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::w u U -lc Li) LAjlaj a) UOuL Vol. 44, No. 36 Lincoln 8, Nebraska Wednesday, December 6, 1944 UN Chooses Class Heads December 12 Junior and senior class presi dential elections were postponed until Tuesday, Dec. 12, at the Student Council meeting Wednes day to allow sufficient time for the printing of the ballots. All independent and progres sive or student party candidates must file for election by Friday in the Student Activity office, Gene Dixon announced. Voting, under the supervision of the Council, will take place from 9 a. m. until 8 p. m. in the Union basement. The committee on political par ties, headed by Jeanne Rotton, was directed to prepare posters with the pictures of all candi dates ' and place the posters in Sosh, Andrews and the Union. Russ Leger was appointed to serve on the committee following the resignation of Jim Abdnor, Bill Sakayama is the third mem ber of this committee. -Union Offers Dances, Movie This Weekend Plans for the last week-end be fore Christmas activities invade the Union include dances and the usual variety show. The weekly juke box dances will be held on Friday from 4 to 6 p. m. and from 9 to 11:30 p. m. Toys or 10 cents are the price of admission Friday night. A new band composed of coeds and men from the campus will play at the Saturday night dance from 9 to 12 p. m. The band is so new that it has no name. "It is hoped that those attend ing will be able to furnish a name," according to Pat Lahr, Union- director. His Girl Friday," starring Gary Grant and Rosalind Russell, will be the variety show for Sunday. Because of the presentation of The Messian Dy ine university Kinpprs in the afternoon, the show is scheduled for 8 p. m., instead of the usual 3 p. m. Next week the Union Christ mac tiws will tx decorated, and Christmas carols will be played from 12:20 to 12:50 each noon all week. The annual Union party will be held next Saturday night with dancing, caroling ana num bers by the ASTP chorus. Students, Profs Sell Their Souls At Auction Tonight BY IXS GLOTFELTT. With patriotic spirits flying high, members of War Council have been running around madly completing plans for the "Chance of a Lifetime" bond and stamp auction tonight. Chaining down reluctant volunteers for services, interviewing Dean Vema Boyles and faculty members, talking Pat Lahr out of cigarettes and steak dinners are onlv a few of the things done to insure plenty of chances for UN students to spend their money in the Union ball room at 7:30 p. m. Stamps will be sold at the auction and pledge slips for war bonds will be on hand for the high bidders. An incomplete list of services and objects up for sale is as follows: Dates with beauty queens. Ten packages of good cigar '! Prof.' Curtis Elliott to wait tables. J Boucher Sets Fund For Study Of Conference In a move to encourage the U N miniature peace conference, Chancellor C. S. Boucher has set aside a fund for the purchase of literature needed to enable the most comprehensive study of each represented country, according to Barbara Stahl, member of the planning committee. Another newly announced fea ture of the conference is a faculty committee chosen from the eco nomics, social science, political science and philosophy depart ments. The campus will be transported to the meeting place of the allies with colorful flags waving on high and international correspon dents (alias The Nebraskan staff) covering each new development or resolution. Each organized house or group of 20 unaffiliated students will be assigned a country to study and to represent at the plenary ses sions and committee meetings of the conference. Organized groups have submitted their country pre ferences and the assignments will be announced In next week's Ne braskan. Express Country's Views. Thp students will exnress the ideas and view points of the coun trv thv ar rpnrespntinff and not their personal ones. Within each group will be several committees which will give particular atten tion to such questions as world organization, world boundaries, treatment of axis nations and war criminals, labor and economic problems and colomal mandates. All of the students representing each country will act as a dele gation to the conference but a limited number of voting and speaking delegates will be chosen. Ag Holds Special Convo Thursday All ae camDus classes will be dismissed at 11:40 a. m. tomor row to allow ag students to attend a special convocation in 306 ag hall at which the forthcoming miniature Deace conference will be explained. Dean W. W. Bun- announced Tuesday. Gerry McKinsey will present the plans for the conference and answer questions. Provisions will be made for the students to sign up to work on the conference by participating in group study of one of the 33 countries to be rep resented. Edith Pumphrey is in charge of the convocation and will intro duce Miss McKinsey. Mortar Boards to fleas rooms. Dr. Arthur Westbrook to shovel walks when it snows. Let Glotfelty to make a coed's bed for two weeks (on campus). narold Andersen (PBK) to write an English paper. A barbershop quartet of four men to entertain at dinner. Four Mortar Boards waiting tables in the crib one afternoon. Gum. Kleenex. And more .too. Handline the auction will be! Karl Amdt and Curtis tmoft, both economics instructors. Die un the douch. grab the green stuff, and head for the Union ballroom at 7:30 tonight for the "Chance of a Lifetime. Progressives Meet Tonight All delegates of the Progres sive party will meet Wednes day night at 7:00 in room 316 of the Union to nominate the party's candidate for junior class president due to the In eligibility of Joe Kessler. All nominations will be made from the floor and must have ap proval from the office of the Dean of Student Affairs. Delegates will also be elected to the committees on organiza tion and platform at this convention. MB 'Snowball' Party Revives Gay Tradition Bringing back to life the gay est of UN traditions, the Mortar Boards announced today that the name of their annual party, to be held Jan. 13, will be "Snowball." Carrying out the vice-versa theme of the party, UN coeds will escort their dates and send the usual silly corsages. The Mortar Boards have promised that there will be snow at the party, regard less of weather conditions outside. Highlighting the evening's en tertainment will be the presenta tion of UN's typical snowman and six feminine snowflakes. The snowman will be chosen thru let ters, submitted by coeds, describ ing the one college Joe whom they believe would make the most typical Nebraska snowman. The best letters will be published in The Nebraskan before the party and the winner will be presented at the ball, along with the win ning letter. The six snowflakes will be chosen by pictures, although Ghita Hill, chairman of the pre sentation committee, says they are not supposed to be "beauty queens. Qualifications to become a snowflake include being an "all around good girl" and being en gaged in some kind of war work When pictures are submitted, they should be accompanied by the name of the girl and the war work- in which she is engaged. Pictures and letters should be turned in to Pat Chamberlin at The Nebraskan office as soon as possible. Nu-Meds Meet Tonight at Union A banquet at 6:15 in parlors XY of the Union will feature tonight's Nu-Med meeting. After nomina tion of second semester officers and the business meeting. Dr. J. J. Hompes, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, will speak and show movies taken in India during re cent years. All pre-meds, pre-nursing or pre-technician students should register in room 308 in Bessey hall before noon Wednesday if they are planning to attend the banquet The program will begin at 7:15. Frosh, Sophs Meet Advisors All Junior Division students are requested to make oat tbeir l! worksheets and registration blanks for the second semester daring the week beginning Monday, Dee. 11, according to Nels A. Benrtson, dean of the Junior Division. Appointments for these early registration conferences should be made now with advisors. Each student is responsible for j! meeting his adviser now and .! personally arranging for the hour and date for tbe prepara tion of his class program for e x t semester. Instruction sheets with full details as to procedure are now available at tbe Junior Division office. Theatre Comedy, 'Papa Is AH,' Opens Thursday Evening Here it comes another first night for the University Theater! "Papa Is All," the first comedy of The play is a rollicking story of a Pennsylvania-Dutch family, the Aunkamps. Papa is a tyrannical old men who adheres to the Menonite principles chiefly because they are convenient for him. Foundation Fund Assists Servicemen The Student Foundation schol arship fund now totaling $1,875 will be used as an aid to return ing war veterans, according to the decision of the foundation fi nance committee. The committee is romnosed of John Selleck. uni versity comptroller; Dr. G. W. Ro-enlof, director or admissions; L. F. DuTeau, alumni secretary; and Prof. H. J. Kesner, chairman of the university scholarship com mittee. The fund was originally estab lished to provide for the continu ance of education for men and women taken off the campus into the services. However, most of these students will be financed by the G. I. Bill of Rights. It ap peared therefore that the need for which the fund was estabushed had been filled. Murphy Suggests. Colonel Murphy suggested sev eral months ago that the fund be used to mail a digest of the G. I. Bill of Rights to 2,500 men and women who were inducted into the service while attending the university, and also to thousands of high school graduates and un dergraduates. It was suggested that a booklet with a certificate showing eligibility under the bill ,for educational financing, as well as attractive pictures ui me uni versity, and data to help sell the university to service men and women be sent to their fathers, mothers and wives. Has Merit. The Student Foundation has de cided that the suggestion made by Colonel Murphy and the G. I. Bill of Rights committee of the alumni association has merit and its members are of the opinion that the program should be carried out. However, as a number of men and women will not be in the service long enough to receive adequate aid for their degrees under the G. I. Bill, and will be in need of See FUND, Page 3. Coeds Relinquish Cherished Playthings to 'Toys For Joy' It's true that university stu dents need some form of relaxa tion from studying, but isn't play ing with dolls and teddy bears and ; rocking horse a little on the ! eccentric side? Whether it is or not, one sure thing is that someone else will get a lot more joy out of that soft Raggedy Ann doll or that clever jack-in-the-box than study weary students. There's a little girl somewhere in Lincoln who'll think Santa Claus is a pretty wonderful guy if she finds that cuddly black and white panda that one of UN's coeds has been keeping on her bed, in her stock- ing Christmas morning. The War Council's On the Beam committee is sponsoring an all campus Toy for Joy drive to col the season, opens tomorrow night. He won't let his son, Jake, mod- ernize farm work, nor will he let his daughter, Emma, go to a movie. The story grows out of Emma's decision to attend a movie with or without Papa's consent. The fact that she goes with her sweetheart doesn't help matters. Papa's disappearance while chasing the two with a shotgun, the family life without him, and his eventual return provide interest and comedy. Take Initial Bows. Tho this is the first time on the University stage for most of the cast, they are not lacking in experience. Carl Zeigler, who will play Papa, has appeared in several plays at the University of Iowa. Virginia Eberly, who plays Mama, is a transfer student from Wayne State Teachers college. Art Beindorff, a University Theatre veteran of last year, will play Jake. This is the first play for both Dorothy Reilly and Jef frey Gass, however. Lucy Ann Hapeman appeared in the last University Theatre play, Wingless Victory. Dallas Williams, director of the Theatre, stated the curtain would go up promptly at 8 o'clock. He also announced that those who See THEATER. Page 2. Violinist Appears On Ag Christmas Program Dec. 13 Professor Carl Steckebug, noted Lincoln violinist, will be guest soloist at the annual ag Christmas program on Dec. 13, the ag execu tive board annonuced today. Other tentative plans for the program will 'include excerpts from the "Messiah" by the chorus, an impressive candle lighting service and'a guest speaker. Mrs. Altinas Tullis will be the director of the music with Myron Roberts at the organ. The program is an annual af fair, always drawing a record at tendance. It is open to both stu dents and the public. Committees now at work on the program include: Edgar Hamm and Edith Pumphrey, co-chairmen; Helen Mortensen, program chairman; Peggy Larson, decor ation chairman; and Julia Crom, publicity chairman. lect toys for the poor children of Lincoln The drive will continue until Christmas vacation begins and there will be a box in the front hall of the Union for the toys. Admission: One Toy. At the regular juke box dance in the Union ballroom Friday night each person must bring a toy or ten cents for admission. The dance will be jointly spon sored by the Union and War Council. Last year all organized houses who planned Christmas parties donated their ten cent toys to the campus toyland headquarters. Fred Teller, chairman of the On the Beam committee, has sug gested that they do so again this year.