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Page 4 THE NEBRASKAN Wednesday, March 17, 1954 m PL OlCCl At NU Chalmers Stresses Importance Of International Understanding International understanding has tion secretary of the World Uni- become even more vital because of the reduction of government aid for the exchange of foreign aid, A. Burns Chalmers, educa- Librarian Positions Available Openings Exist In Washington The U. S. Civil Service Com mission announced that it still has a need for librarians in vari ous Federal agencies in Wash ington D. C. Librarians in the Federal serv ice perform work in research and information programs in libraries varying in size and type with the functions of the agency in which they are located. Salary is based on the standard Federal work week of 40 hours. Additional com pensation is provided for any au thorized overtime. The beginning salary is $3,410 a year. APPLICANTS ARE required to take a written test and must have completed a full four-year college course, which included at least 30 semester hours of study in library science; or four years of progressive experience in li brary work; or one full year of professional library training in a library school plus three years of college study or three years of progressive experience in library work. On The Sockd Side ' Diamond Popularity Up; Pins Outnumbered 6 To 1 Dinner To Honor Faculty Members Two Ag Extension staff mem bers will be honored at a reco gnition dinner Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Union. Dominic Cross, former Univer sity extension agronomist, and Willard E. Lyness, associate agronomist who will retire in June after 33 years of service at the University, will be the guests of honor. versity Service, said Chalmers is visiting the Uni versity campus Tuesday and Wednesday to organize a WUS special project. The project will be organized on the University campus as well as at 29 other college campuses. IT'S PURPOSE is to discover the basic attitudes which under lie international understanding, to investigate the improvement of relations with foreign students and to determine the involvment in extra-curricula of American faculty members and students with overseas experiences. Five University activities will be organized into five "nucleus groups." These groups will at tempt to find what campus atti tudes are towards aspects of in ternational affairs. THREE METHODS will be used to secure this expression of campus attitudes in relation to education for international un derstanding. A questionnaire will be distributed and returns from the surveys will be evaluated and submitted to two conferences. The questionnaire will draw on the knowledge of student needs and concerns in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa and will relate these to student inter ests in the US. The second and third projects are two discussion questions. The first question to be discussed is "Foreign Students and Promo tion of International Understand ing." THE SECOND question will consider "Utilizing the Foreign Experiences of the US Faculty and Students to Promote Under stand." These questions will be discussed by from six to 15 mem bers of each of the five "nucleus groups" which are being organ ized by Chambers. A national workshop will be held in New York City April 9, 10 and 11 to evaluate the sur veys made by the questionnaires and to consider the decisions reached by the discussion groups. At least one student represen tative and one faculty advisor will attend the workshop. A national conference will com plete the program. The confer ence will be held in a Midwest ern city in November, 1954. A possibility exists that the Univer- The only pinning to be an sity campus may be used for the I nounced during the week was conference. 1 that of Pat Wescott and Don Ro- By MARILYN MITCHELL Society Writer Love still seems to be in the vogue, but NU coeds must be aiming at the more solid feelings that go along with an engage ment. This week six engagements were announced, while one lone, though lovable femme announced her pinning. Engagements Lemmer-Richardson Vivian Lemmer, Tri Delt. an nounced her engagement to Bill Richardson, a former University student. Vivian, a sophomore in Teachers College, is from Atkin son. Bill, now serving in the Army, is also from Atkinson. Nr date has been set for the wej ding. , Kruegrer-Snyder Marlys Ann Krueger, Plymouth, recently revealed her engage ment to Robert E. Snyder of Mo bile, Alabama. Marlys Ann is a senior in the College of Agncul ture, while Bob is in the College of Arts and Sciences. Krueeer-Geschwender Donna Jean Krueger, Plymouth, announced her engagement to Robert C. Geschwender, Lincoln Donna Jean was graduated from the College of Agriculture in June and Bob is in the College of En gineering. The wedding will be June 20. Meyer-McPeck Planning a summer wedding, Marlene Meyer announced her engagement to John David Mc Peck. Marlene, a 1953 graduate of Teachers College, is now a mu sic instructor in Filley. She is from Bertrand. John, a fourth year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, is from Har vard. Faschall-Meile Anticipating a fall wedding, Carolyn Paschall announced her engagement to William Meile last Monday evening. Carolyn, from Hastings, is a junior in the Col lege of Arts and Sciences. Bill, from Boulder, Colo., is a sopho more in Biz Ad. Brehm-Thompson Setting her wedding date for April 11, Donita Brehm, an nounced her engagament to John R. Thompson. Donita, from Har vard, is a second year student in the College of Agriculture. John a senior in Law School, is from Burwell. Pinnings Westcott-Rosenberg senberg. Pat, a freshman in Teachers College, is from Lin coln. Don, a second year student in Biz Ad, is a Beta Sig from North Platte. - Social Calendar Friday Phi Delta Theta Formal. Saturday Sigma Phi Epsilon Queen of Hearts Ball, Lincoln Hotel. Alpha Chi Omega Campus the tests because he had no Card Party, 2 to 4 p.m. clothes to wear. it happened at nu A Unln versity student, who had I three hour-exams in one day -at 9, 10 and 11 o'clock studied late the night before and decided to skip the 8 a.m. class so that he could take the tests "with a clear mind." At 8:15 a.m. he arose from his dormitory bed and went to his room to dress for class. The pajama-c!ad figure was aston ished to find that his roommate had locked the door. In addition, his key was locked in the room and to add insult to injury, no other key existed. His only alternative was to call all three professors and explain that he would be unable to take OBUICITIOn Marine Captain To Present Enlistment Program To Coeds Captain Margaret L. O'Neill, of the U.S. Marine Corps, will visit the University on March 29 and 30. She will complete the enlist ment of any woman student who is interested in attending the Women Officers Training Class at Quantico, Virginia, this sum mer. The program consists of two, six week courses open to one hundred college women from all over the country. For the twelve weeks of training, the women are in the Marine Corps as Officer Candidates. When they graduate from college, they are offered a commission as a Second Lieuten ant in the Marine Corps Reserve. Up until the time that she graduates, every woman has the privilege of dropping from the course without any further ob ligation to the Corps. Transpor tation is paid back to her home and she is returned to a com plete civilian status. THE FOLLOWING eligibility requirements for enrollment in the class are: Cosmopolitans To Hear Simmons Robert G. Simmons, Chief Jus tice of the Nebraska S'rc-i? Court, will speak to the Cosmo politan Club in Room ai3 of tna Union Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Chief Justice Simmons toured the countries of India and Pak istan last summer and will dis cuss the highlights of the tour. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or univer sity, or be studying toward such a degree. Be over 18 and less than 27 years of age on July 1 of the year in which commissioned. Must ba physically qua'ified for appointment. Be unmarried and agree to re main so until the acceptance of commission in the Marine Corps. Must not have a claim pending for, or be drawing a disability allowance from the government. Dance Lessons Free jitterbug lessons will be available to University students at a Union dance class Wednes day from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Miss Donna McCandless, a for mer Arthur Murray instructor, will give both beginning and ad vanced instruction. Classes are sponsored by the Union dance committee. Spring Term Registration Shows Addition Of 99 Students In Year it happened at nu The day of the "biff rain" the Political Science instructor ar rived a little late for his class. He found the class in an uproar his speaker's rostrum had been hidden, a waste-basket put in its place, and a large uncomplimen tary sketch of "teacher" on the board with "Mr. " written under it. He paused a moment, looked critically at the drawing and, picking up a piece of chalk, said quietly "There's a 'd' in my name." A compilation of spring sem ester registration by the Tabu lating Service shows a total of 6,453 students, a gain of 99 as compared with the spring semes ter last year. A breakdown of the under graduate and professional col leges, excluding Medicine and Nursing, shows that freshmen constitute 36.2 per cent of the registration compared with 32.6 per cent a year ago; sophomores 21.8 per cent this year, 22.7 a year ago; juniors 20.2 per cent this year, 21 a year ago, and senors 21.8 this year, 23.7 a year ago. COLLEGE - BY - COLLEGE breakdown shows that Teachers ranks highest with a registration of 1197, a gain of 84 over a year ago. Arts and Sciences is second with 952, a drop of 83 from a year ago. Business Administra tion represents the third highest with a total of 886, a gain of 18 over a year ago. A gain of 66 over a year ago brings the Engineering and Architecture total to 870 to fourth place. Although Agricul ture ranks fifth in the compila tion, its total represents a drop of 56 from a year ago. Graduate registration is in sixth place with a toal of 659, a gain of two. THE COLLEGE of Medicine with a total of, 380 ranks seventh. The total represents a gain of 24 over a year ago, but at least 7 of the 9 graduate stu- Science Honorary Initiates Thirteen University chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, national honor ary fraternity in earth sciences, has initiated 13 members. They are: Wes Barton, Willard Cox, Harold DeGraw, Eugene Er win, Jim Garber, Jerold Jesper sen, George Karabatsos, Alan Leviton, Jim Lowell, Sam Lund high, Paul Nygreen, Paul O'Don nell and Carl Vondra. Officers of the organization are: John Harper, president; Al Peck ham, vice president; Wendell Cole, secretary; Al McCrone, treasurer, and Cyril Harvey, scribe. dent registrations are duplicated in those of the Graduate College. A total of 150 students registered in Law College places it in eighth place. The next positions are held by Junior Division, Dentistry and Nursing, respectively, which represent a gain over the regis tration of a year ago. Pharmacy, in twelfth place, totals 92, a drop of 19 from a year ago. Students-at-large rep resent the lowest registration total, 63, a gain of 9 over last year. NU Extension Registrations Number 6517 At the Uninversity Extension Division as of March 1, there ara over 5,000 registrations in High School Correspondence courses. Many people both of high school age and adults, are using this means of furthering their educa tion. Many of them expect to use the credits earned toward high school graduation and to meet college entrance requirements. Others hope to increase their chances for jobs by raising their educational status. There are also at present 1,517 registrations in correspondence courses on the college level. These are people who find it impossible to attend classes on campus. Education Major To Receive Grant A $75 scholarship is being of fered again this year bv Zeta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma to an undergraduate woman stu- dent. Any junior coed who will gradu ate in the spring or summer of 1955 with a major in education, and who plans to teach the fol lowing year, may apply at the of fice of the Dean of Women. Blanks must be completed and returned by March 31 to Miss Carrie King, 1615 So. 20th St. Foreign Travel Tour Opportunities Offered Vacationing Students Summer School Trips To Latin America Available fUl u ini Three foreign tours now quest from students in other available to students make a summer vacation in Europe or Latin America possible. Travel and Study Inc. of New York has announced its program of tours for 1954. FOREIGN ASSIGNMENT for students of journalism and cur rent affairs will be led by Dr. Earl English, dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. It will provide first hand contacts with top-ranking universities as at Drake. well as those THE 11-DAY trip to Havana, Cuba and Panama City is a three-hour course, History 199. Those also taking History 119A will spend another week in Lima, Peru and earn two addi tional semester hour credits. Credits are applicable to either undergraduate or graduate work and are transferable to other colleges or universities in political leaders, editors and which students may be regularly overseas correspondents. enrolled during the winter term. Art Theater-Music Tour will take students to the Salzburg Festival and to visit the ballet f Paris. Fashion Tour Members will visit the leading French and Italian Couturiers. IXDISTRHL TOIR will include visits with leading in dustrialists, bankers, labor lead ers and political leaders. Prices range from $695 up wards. Detailed information on these programs and on sea and air transportation may be ob tained from Travel and Study Inc., 110 East 57 Street, New York 22, N.Y. STUDENTS OR teacher who want to combine a Latin Amer ican vacation with work this tunmer can earn up to five semester hours of college credit on two study-tours offered by Drake University and Braniff International Airways. Sponsored by the college of liberal arts, the flying field courses will take students to Cuba, Panama, and Peru, tni tiated last year bv Drake Uni versity and Braniff, the course is being repeated by popular re Main Feature Gtx-k V amity: Melba," 5:10, 7:16, 9:22. State: "Living Desert' 1:32, t.U, 4.56, 6 32. 8:15, 8:55. STUDENTS JOINING the tour in Des Moines will have a week of lectures, discussions, and reading hours on the campus before leaving on Braniff s inter national flight on June 14th. Arrangements for correspond ence work can be made so that others not enrolling on the cam pus can join the group enroute to Cuba. They can leave from any of the 64 U.S. cities served by Braniff. Registration inform ation can be obtained from the Dean of Liberal Arts at Drake in Des Moines or from any Braniff office. accommodations, meals, and sightseeing t ri p s from Des Moines for the Cuba-Panama tour will be $525 and $850 for the three-country course. For additional information or reservations write to Registrar, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. FOR STUDENTS and teachers who wish to travel abroad this summer, this program has been announced by the Council on Student Travel. The program includes accom modations on one-class cabin i ships ranging in price from $140 to $180 each way. Three main round-trip sailings from New York and Quebec are scheduled. Eastbound sailings will depart June 8, 19 and 29. Westbound ' departures are scheduled August 11 and 24, and September 3. THE PROGRAM is open only to persons traveling abroad for educational purposes. 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