THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday. April 10. 1951
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CHORUS GIRLS These eight dancing girls have been selected
for the chorus of the Kosmet Klub's production of 'Good News.
They are (L to r.) Pat Healy, Marilyn Lehr, Nanci DeBord,
Martha Schuster, Jean Simmerman, Shirley Hamilton, Peggy
Woods and Anne Lear.
I.S.R. Offers Direct
Relief 'for, by' Students
I. S. R. is an expression of stu
dent solidarity.
This statement is just a com
bination of high-sounding syl
lables and an indefinable triad of
alphatbet soup letters to most
people.
Perhaps if I. S. R. were trans
lated into the words, International
Student Relief, the alphabet in
the soup would -probably make
a little more sense.
Its slogan, however, defines it
even further "for the students,
by the students" in the sphere
cf relief.
N'a Discrimination
The organization, international
In scope, is based on the sole
principle of need and has no dis
crimination in regard to political
or religious opinion, race or na
tionality. It has a unified pro-
Bled School
Applications
Due April 28
Dr. E. F. Powell, pre-med ad
visor, today again reminded all
University pre-med students to
tnake applications soon it they
desired to enroll in the 1952
freshman class of the College of
Medicine.
Application procedure consists
cf filling out two different forms
tvow available in the office of Dr.
Powell, Room 306, Bessey hall.
One form must be sent in to the
Princeton Educational Testing
ervice on or before April 28. The
testing service designs the apti
tude tests which are universally
Jised for medical admission
exams.
Also a form must be sent to
inedical college in Omaha.
- The aptitude test will be given
Jtfay 12 and all med schhool as
pirants are urged by Powell to
take this test rather than the one
customarily given to November.
The exact time and location of
the examination will be sent to
each applicant by the Princeton
testing service.
Sixteen Orators
Enter State
FFA Contests
Sixteen district winners of FFA
speech contest will compete for
state honors here Thursday as the
23rd annual Future Farmers of
American convention opens at the
University.
" About 1,000 boys we expected
t the College of Agriculture for
the vocational agriculture judging
contest and the convention.
Here are the participants for the
FFA creed speaking contest:
Duane Reproth, Humboldt; Roger
pean Becker, Wakefield; Keith
Williams, Springview; Mark
Wockett, Kimball; Ira Rocken
badt, Wtverly; Robert Dannert,
Creighton.; Stanley Urwiller, Ra
venna; Robert Nation, Harrison.
Public gpeaking Contest
Those who will vie for state
lienors in the state championship
ymblic speaking contest: Ted
Ward, Auburn; Howard Johnson,
Fremont; John Olson, Broken
Bow; Marvin Wyman, Grant;
Keith Stooker, Nebraska City;
Charles Gans, Columbus; larry
Cavanaugh, Minden; Allen Trem
ble, Hay Springs.
District champion parliamen
tary procedure teams also will
enter state competition here. The
-teams are from FFA chapters at
Dewitt, Waverly, Lincoln North
east, Wittier, Columbus, Loup
City, Ravenna, Grant and Crw
iord. Several other contests will be
underway Thursday afternoon.
They include judging crops and
oua, dairy cattle, dairy manage
ment and poultry Judging.
Ceoventtoa Session
The "first convention nession
epeus et S:30 p. m. State officers,
' Steaded by President Junior Kno
bel of Falrbury, will conduct the
opening ceremony. The delegates
will be welcomed to the campus
try Dr. W. V. Lambert, dean of
fii CoJlegt of Agriculture.
Tfct tscond convention bkUm
.ySa bt t 7:30 p. m. There will be
" eaatartsinmcfit furnished by sev-
VAV
gram, based on precise projects
and surveys, making the greatest
possible use of self-help as the
most effective method of relief.
I. S. R. has no intermediaries,
no in-between officials. Instead,
it works directly from the student
organization, giving student in
stitutions that which they need.
TB Fierht
One of its greatest projects is!
the combat of tuberculosis. The!
organization's methods range all
the way from building regional
sanatoria m cnina to endowing
beds to such institutions else
where. France, Czechslovakia and
Brazil are a few of the places that
have received help in this phase
of relief.
Aside from giving relief to
tubercular students in the form
of international and regional
projects, the L S. R. also under
takes a number of standard pro
jects. This group makes arrangements
fnr onmnlete sets of medical first
aid and dental equipment for stu
dent health centers, it matces
portable X-ray units, equipment
for vaccination against tubercu
losis, food units for improving
diets in student canteens, school
supply sets, basic medical librar
ies for medical and technical
studies, and uipment for print
ing centers, including mimeo
graphing machines, typewriters,
stencils and ink, available to stu
dents. Offers Scholarships
On top of all these things, this
etnrtmt -relief machine also offers
yearly scholarships one to be
used in the student s own coun
try and the other, abroad.
Armed with these munitions,
the I. S. R. has begun its march
of improvement in Asia, Africa,
the Middle East, Europe and Latin
America.
Rrarii anil Tunisia. France and
Cyprus it helps large and small
nations alike. No matter now re
mote or how prominent, this
group, through funds donated by
students, doesn't by-pass any na
tions who are in need of aid.
Direct Relief
When a student gives money
to the I. S. RM he has the pri
vilege of earmarking it for a spe
cial purpose in a specific country.
Too, relief may be sent directly
from the student to the party in
need of It. Al the student is
free to suggest new projects to
the organization which will help
to implement their cause.
After all's said and done, who
could have suggested a better
idea in the realm of relief? Fur
thermore, what allocation method
is any better than the voluntary
one which they have set up?
Welfare Group
Elects Chinn
New President
Pon Chinn is the new presi
dent of the Religious Welfare
Council.
H and the other new officers
were elected April 5. at the reg
ular meeting of the council.
Chinn's activities Include: mem
ber of the Baptist Students house
cabinet; chairman of tlie Inter
national friendship dinner; and
chairman of the Boys and Girls
State reunion. He is a sophomore
in engineering,
Kathy Dill is the vice-president.
Miss Dill iJ a sophomore in arts
and ftcienccs and a member oi
the YWCA cabinet.
The secretary is Shirley Schon
berg. She is a member of the
YWCA cabinet and Tassels. Miss
Schonberg is a sophomore in
teachers college.
Lois Mary - Lawrence is corre
sponding secretary. Siie is a mem
ber of AUF, YWCA and BABW.
She is an arts and science sopho
more. Dr. J. O. Burnett, assistant pro
fessor of accounting, is the treas
urer. Ruth Shinn, YWCA director,
and Father Jack Sweigart were
elected advisors for the council.
Dave Cargo is the representa
tive of the studetn council. Don
Anderson and Miriam Willey
were named co-chairmen for the
displaced persons committee.
Remember
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JJniversity Draft Eligibles Show Favor
To Administration's Deferment
"I guess it's all right."
"I cant think of anything bet
ter." "It's okay."
From these indifferent remarks
of University men students, no
one would guess that the ques
tion they were answering in
volved the immediate futures of
most of them.
No one would imagine that
President Truman's examination
deferment program even affected
Nebraska students or that their
Professor's Thoughts Deed
With His College Adventures
You're taking an exam.
You've spent every spare min
ute these last few days cramming
for it Now you, and others around
you, have settled down to a good
hour of hard work.
You notice your professor sit
ting at the desk in front of the
room calmly watching his stu
dents. What does he think about
when he gazes so intently at the
body across the aisle? And you
he even looked at you for a
moment. But jTou think he never
notices you. How could he re
member every one of the hun
dreds of faces that sit in front
of him day after day.
Blonde Hair.
But you're wrong. You dont
know that when the professor
glanced at you it was your blonde
hair he noticed. Sure, it's the
same color as that of hundreds
of other coeds on campus. But
you dont realize you are sitting
in the sun, which is highlighting
your hair. You don't realize that,
as he smiles thoughfully, he is
thinking about the blonde locks
of his two-year-old daughter
brought to mind by what you
thought was rather stringy, or
dinary blonde hair.
And the boy across the aisle.
What was he doing to attract so
much of the professor's attention.
Certainly, he wasn't cheating.
He's the class brain! He'll prob
ably get a nine without even half
trying.
Cheating?
No, the professor wasn't think
ing about cheating. It was the
boy's sweater he noticed. A dark
blue sweater that reminded him
of a like-colored sweater he wore
in college. No, it was not a cash
mere, as this young lad's was, but
it had been an expensive buy
even for prices in those days and
lie had ti eated it as if it had been
a mink coat.
And thinking of fur coats, the
professor notices a girl's fur
jacket thrown carelessly over the
back of a chair. Even he had
owned a fur coat when he was
in college. His pride and joy was
a heavy raccoon coat that made
him trip once while wearing it
and fall flat on his face in a
mud puddle in front of a group
of girls. Their laughter had made
him feel like a fool and the
coat was nothing but a mass of
sticky mud-caked fur.
No One Notices
The pro)"sisor almost laughs
aloud at this reminiscing but no
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chances for continuing their edu
cation depended, to a large de-i
gree, upon the plan.
Only half of the students in
terviewed were acquainted
enough with the program to ven
ture an immediate opinion. The
other half, after essential facts
about the examination were ex
plained, gave lukewarm answers.
"Good Dear
Generally, however, most stu
dents felt that the President's pro
gram was a "good deal," the "only
one notices his surpressed merri
ment The exam is almost over. In
the front row, of seats, a dark-
haired girl, wearing two pins
joined by a delicate chain, is put
ting her pen away. Noticing the
pins, the professor's thoughts
drift back a few years to the time
when he pinned his wife and
how proud he had been when his
frat brothers smoked his cigars
and slapped him on the back in
congratulatfosis.
Yes, professors remember faces
they see before them day after
day. But more often these faces
are ' not associated with their
names, but with something that
reminds the professor of his
days in college days when he
was the one who wondered what
the professors thought.
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Do you know that mechanical
men have hit the University
campus?
To be even more specific, these
little "men" have been on our
campus for eight years.
You've probably never seen
them around campus, but you
have certainly heard of them, be-i
cause they are really BMOC's
and they affect the lives of each
and every member of the NU
campus. 1
Who are they? Why they're the
IBM machines!
Herculean Tasks
Even though these little "men"
arent human, they put our men-;
tali ties to shame by doing such
Herculeon tasks as filing cards at
the rate of 250 a mmute and
making sure that when registra
tion time rolls around that each
class card is "parfait,
These mechanical men have
hade quite a background. They
were developed by a man named
Dr. Hollerith who had a 50b with
Program
alternative," "better than any-
thing
theyve come up with so
far.
The exam will allow qualified
students to remain in school, said
Don Hewitt, freshman. After all,
he said, "arent we fighting to
advance education?"
The examination results. Dick
Meissner, senior, believed, might
give a nationwide picture of
abilities, but it will fail to place
each individual
Upperclassmen will undoubted
ly score higher, junior Tom Gus
tafson said, if the same test is
given all students. He feels that
deferment should be based upon
college scholastic records.
Mental Capacity
Deferment on mental capaci
ties only is not fair, declared Don
Hanson, sophomore. Besides,
quipped Jack BusselL who was
sitting beside him, "Smart men
are needed in the army."
Alton Wing, graduate student,
felt that the plan is the only al
ternative, but that it will not be
100 per cent fair because "exami
nations are not the criteria of in
telligence." It is not a solutoin, said Nolan
Jones, senior, below-average stu-
dents should not be "bumped.'
Jones advocated deferment for all
college students.
The program "draws a line
agamsi non-couege men, saia
Leonard Stem, senior.
1 a on i Know wnat 10 xninic.
one freshman said, "but 111 keep
on going to school as long as I
can."
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the United States census bureau.!
During his days in the census J
bureau, he got to thinking that at
might be possible to develop a
method whereby he could cross
classify the census by punching
holes into cards by electronic
means. It turned out that he was
right And so the IBM machines
were born.
Ironic as it may seem, even
thou eh a man in the census bur
eau invented these machines,
they were first used by the Vital
Statistics bureau in Baltimore,
Md.
But these mechanical geniuses
usually don't get the student rec
ognition they deserve. Why? Be
cause after many students see
their IBM graded papers with a
red-penciled failure' mark on
them, they are usually willing to
give more than enough of the
"due credit" to those "little me
canical monsters." Seldom do
they realize that without these
"little mechanical monsters"
their grades would probably be
much less accurate and that the
grading process would be much
slower.
As most students know, there
is nothing worse than waiting
for a test paper for a seeming
eternity, only to find that it has
been incorrectly graded.
Perfection-Key Word
Does this mean that the IBM
machines are always right? Most
of the time they are, perfection
is the keyword in the IBM's vo
cabulary, so in order to insure
almost 1O0 per cent accuracy,
there are two IBM machines
called Verifiers that check over
the work of their fellow ma
chines. Maybe you've wondered just
what the initials "IBM" stand
for. As long as we're telling you
something about these almost
human beings, we might as well
let you become even better ac
quainted with them by telling
you their whole name; it is In
ternational Business Machine.
Some people have the mis
taken idea that the IBM's are
just one machine that can tabu
late, sort, and verify. It's not so!
Some of the members of the
IBM family are the Verifiers, the
sorters, and the Alphabetical
Collator.
Just to give 3'ou a further idea
of the talent of these machines,
here is a glimpse into the life of
the Alphabetical Collator. AC
sians on xne oay oy punching a
few thousand cards at the speed
of 240 cards a minute. After that
he starts on the routine duty of
1 inter-filing, comparing, selecting
and verifying the sequence of
! IBM cards
He punches them with alpha
betical, numerical, or special
character designations alone or
in combination.
Another remarkable member
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Rnelobs
of this noteworthy family is the
Card - Programing Calculattor.
nas not et put in an ap-
pearanee on the NU cammis. but
he is nevertheless worth telling
about He is one of the mathe
matical geniuses of the family.
CPC is really a combination of
mechanical men. He can be used
as an accounting machine, a
storage unit, a punching unit,
and a calculating unit
The calculating side of CPC's
personality is really amazing. He
can utilize five digit numbers,
compute at the rate of 2,174 ad
ditions or subtractions, 79 multi
plications, or 65 divisions in -only
one second.
Another thing this genius can
do is count from one to one mil
lion in only 20 seconds.
By the way, how long does it
take you to count to a million
starting from the number one?
The Punched Card Sorter
shows his talent in a different
way than does his brother, CPC.
Once IBM cards are punched
(by another IBM brother, of
course), PCS groups all cards of
'similar classification and at the
same time arranges such class
ification in numerical sequence.
The sorting operation is accom
plished at the speed of 650 cards
' per minute, per column sorted.
Yes, thanks to the IBM family,
accurate answers to scientific and
business problems can be solved
in a number of minutes instead
of hours, or perhaps days.
D Not Complain
As far as these mechanical
men are concerned, they are
obedient servants of their opera
tors; they are at his beckening
and call at his disposal at all
times. It's really wonderful that
some "people" can do more than
their share of work without com
plaining. Yes, when you hear of the
amazing things these mechanical
men can do, you sometimes won
der if they really aren't human,
instead of being merely electron
ically controlled brains.
Well, who knows maybe they
are!
NU Bulletin
Board
Trident naval fraternity meet
ing, Room 104, Armory, 7 p.m.
All members, pledges and the
dance committees urged to at
tend. Chess club meeting. Game
room. Union, 7 p.m.
Alum-faculty news letter and
Fine Arts groups, 3 p.m, EHen
Smith hall
Cosmopolitan club dance com
mittee meeting, 7 P-m, Union
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