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Vol. 44, No. 17 Lincoln 8, Nebraska Wednesday, October 25, 1944 Nebraskan Conducts Poll On Presidential Candidates Students will be given a chancej to express their choice of the presidential candidates on Mon day, Oct. 30, when The Nebras kan conducts a Student Political Poll. Speaking tours composed of members of The Nebraskan staff will contact every organized house on the campus, both affiliated and unaffiliated, Monday night, in an effort to conduct a comprehensive survey of student choice. The speakers will distribute ballots which every student will be asked to fill out. Unaffiliated students living in Lincoln, not in organized houses, will be contacted through booths which will be placed in the Ag Activities building and in the lobby of the Union. These booths will be open from 12 noon to 6:00 p. m., Monday. The ballots will contain infor mation as to class, sex, college, choice of Candida t e Dewey, Roosevelt, orny write-in candi date, reason for choice, and the Gala Rally Ushers In Weekend Songs and yells will again reign at the homecoming bonfire rally Friday night at 7;30 on the mall by the coliseum. The cheerleaders, thirty Tassels with torches, and a volunteer band will be on hand to lead the rally from the Union down sorority-fraternity row. A snake dance will be formed at 16th and Vine and wind on to the bonfire. The main rally around the bon fire will begin with yells and songs followed by a talk by E. W DuTeau, president of the alumni association, and short speeches by Coach Lewandowski and the squad. A large stuffed tiger to represent Missouri will be mauled and burned amidst more songs and yells. After the rally a rally dance will be held from 9-11 in the Stu dent Union ballroom. All students and trainees are invited to attend. The Tassels will carry the torches to the fire, but for safety reasons, no one else is to bring torches. Each organized house will make a banner to be carried in the pa- rade. Cardboard boxes and wood furnished by the organized houses is to be at the mall by the coli seum at 4:00 Friday afternoon. Coed Counselors Schedule Dinner For November 1 Freshman coeds and their big sisters will be entertained at the annual Coed Counselor dinner and fashion show Wednesday Nov. 1 at 6 p. m. in the Union ball room. Tickets are being sold by coed counselors for 65 cents. Big sisters will contact the freshmen concerning the dinner. All upperclassmen are invited to attend. Monica Ann Alberty is fn charge of ticket sales; Virginia McDonald, publicity; and Marion Greenwood, food. . , (DMIL IFdDtUnU Ml ADDS IE IJDAYS To Buy Your Homecoming Ticket Coliseum Oct. 28 v See A Tassel Now! Tickets 1.25 student's answer on the prohibi tion question. Pat Chamberlin, editor of The Nebraskan, asks that students be entirely honest in writing reasons for their choice. "Tt is a well known fact that 75 to 80 percent of the voters vote according to See POLL, Page 3. L. T. Laase Tells Year's Debate Plans Program for this year's inter collegiate debate season has just been announced by Prof. Leroy T. Laase. The question for de bate is "Resolved: That the fed eral government should enact leg islation providing for compulsory arbitration of labor dispute." Tentative plans involve partic ipation in five major conferences and other minor contests through South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. The five major confer ences are the University of Iowa Conference at Iowa City, the Rocky Mountain Conference at Denver, the Northwestern Confer ence at Evanston, the Missouri Valley Conference at Wichita, and the University of Nebraska Con ference at Lincoln. Go to Iowa. First of the large conferences is the University of Iowa confer ence November 14, 15, 16, where both debate and discussion" con tests will be entered. The dis cussion will center on the Dum barton Oakes meeting while de bate will be on compulsory arbi tration of labor disputes. The squad attending this conference will probably consist of four ex perienced debaters, said Dr. Laase. All persons known to be in terested in intercollegiate debat ing or discussion were called to a meeting Tuesday at which plans for the coming season were made known. Those who were not noti fied should see Dr. Laase soon. Plans call for squad meetings over a period of two weeks at the end of which tryouts for varsity par ticipation will be held. Sigma Alpha Iota Province Prexy Visits . Nebraska Mrs. James Izsett, prominent Denver musician and newly elected province president of Sigma Alpha Iota, women's pro fessional music fraternity, will visit Kappa chapter at the UN school of music, Oct. 27 and 28. Mrs. Izsett will be speaker at a banquet Saturday attended by Sigma Alpha Iota alumna, ac aives, and pledges. While in Lin coln, Mrs. Izsett will also attend SAI formal pledging Friday, Oct. 27. Houses Submit Decoration Costs Itemized accounts of ex penditures for homecoming; de corations must be turned in to the Union office by 12 noon on Friday, Oct. 27. Any house not submitting their accounts on time will be disqualified from competition. Freshmen Hold Cheering, Song Practice Today Freshman! Oil your vocal chords and polish up on Nebraska cheers and songs for the freshman yell practice in the Union ball room this afternoon at 5. This is the first practice of its kind t be held since 1941, before whichthese gatherings were an nual occurrances. The purpose of the pre-rally ralley is to acquaint new students with UN songs and yells and to prepare them to shout the rafters down for the team in the Homecoming game Saturday. Not only freshmen but all stu dents who like to make a lot of noise are urged to attend. Cheer leaders will be there to lead the demonstration and Tassels will be on hand to incite the pepsters. Every new student is urged to attend this rally in order to be in A-l shape for the big rally Fri day night and the clash with the Missouri Tigers this Saturday. Tassels Drive For Purchase Of Ambulance Starting with today's war stamp sales, the Tassels will launch a drive for enough money to pur chase an army field ambulance by the end of the first semester. The ambulance will cost $1,950 and the Tassels urge every stu dent to buy a share in this neces sary piece of battle equipment which will be sent overseas bear ing the name of the university. Hundreds of these ambulances are vitially needed. When the money is turned over to the government, the university will receive recognition for it and the Tassels hope to have a dedica tion ceremony when the ambu lance is purchased. Mary Lou Weaver is in charge of the plan and announces that stamps will be sold as usual each Wednesday in Andrews, Sosh, Ag Hall and the Union. She said also that the sale of stamps must in crease before the semesters goal can be reached. Results of the, drive will be reported regularly in the Nebraskan. UN Pub Board Fills Vacancies On Nebraskan Members of the university pub lication board in a special meeting Monday afternoon chose three new staff members of the Nebras kan. Phyllis Teagarden, a sopho more, was chosen as new editor to replace Mary Jarrell, who left school last week. Newly-elected sports editor is freshman Dick Dilsaver, who has been acting in that capacity for several weeks. Helen Goodwin, who has been in charge of the so ciety page since the beginning of school, is now appointed official society editor and is a member of the paid staff. This year is the first time thata society editor has been given a salary. Members of the publications board are Forrest Blood, chair man, David Fellman, H. E. Brad ford, John K. Selleck, J. E. Law rence, Albert R?ddish, Mary Ral ston, and Varro Tyler. The board is charged with appointing staffs and reeulatine the university pub- 1 liratinns Nebraska Ace Visits Campus On Furlough Nebraska's leading air ace, Major John Loisel, who has 240 missions, 11 Jap planes downed in the air, two Jap barges, and the strafing of a Jap destroyer to his credit, was back to see his alma mater and the Sig Ep house last week end. "Stoop," the nickname of the six foot major, wears the distin guished flying cross with three oak leaf cluster, the silver star, the air medal with six oak leaf clusters, and the presidential cita tion with three oak leaf clusters. When he left the South Pacific he had more combat hours in that theater than any one else. Major Loisel was a junior in arts and science college when he left school in '40. Headed for Pearl Harbor when the war broke out, he went on to Australia where he has been serving under Gen. Douglas MacArthur since. In February of '41 he saw the "first Nips." Returning to the states on Aug. 8th, Loisel has been attending the command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth from where he graduated last Saturday. After a 30 day leave he expects to re turn overseas. Rutlianna Russell Addresses Ilom Ec Club, Oct. 26 Ruthanna Russell will speak on retailing at the first meeting of the year of the home ec club to be held Thursday at 7:15 p. m. in room 313 of Ag Hall. Miss Russell, who is a former Mortar Board, was active in ac tivities on the campus when she was in school. She has been em ployed in merchandising for Car-son-Pierie Scott of Chicago. This is one of a series of meet ings on vocations and home eco nomic fields held monthly by the home ec club. The meetings are open to all ag women. Records Reveal Union, BarbParties Uno fficia I BY ELEANOR KNOLL. The two political parties, Union and Barb, as they appear on the campus today, have never been recognized by the Student Coun cil, according to the records of the parties as recorded in the files of The Nebraskan. In 1940, the political parties on the campus, the Progressive and the Barb-Liberals, submitted the last political platforms presented by any of the parties on this campus. At that time the planks in the platforms indicated that ac tually the barbs and greeks were divided into two parties but as such they were not recognized by the Council. Progressive Plank. In the platform of the Progres sive party was this plank: "To make a sincera effort to keep af filiated groups in the position that thev should hold on this campus including both sororities and fra ternities by uniting in solid vote behind the Progressive front." The platform for the Barb Liberal party began: "For the pro motion of greater student inter est in the affairs of the University of Nebraska; to break down the UN Chooses Pep Queen Tomorrow Election of the Pep Queen of 1944 will be held Thursday after noon from noon until 6 o'clock in the Union basement when all stu dents will vote on five Tassels chosen by that organization as candidates for the title. Vieing for the honor are Monica Ann Al berty, Leslie Jean Glotfelty, Midge Holtzcherer, Suzanne Pope and Jackie Scott. Identity of the new pep queen will be revealed during intermis mission of the Homecoming dance Saturday evening, the queen to be presented by Yell King Bernie Urich and the 1943 queen, Peggy Larson, after the homecoming decoration cups are awarded to the winning houses. Basie Givens' band will play for the dance. One Sophomore. Of the candidates, all a-e juniors except Miss Scott who is a sophomore. Miss Alberty is a member of the Coed Counselor board, treasurer of the Home Economics club and a member of the Ag Student Faculty council. Chairman of the Ag student faculty council, Miss Holtzscherer is a member of the WAA, YW and AWS boards and affiliated with Delta Delta Delta. Miss Glotfelty is Tassel secretary, WAA treasurer and Nebraskan news editor. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi. Tassell publicity is handled by Suzanne Pope, who is also presi dent of the Lincoln Youth Coun cil, secretary of Coed Counselors and on the YW staff. Activities of Miss Scott are cheerleading squad, Coed Counselors, and Cornhusker staff. She is-a member of Alpha Chi Omega. In Today's IS'ebraskan G. I. Survey Pape 4 Horse Sense Page 3 Les Said Page 2 V-Mail Pasre 2 barriers that have existed between affiliated and unaffiliated stu dents; and to initiate the smooth functioning of student governing bodies in the co-operation with the administration, this new and greater coalition has been formed." That year, 1940, the two parties were closely matched; so that al tho the Progressive party won the election by having a control in the Student Council, they had that control by a majority of only two members. Three Into Oie. The Barb Liberal party had grown out of the three parties formerly on the campus. In 1939 the election showed three parties, called Barb-Union, Liberal and Progressive. The Barb-Union had grown out of the Independent party which had first appeared and presented its platform in 1938. Since 1940 the Student Coun cil has demanded no requirements for recognition of the parties. In 1941 The Nebraskan reported on April 18, that the council had made the final rules toward gov See RECORDS, Tape 2.