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Point
Board Adds
New Floating
Point Plan
(See Chart on page 4)
A new women's point system,
designed to distribute the honors
and duties on this campus and thus
promote efficiency in the activity
and group consciousness, has been
approved by the AWS board and
will go into effect Sept. 1, 1942.
In the new system activities will
be pointed on a scale of 1, 2, 4, and
5 according to the responsibilities
and amount of time required by
the specific position. No woman
student may carry more than 9
permanent points at one time.
Floating points may be added to
the permanent points to a total
of not more than 10.
The AWS board, together with
the Dean of Women, will have final
jurisdiction over all points of dis
cussion. Infringements of the sys
tem, after one warning, are sub
ject to action by the AWS court.
Floating Points.
Points for the University Thea
tre and the Junior and Senior
Farmers' Fair Board will be
termed "floating" and will be
(See AWS, page 2.)
Convocation
, Will Feature
Oriental Magic
No parlor trickster is magician
John Mulholland who appears in
Union convocation Sunday at 4
p. m. His scientific studies of the
art have earned him the author
ship of the section on magic of
Compton's New Encyclopedia.
Mulholland has studied the
tricks of the peoples of 42 coun
tries during his career. In his ap
pearance Sunday he will specialize
in oriental magic, presented while
he is disgubed in the costumes of
the various far east magicians..
His performance, entitled "Won
ders of the World," will last two
hours.
Acclaimed for his work by such
critics as Alexander Woollcott and
Eleanor Roosevelt, Mulholland has
exhibited his library on the sub
ject of magic in the leading col
lections 'of the nation. After see
. lng him perform, Lowell Thomas
'declared that: "Mulholland's hands
are to magic what Toacanini's are
to music."
Panhel Presents Sorority
Cups, Scholarships at Tea
Panhellenic will give its annual
scholarship tea Sunday, Jan. 17
from 3 to 5 p. m. in Ellen Smith
hall. At this time the six sororities
ranking highest in scholarship for
last year will be announced and
cups awarded.
Six sorority coeds with high
scholarship and who are in need
of the money will be given $25
scholarships for the next semester.
Sorority women may file for the
scholarships until Wednesday.
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Lincoln, Nebraska
Approves WomrDeim9
Director Picks Soloists
ForMascagni 9s Opera
.
Two complete casts of student
soloists for the forthcoming pro
duction of Mascagni's opera,
"Cavalleria Rusticana," are an
nounced today by Dr. Arthur E.
Westbrook, director.
The opera production, first on
the campus in a number of years,
will be presented Feb. 4 and 6 in
the Temple theater under the
sponsorship of the School of Fine
Arts.
The two casts of principals will
be as follows:
Santuzza Catherine
.Tunison, Elizabeth Farquahr
Lola Mil-
rae Anderson; Ann Fickling
Turiddu
Richard Koupal; Earl Jenkins
Alfio
Lynn Myers; Cleve Genzlinger
Lucia Doro
thy Huffman; Carol J. Wherry
Sale of tickets for the opera has
started under the direction of
Delta Omicron, Mu Phi Epsilon,
and Sigma Alpha Iota, music so
Ten Frosh Vie
For Long Cup
Tuesday Night
With one year's possession of
the Long trophy as first prize,
ten frehmen will compete Tues
day night in the annual Long Cup
debate contest. The tournament
will start at 7 p. m. and will be
held in Temple 205.
Debaters will argue the ques
tion: "Resolved that after the war
the nations should form a feder
ation to establish the eight Roosevelt-Churchill
points." Each speak
er will deliver an eight minute ad
dress upholding either side of the
question.
The Long Cup competition this
year has a double purpose. Besides
deciding the winner of the trophy;
the contest will also serve as a
tryout for membership in a fresh
men debate squad which wil!
function during the second semes
ter. On Wednesday night, Debate
Coach Leroy Ltase announced
second semester varsity squad
tryouts will be held.
Sunday, Jan. 17
Women interested in filing
should leave their names in the
Panhellenic oflce in Ellen Smith
hall. Blanks will be sent to the
applicants to be filled out and re
turned. To date 12 women have
filed.
The tea is being given by the
campus Panhellenic organization
for the first time. In years past
the city organization has given the
tea, but this year they have not
been active, so campus Panhel is
carrying on the tradition.
Sunday, January 11, 1942
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Presented Feb. 4, 6
rorities; Phi Mu Alpha "Sinfonia,"
music fraternity; and the Univer
sity Singers groups directed by
Dr. Westbrook and J. Dayton
Smith. Tickets may also be ob
tained at the office of the School
of Music.
Two Profs
Leave Faculty
For Army Duty
W. S. Gregory, junior division
guidance consultant, left Satur
day morning for Fort Worth, Tex.,
where he will join the army med
ical corps. Dr. Gregory will act as
a psychological consultant and
will test aptitudes and abilities of
soldiers.
"Authorities recognize Gregory
as one of the best psychologists in
the country," N. A. Bengtson,
dean of the junior division, said.
Arrangements are being made for
the carrying on of Gregory's work
by competent members of the
present university staff, Dean
Bengtson announced.
Saturday, Prof. J. W. Haney of
(See DUTY, page 2.)
To Secure Trained Men
Washington Approves Five University
Defense Courses; De Bauf re in Charge
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C'ourwi hjr SlurU i Capacity milt rriilit (llvrn
E.E. 209
1. Ultra-High Col. 7 hrs. 16 Senior 20 E.E. 226 Day
Frequency of Feb. 2 per weeks E.E. 4 his. (preceding Time
Technique Eng. week or parallel)
2. Drafting Col. 12 hrs. High School
and Shop of Feb. 2 per 15 Men & 20 None Education Eve
Mathematics Eng. week weeks Women 2 yrs. Math. ning
3. Aircraft Col. 12 hrs.
Assembly of Feb. 2 per 15 Men & 20 None Drafting 8c Eve
Inspection Eng. week weeks Women Shop Math. ning
4. Aircraft Col. 40 hrs. High School
Assembly of April 13 per 15 Men & 20 None Education Day
Inspection Eng. week weeks Women 2 yrs. Math. Time
5. Time & Col. 4',i hrs. 2 yrs. Eng. or
Motion of Feb. 2 per 15 Men 8c 12 None equivalent Eve
Study Eng. week weeks Women experience ning
To augment the supply of tech
nical trained men for national de
fense, the college of engineering is
offering five defense courses, be
gining the next semester. Under
the supervision of Pro' W. L.
DeBaufre new defense cc rses are
continually being added.
The defense courses offered by
the university are not intended
for the regular students of the uni
versity except for the ultra-high
frequency technique course, but
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YW Heads
This Week
Elections for city and ag
YWCA cabinets for the year 1942
43 will be held Friday, Jan. 16 in
Ellen Smith hall. Those nominated
for the cabinets will be announced
in the Daily Nebraskan Wednes
day before the election.
Positions to be filled are presi
dent, vice president, secretary and
treasurer for the city campus cab
inet and president and secretary
for ag YWCA.
This year for the first time it
will be necessary for members to
present their blue YWCA mem
bership cards and their identifica
tion cards to vote.
Members should check in the
city campus YWCA office to make
sure they have membership cards.
This should be done the first of
the week in order to be sure each
member has a card.
All members of the YWCA may
vote for cabinet members for city
campus YWCA, while only mem
bers of ag YWCA may vote for
president and secretary of the ag
cabinet.
Other members of both cabinets
will be chosen after elections.
Approved Defense Courses
they are for men employed at the
present in plants with defense con
tracts or for men who wish to se
cure positions in defense plants.
However, according to Professor
DeBaufre, students will be ad
mitted into defense courses if they
secure permission from Washing
ton, D. C. Students may obtain
permission to enter these defense
courscB, if they intend to quit
school and secure a position in
some defense plant after their
With a faculty committee still investigat
ing proposed changes in the school calendar
and a whole campus buzzing with rumors, the
Board of Regents, meeting yesterday in Lin
coln, approved one recommendation passed hy
the university Senate, elected officers for the
year and prepared -for a barrage of sweeping
proposals caused by the war effort.
After electing Frank M. Johnson, Lexing
ton, president; Stanley 1). Long. (Jrand Tsland,
vice president; and L. K. (Junderson, UN fi
nance head, secretary, the board passed the
ion that special credit allowances
1 be made for students who enter
the armed services before comple-
tion of their scheduled courses.
The recommendation, which
originated with the administrative
council, was approved Friday aft
ernoon by the Senate, made up of
(See REGENTS, page 2.)
Second Term
Lemstration
Begins Monday
Registration for second semes
ter starts tomorrow and will run
to Saturday noon, Jan. 17. All stu
dents registering fr the second
semester are asked to see their
advisers between these dates to ar
range their schedule, according to
the registrar's office.
All students on the city campus
in the junior division should call
for their typed registration blanks
at the office of Dean N. A. Beng
tson in University Hall, room 1.
Junior division students on the ag
campus are requested to call for
their blanks at their adviser's of
fice and then take the blanks to
Dr. Wiggans located in Dean
Burr's office for final validation.
Before seeing their advisers all
students should secure their credit
book by presenting their identifi
cation card with their picture at
(See REGISTRATION, page 2.)
training," Prof. DeBaufre ex
plained. The ultra-high frequency tech
nique, only course open to stu
dents, is given for the purpose of
training men to take charge of in
struments which detect approach
ing airplanes and ships at sea. To
understand the operation of this
equipment it is necessary for the
men taklng-vthis course to have
thorough grounding in electrical
engineering and physics.