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Vol. 40, No. 75
Council plans Big Six meeting
The Student Council has in
vited delegates from each of
the Big Six conference councils
to attend a convention here
Thursday, Friday and Satur
day of next week.
Each school is planning to
send at least four delegates, and
some advisers may attend. In
dependent students, coming as
delegates will stay at various
Capitol
Personalities
Ed.: This is the first of a
daily series of personality
sketches, introducing the men
of the legislature. Short biog
raphies of them, coupled with
a review of some of the meas
ures they are introducing, we
hope will create a greater in
terest among our readers in
the men and hills at the legis
lature. Introducing Senator Jack
Price, short, fluent in conversa-
Journal and 8tur.
( JACK PRICE
tion and well tailored and rep
resenting the district in Lincoln
in which two-thirds of those at
tending the university are
dwelling.
Being interested greatly in his
legal profession, his work has
(See PRICE, page 4.)
Yearbook calls
beauty queens
Candidatea,eo-editor
meet tomorrow at t
Instructions concerning the
elimination contest to decide can
didates for Cornhusker Beauty
Queens will be given to entrants
by beauty queen co-editors Pris
cilla Chain and Betty Dodds at a
meeting to be held at the Kappa
Alpha Theta sorority house to
morrow at 4 p. m. All candidates
must be present.
Selection of beauty queens for
this year is to be entirely different.
Candidates will be presented be
fore a local judging board at a
tea in the Union faculty lounge
between 4 and 5:30 p. m. Thurs
day, Feb. 20. The board will then
select 12 girls to be entered in the
final contest which will be judged
by George Petty, famous modern
cartoonist and artist.
The 12 selected will have pho
tographs made to be submitted to
Petty for final judgment.
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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Lincoln, Nebraska Thursday, February 6, 1941
barb houses while affiliated
delegates will be lodged at their
sorority or fraternity house.
Breakfast will
be served at
the respective
houses, accord
ing to Ruth
Clark, chair
man, of the
c o nvention
c o m m i 1 1 e e.
Luncheons and
dinners, how
ever, will be
eaten together.
"We want
this convention
to go over
big," explained
Ruth Ann Shel
don, vice presi
dent of the
Journal.
John Miimtn.
Council, "and since Nebraska is
instituting the idea, it's up to us
to make it a success."
After the registration at 2 p. m.
Thursday, Feb. 13, the convention
opens and a general meeting
will be held under the direction of
Johnny Mason, Student Council
president, in the Union.
Discussion groups under the
leadership of each of the attend
ing colleges will occupy a great
deal of time during the three days
of the convention. Nebraska holds
the first one Thursday afternoon;
then Kansas State at 10 a. m. Fri
day, Iowa State at 2 p. m. and the
University of Kansas at a dinner
meeting from 6 until 7 p. m. On
Drew speaks
on modern
literature
Noted critic lectures
in Union today at 4;
wife of Brian Downs
"The Modern Spirit in Litera
ture" will be the subject of a lec
ture by Elizabeth Drew, noted
English literary critic, in parlors
XYZ of the Union today at 4 p. m.
Dr. Louise Pound of the English
department will introduce Miss
Drew, who is spending the year
in the United States to lecture and
escape the nazi bombardment of
England. In private life the wife
of Brian Downs, a lecturer at
Cambridge, Miss Drew is a reg
ular contributor to the Atlantic
Monthly and similar publications.
She has written several books,
"Discovering Poetry," "The En
joyment of Literature." "Discover
ing Drama," and "Directions in
Modern Poetry." written in col
laboration with J. L. Sweeney.
Her latest, "Directions in Modern
Poetry " received this comment in
the book review section of the
New York Times:
"She is an admirable reader with
a fiair for quotation and a patient
analyst. She has a fine literary
knowledge and a natural sense of
style."
Gov. Griswold
suggests UN
do
rcscareJ
"tf the legislature wants to
do something in the way of re
search a new commission is not
needed just appropriate the
money to the university agri
cultural college," said Governor
Dwight Griswold yesterday.
The governor was referring to
a bill introduced by Senator Frank
Son ell. Syracuse, .which would
create an agricultural and indus
trial development commission. He
suggested that by the appropria
tion of funds to the ag college,
the desired research could be car
ried on.
NEBRASKAN
Saturday Missouri U. has theirs
at 10 a. m. and Oklahoma at 2
p. m.
Problem discussion.
Various problems will be dis
cussed in the groups, such as
"Services That Student Coun
cils Can Perform on the Cam
pus" by Iowa State and "Po
litical Parties and How Student
Elections Are Handled" by Kan
sas State. Smaller discussion
groups will probably be formed
after the problem is introduced.
To facilitate the handling of the
(See COUNCIL, page 2.)
Mortar Board
holds banquet
on birthday
Founders Day meeting
features Black Masque
honorary initiation
Mortar Board will hold its an
nual Founders Day banquet this
Saturday in the Union at 12:15.
Plans are being made to accommo
date alumni coming from all over
the state.
Mrs. F. D. Colman, national
Mortar Board president, will be
the speaker on the program. Mrs.
Colman is a resident of Lincoln
Feature of the Founders Day
banquet will be the initiation of
members of the Black Masque.
The organization was a local hon
orary on the campus from 1904
until 1921 when it became na
tional. The local organization of
Black Masque became the twelfth
national chapter of Mortar Board.
Black Masques reinitiated.
Those members of Black
Masque automatically became
members of Mortar Board, but
many of them have never been
able to see a Mortar Board initia
tion service, so they will be ini
tiated after the banquet.
Pat Sternberg, president of the
local chapter, will speak and Jean
Simmons will play a piano solo.
Ruth Clark is in charge of the
banquet arrangements and the
program.
Stiff shirts,
long shirts
out at Ball
To provide an escape from the
stiff shirts and long skirts of the
social season, members of the In
terfraternity Ball committee an
nounced last night that students
will dance to the music of Joe
Sanders, the "Ole' Left Hander,"
informally. The ball date has
been set for Saturday, Feb. 15.
In keeping with a policy estab
lished during past balls, any per
son desiring to sell ten tickets will
get a free ticket to the ball.
Tickets can be checked out from
John K. Selleck's office in the
coliseum, next Monday. Tickets
will also go on sale that day at
points most convenient to stu
dents. Jack Cole, chairman of the com
mittee, announced that plana are
being made for additional enter
tainment for the dancers in the
way of a floor show. "We have
nothing definite on it yet," he said,
"but we are making an attempt to
give those students who attend
the ball a little something out of
the ordinary."
Word from Sanders yesterday
said that his band will feature the
comedy numbers and singing of
"Red" Hodgson, writer of the im
mortal "Music Goes 'Round and
Round."
kims
sorority
Numerical future of the sorority system on the Nebraska
campus hangs in the balance today as Panhellcnic machinery
swings into operation to enforce a sorority quota system passed
by representatives of the (!reck women at the last meeting of
the Panhel Council.
Designed to strengthen the system by building- up the
weaker houses, the quota plan has been rejected several
times since its original proposal a year ago. Final passage
of the motion was carried by a 9 to i majority, two groups
not voting.
Under the new regulation sororities may pledge only the
number of gir's which their respective houses will conveniently
accommodate. The regulation is passed as follows:
"A sorority planning system is to go into effect on
the University of Nebraska campus as and of Jan. 6, 1941.
The total membership of house girls must comply with the
capacity of the sorority house. House girls are defined as
any girl whose home is outside of Lincoln or any girl not
living with relatives in Lincoln. The architect's plans of
the house, where available, are to be consulted to deter
mine the number each house can accommodate.
Alt ho the measure has been passed, and mechanics of the
plan go into operation today, several questions still remain to
be ironed out when details of administration are tested under
operating conditions. For example, what will happen to houses
deemed to be already overcrowded, how far can the council go
in the enforcement of its prodigy, and will houses be able to
evade the ruling by moving to larger quarters?
National Panhellenic, governing board of all national
sororities, has been urging such a policy for several years.
According to their logic the large, strong houses will be
prevented from taking a surplus of. girls which they do
not need and cannot handle; while the weaker houses will
be able to interest more of the available girls.
The question of whether the total number of CJreek women
will be materially reduced depends on two factors. One, the
disposition of the impartial committee which in the next few
weeks will determine the capacity of each of the houses, and,
two, the pledging status of next year's freshmen women, to be
decided by a committee now drawing up the new rushing rules
for sororities. According to the action taken last year by the
(See QUOTA, page 2.)
Uni Theatre . .
Thespians present Key Largo9
as impressionistic drama
When the University Theatre
presents Maxwell Anderson's
i "Key Largo" Feb. 11, it will rep
I resent the first attempt of a uni
versity theatrical group to depart
from the realistic interpretation of
the play in favor of the more
symbolic, impressionistic style,
according to Armand Hunter, di
rector of the Theatre.
"The style of production
which we are using in our pre
sentation of the play is entirely
experimental, and the first of
its kind by a college group, at
least to my knowledge," Hunter
stated.
"The chief criticism of the play
as it was presented in New York
City last year was that the realis
tic settings used and the mood
embodied in the play contrasted
greatly," Hunter added. "That ha3
always been cause for criticism in
Anderson's plays. In 'Key Largo,'
critics said, Anderson made the
actors points of view and not
people."
One important variation from
Ag college alum
teaches in Indian
dairy institute
James N. Warner, ag college
graduate, '36, is now teaching in
the Agriculture Institute in Alla
habad, India. Warner was on the
winning dairy products judging
team here and won a fellowship to
Iowa State where he got his mas
ters degree.
bolster
set-iop
the usual style of production
will be in the lighting. No gen
eral lighting will be used.
AIEE beads
will visit bere
Organization president
to speak Wednesday
Members of the American Insti
tute of Electrical Engineers will
be host to their national president,
Dr. R. W. Sorensen, when he visits
the campus next Wednesday. Dr.
Sorensen is head of the depart
ment of electrical engineering at
California Institute of Technology.
He will be accompanied by the na
tional secretary.
Dr. Sorensen will greet student
members of the Nebraska branch
of AIEE at 11 a. m. in room 206
of mechanical engineering hall,
and he will be a guest at a noon
luncheon in the Union for College
of Engineering faculty members.
In the evening he will be the
principal speaker st a dinner
meeting of the Nebraska section
of AIEE at the' Omaha Athletic
club at 6:30.
H. H. Henline of New York
City, national secretary of AIEE,
is accompanying Dr. Sorensen on
his visits to sections and branches
in this part of the country. Prof.
L. A. Bingham of the university
electrical engineering department
is chairman of the Nebraska sec
tion. , .