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V U U lilJiJ UQ u u U Llud Vol. 44, No. 91 Lincoln 8, Nebraska Sunday, April 29, 1945 Unconfirmed Surrender A The Nebraskan foea to press, latest unconfirmed reports announce that the unconditional surrender of Germany to the allied rovernmenU is expected momentarily, according: to a high American official. The American official stated that "there were no string's at Cached to the surrender, and that while he was not informed of all the details, the surrender wm made to all three of the major allied powers. Secretary of State Stettmius suddenly left the United Nations conference and replied only that be was going- to "an important meeting-.' Council May Vote Election Results Void Because of the numerous com plaints voiced against the student elections held Friday, the results of the election have not been of ficially declared legal, according to Harold Anderson, Student Council president. Some of the irregularities were the misunderstanding of voters eligibility under which the elec tions were conducted. The Stu dent Council constitution states that every student may vote for seniors at large but in the elec tions held Friday, only juniors were allowed to cast ballots for the seniors during the first part of the election. Also during the first part of the election only sophomores voted for candidates from the various colleges, instead of all students casting ballots for these candidates. The constitution also slates that party ballots must be printed in order to clarify the definite num ber of students registering for the minority party. For every 125 votes the minority party receives on the party ballot it is entitled to a seat on Student Council. The Student Council will issue a declaration regarding the legal ity of the elections following a meeting held Monday night at 5:00. Speech Contest Voices Student Postwar View Voicing their opinions on vari ous phases of "Postwar Prob lems," students will compete in the annual Intra-mural Speaking Contest to be held May 7-12. Entries must be filed in the speech department in Temple by Tuesday, May 1. Two representa tives are eligible to enter from each organized house, and other students not connected with an organized social group may file if they desire. Specific topics for the indi vidual speakers will be selected from the general subject, "Post war Problems," and drawn from a hat between 4 and 5 p. m. on the day preceding delivery. Pos sible topics will be "Peacetime Conscription," "Labor Difficul ties," "A Planned Economy," (gee SPEECH, pae I.) Dandelion Pests Bruises, Scars Names of candidates for dan delions kin and queen from all men's and women's organ ized houses most be turned In by Tuesday noon at the Union office or to Mary Jo Gish. All freshmen women who now have downsllps will be permitted to take a 10:30 night for the Dandelion dance Tues day night, according to Midge Holtzcherer, AWS president. Dandelions, dandelions, dande lions, marching up and down again! They really are marching, too, J Dance Group Gives Annual RecitalFriday wnen urcnesis members give their annual recital Friday at 8:15 p. m. in Crant Memorial hall, they will be concluding the 18th year of the organization on the campus Orchesis, honorary dance club of the physical education depart ment, gives the students in the de partment an opportunity to ex press their originality in dance interpretation, lighting and cos tumes. The organization of Orchesis at the. university was by Miss Doro thy Simpson in 1927, who was a member of the physical education staff at that time. Membership in Orchesis is based on tryouts and an informal examination of mod em dance techniques. Creative Dance Club. Orchesis is a creative dance club. The students are taught to use the tool and medium of their art body and movement but the manner of expression is entirely their own. The annual recital Friday will be the third appearance of Or chesis this year. A lecture dem onstration was presented to the Faculty Women s club on April 11 and a demonstration was given before the Lincoln Folk and Dance club on April 21. Tickets are on sale now and may be obtained from members of the WAA cabinet, WAA repre sentatives, sport heads and in the Temple, according to Dr. Aileene Lockhart, faculty sponsor of Or chesis. Honorary Bizad Society Chooses Sinclair as Prexy At the annuel election of of ficers of Phi Chi Theta, national business administration honorary society, held Wednesday evening, Mary Sinclair was elected presi dent and June Korb, vice presi dent. Other officers elected were: secretary, Phyllis Crandall; treas urer, Martha Dishmian; social chairman, Barbara Emerson; rush chairman, Sallie Emerson. Grace Steckley, outgoing presi dent, will install the new officers at the next meeting of Phi Chi Theta. Cause Bumps, to UN Campus with dandelion diggers, butcher knives and energy. Piles and piles of the weed are being dragged in and the tonnage is mounting up. "Dig Down Deep" is the slogan and the slogan fits the deed. Coeds, men and innocent passers by recruited by demanding stu dents dig madly in every direc tion but mostly down. Dressing for digging is a sub ject ofmlmost as much discussion as dressing for a date. Controver sies of the relative merits of jeans, slacks and shorts, (when the sun (See DANDELIONS, pasre X.) New Beauty Queens Rule On Campus Before a crowd of 2,000 spec tators six Cornhusker beauty queens were introduced at the inter-fraternity ball held at the coliseum Friday night. Janice Schwartzer, Pi Phi, Marjorie Dillman, Alpha Chi, Hink Aasen, Chi Omega, Bette Tobin, AO, BabeHe Stenger, Alpha' Phi, and Barb Emerson, Alpha Chi, are the new beauty queens of the campus. Janice Schwartzer was not present at the dance as she was ill. Pin Flowers. Myra Colberg and Charlotte Hill, editor and business manager of the Cornhusker, selected the girls from the crowd on the dance floor and pinned pink camellias on each one as they were introduced from the stage with a fan fare. In previous years the queens' identities have .been kept a secret until the yearbook came out, but this year the presentation of the coeds at intermisison was the highlight of the evening. In choosing the queens, the presi dents of organized men's houses selected 12 out of "35 contestants last November and then 12 fac ulty members chose the six final beauties. Tassels Select New .Members At Formal Tea Thirty new members of Tassels were chosen after the annual for mal rush tea held at the Chi Omega house yesterday afternoon from 2 to 4 p. m. New members and the organ izations they represent are: Jackie Tobin, Alpha Omicron Pi; Donna Tatman, Doris Easterbrook, Alpha Xi Delta; Kay Blue, Harriet (See TASSELS, page 4.) May Breakfast Honors Mothers Sunday, May 6 ' Honoring mothers of university coeds, the traditional May break fast for mothers, house mothers and others will be rponsored by the freshman staff of YW on May 6 at 9 a. m. in the Union ball room. The theme of the breakfast will be "Gardening," and will be car ried out in the decorations. The traditional day for mothers and daughters will carry out the idea of former years by coeds paying tribute to mothers. Tickets for the breakfast are 60c and can be obtained at the YW office, and during noon hours at the Union office. Headed by Suzanne Pope, the freshman YW staff planning the breakfast includes: Marcia Lee Civins, Elizabeth Curley, Claire Dudley, Mary Esther Duncan, Miriam Gruglick, Jane Mudge, Harriet Quinn, Marjory Reynolds, Irina Sklenar, Marilyn Stevens, Arlene Swartz and Lorraine Zaha. Coed Counselors Initiate Tuesday AU recently appointed Coed Counselors who were not pres ent at the first initiation will be Initiated Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. in Ellen Smith hall. Coeds are requested to bring 50 cents for dues, according to Suzanne Pope, president. The service will be over in time for the dandelion dance. Men Take (Day Sing With fraternity men taking an active part in the program for the first time since 1942, Ivy day ceremonies will begin at 1 p. m. Saturday in the coliseum, accord ing to Anne : W e 1 1 e n s iek, jy 0 publicity chair man. Four frater nities will com pete for the award cup in the Ivy day sing. There has been no inter -fratrenily sing for three years, and Miss W ellensiek Lincoln Journal W ellensiek stated that this is an indication of normal activities returning to the April Aivgwan Rolls Off Press By. Tomorrow April issue of the Awgwan be comes available to all students tomorrow, according to Phyllis Johnson. The humor magazine's second issue can be obtained in the Union. Organized houses on the cam pus may pick up their copies in the Awgwan office, while unaf filiated students living in Lincoln may get their issue at a table set up in the Union lobby tomorrow afternoon. "The fourth and final issue of the Awgwan goes to press to morrow and the third issue has been at the printer's for a week," stated Miss Johnson. Elliott TeHs Tale. Enlightening coeds on the sub ject of the new library, Prof. Cur tis Elliott tells the tale of "Coed's Cupola Casbah" in the current number. "Hell's Bells," by Tom Sorenson, condemns the proposal to build a Memorial Bell Tower. The surprise of the month comes in the two pages of picnic pictures. The pictures are spec tactular and unposed, says Fred Teller, publicity chairman for the humor magazine. Two of the students' favorite authors, Leonidas W. Zilch and Tripammer Peepash, again view campus life and styles in the hages of the April Awgwan. 7 1 i "i thy?". Tibbett Closes Lincoln Concert Series with Recital Wednesday BY SAM WARREN Lawrence Tibbett. who will close the Lincoln Symphony con cert series here next Wednesday in a recital in the coliseum, has lead what is probably the most colorful life of any American ar tist today. From the time he lived on his sheriff-father's California ranch, thru his World War I ex periences until he became a mem ber of the Metropolitan Opera company his life's goal Law rence Tibbett has lived like a character from a Horatio Alger novel! His earliest days were spent in Bakersfield, California, then a small but tough town in the center of a farming community. His fam ily, who had migrated to the coast during the gold rush of '49, were strict Methodists and law enforc ers, his father and uncle both be ing sheriffs. When Larry was six a notorious bandit shot his father but was immediately hunted out by Uncle Bert Tibbet and exe cuted for his crime. In the next seven years, his widowed mother tried to support her four children in Long Beach and Los Angeles by running a hotel and being a practical nurse. It was she, andj Part in ivy Saturday campus. Seventeen w o m e ni groups will sing for the cup. Band Concert. oening with a band concert ' t 'eremonies will begin with th appearance of the May queen'i court. Thirteen alumnae Inno cents will head the procession, followed by the Mortar Boards and the dasiy and ivy chains. Pages will be for the first time in two years. Ivy day orator and Ivy day poet follow next. The May queen's attendants, flower girls and crown bearer, and the maki of honor precede the queen. After the crowning of the 1945 May queen, the Ivy day oratoc, Russell Leger, will speak. Jean Whedon Remmenga and Leslie Glotfelty, presidents of the senior and junior classes will plant the ivy after his speech. Reading of the Ivy day poem by the author will be next on the program. Announcement of the winner of the poetry competition will be made in Friday's Nebras kan and the poem will be pub lished at that time. Groups Sing. The .inter-fraternity and kiter sorority sing follow. Final event of the afternoon's program in the coliseum will b masking of the new mortal boards. Junior women, chosen for scholastic, leadership and serv ice qualifications by present mem bers of mortar board, will receive their first notification of member ship when the masks are slipped on Saturday afternoon. Climaxing Ivy day festivities, the annual tea dance will be held in the Union ballroom from 4 to 6. Free cokes will be served at th dance and decorations will featura a huge Maypole. Tickets for the dance are 15e and organized houses are buying tickets in blocks, according to Mary Cox, head of the tea dance committee. Singers Feature Religious Music Featuring a program of relig ious music this afternoon at 3, tha university presents its annual spring choral concert at the coli seum. Three hundred people will par ticipate in the program which is conducted by Dr. A. E. Westbrook and Mrs. Altinas Tullis, who di rects the agricultural collega chorus. later his sister Betty Lee, who gave Larry his first lessons and encouraged him in his school mu sical activities. First Ambition To be an actor, tho, was really his first ambition. His teacher. Miss Maude Howell (later George Arliss' stage director), taught him the fundamentals of acting and the importance of exact charac terization which were invaluable to him later in this opera charac ter roles. After he left school, he picked up odd jobs singing and acting, specializing in character parts because he "wasn't hand some." Then the war came along and Tibbett joined the navy to fight and to see the world. But mostly he saw San Francisco har bor and "sang quartet!" However, near the end of the war he had been transferred to Baltimore and was sent on a supply ship to Vla divostock, eastern Sibaria. When he was mustered out from the navy, Lawrence was 22. His first real teacher was Jos eph Dupuys in Los Angeles, but it was Basil Ruysdael, opera basso and later radio announcer, wtw (See TIBBETT, pare X4