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Council Announces .
Yell Squad Tryouts Slated
For Saturday in Union
Cheerleader . tryouts will be
held at 1 p. m. in Union Ball
room, Student Council member,
Sam Warren, announced. Choos
ing of the yell squad is one of
Council's duties, for which the
Council appoints a selection com
mittee. Both men and women try out
for the eight cheering positions.
Altho the definite ratio has not
been decided by the new Yell
King, Martin Pesek, that more
men than women may be se
lected. Choosing of both Yell
King, Martin Pesek, more
held in the fall, but this year
the Council decided to hold try
outs in the spring, so that the
squad's team work could be
worked out before the football
season begins.
The committee this year will
be composed of the presidents of
Corn Cobs, Tassels, an Innocent
and Mortar Board. Announce
ment of the tryout date was tem
porarily withheld pending action
by the Council on the Innocents
Society's recent request that their
group of 13 do the choosing as
Senior Radio
Show Given
Monday Nite
To help ex-GI's realize . the
value of their National Service
Life Insurance, six senior radio
students will present an original
dramatic skit at 9:15 p. m. Monday
via KFOR.
Their show, "Mr. Future Takes
a Ride," is under the direction
of Paul L. Bogen, university ra
dio department chief. The pre
sentation is an event of GI in
surance reinstatement week be
ing conducted May 19th through
23rd in Lincoln, by the Lincoln
association of Life Underwriters.
The cast includes: Doug Bron
der, Mike Vaggalis, Jim Cooper,
Ken Greenwood, Paul Harrington
and Dan Caulkins.
Music Society
Plans Initiation
Of Six Sunday
Pi Kappa Lambda, music scho
lastic honorary, will initiate four
undergraduates, one graduate and
one faculty member at a ceremony
and tea at Ellen Smith Hall, Sun
day at 4 p. m.
Membership qualifications In
clude high achievement scholas
tically plus outstanding creative or
interpretive performance in mu
sic, Earnest Harrison, president of
Beta chapter, announced. The
undergraduate initiates, all seniors,
will present a program at the
meeting.
Newly-elected members are
Helen Laird, Margaret Modbn,
Marilyn Nelson and Margaret
Shelley, seniors; Harry Harter,
graduate; and Myron Roberts, fac
ulty. Several choral numbers and
one tone poem for orchestra are
among Mr. Hartcr's original com
positions performed on campus this
year.
Board Chairman
Discusses Duties
At Bizad Banquet
Three professional commerce
organizations, Phi Chi Theta, Al
pha Kappa Psi and Delta Sigma
Pi, held a joint dinner at which
Dean Earl S. Fullbrook and fac
ulty members of bizad college
were guests.
Mrs. Harold Prince, chairman of
the Nebraska State Board of con
trol, discussed the duties, respon
sibilities and plans of future
achievement.
Professor Karl M. Arndt was
master of ceremonies for the
dinner.
it had done before the war. At
Wednesday's meeting the Council
upheld its early decision that
members from the pep organiza
tions and senior honoraries would
be more representative than any
one group.
KK Announces
$500 Donation
To UN Library
Kosmet Klub has announced
that the organization is donating
$500 to be used in buying books
for the university norary.
Because Kosmet Klub activities
arc centered around music, drama.
poetry and art. the books pur
chased will be in these or related
fields.
A committee, composed of Frank
Lundy, library director; Dr. Ar
thur Westbook, dean of the school
of fine arts; Professor of Geology
Eck F. Schramm, faculty- adviser;
and Av Bondarin. Kosmet Klub
business manager will make final
decisions on selection of books.
Suggestions by instructors in the
four departments of music, drama,
poetry and art will be made to
committee members.
The money donated represents
Kosmet Klub profits from Spring
and Fall shows
Report On the Midwest ....
Author John Gunther Turns Eye
On Nebraska Politics, Weather
BY JACK HILL.
The state of Nebraska and Ne
braska politics received a great
deal of attention from author John
Gunther in his latest "inside"
book "Inside U. S. A." Famed for
his coverage of Europe and Asia
in "Inside Europe" and "Inside
Asia," ace reporter Gunther has
now turned his attention to this
country, with emphasis on re
gional customs, politics and the
general state of affairs in Amer
ica. Starting with a general ap
proach to the Middle West, Gun
thlr says, "One thing is corelike
and indisputable. This great block
of states is the central pivot and
umbilicus of the nation."
VVylie-Llke Invective.
Letting blast with a fiery pen,
Author Gunther's description of
the plain states is not all sweet
ness and light, particularly when
he comments, "The medium mid
dle western cities are the ugliest,
least attractive phenomena in the
United States. They represent
more bluntly than anything else
in the country the worst Ameri
can characteristics covetousness,
Pre-Law Club
Elects J. Gates
New President
Jack Gates, Lyle Strom, and
Bill Berquest were elected pres
ident, vice-president and secretary-treasurer
respectively, of the
Pre-Law association Wednesday
night. i
Other board members were
chosen on the basis of college
representation. They are Bob
Ridenour, arts and sciences; Jim
Collison, arts and sciences; Vera
Larson and Bob Orshek, Busi
ness Administration; Don Casper
and Betty Nama, representatives
at large.
This new representation plan
was devised in order that the
membership on the board would
be more varied and so that more
students will have an opportunity
of gaining a better understanding
of the Nebraska law school.
Law Dean Beutcl suggested that
the group initiate interstate pre
law meetings next year. Approxi
mately forty members were pres
ent at the meeting.
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
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Onfteirffirat
YM, Religion
Coimeil Elect
New Prexys
Dfle Staufer has been elected
president of the Ag college re
ligious council and Phyllis Schin
zel has been chosen secretary.
The council is composed of stu
dents and ministers from each, of
the churches in the Ag college
area, Newman club, YM and YW.
Next year the council will spon
sor a concert by the Blackwood
Brothers Quartet, speakers for
Religion-In-Life Week and the
twenty-first annual pre-Easter
breakfast.
YM Election
Duane Nielson was elected
president of the Ag YMCA at a
regular meeting Tuesday evening.
Keith Fredrickson is the vice
president and program chairman.
The Ag YM-YW will hold a
picnic Tuesday, May 20, from 5 to
8 p. m. on lower campus. This
will be the final program or the
year and all students may buy
their tickets from the cabinet
members before Friday noon.
ignorance, absence of esthetic val
ues, get-rich quickism, bluster,
lack of vision, lack of foresight,
excessive standardization, and im
mature and undisciplined social
behaviour."
However, he tempers this cold,
unflinching stare at the faults of
the Middle West with the same
interest in the human touch that
made his previous books cuccesses.
Under the general classification of
Midwest Miscellany, Gunther
passes over the American scene
with such observations as "The
look on the GI's face when the
MP poured his bottle of bourbon
down the toilet in a Pullman
wash room between Elkhart and
Toledo." Of "The crushing social
pressure exerted on youngsters by
the corner drugstore."
Friendly Nebraska.
Of Nebraska, the internation
ally famed writer says, "Nebras
ka is, like most western states,
exceptionally hospitable, and
friendly. 'He continues, "The at
mosphere Is quite different from
that in some parts of Iowa, where
If a stranger passes, the suspi
cious citizenry assemble to discuss
him. A hotel in one western Ne
braska town has a big sign on the
door, HUNT AND FISH AS YOU
DAMN PLEASE, WHEN THE
BELL RINGS COME IN TO DIN
NER." State politics receive a pat on
the back from Gunther when he
comments that "Any innocent
traveler from the East who thinks
that Nebraska is a stick-in-the
mud state politically will get some
surprises."
Dwlght Gr Is wold.
Ex-Gov. Griswold comes under
the famous predictive view of
Gunther when the author says
that Griswold "will return to poli
tics some day." In a half serious,
half kidding mood Gunther adds
that "What runs Nebraska is
the weather." '
Gunther sums up his remarks
on the state, by saying, "Once
again, we see western ideals of
democracy demanding expression
in concrete form. The people in
sist on running things . sometimes
the passion for pure democracy
and complete popular cbntrol of
the procedure of government leads
to picturesque exaggerations."
FiramiklDini
ComddcoI Prexy
John Binning, (Haddocks,
Dorothy Fill Other Posts
Rodney Franklin was elected to succeed Dick Folda as
president of the Interfraternity Council for 1917-48 Thurs
day afternoon.
John Binning was named vice president, and Walt
Dorothy and Clyde Maddocks were selected for the posts
of secretary and treasurer.
Franklin's Activities.
Franklin, a past president of Kappa Sigma fraternity,
is an Innocent, a member of Corn Cobs and the University
Theatre and a Masquer pledge. He served as secretary of
YM Will Show
French Drama
Film on Friday
The second foreign film to come
to the campus this year will be
shown next Friday, May 23, when
the YMCA presents "The Puri
tan," a French psychological
screen drama written by the au
thor of another film success, "The
Informer."
Scheduled for showing in Tem
ple Theater at 8 p. m. Friday, the
film tells the story of an Irish
youth who gradually uncovers the
motives that led him to murder
a woman. In a fit of religious
zeal, he takes it upon himself
to kill a woman for her sins.
Altho the police seek the solu
tion for the motive, it is the kill
ers conscience tnai eventually
explains it. Slowly gaining a
tragic insight into his own actions,
he realizes that he held an un
rocgnized love for the victim her
self and that his wanting to end
her life was a vicarious attempt
to end the error in his own life
In the resulting experiences
and particularly in the confession
scene, L.iam unanerty, xne au
thor, has attained dramatic peaks
seldom reached in motion pictures
English sub-titles translate the
French dialogue.
Tickets are available, for 50
cents, at the YM and YW offices
or from any YM member. Mervyn
Cadwalladcr is in charge of the
project. "Peter the Great," the
first film in the series, was shown
before the capacity audience at
Temple last month.
Edgar Coleman
Named Arcliitcet
Society President
Edgar Coleman, sophomore
architectural major, was elected
president of the Architectural So
ciety for the 1947-48 term, oc
cording to an announcement is
sued Wednesday by the depart
ment of architecture.
The society elected Roy C
Neumann to the position of vice
Speech Department Features . .
Modern Drama Cavalcade
To Be Presented at Temple
Acting classes in the department
of speech and dramatic art will
present "A Cavalcade of Modern
Drama," a series of three three
act plays to be given next week
on the Temple stage.
Principal casts members of these
productions have been chosen
from the various acting classes of
the university. The directors are
students, members of the direct
ing class of the department The
Nebraska Masquers, are handling
the production crews. Each pro
duction will begin at 7:30 p. m.
on its night of performance, and
no admission will be charged.
First Production.
The first production. "Children
of the Moon," by Martin Flavin,
to be given on May 19, concerns
a weird family, the Athcrtons, who
live in a lonely house on the
Dover seacoast of England. Mem
bers of the cast are Barbara Jean
Olson. Avrum Bondarin, Arlis
Swanson, Dewey Ganzcl, Beverly
HSTERFIUT
COUNCIL
PREXY
Friday, May 16, 1947
the intern aternity council
this
year.
A graduate student, Binning is
president of Phi Gamma Delta and
a member of Phi Alpha Delta,
honorary law fraternity.
Dorothy, Maddocks
Vice president of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, Walt Dorothy is also a
RODNEY FRANKLIN.
member of Kosmet Klub and Stu
dent Council.
Maddocks, who is affiliated with
Farmhouse fraternity, is a mem
ber of Alpha Zeta, national
honorary agriculture fraternity.
Block and Bridle, 4-H Club and
the Dairy Club.
If Duties
As the undergraduate body, the
Interfraternity Council enforces
rules concerning the rushing,
pledging, initiation, and social life
of fraternities.
Greek letter fraternities co
operate to provide entertainment
for the entire student body at the
ball held each winter.
president and Roland M. John
son for the post of secretary.
Prof. B. E. Graf was re
elected as the Architectural So
ciety's faculty sponsor.
Cummins, Jack Wenstrand, Claude
Underwood and Merle Stalder.
"Children of the Moon" is directed
by Dean Graunke and David An
drews. "Claudia." by Rose Franken, the
comedy success of both stage and
screen, will be presented n the
evening of May 21. Persons tak
ing part in this play are Betty
Schultz, Al Sage, Lorma Bullock,
Lorene Novotny, June Gast, Bill
Router, Bill Wiseman and Francis
White.
Thunder Rock.
The third and final production
in the "Cavalcade of Modern
Drama" will be "Thunder Rock,"
by Robert Ardrey. Under the di
rection of Barbara Bcrggrcn and
Henry Lee, this emotional drama
phantasy about an ethereal love
affair has, as its cast members.
Dale Wisser, Herbert Spence, Mar
jorie Allen and Don Hall. "Thun
der Rock" will be given on the
night of May 24.
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