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ET3H ef For Boutoi To Speak Installation Of Academic Freedom" is the theme of the annual YM-YWCA banquet which will be held Thurs day at 6:30 p.m. in Union Par lors XYZ. Frederick K. Beutel, professor of law and president of the Ne braska chapter of American As sociation of University Professors will be the guest speaker. He will carry out the theme of the ban quet by discussing "Academic Freedom." A question and answer TV Panel To Discuss Athletics ' Glassford, Hall, Bernd To Speak Varsity Sportsmanship" will be discussed on a television show over KFOR-TV at 7 p.m., Thurs day. Members of the panel will be Sally Hall, editor of the Nebras- kan; Bill Glassford, head foot ball coach, and Danial Bernd, former University athlete. Each of the speakers will pre sent a different side of the res ponsibility argument in athlet ics. Glassford will outline his conception of a player's duty toward the team and the Univer sity as a whole, Miss Hall will talk on the University's respon- sibility to the athlete and Bernd will present the alumni's respon sibility in regard to college ath letics. After short speeches the topic will be discussed informally by the panel with the Rev. I. J. Do mas, pastor of the Unitarian Church, serving as moderator. The 30-minute program which 1$ entitled "Council Chamber" is sponsored jointly by the ra dio station and the Lincoln Coun cil of Human Relations. Mechanical Engineers Plan Wednesday Meet The American Society of Me chanical Engineers will meet Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. in Hoom 216, Richards Lab. Student papers will be given and movies will "be shown. Re freshments will follow. YD's To Hear Paul Meadows 'At Organizational Meeting Dr. Paul Meadows, professor of sociology, will speak at the or ganizational meeting of the cam pus Young Democratic Club Wed nesday at 7:30 p.m. in Union Parlor A. . His topic will be "What's Hap- penea 10 Hiisennower : ur. Meadows, author of "Technology and the Social Order," which will be published soon, recently com pleted three years of service with the Family Service Board in Lin coln. Ninth Annual KAM Conclave Date Named " The "Biggest Thing in Texas," the ninth annual Kappa Alpha Mu convention, has been sched uled for April 15 to 17 at Hous ton, Tex. The University Rho chapter is planning to attend. The convention will feature the International Collegiate Photography Competition and Exhibition and several guest speakers. The Exhibition is th only salon in the country open to all college students. First place winners in each of the four c 1 a s s e s news, features, sports, picture stories and pic ture sequences will receive $25 government bonds. For further information contact. Rho Chap ter, B-4 Burnett. The KAM chapter at Houston, Tex., is planning a preview of their Frontier Festival for the convention. The Outside World By WILLIE DESCH Staff Writer Bentley In Serious Condition WASHINGTON Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich- rmi in critical condition in a Washington hospital after being riously wounded in an outburst of gunshots fired in Congress Monday. Bentley's physician gave him a 50-50 chance to recover In spite of emergency surgery and four blood transfusions. The 35-year-old lawmaker who was hit in the liver and lungs was placed in an oxygen tent. Other lawmakers wounded in the gun battle were reported to be doing well. Thirty guards were added to the Capitol and business was resumed by Congress. The House convened at noon Tuesday with about 200 members in their seats. The four Puerto Ricans which are being held or the shooting are from New York City.. The ringleader, Lolita Lerori said that the attack was intended to dramatize the demand by Puerto Rican nationalists for independence for the island. The government will begin presenting fy1? J four to a federal grand jury Wednesday, said U.S. Attorney Leo Rover. They are charged with assault with intent to kill against ach of the five congressmen. The charge would be changed to murder if Bentley dies. The punishment in that case would re death in the electric chair. Ha Vs. McCarthy WASHINGTON Chairman Leonard Hall of the Republican National Committee is in disagreement with Sen. Mccartny (R-Wis) when he attacks persons "fighting Communism just as he is." The comment made by Hall was not re ated to any specific situation, however, he did say he did not J things developed last week in the controversy between Mcuarxny and the Army. ., Hall had just completed a conference with President Eisen hower when he made his comments on the situation, wau aid not give Eisenhower's reaction although he said he had discussed the situation with the chief executive. . , Hall said that he believed a cure for the situation might be in changing the rules of committee procedure. In order to get a start in that direction, a move has been initiated by the Senate Republican Policy Committee, and various bills on the point nave been introduced. Y Disiraer At Annual Banquet, Officers Planned period will follow the address. JACK ROGERS, newly-elected vice president or city YMCA, will act as toastmaster. Follow ing the invitation which will be presented by Charles Harris n.eiui ,riewine will lead group singing. Annual reports of city and Ag campus YW-YMCA will be given ay pasi oiiicers. The new city YM-YWCA offi cers will be installed. Entertainment will be provided py x eosniro isa. harmonicist from Nebraska Wesleyan University, V MRS. REX KNOWLES. chair. man of the YWCA board, will in troduce tne guests who will be lewis Horn and Jack Covle. ex. ecutive and assistant executive of tne community Chest, roswn. tively, and members of the Board or Management and Advisory ooara 01 it WUI. xiineuj ior ine nanmier i $1.25 and may be purchased either at tne YWCA office in Ellen Smith Hall, the YMCA office Room 108 Temporary L. or from reDresen- wiives in organized houses. 'Hasty Heart' Ticket Sales To Continue Tickets for "The Hastv Hoow University Theater production of jonn Patrick's Dlav, are still available for the remaining ner. formances. The story involves the nroh- lem of an incurably ill Scotch man, Lachie, played by John bullivan. The nurse. Glenna Berry, and two other patients, HanK Gibson as Tommy -and Morrell Clute as Yank also fig ure prominently in the play's action. OTHERS IN the cast are Jack Parris as Kiwi; Gene Dinsmore, Digger; Forrest Stith, Blossom; Bill Walton, the colonel, and Larry Hanson, the orderly. The University Theater office urges that all students reserve tickets for Wednesday or Thura day nights, as a capacity crowd is expected for the weekend performances. The play will begin at 8 p.m in the Afena Theater in Temple Building. "The talk," Dr. Meadows said, "will center around the di vergence between what the Re publicans promised the nation during their campaign and what they have and hope to have put into effect" Publicity chairman, Don Searcy announced the meeting will be open to all students and faculty members who are interested in the ideals and principles of the Democratic party. THE ORGANIZATIONAL com mittee is headed by Ed DeMar. He. said that plans are already being made for a Democratic rally to be held March 12 in con nection with the Democratic kiclc off campaign. Both national and state Demo cratic officials will meet in Lin coln March 12 to map out cam paign strategy for the fall elec tions. The meeting Wednesday will consist of the election of officers and the adoption of a constitu tion. elBCjQOUS W if Si Ash Wednesday Ceremonies Organizations Plan Special Communion Services, Vespers, Meditations Lent, a period of six weeks and four days beginning today, Ash Wednesday, commemorates the forty days before Easter and will be observed on the Univer- Volume 54, No. 60 ' u 'i if- i I y, &. ! : .., , mnm Beauty Queen These University coeds were selected from 42 entries for fi nalists for Cornhusker Beauty Queen, Thefinalists, announced Monday night at Coed Follies, are (front row, from 1. to r.) itwouts i?or q Lata fiovs Student Directors Named; Parts Available For Twenty NU People Tryouts for four University Laboratory plays will -be held Thursday and Friday from 3 to p.m. in Rooms 203, 210, and 151-B, Temple Building. Max Whittaker, director of Laboratory Theatre, has an nounced that any interested University student may try out. TRYOUTS FOR "A Sunny Morning," a comedy by Serafin and Joaquin Quintero, will be held in Room 203. The director will be Doris Billerbeck. A cast Seminar Planned For Wednesday "Social Security" will be the next topic for discussion at the faculty-student seminar spon sored by the Union convocation committee Wednesday at 4 p.m. Dr. Frank Z. Glick, director of the Graduate School of Social Work, and Joseph Sewal, man ager of the Lincoln bureau for the Old Age and Survivors In surance program, will -discuss the spects of the social security program. The discussion will be held in the Union Faculty Lounge. sity campus by many religious student houses. Lutheran Student Association is planning a series of special services during the Lenten sea son. In addition to regular Sunday morning services. Rev. Alvin Petersen will conduct a series of Lenten vespers. These services will be held each Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. at the student house. The subject of the series will be "Lenten Affirmations." TOPICS OF individual serv ices are: March 16, "I Believe in Jesus Christ;" March 23, "I Be lieve in Forgiveness of Sin;" March 30, "I Believe in Ressur rection," and April 6, "I Believe in Proclaiming the Gospel." The Lutheran house will ob serve a "Spiritual Emphasis Week" Sunday through Tuesday. A guest speaker, Rev. David Preuss, Vermillion, S.D., will discuss "Christian Envolvement in the World Struggle;" WESLEY FOUNDATION will open its Lenten services with an Ash Wednesday service. The series will be continue with a 6:30 a.m. breakfast and 7:15 a.m. Bervice. University fac ility members will be guest speakers at each of these serv ices. The scheduled speakers are: March 8, Niles H. Barnard, chairman of the mechanical en gineering department; March 10, Miss Marjorie Johnston, dean of women; March 24, Tyra A. New ton, instructor in mathematics; March 31, Thomas H. Goodding, professor of agronomy, and April 7, Mrs. Angeline Anderson, as sistant professor of home eco nomics. Student leaders in charge of the services are David Heffel bower, Shirley Kinsel, Orvis Wall, Roma Jean Miller, Gordon Maznusson and Connie Lindly. -THE UNIVERSITY Lutheran Chapel will hold a series of Cjirouips To pen Lent" Finalists Beverly Jacobs, Alison Faulk ner, Daphne Young, Gretchen Winkler (second row, 1. to r.) Diann Benedict, Sandra Spei cher, Leigh Cartwright, (back row, 1. to r.) Rita-Al Goding, of two men and two women will be chosen. The Spanish comedy is concerned with two sweet hearts who re-discover each other after a separation of many years, "Helena's Husband" is a farce by Philip Moeller, based on the novel "Helen of Troy." The cast contains two women; Helen and her maid, and three men; the king, his servant and the Prince of Troy. - Tryouts will be held from 3 to 5 p.m., in Room 210 on Thurs day, and 151-B on Friday. Di rector will be Donna Folmer Pflasterer. KAY BARTON will direct "The Living Room," a drama by Graham Green. Two men and three women are needed for the cast. The plot revolves around a priest and his friend. Tryouts will be held from 3 to 5 p.m., in Room 210, Thursday, and 151-B, Friday. "The Dear Departed" is a comedy involving the estranged family of Abel Merriwea'ther, who is supposed dead. Three men and three women are re quired. Student director is Pa tricia Hahn. Tryouts will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, and 4 to 5 p.m., Friday in Room 203. "Lenten Meditations" beginning Wednesday and continuing for the s41owing five Wednesdays. The theme for the meditations will be "The Cross for Victory." Mortar Board Conclave Set For Saturday Twenty-five Mortar Boards from seven colleges will gather at the University Saturday for the second annual conference of Mortar Boards this area, an nounced Joy Wachal, conference chairman. Universities of Denver, Wyom ing, Kansas, South Dakota, Colo rado and Nebraska, Grinnell Col lege and Kansas State College will be represented. Janet Stef fen, University Mor tar Board president, will preside at the morning meeting. The welcome address will be given by Miss Marjorie Johnson, dean of women. The organization of National Mortar Board will be explained by Eleanor Knoll, sec tion 11 director. Rex Knowles, Congregational - Presby t er i a n Student Pastor, will speak to the group following a luncheon. THREE DISCUSSION sections will be held during the day. Top ics will be "How Much is Ex pected of a Mortar Board Now and Later," "Recognition of Out standing Underclass Women on the Campus," "Spring Training for New Mortar Boards" and "Election Problems and Pro cedure." Darlene Goodding is in charge of registration. Barbara pilker will supervise housing and meals for the visitors. Program chair man is Sue Reinhardt and Bar bara Raun is arranging place ("cards and seating. B m LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Courtfsy Lincoln Journal Marymaude Bedford, Barbara Hof and Susan Muelhaupt. Gail Drahota is not pictured. The six winners will be announced in the Cornhusker in May. it happened at nu Day after day, the halls of Burnett are jammed as students madly scramble back and forth to and from mid-morning classes. No one can foretell what would happen if, "God forbid it," a fire should break out in the rented building. Yet every Monday, the routine seems to change. Last Monday was no exception. The halls are never crowded and they never will be. Those 'blue Mondays' must be potent characters. Tryouts To Continue For 'Finian's Rainbow' Tryouts for parts in "Finian's Rainbow," Kosmet Klub Spring Show, will continue in. Union Parlors XYZ Thursday and Fri day from 7 to 9 p.m. Persons interested in being cast for the principal singing and speaking parts may sign up at a Union booth. Sixteen speaking parts, 32 singing cho rus members, 6 female dancers and 6 male dancers are needed, as well as 3 male Negro singers, in Room 108, Temple Building. Nebraska Law Review Elects Hunter Editor Publications View Court Decisions Ronald Hunter, a junior in the College of Law, has been elected editor of the "Nebraska Law Re- The meetings will be held from 7 to 7:30 p.m., according to Rev. A. J. Norden, pastor. The Presbyterian-Congregational Fellowship will hold a Lenten series during its regular Thursday night vesper services. Rev. Rex Knowles, student pas tor, will conduct the services. THE EPISCOPAL Chapel will hold communion services each Wednesday at 7 a.m. This is a regular service but is expected to take on special significance during the Lenten season. ' In addition to the communion services, , a confirmation class will be held each Sunday at 6 p.m. until Easter. The University YM-YWCA will hold an all-University com munion service April 7, accord ing to Jan Osburn, YWCA di rector. The place and time of the service have not yet been set. A SERIES of talks by Lincoln ministers and student pastors to be given in fraternity houses is being planned by YMCA. Fra ternity presidents whose houses are interested in having speak ers should contact Charles An derson. Topics of the proposed talks are "God," "Christ," "Immortal ity," "Prayer" and "Scripture." Catholics will observe Lent at St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel with masses on all weekdays at 6:45 and 7:15 a.m. Ashes will be blessed before the 6:45 mass and distributed before both masses and at 7:30 p.m. A SERMON and benediction will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wed nesday and 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The "Stations of the Cross" will be recited at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Fridays. The first week will have only a 7:30 p.m. service. The Rosary will he repeated daily at 5 p.m. Sunday masses are scheduled for 7., 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 p.m. Cp Worsts DGs, Gamma Phis Place Second, Third The 1954 Coed Follies ended Tuesday night with the presenta tion of awards to skit and curtain act winners. Taking first place in the skit division was Chi Omega with the skit "Madame Flutterby." Sec ond and third place went to Delta Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta, respectively. First place in the curtain act division went to Kappa Kappa Gamma. Their skit was entitled "Celestial Tribunal." ELAINE HESS, Arts and Sci ence junior and a member of Delta Delta Delta, won the Tues' day traveler act division with a tap number "The Tango." Skitmaster for the Chi Omegas was Kathy ODonnell. Delta Gamma skitmaster was Jane Bergquist and Gamma Phi Beta skitmaster was Jerrie Langlett. Co-skitmasters for Kappa Kappa Gamma were Pat Loder and Mary Janet Reed. Included among the traveler acts, presented between skits and curtain acts, were Monday night's winners, Carol Unterse her and Billie Croft, members of Delta Gamma and Phi Beta Phi, respectively. Mortar Boards presented a traditional skit which was a satire on personal occupations, in school and at home, of the Mortar Board members. Skit master was Joyce Johnson. PRESENTED FOR the second time were the 12 Cornhusker Beauty Queen finalists and Typ ical Nebraska Coed, Muriel Pickett. The Chi Omega skit dealt with three NU students' experiences in Japan at Tokyo U. Accom panying them on their trip to the Orient was their Japanese instructor, Professor W a k a i. While on the Tokyo campus they met and danced with the famous Geisha girls while Professor Wa kai flirted and succumbed to the darling of them all, Madame Flutterby. Good newspapers received the go-ahead from the "Celestial Tribunal" as depicted by the Kappas. Complete with Gabriel and Satan tugging at the judges' heartstrings, newspapers repre senting Nebraska, Alaska, St. Louis and Wall Street danced and sang their defense. JUDGING THE skits, curtain acts and traveler acts were Dudley Ashton, chairman of the department of physical education view" by the Nebraska Law Re- view Monday. The "Nebraska Law Review" is a student publication published in conjunction with the Ne braska Bar Association and the College of Law. The publication contains comments on recent de cisions of various courts over the country and comments on sug gestions for the changing of law. THE "NEBRASKA" LAW Review is sold to Nebraska law yers and to some out-of-state lawyers. It is an authority on recent decisions in the field of Nebraska law and is often used in arguing before the Su preme Court of Nebraska and sometimes the Supreme Court of the United States. In preparing articles for the "Nebraska" Law Review the writers spend a great deal of time. The article is approved by two faculty members and at least four student editors before it is printed. The "Nebraska" Law Review is published four times a year, No vember, January, March and May. Don Davis is the retiring editor. HUNTER WAS a member of the Nebraska Moot Court cham pionship team winning the Na tional Moot Court Competition held in New York in early Janu ary. Hunter received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wayne in 1951 and his Bachelor of Science of Law from the University in 1953. Brugger To Discuss Far East At Cosmopolitan Club Meet Miss Florence Brugger, -chief social worker at Lincoln Veter ans' Hospital, will discuss and show slides on the Far Eastern countries of India, Thailand, China and Japan at a Cosmo politan Club meeting in Union Room 313 Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. MISS BRUGGER spent six years in Hawaii before World War n, as chief social worker for the Bureau of Mental Hygiene of the Board of Health. After wards she joined the Red Cross, spending over six yearB in the Middle East, Philippine Islands and Japan as supervisor of Hos pital Service for Red Cross in those areas. From 1948 to 1950 she served as chief of Social Work, Educa Wednesddy, March 3, 1954 for women; Dale Gantz, assistant professor of voice; Dr. N. B. Blumberg, assistant professor of journalism; Earl Jenkins, in structor in voice; Shirley, Chap man, director of Union activities, and Grace Meeker, visiting pro fessor in speech and dramatic art. AWS chairman for Coed Folliet was Eileen Mullarky. Skit chair man was Susie Good. Other skits participating in, Coed Follies were Pi Beta Phi "Emma Solves a Dilemma" and Sigma Delta Tau, "Alice in News paperland." Curtain acts participating wer Kappa Alpha Theta, "Gad, What an Ad," and. Alpha Phi, "Synco pated Sentinels." Courtesy Lincoln Journal Typical Coed Muriel Pickett was an nounced Typical Nebraska Coed at Coed Follies "News capers" Monday night. Misi Pickett, a junior in Teachers College, is a member of PI Beta Phi. NU Offers 2 Courses On Study Second Session Begins Monday The reading Improvement and H o w -T o-S tu dy courses will begin their second session of th semester Monday. One session of the Reading Im provement course will consist of classes on Mondays and Wednes days from 3-4 p.m. and another session, on Tuesdays and Thurs days from 4-5 p.m. The coursa itself will last for three weeks, but at least six more weeks of work on the reading accelerator are required. THE HOW-To-Study course will be offered on Mondays and Wed nesdays beginning March 8 at 4-5 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Thurs days from 11-12 a.m. This course will last three weeks. Registration will be held in the Junior Division and Counseling Service, Temporary A, any tima prior to the first class of each session. Individual instruction will be offered for those with conflicting classes. THE READING Improvement course will offer instruction for the improvement of reading speed and concentration. Mrs. Anne Hein, psychometrist at the Junior Division and Counseling Service, said that the reading course was beneficial to those who now read rapidly but who want to read faster. She said that almost every student who has used the read ing accelerator has doubled his reading speed. The How-To-Study course in structs the student how to plan his time, how to take notes, how to study for tests and how to use the SQ3R method of study. THE JUNIOR Division and Counseling Service is sponsoring the study courses. Both of the courses are non-credit and re quire no registration fees. tion and Training, Public Health and Welfare, GHQ, and SCAP in Japan. In 1950 she returned to New York School of Social Work for graduate study. Palladian Society To Meet Friday Dr. Donald J. Moore, chairman of the physics department, will discuss "Cosmic Rays" at at meeting of the Palladian Society Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Tempo rary J, 15 th and Vine. Alter the discussion, the group will study the works of Beetho ven, the third artist in a music series titled "Introduction t Composers." Anyone interested may attend. iff 1111 ':?-:-,V 'I?-..' i . . ' a f ' -iSsM;- ': Si i 1