It Happened at
A professor in a morning lecture mentioned
that he had read somewhere that a group of local
show girls were being shipped out of town.
Two girls in the back of the room, obviously
perturbed by the remark, got up as if to leavt
the room. v
"No hurry, girls," remarked the professor.
"The train doesn't leave till atfernoon."
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Partly cloudy west and north Friday; cooler
outh and central portions; partly ckudy and
cooler Friday night; high Friday generally 65-75.
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Vol 29, No. 86,
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Friday, May 11, 1956
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Linda Buthman, junior in Home
Economics Journalism, was select
ed as the editor of the 1957 Corn
husker in interviews held by the
Board of Student Publications
Thursday night.
'Jeanne D'Arc':
Vera lorina,
C nt Oil
ifltfy
For Program
"Jeanne D'Arc au Bucher," star
ring Vera Zorina, well known ac
tress and ballerina, will be pre
sented in the Coliseum at 8 p.m.
on Sunday. Admission is free and
students are urged to attend.
"The show will probably be one
of the best ever presented in the
annual string concert series, which
have included such stars as Basil
Rathbone," Dr. David Foltz, Chair
man of the School of Music, said.
"Zorina is one of the outstanding
stars of the music world."
A special addition to the perform
ance this year is 18 boy sopranos
from the famous Boys Town Choir
who will sing with the chorus.
Miss Zorina, who has been called
"one of the outstanding stars of
our time," has appeared in Jeanne
D'Arc with the New York Phil
harmonic in 1953 and the Boston
Symphony in 1952.
The musical version of the show
was written by Arthur Honegger;
the text by Paul Caudel. Its first
American performance was in 1949
by the View York Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Dr. Foltz, who will direct the
performance, said that this will be
the first time that any American
university has attempted the pro
duction. The production will include five
soloists, five narrators a chorus of
- 500 voices, and a full symphony
orchestra,
Jeanne D'Arc is the story of the
French peasant girl who, in the
fifteenth century, led the armies
of France against the English and
drove them from France, making
it possible for the King of France
to be crowned at Rheims. Later
jealous factions accused Jeanne
of being a witch and a heretic. She
was tried and found guilty of these
charges. Later she was given a
chance to redeem herself by ad-
, ZORINA
mitting that she was under a spell
of the devil and was not on a holy
mission. She refused to do so and
was condemned to burn at the
stake.
In 1920 she was made a saint.
Hep story has inspired countless
poets, 'painters and musicians
throughout the centuries. Among
those who have told the stories in
their own medium are Barnard
Shaw, Mark Twain, A n a t o 1 e
France, Techaikovsky, Verdi and
Maxwell Anderson.
The two authors of "Jeanne
D'Arc" have been outstanding fig'
ures in the art world of this cen
tury. Paul Caudel, who wrote the
text, hai been termed "one of the
finest French mystics of our timci'
He is also noted as a diplomat,
having served as French Ambas
sador to the United States.
Honegger, a French native, had
considerable Influence on French
music in the years following World
War I. He is noted for aiding in the
restoration of clarity and purity to
French compositions. ,
Chairman Named
For Round-Up
Dr. Ben James, II, has been
named assistant chairman of the
1956 Round-Up of the University
Alumni Association.
Emrnett Junge, Round Up chair
man, announced that Dr. James
would assist hlin in planning the
three-day program to be held June
811.
Special class breakfasts, recep
tions and reunions have already
been scheduled, Junge said. High
lighting the reunion will be the an
nual Alumni Luncheon, June 9, at
the Student Union.
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Janet Kuska, Home Ec junior,
will serve as assistant editor and
Gene Spence will be Business
Manager.
f our managing editors were
chosen including Beverly Buck,
Helen Gourlay, Marilyn Heck and
Bobbie Holt. Jo Ann Bender will
serve as layout editor.
Spence, a sophomore in Law
College will serve as Business
Manager. His assistants will be
Sharon Hall and Jim Whitaker.
Miss Butnman s activities in
clude Mortar Board Publicity
chairman, Gamma Alpha Chi,
Kappa Tau Alpha, Phi Upsilon
Omicron, Omicron Nu, Theta Sigma
Phi, AWS Board and she is a form
er managing editor of the Corn
husker.
Miss Buthman
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Spence
Nebrskan Photo
She is a member of Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
Miss Kuska is a member of Phi
Upsilon Oicron and a former man
aging editor, and a member of
Delta Gamma.
, Miss Buck is a member of Kappa
Alpha Theta and is a sophomore
in Arts and Sciences. Miss Gour
lay is a sophomore in Teachers
and a member of Delta Gamma.
Miss Heck is a sophomore in the
college of Arts and Sciences and
is a member of Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
Miss Holt is a member of Chi
Omega and a sophomore in
Teachers. Miss Bender is a sopho
more in Arts and Sciences and is
a member of Delta Delta Delta.
Buthman succeeds John Gour
lay as editor.
Pressures Used:
By BARB SHARP
Copy Editor
Students and faculty have aca
demic freedom at the University
Dr. F. K. Beutel, Law College pro
fessor, told the Cosmopolitan Club
Wednesday evening.
"The fact
that you asked
me about the
Mitchell case,
and that I do
not hesitate to
answer your
question fully
and frankly I
. . fc-
present, shows I
that there is
academic free-Courtesy Lincoln Journal
dom on this Beutel
campus which allows faculty and
students to speak freely what they
believe," Beutel said.
Professor Mitchell exercised and
is still exercising that freedom to
its fullest extent, discussing sub'
jects upon which he has the right
and competence to speak, so do
all the faculty and students, includ
ing The Nebraskan,'' be added.
Beutel went on to say, "T hat,
however, is not the end of the mat
ter. There are many people in this
city and state who take every op
portunity to interfere with our ex
ercise of academic 'freedom when
ever anything is said which they
do not like."
The offices of the Chancellor and
the Deans involved receive many
protests and demands that persons
making such statements be fired,
silenced or disciplined, he ob
served. " "These demands, which every-
DeWulf To Head
AgExecutiveBoard
.Bill DeWulf was elected presi
dent of the Agriculture Executive
Board at a meeting Wednesday.
Walt Schmidt is vice president
and Mary Sor-
Jensen is the
other senior
hold-over
member.
DeWulf
At f
is vie e-pres-ident
of Build
ers, secretary
of Corn Cobs,
president
of the Ag Un
ion, and a,
member of the DeVVulf
Ag Religious Council, Innocents,
Newman Club, Agronomy Club and
Farmhouse. .
Schmidt is president of the
Square Dance Club and a member
of Agronomy Club, Ag YM and
Farmhouse.
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Mas Fi'QQdoi'
Kappa Sig Builds
The new Kappa Sigma house is
located at 515 North 16th St.,
across the street from the Resi
dence Halls for Women. It has
been constructed at the cost of
$214,000 not including furnishings.
Contests:
HorseShowToOpen
Farmers' Fair Friday
The annual Farmer's Fair cele
bration will open Friday with many
additional events' scheduled to give
a full week-end.
The fair's activities start at
1:30 p.m. Friday with the Rodeo
in the arena behind the beef barn.
One of the new attractions this
years is the Quarter, Horse show
at the rodeo arena at 9 a.m.
Saturday morning. Trophies will be
awarded to the winners by the
American Quarter Horse Associa
tion. The show includes nine halter
classes and one reining class.
During the fair, students will
compete for showmanship awards
in four sections. Awards will be
given to both junior and senior
division in dairy, beef, sheep and
swine sections.
Saturday morning at 11 a.m., stu
dents from both Ag and city cam
pus will compete in special events.
Contests scheduled include pie
eating, tug-of-war, boot races and
one knows have been powerful and
persistent in the Mitchell case,
often carry threats to see that the
income of .the University is cut if
the offender is not silenced or dis
ciplined," Beutel stated.
"Individual members of the
Board of Regents also receive such
demands, and sometimes, as in
the Mitchell case, they make the
mistake of yielding to them," he
said.
The charges by Beutel in regard
to the iMtchell case are in addition
to those made by Clayton Libeau,
former extension economist and
Dr. Don Moore, resigning as head
of the physics department, printed
in last Wednesday's Nebraskan.
Chancellor Clifford Hardin and
Dean of Faculties Adam Brecken-
ridge refused to comment on Beu
tel's statements. Dr. William Lam
bert, Dean of Ag College, refused
to comment saying he did not want
to get involved in the controversy,
tieutel pointed out that in the
case of administrative officers,
professors holding both tenure as
professors and such nontenure ad
ministrative offices as was the
case of Mitchell, the administra
tion has the legal and academic
right to remove them from, the non
tenure offices at will.
He added, "What their motives
may be are matters of policy. In
Mitchell's case, whatever excuses
are given, there is no doubt that
somebody in authority yielded to
the adverse pressures to demote
him from his nontenure position as
head of his department."
"They gave other reasons which
may or may not state their dom
inating motives," he stated. They
have, among other things, ques
tioned "his scholarship and admin
istrative ability," Beutel added. "I.
do not find these reasons persua
sive," he said.
"There are many persons hold
ing similar offices on this campus
with no more talent along these
lines than Mitchell, but they have
not offended the type of citizens,
mostly reactionaries, who like to
fire football coaches and profes
sors," Beutel said.
He observed, "The extent to
which the administration yielded
to such pressures, which were
present, is for their own con
sciences. The way in which it hap
pened Strikes me as bad policy be
cause it gives an impression of
yielding to outside political pres
sures to punish Mitchell for his
viewa." '
In Conclusion Beutel stated. "For
thosewho hope that Mitchell's de
motion will frighten others on the
campus from exerting their aca
demic freedom, I can only s;y that
if that ' was their purpose in urg
ing his'; demotion, it has failed."
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The house has ah approximate
capacity of 80 mery'
The Kappa Sigs wHI move from
their present location at 1141 II
St. into the new hbiue or June
9th.
shoe kicking
The announcement of Goddess of
Agriculture and the "Whisker King
will be made at the Rodeo Satur
day afternoon.
Finalists for Goddess of Agri
culture are Judy London, Dorthy
Matzke, Marlene Hutchinson, Betty
Eberhart, Sharon Egger and Lora
Lee Lingren. ,
The finalist for whisker king are
Jim Dunn, Larry Voss, Ron Bath,
Pat Lainbeer, Louie Buller and Cle
ment Wilke.
Climaxing the end of events is
the Cotton and Denim dance Sat
urday night. Presentation of typi
cal cowboy and cowgirl will made
at the dance. .
Friday
1:30 p.m. Rodeo, rodeo arena
5:30 p.m. Barbecue, College
Activities building
7:30 p.m. Dairy Royal show,
Horse barn
Saturday
9 a.m. Block and Bridle club
student showmanship contest, rodeo
arena
9 a.m. Quarter .Horse show,
rodeo arena
11 a.m. Special events, Col
lege Activities building
11 a.m. Chuck Wagon Feed,
Meats Laboratory.
1:30 p.m. Rodeo, rodeo arena
(announcement of Goddess of Ag
riculture and ,the Whisker King)
8:30 p.m. Cotton and Denim
dance, College Activities building
(announcement of the typical cow
boy and cowgirl)
Awards:
Inspection
Scheduled
For ROTC
The Army ROTC will hold its an
nual parade for Federal Inspection
on Tuesday at 3 p.m. Colonel Ce
cil Land from the University of
Michigan will be the inspecting of
ficer. Among those making awards at
the parade will be Governor Victor
Anderson, Mayor Clark Jeary,
Chancellor Clifford Hardin, Dean
J. P. Colbert, Major General Guy
Henninger, Colonel C. J. Frankfur
ter and Dr. James Reinhardt.
Winners of ROTC Cadet Minute
Man medals at the parade Thurs
day: Latham Mortenson, Walter
Patterson, and Burton Weichen
thai; artillery.
Eldon Cole, Gary Frenzel and
Robert Smith; engineering.
Meyer Cohen, Joseph Jeffrey,
Roger Koehn and Bernard Ostra
vich; infantry.
Larry Baker, Donald Hinkle,
William McQuiston, Michael Segal,
Richard Shugrue, Military Police.
Robert Abernethy, William Ash
ley, Charles Arizumi, Malvin Dohr
man, Dan Farrington, Carl Jett,
and Wayne Sass; ordinance.
Biz Ad:
Council
Members
Announced
Representatives on the Business
Administration executive council
for next year were elected Wednes
day. Sophomore representatives are
James Whitaker .and Frank Morri
son.
Juniors: Raymond Devries, Mar.
lyn Carlson and Betty Branch.
Seniors: Jerry Rounsavell, Kyle
Jeffrey and Bernard Eaton.
The representative of Alpha Kap
pa Psi is Alan Rosen; Delta Sigma
Pi, Robert Hall, and Phi Chi Theta,
JoAnn Sander.
Three carry-over members are
Jean Johnson, Bob Schuyler and
Marilyn Staska. Miss Staska is
president.
. . . Says
By
LUCIGRACE SWITZER
Copy Editor
A former agricultural economics
graduate student and former Uni
versity staff member Thursday
added to the charges that the de
motion of C. Clyde Mitchell was
prompted by "outside pressures."
In a letter to The Nebraskan,
Norman Landgren, now agricult
ural economics staff member at
the University of Arizona, stated:
"It is impossible for me to ac
cept any other reason or his de
motion than the one probably ac
cepted by most people familiar
with the situation economic views
different from those held by rela
tively small but extremely power
f u 1 and vocal, special-interest
groups in the state."
As evidence of these pressures,
Landgren cited the fact that as a
Courtesy Lincoln JoSftial
Welsh Lambert
staff member he was requested by
Dean W. V. Lambert to submit -to
the Dean a copy of his Master's
thesis.
Landgren said he was quite sure
that "The request came down
through channels from Regent J.
LeRoy Welsh of Omaha and the
Chancellor."
In his letter supporting Mitchell,
Landgren stated: "One of the rea
sons why I resigned from the Uni
versity of Nebraska staff last fall
was that I felt that I had branded
myself as a non-conformist and
that my future there would be
uncomfortable. At least I had
varied enough from the graduated
stereotype apparently desired by
certain groups and individuals to
cause some members of the Uni
versity administration and a mem
ber of the Board of Regents to
want to review a thesis which I
had written for a Master of Arts
degree in the agricultural econom
ics department."
In a direct telephone interview
with The Nebraskan, Landgren
said that the incident occurred aft
er he had already received the
degree and was working for the
University.
The thesis first received com-
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Two Awards Offered:
Nominations Now
For 'Outstanding Nebraskan'
Nominations for "Outstanding
Nebraskan" may now be submit
ted to The Nebraskan office, Bruce
Brugmann, editor, announced Fri
day. One senior or graduate student
and one faculty member will be
selected for the award. Both men
and women may be nominated.
The deadline for nominations is
May 23. Winners will be announced
in The Nebraskan May 25.
May 21:
Schedule, Rules for fall
Registration Announced
Early registration for the sum
mer session and the first semester
of 1956-1957 will take place May
21, 22 and 23 at the Military and
Naval Science Building.
Registration on May 21 will be
from 9 a.m. to noon, and from 1
to 5 p.m. On May 22 and 23,
registration will be from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. except during the noon
hour.
Students must consult with their
advisers before these dates, ac
cording to Mrs. Irma Laase, regis
tration and records.
All students not in the Junior
division will be admitted only if
they bring their work sheets. Jun
ior Division students will leave two
copies of their worksheets with
their adviser, who will send them
to the Junior Division office for
processing.
Beginning at 8 a.m., May 22,
these Junior Division worksheets
will be brought to the Military and
Naval Science Building, where
they will be given to Junior Di
vision students when their number
of hours entitles them to register.
All worksheets must have the ad
viser's signature. Except for Arts
and Sciences students with VI to 17 J
Dean Requested Thesis
ment in October of 1953 when it
was being prepared. Landgren
said. As a graduate student he
was receiving a subsidy from the
Farmers Union, a fact which, he
said, inadvertently involved him in
the Mitchell controversy at that
time.
According to Landgren, Welsh
made a statement to the Board of
Regents to the effect that Mitchell
was receiving some consideration
from the Farmers' Union, a na
tional farm organization.
Landgren said that this would be
a serious charge against a profes
sor but that it was apparently "a
case of mistaken identity."
"Apparently, however, Welsh
did not forget my thesis" (even aft
er the matter was cleared up), he
said, expressing the opinion that
the Regent had been behind Lam
bert's request.
Landgren said that he did give
a copy of the thesis to Dean Lam
bert and that after that he "never
heard a thing about it."
The thesis was an analysis of
the policies of major farm organ
izations: the Farmers Union, the
Farm Bureau and the Grange, and
Officers:
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Student Council
Bruce Brugmann, junior in Arts
and Sciences, was elected presi
dent of the Student Council in their
meeting Wednesday. Other officers
are Don Beck, first vice-president,
and Mick Neff, grwmwtr!&
second vice
president. Marv Breslow
and B e v
Deepe are the
two final hold
over members.
Brugmann is
editor of The
N e b r a s kan
and is a mem
ber of the de
Nebraskan PLsto
Brugmann
bate squad and
Alpha Tau Omega.
Beck is assistant business man
ager of The Nebraskan, vice
president of Corn Cobs, member
of the Agriculture Dairy Club and
Alpha Gamma Rho.
Neff's activities include assist
ant business manager of The Ne
braskan and a member of Delta
Tau Delta. Breslow is a member
of the City Campus Religious
Council, the Board of Publica
tions and Sigma Alpha Mu. Miss
Any student may nominate a
candidate for the honor. Two "Out
standing Nebraskans" are chosen
each semester by the Nebraskan
staff.
Rules governing the selection of
"Outstanding Nebraskans" will be
the same as last semester. To be
eligible, a student must have made
outstanding contributions to t h e
University, and be either a senior
or a graduate student. The faculty
member nominees must have
hours, and Teachers College stu
dents carrying from 12 to 18 hours,
all students must obtain their
dean's signature on their work
sheets before coming to register.
A tentative schedule has been
set up for students to follow in
planning the time when they will
register. Students may register any
time after their number of hours
comes up, but not before that
time.
The schedule of hours will not
be advanced, so it will not bene
fit students to come, earlier than
their hours earned entitles them to
come. It is possible that if the
number of students coming to reg
ister at any one hour is greater
than the Assignment Committee
can handle, the "hours may not ad
vance as fast as planned.
Beginning at 9 a.m., Monday,
May 21, students with 85 hours or
more on record at the beginning
of the current semester may reg
ister. At 10 a.m., students with 70
hours may register. At 1 p.m., stu
dents with 65 hours may register;
at 2 p.m., those with 60 or more,
and at 3 p.m. those with 55 hours.
May 22, registration will begin
(Continued m Page 4.)
concerned policies affecting low in
come agriculture primarily, h
said.
When questioned about the inci
dent, Lambert at first said that h
didn't think he remembered mak
ing such a request, but said that
the paper "might have been sub
mitted to him by the student."
Later he said that he had "want,
ed to see a copy."
Earlier in the interview, when
asked if such requests were usual,
Lambert said, "I don't remember
making this request, but if I had
done so it would be nothing ir
regular."
Asked about Landgren, Lambert
said he knew of him and recalled
the fact that he had received fi
nancial support from the Farmer!
Union, but said he had forgotten all
details of the case.
Questioned further about hii re
quest and what he might have
done with the thesis, the Dean said
that he did not remember the de
tails and that he "would prefer not
to get involved in th controversy."
Regent Welsh, who was also im
plicated in Landgren's statement
declined official comment when
contacted.
nei
resident
Deepe is president of YWCA and
Theta Sigma Phi, vice-president
of NUCWA and a member of Mor
tar Board and Alpha XI Delta.
In addition to the election f
officers, the Counncil also heard
a report by Gail Katskee on pro
viding additional representation
SC Election
A run-off election to resolve the
tie of Helen Gourlay and Sally
Laase for representation on the
Student Council from Teachers'
College will be held Tuesday from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Teachers' Col
lege. on the Faculty Committee. She
reported that the Council should
go ahead in giving representation
on the Library Committee, but
that the question of the large
comittee would have to be post
poned. The Council also accepted the
constitution of Towne Club and
Tassels and heard a report on
the Student Council polls taken in
the spring elections concerning
the tribunal and the honor sys
tem. Requested
served at least two years as a staff
member.
Anyone may make nominations.
Letters of nomination must be sub
mitted in writing and signed by
the person making the nomination.
Names of persons making nomina
tions will be confidential.
The letter of nomination becomes
the property of The Nebraskan and
any or all parts of the nomina
tion letter are subject to re
print in The Nebraskan.
Candidates for the award may
not be associated with The Ne
braskan in any way, such as staff
members, reporters, columnists or
members of the Faculty-Student
Sub-Committee on Student Publi
cations. The winners of the award will be
selected by the paid staff mem
bers of The Nebraskan. Letters of
nomination may be turned in to
the Nebraskan office, Room 20 in
the Student Union.
Winners of the "Outstanding Ne
braskan" award last semester
were Dr. Arthur Westbrook, pro
fessor of music and director of
University Singers, and John Gour
lay, senior in Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Westbrook came to the Uni
versity in 1939. He received an
Honorary Doctor of Music degree
from Albion College, Albion, Mich.,
in 1926. He is recognized as an out-
Pictures
All pictures borrowed from the
Union picture lending library
must be returned to Room 211,
Union, by 5 p.m. Wednesday,
May 16th.
standing musician in the "Who's
Who" of musicians and music edu
cators. Westbrook is retiring st the
end of this spring.
Gourlay is Cornhusker editor,
past president of Innocents, past
vice-president of .Inter-fraternity
Countil, past vice-president of Beta
Theta Pi, past Student Council
treasurer, and a member of Corn
Cobs.