Vol. 79, No. 81
The Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, February 10, 1965
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Twenty Graduate
'With Distinction';
Omahan Honored
Baccalaureate a nd ad
vanced degrees were con
ferred upon 470 graduates of
tne University at the fourth
largest mid-year commence
ment Saturday.
Graduating "with high dis
tinction were six University
seniors. They were Lois Jean
Drake, James Linn, David
Krohn, Joan McGuire, Carol
Phelps and John Wick.
Fourteen seniors were grad
Bated "with distinction." They
were Stephen Bergquist, Pa
tricia Dunning Campbell, Gar
Deatsman, Susan Ducker, Ann
Roth McDaniel Duff, Milton
Ericksen, Gwynn Pharcs Ger
lack, Joan Morton Jones,
Kay Hemphill Michelfeld.
Jamil Daoud Nammour, Janet
Schurr, Jack Schwartz, Cher
ie Thies, Khosrow Youssefi.
The Nebraska Builder
Award, the highest service
honor of the University, was
presented to Gilbert Swanson,
Omaha businessman and com
munity leader.
Swanson is currently presi
dent of Swanson Enterprises
He is now serving on t h e
board of directors of Camp
bell Soup Co.
He is a Regent at Creighton
University and a director of
Northern Natural Gas Co.,
Northwestern Bell Telephone
Co., Omaha National Bank,
Nebraska Consolidated Mills,
Omaha Industrial Foundation,
Omaha YMCA and the Josyln
Art Museum.
Swanson has been active in
the fight against mental ill
ness, in the support of t h e
Voice of America, and with
a coordinating council in pro
moting effective liaison be
tween the Strategic Air Com
mand and the city of Omaha.
He is active in the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce and
was a director of the Creche
orphanage.
Honorary degrees were
awarded to Judge John Brown
of Houston, Tex., and Dr. Al
bert Moseman of the Rocke
feller Foundation, New York
City.
Brown, a native of Holdrege,
was cited for his "distin
guished service in the field
of law, with respect for the
influence he has had on the
development of evidence law
in federal juisprudence" and
for "continuing participation
in educational programs." He
is completing a decade of
service as Judge of the U.S.
District Court of Appeals for
the Fifth District.
Dr. Moseman, a native of
Oakland, was honored for
"distinguished leadership and
iervice in the successful de
velopment of cooperative ag
ricultural research programs
in the Americas and In other
parts of the world." Moseman
is director of Agricultural
Sciences for the Rockefeller
Foundation.
Both Brown and Moseman
were graduated from the Uni
versity. Twenty-t h r e e graduating
'Great Decision1 Program
Provided For Nebraskans
Red China, Vietnam and
the United Nations are
among the eight subjects of
fered Nebraskans this year in
the Great Decisions program,
according to Dr. Otto Hoi
berg, University Extension Di
vision. "Great Decisions" groups
are formed by any number
of interested persons who
wish to meet informally once
a week for eight weeks to dis
cuss and make up their own
minds about crucial foreign
policy problems.
This Is the sixth year the
program has been sponsored
by the Agricultural Extension
Service and the Extension Di
vision. Special fact sheet kits con
tain all the material needed
to make the sessions a suc
cess. No teacher is needed.
In addition, the University
television station KUON-TV,
seniors received commissions
in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Chancellor Hardin presided
at the graduation ceremonies
and Dr. Adam Breckenridge,
vice chancellor and dean of
faculties, was master of cere
monies. The Rev. Raleigh Peterson,
dean of the Cotner School of
Religion, was chaplain. My
ron Roberts, professor of or
gan and theory at the Univer
sity, played musical selections
and Mark Gruett sang the
National Anthem.
Partsch
To Head
New Staff
Frank Partsch, a junior in
journalism, has been named
editor of the Daily Nebraskan
for the second semester. He
replaces Susan Smithberger.
Partsch has served on the
Nebraskan staff in the past
as news editor and senior
staff writer.
Lee Marshall, junior, was
named managing editor. Mar
shall is majoring in history
and is a member of Beta
Theta Pi fra-
Nebra s k a n
experie nee
includes ,
sports editor
and copy edi
tor.
Susie Rut-
ter, will
serve as
news editor.
Miss Rutter Partsch
is a senior majoring in Span
ish and political science and
is a member of Sigma Kappa
sorority.
Bob Samuelson, junior, was
appointed sports editor and
Mike Jeffrey, junior, business
manager.
Lynn Corcoran was named
to fill the newly-created po
sition of Night News Editor.
Corcoran is a senior in Me
chanical Engineering and is a
member of Theta Xi fraterni
ty. He has previously served
two semesters as copy editor
and one as a columnist.
Bob Gibson, sophomore, will
serves as assistant sports
editor. Copy editors include
Polly Rhynalds, sophomore,
Carole Reno, junior, and Jim
Korshoj. junior.
Priscilla Mullins, j n n i o r ,
was named senior staff
writer.
Junior staff writers include
Richard Meier, junior, Steve
Jordan, freshman, Keith
Sinor, freshman and Wayne
Kreuscher, freshman.
Larry Fiehn, sophomore,
will serve as photographer.
Scott Rynearson, junior,
Arnie Peterson, junior, Mike
Kirkman, freshman, Pete
Lage, junior, Connie Rasmus-
fan, junior, are business
assistants.
V WMf
Channel 12, which recently
went to full power from its
new transmitter at Mead,
plans to carry a series of pro
grams that supplements the
material in the kits.
Broadcasts will be each
Wednesday and Friday at 8:30
p.m. for eight weeks, starting
today.
The eight discussion topics
are: Red China Menace or
paper tiger? Germany Key
to Europe? Trade, Food and
Dollars What policies for
the U.S.? South Africa threat
to peace? Eastern Europe
End of the satellite era? The
U.N. at Twenty Asset or
liability? Vietnam Is vic
tory possible? The Population
Boom Can it be controlled?
Information on the program
can be obtained from county
Extension offices or by writ
ing to the University Exten
sion Division.
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The University department of music
will present Giuseppe Verdi's "La Trav
iata" for its annual opera performance
tonight through Saturday. Curtain time
each evening is 8 p.m. in Howell Memo
rial Theater.
Sometimes known as "a portrait of a
lost lady," the opera is based on the
great French classic, "Camille," written
in 1848 by Alexander Dumas the Younger.
Gwendolyn Waldo and Lorraine Nor
ris will sing the lead role of Violetta on
alternate nights.
Roderick Gibb and Kenneth Scheffel
will sing the role of Alfredo; Mark Gruett
Ideal' Interviews
Slated Thursday
Preliminary interviews for
Outstanding Collegiate Man
and Ideal Nebraska Coed will
be held tomorrow in the North
and South Party Rooms of the
Union.
New candidates must be ju
niors and have a minimum
scholastic average of 6.0. Sev
en finalists for each honor will
be chosen to go through a sec
ond interview, to be held in
the Union Conference Rooms
Feb. 18; and the winner will
be announced at Coed Follies
Feb. 26. Candidates are
judged on the basis of char
acter, scholarship, leadership,
and service to the University
and the community.
Judges for the preliminary
interviews for Ideal Nebraska
Coed will be Mrs. Jayne An
derson. Miss Marcella Mar
tin, Mr. Robert Spearman,
Janee Benda and Susie Ay
res. For the Outstanding Col
legiate Man interviews the
judges will be Vicki Dowling,
Bonnie Knudson, Dr. Doris
O'Donnell. Dean E. F. Fro
lik, and Dr. William Pharis.
Ideal Nebraska Coed
Interview times for the Ideal
Nebraska Coed candidates are
as follows: 6:50 p.m., Vicki
Dowling; 6:58, Nancy Baker;
7:06, Karla Bals; 7:14, Judy
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By Rich Meier
Junior Staff Writer
Exhausted, happy, and won
dering how those four days
went by so fast, 120 students
arrived in Lincoln Monday at
6 a.m. The Union ski trip
was over for another year.
Rich Scott, assistant pro
gram director termed the trip
a complete success, lie had
nothing but praise for the
demeanor and conduct of the
students.
This year some got an ex
tra half day to ski. The 1
o'clock train out of W i n t e r
Park was derailed by a rock
slide in western Colorado. As
a result the trip didn't leave
Denver until 9 o'clock. A box
supper was provided for
everyone at a cost of more
than $150.00, which the Union
paid. Mr. Scott said the Union
petes Opens
Bucklin; 7:22, Linda Cleve
land; 7:30, Vicki Cline; 7:38,
Jeanette Coufal; 7:46, Robin
Dyas; 7:54, Louise Erickson,
8:02, Marilyn Filbert; 8:10,
Cuz Guenzel; 8:18, Carol Sue
Hall; 8:26, Elaine Hanthorn;
8:34, Gail Harano; 8:52, San
dy Hey brock; 9:00, Jean
Holmquist; 9:08, Karen Hop
pe; 9:16, Harriett Hunker;
9:24, Marsha Lester; 9:32,
Wallis Lundeen; 9:40, Mary
Kay Rakow; 9:48, Karen
Schnurr; 9:56, Diana Stover;
10:04, Patti Teel; 10:12, Myr
na Tegtmeier; 10:20, Shirley
Voss.
Candidates for Outstanding
Collegiate Man will be inter
viewed at the following times:
7:00 p.m., John Baldwin; 7:08,
John Cosier; 7:16, James
Ensz; 7:24, David Fairchild;
7:32, Burle Gengenbach; 7:40,
Larry Frolik; 7:48, Ronald
Gould 7:56, Lyman James;
8:04, Rodney Johnson; 8:12,
Buzz Madsen; 8:20, Gale
Muller; 8:28. Ronald Neel;
8:36, Kent Neumeister; 8:54,
George Novotny; 9:02, Robert
Oswald; 9:10, Frank Partsch;
9:18, Richard Patton; 9:26,
Don Pont; 9:34. Bruce Sny
der; 9 42, Skip Soiref; 9:50,
Mick Sumnick; 9:58, Michael
Zmarzly.
Kieits $siowe
trys to break even, but prob
ably didn't make it this year.
Besides the Union people,
one instructor at Winter Park
estimated there were some
300 other University students
on the slopes. The Jags paid
their way by playing at the
Coachman, and The Celler
Dwellers had a similar ar
rangement at Adolf's. These
places, and two others, The
Norseman, and Winterhof Inn,
provided apres-ski entertain
ment to those who could fur
nish adequate ID's. There wds
no 3.2 beer.
The Union trip had only one
accident. Nancy Peterson a
freshman broke her c o 1 1 a r
bone while she was skiing the
saddle of Allen Phipps. The
irony of the situation is it was
not her fault, another skier
ran into her, and to top it
off, her father is a doctor
and Willard Marquardt will portray Gar
mout. The part of Flora will be sung by
Rosella Lange and that of Gaston by Don
Canady.
"La Traviata" is set in and near
Paris, at about 1850. It involves a love
affair between Violetta, known as the
"lost lady," and Alfredo, whose father is
successful in breaking up the affair.
The opera will be directed by Pro
fessors Richard Grace and John Zei. Em
manel Wishnow, chairman of the depart
ment of music, will conduct the orchestra.
French Singers
Here Tomorrow
Two performances by Varel
and Bailly and the Chanteurs
de Paris will be presented to
morrow night in the Union
Ballroom, at 7:30 p.m. and 9
p.m.
The performances are spon
sored by the Fine Arts Con
vocation Series, and admis
sion is free. Tickets may be
picked up at the Union main
desk.
The singing group was be
gun by Andre Varel and Char
ly Bailly "the Rodgers and
Hammerstein of France"
and is headed by Bailly.
The group was hailed by
the New York Journal-American
as "the most exciting
group of singing young men
you've heard in years."
Their music is mainly folk
and popular songs.
FSNCC Films Show
Southern Registration
Friends of SNCC (Student
N o n - Violent Coordinating
Committee) is sponsoring two
documentaries at 3 p.m. to
day in Love Auditorium. They
deal with voter registration
work in Mississippi and are
titled "A Dream Deferred"
and "We'll Never Turn
Back." Jerry Behringer, in
structor of sociology, will lead
the discussion. Fifty cents ad
mission will be charged.
here in Lincoln. But, she
learned the snowplow, and is
ready to go next year.
Wanda Brammer said she
had a hard time learning the
snowplow, but mastered it,
and rewarded herself with a
Winter Park ski patch from
the Mountain Shop.
Gunars Slrazdins, one of the
more h o o k e d-on-skiing stu
dents here, said he had a
good time. He also slated he
spent between $30 or $40 more
than the initial $75 cost of the
trip.
"Just great" was the only
way to describe the skiing
conditions found in Colorado
this year. According to one
skier, "There was a packed
base of 52" and sunshine. The
snow was crusty in the morn
ing, but it warmed up very
fast. It was so warm the ski
bums were wearing cut-offs."
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Later Eows
For Sensors
A new policy formulated by
an Associated Women Stu
dents (AWS) study committee
will allow 12 o'clock hours for
senior girls this semester on
those nights which were for
merly regulated by 11 o clock
hours.
This will be in effect only
for those seniors who will
graduate in June or August
of this year.
The plan was instituted to
Regents
Lower
Retirement
Full-time staff members of
the University may now re
tire at age 62 according to a
new policy set by the Regents
Friday.
The lowered retirement age
is not automatic, and will be
used when such early retire
ment is in the best interests
of the University and the per
son. The mandatory retirement
age of 65 will remain in force.
R e g e n t s' professorships
were granted two faculty
members, Dr. Walter Wright,
associate dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences and Dr.
Howard Ottoson, chairman of
the Department of Agricul
tural Economics.
The Regents accepted re
search grants totaling $99,824.
Included in the grants is a
$36,258 award from the United
States Department of Agricul
ture to Clyde Noyes, Agri
cultural Extension Service,
for a pesticide-chemical edu
cation program.
In other action, the Regents:
Awarded dormitory furnish
ings contracts to the Omaha
Bedding Company amounting
to $44,056.
Awarded a contract to the
Trane Manufacturing Com
pany of Omaha for a one-thousand-ton
chiller for the
College of Medicine, $58,800.
Named Dr. Jon Williams of
Lincoln internist-hematologist
and endocrinologist in the Uni
versity Health Service.
Named Shirley Kreutz of
Montclair, N.J., associate pro
fessor of home economics edu
cation, effective Sept. 1. S h e
replacse Dr. Rhea Keeler.
Tryouts Tonight
For Coed Follies
The Coed Follies Traveler's
Act Tryouts will be held at the
Union Ballroom tonight be
ginning at 6:45 p.m. All par
ticipating acts should be there
ten minutes before acts are
scheduled to perform.
The acts will appear as fol
lows: Omaha Nurses, 6:45; Towne
Club, 6:50; Burr Hall, 6:55;
Sigma Kappa, 7:00; Love Me
morial Hall, 7:05; Delta
Gamma, 7:10; Alpha Chi
Omega, 7:15, 7:20; Alpha
Delta Pi, 7:25, 7:30, 7:35,
7:40; Alpha Omicron Pi, 7:45,
7:50, 7:55; Kappa Delta, 8:15,
8:20, 8:25; Chi Omega, 8:30;
Alpha Xi Delta, 8:35, 8:40;
Pound. 8:55; Zeta Tau Alpha,
9:00; Delta Delta Delta, 9:05;
Gamma Phi Beta, 9:10.
If there are any questions
concerning the tryouts, call
Karen Gepford at 477-2730.
Marines Testing
Students Today
The Marine Corps Officer
Selection team is giving se
lection tests and interviewing
interested students in the
main lounge of the Union to
day. Three officer training pro
grams are offered by the
Marine Corps, according to
Capt. R. W. Badeker, selec
tion officer from Des Moines.
None of the nroerams re
quire on-campus training, re
serve meetings, or drills dur
ing the school year.
For further Information,
students may see Capt. Badeker.
give the girls more latitude in
their schedules to meet the
increasing demands from out
side activities. Regulating
committees will be main
talned by the senior girls in
the individual houses to super
vise the check-in and check
out procedure for the new
hours. This policy will avoid
placing an extra burden on
the house mothers.
At the end of the semester,
an AWS evaluating commit
tee will survey the merits of
the new system. This survey
will then be used to deter
mine whether or not the new
hours will become a perma
nent policy.
Dean Snyder, Associate
Dean of Student Affairs, re
ferred to the change as a
"fine idea" which was in co
ordination with the general
liberalization trend in Univer
sity policv. She also said that
there had been some objec
tion to the policy because
there were not enough girls
in some of the houses who
wanted to take advantage of
the later hours to maintain a
supervising committee. This
required girls who did not in
tend to use the change to stay
up later than they normally
would to act as supervisors.
Underclassmen will have
the normal second-semester
change in hours. Freshman
girls will have 10:30 hours to
replace their former 9 o'clock
hours. Sophomorp and junior
girls' hours will remain the
same.
New Students
Warned Ol
Work Ahead
A note of encouragement
and warning was made to 320
new students, including trans
fers and new freshmen, at the
University's annual mid-year
new student convocation Fri
day. Vice Chancellor Adam
Breckenridge told the stu
dents that they enter the Uni
versity at a time when doors
will open to them that cannot
be dreamed of now.
"But I should warn you
something about this place,"
he said. "You are to be here
with professionals the teach
ers. You are amateurs."
"The teacher and you may
have some differences from
the beginning. One is the atti
tude toward the work of learn
ing and learning is very
hard work. The teacher knows
it well, and knows that to
have much learning you must
persevere, that you must be
persistent and be willing to
face failure now and then."
Breckenridge told the stu
dents that they might even
meet dull people once in a
while, but that they will never
find real learning dull.
"If you will believe that,
you won't have much time
while here to worry about re
wards now or later and will
come to realize that you will
acquire a zest for life you
have not heretofore known. If
will be filled with wonder, a
respect for those of learning,
and a deeper respect for
achievement," he said.
"We have reason to believe
that vou can earn or be
paid three times as much
with a college degree than
without any college educa
tion," he said.
But the Vice Chancellor also
warned that earning in itself
will never be the full reward.
There are such factors as sta
tus in the community, the
changing of bias and opin
ion and the qualities of cul
ture. Breckenridge told the stu
dents that, like their teach
ers, they are possessed with
a purely human nature and
that their convictions will be
reshaped as they learn more
and more.
"For the amateur, periodic
failure and challenge are
frightening," he said. "You
must learn to accept them as
part of the reason for being
here."
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