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Vol. 47 No. 32
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BY NORM LEGEK.
Members of the reactivated
Pershing Rifles, national honorary
military society, held their first
meeting of the year last Wednes
day to reorganize the local chap
ter and to discuss the year's pro
gram. With 40 men already pledged to
Pershing Rifles, the group hopes
to take in as many as 60 more
men from the R.O.T.C. depart
ment to comprise a crack drill
team that will equal the teams
that drilled in the pre-war years.
The organization specialized in
perfecting military movements,
and individual competition is
stimulated by the presentation of
medals to the outstanding cadets
in Pershing Rifles. An active
member of Pershing Rifles may be
distinguished by the blue and
white cord he wears around his
left shoulder; a pledge wears blue
and white ribbons beneath the
lapel.
"Black Jack."
In the fall of 1892, Pershing
Rifles was chartered at the Uni
versity of Nebraska under the
guidance of John J. Pershing, who
was then a lieutenant instructor
on the R.O.T.C. staff. The group
was first known as the Varsity
rifle squad, but after Lieutenant
Pershing left the present title was
assumed in commemoration of his
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BY PRUNELLA, Ilerself
Once upon a time, in a village by the shores of beautiful Salt
Creek, where the Betas and the Thetas play, lived a sweet little maid
named Prunella.
Prunella was a freshman in a huge sanitarium called the Uni
versity of Nebraska. The lunatics, pardon me, students, confined
therein, all thought they were circular bodies capable of turning pn
a central axis. As they wandered down Amber street (17th in from
Spencers to the stupes without an all-university average) they made
noises like wheels on cobblestones.
The very first, week after she was commited Amber, I mean
Prunella, began to hear rumors of something tremendous about to
happen. Just when she had discovered that the word they were
whispering was a noun and not an adjective, she saw one of them.
Not only that, but he smiled in her direction as he handed the cashier
a bus chip. What if a kappa was sitting right behind her, Reginald
had noticed our shrinking violet
But suddenly, into her '47 model, skymaster pink cloud dream
crept murmurs of the late, great social whirl, as perpetrated in the
only lately lamented era when the Fancy Five were in pre-war fettle.
Metal it could be, meaning brass knuckles, of course. Or kettle,
meaning fine fish of which they were in most of the time. Warm
water, too.
The beasties in the Cribs next booth were discussing a
momentous event. Something which far outshone the importance of
intramural football games, six weeks down slips (pink, of course),
ragglc-taggle edges, queen nominations, queen elections, queen pre
sentations, intercollegiate football games, coke dates, movie dates, or
even the latest recipe for fudge cooked over the hair dryer in the Pi
Phi laundry room.
"Jhis world-shaking event . . . what could it be? As Prunella
sat there craning her neck to hear what the goona-gonna gals were
discussing in such fervid, impassioned language, a geology student
calculated measurements without the slide rule.
Then, at last, one of the ghouls, girls, mentioned these fatal
words. At length, after all this waiting she knew. She Knew. SHE
KNEW! A seven weeks wait had not been for naught. She's heard
about the real thing! She now knew it was (To Be Continued.)
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work in starting the organization.
Pershing Rifles has grown to
the extent of having a chapter in
almost every state from coast to
coast, including California, Ohio.
Minnesota, Kansas, and many
others.
National Headquarters.
Located here at the university
are the national headquarters of
Pershing Rifles. The national
commander is John D. Cooper,
who holds the Pershing Rifle rank
of colonel. Second in command is
Robert B. Avner. whose rank is
lieutenant colonel. Maj. Eugene
Lingenf elder is adjutant, and Sam
Avner, also a major, is in charge
of personneL
While the main purpose of the
Pershing Rifles is to perfect drill
routines, there are other activities
as welL Each year there are sev
eral social affairs that are out
standing on the campus social cal
endar. Work and play will coin
cide for the squad members at
their first performance of the
year. Second only to the presen
tation of Honorary ColoneL the
drill routine to be featured by the
Pershing Rifles at the Military
Ball will highlight the evening's
program, and the spectators will
view the Pershing Rifles' initial
performance since the organiza
tion has been reactivated.
Any men taking R.O.T.C. who
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LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Or,
To Students
Nebraska Art
Show Opens
At Morrill
The University's art exhibition
has a record breaking entry list,
with 165 paintings and sculptures
representing artists from 13 Ne
braska towns and cities.
Now on display at the Uni
versity of Nebraska art gallery,
the exhibition is sponsored jointly
by the University and the Lincoln
artists. The exhibits will hang in
the university's galleries until No
vember 11.
Artists and cities represented
include: Lincoln Anna Fay Al
bin, Oscar Alexis, Clara Marie
See NEBRASKA ART, Page 2
Kosmet Klub
Selects Two
Skit Judges
Max Whitaker and Romulo Sol
deviila, instructors in the speech
department, have been chosen to
judge the skits in the final try
outs for the fall Kosmet Klub
show, according to the club presi
dent, John Dale.
The judges with a committee of
Kosmet member will view the
skits of the 16 fraternities who
have entered prospective numbers
for the show tonight and Thurs
day evening. After viewing a com
plete presentation of all skits the
judges will pick eight which will
be included in the show to be
presented in the coliseum Friday
evening, Nov. 22.
Committee Members.
Members of the committee
viewing the entries for the show
will meet in the lobby of the
Union tonight and Thursday night
at 7 p. m.
Fraternities which have entered
skits in competition for the show
are: Alpha Gamma Rho. Alpha
Tau Omega, Beta Sigma Psi, Beta
Theta Pi, Delta Tau Delta. Delta
Upsilon. Kappa Sigma. Phi Delta
Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Pbi
Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
Sigma Alpha Mu. Sigma Chi, Sig
ma Nu. Sigma Phi Epsilon and
Zeta Beta Tau.
Notice to Veterans
Veterans who have not re
ceived their subsistence checks
may consult with representa
tives of the Veterans Adminis
tration in Room 212, Mechan
ics Arte IU1L from 8:30 a. m.
to 4:30 p. m. on November $
and 8, and from 8:30 a. m. to
12:99 noon on November 9. No
conferences will he held on
November 1. Each veteran
should bring his C-number
with him.
J. P. COLBERT, "
Director.
Veteran's Consultation Board.
VvA
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.Bragg
Experimental
Theatre Holds
Play Tryouts
Tryouts for two university ex
perimental theatre plays will be
held Friday from 3 to 5 in room
201 of the Temple. All university
students are eligible to participate
in the plays, and no previous ex
perience is necessary for students
who wish to try out.
The two one-act plays, "Gloria
Mundi," by Patricia Brown, and
"He," by Eugene O'Neill, will be
presented on Dec. 5 in the studio
theatre. Both plays are psycholog
ical dramas; "Gloria Mundi"
takes place in an insane asylum,
and "He" centers its plot aboard
a whale boat sailing the Arctic
seas.
"Gloria Mundi" with a cast of
four women and two men will be
directed by Dorthea Duxbury; one
woman and six men will comprise
the cast of "He," which will be
under the direction of Dean
Graunke.
League Confers
Campus Co-ops
The eighth annual conference
of the Central League of Campus
Co-ops is scheduled for Friday,
Saturday and Sunday of this week
on the Nebraska campus, confer
ence chairman Bruce Flesher an
nounced.
Convention hosts will be Pio
neer co-op, Brown Palace co-op
and Cornhusker co-op, Flesher
stated. Forty delegates from mid-
western states, among them Colo
rado, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri,
Baker University and National
Training for Christian Workers,
will register for the convention.
Interested persons may attend
conference sessions, Flesher said.
McNeill, Filley Speak.
The League is organized to dis
cuss and solve problems common
o campus co-ops across the coun
try, and meets for this purpose
each year at a member univer
sity in the midwest. Nebraska
professors C. E. McNeill and H. C.
Filley are slated to address the
convention, whose theme this year
is "Why Campus co-ops?"
Convention program is sched
uled thus:
friday, November
:S0 p. m. Red stratum, Parlor X, Sto
liaioa. 7:00 p.m. Ojwtitas Beaotoa.
Welcome address, Bruce
Plantar, dan f ere Chairaiaa
(Nebraska U.) latredvctioat.
Report on National i.tmpas
Co-op Conference, Nell MeM
rlek (Baker Pawl Dts-
raaaiaa Tampa Co-op
NAWGWA is available at the
STUDENT UNION BOOTH
By Subscription or Single Issue
Wednesday, November, 6, 1946
Speaks
Today
In the second All-University
Convocation of the year, students
will hear Dr. Raymond Bragg
lecture in the Union ballroom this
afternoon at 3 .
Dr. Bragg's subject will be
"Europe's Rehabilitation How
Far to Go?", Prof. Carl Arndt,
chairman of the convocation com
mittee, has announced.
Foreign Relations.
Students attending the convo
cation will hear a speaker who
has won much recognition as a
lecturer on foreign relations and
social and religious topics, accord
ing to Prof. Arndt. Dr. Bragg is
the associate editor of the "Hu
manist" magazine and has trav
eled widely in Europe and Asia.
Dr. Bragg attended Brown Uni
versity and the University of Chi
cago as well as the universities
of Frankfurt and Hamburg in
Germany.
In addition to his editorial
duties and lectures, he has been
the minister of the First Unitarian
Church in Minneapolis since 1935.
Theta Sigma Phi, honorary
journalism fraternity, will meet
today at 5 p. m., in Ellen Smith,
Nightmares." Brace Flesher,
leader, with one speaker (ram
each campas eo-ep.
:M p. a. Some FUN.
Dnrward Q. DrWitt. OCA
Tooth IM rector, leader.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9.
:M a. m. Assembly, A a a a acemeata,
Oafnmtttee Appoints, Faculty
Ijnmnxr, Student Uaion.
9:30 a. m. Address -"Why Campas Co
ops," Dr. C. K. MeNeMI,
Professor at Economies, Ne
braaka IT.
18:00 a. m. All-Out Discussion of Campus
Co-op Problems, Mildred
Johns, leader National Col
lege tor Christian Workers).
11:30 a.m. Co-ops oa Campas Your
Newspaper, Ed Wblteway,
Editor, from Nat local Co-operative,
Inc., Chicago.
11:00 aooa Luncheon. Tow of the two Ne
braska V. eampases and Ne
braska's State Capitol.
3:M p. m. Reeoavene In Student Cafon.
Address "Why Federate?"
Dnrward O. DrWitt, loath
Director, Coaanmrrs Ceopera
tree Association,
3:00 p. m, DiscsMsion, led by Braeo
Flesher.
8:00 p.m. Conference Committee Meet
Ings. Nominating Committee.
Recommendations Committee,
Planning Committee.
7:00 p. m. Banquet, A a It room. Stu
dent Inlon. Toastmlstress
Caess Who?
Greetings tram South Aawr.
lea, Gustavo Fnrras, Coopera
tes KstadiaatH, University of
Caaca, Papayaa, Colombia.
Special ambers (one from
each eampas represented at
conference) .
Address "Why the Coopera
tive Movement?" Or. H. C.
Filley, rioff or of Rural
Economics, Nebraska O.
' Dance.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10.
:0ta.m. t'lX'C Aaaval Baslnes Meet
ing. BOI Baker VIAX) Fresl
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