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Volume 54, No. 39
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Wednesday, December 16, 1953
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Santy Claus ! !
Old Saint Nick receives the un- vided Christmas cheer for over
divided attention of three chil- 20 youngsters from the Ne
dren at a Christmas party co- braska State Home for Chil
sponsored by Sigma Phi Ep-dren. Sig Ep member Bill
silon and Alpha Phi. The party, Shreek is shown above in the
held Sunday evening at the traditional Santa Claus cos
Alpha Phi sorority house, pro- tume.
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Sigma Nu's, Athletes Entertain
Cornhuskers Ted Connor
(kneeling left), Ted Britt
(kneeling front) and Jerry
Minnick were guests along
with 20 children at the Sigma
Nu Christmas party held Mon
Christmas Program
To Feature Ag Chorus
Annual Event Set Wednesday
Candlelight and greenery will
set the mood for the 24th an
nual Ag College Christmas pro
gram at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the
College Activities Building.
The 80-voice Ag College chorus
under the direction of Mrs.
Altinas Tullis will be featured.
They will sing excerpts from
'The Messiah" and other Christ
mas carols and songs.
DR. EPHRIAM Hixson of
the College of Agriculture will
deliver the Christmas message.
Rex Knowles, pastor of Congregational-Presbyterian
Student
House, will give the invocation
and benediction.
The program, sponsored by the
Ag Exec Board, is open to the
public. This event is one of the
most honored traditions held
each year on Ag Campus.
The program:
Organ Prelude. . Julie Turpen
Lighting of the Candles
Candle lighters Mary Ellen
Maronde and Caroline Ross.
Invocation Rev.Knowles
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A. Bless This House . . . Brohe
B. In That Great Gettin' Up
Traditional Spiritual Con
cert Version Cain
. C. O Lord of Hosts . . Sibelius
D. Thanks Be To God, uicicson
College of Agriculture Chorus
Christmas
Jarols . . . Audience and Chorus
1. Joy To The World
2. It Came Upon The Mid
night Clear
3. We Three Kings of Orient
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' 4. O Come, All Ye Faithful
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A Christmas
Message Dr. Hixson
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A. Over Bethlehem's Town
B. The Little Lord Jesus is
Sleeping
Early English
Carols by Chorus
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Christmas
Carols . . . Audience and Chorus
1. The First Noel
J eh! a To Show Films
At Colloquium Thursday
Two new imported films of
biophysical importance employ
ing the technique of phase-contrast
microscopy will be pre
sented in a Physics Colloquium,
by associate professor of physics,
Herbert Jehle.
The films are "Protoplasmic
Streaming" and "The Social
Amoebae." They will be shown
in Brace Lab. 211, Thursday at
4:15 p.m.
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day evening. The party fea
tured a Christmas dinner for
the children and the players
with every child (all from
Tabitha Home) receiving toys
and candy.
2. Silent Night
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Excerpts From "The Messiah"
A. And The Glory Of The
Lord
B. Since By Man Came
Death
C. Hallelujah
Chorus Chorus
Benediction . ... Rev. Knowles
Mrs. Altinas Tullis, Conductor
Miss Marilyn Paul, Accompanist
'Snowflake Fantasy1
Theme Of CC Dessert
Models For Style Show Announced
"Snowflake Fantasy" has been ,
named the theme of the annual
Cod Counselor Friendship Des-j
sert Jan. 6 in the Union Ball
room. Decorations will carry out a 1
snowflake motif. The theme of
the style show will be "Fashion
Sleighride."
MODELS FOR the style show !
i and the organized houses they
represent are? Coleen Ohslund,
Alpha Chi Omega; Janice Hus
sey, Alpha Omicron Pi; Courtney
Campbell, Alpha Phi; Shiela
Siren, Alpha Xi Delta; Doris An
derson, Chi Omega; Dianne Bell,
Delta Delta Delta; Ann Corcoran,
Delta Gamma; Lou Shinn, Gam
ma Phi Beta; Dorothy McCand
less. Kappa Alpha Theta; Sandy
Speicher, Kappa Kappa Gammaj
Barbara Thurman, Kappa Delta.
Rani Andresen, Pi Beta Phi;
Phyllis Turchen, Sigma Delta
Tau; Doreen Frost, Sigma Kappa;
Judy Curtis, Howard Hall; Bar
bara Berggren, International
House; Shirley Slagle, Loomis
Hall; Joyce Benge, Love Memor
ial Hall; Rita, Jelinek, Residence
Halls for Wqmen; Joyce Foth,
Terrace Hall; Glenda Foster,
Towne Club.j .
REPRESENTATIVES FOR
Wilson Hall, Amlklta and Adel
phi have not been named.
This yeafs style show has
been called; "different" by the
Coed Counselor Board. Instead
of featuring' fashions which rep
resent campus wear, such as
school wear, picnic wear and
usual coed attire, the clqthes se
lected to oe modeled in this year's
show wLl represent the coed idea
of a "dream wardrobe." Clothes
were selected on the basis of
smartness, unusualness and color.
THE CLOTHES 'will ' be
Miss Rag Mop Contest
Applications
Any student may enter a
candidate in the annual Miss
Rag Mop contest sponsored by
The Nebraskan.
A candidate may enter her
self or be entered by someone
else providing she has the fol
lowing prerequisites:
1. She must be attractive.
2. She must have a 7 aver
age. 3. She must be participating
in no activities carrying
AWS points.
4. She must not be pinned,
going steady, engaged or
married.
Outstanding
Nominations
Deadline Set For
Nominations open Wednesday
for 1953-54 Outstanding Ne
braskan awards.
Originated in 1949 by The Ne
braskan, a student and faculty
member are chosen each sem
ester on the basis of "meritorious
service in promoting the welfare
and spirit of the University."
Recipients of the honor since
1952 have been Rev. Rex
Knowles, Syvia Krasne, Col. C.
J. Frankf orter and Ruth Ray
mond. STUDENTS OR faculty mem
bers may enter candidates'
names until 5 p.m. Jan. 13. Nom
inations must be written and
should include qualifications of
the candidate.
Winners will be announced on
the last dav of publication this
semester, Jan. 15.
All students and faculty are
eligible for the award except
past recipients and members of.
the Nebraskan stair.
Miss Krasne was a member sf
AWS, All University Fund
Board, Religious Welfare Coun
cil, YWCA, Tassels, president of
Sigma Delta Tau and president
of Mortar Board. She was also
elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
REV. REX KNOWLES re
ceived the award S'as a person
who understands student proD
lems. He has always made him
self and the equipment of the
Presby house available to stu
dents and organizations.
On 'Reproduction'
Dr. Frank Stone will speak on
"The Mechanics of Reproduc
tion" during (the fourth in the
love and marriage discussion se
ries, to be held Wednesday from
7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Love Library
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Dr. Stone lectured on similar
topics while on the staff at South
Dakota University. He later spe
cialized in orthopedics and is now
staff orthopedic consultant for
Student Health.
The program will also feature
a supplementary film.
New Navy ROTC
Officers Named
NROTC has announced its new
roster of officers.
Unuiversity men appointed to
staff positions are: battalion com
mander, Mac Bailey; executive
officer, Rocky Yapp; operations
officer, James D. Skinner; com
munications officer, James Tang
dall; supply officer, Richard Vi
sek, and chief petty officer,
Frank Sorenson.
modeled in groups of colors. They
will be winter styles.
Tickets for the Friendship
Dessert are 35 cents and may
be purchased from models, Coed
Counselors and board members.
Tickets may also be obtained
from Jan Harrison and Sharon
Mangold.
A dress rehearsal is scheduled
for Monday, Jan. 4 in the Union
Ballroom at 7 p.m.
The Friendship Dessert will
begin at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 6.
Delta Omicron
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Members of Delta Omicron,
national music sorority, will
present a Christmas Vesper
service Thursday at 8 p.m. in
the University Episcopal
Chapel at 13th and R. Mem-
Now Open
5. She must never have won
a beauty ' or popularity
contest before.
Application deadline is Jan.
7 at 5 pjn. All applications
must be turned ;in to The
Nebraskan by that time. Inter
views will be held Jan. 8 and
the winner will be chosen by
The Nebraskan ;male staff
members. They are Ken Ry
strom, Stan Sipple, Ed DeMar,
Tom Woodward, Dwight Jundt,
and George Paynich.
The Miss RagvjUop contest
began in the falJ, of 1051 under
the editorship of Tom Rische.
Nebraskan
To Open
January ;13
Col. C. F. Frankforter, associ
ate professor of chemistry, was
cited for being advisor for num
erous campus organizations in
cluding: sponsor of Corn Cobs,
honorary Innocent and sponsor,
as well as sponsor; for all band
trips. j
Miss Raymond was editor, as
sociate editor, managing editor
and news editor of the Daily Ne
braskan. She was a member of
Kappa Tau Alpha, honorary
fraternity and The Sigma Phi,
women's professional journalism
honorary. She was senior atten
dent to the May Queen on Ivy
Day in 1953.
Last January there were 13
nominees for this award and the
number last spring was 11 nom
inations for Outstanding Nebras
kan.
Poe To Give Test
To Phi Chi Thetas
Wesley Poe, guidance consult
ant for junior divisibn, will be
guest speaker at a meeting of
Phi Chi Theta, professional bus
iness sorority, Wednesday at 7:15
p.m. in the Union.
Poe will give each woman at
tending the meeting his "Inven
tory of Values" test, "which is
designed to help the individual
learn what type job she is best
suited for and why.
Poe will return to another
meeting of the group to explain
the results of the test.
An invitation has been ex
tendad to all won&n," especially
those in the College of Business
Administration.
Business Fraternity
Initiates 23 Members
Delta Sigma Pi, professional
business fraternity,"Mnitiated 23
new members Sunday morning
at the Union.
Saturday, members of the or
ganization gave a day's work at
the Cedar's Home for Children-
Final Examinations To Last
Jan. 16 Through Jan. 29
First semester final examina
tions will be given from Jan. 16
to Jan. 29.
One day of vacation, Jan. 18,
has been included during the two
weeks of finals.
Testing begins at a relatively
Nagaty To Speak
To Cosmopolitans
Dr. H. F. Nagaty, visiting pro
fessor of parasitology from the
University of Cairo, will speak
before the Cosmopolitan Club on
the social, economic and political
life of Egypt at 8 p.m. Wednes
day, Room 313, Union.
Dr. Nagaty will conclude his
talk with an open discussion and
question period on Egypt. The
Cosmopolitan Club invited any
one interested to attend any of
the bi-weekly sessions.
Newman Club Treats -St.
Thomas Orphans
The Newman Club played
host to children at St. Thomas
orphanage at an annual Christ
mas party Sunday.
Jan Healy and Colleen Farrell,
with the help of 25 other stu
dents, organized the party bring
ing to the children Christmas
carols, films, treats and Santa
Claus.
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To Present Vespers Thursday
berg are: (back row, from
left,) Carol Lundberg, Kathy
Welch, Mary Robinson, Kath
ryn Dean, advisor; Jan Ab
buhl, Marilyn Reynolds, Dee
Herse. (Front row, from left)
Bette Clark Marti, Card Jean
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DAVID FOLTZ
Freshmen
To Enact
Comedies
Bock, Williams
To Direct Plays
Members of Freshman Actors
Workshop will present two one
act plays Wednesday at 8 p.m.
in Temple Building.
"Family Album," Noel Cow
ard comedy, reveals unexpected
family skeletons as a family
gathers to. hear the reading of a
will. The play is directed byj
Dallas Williams, assistant pro-1
fessor of speech and dramatic
arts.
CAST INCLUDES: Gene Dens
more, Luanne Raun, Margaret
Johnson, Larry Hanson, Bar
baia Rystnm, 'James Copp,
Glenna Berry, George Hunker
and Don Ehlers.
-The second comedy, "Refund,"
concerns a young man who
seeks a refund on his school
books because he feels he hasn't
learned anything from them.
IN THE cast are: Marilyn
Britfelder, Jane Felger, Dave
Scherlin, Skip Greenlee, Doris
Anderson, Kay Haas, Richard
Myers and Don Robinson.
Director of this production is
Frank Bock, instructor of speech
and dramatic art.
slow pace Jan. 16 with only
English A students being tested.
These persons are tested early
so if they make sufficiently high
scores they may take the English
B test for credit.
THE INTENSIVE examina
tions start Wednesday with 12
sections being tested. Later in
the first week few definite sec
tions will be tested, with the
exception of Saturday when
math students will take their
finals in the Coliseum.
As last year, the last part of
the second week brings exams
for the majority of students.
Tuesday afternoon, classes that
meet at 9 Monday, Wednesday
and Friday, or any two of these
days will be tested. Wednesday
morning all students who have
class at 11 Monday, Wednesday
and Friday or any two' of these
days will take finals.
THURSDAY, THE 28th., stu
dents having 8 o'clocks Monday,
Wednesday and Friday or any
two of these days will take
exams. On Friday, classes meet
ing at 10 a.m. Monday, Wednes
days or Friday, or any two of
these days will be tested. In the
afternoon English 2, 3-and 4 stu
dents will take their finals.
A complete exam schedule is
on page four of today's
Nebraskan.
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Armstrong, Yvonne Moran,
Shirley Ochsner, Helen Jean
Utterbach, Francie Leacock,
Rosemary Castner and Marian
Brinkman, director. The
choral ensemble will do tradi
tional caroli in modern set-
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NU Group To Represent
Midwest On Radio Tuesdays
The 24-voice Madrigal Singers
has received recognition as the
top choral group of the Midwest.
The American Broadcasting
Company has selected the Madri
gals to represent the Midwest on
its daily Christmas program next
week from 3:30 to 4 p.m. The
Madrigals will present the half
hour radio show nationally
Tuesday, Dec. 22. The local ABC
outlet is KFOR.
The Madrigals will be accom
panied on the recorded show by
Janice Fullerton of Ainsworth
on the organ and Earnest Har
rison on the celesta.
THE MADRIGALS, organized
by its director, David Foltz, five
years ago, has sung nationally
twice in the past over the Colum
bia Broadcasting System.
The Madrigals receive no col
lege credit for their work.
Other prominent choral groups
which will sing on the ABC pro
gram during the week are: Mon
day, English schoolboys, recorded
by BBC at Christ's Hospital, a
400-year-old school in Sussex,
England; Wednesday, Xavier
University Choir, New Orleans,
La.; Thursday, Choir of First
Presbyterian Church, Holly
wood, Calif., and Friday, Choir
of Washington Cathedral, accom
panied by a ten-piece orchestra
from the National Symphony Or
chestra. The Outside World
US Security
Commission
Plans UMT
A plan which would require
congressional approval before it
could go into effect would be
the Universal Military Training
proposal that the National Secur
ity Training Commission said
could be put into effect by
January 1955, or earlier, operat
ing simultaneously with the
draft.-
The group agreed that the
program would not achieve ab
solute equality but it would at
least avoid what it called the
present unfair situation in which
veterans are the only reservists
available to be called up in a
sudden war emergency.
NATO
The NATO Council of Minis
ters voted to boost its warplane
and troop strength in 1954 after
the sharp warning from Secre
tary of State Dulles. Dulles
threatened a possible American
"reappraisal" of its European
policies.
Band Tryouts
Tryouts for University band are
being held for the following sec
tions: oboe, flute, clarinet, bas
soon and French horn.
Interested students should con
tact conductor Donald Lentz,
Room 201, Music Building.
Militzer Gives Views
On Freshman Question
Dean Suggests Liberal Course
The current issue on the fresh
man class was still being ban
tered about the campus after
arising from a Union Seminar
last Wednesday afternoon.
During the seminar discussion,
opinions were expressed stating
that the freshman class of this
year "lacked motivation" and
was subject to a "variance of
preparation" while in high
school.
Many faculty members com
mented on the subject and ex
pressed both "extreme concern"
and "great faith" in the class of
'57.
.TUESDAY, Walter E. Militzer,
dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, explained his own
Courtejy Sundar Journal nd Bur
ting, an Old English folk
carol and a lullaby. Carol Jean
Armstrong will be soloist; Ma
rian Brinkman will be nar
rator and director. Mary Rob
inson is president of Delta
Omicron.
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Members of the Madrigals are:
Shirley Rasmussen. Delores
Garrett, Rosemary Castner, Mari
lyn Blackburn. Helen utterDacx,
Carol Newell, Janice Fullerton,
Muriel Pickett, Kathleen Wilson,
Barbara Jones, Mary Robinson.
Ellen Svoboda, Dan RasdaL
Stan Shumway, David Mullen,
Bruce Beymer, John Poutre,
Gerald Lawson, Bill Hatcher,
Bob Brown, Dennis Carroll and
Duane Young.
YW Filings
To Extend
Until Jan. 8
Filings for YWCA cabinet and '
project council membership will
extend until Jan. 8, announced
Neala O'Dell, president.
From the applicants, approxi
mately ten commission leaders,
seven project leaders and four
membership chairmen will be
chosen.
To apply, a woman must b
a sophomore or above and hav
a 5.5 weighted average. Appli
cation blanks may be obtained
in the YWCA office in Ellen
Smith Hall.
APPLICANTS for cabinet and
council positions will be inter
viewed by the new 1954 YWCA
officers. New officers will be
voted on Jan. 7 from a slate
which will be announced in the
Jan. 5 Nebraskan.
Nominees which will make up
the slate will be chosen on the
basis of contributions to the
YWCA program, campus respect,
ability to organize, knowledge of
the four program areas and
scholarship.
Music Sorority Sets
Christmas Party Date
Mu Phi Epsilon, national music
sorority, has announced that a
Christmas party will be held
Thursday.
Following the party, the group
will sing Christmas carols at
Bryan Memorial Hospital. They
will present children with candy
the money for which was
raised by the sale of Christmag
cards and wrapping paper by the
sorority.
Union To Sponsor New
Chess Club Formation ;
All students interested in start
ing a Chess Club are invited to
attend the meeting in Room 313
of the Union at 5 p.m. Wednes
day. The Chess Club is being spon
sored by the recreation commit
tee of the Union. John Stebbini
is chairman. .
views on both the subject of the
freshman class and its prepara
tion for university life.
"I've heard no particular com
ment that this year's freshmen
are any worse than they ever
were," Militzer said. As far as
I know, this year's class is about
the same as classes have been
the last five or six years.
"There has been some over
emphasis on vocational educa
tion in high schools, though, for
many freshmen come to Uni
versity with their minds made
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up. I believe every person
should spend bout two years
pursuing a liberal course and
then begin to specialize. It's not
good for students to fee highly
crystallized in their plans when
they begin."
WHEN ASKED for any spe
cific problems he noticed!, Mil
itzer said . that "by and large,
many students' background in
English is poor, and this has
been true for, many years." .
"This poorness in English con
tinues throughout the Univer
sity," Militzer added, "for it is
pesent even in the graduate di
visions. I might add that it is
also present in all the colleges
of the University.
"If we're poor, let us try to
look for a solution and build
better instruction. It does no .
good to criticize and do nothing
positive.
"I don't have any .academic
aspirin to cure this headache,"
Militzer said, "but maybe in the
next four or five years we can
make a real dent in this problem."
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