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Vol. 49 No. 155
LINCOLN 8. NEBRASKA
Tuesday, June 14, 1949
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THE GUARDSMEN QUARTETTE will sing in the Union ballroom
at 8 o'clock tonight. Shown above in their "Lady Killer" ensembles
they will render tunes that charmed Lillian Russell. The Quar
tette is presenting the first concert in the summer artists scries.
Faculty Committee Adopts
Anti-Communist Resolution
The University faculty went on
record Wednesday opposing the
hiring or retention of any Uni
versity employee identified with
communism or other subversive
doctrine advocating overthrow of
hte United States government.
The action was taken .at a mass
meeting of the University faculty
held Wednesday afternoon.
The faculty " expressed its un
qualified opposition to communism
and subversive organizations in a
three-point statement prepared by
the faculty liaison committee.
THE STATEMENT SAID:
(1) There is no member of the
faculty or administration staffs at
present whose loyalty to the
United States government is ques
tion ble.
(2) The faculty agrees with the
Bojrd of Regents' policy to dis
miss those who may advocate the
overthrow by violence of our
present democratic form of gov
ernment. (3) The faculty believes that
free, honest and impartial discus
sion of various forms of govern
ment can be carried on without
involving practices contrary to the
American principles of democratic
government.
The faculty's action was taken
as an expression of formal agree
ment with University policy on
communism and other subversive
forces restated by the Board of
Regents recently The statement
was prepared by the liaison com
mittee composed of: Professors M.
A. Basoco, mathematician, chair
man; Harold E. Wise, educator;
Elvin F. Frolik, agronomist; Fer
ris Norris, electrical engineer; G.
M. Darlington, accountant; Carl
Georgi, bacteriologist; David Dow,
lawyer; Donald A. Keys, dentist,
and Frank E. Mussehl, poultry
husbandryman.
THE REGENTS' statement,
Issued May 28, said: (1) subver
sive textbooks will be barred from
the University; (2) honest and
fair discussion is desirable pro
vided it is not used to plant seeds
of subversion; (3) no one who is
a member of a subversive group
will be permitted to teach at the
University; and (4) the University
will continue to remain free from
un-American influences.
The complete text of the fac
ulty statement:
"In view of the resolution
, adopted by the Board of Regents
! of the University of Nebraska on
established principles in support
of instructional practices in the
University which are consistent
with the best interests of our dem
ocratic form of government, the
faculty of the University takes
satisfaction in presenting the fol
lowing statements:
"1. WE BELIEVE that there are
no individuals now identified with
either the instructional, research,
or administrative staffs of the
University whose loyalty to the
government of the United States
is questionable. Moreover, we be
lieve that the faculty and admin
istrative staff of the University
are composed, without exception,
of persons who are sincerely de
voted to the democratic principles
upon which our form of govern
ment institutions are founded.
"2. We support the policy of
the Board of Regents that any
person who advocates the over
throw by violence of our present
democratic form of government
should not be permitted to remain
as an employe of the University.
"3. We believe, further, that
those basic principles of academic
freedom which permit and en
courage tht free, honest, and im
partial discussion and analysis of
the various forms of government
are essential to the development
of competent, inquiring minds
without which democracy cannot
prosper. We believe that such
prinicples of academic freedom
can be adhered to in teaching at
the university level without in
volving practices inimical to our
own democratic principles. We
further believe that these prin
ciples of academic freedom are
being adhered to in the University
or Nebraska.
Second Crafl
Session Planned
A special craft session will be
held Wednesday from 7 to 9:30
p. m. This sesison will feature
James Gibb, rehabilitation direc
tor at Vets Hospital. Gibbs will
demonstrate working with leather.
The Wednesday night session
will also include work with plas
tics, wood carving and art metal.
The meeting will be held in the
craft shop in the Union basement.
Guardsmen Quartette Will Present First
Program in Union Ballroom at Eight
The first recital of the summer artist series will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the
Union ballroom.
The series, sponsored jointly by the Union and the summer session committee will
open with the Guardsmen Quartette.
The Quartette, composed of Henry Iblings, tenor; Irl Hunsaker, second tenor; Thomas
Clarke, baritone; and Dudley Kuzell, bass, recently completed the film "It All Came True",
with Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart. Other motion picture work for the group in
cludes appearing as four of the dwarfs in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
1 In addition to having talent as
Regents Appoint Belsheim
Neiv Dean of Law College
A native midwesterner with long prior to coming to Nebraska
experience in corporation law
practice is the new Dean of the
University of Nebraska College
of Law, the Board of Regents an
nounced Friday.
He is Dr. Edmund Olaf Belsheim
who has been a member of the
law college faculty as professor of
law since January, 1946. He suc
ceeds Prof. Frederick K. Beutel,
whose resignation was accepted by
the Board of Regents earlier this
week.
DR. BELSHEIM, 44, practiced
corporate law in Chicago and New
York City for eight years, and
United Nations
Clinic Ends
Sessions Today
The United Nations clinic enters
its second day of activities this
morning.
Yesterday, John Fletcher-Cooke,
British colonial affairs expert,
spoke at a faculty luncheon to
touch off the two-day clinic. The
British delegate to the United
Nations addressed a group in Love
memorial auditorium last night.
He spoke on "New Issues Before
the United Nations."
THE CLINIC will continue today
with a round table and forum on
the United Nations. The session
will be held in Love auditorium
at 9 a. m.
Fletcher-Cooke was recently ap
pointed Counsellor on Colonial
Affairs to the British delegation
of the United Nations. He has
been associated with British colon
ial administration since 1934.
A member of the Royal Air
Force during the last war. He
was captured by the Japanese in
1942. He was interned in Java
and later hi Japan.
FLETCHER-COOKE S career
with the United Nations began in
1948 when he was appointed a
member of the British delegation
He served on a committee for non-self-governing
territories and fin
ally as a colonial adviser. He was
recently appointed an alternate to
the Trusteeship Council.
The clinic which closes today
is the first of three. The second
will deal with "A Calendar for
Atomic Energy" and the third
with "Nebraska's Stake in Mis
souri River Development." The
clinics are sponsored by the sum
mer session committee as a part
of the organized extra-curricular
education program. They are open
to all students and faculty mem
bers. Graduation
July graduates who have not
already made application for
degrees and certificates should
do so in the senior checking
room, Administration building
B-9, not later than Monday,
June 20. The office will be
open from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
daily except Saturday, when
the hours are 10 a. m. to 12 m.-
taught law for five years.
A native of North Dakota, Dr.
Belsheim graduated from the Uni-.
versity of North Dakota with an
A. B. degree. As an undergrad
uate he was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, scholastic honorary so
ciety. He was a Rhodes Scholar
at the University of Oxford, Eng
land, where he received the Bach
elor of Jurisprudence (first class)
in 1929, and the Bachelor of Com
mon Law in 1930. He received a
fellowship to the University of
Chicago and was awarded its Doc
tor of Juridical Science degree in
1931.
DR. BELSHEIM immediately
entered private practice in Chi
cago and for six years spent a
large part of his time reorganiz
ing the Insull utilities. From 1937
to 1939 he taught law at the Uni
versity of Tennessee, and from
1940 1943 taught at the University
of Viriginia. In 1939 he was with
the Office of the Competroller of
the Currency in the U.S. Treasury
Department, and in 1943 served
for one year with the Board of
Economic Warfare.
From 1943 to 1946 he was as
sociated with the firm of Root,
Clark, Buckner and Ballantine in
New York City. He came to Ne
braska as a professor of law in
1946. While at the University,
Dr. Belsheim helped organize, in
association with the Lincoln Bar
Association and the Barrister club,
the Legal Air Bureau operated by
the College of Law under his di
rection. The bureau offers free
legal aid to needy residents of
Lincoln and surrounding terri
tory. DURING THE summer months
of 1947 he taught law at George
Washington University in Wash
ington, D. C, and in the summer
of 1948 at the University of Texas.
Dr. Belsheim is an authority
in the fields of property and busi
ness organization, and has pub
lished various articles in legal
journals on real property and
public law.
New Dean . . .
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DEAN BELSHEIM
will soon
take over the helm at the col
lege of law. He replaces Fred
erick Beutel who resigned to
return to teaching. Belsheim
has been a member of the Uni
versity faculty since 1946.
dwarfs, the quarttete does a fea
ture number which is a take-off
on the gay '90's. The number
known as "The Lady Killers," of
fers songs such as, "Harvest
Moon," "Strawberry Blonde,"
"Blue Skies" and others.
The quartette has appeared on a
number of radio shows in the past
several years. Early shows in
clude "Good News" and "Show
Boat." Later they sang with the
Charlie McCarthy show, Lux Ra
dio Theater and the Cavalcade of
America.
THE FOUR musicians estimate
that their voices have appeared
in over a thousand motion picture
productions. They have sung with
such artists as Lawrence Tibbett,
Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout,
Nelson Eddy, Jeannette MacDon
ald and Bing Crosby. They have
worked under the direction of
Leopold Stokowski, Andrew Kos
telanetz, Meredith Wilson and
Raymond Paige.
The summer series includes two
other programs. One will be by
Paige and Stone, celebrated dance
team, and another by Jack Rank,
who will do monologues.
THE ENTIRE series is planned
to give summer school students
and extra-curricular educational
opportunity, according to Dr.
Frank Sorenson, acting director of
the summer session.
"Usually the summer session is
completely barren of any type of
cultural or extra-curricular ad
vantagesfor the summer student.
This year we are making an at
tempt to give students something
worthwhile in the way of summer
session entertainment and educa
tion," Sorenson said.
The Union's portion of the series
is regulated by Duane Lake, Union
director.
"The first concert parallels All
State nicely. Before the second
and third of the series we plan to
hold coffee hours for students and
performers, but this time we are
giving the afternoon to All-State,"
Lake explained.
Religious Groups
Consolidate for
Summer Work
"Education For Failure" will be
the general topic of discussion at
the Sunday evening meetings of
the religious groups on campus
as they join in a co-operative pro
gram this summer. The Baptist,
Congregational, Christian, Episco
pal, Methodist, Presbyterian, YM
and YW groups have planned a
summer program containing both
interest and fun. Anyone is wel
come to come to the Sunday eve
ning meetings and pienfes whether
they are associated with any of
the above groups or not.
The .meetings each Sunday eve
ning will be in a different loca
tion with one of the above groups
acting as host. Meet on the steps
of the Student Union at 5 o'clock
and go with the group to the place
of meeting. Supper will be served
at 5:30 followed by the discussion
and vesper service. Twenty-five
cents will be charged for the
supper.
Picnics are scheduled for Wed
nesday, June 22 and Wednesday,
July 13.
This week the Canterbury Club
of the Episcopal church will be
hosts and the meeting will be in
their club rooms in University
Episcopal Church, 13th and R.