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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, February 11, 1947
EDITORIAL COMMENT
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Today at 11 . . .
This morning's convocation furnishes the first oppor
tunity for the great majority of students on the campus to
hear Chancellor Gustavson. The Chancellor has spoken to
many specific organizations and groups on the city campus,
ag campus and civic leaders, but his talk today is for all
the students. He will be. speaking on his interest in the
topic "Science and Religion."
The Chancellor's address opens the second semester
series of all-university convocations. The men scheduled
for the other talks include internationally-known experts on
foreign and domestic affairs, such as Percy Chen, Thurman
Arnold and Richard Patterson.
With the announcement that instructors may dismiss
classes at 11 p. m. with the approval of the department
head, comes the old cry, "Why can't they dismiss all classes
for every convocation?" The answer remains the same
and will remain that way until the building program of the
university is under way. There just isn't room on the
campus to hold the number of students who would attend.
The coliseum will hold them, but its distance from the cen
ter of activities requires more time to get there and also
keeps students who haven't the energy to walk over there
away.
Until the time when the auditorium can be built, we
will have to depend on the whims of our instructors if we
want to attend a convocation.
National Students' Group
Sets Up Four Committees
Last December Helen Laird,
president of the Student Council,
announced the Council's decision
to send three official representa
tives and one observer to repre
sent the university at the Chicago
Student Conference that was held
December 28 to 30, 1946. The In
dividuals chosen to represent the
student body were Don XJeye,
Jack Hill and Eugene Berman,
with Peter Jernberg attending as
an official observer.
The Univets devoted their
weekly radio program to a discus
sion of the conference, which of
fered students ar. apportunity to
ask the assembled delegates any
questions they might have about
the new National Student Orga
nization. SERIES OF ARTICLES.
The Student Council and the
Daily Nebraska n, however, feel
that the National Student Orga
nization is going to play such an
important part in the life of every
individual student, that they are
sponsoring this series of articles
which will be devoted to a com
plete coverage of the Chicago con
ference. In August of 1946, the world
Student Conference was held at
Prague to bring together represen
tatives of 2,500,000 students from
36 nations for the creation of the
International Union of Students.
This meeting was organized and
planned by the national student
organizations that have grown up
in Europe.
ORGANIZATION
Nine national student organiza
tions co-uperated on an American
Preparatory Committee to select
the 25 American delegates from
student organizations and ten stra
tegically located universities in
the United States. The American
Preparatory Committee worked
with the American delegation in
supporting the Chicago Student
Conference, which was called with
the central purpose of trying to
establish a National Student orga
nization in this country.
For this purpose, 727 represen
tatives of 303 universities and col
leges and 28 national student or
ganizations gathered in Chicago to
establish, in the words of Russel
Austin, who opened the confer
ence with a speech for the Com
mittee for the Chicago Student
Conference, "a representative stu
dent organization, an organization
that can speak with authority and
accuracy for all the students in
the United States."
PANELS ESTABLISHED
In order to facilitate ease in
coping with the situation, the
group divided itself into four
panels, each to discuss some phase
of the problems that had to be dis
cussed. The four panels were:
1. Panel on the National Continu
ations Committee, a temporary
organization established at Chi
cago to plan a Constitutional Con
vention during the summer of
1947. This group would organize
all material presented at Chicago
and be ready to establish the Na
tional Student Organization; 2.
Panel on the Organization of the
Prospective National Student or
ganization; 3. Panel on the Stu
dent Needs and Responsibilities
in International Affairs; and 4.
Panel on the Aims and Activities
of the Prospective NSO.
Awgwan Refunds
Refunds for second semester
3uscrlptlons to the AWGWAN
magazine 'U1 be made the
week of February 10-14, in
clusive. Checks will be mailed
to treasurers of houses which
have five more members en
titled to refunds. Call, dormi
tory, or other miscellaneous
subscribers should call In per
son at the AWGWAN office In
the Student Union basement
during the following hours:
Tuesday, February 11, 1-2 p. m.
Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2-3 p. m.
Thursday, Feb. 13, 5-6 p. m.
Friday, February 14, 4-5 p. m.
Students should bring their
receipts, if possible. Identifi
cation cards must be presented.
No further refunds will be
made after February 14, 1947.
Any further information may
be obtained from Eldon E.
Donnelly In the AWGWAN of
fice during the above hours.
DON-ATIONS
BY DON AMSDEN.
GRIPES OF WRATH:
I warned you might find any
thing but the kitchen sink here.
What fellows may be skipped with
few regrets. As they say in Eng
lish novels, it is a matter of su
preme indifference unless, of
course, it has happened to you,
too. In which case, it may puzzle
you as it does me.
(Strictly background material).
Thanks to the movie magazines
and the endless flow of publicity
material from the Cinema City,
everyone knows by now that
Hollywood has developed a pre
dilection for hiring the most tal
ented writers it can find.
Established writers, best-selling
novelists, prize-winning play
wrights, all find their way even
tually to the Land of Orange
Juice and five-figure paychecks.
Let some new biographer of the
18th century boudoir become the
darling of the discriminating reading-public
and Hollywood will
leave no coin unjingled until he,
too, steps off the train in Los
Angeles' Union Station.
(More background). There he
joins giants like William Saroyan
Norman Corwin, Ben Hecht and
Maugham. They work painstak
ingly for months to turn out a
finished script, patiently polish
ing each word to create an exact
mood.
(Puzzle). Then, when the fi
nal prduct of this creative talent
is on your local screen, inevitably
some sophomoric intellect in the
audience thinks it can, on the
spur of the moment, blurt out
some killing bit of repartee to
top off the efforts of those screen
writers.
You know the type. Once in a
blue moon, a lucky chance of per
fect timing or a particularly apt
remark will convulse his neigh
bors in the audience. Unfortun
ately, the embryonic G. B. Shaw
is never content to rest on his
laurels. Flushed with the success
of his bon mot, he forgets that
he came there to spectate, and
spends the rest of the evening
trying loudly, but futilely of
course, to repeat his triumph.
That's all. Like I say, it just
puzzles me.
BORROWED WITH INTEREST:
Dean's wife (at a graduation
dinner): "Will you pass the nuts,
professor?"
Absent minded Prof.: "Oh, I
dare say. Though heaven knows,
two thirds of them should be
failed!" (From the Ohio State
Sundial).
Those of you who came fn late
and sat in the rear may have
missed it, but the New York
Courier and Enquirer of Oct. 4,
1833 (that's right) made the fol
lowing sociological comment on
the times as a matter of public
record. Besides showing our Ca
nadian friends that, as usual,
America was there "fustest with
the mostest," reference is made
here to provide an interesting
study of the journalistic style.
The article ran as follows:
"Within the month of August, a
young lady of the city of Sche
nectady was delivered of five chil
dren at one birth. The mother
and children are all alive, healthy
and likely to live. A thousand
dollars were raised in the city
and given to the mother as a pre
mium. The young lady has since
been married to the father of the
infants."
"Kitchen Sink" department: It
appeared in the papers but perhaps
your subscription to the Daily
Racing Form has run out. I think
you should know that a San Diego
librarian has found definite evi
dence that the meat shortage is
over. Between the pages of a re
turned book, apparently placed
there as a marker, was a slice
of bacon.
So you thitik you're up to date
with your "Open the door, Rich
ard." Wait'll I give you the Word
on "Must you eat meat with your
mustard?" But, since I seem to
have run out of space, I'll have
to expand this item next time.
AAF Reserves
Eligible to Join
Air Squadron
Former officers and enlisted
men of the army air forces who
joined the AAF reserve when re
leased from active service are
eligible to enter Lincoln's "flight"
of the air reserve squadron based
in Omaha.
All persons interested should
telephone or write James Critch
field, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce committee. The fol
lowing information should be in
cluded in the application for en
trance: name, address, telephone
number, rank in the AAF reserve.
serial number, and army special
ty, including M.O.S. number.
Critchfield's Lincoln telephone
number is 2-6671.
Cyclone Riflemen
Split Mail Meets
AMES, Iowa. Iowa State Col
lege ROTC rifle team members
took on two schools in a postal
match this week and split the
seiies with one win and one loss.
With 15 men firing and the 10
high scores countirg, the Cyclon.s
defeated South Dakota State Col
lege by a score of 3,446 to 3,349.
Oregon State, however, edged the
Iowa State team 3,964 to 3,446.
The Iowa State score of 3,446 was
matched against the results from
the other two colleges.
Individual scores by the team
members weer as follows: Evens,
278; Fardal, 374; Jones, 347; Krotz,
344; Holets, 340; Bernstein, 340;
Walkup, 335; Binger, 334; Ross,
331; and Erickson, 323.
This week the ROTC team is
firing in the Hearst Trophy
matches. Two 5-man teams have
been entered fro mthe college in
the intercollegiate competition. An
award will be made to the winners
in each army area, according to
Capt. Edward Smith, officer-in-charge
of the team.
4-H Club Picks
New Officials
La Rayne Steyer, president;
Dough Hemenway, vice president;
Bob Koehler, secretary; Dwyer
Albert, treasurer, and Maurine
Steyer and Marilyn Boettger, pub
licity, new offiecrs of the Univer
sity 4-H club, were elected this
week.
Composed of former 4-H club
members, the club sponsors the
annual 4-H club week held on the
A'g college campus.
Next regular meeting has been
scheduled for Thursday, March 6,
in the Ag Student Union.
Don't Overlook
YW Posters!
Select a Group
Do you have some extra time,
girls? Have you noticed the YW
posters that are appearing in the
different buildings on the cam
pus? The posters are not put out for
decorative purposes only. They
are meant as the personal invita
tion of the YWCA to you the
girls of the university. The of
ficers and leaders sincerely want
you to come to the meetings, pick
a commission group in which you
are interested and have a lot of
fun with a group of girls that you
are sure to like.
Meetings are arranged for your
convenience. There is not a wast
ed moment in the YWCA. From
Monday noon until the Friday
"coke" hour. Ellen Smith Hall,
the headquarters for YW, is the
scene of activity.
Commission groups will be ex
plained in a later article and the
purposes of YW will be outlined.
For any further information,
.those interested may obtain it at
the office in Ellen Smith.
Home Ec Club
Holds Meeting
On Ag Campus
Officers and council members of
the Home Economics club were
entertained at a breakfast Sun
day morning at the home of Miss
Margaret Fedde, director of the
Home Economics department.
Following the breakfast a busi
ness meeting was held at which
the new officers and council mem
bers were introduced ,and the new
program for the semester was dis
cussed. On February 5 the members of
the home economics section of Or
ganized Agriculture were guests of
the home economics department
and home extension service at a
tea and open house in the Foods
and Nutrition building.
A conducted tour of the build
ing during which guests were
shown the new lecture and class
rooms preceded the tea. In the
receiving line were Mrs. W. W.
Burr, Miss Margaret Fedde, Miss
Florence Atwood, Mrs. Alfred An
derson and Mrs. H. G. Gould.
RADIO REPAIR Work fjuaranteed. Will
pick up and deliver. Wilson & Garrat,
3-3672.
I WILL sell my law library which Is in
Rood condition for $1.00 pr volume.
Arrange appointment to see It. 5-6S57.
AUTOMATIC Record Player 10" or 12"
records. New. $35.00. 5-4633. Bob John-ton.
LOST Roue Rold Grant wrist watch, be
tween Andrews and Mechanical Arts.
Reward. Call 3-7211.
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CONVOCATION
Chancellor R. G. Gustavson
'SCIENCE & RELIGION
11:00 A. M., TUESDAY, FEB. 11
Union Ballroom
Ml
6 Free Social Dancing Classes
For Beginners
Donna McCandless, Instructor
7:30 P. M. Tuesdays
Beginning toriay, Feb. 11
Union Ballroom