surotrOM
aft TO Mejtti Week
BY CUB CLEM.
Three of the republican party's
top candidates for the presiden
tial nomination will appear on the
university campus next week to
speak to the student body. They
are Thomas Dewey of New York,
Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
lailg
Vol 48 No. 110
Lincoln 8.
"Ivan"
. . . Sponsored by Y Groups
BY GENE BERG.
'Ivan the Terrible," the Russian
Life magazine, will be shown tonight at 8 p. m. in the Temple The
ater under the sDonsorshiD of the
second showing of the widely acclaimed film, produced in 1947, will
be held in Love Library auditorium again tomorrow night at 8.
Influential Film.
The late Sergei Eisenstein's talked-about motion picture is .an
other in the recent series of
cents, and both students and the
general public are invited to "at
tend either of the two showings.
PM newspaper has said that the
influence of "Ivan the Terrible"
will be felt in all future genera
tions of film-making." The movie
tells the seven chief episodes in
the life of Ivan, Russia's first
czar. In achieving its purpose, PM
points out, the film ran into great
censorship difficulties and official
examination in Soviet Russia, but
was finally released.
Ivan 'Economic rioneer.'
In a review of the movie, the
New York Times defined Ivan,
the movie character, as "the
people's tsar," who liberated his
subjects from unprogressive bour
geois prejudices about individual
rights and who pioneered for ec
onomic democracy with his fa
mous remark: 'As a horse under a
rider without a curb, so is a tsar
dom without Terror'.
Tickets for the showings of
"Ivan" can be purchased from in
dividual YM or YW members, at
the "Y" offices and Ellen Smith
Hall, or at the door.
Students Pledge Service
As International Police
Fifteen University students vol
unteered to serve in an interna
tional police force if instituted to
guarantee peace.
The group made the promise in
a letter to President Truman
which expressed their belief that
the United Nations is an inade
quate organ for peace.
The move, apparently backed
by the United World Federalists
chapter at the University, was
admitted as primarily a bid for
publicity. A spokesman for the
fifteen presumed the offer would
be ignored.
Signers listed were: Don Baker,
Eugene Berman, Mervyn Cad
wallader, Fred Hodek, John Kurz,
Clarence Lear, Richard Miles,
Robert Mohlman, Don Morrow,
David Pickerill, Kenneth Purcell,
Mick Putney, Paul Rodgers, Jr.,
Kermit Rohde, and George
Schmid.
Robert Taft of Ohio, and Harold
Stassen of Minnesota.
Two of the speeches those by
Taft and Stassen. will be regular
student convocations, sponsored
by their respective local cam
paign groups. Dewey's speech, to
be given in the Coliseum, will be
open to the public.
Stassen Speaks Thursday.
Stassen's appearance is being
sponsored by the university chap
ter of the Stassen for President
club, and was announced by
Senator Fred A. Seaton, cam
paign manager for the Minneso
tan in Nebraska.
His speech is set for Thursday,
afternoon, April 8, at 2:45 in the
Union Ballroom. Stassen will also
speak at Nebraska Wesleyan and
Union college Thursday. Appear
ances are also scheduled in Co
lumbus, Fremont and Norfolk.
Taft Here Tuesday.
Taft's wife will also be in the
April 6 ,at 2 p. m. in the Union
Ballroom. He will also speak be
fore assembled Rotarians, Kiwan-
NVhraskatt
Nebraska. Friday. April 2. 1948
ems
movie termed "magnificent" by
university YM-YWCA groups. A
Y-sponsored films. Admission is fifty
Criminal Law
Expert Named
To UN Faculty
Appointment of Frederick J.
Ludwig to the faculty of the Uni
versity of Nebraska law college
was announced Wednesday by
Dean F. K. Beutel.
Ludwig is a
criminal law
expert with
the board of
criminal ap
peals of the
New Y o r k
C i t v district
fit a 1 1 o rney's of-
lie uaa
held this post
for the past
three years.
Previously he
F. J. Ludwig:. served for two
years in various branches of the
New York police force in both
enforcement and prison admin
istration work.
To Start in Fall.
He will teach criminal law,
criminal administration, family
law, and an advanced seminar in
legal problems of criminal ad
ministration and penology at the
university starting with the fall
term.
Dean Beutel said Ludwig will
help develop the criminal law
program at the university and
"co-operate with the Board of
Control and other police and
penal institutions in the state in
solving research problems of
criminal administration in Ne
braska." First at Columbia.
"We are very fortunate to get
a young man of the broad scien
tific and theoretical training of
Mr. Ludwig, combined with his
practical experience, and in
sures us of the finest possible
development of criminal law at
Nebraska," Dean Beutel said.
Ludwig received his bachelor
and master's degrees at the Col
lege of the City of New Yortc.
He was first in his law class at
Columbia university in 1945.
I
V
ians and Lions at the Cornhusker
hotel at noon that day. He has
planned speeches at Hastings,
Crete, Beatrice and Nebraska
City also.
Taft's wife will also be in the
state campaigning for her hus-
' :'.. i.': ,. . .1
' ' ' " ' ; '
i
if a---
A Z. I
.S -"'''Vv-'
Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
Cosmo Dance to Feature
Mills' Band and Floor Show
. . ! Uf n! I
LiiiWMMLiiiiiriMriiiuiiiiii innmjuiiiMmiiiiiimimirmiii mrnrni "i font imviv -"-irrii i-" t 1 . w c
Wi " " 1 . . fL 'i ':v.-. -'..:;.:
STUDENTS SELL TICKETS in Union Hallway for Cosmo Carnival
Dance to be held Saturday night in Union Ballroom. Style of dance
is to be patterned after spring celebrations carried on in countries
as France, Trinidad, and Puerto Rico and other foreign nations.
All-Campus Filings Open
Today for Spring Elections
Spring election filings open to
day for Student Council, Publica
tions Board, and Ivy Day Orator
plus three organizations on Ag
campus: Ag Exec Board, Farmers'
Fair Board, and Col Agri Fun
Board. The elections will take
place Thursday, April 15.
Population figures of colleges
and specialized schools Within the
university on which representa
tion to the Student Council will
be based at the April elections
were released by Council Vice-
President Stanley Ahrends at
last Wednesday's Council meet
ing. Varying from year to year ac
cording to general enrollment to
tal and according to members of
major and minor sex within each
represented group, the elected
Council membership plus hold
over members next year will be
32 members, whereas last year's
Council totaled 27.
College
Alt . .
A 8
Kizad
Eng.
J mini
Pharm,
Trarh.
K. A.
Pent.
M. W.
...I 1
S
....S
...S
t
.1
Grd 1
One sophomore man and two
sophomore women will be chosen
as members of the Col Agri Fun
Board. Positions are open for one
freshman, one sophomore and one
junior regardless of sex on the
Ag Exec Board. Farmers' Fair
band on her own.
Dewey in Coliseum.
Dewey will be here for two
days and will speak at the Coli
seum at 8 p. m. Thursday, April
0. As this is his only appearance
in this territory before he re
turns to the east his speech will
be open to the public.
Lee Rankin, local attorney, is
head of the Dewey campaign
group which is sponsoring the ap
pearance. There is a possibility
that his speech will be broadcast
from the Coliseum.
National Significance.
It is expected that each of the
speakers will talk on political
issues, but as yet no definite
subjects have been announced by
the sponsoring groups.
Heading Stassen's campaign
group in Lincoln is John Quinn,
public relations counselor. A lo
cal lawyer, John Comstock, is
head of Taft's local campaign
club.
Nebraska's primary elections
positions are open to three junior
men and three junior women.
Those wishing to file for any
council of Ag position, for Pub
lications Board, or for Ivy Day
Orator must file personally at the
Student Activities office in the
Administration Building or in
Miss Wheeler's office, 203 Ag Hall
by Friday. April 9.
Final Week Cut
To Begin May 24
Final week was rescheduled by
the University Senate to begin
Monday, May 24, following the
recommendation of its Senior
Week committee.
The senate action was outlined
in a letter to the Student Council
from Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, secre
tary of the University Senate.
"Having the examination period
begin on a Monday would allow
Saturday and Sunday as days
free for study and special pre
paration in anticipation of exam
inations, Dr. Roenlof stated in
his letter.
The exam schedule was ad
vanced, according to the letter,
to provide two of the needed
three days for a Senior Week
program. The other day will be
obtained by shortening the exam
period one day. Exams will then
last eight days, concluding, ac
cording to the letter, "about
June 1."
this month are being watched
with keen interest by the entire
nation. All of the prominent Re
publican presidential hopefuls are
entered in the primary which are
expected to give an indication of
their lelative strength.
rr
Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
The Cosmo-Carnival Dance,
sponsored by the Cosmopolitan
Club, will be held in the Union
Saturday night, April 3, from 8:00
p. m. until midnight. Music will
be furnished by Bobbie Mills and
his band from Chicago.
All students have been invited
to the dance, with dates or stag.
Both foreign costumes and Ameri
can clothes will be appropriate.
Tickets are 90 cents plus tax per
person and are on sale in the
Union. They may also be pur
chased at the door the night of
the dance.
Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, director of
admissions, will present oriental
jewelry to couples on whom a
moving spotlight falls four times
during the evening.
Juan Illueca and his Latin
American combo will open the in
termission program at 10:00 p. m.
A Russian peasant dance will fea
ture Steve Hershman, who was
formerly a citizen of Russia.
French Apache tactics will feature
Jack Levi from Egypt and Mary
Chappell, Lincoln. A slave dance
will be performed by Florence
Nurenberg, Lincoln, accompanied
by Iradj Fard, Iran, on his santur.
The entertainment will also in
clude a hula dance by Marjorie
Morris and Beatrice Suiso, Ha
waii; a gypsy dance with vocal by
Ginnie Pierce, Grand Island; and
a Hopi Indian war dance. The
program will be concluded with
dances which are typically Ameri
can, such as a barn dance and
jitterbugging.
Master of Ceremonies for the
Cosmo-Carnival will be Ben Ali
from Trinidad. The dance is un
der the direction of Eloise Schott
and Mary Chappell.
Australian Heads
Presby Forum
Alfred Stirling, Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipoten
tiary to the Australian Embassy
in Washington, D. C, will be the
speaker at the Forum to be held
at the Presbyterian Student
House, 333 No. 14, April 4 at
5 p. m.
His topic will be "Australia's
Place in the International Scene."
Stirling was born in Melbourne,
Australia and was educated in
Scotch college, Melbourne Univer
sity and University College, Ox
ford, England.
Sterling hts served as External
Affairs Officer, London, Liason
nffippr with the Foreign Office
and as Counsellor to the Austral
ian Legation to the The Nether-
Australian delegations to the Im
1 Conference. 1937. League of
Nations Assemblies, UNRRA Con
ference, Atlantic City, 1493, and
the Paris Peace Conference,
1946.
Forbes Reviews National
Professors' Convention
Dr. C. A. Forbes, secretary of
the Graduate college and profes
sor of the classics, will speak to
the Omaha university chapter of
the American Association of Uni
versity Professors on April t.
