Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1943)
'V .... 1K1Q13 HZIm . IBM 1 .J XV ffltUll I TTeUll Mew Menmilbeii0 dDfi IBnzzadl InlaDiiiiaDirsairy Vol. 42, No. 69 Friday, January 15, 1943 Tm Up a Creek9 Jix&L SlahmsutL JoA, JhsL fijicM. Whn miprifil on how it feels about the times, the new Don li. Library replied: "I'm more up a creek regarding the future than anybody. "TTerA T am a beautiful edifice and what happens! I'm out in the cold; nobody even uses me. All I've had since the begin ning is tough luck. com nleted last August as a li- y-i fv Then 1 was sc heduled to ect a whole bunch of books this month and become a full fledged. library. Then eamethe new deal about colleges, and 1 aitft even a library anymore. tk.o ov rnmnr 1 in9v house some soldiers, but what I'm I in iui.",v" ------- laiesl, rumor to come true. It is that a bunch of niceWAACs or WAVES will he using my facilities. iv..m nvar-i w-flll v evcrvthinsr is done and only a hand ful of workers are left. 'l sure hope something happens soon. Here I'm a million dollar baby not doing a darned thing. Union Opens Registration For Current Events Quiz ... Fifty Students Compete Time magazine's semi-annual i current events quiz is scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Jan. 24, in I the Union. The first 50 under graduate and graduate students who register at the Union check stand before Jan. 19 will compete in this contest on present-day world events. The 50 minute test consisting of 10 questions on war, politics, diplomacy, science and art current events will be given in the form of multiple choice, character iden tification, map-spotting, quotation choice and picture identification questions. A gag set of questions entitled "What Would You Do? will be entered in the quiz, but the answers will not be included in the contestant's final score. Work Alone. individuals will work separately on the written questions instead of the team system used in a con test last year. If any organized hmis does not have a representa tive in the contest after the limit of 50 is reached, that house may enter a contestant regardless. Winner of the quiz will receive his choice of any J5 book or Time magazine's 12 inch world globe, with metal semi-meridians on a handsome base. Runner-up of the contest may have his choice of any $2.50 book given by the Union competitive games com mittee. This current events quiz will be used as a basis for many high achool semester examinations this month. The test will not appear . in Time this winter due to the new nnrxr curtailment order. Snnnsored annually by the Union, the compeitive "quiz-whiz" on all types of questions will be held this spring. lime s quiz aoeo not take its place. Psssssssssst! Here'saRumor That Saves Sections Close AsRegistering Nears Finish With registration week entering the last few days, many sections have been closed. The registration was heavier than usual the fore part of the week but was lighter than usual yesterday. Dr. Cong don stated that without a doubt, there would be a drop in enroll ment over this semester but that the drop would not be as great as the administration had feared. Those additional sections which have been closed are: Ohm. 4. fwrtloa II. Chetn. 31, rrtion '. torn. 3, ration I. Kron. 12, (Motion T. Kn(. 4, crrtton IV. Kn. 12. im-lkm II. Ornc. 1i. urctiiHi A. Math. IS. Motion II. 1-f. Math. it. ttrr.Ums III, VI. Physics, 1. rrtion R. Physic 4. sections A. Koc. 63, Motion I. Yhnc section whk-h have been sbsiv doncd arc: Bloloey J, wet Ion H. r.con. IS. section II. Venn. 3, wctlon III. Math. 12. section IV. hem. 13, section A. Dr. Congdon warns students that there will be a penalty if their registrations is not filed by 12 o clock Saturday. These sections which were closed Wednesday night were: Bus. Or. 4, sections S, 4. It. C. Bus. Ore 112. sections 1, 3. hem. 4. sections. A. B, . K, F. hem. SI, section A. Commercial Art 27, section I. Commercial Art 122. section I. Commercial Arts US. section I. 1'onimcrctal Art 12", aeclloa 1. Kc. II, section I. . 12, section I. Kd. 6S. section 2. S. S. Kar. I. section 2, S, 1. Inr 4. arction 1. 2. S. 1. Knit. 22. section S. Geo. 62, section A. Geot. 12, section I. C. Math. 12, sections, I. 3. S. . t. It). Math. 22. sections 1. 2. Math. 104, sections 1, 2, 4. physics 4, sections 1'. I). Hmh 54, sections 1. Speech I A. sections 2. Speech IN, sections S. Ka Merh 4, sections C. I.i Mech 121, sections I, I. Ka Meca 22. sections 2.. 1. Ka Mech 220, sections U. M K . section A. M K 111. section m. M E 239. section A. Bizad college students will gather next Wednesday evening at their annual banquet, Dean J. D. Clark of the college an nounced yesterday. TTiohHohiinsr the banouet will be the awarding of the ten Nathan Cold keys and the announcement of the newly elected rt nii:i siionm honorary Bizad fraternity. The ten sophomores who had the 1 i ft n. 'i his-hest scholarship grades as freshmen last year, will be pre sented with keys by Mr. cold. Plan Entertainment. Entertainment is being planned by a student committee and Pro fessors C. M. Darlington, C. At, Elliott and A, B. Carson. The Dan quet will be held in the Union ballroom. Last year the banquet was a tre mendous success. The ballroom was filled to capacity with over 500 Bizad students attending. Sev eral professors always entertain at these banquets by giving short talks. The price of tickets and where to buy them will be announced in Sunday's paper. All Bizad students are urged to make arrangements to attend. Courtesy Lincoln Journal. DEAN J. D. CLARK. , . . Presides at dinner. BY LEONARD STEIN. Pssssssst! Here's another ru mor to add to vour collection. Its number is VW 1254 UP. Tn a preat manv other places O ml entertainment places are treating ERC members not like drart dodg ers but as enlisted men. All re servists in many places are getting in snows lor a sum quarter ana are treated at all places like en listed men. At Iowa State. Des Moines, and Sioux City reservists are allowed to get in for a quarter. This adds Stamp Booths Hit New Peak With $139.90 . . . Ag Leads Thursdav war stamps sales jumped ttf a new time high yester day, when a total of $139.90 was reported by the five sale Dooms. Atr Colleee led the field with sales of $49.55. Social Science booth was second on the list with S44.90 war stamp sales. The Union sold 520.00, MA totaled $13.40, and the Delta Omicron bootn in me School of Music sold $12.05. I SAME To Hold Dinner Honor Five Seniors The Societv of American Me chanical Engineers will hold their annual banauet in Union parlors A. B and C Thursday. Jan. 21. at 6:30 in the evening As a srecial feature of the eve ning the five senior members of the group, Ed Lor, Kenneth Lanlz, Mark fiardner. Paul Butcher and rl.iM n.t. ...ItA A a ftninkinw ik up considering the fact college advanced R.O.T.C. courses this se- students attend a goodly number mester will receive special recog- ui Biiuvta in mun iu uj uiru i niiion by me ClUD minds for studv. I I Speaker for the eveninr win do But the new rumor is this! Re- Pmfoer t 3 v.Hns formcrlv nf . i -i i i. . . . i : I . ... .. uirir man iree vy pulling uinr came to Amenca Wlin a SOU Con (See RUMORS, Page 2.) i servauon party Big-Wigs Vie For Honors, Raspb t ernes: WAA Offers Three Women Scholarships Three $25 scholarships for women students will be offered rain this year by the Women's Athletic Association, according to Betty Newman, president Ail uni versitv women fulfilling the re quirementa are asked to apply at the WAA office in urant Me morial hall between January 13 and 23. One of the scholarships will be awarded to a woman working her way through school who has main tained a eood scholastic record The other two scholarships will go to eirls who have participated in WAA-mtramurala or clubs, and have a good scholastic record. Accordine to the president, the WAA acholarships are not diffi cult to obtain, although this idea has kept many coeds from apply ing for the grants. UN Supplements Math, Artillery Courses for Men Plnssps in mathematics and field artillery will be supplemented by "refresher" courses to enable stu dents to review or brush up on such subjects. According to an announcement by Lt. Col. Walter Gardner, a spe cial class including marching, commands and orders will open Saturday morning. Formally open to ERC men, the class will admit artillery men who expect to enter the service soon. Vehicles will leave the down-town campus at 9:20; class begins at 9:30 and ends at 1:30, and all stu dents must be in uniform.' A three hour absence in basic artilicry may be made up by attending th:s class. Fundamentals of trigonometry and algebra will also.be reviewed in informal discussion periods this (see m tiM, page a.) Bulletin Lists Requirements Of Women's Service Qroups UNEB-Union Show Will Star Mortar Boards, Innocents Sunday Night Innocent and Mortar Board rep resentatives will vie for honors or consequences ??? in "Hit or Miss," a combination radio and vaudeville truth or consequences show, to be broadcast over UNEB from the Union ballroom at 8 p. m. Sunday. Co-sponsored by the Union and UNEB, "Hit or Miss" will begin with 'introductions and preliminar ies at 7:34 p. m. in the ballroom. The broadcast on which anything can happen will begin at 8 p. m., with Gene Bradley, Randall Pratt, Bill McEride and Henry Lee doing the announcing and administrating of the "Consequences. The Contestants . . . Innocents Fred Metheny, Max Laughton, Larry Huwaldt, and Ren Bukacek will compete wun Mortar Boards Alice Louise Becker, Betty Newman, Sue Shaw, and Helen Kelley Hopkins ror win ning points or humorous conse quences. Each contestant will re ceive a flat 50 box of cigarettes or a box of candy. Helen Kiesselbach and Romulo Soldevilla will take turns firing questions at the contestants and handing out the losers' consequences. Audience Participates. Audience participation in th show will include answering missed questions, winning a door prize, and submitting a winning ques tion on any subject to be used on the program. A prize of 50 cigar ettes will be given to the winner of the door prize, and the student who submits the question which will be asked on the program win receive two flat oo s. Admission to the broadcast will be given only on presentation of identification caros. New UN Courses BY GEORGE ABBOTT. With enlistment oiicniiiL's in the WAACS. WAVKS, and SPARS now totaling over J50,0(H) the American Council on hducation lias re leased a bulletin outlining requirement s for col lege women in the three organizations. "It is more and more evident." according to the council, "that both commissioned and non commissioned officers to be in command of units within the women's services may be in large numbers selected from this year's seniors and from recent alumnae among our college graduates." List Requisites. Women are eligible for any of the services at twenty or twenty-one. An outline of re quirements and purposes of the WAACS, WAVES aud SPANS follows; WAACs The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps is an organization not technically in the Army, but under military discipline and formed into mili tary units for noncombatant service with the Army either in the United States or overseas. The minimum age for volunteering is 21; the maximum 44, ii.'-lusive; with no stipulated edu eational reouirements although the individua must pass an intelligence test. Salaries are equivalent to corresponding Army grade and rank. Almost without exception, potential officers are selected from the ranks of enlisted person nel 'auxiliaries) and are sent to Officer's Can didate School. Because of the rapid expansion XSee GROUPS, Page 2.) Start On Monday Drafting and Shop Mathematics i the title of the new class which will start here at UN next Mon day night. The class will provide skilled workers for Nebraska bomber and ordnance plants. Not only men but women may enroll lor me class. Dr. W, L. Baufre. director of war industrial training, is in charge of the class. Correction The announcement appearing in yesterday's paper concerning the banquet for the V-7 naval group was not an official naval an nouncement but only the plans of those enroll. We are sorry for this misinterpretation.