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0j ! r .1 V. ,S ' i.' M .4 J ; i t : jf7 'I 4 PAGE 4 ntwqe SfucSecrf Yermcm College Life By Jerry Bailey "I like it damn well!" That's what Hans Dieter Bc rendt had to say, when asked whut he thought of life at the University. The 22-year-old Ger man is an exchange student from Bonn University, located in the "land," or state, of Nord-Rhein-Westfalen. Dieter, as he is called, is a veteran of the German navy. He has a wide grin and the happy-go-lucky nature that other Ger mans say is typical of all Rhine landers. Active in student affairs at Bonn, Berendt has been devot ing time to an intensive study of student life, politics, and stu dent government here. He gives the following description of cer tain phases of the system at Bonn university: The institution is headed by a rector (corresponding to a chan cellor) and a senate. This sen ate consists of the deans of the different colleges (called in Ger many "faculties"), three profes sors elected at large md a stu dent representative from the stu dent council. CARE Packages The Bonn version of the stu dent council is called the ASTA, which stands for "Allgemeiner Studenten Ausschuss." Among things handled by ASTA are distribution of CARE and relief parcels to students, affairs of the foreign student ex change, passports, student hous ing, entertainment for students and many other items. ASTA provides, or secures cut rate tickets for concert and the ater productions which students attend. An ASTA representative sits and votes with administration officials on the student admis sions committee. In other words, the Bonn student council has something to say about it if someone has trouble gaining ad mission. Student Council "In anything concerns the students, the student council is going to be heard," says Be rendt. ASTA at Bonn includes mem bers of the following groups: 1. Student "Verbindungen" the fraternities and sororities. 2. Campus political groups. Each political party has a branch organized as an active student group. They are the socialists, Christian democrats and liberals. This is quite different than the local situation, where a few stu dents are active as young demo crats and fewer still if any are young republicans. The Bonn International Stu dent club, of which more will be said later, is also classed as a political organization. 3. The "Studenten Gemein- 'EspanoV Cast To Give 'Rubio' Play Tonight A mixture of comedy and drama is the chief entertainment awaiting Spanish club members when they meet tonight for their annual Christmas party. Parlors X and Y in the Union will house the cast of advance Spanish students who will give their version of "El Bigote Rubio," a story revolving about a blond mustache and some let ters written in French which cause a case of mistaken iden tity. The cast of the play is as fol lows: Clemencia, Edwina Ho- kenson; La Generala, Nancy Koehler; El General, Bernal Car ter; El Professor, Bob Ingrahm; -1 uoionei, Don Innis; and asiS' tant, Ed Miyahara. Professor Hilario Saenz will read his translation of the poem "A Night Before Christmas" in Spanish. Professor Saenzs trans. lation once was published in a Spanish newspaper in New York. The highlight of the party will be the breaking of the "pinata" an old Spanish tradition of Christmas. The "pinata" is a large sack or jug filled with a nut and "goodies," which is sus pended from the ceiling, each guest is given a chance at break ing it. When it's broken, every one scramDies lor the candies. After the entertainment a ahort business meeting will be held. Refreshments of coffee and buneulosM (a sweet fritter) will be served. All Spanish students, begin ning or advanced, are urged to attend. CLASSIFIED VMTCIf REPAIR STOsUS. 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Buss, 2-1174. ITaNTKD Rlda to Rawlins, or Cheyenne, cr vlemlty, bnare expenses. Phone 8-4630. Henry Larson. TUXES for rent at AYER8, 13G hn 13. HbCORD Player wanted Threa sDeeda preferred. Call before 10 a.m. S-46S2, Room 5 Tf' ANTED Riders to Southern California Peturriay, Oecember 36. References re ;' quested. Call Laity Nebraskan after-moons. den" the two student religious groups representing the Catholic church and the protestant "Evan gelical Kirche Deutschlands." 4. Students at large two or three students are elected repre sentatives from each college's student body (philosophy, nat ural sciences, etc.). Council Activities Each of these student repre sentatives takes charge of one phase of the council's activity, acting alone or forming a com mittee if needed. These jobs in clude the many services of the council, such as help with pass ports, help with finding employ ment, distribution of food and clothing or providing social ac tivities. Berendt comments on the dif ference in German and Ameri can conditions for students who have to work their, way through school. "In America it's easy to find a job," he says. "In Ger many there is a terrible unem ployment problem." Dieter Berendt was active in forming the Bonn university's International Student club. He served as the group's president in the '49 to '50 school year. The international group was born in 1945, when the dust had hardly settled from the war. It has grown until it has members from France, the United States, England, Ireland, Finland and various nationalities of D.P. stu dents who happen to be in Ger many. The ISC built itself up right along with Bonn university, which was 80 per cent destroyed Authors of Late Term Papers View Vacation Most NU students are now hav ing the misfortune of hearing the eleven saddest words of the whole semester. These few "choice" words are being spoken by profs in classes all over the campus. iThey are: "Your term papers are due the first day after Christ mas vacation." These words of "wisdom" are Paper Surveys Students' Habits Random surveys of college students seem to be gaining in populartiy. At Syracuse, the Daily Orange polled 50 coeds and found that 70 percent favored combining marriage and a career; 20 per cent favored marriage alone; and less than 10 per cent wanted a career with no mar riage involved. However, even the most ve hement opponents of outside work after marriage felt that coeds should think of the future by choosing college courses that could be turned into earning power. Meanwhile, the State College News reports that a survey of 18 women and 26 men produced the following information: Women get an average of 18 minutes sleep per day more than men. Women spend an average of one hour and 22 minutes on body care and grooming as opposed to the average of 52 minutes for men. Christmas Music At IVCF Party The annual Christmas program of Inter-Varsity Christian Fel lowship will be given at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 315, Union. Guest speaker, Rev. Melvin Jones, will deliver a Christmas message. Special music will in clude a vocal solo by Clara Scott and a piano duet by Helen Nelson and Devonna Ebmeir. All students and faculty mem bers are invited to attend this annual event. Australian Visits Love Library A. L. G. McDonald, librarian of the Australian National uni versity, Carberra, Australia, vis ited the Don L. Love Memorial Library on Monday, Dec. 11. McDonald has been touring and studying English and Amer ican libraries with the view of applying certain English and American library methods and ideas to the library of the newly founded Australian National uni versity, which was established for the purpose of promoting and di recting advanced research and study, primarily in the fields of physical and social sciences. McDonald showed great inter- ional plan under which the uni- versity libraries operate and which he wanted to see in action in his own country. Madrigal Singers Present Concert The Unrversity Madrigal sing ers conducted by David Foltz presented a formal concert of Christmas music at the Monday meeting of the Woman's group of Lincoln Chamber of Commerce. The string quartet also presented music for the program. Patricia Kfllion sang "Balu lalou"s while Marjorie Danley sang "The Young Child." Donnie Weddle gave an interlude of harp melodies and near the conclusion of the program a duet was sung by Janice Wagner and Nancy Button. Ag Engineers to Give Chicago Trip Reports Reports by the students who went to the Ag Engineer field trip in Chicago will be presented at the meeting Wednesday of the A.S.A.E. There will be also a discussion of E-week progress and other business. The meeting is at 7:30 p.m. in the Agriculture hall recreation room. THE TeSBs by bombing. The club was given what, little support the univer sity could afford. University of ficials gave the use of a build ing for a club house. There was little left of the house but four blasted walls and piles of rub ble. It was a monument to the power of Allied bombers. ' The ISC was allowed to rent the ruin for a nominal fee one mark a year. House Building The international group of students set out to raise their clubhouse, scraping salvaged brick, hammering nails and rais ing a roof. They built their house working alongside profes sional laborers. ' Donations enabled the students to furnish and finish the house. The state government gave 140,- 000 marks. The French high : commission gave 30,000 marks. The British army sold the stu dents furniture, linen, and silver from a Hamburg officers' club for 10,000 marks. Today the house provides 27 rooms for 50 students. The lec ture room, game room and li brary are still not furniished. Throughout the reconstruction, the students had to contend with official red tape. They still got the job done. A peculiarly German institu tion mentioned by Berendt is the "Altestenrat" or "council of the oldest," made up of graduate students. This group is called in to give advice when emergen cies such as needed constitu tional amendments are faced by ASTA, the student council. With Alarm usually followed by lost looks, as sorted moans and groans, and an air of despair on the part of the class. One or two members of the class may have that "ha-ha. I've-got-my-paper-written" look on their faces, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Funeral March At the end of the class, the stu dents file slowly out of the class room, whistling strains of "The Funeral March." They realize that they won't be dreaming of a White Christmas, but only of a black and white term paper dur ing their respective Christmas vacations. Most of the term paper writers know of their paper deadlines well in advance sometimes as much as three months in advance; but, nevertheless, they still hope that the teacher may have a memory relapse and forget all about them. Sad to say, however, most teachers memories are usually far better than those of their stu dents; so, Betty Coed and Joe College who continue flitting bus ily around campus, with their re spective minds on everything but term papers are the ones who have the memory relapses as far as papers are concerned, that is, until the fatal day when the eleven little words are spoken! Worst Ordeal It has been said that every thing comes to those who wait. That certainly doesn't apply to term paper writing, for, sad to say, term papers just don't write themselves! The worst part of the whole ordeal is that no matter how many term papers a person writes during his university life, the average student continues to put off writing the paper until the last possible day. Who says, "We live and learn!" In this case, a much better pro verb would be, "He who procras tinates, is lost!" If nothing else can be said for term papers, it can always be said that a person will have no time to be bored (or to be anything else) with a term paper to write over vacation. So best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy term paper! Suggestion Box New Union Plan The recreation committee of the Union is looking for ways to serve the students better. As a result they have placed a sug gestion box near the middle en trance to the lounge. Students, are asked to place suggestions as to games and hobbies which they would like added to the Union facilities. Tom Podhaisky and Nancy Weir are co-chairmen in charge of the box. .Language Honorary To Meet I hursclay Phi Sigma Iota, romance lan guage national honorary society, will hold its December program meeting Thursday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 313 at the Union. . Virginia Hill and Janet Lind quist will present papers on "Rostand and Romanticism" and "Autobiographican Elements in the Poetry of Gabriela Mistral" respectively. Girls Dorm Preparse Christmas Services A Christmas candle-light ves per service will be held Sunday, Dec. 17, at 4:30 p.m. in the Resi dence Halls for Women. The program was planned and prepared by the girls. It consists of the reading of the "Christmas Story," a short sermon, choir, soloists and group singing of carols. KFOR to Broadcast 'Messiah' Monday Students who missed Sunday's presentation of the "Messiah" by the University Choral Union will have an opportunity to hear it Monday evening over KFOR. A recording made at the pub lic performance of the oratorio will be broadcast from 8:30 (to 10 p.m. on Dec. 18. DAILY NEBRASKAN Two Students Attend Fifth! Mo dern Dancers . . . White House Two University freshmen, Phil Eyen and Nancy Pumphrey, at tended the Fifth White House conference on Children and Youth in Washington Dec. 3 to 7. The conference, which was at tended by more than 6,000 peo ple, attempted to solve some of the problems of children and youth. Between 150 and 200 young people from all over the nation attended the meetings. Open House Will Include Combo, Shows The Union's annual Christmas open house will be held Saturday, Dec. 16, from 8 p.m. to midnight. The entire Union building will be used for the affair. From 900 to 1,000 people are expected to attend. The theme this year is "International Christmas." Almost e'Very room will con tain some sort of entertainment. In the ballroom there will be dancing to Aaron Schmid's combo from 9 p.m. to midnight. During intermission a skit will be given by Alpha Epsilon Rho, national radio honorary, and a style show, by Cosmopofitan club with the members in native costume. Henry Cech and Nick Adduci will be masters of ceremony. Other Events Punch and a juke box will be the features in Parlors ABC Cartoons entitled "The Night Be fore Christmas," "Snow Time Serenade" and "Christmas Trees" will be shown in Room 313. A photograph exhibit taken by Kappa Alpha Mu, honorary pho tography fraternity, can be seen in the game room. The cafeteria will feature bingo .from 8 to 11 p.m., with prizes for the winners. Delta Phi Delta, art honorary, will sell Christmas cards at a booth in the lobby. Samples are available at the Union office. To Sine Carols In the lounge, punch and brownies will be served all eve ning and Ralph Hanneman will play Christmas carols on the or gan. There will be a fire in the fireplace, and the Union choir, composed of Union employees, will sing during the evening. At 11 p.m. carol singing will take place in the lounge. Throughout the evening, Santa Claus will tour the halls of the Union distributing candy to all who befall his path. The committee for this special event is composed of: Chuck Widmaier, sponsor; Thorn Sny der, chairman; and Mary Pitter man, Betty Stratton, Helen Vitek, Ralph Hanneman, Joan Osten berg, Lorraine Westfall and Nancy Dixon. aaieqbca's largest and 0P3tll V See if ' wamft- 0 I I m M ';,. ,Mm. SA,. M"; W. k ',. .m,M W, &. ... ... ww4 P f f4 f4 f 1 1 1 1 C III J 1 1 P im NEW Longer, lower, wider big-car look! IJElil Strikingly smarter Ilk VI Fisher RaAv thlinnl T ' -. ....j,. J"5 t See Conference Decisions and recommendations were reached through joint plan ning of adults and youth. Both Eyen and Miss Pumphrey agree that the most valuable thing they got out of the con ference was the better under standing of the viewpoints of other youths all over the nation. "Vou'd be surprised how really different some kids are. When you meet them you learn what think on different subjects and you get to understand them more," said Eyen. College Youth Miss Pumphrey was esneciallv interested in learning what other students were doing over the country, especially in Eastern colleges. Meetings of the conference were neia m me Armory in Washington. President Truman and Carlos. , famuto, . Philippine delegate to the United Nations, spoke to the group. The two University students observed two things about Tru man and Romulo; 1. There is an increasing guard of secret service men who are continually with the president. t. Komuio, though not an American, is sincere and vigor ous in his belief in the cause of democracy. "1 didn't realize that non Americans could be so democratic-minded," said Eyen. Panel Discussions - Most of the work of the con ference was done in panel dis cussions, work groups and lec tures. Miss Pumphrey participated in a panel discussion on symptoms of and reasons for conflict be tween adults and children. Work ing the panel discussion were six adults and two young people. A work group in which she participated discussed certain specific problems of recreation pertaining to children, In Eyen's work group, the ef- lect or neignDornood environ ment on healthy personality was discussed. The general problem included subdivisions such as the prob lems of segregation, effect of the church on youth, schools, geo graphical location of the neigh borhood and the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Recorders Discussions in the work groups and panel discussions was taken down by official recorders which will gather the material and finish the report of the confer ence. A number of work groups and panel discussions were going on at the same time. General ses sions were held, however, throughout the week. Miss Pumphrey represented Girls' State at the convention and Eyen represented the Catholic Youth organization. t4 M r4 yp Vam m Pirn iSm H 'mmrm m Kafir u U w ACE. 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