Friday, March 23, 1945
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BY SHIRLEY JENKINS
With an astounding number of
headlines to look at and with an
infinite amount of stories to
choose from, the readers of The
Nebraskan have, since September
18, 1944, had an opportunity to
read the news of the moment al
most before it has been made
Statistics as to how many actually
take advantage of that golden
chance are unfortunately not
available.
But to even a rabid reader, Uic-
year's news has become a jumble
of peace conference, Homecoming,
War Show, theater, Harry James
and sports. In an earnest endeavor
to let you, the reader, know what
has gone on, The Nebraskan pre
sents its annual survey of head
line events and the news that
made you sit up and blink.
Year Begins.
With a housing shortage, fresh
man convocation, rush week and
Professor F. C. Blood taking Har
old Hamils place in the school
of journalism, the year began. The
3,000 students learned of mar
riages of classmates, pledges of
the 13 sororities on campus and
football prospects for 1944. Les
Glotfelty turned from profanity to
tinning in her now-famous "Les
Said the Better," while Nina Scott
took the job of digging the dirt in
Lincoln. Pleas for workers on The
Nebraskan and its arch enemy,
The Cornhusker, crowded each
other on the pages.
With the publishing of fratern
ity and sorority scholarship stand
ings, everyone buckled down to
classes and discussing chances of
the Cornhuskers in football.
War Council's pleas for more
male students brought an
avalanch of the male population
which has, incidentally, dwindled
to a mere trickle. Between rush
ing to have Cornhusker pictures
taken, gathering paper for the
salvage drive, trying out for
cheerleaders, and attending
church parties given for All-University
church week, students
heralded the end of Eeptember
with the thought "only eight more
anonths."
Football Season.
Meeting Minnesota in the first
football tussle of the season, the
Nebraska team took their 32-0
defeat with determination to
make it tougher for Indiana.
While the men were looking fra
ternities over, coeds were begin
ning to man those overseas
Christmas packages to the men
who couldn't be here.
Opening of the new Interna
tional House shifted the spotlight
to this group of active campus
women. Music came in for a
bea mas Johnson Beam left for
the Juliard School of Music and
Lawrence Tibbett disappointed
the city by being unable to sing
at his scheduled concert. 144 men
went Greek as the fraternities
gathered the new pledges into
their arms. Dick Dilsaver began
bench-warming, and what do you
know, Hink Aasen hasn't found
Don Chapin yet.
Drives for the AUF and YWCA
membership started early in Oc
tober. Four of the new cheer
leaders wore shirts and four more
the cream colored trousers to lead
yells for Nebraska. Bernie Urich
retained the post as Yell King.
Fireworks in the Student Council
wrich were expected came in for
editorial criticism from Pat:
Chamberlain and the Council re-j
taliated by initiating a change in
the political setup of the cam-j
pus. Gene Dixon proposed two I
parties with an equal distribution
of barbs and Greeks, but the de-j
cision was relegated to a closed
session of the council. j
With 30,000 spectators at the
first football game of the season
at the stadium, the Iowa Sea-
hawks took a 12-6 victory over
the Second Air Force Super
bombers. The Cornhusker re
ceived an A rating and everyone
started to worry about the cigaret
shortage.
Beginning a series of surveys,
The Nebraskan published the re
sults of a rehabilitation question
Harry James laid 'em in the aisles
or rather, all over the Coliseum
floor, with his trumpet and the
prospect of a 12:15 night for coeds
54-0 was the score of the Indiana-
Nebraska game ai Bloc .ir.gton.
Hope sprung anew, as always, as
the sound of the victory bell for
the rally before the game with the
Kansas Jayhawks, with that hope
dimmed by the 20-0 score the KU
team turned in. At last, the AUF
drive climbed over the top with
the Tassels still berating students
for not buying more war stamps.
Along about this time, October 20,
the Student Council blushed as it
discovered it had no right to
abolish political parties on the
campus.
Five Tassels each hoped that
she would be the one to step out
on the stage of the Coliseum as
football squad with their defeat at
the hands of the Iowa University
Hawkeyes. Greek coeds exchanged
luncheons, during Greek Week
and ended with a dinner with
the theme "The Greeks Mount
to Olympus." And at last, the
two new political parties came
to light. The Progressive Party
and the Student Party for Demo
cratic Government were recog
nized by the student council and
registration day was set. With
the news of another defeat for
Ins valient Cornhuskers, this time
by the Iowa State Cyclones, coeds
and men took their minds off
football for Religious Emphasis
Week and the concert of Todd
Duncan.
Who's Whoers on tHe campus
were selected and included 20
of the Nebraskanites. Registra
tion for the two political parties
found that the students were di
vided about evenly. Along about
this time, the rumor of something
called a peace conference began
to circulate around the campus.
The YWCA cabinet heard Gerry
McKinsey's idea and received it
so enthusiastically that immediate
1944 Pen Queen, and the hopes ofl , .., t.
Jackie Scott were realized at the ;
Homecoming dance. With Basie
Givens providing the music and
all students providing the en
thusiasm, the whole university
celebrated the Cornhuskers' first
win of the season bj upsetting
Missouri 24-20. Shades of all the
football greats, that was a game!
Coincident with Homecoming
game and dance was the contest
for the best decorations.
Chi O, Sigma Nn.
Chi Omega with "Pick off
those Tiger 'Lilies'," and Sigma
Nu with "Muff Missou" celebrated
their own private victories that
night. The Alpha Xis and Fhi
Gam's were second winners. Poli
tics was filling the space left in
the paper, with Jidge Mason dig
ging in the files to discover the
bloody election battles of by-gone
days and the Student Council lay
ing down the laws for forming
new political parties.
In the midst of this hub-bub,
the campus was saddened by the
death of Frank "Pop" Schulte
noted soash for Nebraska for
many years. The election of the
president of the United States was
decided by the campus. The only
trouble being, it picked the wrong
man. Dewey carried the camfus
two to one and students hid in
shame on November 7. Prohibi
tion was almost unanimously
voted down by the students and
by the state.
"Wingless Victory" became the
talk of the campus as the uni
versity players opened in their
first production of the year. Har
old Andersen, Richard Sill, Bar
bara Stahl and Jeannette Smith
were announced as members of
P' Beta Kappa. The college of ICouncil. Students and faculty
business administration played at members sold their souls and per
the annual banquet given by Phi sonal property as wild bidding
Chi Theta. Faculty members from the audience ran up the total
were the side shows at the circus sales. Dates, kisses, waiters, ci
party which entertained most ofigarets, dinneis all this and more
the students in bizad college, was offered to the students at
Winers of the Gold scholarship i the bond auction and they took
keys were announced. full advantage of those offers.
November came in sadly for the' The 49th annual presentation of
Relief!
As a relief from the "heavy"
stuff, the presidents of men's or
ganized houses on the campus
chose 12 finalists in the Corn
husker beauty queen contest. All
candidates appeared at a tea
dance in the Union ballroom and
the ranks were whittled down by
the presidents. The wildcat of
Kansas State was burned at the
last rally of the year and the
War Council got busy with plans,
plans, plans.
The theme of the 1945 war
council-sponsored War Show was
chosen as "Til Johnny Comes
Marching Home." In conjunction
with the Sixth War Loan Drive,
the Council told students about
the Chance of a Lifetime. Stu
dents found out more of the
plans for the miniature peace con
ference when speakers toured or
ganized houses and the houses
chose countries to represent at the
conference.
In a wild and loose fray and
snow and showers, Kansas State
overpowered the Cornhuskers
35-0. The Progressives and the
Student Party nominated their
candidates for the president of the
senior and junior classes. Thanks
giving intervened about this time
and for one day, activities were
at a standstill as students gobbled
the turkey and rested before the
last stretch before Christmas.
"Pan Is All."
"Papa Is All" kept coeds and
men laughing during its run.
$4,385 in bonds and stamps were
sold at the Chance of a Lifetime
auction promised by the War
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Handel's Messiah by the Univer
sity Choral Union put the uni
versity in the Christmas mood as
vacation drew nearer and nearer.
The long-awaited student election
of junior and senior class presi
dents was held but since there
was, shall we say, "dirty work in
the ballot box" the election had
to be held over. With the as
signment of countries for study by
organized campus groups, the
peace conference began to take
shape and students planned hours
in the library in preparation for
February and Msrrh meetings.
Christmas shopping interfered
with classe? and music had the
sound of sleighbells. AWS told
coeds about follies (oops, should
have been a capital F) and the
Mortar Boards let them in on the
Snowball they had been whisper
ing about hth said just enough
to arouse curiosity until further
details could be revealed after va
cation. Celebrate.
Having celebrated the year in
and out and having been given
one day to recover, students re
turned to face the peace con
ference, snowball, follies, and
what else? Oh, yes, finals.
Biff Jones was assured of a
job when he returns to the uni
versity and fans sighed with re
lief. Those junior women (who
never change) did not sigh quite
deeply tho, when they found that
AWS had announced a curricular
activity system which goes in ef
fect after the last spring election.
Speaking of elections, the presi
dents of the junior and senior
classes were finally elected. Jean
Whedon Remmenga became senior
class president and Les Glotfelty
held the junior class leadership, j
Somehow, exam schedules for
the finals crept into The Ne
braskan and students began to
have that hangdog air that so
often accompanies the printing of
these space filling news items.
Faculty advisors were appointed
to help with the peace conference,
but all stopped for the Mortar
Board Snowball. Doug Nelson
was the man of the hour with the
title of SNOWMAN and was es
corted by six hard war-working
snowflakes. Lee Barron gave the
students music to dance to at the
ball, while the men sported cor
sages and took it easy while coeds
opened doors, put on coats and
paid the bill.
YW Prexy.
Mary Ann Mattoon assumed her
duties as the new president of the
city campus YWCA and Lois Op
per took over ag YWCA. The
Nebraskan underwent a change
of staff and Harold Andersen
emerged victorious as editor.
New students viewed with alarm
the rising suicide rate of upper
classmen as final week ap
proached. AWS has not even yet
released the casualty list, but
assures students that it is not
above normal.
Adding to coeds' worries were
the new rules established by the
AWS board as they strengthened
existing regulations and added a
few. Les said, Andy editorialized,
and AWS stood pat. Must prove
something. Encouraged by infor
mation gathered from library, fac
ulty advisors and Big Three meet
ings, the university began com
mittee meetings for the peace con
ference. The 12 conference com
mittees met once a week during
February to write resolutions to
iui in a pesec tre?y
Amidst this activity, Nebraska
debaters swept honors at the de
bate" conference at Northwestern
University, with Gerry McKinsie
receiving highest ra'ings. Nine
acts were chosen for the Coed Fol
lies and women began practicing
nightly to win the cup for the
best skit or best curtain act.
Tri Delts again walked off with
the honors at the Penny Carnival
for the best booth using "Test
Your Love Appeal." Since the
stage was the focus of attention
at this time, the war show re
hearsals went on. Professor Henry
Kesner was killed by a trsin ac
cident on February 10.
Merely noting the 76th birthday
of the university, students con
centrated once more on the peace
conference, war show and coed
follies. Another theater success.
Skin of Our Teeth," was pre
sented by the players, while stu
dents were startled by Russia's
threatened withdrawal from the
miniature peace conference. After
that had been smoothed out, an
nouncement was made of speakers
for the peace conference. John
Parke Young, Ruth Bryan Owen
Rhode, Herbert BrownelL Gov
ernor Dwight Griswold, and Sen
ator C. Petrus Peterson were
among those chosen to address
students at convocations and at
the plenary sessions.
It Happened!
Then it happened. The Awgwan
came back after three years ab
sence with Phyllis Johnson as
temporary editor. The humor
magazine staff invaded the Ne
braskan office and their ancient
feud was resumed. Up pops the
Student Council with an inves
tigation of the Student Health
Survey and another topic for dis
cussion was added.
Til Johnny Comes Marching
Home" was enthusiastically ac
claimed at all three of its per
formances and the War Show.
sponsored by the War Council,
turned over its proceeds to sup
port campus war drives and proj
ects.
With the adoption of final reso
lutions for the peace conference,
the university prepared for the
March plenary sessions. The AUF
Red Cross drive opened and, the
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