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Voting booths in the Ag and city Unions open at 9 a.m. Tuesday
for the special election on affiliating with the National Student
Association.
Tolls will remain open on the city campus until 6 p.m. The Ac
polls close at 5 p.m. Both will be supervised by the Student Council
and its faculty advisers.
The election will serve as a guide to the council when it makes
the final decision on joining the proposed national student group.
A council plan to poll student opinion during class time was re
jected by the deans of several colleges.
Liffht Vote Expected.
A light vote is anticipated by election committee chairman Stan
ley Ahrends, although all students at the university are eligible to
vote.
Identification cards must be presented by the voters to obtain
$ ballot at the polling places, according to Ahrends.
The election was set for today by council action last Wednesday.
Council Sponsored Information Forums.
A council sponsored program to inform students about NSA was
concluded February 27 when Janice Trcmper, national secretary of
NSA, spoke before a forum of house and club representatives.
At a preliminary forum February 21 members of the special
student committee investigating NSA presented reports of their work.
SAMPLE NSA BALLOT
Do you favor affiliation
of the University of Ne
braska with the National
Student Association; and
if the University affiliates,
are you willing to support,
actively and financially,
the N. S.A.?
Yes
No
The committee was formed in November tc study university
affiliation with NSA. It included official delegates to the national
and regional NSA constitutional conventions and interested students
appointed by the council.
Students Commented Extensively.
Several students, both on and off the committee, have commentci
on the subject through the lettcrip column of The Ncbraskan.
Discussion has centered around the proposed ainis of NSA and
what new programs the association would bring to the campus. Sev
eral campus and national projects were outlined by proponents of
NSA, and offered as "only tentative proposals."
'Don't Know Ballot Considered.
Preliminary plans for the poll included various forms of an
"I don't know" vote. Council opinion was that undecided students
should be considered in evaluating the results.
The council considered how much emphasis which should be'
placed on such a vote at some length. The present ballot was writ
ten with only "yes" and "no" choices after the classroom poll was
thrown out.
The council rejected an early recommendation of its NSA com
mittee that a second ballot be included to show how students thought
NSA participation should be financed, if the university should join.
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VoL 48 No. 101 Lincoln 8. Nebraska. Tuesday. March 16. 1948
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For Civi
The job of restoring its con
trol over Manchuria has been
stupidly bungled by China, ac
cording to Owen Lattimore in a
speech last night in Love Li
brary auditorium.
Lattimore is head of the inter
national relations school at Johns
Hopkins university and is ap
pearing here for three lectures
this week as the second recipi
ent of. the Montgomery Lecture
ship on Contemporary Civiliza
tion. Since Manchuria is the "pivot
on which turns the whole line
of the Chinese-Russian frontier,"
China's political mistakes there
have seriously weakened resist
ance to soviet influence accord
ing to the speaker.
Carpet-Baggers.
Lattimore said, "The Chinese
government attempted to recov
er authority in Manchuria by
sending in carpet-baggers from
central and south China. This
was as if, after Texas had been
occupied by, say, Mexico for 15
years, Washington were to try
to insist that 'sovereignty' could
only be restored by appointing
only Republicans from Maine
and New Hampshire to every
office from county sheriff on
up."
Turning to the border ques
tion, Lattimore explained that
we must understand the kind of
border existing there.
"We normally think of a fron
tier as not only a political line
dividing two sovereignties, but
a line separating peoples of dif
ferent languages and customs,"
Lattimore said.
Asiatic Frontier.
The speaker pointed out that
the Asiatic frontier of the USSR
is of a different kind. He said
that almost nowhere does it di
vide Russians from some other
kind of people. Often it cuts
through different cultures, lang
uages, religions, and families, he
continued.
"The Chinese-Russian frontier
is divided into three sectors,"
stated Lattimore. In two of
these, Sinkiang and Mongolia,
the boundary divides neither
Russians or Chinese, but people
who are profoundly affected by
anything either does, the former
political advisor to Chiang Kai
Shek said.
In the third sector, Manchuria,
Chinese and Russians do meet
each other face to face. Accord
ing to the speaker, dislike and
distrust of the Russians are tra
ditional in Manchuria, going
back many centurnes.
No Iron Curtain.
"There is no iron curtain on
the Chinese-Russian border,"
Lattimore continued. "The peo-
me
tritfe
. . . SaysLatlitnorc
own comparisons, and out of
these comparisons develop their
own political preferences. View
ed in this light, China's bungling
in Manchuria assumes special
significance for us."
Lattimore's second lecture,
describing the big difference be
tween internal and frontier poli
tics in China, will be given Wed
nesday. His third and last speech Fri
day night will tell how demo
cracy can beat Communism at its
own game.
Lois Gillett
Named.
Hook Review
Mrs. II. D. Hilton will re
view "The Ideas of March" by
Thornton Wilder, best-selling
author, at the last Coed Coun
selor book review of the year,
tonight in Ellen Smith hall at
7 p.m.
Tasse.
Phi Sigma Iota
Votes Seniors
To Membership
Dorothy Ichinana and Phyllis
Llewellyn, seniors in arts and
sciences and teachers colleges re
spectively, have been elected to
membership in Phi Eigma Iota,
national romance language schol
astic honorary, according to Dr.
Boyd G. Carter, secretary of the
fraternity.
Eligibility for membership in
cludes an average of 88 in the
romance language studied and a
general overall average of 85.
Dr. Carter also released titles
of papers read at the group's
monthly meeting last weekend.
They included "The Volcanoes of
Mexico" by Normalee Stribling,
"Araaucana, the Epic Poem of the
Western Hemisphere," by Mona
Rae Leonard and "The French Art
Song," by Sam Warren.
s President
Farrap, Vice-President;
Guhin, Rapp Fill Offices
Lois Gillett, Teachers college Junior, will serve as
president of Tassels for the year of 1948-49.
Other officers elected at a meeting Monday night of
the women's pep organization are: Joan Farrar, vice-president;
Patricia Guhin, secretary; Kathryn Rapp, treasurer;
Peggy O'Donnell, publicity chair
man; and Janet Fairchild, notifi
cations officer.
The new president of Tassels is
secretary of Coed Counselors, Pep
Queen for 1947-
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LOIS GILLETT.
'Ask the Man Who Owns None, '
Theme of Vet-Union Spring Fling
... Used Clothing to Be Traded for Tickets
"Ask the Man w no uwns
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ThP Uni-vets clohinc drive is officially opened. Chancellor
R. G. Gustavson (right), opened the drive by presenting the first
article of clothing to Jerry Blatchlord (leit), cnairman oi xne
committee. He is in turn given a special ticket of admission to
pie of the frontier make the: I the Spring Fling, open only to donors of clothing.
None," will be the humanitarian
theme of Spring Fling, sponsored
jointly' by the Union and the Uni
versity Veterans organization, in
the Union ballroom from 9 to 12
Friday evening.
Donations for Admission.
Admission to the dance will
only be through the donation of
clothing to a special clothing drive
for the "men and women who
struggled through this last Euro
pean winter without enough heat
in their homes and without
enough clothing on their backs,"
according to Jerry Blatchford,
Uni-Vets spokesman. All clothing
collected will be packed and
shipped to Europe through special
agencies working irt this field.
The organization is not asking
for new clothing but rather for
items which students no longer
have use, "clothing that is out of
style, or clothing that no longer
fits."
A special clothing booth is to
be set up in the Union lobby so
that clothing can be exchanged
for tickets to the benefit.
The misfitted army and navy
uniforms and the "old look" short
skirts will give warmth and pro
tection to many who are suffering
from exposure. No wearable item
should be overlooked. A pre
spring housecleaning will net
many articles useless to their
owners, but invaluable to the
poorly clad Europeans.
48, former trea
surer of Tassels,
former YW ca
bin e t member,
and has worked
in "Student
Foundation and
WAA. She is a
member of
Towne Club.
Miss Joan
Farrar, Vice
p r e s i dent for
the coming
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Joan Farrar.
year, is a Teachers college junior.
A member of Kappa Alpha Theta,
she is serving on the AUF advis
ory board and Student Council.
The new secretary is Patty
Guhin, Arts and Sciences junior.
She is a member of the Coed
Counselors, YWCA, secretary of
AEP, radio honorary, and Alpha
Chi Omega.
Kathryn Rapp, new Tassels
treasurer, serves on the YWCA
cabinet, is secretary of WAA, a
coed counselor and a member of
Delta Gamma.
The offices of publicity chair
man and notifications chairman
are held by Peggy O'Donnell and
Janet Fairchild. Miss O'Donnell
is a sophomore in Arts and Sci
ences and the 1948 Typical Ne
braska Coed. She is a member of
Coed Counselors, Orchesis, Swim
ming club, WAA, YWCA cabinet
and Alpha Omicron Pi.
A sophomore in Arts and Sci
ences, Janet Fairchild is a mem
ber of YWCA, Cornhusker staff,
Coed Counselors and Delta Delta
Delta.
Aggies Needed
On Committees
... at Farmers Fair
Ag students are needed to work
on committees for the Farmer's
Fair, according to Charles Brim,
publicity chairman. Lists will be
posted in both the Ag Union and
Ag Hall for interested students
to sign up.
Seven committees have been
assigned to chairmen and work
ers are needed for each commit
tee. The committees and chairmen
are: dance, Charles Brim and
Harriet Moline; rodeo, Vaughn
Johnson; publicity, Charles Brim
and LaRayne Steyer; women's
program, Lucy Manning; open
house, Don Kellog and Maryetta
Shoup; barbecue, Don Smith and
Vi Vosika, and midway, Eunice
Jensen and Charles Smith.