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. . 1 rv n n Typical . . 1 Belly Green carries the flowers he received when she was pre sented as Typical Nebraska Coed at the Coed Follies Tuesday. She was selected from a group of 20 finalists by a facuty judging committee. The finalists' participated in a style show which took place after the skit presentation. The coeds modeled clothes typi cal of what would be worn by fashion-minded girls across the country. Vol. 49 No. 99 Lincoln 8. Nebraska. Thursday, March 3. 1949 Applause Meter Will Name Prom King, Queen Friday Audience applause will name the Junior Queen and Senior King at the Junior-Senior prom Friday night. An applause meter, watched by Tex Beneke and two orchestra members, will record crowd re actions to the candidates. Jack Selzer, Innocent in charge of presentation at the prom, re vealed the procedure for select ing the title-winners today. All candidates for the title will ap pear on the stage singly, and audience applause will be re corded for each finalist. THE JUNIOR Queen candi dates will be introduced by Bill Mueller, Junior class president. Fritz Hedgwood, senior class head, will introduce the candi dates for King. Master of ceremonies for the evening's festivities will be Norm Leger, president of Innocents so ciety. When Mueller and Hedgwood present the candidates they will enumerate their activities and background. After the King and Queen are determined from results of the applause meter, they will be pre sented with all other finalists acting as court attendants. A Coronation dance is being planned for the new royalty. TEX BENEKE and his orches tra have been signed for the dance, which will be held in the Coliseum. Tickets sell at $3 per couple. Spectators tickets are 85 cents. Both can be purchased from Innocent members, Union dance committee personnel and from Kosmet Klub workers. They are also available at a booth in the Union lobby. An improved and enlarged sound and amplification system has been installed in the Coli . seum for the prom. Spot mikes will carry Bencke's music to the expected large crowds. An enlarged bandstand has been built for the large Beneke crew. A special shell has also been constructed around the bandstand. Experimental Play 'Holiday9 Pleases House BY FRANK JACOBS The Experimental Theater wrapped up a neat little package stamped "Holiday" and delivered it to a full house, Wednesday eve ning. The sophisticated Phillip Barry comedy, though hardly profound, was discreetly handled and showed the results of fine direction. Bob Lee as Johnny, the man "who didn't want too much money," handled the part deftly and with definite signs of under standing. Except for a few mo ments of uneasy stage presence, he injected a pleasing i'reencss into the dreamer-like role. IN THE CHOICE PART of Linda, Mary Lou Thompson gave a witty and very pleasing per formance. As the long-suffering sister who "worried so much over the troubles of other people that she didn't take care of her own," she punched the oft-times cynical lines surely and with the right amount of zest. Any bit of mo notony in her voice was over shadowed by her excellent inter pretation. Cav Worcester pleased the audi ence with her mature handling See THEATRE, page 4. mi Faculty 'SftudleErt'&roiip Rag Appeals Faculty 'No7 Thru Council The student-faculty "battle on paper" will continue with a let ter to the faculty from Paul Wclt- chek, Council member, and Norm Leger, Daily Nebraskan editor. The issue -at stake is the re fusal by the faculty committee on student organizations and so cial functions to permit The Daily Nebraskan to sponsor a con test to select the most beautiful freshman women. The problem was called to the attention of the Council at its Wednesday meeting by Daily Ne braskan editor, Norm Leger. He stated that the proposed contest had been rejected by the com mittee on the grounds that such a contest aided a commercial en terprise. He asked that the Coun cil appeal the faculty committee's decision. IN THE ENSUING debate Council member, Barbara Spcer, called the matter "trivial" in the light of the already present dis satisfaction with students by the faculty. A motion by Taul Weltchek to appeal the decision of the com mittee "In accordance with our time-honored privilege of sending letters," was adopted. A letter to the committee will be written by Weltchek and Leger. A report from the judiciary committee on the proposed con stitutional revision was submitted by Dick Schleusener, committee chairman. He stated that the com mittee will request the aid of a sub-committee from the faculty committee on student organiza tions and social functions in work ing out the proposed Council "re form." THE REPORT SAID THAT the committee was not in favor of any plan which would guarantee a certain percentage of representa tion to any group. It went on to say that the committee favors op en political parties and that as the Council constitution is now set-up it insures one Council seat to each party polling 125 votes in an all campus election. The committee recommended that an amendment be made to the constitution lower ing this number. A motion recommending that public hearings on the constitu tional revision be held was passed. Judiciary committee mem b e r s Schleusener and Bill Schenk will conduct these hearings. "Dates for the hearings will be announced late this week," Sch leusener said. 'Th Dread Alarm Oh! Awful on grand opera, took high honors in the skit competition at the Coed Follies. The skit featured Jan Schweser as a culuratura so prano. It related the story of an apartment house fire in the lyrics and music of such operas as "Carmen" and "Martha." The skit was directed by Joan Guilford. iveED Members The Student Council met with another faculty rejection Wednesday night. A request by the Council for student representation on the faculty committee on student organizations and social functions was flatly turned down. In a letter to the Council the committee gave three reasons for refusal of the request. They were: 1. The manner in which the Student Council has func tioned on the passing of the constitutions of various organi zations is evience that the members of the Student Council Fire Sweeps Men's Dorm At Ohio School A tragic fire swept a million dollar Kenyon college dormitory Sunday taking the lives of two students and injuring 26 others. An estimated 100 students were routed from their beds as flames roared through the building and adjacent wings. One student, Ed ward Brout, 20, was killed as he tried to jump from the third story to a second floor fire escape. Marc S. Peck died of burns Sun day night, nearly 14 hours after the blaze. Most of the injured were hurt jumping from windows or climb ing down ivy-covered walls as the fire blocked the main en trance staircase of the dormitory. Kenyon hall, approximately 122 year old men's dormitory, was the oldest building on the Kenyon campus. It housed 120 men, but only 100 were there at the time of the fire. The fire apparently was caused when sparks from a fireplace ignited a rug in a room adjacent to the main entrance. Fellowship Group Hears Physician Dr. Emmctt Herring, medical doctor traveling' for the Amer ican Christian Medical society, will speak to the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship group at thefr meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Union, Room 315. His subject will be "Wherein is the Value of Life." Cobs Propose Frosh Pep Group Addition Hoping to give school spirit a boost, Corn Cobs, men's pep group, ha'e announced reactivation of a freshman pep club. Planned to include 150 freshman men, the proposed addition to Cobs will attend all athletic events to increase spirit support, aid in the card section and boost atten dance at rallies beginning next fall. As yet unnamed, the pep group will wear red sweaters with no Fate," a take-off by Alpha Phi f . j fl ." ' 1 not ready to make such a request. 2. The request implies a deroga tion of their faculty sponors who are both members ot the com mittee in question. 3. The Student Council is not representative of the entire stu dent body. The initial request was sent to Dean T. J. Thompson, chairman of the faculty committee on stu dent organiaztions and social functions last semester. It asked that the two Student Council representatives be seated on the faculty committee. LATER THE REQUEST was amended. The amendment stated that the students wished to act in a liaison and advisory capacity only. This would mean that stu dent committee members would cast no vote. Th refusal, by the faculty on the three counts stated above, was decided at a meeting of the committee last week and dropped in the laps of Council members last night. Many student Council members felt that faculty rejection of the request was out of line with the current faculty program which evidently would promote closer student-faculty cooperation by revision of the Council constitu tion on the part of students. "REJECTION OF THE Coun cil's suggestion in no way pro motes closer cooperation between faculty and students. If the ad ministration and the student body are to work together to the satis faction of both, students must know what is going on. Such representation would have ful filled that necessity," said Fritz Simpson. Barb Council member, Shirley See COUNCIL, page 4. lettering and an emblem on the front, yellow corduroy trousers and red freshman beanies. THE MEMBERS will sit with the Cobs and Tassels at athletic events in the center section of the Stadium and Coliseum. Membership in the club will be decided from applications. A scholarship requirement of 4.5 will be enforced after the first semester During the semester a member will be dropped if he has six down hours. Supervision and direction of the pep club will be vested in a board of six Corn Cob active members elected after the officers for the senior year. The vice-president of Cobs will be in charge of the governing council of the group. THE PEP GROUP plan has been approved by all active mem bers of Corn Cobs, Colonel Frank furter, faculty sponsor, and "Potsy" Clark and is expected to be approved by Tassels and Stu dent Council. The pep organization plan grew out of the work of a Cob com mittee consisting of Rodney Lind well, Elroy Gloystein, John Con nelly, Bob Sims and Wes Kohtz. The plan was one of several projects announced at the Corn Cob dinner meeting held Tuesday night at the Union. The work of the organization and proposed ex pansion of the group's scope was discussed by members, workers and guests. Guests at the dinner included Bill Glassford, "Pop" Klein, Dean Harper, Ed Weir, Fritz Dailey, Perry Branch and Col. Frankfurter. are