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Seven Finalists To Compete
For Delta Sigma Rho Trophies
Finals of the Delta Sigma Rho
extemporaneous speaking contest
will be held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
in the Love Library auditorium
Competing speakers, winners
of two preliminary rounds, are
Marvin Breslow,' Sigma Alpha
Mu; Jim Collins, Acacia; Vivian
Lemmer. Delta Delta Delta: uon
aid Cole, Acacia; Don Overhelt,
Kappa Sigma; Bruce tsrugmann,
Alpha Tau Omega, and Barbara
Ry strom, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
AN INDIVIDUAL trophy will
be presented to the best speaker
and a house trophy to the house
whose speakers had the highest
cumulative rating, mese xropn
ies were won last year by
Gamma Phi Beta and Clarence
DeYoung, Theta Xi.
Judges for the contest are Dr
Lerov Laase. chairman of the
SDeech department; Donald Ol
son, assistant professor of
speech; Bruce Kendell, assistant
professor of speech; Bernard
Gradwohl, Lincoln -attorney aad
former Delta Sigma Kho mem
ber, and Wilmer Linkugel, grad
uate asistant in speech.
THE SPEAKERS drew topics
from campus, national and inter
Four Debaters
Win Contests
At Conference
Five wins and one loss were
recorded by both University
learns debating in the Rocky
Mountain Speech Conference in
Denver last week.
Jere McGaffey and Dick Fell
man defeated teams from the
Universities of Montana, Utah,
Colorado and two Denver Uni
versity teams. They were beaten
by the University of New Mex
ico, which was the only unde
feated team in the tournament.
The team of Wayne Johnson
and Dale Johnson recorded wins
over Colorado A&M, Utah Uni
versity, Utah State, Brigham
Young University and the Uni
versity of Montana, -losing to
Denver University.
PARTICIPATING in the tour
ney were entrants from 40 col
leges. There were 20 teams in
the Senior Men's Division, in
which the University teams com
peted. ,
In individual ' events, Dale
Johnson rated superior in ora
tory; Fellman and Waye John
son, excellent in extemperane
ous speaking, and McGaffey, ex
cellent in interpretation.
The teams were accompanied
by Don Olson, debate coach.
Knowles To Speak
To Bizad Group
Rev. Rex Knowles will talk
on Ethics in Business at a meet
ing of Alpha Kappa Psi, profes
sional fraternity in commerce,
7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Union
Room 316.
Rev. Knowles' talk begins the
spring semester series of profes
sional programs of interest to
business students presented by
the bizad fraternity.
The meeting is open to all
University students.
Mechanical Engineering
Fraternity Initiates Four
Four University juniors were
recently initiated into Pi Tau
Sigma, national honorary me
chanical engineering fraternity.
New members who ranked in
the upper 10 per cent of their
class are Ronald Swanson, Le
land Dobler, Norman Shyken
and Warren Andrews.
The Outside World
By WILLIE DESCH .
Staff Writer
'Security' Dismissals Reviewed
WASHINGTON From 130 "security" dismissals or forced
resignations in 1953, four were found to be "disloyal persons," the
Treasury Department informed Congress. The information was
given to the House Appropriations Committee and published by
Libert Tuttle, acting security officer for the department.
In a report on the Customs Service, which employs 8,000, it
was disclosed that six persons were dismissed last year as security
risks. All six seemed to have "contact with Communists," customs
commissioner David Strubinger said.
Reds Intend To Stay
BERLIN -Secretary of State Dulles reported as one of the
most important achievements of the Big Four Conference the
learning of Soviet military intentions in Germany and Austria.
The United States must maintain sizeable forces' on the con
tinent for a long time because of Russia's determination to keep
military positions in Europe, American officials said.
Kai-skek, Hu Or Yu?
TAIPEH, FORMOSA Chiang Kai-shek was nominated for a
six-year term by a 32-man central committee of nationalist China's
Kuomintang (ruling party). Kai-shek requested to step down from
the Nationalist presidency but the committee unanimously rejected
his request. Kai-shek said he would announce his decision Tuesday.
Kai-shek suggested Dr. Hu Shih, former ambassador to Wash
ington, or Yu Yu-jen, head of the executive council for the
presidency. Dr. Hu is a famed 63-year-old scholar and philosopher.
Yu was considered too old 77 for president.
Underground Pentagon
WASHINGTON The "underground pentagon" is finished
The high command's atom-age offices are built inside a mountain
65 miles from the national capital. The project was begun three
years ago and will provide an alternative command post and
communications .center if atomic attack should destroy or threaten
the Pentagon. The cost of blasting out the cavern was estimated
about $35 million.
The main chamber, which is about 35 feet high, is deep in
the interior of the mountain where presumably evn a direct hit
by an atomic bomb could not penetrate. Also included in the
design are special air intake filtering equipment to protect against
poison gas or germ warfare material. An emergency power and
water system are included in the design also.
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national divisions Monday from
2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Speeches will be
irom live to seven minutes long
Wayne Johnson, president of
Delta Sigma Rho, will be nre-
i siaing cnairman.
The six judges for the semi
final rounds were: Paul Laase,
Jack Rogers, Kenneth Philbrick,
cnaries Klasek, Allen Cvercash
and Gerald Igon, members of
Delta Sigma Rho.
TNC
Candidate
Judging Set
For Tonight
Three To Name
Twenty Coeds
Twenty finalists for Typical
Nebraska Coed, sponsored by
Associated Women Students, will
be chosen Tuesday at 7:15 p.m.
Judges for the finalists will
be Rex Knowles, student pastor
at the Congregational-Presbyterian
Student House; Dr. Royce
H. Knapp, director of the Ne
braska Citizenship Project; and
Virginia Trotter, assistant pro
fessor of home economics.
FINAL JUDGING of the can
didates, one of whom will be
presented at Coed Follies March
I, will be held Feb. 20.
Judges who will choose the
TNC are: Robert Knoll, assistant
professor of English; Dr. William
Swindler, professor of journal
ism; and Dr. David Foltz, direc
tor of the School of Music.
Co-ops Pick Rash
Valentine Queen
Janet Rash of International
House was presented as the first
St. Valentine Queen at the Inter
Cooperative Council dance Fri
day night. She was the candi
date presented by the Brown
Palace.
Announcement of the Queen
was made near the end of the
dance, when the candidates and
their escorts were introduced.
Miss Rash was then presented
with a corsage.
During the dance the judges
observed the candidates and
talked with them informally be
fore making their selection.
Candidates were nominated by
the five men's co-operative
houses. .
First Round Bridge Winners
Announced In '54 Competition
Winners of the first rounds of
the 1954 National Intercollegiate
Bridge Tournament have been
announced.
In the Febr. 6 preliminaries,
Barry Thompson, J. Benedict,
Ray Clement and Ed Lewis were
first-round winners. Bill Weber
and Eilene Mullarky captured the
Feb. 13th preliminary victory.
The University is one of 172
colleges and universities through
out the United States which will
compete in the tournament this
year. Liouis D. Day Jr., director
of Houston Hall at the University
of Pennsylvania and chairman of
h e National Intercollegiate
Bridge Tournament Committee,
announced this week that forty
four states and the District of
Columbia are represented in the
entries.
THE HANDS will be mailed to
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
NU Trials
Moot Court
To Begin On March 11
The Allen Moot Court Compe
tition for University law students
will open March 11 in the court
room of the College of Law Build
ing. Sophomore rounds will be held
March 11 and 12. Freshman
rounds will be held March 15
through March 24.
The final round between the
teams of Janice Lindquist and
Eleanor Knoll and Richard Han
sen and Kenneth Legg will be
held March 25. Three Nebraska
Supreme Court judges will hear
the case. Winner's names will
be engraved on a plaque.
WINNERS OF the sophomore
a no1 freshman rounds will parti
cipate again in the fall compe
tition. Participants in the sophomore
rounds are:
Jerry Massie and Bill Sherwood
vs. Robert Berkshire and Robert
E. Johnson. Bernard Packett
and Eugene Wohlner vs. Asher
Geisler and Claire Johnson.
Publisher To
NU Athletic
Kemper To Speak To Journalists
Publisher Gene Kemper of
the Alliance Daily Times-Herald
plans to reveal what he knows
about the Nebraska athletic sit
uation at the Feb. 27 Sigma
Delta Chi, national professional
journalism fraternity, meeting.
The meeting will be in the Un
ion. Kemper will discuss "all
phases of the athletic program
fully," according to Lyle W.
Denisten, president of the local
chapter.
Annual PR
Dance Set
For Friday
Company To Give
Cords To Pledges
The annual Pershing Rifles
dinner dance will be held Fri
day. Pershing Rifle pledge class will
receive their cords signifying
membership in the local Persh
ing Rifle group and also their
official membership papers.
A University coed will be
named company sponsor after
the baH. Wilma Larson was
sponsor last year. The sponsor
was chosen after candidates were
gues'ts at tea given by the Persh
ing Rifles.
the various campuses and will
be played by the 4,000 men and
women undergraduates entered
in the tournament. These hands
will be scored by Geoffrey Mott
Smith, author and contract bridge
authority, who will determine
campus, regional, and national
winners.
The final hands will be played
in the Union Feb. 20. The win
ners will have their names in
scribed on a plaque in the Union
Activities Office. 1953 winners
of the tournament were Joe Jer
man, Gerald Weinberg, Barry
Thompson, and Paul Gaiter.
James Porter is in charge
the tournament.
of
Faculty To Perform
In Fine Arts Ensemble
The second fine arts ensemble
concert will be held Thursday at
8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom.
Artists are Emanuel Wishnow,
violin; Helena Bell, cello; Gladys
May, piano; Truman Forsman,
violin, and Max Gilbert, viola.
Student tickets are 75 cents
and single admission, $1.50.
Junior Men
Junior men who have partic
ipated in extra-curricular acti
vities should leave their names
and addresses in the Innocents
mail box in the Union Basement
by Feb. 23. r
V.
NU Campus Over 80 Years Ago
University Hall, (upper left)
located on prairie grounds, was
the center of the University
campus in 1872, only three
Competition
jjTesnman participants are:
Henry Hoist and Clark Nichols
vs. Lloyd Ball and Thomas Clear.
Jerry Roe and Parker Geesen
vs. Allen Edee and James Par
malee. KENNETH BAUGH and Clar
ence Beam vs. Sheldon Green and
Donald Hochberger. Richard
Thompson and Jerry Stirtz vs.
Tom Brower and Simon Lantzy.
Vincent Rawson and Harris
Poley vs. Richard Huber and
James Burbridge. Hal Bauer and
Robert Roeder vs! Robert Munro
and James Hancock.
Lyan Johnson and Bernard
Wisnow vs. David pickard and
Ronald Lahners. Donald Rhode
and Lyle Coltrin vs. Robert
Baumfalk and Marvin Holscher.
Tom Healey and Stephen Flans
burg vs. Robert Wagner and Ber
nard O'Brien. James LaRue and
Val McCurdy vs. Joseph Brown
and Ronald Lahners.
Harry Freeman and Arnold
Stern vs. Richard Meyers and
Charles Hughes.
Discuss
Situation
KEMPER DID not request the
speaking engagement. "I person
ally extended the invitation,"
said Denisten.
In his letter of acceptance,
Kemper stated, "I am grateful
for this opportunity to tell a
story which so far has been de
nied a hearing by the Nebraska
Board of Regents."
THE PUBLISHER has hurled
several charges concerning the
athletic situation at the univer
sity. He claims that:
Scholarship agreements with
athletes are just as much an
obligation to the University as
Glassford's contract.
The Omaha World Herald was
shown preference in the distri
bution of free press tickets to
the stadium.
Regents failed to give 44 foot
ball players a proper hearing
after they obtained a petition
against retaining Coach Bill
Glassford.
Football net profits of $200,
000 annually show that there is
no need for a "slush" fund of
$29,100 raised by alumni and
friends.
" Assistant coaches who left
school were not questioned dur
ing the Glassford issue.
Novacain was improperly ad
ministered to get injured play
ers back into the game.
DR. SAMUEL I. Fuuenning,
director of Student Health, an
swered the last charge by sub
mitting a statement of the policy
of administering novacain to in
jured football players, at a re
cent meeting of the Board of Re
gents. In his policy statement, Dr.
Fuuenning asserted that if un
authorized use of novacain oc
curred it happened more than
two years ago. He said that a
former trainer, who is not asso
ciated with the University now,
may have used novacain.
Kemper said in his letter that
the regents can send a stenog
rapher to the Feb. 27 meeting
with complete confidence that
what he has to say was origin
ally intended for their ears.
University Celebrates 85th Birthday
Monday; State Observes Charter Day
First Board Of Regents Approves School Seal
On September 6, 1871; 20 Students Enrolled
The State of Nebraska cele
brated the 85th anniversary of
the founding of its University
Monday.
In 1869, only two years after
Nebraska was granted statehood,
the state legislature passed a
bill stating "that there shall be
established in this state an insti
tution under the name and style
of 'The University of Nebraska.'
The object of such an institution
shall be to afford to the inhabi
tants of the state the means of
acquiring the thorough knowl
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years after the University was
born. At this time only 20 col
legians and 110 Latin School
students were enrolled. Mon
Tuesday, February 16, 1954
RC Board
Positions
Announced
Special Activity
Filing Extended
New Red Cross Board mem
bers were announced Tuesday by
Marv Stromer, president.
The new board members were
installed Saturday by Joyce
Johnson, retiring president. Lan
caster County Red Cross mem
bers were guests at the installa
tion. Board members and their posi
tions are:
Newspaper publicity, Barbara
Clark, Kappa Delta; art public
ity, Shirley Rosenberg, Sigma
Delta Tau; grey ladies, Joyce
Laase, Alpha Xi Delta; handi
capped children, Karen Benson,
Alpha Xi Delta.
Urban league, Billie Croft, Pi
Beta Phi; water safety, Arlina
Harte, Pi Beta Phi; veterans hos
pital, Virginia Wilcox, Alpha
Omicron Pi; orphanage, Marty
Morrison, Alpha Chi Omega; en
tertainment coordinator, Marilyn
Beideck, Alpha Chi Omega, and
Nebraska penitentiary, Allan An
derson, Phi Delta Theta.
Special activity filings, handi
craft and leadership committees
have been extended. Applica
tions may be obtained in Union
Room 306. The deadline is
Wednesday, 6 p. m.
Interviews will be held from
4 to 5 p. m. Thursday in Union
Room 306.
Mechanical Engineers
To Hold Business Meet
The Mechanical Engineers will
hold a business meeting Wed
nesday at 7:15 p.m. in room 206,
Richards Lab.
The meeting will be followed
by movies and refreshments. All
mechanical engineering students
may attend.
Government Zoologist Visits
University; Lectures Planned
Gerald Thome, senior nema
tologist with the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, is a visiting
lecturer at the University.
Thorne arrived Monday and will
lecture through Feb. 27.
Thorne is the author of mono
graphs on plant parasitic nema
todes and their control. His first
lecture, "Crop Losses Caused by
Plant Parasitic Nematodes," was
given Monday. Tuesday and
Feb. 23 and 25 he will hold
laboratory demonstrations at 1
p.m. in Room 209 of the Plant
Meeting Planned
By Spanish Club
Anyone interested in Spanish,
whether in the department or
not, is invited to attend the
Spanish Club meeting Tuesday
in Union Room 316, at 7:30 p.m.,
Hal Carney, instructor in ro
mance languages, announced.
Featured at the meeting will
be a series of riddles, puzzles
and charades to be played in
Spanish. The games relate to
the vocabulary and geography
of the language.
Group singing in Spanish will
also b part of the program.
There will be a 25-cent charge
for refreshments.
edge of the various branches of
literature, science and the arts."
On Sept. 6, 1871 the first Board
of Regents approved the school's
seal and the next day, the first
classes were held in University
Hall.
The first year there was a fac
ulty of seven, and a student body
of 20 plus 110 preparatory stu
dents in Latin school. .
A second building was built to
house chemistry instruction in
1885. This is now the quarters
for the College of Pharmacy. The
day the University celebrated
Charter Day, after 85 years
of progress.
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Fraternities Hear Moseley
John O. Moseley, national
officer of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
and founder of United States
Greek Week, speaks to fra
ternity men at banquet Satur
day. The banquet was the
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New Ensemble To Accommodate
180 NU Instrumentalists Lentz
"Collegiate Band" will present
its initial concert Sunday in the
Union at 4 p.m., under the di
rection of Jack Snider, instructor
in brass instruments and theory.
No admission will be charged.
The public is invited.
Assembled this year to accom
modate students who could not
be included in the symphonic
band, the new band has approx
imately 90 members.
DONALD LENTZ, conductor of
University bands, explained the
necessity of the new band. He
said that the growth of band
instrument training in Nebraska
high schools had made it impos
sible to accommodate all students
skilled in band instruments in
the regular symphonic band.
"Where in the past we have
accommodated 100 to 120 stu
dents, we now have places for
180," he added.
Before this year, he explained,
women students were added to
the ROTC marching band to form
Industry Building on Ag campus.
HE MILL present a lecture,
"Taxonomy of Nematodes," Fri
day at 9 a.m. in Room 201 Bessey
Hall. Thorne will give a public
lecture, "Plant Parasitic Nema
todes in our Agriculture Econ
omy," Feb. 26 at 3:30 p.m., in
Room 244, Agronomy Building,
on Ag campus.
Concluding his lecture series,
Thorne will hold a seminar,
"Miscellaneous Ectoparasitic Ne
matodes," Feb. 27 at 9 a.m. in
Room 305, Plant Industry Build
ing, on Ag campus.
His appearance is sponsored
by the departments of plani
pathology and zoology and the
University research council.
Degree Applications
All students who expect to
receive bachelor degrees, ad
vanced degrees or teaching cer
tificates at the end of this se
mester must make their applica
tions by March 1.
Floyd Hoover, director of reg
istration and records, announced
that these applications should be
made at the senior checking of
fice in Room B9 of the Adminis
tration Building, between 9 a.m.
and 4 p.m. Monday through Fri
day or from 9 a.m. to 12 noon
on Saturdays.
armory, now known as Grant
Memorial Hall, and the industrial
college building, now called Ne
braska Hall were constructed in
1887,
In 1891 the school's first li
brary was erected and Univer
sity entered a long period of
steady growth and a constantly
expanding enrollment.
The depression' and drouth in
the early 1930's brought con
struction at the University to a
standstill, but the building surge
was revived in 1938.
In 85 years the University has
expanded tremendously. Sprawl
ing from its North Platte experi
mental station to the .Omaha
"Medical College the University
now boast 20,535 students and a
teaching staff of 1,642.
A landscaping, program was
started in 1948 and the school
has entered a 20-year building
program designed for future edu
cational needs.
Charter day speakers at pro
grams across the country will
include: James S. Pittenger,
alumni secretary; A. J. Lewan
dowskl, acting athletic director
and business manager of the
University athletic department;
Roscoe Pound, dean emeritus of
the Harvard Law School; D. X.
Bible, former University football
coach; Ellsworth DuTeau, Alum
ni Association president; Acting
Chancellor John K. Selleck, and
John Bentley, athletic news di
rector. Pittenger left Lincoln
Monday for a visit of the mid
west and west coast alumni
clubs. He hopes to complete or
ganization of new dubs in the
western area.
climax of the first Greek Week
held on the University cam
pus. The week consisted of
discussion groups, exchangt
dinners and group attendance
to church Sunday.
fre Bandl
the symphonic band and tht
overflow of men from the march
ing band composed the Brasi
Choir.
This year, with the forming of
the Collegiate Band, the Brass
Choir has been dropped.
Officers of the Collegiate Band
are Paul Cook, president; Robert
Hill, vice president, and James
Hagaman, secretary.
OTHER MEMBERS of the or
ganization are:
Oboe, Helen Runyon . and
Charles Palmer; Flute, Marilyn
Miller, Cleo Kennedy, Janet
hightree, Marilyn Jo Smith and
Paul Cook.
Clarinets, Barbara Rystrom,
Margaret Johnson, Marshall Nel
son, Donald Hagensick, Marty
Crandell, Bob Harrison, Don De
terding, Ann Masters, Irene
Moore, Jane Stevens, Jim Wen
gert, Betty Sorenson, Yvonn
Tevebaugh, Edna Cleveland, San
dra Mahaffey, Charlottee Col
man, Shirley Sacks and Sheryl
Whitmus.
Alto saxaphone, Barbara Eicke
and William Haywood; tenor
saxaphone, Dale Marples; bari
tone saxaphone, John Parme
lee. HORNS, Gene Hazen, Ronald
Green, Shirley Bazant, Mary
Langemeir and Donald Good
rich; cornet, Robert Hill, Ronald
Yost, Marshall Christensen,
Doyle Hulme, Robert Jones,
Wade Dorland, Sylvia Anna
Smith, Glenn Koca, Robert War
rick, Paul Streich, Richard Lukes
and Dairy Lundgren.
Trumpets, Marlin Clark, Neil
Miller and Walter Gilbert; bari
tones, Clark Alexander, Gary
Bannister, Herman Anderson,
Dick Kautzman, Merle Fegley,
Jim Carson and Dale Wurst.
TROMBONES. Richard Goet
tsch, James Hagaman, Darrel
Grothen, Donald Chilcoat, Chales
Elwell, Carroll Goll, Walter
Schmidt, Jim Feather, John Nel
son and Gerald Gottberg.
Basses, Charles Reece, Rod
Pejsar, Bryce Bartu, Dudley Mc
Cubbin, Herschel Graber and
Harold Spicknall; percussion,
Harold Day, William McElvain,
Charles Rickel and Dana Eurich;
tympani, Ron Becker; librarians.
Two To Debate
Bricker Plan
At NUCWA
Miles Johnston, Lincoln attor
ney, will defend the Bricker
amendment at the Nebraska Uni
versity Council on World Affairs
meeting Tuesday at 7:30 in th
Union, Room 313. Marv Fried
man will present the disad
vantages of the proposaL
The topic will then be opened
to discussion by the group.
Following the meeting, the
Drops And Adds
No registrations, adds or pay
ment of fees will be accepted
after Saturday noon. Floyd W.
Hoover, director of registra
tion and records, warned that
this is the final deadline. Stu
dents may continue to drop
courses, however.
18th annual Time magazine cur
rent affairs contest will be held.
Test papers will be graded and
the winner will receive his choice
of five books, a world globe or
an enscribed bronze medal.
Ag, City Builders '
Plan Mass Meets
A Builders mass meeting will
be held Wednesday in Union
Room 315.
Students interested in signing
up for a committee must attend
the meeting because last semes
ter's committees will be dis
banded. Ag Builders mass meeting' will
also be held Wednesday in the
Ag Union.
Cannon To Give Speech
On Love And Marriage
The sixth in a series of mar
riage and religion lectures will
be given Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
at Love Memorial Library.
Dr. Kenneth L. Cannon, home
economics director, will speak
on, "Love Is The Fulfillment of
Needs" and "Is The Male You
Want The One You NeedL"