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nn u yjuuu j u u u u si U vi vrv u dmeldeir MM fliers rv n Vol. 46 No. 35 Mary Mallory Crowned 948 Homecoming Queen Mary Helen Mallory was crowned 1948 Homecoming Queen last night at the annual Home coming dance. Miss Mallory is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She is on the Coed Counselor board and is active in AUF, YWCA and Tassels. Presentation Takes Place at Dance The presentation of the 1948 Homecoming Queen took place during intermission at the Home coming dance. Cobs and Tassels on the presentation committee had planned a unique way of reveal . I 4 t:" "1 irrfi " ' ft1,- J t t 4 " CW f "I ' wf7?f J i, -ma ?r J Llli, - i - -u-J ; HAVf NT A GHOST OF ACHMtt "THEY DON' T HAVE A GHOST OF A CHANCE," wins the soror itv house decorations title for Kappa Alpha Theta. The eerie motif ranked highest among all other sororities with the judges during their tour of the campus Friday evening. Seventeenth Coll-Agri-Fun Show Plans Get Judaes have been named for the seventeenth annual Coll-Agri Fun show to be held in the Col lege Activities building on Nov 6. Miss Eleanor Reimers, Dr. C. E Rosenauist and Dr. D. D. Dean will select prize-winnir.g efforts. All of the magistrates are mem bers of the Ac college faculty. In former years it had been a prac tice to have representatives of the Speech and Drahamrjtic art de partments in this capacity. Tickets Go on Sate Monday. Tickets for the amateur produc tion will go on sale Monday ac cording to publicity chairman, Ruth Swanson. Tickets will sell for fifty cents and may be ob tained lrom any boa id member,' she added. Preliminary ihowmgs were completed Thursday night before the program-planning committee Skits and curtain acts were aLo timed ;or length." A ripid rule of ten minutes for skits and five min Utes for curtain acts will be man tained this year," reports Gale Erie wine, Fun board manager. The annual show got its start in 1927, largely through the ef forts of Dr. T. H. Goodding, then a professor in the Agronomy de partment. Wit hthe except!" of four years during the war, it har appeared every year since that time. Any Or(stnfcation Eligible. Any Ag college organization or student is eligible to enter a skit or curtain act in the competition. Skits are judged on the basis of participation, originality and showmanship. Seven skits and five LINCOLN 8. NEBRASKA ing the identity of the queen. On the coliseum stage was a tall ear of corn, 12 feet high. Innocent and Mortar Board Presidents Norm Leger and Joan Farrar drew aside the husks of the ear, revealing long, yellow crepe pa per streamers representing the corn on the ear. As Yell King Bill Mickle an nounced her name, 1948 Home coming Queen Mary Helen Mal lory stepped through the stream ers. Lois Gillett, last year's Pep Queen, crowned Miss Mallory with a new crown of white satin and red trimming. Underway curtain ac ts will comprise the pro gram this year. Ag Men s Social, Amikitas. Ag Co'lenes, Alpha Gamma Rho, Farm House, Loomis Hall and Love Hall have entered Skits, while YM, YtV. Home Ec Club, Loomis Hall and Ivan Lilje grcn will participate in the cur tain act division. The curtain is scheduled to go up on the production at 8 p. m. Saturday night. V ' i I'CLA Bears proved too strong for the Scarlet and Cream Satur day. The UCLA team scored 27 to Nebraska's 15. Sunday, October 31. 1948 Circles Suspended from Ccilin?. On either side of the ear of corn, two red and white circles were suspended from the ceiling. The circles were six feet in di ameter, and the letters NU were printed on them. The presentation committee was composed of two Tassels and two Corn Cobs. They were: Janet Fairchild, Lee Best, John Con nelly and Rex Hoffmeister. The 1947 Homecoming Queen, Lois Gillett, reigned at the game with U.C.L.A. in the afternoon. She was presented during the half-time ceremonies. High School Bands Ploy High school bands from 42 Ne braska towns, totaling 2,264 mu sicians, will participate in the University sponsored Band Day here Nov. 6. The Band Day will be one of the features of the Nebraska Kansas State football game next Saturday. In addition the 120 piece Corn husker band, under the direction of Donald Lentz, and the Kansas State band will perform during the Nebraska-Wildcat game. The interest and initiative of these young bandsmen is shown in that thpy will have only one rehearsal before taking the field at half-time. The list of participating high schools: Albion, Auburn, Beatrice, Broken Bow, Central City, Crete, David City, Emerson, Fairbury, Fairfield, Fairmont, Fullerton, Ge noa. Grand Island, Hebron. Hum boldt, Kearney, Kenesaw, Kramer, Lincoln, Madison, McCook, Ne braska City, Norfolk, Northeast, Old, Pawnee City, Plainview, Polk. Red Cloud, School of Agri culture at Cuvtiss, Schuyler, Sco tia, Seward. Stanton, Superior, Ulysses, Wakefield. Wayne, West Point, ilber, isner. Nebraska Gracl Gains Promotion Dr. Waldemar A. Link, Chica go, has been promoted to the rank of assistant professor of operative dentistry at the Uni versity of Illinois College of Den tistry, it has been announced by Dean Allan G. Brodie. Dr. Link, a member of the fac ulty of the University of Illinois for nine years, formerly held the rank of instructor He is a graduate of the Uni versity of Nebraska. Hi 3 v.., j f r if By Harold Abramson (Sports KdiUir) Nebraska's tissue paper eleven wilted under a UCLA offense Saturday afternoon as the Bruins ran over the Husk ers, 27 to 15, before an estimated Homecoming crowd of 36,000. The game was marked by an outbreak of fighting after Council Calls Five Prexies For Meeting Heads of all organizations which sponsor spring events will meet Monday at 4 p. m. in the Student Council room to discuss possibilities of co-ordinating spring activities into one pro posed all-school week. Organizations to be represented and their he ads are Joan Farrar, president of Mortar Board, Norm Leger, president of Innocents, Dale Ball, president of the Stu dent Council, Don Smith, man ager of the Farmers Fair Board and Graham Jones, president of the Engineering Executive Board. The object of this meeting will be to discuss the dates for the annual spring festfvities, includ ing Engineers Week, Ivy Day, the Farmers Fair and possibly the Law and Pharmacy displays which have not been held in recent years. Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, chairman of the faculty calendar commit tee, stated that the administration and faculty would approve any attempt by the students to co ordinae all activities. The ar rangement that is worked out must be presented to the Faculty Senate when they convene in the mfddle of November. Such a plan is hoped to pre vent the reoccurance of the tardy requests which caused consider able commotion last spring, ac cording to Roswell Howard, Stu dent Council chairman of the all-school week committee. There are several proposals which should please all campus organ izations and will make the alum annual pilgramase to the Ne braska spring festivities more successful, Howard stated. Coleman Grant Opened to '49 MB Graduates Announcement of the $500 Katherine Wills Coleman Fellow ship, open to members of Mortar Eoard graduating in 1949, was made this week to the local Mor tar Board chapter by the national organization. The Fellowship, awarded to nine girls over the past seven years, will go to an apphcant to to be selected by a committee of deans -and a committee of Na tional Mortar Board officers. Candidates must be unmarried and able to qualify for the Mas ter's or Doctor's degree in an ac cepted graduate school. Information and application blanks must be obtained from Mrs. Edward M. Williams, Mortar Board Fellowship Chairman, 1 East 602nd Street, Orangeburg, New York before Dec. 1, 1948. Winner of the 1943 award was Lois Chambers, Ohio Wesleyan University, who will do graduate work in sociology and psychology at Oberlin College where she will also hold an Assistantship in the Department of Sociology. Ray Young Plays At Union Lounge Coffee hour in the Union lounge Sunday will feature Ray Young at the organ. The entertainment is for the benefit of all students and is held from five to six u.m. every Sunday. A treat is in store for those who remain for the free movie, which will be shown in the Union ball room at 7:30. the final gun had gone off. How ever, officials stopped the fight ing before anyone was seriously hurt. The Husker's 15 points were all scored in the fourth quarter in a late scoring rush. Gerry Moore re turned Ray Nagels kick to the Nebraska 42. Dick Hutton sprint ed to the UCLA 30 and Gerry Moore picked up seven yards to the 23. Hutton again carried to the 17 for a first down. Jim "Squat" Myers went through the line to the seven yard line. On the next play Dick Hutton crawled to the two. UCLA stopped the Husker of fense dead at that point. Ray Na gel dropped back in his own end zone, faked a kick and passed to Willis Duffy who dropped the ball in the end zone for an automatic safety and two points for Ne braska. Nebraska finally scored a touch- down late in the fourth quarter when Kenny Fischer laid a screen pass into the arms of Dick Hutton who did some beautiful downfield running and faking to score stand ing up. Hutton's run covered 40 yards. The Huskers scored again on the last play of the game after driving to the Uclan three-yard line. Dick Hutton caught a pass from Kenny Fischer, who was on the 43, to cli max the drive. The scoring play occurred with less than three seconds of playing time remaining. Kenny Fischer dropped back to pass and flipped See Story, Ta&e 2. NU Calendars Available Now Nebraska Calendars, published by the Student Foundation, are now on sale throughout the cam pus. Jeannie Sampson, manager of the date-book sales, pointed out today that the Calendars are available at campus bookstores. Miller and Paine store in Lincoln, and the Student Foundation of fice. Foundation representatives are also canvassing all organized houses for Calendar sales. Co-op, Nebraska, and Regents bookstoresare selling the memo randum books commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Univer sity at the $1 price offered to stu dents. Nearly thirty selected Foundation workers have visited organized houses and taken or ders for the 30-page book. Letters to thousands of Univer sity alumni have produced very satisfactory results, according to Miss Sampson. Faculty letters, sales booths at conventions and meetings, and a second trip to all houses, will close the Calendar sales campaign. Freshman Girl Named to Court Of Ak-Sar-Ben Miss Coll Yvonne Quigley, freshman student at the Univer sity of Nebraska Medical college, was crowned a princess at the Ak-Sar-Ben coronation Friday night, to serve in the court of the new Ak-Sar-Ben Queen, Miss Catherine Ann Coad of Omaha. Miss Quigley is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D. T. Quigley of Omaha. She attended the uni versity at Lincoln, where she was a member oi Kappa Aipr.a Theta sorority. Among the escorts of the Prin cesses and Countesses at the cor onation and ball were the fol lowing medical students: Byron Pillsbury, Robert Rosenlof and Robert Slabaugh. All present ac claimed this year's Ak-Sar-Een coronation one of the most spec tacular ever presented of this traditional ceremony.