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The Weather
Fair and warmer to partly
cloudy Tuesday. Intermittent
light snow extreme east
Tuesday. Slightly warmer
with high near SO West, 40
East. Wednesday partly
cloudy with little change in
temperature.
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Vol. 50 No.
LINCOLN 8. NEBRASKA
Tuesday, March 21, 195Q
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MORTAR BOARDS HONOR The senior women pictured above are among the 11 senior women
honored by the Black Masque chapter of Mortar Board for high scholarship and activity. The
coeds were anounced by the Mortar Boards at the annual scholarship tea held for sophomore,
junior and senior women with high scholarship Sunday afternoon, March 19. They are, from left to
right, Nancy Glynn, Pat Larsen, Pat Nordin, Catherine Worcester, Sue Bjorklund, Donna Lu John
son, Jeanne Malone, Lura Lee Best. Not pictured are Louise McDil, Connie Crosbie and Phyllis
Cadwallader.
Gustavson's Atom Report
Op
ens 2nd UN
Speaking at the second ple
nary session of the United Na
tions general assembly. Chancel
lor R. G. Gustavson emphasized
the members of the assembly
must sincerely realize that
atomic energy problem is the
most important one that the
world faces today.
Before the delegates to the
I'N, the chancellor reported on
the atomic energy commission;
iiiid alo sought to present a re
view of six primary ideas that
the assembly should keep in
rnind as they consider the
atomic problem.
1. Principles of the atomic
bomb, its discovery, atomic
structure, and possibilities.
2. Present status of the hy
rhogen bomb, its principles, and
possibilities.
3. Position of the U. S. in re
lation to the atomic bomb.
4. Position of the U.S. S R. in
relation to the atomic bomb.
5. Areas of possible agree
ment. fi. The steps that should be
taken.
The chancellor alter describ
ing the mechanics of the bomb,
Mated that the (acts of atomic
f m rgy are known by scientists
all over the world.
He also reminded that the
U. S. has found by its own ex
periments the destructive pow
ers of the bomb. Therefore there
is excellent pioof for the facts
In mentioning n'c hydrogen
bomb situation, the chancellor
nni that if a super bomb con
taining 500 tons of the hydrogen
bomb material was dropped,
everything upon the face of the
earth would be annihilated.
He said that there is no other
Six Students
Suspected of
Molestation
Six University of Nbia:.ka
Mii'ictits, ranging in age from ID
to 20, v.eic being (iji :.tloiied
Monday in c onne lion w ith the al--1
g''d abduction and rnole.-.tatiori
of two lij-year-old hii;h i hool
tfirls Friday and Saturday nights.
According to the polic e, two I
luls weie forced intj u car by
four boy rn-ar Cotner arid Ieigh- :
ton la.,l Saturday niglil. Police i
were notified after one of the
Kills escaped. J
The youths released the ab- j
ducted girl about two hours later. '
H-r utoty revealed that the was '
taken to a residence, undressed ,
arid molested. She had been
blindfolded after being forced in
the car.
Another Kirl underwent ,imilar
treatment Friday night. Jnvesti- ,
gation iihowed that both girh had j
been taken to the same house.-,
thf home of one of the boys. i
F.ach incident, according V) the
district attorney and police, in- j
volved four boys. Two of the
youth taking part in the Friday
night affair also participated
Saturday. The girls had not
known any of the youth pre- ,
vioiir.ly,
Film, taken of the girl Satur
day night, is in the hand of the
police.
Police have obtained itate
menti from two of the boy after
questioning Monday. The other
four Mudcnti were to be ques
tioned later that amc day.
Charge agaim.t the youth have
riot been determined a yet, the
police (aid.
Daily
use for the H-bomb other than
for destruction use as a mili
tary weapon.
He also mentioned the provi
sions of the present Barueh plan
Mock Assembly
Agenda
Tuesday, March 21:
3-5 p.m. Committee meet
ings: political and security.
Room 313, I'nlnn: economic
and financial. YM, Temple;
social, humanitarian and cul
tural, Koom 315, Union; trus
teeship. Room 316, Union.
for the Atomic Knergy commis
sion of the United Nations. The
plan places emphasis on control
of the mining of uranium and
all experimentation of the
atomic bomb for military war
fare. Soviet objection, Gustavson
said, stems partially from the
belief that they cannot trust the
AKC to give permission to mine
the uranium.
Following the assembly's ap
proval of the chancellor's report,
Assembly President Ted Soren
sen then opened the floor for
discussion.
Final outcome of the discus-
''ii which lasted about 45 min
utes was that a resolution pro-
Kohert Crosby
Will Address'
Convo Toda
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The ims of the
Hoover Com
mission and the content1; of its
icpoit will be given by Kohert
H. Crosby, chairman of the Ne
braska committee for the Hoover
report, in lve I.ihiaiy audi
toiium at 3 p. m. Tuesday.
ROIJKRT IJ. KOhBV
The former Nebraska senator
and lii'utenant governor will
fpeak on "Hetler Government at
a Jlctter Price" at the peial
convoialion nioriHored by the
Campus Committee for the Hoo
ver report.
Crosby, a native of North
Platte where he i practicing
law. Is considered one of the bent
public speakers in Nebraska. He
tx;k hi undergraduate work at
the University of Minnesota and
received his law degree at Harvard.
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Nebraskan 's First SpHng-Is-Hem Edition
Session
I viding for
the attendance of
smail nations at meetings of the i
i Big Powers was passed by 31-10
vote at the second plenary ses -
sion of the model United Na-:m
tions general assembly. How-
oifar lUa ..mill n.,i.r.a ti.n.. Ae.
nicd the right to vote at such
negotiations.
The resolution, made by Phil
ippine Republic delegate Jim
Tomasek, stated two points:
1. That negotiations for ato
mic control should be reopened.
2. That small nations should
be allowed to participate in these
negotiations.
Following this action, Edward
S.iad, delegate from Saudi Ara
bia, offered an amendment to
: the resolution which would
change the second point of the
resolution.
! Saad demanded in his amend
ment that the small nations
should be allowed to sit in on
Hig Power negotiations, but
h'jve no vote.
Little discussion followed be
fore a roll call vote was called
for by Soviet delegate George
; Hancock.
1 The amendment was defeated,
28-14. Voting against the amend
ment were the majority of small
nations. Voting for the amend
ment were the Hig Powers which
included the United States, Unit
ed Kingdom, and Soviet Hussia
and Fiance. China's delegate had
not taken his seat yet and there
fore no vote was recorded for
the nation.
Following the approval of
small nation participation, u roll
call vote on the original resolu
tion was called for by Soviet
delegate Hancock.
Itesults of the vote revealed
that 32 weie in favor of the
resolution while ten voted
against.
Jr. Ak-Sar-Hm
Tickets Available
Tickets are available for the
annual ball and Junior Ak-Sar-lien
Livestock Show on Man h
31 and A m il 1. it was announced
today by Jack Wilson, ticket sales
manager.
The traditional ball is sched
uled at p. in. Friday and the
Livestock dhow will start at 8
p. m. Saturday at the State Fair
ground.
Tickets rnav be purchased from
any Hlock and liridle member.
Hall tickets are $1.80 per couple
and show ticket arc H) cents
each.
Stanley Lambert has been ap
pointed manager of the livestock
show. Superintendents of the
various division include: Lion
Oard, cattle; Merwyn French,
hogs; Don Clement, sheep; F.rnest
Cotschall, horses; and Charles
Fairlcy, Fairhury, dairy. Master
of Ceremonies will be ftobert
P.aun.
NU I'rof to Attend
Geography 3Ieet
A University instructor, Leslie
Hewcs, will take part In conven
tion proceedings of the Associa
tion of American Geographer,
to be held at Clark University,
Worcester, Massachusetts, April
5 to 8.
Hewcs will speak on "The
Northern Wet Prairie of the
United States: Source, Drain
age Condition and Extent," at a
symposium on resource and
physical gcoftraphy.
Exam Round-Table
Now's the time to get this busines of exam stealing
hashed out. Three students and three faculty members will
meet tonight to discuss the whole problem, perhaps to
reach some conclusions on a solution acceptable to both
groups. Chancellor Gustavson will moderate the discussion,
and the latter part of the meeting will be open to com
ments from spectators.
Tonight's session has the potentiality for the emer
gence of a workable remedy. Student and faculty groups
Jjmeeting separately cannot
A solution oueieu uy me oiuueiiL vajuuuu ui any uluci
student group runs the risk of death at the hands of the
faculty senate. Leaving the entire matter up to the senate
inevitably involves the danger of the feeling among stu
dents that the solution is imposed upon them. Cooperation
assures the best possible plan to erase the problem from
the campus.
Chancellor Gustavson has urged maximum attendance
at tonight's meeting to get the obstacles to a solution
: ironed out. Both students and instructors have been ob
viously hot and bothered about the issue, but so far, most
of their criticisms have been directed to the winds. Any
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tion and may become part of
put into operation.
Two solutions have been offered up to date. One call
ing for the elimination of a regularly scheduled exam week
arose in last week's faculty senate meeting. Although this
plan might prove effective, it would work only at the
expense of the student who might be confronted with all
his finals in one day. The exam week system was set up
with this problem in mind, and it has won the approval
of both faculty and student groups as a practical method
of overcoming the situation.
The other solution resulted from the efforts of the
Student Council. It stresses the de-emphasizing of fina'
grades. We do not say that the plan is infallible; many
mggestions may come up that would increase its effective
ness. We do not say that it would be applicable in all cases,
but that alterations might
classes. Academic freedom is a precious institution . . .
professors should have the final say-so about how their
classes should be run.
But the Council plan may prove to be the best. No
instructor can refuse to admit its nraeticahilitv in his-
classes without first giving
Few courses could not run on
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i - V"" mmuh. r.xpewng students, cnticiz-
lncm and Condemning them won't solve the problem,
. me Council plan represents a
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Stace Talk
jDeseribes
('Value' Idea
I The study of values is like the
1 study of history, said Dr. W. T.
' Stace, because "as history never
repeats itself, neither can sci
ence repeat itself because hu
man acts never repeat them
selves; therefore there cannot be
a science of values."
This was the thesis of the
' first in a series of three Mont
gomery lectures by Dr. Stace in
I IOve Library auditorium Mon
day night. His first lecture was
entitled "Value in General," a
part of his series concerning
"What Are Our Values?"
In speaking of the relativity
of values, Dr. Stace said that
"whilc admitting that these val-
ues are relative, we must under-
stand this knowledge.' lie ex
panded on this subject bv dis
tinguishing between particular
value juogments and general
value judgments.
Value Judgment
Particular value judgment:;, he
said, are those true only about
single human beings, cultures or
countries. On the other hand,
general value judgments "claim
to be valid for making in gen
eral, not true for everyone, only
valid for all normal men and I
circumstances." He emphasized !
the word "normal." i
Therefore, he said, we have a j
scale of general values which are .
high arid low and cannot be ,
discussed in particular cases. '
Socrates believed in human I
life in general, said Dr. Stare,
and the same is true for all mod- :
ern moralists who attempt to j
put a scale of general values.
' However, Plato recognized a ,
hierarchy of five kinds of val- 1
ues, the highest of which is
knowledge," he said. Plato
placement from the highest to
the lowest go on a wale from
knowledge as the first; honor
prestige, next; money, third;
pleasure, fourth; and a atisfac-
tion out of some singular sensual ,
habit, fifth. i
He further explained that each
particular human being may ;
place hi own value, such as
money or honor, higher than
the other values on Plato' scale.
Value Scale
In bringing in the relativity j
of these valutM, Dr. Star e ex- !
r.laini'd this value scale as to
how it aflect different civiliza
tion. What l meant
call, hi- said, "is that
by the
human
haoniness is the criteria
of
values." ,
Dr. Stace I the fourth In a
seiies of Montgomery lecturer
to speak at th University. The
lecturers are (sponsored yearly
by the University Research
Council and brought to the cam
pus by the Jame Henry Mont
gomery Memorial.
Stace, known a 8 lecturer,
scholar and author, ha been
Professor of Philosophy at
hope to accomplish anything.
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a final plan which will be:
have to be made in individual
full consideration to its merits.
the system, and the faculty
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past 18 years.
His other two lectures will be
delivered Wednesday, March 22,
"Democratic Values," and Fri
day, March 24, "Why Do We
Fail?" I
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SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORM) Lowell Thomas, jr., radio
commentator, sits on a sumrnet at 12,000 feet in Tibet, looking out
ar ioss the Hramaputra. Thomas will deliver a motion-picture lec
ture on his recent expediti m to Tibet at St. Paul Mcthodi.-t church
Wednesday evening. March 22. at 8:15 p.m. The lecture is being
sponsored by the Black Masque chapter of Mortar Board and
admission will be $1.20 per person.
Thomas Lecture to Bring
Remote Tibet to Nebraska
Monasteries covered with gold
. . . the highest mountains in
the world . . . the mysterious
Delai Larna . . , strange oriental
flower
All these will he described by
Lowell Thomas, Jr., when he ap
pears at St. Paul's Methodist
church Wednesday night, March
22. He will bring a colored film
on life in Tibet, "Out of This
World: A Journev to Lhasa."
i yne N,.hraska Mortar Board I
j lirxinsorini Thomas's nnneranee.
Thomas, with his father, the
radio commentator, sought per
mission to visit Tibet several
years ago. Since the Commun
I'ts were making gains In China,
Tibet was endangered. A royal
invitation was received from the
Delai Iima, the ruler of Tibet.
This, Thomas thought, perhaps
indicated a desire for American
friendship, since before the ar
rival of the Thomase. only six
Americans had visited the land
Chancellor tfo Ac
As Panel Leader
Students and faculty alike will have an opportunity
to air their views on the examination situation tonight
when a student-faculty panel discusses the problem at
7:30 p. m. in the Union ballroom.
The primary purpose of
AUF to Install
Officers, Board
New AUF olficers and board
members will be formally in-
stalled tonight at 7:30 in Parlor
Y of the Union.
JIary Helen Mallory will be
in charge of the installation. Ted
Gunderson, retiring director of
the organization will give a fare
well speech, and Jo Lisher, newly
speak.
ted director, will also
0lners iris,;iiicd will be Bill
nugan. chairman of the advisory
board, and ad vistory board mem
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hers: Ginnv Koch. Jan Lind-
auist, Gene Berg, Joel Bailey.
Mary Frances Johnson, Jody
Loder and Tish Swanson.
Members of the divisions board
who will be installed include
Sarah Fulton, Jackie Sorensen,
Jackie Becker, Gene Johnson.
Kent Axtell, Anne Barger, Jackie
Hoss, Gordon Pedersen and Don
Reeves.
! made famous by James Hilton's
' novel, "Lost Horizon."
I Thomas will describe the jour
; ney to "the roof of the world."
i h , Lh-1 the iUjl of
It took nearly a month to travel
Tibet. The road through the
bamboo forests of the southern
Himalayas was passable only on
foot, by mule, or yak. Almost
the entire journey wa made at
altitudes higher than the highest
peaks in the United States.
Thomas, a pilot during the
Second World War, is making
these lectures as a part of a sec
ond transcontinental Journey. He
has marlc. a number of radio
broadcasts. One of the broad
casts, made from Tibet, describ
ing his father's near-fatal acci
dent, is regarded as a radio
classic.
Tassels are selling tickets,
which cost $1.20. The perform
ance begins at 8:13 p. m.
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the panel, according to Ros-
well
Howard, chairman of th
committee and president of the
Student Council, is "to present
student and faculty viewpoints
on the general subject of final
examinations."
Howard went on to say, "It is
not planned to draw up any con
crete stand on the problem but
we hope the discussion will have
some effect on future exam pro
cedure." The faculty speakers on the
panel, recommended by Chancel
lor Gustavson, are Prof. Ephriam
Hixson, former chairman of the
department of entomology; Prof.
J. L. Sellers of the history de
partment; and T. J. Thompson,
Dean of Student Affairs.
Chancellor as Moderator
The student panel members
are Howard, Robert Raun and
Robert Parker, all members of
I the Student Council committee
on final exams. The chancellor
will act as moderator during the
discussion.
Howard would like to stress
the importance of student and
faculty attendance at this dis
cussion. He said students have
wished for some time for a voice
in campus government and he
adds "This is the chance they
have been waiting for." Both
he and the chancellor feel this
I panel is a definite step toward
student-faculty co-operation.
Although the University's ex
amination system was not seri
ously questioned until after the
trouble during the first semester
finals, there was a movement by
the iaculty to examine the situa
tion last semester.
A questionnaire was sent to a
number of students and faculty
members asking their opinions
of the present test system. The
faculty Senate then studied the
questionnaires and recommended
i no prevailing objection to the
i present system.
Council Proposals
As a result of publicity con
cerning exam stealing and cheat
ing in the first semester tests,
j the Student Council called a
j committee on final examinations.
I This committee drew up a set of
proposals relating to the empha
sis placed upon exams and to
objections to the attitude of some
faculty members.
Copies of the Council propos
als were sent to various admin
istrative authorities and were
I published in The Daily Nebras
kan. Howard was called In to con
: suit with the chancellor about
! the proposals and the effect they
would have on the exam system.
Out of this meeting, the idea of
the student-faculty panel was
born.
Talks by both the faculty and
student speakers will be limited
to 10 minutes each so that stu
dents and teachers in the audi
ence will be able to ask ques
tions of the panel members and
present their ideas.
All arrangements for the dis
cussion have been made by the
Student Council and President
; Howard hopes it will "set a
precedent" in student-faculty af
fairs. Rag Forecasts
'Spring' With
Fashion Issue
It happens every spring!
Just when you think the wea
ther is going to be right for pic
nics, Old Man Winter blows in
aijain.
Something of the sort took
place this weekend when the
Daily Nebraskan's "Spring-Is-Hcre"
edition was going to press.
It looked for a time as if the
special fashion insert would have
to be delivered by dog-sled.
There are some indications,
however, that spring Is at last
on its way. The weather man is
currently promising better temp
eratures, and the calendar boldly
proclaims that the season arrived
Monday night.
Latest Fashion
The biggest indication of
course, is Tuesday's four page
Insert dedicated exclusively V
reports on latest fashions in
clothes and seasonal activities.
The spring pictured in this Is
sue comes partly from New York
and partly from Paris. But most
of all it is a Lincoln spring, and
the merchandise you read about
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is cnieny avaiiauie nijiii jieic in
this city.
Summaries of national trends
are included too. You'll learn, for
example, Just what designers and
buyers have to say about tradi
tional navy blue, about checks,
about 1950's new shades.
Also featured will be account
of spring at the University. You
may recognize yourself in the
stories of picnics, sun bathlnf
and other seasonal activities.