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Vol. 49 No. 78 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Wednesday, February 2, 1949
Foreign Study Opportunities
For U. S. Students Outlined
Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, director of admissions, has just
received the first announcements of opportunities open to
American students for study abroad. They are briefly
outlined here.
Czechoslovakia will offer ten stipends of 30,000 Czech
crowns, each covering living costs for the academic year,
Oct. 1 to June 30, with free tuition at the Universities of
Prague, Brno and Bratislava, the r- r : : . .,., .
study for that degree.
The Germanistic Society of
America will offer a fellowship of
$750, preferably in the field of
Germanics, for study in the
American zone of Germany or
Switzerland.
It is expected that the Italian
government will offer several fel
lowships of 300,000 lire each for
living expenses and tuition open
to men and women. These -Tire
awarded primarily on a reciprocal
basis.
Dutch Give Fellowships
There are three fellowships for
graduate study in the Netherlands.
Each fellowship carries a cash
stipend of 1,800 guilders, a sum
sufficient to cover cost of room
and board for one academic year.
Tuition fees are waived. Appli
cants should be under 28 years
of age. Some knowledge of the
Dutch language is desirable. It is
recommended that these be ex
change scholarships.
A considerable number of op
portunities are available in Switz
erland. Full information may be
obtained from the director of ad
missions. British Study Available
There will be 21 scholarships
for American students attending
nine summer schools in Great
Britain in the summer of 1949.
Seven have a value of 150 pounds
each to cover passage, tuition and
subsistance for six weeks. Four
teen are for 85 pounds, each cov
ering transportation only. Teach
ers will be given priority consid
eration. All applications must be com
pleted and in the office of the In
stitute of International Education,
2 West 45th Street,' New York
City, not later than March 1, 1949.
State Acacemy of Art and the
State Academy of Music in
Prague. A number of grants of
5,000 crowns each are offered for
research studies
during the sum
mer months.
The govern
ment of France,
is expected to
offer graduate
fellowships for
study in French
universities and
other state in
stitutions. These
awards will
pro irie, it is
believed, a Rosenlof.
monthly stipend of 10,000 francs,
with, tuition waived.
Assistantships Available.
Part time assistantships as
teachers who can instruct in Eng
lish in French secondary schools
will in all probability be available.
Last year these assistantships paid
10,000 francs monthly as well as
rooms and board at the lycecs.
Students located near universities
were granted privileges of study
with tuition waived.
American Field Service fellow
ships for French Universities, Inc.,
will offer one or two fellowships
for advanced graduate study in
France. These are only open to
men who served with the Ameri
can Field service during the war.
Talis Study Offered
The Wooley foundation will of
fer six fellowships of $1,000 each
ior the study of art, music and
psychiatry in Paris. Candidates to
be considered must have gradu
ated from an American university
or college or have had an equiva
lent training in their own field
of specialization Candidates in
psychiatry must have an M. D.
Three Events to Feature
NIPs 80 th Anniversary
Three campus traditions will be
particularly significant this year
for they will be the basis of a
semester long commemoration of
the 80th anniversary of the char
tering of the University.
Charter Day, Feb. 15, the
Alumni Roundup, starting June 3,
and Commencement June 6, will
be the highlights in the series of
the university events. Campus
events will be supplemented with
celebrations in several Nebraska
communities and meetings of
alumni in all parts of the coun
try. The Charter Day program will
begin with a morning all-University
convocation ,open to the pub
lic. At this time the University
will confer its highest non-academic
honor, the Nebraska Build
er Award, upon an outstanding
Nebraska citizen. The convoca
tion speaker will be Dr. E. C.
Stakman, outstanding scientist
from the University of Minnesota,
who is president of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science.
'.jneoln Alums Have Dinner
in the evening the annual din
ner sponsored by the Lincoln club
of the University Alumni asso
ciation will be held in the Union.
Speakers will be Eugene Robb,
university alumnus, now assistant
general manager of the Hearst1
Newspaper corporation. New York
City, and Chancellor R. G. Gus
iavson. Three major university music
groups will present special pro
grams during February and
March. The University Symphony
orchestra, under the direction of
Prof. Emanuel Wishnow, will give
a University of Nebraska Night
concert in Omaha Feb. 24. The
program is sponsored by the
Omaha Alumni club.
Singers Present Concert
The University Singers will
present a concert in Norfolk,
March 17, under the sponsorship
of the Norfolk Junior and Senior
Chambers of Commerce. Dr.
Arthur E. Westbrook is director
of the choral group. A third pro
gram, to be given at Holdrege,
will feature the Varsity band, un
der the baton of Donald Lentz.
Other principal campus events
include:
Feb. 10 Meeting of the Uni
versity of .Nebraska Foundation
trustees and announcement of a
special 80th anniversary fund
solicitation program through the
class agent plan.
Feb. 15 Luncheon for Ne
braska Builder Award recipient,
university officials and University
of Nebraska Advancement com
mittee. March 25-26 Performance by
university groups of music com
posed by Nebraska citizens.
April 2-10 Mongomery lec
tureship, featuring an outstanding
authority in the humanities.
April 28-May 7 Eightieth an
niversary themes to feature tradi
tional "College Days" program.
Honor System
Successful at
Law College
The honor system, designed to
eliminate the necessity for proc
tored examinations, was used suc
cessfully in the College of Law
this year.
Under a plan set up by Law
School association members, stu
dents agreed that: (a) No student
during the course of an examina
tion shall give or receive assist
ance from any other student, (b)
No student during the course of
an examination may use any ma
terials not specifically authorized
by the instructor giving the ex
amination, (c) Each student upon
completion of his examination
shall sign the following pledge: "I
hereby affirm that I have lived up
to the Honor System in writing
this examination and that I have
neither received, or attempted to,
nor given aid on this examination
and I (know) (do not know) of
any one who did. (Underline
whichever applicable.)"
The system provides for an
Honor council which will investi
gate any alleged infractions. Mem
bers of the council will be repre
sentatives from the Law School
association, the president and two
elected members from each class.
Maximum penalty will be expul
sion from the School of Law, and
a lesser penalty may be fixed if
circumstances seem to make it advisable.
Cosmopolitans
To Discuss UN
A panel discussion concerning
the United Nations will be fea
tured at the first meeting of the
semester of the Cosmopolitan Club
Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. in the
Union.
The topic of the discussion will
be "Is the UN a Success?" Speak
ers for the evening will include
Walter Willi, Switzerland; Gas
Rezai, Persia; Vladimir Lavko,
Czechoslovakia, and Elsie Berg,
U. S. Each of the speakers will
present the views of his respec
tive country toward the achieve
ments of the various organizations
of the UN.
The program promises to be in
teresting in connection with the
plenary session of UNESCO which
will be held sometime this month.
The meeting will be open to the
public, and all those attending will
be allowed to participate in the
discussion. Refreshments will be
served.
KK Comedy Rules
Told by Tiemann
Official rules for the 1949 Kos
met Klub Spring Musicomedy
have been announced by Norbert
Tiemann, president of the dra
matic club.
1. Contestants must be cur
rently enrolled in the university.
2. All scripts must be sent to
the Kosmet Klub by March 1,
1949.
3. More than one person may
collaborate in writing the script.
Prize money ($100) will be di
vided accordingly.
4. Kosmet Klub reserves the
right to produce the winning
script according to their methods
and procedures.
5. The script is to be written
for a musical comedy with an
all-male cast.
This year's production will be
presented at the Nebiaska The
ater due to the boarding up of
the Temple Theater auditorium.
Tex Beneke and his band will play for the annual Jr.-Sr.
Prom, March 4, in the coliseum, according to Norbert Tie
mann, chairman of the Prom for the Innocents Society.
Co-sponsored by the Innocents and the Student Union,
the Prom will be informal to offer students a "breather" to
the formal season and to accent the "preview of Spring"
theme. By Hooper is the Student Union Prom chairman.
Although special emphasis is given to the attendance of
juniors and seniors, the Prom is open to all students in
the University. Tickets which are soon to go on sale are
priced at $3.00 -ouple. Specta
tor tickets will i-il for 85c.
Plans are underway for the
presentation of a junior woman
and senior man to reign as King
and Queen of the Prom. Filing
and election procedure will be an
nounced later this week, accord
ing to Jack Selzer, Innocent in
charge of the presentation.
The last informal Prom was
held in 1943, at which event the
Innocents Society tapped its new
members. The early tapping was
due to the uncertain status in re
gard to military service of that
year's junior men, according to the
1942-43 president Preston Hayes.
Prom goers in the '47 season
danced to the music of Raymond
Scott and viewed the presenta
tion of Joan Fankhauser as
Prom Girl. Barbara Rowland,
Arts and Science senior, took
honors last year as the '48 Prom
Girl. Music for the event was
provided by Lee Williams.
YWCA Plans
To Install
New Cabinet
Jan Nutzman. newly elected
president of the YW, has an
nounced the new cabinet that wil
be installed Wednesday at 7:45
p. m., in Ellen Smith hall.
Elected officers to be installed
include Jean Eckvall, vice presi
dent; Jean Malone, secretary; Pat
Larsen, treasurer, and Kathy
Schreiber, district representative.
Cabinet members, appointed by
the elected oficers, will also be
installed. They are: Alita Zim
merman, world service; Charlene
Holcomb, community service; Bet
ty Bloss, Estcs co-op.; Nancy Por
ter, leadership training ;Alice Jo
Smith, youth leadership; Myra
Hauge, vesper choir; Ruth Speer,
beliefs on trial; Ginny Guhin,
worship workshop; Ruth Soren
son, noon hour; Jeanette Sielaff,
office staff.
Audrey Flood and Mary Louise
Horstman, religious welfare coun
cil; Sue Allen, World relatedness;
Gay Worcester, membership; Wil
lie Clark, alum-faculty; Jean
Smith, "N" book; Neva Huttner,
Social service toui-s; Audrey Ros
enbaum, political effectiveness;
Dorothy Borgens and Pat Nordin,
personal relations; Fran Wallace,
noon book reviews; Marcia Tep
perman and Pat Siebold, knitting
and discussion; Ruth Troxell,
comparative religions; Jo DeLa
matre, publicity; Phyllis Cadwal
lader, May Morning breakfast;
Wanda Young, intramural; Jan
Hufford, social; Jo Fredrickson,
"Live Y-er;" M. J. Melick, vesper
planning; and Jan Kepner, sum
mer projects.
AIEE Elects New
Student Officers
The student branch of the Am
erican Institute of Electrical En
gineers has elected the following
new officers: William Sorenson,
chairman; Howard Beckler, vice
chairman; Robert E. Shillington,
secretary; Nortland J. Hilton,
treasurer.
Fredcrickson
Named Editor
Of Countryman
Keith Frederickson has been ap
poined by the Ag publications
board as the new editor of the
Cornhusker Countryman magazine
for the next year. He succeeds
Phil Raynard, editor of the Ag
publication during the past year.
Frederickson was ag news edi
tor for The Daily Nebraskan last
semester. He is a member of Sig
ma Delta Chi, Block and Bridle
club, Ag Union Activities com
mittee and Farmhouse fraternity.
Other editorial staff appoint
ments include: Myron Gustafson,
Ag editor; Jean Fenster, Home Ec
editor; Mary Lou Beran, Edward
Rousek and Phil Gustafson, asso
ciate editors; La Verne Fisher, art
editor; and Grant Cornelius, pho
tography editor.
Business staff appointees are:
Owen Brainard, business mana
ger; Jim Williams, local adver
tising manager ;Janet Pierce, as
sistant advertising manager; and
Tom Chilvers, circulation mana
ger. All staff appointments are for
one year.
According to Editor Keith
Frederickson, the first issue of
the new Countryman will be out
Feb. 15.
Student Journalists Praised
For Outstate Filler Project
As a result of the evident need
by state newspapers for general
interest filler material, students in
the Nebraska School of Journal
ism have been part of a success
ful project that
is paying off to
Nebraska pub
lishers. Dr. William
F. Swindler, di
rector of the
School of Jour
nalism, and
William H.
Hice, assistant
professor, felt
that certain
features writ
ten as class as
signments were the type that the
publishers needed and could use.
So the idea was started. With
the help of the Nebraska Press
association, the filler, written by
the students, was mimeographed
and sent to state publishers.
Class Sends Features.
In addition to the filler mate
rial, the class prepared and sent
two features each week. One was
called,. "Sports Trail," and the
other "Cornhusker Comment."
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Swindler. I
Such subjects as Nebraska sons in
the major leagues and nicknames
of national sports figures were
used. Members of the class were
required to write a weekly column
on a topic of general interest for
the "Cornhusker Comment."
The project immediately
"caught on" by state publishers.
William M. Cox of the Pierce
County Leader wrote, "Without
exception we found the fcatui-cs
sent to us by the special news
paper features class timely and
well written, far above the aver
age so-called free news releases."
Students "Paid Off" Too.
And from the studenti' stand
point the service also paid off.
Knowing that their stories would
be published gave the students
an added incentive to write. Prac
tical experience was gained
through this writing; experience
that would some day help them in
jobs.
New ideas are now being con
sidered by the School of Jour
nalism that will enlarge the proj
ect to include photographs, book
reviews and brief monthly or bi
monthly digests of articles in na
tionally known magazines.