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You'll dance with Joy!
With the campus in a stow, the wind lilew,
and the Innocents came through Jimmy Joy
will play for prom goers come Friday eve.
Their eleventh hour communique came at
approximately 11 :o0 p. ni. last night when Jim
Seizor, prom chairman, walked with a springy
step into the Daily Nebraskan office and said
in an elated voice, "Oh hoy, it's Jimmy Joy."
So now there is joy in the house wheie
sorrow once reigned.
Coming direct from the Trianon ballroom
in f'liii!in Jnv's band should serve as one of
- Ndirahknn photo by Morton Margolin. 10, (aiH'lll'r ireats 01 tllC year to UlllVOISltV
One of these five coeds will be presented Friday night as the 4942 ? . . ,. . . . '
Prom Girl. The candidates are. from left to right. Maribel Hitchcock, students, Hill Marsh, managing director of the
Kanpa Alpha Theta; Margery Stewart. Alpha Chi Omega; Ann Craft, ytU(ient inion, said late last night. Other re-
Kanna Kappa Gamma; Jo Duree, Chi Omega and Alice Louise Becker, ,111 1
Alpha Phi ocntly outstanding engagements played by and
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with Joy are Bal Tabarin in San Francisco,
Hotel Stevens of Chicago, o Stool l'ior at
Atlantic City, and liill (Ireon's Casino of Pitts
burg fame. .
Joy and his piping hot. clarinet was re
cently featured on the Fitch Bandwagon with
that program's master of ceremonies describ
ing his band as one of the most consistent big
time musical aggregations of the nation. Jimmy
Joy's music makers have been the tiptop favo
rites of dance lovers at Chicago's Trianon, and
have played for hundreds of collegiate parlies
over the country.
Innocents refused to announce further
plans for the I'rom, stressing only the fact that
dancers must "lie there early" and promised
another surprise to be revealed during the
(See PROM, page 2.)
Vol. 41, No. 95
Lincoln, Nebraska
Wednesday, March 4, 1942
V Daily Conducts Survey
On Training Program
k Sampling . . . Purpose . . .
BDOC Vote Is Slack
At Polls on First Day
Balloting for BDOC which is being held in the Union base
ment was light during the first day, Ben Xovieoff, chairman of
the committee in charge of the contest, announced last night
after counting the ballots.
Students are urged to vote as soon as possible. The polls
will be open today from 1 to p. in. and tomorrow from 9 a. in.
until 5 p. m. when voting will close. As a result of the first
day's voting several candidates were neck and neck in the lead.
The twenty names which appear on the ballot are:
By Edith Laslo.
IK-ciding to run a test sample prececdmg
a survey, the Daily Nebraskan ventured forth
a feeler to test the public reaction to a ro-p-.N.-d
physical education and military train-in-
course. Of the ten persons questioned,
onlv two were atiainst .such a course. The
trend would seem to favor the starting of the
new program.
Voicing the general feeling of those in
asx'iit. Dean Nutzman, senior, thinks it "'would
!.. a good idea. It would give the juniors and
seniors a lot of needed physical exercise."
One of Nebraska's football players, Mar
vin Athey, was heartily in favor of the pro
posed program. "It will build up the boys
for the rugged army life they will have to
lead."
(See SAMPLING, page 5.)
In order to sample opinion on the ques
tion of introducing a voluntary non BOTC
military or physical education program on the
campus, the Daily, with the aid of the univer
sity psychology department, will conduct a
campus survey to determine student feeling
on such a program.
The Student Council has been working on
a similar idea recently, according to President
Burt Thiol, and will cooperate with the Daily
in obtaining a fair sampling of campus opinion.
Voluntary Program.
With the assurance of full cooporalion of
Chancellor C S. Boucher and Col. Charles A.
'Minis, departmental commandant of the uni
versity BOTC, juniors or seniors, if they so de-1
sire, may volunteer to lake part in a military
(See PURPOSE, page 4.)
Carlos Atkinson Jack McPhail
Ren Bukacek Ed Milder
Wally Engdahl Bob Poe
Robert Galloway Harry Rinder
Ray Grimes Jim Selzer
Jay Hoffman Louis Seybold
Bob Irvin Bert Smith
Eugene Littler Jack Stewart
Boyd MacDougal John Thompson
Marvin Thompson
The Klgin pocket watch which is being given by Esquire
and the clothes which will be given by Harvey's, Ma gee's,
Simon's, Cold's are now on display in the .Union lounge.
BDOC will be presented at the Junior-Senior Prom this
Friday. At this time the watch will be presented. The outfits
being" given by the Lincoln department stores will be fitted
after the announcement has been made.
Students are urged to go to the polls early. Pictures are
being taken of the students voting ami may appear in Esquire
wit pictures of Nebraska's BDOC this spring.
Coffee Hour
Fetes Faculty,
r.wlCol, M
JLjIIJillJMI Hid
Sponsored by the Student Union
and the Student Council, a eoiiee
hour will be held today from 5 to
G p. m. in the Union faculty lounge
honoring faculty members, grad
uate students, and majors of the
English department.
All student are invited to
attend these coffee hours which
are planned to improve student
faculty -elations. Each time a dif
ferent department of the univer
sity is entertained.
Students Get
Grades Today
First semester grade cards
ire now available to students
it room 103 Administration
Hall between the hours of 8:15
i. m. and 5 p. m., C. W. Rosen
of, registrar, tinounced yester
day. Students should bring
their identification cards with
them to secure their grades.
Everybody's
Happy!!
Paul Svoboda and Chris Peter
son oprned the university's fir.t
gripe session at 5 last night in the
faculty lounge.
Svoboda, Peterson waited
..Petersen. Svoboda waited a lit
tle while longer.
Svobola, Petersen were ready
to listen.
Petersen, Sv oboda -1 e f t the
lounge.
Nobody came.
The university's 7.000 students
are all happy. None of them have
any gripes.
Marjorie May,
Sid Schwartz
Get Daily Johs
Marjorie May has been ap
pointed news editor of the Daily
according to an announcement by
Harold Hamil, director of the
school of journalism. Sidney
Schwartz has been named circu
lation manager.
Author Louis Untermeyer Speaks
At Next University Convocation
I.aui5 Untermeyer, famous au
thor, editor, and lec turer on poetry
and the aits, will -discuss "The
New American Arts' at the next
university convocation Sunday.
March 15, at 3 p. m. in the Union.
The Nebraska Art association.
whose annual exhibition opens to
dav in Morrill hall, is cooperating
with the university convocations
committee in Untermeyer s Lin
coln appearance. He will comment
on new trends of painting, music,
literature, drama, and architec
ture in this country and discuss
the probable culture of America
50 years from now.
Acclaimed as one of the out
standing poets of the times, Un-1
tenneyer lias compiled and writ
ten more than 30 books, most of
which are circulated in every pub
lic library and are required read
ing in many high schools and
colleges.
An inspired and polished as
well as prolific writer, he has be
come famous for such works as
"Heavens." "The Donkey of God."
"Roast Leviathan." "Poetry Its
Appreciation and Enjoyment." and
"Heinrich Hein e Paradox and
Poet." This spring he will present
a new anthology entitled "A Treas
ury of the World's Great Poems."
Untermcyer's charm and wit
Non-ROTC Training
Which of the following: courses would you be most
interested in taking on a voluntary basis:
Military
Physical education
Combination military physical education
Signed
make him one of the most popular
lecturers of the day while his pres
tige in American letters makes
him an important personality to
hear.
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Lincoln Journal.
Louis Untermeyer