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university op NcrJ -. A,- V 7- 11 i I V - 19 -: a i " . 4 J : if 1 7 A - i .1 i f ,-...." , 4 . "'"' ' " t "- ;- k .....wt.- i: V .. .SA . ..... . J- t ' .k - i ' , L v v! ' f , f i Wecome, tffe Actives met their new sorority pledges last week amid a flurry of excitement. Here Kappa pledges Sandra Kellogg (left) and Dallas Hunt (center) are Weather or not Fair weather is forecast for Lincoln Wednes day after the sowers and cloudy weather which was predicted for Tuesday night. The highs are expected to be near 88 and con tinuing warm for most of the day. Vol. 30, No. 1 Reception; QVJ $f$JI The Chancellor's Reception and Student Union Open House for all new students at the University will be held in the-Student Union Fri day from 8 to 12 p.m. A reception line will be formed in the Main Lounge from 8 to 9:30 p m. so that each student will have an to meet the dean of his college and thp Chancel- iiiV la Jin "New Faces of 56" will be the theme for the reception. The build ing will be decorated in accordance with the theme. Programs may be obtained at the door and students v ill be free to use the building all evening. A dance will be held in tne Union Ballroom at 9 p.m. to the music of Bill Albers and his band. Intermission entertainment will also be provided. Tuffy Epstein's Combo will be playing in the Rythm Room on the first floor from 8 30 to 11:30 pm., where free refreshments Registration The process for application for admission to the I niversity will follow the pattern announced Monday by Ir. Floyd Hoover, JHrector of Registrations. New students in Junior Division nbo have not applied for ad mission should make an appoint ment with the Junior Division office ia EUen Smith Hall to ap ply for a registration card. New undergraduate students who are not In Junior Division should report to the registrar's ffice, Administration Building Room 10S, to check credits. Former students who have not applied for re-admission should rrport to the registrar's office, Administration Buildin Room B-7. for a permit-to-register card. Students who have notified the Office of Registration before September 5 may obtain their permit-to-registcr card from the deans of their colleges In the Coliseum on September 12. narmn a a The Inside World Strasheim Returns LINCOLN, Neb. Athletic Di rector Bill Orwig, on July 23 announced fKe return of Don Stras heim to the Cornhusker coaching staff. Strasheim will serve as assist nt football coach and head coach of wrestling. He has handled this dual role for the past two years. His salary will be $5,500.00 a year. "Don was a very capable and ble member of the previous coaching" staff", Orwig said, "and I personally am pleased that he is returning as a member of our present organization." Research Grant Wiles Laboratories, Inc., has donated an $8,000 research grant W the study of ergot, a fungus vhich normally grows on rye Jlants, to the University, Terry iranch, director-secretary of the University Foundation, has hit iiulaf d. Dr. V. E. Tyler, chaiinism ol the !sartment of pharmacognosy, il be in charge of the research ti'dies. f t s st Ssfers greeted by actives Nancy De- Long and Carolyn Carter. The happy active behind Miss Hunt was not identified. All along so- ems will be served during the evening. A magician, Morton the Great, will present two shows in Parlors ABC during the evening, and mov ies will be shown in the faculty lounge. The Music Room, with its new Hi-Fi set, and the game rooms will be open so that new students may listen to music or play table tennis, cards, and miniature pool if they wish. "Friday night will give all new students an opportunity to meet and talk to the Chancellor and his wife and the dean of their college," Bob Handy, Union Activities Di rector has said "H will also be a wonderful op portunity to become acquainted with many 'new faces' at the Uni versity, to enjoy the Union facili ties, and to become acquainted with them," he added. Parking Space Decreases Due To Buildings University officials report that the campus parking problem has been augmented considerably be cause of the loss of approximately 250 parking spaces now being used for Luikiing purposes. However, unofficial reports also state that University car registra tion is down 20 ppr cent from last year. The new Student Helath Center is being built on the parking area located near temporary buildings G and K. Dormitory students who have classes on Ag campus all day Tues day and Thursday will not be al lowed parking space in front of the Selleck Qnuadrangle as was the case last year. Officials believe that the parking area near 17th and Vine will be utilized much more than last year because of the limited condklions which exist. All of the Ag campus parking area has been retained. Also new space around the tractor testing field has been a . tted to Ag stu dents. Plans call for an addition to the Union in February which will eliminate approximately 200 more pnrking spaces. Council Orientation Student Council members will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Union Room 316. At 2 p.m. there will be a Council orientation session in thj Ballroom. Chancellor Clifford Hardin and J. P. Colbert, Dean of Student Affairs, will speak. Afterwards the group will break up into eight sec tions to discuss. All officers of organizations, pledge trainers and scholarship chairmen are urged to attend, ac cording to Bruce Brugmann, Coun cil president. Frosh Beanie Tickets On Sale All This Week Beanie Tickets will be on sale at the Student Activity Office, Room 20, Administration building, i'or all freshmen this week. The ticket entitles the student to a Uiiiiie, which can tie picked up l.iier nt Ucii Siinons. The tickets are 75 cents. It is tradit;onal to wear the frosh betuiiss until the first snowfall. Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star rority row, similar scenes were common as members greeted their pledges after bids were opened Saturday, V r J Pictured above is Jimmy Phil lips, whose band will plcy for the Frosh Hop Saturday in the Union Ballroom from 9 to 12 p.m. The Frosh Hop is held each year for all freshmen and is sponsored by the Union Dance Committee and the Innocents. Tickets are 50 cents and may be obtained from the In nocents, the Union Main Office and the booth in the main hall of the Union. The Phillips band has added Union Dance: hash Hop Climaxes Week The climax of New Student Week, the traditional Frosh Hop, takes place Saturday, in the Un ion Ball Room from 8 to 12 p.m. According to Bob Handy, Direc tor of Union Activities, and Terry Mitchum, chairman of the Union Dance Committee, the event will be one of the biggest in years. An estimated 11KK) students will at tend. The dance features Jimmy Phil lips and his orchestra and inter mission entertainment by Kosmet Klub. Harry Dingman will be rnas- Welcome To Students Welcome to the University! You are now a member of the Cornhuskcr's School. It is a great institution with fine traditions and a record of achievement of which you can be very proud. Its alumni are scattered all over the world and are making a fine contribution to the building of the economy not only of the United States but of the world-at-large. Your first big job is to meet the challenge of the classroom, the laboratory and the library. Yes, the chal lenge of the campus. This new experience of yours should contribute greatly to your own personal leadership and your own sought-for opportunity to excel as a student and a citizen. Be both a strong student academically and a clean and upright citizen what you did before you arrived here and what represented your better self should be continued here. Yours for a happy and profitable year of schooling. Floyd VV. Hoover, Registrar C. W. Rosenlof, Dean of Admissions Emeritus Tassels, Cobs: Yearbook Goal At 2850 Cornhusker yearbook salesmen have set 2850 as their goal for the 1957 annual, according to Gene Sepnce, business manager. Tassel and Corn Cob workers are selling books again this year, Spenee Kaid, and will canvass ev ery organized house and dormi tory. Salesmen will also be present in the Union to tul.e oiilns k-r the annual. p.'ilcs began Monday and will continue actively for at least a i Convocation: Hardin Stresses Bargain Chancellor Clifford Hardin told the 2000 entering freshmen Mon day that they are getting their education at a bargain at the an nual New Student Week convoca tion. , Congratulating the new students on surviving "quite a purge," Dr. Hardin said, "Most of the school mates you knew when you entered the primary grades are no longer attending school. About 41 per cent of them had left your com pany before you finished high school. "And at high school graduation about 65 per cent of your remain ing classmates said goodbye to formal education. So when you de cided to enroll here at the Uni versity you joined the ranks of the favored few." "It is to you that local com munities, the state and the nation are looking for future leadership, for new ideas, for first rate per formance and, perhaps most of all, for a willingness to accept re sponsibility," Dr. Hardin concluded. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA J, f 4 Nrhraskan Phut a guitar this year making a nine piece group. The band plays for about 90 per cent of all University functions, including Union-spon sored dances, house parties and formals, according to Phillips. Or ganized about eight years ago for the purpose of sending its mcW bers through school, the band is composed entirely of University students and recent graduates Phillips said. I ter of ceremonies for the Kosmet Klub show. Tickets are being sold for fifty cents by the dance's co-sponsors, The Innocents Society and the Un ion Dance Committee. There is a Frosh Hop ticket booth in the Un ion. Refreshments will be served in parlors A, B and C during the dance. The Frosh Hop is an annual af fair at the University. The pur pose of the dance is to introduce incoming students to college social life. month, he said. Last year's sales were very good, according to Spence, and the 1957 Cornhusker staff hopes to top the 1956 mark. The books will definitely be out on time next spring, he added. Editor of the 1957 Cornhusker is Linda Buthrnun. Junet Kuka is associate 'editor; Beverly Bu k. copy editor; Marilyn Heck, bubble Holt and Helen Gourluy, manag ing editors. - ,, . " i Greefngs, Cornfiuscers Pictured above are Chancellor and Mrs. Clifford Hardin as they greet new students and their par- ents at the Union as New Stu- New Student A week of confusion of convo cations and tests and meetings faced about 2,000 new Cornhusk ers who started arriving on the Univeristy campus Sunday. But half way through the week the latest additions to the Uni versity family seemed to be sur viving. In fact, Dr. Floyd Hoover, director of registration and rec ords for the University, said that more students took initial steps to ward registration on Monday and Tuesday than ever before. .,"We !omv.!!; h" abort k, students start registering during New Student . Week( This has been dwarfed during the present New Student week. About 200 came to the office to register Monday and more were there Tuesday," Hoo ver said. "Final registration figures won't be ready until next Tuesday. That's standard operating procedure. But you can be sure they will be up." he added. "Of course, this doesn't include those who began their registra tions through their high schools last spring. All in all I suppose we'll have about 2,000 new freshmen.," he concluded. Chancellor Clifford Hardin ad dressed the freshmen at the Col iseum Monday night after a day of pre-registration testing. Men's and women's meetings were he-Id during the day and physical ex aminations were begun. Tuesday, more tests and physi cal examinations crowded fresh men schedules. New Student tours of the campus made the buildings a little less difficult to find and the day's activities were topped off by the Cornhusker Night a bar beque and evening of Cornhusker traitions at the Ag College camp us. Initial meetings with advisers were scheduled for the freshmen Wednesday morning. Then card pulling, counselor checking by reg istration officials and orientation sessios followed. Another round of conferences with college counselors and ad visers are on tap for the new V v .. ." : r 1 mm r A mm 9 Face 2.000 Preslh Hi :, f Frosh Trademarks Piriured above is P.ub Schuy ler US he gives the ll adili.il.al treshaimi beanies to Lucy Web ster and Bob Collins while Ben Belmont, member ot Innocents f : dent Week begins for the new Cornhuskers. Shown left to right are Joe Simmons of Fremont, Week: Nebraska students begining Thurs day morning. The September Song for Women students will be held Thursday evening in the Student Union, spon sored by the Co-ed Counselor. The N Club and athletic department will offer the Sports Stag at the indoor track in the East Stadium for the men that evening. Late arrivals will meet with their advisers Friday morning. Final or ientation sessions and checking V ill round out 'the official aea- y Wednesday Open House: Campus Church Groups Plan New Student Night Student religious groups will hold open house "Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. for all new students. Groups planning an open house are: Baptist Baptist students will have a religious service, recrea tion, refreshments, and a program. The program will include an ex planation of plans for the com ing year and movie of past activi ties. Catholic Catholic students will meet at the Newman Club Cath olic Chapel for a welcome and benediction. They will then have an informal get-together in the Student Union Ballroom. Congregational See Presbyter ian. Episcopal The Canterbury Club will host an informal open house so the new and old students and the new chaplain, the Rev. Gilbert Armstrong, may become acquainted. Evangelical United Brethren A reception for freshmen will be held in the Student Union, and an orientation on plans for the com ing year will be given. Lutheran Missouri Flans for the Lutheran Missouri group in clude entertainment, acquaint , 1- i. who are stlling the beanie';, looks on. Traditionally the led fciid white cups are worn until the first snow flies. The beanies are sold for 7a cents. Receipts m&jf L', 3k i ? Courtesy lineoia SUr the Chancellor, Sandra Simmons, Mrs. J. R. Simmons, Dr. J. R. Simmons and Mrs. Hardin, it happened at nu The Dean of Women recently was delivered a letter, addressed only to Ellen Smith Hall, which began: "Dear Miss Hall" This young lady should be pretty surprised when she hears talk of whether to renovate or raze good old Ellen Smith Hall. Wednesday, September 12, 1956 iTTDSDll demic week for the new students. However, all advisers will be avail able for questions in the advisory rooms Saturday morning. Friday evening Chancellor Har din will meet personally with the new students at the Student Union Open House. A dance is sched uled in the Union ballroom with Bill Albers band. Tuffy Epstein' combo will play in the Rhythm Room and Morton the Great, a magician will perform in parlors ABC. ance with the spiritual program, refreshments, and vespers. Lutheran Lutheran students will have a mixer, a short talk by the pastor, refreshments, and community singing. Methodist Methodist students will meet at the Methodist student Center and then separate to go to St. Paul and Trinity Methodist Churches for an informal get acquainted meeting. - Presbyterian Congregational Presbyterian students will meet at the First Presbyterian Church for a prograrct, entertainment, dancing, refreshments, and an in troduction of church officials. Theta Sigma Phi Theta Sigma f-hi, professional journalism honorary, will hold it first business meeting Tuesday, at 7 p.m. in Union Room 313. All actives and pJe-dges are to attend this meeting, according to Bcv Deepe, president. ' Dr. William Hall, director of the Sc"hool of Journalism wu'J speak, and Lucigrace Switzer, vice pres ident, will report on the national convention. Plans for the coming semester will be made at , this meeting. Miss Deepe said. , . " . -6. A-i 'r- ' i be obtained from any member of L'likKtnU; ttity nmjt then be exchanged tor the beanie kt Ba Siinunti department store.