The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, May 13, 1941, Image 1

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Rosenlof reports deferment possibility
reasonable assurance that
college students will not be In
ducted into the army during the
semester in which they are called
for military service features a new
announcement concerning selec
tive service regulations, Dr. G. W.
Rosenlof, registrar and university
examiner, reported yesterday.
Major problem now confront
ing students and prospective
students is plans for the future
In war-time abroad, and Briga
dier General Hershey, acting di
rector of selective service, has
authorized an interpretation of
the announcement of the Selec
tive Training Service act of
1940, to clarify the situation.
His interpretation places the
question of deferment in the hands
of local draft boards. Basis for de
ferment for college students Would
be "unusual hardship."
His announcement reads:
rfht Daily Iebraskam
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Vol. 40, No. 140.
l-F council chooses
SKiolm for presidency
Elected last night as the new were Walt Rundin, Sigma Alpha
interfraternity council chief execu- Epsilon, and Bill Hastings, Acacia,
tive was Kenneth Holm, Sigma Nu Tne council announces that rush
president. Holm won over Chris cards will be available at seven
Petersen, Kappa Sigma.
To the post of vice-president the
council elevated former treasurer
Clark Kuppinger of Alpha Tau
Omega.
Since the new secretary of in
terfraternity affairs will assume
the duties of secretary-treasurer
of the organization, the two other
officers elected to the executive
board were chosen as "officers at
large." Elected to these positions
Mrs. Roosevelt
to address nation
on aid to allies
The Committee to Defend Amer
ica by Aiding the Allies, with Wil-
liam Allen White as honorary
chairman, will present Mrs. Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt in a radio broad-
cast tonight at 8:15. Mrs. Roose
velt's topic will be "Today's Chal
lenge to the Youth of America."
The talk will be "aired in Union
parlor Y for students interested in
this aspect of defense. An open
meeting will follow.
The parlor
will be open at 8 p.
m.
The program, Student Roll Call
for the Aid of the Allies, is broad
cast by the college division of the
committee in conaDoration wun
Student Defenses for Democracy.
Banquet
honors barbs
in activities
Recognition for outstanding
work done by barb, during the
year is the main feature of the
annual barb spring banquet to be
held in the Union next Saturday
night at 8:30 p. m.
Awards to the outstanding
freshman men are to be presented Although some of the graduat
as well as recognition pins to ing senior officers are being de
eighteen freshman girls for their ferred, more have applied for ac
participation in activities. Two tive duty and have already re
scholarship awards will be an- ceived their papers than ever De
nounced by Dorothy White, presi- fore,
dent of BABW. Newly elected of-
fleers of organizations are to be Military department officials
honored as reports on the year's say that men are not needed badly
h nut. n either the infantry or the ar-
going presidents.
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Tickets can be secured in the
barb office anytime Thursday and
Friday or from any Barb Council
member. The price is 50 cents per
person, and activity tickets are
not acceptable.
"The time specified for report
ing for duty shall be at least ten
days after the date the order is
mailed; provided, in any cases
where unusual Individual hard
ship will otherwise result, the lo
cal board may, whether or not
the order to report for induction
has been mailed, postpone the
time when such registrant shall
so report for a period of not to
exceed sixty days from the date
of such postponement, subject,
however, to further postpone
ment upon good cause being
shown."
General Hershey has inter
preted this ruling and states that
an unusual hardship might con
stitute the induction of a regis
trant at the normal time if the
registrant requires additional time
within which to complete a course
of instruction or training or take
,an examination after completing
such a course.
Olt'icial Newspaper Of More Than 7,000
- Lincoln, Nebraska
o'clock Saturday morning.
DU debate
team meets
ZBT tonight
Robert Chambers and Bud John
son of Delta Upsilon will meet
Yale Gotsdiner and Robert Passer
of Zeta Beta Tau tonight in the
semifinal round of the Interfrater
nity debate tournament. Winner
will debate against Sigma Alpha
Mu in the finals.
Delta Upsilon has debated only
twice, both times with Sigma Al
pha Mu, winning the first time
and losine last week. Zeta Beta
Tau naa won three times, and lost
only to Sigma Alpha Mu.
Statement for debate is, "Re-
solved: That the English speaking
nations should make a formal al-
liance for their common Interest
and protection." Taking tne ar-
firmative side of the question will
be Delta Upsilon.
Debate will be held at the chap- ment to increase the size of the ad
ter house of the affirmative team, visory board from 12 to 15 mem
Delta Upsilon, at 7 p. m. Three bers. Similar business will be dis
former members of the varsity cussed at a city campus Y meet
debate squad will be judges,
ROTC program is no bottleneck
Compct, inspection feature remaining activities
Despite repercussions in the
Balkans or strikes in big business,
one phase of the national defense
program is progressing -ooth.y
t. w .vpnffI of the
HM IJIfUtll ttLJ'MlfJ O.SC "B
made for the big"
year tor the university ROTC
federal inspection, annual cpmpetl-
tinn summer encampment ana
. m
calls for active duty.
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tillery, and, therefore, deferments
are being given to almost all who
desire them.
However, engineers are wanted
and a group of forty engineers
.win vw. rrrnHnntprl in June
traveled, to Fprt .Crook yesterday,
This amendment and its in
terpretation is applicable to a
student completing a course
during the summer session. It
may also apply to any student
regardless of his course or year
in college.
Local board decides.
Important to remember, said
Dr. Rosenlof, is that postponement
of induction is not on a blanket
basis since the local board must
make its decision upon the facts
of each case presented to it. In
arriving at its decision, Dr. Rosen
lof points out, the board will be
guided by the above interpreta
tion. Rosenlof further stated that
students may secure from their
local boards a fairly accurate
estimate of the date they will bo
called for inducthn.
"If the student's order number
is such that he will probably not
be called until after the semester
Students
, , . . ....
luesday, May Id, 1 cJ4 1
For first time
Coeds attend
ROTC band
banquet
When the ROTC varsity band this week,
allows the women to appear at
their traditionally "men only" an- The finance office has an
nual banquet, its news. This year nounced that all fees for the next
for the first time the bandsmen semester should be paid on or be
will bring dates to their affair, fore Sept. 3, cither in person or
scheduled for 6:30 p. m. on Fri- by mail,
day.
Although a statement of fees
The admission of women to the
banauet marks the beeinnine of a
new band policy of extended so-
cial activity sponsored by the hon
orary band fraternity, Gamma
Lambda.
Primary purpose of the yearly
gathering is the presentation of the
band key awards. To five mem
bers of this year's organization
(See BANQUET, page 3)
Ag YM meets
today to discuss
summer plans
Plans for contacting prospective
aer college freshmen dufcng the
COmine summer will be made at a
meeting of the ag YMCA to be held
tonieht at 7 r. m. in 303 ag hall.
All ag Y members are urged to at
tend, stated Carl Epp, president.
Members will vote on an amend-
ing rnursaay in me iempie.
where it was reported they all
were given physical examinations.
On June 8 summe, . encamp-
"
men. 30 from the engineering unit
and 70 from the field artillery will
encamp at Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri, anrt over 95 infantry
men will go to Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas.
Class room studies.
With the four parades preced
ing the federal inspection, May 14,
15 and 16 completed, final brush
ing up on class room studies is the
big job for military science stu
dents. Questions in the classroom
is expected to make up one ot the
Im
pecuoiu
Although the Nebraska unit has
won honor rating for the past few
years, going will be harder this
vear since the armv department is
clamping dom fin every phase o
is well along, and he has enrolled
in good faith, it is our conviction
that the local board will decide
that such a case in an unusual in
dividual hardship and his induction
will be postponed until the end of
the session," Rosenlof said.
"If a student who has become
21 years of age since last Oct.
16, la required to register on Oct.
16, 1941, he will fall within the
group for whom unusual hard
ship will exist as he will be well
into the semester's work before
his order number is determined.
The same principle will apply if
the registration is held during
the summer."
No guarantee.
Dr. Rosenlof emphasized that
there is no guarantee that students
"will not be called. In the case of a
student with a low order number
who will probably be called for
induction shortly after the begin
ning of the college year, the locol
board might rule that no unusual
Registration opening
day proceeds slowly
Registration machinery was
day, as registration for the first semester of next year is now in progress
with the deadline set for Friday noon, May 17. First step in the regis-
tration program is securing credit books from the registrar and con-
sultation with advisers. Students then should leave their applications
for reeistration and a statement
of all outside activities with the
dean of the college in which they
are enrolled or with the dean cf
the Junior division.
Dean Bengston of the Junior di
vision stated that everything was
running smoothly and emphasized
that all Junior division students
should pick up their work sheets
and complete their registration
will be mailed to each student by
Aug. 15, any student failing to get
a statement by mat aate snouia
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contact the finance office at once,
it was announced.
Patterson
speaks today
on marriage
Dr. C. N. Patterson, professor,
of philosophy, will speak at 4 p. m.
today in Union parlors XYZ on
"Religion in the Contemporary
American Family" at the last of
a series of four lectures included
in
the marriage conference spon-
sored by
Mortar Board and
YWCA
Among the questions to be dis
cussed today are "Religion versus
No Religion," "Inter-faith Mar
riages," and "Other Religious
Problems" A bibliography covering
all four lectures of the marriage
series will be given out at this
last meeting.
its organization as a part of the
national defense set-up, military
department officials say.
Inspecting officers will be Lt.
Col. M. E. Craig and Col. C. A.
Bagby for the infantry; Col. Louis
C. Gordon of the Missouri School
of Mines for the engineers; and
Lt. Col. Winlock of Iowa State col
lege for the artillery.
Meanwhile, every division of the
brigade, ranging from each squad
to every company are looking for
ward to the annual regimental
competition May 26. In addition
to awards for the best squad,
platoon, company, battery and
other divisions, individual honors
will also be given.
Bringing their guns down from
the ag campus, the field artillery
will also take part on the compctl
tition on the city campus. Special
.contests Involving individuals from
the field artillery, infantry and en-
glneers have been planned.
hardship exists even though the
student in enrolled and in at
tendance, he declared.
Dr. Rosenlof advised such a
student, especially if he is not a
senior, to reconsider the desir
ability of requesting advance
ment of his order number so
that he may be inducted and
complete his period of training
and service without interrupting
an academic year.
The flexibility of the amendment
itself is a distinct advantage, Ros
enlof pointed out. Any fixed num
ber of days or weeks of required
attendance before induction would
create an unusual hardship for one
student, but perhaps not for an
other, depending upon variable
factors.
"All of these variables will be
considered by local boards," said
Dr. Rosenlof, "and we firmly be
lieve that they will be liberal
and humane in rendering their
decisions.
rolling slowly but smoothly yest.er-
If-
UllLlJ9 llvAl
Walker as
Council prexy
Budd Walker, holdover member,
was elected president of Barb
Council for the coming year re
placing Helen Elizabeth Clay
baugh. The remaining officers
were elected unanimously with.
Harold Alexis as vice-president,
Bob Dewey, secretary-treasurer
and Marjorie Holmes, historian.
The resignation of Jean Echten-
kamp as junior representative was
r -y-v-x- hilt Ms. Klftln ftAm AVT tirn a
accepted, but no replacement was
made pending constitutional
change of membership.
With several proposed changes
considering the functioning and
representation of Barb Council, a
committee was selected to discuss
and formulate a definite plan for
coordination of barb organizations,
"The committee is going to sat
isfy all groups and individuals in
its proposed changes without de
stroying any existing organizations
which can be efficiently run,"
stated Walker.
Wonir
speaks
on China today
at Union forum
Dr. Wallace Wong will speak at
a forum in me faculty lounge at
the Union today at 4 p. m. on
"China Her West." Dr. Wong is
the first far western Chinese to
visit this campus.
Dr. Wong's home is in Cheng-tu,
which is 200 miles west of Chung
King, the present capital of free
China. In Cheng-tu are four uni
versities which have been moved
west. There are only three uni
versities in the present free cap
ital. Dr. Wong has been a theological
student in New York City during
the past months and is a graduate
of the University of Peking.
In his talk he will tell about the
student migration into western
China and explain how the uni
versities have gone farther inland
taking what they can and estab
lishing themselves where they
can.
Publication
filings open
Filings for positions on the
DAILY NEBRASKAN, Corn
husker, and Agwan-Flash staffs
next semester are- open today,
with the deadline for applica
tions set for May 20. Applica
tion blanks may be obtained at
the school of journalism office
in U hall.
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