TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1950
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
PAGE 15
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By Joan Kruegcr
If you enjoy missing meals if
running frantically from one
building to the next appeals to
you if you can operate on two or
less hours of sleep each night if
breaking dates for a committee
meeting fails to phase you and if
the thought of spending three
summer months recuperating
holds interest for you then, you
are an activity student.
You have the potentiality of be
coming what is known in some
circles as "a University Wheel."
The first verse of the notorious
campus ditty offering advice ends
with the encouraging note: "Your
brain may have no concept of re
ality, but you'll have personality"
-and that's the incentive the
multitude of campus organizations
offer as they issue invitations to
take part in their activities.
Any feasible interest and talent
can find an outlet in the more
than 100 organizations to be found
on campus. The organizations are
just waiting to welcome all
around students as well as those
with aspirations of becoming a
BWOC, or Big Wheel On Campus.
But the ultimate question al
ways pops up what will all these
more than 100 organizations' lead
me to? Well, hunger and insomnia
and charm and personality and,
possibly, occasionally to either
Mortar Board or Innocent selec
tion. Each spring on Ivy Day Mortar
Board members mask from six to
20 outstanding junior women into
the society. That's the women's re
ward. And for the men the Inno
cents will tap 13 outstanding jun
ior activity men for their con
tribution to the University.
Come on now, the wagon needs
more wheels and those masks and
hoods are waiting!
The activities on the University
campus revolve around organiza
tions such as the following:
Journalists will find several
campus publications that offer ex
perience in reporting, editing,
photography, advertising and
managing. The Daily Nebraskan,
daily student newspaper, fur
nished University students with
the latest news, features and side
lights. The "Rag" is the official source
of much campus information and
publicity for campus events.
Every school has its annual and
for the University it's the Corn
husker. This yearbook, which ne
cessitates a large working staff,
publishes accounts of all the
year's events and notes on cam
pus personalities.
Cornshucks is the campus hu
mor magazine. The staff that pub
lishes this magazine at least six
times during the year, has thou
sands of jokes, cartoons and
stories at their dispisal to put out
a different edition each issue.
Engineers also publish their
own magazine, The Blue Print, as
do Ag students, who put out the
Cornhusker Countryman. Other
publications found on campus are
those sponsored by the University
of Nebraska Builders the Stu
dent Faculty directory, the Bulle
tin, a magazine set yearly to high
school students, and the Scarlet
and Cream, monthly newspaper
sent to prep students. The YM and
YW put out the N-Book, a pocket
edition of campus groups.
Student government is vested in
the Student Council, which just
last year adopted a new constitu
tion. This group controls the all
campus elections and sponsors
various events. Women students'
activities are governed by AWS,
Associated Women Students. Reg
ulations concerning hours, number
of activities a coed may partici
pate in, and other phases of cam-
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CHEW CHEW CHEWING GUM Pretty coeds jeign supreme at the
annual Penny Carnival. All women's organizations vie for the most
attractive booths on this day.
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BDCKIN BEONCnO Trying out a little saddle leather and soon to
hit the dust, is this student at the annual Farmers' Fair Rodeo.
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AQTJAQUETTES Forming a graceful pattern in the University pool,
members of the coed swim club present an annual pageant.
pus life are taken care of in this
group. The Men's Point Board sets
restrictions on the number of ac
tivities in which a male student
may participate.
If you see a coed wearing a
white sweater with an emblem on
it, and a red skirt, and some fel
low with a red sweater, chances
are you'll be looking at members
of Tassels or Corn Cobs, campus
pep organizations. Besides boost
ing school spirit, these groups sell
various campus sponsored items
and sponsor activities.
A 300-member Pep Group has
been organized to boost pep dur
ing football season. Cheerleaders
add color and life to the football
games, rallies and - basketball
clashes. This year an all-male yell
squad will lead the cheering sec
tions. Unaffiliated or independent stu
dents plan social events and pro
vide governing' bodies through
BABW, Barb Activities board for
Women, and ISA, Independent
Students' Association. Fraternity
men act as delegates to the Inter
Fraternity Council while sorority
members send representatives to
the Panhellenic Council. A Junior
Panhellenic is also set up to pro
vide training for freshmen coeds.
Houses and halls also offer a
variety of social functions under
the direction of elected officers.
The University of Nebraska
Builders publicizes the University
to high school students through
out the state by means of its pub
lications, campus tours and pep
conventions. It has a variety of
comimtties which boosts Nebraska
to future students and explain to
them various examples of college
life. Visiting high school students
are usually entertained by mem
bers of Builders at sports tourna
ments or on campus tours.
If you are internationally
minded, you will be interested in
NUCWA, the University of Ne
braska Council on World Affairs,
which perpetuates such events as
the model UNESCO conferences,
besides providing an impetus for
interest m world problems and
groups. The Cosmopolitan club, a
social group where "east meets
west," is composed of foreign and
American students alike.
Synonomous with the Bigr Sis
ters are Coed Counselors. This or
ganization is composed of several
hundred coeds whose job is to as
sist new coeds in becoming ac
quainted with campus life. The
group sponsors parties, helps with
registration and assigns each Big
Sister with several incoming coeds
or Little Sisters.
Another all -coed body is the
YWCA in which hundreds of
coeds participate. The girls run
into almost every phase of social
work in one manner or another.
They discuss world problems, be
liefs and take part in community t
projects in order to promote a re
warding social program. YMCA,
men's counterpart of the large
women's group, boasts, in addi
tion, a vigorous athletic program
for members, besides all-campus
forums and Y conferences. The
two groups also sponsor weekly
or monthly foreign movies.
Kosmet Klub, men's dramatic
society, presents an annual fall
revue of all male-skits and a sim
ilar one in the spring. Women par
ticipants in these productions are
taboo. Show profits provide books
for the University and college li
braries, especially concerning
theatre and dramatic art.
When a University male student
earns his letter N in Athletics he
is eligible for membership in the
N Club. Athletically inclined
women students will be interested
in WAA, Women's Athletic asso
ciation, where a host of sports can
be found basketball, rifle club,
duck pins, golf, aquaquettes, cr
chesis (modern dance), tennis and
others.
The University speech depart
ment has three divisions debate,
radio and theatre, all of which
offer the sludent opportunity to
develop further his particular in
terest. The University Theatre
produced six major plays last
year. There is also the Experi
mental Theatre which produces
several plays. Radio students may
have programs of their own. And
there's no telling where the debate
squad will take their next trip
to Doane college at Crete or to
Wisconsin or Texas.
Religious Welfare Council and
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
form the nuclei for religious work
of the students. Student Houses of
all denominations also offer in
spiration and fun through busy
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