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Vol. 50 No. 71
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Wednesday, January 11, 1950
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FIRE SURVEY An experimental fire drill in one organized house
revealed an astonishing ignorance of exit methods among the occu
pants. The four girls "escaped" from their house, via the fire
escape, for the first time.
'Rag' Experiment Reveals
Need for Fire Precaution
Five University coeds found a
Hag, test fire drill to be no
'false alarm." The results of the
drill, part of a Daily Nebraskan
fire safety campaign, showed an
"alarming" need for lire precau
tions. It took two minutes for only
five girls to leave their house by
way of the fire escape. In a real
fire, 38 girls would have to make
their way out of the house.
During the Rag's drill every
thing was in readiness for their
escape. Under normal conditions
the girls would have to open a
window and remove a screen.
They would have to shove a bed
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out of the way from its place in
front of a window. Then the lad
der would have to be held down
to the ground. ,
Interviews with the coeds re
vealed that none of them had ever
been on 'he fire escape before
They all had lived in the house
at least four months and some
of them had lived there much
longer.
The Rag experiment showed
that the third floor would have to
be cleared before the girls on the
second floor could crawl out the
window and gain access to the es
cape. The ladder also proved dan
gerous during the drill.
12 in Ag Union. Ballots will be
cast between the hours of 9 a.m.
and 4:30 p.m.
Nominees for president of the
club. Miss Chace, Miss Adams
and Miss Stoppkotte, are juniors
in Home Ec college. All newly
elected officers will serve during
the 1950 school year.
Other nominees for offices as
announced by Gwen Monson,
president, include Pat Hanlon
and Barb Glock, secretary; Edna
Kniffen, Donna Pearson and
Joan Raun, treasurer. These can
didates are sophomores and jun
iors in Home Economics college.
Filling the slate for the office
of historian are Marlene Ander
son, Karolyn Burton and Jean
Vierk, freshmen members of the
club.
Candidates' Activities.
Activities of the candidates
for president are as follows:
Miss Chace is present treasurer
of Home Ec club, member of Ag
Exec Board and member of Phil
Ag Honorary
Selects 13
New Members
Thirteen students were recently
nitiated into Alpha Zeta, mens
agricultural scholastic honorary at
their fall initiation.
They were selected on a basis of
scholarship, leadership and char
acter. Any Ag man who has com
pleted 1 and k years of his aca
demic career, is enrolled in the
College of Agriculture, and who is
in the upper 25 of his class scho
lastically is eligible for consider
ation. The new members are Edwin
Brunken, Keith Frederickson,
Robert Hageman, James Mc
Dowell, Erick Nelson, Leroy Nel
son, Arnold Nieveen, Paul Obrien,
Clifford Quick, Elmer Remmenga,
William Steinkruger, Norman
Williams and Jack Wilson.
Alpha Zeta was originally
founded as an agricultural pro
fessional at Ohio State University
on Nov. 4, 1897. It spread from
there to 46 land grant colleges in
all parts of the country.
Nebraska, which was the sev
enth school to join, was chartered
on Jan. 20, 1904. While some
schools treat" Alpha Zeta as a
social fraternity it is considered
a scholastic honorary at most.
The Nebraska chapter has a
total membership of 61 including
the 13 initiates. Officers of the
group are Merle Stalder, presi
dent; Stan Lambert, vice presi
dent; Jack DeWulf; treasurer;
Ed Stauter, secretary, and John
Wilkinson, reporter.
The' faculty advisors for the
honorary are Dr. Ephriam Hixson,
head of the entemology depart
ment, Prof. C. W. Smith of the
agricultural engineering depart
ment, and D. D. Deane, assistant
professor of Dairy husbandry.
To Name Big
Stories of '49
A feature of next Friday's
Daily Nebraskan will be a
summary of the ten big cam
pus news stories of 1949. The
Daily Nebraskan staff will
vote for the stories they con
sider to have been most
significant and news-worthy
in the past two semesters.
Eleve&lls
Upsilon Omicron, home econom
ics honorary.
Miss Adams is a Carl Gray
scholarship winner, member of
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BY JERRY WARREN
Bus Whitehead disappointed those fans who were look
ing for a battle of the giants Tuesday night as he poured in
26 points as Coach Harry Good's cages edged Kansas Uni
versity and their much lauded Clyde Lovellette, 57-56.
The 6-9 center from Scottsbluff topped Lovelette in all
departments as he held the Jayhawk sophomore to four
Rosenlof Sees
Roll Decrease
The Universityexpects 200 new
students to join its ranks second
semester.
Even at this, the total second
semester enrollment is not ex
pected to be much over 9,000.
According to Registrar G. W.
Rosenlof, graduating seniors and
an unusual drop in undergradu
ates cause the difference between
this figure and the 9,400 enrolled
for the first semester.
Applications for the University
graduate college have been heavy,
but a drop is anticipated in under
graduates. Registration for these new stu
dents will take place Friday, Jan.
27. After meeting with their ad
visers, the students will pick up
numbers in the Love Library
lobby, and then complete their
registration in Temporary B.
Junior Division students will
meet their advisers in the East
reading rom of the library. Upper
division students will meet in
their advisers' offices.
ISA Elects New
Vice-President
Don Flesher, junior engineer
ing student, was named vice
president of the Independent
Student association council at
a meeting of the council Mon
day. He succeeds JoAnn Learning
who resigned because of outside
activities. Flesher will automati
cally become president in Feb
ruary following the graduation
of Bill Plank, present head.
Flesher is steward of the
Pioneer Co-Op House.
The resignation of Roberta
Flory, treasurer was announced.
Her successor will be named at
the next meeting.
EBeGftioirD
University 4-H club and was a
national 4-H delegate to Wash
ington her freshman year. She
is also a Home Ec dub council
member, chairman of the service
committee and member of Pi
Beta Phi sorority.
Miss Stoppkotte is a member
of BABW, member of Home Ec
club council, chairman of cleri
cal committee, and an AG YWCA
cabinet member.
All candidates for historian are
freshman club members and Ag
YWCA members.
All-Member Vote.
Only members of Home Ec
club will vote in this election.
The candidates were nominated
at a recent club meeting.
Second high candidate for the
c'uee of president will be in
stalled as vice-president and the
third candidate will hold a coun
cil office, chairman of one of ten
committees.
They will be installed at the
Feb. 2 meeting of the club.
Present officers include Gwen
field goals and four free throws
for a total of 12, far below his
total of 20.5 per game.
Nebraska trailed only once in
the game when Bill Hougland
made a bucket and Lovellette
added a charity toss to give the
Jays a three-point lead in the
first minute of the ball game.
Tony Lawry and Joe Malacek
each made a basket to put NU in
the lead 4-3 before two minutes
had elapsed. The Huskers were
never headed.
Whitehead and KU's Claude
Houchin traded field goals and
then the Cornhuskers, with Big
Bus leading"?sthe way, started a
fast breaking type of game that
was reminiscent of last year's co
champions behind Claude Rether
ford. Bus Scores Twice
Buster scored two baskets on
quick trips down the floor to give
Nebraska a 10-5 advantage but
Kansas with Jerry Waugh scoring
on a long shot and a free throw
plus a set-up from under the bas
ket, punctuated by Lawry's free
toss, brought Phog Allen's stal
warts to within one point of the
Huskers.
Over half of the Cornhusker
scoring in the first half was done
by Whitehead, Nebraska's man of
the half century, as he connected
for nine field goals in 12 attempts
for a .5GJ average.
The secret of the success of the
whole Scarlet and Cream outfit
that torrid first half was their
ability to hit the hoop. As a unit,
50 percent record.
Nebraska held a substantial 34
26 lead at half-time and two free
throws by Bob Cerv and one by
Lawry right after intermission
boosted it to 37-26.
13 Point Lead
The greatest advantage gained
by the Huskers came with nine
minutes left in the game when
scrappy Jim Buchanan took a
pass from Cerv on a drive toward
the basket and scored a set-up to
give Good's cagers a 48-35 lead.
The next scene in the script
should have been the collapse of
See Huskers, Page 3.
Monson, president; Marilyn Boct
tger, vice-president; Vivian Frai
ser, secretary; Mary Chace, trea
surer; Janet Ross, historian.
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