Van Houten, Kinne, Jelinek, Hepperlen, Carlson, Eggen:
oiTBiih'vi'skeir Beatify --Queens AwmoumGed
The six 1957 Cornhusker beauty
queens were revealed Tuesday by
Linda Buthman, ' 1957 editor of the
Cornhusker. -
The girls are Frances Van Hou
ten, Reba Kinee, Rita Jelinek,
Mary Hepperlen, Jody Carlson,
tad Elaine Eggen. .
Frances Van Houten is a junior
In teachers College. She lives at
Terrace Hall.
Reba Kinne, is a sophomore in
Teachers College. She is a member
of Union, Symphonic Band, Sigma
Alpha lota, music honorary, YWCA
cabinet and affiliated with Chi
Omega sorority.
A senior in Teachers College,
Rita Jelinek, is a member of Red
Cross and Pi Lambda Theta. She
is also secretary of AWS, Nebras
ka Sweetheart finalist, an Activity
Queen finalist, and Ideal Nebraska
Coed finalist and a member of Pi
Beta' Phi
Mary Hepperlen, a shopomore,
is enrolled in the College of Arts
and Sciences. She is a member of
Home Economics of Builders and
is affiliated with Delta Gamma So
rority,
Jody Carlson is a sophomore
majoring in Home Economics. She
is a member of Builders and is
affiliated with Delta Gamma soror
ity. -
Elaine Eggen, a member of Or-
hesis, Red Cross, ACE, Builders
and affiliated with Alpha Phi sor
ority, is a sophomore in Teachers
College
The Cornhusker Beauty Queen
finalists this year were, Charlene
Anthony, freshman in Teachers
College; Mary Jane Coe, fresman
in Teachers College; Carolyn Tor
rence, sophomore in Teachers Col
lege. ' Sharon Quinn, freshman in
Teachers College; Kay Nielson,
sophomore in Teachers College;
and Sandra Schlaebitz, junior in
Arts and Sciences.
Miss Buthman stated that she
wa very happy with the decision
of the judges, and that she thought
the choosing was fairer this year.
In the past, she said, only one
judge picked the girls whereas
this year two judges were used
and they had a chance to talk with
the girls at a dinner which the
Cornhusker sponsored.
Last year's six Cornhusker beau
ty queens were Janice Carman,
Shari Lewis, Lucette Makepeace,
Sandra Stevens. Joan Pollard and
Joan Riha.
The other six finalists were Car
ol Link, Arlene Hrbek, Anne Wade,
Mary Ann Daly, Mary Keyes, and
Carol Beattie.
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Vol. 32, No. 94
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Wednesday, May 1 5, 1 957
Research:
Sigma Xi
Initiates
Sixty-Six
The Nebraska chapter of Sigma
Xi, national honorary scientific
society, initiated 47 associate
members and 19 full members
who have shown "original re
search in science."
Dr. Rufus Mojre, associate pro
fessor of botany, spoke on "Ex
periments on Plants that Produce
the Insecticide Rotenone."
Twenty-two undergraduates who
were announced at the joint Sigma
Xi-Phi Beta Kappa meeting in
April were given associate mem
berships. These graduate students who
will receive decrees in June or
August and, have shown marked
excellence in their field were given
associate memberships:
Ronald Bambury, Bernard Be
ber, Frederic Boucher, Gerald
Brommer, Louis Brandhorst,
Clyde Brashier, Waldeen Buss,
Merwyn Davidson, Jerald Dirks,
Stewart Ensign, Richard Green,
Fazlollah Haghiri, Robert John
son, Ronald Kezuka, John Kron
schnabel, Paul 'Liebelt, Robert
Marple, Donald Plucknett, Arvin
Quist, John Rawlings, Gideon
Schaeffer, Raymond Shipp, Fred
Van Vleck, Paul Wray and Vern
Youngman.
These graduate students, staff,
and alumnus whose results of their
research have been publisher' or
they will receive Doctor of Philos
ophy degrees in June or August
were given full membership:
John Brandenburg, Clarke
Brooke, Jr., Kenneth Cook, Paul
Creger, John David, Lome Dono
van, Albert Flowerday, Richard
Gentry, Charles Hayes, Henry
Jedlinski, Norman Miller, Warren
M o n s o n, Alan Moore, Heinz
Schreiner; alumni Armond Yand
ers tnd Warren Caldwell; and
staff members, Glenn Downey,
Jerome Miller, and Norman Un
derdahl, 11 assistant professors.
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Fraternity Trophies
Cindy Zschau, sophomore in
Arts and Sciences, looks over
the trophies which will be pre
sented during the Inter-fraternity
sponsored Greek Weekend.
The chariot race, which will fea
ture the sweetheart chosen by
(Nebrukan Photo.)
each fraternity, will result in the
choosing of a "Sweetheart of the
Greek Weekend." Each sweet
heart will ride in a chariot pulled
by the men of her sponsoring
fraternity. The winner of the
race will be declared the SweeU
heart.
Student Privilege:
Faculty Sennate ESeff uses
CmiSDdleirsii!"iini On Vofiooi
The Faculty Senate refused by
one vote Tuesday to give con
sideration to a motion by J. P.
Colbert, Dean of Student Affairs,
to return the vote to students on
faculty committees. The privilege
was removed by the Faculty Sen
ate in action taken on Dec. 13,
1955, but committees with student
representation were not notified
until last Jan. 18.
Earlier the Senate had refused
by a vote of 55-42 to remove from
the table a motion made at the
April 9 Faculty Senate meeting
by Donald Dysinger that would
have reconstituted the Committee
on Student Affairs as a Univer
sity committee and given the stu
dents the right to vote on faculty
committees.
Colbert's jnotion was in two
parts. Part one provided that the
committees on calendar, exami
nations, nonors and commence
ment continue without students
President, UN:
Hungarian Action Petition
Circulated By Students
Reinstated:
Renewal Of IFC Bail
Scheduled For Saturday
The first IFC Ball in two years
will be held, this Saturday at the
Turnpike Ballroom from 8 to 12
p.m., according to Dick Youngscap
and Roger Rankin, IFC Ball com
mitteemen. Two years ago the IFC Ball was
abolished by the Office of Student
Affairs for the violation of Univer
sity rules governing social affairs.
The IFC Ball was reinstated by
the Faculty Committee on Student
Affairs in March after the IFC had
petitioned the Committee for the
reinstatement of the dance.
The ball will feature the musical
concepts of the Kansas City jazz
artist, Jay McShann.
The price of the tickets is $2 per
couple, and. the tickets are on sale
in the Union.
Rankin explained that due to the
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Military Honorary
Phalanx, professional and hon
orary military , fraternity, elected
Larry Heesacker Commander fo
next semester at a meeting held
Other officers include: Keith
Turner, Lieutenant Commander;
Eldon Beavers, Adjutant; Joe
Volf, Finance Officer and Alan
Eosen, Public Information Officer.
Phalanx is composed of mem
bers of all Advanced ROTC units
at the University. Any present Ad
vanced cadet, or any sophomore
applying for the Advanced Corps
may contact any members of Pha
lanx to obtain information about
the fraternity.
Rain Expected
To Continue
Wednesday .
The cloudy weather is scheduled
to continue ' through tomorrow
saws the Weather Bureau.
The temperatures are expected
to change little. The low is expect
ed to be near
50 and the
high is expect
ed to reach 70
degrees. "
The high
temperatu r e
last ysar at
this time was
69 and the low
temperatu r e
was 46.
P recipita-
tion tc date
this mcmth is two and thirteen
hundredths inches; the normal pre
cipitation for this time in one and
thirty-hundredths inches.
The skies are expected to be only
partly cloudy and rain is not fore
seen; but the cloudiness could very
wll become widespread and the
rains could then come.
limited size of the Turnpike Ball
room, the ticket sales will be limit
ed to fraternity members and their
dates.
Jay McShann, who calls Kansas
City his home town; has played
with Count Basie and other well
known jazz bands. His own band,
has toured the nation and has been
booked into top night clubs through
out the country.
His band "that rocks the blues"
has been booked for the Ball be
cause of the popular appeal of his
type of jazz, Rankin explained.
Saturday afternoon from 1:15
p.m. to 2:15 p.m. a jam session
will be held on the steps of the
Union. The session will be free to
everyone, and McShann will pro
vide the music.
The Junior IFC is planning a
chariot race between fraternities
Saturdy afternoon,, according to
Bob Krumme, Junior IFC presi
dent. Each fraternity will enter a cha
riot in which the sweetheart chosen
by that fraternity will ride.
The chariot will be pulled by two
men from the fraternity, and the
winning chariot will receive a tro
phy. The sweetheart of the winning
fraternity will be presented with a
trophy and will be crowned, "Sweet
heart of Greek, Weekend" at the
Ball that evening.
The IFC Banquet which is part
of the weekend festivities is sched
uled for Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
at the Lincoln University Club.
Thurston Fhelps, president of the
IFC Board of Control, is scheduled
to be the guest speaker according
to John Glynn, Council secretary.
The invocation will be given by
the Rev. Mr. Donald Bliss, pas
tor of Methodist Student House.
Those attending the banquet will
be past and present fraternity pres
idents; alumni advisors; members
of the board of Regents; members
of the IFC Board of Control; IFC
faculty ' advisors, Dr. Bertrand
Schultz, Dr. William Gilliland and
B:, Orwig; Colonel C. J. Frank
forter, Dean Breckenridge, Dean
Colbert and Chancellor Hardin.
A petition calling for postive
action by the President of the
United States and the United Na
tions on behalf of Hungary is be
ing circulated by the five Hun
garian students now studying on
campus.
The petition, sponsored by six
Hungarian organizations, asks that
the president exert all possible
power to bring about '.he enforce
ment of U N. resolutions in regard
to the Hungarian situation
The American Hungarian Fed
eration, the Greater Committee of
New York Hungarian Churches and
Societies, the Hungarian Freedom
Fighters Federation, the Hungarian
National Council, The Hungarian
Revolutionary Parliament and the
Action for Hungary committees
sponsor the petition.
The gist of the document is as
follows:
"The Soviet Union must be
stopped from destroying Hungary.
"In the interests of our own
nation And children, we urge you,
our President, to exert all your
influence in bringing about the en
forcement of the United Nations
resolution in regard to Hungary.
More specifically, we .want the
General Assembly to hear the re
port of the United Nations Special
Committee on Hungary and to Act
upon it.
"We want the eloquent words of
United States and United Nations
spokesman be translated into con
crete action."
Students who wish to add their
name to this proposal may send
the above letter to:
American Hungarian Federation
Coordinate Relief,
1532 York Avenue,
New York 28, New York.
About fifty students have signed
the petition thus far.
SC Elections
All newly elected' members of
Student Council should attend
the Council meeting Wednesday
at 4 p.m. In the Union, accord
ing to Bruce Bruggmann, past
president. Elections will be held
for secretary, corresponding sec
retary and treasurer. The new
officers will be installed.
but that the Student Council should
appoint two students to advise
these committees.
The second part provided that
the Committee on Student Affairs
be reconstituted without student
representatives but that student
be retained on the Student Affairs
subcommittees with the right to
vote. Under the motion the Sub
committee on Student Publica
tic i would be constituted with
th) student members, one each
froi the sophomore, junior and
senior classes chosen by the Stu
dent Council. The other two sub
committees, General Organizations
Mitchell Case
Final Report
Soon Ready
Dr. Dav.d Dow, chairman of the
committee on Acrdernic Privilege
and Tenure, said Tuesday, that a
report on the case of C. Clyde
Mitchell former chairman of the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics, would be made at a spe
cial meeting of the Faculty Sen
ate to be held sometime before
the end of the final exam period.
Dow stated that the Faculty Sen
ate should have an opportunity to
consider the report before it re
ceived wide-spread publicity. '
The Committee on Academic
Privilege and Tenure has been
conducting an investigation into
reports that Mitchell's academ
ic ffreedom had been abridged. The
Daily Nebraskan last spring pub
lished letters accusing the admin
istration of abridging Dr. Mit
chell's academic freedom.
Mitchell was relieved of his post
while on a leave of absence in
Italy last spring. "Outside pres
sure was citeu as the reason lor
Mtichell being relieved.
and Social Affairs, would be con.
stituted with two students chosen
by ttie Student Council.
Colbert said after the meeting
that he had originally planned to
present his motion as a substitute
motion for the motion 'of April 9.
However, when the senate refused
to remove that motion from tho
table, Colbert was forced to pre
sent his motion during new busi
ness. Since the motion had , not
been distributed to the faculty be
fore the meeting for considera
tion, Professor Glenn Gray point
ed out that the Senate had to give
unanimous consent before the mo
tion could be considered. When the
vote was taken their was one dis
senting faculty member.
Under these conditions the mo
tion can be brought up again if
copies are distributed to the facul
ty before the nexi, meeting, sched
uled tentatively for some time
daring final examinations, accord
ing to Chancellor Clifford Hardin.
In defending the student's ability
to vote Colberg pointed out that
the Committee on Student Affairs
unanimously felt that students
were making a real contribution
to faculty committees.
"Our students as young adults
are thinking straight, " Colbert
said. He then cited the Student
Council Parking Appeals Board as
an outstanding example of the con
tributions students can make to
University administration. "It will
be a cold, cold day in July before
I reverse an action of that board,''
Colbert said.
Corn Cobs
The annual Corn Cob Smoker
will be held Thursday at 7:30
p.m. in Room 316 of the Union,
according to Gordon Warner,
president. The purpose of the
smoker is to familiarize students
with the activities and responsi
bilities of Corn Cobs, Warner
stated.
'High' Quality Show' '
Hovjell Production Of Harvey Said 'Due For A Prize'
By DICK SHUGRUE
Editorial Editor
Every once-in-a-season a thea
trical group comes up with a play
which is not only a good piece
of entertainment as a script but
which is presented on the stage in
such a way as to make a humid
evening unnoticed.
That was the case Tuesday eve
ning when the University Theater
presented "Harvey" on the How
ell Memorial Theater stage.
Harvey won a Pulitzer Prize
when it was first produced in New
York in 1944 and I believe is
due for some sort of a prize from
the University Theater.
Versatility might stand in the
way of any awards for this play
however. I'm referring to the rel
atively well-balanced schedule of
plays which the Theater has pre
sented this year, In other words,
because "Harvey" is in a class by
itself it is difficult to compare it
with "Lear," for instance.
But the quality of the perform
ance made this show.
Ag YW-YMCA .
To Hold Retreat
The Ag WM-YWCA will hold a
combination workday program
fid overnight retreat on May 18
and 19, according to Bob Rhoades,
vice-president.
Girls planning to attend should
check with Evonne Einspahr no
later than Wednesday for over
night arrangements, he said.
Cars will be leaving the Ag
Wesley House Saturday at 11 a.m.,
12 noon and 1 p.m., according to
Rhoades.
Certainly there was the to-be-expected
"slowness" in the first
scene of the first act. I was im
mediately impressed by Stephaney
Sherdeman who plays the sister of
Elwood P. Dowd, friend of Har
vey. She looked the part in the first
place; the makeup took care of
that. But in addition and more
important I got the impression
-she enjoyed playing her role.
The stumbling block of the first
act was Dixie Lee Helms' portray
al of Myrtle Maye, the daughter
of Stephanie,
Miss Helms, a newcomer to the
University Theater stage, didn't
seem adjusted to it. She seemed
mechanical and inconsistent.
But Roy Willey the friend of
the "six foot one and a half" rabbit
named Harvey popped up in
the first scene and made friends
throughout the aduience.
Laughs have been hard to come
by in the University Theater this
season. Tuesday night however, the
cast of "Harvey let go with some
delightful lines which, I feel, made
the audience radiate with the
warmth which Elwood P. "felt."
The line which I think was most
significant went something like this.
Elwood speaks to son.e of his in
numerable friends: "I wrestled
with reality for 40 years' before I
won out."
Arid so it goes. Elwood, a drink
er of sorts, and a man completely
out of sorts with the crabby world
of most humans has teamed up
with this rabbit (equally delightful)
and but just about everyone
knows the story of Harvey.
James Baker, wh plays the psy
chiatrist, Dr. Cumley, is very en
joyable. He finally sees Harvey and
we get a view of what a psychia
trist would say if he were lying on
the couch. Baker is funny. He
adds a great deal to the overall
production.
Contrast is important in the play.
There certainly must be a cer
tain delineation between those in
and out of touch with the world
rround us. John Crowell as Wilson,
the keeper, is the typical "inside"
man. He can't seem to see into
any of the feelings of those
around the stage in a manner be
fitting a keeper.
Flat characters are all around
you in the play. And they seem
to be the "inside" type, too. For
example, Keith Williams, who
plays the young doctor o. Pat Pat
terson, who plays the nurse, are
more interested in winks 8t one
another than they are in what's
Alpha Tau Alpha
Chooses Officers
Alpha Tau Alpha, professional
honorary fraternity for men major
ing in Vocational Education, elected
officers at a meeting last Thursday
evening.
The men elected officers are as
follows: Newell Kollath,. president;
Richard Wischmeier, Vice-president;
Leland Wittier, Secretary;
Irlee Stagemeyer, Treasurer; El
don Ervin, news reporter; Don
Kuhn, Sentinel; Bill Coffey, Ag
Exec representative and, Professor
M. G. McCreight, advisor.
Following the . election James
Wall, Vice-president of the National
Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Association, presented a short talk
on professionalism.
making Elwood tick.
But it's because Elwood U M
kind that the young doctor meets
his Waterloo and we guess -
gets together with the nurse.
Clancy Croft as the Mayhoffish
judge does a fine job as the typical
"old family friend."
The scenery department, tinder
the management of Lyle Wathier,
L to be commended for the swift
handling and the solid look of the'
two set play. Harry Stiver, who
designed the play, did a good job
of getting both sets onto the small
Howell stage.
Dr. Margaret Servine in btr
second University Theater produc
tion, has scored a hit, I feel.
There's nothing which would be
harder than to sit through nearly
three hours in an auditorium if
there wasn't a true diversion from
how you feel. This play keps the
attention, keeps the audience loose
from laughter and, all-in-all, is a
fine piece of spring-time entertainment.
Chaplains To Meet
Tomorrow Night;
Ben White Speaker
The University Chaplains group
will meet Thursday at 8:00 p.m.
in the Union.
Chaplain Beji White will be ths
guest speaker.
He will speak to the organization
on his experiences as a fraternity
chaplain and on some of the prob
lems of mutual concern to t h
chaplains of the organized houses.
He will also speak of the prob-
I it ms he now faces as a military
i chaplain.