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Vol. 40, No. 145
Symphony
stars six
soloists
The university symphony or
chestra under the direction of Don
Lentz will present a program to
night at 8 p. m. in the Union ball
room, featuring six students who
will appear as soloists.
Selected by members of the
music department faculty, these
soloists are Hazel Fricke, violin
ist; Betty Joe Koehler, pianist;
Alfred Blinde, baritone; Don Hart
man, flutist; Catherine Tunison,
soprano; and Harriet Meyer, cel
list. The program, which is open to
the public, follows:
Concerto in E Major, Bach.
Allegro.
Mist Hazel Fricke, Violinist.
Concerto in C Minor, Beet
hoven. Allegro con brio.
Miss Betty Jo Koehler, Pianist
Zorahayda, Svendson.
The Orchestra.
Song to the Evening Star
Tannhauser, Wagner.
Mr. Alfred Blinde, Baritone
Ballade, Reinecke.
Mr. Don Hartman, Flutist.
Pace, Pace, mio Die Le Flor
za de Destino, Verdi.
Miss Catherine Tunison, so
prano. Symphonic Variations, Boell
mann. Miss Harriett Meyer, Cellist.
News editor
recovering
at his home
After being confined for a week
in the university student infirm
ary with a case of arthritis, Mor
ton Margolin, DAILY NEBRAS
KAN news editor, was taken to
his home in Omaha Sunday night
Student health officials report
that Margolin was recovering
when released from the infirmary
and that he expects to be back
In school in time to take his final
examinations.
Collegians prefer Miller
For recreation, dancing is favored
By Student Opinion Surveys.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 20. In
practically every section of the na
tion the favorite dance orchestra
of the American college student is
Glenn Miller's.
Student Opinion Surveys of
America, leaving aside political,
social, and economic questions that
today bother the world and the col
legian, has turned to the field of
college recreation, and in a nation
wide poll finds:
Favorite recreations among col
lege students:
1. Dancing
2. Swimming
3. Tennis
4. Reading
Favorite dance orchestras:
1. Glenn Miller
2. Kay Kyser
3. Tommy Dorsey
4. Guy Lombardo
Wayne King (tie)
Miller's band tops all others,
polling twice as many ballots as
any other one orchestra. His mu
sic is sought by nearly one-fourth
of all students.
Kyser was a favorite in the
southern states, with Miller a close
second.
While dancing is the one thing
most eds and co-eds would rather
do when away from the classroom,
swimming is not as great a favor
Olt'tcial Newspaper Of More Than 7,000
Lincoln. Nebraska
'Grin 'u' bear it9
is today's theme
We'll try anything once.
That's what is being done with
your paper this week. Members
of the news editing staff are try
ing anything once as they take
their turns at the managing edi
tor's post.
The managing editor, as you
know, makes the layouts and de
cides what is to go into this pa
per. But when the news editors
take a trial spin in that position
before they seek advancement be
fore the publications board any
thing can happen and usually does.
Bear with us and reap the meager
fruits of our labors.
Behind those petitions'. . .
Public reaction to the faculty memorial urging of Washington of
ficials all out aid to England "not necessarily" short of war" has re
flected a general antagonism against instructions in a state institution
using their positions to back a policy distinctly unpopular in this state.
Becoming aroused, students yesterday openly ridiculed their
professors, and discussed means of circulating counter petitions;
citizens in Lincoln and possibly over the entire state expressed
grave concern; and most serious of all representatives of these citi
zens placed a resolution before the unicameral censuring the faculty
and urging their Washington representatives to disregard the opin
ion the petitions expressed. This resolution will be voted on today.
As the criticisms and the fears for the effect the adverse senti
ments will have mount A. L. Lugn's warning of last week that "activity
of this kind can and may stir up dissention and discord in the state
and react unfavorably on the university" appears to be a serious
possibility.
To ward off many 'of these antagonisms and to place the petitions
in their true light, we feel certain facts concerning their significance
should come to light.
Each member signing the petition was exercising his right, as
a citizen of this country to express his opinion. Tho an instructors
association with the university makes the expression of such opin
ions highly untimely and leads many to believe that their stand is
the stand of the entire faculty, the memorials far from represent
the prevalent sentiments at Nebraska. Out of better than 400 in
structors on the city and agricultural campuses, only 186 including
clerks and assistants supported the petitions, a number amounting
to less than 45 percent of the teaching force.
Questionnaires circulated by the Nebraskan last week moreover
showed 43 percent of the members of that faculty definitely opposed
(See EDITORIAL, page 2)
ite with women as it is with men.
Second choice of the women was
tennis. Bridge was among the
least popular of recreations.
Among the most . unusual men
tioned were beer drinking, writing,
flying, sleeping, singing, eating,
and yes, studying.
Thais to reveal
cadet corps rating
early next week
Although no statements for the
public were made by the federal
inspectors following the annual
federal inspection last week, they
promised an early announcement
regarding results of the inspection
Col. C. A. Thuis, commandant said
yesterday.
"We should know by early next
week whether Nebraska has again
received an honor rating," Col.
Thuis said. "Officers said they
would begin tabulating results of
the inspections of all the ROTC
units in the seventh corps as soon
as they were completed here."
Nebraska has won the honor rat
ing for the past ten years. The
award is signified by the star worn
on the uniform of all members of
the brigade
Students
Tuesday, May 20, 1941
Publication
filings due
in today
All filings for positions on the
DAILY N KB R ASK AN. Corn
husker, and Awgwan Flash must
be submitted to the journalism of
fice in University hall today by
5 p. m.
Positions on the DAILY to be
filled include: editor, one; manag
ing editors, two; news editors,
five; sports editor, one; and in the
business department: business
(See FILINGS, page 2)
Music group
elects officers,
inducts three
Initiation of new members and
installation of officers of Mu Phi
Epsilon, honorary music sorority,
took place at the home of Mrs.
Harriet Piatt, faculty adviser, at
7:30 Sunday morning. Following
the ceremonies, active and alum
nae members were served break
fast in the Cornhusker Coffee
Shop.
Announcement was made that
members of the sorority will
usher at the Mu Phi scholarship
concert to be given Tuesday eve
ning, May 27, by Emanuel Wish
now, violinist, and Ernest Harri
son, pianist. Both are associate
professors in the School of Music.
Initiates are: Jean Knorr, Ber
nice Primer, and Catherine Tuni
son. Officers for the coming year
are: Hester Whitemore, president;
Nellie Forrest Gaden, vice presi
dent; Dorothy Carlson, recording
secretary; Neva Bishop, corre
sponding secretary; Cleo Black
ledge, treasurer.
Corn Cobs meet
in Union today
All Corn Cob actives will
meet for an important meeting
today at 5 p. m. in room 316 of
the Union. All actives are re
quired to be there.
KlainiDDa ppeses
By Art Rivin. 1
To counteract a petition advocating "all out aid to Britain not
necessarily short of w.ir" signed last week by 186 university profes
sors, Senator Don E. Hanna yesterday proposed a resolution which
would have the state legislature go on record as "unalterably op
posed" to any aid except that short of war.
The resolution asked in its title that the Congress and the Presi
dent of the United States disregard UM petition of the faculty mem
bers. "Such action," it was stated in the resolution," will be erron
eously construed in Washington as representing the opinion of the
people of the state. It is this legislature which conies irom every
corner of the state and from every
Academic
Included in the senate proposal was this article: "These conclu
sions (those in the petition) were reached by a few academic mind
and finespun theoiists who arc not spokesmen or leaders of the state
and whose views on most public questions are visionary and im
practicable, by reason of the rarified atmosphere in which these sign
ing professors live and have their being."
The measure then proposes that the faculty petition be labeled
"untimely and ill-advised that a copy of the senate resolution be
published in th5 house journal, and that copies be sent to the Presi
ent and the Vice-President of the United States, to the Nebraska Con
gressmen and to Chancellor Boucher.
"Musty professors.''
After the resolution had been read, Hanna moved to suspend the
rules for its passage. Said Hanna: "I don't know what kind of meat
those musty professors and their old maid colleagues have been eat
ing." Immediately Senators Blome and GanL: rose to oppose Hanna.
Blome pointed out that the petition was signed by private citizens aa
such and not by university faculty members in an official capacity.
Declared Blome. "We're the legislature of this state but we are not
the power behind the throne and we do not have the authority to con
fine the expression of a private citizen's opinion." Gantz echoed
Blome's sentiments.
The resolution introducer then explained that the university is
"the largest state institution and that what the faculty of that Insti
tution says may be construed in Washington as expressing the senti
ment of the people of the entire state."
With trouble brewing over the bill's passage, Senator Hanna
moved that the measure be laid over until today. It was so ordered.
ZBT, SAM
vie in I-F
debate final
Interfraternity debate cham
pionship will be at stake tonight
as Robert Passer and Yale Gots-
diner of Zeta Beta Tau meet Art
Rivin and Harold Margulies of
Sigma Alpha Mu in the finals. Sig
ma Alpha Mu won over the ZBTs
in an earlier meeting. The two
teams will debate at 7 p. m. at the
SAM chapter house.
Subject for debate is the state
ment "Resolved: That the English
speaking nations should make a
formal alliance for their common
interest and protection." Sigma
Alpha Mu will take the affirmative
side. In their first debate the
ZBT's defended the affirmative.
Little distinction.
Debate results have shown lit
tle distinction between the two
sides. Affirmative teams have
won five times, the negative side
four. Three other contests have
been settled by forfeit. Sigma Al
pha Mu has won twice with the
affirmative, and divided in two
matches in which it took the nega
tive. Zeta Beta Tau has won twice
on each side, and lost to Sigma Al
pha Mu when defending the af
firmative. Sigma Alpha Mu lost to Delta
Upsilon in the first debate, then
gained the finals by successive
wins over Alpha Tau Omega, Zeta
Beta Tau, and Delta Upsilon. Zeta
Beta Tau beat Delta Theta Phi,
Alpha Tau Omega, and Phi Delta
Theta before losing their first con
test to Sigma Alpha Mu. They
then gained the finals by meating
Delta Upsilon.
The weather . .
According to the weatherman,
Nebraskans may look for a break
in this minor heatwave. Showers
and scattered thunderstorms in the
east and central and some light
rain or snow in the west are pre
dicted along with cooler weather.
wilk of life."
minds.
Walker glad
to he hack9
after illness
Prof. Gayle C. Walker, director
of the school of journalism, is
back at work in his office in U
hall after being hospitalized for
several weeks in the Lincoln Gen
eral hospital. Though he is still
forced to walk on crutches, Mr.
Walker reports that he is glad to
be able to be back in time to meet
with his classes the last week be
fore the final examinations.
Prep music
students get
scholarships
Fine arts faculty
judges contestants;
gives twenty awards
Twenty high school seniors
from 14 communities in Nebraska,
Iowa, and Kansas were awarded
partial scholarships at the annual
scholarship contest of the School
of Fine Arts Saturday.
Selected from a large group of
contestants by fine arts faculty
members, the seniors are as fol
lows: John Beam, Jr., violin; Kath
erine May Rice, cello; Eugenia
Simms, piano; Robert Anderson,
bass voice; Gladyce Eisenach, con
tralto; Elaine Lebsock, soprano;
and Roy E. Johnson, baritone; all
of Lincoln.
Ernest Wagner, Clarks. tuba;
Edward Jordon, Page, tenor saxo
phone; Tommy Cooper, Falls City,
cornet; Lewis A; ikes, Red Cloud,
trombone; Janet Douthit, Curtis,
cello; Katherine May Rice, Lin
coln, cello; Lillian Worley, Wav
Plattsmouth, piano; Rudolf BaH.a,
Big Springs, piano; Elizabeth
Pierce, Salina, Kansas, piano; Roy