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The Nebraskan
1961 Military Ball to Feature
Music In Glenn Miller Mood
By Mike Mac Lean
The Glenn Miller Orchestra,
under the direction of Ray
McKinley, will provide music
at tne 1961 Military Ball, Dec
9 at Pershing Auditorium.
The orchestra was the top
in its category in the late
IFC Vetoes
Sponsoring
Of Pageant
The IFC voted down a pro
posal by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce that they assist
in sponsoring the Miss Uni
versity of Nebraska Pageant
to be held this spring.
Roger Myers, chairman of
the affairs committee, said
that the experience would be
invaluable but that there were
many reasons for not .co
sponsoring the contest.
The first reason dealt with
the role of the IFC and
whether, or not beauty con
tests could be included in its
activities. S e c o nd 1 y, new
members of the affairs com
mittee are chosen at the end
of the first semester, making
coordination of the project
difficult. It was laso felt that
the IFC and the affairs com
mittee were lacking in ex
perience needed to sponsor
the project.
Phil Tracy, chairman of the
public relations committee,
announced that a public re
lations seminar will be held
on Nov. 29 tn place of the
regular IFC meeting. The
meeting, according to Tracy,
will be held in order to assist
each house in planing an ef
fective public relations pro
gram. It was announced that next
Wednesday at 6:40 p.m. the
health chairmen of the houses
will meet with Dr. Sammuel
Fuenning, dircetor of Student
Health. Dr. Fuenning will ex
plain the duties of the health
chairmen.
The IFC is considering sev
eral bands for the IFC Ball
to be held April 7. Names
such as Duke Ellington, Stan
Kenton, Les Elgart and Ray
Anthony will be considered.
It was announced that the
deadline for the IFC Scholar
ship has been extended to today.
thirties and early forties
Many of Miller's composi
tions, such as "St. Louis Blues
March," "String of Pearls,"
"In the Mood," "Moonlight
Serenade", and . Pennsyl
vania 6,500," are still popular
today..
The "Miller Touch," which
features the liquid reeds with
a clarinet lead, and the ooh
wah" brass, still keeps the
orchestra in much demand.
The orchestra is under the
direction of Ray McKinley,
who played with Miller in The
Dorsey Brothers' Band, and
in Miller's orchestra after it
was organized.
Both Miller and McKinley
went into the Army after
World War II started and it
was this combination that
formed the famed Glenn Mil
ler Army Air Corps Band.
Miller was killed in Decem
ber of 1944 in a flight across
the English channel, but his
music has lived on through
his band. Many of his original
recordings have become col-j
lector's items, and top name
bands have been influenced
by his style.
A movie, "The Glenn Miller
Story," was made in the early
fifties; it portrayed the life
and wcrk of the band leader,
McKinley has directed the
orchestra since Miller's death,
and has retained the original
style and introduced several
modern concepts, the combi
nation of which is the rea
son for the orchestra's popu
larity. The orchestra also played
at the 1958 Military Ball.
"Out of This World" is the
theme of this year's Military
Ball. Major Hague, of the Air
Force R.O.T.C., says that
there will be additional danc
ing space and more tables
than last year.
He added that while the
dance is sponsored by
R.O.T.C., the general public
is invited to attend.
General admission for a
couple is $3.75, general ad
mission for couples who want
tables is $4.00. Box -seats are
$25, and spectators will be
charged $1.00.
Cornhusker Beauty Queen
Interviews Set for Sunday
Interviews for Cornhusker
Beauty Queens will be held
in 340 Student Union Sunday.
Twelve girls will be selected
from the 56 candidates on the
basis of beauty, poise, per
sonality and personal appear
ance. The twelve finalists will be
revealed at Coed Follies and
the six beauty queens will be
announced in .the 1962 Corn
husker. The interviewing
board will consist of Neal
Copple, Ben Meyer, Mrs.
Frank Morrison, Philip
James, Karen Costin, Lynn
Wright and Anne Sowles.
Thei north door of the Stu
dent Union will be open.
Candidates and interview
times are:
1:00 MarU Jmj
Rally Saturday
There will be a rally Sat
urday at 7 p.m. at the Mu
nicipal Airport, win or "ose.
Buses for Tassels and Ker
nals will leave the north
door of the Student Union
at 6:15.
Connie Odden
:30 Corl Cabela
:0 Cordjr Seward
:50 Anna Wltte
:00 Joan Coenowrth
10 Susan Lovett
20 Sylvia McNalljr
30 Linda Turnbull
:40 jean Barron
" Anna Hanna
00 Chervl Warden
1" Judy Tenhulien
Janet Hoennner
. . Jan Jeffery
M nrrin f!n
:50 Sally Larson
Kilty Shearer
:10 Pant Bartlinr
-u Fat Srhmadeke
30 , , Corrine Newton
40 , Joyce Ronin
50 Lou Eden
:0O Jo Anne Wilson
. Anne White
Judy Weirera
20
30 Bosanne Host
40 Sue Vandecar
50' Bonnie Knudsen
00 Sara Brewster
10 Willi Meyer
20 Mary Sue Hlskey
30 Sharon Slrass
40 . Diane Milne
SO Becky Kchnlede
00 Sally Dale
10 Susan Linn
20 Nancy Jacobson
30 Paula Warner
40 Janice Burmood
50 Susan Yost
00 Barbara lie
10 Patsy LittleJohn
20 Kay Pierce
30 Jean Olsen
Elaine Anderson
50 Helenmarie Trites
00 Patty O Laurblin
10 Sberilyn Sticre
20 Mary Ann Glide
30 ,. Donna Filbert
40 Judy Grazier
50 Donna Highland
00 Susan Walborn
10 Diane Yost
20 Marie Lancille
Nebraskan
To Expand
Production
Pub Board Hires
Two Staff Writers
The Publications Board has
increased the circulation of
the Daily Nebraskan .'from
5,000 to 6,000 papers daily to
meet the increased enroll
ment, according to Don Fer
guson, business manager.
In the next few weeks, the
circulation department will
readjust circulation all over
campus in order to find the
best circulation pattern.
The Daily Nebraskan costs
over $320 a day if print and
the new circulation number
will increase this amount $10
15 daily. The funds for the
Daily Nebraskan come entire
ly from local and national advertising-
and student fees.
At its Tuesday meeting, the
Publications Board also de
cided the day the ''Rag' will
not publish each week will be
Tuesday rather than Thurs
day. This new publication
schedule, papers on Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, will take effect sec
ond semester.
Ferguson said the Daily Ne
braskan doesn't publish five
days a week due to a lack of
funds.
This change in days will
give advertisers a better
weekend market in addition
to the Wednesday and Friday
papers, he said. It will also
give students better, fresher
news coverage since many
major activities have their
meetings on Wednesday and
presently cannot be reported
until Friday.
Publications Board also
voted for an increase in the
salary of circulation manager
from $60 to $70 per month.
This will be effective Novem
ber 15. ";"
Two new junior staff writ
ers have been added to the
staff at a salary of $17.50 per
month. They are Wendy Rog
ers' and Cindy Bellows.
Friday, Nov. 10, 1961
Council to Cooperate
With Registrar's Office
To 'Ease' Registration
By Tom Kotouc
The Student Council ac
cepted the invitation - of Dr.
Floyd W. Hoover, Registrar,
to work in an advisory capa
city with the Registrar's Of
fice on registration problems.
"Although plans are not yet
complete," said Dr. Hoover,
we hope that the Council can
assist us in two specific ways
in spring registration.
"First, the Council can en
courage students to register
early so that both the Uni
versity and the students can
be served to a more optim
um degree.
"Secondly, we will ask the
Council to work with us in
distributing appointment tick
ets to students for they pay
ment of fees. Thus students
would pay fees during the
last three days of finals re
ducing the confusion typical,
following return from semest
er break.
The council would assist in
scheduling appointments to
pay fees at the time which
would not conflict with exam
schedule. The intervals will
problably be the same as this
fall, with appointments due
every 15 or 30 minutes."
Student Councu member
Don Burt, who introduced the
Hungary Movie
"The Presentation of Hun
gary," will be shown by the
Nebraska International As
sociation (NIA) today at 8
p.m. in the Union. All stu
dents and faculty members
are invited. There will be a
business meeting after the
movie.
AUF's Activities Queen
To Reign at Pancake Feed
The presentation of the 1961
Activities Queen during the
Pancake Feed, and concen
trated efforts to contact the
2,000 unaffiliated Lincoln stu
dents, mark Sunday as the
high point of the 1961 All Uni
versity Fund charity cam
paign. The AUF Pancake Feed will
be 5-7:30 p.m. in the Student
Union cafeteria with enter
tainment by Steve Joynt's
Delt combo, Bob Billesbach's
D.U. combo, and Gordy Mel
drum. Roy -Arnold, president of the
Innocents Society, and Helen
Schmierer, last year's Activ
ity Queen, will crown the 1961
AUF Activities Queen at 6:30
p.m. in the cafeteria.
According to Mary Weath
erspoon, AUF special events
chairman, between 750-1,000
persons are expected to at
tend the feed.
Members of the Mortar
Board and Innocents Societies
will form the serving line,
with presidents of organized
houses bussing. Girls from
organized houses will serve
coffee to the waiting line, and
act as supply runners.
Tickets will be available at
the door for 75 cents each.
During Sunday afternoon
the pledge classes of many
fraternities and sororities will
have unofficial functions to
solicit funds from the Lincoln
students before going to the
Pancake Feed. This activity
was cleared with the Division
of Student Affairs and will not
interfere with any plans for
other functions scheduled for
the week.
Members of Alpha Lambda
Delta, freshmen women's hon
orary, will also help in the
afternoon solicitations.
The following pledge clas
ses will work together dur
ing the afternoon drive:
Alpha Omicron Pi Delta
Tau Delta, Sigma Alpha Mu
Kappa Delta Delta Up
silon, Phi Gamma Delta
Gamma Phi Beta Theta
Xi
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Alpha Gamma Rho -
Alpha Xi Delta Kappa
Sigma
Kappa Alpha Theta Phi
Delta Theta
Students to Stage
Lighting Experiment
"Lighting and Dance; an
Experiment'" is a one hour
experiment presented at the
Howell Theater by students
in the stage lighting class
from 7-8 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
12. Dancers for the produc
tion will be from Orchesis.
There will be free admission
for this class project.
motion to work with the Reg
istrar's Office, said that Dr.
Hoover has expressed his con
fidence in the ability of stu
dent groups as the Council to
cooperate with the adminis
tration in solving problems
as those which developed from
registration.
In Burt's motion, a snecial
Council committee to be ap
pointed next week by Presi
dent Steve Gaffe will work
with the Registrar's office in
studying problems of regis
tration which merit investi
gation or solution, in the onin-
ion of Dr. Hoover, the Coun
cil committee, the Council, or
the student body.
On this fall's redstration.
Dr. Hoover had this to say:
lhe basic structure of the
registration procedures ' is
sound and will soon pay off.
"We did not forsee, how
ever, the volume of 'snoo
ping' or students who register
and then fau to appear.
"Neither did we make nrou-
er provision for the students
who could not or did not reg
ister early.
"It is our hone that furth
er investigation and creative
thought in these areas will
alleviate the present weak
nesses in the registration procedure."
ElectionsTonight
L?Z Abner9 Sadie
Sadie Hawkins Day, the an
nual party sponsored by Ag
Union will start at 8 tonight
at the Ag Union ballroom.
The election of Li'l Abner
and Sadie Hawkins will be
held by those in attendance
and the crowning of the Dog
patch royality will take place
during intermission.
Finalists for Sadie Hawkins
are Cheryl Abrahamson, Burr
East; Nancy Gibson, Love
Hall; Jan L'Huereax, Alpha
Phi; Sandy Brown, Chi
Omega Nadine Newton, Fed
de Hall; Susie Linn, Alpha
Omicron Pi.
Finalists for Li'l Abner are:
Norman Choat, Ag Men; Har
old Dinklage, Alpha Gamma
Sigma; Gerald Walker, Alpha
Gamma Rho; and Dave Mc
Clatchey, Farmhouse.
Behind Iron Curtain
Visitor to USSR
Russian People's Dedication Frightens Ray Preston
By Wendy Rogers
Ray Preston, senior in the
College of Agriculture, was
inside the Soviet Union when
the Iron Curtain fell in Ber
lin. One of 25 students chosen
from the entire United States
to participate in the USSR
USA Students Exchange Pro
gram sponsored by the Na
tional Student Council of
YMCA-YWCA, Preston spent
42 days in the Soviet Union
last summer.
The crash of the Iron Cur
tain in Berlin was a neces
sary act, Preston was told
by Russian students, because
protection was needed against
Western spies going into East
Germany and returning with
information.
When Preston and his group
pointed out the large numbers
of people going from East to
West Germany . every day,
the students replied they had
been told by "Pravda" that
just as many crossed from
the West to the East.
Scared Me'
The Russian people's dedi
cation to their way of life
and to Communism "scared
me," said Preston.
"They believe wholehearted
ly in the future of Commu
nism, and its eventual spread
ing throughout the Western
ivmld They matter-of-factly
claimed this would happen
through a natural change,
and maintained a "'wait and
see' attitude toward us." ,
"To understand why the So
viet people accept poor living
conditions, not being able to
travel to the West, or to read
Western newspapers and to
print what they want, you
must r e a 1 i z e," explained
Preston, "that things have
improved a tremendous
amount in the Soviet Union
since the 1917 revolution.
"Now they have free medi
cine, some are paid to go to
school, and there is 'no unem
ployment'. "
'Nothing Better
"Why go against it, . when
they know nothing better?"
The most important realiza
tions gained .from his trip,
noted Preston, were the fail
ure of Americans to under
stand how Communism op
erates, and the reasons why
the Soviet Union is the way
it is, and why they them
selves should know how the
American government op
erates. ,
"Americans should not re
ject Communism for fear of
it, but should reject it for
knowledge of what it is," said
Preston.
"We should not drive Com
munists underground, but
leave them out in the open,
and know who they are."
Stirred Up
Preston said he believes the
Communist government does
not represent its people, "but
when we said this in student
group meetings, it really stir
red them up."
Answers to the American
group's questions indicated
that the Soviets believe they
have all the freedoms U.S. I about what is the people's
citizens claim to have, but I good."
"there is no disagreement! According to Preston, the
Soviets said they could disap
prove of the government's ac
tions, or write letters to the
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Ray Preston tries out his fur hat and background shows Lennin with a Russian
"balaika" that he obtained during his trip Worker in the foreground. Slogan ' says
through Russia last summer. Poster in the "Always with the Party."
state-owned newspapers, if
they so wished. However,
Preston learned from one edi
tor of a small Soviet bi-week
ly that a board of six per
sons decides what goes into
"his" newspaper ''what is
for the people's good."
Said Preston, "It is really
difficult to understand this
when about 8 million card
carrying Communists run the
Soviet Union, which has a
population of about 230 mil
lion that is, only about 12
per cent of the total popula
tion. U.S. Problems
Said Preston, "they told us
that the United States is run
by monopolies and capitalists,
that the worker has no chance
of advancement, and that we
suffer from large-scale rac
ial and unemployment prob
lems." "In answer, we admitted
that we have these problems,
but then explained our dem
ocratic process of law in ov
ercoming segregation, and our
different method of counting
the unemployed.
Preston pointed out how
half-truths which are pre
sented to the Soviet people
fog their view of situations
"The things they hear are
generally true, but half the
facts are left out," noted
Preston. When discussing
these situations, the students
would know of a specific ex
ample of a bad situation such
as the racial problem in Lit
tle Rock, Ark., or the bus-
burning incident involving
"freedom riders," but were
unaware of any good steps
toward integration in the
South, he added.
Fear Germany
From his conversations with
students, Preston derived that
one of Russia's greatest fears
is the rise of once-powerful
Germany with the help of the
U.S. and other Western pow
ers. "You call democracy free
dom, and you let fascists rise
again," exclaimed one Len
ingrad student to Preston.
While the Soviets claim "no
unemployment," Preston ex
plained that the U.S. counts
as unemployed anyone who
works for a certain period
of time and then stops. Even
students and housewives who
work part-time or during the
summer are then counted,
while this is not done in the
USSR. Thus they can claim
"no unemployment."
Preston added that while
in the Soviet Union, he oft
en saw two or three times
as many people as necessary
on some jobs.
' Twig Broom
Other people were sweep
ing the streets with a twig
broom and a dustpan.
The two major problems In
the Soviet Union, which they
themselves admit, are 'hose
of housing and agriculture,
said Preston.
He commented that in Kiev.
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