Nebraska Officials Reject
National College Contest
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THE PROFESSOR TAKES A WIFE Professor Van Johnson and
Freshman Loretta Young make a happy college twosome in the
Twentieth Century-Fox film, "Mother is a Freshman." The moyie
was to be premiered here at the Stuart theater along with a college
contest to choose a freshman girl who would reign as ''Queen of
the Premiere." The contest has been banned by faculty officials.
Vol. 49 No. 98 Lincoln 8. Nebraska. Wednesday. March 2. 1949
New Sound Amplification
System Set Up at Coliseum
. . . For Tex Beneke Dance
An improved amplification sys
tem will carry the music of Tex
Beneke to dancers at Friday's
Junior-Senior Prom.
Changes in the Coliseum sound
system include new pick-up
mikes and amplifiers. A large
shell enclosing the Benehe orches
tra and a specially enlarged band
stand have also been added for
the annual dance.
New additions were also an-
nouced today in the Tex Beneke
band. Glenn Douglas is now the
featured male vocalist and Mary
Mayo is the featured female vo
calist.
OTHER OUTSTANDING per
formers with the orchestra are
Buddy Yeager, Bob Mitchell and
the Moonlight Serenaders and
Jack Sperling.
A highlight of the Prom will
be the presentation of the Junior
Queen and Senior King. The
King title, to go to one of six
candidates chosen for activities,
scholarship and personality is a
new feature at the Prom.
Candidates for the titles in
elude: Sue Bjoiklund, Dorothy
Horgens, Charlene Holcomb,
Gracie Nielsen, Janet Stralton and
Dorothy Travis, Junior Queen;
and Winton Buckley, Harvey
Davis, Chuch Hemmingson, Bob
Keller, Chuck Peters and Harlan
Powley, Senior King.
FROM THESE finalists, stu
dents attending the Prom will
select the title winners.
Theme of the dance this year
will be "Preview of Spring." The
Prom, for the first time in several
years, will be informal.
Tickets sell for $3 per couple
and can be bought in a Union
lobby booth. They can also
be purchased from an Innocent,
Union dance committee members
or Kosmet Klub worker.
The dance is co-sponsored by
the Innocents Society and the
Union. By Hooper represents the
Union and Norbert Tiemann the
Innocents in Prom plans.
Spectator tickets, to cost 85c,
are not yet on sale.
Wyoming U Has
Book Gripes, Too
High college bookstore prices
have caused complaints on other
university campuses in recent
months.
In a survey at the University
of Wyoming, the manager of a
bookstore commented, "Textbooks
are too darned high. Students are
being hijacked but we can do
nothing. We are forced to sell
books at list price. If we do not,
the publishers will not send the
books to us."
One of the reasons why the
average college bookstore cannot
buy more second-hand books, he
said, is that teachers sometimes
require a change of texts when
such a change was not really nec
essary. In this way, even though
the discarded edition and the new
edition are substantially the same,
the other edition has become dead
stock.
"Publishers have a racket," he
went on. "If they are going to
have a new printing, they get
the author to change one line so
that the old edition cannot be
used."
Experimental
Play to Open
Two-Day Run
The Experimental Theater will
raise the curtain 7:30 Wednesday
evening on their first production
of the current semester, Phillip
Barry's "Holiday."
Directed by Max Whittaker, the
comedy will run tonight and
Thursday in 201 Temple. Admis
sion is free.
Only students of the speech de
partment may view the perform
ances. This limitation in audience
is due to administration officials
condemning the building and pro
hibiting any excessively large
numbers of people in the Temple.
Max Lee, will portray the lead
ing role of Johnny, a young man
brought up the hard way who
experiences dinicuity adjusting
his life to the ways of metropoli
tan aristocracy. Mary Lou Thomp
son and Kay Worcester will enact
the parts of Linda and Julia,
sisters trapped in the mire of cir
cumstance and environment. How
Johnny makes his fateful decision
between the two sisters brings the
play to a fast-moving and forceful
climax.
Others in the cast represent dif-
All-American Freshman
Beauty Search Stifled
Nebraska University just threw away a place in a
nation-wide college contest.
A search for a "Miss Ail-American College Freshman,"
sponsored by Twentieth Century-Fox film corporation, was
stopped dead on the Nebraska campus by the faculty com
mittee on student organizations and social functions. At
their meeting last Wednesday, the committee agreed that
the contest was "not in accordance with University policy."
Nebraska was chosen as one of 15 top colleges in the nation in
a poll of 25 college editors in the country and was invited to enter
the contest. The contest was being conducted along with the release
of the new Fox film, "Mother Is a Freshman." The film was to be
premiered at each college town chosen.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL and talented freshman girl chosen
from each campus was to reign as "Queen of the Premiere" in her
own college town.
She would also be allowed to enter into a national contest to
compete with winners from the other 14 colleges for the national
title. The "All-American College Freshman" would receive a free
trip to Hollywood with a chaperone. Each local winner would also
be presented a $100 cash prize from Twentieth Century-Fox.
All 14 of the other schools selected have welcomed the contest
and publicity such as "the biggest queen contest of all" (as was
seen in the Syracuse Daily Orange, Syracuse, New York) is being
given the contest.
The premiere was scheduled here March 7 at the Stuart Theatre.
On Feb. 23 the whole idea was rejected by the faculty.
The plan for the contest was that The Daily Nebraskan staff
would conduct the contest, since it was through this office that the
idea was first presented. Applications were to be made by any
interested freshman girl with a 5.5 average. She would list her
extracurricular activities and her talents on her application.
FROM ALL ACCEPTED applicants, a committee made up of
Nebraskan staff members, the Dean of Women and a representative
from the Stuart Theatre would select the "Queen of the Premiere."
Permission was sought from administration officials on Feb. 15
but no official word was given until the refusal was received after
the faculty meeting.
Following is the text of the letter concerning the meeting:
"The members of the committee agreed that this project appears
to be one in which the University would be lending its support to
some particular commercial enterprise. Since this is not in accord
ance with the University policy, the committee deemed it unwise
to grant -approval to this organization to select a freshman woman
representing the University, to appear at the premiere or to be con
nected in any way with the publicity or advertising of the picture."
Ted Butterfield, Stuart Theatre manager, has announced no
plans concerning the premiere date here without the contest.
ferent types of people found in
wealthy Eastern locales. The rest
of the cast includes; Dennis
Vernon as Ned, Bill Line as Ed
ward Seaton, Margaret Dutton as
Susan, Earl Katz as Nick, Elaine
Lamphear as Laura and Tom
Stimfig as Seaton.
Dair
Campus Plans
Conference
The annual dairy industry
conferences for Nebraska, Kan
sas, South Dakota and Iowa will
be held on Ag campus Wednes
day throughout Friday.
The event is held annually to
co-ordinate the interests of all
branches of the dairy industry,
associations and health groups
of states and cities.
Betty Green Chosen 'Typical U.N. Coed';
Alpha Phi Plates First in toed V ollies
Betty Green stepped from be
hind a gold nugget to be acclaimed
Typical Nebraska Coed, at the
Coed Follies show Tuesday night.
A sophomore in Arts and
Sciences, Miss Green, was selected
from a list of some 40 candi
dates. The annual all-women's show,
which presented 6 skits and 4
curtain acts, was topped by Alpha
Phi, who gave the winning skit,
Kappa Delta and Sigma Delta
Tau took second and third places.
Alpha Chi Omega walked off
with curtain act honors, lollowed
by Delta Delta Delta.
"THE DREAD ALARM Oh!
Awful Fate," a take-off on grand
opera by Alpha Phi, featured Jan
Schwcscr as a culuratura soprano.
The skit told the tale of an apart
ment house lire in the lyric rhyme
and music of such operas as "Car
men" and "Martha." It was di
rected by Joan Guilford.
Kappa Delta's "Tour D'Amour"
included songs and dances of
many lands for the benefit of
a pair of newlyweds seeking a
honeymoon spot. Jo Lewis' half
and half dance highlighted the
skit. Miss Lewis was garbed in
a formal and a tuxedo revealed
by alternate profiles. The skit was
directed by Lura Lee Best.
RAIN DROPS swirled across the
stage in Sigma Delta Tau's pre
sentation of "Wheather or Not." A
chorus line of rain and solo dances
by clouds walzed to a finale un
der a lighted rainbow to win third ,
place honors. The skit was di
rected by Charlotte Katzman.
Alpha Chi's Marge Cherny, as
a spoiled child, demanded the un
divided attention of a chorus line
of nursemaids and a contralto for
tune teller to win first place cur
tain act honors for "Scene in the
Cards." The Alpha Chi Omega
ac t was headed by Bonnie Washington.
TRI-DELT'S Raggedy Anne,
played by Lu Ann Iler, wept her
way through a host of toys to
win second place in "Childhood's
Toyland." Dawn Dagget directed
proceedings for the Delta Delta
Delta's.
Following the 10 shows a host
of TNC finalists modeled fash
ions across the country. Finalists
Marcia Adams, Shirley Allen,
Susan Allen, Lura Lee Best, Mar
delle Buss, Jancie Cochran, Jean
Eckvall, Audrey Flood, Ginny
Koch, Terry Gaines, Jane Mc
Cuaig, Eloise Paustian, Nancy Por
ter, Susie Reed, Kathy Schreiber,
Marcia Tepperman, Marilyn We
ber, Jeanne Wielage, and Gwen
Monson modeled a cross-country
tour, narrated by Pat Guhin, as
Dame Tashion.
The usual number of males in
women's clothing were tossed out
of the show by vigilant AWS
board member. One irrate male
shouted "Dr. Kinsey will hear of
this" as senior board member.
Jane MacArthur. draeced him
from the theater.
AWS TREASURER, Jan Strat-
ton. acted as master ot cere
monies for the show, which was
held in the Nebraska Theater.
Miss Stratton shared the spot
light with between-act comedians,
Lu Ann Iler, Nancy Jensen,
Giny Guhin, Mary Sue Holland
and Gloria Piney and her "tra
gic cello.
The presentation of Miss Green
climaxed the show. She was car
ried on the stage in a gold nug
get drawn by AWS board mem
bers dressed as '49ers. The Typi
cal Coed was presented a
bouquet of roses by Master of
Ceremonies Stratton.
Miss Green is a member of the
Cornhusker staff, Panhellenic,
YWCA, Coed Counselors and
Delta Delta Delta.
THE TYPICAL N, '-raska Coed
was chosen from a group of six
finalists. She was selected by a
group of faculty judges who
weighed the candidates on the
basis of appearance, personality,
scholarship and participation in
campus activities.
Coed Follies is presented an
nually by members of the AWS
board.
THIS YEAR'S participants, in
addition to the winners, were:
"White Tie and Tales," Alpha
Omicron Pi; "She Taught Him
Right," Women's Residence Halls;
"Show Girl," Kappa Kappa Gam
ma; "Black Kat Kabaret," Kap
pa Alpha Theta; "The Big Crash "
Pi Beta Phi.
Need of Funds
For Research
Boosts Budget
The University has based its re
quest for a 20 per cent increase in
its operating budget on a need for
additional funds for research.
On the city campus research is
being carried on in botany, bac
teriology, business and industry,
chemistry, dentistry, education,
engineering, geology, law, mathe
matics, pharmacy, physics, psy
chology and zoology.
On the Ag college campus re
search is being carried on in crops,
dairying, engineering, human nu
trition, insect control, livestock,
marketing, poultry and soils.
At the University College of
Medicine in Omaha research work
involves human disorders includ
ing polio, cancer, heart disease
and nerve disorders.
The University also maintains
five agricultural experiment sub
stations at Alliance, North Platte,
Scottsbluff, Union and Valentine.
It also maintains 162 outstate va
riety test plots in 48 counties.
LSA Choir Plans
Oulslate Concerts
The University Lutheran Stu
dents association choir will give
concerts in five Nebraska com
munities during March.
The schedule is as follows:
Trinity Lutheran church, Colum
bus, morning services, March 6;
Messiah Evangelical Lutheran
church, Grand Island, afternoon,
March 6, and Osceola, evening,
March 6; First Lutheran church,
Oakland, morning services, March
20; and Salem Lutheran church,
Wakefield, afternoon, March 20.
The 49 members choir is di
rected by James Hanson, a grad
uate of the University. The Rev.
Alvin M. Petersen, University
Lutheran pastor, will accom
pany the choir.