Report From Rome
Barbara Adams, University
student living this semester in
Rome, sent a student's-vlew
report of Italy to The Ne-
braskan. She speaks generally
and specifically of the Italian
people and her impressions of
them. The report is found on
the editorial page.
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VOL. 51 No. 142
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New Student Week
New Student Week central
committee will hold It final
meeting of this year Monday
at 4 p.m., Room 218 Union.
The group will complete plant
for New Student Week, Sept. 7
to 13. Next meeting; will be
Sept. 8.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Monday, Moy 12, 1952
hanzellor':
To H
ISUSS
Convocation
sot Jkstion
Courtesy The Lincoln Slate Journal
CHANCELLOR . . . R. G. Gus
tafson will discuss steps to be
taken concerning the two reccnT
riots.
Attendance at the all-Univer
sity convocation Tuesday at 10
a.m. will be required only at the
discretion or tne student, said a
spokesman from the nffire of nr.
Carl Borgmann. dean of facul
ties.
The convocation will be held in
the Coliseum Tuesday at a 10 a.m.
and has been labeled by Chancel
lor R. G. Gustavson as an "in
formal get-together" to enable
students to express opinions on
now to deal with the rioters and
how to prevent future outbreaks
I he Chancellor has issued a
call to the students, said the
spokesman, and the responsibil
ity of answering the call is up
to the students. ,
ine spokesman also rennrfpd
that only 10 a.m. classes will hp
dismissed for the convocation. If
tne convocation runs over the
hour, he said, students will be
obligated to report to their 11
a.m. classes.
George Cobel, student council
president, who will nreside nvrr
the convocation suggested that
earlier attendance be checked bv
punching students I. D. cards and
by taking role from rosters of the
that
res-
organized houses.
The Chancellor suggested
students pass the following
olutions at the convocation:
1. Complete disapproval of
the rioters' actions by the stu
dent body;
2. A pledge by the student
body to prevent another such
occurence;
3. A promise by the student
body to block a riot if one
should occur.
"A lot of good public relations
work has been undone," said the
Chancellor, He reported that he
had received letters from the par
ents of students and other Ne
braska residents expressing con
cern over the riots.
A spokesman for Governor Val
Peterson stated that the Gover
nor had also received letters about
the riots.
National wire services have
carried the story of the riots and
state and national newspapers
have taken a dim view of rioters'
actions.
The Chancellor said he wanted
to give the students a chance to
rectjfy the damaging publicity
that has resulted from the riots.
Distribution Begins
For Yearbook Today
The 1952 Cornhusker is here!
Distribution of, the yearbook
will start at approximately 2 p.m.
in the Corn
husker office
today.
Students
wishing to pick
up their books
must bring
their receipt
and student I.D.
' office in the
Union base
ment. This year's
C o r n h u sker
has a maroon
with an embossed drawing of the
state in cream. The book has' 452
pages.
Students are urged to pick up
their books by Friday. Dick Bil-
editor, said no books will be last Colloquium Lecture
age collect.
Billig
Lewis, assistant business man
agers; Pat Bechan, layout editor;
Jackie Hoss, panel editor; Bob
Downing, head photographer.
Barbara Bell, Beth Rohwer,
Diane Hinman, Harriett Wenke,
Cal Kuska, Terry Barnes, Bar
bara Adams, Nancy Pumphrey,
Cathy Haskell, Mike Lawlor, Bar-
Dara Hemphill. Joe Whiteman.
Joyce Johnson, Sue Brownlee,
Jane Calhoun, Nora DeVore, sec
tion heads.
Nadine Moriarty, Dick Barn
hart, Duane Nielsen, Gus Wolke,
Larry Ozenberger, Wilda Weaver,
Jim Pettygrove, photographers;
Jim Adams, J. Benedict, Dwight
Fritts, business assistants.
Walter Militzer To Give
This year's staff consisted of:
Dick Billig, editor; Gene
Johnson, business ma nager;
Jackie-Sorenson, associate ed
itor; Adele Coryell Mary Lou
Flaherty; Julie Johnson, manag
ing editors; Don Noble, Marty
The final collequeium lecture
will be given on Thursday May
15 at 4 p.m.
Walter Militzer, professor of
chemistry at the University, will
be the speaker for this final lecture.-
- ,
All interested students
urged to attend this lecture.
By CHARLES KLASEK
Staff Writer
A college dramatic ham, wit
ness in an accident case, de
scribed himself as "the greatest
actor since Booth." '
"Modest, aren't you," laughed
the judge.
"Ordinarily, yes," said the
ham without blinking an eye,
"but please remember that I am
now under oath."
Nice weather
is in store for
NU Students
this last week
of classes.
The weather
is predicted fair
and warmer
with a high in
the upper 60s.
Men Asked
To Fill Out
Draft Data
Students may ask their local
draft boards for deferment on the
basis of class standing for their
last full academic year, according
to the office of J. P. Colbert, di
rector of veterans and selective
service affairs.
If a student is subject to the
draft, he sould fill out a draft
data form so the University can
file a college student certificate
with his local draft board, giving
class standing for the school
year 1951-52.
Colbert stresses that promptness
is essential because the University
cannot file a certificate for stu
dents unless the necessary in
formation is supplied.
Draft data forms may be ob
tained at the office of the dean
of a student's college, or at the
office of veterans and selective
service affairs. 106 Mechanic
Arts hall.
Additional information may be
obtained at any local selective
service board (in Lincoln, 1228 M
Street) or the office of veterans
and selective service affairs.
iNl jjtejyl
For
April
An old grad was belittling the
quality of present-day gridiron
warriors.
"When I was in college," he told
the coach, "I helped Williams
trim Amherst three years in suc
cession."
"Zatso." nodded the cnarh.
n a ... ...
""j"wnicn team did you say you
I were playing for?"
Hayloft Theater
Cast Presents
Preview Play
Members of the Lincoln Stock
company, a summer professional
resident acting company, pre
sented Philip Barry's "Second
Threshold" Friday night.
The play was performed in
the Experimental theater in the
Temple building. Members of
the cast were Pat Loder, Les
Mathis, Henry Gibson, Marian
Uhe, Harry Stiver and Wes
Jensby. Marjorie Miller was
stage manager and Diane Down
ing, technical supervisor.
Director of the play was David
Andrews.
The plot centered about a
wealthy career diplomat in New
York City and his daughter's ef
forts to find a happy solution for
their lives.
The production was presented
as a preview of the Lincoln
Stock company which will per
form in the Hayloft Summer
Theater, as an opportunity for
the audience to have a close-up
view of the cast before the sea
son opens. j
nsflralhioiri) peons
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Math, Journalism, Japanese
Courses Added To Curriculum
onooirs
A five-hour calculus course de- will be offered to students with
signed especially for mathematics
majors will be offered at the Uni
versity next fall for the first
time.
The course, mathematics 115,
in conjunction with the four
hour mathematics 116 to be of
fered the following semester,
will substitute for three three
hour calculus courses, mathe
matics 105, 106 and 107.
For students in Arts and Scien
ces college and Teachers college
who are majoring in math, the
change will mean they will no
longer be taught calculus from
the standpoint of an engineering
student
Mathematics 115 will be taught
by Prof. M. A. Basoco, chairman
cf the department of mathematics
and astronomy, at 11 a.m. every
day in Room 106, Burnett.
A number of other courses are
to be offered for the first time
next fall. Geology 97, a two-hour
course in geology of Nebraska,
will be taught by Prof. T. M.
Stout at 9 a.m. Tuesday and
Thursday.
A new course in journalism,
161, will be offered from 3 to
4:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thurs
day. It will be concerned with
the problems of technical jour
nalism. Journalism 162 will be
offered second semester.
Art 180, Baroque Rococo art,
Registration slips showing
10Q or more hours of credit
earned will admit students to
the assignment committee for
summer and fall registration
Monday.
Registration will take place
in the second floor drill room
of Military and Naval Science
building from 8 to 11:30 a.m.
and 1 to 4:45 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Students will be allowed to
Four history courses which have register according to number of
sophomore standing or above at
11 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and
Friday in Room 204, Morrill hall
Hal Wilmeth will be the instruc
tor. -
A second new mathematics
course, 217, is a three-hour course
in analytic geometry and linear
algebra I. It will be taught by
H. B. Ribeiro at 2 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday and Friday in Room
22, Burnett hall. I
not been offered for many years
will be reinstated next year. They
are history 201, 202, 205 and 206
and will be taught by Dr. C. H.
Oldfather, who. will retire as dean
of the College of Arts and Scien
ces this spring.
A course in beginning Japa
nese will be offered at 10 a.m.
every day in Room 117, Bur
nett hall. Instructor will be
Robert Sakai, history instruc
tor.
iwo new three-hour courses
v,re added to theh fall curricu
lum alter tne bulletins were
printed. They are mechanical en
gineering 265, a course in statist
ical quality control, and psychol
ogy 289, child behavior problems.
History 101, current history, is
a two-hour course and not a
three-hour course as stated in the
catalog, according to E. N. Ander
son, professor of history.
OUTSTANDING NEBRASKAN
Don Noble Added To List
Of Award Nomination
The nomination of Student
Council vice president Don
Noble for Outstanding Nebraskan
brought the total of nominees for
this semester's award to three.
Noble joins Jim Buchanan,
basketball star, and George Co
bel, student government leader,
in the running for The Ne-
Carl W. Borgmann, Dean Of Faculties,
Accepts Vermont University Presidency
Dr. Carl W. Boremann. first
holder of the position of dean of
tacuities at the University has ac
cepted the presidency of the Uni
versity of Vermont.
Friday, Vermont university's
board of trustees unanimously
approved Borgmann's appoint
ment at a meeting in Burling
ton, Vt.
"The University will greatly
miss Dean Borgmann's adminis
trative skill," Chancellor R. G.
Gustavson said. "He has rendered
invaluable service to the Univer
sity." Borgmann was appointed dean
of the faculties in 1947 when the
position was created by the Board
of Regents to rank second only
to the office of chancellor.
Since Borgmann assumed his
duties as dean of the faculties,
Chancellor Gustavson said, he has
been responsible for assisting the
faculty and other administrative
officials in the development of the
University's research program. He
has also helped reorganize many
administrative procedures which
have made the University opera
tion more efficient and effective.
Another contribution Dean
Borgmann has made to the Uni-
IMillUlllilliiil-r ji lrlilln..in nil II
Courtesy The Lincoln State Journal
LEAVING THE UNIVERSITY
. . . Dean of Faculties, Carl
Borgmann has been appointed
president of the University of
Vermont.
versity, Gustavson slid, is his
work with the budget problems
which have been especially dif
ficult during the post-war years.
Dean Borgmann came to Ne
braska from the University of
Colorado where he was chairman
of the department of chemical
engineering and director of the
engineering experiment station.
As a chemical engineer, Borg
mann is well known for his
studies of metal corrosion. Before
his service at Colorado university,
he was employed by the Univer
sity of North Carolina, the Bell
Telephone laboratories in New
York City and the research lab
oratories of the National Tube
company, a subsidiary of U. S.
Steel located at Pittsburgh.
A native of Missouri, Dean
Borgmann received his bachelor
and master of science degree at
the University of Colorado and
his doctor's degree at Cambridge
university in England. He at
tended Cambridge under an
American-Scandinavian fellow
ship. According to the Chancellor, no
successor has been appointed to
fill Borgmann's post at the University.
Names In The News-
By CHARLES GOMON
Staff News Writer
BRUCE K. BROWN, deputy administator of the petroleum
administration for defense; "said a government order setting aside
gasoline stocks was designed to assure that "enough motor fuel
will be available in an emergency to operate fire engines, police
cars and ambulances.
The government ordered bulk stations and automotive gaso
line terminals in 32 states and the Disrict of Columbia to set
aside 126,000 gallons or 5 per cent of their stocks for possible
emergency use. Service stations with a capacity of 3,000 gallons
or more must hold 3,000 gallons on hand.
Settlement of the oil workers' strike seemed remote as the
unions refused to return to work until a definite agreement is
reached.
GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER cabled his views on the
proposed cut in the armed forces budget. Said the general, the
$1 billion reduction already proposed in Congress would "hurt"
our defense effort, and any further cuts would endanger the
naion's security.
SEN. ROBERT A. TAFT took sharp issue with Gen. Eisen
hower's statement. Taft claimed a reduction of $2 billion would
not emperil the U. S. armanent program or the nation's security.
Speaking before the Connecticut Association of Boards of
Education, the senator said "When I think what could be done
for education if we had only one billion dollars more I wonder
if we have anyjudgment left."
BRIG. GEN. FRANCIS T. DODD, held as as hostage by Com
munist prisoners on Koje island off Korea, asked the eighth army
not to use force to effect his rescue until the demands of his
captors are made known.
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, eighth army commander said minor
demands of the Red prisoners had been met in an effort to secure
General Dodd's release, but Van Fleet warned the prisoners that
he woudl use force "at an early date" if Dodd was not freed un
harmed. It has not been made miblic iust what circumstances nrp-
ceded Gen. Dodd's capture. It was rumored that the prisoners
objected to being fingerprinted as an aid in identification.
MRS. HAZEL ALLEN complained about the burglar who
robbed the store where she clerked on three occasions within
two weeks. Said Mrs. Allen, "He walks in here like he owns the
place."
braskan award based on "mer
itorious service in promoting the
welfare of the spirit of tthe Uni
versity. George Wilcox's nom
ination was disqualified because
he is a member of The Daily
Nebraskan staff.
Business manager of the Corn
husker, Noble was nominated for
"unselfishly contributing time and
energy to all phases of student
life and calmly and quietly
strengthening the prestige of stu
dent government at the Univer
sity." The letter of nomination
commended Noble for his many
activities, his relations with the
faculty and his "tireless and end
less" work toward bettering the
University.
Noble is the newly-tackled
president of Innocents society,
Student Council vice president,
business manager of Cornhusker,
president of Corn Cobs, secretary
treasurer of the University band,
member of Gamma Lambda and
the American Pharmaceutical as
sociation. He is affiliated with
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
The Outstanding Nebraskan
awards are presented each se
mester, by staff vote, to one
student and one faculty member.
All University students and fac
ulty members (with the excep
tio of former recipients and staff
members) are eligible for nom
ination. Letters of nomination, to be
brought or mailed to The Daily
Nebraskan office, basement,
Union, should include the nom
inee's qualifications. Nominations
will remain open until 5 p.m.
Wednesday. The Outstanding Ne
braskans will be announced in
Friday's Nebraskan. -
Students, faculty members and
organizations are urged to nom-j
mate for the awards before the
close of the contest, Wednesday.
hours in descending order. Mrs.
L. T. Laase, member of the as
signment committee, said "we can
probably take care of all 1953
seniors and some juniors Mon
day." All students must have slips
from the office of registration
showing their credit hours and
averages. In case students have
lost these slips, checkers will be
stationed at both stairways to
look up credit hours. Students
must have their identification
cards for this procedure, Mrs.
Laase said.
The number of hours neces
sary for admission at different
hours of the day will be posted
on blackboards in front of the
Military and Naval Science
building and at Regents book
store. Mrs. Laase warned that stu
dents must bring their worksheets
to registration unless they are In
Junior Division. Each worksheet
must contain the signature of the
dean of the student's college.
Deans' signatures are not neces
sary, however, for students In the
College of Arts and Sciences and
the College of Agriculture.
Junior Division students are
to pick up their worksheets at
the Military and Naval Science
building when they register.
Students who change colleges
before registration must have the
signature of both deans in order
to register.
Mrs. Laase also suggested that
if any students have not con
sulted with their advisers, they
should do so at once.
The brown card procedure will
be the same as this year's. Stu
dents will be given a brown card
for each class and laboratory. In
structors will collect these cards
stamped "Paid" after fees are
paid, on the first day the class
meets.
Summer school students will
pay their fees June 3 or after
at the Physical Education build
ing. Mrs. Laase stressed that no
fees will be accepted before that
date.
Fall semester students will re
ceive bills for tuition some time
in August. The bills will include
statements of the last day on
which fees may be paid.
HU Singers, Lincoln Orchestra To Present Beethoven' Ninth Symphony Tonight
University Singers will join the
Lincoln Symphony orchestra Mon
day night to present Ludwig von
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, un
der the direction of Leo Kopp.
The concert, to include Johann
Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg
Concerto, will begin at 8 p.m. in
the Coliseum.
The Singers, with soloist
quartet, will perform in the last
movement of the symphony,
based on Schillers "Ode to Joy."
The quartet, consists of Jack
Anderson, bass, University jun
ior; Ray Schaumberg, tenor,
graduate student in the depart
ment of music; Marjorie Mur
phy, soprano, graduate assistant
in the school; and Janice Wag
ner, contralto, junior.
Persons possessing season sym-
phon tickets will be admitted free
upon presentation of the 1951-52
season ticket stub. Tickets are 50
cents for students and $1 for adults
at all Lincoln music stores or at
the Coliseum door.
The concert marks the 25th an
niversary of the Lincoln Sym
phony. The Brandenburg Concerto is
written for five soloists and
orchestra. Soloists Monday night
will be. Miriam Willey, University
senior, flute; John Schildneck of
Lincoln, trumpet; Houghton Furr,
Law college instructor, piano; and
a violinist , and an oboist from
Omaha. .
The Ninth Symphony, the
"Chorale," was written in 1924,
the last of the immortal Bee
thoven had exhausted all instru
ments and ranges," according to
solo Miss Murphy, "he turned to
voices, using them like instru
ments. The work is therefore
'unvocal' with axceptionally,
high and low notes and with un
vocal skips."
McConnell, in his "Victor Book
of the Symphony," said, "... In
the final movement Beethoven
made no real departure from 'ab
solute' music, because, in the first
place, he treats the voice quite
like an instrumental group in the
orchestra; secondly, because the
vocal parts are so written (and
so badly written, from the sing
er's standopint) that the words
become unintelligible, and the
Uds to Joy' has no significance
except that expressed through
tone, through rhythm and through
melodic line.
The vague references to
human brotherhood and world
embraces touched the great heart
of the composer, and supplied to
him an idea of greatness and of
universality and humanity. For he
was the democrat, a man essen
tially 'of the people'; he could al
ways he excited by an idea that
seemed to promote equality and
Drotnernness."
L.B., writing in the "Concert
Companion," concludes that "it
is erroneous (1) to regard the
finale as a blunder and detach it
from 'lie other three movments;
(2) to accept the finale as an ac
cident, sublime in itself, but
alien to the work as a whole, in
short, to consider the Ninth
Symphony as music's supreme
hybrid and not be unduly up
set over the fact; and (3) to
conclude that an instrumental
finale would have fitted Beet
thoven's scheme better.
" . . The chofal movement,
far from being an accident or a
gigantic artistic blunder, was the
one and only solution of the emo
tional and symphonic issues raised
by the first three movements."
"The famous link in which Bee
thoven solved the problem of in
troducing voices into the finale,"
according to A. K. Holland in
"The Symphony," begins with the
orchestra (minus the strings
breaking into a confused clamour.
This is rebuked by the string
basses in a short recitative," he
says. "Again tthe tumult breaks
out and again the basses reply,
Then the main themes of the first
three movements are tried over.
only to be rejected by the re
jected by the recitative. ... A
new theme Is tentaiively pro
pounded by the wood-wind and
immediately greeted with" ac
clamation. So we hear at ,last
tthe great melody which is to
form the basis of the choral va
riations. But first it played by
orchestra and expounded in three
instrumental variations. For the
last time the clamous breaks out
and now it is answered by the
human voice in recitative: 'O
friends, no more these sounds con
tinue, Let us raise a song of sym
pathy, of gladness, O Joy, let us
praise thee! "
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Traveling, Conducting Keeps Life
Of Director Kopp Constantly Busy
Courtesy The Lincoln State Journal
MUSICALLY INCLINED . . .
Leo Kopp will direct the Uni
versity Singers and The Lin
coln Symphony Orchestra in a
special concert tonight.
More than 200 public perform
ances in four Midwestern cities
during a single year keep Leo
Kopp, director oi the Lincoln
Symphony, constantly traveling
and conducting.
Kopp, who will conduct the
Beethoven Ninth Symphony and
the Bach Brandenberg Concerto
at the Coliseum Monday night,
directs six musical organizations
in Chicago, St. Paul, Detroit
and Lincoln.
In Chicago, where he makes his
residence, he conducts Grant Park
concerts and a music theater se
ries, the latter every day from
early June through September.
In fct. Paul Kopp directs two or
ganizations, including an opera
His Detroit group is an operetta
In Lincoln, of course, he leads
the city symphony orchestra.
which he has conducted since
1945.
Before establishing his head
quarters in Chicago, Kopp di
rected a radio program in Omaha
for two years.
Both University Singers,
which joins with the symphony
in the Ninth Symphony, and its
director, Dr. Arthur E. West
brook, received compliments
from Kopp in a Daily Nebras
kan interview Saturday.
Singers is a "very fine and en
thusiastic" group, he said. Under
the direction of Dr. Westbrook,
who has "done a wonderful job.
Singers has tackle a "murder'
ously difficult" piece of music, he
said.
Kopp, who has been in Lincoln
about a week, said his usual
schedule with the symphony in
cludes five rehearsals during the
nine days before each concert,
Other rehearsals are scheduled
under local leadership.
Musk Groups
Entertain High
School Coeds
Junior and senior eirls from
Lincoln high schools were enter
tained at a tea Sunday afternoon
by members of the University
professional music sororities.
Delta Omicron, Sigma Alpha
Iota and Mu Phi Epsilon spon
sored the tea to acquaint their
guests with the University de
partment of music and musio
sororities' activities.
The program was provided by
members of the three groups.
Musical numbers were presented
by the following persons:
String quartet Jan LiljedahL
Ruthann La vine, Marilyn Ham
mondand JoAnn Howland.
Vocal solo Virginia Ralles.
Piano solo Marilyn Paul.
Vocal duet Marian. McCul
lough and Virginia Curnmings.
Piano solo Mary Robinson,
Vocal trio Jan Wagner, De-
lores Garrett and Harriett Soren
son. Gladys Novotny accompanied
the vocalists.
Alumni, Faculty Luncheon
To Inaugurate Round-Up
A traditional luncheon for al
umni and faculty of the Univer
sity will open the Alumni asso
ciation's Round-Up activities May
31. '
The annual Round-Up is sched
uled for May 31 to June. Hieh-
iignt of the program will be pre
sentation of distinguished service
awards to Nebraska alumni for
service awards to Nebraska alumni.
for service of distinction to Uni
versity, professional and public
life.
Pi Mu Epsilon
Initiates New
Math Pledges
Thirteen new members were
accepted into Pi Mu Epsilon, math
honorary, at a recent . initiation
picnic.
The new members are Al Bless
ing. William Doole. Ernest
Haight, Gerald Hauer, Roscoe
Lodwig. Coleman Logan. Jean.
Loudon, Margaret McCoy, Dun
can McGregor, Maurice Mullin,
Rita Stout, Joe Buckingham War
ner and David Moomaw.
The new officers for the com
ing year are director. Dean
Buckingham; vice - director
Chris Kuyatt; secretary, Nor
man LInd; treasurer. Jerrald
Yos,
At least one semester tt cal
culus is necessary for member
ship into Pi Mu Epsilon. A math
average is required but this av
erage is lowered as more mat!
courses are taken. George Cobel
in present director of Pi Mu Ed-
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