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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, April 22, 1947
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Honors Day
Over 900 university students are being honored today
at the 19th annual Honors Convocation, including seniors
who have been tops in their classes for four years, win
ners of scholarships and awards, new members of honorary
groups on the campus, and the students who are in the
upper 10 7. of their classes.
It is seldom that as large a group as this receives, de
served recognition from the university as a whole. Everv
student will be able to attend the convocation, since classes
are being dismissed from 10 to 12 this morning.
In addition to recognizing high scholarship, students
who attend will have the opportunity of hearing Chancellor
LfUstavson in nis second appearance before the entire uni
versity.
This combination of events makes the convocation at
10:15 this morning one that no one can afford to miss.
Bigotry in America. . .
An extremely dangerous trend that has appeared in
nauouai puuucs wiimn uie past six montns was consider
ably hastened last Thursday when the city council of Pe
oria, Illinois, third largest city in the state, voted that Paul
Kobeson be barred from giving a concert in Peoria.
When questioned as to reasons for the council's actions,
the Peoria mayor said that the move was made to prevent
a riot. He failed to mention that last Tuesday his city coun
cil had passed a statute forbiding performances or public
appearances by "those known to be Communist party mem
bers, or who preach subversive doctrines."
This move in Illinois came at a time when arch-reac
tionaries in Washington were attacking the great negro
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uariLune ou simuar grounos. uDjecuons nave Deen made to
the fact that Robeson includes several Russian. Chinese and
Spanish Loyalist songs on his concert program. Readers
wno attended tfte Kobeson concert in the coliseum last fall
will recall that he also sang such sones here.
The question now arises, "What has the Robeson affair
to do with the Daily Nebraskan?"
The only logical answer to such a question lies in the
statement that the Daily Nebraskan is deeply interested in
any case which so deeply involves the basic rights of Amer
ican citizens. Robeson was barred without a fair and equal
opportunity to speak his piece. His boycott may have set up
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a uudui-iciituou ui uus country wmcn win result in tne
"fascism" Robeson so bitterly, and perhaps unwisely,
charged against the Peoria city council.
The Communism scare is reaching the ridiculous pro
portions 01 a comic opera wnen sucn great artists as Robe
son are persecuted because of their political beliefs. Even
if Paul Robeson was the acknowledged holder of a party
cara, we would not ieei tnat nis arbitrary banning was jus
tified. There can be no possible or plausible excuse for bigotry
in this country, whether it be under the guise of racial
prejudice, or in this case, political hysteria.
When the Peoria city council, or any other administra
tive group, can bring forth logical and rational proof that
it a liuuouu a ucvmicu mieui 10 unaermine tne govern
ment, we would agree that it would be unwise to allow
Robeson to appear on the public platform.
Until that proof is submitted, we condemn all such ac
tions by any group and maintain that he, as well as any man,
has the right to be heard. Considering that Robeson has
done so much for this country, it is little enough to ask.
J.H.
By Sam Warren.
Despite the fact that all three
numbers programmed were mod
ern as well as unfamiliar works,
the university symphony orches
tra acquitted itself capably Sun
day before an audience that filled
New Signs
Generate
Disturbance
Engineers To Hear Vagtborg
Harold Vagthorg has been an
nounced as the featured speaker
of the convocation that climaxes
Engineer's Week on Friday, May
2, at 11 a.m. His subject will be
"The Beaten Path for the Beaten
Man."
, The Convocation will be held at
the Stuart Theater.
As president and director of the
Midwest Research Institute, Mr.
Vagtborg has concentrated on in
dustrial development fn the middle
west through research. He has
specialized In hydoloay, hydraul
ics and chemical engineering.
During the war he administer
ed confidential war research work
carried on at the Armour Re
search Foundation for the army;
navy, and engineer corps. Besides
publishing many articles and pa
pers, he is a member of numer
ous societies and advisory boards
and in 1941 was a member of the
Nation Research Council's "Tour
of Industrial Exploration of South
America." 1
BY LARRY GOLDBLATT.
As we walk about campus in our
daily strolls to classes, we come in
contact with numerous signs clut
tering up our well worn and estab
lished paths. These signs are
quite a turn of events, and have
made a disturbance in our normal,
daily routine about campus.
Frankly, they are an inconvenience
to the 10,000 students. Not only an
inconvenience, but an insurmount
able obstacle.
Now, the signs themselves are
futile. They are destroying their
own purposes in three ways.
First, they clutter up the cam
pus and make it look messy. Sec
ond, they advertise to the world
how sloppy the U. of N. students
must be to have to be guided by
signs of this type. Third, it's no
affair of any outsiders to know
just what big pigs we are.
Poetic Attempts.
For the signs themselves, not a
lot can be said. Some are at
tempts at poetry, others are done
in prose. "All that can be said for
the calibre of the poetry is that
the prose are better poetry than
the poetry.
Too, you have a tendency to
read them all as poems, having
been misled by the first few with
which you have come in contact.
You tor to read them as poetry
and are left up in the air, so
trudge across a plot of grass in
utter disgust. It may be said that
some of the signs have vulgar in
sinuations. More than vulgar,
some signs are even downright
filthy, and can be interpreted as
such by a smutty mind with which
10,000 of tHe 10,000 students on
our campus are endowed. An me,
too.
Reminders.
I will not say the signs are a
total loss, though, they are re
minders to the students. In fact,
yesterday, when I walked across
the lawn to the library, I had a
guilty conscience all the way there
and back over it again, too.
Further in the signs favor is a
report from two of my fraternity
brothers. They said the signs were
so closely spaced over the ground
their midnight maneuvers had to
be suspended. Then there is al
ways the oaf (standing joke) who
trips over the "Keep off the Grass
sign, breaks both legs, and wants
to know if he can sue the school,
Moot court can probably make
something out of this.
Mere Time.
Another . question is raised, too
If people are expected to make
classes via the sidewalks, fifteen
minutes should be allowed be
tween classes and a five minute
leeway given in the morning.
Frankly, I would have to relearn
my whole campus in an effort to
reroute my classes. Coke dates
over the campus will be disrupted,
between class handholdmg ses
sions will take two weeks to re
organize, and sneaking down al
leys to escape the prof whose
class you cut will involve new
risks.
Rather than disrupt your nor
mal program of the last six months
revolt, my friends, take shorj
cuts where you find them and step
on those darn signs when they
get in your way.
P.S. Only kidding (For the
benefit of Alpha Phi Omega).
Kellogg Wilson, whose gamy
"Memoirs of Lancaster County"
was banned in Papillion, is the
pseudonymn of the Regius pro
fessor of metaphysics at the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
'OTHER'S DAY CARDS
A grand elerfn for
your mpprovat
Goldenrod Stationery Store
215 North Hth St.
the Union ballroom. Under the di
rection of Emanuel Wishnow, the
orchestra showed decided im
provement since its conductor's
return from army service a year
ago this fall.
Although appreciative rounds of
applause followed each selection,
outer-lobby reaction after the
concert was mixed. Some criti
cized a sameness in type of num
bers, others talked of variety.
Some dismissed the compositions
as being of little value, others
were delighted with them. Such
reaction was, most probably, not
unusual, but rather to be expected
from a concert of contemporary
music with its harmonies to which
ears are not easily adjusted.
What does seem unusual (and
commendable) is that Mr. Wish-
now had the courage to choose
program of relatively unknown
music for an often-unreceptive
midwest audience. It was the first
all-American concert heard in
Lincoln in recent years. Nebraska
born Howard Hanson's name is
nationally celebrated, and conse
quently known in these parts, but
his music is never heard here
Graduate student Harry Harter's
music has been heard here some
during the year, but his name as
yet carries no weight. Burnet Tut
hill, the third composer repre
sented, doesn't exist as far as Lin
coln is concerned! Let us repeat
It did take some kind of courage
to play such a program.
Tuthill's impressionistic pastoral
description, "Bethlehem," was an
effective opener. Passages begin
ning with an oboe solo alternated
between woodwind voices and
muted strings. As the strings
gradually crescendoed, brasses
were added until a climax of full
tone was achieved.
Perhaps the most pleasing num
ber of the afternoon was Harry
Harter's new "Landscapes of Mon
terey," a tone poem for orchestra
and Diano. On a single hearing
one could not distinguish clearly
the several subjective ideas that
the composer had announced in
advance program notes.
Yet the composition, based in
part on Catalian melodies and
typical Latin-American rhythms.
stood on its own merits as a
worthwhile, if not profound, mu
sical description. Pianist Mary
Louise Boehm succeeded in mak
ing the piano passages an integral
part of the complete picture, and
played with apparent accuracy
and feeling.
In Howard Hanson's second
symphony, which closed the con
cert, the orchestra showed more
progression than in any of the
other numbers. The opening
adagio at times lovely, at times
dry and thin gave way to the
more melodic andante con tene
rezza with its repetition of the
underlying theme, and finally to
the allegro con brio with its
stringed triplet figuration over
lower brass.
For the most part, the orches
tra was responsive to Conductor
Wishnow's suggestion. However,
there were times in the symphony
when Mr. Wishnow seemed to be
pulling for a response that was
not forthcoming. On the whole,
compared to past performances,
there was unity and excellence
of strings and a noticeable sure
ness of brass sections.
It Says Here
By TOTTIE FIDDOCK
Halo . . . damp isn't it? . . . but
that's Nebraska, and the swim
ming over by U Hall they say is
excellent these days.
BERYL LOTSPEICH has de
veloped a taste for red paint, or
m the story goes . . . while pre
paring for the Tri Delta party
last Friday, BERYL was paint
ing a large balloon with red
paint and sparkle dust, and
what do you know, it burst in
her face ... if she hadn't had
ber month open, it wouldn't
have been quite so bad, but
she seems to thrive on the stuff.
The Phi Delt house has some
new decorations, thanks to Don
Draeger ... he lifted two neon
signs from Duffy's in Omaha last
weekend, and now the upper stor
ies of the house advertise Stcvrz
Gold Crest and Miller's High Life
in flashy red and green neon.
LYNN NORDGREN is finding
that picnics can be rough; She
and SPENCE PHILLIPS were
having a big baseball game on
one of these botany fiedl trips,
when LYNN raced into some
bushes after a fly ball and ac
quired some neat scratches on
her legs . . . however, SPENCE
proved to be an able physician
and bandaged them with kleen
cx and a dirty handkerchief . . .
the patient is doing fine.
Jackie Wightman and Phyl
Kokjer are but "little sisters" to
their steadies Duke Derry and
Leo Beck . . . Saturday night
Jackie and Kok got all dressed up
to go to the Kosmet show in
sweaters and skirts Duke and
Leo, after much consideration.
agreed to take them along if they
promised not to remove their coats
until after the lights were turned
off . . . but the tables were turned
Sunday night when the boys ar
rived in sport clothes and found
their gals in formale . . . now it's
good question as to which little
sister claims which little brother,
brother.
Latest forgotten girl is SARAH
MURRAY ... pinmate JIM
PETTIS seems to have found a
new interest in life labelled
ELLIE LYKKE.
ANN WHTTHAM was having
a lot of trouble with a pair of
shoulder pads in the Union Sun
day night ... but helpful JACK
CADY is going to solve ber
problems for her by lifting a
king-size pair from some un
suspecting football star.
The injured list is now topped
by Tom Kokjer who was sporting
cagety little bandage across his
nose at East Hills Firday night
it's getting harder and harder
to take a shower these days with
out a mishap.
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