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Vol. 50 No. 108
Law College
Plans Mock
World Court
Mythical Nations
To Argue Legal
Cases Thursday
Law students are set to give
the University and anybody else
who is interested a free look at
a live, working model of the
World Court.
The court will convene at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, March 23, at the
Union. A Nebraska attorney, C
Petrus Peterson of Lincoln, will
preside as chief justice.
inner memDcrs or me coun
will De two practicing L,incoin
attorneys, B. F. Baylor and Clar
ance A. Davis; James E. Law
rence, attorney-editor of the Lin
coln Star, and Willard B. Cowles,
College of Law staff member
who spent last summer at the
Hague, the Netherlands, seat of
the International Court of Jus
tice.
International Law
International law students, who
have been preparing for this
demonstration since last Septem
ber, will present arguments
strictly in keeping with actual
international procedures and the
court will make an immediate
ruling, based on principles of in
ternational law.
Lewis A. Curling, a Lincoln
Student, will serve as chief coun
sel for the mythical nation of
Mexas. Ted Sorenson of Lincoln
will be chief counsel for a second
mythical nation, the United Con
federation. John H. Pender, col
lege staff member will serve as
registrar and Cecil T. Rothrock,
a student, as baliff.
Though incidents involved in
the case have been set up to
match circumstances which
might arise in the Rio Grande
country, the fundamental points
tit law at issue are the same as
those which almost brought Can
ada and the U.S. to the brink of
conflict about 100 years ago.
Several additional factors, how
ever, have been added, including
use of water for irrigation and
cattle, control of hoof and mouth
disease, and the question of self
defense. Background incidents for the
ease include the building of a
dam by a militant group of
Mexas citizens on the border
river to provide water for their
cattle. After a series . incidents,
the governor of the mythical
State of Texaco ordered the Tex
aco militia to bomb out the dam
as a precaution against the
spread of hoof and mouth di
sease. The bombing killed and
wounded several citizens of Mex
as. Later a member of the bomb
ing crew, drunk in a Mexas
town, boasted of his part in the
raid. He was arrested by Mexas
authorities, tried and convicted
cf murder.
When diplomatic efforts to set
tle the controversy failed, Mexas
sought aid from the United Na
tions which referred the parties
to the "World Court." Ultimately
the litigants asked the court for
decision according to interna
tional law on these three points:
1. Is Mexas responsible for
damage resulting prior and inci
dent to the construction of the
dam?
2. Is the United Confederation
responsible for the damage and
loss of life incident to the bomb
ing? 3. Has Mexas violated the law
in arresting and retaining the
bombing crew member?
NU Registration
Down 8 Percent
Nebraska's second semester
decrease in enrollment was not
as large as the trend at other
colleges and universities.
"People seem to like the Uni
versity of Nebraska," Dr. George
Rosenlof, director of admissions,
commented when he reported
8,647 students had enrolled for
the second semester.
The University enrollment
Mitiweu au n per luui uiup jiom
the first semester registration.
Music by Dave Haun Will Add
V
To Atmosphere at '50 Prom
Dancers at the 1950 Junior
Senior Prom will have more
than six busy queens to make
their evening more enticing.
They will also enjoy the music j
of a band leader that has been
popular in Lincoln and the 1
middlewest for some 20 years. j
Dave Haun made quite a name 1
for himself in the center of
the United States during those
two decades. While traveling
with the Tom Archer circuit,
Haun has pleased audiences at
Lake Okoboji, the "Forg Hop"
in St. Joseph, Mo., "Shore Acres"
in Sioux City, la., "Arocda" in
Sioux Falls, So. Dak., and the
"Prom" in St. Paul, Minn.
Haun's orchestra boasts three
alumni who have gone else
where to make a name for
themselves in the music world.
Pat McNaughton, trombone, left
the organization to become musi
cal director at the University of
Southern California.
Two other famous Haun alums
are Dale Nichols, also a trom
bone player, who is now doing
movie shorts and studio work
ii't-r a stretch with Freddie
Slack, and Nate Kazeberr, now
playing trumpet with Benny
Goodman.
Hnun, who runs a Lincoln
music store as well as his band,
tan thrct arrangers. Rene Hall,
1 5''Wn
in
REFINISHING CHURCH This
City church, which was repaired and im -oved by college stu
dents attending the Methodist Work camp last summer. Alice Jo
Smith, University junior, was a member of the group. Her work
at the Church of All Nations was with nine and ten-year-old girls
from the slum area. This is one of a great vartv of summer
projects available to University students under the sponsorship
of the YWCA and various church or&aiiizu..iu...s.
YWCA Sponsors
Summer
bummer work campus, inter
national seminars, caravans, com
munity services, institutional
service, relief projects and inter
racial workshops.
These are only a portion of the
many summer activities open to
University students under the
sponsorship of the YWCA or va
rious church organizations. Infor
mation concerning the projects
will be available this week at a
booth in the Union.
Many Nebraska students have
taken part in these summer
projects. Ruth Sorenson attended
an interracial workshop in Wash
ington last summer. Audrey
Rosenbaum has worked in a
Navaho work camp. Helen Davis
did industrial work last summer
and Dorothy Speer and Audrey
t lood worked at a mental hos
pital through the institutional
service units in Lincoln. Juergen
Herbst attended an international
seminar.
This Year's Projects.
Interesting work camps proj
ects are being offered again this
summer. A project in a mining
community in Kentucky will be
a community service program fur
children, youth and adults m this
underprivileged area. From 15 to
25 men and women of various
races and backgrounds will live
at Simpson college. Indianola,
la., and take part in a rural work
camp specializing in the rural
church.
An interracial group of 25 men
and women will live in interest
ing quarters overlooking the
Hudson river in New York City
and work with Npgroes, Puerto
Ricans, Italians and other groups.
J ins i.r an educational, cultural
and sight-seeing program com
bined with work. Mayaqucz.
Puerto Rico offers an unusual
opportunity for six men and
women to help in building and
playground equipment, general
painting and repair, along with
some recreational leadership at
the Marina Neighborhood house.
Work In Washington.
Opportunities for students in-
arranger for Georgie Aukl and
Decca records, Ralph Aldridge,
arranger for Charlie Ventura,
and Russ Smith, who has done
arranging for Los Brown.
The band consists of 12 pieces
besides Haun and the vocalist,
Shirley Haun Moore. In the
rhythm section are Jim McCoy,
piano, Jack Hayes, drums, and
Dick Young, biiss.
Ed Wells, Ruben Haun and
Denny Schneider make up the
trumpet section and Don Moore
plays trombone.
f
Dave Haun Lincoln band
leader will play at the 1950
Junipr-Scnior Prom.
i
ft- t
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is the back yard of a New York
Projects
tcrcsted in government work are
open in Washington. Students
hold full-time paid jobs in gov
ernment agencies and spend eight
to twelve hours a week in semi
nar meetings studying federal
government processes and pre
paring for effective Christian
citizenship. Salaries for two
months will be sufficient to cover
living costs and coach travel
from the middle west.
International activities exist
through six European work-study
seminars. Groups of eighteen
students will sail together on a
student ship about June 20. Each
group will spend two weeks in
England, three weeks in a work
camp or study seminar in Ger
many or France. One week will
also be spent in two of the fol
low countries: Denmark, Holland,
Belgium, Italy, Czechoslovakia,
Austria, or Hungary, and one
week in the European-American
Conference of the World's Stu
dent Christian federation at
Gwatt, Switzerland.
Arrangements for considering
the economic, political, educa
tional and religious situation in
countries visited are being made
by European Student Christian
movements. Each group will be
under the direction of a staff
member of the YM or YW.
Students Needed.
Lutheran student service will
conduct study-work projects in
reconstruction in some area of
the life of the church, June
through August, in Germany,
Austria, and possibly France.
Twenty students are needed.
To face problems fearlesslv
and frankly is especially difficult
when those facing thein together
are of differing and often oppos
ing points of view; when they are
filled inwardly with despair and
bitterness and conflict. Since
1!)43, students from many parts
of the world have met in Quaker
seminars to discuss ways of
achieving peace. Five seminars
will be held in Europe this sum
mer, two in the cast, one in Ja
pan and another in India.
Miss Ruth Shinn, director of
the WY hus additional informa
tion and directions about each of
these projects.
Profs See Gain
By Glenn Rosrnquist
Eighty five per cent of the 43
professors and instructors polled
by the Daily Nebraska!! last
week believe that a teacher-rating
system could help them im
prove their teaching methods.
Not only do they think that a
system could improve their
teaching, but they believe that
the students who do the rating
would do it objectively without
trying to "get even."
Instructors were interviewed
in every major campus build
ing. Forty-three faculty mem
bers, including department
heads, instructors, and college
deans, were given individual in
terviews. The only requirement was that
they must be teaching some
class in the University at the
present time.
Questions Asked
The teachers were asked the
following questions:
1. Do you think a teacher rat
ing system could help you im
prove your teaching methods?
2. Do you think students
would rate instructors objective
lywithout the "I'll get even"
altitude?
3. Have you ever taught in a
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Mock Assembly
Agenda
Monday, March 20:
3 p.m. Second plenary
session; report of the atomic
energy commission, Chancel
lor R. G. Gustavson.
4-5 p. m. Committee meet
ings: political and security,
Room 313, Union; economic
and financial, Union ball
room; social, humanitarian
and cultural, Room 315,
Union; trusteeship, Room 316,
Union.
First Model
UN Session
Ousts China
NalionalislParty
Members Denied
Nationalist China was ousted
from the general assembly at the
first plenary session ot the model
conference.
Meeting Friday afternoon to
open the week-long mock as
sembly, delegates voted no to a
confirming membership of the
credentials committee report
Nationalist regime. The vote was
21 to 18, with two abstentions.
Assuming that the credentials
committee had met before the
first plenary session, Jean Oakes
of the Egyptian delegation gave
the committee report. The com
mittee by-passed a Soviet ob
jection to seating the Nationalist
delegates and reported that it
found no reason for refusing
their membership in favor of a
Chinese communist delegation.
Matzke Demand
Soviet representative Jerry
Matzke immediately demanded
that the portion accepting the
Nationalist delegation be stricken
from the report. The Russian del
egation pointed out that the Na
tionalist government represents
only a tenth of the Chinese peo
ple, while nine-tenths of the pop
ulation is under Red control. "A
fascist government representing
only a small portion of the peo
ple should not be seated here,"
thev declared.
Nationalist Delegate Bill Ed
mondson came back with the
statement that "this name of the
People's Republic (communist
government) is merely a false
front" and that it is promoted
by an outside power, Russia.
But the Nationalist protests
were overruled when the assem
bly voted to instinct tne creden
tials of Communist China. The
Yugoslav delegate, Charles Ber
goflen, reminded members that
they were to base their voting
on whether the Red regime or
the Nationalists represented the
Chinese people.
Rising to make a final objec
tion on his removal from the as
sembly, Rill Edmnndsnn was cut
off by Assembly President Ted
Sorensen, who refused to rec
ognize him after rejection of
Nationalist representation.
Agar Keynotes
Earlier in the afternoon, the
mock assembly delegates heard
the keynote speaker of the con
ference, William Agar, repre
sentative of the United Nations
department of public informa
tion. Sorenson also announced meet
ings of the four assembly com
mittees. Committee work will be
interrupted Monday for the sec
ond plenary session and for the
report of the atomic energy com
mission by Chancellor R. G. Gus
tavson. After the chancellor's talk,
committees will meet from 4 to
5 p.m. Meeting places arc: poli
tical and security. Room 313,
Union; economic and financial,
Union ballroom: social, humani
tarian and cultural, Room 315.
Union; trusteeship, Room 31ti,
Union.
Rod Cross Seeks
Coed Volunteers
Would you like to be a Gray
Coed? The college Red Cross
unit is sponsoring a gray coed
project at the Student Health
center. Workers will assist the
nurses by writing letters for the
patients, checking visitor cards,
and reading to the patients.
school which used a teacher- I
rating system? If so, was the
system successful, in your opin
ion? 4. Do you think the results of
teacher rating should be avail
able to the administration, or
should they be available only to
the rated instructor?
5. If you favor teacher rating,
do you think it should be car
ried out according to a definite
scale or on the basis of general
criticisms in the student's own
words?
The results in per cent of the
five questions are as follows:
Question one, 86 percent yes, 14
percent no; question two, 89 per
cent yes, 11 percent no; ques
tion three, 85 percent yes, 15
percent no; ouestion four, 61 per
cent yes, 39 percent no; and
ouestion five, 4fi percent favored
the scalr, 20 per cent favored
criticism in the student's own
words, and 34 per cent would
like a combination of the two
methods.
Purdue Scale
The scale mostly favored was
the Purdue Teachers rating scale
which appeared in The Daily
Nehra.skan Tuesday, Feb. 28.
One instructor thought that
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KKYNOTE SPEAKER William Agar of the United Nations de
partment of public information addresses mock assembly dele
gates at the first conference plenary session. Students taking
part in the week-long model general assembly are attempting to
give the project the appearance of the actual UN assembly. When
the four conference committees have studied the issues before the
assnibly, delegates will meet together to debate and vote on the
major questions. Chancellor R. G. Gustavson will speak at today's
plenary session at 3 p.m. in the Union balroim. His talk will
be on the report of the atomic energy commission.
Cosmo Carnival Talent
Schedules 'World Cruise!
Care to take a world cruise on
April first?
The Cosmopolitan Club is in
viting everyone to do just that by
attending their "Cosmo Carnival"
at the Union. The program is to
have a world-wide flavor.
Jurgen Herbst, as sort of a
modern Sinbad, dreams of the
various stop on the world cruise.
The Cosmopolitan Club's inter
national talent will take it lrom
there. Scheduled stops include
the following:
Hawaii with hula-hula girls
somewhere in the picture.
Persia with an houri swaying
to Oriental string music.
Russia Cossacks are to kick
and spin through energet folk
dances lor this one.
Europe Bjorn Karlsen will
sing a Norwegian fisher's song,
while pulling in a net contain
ing mermaid Charlene Colbert.
In another part, Jack Levi and
Mary Chappell are to present
a skit entitled "A French Black
Market."
South America The Latin
American combo will cive out
with rhumba rhythm while a
couple demontsrates the true
rhumba.
U. S. A. a traveling salesman
skit, a group of monkeys doing
a parody on the "Coconuts" song,
pseudo-hillbillys and other items
are to complete the program.
The program is only part of
the evening's entertainment,
however. The larger part of the
8 to 12 affair will be devoted
to dancing, trom popular to
waltzes and rhumbas.
Program chairman Mike Navid
and carnival chairman Ray Solh
joo have had much to do in di
recting the affair. Since its first
appearance in 1948, the Cosmo
Carnival has become an annual
event at the University. Tickets
will go on sale this week, ob
tainable from club merrjbers or
at the Union. The affair will
be held in the Union ballroom,
Saturday evening, April 1.
Through
the questionnaire prepared by
The Daily Nebraskan was "ab
surd." Several others thought
that some of the questions asked
were foolish.
However, the majority of the
teachers approached cheerfully
answered the questions es best
they could. Several declined to
answer some of the questions.
Those who declined were not
included in compiling the per
centages. Question number one
was most often omitted, and a
number of the instructors re
fused to be held down to ex
pressing a "yes or no" opinion
on question number two.
There was a great deal of op
position to having the rating
system campus-wide. Several
campus colleges and depart
ments have already at some time
in the past two years conducted
a rating system of some kind.
These are engineering, teachers,
military science, and speech.
Most of the opposition tame
from Teachers college, where
the majority of th administra
tion and faculty members (eel
that it is much more effective
to rate a course than to rate the
teacher.
Popular Instructors
Many of the teachers believed
Cosmopolitan Club members
will take the show to the Vet
eran's Hospital before staging it
at the University.
Theme of last year's Cosmo
Carnival was "A Night in a
Harem." As part of that presen
tation, Indian war dancers, Har
lem jitterbugs, and other sorts
of talent were seen.
jSouthernaires
Plan Lincoln
Al
)ca ranee
The Southernaires, vocal quar
tet, will appear in concert Tues
day, March 28 at St. Paul Meth
odist church. Ranked among the
greatest vocal ensembles heard
today on the air or concert stage,
the group was organized in 1929.
They have been acclaimed as one
of the foremost singing organi
zations in America.
Southernaires are true sons of
the South, singing melodies of
their native soil. Their reper
toire covers three centuries of
Negro music including African
chants, spirituals, slave songs,
Negro popular songs. However,
their vocal activities have by no
means been limited to this field.
They are also exponents of other
kimis of vocal music, presenting
classics and ballads.
Members of the group include
John Taylor, second tenor; Mul
ford Lee, baritone; Joseph Craw
ford, tenor; and William Ed
monson, bass.
The Southernaires won popu
larity with their first radio
broadcast 20 years ago, and be
came favorites with radio listen
ers and on the concert stage from
coast to coast.
A sample program of the group
includes the music of Franz
Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn,
George Frederick Handel, Victor
Herbert, George Gershwin and
Sigmund Romberg.
Ulating
that the instructor who did not
stick to a textbook, told a few
jokes, and gave good grades
were the ones who would re
ceive the best ratings. They felt
that students, though they seri
ously tried to objectively rate
their teachers, would neverthe
less be biased by the instructor's
personality and popularity. A
student, therefore, would rarely
rate his teachers on the basis of
whether the teacher used good
teaching methods or not.
The poll of the University
teachers is the second of two
polls which have been conducted
by The Daily Nebraskan in an
effort to find out if a rating sys
tem is both needed at Nebraska,
and if it would succeed if in
augurated here.
The results of the first poll
were published last Tuesday,
March 7. Three hundred students
were interviewed and asked
questions pertaining to the es
tablishment of a teacher-rating
system.
Students favored a definite
scale system over a student criti
cism system; thought instructors
would consider the ratings valid;
and would, accordingly, attempt
to improve their teaching meth
ods from the student suggestions.
Sunday, March 19, 1950
Speech Opens
First Session
Of Assembly
In spite of the lack of polict
power in the United Nations, tha
UN has been successful in set
tling many world problems
through mediation, arbitration
and conciliation.
These were the optimistic
words of William Agar, repre
sentative of the UN department
of public information, as he gave
his address opening the model
general assembly Friday.
Because of the UN's lack of en
forcing power, Agar said, it has
been obligated to turn to other
peaceful settlements. It has made
the nations "sit down and talk
out their problems instead of
fighting them out," he remarked.
"Th lack of power has uncov
ered unexpected power," h
continued, "that of public opin
ion. The problems that are
settled by force are only too
likely to have to be settled by
force again."
Agar urged the assembly dele
gates not to minimize the devel
opment of these methods of set
tling disputes, even though the
need for a police force is still
recognized. Naming three fields
of UN work political, human
rights and the task of bringing
about world stability, and well
being, he listed many examples
where the UN has employed me
diation and arbitration to solve
international problems.
"People Must Know"
"Unless the people of the
world can be fully informed of
its activities, the United Nation
cannot hope to succeed," the
speaker said.
The task of making the UN
work, he continued, is in the
hands of the individual men and
women. "The way to make gov
ernments live up to their respon
sibilities for the people is to
know and understand what is
going on and see to it that gov
ernments live up to their respon
sibilities," he added.
Agar related the application of
methods of settling disputes to
the present cold war. The main
problem of the United Nations
is the continous political rift be
tween Soviet power on one hand
See Assembly Page 2
Gustavson
To Lead Off
2nd Session
Chancellor R. G. Gustavson's
report of the atomic energy com
mission will lead off today's
model assembly business.
Speaking at 3 p. m. in the
Union ballroom, the chancellor
will address delegates as they
meet for the second plenary ses
sion of the conference.
Gustavson's speech will be
broadcast over radio station
KOLN.
While at the University of
Chicago, Dr. Gustavson served as
liaison man between the uni
versity and the war department
during the development of the
atomic experiment conducted un
der Chicago's stadium. This pro
ject cleared the way for con
structing the atomic bomb.
Atomic Energy Expert
The chancellor served later as
a member of the board of gover
nors of the Argonne laboratories,
the Chicago atomic energy ex
perimental ground. He is a mem
ber of the atomic energy com
mission's committee on research
fellowships in the biological and
agricultural sciences.
Besides his work in the atomic
energy field, the chancellor is
a member of the United States
national commission of UNESCO.
He attended the UNESCO con
ference at Mexico City in 1947
with the U. S. delegation.
Dr. Gustavson has been hon
ored with numerous awards and
citations for his work in the
field of biochemistry. He is a
member of a number of hon
orary societies, and in 1948 the
Swedish government knighted
him with the Order of the North
Star. The chancellor received the
award, third highest in the na
tion, for contributions to the
fields of science and education.
Discussion Period
Time will be allotted after
Gustavson's report this afternoon
for discussion of his address. The
four conference committees will
meet from 4 until 5 p. m. The
resolutions drawn up in com
mittee meetings will be returned
to the assembly floor Wednes
day for three days of debate and
voting.
The mock general assembly,
patterned after last year's model
UNESCO conference, is s,Jon
sored by the Nebraska Univer
sity Council for World Affairs.
Bill Edmondson is president of
NUCWA.
The UNESCO committee of
NUCWA is in charge of the con
ference. Sue Allen heads
UNESCO, as well as the as
sembly steering committee. Other
steering committee members are
Ruth Sorensen, Walter Willi,
Janet Kcpner, Irene Hunter,
Jerry Young and Susan Reed.
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