The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, December 11, 1947, Image 1

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Vol. 48 No. 53 LINCOLN
R. G. Gustavson Gives Convo
Report on UNESCO Conference
Chancellor Calls for Greater Understanding
Between Nation: Capacity Crowd at Coliseum
"UNESCO will never be com
plete as long as Russia remains
on the outside," stated Chancellor
R. G. Gustavson in a convocation
speech before an overflow crowd
in the coliseum Wednesday after
noon. If we are to live in peace, the
nations of the world must use the
next five to 25 years to cement
understanding between the "Rus
sian" and "western" ideologies, ac
cording to the speaker. The em
phasis is on military power by
many nations is an evidence of
an unsure world, he continued.
Military power, said Gustavson,
is a force in an insecure world,
UNESCO is a force" in a secure
one.
Main Objective.
"How we con organize educa
tion, science and culture so that
we can have a peaceful world," is
the main object of UNESCO, ac
cording to the chancellor who has
lately returned from its meeting
in Mexico City in November. .
In the course of the conference,
three new members, Austria,
Hungary and Italy, were accepted
into the organization. The only
dissenting vote was on Hungary,
when the 'US delegation voted
against its petition on orders from
the American state department.
Gustavson had only contempt
for the Washington order. Accord
ing .to the speaker, the reason for
this refusal to accept Hungary
was the election irregularities in
that country. The chancellor raised
a good point in opposition when
he said he did not especially ap
prove of the election procedures
in our southern states. If our own
country is guilty of these faults in
voting procedures, why should we
not grant membership to a coun
try for the same reason.
Six Points.
Gustavson, who acted as chair
man of the committee on program
and banquet at the conference,
listed six major facts on UNESCO
work:
1. Reconstruction of the world's
PROPOSED CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
This questionnaire is sponsored by the Student Council for
the purpose of obtaining: recommendations for the Campus Im
provement Committee.
Year in school Church Preference College
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All University Chapel
Yes No
1. Do you feci that there is a need for a chapel ?
2. Would you personally participate in its activities . . .?
3. Would you contribute to a Chapel Building: Fund. . . .?
4. How do you think such a chapel should be administered?
(CHECK ONE)
a. By a body representative of aii campus religious groups
b. By appointment of the Student Council . J
c. By appointment of the Faculty
d. By appointment of a joint faculty-student
administrative committee
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University Senate
(This governing body consists of all University professors.)
Yes No
5. Do you think that there is a need for student
representation on the University Senate ?
6. If so, in w hat capacity should the students serve, as
observers, or as active participants? (UNDERLINE ONE)
7. Hou should they be chosen? (ChECK ONE)
a. By Student Council appointment
b. By a student election ....
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Senior Week
Yes No
8. Should senior final examination week be replaced by a
Senior Week, which would, among other things, ac
quaint seniors with the Alumni Association, and wuld
provide appropriate social activities?
IV
Parking Areas
Yes No
9. Do you regularly have difficulty in parking on
the campus ?
10. If you know of groups of students who have special
parking difficiculties, name these groups
11. Do you think such groups ought to share special
privileges with the faculty ?
Other Comments
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existing educational system.
2. Facilitation of communication
between countries.
3. Education of foreign peoples,
especially in reading and writing
4. Increased study of social
sciences.
5. Translations of the classics of
all time into many languages.
6. Discussion between natural
scientists of the world.
Three Council
Positions Filled
Ruth Spurgeon, graduate stu
dent in the Arts and Sciences,
Dace Boyland, junior woman in
Arts and Sciences college, and
Gerald Gardner, junior in the
College of Dentistry, were elected
to the Student Council at the
regular Wednesday council meet
ing. The three appointments fill
council seats which were vacated
since the last election.
Seven women made applica
tion for the junior Arts and Sci
ence post. Only three were pres
ent to be interviewed.
Several council members ques
tioned the idea of voting without
hearing all applicants. The vote
was taken after previous experi
ences of waiting for applicants to
appear were brought out as un
satisfactory. Two of the three candidates for
the woman's graduate seat were
present for interviews.
Gardner was the only candidate
from the college of dentistry.
Constitutions committee chair
man Bob Wenke reported that
processing the 145 constitutions of
existing organizations would take
considerable more time. He said
that group revisions will be
recommended to the council
when the study by his committee
is complete.
New organizations receive in
dividual study to speed council
approval he said.
COESSEIJ3I
FEATURING
GIRLS GET YOUR
Choir Plans
"Messiah"
Presentation
Choral Union In
AnniialProdiiction
Handel's "Messiah," an annual
university production which will
be given at the coliseum at 3
p. m. Sunday, Dec. 14, will fol
low a custom of several years'
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Mrs. Anderson Jean Thompson
J. Dayton Smith Donald Ellis
standing by inviting any student
who has sung in a "Messiah" pre
sentation on this or any other
csmpus to join the Choral Union
for this presentation, provided he
attends the Saturday afternoon
rehearsal at 1 p. m. in the coli
seum. Five University and Lincoln
choral groups will conbine to
form the Choral Union directed
by Dr. Arthur Westbrook. These
groups include the Agricultural
College chorus directed by Altinas
Tullis, the University Singers and
the University Chorus I, directed
by Dr. Westbrook, University
Chorus II directed by David
Foltz, and the Grieg Male chorus
directed by Marvin Wadley.
Soloists
Soloists for the "Messiah" will
See MESSIAH, page 4.
Ball Asks
Foil Return
Students who were unable to at
tend Wednesday's convocation are
asked to answer the Student Coun
cil poll which is printed in to
day's Daily Nebraskan, Dale Ball,
chairman of the Council's campus
improvement committee, as;ked.
Students who answered the poll
at the convocation should not
answer this newspaper poll, Ball
continued.
Ball said that the Council would
act on the four propsals in ac
cordance with the expressed opin
ions of the students. Several thou
sand poll ballots were collected at
the Gustavson convocation yester
day, he added.
Suggested improvements include
building an all-university chapel
for worship of all faiths, setting
up a priority system for campus
parking, inaugurating a senior
week of activities and social events
to replace a final week of exam
inations, and sending a student
representative to meetings of the
University Senate, the faculty gov
erning body.
A random tabulation made
Wednesday afternoon on several
dozen of the polls collected at the
Coliseum showed unanimous en
dorsement of the proposal for
senior week.
The poll box is located in the
Daily Nebraskan office, in the
Union basement.
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SAM DONAHUE AND MS HAND
TICKETS FROM TASSELS AND MORTAR BOARDS
"International Trade" Topic
Of Noted Economist, Lawyer
Charles Phelps Taft. nationally
known reformer, economist, law
yer, and brother of Sen. Robert
Taft, whose accomplishments in
national life include being the
first layman to hold the office of
president of the Federal Council
of Churches of Christ in America,
Gals Open
Season On
Boys Friday
, The second biggest mystery on
the NU campus, "Who the heck
are the eligible bachelors?" will
be out come Friday evening
when the MB's trot out a stable
full of hand-picked males, the
Big Gals' choice.
The second biggest mystery is,
, "Why don't the Omaha sports
writers drop dead?"
Smart money had it Wednes
day that the Bachelors would be
I Big Men On Campus over six
feet tall, that is.
Nebraska's Amazons marched
to the polls a couple of week
ago to tab boys for Bachelor
honors.
But that's not all the fun. Next
year is 1948 Leap Year, in case
you hadn't heard. And the gals
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Sam Donahue.
are sharpening their grappling
hooks already. In fact the she
males will take the fellas to the
shindig. They will treat their
dates to the feed-bag first, then
canter away to the Coliseum at
9 p. m.
But what a shock! Men will
look like vegetable gardens,
Christmas trees and nartv-partv
boys. Their escorts will pin on
obscure, weird corsages to claim
their men. The air will be heady
with perfume (Danger), with
music (Sam Donahue), and with
the Black Masques themselves.
Parlays yesterday listed the
following men as favorites for
Eligible Bachelor honors:
Robert Metrakos, Richard
Bocken, Walter Dorothy, Harold
Munson, John Ayres, Harvey
Davis, Randy Ewing, Irvin Dana,
Bob Wenke, Howard Ford, Lee
Goodwin, Jim Swanson, Bryon
Hooper, Tony St. John, Al Potter,
Forrest Binder, Lee Wolfert,
David Levin, Harold Kopf, Jack
DeWulf, John Bloom, Eugene
Packard, John Doyle, Jack Guen
zel, Darald May, Howard Pavel
sek, Roger White, Norris Ander
son and Gilbert Hueftle.
Friday is open season on men,
and coeds will be Dianas!
Mervyn Cadwallader, arts
and science junior, and Elmer
Sprague, arts and science sen
ior and member of Phi Beta
Kappa, were named as two of
the three Rhodes scho 1 a r
candidates by the state com
mittee late Wednesday.
Out of a state group of nine,
these three students will ap
pear with fifteen others before
the regional committee in Des
Moines which will select six
urday.
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will speak at an r.ll-university
convocation at 11 a. m. today in
the Union ballroom.
Speaks on Tostwar Trade.
Taft, who served as director of
the office of wartime economic
affairs and of the office of trans
portation and communicati o n s,
both connected with the state de
partment, will speak on "Interna
tional Trade in The Postwar
World."
As Will Clayton's special assist
ant, Taft had charge of the pre
sentation to Congress of the Trade
Agreement Act. It was his office
that announced the agreement
with the United Kingdom, France,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway
and Luxenbourg for the rehabili
tation and operation of western
Europe's railways, highways, and
canals.
Son of President Taft
Taft is the son of the 27th presi
dent of the United States. After
propping at the Taft school, he
received his BA degree in ab
stentia in 1918 from Yale univer
sity while he was in the armed
forces. On his return to civilian
life he re-entered Yale and re
ceived his LLB in 1921 and was
admitted to the Ohio Bar the fol
lowing year. He entered law prac
tice with his brother Robert in
Cincinnati.
He is the author of "City Man
agement," "The Cincinnati Ex
periment," "You and I and
Roosevelt," and "Why I Am For
the Church."
Army Supply.
. Perhaps no one in Washington
was in a better position during
the war years to know what was
really happening behind the
scenes than Taft, especially in re
gard to supplying the armies. It
was during this period that he
became closely connected with the
field of international trade and
relations, which has caused him
to say repeatedly, "In this new
atomic age the fullest collabora
tion between nations is impera
tive. In many respects the atom
bomb has already obliterated na
tional boundries. A new world has
been created and only the form
of a constitution is required to
make it one world."
Prep Athletes
Hear Husker
Grid Mentors
Several members of the uni
versity of Nebraska coaching staff
have a full week of speaking at
high schools athletic banauets.
Coach Bernie Masterson heads the
list with two talks scheduled.
Thursday evening he will speak
at a meeting at Valentine and Fri
day night he will be at Hay
Springs. On each occasion high
school athletes will be honored.
Line coach Tony Blazine and
Ray Dcbolt, B team coach, ap
peared earlier this week at Pierce,
Nebr. and Hamburg, la., respec
tively. Blazine appeared Wednes
day night at Ord and will be at
North Platte Thursday evening.
"Pop" Klein spoke at Cam
bridge Wednesday and will be
guest speaker at a high school
dinner at Brady Thursday evening.
Friday noon he will be at the
Down Kiwanis club's luncheon in
Omaha.
The David City high school
football squatd and heard End
Coach Ray Prochaska Wednes
day night.
Demos to Hear Ritchie
William Ritchie, of Omaha and
chairman of the Nebraska demo
cratic party will speak during
the Young Democrat dinner
meeting Thursday evening, ac
cording to an announcement is
sued by Chairman Donald Mor
row. The dinner is scheduled to be
gin at 6:45 p. m. Thursday. Dec.
11, in parlor YZ of the Union.
$3.00 PER COUPLE