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Today is the 96th birthday
of the University. On this
date in 1869, the Nebraska
Legislature, in one of its
first actions, passed a bill
chartering and providing
fund?, for the University, a
college of agriculture and a
state mental hospital.
The bill which was intro
duced by State Sen. E. E.
Cunningham and passed on
Feb. 15, 1869 read:
"There shall be estab
lished in this state an instil
ticn under the name and
style of the University of
Nebraska. The object of
such institution shall be to
afford the inhabitants of the
states the means of acquir
ing a thorough knowledge of
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MODERNIZATION . . . Contrasting with Architectural Hall
constructed Woods Art Building.
Front Page Editorial:
Many Happy 'Returns'
Ninety-six years ago today the University a dream
of many of Nebraska's pioneers became a reality. The
Nebraska Legislature appropriated $100,000 for the con
struction of a single building, in which the first Univer
sity classes were to be held.
University historians have noted with interest the
manner in which early events concerning the University
have parallelled today's problems. This $100,000, for
instance, was not enough to build the building, and an
additional appropriation was soon required.
A closer study of our school's history would reveal
similar money problems in the 1870's, the 1880's, the
1910's right up to the present day. Sometimes the
problem has been found in faculty salaries, sometimes
in construction, sometimes in both. But this $100,000 ap
"propriated by a young legislature in the village of Lin
coln in 1869 serves as a sort of ghost of the past a spook
that should have died in the past but didn't.
Today's Nebraska Legislature will also appropriate
money for the University, and it probably will not be as
much as the University could use. The lawmakers are
also faced with something new a long-range construc
tion program requiring the sale of state bonds; a pro
gram meaning millions of dollars for classrooms and
laboratories. We would ask the Legislature to con
sider this plan with one eye on the history book.
We need additions; we need replacements. We have
become reconciled to going to class in Andrews Hall
where the sun is always in our eyes; in Brace Lab,
where the steps creak more noticeably every time we
climb them; in Morrill Hall, amid the shouts of little
children seeing the Hall of Nebraska Wildlife for the
first time.
We are beginning to get used to going to the phar -macy
building for our English classes and the electrical
engineering building to take beginning math. We can
weigh our chemicals on rusty balances, after first
standing in line for 20 minutes (which shoots a three
hour lab pretty well.)
Yes, we are nearly reconciled to the ideosyncracies
of old and crowded buildings. But we are only 13,000,
Mr. Senator. In ten years we could be 20,000, and we
don't have room. Even if we would move the physics
department to Love Library and rent Pershing Audi
torium for freshman English (instead of just giving the
final exams there.)
We see the University at a crossroads. And it is not
In OUR power to turn the wheel.
FRANK PARTSCII
Committee Wants
'Card' Information
Anyone with information
about the Student Discount
Card profits was asked yes
terday to submit a written
statement today to JoAnn
Stratemann, Student Council
first vice president.
The information will be
studied and used as a basis
for conducting a judiciary
committee hearing Wednes
day to determine the fate of
$380 listed as profit from the
program, and of Bob Kerrey,
who, as former chairman of
the Student Welfare commit
tee, started the Discount
Card program.
Miss Stratemann, who Is
chairman of the judiciary
committee, said the hearing
will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday in 234 Student
Union. Anyone may attend.
The issue came to light in
last week's regular Council
meeting when Kerrey, who
is now second vice president
of the Council, told the Coun
cil that he had made the
money as clear profit during
the two school years that the
program has been in operation.
the various branches of lit
erature, sciences and the
arts."
When the University first
opened its doors two years
later, enrollment was listed
at 130, but only 20 of these
were college students. At
that time, the University
also operated a "latin
school," which prepared
students to enter the col
lege. Salaries for the first staff
were set at $5,000 for the
chancellor and $2,000 for the
professors.
The 110 students enrolled
at the University on Oct. 2,
1871 paid an entrance fee of
$5. Board and room were
Kerrey said he charged an
average amount of $40 from
the Lincoln merchants whose
names appeared on the card.
He said it was understood
within his committee that
anyone who sold the services
to a merchant would keep a
two thirds commission on the
sale.
He said the profits
amounted to $80 for last
year's program and $300 this
year.
After hearing statements
from Kerrey and John Ly
dick, Student Council presi
dent, the Council passed a
motion providing for an in
vestigation of the profits this
week by the judiciary com
mittee. Several Council members
objected to the idea of a
Council member making a
personal profit because of his
elected position; Kerrey said
he was acting in the assump
tion that the cards were only
endorsed by the Council
rather than a part per se of
the Council, and that he was
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available reasonably and
books were for sale at
"first" cost, according to a
report in the Beatrice Ex
press. Early equipment accord
ing to the chancellor Ben
ton's report, included $1,400
worth of physics apparatus,
chemistry equipment, a $1,
900 investment in a library,
reading room and books
plus a thousand mineral
specimens valued at $200.
The Palladlan Literary
Society and a monthly
newspaper the Hesperian
(which later became the
Daily Nebraskan) had been
founded. In addition a
course of popular lectures
was being offered.
is the modern recently
Hartung Selected
Departrpent Head
Of Poultry Science
Dr. T. E. Hartung, poultry
scientist at Colorado State
University, has been named
chairman of the poultry sci
ence department.
The announcement was
made Saturday by Chancel
lor Clifford Hardin and Dean
E. F. Frolik of the College of
Agricultural and Home Eco
nomics. As poultry department
chairman, Dr. Hartung suc
ceeds Dr. John Adams who
has been associate director of
the University's Agricultural
Extension Service since last
September. Dr. Hartung will
assume his new position at
Nebraska in April.
At Colorado State Univer
sity, Dr. Hartung has been a
teacher, extension poultryman
and research scientist. He
earned B.S. and M.S. degrees
in poultry science at Colorado
State, and a doctor's degree
in food technology at Purdue
University.
Much of Dr. Hartung's re
search has concerned the bac
teriology of poultry products
as it affects their keeping
qualities. He has also done re
search in poultry nutrition.
As extension poultryman,
he has worked closely with
Colorado's poultry industry.
Dean Frolik said Dr. Har
tung's leadership and scientif
ic capability was recently
recognized when he was
elected a director of the Poul
try Science Association.
Dr. Hartung is the author of
a number of Extension bulle
tins circulars, and popular
articles on a wide range of
poultry management subjects.
Yes, Edna,
EDITORS NOTE: This cartoon appeared two yean ago
benefit of our new readers.
Questioned by the local
newspapers was the durabil
ity of the physical plant of
the University, today such
an important asset to t h e
campus.
"The Lincoln Leader," re
ported "the University is
about to fall, the founda
tion of the building having
been discovered to be crum
bling." "The Journal comes vig
orously to the defense of
the building, saying that al
though the foundation of the
north wall and the north
wing has settled some, there
is not the least danger of
anything falling."
"The Board of Regents
considers that the founda
tion should be repaired how
ever, and will take steps to
that end immediately."
From those uncertain
days when the University
was housed in a single con
d e m n e d building the
school has grown to accom
modate somje 13,000 students
from all ofer the world.
and is nati
tally known for
its extensi
division, law
school and
any other fea-
tures.
financial Problems have
plagued the University from
me nrst aa s of its exist
ence. The legislature had
appropriated $100,000 for
Vol. 79, No. 84
By Rich Meier
Junior Staff Writer
Requirements were modi
fied for the office of President
and members ef the senate of
the Association of Students of
the University at the constitu
tional convention yesterday.
The constituitonal conven
tion will approve or disap
prove the entire constitution
by a vote on the complete
draft.
Essentially, requirements to
hold either office have been
lowered from a 5.0 to a 4.0
average in the draft of the
new constituiton.
Among the various require
ments for senate membership
was the statement students
were to "meet University reg
ulations for participation in
extra-curricular activities."
Representative Dick Stuck
ey felt the only necessary re
quirement in this area is the
student be in "good standing."
He felt student government
should not be subject to the
same regulations as extra
curricular activities, because
an extra-curricular activity
has to do with private affairs.
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C&inweintiQB Proposes
Eligibility Bem&ids
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construction of the Univer
sity on a plain north of Lin
coln. Condemned upon comple
tion, University Hall re
quired additional appropria
tions to keep the foundation
from cracking and the walls
from buckling right up until
it was finally razed in the
1940's.
Student life in the early
days was colorful, but class
schedules were narrow and
restricted. Emphasis' on the
classics was strong, and
electives were unknown un
til close to the turn of the
century.
Most students lived off
campus, in boarding houses
which surrounded the cam
pus. Early writers, describ
ing the University, report
that the citizens of Lincoln
often allowed their cattle
to graze on the "lawn"
around the University build
ing. University Hall was joined
in the 1880's by several oth
er buildings, including
Grant Memorial Hall, which
is the oldest building re
maining on campus to this
day.
Grant was erected at a
total cost of $20,000 for use
as an armory and drill hall.
Today, standing in the sha
dow of the ultra-modern
Sheldon Art Gallery, the an-
Rebecca Marshall pointed
out that this type of require
ment attempts to establish
some basis for competency,
and this is not a function of
a constitution. The right to
decide competency belongs to
the electorate.
The decision to let the elec
torate decide the competency
of its senate, by placing less
restriction upon his eligibility
passed by a vote of 10 to 5.
The question came up again
in the consideration of the re
quirements for the eligibility
of the president. In the sub
mitted draft the requirements
were:
"To be eligible for election
to the Presidency of the As
sociation a candidate must:
a. Meet all University regu
lations for participation in extra-curricular
activities.
b. Have completed twenty
seven (27) University ap
proved credit hours and the
previous semester in r e s i
dence." S t u c k e y presented the
amendment to delete a. and
b. and add after 'must', "be
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FORMER LIBRARY . . . Remaining as a relic from the
19th century is the Architectural Hall, originally built as
the University Library.
cient structure is used as
the women's physical edu
cation building.
Other relics from the 19th
Century University which
remain today are Architec
tural Hall, originally built
as a library; the Geography
a regularly enrolled student
in good standing."
Stuckey objected to the re
strictions as "precluding dem
ocratic activity." He said it
was not democratic to elimi
nate the possibility that a
freshman or a transfer stu
dent may hold the office of
president.
He did not see, personally,
where either could gather the
popular support necessary but
that was no reason to exclude
the possibility. He asked,"
Why restrict future democra
tic activity?"
Joe Carroll wanted to in
clude part b. He felt the presi
dent must have some knowl
edge of the workings of the
campus before he could do a
competent job. He offered an
amendment to this effect.
His amendment was de
feated 6 to 9.
Cuz Guenzel objected to
Stuckey's proposal first from
the standpoint of "i m a g e."
"The highest officer of the
student body should at least
have a 5.0 average."
Secondly she felt that any
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was created by Dan Rosenthal. We present it here for the
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building; and the gates at
the columns, which were
originally part of a fence
surrounding the entire Uni
versity. The fence from
which the gates were taken
now bounds Wyuka Cemetery.
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Monday, February 15, 1965
one having the duties and
responsibilities that this of
fice would entail, with an av
erage below 5.0, would not
have the time necessary to
study and remain in school.
George Vrba expressed the
fear that if all these require
ments are deleted administra
tion would not approve the
constitutions.
Miss Marshall said "fear
of restriction from adminis
tration is no reason to n o t
adopt the amendment (pro
posed by Stuckey)." She
stressed "The restrictions
must come from the elector
ate, not from the constitu
tion." Stuckey alluded to a state
ment proported to have come
from the Student Activities
Co-ordinator, that he was
not in favor of all the restric
tions placed on the student.
Stuckey cited this as evi
dence t h e administration
would go along with his pro
posal. Stuckey stated that equal
ly important is the participa
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