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enior Counc o 0 reanizes i onight t as h D I oucner s cio ft D nner Lincoln Journal C. S. Boucher. ...calls meeting. Inaugurating their program for this year, the Senior Council, aa guests of Chancellor Boucher, will meet for the first time this se mester at a dinner tonight at 6 p. m. in Parlors A, B. and C of the Union. Totaling over 100 members, . the council is c o m p rised of senior presi dents of all or ganized groups, Mortar Boards, Innocents, and 12 members elected by un affiliated stu dents. Chance llor Boucher, com menting: on the .v.w..-.-w:j)jiwini'itfinM Lincoln Journal Jack Stewart. meeting, said, "Last year a num ber of seniors, with the welfare of the university in mind, organ ized the Senior Council one of the most progressive steps on the part of the senior class or suiaeni bodv that has been taken in recent years. This year, to initiate the program of the council, 1 am in viting all members to be my guests at a "kickoff" dinner." The council was created last year "to organize the senior class in a spirit of loyalty to the uni versity, to promote the greater unity of the student body, and to contribute to the general welfare of the university." Because of its success in unifying the senior class it was decided to continue the or ganization this year. Following the dinner tonierht. Chancellor Boucher. Alumni Sec retary Ellsworth DuTeau, and Stu dent Union Director Bill Marsh will give brief speechs. Earlier this week, letters from Chancellor Boucher and Jack Stewart, senior class president were sent to all eligible council members on the campus urging them to make plans to attend the first meeting. Reports indicate a very large turn-out according to Stewart. Once the council is organized, a group of officers to assist Stew art will be elected and regular meetings will be held. Franz Werfel, Nazi Refugee. Gives Lecture on Town Hall "Can We Live Without Believing in a Cod" will be the subject of author Franz Werfel's lecture at the second of Town Hall's lyceum series. The program will be held in the ballroom of the Cornhusker Hotel at 8 p. m. tonight. Werfel is a member of that ever increasing troup of poets, teac'iers and authors who, exiled from nazi Europe, seek refuge in the United States. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the son of a Jew ish manufacturer. His teaching career in Germany wa3 interrupted by the first World war; Werfel was called, and spent three years on the Russian front. After the war he lived in Vienna (See HALL, page 3) jipltoireir Speaks M Convocation Prorok Tells Experiences' At Scene of Present Battle Famed explorer and author Count Byron de Prorok will take his audience "In Quest of Lost Worlds" at 11 a. m. today in the Union ballroom. For its second convocation of the year the Student Union has engaged an expert in archaeology, a man who in his twenty years in the field has been decorated for achievement by most of the countries of Europe. Among his accomplishments is his discovery of an ancient city, submerged for thousands of years under the Mediterranean. De Prorok was the first man to use moving pictures to record archaeological data, and the first in his field to use the airplane for exploration. Trail of Queen of Sheba. Unearthing a series of relics, the explorer has traced the trail of the Queen of Sheba in North Africa. Archaeological facts about Hannibal, Alexander the Creat, and King Solomon were first discov rH hv thi Count. He was the first to establish a scientific link between the Mayas of Central America and the ancient Libyans of Africa. Th fprritorv in North Africa where Britain and Italy now strug ). w Pxnlored bv Prorok from 1936 to 1940. He will show pictures of Wavell, Weygand, Balbo, military leaders, and of the places where fighting is now going on. A friend of the late General Balbo, the nirr.r him something to say about the Italian's mysterious death. The Union will sponsor a forum luncheon with De Prorok at noon today in Parlor X. All students and faculty members are invited to attend; reservations must be made in the Union office before 10 a. m. The cost per plate will be 45c. Daily wMebraskm Z 408 Otticlal Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students Join the Red Cross Vol. 41, No. 43 Lincoln, Nebraska Wednesday, November 19, 1941 Awards Share Spotlight ith Fun at Biz ad Affair W nniv ihteo more d.ivs remain in which to raise the remaining $400 needed for the canipua Red Cross drive to reach its $1,000 goal of membership contributions received in the current campaign. The drive, sponsored by the Student Council, will end Friday. Add your name to the roll call today! Union Gives Coffee Hour For Grads Today's Plans Include Dance, Game Pictures Union activities Wednesday in clude a coffee hour for graduate students, pictures of the Pitt-Nebraska eame. matinee dance and the opening of the travel bureau for students who wish rides nome for Thankssivine vacation. Graduate students are invited to attend a coffee hour today from 5 to 6-D. m. in the faculty lounge. The coffee hour is intended as a relaxer, an opportunity for grad students to meet their colleagues. There is no charge and time .may be spent at cares or informally. The Pitt-Nebraska heart (See UNION, Page 4.) AGAIN, HIT IT AGAIN. HAR-PEJL 8or V "loo I i i 40O A Ncbraskan Editor Speaks on ACP Radio Broadcast Mary Kerrigan, editor of the Nebraskan, received word yester day from the Columbia Broadcast ing System that she is one of eight college newspaper editors invited to take part in a roundtable dis cussion on "Should College Stu dents Be Drafted," broadcasted from the Knox Playhouse in St. Louis, Mo. The eight editors selected are inrluded in the eroun of 300 dele gates who will attend the national convention of the Associated Col (See BROADCAST, Page 3.) Slide The OPM should mean some thing to the art and engineering students this year as their pet plan.the priority system, has hampered supplies stores on the university campus from furnish ing these colleges with the neces sary equipment. The engineering students seem t be the hardest hit as slide rules this year are especially difficult to obtain. So far this year only Iowa State college has had any success in receiving a shipment of slide rules and a continuation Theatre Issues Call for Men Many excellent men's parts for "Prologue to Glory," Uni versity Theatre'i second produc tion are still not cast, according to Paul Bogen, theatre director. Any upperclassman with 27 hours to his credit and now car rying 12 hours in good standing may try for a part. Party Features Short Talks, Lively Program; 250 Present bizad college dinner over 250 students and faculty members attended and seemed to thoroughly enjoy the annual banquet last night in the Union ballroom. Prof. A. B. Carson served as master of ceremonies. Sticking to its promise of no long speeches, the student executive committee of the bizad college which planned the affair, presented a - 1 i ml r rr-rnrra rv-i tq t fornoH artmo. what on the "Helzapoppin theme. Members of the committee are Gene Bradley, John Dean, Harold Hunt, Margaret Meade, Rachel Robertson, Harry Peery, Floyd Mewett and Joe Flammang. Present Gold Keys. Hip-hlie'hr nf thp evening1 was O O - O the presentation of the gold schol arship keys to the ten outstand ing freshmen last year in the biz ad college. As each one was called to the microphone, he was quizzed by Prof. Carson on current and in formative topics of information. Although most could answer the questions, several were penalized and did imitations ot various members of the business admin istration college faculty. At the close or tne program, a messenger boy came into the room with a telegram addressed to L. E. (See BIZAD, Page 4.) Indiana Profs Study UN Junior Division Professors Robert Ittner, George Starr and Ford P. Hall of Indiana university, visited here Monday and Tuesday to learn the details of organization, functioning and relationship to colleges and schools of the university of the junior Division office. They conferred with the deans of the colleges that have freshman curricula, counselors and advisers of the division, and Chancellor C. S. Boucher. Indiana is contemplating the development of some plan of guidance and counseling such as that employed here and desired to obtain first-hand information con cerning the operation of this de partment. The professors expressed them selves as being highly pleased with the spirit of cooperation that was found manifested here by the various schools and colleges con cerned. They were impressed with the careful attention devoted to the interests of the students aa Individuals. Hampering Supply Stores . . . OPM Priorities System Hits Engineers, Fine Arts Colleges Rules, I -Squares lacking of the shortage in slide rules seem probable. Also difficult to get are i sauares and drawing sets. Because most of the drawing sets were (See OPM, Page 3.) C. S. Boucher Speaks at Ag Meet in Omaha Chancellor C. S. Boucher will appear at the state finishup of the P-F-L Droerram in Omaha next Tuesday. Nov. 25, it was an nounced today by the agricultural extension service. Chancellor Boucher is to re snond for the university at the evening banquet where 50 farm ers and ranchers will gain dis tlnctlon. Usually about 800 at tend the dinner in the dining room of the Omaha chamber of com merce.