nn
betas
Kappa Alpha Theta broke
a one-year scholarship hold
by Love Memorial Hall to
come up with the highest
scholastic average for organ
ized houses during first se
mester. The Theta's averaged 6.377,
according to figures released
by the University Office of
Registration and Records,
only .03 of a grade point
above second place Terrace
Hall.
For the 17th semester Farm
House led fraternities with a
6.132 average, sixth among
organized houses.
Love Memorial Hall fell to
third with a 6.232 average.
Following Kappa, Alpha
Free Ballet Ticket
Is Concert Bonut
A free trip to Friday's op
era ballet is the bonus for
buying tickets early for next
year's Community concert
Senes.
Fridays performance will
be given by the Chicago Op
era Ballet, featuring Ruth
Page and a company of 50.
It is the final program of this
season's series.
$3.50 Savings
Adults, including faculty
members, pay $7.50 for the.
concerts while students and
airbase personnel may ob
tain ducats for the five per
formances for $4.
Some 2,000 student mem
berships were sold for the
Community Concert Series
this year.
The rush of a Gay '90's
Nlte, the romance of Rigo
letto, a fantasy voyage to
the Moon and the Canadian
National Ballet will appear
on next season's agenda. The
fifth presentation is still un
decided. Gay '90's Nite, Oct'. 27, will
feature the Hollywood Bowl
"Pops Concert Division,"
starring Miss Patricia Mori
son. Miss Morison has appeared
in "Kiss Me Kate," "The
King and I" and several other
productions.
Can-Cans
A can-can group, the
Flora-Dora Sextette, the Hip
podrome Ballroom Octet and
Miss Very Lee will appear
with the featured Gaslight
Orchestra playing songs
from the turn of the century.
For those whose Italian is
a little rusty, Verdi's "Rlgo
letto" will be in English. The
story .of the hunch-backed
court jester trying to protect
his daughter Gilda from the
Intrigues of the court will be
given Nov. 16.
Artistic Director for "Rig
oletto" is Boris Goldovsky of
the Metropolitan Opera
broadcast "Opera New on
the Air."
A musical fantasy in the
spirit of "Around the World"
is "Voyage to the Moon"
Lislmer
To Present
Vocal Solo
Leon Lishner, associate pro
fessor of music, will give a
solo vocal recital at the Un
ion at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Prof. Lishner has sung with
the New York City Opera, the
Lyric Opera of Chicago, the
NBC Opera and the Montreal
Opera Guild.
He will present selections
Including Purcell's "A n a c
reon's Defeat," numbers
from Moussorgsky's "Without
Sunlight," which will be sung
in Russian, and Sergius Ka
gen's "I Think I Could Turn
and Live With Animals" ami
"The Junk' Man."
Prof. Lishner also has
starred in three world pre
miers of the works of Gian
Carlo Menotti. He appeared
In the Broadway production
and two European tours of
the "Consul" and in all of the
NBC-TV performances of
"Amahl and the Night Visi
tors," and on Broadway and
television in "The Saint of
Bleecker Street."
Jack Crossan, assistant pro
fessor of music, will accom
pany Lishner.
Cheerleading
Tryouts Set
The first practice session
for those interested in trying
out for cheerleading Will be
held Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in
the. Coliseum.
Three or four other practice
sessions will be held before
the tryouts which are sched
uled for the second week In
April.
"We especially encourage
freshmen boys to try on': for
the squad," Bill McQuislan,
squad leader, said.
Top
Theta In sorority grades were
Delta Gamma with a 6.193 av
erage and Alpha XI Delta with
6.158.
Sigma Alpha Mu was sec
ond among 1FC fraternities
with a 5.678 average, followed
by Theta Xi with 5.637.
The All University average
was 5.463, with the all female
average slipping from 5.976 to
5.922. The 'ail male average
of 5.291 was well below the
5.375 of second semester o f
last year.
The all sorority average
was 5.905 and the all fraterni
ty mark was 5.304.
Manatt House led the men's
dorms with a 5.70 average.
presented by the Boston
Opera Company.
The Jan. 11 show was
written by Jacques Offen
bach, With a company of 75, the
National Ballet of Canada
will ' be featured March 28,
1960.
This will be their fifth trip
to the United States.
"The Nutcracker," "Swan
Lake," "Pas De Deux" from
Don Quixote, "dances from
Sleeping Beauty," "Winter
Night," "Le Carnaval" and
many others are included in
their repertoire.
Klckoff Tonight
The subscription campaign
Next Schooner Issue
To Honor Centennial
The works of Nebraska
writers and members of the
University faculty will make
up the spring issue of the
Prairie Schooner, the Univer
sity literary quarterly, in hon
or of Lincoln's Centennial
Celebration.
Willa Cather's story "Jack-a-boy"
and an unpublished
story, "The Smart Man," by
Mari Sandoz, are amon? the
highlights of the quarterly.
Miller's Work
Dr. James Miller Jr., chair
man of the English depart-
Certification
Upgrading
Bill Killed
A bill to delay the upgrad
ing of teacher certification for
two years was killed in com
mittee by a 4-1 vote.
LB559 brought support from
at least a dozen counties to
the Education Com m i 1 1 e e
hearing Friday.
A severe teacher shortage
nrnmnted Sen. George Gerdes
of Alliance to introduce the
proposal, he said.
The measure would permit
the issuine of teachers' cer
tificates based on one year of
college through Sept. 15,
The last Legislature set me
deadline for Sept. 15, 1958, but
advocates of LB559 said this
would be advancing too fast.
They asked for "more flexi
bility." A motion in committee
meeting to advance the bill
failed by 2-3 vote. Two sena
tors were absent from the ex
ecutive session.
Schmidt Says Legislators
From Solving State Tax
"This idea of counting
noses on each tax Issue is per
fectly ridiculous," Edward
Schmidt, professor of eco
nomics, told the Daily Ne
brdsk&n, "It is ridiculous in terms of
the complexity of the society
'r. which we live," he contin
ued. Unhealthy Tendency
"There is an unhealthy ten
dency for voters to take over
the major responsibilities of
legislators, leaving to them
matters of trivial impor
tance," the professor said.
"Tax issues are being set
tled throush the referendum."
"Constitutions are being
cluttered up with details
which formerly were confined
to the statutes," he said.
"The recently killed LB158
which proposed a constitution
al amendment requiring the
legislature to levy a 2 sales
tax is an examnle of this,"
the professor sail.
Tax Discontinuance
Nebraska's cons tif utional
provision, which provides that
if a sales or income tax is
levied by the state, the prop
erty tax must be discontinued,
is another example.
"The ability of the legislat
Women's Houses
Kappa Alpha Theta 6.377
Terace Hall 6.374
Love Memorial Hall p
Delta Gamma 6.193
Alpha Xi Delta t. .
Kappa Kappa Gamma 6.127
Chi Omega 6.087
Alpha Chi Omega- 6.076
Towne Club 6.019
Alpha Phi 6.016
Alpha Omicron Pi 6.011
Delta Delta Delta 5.968
Raymond Hall 5.945
Elsie Ford Piper Hall 5.874
Pi Beta Phi 5.860
Gamma Phi Beta 5.848
Sigma Delta Tauiv .rncrT5783
Kappa Delta w1 5,697
Fedde Hall Li 5.68o
Love Hall , 5.675
WAR 16
for the concert series kicks
off tonight at 6:15 with a
dinner at the Cornhusker Ho
tel. All division chairmen,
division captains, workers
and board members may
attend.
Anyone wishing to sell
tickets for the series can at
tend the banquet free. For
every 20 tickets sold, the
seller will receive one free
membership, according to
Bob Handy, activities direct
or of the Union.
This year more than 5,000
persons purchased tickets
for the five-part program of
entertainment.
ment, now on leave in Italy on
a Fulhright fellowship, has
contributed to the Schooner.
Works by Paul Armato, in
structor, and Ervin Krause,
instructor are also included.
Pens by seven English de
partment members, Robert
Beum, G. Thomas Fairclough,
Ross Garner, Dan Jaffe, Os
car Mandel, Paul Olson and
Bernice Clote are featured in
the Schooner.
- Grad's Poems
Poems by two University
graduates, Barbara Millnitz
and- Jerry Petsche, are also
featured. - .
Other works appearing in
the Schooner are unpublished
podns'by Weldon Kees, a for
mer University student, and
an article about him by Don
ald Justice.
Kees disappeared in 1955
after writing various poems
and short stories.
Another highlight of the
spring Schooler is an article
by Dr. B. A. Botkin, folklorist
and recipient of an honorary
degree from the University,
about the late Louise Pound.
Other Excerpts
Dr. Botkin studied under
Miss Pound at Nebraska and
the article contains excerpts
from many letters she wrote
him during the past 30 years.
Other English department
members, Dr. Chris Pulos,
and Prof. Karl Shapiro, have
reviews in the quarterly
magazine. Miss Slote has also
contributed a review.
The Prairie Schooner is
edited by Prof. Shapiro and
published by the University of
Nebraska Press.
Distribution of the spring
issue is expected by April 1.
ors to' solve tax problems is
being restricted by all sorts
of limiting constitutional pro
visions," Schmidt said.
"We should give the legis
lators authority commensur
ate with their responsibili
ties." They, should be allowed
enough in their budget to hire
technicians skilled in special
areas instead of proceeding by
trial and error.
"The legislators should be
making the decisions, not the
people," Schmidt contended.
No Information
' "The voters don't have the
information to decide," so they
rely on their emotions. And
their emotions' tell them to
vote, 'No,' " he added. .
Individuals tend to view
taxes from a selfish rather
than a social point of view,
the economist noted.
For instance, Schmidt said
(hat the farmer's reaction to
the sales tax is often negative
because he thinks the taxes
he will have to pay on farm
machinery and seed will pla-e
more burden him than on
the urban dweller. He fails to
realize that these items are
Campu
Zeta Tau Alpha 5.547 Phi Delta Theta 5.623 Zeta Beta Tau 5.377 Acacia 1 5.113
Sigma Kappa , 5.441 Bessey House 5.619 Avery house 5.357 Gustavson I 5.059
Heppner Hall 5.044 Phi Kappa Psi , 5.569 Sigma Chi 5.343 Theta Chi 4.994
Men's Houses Andrews House 5.566 Delta Upsilon 5.302 Kisselbach House 4.969
Farm House 6.132 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 5.558 Gustavson II 5.249 Cornhusker Co-op 4.964
Delta Sigma Pi 5.841 Pioneer House 5.540 Canfield House 5.243 Brown Palace 4.935
Manatt House 5.700 Beta Theta Pi 5.483 Alpha Tau Omega 5.235 Phi Gamma Delta 4.894
MacLean House 5.699 Alpha Gamma Sigma 5.459 Kappa Sigma 5.202 Benton House 4.853
Fairfield House 5.683 Beta Sigma Psi 5.450 Selleck House 5.186 Smith House 4.805
Sigma Alpha Mu 5.678 Delta Sigma Phi 5.442 Sigma Nu 5.166 Seaton House I 4.724
Burnett House 5.668 Pi Kappa Phi 5.132 Delta Tau Delta 5.148 Van Es House 4.664
Theta Xi ' 5.637 Sigma Phi Epsilon 5.414 Ag Men's Club 5.144 Seaton House II , 4.589
Hitchcock House 5.629 Boucher House 5.405 Alpha Gamma Rho 5.118 Gooding House 4.138
Vol. 33, No. 81
Houses' "Send 'Em Over"
Hospitality Greets Students
'Matchmaker9
Closes Tonight
The last performance of
"The Matchmaker," Univer
sity Theatre production, will
be held tonight.
The original closing date
was Saturday night but a
maority vote of the person
nel involved extended the
closing date.
Dallas Williams, Univer
sity Theater director, said
the vote resulted from the
fact that many season-ticket
holders were unable to at
tend the performance due to
sell-outs.
"Matchmaker" is the first
University Theatre produc
tion to be extended since
1945 when 'Skin of Our
Teeth" also was extended
by a similar popular de
mand. Radio Engineers
Needed by FCC
Radio engineers are needed
by the Federal Communica
tions Commission . for .loca
tions in the United States, its
territories' and possessions.
Starting salaries range from
$4,490 to $5,530 a year.
Applicants with one year of
graduate study or one ye&r of
radio engineering experience
may qualify for $5,430 a year.
Information can be obtained
at the placement office. Appli
cations will be accepted by
the Board of U.S. Civil Serv
ice Examiners, Federal Com
munications Com mission,
Washington 25, D.C.
Students to Tour
Pharmacy Firm
Approximately 30 students
from the College of Pharmacy
will tour Parke, Davis & Com
pany, pharmaceutical firm,
today and tomorrow.
The tour will include an in
spection of the firm's 56-year-old
research building, the first
to be erected in America by
any commercial institute sole
ly for scientific research.
The firm is located in De
troit, Mich.
Restricted
Problems
often exempted from sales lax
bills.
City-Farm Reaction
The city resident often re
acts against the sales tax on
the grounds that he will have
to pay more than the farmer
who can grow much of his
own food. Food also is often
exempted from the sales tax.
"Taxation, like politics and
religion, is a subject on which
people tend to react emotion
ally," Schmidt commented.
"People are overly tax con
scious," he observed. '
- They have a "strong affin
ity" for government services
but seem "quite allergic" to
the taxation that provides the
financial support for these
services,
Greatest Return
"Of all the dollars spent,
those giving the greatest re
turn frequently are the tax
dollars," Schmidt said.
"With almost one-third of
the nation's income being
channeled through the public
sector of the economy, the fi
nancing of government has be
come everybody's business.
"More people should make
t serious stvdy of nuHi ft.
nances," the professor recommended.
or msBtmm
The Daily Nebraskan
Campus Bunks Stranded
"Send 'em over and we'll
find a place for them," was
the response of the Univer
sity housing units to the
plight of high school students
stranded in Lincoln Saturday
night.
"Every fraternity or sori
ty with space offered to help
house the strandees," Arch
ie Baley, director of the
Chamber of Commerce, said.
'Hundreds'
Hundreds of high school
students bunked in the Uni
versity housing units, Baley
said.
In addition, arrangements
were made to open the Ag
Activities Building and part
of the Ag Engineering build
ing for the storm-stranded
students, James Pittenger,
assistant to the Chancellor,
reported.
These facilities were not
needed, however.
Some 250 cots belonging to
the 4-H clubs, plus linen and
rooms at Wesleyan helped
bunk some more students.
Auditorium Offered
The Municipal Auditori
um was volunteered and
mattresses for the Auditori
um space were located at the
Fair . Grounds. The National
Guard would have hauled
them to Pershing Auditorium
if necessary, Pittenger said.
The Red Cross also volun
teered cots. ,
Response from Lincoln
people was called "marvel
ous" by Baley.
Within an hour and a half
after radio and TV broad-
Alum Board,
Officers Due
For Election
Candidates for Alumni As
sociation officers and board
of directors will be announced
April 1.
Ballots will be mailed out
in early April and tabulated
in May. Candidates win Da
voted on bv the 8.000 dues-
paying alumni members.
There are approximately uu,
000 living University alumni.
Voters will elect me presi
dent, first vice-oresident. sec-
end vice president, and a
member ot tne executive com
mittee. Outside Nebraska, alumni
members are divided into 1?
zones, each of which will
elect its director, ut tne da
districts within Nebraska, the
odd-numbered districts will
elect directors The even-numbered
districts will elect
directors next year.
Theatre Tryouts
To Be Tuesday
Final tryouts for the Uni
versity Theatre production
of "Ah Wilderness!" will be
held Tuesday in Howell Me
morial Theatre at 7 p.m.
Persons in "The Match
maker" cast, who have been
unable to try out at the
regular time . and persons
who are re-reading will be
in the final tryouts.
Office Problems
To Be Aired
"The University Extension
Division and the College of
Business Administration are
two of the sponsors of a three
day seminar in office man
agement problems to be held
Thursday through Sunday.
Wilbur Killinglon, industrial
economist of the Federal Re
serve Bank in Kansas City,
will be the featured speaker
at a banquet Friday.
All meetings will be held in
the Union ballroom.
Scfaol
casts requesting housing for
students, 1,000 sleeping
places were available among
Lincoln residents. Later that
evening, the number in
creased to 1,300.
Alpha Omicron Pi housed
22 girls 15 from Norfolk and
7 from Beatrice.
"They mostly entertained
themselves," the AOPi's re
ported. Some of our girls had
come from a house narty
that gave tnem pajama's as
favors. The high schoolers
didn't know quite what to
think of that," commented
an AOPi.
Thetas House 20
Kappa Alpha Theta housed
20 girls 15 from Norfolk and
5 from Ogallala.
"They slept on our beds
and couches; used our
blankets and pillows; drank
our pop and watched us tell
our dates goodnight," a
Theta reported.
The Alpha ' Xi Delta's of-
Pix Contest
Announced
March 30 Opens
Ag Competition
The Ag Campus Photo Con
test will be held from March
30 to April 6.
Pictures should be turned
in to Ag Union Office.
The contest will be divided
into two categories; scenery
and human interest. Entries
may be either black and white
or colored photos of any size.
A separate division will
exist for slide photos in each
category. Each contestant
will be allowed two entries
in each division.
The first place winners in
each division will receive $2.
Second place winners will be
awarded $1. An over-all win
ner will have his name en
graved on a trophy with the
previous year's winners.
The photos will be judged
by a photography laboratory.
Winners will be awarded at
the Starlite Dance April 10.
Reclamation
Jobs Offered
Engineers interested in a
career developing water re
sources in the West are of
fered employment with the
Bureau of Reclamation, the
U.S. Civil Service Commission
announced.
The Bureau offers opportun
ities on some of the greatest
engineering works in the
world.
Starting salaries of $4,490,
$5,430 and $6,285 will be paid
many civil, electrical and me
chanical engineers in design
and construction work.
Details are available in
civil service announcements
and application forms at
many post offices or the
United States Civil Service
Commission, Washington 25,
D.C.
Phi's Win WAA Trophy;
Board Members Named
Alpha Phi sorority was
named winner of the WAA
trophy at the Women's Ath
letic Association banquet yes
terday. The trophy is given annual
ly to the organized group
with the most girls partici
pating in the 14 intramural
activities throughout the year.
New WAA board members
were also named at the ban
quet. The board members are:
Mary Drlshaus, assistant
intramural coordinator; Ro
berta Vock, publicity; Judy
Means, office manager and
JlI 0
ars
Monday, March 16, 1959
'100' V
fered their basement to 15
girls. Their house was full
because of initiation.
The Tri Delts played host
ess to 10 Norfolk unfortunates
following their initiation ban
quet. Dorm Filled
The Women's Residence
Hall's provided places for
about 100 girls, according "to
Olivia Hansen, head of the
halls.
The Kappa Delta's housed
12 from Norfolk; the Delta
Gamma's took care of 15;
Chi Omega bedded about 12
from Norfolk and five from
Beatrice.
Alpha Chi Omega reported
that they volunteered to take
some. They made their ac
tives sleep together so the
high school students "Shouldn't
have to sleep on couches, but
the high schoolers never
came.
For the Zeta Tau Alpha's
housing high schoolers is
getting to be old stuff. Five
girls from Nebraska City
were stranded here by a
snow storm during the Dis
trict Tournament. The Zeta's
housed them then, and
housed 14 girls from Norfolk
Saturday.
Gamma Phi's
The Gamma Phi Beta's
made preparations to pro
vide beds for 20 but only had
to accommodate 5 from Be
atrice. Fellows as well as girls
found housing on the
campus.
About 65 boys were housed
at Selleck Quadrangle dur
ing the weekend, not all be
cause they were stranded.
Delta Upsilon had a full
house with approximately 20
rushees invited down for the
weekend. In addition they
found room for 10 men from
Columbus and 11 from
Bloomfield.
Like Sardines
"We cleared out the TV
room and lined the boys up
like sardines on the carpet,"
Dick Glover reported.
Sigma Chi provided space
for eight boys.
Delta Tau Delta "burst at
the seams" with more than
50 guests.
Extra beds were set up in
the basement, the couches
were full and the floor was
utilized.
The Beta's had 10 unex
pected guests.
Many of the houses had
rushees invited down for the
weekends which filled their
capacity to overflowing.
Student Walker
Struck hy Car
Charles Slander, senior in
engineering, was dismissed
Saturday from a local hos
pital. Stander was strwrk Friday
by a car driven oy assistant
professor of sociology Richard
Videbeck, 35, of 2954 Ryons,
as the student was crossing
16th St. south of Vine.
social chairman; Elaine
Gibbs, freshman soccer and
table tennis.
Sharon Rogers, archery and
Nebraska ball; Sharon De
Mars, soccer and duckpins;
Sherry Drew, tennis singles
and doubles; Kay Hirschbach,
basketball; Janet Clark, bowl
ing and softball.
Shirley Parker, volleyball
and badminton; Linda Lcns
brough, swimming and clubs;
Fran Johnson, co-rec volley
ball; and Janet Peterson, Ag
WAA Chairman.
Mary Lou Valencia is in
tramural coordinator.
