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Vol. 42, No. 29
Lincoln, Nebraska
Wednesday, October 22, 1941
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Th
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Convene for District Convention
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A. L. BIEHN.
RENE DUSSAQ.
UN Adldls Coyirse
On Rffliciro waves
To AW effeuDse
The university took another step in cooperation with the
national defense program yesterday when announcement of a
new course in microwave technique was made by Viol. F. W.
Morris.
"Working witli United States office of education, the uni
versity has. designed the course to aid in meeting the shortage
of technical graduates with special training in ultra-high fre
quency.
Gratis Meet Army Needs.
The new field is closely related
to radio and television, and grad
uates with special training will be
used to meet the impending and
urgent need in the army and de
fense industries.
The course in microwave tech
nique is a division of the Engineer
ing, Science and Management De
fense Training program under di
rection of the Federal Securities
agency and will be carried out in
several universities.
For senior students in electrical
engineering or physics, who have
taken or will take this year the
communications option to the ex
tent of at least five semester cred
its, it has been proposed that co
operating institutions will make
available during the second semes
ter of this school year this elective
ESMDT course of approximately
four semester credits. In this
course foundations will be laid for
dealing with the new devices and
the higher range of frequencies
Substitution for Required Course.
This course may be used as a
substitute for regularly required
or elective courses, according to
engineering officials.
A tentative course outline has
been submitted the FSA and will
(See MICROWAVES, page 2)
Advance Sales
To RAF Movie
Close at Noon
Sales Going Excellently
As War Relief Soeiely,
Defense Croup Eml Drive
Advance ticket sales for the
movie "Yank in the RAF," close
at noon today. AH Corn Cob and
Tassel salesmen must check in
their tickets at the Union office
before the 12 o'clock deadline.
Price of admission to the show
is 44 cents. Ten cents of this price
goes to the British War Relief so
ciety. The project on this campus
is being sponsored by the student
national defense committee.
A Betty Grable-Tyrone Power
attraction of the Stuart theatre,
the movie will bein Oct. 24. None
nf the nroceeds of box office ad
missions will go to British war re
lief, however.
According to Pat Lahr. Union
social director, 600 tickets have
been checked out, and sales are
going excellently.
Home Er Research ...
Dr. Leverton Conducts Study
Of Anemic University Coeds
. . . Uses Vitamin Capsules
By Carol Garvec.
Highly concentrated vitamin
supplements, too expensive for in
dividuals of moderate means, will
be given to a few selected coeda
suffering from anemia in a study
that is being carried out by Dr.
Leverton of the home economics
nutrition research division on ag
campus.
These special vitamin capsules
ara Kpinr donated for the re
search atudv bv the Abbots Phar
mnrentiral House in Chicago. The
students will take one capsule per
day and have a regular red cell
and hemoglobin test made before
and after taking me vutumno.
Last year Dr. Leverton worked
with 'a similar experiment using
anemic women from Union col
lege as her patients. They were
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HAMDEN FORKNER.
Student Council
To Meet Today
Student Council will meet to
day at B p. m. in room 315 of
the Union. All members are
urged to attend.
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LYMAN BRYSON.
H. R. KNICKERBOCKER.
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World Traveler
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Besinnins today 3.000 teachers will journey to Lincoln for
tlie annual Nebraska State Teachers' convention of district
one. At the general sessions distinguished educators will re
port on the most recent action in education, and world famous
news correspondents will report on the latest developments of
World war IT. Many faculty members will speak at the various
general sessions anil panel discssions.
Tomorrow morning in the coliseum Chancellor C.
Boucher will greet delegates
Huskcr Fans
Stage Rally
On Thursday
It'll be rally time Thursday
night when UN fans will gather to
send the injured-ridden Nebraska
football team to Columbia, Mo.,
where the Huskers will seek a
victory after Saturday's loss to
Indiana.
Freshman women will be al
lowed to leave their houses at
9 p. m. the time of the rally, until
10:15 p. m. according to the AWS
board and the dean of women.
Members of the rally committee,
emphasizing the importance of
letting the team know that
students are still behind them de
spite their recent defeat, urged
everyone to attend the rally which
will begin at 9 p. m. in front of
the Union.
In the twilight procession with
the victory bell and the regimental
band again leading the parade,
fans will march east to 16th street,
north to S, then west to 14th,
south on 14th to R. At R street,
the procession will move south. to
(See RALLY, page 2)
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of
the general session and Dr. W.
P i 1 1 s b u r y, superintendent
schools, Schenectady, New York,
will speak on "Education for Na
tional Defense." In the evening
two of the prominent speakers
will be H. R. Knickerbocker, war
correspondent, and Rene Dussaq,
scholar and world traveler. Knick
erbocker, a leading analyst of
events in the war-torn countries,
will talk on the position of the
United States in the crisis, and
Dussaq will speak on a South
American's view of South Amer
ica. Lunch at Cornhusker.
At the luncheon at the Corn
husker tomorrow Dr. W. R- Bailer,
university teacher's college, will
speak on "Some Recent Research
in Child Development," and at the
panel discussions Dr. Walter
Beggs, Dwight Kirsch, and Lloyd
Teale will talk. Prof. Bertram
C. Schultz will speak on excavat
ing and mounting fossils and Prof.
Franklin D. Kiem will talk on new
crops in Nebraska.
The convention will last through
Friday.
Barbs Elect Marvin to Draft
Plans for Men's Dormitories
Dave Marvin wp.s appointed at
a general barb meeting last night
to organize a permanent board to
raise and administer funds for the
establishment of men's co-operative
dorms. Members of the newly
reorganized barb groups also voted
to found a long-time fund avail
able to the prospective co-ops.
Marvin, was also elected tem
porary treasurer to supervise fi
nances for the remainder of the
first third of the barb social pro-?
gram this year, and Marjorie May
was selected to represent the
barbs on the Union board of di
rectors. She takes the place va
cated by Jacqueline Woodhouse.
Because of the small attend
ance, no officers of the reorgan
ized barb clubs were elected. Nom
inations, subject to additions at
the next meeting, were made.
These included: for president, Bill
Dafoe; vice president; George
Campen, Lester Wilterdink, Ellis
Ruby, Mary Ellen Sim; secretary,
Dorothy White, Norma Watkins;
treasurer, Dave Marvin, lioytl t
Glover and Ralph Fox.