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Lincoln
Vol. 44, No. 74
8,
Nebraska
Friday, March 23,
1945
UN Student Speakers Plan fJomen Elect IKloBtzscherer,
Talks
Party Elects Informal
For Holy Week McElhaaiey, IPopa as Prexys
Initiating
Candidates
the
The Student party, headed by
Bill Miller, met Wednesday night
to draw up their slate of candidates for spring elections, coming
up soon.
Gene Dixon is the candidate for
Ivy Day orator. The party slate
for Student Council includes Ed
Robinson, Lowell Anderson, Cath
erine Curley and Joyce Crosbie as
semors-at-larg-
e.
Ag candidate is Joanne Rapp;
arts and science, Dorothy Mastin;
Holy Week observance on campus will be
Holy
Week Discussions on Religion, a
program of informal discussions
to be held in organized houses
either Monday or Tuesday eve
ning.
"flnrslrrr- - 4r thA
variolic
houses are selected for their
ability to speak and to carry on
interesting discussions with college students," said Rev. Robert
Drew, chairman of the committee
in charge. General plan for the
discussions is that the speakers
will first present a short talk, and
then open the discussion to all
questions.
Speakers Listed.
engineering, Robert Coonley; fine
arts, Helen Laird; bizad, Shirley
Hinds; teachers, Virginia Buckingham; dentistry. Gene Merchant and pharmacy, Roffs Zim- - Those houses who have not yet
merle.
arranged for a speaker may do so
the
Publications Board candidates by calling Rev. Drew at
are Lucy Hapeman, senior; Betty Methodist Student House. Groups
Lou Horton, junior; and Betty
(See SPEAKERS, pare 4)
Jean Holcomb, sophomore.
Sigma Alpha Iota
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Courtesy of Lincoln Journal
.
SUZANNE POPE.
. . serves as new Coed Counselor
V
president.
..
COED
COUNSELOR
JANE McELHANEY.
. beads BABW for '45.
MIDGE HOLTZSCHERER,
. . . takes over AWS ravel.
BABW
Suzanne Pope was chosen at the AWS BOARD
YW Conducts Presents Annual Barb women
recent women's election to act
Serving
president for the
elected Jane Mc as president of the Coed Coun
Elhaney president of the Barb selor board for the coming year. coming year on AWS is
Program
Spring
Poll on Results
Activities Board for Women and The newly elected vice president Holtzscherer, chosen at
Barbara Griswold.
The university school of fine Marion Priest vice president at
election March
with
will present Sigma Alpha women's election Wednesday.
posing candidate Claire Kepler
Of Conference arts
Acting as secretary and
Iota, national music sorority, in
The new president is a mem urer of Coed Counselors will be acting as vice president.
as
Midge
is
21
op-
treas-
spring concert to be
That the Netherlands should their annual
Sunday, March 25. The ber of War Council, Barb Inter-houhave the right to occupy the terri given
of the works of YWCA Council, Coed Counselors,
tory north and west of Osnabruck program consists
and Student Foundation
better-known
conof the
in the settlement of the boundaries some
Miss Priest is a member of
composers.
temporary
American
of Germany was the question
Towne Club and Theta Sigma Phi,
carrying the largest number of af The concert will begin promptly honorary journalism sorority.
p.
m.
firmative votes in the experi- at 3
Members of the senior board
mental peace conference poll con
Marine Stont are Barbara Griswold and Claire
Nocturne
ducted by the YWCA last Mon Polka
afaxlne Stone Kepler.
Junior board members
day. Of the 638 votes cast on the
Joan Fankhauaer
are Mary Helen Alexis, Mildred
Del Thomas
question, 505 voted affirmatively
Maxine earn
Brewer, Kathlee Hayes and Doro
79 percent of the entire vote.
Mary Jean War
thy Temple.
Christ Went Up Into the Hills
In regard to the question of
Richard Haeeman
James B. Rogers
Members of the sophomore
veto power in the Security Coun At Parting Sinner Walsh
board are Mary Ann Campbell.
cil which allows any one of the
Rita Marina
Walter Ooli Claire Dudley, Margaret Pinker- Big Three (Soviet Union, United Romance
ton and Margaret Pyle.
States and Great Britain) to pre Cowboy Tune Janet Douthit
Brodskr and Trices
vent international economic or v ana lions on rrere Jacques
Marguerite Klinker
military action against an sggres Tango at Midnight
Robert Simmons
sor nation, 64 percent castra nea-tiMar)orr Horstman
Rapp
Marion
vote. Of the 677 votes, 245
were affirmative and 432, nega When I Am Dead, Mr Dearest
Oscar Rosbach
Helen Laird
tive.
Rondo Capri coo
Bernard Fitzgerald
se
Mortar Shell Hits
ve
Lt. B. McCashland
Second Question.
The second question in the poll
was the most nearly split of the
group. The question read, "Do you
believe that (a) the territory west
to the Curzon line and (b) Konigs-ber- g
should be included in the So
viet Union?" With 664 voting on
the first part of the question, 51
percent, or 342, voted yes. Sixty- (See YWCA, pare 4)
Progressives Meet
Thursday in Union
Delegates of the Progressive
Party will meet next Thursday at 7:39 p. m. in Parlors
X, T and Z of the Union to
nominate a slaie of candidates
for student conncS and publications board to be presented
at the party convention.
Margaret Modiln
Silhouettes
Gordon Nerin
I Wonder as I Wander
The Reed
Palmer Clark
Ensemble Directed br Carol Peek
Plane Crash Kills
Ensign R. A. Rice
Ensign Rodney Ansen Rice, after
surviving 17 hours in a lifeboat
last August when his plane was
forced down in the Atlantic, was
Killed in a plane crash on some
war zone island March 17. ac
cording to work the navy depart
ment sent to his parent, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Stuart Rice of Scotts-blu- ff
Wednesday.
A former
student
at the university, he was affiliated
with Sigma Alpha Epsilon and
married Jane Ann Baird of Hastings in May 1944. She is a graduate of the university and was a
member of Delta Gamma.
pre-medi-
J
On February 17
NilM-Rorto- n
cal
Lt B. W. McCashland, serving
with a combant infantry division
attached to the Seventh army,
was wounded in France, Feb. 17,
according to word received by his
wife.
Struck in the knee by a mortar
shell, he is now recovering in a
hospital in southern France.
Kathleen Hayes and Mary
Camp, respectively.
Lou
Other AWS officers are Mary
Claire Phillips, secretary,
and
Besides Coed Counselors Miss Elizabeth Curley, treasurer.
Pope's other activities include
Miss Holtzscherer is on the
Y.W.C.A. cabinet and vice president of Tassels. Miss Griswold is YWCA cabinet, WAA council, is
a member of War Council, BABW a member of Tassels and belongs
a.
Miss Kepler is a
council, Y.W.C.A.
and Alpha to
Lambda Delta, scholastic honor member of BABW, Coed Coun
selors, Tassels, War Council and
ary.
is on the YWCA cabinet.
Activities.
Mary Phillips.
Miss Hayes is a member of NU- er
Mary Claire Phillips is a
Med, Band, Hesperia and is presi
staff member, AUF. War
dent of Alpha Lamba Delta. Miss
Council, Coed Counselors and a
Camp is a member of YWCA.
member of Theta.
The new
Senior affiliated members of the treasurer, Elizabeth Curley, is a
board are Virginia McDonald and member of Alpha Chi Omega.
Dorothy Caress. The senior un
affiliated
member
is Barbara Senior Board members of AWS
are Alice Abel, Jeanette Engle,
Griswold.
Mary Ann Mattoon and Martha
Junior affiliated members are Nickerson.
Joy Hill, Phyllis Teagarden and
Sally White. Unaffiliated junior Junior Board members are
board members are Carol Briden- - Mary Cox, Mi mi Ann Johnson,
baugh, Kathleen Hayes and Doro- Eleanor Knoll and Mary Claire
Phillips.
thy Mastin.
Sophomore members are Kath
Sophomore affiliated members
Jrlagg and Fhyllis leen Blue, Jean Chilquist, Jean
are
Sorensen. Unaffiliated members Compton and Elizabeth Curley.
are Jean Allaway and Mary Lou
Camp.
Tri-delt-
Corn-husk-
-
Eta Chi Announces
he Pledging of Four Coeds
The son of Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Sigma
McCashland, Geneva, Neb.,
was a student in the pharmacy
college of the university when he
enlisted in September, 1942, as an
ROTC member. With that unit he
went to Camp Roberts. California.
and was commissioned an in
fantry officer at Fort Bennins.
Georgia, in July 1944. He has
been overseas since last December. His wife and five months
old son live in Lincoln.
New members of Sigma Eta
Chi, Congregational sorority, were
pledged by Betty Fee, president,
at Ellen Smith hall Tuesday evening.
Doris Kinney, Lorraine Kinney,
Charla Ann Sharrick and Betty
Jean Hurlbut were the coeds who
became members of Sigma Eta
Chi.
University Players Show
Matinee at 2 Saturday
At 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon the University Players
are presenting- - a matinee of
ROOM SERVICE. The box
office reports that rood seaU
for this performance are still
available.
Complete report of the faculty appropriation committee
submitted to the unicameral
legislative committee will be
found on pare 4.
Faculty Appropriation Committee Pleads for $353,720 Increase in Budget
As Unicameral Committee Hears Proposal for Addition to University Salaries
BY SHIRLEY JENKINS.
deans and directors in the summer higher than rates of pay given to
of 1944 when hopes of an early men of considerably longer memAsking for $353,720 increase for end to the war were high.
Since
the biennium in addition to the then, he said, the cost of living bership. The faculty believes that
previously submitted budget of has risen about 20 percent.
if this continues, a feeling of inthe university, T. J. Thompson, as
security will be apparent. Unless
report
presented
of
chairman,
the
Take Cut
something is done, faculty morale,
the faculty appropriation commithe declared, which is lower than
tee at a hearing of the unicameral
In addition to this cost, faculty it should be, will decline
appreappropriation committee Thursday members who took a 22 percent ciably,
and this will show up in
cut in salary during the depres the enthusiasm with which they
afternoon.
sion years, have only had their
The board of regents and sev salaries raised 7 percent since that do their work.
eral faculty members were pres- time. In his report. Dean Thomp"We feel we are going to have
ent in addition to the committee son stated that a large number of an increase in enrolment when
members at the hearing. Thomp- faculty salaries are still IS per the European war ends," Dean
son, who is dean of student af- cent below the 1932 leveL
Thompson went on. "It is going to
fairs, presented the report of the
be difficult to bring teachers back
committee. He stated that the Bringing up other facts, he men to the university.'
original budget for the university tioned another situation which is
which calls for an appropriation that new members have been add
After Dean Thompson had pre
of $4,763,330, was made up by, ed to the faculty at rates of pay sented the report of the faculty
committee, several faculty mem
bers appeared before the legisla
tive committee to bring out more
clearly the points at which the
university
needs strengthening
Prof. C. M. Hicks presented a pic
ture of the cost of living and its
effect on salaries of the university
faculty.
Illustrates Point.
Illustrating his point with two
newspapers, one of 1941 and the
other of 1945, Professor Hicks illustrated the great price increase
in butter, potatoes and sugar as
only examples.
Giving facts, names and figures
on the rapid turnover of the stall
since 1935, XL C FiUey, professor,
of rural economics, stated that in
his department alone, he had lost
20 people in the last two years and
two months. Professor Filley told
of the difficulties of training
young men, only to have them
leave for higher paying positions
in other institution or go into business.
Other speakers on behalf of the
faculty were Robert W. Goss, dean
of the graduate college, R, J. Pool,
chairman of the botany department, Roy M. Green, chairman
of the civil engineering department, C. H. Oldfather, dean of the
college of arts and sciences, and
(See FACULTY, page 11)