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The' Daily Nebraskan
Friday, September 25, 1959
Don Cloak and Crown
The Hornecoming Queen this year will
don with the red cloak and crown the
greatest amount of prestige and honor ac
corded one of her name. The reason is
simple.
It goes back several years to criticism
of the old method of selecting the junior
girl who would represent the University
to the students, the alums and the state.
Under the system as it stood, the Queen
virtually had to be a Tassel, unless some
house wanted to slap its Tassel in the face
by substituting another candidate for her.
The changes announced this week sweep
away all the reasons for the general
apathy and animosity engendered by a
selection sy-tem which made membership
in one organization a prerequisite for the
honor of being selected queen of the Home
coming weekend.
Under the new system an interviewing
board will narrow the field of 28 candi
dates i.e. an equal number of Greeks and
independents to a group of 10 finalists.
This group of 10 coeds will be presented
to the students for an all-day, all student
vote, rather than in the relatively re
stricted votjng on finalists as was done
previously.
Not only the quean, but her two attend
ants will be more highly honored. The an
nouncement of the queen and her attend
ants on Friday, instead of not until Satur
day's game, will give more meaning to
the title.
More important than the relative degree
of honor conferred on this trio of junior
coeds, however, is the added degree of
participation John Q. Student will have in
the selection. The old method, while it
did provide for an all-student election, was
so constructed as to make voting incon
venient. If a student did not attend the
rally, or wish to buck the crowds trying to
stream into the Coliseum at precisely the
same moment, he received no opportunity
for helping to select the coed who would
represent his school on Homecoming.
Congratulations to Tassels on acknowl
edging that something was wrong, study
ing the situation and coming up with a
fine solution.
From Somewhere June Graduate Tells
Out ill Left Field Of Soviet Union Tour
: K
A Careful Study, Please
Last year the Student Council Spring
Day committee received an added duty,
that of organizing an All-University Open
House. Originally this was done because
the Council hoped that the Open House
would coordinate nicely with the usual
Spring Day Fun and Games.
The Open House was designed to offer
Interested high school students a chance
to preview their University experience
and posibly to aid them in making a
choice between colleges at Nebraska or
between Nebraska and another university.
It didn't take the committee long to find
out that the two activities would not fit
as the Council desired and they set about
workingjat two separate and unconnected
tasks.
Recognizing this handicap the Council
provided last year for the setting up of
two separate committees in the future,
one to handle the Spring Day celebration
as usual and the other to organize the All
University Open House.
Last year's combination committee
after enlisting the cooperation of some 17
colleges sent letters to high school princi
pals in the state inviting interested stu
dents to attend.
The response to this invitation was dis
appointing to say the least. Only seven or
eight principals answered and only two
accepted the invitation.
In view of this setback the Spring Day
committee which was also the All-University
Open House committee recom
mended to the Student Council that the
1959 Spring Open House be dropped.
This Wednesday the Council set up a
committee to plan an All-University Open
House for 1960.
The Daily Nebraskan would first like to
see thjs committee make a careful study
of all present activities which are carried
on by the University and University
groups in this field of bringing high school
seniors to the campus.
Fine Arts Festival, J-Week,'1 E-Week,
Science and Agriculture Day, ... are just
a few of these activities which could con
ceivably be worked in with or provide
competition for an all-University Open
House, depending on the action of this
committee.
Second, assuming the committee does
an effective job of planning an open house,
and there is no reason to think that they
shouldn't, we hope that the State's High
School principals who in the past have
been quirk to criticize the University or
its student groups will take the time and
effort to consider carefully all the work
and planning which has gone into the Open
House and allow their students to take a
day off to sample what their future at the
University of Nebraska holds for them.
Ticket Snafu
One goof in 20 years is a pretty good
record in handing out football tickets.
A. J. Lewandowski said the last time an
error, such as the one this year in which
two groups received tickets for Section 10,
Rows 22-29, was 20 years ago.
It is a distinct credit to Phi Delta Phi,
law fraternity, and the other groups who
have been willing to trade their tickets
for seats in other sections that thus far no
big storm has been raised over an honest
mistake. The other group which has tic
kets for the section is the Med College
faculty. Any student who has tickets in
that section can get a different ticket if
they will go to the Athletic Office next
week.
By Adam Stalb
Editor'! ote: Staib ft Ca.. t.a. aarona wfca ii ttin ap whea aa weating
Mt a columa. have dltcovertd tha arirlnal ! a freihmaa'a flrat letter kome.
Dear Mom and Dad,
I'm sorry I didn't write to you sooner but you know
how it is. A college man like myself has a great deal of
responsibility and there's always something to do.
I know how you feel about fraternities but you just
couian i Know now great traternity life Is
unless you were .in my place. There's
nothing like it.
For example, the first night after I
pledged all of us pledges got dates. I was
really lucky. I had one of the sharpest
dates at the party. Gosh she was real
popular. She danced with almost all the
guys at the party. I hardly even saw her,
but gosh was she sharp.
The actives in this house are really a
great bunch of guys. The night of the blast.
one of the actives even asked me to double Staib
with him. He showed me all around the town. He really
thinks I've got .a neat car.
Oh, by the way Dad, will you send me a credit card.
It will make things a lot easier when I buy gas. Anyway
it's only a temporary deal, because the guys said that they
would start chipping in for the rides that I've been giving
them.
Did you notice the Greek letters engraved on the top of
this stationery, Pretty classy, huh? You know how I always
try to cut corners. Well I bought two boxes of personalized
. 1 a ; i r wr a
siauonery insieaa 01 one. iou see u s cneaper wnen you
buy by quantity and it's something that I'll always be
able to use anyway.
Yesterday I bought a real neat fraternity sweater. It's
got the fraternity letters on it. It's just perfect for going
on outdoor parties and such. ;
Mom, remember when you always told me to make
sure that I bought clothes that wouldn't be out of style the
day after I bought them? Well I really had a streak of
luck. You see, one of the actives in the house is working in
an exclusive clothing store downtown. He's one of the
nicest guys I ever met and he dresses real sharp too. I
don't know what I'd have done without him. He really fixed
me up with some sharp clothes. And he gave me a good
price on them too.
With the shoes, the drizzler, the three-piece suit, the
topcoat, and all the Ivy League shirts and pants, the bill
is just less than $190. But that doesn't include my mono
gramcd shirts-.
Real uptown, huh Dad? He even selected four real
sharp sweaters from the stock room at the store, just for
me.
Remember how I was always sold on engineering.
Well you wouldn't believe it but I've changed my opinion.
I've been talking to a lot of the fellas down here and they
seem to think that it's just too heavy a load, at least for
first semester. So I looked around and I finally decided to
give it the old college try in Biz Ad. That's short for Busi
ness Administration College.
I'm only going to carry 13 hours but with so many
things scheduled for this first semester I can't afford to
overload myself. Gotta make that old average.
I realize that you have heard some bad things about
fraternities, Dad, but one thing about this place, they make
you hit those old books all the time. Of course there are a
few routine pledge duties like answering the phone, and
making beds, but I always could avoid work.
As ever,
Your Son
P.S. Please send that credit card as soon as possible.
small talk
From the editor's desk:
On Campuses 'n Things
By Diana Maxwell selected by a board of 10. It Is an all-day,
SSTSgoXjSa0: m UmerC V face, red.
ing a crusade. Like these little rules which . . . , ,
somebody instituted once but forgot to But this is a game of give and take, so
remember again. ... I'd le to pass on an observation by a
So for a bit of scatter- JT s'K member of the yel1 sciuad- We were com'
shooting- " 'h menting that Tassels and Cobs weren't
Well, Wednesday there V J,Y an,y toc .vocal at last Saturday's game,
was an AWS meeting in i'- 1 when this gentleman commented that
the dorm The gals on I m h maybe the members of the two pep groups
AWS are a great bunch, 1 1 wre 80 tired from hawking pompoms,
charming, witty, etc., 7 I buttons, carnations and so forth during the
etc., but I wonder if they T Sr . early hours of the day on the streets of
really never, never, never' rf V - J Ll"nln i0J "f?'
e v e r w e a r bermudas, -T f I 1 readily admit that these two groups
slacks, etc., etc. Accord- UmJk ork like, mad at selling-Cornhuskers,
in to their little rule Diana flowers, lollipops, etc. However, when
book it's not nice for young ladies to wear Oregon arrives Oct 3, I hope they'll put a
such things on campus or downtown. The bit more of their salesman chatter to work
downtown part I can see- but when the making a little noise along the cheering
rules say you shouldn't even wear sport line- , t , ,
clothes to the library, it's sort of too .
ZT h - Further shots go to that anonymous indi-
t At i online vidual who has trained literally dozens of
Not that this is a ne w rule r anything- gturd soljd bulk gtud
as far as I know the little rule book has ? convrsations directy inside
always frowned upon the wearing of such i door y
revolutionary bits of apparel ? Jf- know what it is about but it certainly
That's why no coeds , in the history o this would aciU .f thp J
institution have ever worn slacks, taper would make themselves in0 mvi
pants, bermudas, etc. bodies at the same time they are gettling
See what I mean about rules someone tne arrangements for a car Saturday
has forgotten to reconsider? Banning levis night.
I can see they do look pretty high school- a random shot goes to the unknown
ish outside the living units, but like some- individual or group vwho caused the re
one commented the other day, it's pretty moval 0f the coke and coffee macmnes
ridiculous to carry a rule on the books from the downstairs study lounge in the
which if enforced would mean that every- library. This is one of the most heartless
time you planned to run over to the Union moves yet. One wonders at the philosophy
for coffee you'd have to don a skirt. behind the strategy of removing all the
, liquids and leaving the apple machine.
While we're scattering shots around, I'll The thinking is too deep for me.
accept one in our own direction and apolo-
gize to Tassels, especially you, Janey, for So put the scatter-gun away for a while
the gcof in Wednesday's paper. The Home- . and concentrate on larger things such as
coming Queen is not, repeat, not finally reading several hundred pages.
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By Ingrid Leder
When I was in high school
I pictured colleges as hav
ing only a few buildings but
a lot of trees under which
students as well as profes
sors sit and
spend a 1 1
their free
time in in
formal aca
demic dis
cussions. I realize
that this
idea was
rather far
fetched, but
I still think Ingrid
that you can learn as much
as if not more from talking
to your fellow students and
professors than from books.
Congratulations to Don
Geis for taking the initiative
to reorganize the Young
Democrats.
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The Young Democrats,
Young Republicans, YWCA,
UNSEA, NUCWA and I'm
sure there are other campus
groups which fit into this
category are organiza
tions which promote discus
sions among students.
You don't have to solve
the world crisis in a discus
sion even the exchange of
the most simple ideas is
beneficial.
It , doesn't really matter
whether in UNSEA you dis
cuss the practical problems
a teacher has to face in the
classroom, in YWCA the re
lation bf Christianity to cam
pus and social problems, in
NUCWA the purpose of the
United Nations, or in Young ,
Republicans or Young Dem
ocrats the qualifications of
a candidate for political of
fice. It's not what you dis
cussit's that you do dis
cuss. These five organizations
not only promote dis
cussions but also encourage
thinking and intellectual ac
tivities among students by
bringing in speakers from
the various fields.
Not Superior
I'm not trying to say that
these groups I mentioned
are superior to Union, ,
Builders, Red Cross, etc.,
which are in a way busy
work organizations. They
can't help but be busy-work
organizations because they
have concrete instead of ab
stract purposes. For exam
ple, Union is devoted to pro
moting Student Union activi
tiesthis can only be done
through doing actual work.
Merely talking a b o u t the
decorations for a dance
wouldn't get them done.
Both work and discussion
organizations are necessary
on a University campus, but
many of us seem to forget
that campus organizations
with an academic flavor
exist.
You may wonder why I,
. certainly not known in in
tellectual circles, decided to
devote this column to discussion-type
campus groups.
Well, when I walked into
the Young Democrats meet
ing Wednesday night after
having been to several other
meetings it just felt good to
relax and listen to a speak
er for a change instead of
getting more work to do.
A 1959 graduate of the
University, Terry Mitchem,
spent 40 days this past sum
mer, touring the Soviet Un
ion and 10 days in Czecho
sloakia as part of an ex
change program of sudents
between the United States
and the Soviet Union. The
Daily Nebraskan will pub
lish a series of articles by
Miss Mitchem as told to
staff member Herb Probas
co. The first article deals t
with her selection, an ex
planation of the exchange
and her orientation.
By Terry Mitchem
The news of my selection
as a member of a student
delegation to the Soviet Un
ion, part of an exchange be
tween the United States and
the USSR, came in March.
The exchange in which I
participated was worked out
two years ago along with
other cultural exchanges
with foreign governments.
Students in the exchanges
are financed by private or
ganizations, because if we
were representatives of the
United States we would be
speaking directly for the na
tional government.
A private organization,
the Council of Student Trav
el, worked out the details of
the exchange and turned
specific areas over to the
YMCA and YWCA and also
to the Experiment in Inter
national Living.
The Numbers
The Council of Student
Travel sent 66 students to
the Soviet Union and asked
for a stay of 60 days. In
return the Soviet Union
could send the same num-
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ber of students for the same
time to the United States.
However, the USSR
agreed to only 40 days for
the 66 United States repre
sentatives. Instead of send
ing 66 students from the So.
viet Union, they sent only
24 and for only 30 days.
These 24 students will be
touring the United States this
October. They will not be
coming here, though, and
will probably get only as
far West as Minnesota.
'Official'
Of the 66 students front
the United States this sum
mer, 24 of us were classi.
fied as "official" delegates
supposedly in the same
class as the two dozen So
viet students coming to our
country. The other 42 in our
group were classified as
"tourists."
Both the "official" dele
gates and the "tourists" had
similar types of visits.
There are probably
two reasons why the Soviet
Union didn't want to send
more students for a longer
time to the United States.
These reasons were brought
out to us by the Council of
Student Travel.
1. The USSR would rather
send their best students to un
derdeveloped countries, be
cause of the ideological im
pact they would have on those
people.
2. When the students visit
ing the United States return to
their own country it causes
a certain amount of unrest.
My orientation for the visit
began June 13 in New York
City and lasted five days. I
sailed from Montreal on the
18th aboard an Italian stu
dent ship, the Irpinia. At
the time the Italian seamen
were on strike, so the crew
on our ship was sailing
against their wishes.
Exhibition Guides
Aboard the ship were all the
guides going to the American
inhibition in Moscow, so we
had tha same extensive ori
entation which they received.
We spent 10 days aboard
ship and landed in Cannes,
France. We traveled along the
Riviera and spent two days in
Italy. After a short stop in
Vienna, Austria, we traveled
north through Czechoslovakia
and into Poland.
We entered the Soviet Union
from Poland. Our first stop
was at Brest.
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