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day M GfkZS Jv54 Cooi Opening Follies 'Newscapers' To Feature 5 Skits, 3 Curtain Acts. Presentation Of TNC, 12 Beauty , Queen Finalists uuiian imzeiman, Ann Lindley, 'NewscaDers." 1954 rneH nva lies production, will be presented Monday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Nebraska Theater. Five skits, three curtain acts, and six traveler acts will be pre sented each night. Skits and skit masters are Pi Beta Phi, "Emma Solves a Dilemma." Marilvn Bourck; Sigma Delta Tau, "Alice in Newspaperland," Mickey Rab- mer; Delta Gamma, "Hanna Hits Savannah," Jane Berguist; Chi Omega, "Madame Flutterby," Kathy O'Donnell, and Gamma Phi Beta, "Emancipation Rocks the Nation," Jerrie Langlett. CURTAIN ACTS are Alpha Phi, "Syncopated Sentinels," Barbara Dunn; Kappa Alpha Theta, "Gad What an Ad." Marv Kav Beach ler; Kappa Kappa Gamma, "Cel estrial Tribunal," Mary Janet Reed and Pat Loder. Traveler acts which will be presented Monday are "Beauty Shoppe Quartet," Kathleen Wil son, Mary Lou Beerman, Carolyn Roxberg, Andy Chronopolous ; "Drums and Piano," Billee Croft and Carole Unterseher; "Mar imba Solo," Shirley McPeck. ' i OTHER MONDAY night acts re "Piano Solo," Marilyn An derson; "Kentucky Derby Win ner," Nancy Kiely, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" with Barbara Flanagan, Carolyn Goetz. Mary ond Kay Beachler, Susan Stoehr, ' Finalists Ann Miner, Kiley Sprague, Kathy jverr ana v:yntnia Noble. Tuesday night traveller acts will be "Voice and Piano Duet," Lynn Holland and Carole Unter seher; "Charleston Tap," Leigh Cartwright; "Lullaby of Broad way," Janet Boettcher, Phyllis Malony, Dorothy Osborn; "Hu morous Reading," Ann Launer; "The Tango," Elaine Hess. IN ADDITION to the variety! acts, me xypicai Nebraska Coed will be announced for the first time Monday night, and the other 19 finalists will be presented. Connie Clark Karges, Alpha Chi Omega, was TNC winner last year. Awards will be made to the winning skit and curtain act on Tuesday. The winning curtain act will be presented with an en graved plaque. Possession of the travelling cup will be given to the winning skit. If a house cap tures the cup three years in a row, they retain possession of Delta Gamma has been the it winner the last two years OTHER WINNERS last vear were Kappa Kappa Gamma, sec ond, and Alpha Xi Delta, third. Curtain act winners were Pi Beta Phi, first, and Kappa Delta, sec- f o r Cornhusker Beauty Queen will be presented at tne ioines both nights. Judges for this year's program will be Shirley Chapman, Union activities director; Dudley Ash ton, professor of physical edu cation; Nathan Blumberg, assist ant professor of Journalism, and Dale Gantz, assistant professor of voice. They will judge both the skits and the curtain acts. TRAVELLER ACTS will he judged by Earl Jenkins, voice instructor, and Dr. Grace Meeker. visiting professor of speech and dramatic arts. The doors will be open ap proximately half an hour before the performance. Tickets, which are 80 cents, will be sold at the door, if any seats are available. Volume 54, No. 58 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Friday, February 26, 1 954 Spring) inivocaiffl Barth To Speak At First Presentation March 11, 12 JAnnHiAH.;i . . ... . ... .... J Ten departmental convocations have been planned for March, April and May. David Dow, pro fessor of law, said that the con vocations committee is attempt ing to schedule at least one more. The convocation policy, accord ing to Dow, has been that the committee supplies financial Student Council Postpones Motion Made Wednesday Junior Senior Class Constitution Waits Approval Gene Kemper To Discuss NU Athletic Situation Sigma Delta Chi To Hear Publisher Gene Kemper, publisher of the Alliance Times-Herald, will dis cuss the University athletic pro gram at a public meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity. The meeting will be held Satur day at 6:45 p.m. in Union Room 316 following initiation of new Sigma Delta Chi members at 4 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. Eight undergraduates and several grad uates will be initiated. KEMPER HAS hurled several charges concerning the athletic situation, at the University. He claims that: Scholarship agreements -with athletes are an obligation to the University. The Omaha World Herald was shown preference in the distnbu- tion of free press tickets to the stadium. Regents failed to give 44 foot ball players a proper hearing after the players signed a peti tion against Coach Bill Glassford Football ret profits of $200,000 nnually indicate that there is no need for the "slush " fund of 529, 100 raised by alumni and friends Assistant coaches who left school were not questioned during tne Glassford issue. Novocain was improperly ad ministered to enable injured play ers to compete in games, A motion to disapprove Junior-Senior Class Counci constitution which would enlarge me council to include sonho more and freshman class officers was tabled at a Student Council meeting Wednesday. unaer me constitution, mem bership of the Class Council would include four officers each class and six hold-over members from the previous vear Total membership of the Council' would be 22, The constitution also specifies tnat at the first election the treasurer and vice-president must be women and the other two offices be held by men. On alternate years the offices would oe reversed. CONSTITUTION THE was submitted to the Student Council ret). 3 and himsH mroi- tn ti iv,p npMmcTnv j . Judiciary committee, headed by LYLE DENNISTON, president Eldon Park. Park rUm-t that the committee did not nnnrnve the constitution because the pur- of the local chapter, said that Kemper will use "official letters" ATtniTchanc John Sellec tLl SL stitut? plans to send a stenographer to tne meeting to take official notes. The eight undergraduates who will be initiated are: Burton Mann, Don Walton, Marshall Kushner, Al Remmenga, Glenn for the council were not specific enough to show that future offi cers would be doing anything more than previous officers. The Junior-Senior Class Coun cil or last year submitted a con KOLN To Present Series On Authors Authors of the Ages, a pres entation of the radio division of the speech department, will be broadcast second semester -over Radio Station KOLN every Thurs day at 9:30 p.m. Underlying philosophy of the broadcasts is to present good lit erature of the type that is nor mally not heard on radio, accord ing to Paul Schupbach, acting di rector of radio. Thursday's pro duction was "The Ugliest Man in the World," by Arch Oboler. The chow was directed by Norman Francis, assisted by Allan Ken yon. Next Thursday evening "The Connecticut Yankee in King Ar thur s Court, by Mark Twain will be presented. Jack Hale has been selected as program direc tor. , Degree Applications All students expecting to re reive bachelor degrees, advanced degrees or teaching certificates at the end of the semester must make their application by March 1. Floyd Hoover, director of reg istration and records, announced the applications should be made at the senior checking office in Room B-9 of Administration Building, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, or from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Saturdays. Nelson, Louis Schoea, ' Donald fitution which was approved by uie oiuaent council but turned down by the faculty sub-committee, on the grounds that the method of choosing officers was unrepresentative of the classes. ihe Council then advised place officers to work on s new in stitution with representation based on colleges. The Council set a deadline of Jan. 1, at which ume tne class council would automatically be disbanded if no constitution was presented. a iic ueaanne was later e-ir tended to the beginning of se- uu semester classes, . rAKK IWOVFT th ct,.j i by acting Chancellor John K. Council cnn.i, i. . u i , ..S- "c wiiouiuuua ucu " jciici Hum me cum- ior tne following reasons manaing general oi tne Fifth 1 Tho tduun is innpTinito The letter also stated that no tu.j final decision has been made as ce "SaS. io now grauuaies win De called mentation r. -t J . to active dutv. As so u h me.naaons of the Council and is cision is reached, the informa tion will be submitted to the University. Hilkemeer and Charles Beal. Kemper is one of the University graduates being initiated. Army To Give Commissions To NU Seniors Commissions in the Army Re serve will be granted to all stu dents graduating this year from the Army ROTC program. lnis information was received of all seg- not representative ments of the class. 3. Rotation Of Officers mioht prohibit the best student fmm attaining a specific office. PRESENT AT the meeting were Ted James, president of the senior class: Jim Collins. vi Approximately 140 junior President f the senior class, and ROTC Camp Sites Revealed By Army ROTC Army students will at tend 1954 summer camn for a six week period between June 19 and July 30. The Infantry will be sent to Fort Lewis, Washington; Mili tary Police Corps to Camp Gor don, Georgia; Corps of Engineers to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Military Intelligence to Fort Riley, Kansas, and Field Artil lery to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The Medical Service Corns will be sent to Fort Sam Hous ton, Texas and Ordnance Corps to Aberdeen Proving Ground. Maryland. of tiiii uevrles, vice-president the junior class. James said the designed to give a generalized picture and that exact duties would be handled in by-laws, Ihe main purpose, he said would be to create a class spirit wnnin each class. Officers of each class, he said, would work to promote publicity for the activ- ities of students within each class. OTHER ACTIVITIES of the of ficers would be to sponsor a fresh- man-sophomore tug of war. class parties, a Senior Week, sale of iresnman Deanies and sale of an nouncements, caps and gowns. HE POINTED out that a Senior week has been considered bv stn. dents before, but that funds have not Deen available to snonsnr nne He said, however, that by selline caps and gowns in addition to an nouncements, the funds could be ODtamed. He said that the class officers had worked with James Pittentrer Alumni Association secretary, in forming the constitution. Pittenger. James said, endorsed the idea because it would strengthen the alumni work. A class spirit would make it easier to arrange for class reunions. THE COUNCIL decided to post pone action on constitution until members could learn more about it. If the Council does not approve the constitution at the nevt meet ing, the class officers wiU still he able to submit a second constitu tion However, if an election of class officers is to take place this spring, the council will have to pass the constitution in time to aiiow the constitution to be sub mitted to the faculty sub-committee and for class officers to set up tne machinery for the election. Even if this is not accomplished in irnie ior snrine elections. rise officers can carry on the work on a constitution during the next scnooi year. PARK ALSO reported that tv. iacuity siiL-committee approved uie constitutions or the University Council on Religion and of Alpha Phi chapter of Gamma Theta Up- The committee on student wares reported that they had talked to uean oi student Affairs J. P. Col bert about student emnlnnnent Colbert said that a new system of aiuuent employment is being de veloped which will include central office for men's and women's em ployment, student loans and schol- arsnips. Ihe system, which will be in operation by next fall, will also include a more complete file nt employers and a better place ment of qualified students. Ihe council voted not to distrib ute questionnaires to determine student wishes for council action. Bill Cannon, Interfra t e r n i t y Council, representative, submitted a letter of resignation because of illness. backing and initiative while the departments select and invite the speakers. If the committee considers the selected speaker important, he is asked to give a puDiic lecture. ALAN BARTH, editorial writer for the Washington Post, will be tne speaKer at tne first convoca tion, which will be held March 11 and 12. He was invited by tne journalism department, Dr. H. A. Rusk will be the speaker for a medical depart ment convocation March 12. Dr, Rusk is the director of the re habilitation Institute in New York and associate editor of the New York Times. He will sneak on meaicai rehabilitation, The department of economics nas invited H. W. Hueeev to Regent's Withholding Names Policy Backed Committee Advocates Publicity Ban rriu- T t : i . u.. t , me umveiMiy iacuity, repre sented by a special committee, announced that it will continue the policy of not releasing the names of men contacted by the Regents in regard to the chancel lorship during the period of pre liminary talks. The faculty stands with the Board of Regents on this issue. "Such publicity does not aid in obtaining the interest of a maxi mum number of good men, and only makes more, difficult the task of selection," the statement said. in, uuflumriM was ap pointed last spring by the Uni versity senate to make recom mendations concerning persons the Regents are considering for tne office of chancellor. The committee's statement is as follows: "The special committee of the faculty appointed by the Uni Coeas May Apply For WAA Posts Filings for the Women's Ath letic Association council and board will be accepted Monday through March 10 in the WAA office. Council positions are open for assistant intramural coordinator and officials chairman. Applica tions may be obtained in the WAA office. Interviews will be held March 15 and 16 from 5 to 6 p.m. Ap plicants will be judged on the basis of interviews, interest and previous work in WAA. versity senate on invitation of the Regents to, cooperate with them in their task of selecting a chancellor agrees with the Re gents that their initial inquiry into the fitness of persons under consideration for the chancellor ship should be conducted with out publicity. "IT IS the committee's opinion that such publicity does not aid in obtaining the interest of a maximum number of good men, and, as a practical matter, only makes the task of selection more difficult. "We will continue to cooper ate with the Board of Regents. We have already screened a large number of names and are continuing this work. Some of these persons have been recom mended to the Board .of Regents while others, in our opinion, do not fulfill the qualifications needed for the chancellorship. "WE ARE aware the Board is now engaged in arranging meet ings with men recommended to it by the committee. The com mittee believes these meeting should proceed unhampered by niinlinifr " Members of the committee are M. Hicks, committee chair man, ana chairman of the de partment of business oreaniza tion and manaeement: I tvt a Basoco, professor of mathematirc ana chairman of the department marvei u. uaKer, professor of animal nusbandry: Nile A Ear, nard, professor of mechanical engineering; Dr.D. A. Worcester, fiuiessur oi eaucationai nsvchni. ogy, ana David Dow, professor oi iaw, PoliSci Essay Contest Offers $100 Prize To Undergraduate One hundred dollars will be test. awarded to the undergraduate student who submits the best essay or research paper on a po litical science subject, in the na uonai vi sigma Alpha essay con Candlelight Room The Union Candelite Room will be open for dancing Satur day from 8:30 to 12 p.m. Snacks will be served. There will be no cover charge. Midwest Debate, Discussion Conference To Open Today rorry-aix Colleges, Universities From Nine States io Participate In Annual Two-Day Speech Contest The Outside World By WILLIE DESCH Staff Writer Aid Granted To Pakistan WASHINGTON Military aid will be granted to Pakistan to neip secure "stability and strength" in the Middle East, announced President Eisenhower. Issued at the same time as the announce ment was a letter to Prime Minister Nehru of India to assure him that the military grant does not affect the friendship this country has for India. The decision requires no Congressional sanction and was taken under authority granted by the foreign aid law. Indian officials have been critical of the idea of giving military aid to Pakistan because of fear that this part of Asia would become more powerful. Aid would be to India's disad vantage. A mission will be sent to Pakistan to determine the needs of the country. Turkev and Pakistan have announced their intention to study ways of achieving close cooperation toward strengthening Kiluo ' "v ocv.mn.jr. nicy nave bisu asitea ior military assistance. Presidential Troubles BEIRUT, LEBANON Gen. Mohamed Naguib was ousted from his position as president-premier of Egypt on charges that he was trying to pull the country "back to absolute dictatorship." Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser was named by Egypt's ruling revolu tionary council as the new premier. Nasser was the driving force behind the army that tumbled King Farouk from the throne 19 months ago. Radio Aleppo said a large section of the Syrian army had revolted against Shishekly, President of Syria. An unconfirmed report claimed that Shishekly had been overthrown. However, broadcasts from Damascus, Syrian capital, made no mention of any kind of trouble. Medical Code Of Ethics LINCOLN In an attempt to prevent unethical fee splitting, a national problem, from gaining any foothold here, Lincoln General Lospital plans to adopt a code of ethics. It will require each staff member to make his financial books available to a certified public accountant representing the medical staff for the purpose of proving his adherence to the code. Other Lincoln hospitals are seriously considering taking the sama measures. Forty-six colleires and linivprci. ties from nine Midwestern states Will send Students to the Tntorrnl, legiate Debate and Discussion conference at the University Fri. day and Saturday. Included in the tournament will De events In debate, discussion, extemporaneous speakintr. ori inal oratory and radio-newscast- ing. Donald O. Olson, assistant proiessor or speech and dramatic art, will pe In charge of the conference. SUBJECT for debate is "Re solved: That the United States should adopt a policy of free trade." Discussion topic will be How can present procedures and practices of Congressional in vestigation committees be im proved?" University debators will be: Dale Johnson, Wayne Johnson. Paul Laase, Jack Rogers, Charles Kiffin, Kenneth Philbrick and Homer Kenison. Allan Overcash. Charles Klasek, Norman' Alex ander, Jerry Igou, Shirley Mc- Paul Scheele, James Placke, Jere McGaffey. Richard Fellman, Sharon Mangold, San dra Reimers, Earnest Enke, Bev erly Deepe, Gary Widman and Viennese Theme Chosen For German Club Meet Viennese " Life" has been chosen as the theme of the Ger man Club meeting to be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Union Room 315. Mrs. Enid Miller, who spent three years as chief librarian at the United States military port in Vienna, will give her impres sions of life in Vienna and will show slides. An instrumental trio composed of Charles Wright, Hanna Rosen berg and Walter Carlson will play Viennese waltzes. Nicholas Soeder. Representing speech 110 course, the following will take part in discussion events: Patricia Lo der, Lorraine Coryell, Robert Spearman, Dave Chapman, Allan Kenyon, Cecilia Koehnke, Mary Jane Mapes, Jack Hale, A. R. Mc Candless, Marilyn Bourck, Ingrid Sweere, Orval Weyers, Leigh Cartwright and Henry Gibson. NEBRASKA COLLEGES and universities attending the confer ence include Creignton Univer sity, Doane, Hastings and Mid land Colleges, Nebraska State college at Kearney, Nebraska wesieyan and Omaha University, 01 J TIL' iuiuiciuu, xjxuiuis, lowa, Kansas Minnesota. Missouri. South Da. kota and Texas will send repre sentatives to tne conference, Twenty-six entries have "been received for participation in the radio-newscasting event, accord ing to Paul Schupkach, acting di rector oi raaio. representing the University will be Dave Chapman ana jacK Hale. 3 4-! 7 'Fabulous Redhead1 Pat Loder presents flowers to Miss Agnes Moorehead for Nebraska Masquers, dramatic honorary. ,The presentation was made after the first per formance of "That Fabulous Redhead" Tuesday. Miss Moorehead's appearance in Lincoln was sponsored by the Union. Students do not have to he a member of Pi Sigma Alpha to be eugiDie ior tne competition. RULES FOR the contest re quire that the essays be from 3,000 to 6,000 words, that three typewritten copies be furnished, the full name and address of the author be indicated and that the essays be submitted to the fac ulty advisor of the local chap ter of Pi Sigma Alpha, political science nonorary. The faculty advisor in con sultation with other members of the teaching staff will chnnse the best essays prepared locally and forward them for consider ation to the national contest. EACH LOCAL chanter mav submit two essays to the national headquarters. Deadline for mail ing entries to the national office is May 1. 1 speak at a convocation March 29 and 30. Huegey is an instructor at the University of Illinois. He is especially interested in the credit field of economics and has worked with the national govern ment in connection with , this field. The title of his lecture will be "Marketing Policy." Paul Sears, director of School of Conservation at Yale Univer sity, will be the speaker at a botany department convocation April 5, 6 and 7. Sears received University in 1915. From 1919 to 1927 he was an instructor in botany department. He has written several books including "Deserts on the March." "History in the Social Sci ences" will be the title of a his tory convocation address by Arthur Bestor on April 8 and 9. Bestor is a professor of hist- at the University of Illinois. His main interest lies in the field of intellectual history. Bestol has written several critical books on the public school system. His best known publication is v.a tional Wastelands.". "THE POET a Create. A Root-Metaphor in Critical The ory" will be the subject of an English department convocation May 3. Sneaker will h Adams, professor of ttnriich at Cornell University. He is th author of several critical theories, the most famous of which is 'The Mirror and the Lamp." George Kernodle. of the do. partment of speech at the Uni versity of Arkansas, will be the speaker at an all-Universitv vocation April 21 and 22. He was invited by the speech depart ment. The title of his first ad- uicss is xseyona the Footlights." His second lecture will be "Act ing: The Spit and Image." E. L. MUNTER, a member of the engineering and purchasing division of William Gehring Farms, Inc., will be the speaker at an Ag engineering convoca tion, as yet unscheduled. He will speak on Ag engineering phases of a 2500 acre farm in central Indiana. Two other speakers, for con vocations yet unscheduled, will be Walter Johnson and Edwin Nourse. Nourse, a senior fellow in the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and past hun Brooking's Foundation, will speak at an economic depart ment convocation. The convocations, with the pos sible exception of two, will be held either in Love Library Au ditorium or in the Union Ballroom. Young Demos To Reorganize At Meeting ine organizational meeting of the campus Young Democrats Club has been scheduled for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Union Parlor A. .Don Searcy, temporary publi city chairman. annmmreH that all students and faculty mem bers under 40 are elieible tn t. tend the meeting and become members of the club. SEARCY SAID 'that -senti ment on campus is at a high pitch for Democratic expression and will find expression in an organization such as this." Other officers atopointed on an interim basis, Searcy said, ara secretary pro tern, Don Wanek; ucasurer pro tem, Marshall Kushner, and chairman of tha constitutional committee. Sandra Daley. ORGANIZATIONAL. CHAIR. MAN is Ed De Mar. Officers will be elected at th organizational meeting and the adoption of a constitution to h re-submitted to the Student Council, will be considered. A speaker, to be annonnred. will address the meeting. 'Hasty Heart' Production Cited As lively Comedy1 Upemng Show Attended By Thirty By ERNEST J BURGI the Scotsman, was handled well Faculty Reviewer by John Sullivan in his initial Ihe University speech and gnnuranAn in TT!.. rm drama department played host ter production. Hank Gibson pre to approximately thirty people sented an outstanding comedy Wednesday when director Max mHrani r& h Whiltaker presented the opening soldier Tommy, who has been performance of John Patrick's "wounded in the Ke'inn The Hasty Heart." More subtle handling of emo ine people who attended the tinnai i.nnan ..r,,u i t Arena Theater production, were proved Glenna Berry's charac rewarded with an hour and a terization of the ever-understand-11 of...lveIy comedy seasoned ing nurse, sister Margaret One mignt also prefer a less intense with mild sentimentalism. THE HASTYHeart" contains some of the best comedy lines University theatre eo-ers have had the opportunity of hearing. It is not, however, without a serious side. The attempts of a group of individuals to make the remaining weeks of life happy and more flexible portrayal of a "Yank" who was less veno mous in his anger than Morrel Clute presented him to be. In general, however, these roles, as well as the other roles in the cast, were handled adequately. - r . THE PLAY was well received for a dying Scotsman who spurns by the much too meager audi- their friendship is sincerelv mov- ing at times. Director Whittaker, obviously viewing the play as primarily comedy, has kept the tempo rapid and the sentimental aspects somewhat subdued. The problem of adapting the staging to the small area of the Arena Theater were well worked out. The leading role of Lachie, ence. Certainly there are mora than thirty people on the Univer sity campus who could have taken the time and who would have enjoyed this more than adequate performance. It's too bad, but it appears the typical pattern will be re peated mpty seats the first week while scores will be turned away on the final nights.