Vol. 39, No. 79.
Students ask
Bell retention
in petitions
Request professor's
application for leave
be fully considered
Petitions addressed to the board
f regent requesting them to
make a "special effort" to retain
Dr. Karl H. Bell at anthropology
Instructor in the university are be
ing circulated in organized houses
and among students over the cam
pus, today.
Dr. Bell submitted a request to
the regents asking for a leave of
absence from his teaching duties
during the second semester of this
year, on Jan. 5.
Why petitions asking that Bell
not be permitted to leave the uni
versity should be drawn up by stu
dents couia not be definitely learn
ed. However, there is a belief
among those students who have a
more intimate knowledge of the
department in which he teaches,
that Dr. Bell may be leaving the
university because of possible fric
tion in that department. These
same students believe that once
granted the leave of absence, he
will not return to the university.
Announce Intent to Classe.
Students had no knowledge of
Dr. Bell's intentions of leaving the
university for a period of one se
mester until Monday of last week.
At that time, he read them the
written request which he had sub
mitted to Chancellor Boucher and
the board of regents. Dr. Bell said
that he felt that by letting his stu
dents know that he would not be
here next semester, they could
make changes, if they so desired,
in those courses which he was
scheduled to teach.
Gives reasons.
In support of his request for the
leave, Dr. Bell presented the fol
lowing points:
1. Since my election to the fac
ulty as Instructor In 1931, I have
without compensation, carried on
archaeological research and
taught research methods to stu
dents in the field for seven sum'
mers (all except 1935). While I ap
preciate the opportunities which
made the research possible and
have enjoyed the training of the
excellent students who were with
(See BELL on page 4)
Kosmet plays
due on Feb.!
Klub will pay $40
for best manuscript
Deadline of Feb. 1 for submit
ting scripts for the Kosmet Klub
spring show will not be extended,
Roy Proffitt, president, announced
yesterday. Work on the play to
be presented April 8 to 13 will be
gin after examinations.
A prize of $40 will be awarded
to the writer of the script se
lected for presentation, while the
next best script and the winning
song will each receive a prize
of $10.
Feature pony chorus.
The plays must be about two
hours in length and feature a
pony chorus. Judging will be on
the basis of applicability to an
all-male cast and on humor of
circumstance rather than on over
done puns and jokes.
Manuscripts should be sub
mitted at once to Roy Proffitt or
to the Kosmet Klub office on the
third floor of the Union. All rights
of production on the winning play
are reserved by Kosmet Klub.
Senning publishes article
Dr. John P. Sennlne. of the de
partment of political science, has
an article entitled "One House,
Two Sessions." nuhlishpd in tha
December number of the National
Municipal Review. It is an an
alysis of the last two sessions of
uie Nebraska unicameral,
IMebhasean
0ctoi Newspaper Of More That 7J000
Lincoln, Nebraska Wednesday, January 24, 1940
Pub beard meets
again today at 4
Publications board will recon
vene at 4 p. m. today to consider
applications for positions on the
editorial and business staffs of
the DAILY NEBRASKAN.
Applications for business man
ager, two assistant business man
agers will be considered along
with the applications for editor,
two managing editors, five news
editors, and one ag editor.
Due to the lack of time Monday
the publications board was not
able to Interview any candidates
for the DAILY staff except the
two applicants for editor. The re
sult of the Interviews has not yet
been announced but it was Indi
cated that the new editor would
be announced sometime during
today's meeting which will be
held in the Journalism library in
University hall.
Twenty-nine student Journalists
filed for positions on the DAILY
staff.
Students pay
fees Friday
Deadline to complete
registration is Feb. 1
To complete second semester
registration, students must fill out
class assignment cards and pay
their fees In Grant Memorial hall
between Friday, Jan. 26, and
Thursday, Feb. 1. Late fees will
be charged all students who do
not pay their fees by Feb. 1. Grad
uate students and Lincoln city
teachers, must pay their fees by
Feb. 17.
New students and former stu
dents not in school will register
and pay fees Friday, Feb. 2. They
will see the registrar at the south
door of social science building, and
their advisers and deans of their
respective colleges as directed,
Students must present their
identification cards and pictures in
Grant Memorial when they fill out
class assignment cards and pay
fees.
Changes in registration or as
signment will not be considered
until Monday, Feb. 5.
Lee article printed
"Playing by Ear" is the title of
an article by Miss Mable Lee.
chairman of the department of
physical education for women,
which is published in the December
number of the Journal of Health
and Physical Education.
University
One-half of all final grades
given In the university during the
second semester of the 1938-39
school year were 80 or above, ac
cording to a survey released last
week by university officials.
In addition to showing the me
dian grades fori colleges, depart
ments, and classes having an en
rollment of 20 or more students
the survey indicates the percent
ages of the enrollment receiving
grades in the sixties, seventies,
eighties, and nineties, and the
percentage which was given fail
ures, conditions and Incompletes.
The highest median on the list
ing of schools and colleges is a
figure of 89 for the school of
music. This means that over half
the students on an average In mu
sic school classes received final
grades of 89 or higher and the
other half were given grades
lower than 89. The law college
Is at the foot of the list with a
median rating of 77.
Bizad, arts, low.
With scores of 78 the college
of arts and science and tha col
lege of business administration
i rank almost as low as law college.
Students
Union session
to relieve
exam strain
Program of movies,
vaudeville scheduled
for Sunday, Feb. 4
as a relaxation between se
mesters, and as an aid to stu
denU in their efforts to forget
the long hours of studying which
accompany exam week, the Union
will present another laugh session
Sunday, Feb. 4, in the ballroom
at 4 p. m.
Featured will be two silent
films and a series of vaudeville
acts. The two films are a thriller
melodrama, "Marriage Cheat,"
and a comedy, "Cast Adrift and
How," starring Fatty Arbuckel.
Mortonl the magician will act
as master of ceremonies during
the show. Vaudeville acts will in
clude an exhibition of magic art
by Mortoni, tap dancing and im
personations by Irving Kuklin and
a strong man act by Jimmy
Mario. Mario's act will feature a
hand tap dance, a weight pulling
act and a series of hand balance
stunts.
Lincoln holds
birthday balls
Proceeds will be used
to combat paralysis
Lincoln will have two birthday
balls this year. An annual affair,
the proceeds of the ball go to the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis which conducts several
clinics and organizations to com
bat the disease.
The two balls will be held at
the Hotel Cornhusker and at the
Turnpike. Eddie Jungbluth and his
orchestra will play at the Corn
husker affair, and Johnny Cox will
pUy at the Turnpike party. Tick
ets are one dollar a couple. They
will admit couples to both the
Turnpike and Cornhusker parties.
Tickets are now on sale in the
Union office.
Fellman writes article
Dr. David Fellman of the de
partment of political science has
an article on "Intergovernmental
Taxation Today" published in the
current number of The Annals of
the American Academy of Polit
ical and Social Science. The Janu
ary issue is devoted to a discus
sion of intergovernmental rela
tions in the United States.
releases grade survey
Half of the students in the grad
uate school of social work had
grades above 88, putting this
school in second place. The me
dian grades for other schools and
colleges are as follows: engineer
ing, 79; journalism, 80; physical
education, 81; pharmacy, 83;
teachers, 83; agriculture, 4: and
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dentistry, 85,
The department of agricultural
engineering has the highest me
dian among the departments, with
a figure of 88. Two other ag
departments, agricultural journal
ism and entomology, and dental
science tie for second place, all
having 86 medians.
Physics has lowest median.
One-half of .the students in
courses offered by the physics de
partment had grades of 73 or be
low, giving this department the
lowest median.
The school of music had the
highest percentage of students
having semester grades of 90 or
above with 43 percent of its
grades falling in this score range.
Only 2 percent of poultry-husbandry
students made grades of
90 or better.
If the difficulty of couises may
Union program draws
approvaB of students '
That students are interested in. the Union, its administra
tion, activity, and service functions was revealed to the mem
bers of the board of managers last night when they met to hear
the report of the Alpha Phi Omega "skeleton hunt."
Purpose of the survey was to give the Union administration
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Journal and Star.
KENNETH VAN SANT.
He presents Union report.
Carnival plans
due Jan. 27
Coeds rack brains
to find booth ideas
Exam week pales to insignifi
cance as coeds rack their brains
in an effort to dig up novel and
original Ideas for booths to grace
tne annual Penny Carnival spon
sored by Coed Counselors.
Friday, Jan. 27, Is the deadline
for booth plana to be submitted
by organized women's houses at
Mrs. Ada Westover's desk in Ellen
Smith halL
To the house sponsoring the
booth voted best by Carnival at
tendees goes a loving cup. Win
ner for the past two years has
been Alpha Chi Omega with a
kissing booth in 193S and a date
bureau in 1939. If the Alpha Chi
Omegas win it this year, the lov
ing cup will find a permanent
home on their mantel.
In addition to any 1940 editions
of a kissing concession, Carnival
attractions will include free danc
ing and refreshment (not free)
stands.
Committee chairmen working on
the Penny Carnival are: Melva
Kime, booths; Ruth Grosvenor,
tickets; Mary Sherburne, loving
cup; June Bierbower, publicity;
Natalie Burn and Ruth Ann Shel
don, food; Jane DeLatous, danc
ing.
The weother
Gray clouds will float over most
of Nebraska today and tomorrow
with the mercury remaining at its
present low.
be gauged by the percentage of
students having grades in the six
ties the classes in chemistry,
mathematics and physics are the
most difficult in the university
In each of these departments 21
percent of the students had grades
between 60 and 70. In political
science courses 20 percent of the
a. . . a
linal grades were lower than 70.
Over 9 percent of students tak
ing courses in romance languages
political science, physics, chemis
try, physics, mathematics, geol
ogy, English, operative dentis
try, and architecture
were given conditions, incompletes
or failures. For the entire unl
versity the distribution of grades
was as follows: failures etc., 8
percent; grades in the sixties, 10
percent; grades of 70-80, 32 per
cent; grades in the eighties, 38
percent; and grades of 90 or
higher, 12 percent.
A class in the romance lan
guage department had the low
est class median which was 68,
The median in a music school
course was 92. According to the
survey me median for courses
which are primarily of a fresh'
man level is 69 and that for
courses above 100 is 82.
a foundation upon which to base
future policies and to give the
board of managers a barometer of
student opinion concerning present
programs.
The board also acted upon sev
eral proposals advanced at previ
ous meetings. Proposals consid
ered and passed by the board
were: first, subject to the approval
of the board of regents, the plans
for a music room to be located in
209, and second, the purchase of
curtains and necessary lights for
the ballroom stage. The board
also decided to improve cold lunch
room facilities for students who
bring their lunch to school, and
accepted the report of Miss Helen
Claybaugh on the proceedings of
the convention of Unions at the
University of Florida,
Results from 1,203 questionnaires
Two thousand questionnaires
were passed out for the survey
during the months of November
and December. Of these, 1,203
were answered, returned and tabu
lated. Questionnaires were passed
out In orientation courses, teach
ers college, ag college, and the
college of arts and sciences. Many
of those turned In were not com
pletely filled out
Concensus of the board of man
agers was that perhaps too many
questionnaires were given to fresh
men and that too many were given
to particular colleges, in short,
that distribution was not quite as
representative as it might hava
been.
Get their money's worth.
First portion of the survey
sought to determine whether the
student used the Union enough to
get his money's worth out of it. la
answer to the question, have you
been in the Union, 1,077 answered
Yes"; while six answered No.
About half the students ques
tioned, use the Union every day;
whue the other half use it weekly,
monthly, or very seldom.
When asked it they get the full
benefit of Union membership, 502
students on the city campus an
swered yes, 200 answered no. On
the ag campus 115 answered yea,
and 160 answered no.
Food Is O. K.
Second part of the survey was
designed to check student opinion
concerning the activity, food, and
publicity functions of the Union,
Among the activities those groups
which have been meeting for the
longest time showed an over
whelming student Interest as
compared to those groups which
(See UNION on page 4)
Pre-law group
forms society
21 charter members
adopt constitution
At a meeting of pre-law stu
dents held last night in social sci
ence auditorium, 21 charter mem
bers unanimously adopted a con
stitution for the newly organ
ized Young Advocates association.
The constitution which calls for
monthly meetings of the associa
tion will be presented to the Stu
dent Council for approval at the
council's next meeting. Any pre
law student Li good standing is
eligible for membership In the new
club.
Gradwohl Is speaker.
Preceeding the adoption of the
constitution Bernard Gradwohl, re
tiring president of the Lincoln
Young Barristers' association, ad
dressed the meeting speaking on
'The Young Advocate."
"Lawyers must be jacks-of-all-trades,"
stated the speaker in
stressing the importance of a lib
eral education for legal students.
Blaine Sloan, Geneva, was elect
ed president of the association fol
lowing the adoption of the con
stitution. William Kitrell was
made vice president and Deloris
Carter was unanimously elected
secretary. The pre-law students
made Prof. R, E. Cochran faculty
I adviser.