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Vol. 45, No. 98
LINCOLN' 8, NEBRASKA
Wednesday, May 1, 1946
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U.N.'s 45th annual Ivy Day, set
for Saturday, is the oldest tradi
tion on the campus, and one of the
most revered and exciting. In
1901, when Ivy Day came into
being, it was the annual senior
class day, and got its name from
the planting of the traditional Ivy
by the junior and senior class
presidents.
It remained a play-day for sen
iors until 1903, when the tapping
of the 13 Innocents was added to
the ceremonies. Innocents was
founded on the campus as purely
a Nebraska group to foster student
spirit, and later evolved into a
men's senior honorary for ac
tivities and service.
Mid-H'lnter Tapping.
In 1943, Innocents were tapped
in mid-winter at the Junior-Senior
Prom, because many of them
were scheduled to leave in the
spring for the services. Since 1943
they have not tapped new mem
bers and will not resume tapping
until next year.
In 1905 the new Mortar Boards
were first masked. The organiza
tion was then known as "Order of
the Black Masque" and later be
came affiliated with the national
organization Pi Sigma Alpha-Mor-
Coeds, Men
Sing in Ivy
Day Contest
Following the presentation of
the May Queen at 9 a. m. Satur
day, the inter-frat sing will be
gin at 10:15 with 18 groups par
ticipating. Ten fraternity groups will com
pete for honors and will begin
singing at 1 p. m. It was an
nounced this week that choruses
may receive help from the school
of music two times during their
practices.
- The groups and directors are
listed and will appear as follows:
Selections.
Alpha Chi Omega, "Dream
Song," Peg Shelley; Alpha Omi
cron Pi, "Girl AOPi," Donnie
Wageman; Alpha Phi, "Alpha
Phi Sweetheart Song," Barbara
Jean Olson; Alpha Xi Deltf , "Eve
ning Hymn," Barbara Vesely; Chi
Omega, "Sweetheart of Chi O,"
Margaret Ann Amend; Delta
Delta Delta, "The Garden of
Love," Martha Davis; Delta Delta
Gamma, "Like a Ship at Sea,"
Nadia Kunzman; Gamma Phi
Bea, "Gamma Phi Serenade,"
Leota Sneed.
International House, "Does
Jesus Care," Rita Maginn; Kappa
' (See COEDS, page 2.) j
General Pick Addresses
Engineers Day Convo
Major General Lewis A. Pick,
Engineers Day speaker, will ad
dress the convocation audience",
Friday, May 3, at 11 a. m. in the
Union ballroom.
General Pick is credied with
the building of the suposedly im
possible Ledo Road project in the
China-Burma theater during the
war. This road linked India and
China as a military rupply route.
Aiding in the development of
the Missouri Basin with his flood
control program, he authored the
Pick plan, later coordinated into
the Pick-Sloan Law.
The officer, a division engineer,
tar Board. This will be the 42nd
year that the masked and black
robed Mortar Boards have stalked
and masked the junior women on
the grass of old campus or on the
dusty boards of the Coliseum.
In 1910 the ivy and daisy chains
were added to the ceremonies. The
ivy chain is composed of senior
women and led by the outstanding
seniors. The daisy chain is made
up of coeds from the three lower
classes and led by outstanding
juniors.
May Queen.
The daisy and ivy chains are
followed by the May Queen, sen
ior woman chosen at women's
elections in the spring and first re
vealed on Ivy Day, and her court
of pages, two freshmen, two spho
omores, four junior and two sen
ior attendants, and the Maid of
Honor.
Ivy Day this year will begin at
9 a. m. Saturday with the presen
tation of the May Queen and her
court, followed by the inter-soror
ity sing. The Ivy Day orator and
the poet will also be presented in
the morning. After lunch at 1
p. m. the inter-fraternity sing is
scheduled, to be followed by the
masking of the new Mortar
Boards.
Scientists Meet
At Omaha Med
College Friday
The 56th annual meeting of the
Nebraska academy of sciences
will be held at the university
college of medicine at Omaha Fri
day and Saturday, Dr. C. B.
Schultz, academy, announced
Tuesday.
Prof. Carl E. Georgi, university
bacteriologist and Dean C. W. M.
Poynter of the college of medi
cine will address the general ses
sion Friday evening. Professor
Georgi will speak on "Biological
engineering A New Horizon,"
and Dean Poynter's topic will be
a "A Common Objective of Sci
ence.
Meetings.
Sectional meetings and their
chairmen are: Biology and medi
cal sciences, E. A. Holyoke, uni
versity college of medicine; chem
istry, physics and engineering, D.
T. Warren, department of science,
University of Omaha; earth sci
ence, E. E. Lackey, university
department of geography; junior
department of mathematics; Cur
tis M. Ellidtt, university college
of business administration; Ne
braska science teachers associa
tion, Julius D. Young, Lincoln
high school.
has recently returned to the Mis
souri River Division in Omaha,
which he headed before the war.
General Pick is a 1914 graduate
of Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and was commissioned in the En
gineers in 1917.
Considered by Army Engineers
as the best qualified authority for
the flood project, General Pick
has had many years of experi
ence with the country's most
troublesome rivers. The Pick
Plan was developed in three
months, through the use of river
history and recorded data. Gen
eral Pick's work was the first
comprehensive plan presented for
the Missouri River Basin.
Election Results
SENORS-AT-LARGE.
Dake Novotny, Student.
Bill Swanson, Union Inde
pendent. Mary Claire Phillips, Union
Independent.
Doris Easterbrook, Union
Independent.
STUDENT COUNCIL.
Bizad: Richard Lahr, Union
Independent, Jean Compton,
Union Independent.
Fine Arts: Lee Tjelson,
Union Independent, Rita Ma
ginn, Student..
Dental: Gordon Cooley, In
dependent. Law: Dean Wiley, Student.
Pharmacy: Ernest Luther,
Union Independent.
Ag: Ruth Peters, Student,
Ned Raun, Union Independent.
Teachers: Mary Esther Dun
can, Student, Arlis Swanson,
Student.
Arts and Science: John Dale,
Union Independent, Joan Ack
erman. Union Independent,
Sam Warren, University.
Engineers: Stanley Ahrends,
Union Independent, Harold
Moier, Union Independent
Ivy Day Orator: Bob Green,
Union Independent.
Publication Board: Senior,
Art Biendorf, Union Indepen
dent. Junior, Berniece Young,
Union Independent. Sopho
more, Orville Chatt, Union
Independent.
AG EXEC. BOARD.
Betty French, junior. Stu
dent. Phillip Lyness, junior,
Union Independent. Beth Nor
enburg, sophomore, Student.
Dwane Foete, sophomore,
Union Independent. Jack
Baird, sophomore, Union In
dependent. Lillian Locke, so
phomore, Student.
FARMER'S FAIR BOARD.
Wilbur Bluhm, Union Inde
pendent. D w i g h t Johnson,
Union Independent; Robert Os
ier, Union Independent; Carol
Bridenbaugh, Student. Carol
Capek. Student. Marolyn Hart
took, Student.
COLLEGE AGRICULTURE
FUN BOARD.
Dale Landgren, Union In
dependent. Raun Anderson,
Union Independent. Eleanor
Johnson, Student.
Burr Presents
Registration
Method for Ag
Plan for a simplified method
of registration for ag students in
both the summer and fall terms
has been announced by Dean
W. W. Burr of ag college.
According to his plan, students
will bring the quadruplicate forms
and work sheet comjletely filled
out to room 104 in the Plant In
dustry building, where the ag
branch of the assignment com
mittee is now located. On one of
the registration days, the student
will get registration forms at the
coliseum, fill out class cards and
pay necessary fees to complete his
registration.
Benefit Vets.
For the benefit of Ag veterans.
Dr. C. W. Wiggans, ag assignment
committee head, said that he
hopes to introduce a new service
with the summer term. He also
stated that he wants to have the
text-book requisflion slip filled
out for all books required in
courses taken on the Ag campus
so that it will be available the
day registration is completed.
Registration for summer school
will be May 31, June 1 and June
3: and for the fall term. Septem
ber 16, 17 and 18.
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With the largest number of votes cast since the spring
election in 1940, 1,740 University students went to the polls
yesterday to elect twenty-four Union Independent, thirteen
Student and one University Party candidates to positions
for next year.
Dake Novotny, Student, Mary Claire Phillips, Bill
Annual
May
Breakfast
This Sunday
With "Friendship Garden" as
the theme, the annual May morn
ing breakfast, sponsored by the
YWCA, will be held on Sunday,
May 5. All coeds on the campus
are invited to attend and are en
couraged to bring their mothers,
according to Marilyn Markussen,
chairman.
A worship service, a new fea
ture, will be given at 8:15 a. m.
in parlors XYZ of the Union,
previous to the breakfast at 9
a. m. in the Unipn ballroom.
New Friends.
Carrying the idea of girls from
all corners of the earth meeting
and becoming friends through the
YWCA, the program will feature
a skit on college life. The mother
who has attended the most May
morning breakfasts will be pre
sented with a gift. Original num
bers by the students of the school
of music will be given.
The committee chairmen in
charge of the breakfast are: Lois
Kroehler, worship service; Shirley
Sabin, program; Mary Ann Moyle,
menu; Nancy Gish and Eileen
Hepperly, publicity; Jacque Holm,
table directions. Tickets are on
sale for 60 cents at Ellen Smith
hall or from house representatives
until May 3.
College of Law Reorganizes
Teaching Theory, Practice
Complete reorganization of the
theory and practice of teaching
law at the university law college
has been incorporated in its new
curriculum announced Tuesday by
Chancellor C. S. Boucher.
The new curriculum, which be
comes effective next fall provides:
(1) Increased length of the law
college course from five to six
years, two years of which will be
pre-legal education in general
subjects as at present, and four
years of legal education.
(2) All students taking the reg
ular law course cannot graduate
without qualifying for two de
grees a Bachelor of Science in
Law, and the regular Bachelor of
Laws degree or LL.B.
General Purpose.
The Bachelor of Science in Law
degree is non-technical corre
sponding to the A.B. degree, now
given by the university and will
be awarded at the end of four
years of the law course. The LL.B
degree, awarded at the end of six
years, qualifies a student to prac
tice law.
"The general purpose of the
new curriculum is to broaden the
training available to lawyers,"
Dean Frederick K. Beutel said.
"The first two years in the law
Selects
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Swanson and Doris Easterbrook,
Union Independents, were elected
as seniors-at-large. Novotny is
news editor for the Daily Nebras
kan and Swanson is president of
the Teachers College Student as
sociation and vice president of
Beta Theta Pi.
Miss Phillips is a senior A.W.S.
member, director of A.U.F. and a
member of Phi Chi Theta. A
member of Tassels, Coed Coun
sellor, W.A.A. representative, Miss
Easterbrook is also a Cheerleader.
Student Council.
Student Council members rep
resenting the different colleges
are as follows: Bizad, Richard
Lahr and Jean Compton, Union
Independent; Graduates: Fred Mc
Lasserty, Union Independent; Fine
Arts: Lee Tjelson and Rita Ma
ginn, Student; Dental: Gordon.
Cooley, Independent; Law: Dean
Wiley, Student; Pharmacy: Ern
est Luther, Union Independent.
Ag: Ruth Peters, Student, and
Ned Raun, Union Independent;
Teachers: Mary Esther Duncan
and Arlis Swanson, Student; Arts
(See ELECTIONS, page 2.)
YW Will Honor Former
Cabinet Members Tonite
A discussion of YWCA respon
sibility in campus politics will be
featured at the dinner for retired
and present cabinet members and
the advisory board of both Ag and
city campus YWCA organizations
tonight in Ellen Smith hall at
6:00.
An annual affair, the dinner
will especially honor former
members of both eabiiipts. ac
cording to YW secretary Mildred
layior.
college are devoted primarily to
general education in law and so
cial science leading to the Bach
elor of Science in Law degree.
Lab Training.
"The last two years cover an
intensive training in technical
courses used in the profession in
cluding two comprehensive lab
oratories, one devoted to practice
in office and court, and the other
to legislation. Here the student by
laboratory methods learns code
pleading, practice and the drafting
of contracts and other instruments
used in business and legislation."
Dean Beutel said the new cur
riculum provides liie same amount
of private law subjects which ap
pear in most standard law schools,
provides 25 percent more time
to court procedure, a "large in
crease" in legal and social science,
and 100 per cent more of public
law.
"Although a year has been
added to the curriculum in the
legal program, the college of law
is still carrying on the accelerated
course for veterans whose legal
education was interrupted dur
ing the war," Dean Beutel said.
"They will still be able to finish
the work in three years. The
three year course will also be re
tained for students entering the
college with an A. B. degree."