Vol. 47 No. 78
LINCOLN 8f NEBRASKA
Thursday, February 13, 1947
Phyl Harris Goes
To KU Festival
UN Homecoming Pep Queen Invited
To Participate in Swing Celebration
Phyllis Harris, the homecoming
Pep Queen, has been selected to
represent the university at the
Kansas University Sweetheart
Swing Festivity day on Saturday,
Feb. 15.
The Kansas Memorial Union
board has also extended an invita
tion to eight other Kansas. Mis
souri and Nebraska universities to
eend one woman delegate, prefer
ably a homecoming queen, to this
annual celebration.
Activities.
Since Miss Harris is Nebraska's
Pep Queen, she was automatic
ally chosen to represent the uni
versity. Active in Tassels, Phyllis
f is A)VS treasurer, a member of
Coed Counselors, YWCA and Al
pha Chi Omega, social sorority.
Festivity day will include the
. Kansas-Nebraska basketball game,
a parade, luncheon and reception,
all of which the delegates will at
tend. Miss Patricia Lahr, Union di
rector, received the invitation and
Marjorie Johnson, dean of women,
has approved the delegation.
T.K.E. Actives
To Organize
. Frat At UN
Active members of Tau Kappa
Epsilon, men's social fraternity
met Tuesday riite to make plans to
reactivate on the university com
pus. v Pledging, which is scheduled to
begin next week, will be in charge
of Bill Poe and Bill Leonard. The
chapter will be established first
as a colony and will become an
active chapter in May.
Tau Kappa Epsilon was active
on this campus from 1923 until
1937. Founded in 1899 at Illinois,
there are 43 active chapters and
four colonies.
At the Tuesday smoker, Genene
Mitchell was mistress of cere
monies. Other entertainment was
provided by Nancy Pierson, Rose
mary McMann, Jeanne Hickcy
and Betty Stanton.
v Chinese Student
Registers Here
Yuen Chiu, one of nine Chinese
students receiving a fellowship
from the United States Depart
ment of State as part of its pro
gram of cultural relations with
China, has registered as a student
in the university.
The students were selected by
the U. S. Embassy in China. Mr.
Chiu graduated from the Univer
sity of Nanking in 1932 and has
since been associated with the
Chinese National Agricultural Re
search Bureau.
For the past three years he lias
been head of the Division of Food
Crops.
Mr. Chiu is majoring in plant
pathology. I
Union Ballroom 3-6
50 per person, tax included
Engineering
Grads of UN
Read Papers
Two electrical engineering grad
uates of the university, Jay W,
Forrester, and George R. Kilgore,
will read papers at the National
Institute of Radio Engineers to be
held March 6-8 in New York City.
Graduating "with distinction"
in 1939, Mr. Forrester is formerly
of Anselmo. He will discuss "The
Electronic Digital Computers."
Mr. Kilgore will speak on "A
Frequency - Moulated Magnetron
for Super-High Frequencies" and
"High Transconductance Design
Considerations." Mr. Kilgore is
formerly of Fremont and grad
uated in 1928.
Mr. Forrester is in charge of the
Servo-Mechanisms laboratory of
the Massachuetts Institue of
Technology, and Kilgore is a re
search engineer in the radiotron
division of the Radio Corporation
of America.
Two Debate
Teams Leave
For Denver
Four members of the varsity de
bate squad accompanied by Direc
tor of Debate Donald O. Olson left
yesterday to represent the univer
sity at the Rocky Mountain
Speech conference in Denver this
weekend.
The two teams are made up of
Ted Sorensen and Donald Kline;
and Leo Ramer and Gayle Stahl.
States Represented.
Schools from the entire western
part of the United States will be
represented in Denver. Southern
California, Stanford, Utah, Brig
ham Young, Idaho, Colorado
State, Chicago and other univer
sities in Nebraska, Kansas, South
Dakota, Illinois and Colorado have
sent teams in past years.
Included in the program, which
will last from Thursday noon until
Saturday, will be debate, discus
sion, news commentary, original
oratory, and after dinner speak
ing. The conference will be under
the supervision of Wilson B. Paul
and Elwood Murray of the Uni
versity of Denver.-
MEN'S ACTIVITIES
There will he a meeting: of
the Men's Activities Board at
5 p. m. today In the Faculty
Lounge, Bill Thornber;, presi
dent of Innocents, announced.
COUNHUSKKR
eauty
at Tea
Vets' Panel
Discussions
Aired Today
'Russia' Selected
As Forum Topic
"Is Russo-American Coopera
tion Possible" will be discussed
on "Veterans' Views" forum in
the Union lounge this afternoon,
according to Bud Levinson, direc
tor of radio for Univets.
The first 15 minutes of the ra
dio forum will be taken up by
four qualified speakers giving
their opinion on the question.
Professor Hill.
Professor Norman Hill, special
ist on international relations of
the university political science
department, will be the first panel
speaker.
Russian born Dr. M. K. Elias.
paleontologist in the university
division of conservation and sur
vey, will follow Hill at the micro
phone. Greenberg: and Schupbach.
Two veteran students. Walter
Greenberg. senior in business ad
ministration, and Paul Schupbach,
junior in arts and sciences, are
other speakers on the panel.
Oreenberg served in the ETO
and attended two weeks of the
conference of foreign ministers in
Paris before returning to the
United States.
Worked with Russians.
Schupbach worked on the staff
of the allied command and for a
considerable time worked directly
with the Russians.
Levinson feels that these men
are particularly well qualified to
speak on the subject as well as
answer questions that are asked
them by members of the au
dience. .
This program is a regular
Thursday afternoon feature, Lev
inson said. "Can Juvenile De
linquency be abolished?" will be
discussed next week.
Welfare Group
Plans Forums
Religious welfare council repre
sentative or all religious groups
on the campus, has approved the
organization of three all-campus
discussion groups which will start
on Wednesday, Feb. 19 and will
be held for six successive weeks.
Co-chairmen appointed to the
planning committees and the
groups they will organize are Joe
Ishikawa and Dorothy Weiland,
Christian Faith and Action; Elmer
Sprague and Myrlee Holler, Bible
study; Nels Woddcr and Georgette
Houri, marriage.
Also named were a student pas
tor and faculty member for each
committee. Those selected for
their respective positions were:
Mildred Taylor and Dr. Elliott,
Christian Faith and Action; and
Rev. Mr. Hawkins and Dr. C. H.
Patterson, Bible study; Rev. Mr.
Howells and Professor Hall,
marriage.
The discussion group leaders
have not yet been definitely de
cided upon, but will be announced
next week.
AND STUDENT
present
ancc Friday Afternoon
Council Eteftises
Proposed Activities Control
Plan Suffers Temporary Jolt
Coed Queens
Will Appear
At Tea Dance
Identity of eight coed beauties,
a secret since December, becomes
public tomorrow afternoon at the
annual Cornhusker Beauty Queen
presentation tea dance, 3 to 5 p. m.
in the ballroom.
Pictures of 16 Nebraska coeds
were mailed last December to art
ist Jon Whitcomb, illustrator of
the popular "Back Home for
Keeps" pinups. Whitcomb picked
8 photographs, most beautiful in
his opinion, to be the 1947 Nebras
ka beauty queens. Pictures of the
eight will appear in the yearbook
this spring.
"This is not a formal," Delphine
Ayers, publicity chairman, de
clared, "This is a tea dance. Stu-
Ldents may come direct from
classes, in street clothes. The im
portant thing is to be there."
Tea dance tickets, selling at 50
cents apiece, are available at the
Union booth.
Curtain Rises
Tonite on Three
One-Act Plays
Tonight at 7:30 the curtain will
rise on the Experimental Theater's
seventh production of the year.
Presented in the Studio Theater
of the Temple building, the pro
duction consists of three one-act
plays.
In James Parrish's "Just Off
Piccadilly," the characters pre
sent a study in moods in then
eerie surroundings of an empty
house just off Piccadilly Square in
London. Merle Stalder will play
The Man; Beverly Cummins, The
Woman; and Don Johannes, The
Stranger. Clarence Flick is the
director of the play.
Tennessee Williams' "27 Loads
of Cotton" tells a highly dramatic
story of a group of southern cot
ton gin workers. The play is di
vided into three scenes with the
front porch of a home in south
ern Mississippi as the scene of ac
tion. Included in the cast are
Blanche Duckworth as Flora;
Henry Lee, Jake; and Dean
Graunke, Viccaro. The play is un
der the direction of Herb Spence.
The scene of William Saroyan's
"The Hungerers," is set in a writ
er's room somewhere in the great
metropolis of New York City on
a rainy afternoon in late fall.
John McDonald will play the part
of the young capitalist; Gaylord
Marr, the writer; Joan Lewis, the
girl; and Dorothy Lasher, the old
woman. Avrum Bondarin, direc
tor of the play, will be seen as
the stagehand.
FOUNDATION
ueens
Dave Haun's Orchestra
Refrshments
A move to reactivate the men's
activity point board received a
temporary set-back yesterday as
the student council voted refusal
of recognition on the recommen
dation of the council's judiciary
committee.
Heated debate marked an other
wise usual council meeting as va
rious members voiced their opin
ions on the subject. Objections
were raised to the creation of a
special board and during the dis
cussion following, suggestions
were made that the Innocents So
ciety, senior men's honorary, be
given the responsibility of gov
erning men's activities. Response
to this suggestion was mixed.
Lack Information.
Almost unanimous lack of in
formation on the part of the
council members succeeded in
bogging down discussion, the final
motion for adjournment coming
almost instantaneously with the
motion for rejection. Several coun
cil members had left the room be
fore the meeting had adjourned.
The council's refusal will send
the constitution back to the group
headed by Bill Thornberg, Inno
cent president. The aim of the
board is to prevent over-pointing
and in so doing, prevent
a small group of men from dom
inating activities and overload
ing themselves unnecessarily.
Rev.ClydeWill
Speak Sunday
The Rev. John Douglas Clyde,
pastor of Westminster Presby
terian church and former anny
h
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REV. JOHN CLYDE.
chaplain, will speak at the Sacri
ficial Breakfast to be held Sun
day morning.
The breakfast, which is spon
sored by the Religious Welfare
council, will be held in room 313
of the Union at 8:15. Money from
the tickets will go to the World
Student Christian Federation.
This organization promotes the
further education of students who
have had all books and buildings
destroyed.
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