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Only daily publication for students at the University of Nebraska The Weather; Fair, continued mild, high in 70's. Vol. 51 No. 10 Fighting Continues In Seoul Forces in South Push Enemy Back The job that's left to do in liberated Seoul now is the bitter mop-up fighting. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces on the south ere welding shut a steel trap on thousands of other enemy troops. The First cavalry division and the U. S. Seventh infantry were reported lined up between Su won and Osan, about 30 miles south of Sebul The First cavalry had raced more than 115 miles in five days. Parts of from five to six enemy divisions now in ' retreat from their campaign against the Pusan beachhead were being herded in to southwest Korea. Fight to the Death AP Correspondent Don White head writes that "Seoul is not being spared. It is a fight to the death, with the reds defending from houses, ridges and rooftops in a desperate last stand." "Not in any two wars," he re ports, "have I seen anything to equal the battle for Seoul. This fighting through smoke-filled streets is eerie and unreal, with flames leaping from buildings and licking out at the marines as they dash down the debris filled streets and past buildings crashing to the ground after fires have gutted them." In Washington, Col. Daniel O. Omer. general counsel of the se lective service, said Tuesday that all foreseeable military needs can be taken care of in the pre sent draft age group 19 through 25 years if some of the restric tions are lifted. If regulations were changed to permit drafting of 4-Fs, childless husbands and veterans of World War II, an armed force of three million can be maintained, he said. Sen. Kenneth Wherry pre dicted at a speech at a republican rally in Columbus, O., that if a republican congress is elected. Dean Acheson will lose his post as secretary of state. Nebraska's other senator, Hugh Butler, said Tuesday that he did not believe Gen. George Marshall was "the indispensible man." Butler opposed Marshall's ap pointment as secretary of de fense; because "it has been one of the basic principles of our gov ernment ever since it was founded that the military be at all times subordinate to the ci vilian authority." Crop Research Tops Field Day Discussion List The Agronomy department will hold a Field Day, Sept. 30 at the Agronomy farm east of Havelock. Starting at 9:30 a.m. and lasting until 12:00, the program will be finished in plenty of time for anyone to attend the football game, according to Mr. H. H. Wolfe, assistant extension agron omist. Mr. Wolfe stated that there will be four stops during the morn ing at which research personnel from the Ag college will discuss the various points of interest. At the first stop, the Ag En gineers will explain all the known phases of grain drying. Next, Dr. J, H. Lonnquist will discuss the great strides that have taken place In corn production such as yellow and white hy brids, single and double cross lines, and experimental Bnd Ne braska certified varieties. Third on the list of stops, Mr. D. G. Hanway will talk on the varying varieties and their areas of adaptation. Dr..F. L. Duley and Mr. J. C, Russell will be on hand at the last stop to discuss lesser known legumes that show promise and their effects on a following crop of corn. They will also point out a few of the more effective tillage methods. 'Know-How' Show Set for Today The second of three campus TCnow-How" programs is sched uled at 5 p.m. in Love library auditorium today. It will be on scholarship and will deal with such points as jjood study habits, removal of down hours, and honorary or ganizations. These meetings are sponsored by the AWS board and Mortar Board. They are designed to ac quaint new coeds with campus life at the University. All Coed Counselors are to bring their "little sisters," and all new coeds; Lincoln, dorm, and organized house girls, are invited. The third program will deal with campus activities. Repre sentatives from the various ac tivity organizations will be pres ent to explain the functions of their group. This meeting, Oct. 4 at 5 p.m. in Love library audi torium, is one week before the Activities Mart, Oct. 11, when freshman women may sign up lor work on campus activities. Barbs to Name 4Hello GiiT At Annual Dance Friday Eleven girls will compete for the title of "Hello Girl" at the annual BABW dance Friday night. The winner will reign over the dance sponsored by the Barb Activities Board for Women. The annual "get-acquainted" party will be held from 9 to 12 p.m. in the Union ballroom. It is espec ially for unaffiliated students, but everyone is invited, accord' ing to BABW president Dorothy Kurth. Intermission Plans The highlights of the evening Builders Plan Gains Support As plans progress for College Days the three day celebration picturing campus life support from campus organizations in creases. Kosmet Klub and Tassels are recent organizations offering help to the Builders sponsored project which will be held April 26 to 28. The celebration will be a combination of the University of Colorado's CU days and Iowa State's Veishea. and includes pro grams and contributions from every phase of University life. Kosmet Klub will assist in College Days either by giving a series of shows, scheduling their Spring Revue during the cele bration or presenting a talent show, announced Leon Pfeiffer, president. Pfeiffer Comments Pfeiffer added, "We certainly realize that it will be a tremen dous task, and Builders alone can't do it." "With the cooperation and support of every campus organ ization, house, college and fac ulty member, it certainly should be a success," he said. "Other campuses have pre sented celebrations similar to College Days, and the University ought to be able to do the same thing or something similar," he added. Tassels to Help College Days, which first was discussed nearly 20 years ago on this campus, also has the sup port of the Tassels. Shirley Allen president of the organization, said that Tassels "certainly will do anything to help." "It is a good idea," she said. Administration officials. Chan cellor R. G. Gustavson, Dean Carl Borgmann and Dean T. J. Thompson, have stamped ap proval on preliminary plans of College Days. Dean Thompson will call a meeting the first week in Octo ber of all deans of colleges to discuss the project Gene Berg, president of Build ers, said that letters soon will be sent to all the dean of colleges explaining just what College Days is and what Builders hopes to achieve by holding such an event on the University campus. Berg also announced that members of the central commit tee which will head the project will be announced soon. He stressed that if the oroject is to be successful, it must have coopera tion, backing and help of all stu dents, college? and faculty mem bers. "It will take several hundred students and faculty members to plan all phases," he said. Each college will be responsible for its open house, displays and pro gram. Attempts will be made to co ordinate College Days with Far mer's Fair and Engineer's week which are scheduled for the same weekend. A University Theatre produc tion, Orchesis recitals, big name hand appearances, com erts by the University symphony orches tra, band and Singers and an all- University pnrade are only a few of the tentative plans, says Berg. 1 will be the presentation of the eighth annual "Hello Girl" dur ing intermission. The winner will be chosen from a list of candi dates selected by independent women's groups on campus The 1949 "Hello Girl", Hattie Mann, will present roses to the winner. Balloons containing the names, of each candidate will be attach- jed to the ceiling. After the "Hello: Girl" is announced, the balloons will be released and the boy i catching the balloon with the Barb queen's name in it will get one dance with her. The winner will be elected by the people in attendance at the dance who will vote as they en ter. Walt Goodbrod and his combo will furnish music for the dance. Tickets are being sold in the Union lobby. Students may bring dates, however, students may attend without dates. -'Tnedance originated in 1943, as a service for soldiers stationed at the Lincoln air base. After the soldiers left, the BABW sponsored the dance as an annual event. This year will be the eighth time that the BABW queen has been chosen. Candidates Announced The following girls will com pete for the "Hello Girl" title: Patricia Achen, Love Memor ial hall; Ruth Lind, Wilson hall; Lois Larson, Towne club; Annette Stoppkotte, Loomis hall; Delores Irwin, Heppner hall; Martha Smith, Raymond hall; Norma Ann Bargen, Love Memorial hall; Dorothy Cappell, Rosa Bouton hall; Frances Hulac, Adelphi; Annette Luebbers, Howard hall and Frances Roberts, Hesperia and Palladian. Chaperones for the dance will be Mr. and Mrs. Bob Afkey and Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Weaver. Dance Groups j To Hold Tryouts Tryouts for Orchesis and pre Orchesis will be held Wednes day at 7 p.m. in Grant Memorial hall. Tn be eligible to trvout. a candidate must have had one semester oi pre-wi uiicbib , , 19 ing. Helen Martin, instructor in rma concert rov. women's physical education, will j The University's first sym inrio.. trvnnts i phony concert will be presented Pre-Orchesis training is open to all interested students who would like to develop dancing poise. Orchesis meets weekly during the year to plan and practice for the annual Christmas program and spring programs. f 4m Is your Dad going to come to the University for his day? Sat urday, Sept. 30, has been set aside just for him. He can at tend the Dad's Day luncheon and then witness the Nebraska Indiana football contest. Dad's Day was revived last year. The tradition will be spon sored by the Innocents Society and the Athletic department. Dad will be honored at the luncheon in the Union ballroom at 11:30 a.m., before the game. The whole family is invited to be with him. Duane Lake, in charge of arrangements, is plan ning a table for Nebraska alum nae. Fritz Daly is in charge of the alumnae group. "Potsy" to Talk Athletic Director "Potsy" Clark and the Dad of one of the varsity players will give Bhort addresses. Herb Reese's Dad will also have a few words for the Fathers. Number cards for the players' Dads will be given at the lunch eon and from there they will go to the game and sit behind their sons on the bench. Tickets for the lunch and pro gram are on sale in the Union lobby and will be sold before the luncheon. Kosmet Klub has representatives in the organized LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA ,. 11 V .i S WHY HELLO! These girls will compete for honors as the eighth "Hello girl" at the an nual BABW dance Friday night in the Union ballroom at 8 p.m. From left to right, back row: Delores Irwin, Martha Smith, Frances Hulac, Annette Stoppkotte, Pat Achen and Annette Luebbers. Front row: Nan Bargen, Dorothy Cappell, Lois Larson and Ruth Lind. Frances Roberts is not pictured. Law Review Names Seven Candidates The Nebraska Law Review has announced the names of seven new student competitors for posi tions on the editorial board. The students are: John Gradwohl, William E. Morrow, Donald R. Kanzler, Russell R. Strom, Wil liam F. Fuhr, Donald H. Kelley, and Robert G. Sooville. The editorial boarti of the Re view is chosen from the honor students of the upper classes who demonstrate aptitude for legal research and writing. The Ne braska Law Review, published in collaboration with the Nebraska State Bar Association, is a quar terly journal devoted to publica tion of material of interest to the legal profession. Returning members of the edi torial board are: Theodore C. Sorensen, editor; Lewis Pierce, recent case editor; Larry Wallace Becker, note editor; Donald R. Ravenscroft, bock review editor; Jack Solomon, legislation editor, and Gayle Stahl. Dance at Union To Follow Game Following the Nebraska-Indiana football opener next Satur day, the Union will hold an in formal 'Hoosier Hop' in the Union ballroom. There will be dancing from 8:30 to 12 p.m., and the admis sion is free. Students in charge include Jan Frenchs, hospitality: Margaret McCoy, entertainment; Mel Bates, refrc shments; Doug Han son, seating, and Stu Reynolds, chairman and publicity. TJ Symphony !o Present Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. ill wic uiuuu ballroom. Marcia Pratt, Union music committee head, said that al though definite plans have not been announced, at least one well known concert artist will appear on the program. m If If houses selling tickets. Adult tickets are $1.50 and a special price of 75 cents is being of fered for the children. Children's tickets can be picked up Satur day morning. Reserved parking is in order . it 's K.. - 'm i ,ii I PLANNING FOE DAD'S DAY Duane Lake, Ted Randolph, and Fritz Daly are planning for the revived University tradition. They have arranged a luncheon for the Dads and their families in the Union ballroom. Speakers will be "Potsy" Clark and Herb Reese Sr., who are fathers of two of the varsity football players. Sfciiflidlejraft Meet T mi venue Ydlsiy Year Ago Today: Join the Marines9 "Join the Marine Air Reserve you will get four days' pay a month with only two days of ac tive duty." Thus reads an article in the Sept. 27, 1949 Daily Nebraskan. The Rag issue came out exactly a year ago. Thirty-three University stu- ; dents from the Marine Air Re- serve received their calls to ac tive duty last week, and have been ordered to report for duty Oct. 16. The 33 men were members of j VMF Squadron 1 13, stationed at the Lincoln Naval Air Station. I The Squadron is the same which was recruiting members last year. Two marine officers were on duty in the Union lobby during I this same week last year to sign I up prospective recruits. The two ' men, Lt. Henry Schlueter and I Capt J. R. Cooper were quoted in the Rag at that time as say I ing "We anticipate a large I number of recruits from the Ne braska campus." ID Cards Needed for Grid Games If you don't look like a Uni versity student, but have tickets to sit in the student football sec tion, you'd be safer to carry along an ID -card to games. All students with season foot ball tickets this year must enter the East Stadium through the door marked "students," an nounced A. J. Lewandowski, bus iness manager of athletics. Two checkers will placed at each en trance for the purpose of identi fication. ID Cards Checked According to Lewandowski, any party entering the Stadium ' whom the checkers suspect may not be a University student will be required to produce identifi cation. Proof Ties with the party ' gaining admittance," said Lew andowski. Those students holding tickets in Sections 1 to 5 are to enter through the north doors of the East Stadium. Those in other sections are to use the south doors. Faculty members are to enter the door marked "faculty." said Faculty Seating Faculty members holding football season tickets in the East Stadium must enter through the door marked "faculty" which will be loca ted directly north of the cen ter door. Lewandowski. This will be lo cated directly north of the center door. Persons, not faculty members or students, but who have seats in the East Stadium are to use the entrance marked ""public". The system is being used this year to protect student interests," said Lewandowski. A similar plan was tried once before in 1937, but only two doors were open to students. Student Faculty Sections Majority of seats in the East Stadium will be occupied by students and faculty. Exceptions are the several sections reserved to the public and single admis sion. Seats reserved for the fac ulty and University students are the card section and seats nearest the field. Seats for the visiting teams are found in front sections in the West Stadium. Also occupying the West Stadium will be the re served public and a few sections of single game admissions. I for the honored guests to aid j with their parking problems, i The committee is setting aside a University parking lot just for them. They can leave their cars ! around the Union and go to the game from there. mm j' 'if X f- t 17 Member Group To Choose Officers Seventeen new students will take their seats as members of the Student Council at its first meeting Wednesday at 4 p.m., Room 315, Union, President Rob Raun, announced. These students will become members of the second interim council: Larry Christensen, law association; Mary Hubka, Coed Counselors; Rex Messersmith, YMCA; Miriam Willey, YW CA; Peg Mulvaney, WAA; George Wilcox, Candidate Of ficer's association; Fikri Sekerei, Cosmopolitan club; Sharon Fritz ler. Associated Women Students; Bill Michelson, Interfratemity council; Ginny Guhin, Mortar Board; Bob Rogers, Innocents; Keith Stevenson, Religious Wel fare council; Sid McVicker, En gineering Executive board, and Eldean Breese, BABW. Holdover Members The "N" club and Independent Students association have not yet chosen their representatives. Holdover members of the Coun cil are. Rob Raun, president; Bob Parker, vice precident; Gene Berg, judiciary chairman; and Betty Green and Shirley Allen. The resignation of Bruce Ken nedy, representing publications, will be acted upon at the meet ing. Organization of the council will be the main order of business, Raun said. The secretary, cor responding secretary and treas urer will be elected. Committee chairman will be selected for the following committees: elec tions, judiciary, student activi ties, campus improvement and dance band. Plans for the election of of ficers for the junior and senior classes will be discussed at the meeting. Raun said that these officers would be elected as soon as possible. A president, vice president, secretary and treas urer for each class will be chosen. Migration Plans A committee to make plans for the annual student migra tion will be chosen. The migra tion this year will be to the Ne--kraska-Kan-sa footbfitt--game-in Lawrence, Kan., Oct. 22. A committee of holdover mem bers will continue to work with the faculty sub-committee on general organization to make the final draft for the new council constitution. The interim student council last year drafted a con stitution, but final details are being discussed with the faculty group. Kaun predicted that the new constitution would be in op eration by spring. After the student-faculty com mittee has worked out final de tails of the constitution, it will be presented to the Student Council for approval. When passed by the faculty senate, it will be presented to the students for final ratification. The interim coimcil, now in its second year if operation, is operating unde the same con stitution that was used prior to 1949, with the major exception of the rules on membership. The council elections of 1949 were invalidated by the faculty com mittee on student affairs because they felt that the old system was unrepresentative. The new system, of having major campus organizations send one delegate to form the student council was initiated in Septem ber 1949. Teacher Eating Scale The scholarship committee, Raun said, would continue its work on the teacher rating scale, which was widely discussed by student-faculty committees last year. Raun said that student repre sentatives would investigate the possibility of Student Council representation on faculty com mittees. "We feel that this student rep resentation will promote coop eration and speedy action on pro posed legislation which affects our school," he said. Raun praised the work done on improving the freshman ori entation program during the past year, and said that the council will continue to work with the faculty on improving the pro gram more. He cited a booklet put out by faculty representa tives which presented informa tion about campus activities and life as one of the steps in im proving the program. Delegates from Nebraska will be sent to the second annual Big Seven student government association meeting in Norman, Dkla., in 1951, Raun said. The first meeting waB held on the Nebraska campus March 3 and 4, 1950. Representatives of he Big Seven conference student councils met to discuss common problems. Enrollment Mark Reaches 7,810 Additional registrations to the University were still trickling in Monday and with the enroll ment of twenty new students, the registration figures now stand at 7,840. The majority of persons en rolling at this time are gradu ate students. Registration figures are expected to be complete by the end of this weak. Wednesday, September 27, 1950 ROB RAUN To head 1950 51 Student Council. War Prices Delay Ag Union Plans Fund Set At 3100,000 Plans for immediate construc- i lion of the proposed Ag Union were dropped at the initial meet ing of the Ag Union building committee Monday However, members of the committee decided that the issue would not be a dead one and plans will continue to be formu lated for building at the first opportunity j Biggest drawback of starting j construction now was due to the rising cost of materials and j mounting restrictions being placed on coriStaair3;kn mortfa.- Present specifications provide for a $100,000 building. To Take Poll According to Rex Messersmith, chairman of the committee, all possible architectural plans are being investigated and as soon, as definite ideas of what is need ed are obtained, a student opin- ! ion poll will be taken to determ- ine the students' desires for the new building Since the $100,000 now avail able for building would be in sufficient to produce the. type of structure needed, it may be necessary to draw up two con struction plans. One would set forth the ideas for moderate building that could be built with the available funds, and the other would be a building to meet the entire needs of the Ag college students in case private subscriptions can be obtained to the approximate total amount of $200,000 It was originally planned that the Building committee could incorporate its alloted $100,000 with another phase of the Uni versity's building plan. This means that they would be per mitted to use a floor of one of the proposed dormitories to be located on the Ag Campus. In this way the $100,000 would be used to alleviate the cost of that dormitory. Dorm Plans Curbed Since the opening of the criti cal situation in Korea, the gov ernment has stopped all payment of loans to educational institu tions, thus curbing the dormitory building plans. "Now the only course which we can take is to explore the possible areas on which to locate the new Union and to prepare a campaign for donations in case the Korean situation gets better," stated Messersmith. Faculty members supervising the project are: Dr. T. H. Good ing, Miss Ruth Jones, and Pro fessor L. B. Snyder. Ag students composing the committee are: Messersmith, chairman, Clayton Yeutter, Arlen Beam, Roland Cooksley, Ruth Craft, Ruth Fischer, Arnold Nie veen, and Lu Velte. Cornlmsker Tells Picture Schedule Group pictures for the Corn husker are now being taken. Scheduled for pictures Wednes day were: Kappa Alpha Theta, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 to 8:50 p.m. and Sigma Delta Tau, 12 to 5:36 p.m. Alpha Xi Delta was scheduled for Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. Alpha Chi Omega will have their pictures taken on Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. Independents should sign up for pictures in the Cornhusker office in the Union between 2 and 5 p.m. before Friday. Sales of the Cornhusker have been going along at a rapid pace. Deadline lor sales is Nov. 1. Jack Barnhart and Dick Kuska of the Cornhusker staff were in Iowa City, la., Saturday and Sunday to see printers on busi ness matters.