Fraternities adopt central control system
Moving to knit fraternities more
closely together, to provide a clear
ing house for all matters of fra
ternity business and to make the
services of the Interfraternity
Council available to all organized
houses throughout the year, mem
bers of the Interfraterity Council
Judiciary Committee last night
adopted a plan calling for the es
tablishment of an office of Inter
fraternity Secretary of Affairs on
this campus.
Used on other campuses.
Following a setup similar
to
one used by fraternities at Ohio
university, which has one of the
strongest systems in the country,
the new plan gives one junior man
the post of secretary for a period
of one year; carrying with it full
responsibility and control of In
terfraternity affairs on this cam
pus. Because of the importance and
work connected with the position,
this man will be allowed no other
extra-curricular activities. How
ever, under present plans, this one
activity will carry as much weight
towards membership in the men's
senior honorary as a conglomera
te of three or four other regu
lar activities. This post also will
carry a monthly salary.
Four assistant secretaries.
Working under the Secretary of
Interfraternity Affairs will be four
assistant sophomore secretaries.
They will serve in that capacity
throughout their sophomore year,
with limited outside activities.
One of these men will be chosen
to serve as Secretary of Interfra
ternity Affairs during his junior
year, upon the basis of his work
as an assistant secretary.
All men who will be Juniors
next year and who belong to a
fraternity can file for the position
of secretary today and tomorrow
in Dean Harper's office in the ad
ministration building. Filing will
close tomorrow noon. Those men
who will be sophomores next year
and who are interested in serving
as assistant secretaries should file
by tomorrow noon in Harper's of
fice.
Those men who have already
filed for the positions open must
get an interview appointment at
Dean Harper's office by tomor
row noon.
On Monday night, members of
the Judiciary Committee will in
terview all men who have made
application for positions. The in
terview will begin at 7:30 and will
be held in room 305 of the Union.
Members of the Judiciary Com
mittee are Col. C J. Frankforter,
Dean Harper, Prof E.- C Sch
ramm, Tom Horn, Jack Cole, Chris
Petersen, and Clark Kuppingcr.
The names of the men they se
lect for these posts will be an
nounced next week.
To take office immediately.
Men selected for these positions
will take office immediately. They
will serve for the remainder of
this year and all dnrlng the com
ing school year. Their work for
the rest of this year will consist
of setting up their office and
readying their activities for the
1941-42 session.
Under the new plan, a regular
Interfraternity Council office will
be set up in room 305 of the Union.
The new Secretary and his assist
ants will keep regular office hours
daily throughout the year, and
will handle all matters relating to
rush week, this coming year.
The new Secretary will act as
contact man for the fraternities
and will work in conjunction with
the administration of the univer
sity. His job will be one of build
ing a more thorough spirit of co
operation among fraternities, han
dling of all Interfraterity Council
projects and work, and in general
act as a clearing house of all mat
ters of general fraternity interest
and importance.
Under this svstem. the Secretarv
of Interfraternity Affairs will au
tomatically become secretary
treasurer of the Interfraternity
Council.
One of five top activities.
His position will be of import
tance to the extent that it will be
rated as one of the five key posi
tions on the campus in men's ac
tivities. After the plan has been set up
and is working, the new outlay
will provide places this fall for
freshman workers who will point
themselves toward obtaining one
of the four assistantships during
their sophomore year. The follow
ing year, one of these four men
will be chosen to serve as Secre
tary of Interfraternity Affairs.
Such a setup provides the Inter
fraternity Council and the indi
vidual fraternities with men who
have been in fraternity work all
during their university career and
who have proved themselves ca
pable of holding the important po
sitions of assistant secretaries and
secretary.
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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 40, No. 111.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, March 28, 1941
Question of sending food
to Europe
is topic of six-man panel
"Shall America feed the starv-, Ralph Schroeder and Lowell
lng peoples of Europe" will be the
topic for an oral battle which will
be waged in the faculty lounge of
the Union this afternoon at 4 p. m.
Keeping the discussion on the
question organized will be Dr. G.
W. Gray, professor of history, who
is the university's man-of-the-hour
on European affairs.
Tri Delts, Kappas take
Suzanne Woodruff
cups;
Follies
is BDG
The roundtable discussion to
which students are invited is the
third one this year sponsored
jointly by the DAILY NEBRAS
KAN and the Union.
Spring ballot
barb filings
close April 5
Filing for barb party candi
dates for the spring election close
on Saturday, April 5, according to
an announcement made yesterday
by Bill Dafoe. Having both the
backing of the Barb Interhouse
Council and the Barb Union, the
following rules have been posted
to govern the application for nom
inations: Any unaffiliated student desir
ing endorsement for office by the
barb party shall file a petition
with the president of the Barb
Union mr Interhouse Council not
later than Saturday, April 5.
Anyone thus seeking endorse
ment shall agree to abide by the
decisions of the party and support
the candidates endorsed. Petition
blanks are available in the barb
office, room 307 of the Union.
Selection of the candidates will
be made after a joint Barb Union
Interhouse Council elections
committee has met to consider and
recommend candidates. Names of
all petitioners will appear on the
ballot when the final decision is
made by joint action of the two
bodies.
Ullcy to speak
on book nook
program today
Students are invited to attend
the book nook broadcast this aft
ernoon at 4:15 in the Union.
Frank Egan, commentator, will
have as guest speaker Clifton Ut
ley, convocation speaker of this
morning.
A new contest will be announced
on the broadcast in which stu
dents will have opportunity to win
prizes each week.
Johnson, chairman and associate
of the Nebraska branch of the
Committee on Food for the Small
Democracies, and Currin Shields,
senior honor student in political
science, will defend the Hoover
and other programs for setting up
relief commissions where they are
needed.
The opposing side, which will
(See PANEL, page 3)
Clifton Utley
speaks today
at uiii convo
Speaking at a public university
convocation today at 11 a m. will
be Clifton Utley, director of the
Chicago council on foreign rela
tions. His topic will be "The
United States and the Control of
the Future.' He will speak in the
Temple.
Utley has studied at several
foreign universities and has
traveled extensively in Europe,
gaining recognition as an author
ity on international affairs.
Following the convocation he
will be a guest of the American
Defense group of Lincoln's execu
tive committee whose personnel
is Thomas C. Woods, E. J. Faulk
ner, L D. Beynon, P. F. Good, W.
B. Roberta, Rev. M. V. Oggel, and
Dean C. H. Oldfather. The lunch
eon will be held at the University
club.
Tonight Utley will address an
open meeting of the newly formed
American Defense group of Lin
coln at Lincoln high school. He
will speak on "American De
fense." The public is invited.
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Suzanne Woodruff, pictured here, succeeded Maxine Kings
bury, Delta Gamma, as the Best Dressed Girl on the campus when
her selection as BDG for 1941 was announced at the Coed Follies
last night. Runners-up in the contest were Bttte Rathburn, Delta
Gamma, and Margaret Owen, Pi Beta Phi. Miss Woodruff is a
member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
TIN sinAont pxhihits shptrhos
Fourteen home , , . . T .
attend niade on voyage by freighter
Delta Delta Delta sorority
won permanent possession of
the skit cup at the Coed Fol
lies last night by beating all
rivals for the third successive
time. Given for the first time
this year, the curtain act cup
was won by Kappa Kappa Gam
ma sorority.
Presentation of the BDG and
runners-up climaxed the show
when Suzanne Woodruff, Kappa
Kappa Gamma, stepped from
behind the lid of a huge hat box
as Best Dressed Girl on the
campus and Marge Owen, Pi
Beta Phi and Bette Rathburn,
Delta Gamma, appeared as ru
ners-up.
Nineteen girls competed for tha
BDG title this year and all tho
defeated canfifates modeled for
mals in the style show just pre
ceding the announcement.
BDG outfit.
The BDG was dressed in a'
molded white crepe evening gown
trimmed with a wide blue and red
belt, exemplifying her taste for
simplicity in clothes. The dresa
had a back, short puffed sleeves,
and a V-shaped neckline orna
mented by a sparkling clip.
Delta Gamma was named the
second place winner in the skit
contest and Sigma Delta Tau re
ceive! second in the curtain act
competition. Other groups entered
in the show were Pi Beta Phi,
(See COED FOLLIES, page 3)
cc women
late convention
A delegation of home economics
women will attend the state home
economics convention at Grand
Island tomorrow.
Highlights of the convention
will be a tour of several mills, a
special tea, large reception, and
a banquet at the Yancy hotel.
After the business meeting, plans
will be made for the coming year.
Those making the trip are Wini
fred White, Leah Howell, Eleanor
Crawford, Merle Eveland, Clarice
Worley, Carol Chapman, Marie
Anderson, Jean Burr, Norma Jean
Campbell, Maxine Copple, Dee
Shill, Frances Simon, Retha
EdeaL and Barbara Koutsky.
"The flagship of the Lykes
Brothers-Ripley Steamship com
pany's West Indies and South
American fleet of freighters. She
took me to Cuba, Panama, Cen- publish some day,
tral America, South America and
the West Indies.
freighters in the merchant marine
in 1937 and made the drawings
during the trip. He plans to use
them for his manuscript "Freight
er to Spain" which he hopes to
Late report
adds senior's
name to PBK
Due to a late scholastic report,
the name of Lucille Eugene
Schultz of New York City waa
omitted from the announcement
of the newly elected members ot
Phi Beta Kappa, Prof. C. M.
Hicks, secretary of the chapter
announced yesterday. Miss Schultz
is a senior in arts and sciences
and brings the total number of
FBK's this year to 39.
"She zoomed along at 12 knots
an hour ard bucked like a mus
tang in a rough sea."
This is the inscription under a
sketch done by Phillip Ainsworth,
Nebraska student More than a
dozen of his sketches are being
exhibited in the Book Nook this
week,
Ainsworth was a cadet on two
The sketches include black and
white and colored scenes in Cuba,
Spain and countries in Central and
South America. Also exhibited are
two drawings made in 1936 of a
"post office tower" and Joslyn
Memorial at night.
Among the sketches are Morro
Castle and the capitol building at
Havana, Cuba, several sketches of
the cathedral in Cadiz, Spain and
Fort Vauban, which guards the
entrance to Port Bouc, France.
Organized groups must
file for representation
Any organization that feels
that it merits representation
on the Senior Council, newly
organized senior class group,
should make its request for
membership in writing before
Wednesday, April 2. The re
quests should be sent to John
McDermott president of the
senior class, in care of the
DAILY NEBRASKAN.
