con
testa, and fair atmosphere.
Fur-maliing music lor me dtobci
cast were a mixed chorus and a
male quartet which win be r ong
the attractions that the fair will
have to offer.
Eva Jane Sinclair, member of
the Student Council publicity com
mittee, is in charge of ail broadcasts.
men, it seems only fair that the
men be allowed to speak fust.
Johnny Howell, who portrays
Sitting EuU in the production,
startled the interviewer by de
claring, "There's a one and only
woman for every man, and 1 be
lieve that love is the real McCoy!"
thus refuting Edwards theory
that '"love is only an illusion that
one woman is diflerent from an
other. Weroena ry Women.
Paul Wagner, Konmet Klub
member, took another viewpotnt in
saying, "Mont women are alike, 1
believe., atlho a few are different.
Mom coeds are alike they all
want t.hre dut.es a week with a
smooth inty with a car."
Cluirlcs P.i'iliy, who takes the
role of Harold Smooch in '"Hades'
Ladie.h," t.uid when asked if be
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Faculty Faces
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Lincoln Journal.
DR. HARRY KURZ.
Gets leave of absence.
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C BERTRANO SCHULTZ.
Teaches Dr. Barbour's classes
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JOHN M. CHOWINS.
. .Retires after 51 years.
Council lu Ohm New
Union Doard Today at 3
Members of the student council
will elect candidates to fill the po
sitions on the st udent union board
which will be vacated by the old
members in May at a meeting in
U nail this afternoon at 6:00
o'clock.
The council will vote on the ao
ce.;rtane c-f the men's point sys
tem which they had submitted to
popular vote in the last election
and and which was approved by a
three to one majority.
Plans will also be discussed con
cerning the spring election to be
held iiert month, according to Al
Moeeman, president ox the organi-
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Popular Gotham.
Dance Orchestra
Plays Here May 6
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BARBOUR GO 10
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Nebraska Heads to Study
Problems of Other
Universities.
Helen Pascoe, newly elected pres
ident of the A. W. S. board and
Jane Barbour, retiring president,
will leave this evening for East
Lansing, Mich., where they will
be Nebraska's delegates to the
midwest district convention of the
Associated Women Students for
which the A W. S. of Mii-higan
State will be hostesses from Thurs
day thru Saturday.
The representatives from an
middle western colleges and uni
versities will discuss mutual prob
lems of women students and com
pare methods of solving these dif
ficulties. According to Miss Pas
coe, the Nebraska delegates will
concentrate their efforts in learn-
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PKEUKOXW TAKES UFE
OF UNIVERSITY STUDEKT
William Kaska, Fairmont,
Dies Following; Two-Month
Illness Seig-e.
William KmkL university
sophomore in College of Engineer
ing, died Monday at his home at
Fairmont after a two months siege
of pneumonia. The IS year old
boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. A. Kukka and the brother of
Melvtn Kuska, who is a university
freshman.
William graduated from Exeter
high school. For the last two
months be had been in a Lincoln
hospital but had returned to his
home a few days agn.
Survivors, besides his parents
and brother Mejvin. are his grand
parents. Mr. and Mr. Anton Ku
ka of Ohiowa, a brother, Donald,
who is with the Tri-County irriga
tion project, and an uncle. Val
Kuska of Omaha, cokmizaUon
agent for the Burlington railroads.
MISSES
PAS
CONCLAV
University Mechanic Resigns
In Spring as Oldest Employe
John Chowins Manufactured
Reflector Telescope
In Observatory.
Fifty-one years apo John M.
Choviria came to the University erf
Nebraska as general shop man
hired by the university's first pro
eair of physics, Dr. D. B. Brace.
Tliis sjiring Mr. Cliowins retires
as the oldewt tmiversity employee
in point of servioe, leaving a
physics department that is vastly
different froin the tffie be found
when he started his career as a
mechanic in 1KB".
During his eaily years at the
university, Mr. Chowins did some
caf the janitoring f the physics
bi'Dclmg as well as his work as
mechanic . Later when Bi aoe lab
oratory was completed and the
new )uiuiit infflallwL CUywuis
Van Sant Inaugurates New
Union Program; Tickets
Priced Economically.
Orrin Tucker and his 20 niece
dance orchestra, now arrearin
at the Hou-1 Roosevelt in New
York, will inaugurate formally
Nebraska's Student Union pro-
ORRIN TUCKLR
gram the evening of May 6, ac
cording to Kenneth Van Sant, di
rector of the Student Vnkm.
Tickets will go on sale the day
of the dance, at $1.10 per couple,
"The Union's policy win be to
obtain splendid musical organiza
tions like Tucker from time to
tune thruout the year. The admis
sion prices will be set as low as
possible so that any student liking
to dunce need not be deprived of
the featured orchestras," stated
Van Sant yesterday.
Tucker's band, one of the top
flighters among the nation's dance
orchestras, is heard several nTshta
a week over Lincoln's KFOR at
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InivrTMtv Donnilorv
Corporation Accept
In ion as 'Completed
The University Dormitory cor
poration at its meeting Tuesday
accepted as substantially compile
the S400.OO0 student union building
at Hth and R sta. The building,
which has been in process of erec
tion since early in 38-7 is prac
tically ready for student u. At
the jTesent time furnishings anJ
equipment are being installed t1
ground cleared of debn. The
first TlSrty "iH be held in the
builiing on the evening of May i.
devaled himself entirely to th
maj'hinery.
The veteran employee found his
work in Brace lab much different
from that of his earlier yeara.
When he arrived in there was
scarcely a trxd in enck'noe in the
laboratonei except one ftnit po--r
wood lath and those tools that he
had brought along with him.
Since then be has d'rte various
assignments by himself, occasion
ally aided ly students wnrktrf
jnrt time. 14 1 m'urt rucerrt work is
the new reflector telesoojie which
is now mounted in the olisen-aior-y
on the agricultural campus Cow
ins designed T"' sujierviseij Mtt
mounting of the mirror and tut
and he tnjilt the frtting for the in
strument himself. He also was re
sponsible for building the trio'irtt
ings for the large magnet which
is uned for research pmposel it