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DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, SepTemKer IT, 1941!
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Welcome newcomers
With the beginning of a new school year the
Daily Nebraskan today offers its beginning the
first edition for 1941-42. Every member of the Daily
Nebraskan or "Rag" staff extends a welcome to
the students and faculty members who come to the
University of Nebraska for the first time this fall.
Approximately 1,750 applications for entrance
have been received by the junior division, repre
senting an increase over last fall's new registra
tions. This should meftn much to the university and
to its old students and faculty members.
The official greeting of the university will be
extended to new students when they meet in the
coliseum at 9 a. m. today for a convocation. Chan
cellor Boucher, Dean Bengtson of the Junior Divi-
Orchids to Panhellenic
Tuesday evening 275 new women students be
came pledges of the 15 sororities on the University
of Nebraska campus.
This is merely a fact to many people, but to
the sororities and to the rushces it represents the
results of a rushing system new to the campu$
this year.
Congratulations are due the sororities in their
Panhellenic organization for the fair system they
worked out for this rush week. Receptions during
the first two days gave an opportunity for every
rushee to see each house and for every sorority
to see each rushee. Invitations received at the end
of the receptions showed which houses the rushees
were interested in and which rushees each house
wanted to see again.
Release lists after each rush party let the
rushees know approximately where they were
wanted. The limitation placed on the number of
women each house could pledge resulted in a more
equal distribution of pledges. Result of the system
was that of the 292 paid registrants for rush week,
only 17 did not pledge a sorority. This number is
unusually low. Last year 230 women were pledged.
Alumnae of the various sororities who helped in
the Panhellenic offices during rush week are to be
thanked for the kind and efficient way in which
they handled their work. The new system is not
yet perfected and cannot be expected to be perfect
for several years, but for the first year it was
admirable.
Library work progressing but . . .
Army rules a new armory
not vital to national defense
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Contented with work on the
Love Memorial library progress
ing according to schedule despite
the great demand for defense ma
terials, administrative officials re
ceived a shock late this summer
when government heads declared
that federal funds would not be
available for construction of an
armory on the Nebraska campus.
L. A. Seaton, purchasing agent,
declared that the army depart
ment ruled that a new armory
could not be considered as vital for
defense, and federal funds are
not being alloted now to any
other new type of project.
"It's too early to talk about
the completion date of the library
since any sudden change in the
international situation may mean
a long postponement of work",
Seaton said.
With well over fifty men on the
Job now, the second floor of the
library is now being laid. Only
portion of the building behind
schedule is the wing which will
contain the book cases. The de
lay was caused by the inability to
get certain materials used in de
fense projects.
YM gives si oak
fry Saturday
Annual pre-registration YMCA
outing for all new men students
will be held September 13, accord
ing to Mr. C. D. Hayes, general
secretary of the organization.
Registration should be made be
fore Saturday at the YM rooms in
the Temple. The group will leave
from the Temple at 3 p. m. and
will go to one of the parks for a
steak fry and get acquainted session.
sion and Burton Thiel, president of the Student
Council, will speak and other administrative heads
will be introduced. Some of the university yel!s and
songs will be learned to make the newcomers feel
they are a part of the university.
The "Rag" hopes all new students will feel at
home and will do everything possible to help them.
Behind the News
ShjlsL Qui.
By Dave Thompson.
Foremost item of war news
which is directly connected with
the U. S. today is the much talked
of sinking of the U. S. merchant
man Steel Seafarer. It was the
victim of an aerial torpedo or
bomb in the Red sea and the sec
ond U. S. merchantman, strictly
speaking, which has gone down
before axis attacks. The first was
the Robin Moor which was sunk
in the South Atlantic last Aug. 17.
The main reason for the amaz
ingly small U. S. shipping losses
in this war, as compared to the
first World war, is, of course, the
operation of the Neutrality Act of
1939 which gave the president dis
cretionary power to set up bel
ligerent zones in which our ship
ping was forbidden.
The Red sea, in which the Steel
Seafarer went down without loss
of life, had been classed as such
.a belligerent zone up until shortly
after the beginning of the Rus
sian campaign. It was then lifted
by executive order, obviously to
allow U. S. shipping to aid in the
provisioning of beleaguered Rus
sia. It is a comparatively safe
zone, denied of alien submarines,
but still within range of axis
planes based at Crete or the Do
decanese islands.
The importance of the incident
lies, not in the sinking of the Steel
Seafarer itself, but rather in the
fact that it follows so closely upon
the heels of the attack on the de-
Ag faculty
shines annual
slinlcnl party
Announced today were the plans
for the annual faculty party for ag
students to be held Saturday,
Sept 27.
Various members of the resident
faculty, research and extension
forces, have been named to com
mittees for the event. George
Trimberger is chairman of the
decorations group, L. K. Crowe
heads recreation, M. A. Peterson
is in charge of the publicity com
mittee, C. A. Penton is chairman
of the entertainment group, C. C
Wiggans heads the reception com
mittee and Carleton Zink will
serve as chairman of the refresh
ments committee.
C. C Minteer is the chairman
of the finance committee. A meet
ing of the various committee heads
is set for September 20 to go over
final plans for the reception which
probably will be held In the stu
dent activities building.
stroyer Greer. It may well be of
course that the two Incidents have
no correlation. If this is the case,
the danger to our neutrality is
very little and the whole affair
will very likely blow over.
However there is another pos
sibility, which if it turns out to
be the case, will prove a most se
rious threat to our nominal neu
trality. That is this; these two in
cidents may be the beginning of a
concerted axis effort to determine
just how far they may go along
this line before we are provoked
into active participation in this
war. It is quite true that Ger
many is not anxious to have us
as an active participant in the
military aspect of this conflict.
Nevertheless it is quite evident
from the tone of the articles in
the official axis news organs that
there is a growing hatred of the
United States in these countries.
It is well to remember that tho
renewal of unrestricted submarine
warfare on the part of Germany
in January 1917 came uniler a
similar stress of circumstances.
That is was followed in April of
that year by our entrance into the
war is also not to be forgotten.
Be that as it may, and it is only
a supposition, the U. S. attitude
toward the incidents will be aired
today in the speech of President
Roosevelt. As to which of the pre
viously discussed possibilities of
general effect will be the case,
only time will tell.
Teachers college
holds conference
Reports of the four working
committees of the state conference
on teacher education, held at the
university, July 21 to 25, have
been sent out to each participant
and to the 21 institutions repre
sented at the meeting, according
to Dean F. E. Henzlik of te'ichers
college.
Problems discussed by the com
mittees covered such subjects as:
improvement of the quality of
school teachers; broad, general ed
ucation with specialization by
fields rather than subjects; actual
observation of children in study
ing educational psychology and,
the various devices for teacher
education.
Chairmen of the groups, respec
tively, were Dean F. E. Weyer of
Hastings college, Dean Thomas S.
Bowder of Creighton university,
Prof. D. A. Worcester of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and E. M.
Hosman of the University of
Omaha.
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By June Jamieson.
People wonder about what's
right and wrong in fashion, when
each new season starts and what
will impress Tom, Dick or Harry.
The Nebraskan is inaugurating a
series of questions and answers
in an attempt to solve all such
problems and to make the Ne
braska student the best-dressed
in the country. If you have any
questions on fashion etiquette, we
will be glad to answer them and
it makes less work for the writer.
1. What is worn during those
hectic days of tests, registration
and early college activities?
Wear something comfortable
a skirt and blouse or sweater that
will stand a lot of wear and tear
and still be flattering (if possible)
in your identification card pic
ture that will have to last you
four long years.
2. Is the Nebraska campus ad
dicted to casual clothes or does it
dress to kill for all occasions?
You'll find that Nebraska stu
dents frown on frills for school
wear. If that blond in your poli
sci class is especially attentive,
you might wear your best sport
clothes in soft colors and the new
fall fabrics. And add a few little
unusual fads of your own that'll
make everyone sit up and take
notice.
3. What type of dress is re
quired for the chancellor's recep
tion and the fall teas?
Wear your best bib and tucker
for these are the important so
cial affairs which open the school
year, and first impressions count
with the people you will meet
there. Your black silk street dress
with hat and gloves will be cor
rectand don't let the seams in
your stockings run away with
themselves.
4. How about dates 7 What Is
there to do and what do we wear?
Favorite recreation at N U is
picnicing, dancing or seeing the
movies. Slacks are a prerequisite
for picnic season get dark ones
that won't show how you dragged
trees a half a mile to build a fire
or the spot where you spilled your
coke in the rush to get back by
"lights out"
Dances and the movies call for
date dresses of silk or soft rabbit
wool in natural and pastela hats
at your own discretion. And by
the way look your best; anyone
who gets a date in this time of
national emergency is better
than good and will have to work
hard to stay that way.
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