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Vol. 29, No. 68
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Friday, April 6, 1955
A new political party has been
formed on the University campus,
the first 'in several years. -
At a meeting held late Thursday
night, the leaders of four independ
ent groups convened and originat
ed the Fusionist party. RAM, ICC,
BABW and Residence Halls for
Women representatives were pre
sent for the formation of the new
party.
The party was formed due to an
apparent need of such a group to
select and back a slate for the
forthcoming Student Council elec
tions. It was from this selection
committee for independent nomi
nations for the Council, composed
of the leaders of the independent
groups, that the party evolved.
Doug Jensen, president of Selleck
Quadrangle was elected to serve
as temporary chairman of the cen
tral committee of the Fusionist
party.
Socfoogsf:
Dr. David Riesman, Jr., nation-atty-knowa
sociologist, will visit
the University campus next week
to present the tirst University Lec
tures in Humanities.
The University Research Council
established the lectures in Human
ities for the purpose of bringing
to the campus recognized scholars
who wiQ. from the background of
their own specialities, explore and
interpret the implications of their
knowledge for man and bis place
in the universe.
This will be the Erst year for
(he lectures.
Dr. Riesman wiS present three
lectures during the week dealing
wilh the topic "Education and
Countervailing Power."
The first lecture will be Moo
day at P-ffl. in Love library
Auditorium and will concern The
Academic Procession.' The second
lecture wSl be held Wednesday at
S pm. in the Library Andiiorium
a the topic The InieBectoal Veto
Groups " The third wiB also be
be Id at S pjn. in the Library Audi
torium Friday, April 13, and will
cancera "ConstraM and Variety
m the Secondary School.
In additaoB, Or. RseanuuB wiS
conduct two seminars, the first on
Tuesday a 3 pjn. in Room B-1S
of Burnett Hall and the second on
Thursday at 3:39 p.m. in the au
dilorium of the Historical Society
Building at 19th and X Streets.
The topic for the Erst seminar
win be The Interview As a. Form
of Communication," and the sec
ond wifl concern TrM and Its
Competitors.
Dr. Hiesman, Jr.. was bom Sep
tember 22, 1909 in Philadelphia. He
attended William Penn Charter
School in Philadelphia, graduating
in 22)26 and thea after a year at fie
Evans School in Tucson, Ariz., at-
Sunday:
Home Ec
Club Plans
Silver Tea
Tie iprmnsii Same Economics
dun SUrer Tea will be held Sun
day from S-J p jzl. at Low Memor
ial Hall, aocordiBg to Carolyn
Johnson, chairman of the event.
The purpose of She tea is to help
sponsor a foreign student on She
campus. This year" student is Mrs.
Primitiva Mlanalo from the Phil
ippines, ities Johnson said.
Committee chairmen is charge
of the event awe Vivian Long,
food; 'Betty Pearson, program; Pat
Stalder, publicity; Marian SdkdL,
hostess and receiving line; Syrria
jg jttelman. deoarations, and Bel
en Earnest, clean ep.
Inritatkans have been sent to or
ganized bouses cm She Ag campus
and to housemothers and presi
dents X organizes bouses own-town,
History, Education:
dust m m iP P 1 If
B ex Cerlach, University grd
tmte student, has been rrarded
Fulbright stholarjMp for study
ia England ior She comiag year.
Earlier fius wk, he was a
eouncei ss a winner of a 1500
University Regents Fellowship.
The Fulbright- sivsri will Sow
5erlaca its study Siistary.. at Uia
wersity College, University of Lon-
Arm lindiey, seiuor in Arts and
Sciences, was named as the win
er of ao $WW fe!wslup lor
study of eieroentary education at
the CoroeB vxiiversity school of
education at lSiaca, JJ..Y.
The Jellowhip Miss Lindley wiD
ttve as frjven i-y the Ford Foun-
The preamble of the party and
its basis wereas follows: "Where
as the slate of candidates elected
to last year's Student Council was
presented as the best members of
a factional group and whereas we
are disappointed hi the perform
ance of this slate we have formed
this party on the premise that
Student Council membership
should be selected from the student
body in general."
Six planks of the party platform
were also announced. They are
as follows;;
1) To obtain a clear definition of
the powers, rights and duties of
the Student Council.
2) The repeal of the S.7 mini
mum grade average requirement
and reinstatement of a 5.0 for
board members and presidents of
student organizations.
3) The separation of governing
bodies of housing units (Le. IFC,
tended Harvard College . He ma
jored in biochemical sciences,
graduating magna cam laude in
1331. He was an editor of the Har
vard Crimson.
Attending Harvard Law School,
be graduated magna cum laude
in 1334 and was an editor of the
KIESMAX
Harvard Lew Review. In the year,
1335-36, be was law clerk to Jus-
itice Louis Brandeis of the US.
Supreme Court.
After practicing law and doing
research an oub.be omnkMi tssrob-
lems, ovl liberties and the law!
and politics of defamation. Dr.
Bie&map went as Visiting Re
search Fellow to the Columbia
Law School where be cantoned his
researches.
Dr. Biesmaa came to the Uni
versity of Chicago ia 1946 ss Vis
iting Associate Professor of Social
Sciences in the College; he was
made a fall professor in IMS, be
came a member of the Qxxtmittee
on Human Development is 1351,
&nd of the Department of Sociology
fa 135.
In 1848 end 149, Dr. Biesman
was a visitkig professor at Vale
(doing research which resulted is
two books, The Lonely Crowd"
sod Taces ia the Crowd."
Dr. Biesmaa is presently chair
saas of the University of Cfaieaj! o's
Center for the Study of Leisure. He
is a member of the Council of the
American Sociological Society and
an editor of the Americas Journal
of Sociciiccy; he is also on the
Board of Editors of the American
Quarterly a c d the Americas
Scholar.
He received an honorary ILD.
degree from Marlboro College in
1154 a 3d is a member of the
Americas Academy of Arts end
Sciences.
I Snick fais lecture series gives
students and faculty a chance to
meet one of the most st.iroilat.inf
naiads fa the field of sociology to
day. Dr. Alan Bates, Associate
Professor of Sociology, comment
ed. Dr. 7?.imTi was recommended
I to the Research Council by Che So
ciology ceparctnea.
vw
-dation. Ko formal tefhing t-rpt-r-ience
is regvured of fellowriiip
winners.
Cerlack expecLs to reroev ius
Msster's dffree, w a miyjr m
ICC, RAM, BABW) of activity type
organization with regard to Stu
dent Council action.
4) To make "Campus Wide" ac
tivities truly campus wide. '
5) To create an all-university
spirit in place of factional spirits
now existing.
6) To base -all campaigns of this
party on issues and not on affilia
tions. The party will release their slate
for Council nominations sometime
Tuesday, it was announced.
Mitchell:
Ag faculty
Considers
airman
A meeting discussing the chair
manship of the department of Ag
ricultural Economics was bekl by
staff members prior to Easter va
cation. Present chairman is C.
Clyde Mitchell, temporarily on six
months leave of absence to Rome,
Italy.
Adam Breckenridge, dean of fa
culiies, and Chancellor Clifford
Hardin said at the Cornhusker
Round tab!e Wednesday that Mit
chell is still chairman and that
they have not been informed that
a change has been considered.
Dean William Lambert of the
College of Agriculture said that
be has made no recommendations
concerning a change in the chair
manship of the department. Act
ing departmental chairman How
ard Otioson declined official com
ment. Mitchell, who will return in June,
drew severe criticism in 1953 from
the Hall County Farm Bureau Fed
eration and a member of the Board
of Kegents for an article be wrote
for a national farm magarinr fa
voring fixed farm support prices.
In the article, entitled "Let's
Xot Go Back to 1929, published
in the November 53, issue of Cap
per's Farxcer, Dr. Mitchell said:
"During the 30's farm leaders and
Congress forged the realistic laws
that help agriculture maintain its
place ia our economy an econ
omy that is both free and sot
free."
Despite all the talk about free
enterprise, much of the non-agriculture
economy' is cot free. For
that reason, agriculture demands
and receives help from the gov
ernment so that it can compete
with industry and labor."
At that time the University Board
of Regents expressed its confi
dence in Dr. Mitchell by adoptmg
a statement defending freedom of
expression by University faculty
members.
The statement submitted to
the Board by Dean Lambert, ttp
beld the rights of professional per
sons to publish results of research
and to express themselves freely
fa the classroom.
Although the Board announced
no decision concerning criticism
of Mitchell's conduct, the statement
was interpreted as a full endorse
ment of his action.
Poetry
Overlooked,
Says Poet
See 'Challenge' cge 2
Workers Meet
A special mass meeting for
Farmers Fair markers will be held
April 11 stt l.Z'i pjEQ. in theAg
Union. DiffereSt phases of the Fair
will be explained scad students wiB
be given a chance to sign irn to
work on the different csmsuxtiUees,
Al Trezdde said. Theme of this
jwar's Fair is ""Husker Eoe
down". Committee chairmen are
Jim Peters, rodeo; Leo Daiakrog
er and Mary Sorenson, publicity;
Sharon Egger and Shirley Slagis,
dance; and Judy eltjen, midway.
Whisfcer King Contest cards have
been printed stnd may be picked
tip April H1 to the Ag Union.
HUBS
tdstory, Shis eoming Jane. lie
learned a Bachelor of Sdenoe de
gree fa education with disindiGs
in June. 18D4. from the Uoiwsity.
TiliBe an HJdergra3tiat student,
Geriach was ewardsd three Re
g exit scholarships, and fa
a fiOOfi Donald Walters Ji2er Fel
lowship. Miss XincZey will be craduated
from tij University fa June. She
is mtj-oring fa English. She is a
mealier of Alpha Kappa Delta,
honorary sociesty fa sociology, and
Hf.ppa Alpha Tbets twtrvr&y.
AppFoxixnsUSj 1000 grants fr
gradiaate stady abr4 4s Ge ca
demic year iV.'l-n re beifig
wardeif under the iKderaatioeal
EducatJional Ei.cbsc:.ce Program of
ifae US. Deeteeat of
...Street Dance, Birthday Party Planned
A carnival, to be set up in the
Union parking lot with a stage in
the center, is under consideration
by the Union as part of ine AH
Campus Spring Event, May 4.
Continuous entertainment would
appear upon the stage and the
carnival would operate around it.
The Art Thomas Shows are avail
able for the carnival and would in
clude various concessions along
with a Ferris Wheel, TiltA-Whirl,
Round-up, Spitfire, Dodgem, Boat
ride and a Tankride.
The Ronnie Bartiey band will
play for the street dance, which
will be held in front of the Union
from S p.m. to 11:30 pjn. AWS
has extended the hours for women
to 2 a-m. for the dance, according
to Mary Huston, secretary.
Outdoor movies will also be
shown mat evening in the Union
parking lot.
The Union Birthday party, held
annually on the day before Ivy
Day, will be held this year in con
junction with the. Spring Event
The theme of the party will be
"Carnival Capers."
The Union will celebrate its 18th
birthday this year. A birthday
Ag Student
Announces
Candidacy
Hugo Sieler, a 31 year old
agriculture sfaadent, has filed
for the legislature from the
23th district.
Sieler said be was prompted
to file because of the recent
death of Don Rohde, Univer
sity law student who had been
campaigning for the seat at the
time of bis death fa a air
plane crash.
I thought be bad some very
- excellent ideas on broadening
the tax base," Sieler said. "Of
course I dant agree 2h every
thfag be said, but many of my
ideas are similar," be added.
Sieler is a senior at Ag, a
veteran of four years fa the
Navy, and plans on working
for bis Masters' degree writing
a thesis on the tax problem.
Frank Nelson is the 23th dis
trict incumbent.
aw Sorority
Participates
In First Event
Zeta Tan Alpha, the fifteenth
sorority, will take part fa the Ivy
Day Sing as lis first entrance into
campus sorority activity, president
Pat Coover, announced Tuesday.
The group will begin practices
this week. Miss Coover said.
Mo song leader has been selected
as yet, she said. Barbara Curry
is music chainnar for the Zetas.
Zeta has tx& made plans to take
part ia Legacy week-end, she said.
The group felt that they were not
well enough organized to partici
pate this year and did sot have
sufficient time to compile a list of
legacies. Miss Coover said.
The fifteenth sorority will take
part fa as many other sorority ac- erase. Dean of Faculties Adam
tivities ttis spring as possible, she j Breckenridge said Thursday,
said. I Previously, the Faculty Senate
Zeta was officially announced i had discussed either having a sto
at the fifteenth sorority after the dent speaker or eo speaker at all
orgacdsatiwB's formal pledging j fa place of the traditional speaker,
March XL j be said.
Other officers for the Zeiss are: The matter was referred to the
Bonnie Prior, vice president; Pat Student CouncaJ, which discussed
Alvord, recordmg secretary; Pat i (be matter, the majority of em
tifrfjwmi. RrdiM seenetarv. ! bers tatu that m COTmence-
and Janice Larson, treasurer.
HUUS Plans
Marathon
Broadcast
Tii&sy. Saturday and Sanday,
EJUS, Uxuversity radio statiom, is
airing a Monitor type Maraboa to
further the ticket sales for tie Al
pha Epdioa Rho Awards Banquet
to be held April 14.
Broadcast time will be extended
Friday Srom the sasual to p..m.
sign off ttotil 12:39 ja Oa Sstur
dsy and Sunday EXUS will start
brrckstu.'j at 7 a and will
cootxoue tBQiti 1 s.m. and 11 p .m.
rer-pecirvely to coincide with wom
en's clcslng hours on Saturday sxd
Suuday.
The MaratiEon w&l feature
music, oews atad interviews, spe
cial events md personalities
arouad She Uaiversity campus and
She entire enterteiaaMt worid
By way of le broadcasts, type
recr-dirigs arid electric! tris
wMiytitxm wSl be the nocs at
Sim Freiberg, Ray Authacy, Jerry
Colons, Joiascy Carson, - s will
tpefck at ?he AESt Eaif-twt, and
Bridie M.iifty.
cake will be set up in the main
lounge during the day and wiQ
be cut and served at the street
dance intermission in the evening.
"The party gives all students an
opportunity to help celebrate the
Union's birthday," Kay Chris ten
sen, Union Special Activities chair
man said.
Highlights of the celebration will
include reduced prices in the Crib,
decorations of the entire building
in a carnival theme and entertain
ment in the Crib and the main
lounge.
The Bartiey band has been a
great favorite in eastern schools
and night clubs, Miss Christensen
Tribunal, Honor
To Test
Student Council voted Wednes
day to refer the student tribunal
and honor system isnots to the
student body in the general elec
tion May 7 for student opinion on
the matter.
The referendum is not to de
termine whether or not there will
be a tribunal or an honor system,
but whether students would ap
prove of the ideas, Marv Breslow,
member of the committee investi
gating the possibility of a tri
bunal, said in a report Wednesday.
The questions to go on the ballot
are general in nature and no spe
cific program is to be included,
Breslow said.
If the student body approves foe
measures, next year's Council will
formulate a plan for implementing
the ideas, be said.
There is no reason to work on
any definite plans unless the stu
dent body approves the general
ideas. Brace grugmann,. Arts., and
Sciences, said.
The vote is not binding on the
Council is any way, Breslow said.
""Under an honor system, stu
dents pledge aot to receive unauth
orized help especially on tests,
Breslow said. Faculty members
usually respood by not proctoring
and by albwmg students to lesve
the room and other freedoms dur
ing examination, be said.
The system is employed ia many
schools incladix&z Tulane. the Uni-
Jversity of Virginia, Harvard, and
stamoro, re saio.
The function of a student tribunal
would be to enforce University
regulations and also to enforce an
S honor system if one were de
veloped, Breslow said.
Grcduation:
officials
o Obtesin
Attempts are being made by
Jjhe University adnmcnstrafiaa to
contact a speaker far June's ex
meat speaker was preferable to a
poor speaker.
There definitely will toe a com
mencement speaker, Ereckearidge
said.
"We have eont&cttd several per
sons and hope to have a speaker
within two or three days," be said.
Independent
Filings Open
For Ivy Day
Iry and Daley chain applica
tions fur Ivy dsy are cow eras
able lor independent women in
the Mortar Board box ia the Un
ion basement.
Filings wiH dose Monday at S
Women are selected on the basis
of outstanding service to the Uni
versity. A 5J5 acewBulaiTe aver
age is required.
Those woraxea selected will be
notified.
Attendance is required at one of
the i'Zltjw'xig cocg rehearsals in
Eowm 213, Ucion. at S p-tn. AprS
17 or 13. As additiotiiil band-chain
rehearsal which is compulsory wj2
be held April 25 at S p.m. to Tem
ple Bmldjjtuj.,
:j Wcmeit bfvlrjg qwstions may
;,esa!ct Sury O-wd, 41337 vr Pfcvj.
t Ls Ct 4-I1Z1.
on n n
said. They have had past engage
ments at such spots as the Tune
Town and Hotel Chase in St. Louis,
the Hotel Roosevelt in New Or
leans, Hotel Manhattan Towers in
New York City, the Brass Rail and
Tantala in Richmond, Hotel Mon
ticelio in Norfolk, Casanova Club
in Detroit and the Pla-mor in Kan
sas City.
Bartiey himself is one of the
nations top trombonists, as well as
ranking high in the vocal depart
ment, she said. His musical ex
perience ranges from appearing
with the country's most famous
bandleaders to playing with the
JuCliard Symphony Orchestra and
System:
I iiscl"SoBi
Sy ydeoiy"
Council judiciary committee will 'list of activities required to coo
look into the possibility of remov- form to Courxil average rulings,
tag RAM Council, the governing Len Schropfer, RAM, proposed
body of men's dorms, from the that action be taken on the matter.
SC Favors
Spring Vote
On Tribunal
Student Tribunal Report
The committee, upon the basis
of ideas obtained at the Big Seven
Student Government Conference
and informaitios obtained from oth
er schools and a consideration of
the situation at the University of
Nebraska makes the foUowiEg rec
ommendataons '.
t, Although the Student Council
has approved by resolution the
idea of a Student Tribunal, the en
tire student body should be given
an opportunity to express itself
on a matter of such potential im
portance. Therefore, we targe that
the following question be placed up
on the Spring ballot: Do yea favor
the general idea of a Student Tri
bunal that would be empowered to
judge violations of student disci
pline? 2. VTe also urge that a test of
student opinion be taken in the
same maimer on the following
quesSaon: Do you favor the estab
lishment of a plan which would put
school work on an honor system?
3. Fioary, if student opinion fa
vors either or both of the above
questions, we urge the members
of next year's Student Council to
stse the material gathered by this
committee to farther the formu
lation of a program of g-ea.ter st
3ent responsibility to specifically
aacliade a Student TribmaaL
BespadtMCy submitted,
Marvin Breslow
John Fagas
Sam Van Pelt
Dick Fellman, special cuosiMasiL
John Courlay, special consultant
'Rock And Roll Regression':
Discord Invades Culture
s Records
By AKIXYE HKBFK
Copy Editor
The heretics and those that blas
pheme are undermining the social
order of the U. S. of A
At the beginning of 1356 a group
of social misfits gathered behind
the sound-proof doors of a West
oast recording stadio and planned
their strategy with the accuracy
asA discipline of a csilitary orgaai-
zation. their purpose was clear.
i to corrupt the Aajerkaa scene with
a new popular trout.
Leaders of Cj record industry.
Das KapJtal, Dkka and Viktor,
jcioed forces with fcjje reactionary
Jgromp. A slogan was ceedted to
Htterest the Axnejcaa youth In the
Tjetura to the Native Lmiguage
movement. A member of the
group, durisg a fit of hunger,
shouted rTutta Yrw&" aad the
cry became the pass-word of the
movement.
Trwn the lowiy begianing of the
movement a the wave battered
shore of out continent, it spread
across the apathetic oiid-west aad
Tutti Frits' echo4 ai'.-x& t
franite of PSymouSh Rock, The
tered the rymbol of enduraace and
Oprrfaiility dear to all or
hearts.
The swig lyrics of today dJfr
little frofs tie vt-tertags rA
anderthal man. CXm, Al.hz,
T?r.,a Marie .vl V,m, f ra
Shoo coald weB feeve bwa I -'-
med in e. c.
The utlie w.otud b V to
dure the orlTitive 04Jd of L'-J
the Little Symphony of New York.
He has played with such bands as
Blue Barron, Sammy Kaye and
Jimmy Dorsey and be writes all of
his own arrangements.
"The Union feels that the Carni
val will add immensely to the suc
cess of Spring Day and hopes that
the students will enjoy it," Miss
Christensen said.
Other features of the Spring
Event Day include the barbeco
and the individual and bouse com
petitive events as chariot races,
egg toss, tandem bike race and
greased pig catching contest.
Classes will be dismissed at
noon Friday, May 4, for the events.
Dpiroioini
RAM is an organization of limited
membership which governs a group
of men but is not trying to bear
resemblance to the Interfrateniity
Council, be said.
Although RAM is the governing
body of a bouse-like structure, its
constitution still comes to the
Council for approval, Breslow said.
The size factor makes enough
difference to make actions of RAM
council of all-campus interest, hc
said. IFC, PanheSenic and the Union
are exempted from the ruling be
cause of particular Regents by
lawsausd interpretations of by
laws, presSdest Andy Hove said.
According to Schropfer, the ques
tion is essentially one of authority
residing in the wrong place. Ram
is also faced with a dearth of
men eligible for offices with fh
required average, be said.
In other Council business, Charlie
Gomon gave a financial report oa
the Mock Political Convention. Go
mon served on the conventions'
executive committee.
Law Aptitude Tests
Scheduled April 17
Aptitude tests for students who
intend to enter the University Col
lege of Law next fall will be held
beginning April 17, Deaa E O.
Bel&heim announced.
The era miration will be given
in two sections. The first balf wi3
be given April 17, at 1:30 pjn, and
the second half, April IS, at 1:38
p.m. Both sessions wiS be m Roots
201 of the Law College.
AS prospective law student
must take the examination, Deaa
Belsheim said. Registration should
be made at the Dean's office.
Boom ZA, College of Law bald
ing. Minimum requirements for &
mission to the coSege is S3 eader
graduate hours.
Go Primitive
Ba, e-Bop Do Be Ah, but fht
beret-ics have gone too far. 3Sot
satasfaed with revamping the vo
cabulary, the disseniters are bent
oa establishing a eew rythmic
pattern.
The blues, the ballad and the Jov
sng Lave disappeared from ths
top 28 listing of tit songs. Re
j placing them are muekal bebndi
, "Rock and Roll Waltz," "St.
Louis Blues Mambo and Eeart
Ereik HoteL The. critics Tarresst
.decided whether the last is a L3
bCy song or a sacond rate J&ory
Bay selectio.
The Easter season brought fsor
conf.uon to the musical world.
The traditsonsl chaists of the war
toas religious cnominations wera
played with reverence a the crys
tal sets and television. Bet, it
was difficult to distingsMi Urn
mmpte and ho?y chants frow fet
repfsting pop twxt such as "Play
Ths T'stxk" sslik has a moaofo
ous backgronBd of phomgrcpa,
phttwvgraji, asd pbocflgrJ'K
Rrfchicg Silt Mo the p2Ak?t
wouaded ears, the recftrdicg perils
started as eisca.tk:sl crasad.
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