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Vol. 48 No. 44 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Tuesday, November 25, 1947
MB Ball Will Feature
Sam Donahue Music
Tickets on Sale Now
To Annual Turnabout
Dance December 12
With a sax-playing leader who
has had extensive experience as
an arranger, the Sam Donahue
band will furnish dance music for
the Mortar Board Ball in the Col
iseum, December 12.
Currently popular are his re
cordings of "The Whistler" and
"Put That Kiss Back Where You
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SAM DONAHUE.
Found It." His arrangement of
"The Whistler" was the sixth most
played record on the air last week,
according to Billboard, entertain
ment magazine, and is rated fifth
by the disc jockeys in their record
pickings.
Both of these records have been
popular playings on the Union
Corn Crib jukebox during the past
month.
Leaving his own Michigan band
to gain experience with some of
the nation's big bands, Donahue
signed up with Gene Krupa in
1938 and arranged for him until
1940 when he accepted an offer
from Harry James. Later on, he
became the outstanding tenor-man
with the Benny Goodman band.
In 1941 he started on his own and
continued up to date, with the
only break coming while he
served in the U.S. Navy leading
a band.
Tickets for the Mortar Board
Ball will go on sale today. Mem
bers of Mortar Board and Tassels
will sell them.
Dean Borgiuaini
Corrects Mistake
On Wage Increase
To correct a misunderstanding
about wage increases for non
academic employes of the Univer
sity, the administration wishes to
point out that the increase does
not apply to all non-academic em
ployes. This pertains particularly to
secretarial employes, some of
whom will not receive increases
since they are now earning maxi
mum compensation allowed under
UN Professor's Book
To Be Used in Germany
Dr. Leslie L. Chisholf of the
University of Nebraska Teachers
college, author of "Guiding Youth
in the Secondary School," learned
last week that his book is to be
reprinted by German and Austrian
publishers for use in their educa
tional systems.
In a statment made last week,
Dr. Chisholm stated that public
school education in parts of Ger
many and Austria has apparently
shifted rapidly from totalitarian
to democratic ideas.
In his book. Dr. Chisholm con
tinually emphasizes the value of
democracy, repeatedly stressing
the role of the individual. He
maintains that "The political phil
osophy of the totalitarian state as
sumes that the individual has no
worth except as he contributes to
the aims of the political state as
as those aims are conceived by
the individuals in power. The way
of life we call democracy reverses
the process by assuming that the
state has value only so far as it
Rag Refutes
Journal Story
On the first page of the sports
section of the Sunday Lincoln
Journal is an article stating that
"fifty-eight percent of the Uni
versity of Nebraska students par
ticipating in a poll have backged
the Student Council protests
against what the Council termed
'racial prejudice in Big Six con
ference athletics."
The statement fails to tell ac
curately the trend of university
thought. According to the poll
which was conducted jointly by
the Student Council and The
Daily Nebraskan, 90 per cent of
1,100 students polled favor the
proposal to let negroes play in
all Big Six contests, regardless of
which state the game is played.
The second question, advocating
withdrawal from the conference
in the event that Missouri and
Oklahoma do not allow Negroes
to play, was approved by 58 per
cent of the students. The third
question, on forming a new con
ference exclusive of the dissent
ing schools, was approved by 60
percent of the students polled.
Cornshucks
Takes Bow
"CENSORED!" in bold, black
letters is the first word of copy
to greet buyers of the November
issue of "Cornshucks," campus
magazine which bears the pro
mulgation," "For and about stu
dents at Nebraska U." "Censored
and the picture beneath are
strictly for laughs.
Featured in this month's edition
are a sports write-up satire by
Al and Don Amsden, "Jurkovitch,
Go in at third oboe!" a Party
Page, pictures of the "most lus
cious legs ... on the Nebraska
campus" and laugh-inducing car
toons by Haugseth, Wolcott and
Hayes.
CoDies of "Cornshucks" will be
on sale today in the Union from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 to
6 p.m. Subscribers not living in
organized houses may pick up
thpir conies at the Union stand.
Editor Jo Fankhauser urges all
subscribers to submit ballots in
the "Cornshucks" leg contest.
Printed ballots will be found in
the Nov. issue and should be turn
ed in to the "Cornshucks" office
in the Union.
the job classification rating sys
tem recently established.
This is substantially the infor
mation given at a meeting of sec
retarial employes by Dean C. W.
Borgmann. The misunderstanding
arose from a misinterpretation of
articles appearing in a previous
issue of the Faculty Bulletin
Board, and the Daily Nebraskan.
administers to the needs of the
individuals w'.io constitute the
state."
The book staled that "Guidance
is based on the assumption that
the world has a place for every
body, at least that our democratic
America has. . .Guidance seeks to
help the individual discover his
own talents. . .opportunities. . .and
prepare himself for a well bal
anced life and to contribute to the
welfare of his fellow man."
"Guiding Youth in the Second
ary School," when reviewed by a
J-committee representing the Amer
ican Library association and the
National Education association,
was adjudged one of the "sixty
best books" of 1945. Published
two years ago, the book is at pres
ent being used as a basic text in
teacher training in many univer
sities and colleges, including the
Universities of Pennsylvania. Mi
chigan, Nebraska. Kansas, Missis
sippi, Texas, California, Washing
ton and Northwestern University.
Registry
S e c o n d-semester registration
will open Dec. 15 and close Jan.
21, G. W. Rosenlof, registrar, an
nounced Monday.
Appointment cards with the as
signment committee will be dis
tributed during the week of Dec.
8, at Love Memorial library, in
this order:
Dec. 8: Seniors.
Dec. 9: Juniors.
Dec. 10: Sophomores and fresh
men whose names begin with A,
B, C, D, E, F, G, H, or I,
Dec. 11: Sophomores and fresh
men whse names begin with J,
K, L, M, N, O. P, or Q.
Dec. 12: Sophomore and fresh
men whose names begin with R,
S, T, U, V W, X. Y, or Z.
In order to give an even break
to sophomores and freshmen who
are scheduled to obtain their reg
istration tickets on Dec. 11 and
12, tickets will be dealt out one
at a time into three piles. The
first pile will be set aside for
Dec. 10, the second for Dec. 11,
and the third for Dec. 12.
See Advisers.
Students are to make appoint
ments with their advisers as soon
after Dec. 8 as possible, Rosenlof
emphasized. Failure to do so will
"almost certainly mean that the
student will have difficulty in
getting his program worked out,"
he said.
Students may confer with their
advisers far in advance of the
time they meet with the assign
ment committee, he added.
After a student's program has
been worked out and approved by
his adviser and dean, he will re
port to the assignment committee
at the time indicated on his reg
istration ticket. The Daily Ne
braskan will print the times for
assignment committee appoint
ments as they come up. An
nouncements will also be posted
in Love library by the assignment
committee.
Procedure of registration with
the assignment committee will be
similar to that of last spring, Kos
enlof said.
Anthropologists
Meet Here Friday
Over forty prominent anthro
pologists will attend the fifth
Plains conference for archeology
to be held in the university's lab
oratory of anthropology Friday
and Saturday, Nov. 28 ana z.
Discussion of four general topics
concerning the history of man in
the centeral great plains will take
place during the two day meeting.
Dr. John L. Champe, laboratory
head and chairman of the confer
ence, state. They are: Recent ex
plorations of historic and prehis
toric peoples in the great plains
area; the problem of classifying
the early inhabitants of great
plains through the kind of pottery
and other everyday articles which
they made; the place of great
plains Indian culture in relations
to North America as a whole; and
latest evidence of paleo-Indians in
the central plains, including the
recent discovery near Cambridge,
Nebraska.
Film Encourages
Exchanging Ideas
"Does It Matter What You
Think?" a provocative film on the
freedom-of-expression theme, will
be shown during the Tuesday
meeting of the university AVC
chapter, according to Chairman
Paul Rogers.
The film shows why people
should meet, consider issues and
implement their citizenship
through political parties, unions,
discussion forums and other com
munity groups.
University veterans have been
invited by AVC to attend the
meeting which will begin at 7:15
p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 25, in room
X of the Union.
Action Expected to Supersede
Long-Standing Big Six Policy
Barring Negroes From Sports
The University of Missouri's
Student Government Association
has adopted a resolution ending
any discriminatory practices in
connection with athletics at
Columbia, Missouri, Harold Mozer,
council president announced to
day. The resolution reads, "Any stu
dent in good standing of a college
or university which is a member
of the Missouri Valley Intercol
legiate Athletic Association shall
be allowed to participate in com
petitive athletic events at the
University of Missouri."
It is believed that this resolu
tion may help to supercede the
"gentleman's agreement" adopted
at a faculty meeting of Big Six
representatives and end, at least
in the case of the University of
Missouri, any discriminatory prac
tices there.
In a letter to Mozer, the govern-
Peterson
States Two
UN Goals
The modern university must
keep two broad goals of teaching
and research constantly before it,
Gov. Val Peterson said in the
Union ballroom Monday night.
He addressed a meeting of the
University of Nebraska chapter of
the American Association of
University Professors at the Stu
dent Union.
"Clearly the first duty of a
university is that of teaching, or
transmitting the accumulated
knowledge of the past to each
succeeding generation, in order
to perpetuate this knowledge,"
Gov. Peterson said.
Pointing out that there is "am
ple room for both the classical
scholar and the practical man of
affairs," within a university Gov
ernor Peterson said university
scholars should be free "to think,
to teach, and to write without
fear of dismissal or reprisal."
"But the very freedom which
the professor rightly demands
imposes upon him an obligation
to use sound judgment in his
pronouncements and to respect
the views of others," Governor
Peterson said. "The badge of
scholarship may be worn with
pride in a democracy such as
ours, it does not entitle the
wearer to any special privileges
and immunities."
"There are 24 colleges and
universities in Nebraska, but
more than one-half of all regular
full time college students in the
state are. attending the Univer
sity of Nebraska, and they in
clude an overwhelming majority
of all students enrolled in pro
fessional and postgraduate
courses," the governor said. "It
is the only institution in the state
adequately equipped to offer cer
tain graduaet instruction and to
confer many of the advanced de
grees. It is the only one offering
even the Bachelor's degree in
agriculture. engineering and
business administration, and there
is only one other institution in
the state which grants degrees
in medicine, law, pharmacy and
dentistry. It is obvious, therefore,
that the future of higher educa
tion in Nebraska lies quite largely
with the university, and that this
is especially true with respect to
professional and postgraduate
work.
"I am a believer in education.
It will always be my policy,
therefore, to further the Interests
of the university in every way
possible, but as governor. I can
never forget that the university
is, after all, only one of the
apencies which the state must
support; that it. like all others,
will usually request more money
than those who pay the taxes be
lieve that they can afford; and
that the governor is, in equal mea
sure, the representative of both
those who receive the services
and those who pay the taxes."
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ing body also informed him that
it would be unable to send a dele
gation to attend the conference in
Lincoln during the Thanksgiving
holidays. However, Mozer said
that the letter empowered the
conference delegates to use the
Missouri resolution as a vote and
as an indicator of student opinion
at Columbia.
Outstate alumni opinion on the
highly inflammatory question of
racial discrimination was shown
in copies of two letters sent to
Chancellor R. G. Gustavson. One
alumni summed up his position
on the subject by asking, "Would
it not be much better to abandon
our ties with the Big Six than to
uphold discrimination of our
colored brother?" The letter, to
the chancellor continued, "May I
urge you to use your influence
to bring about the needed reforms
in policy of the Big Six."
Another letter to the Chancellor
said. "This form of discrimination
has long been a big blotch on the
Big Six record."
The university student council
president told The Daily Nebras
kan that he has received letters
of commendation from widely
scattered points. Joseph Ballou of
Tucson, Arizona paraphmsed the
Big Six problem with that of the
Border Conference and said," The
withdrawal of Missouri and Okla
homa from the Big Six would
be a real loss, but elimination of
racial discrimination would be a
bigger gain."
Omaha Urban League also
added a voice of approval with
the statement that the council ac
tion was "a positive attempt to
make democracy work which re
fuses to be satisfied with lip serv
ice." Mozer annonuced that final
wires had been sent to all confer
ence schools and that the confer
ence would begin at 9:30 a.m.,
Saturday, Nov. 30.
KK Rules Out
EX, Phi Delts
Two fraternities. Phi Delta
Theta and Sigma Chi, have been
declared ineligible to compete in
the 1948 Kosmet Klub Fall Re
view because of rules infractions
in the 1947 Review, Kosmet Klub
announced Monday.
Spokesmen for the club stated
that the skits were changed fol
lowing dress rehearsal after they
had been approved by active
members and by the group's ad
visor, Professor E. S. Schramm.
The changes in routines surpassed
the "bounds of common decency"
according to one Kosmet Kluz
member and could not be consid
ered in good taste.
An annual affair, the Kosmet
Klub's Fall Review has always
tried to maintain the highest
moral standards, KK president
Dick Lahr stated to The Daily
Nebraskan.
Notification of this dis-qualifi-cation
has been sent to the two
fraternities, their alumni advisory
boards and to the faculty senate,
Lahr said.
W. II. Werkmeisler
Speaks at Denver
Speaking on the subject, "The
Status Past. Present and Future
of Philosophy at the University
of Nebraska," Dr. William IL
Werkmeisler, chairman of tna de
partment of philosophy, addressed
a meeting of philosophers of the
mountain and plains area held in
Denver, Colo., Saturday, Nov. 22.
The gathering was called to or
ganize a division of the American
Philosophical association, to be
known probably as the mountain
plains division, extending from
Utah on the west to Missouri on
the east.
Other news of Dr. Werkmeister
concerns his literary work. Re
cently, he received notice from his
publishers. Harper and Bros., that
two books on philosophy he has
written will be published in Janu
ary. They are, "Basis and Struc
ture of Knowledge," a volume of
500 pages, and "Critical Think
ing," a volume of 730 pages. The
publishers also announced that Dr.
Werkmeister's "Philosophy of Sci
ence" will be reprinted.