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y C&uGluD Union Offers Free Soldier, Civilian Dances Free Union dance will be held In the ballroom Saturday from 9 to 12 for civilian students and army trainees. This is the first in a se ries of four free parties which will be sponsored by the Union during the remainder of the year. Russ Gibson's band will furnish the music. The dance next week end will include a buffet supper which will also be given without charge to party attenders. "The Union decided to open the dances to the entire campus after consulting with military officers after the declining population in army trainees set in," said Pat Lahr. Union director. "We think that the combined civilian students and military trainee attendance will make for good parties on the last four Saturdays of the year. Vol. 88, No. 116 IBIBSil MsisFrcieraio'ies Pres Under the direction of Dr. Ar thur E. Westbrook, professor of music, Bizet's opera "Carmen," sponsored by Mu Phi Epsilon, Del ta Omicron, and Sigma Alpha Iota, will be presented tomorrow evening at 8 p. m. at the coliseum. Playing the leading role, Dorothy Huffman, senior in the school of music, will appear as Carmen. Delbert Pinkerton, an ac countant with the Lincoln Liberty Life company, will play opposite Miss Huffman as Don Jose. Esca millo, the toreador, is played by Roy Johnson, a junior in the school of music, and Carlos Atkison, also a junior, is cast as Morales. Mary Helen Bush, a school of music senior, will sing the part of Micaela, with Robert Calkins, a pre-med freshman, as El Dancairo. The part of Mercedes will be sung by Dorothy Strasheim, .senior in the school of music, and Anne Crosby, a junior in teachers col lege is to be Frasquita. The university choral union, WSSF Awards Plaque to Campus For Contributions For contributions amounting to more than $1 per student, WSSF has awarded to the university a certificate of highest honor, ac cording to Barbara E. Arnold, ex ecutive secretary of the university YWCA. The award plaque will be hung in the YW office. The WSSF drive which was held on the campus during the fir3t week of December was the first drive handled by the AUF. The goal set at $2,300 was exceeded by bout $200. , The world student service fund uses the money obtained in cam pus drives thruout the country to supply the educationu' needs of students in conquered and war torn countries and prisoners of war. You Must Sec the Opera CARMEN Delegates Go To Christian State Convo Fourteen students from the uni versity will attend the student Christian movement conference at Kearney this week end. Mary Ann Mattoon, district representative for the university YW, is one of the two student leaders of the conference. Alicia Coffin of ag: Kady Faulk ner, instructor in fine arts; and Barbara Arnold, university YWCA secretary, will serve as adult leaders. The theme of the conference IS "You and Christianity," and the topic will be emphasized in panels, discussion groups and worship services. Herbert King, national associate secretary of the student (See CHRISTIAN, page 3.) Friday, April 21, 1944 composed of the ag college chorus under the direction of Mrs. Altinas Tullis, the university singers, the university chorus directed by Ar thur Westbrook, and the univer sity orchestra directed by Miles Dreskell, will furnish the music. Theta Sigma Phi Holds Installation Of New Officers New officers of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalism fratern ity, were installed at the regular meeting. Jo Martz will serve as president for the ensuing year. Other officers are: vice president, Marylouise Goodwin; secretary, Myra Colberg; treasurer, Marjorie Mengshol and keeper of the ar chives, Helen Hemphill. New members of the organiza tion will be named as a part of the Ivy Day celebration. Sopho more and junior women majoring- in journalism meeting the as cribed scholastic requirements are eligible for membership. Musical Fraternity Gives Initiation Tea Pi Kappa Lambda, honorary senior musical fraternity, will hold a tea and initiation in Ellen Smith between 4 and 5:30 Sunday. An nouncement of new officers for following year will also be made. Coed Counselor Filings Close Friday at 5 p. ni. Filings for Coed Counselors will be held today in Ellen Smith hall and in the home ec building on ag from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Today is the last day for filings and all women who will be at least a sophomore next fall are eligible. Approxi mately 75 women will be ac cepted for membership next year. CJSH)eiiiB Ag Entertains Feeders Day State Visitors Hogs, cattle and sheep will be the main attraction on ag campus today in celebrating the 32nd an nual Feeders Day. The convention is attended by persons thruout "t fiM If" V.. '-it, From Lincoln Journal. W.'j. LOEFFEL. . . presides over ag Feeders' Day. Nebraska and neighboring: states who are interested in cattle breed ing, and results of the year's ex periments in breeding: and teeding are revealed. Prof. William J. Loeffel. chair man of the animal husbandry de Dartment. will preside over .the program. The main topic will be the protein problem, which aireci ly concerns every farmer at this time. Professor Loeffel will .dis cuss this subject in the light of the present situation. Among other well known speak ers wjll be Dr. Herman M. Haag, economist from the University of (See AG, page 3.) Students May Obtain Honors Convo Programs Students who were on the honors list and were unable to get programs at the convoca tion may obtain them at the de partment of architecture in Temple. There are only a few left. i ' -v'i Qerry McKinsey Answers Diplomats, Meets 'Eleanor' . On Washington Trip Gerry McKinsey, speech major, played the White House piano and answered the questions of diplo mats. Yes, and she did other inter esting things during a visit to Washington recently. Gerry won a regional discussion contest on Inter-American affairs, the trip to Washington for a nation-wide broadcast of her speech, and a summer trip to Mexico, where she is to "absorb" the life of the country and help cement the friendship between the United States and Mexico. Beginning April 11, her stay in Washington, Gerry said, was one crammed full of highlights and 99 GreeksYakefiflajority Of Elective Positions Union party candidates carried 14 out of 22 offices decided upon in Wednesday's spring election of WAAModern Dance Club Gives Recital ' Orchesis will present its annual spring recital Friday evening, April 28, at 8 in Grant Memorial hall, announced Dorothy Jean Brown, president of the honorary modern dance group which is sponsored by the department of physical education for women and the WAA. In addition to student accom panists, Lela Mae Jacobson and Mary Alford, Pia Werthiener Gil bert, who has composed the music for several of the dances to be given this year, will play "Ballade in A Flat" by Chopin and "Rhap sody! in C Major" by Dohnanyi. Mrs. Gilbert is a graduate of the New York college of music. She has played in New York with such dancers as Martha Graham and the Humphrey-Weidman Co. . Those participating in the re cital will be Dorothy Jean Brown, Frances Brick, June Cntchfield, Lois Klindt, Helen Marie Johnson, Mary Ann Knox, Peggy Lemon, Eunice Way, Lucille Wolford, Jacqueline Young, Virginia Cam pen, Marian Coombs, Ernestine Craig, Bernette Hadan, Joy Laune, Grace Peters, Maidelle Flatner. Ruth Schubach, Marguerite Klindt, Lillian Snyder, Virginia Pettjt and Donna McCandlass. UN Forum of Air Discusses Food, Manpower in '44 Second of three discussions on manpower will be presented on the university "Forum of the Air" Saturday at 5:30 over KFAB. Stu dents will discuss the lack of man power as a threat to food produc tion in 1944. For the third time, George Round, assistant extension agri culturist editor, will be moderator. Participating in the panel will be Commander P. H. Quimbjn of Ne braska selective service, A. H. Ma render, farm labor supervisor, Carlyle Hodgkins, farm editor of Omaha World-Herald. impressions with all the excite ment of being "where things are humming." "Gold braid and stars . . . Mt. Vernon through the rain . . . a Mexican embassy that main tained siesta until 4 o'clock in the afternoon" are but a few of the impressions Gerry brought back to Nebraska with her. Speaks Before 3,000. The discussion for which the regional winners were taken to Washington took pluee In the Hall of America on April 13.Here the regional winners, five coeds and one man, from colleges in Maine, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Oregon, Chicago, and Nebraska presented The University Coliseum Saturday, April 22, 8 P. M. Admission 35c Plus 7c War Tax student council, publications board, Ivy Day orator and ag exec board members, in which 829 students cast votes. The results were as follows: STUDENT COUNCIL. Arts and Science: Janet Ma son, Stuart Goldberg. Fine Arts: Roberta Collins. Teachers: Mary Jo Gish. Dentistry: Jim Kratochvil. Bizad: Helen Vennum. Pharmacy: Tie, H. J. Norman and Stanley Andelt. Engineering: Bill Sakayama. Agriculture: Tie, Madeline Holtzscherer and Edith Pum phrey. Graduate: Dexter Sharp. Seniors at large: Jeanle Browne, Jeanne Rotton, Jim Abdnor, Russ Leger. PUBLICATIONS BOARD. Sophomore: Varro Tyler. Junior: Mary Ralston. - (See ELECTION, page 3.) Church Youth Hear Dr. Ruth Seahury Speak Lincoln churches are holdinp- a mass youth meeting at St. Paul Methodist church Sunday, April 23, at 7:30 p. m. to hear Dr. Ruth Sea bury, educational secretary of the American board of foreign mission, which is the overseas service of the Congregational Christian churches. Dr. Seabury will speak on "The Hope of a New World." Roger Williams Fellowship will meet at 6:15 for supper and wor ship service before attending the mass meeting. Myrtle Johnson will lead the worship, and Edwin Hib bard will preside. Attend Lecture. Rev. Ray Kearns announced the Presbyterian students will meet at 6 p. m. for a short meeting and supper at the Presbyterian student house before going to hear Dr. Seabury. Lutheran chapel services for students and service men will be held at 11 a. m. Sunday in room 315 of the Union with Rev. Henry Erck, university pastor, delivering the sermon, "Ahab's Garden of Herbs." Rev. L. W. McMillin of the Fpis (See CHURCH, page 4.) their prepared speeches to an au dience of 3,000. Gerry gave her speech first, "Wartime Co-opr-ation as the "Basis of Future Inter American Co-operation." She gave the response for the student group following the program and the ap plause of the audience. Before and after the speeches a string orches tra and the Navy band played. Following the speeches, the floor was thrown open for ques tions. The six college students answered the questions of diplo mats, of persons of high rank in the state department, of anyone present at this affair to which (See McKINSEY, page 2.) in Concert Form