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'. . ---M'''l'' ', " ,","' "'J'11"'1 ' i"iiu , , -.. --.-....-..... .vV---. -'- -'' ' . . . ' . -, ...j, r mKmmlmm n ( ft Tuesday, April 26, 1960 The Doily Nebroskon Editorial Comment: Ivy Day Tradition High, Interest Sometimes Low This weekend marks that time of year which probably holds the most memories for the majority of University graduates, which probably is the most exciting to more undergraduates than any other, per haps save the splashy Homecoming week tad h the fall. . R might be said that the annual events of the v Ivy. Day weekend make up the greatest part of that intangible of Ne braska "tradition." Spring Day of course is relatively new. It along with ivy Day and the many other vents of the weekend the Student Union BirtMay, party. Engineering Week, re unions, banquets provide for fun and en tertainment as well as mystery and tra dition. Probably the biggest event of the entire weekend, however, in the minds of the majority of the students is the afternoon of Ivy Day, when the mystics of Innocents toetaty and Mortar Board tackle and mask teeir successors, lHrtiapt this it the proper thing; three yean of hard work in activities and with the retention of at least a relatively high degree of scholastic success deserves a hand of applause. The lysUry of the choice especially excites interest which draws big crowds to the maskingi and tacMisgs. Yet generally numbers are quite mea pc daring other ceremonies on Ivy Day. Entrance of the Ivy Day Court and crown ing ef the May Queen, it would seem, would stir up more interest than it does, specially among the coeds of the Uni versity. But the majority of the spectators at fee morning Court ceremonies generally are parents and relatives of the royalty. Student response is iow. Next come the Men's and Women's Ivy Day sings. These events, it seems, should draw the greatest number of observers those who want to see their group in ac tion staging and cheering for a win, wheth er out of interest in the job done or mere ly but of loyalty to the group. . But the student number really doesn't start to bunch up until the mystics get ready to reveal the junior honorees. It is hoped this year that the student body remembers that Ivy Day is NlTs big day of tradition. Hundreds of us cry for the lack of tradition on this campus, yet when the day of highest tradition arrives, half the events are forgotten so stayed away from in droves. Ivy Day is a day for students, hence student participation would be expected to be high. ' As mentioned above, this weekend is one of the biggest all-around for the cam pus, yet it would seem that more could be made of it, not so much on the student side, but for prospective University stu dents and the general public. A few years ago, not only the engineer- ( ing departments but nearly every Univer sity department set up displays and took part in a campaign to "selT the Univer sity to prospective students and the pub lic. The plan has been abandoned, but has been a topic of debate recently by at least one University service roganization, A lot of planning, a whole year, is involved, but it could produce a wealth of results. The Ivy Day weekend would be the ideal time for such an event The drawing pow er would be there and increased- Apd the many parents and others who annually come could see the results of student work and University progress both at the same time. Setting up this addition to the Ivy Day weekend would take a host of time, liasion and cooperation. But then the University -might possess an annual event with the fame of Veisbea at Iowa State or C. U. Days at the University of Colorado. If that is what we want, we have the means to achieve it Staff Comment Balm and Sane By Herb Probasco 1 S Ji mmi a 1 m Prabasce Once upon a time there was a gentleman whom, for the lack of a better same, we shall cal Dick Hardy. Mr. Hardy was the organizer, sole member, president and what-have-you of an organization knows as the Camera Club of Nebraska. Thursday afternoon of last week be ap peared att the office of the Daily Nebraskaa with aa article about a contest being spon sored by this club (at which time seemed te be a legitimate organization) involving SIX CBCU. AilCBC wot supposedly finalists for the title of "Miss Nebraska Pome Queen.'" The queen, as Mr. Hardy explained it, would be selected by vote of the members of the Camera dub at their convention In Lincoln at the Cornhusker Hotel, April 29, this coming Friday and also Spring Day. As farther proof, Mr. d-r notlf-l m troobv out ef a sack which would be awarded te the ejneea. I weald roughly estimate the value ef fte trophy at W to $18. Saturday, 1 found a note on my desk that aid the Camera Club convention bad been cancelled and that there would be no con test for Miss Nebraska Poise Queen. So, that was that. At least until last might when a leiow columnist and one of the ""canddi Utas" approached me with the information that the whole convention and contest was a big hoax, planned and executed by Mr. Hardy. This candidata" told me that when she returned to the sorority bouse Thursday Sight, there was a message for her that she was one of the six finalists for the title of ""Miss Nebraska Poise Queenr Now, this seemed a little odd to her, since she bad sot been notified earlier that she was even aa entrant in the contest, let alone a finalist She (Mai pay any attention to the first Besse?e, bat whea she received two mes sages Friday saying that It was important that she call him about the contest, which she did. But, instead of getting him, she fraud set that be had left the phone number of the forests of a friead ef his, whs told the '"candidate that they didst know any thing about the centesL When she did get in touch with Mr. Hardy, be told her that she should appoint a representative in the bouse who would be given 10 tickets to sell to other girls in the sorority at 50 cents apiece, each ticket worth a vote at the convention. The '"candi date"'' did appoint a representative, but said she would not ask the girls to buy tkktts. During this conversation Mr Mardy ex plained to the "-candidate" that another member of the "club," who lived in the dorm, had started the idea for the contest and although he said he was not completely in favor jf the idea, Mr. Hardy said be had decided to go ahead with it. At this time, the "candidate" thought the whole mess sounded a little fishy. The next day, Saturday, Mr. Hardy's roommate stopped by the sorority house to see the "candidate and explain to her that the whole affair was a hoa club, conven tion, contest and everything. Mr. Hardy came back to the sorority later that afternMus to discus? arrange ments with the "candidate's" representa tive. However, the "candidate" had told her ot to have anything to d with the contest, since it was a hoax. With this confronting him, Mr. Hardy told the "candidate"" that if one was dropping eut of the contest, per haps it would be best to cancel the affair. He then wanted to know bow be -could 111 the rest of the girls that the contest had been called off. The "candidate" told him just te say that the convention had been cancelled. She added, however, that the rest of the girls would probably smell some thing fishy no matter what excuse be gave Uiiem. Mr. Hardy said he was going to alts cancel a story in one of the local papers and take tbetrepbywuteftbe Student Union where ft had bees n display. With that, he was never heard f again. So, my JxiendR, thaTs the story 1 one of the bigger hoaxes in a while as tar as campus hoaxes go The amazing part of the whole story Vvis the fact that one unknown gentle man could get away with what be .did for as long as he did. Ah, well, it makes for va riety, and variety is the spice of life or so they tell me. Daily Nebraskan fXXTr-KIKI IXAU OLD Kasmhsn irr----i GOerito rreaa. Ialer eiieciKte frem Itynmiun: t.-iics-i Aertrtislsr ler itm. Vum m rstfixfcei fc &mm Xt, States Catea LiactHa. 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Uami aauiail Mt will (M mm. Wa (Mac aiWa'i Hwa AVF Retort To The Editor: The reason that AUF would not solicit for the Freedom Fund of the XAACP is simply that it could not AUF was formed originally for the sole pur pose of slopping that per s i s t e a t "knock-on-4 h e door." It solicits only for those charities which have first been presented to the students for their approval This is AUF"s purpose this is AUF"s constitution. For this reason, AUF conducts only one student drive per year. Why would AUF not per mit the SCC to solicit for the Freedom Fund? 1) Regardless who is it lag the solicitatioa, would it be fair to yea, the stu dents, to be contacted at this time? It this what yea wast? We de aet care, as Mr. King says '"what the' ctvdent bedy via think ef as." We oaiy care that the stedeat body thinks. 2) Is this aa emergency? Hasnt the Freedom Fund already collected enough money to support the im mediate cause? Why couldn't they wait until fall? 3) Why is at every Ne gro la the city of Liacela entirely upset by this plea? I pset eaeagh to raise nos ey themselves aad ds seme thing abest It? Less than 19 of the liacela Negro Mpulatioa belMg to the NVACP, Rev. Everett S. . r Re yields, membership JjreaklaSt caairmaa ae biietii branch ef the NAACP told AIT. 4) What would happen : to j our money if there were no longer a need for fine money and bailing fees? "Your money would not be returned," stated Rev. Rey nolds in the Thursday might meeting. We can well as sume that it would then go into the general purse of the NAACP. Do you know lor what you would be con tributing? .. Perhaps M is tree that AIT became emaecessarily involved, is the fnndamea tals of parliamentary prs cedure. Precisely, what has that to do with the plea by the Freedom Fand? They were give mere chaa enoub time and epporta uilv u air their case. A representative for the SCC was even allowed to stay in a dosed session of AUF. (A closed session im plying confidential proceed ings . If this is not demo cratic, we are certainly liv ing under the wrong defini tion of the term. AUF took two different meetings to carefully consider the cause of the Freedom Fund. Several suggestions were offered to the SCC. 1) If students really want to give to this cause, they can certainly make the ef fort to take the elevator to the third fleer ef the Sta dent Uaioa aad somehow locate the YWCA efnee. They might even mail a check. 2) It was promised that AUF will place the Free dom Fund on the fall poXL Naturally, the Freedom Fund will be thoroughly investigated by the Better Business Boreas before even being submitted to the students. It will then be a simple matter of gaining student consent before tak ing action. We ask you. What is the purpose of AUF if it is not an organizing and protect ing body to help you? Is this, Mr. Else, such a tri vial job? Perhaps you would Just as soon be bar raged by the ever-present ""tnockon-tbe-door. Gail Sim on Vice-President of Publicity, AH-UBlversity Faad T Will Hold mmmt rrtaHaaa Nr 0 Before you kiddies start for home and the long va cation, Mother Miller would like to give you some ad vice. Now, you're going to do a lot of talking while you're home, and it's important for the good of the school that you watch your tongues. Several weeks ago James Gunn, the administrative assistant for Kansas Uni versity relations, said NU students were fostering poor relations for that school. "If students spoke honest ly about the University, we would have better public relations," Gunn said. That's the trouble with our institution. The admin istrators don't dictate what we should say whea we go heme. Consequently, we have a quality here like they're trying to develop at Kansas University. Mimeographed sheets of what to say when answer ing parents embarassing questions should have been distributed by the adminis tration. Since this hasn't been done. I'M going to give you answers to ques tions you might be asked. .And remember, you may disagree with these answers at time, but give them any way. They're the "favor able" answers, you might say. They're the kind of answers that will let people know this school is inter ested in quality. Question: "Why, sea, yea're heme already." Answer: "Kansas State University is a fine institu tion with fine buildings taught by a fine faculty in fine buildings." Qaestioa: "Care for some more of ma's cherry pie?" Answer: "Outstanding ad ministrative super vision provides each stu dent with an excellent bal-' ance of study and recrea tion." QnestHMi: "Hew are jos deiag ia year college , courses?" Answer: "My name is John Henry Quirt. I am a sophomore in mechanical engineering at k a n j a s State University. Thft is all I'm required to answer according to University law." 0C,Z KK WEEKS . IF SHS MOTRINS BOTSrtOJTW IT SSI IF W? 5S5 A AWE A5D0T t iiVXTA IK n !.UBiM5 TKEN HE S awa-Nfi 0? AIL WE FiKWTOlCcf! 13 A attai A3JJT Al5ETOT:2? J QjN j 3 ;HV n VV;inSN00. N:ON vii? hi" i Li 3 a l"" 0 0 V iVHVOiO; It a vO gb3l3'a3i3Ji'iioiyj r:rnN-v:TQ laioieElzri iWb OT sWv'3 a IP? HW 3 a Old . h 3 1 n n 3 t nldit---- I9J i ia is Tickets are now available for the May Morning Break fast, May L, an annual event sponsored by the YWCA. Mothers and advisroy board members will be guests of student members of the or-gani7.ation. Typewriters For Rent tsy sf Usderwtod Snutli Reminjtoi Try Ovr lenttl-Pvrthcst ffa Speciol Student Rotes NEBRASKA TYPEWRITER CO. 115 No. Hi Pboae HE2-42S4 Typewriter iihbons fvt 0a NOTICE TO SENIOR MEN STUDENTS N Mil MMM STEVENS EROS. FOUNDATION INC tmtwmtt mmm,. St. fa. 1, Man. Tmmm CAaal 1-S3M Journalists Will Attend Ad Program Two University School of Journalism advertising stu dents b ave bees selected to attend the 15th animal Col lege Awards Program in St Louis this week. The two Nebraskans who will attend .are Boa Furse and Mary La KeiH- They win be accompanied on the trip by journalism advertising professor Conrad HiH. Advertising Clob spokes men said thai the University representatives would have ! an opportunity to bear and; tliscusB operations of adver-j tising agencies and company advertising departments, na tional majsiifactorers and re tail department stores. They wQ also meet and talk ia advertistag ec1iES from all levels of Ihe profes sion. I mm. CROSSWORD No. 13 ACS OSS t-Ttae t-amokaa C1U JO. f'wil Mm mnimtm Jl. Mtuna wil. JtkwTark imnda IS. TMm LindD'fli II. r (FmncfcJ M-Oaatfaaa U. Ixna. M mummtmik 1. JAa-ca tmajc H.ntt 11 Tmnmrn MUttr SS. r canal mtif SS. 1 twr'n taai aaataniri to. Taucb kna mmvmxm XT. 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