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Vol. 48 No. 122 Pofuindaltio'n Will IPinhlish C 'ale mi dim of 0 'niveirsify The Student Foundation is planning a University of Nebraska Engagement calendar fov 1949, to be released next fall. This calen dar is the first of its Vind to be offered at the University, accord ing to Genene Mitchell, Student Foundation president. Students may order now to get their copies, Each of the 27 pages of the calendar will have a photograph of some phase of campus life op posite it. Such varied subjects as buildings, campus scenes, and athletes will be included in these photos. The calendar will be published by the Philadelphia printing con cern that publishes calendars for major eastern colleges. Used for Scholarships Funds obtained from the sale of the calendars will be used for scholarships, pending a vote of the Student Foundation board, Miss Mitchell stated. Graduate scholarships need funds the most, according to Chancellor R. G. Gustavson, so they are most likely to benefit from the sales. The Chancellor has already placed an order for six copies himself. The editorial staff of the calen dar includes Jerry Johnston "Eileen Hepperley, Jane McArthur and Genene Mitchell. To Be Aided They will be aided by George Round, Director of University Public Relations; Fritz Daley, alumnus secretary; and Miss Mary Mielenz, faculty sponsor of the Student Foundation. The calendar will be released next September Tour of Omaha Campus Slated For Pre Meds The College of Medicine and the school of nursing of the University of Nebraska are aeain having open house, Saturday, May 1, for all pre-medical, pre-nursing, and pre-technology students or sopno- more, junior and senior standing. A program featuring the high lights of hospital, medical college and school of nursing training will begin at 9 a. m. Small groups will be shown the laboratories, hospital wards, recreational facil ities and other phases of medical and nursing training. Luncheon will be' served at the University hospital at a nominal cost. Pre-med Adviser Eugene F. Powell has requested that all men and women students who desire to avail themselves of this oppor tunity sign their names to the list on the bulletin board at his office, 306 Bessey Hall. All names should be on this list before noon, May 24. Transportation to Omaha and return must be provided by those planning to attend. White Will Head Campus NAACP At the organizational meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, held last Wednesday eve ning, John White was elected chairman of the group. Phyllis Maurer was chosen secretary and Nina Kaswiner treasurer. Kathy Hollingsworth was elect ed to head the publicity commit tee and Paul Rogers is in charge of membership. It is hoped that the group will develop into a campus branch of the national NAACP. There will be a meeting tonight in the campus YMCA lounge at 7 p.m. for all interested students. Lincoln 8, Nebraska, 4 Delegates to Attend College Union Meet Four members of the Nebras ka Student Union board will at ted the Silver Anniversary con vention of the association of col lege unions in Roanoke, Va., Ap ril 29 to May 1. Ed Trumble, dance committee chairman, has been selected to lead the panel discussion on the Union dances, one of the five group discussion topics. Five student members from over the country who are outstanding in their union work have been chos en for this honor. Ed is also a member of Corn Cobs, Interfra ternity Council, Newman Club, and Sigma Nu. Other Nebraska representatives are Duane Lake, Union director, Donna Alfrey, board member, and Prof. Carl M. Arndt, fac ulty financial advisor. Panel Participant. Donna AKiey will take part in the panel discussion and social programs other than dances. Professor Arndt will serve in Nebraskans at Robert Anderson I lllltllf : 1 A PERFORM AT CARNEGIE HALL TODAY Basso Robert Ander son, fine arts senior, and Pianist Mary Louise Boehm, university instructor in piano, make their New York debuts today on the stage of famous Carnegie Hall as state winners in the nation-wide con test sponsored by the Associated Concert Bureau in an effort to lo cate the finest young American talent. Appearing with them will be Geraldyne Kelley, violinist, who was the third state finalist to win the coveted honor. Miss Boehm will play Mozart's "Sonata in D major," Ravel's "Toccata" and a number by Schumann. Anderson will sing an aria from Verdis opera "Don Carlos," Schubert's "Der Wanderer," and Richard Hage man's "Do Not Go My Love." Miss Boehm has been guest soloist with university orchestras here and at Northwestern and with the Chicago Symphony Orches tra under Hans Lange. She has made four recital appearances in two years in Chicago. Audition winner last year with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, Anderson took a leading role in "Carmen' last -February and was featured with a double quartet tthat broad cast from Spokane during his service with the navy. Each is eligible for cash awards along with other Carnegie Hall winners. Phi Sigma Iota Elects Milrae Jensen President New officers of Phi Sigma Iota, national romance language schol astic honorary, were elected at the fraternity's final meeting, Thursday in the Union. Milrae Jensen was chosen president, with Lois Kroehler as vice president and Lois Gobar as secretary-treasurer. Two papers were read by mem bers at the meeting. Nell McAl lister read a paper comparing Rousseau's novel "La Nouvelle Heloise" with Goethe's drama, "Werther." Arsenio Alfaro, se nior from Puerto Rico, read a discussion of the life and works of Eugenio de Hostos, Puerto Rican hero. . Retiring officers are Patsy Jane Benson, president; Lila Gillan, Tuesday, April 20, 1948 an advisory capacity in sessions for members who are planning to erect unions in the near future, with special emphasis on financ ing new unions. Lake to Report. Lake, a member of the National Advisory board of Student Unions, is participating on the of ficial program and hospitality committee. He was also give re port on the national games com mittee, of which he has been a member since his association with the Pugsley Union at South Da kota State College, Brookings, S. D. Representatives from over two hundred colleges in the United States and Canada will attend the conference, where they will have the opportunity of consulting spe cialists on managements, food facilities, crafts, outings and tours, dances, social programs, art and music, .and administra tion and student government of the unions. Carnegie . . . Mary Louise Boehm Schniltker Gets Danfortli Award Announcement has been made by Dr. O. H. Werner, Danforth Associate for the University, that Shirley Schnittker of Lincoln has received the Danforth Fellowship for 1948. Miss Schnittker is a Bizad senior and a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Other stu dents who have been recipients of this fellowship are Eleanor Craw ford Wirth, 1943, Mary Ann Mat toon, 1946, and Carol Briden baugh, 1947. vice president; Marge MacQueen, secretary. Dr. Boyd G. Carter, fac ulty adviser, will remair. as ecutive secretary. 1 '"J1, "!!S!!!G&&?mmm'mm w -wo- " ' V ' I 1 .. Sorter tfo Speak; Classes Ou 10-12 The annual Honors Convocation, recognizing university students for high scholarship, this morning at 10:15 o'clock. Classes will be dismissed cording to Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, Registrar and Director of Admissions. To be recognized for high schol arship, students must be in the upper 10 percent of their class in their college. Therefore, grades will vary in the different depart ments of the university. Carter to Speak. Edward F. Carter, associate judge of the Nebraska Supreme Court, will be the principal speak er at the Honors Day convocation. He will speak on the role of edu cation and citizen participation in its improvement. Senior students will be honored in the upper three percent of their class, or if they have been on the Honor Lists four or more years. In addition to the recognition of honor students, the various col leges, schools, and departments will announce recipients of awards and scholarships. As Awards to be Presented. In the College of Agriculture, the following awards will be an nounced: the Alpha Zeta Medal; the Borden Agricultural Scholar ship Award: the Lincoln Coca- Cola Bottling Co. Scholarship; the Farmers National Co. Scholarship; the First Trust Co. Scholarship; the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Schol arship Foundation; the Sears Roe b u c k Foundation Agricultural Scholarships; the Charles Stuart Memorial Scholarship; the Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth Memorial Schol arship; and the WNAX Agricul tural Scholarship. The College of Business Admin istration will award the Edward R. Wells Memorial Scholarship, the Congdon, O'Hara and Becker Scholarship in Accounting, the Alpha Kappa Psi Citizenship Award, the First Trust Co. Schol arships, the Willtein Gold Keys, the O. N. Magee Scholarship, the O. N. Magee Memorial Scholar ship, the John E. Miller Fellow ships in Business Administration, the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key, and the W. G. Langworthy Taylor Scholarship. Other Awards Listed. Other awards are: the Phi Lambda Upsilon Freshman Award, Chemistry; the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award, Chemical Engineering; the An drew V. Anderson Scholarship, Civil Engineering; the Grove E. Barber Price, Classics; the Mary E. Lee Scholarships, Debate; the O. J. Fee Award, Engineering; the Sigma Tau Scholarship Medal, Engineering; the Frederick A. Stuff Scholarship, English; the Borden Home Economics Scholar ship Award, Home Economics; the Omicron Nu Freshman Award, Home Economics; the Sears Roe buck Foundation Home Economics Scholarships, Home Economics; the Lincoln Newspapers Journal ism Scholarship Keys, Journalism; the J. C. Seacrest Scholarship. Journalism; the Allen Competi tion, Law. The American Institute of Architects Award, Architecture; the AGC Award, Architecture; the Weber-Ernst Award. Botany; the Law Review Award. Law; the Law Week Award, Law; the Pi Mu Epsilon Prizes, Mathematics; the Sidney R. Kent Fellowship, Medicine; the Jetur Riggs and J e n n i r Hanscom Scholarship. Czech Students By University The University Comenius Club has formally adopted a set of resolutions commending the stu dents of universities in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and particularly those of Charles university, for their "courageous" action during the recent crisis there. The members also espressed their desire to take some definite active measures to aid the stu dents whose belief in freedom "led them to demonstrate against the Communists." The resolutions especially com mended the Czech students for: 1. Their courage in demanding to see President Benes on the day following the Communist will be held in the Coliseum from 10 a.m. until noon, ac Registration For Juniors Starts Today Juniors will begin registering for summer and fall terms Tues day morning. All juniors are re quired to take their credit books, grade reports and yellow evalua tion tickets to the registry. Tickets will be issued from Temporary building B. All stu dents must have their identifica tion cards with them in order to register, F. W. Hoover, assistant director of admissions, has an nounced. Seniors student with 89 or more semester hours to date registered Monday. The remainder of the registration schedule is as follows: April 20 Juniors (53 to 88 semester hours earned to date). This does not include hours registered for during the current semester. April 21 Sophomores and freshmen whose surnames begin with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, or H. April 22 Sophomores and freshmen whose surnames begin with I, J, K, L, M, N, O, or P. April 23 Sophomores and freshmen who surnames begin with Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, or Z. The registrar's office has stated that no classes will be dimissed for registration purposes in any college. Poets9 Entries Due At 5 Wednesday All poets and would-be poets must turn in their entries for the Ivy Day poem contest to the Stu dent Union office by 5:00 p.m. Wednesday. Poems must concern the tra ditions connected with Ivy Day. Three manuscripts of each poem must be submitted, and none of these shall have the author's name on it. Instead, the name shall be placed in a sealed envelope and turned in with the manuscripts. Judges will be Dr. Lowry Wim berley, Dr. Ray William Frantz, and Miss Bernice Slote of the English department. Medicine; the Delta Omicron Scholarships, Music; the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Scholarship, Mu sic; the Theodore Presser Scholar ships, Music; the ROTC Band Honorary Key Awards, Music; the American Foundation of Pharma ceutical Education Awards, Phar macy; the John E. Almy Scholar ships, Physics; and the Long De bate Award, Speech. In addition to these, other awards will be made by individ ual groups, persons, and campus organizations. Professional fraternities will also announce lists of new members at the convocation. Commended Comenius Club coup. 2. The mass demonstrations on behalf of their belief in dem ocratic principles, which their country had until this time upheld. 3. Their defiance of the Com munist dictum by singing the Czech National Anthem in the streets of Prague. The group went on to tell the Czech people to keep up the fight against the Reds and to be assured of continued support of other nations. The club gets its name from Amos Komensky, a great Czech hero, teacher and educator. The club's membership is made up of students of Czech descent. V