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UNIVERSITY OF SSfc HPfew ARCHIVES DBirairiniotfir" By Priscill TSfnllins Senior Staff Writer A new complication in the Student Discount Card invest igation has arisen in & state ment by J. B. Pornicr, say ing that he thought the dis count cards were his private enterprise and he considered Bob Kerrey his "employee." Former's remarks were given by President John Lv dick at a Student Council Ju diciary Committee hearing last night, before approxi mately 100 listeners. Lydick told the committee that he had received phone call from Fornier yesterday afternoon In the absence of judiciary chairman JoAnn Stratemann. Fornier had been asked to submit a written statement to the committee, but had not done so yet, Ly dick said. Fomier had made Kerrey his "'partner" during the past summer, according to t h c statement, because he would not be in Lincoln and wanted Kerrey to keep the Discount Cards going. Lydick pointed -out that his statement contradicted Ker rey's statement that Fornier was "his employee." Statements from most of the people involved in the card project were given at the two and one half hour hearing last night. Dr. William Pharis, one of the advisors to Student Coun cil, was not present at the hearing, but his statement was read by Miss Stratemann. Phans emphasized that "we should not restrict the guilt to one person." He said that the executive councils for both years would have to be held responsible, as well as mem bers of thhe Welfare Commit tee both years. Pharis said the Council should not purchase its "own innocence by making Kerrey the scapegoat." Miss Stratemann, who con ducted the hearing, first in troduced Lydick, who told the Committee the background facts of the situation. These facts were presented at the Student Council meeting Feb. 10, after the matter had come to Lydick's attention one or two months ago. $40 Cheek At that time an envelope containing a check for $40 had come to the Student Council office. The check was made out to Kerrey. Lydick said he wondered at that time just how the fi nances for the cards were he- ing handled. He said he be gan looking into the matter at that time. Lydick told the Committee that he felt he "couldn't con done the facts T saw." Thus, he said, he felt he should have no vote in the decision of the Judiciary Committee. Lydick asked Kerrey if he considered the cards as a private enterprise, and Ker rey responded that he did not. Kerrey said he had nev er considered the "profit an gle" during the first year of the sale of cards, but tie knew it was possible to make a profit. When asked by John Klein whether he ever got the idea that it wasn't a Council proj ect, Kerrey answered, "tech nically no; we never estab lished a written agreement." Klein then asked him if he felt he had the right to offer such profits to other student welfare committee members, and Kerrey answered "yes." Discrepancy A discrepancy in the ad dress for Kerrey given on the cards from last year to this year was brought up by Klein, j During the first year the ad dress was the Student Coun cil office, and Kerrey was listed as chairman of the Stu dent Welfare Committee for the Student Council. This year the card listed EAGER-BEAVER FROSH their names and becume new Mart. i If "v t,:t l izJi f : ! .' J ' '0 si ' .( ft X f : ' ,, ... I ', f f Evidence Revealed Kerrey's name and home ad j dress and phone for additional imormaiion on me caras. Kerrey said that this was just a matter of convenience. Lydick asked Kerrey "If you weren't trying to build up a profit, why was there so much excess money in the second year?" Kerrey told him that there was '"no deliberate attempt to cut it so close that there was a chance for less." The assumption I was making was that if I were to incur profit, it would not be illegal." Judiciary Committee mem ber Galen Frenzen then asked Kerrey if he had ever had any other idea for financing the discount cards. Kerrey answered that he had thought of charging students a base rate but had ruled this cut" on the basis of confusion.' ' 'Tomer and I decided this was the only way be would ; operate. Miss Stratemann asked Ker rey if he had offered the chance for selling advertise ments to anyone other than members of the Student Wel fare Committee. Kerrey re plied that he hadn't. In other testimony, Mike Jeffrey, business manager for the Daily Nebraskan, told the committee that Kerrey had "contracted with me per sonally for an ad in the Dily Nebraskan''' for De-,. 16, 1964, urging students to support the discount -cards. Jim Baer, a member of the Student Welfare Committee last year w ben the cards were originated, testified that ho I thought a lot of the confusion I in thc situation w as arising m,t of a confusion of the terms Muaeni council en and "'Student Council clorsed' project. "We didn't actually make a distinction, and this tended to be both," he said. Baer said that $40 w a s charged to businessmen the first year "to make -sure we wouldn't lose any money if only four or five advertisers responded." Dennis Christie, last year's Council president, had told the Welfare Committee that no profits could go to the Student Council fund, .according to Baer. Commission Basis Baer said that it was de cided that a commission basis would be the best way to in terest sellers. "I had no idea how much was being made in the way of profits," he said. Mike Barton asked Baer why the committee hadn't done any research on cost of the project, since they said that they had no clear idea of the amount involved. Baer answered that there were two factors: 1. Time limit. The project had to be completed by the first of the year, he said. 2. "The whole thing was so dependent on how many merchants we ended up with." Barton then asked if Form er's request for pay for his services was the reason for the profit basis of the cards. Baer said that this was prob ably partly the reason. He said Kerrey "felt this would be the best way." To Barton's question, "Are ;you positive Denny (Christie) gave tacit approval on this plan?" Baer answered. "No." Barton asked why the com mittee members hadn't men tioned the profit to the Coun cil "didn't you think the profit was debateable?" Baer answered "No. 1 thought Bob had talked to someone on Council about it." Baer told the Judiciary Committee that no advertising for sellers had been done in the Daily Nebraskan "because there would have been a flood of people coming in wanting to sell." Bobby Koteeha, a member of the Student Welfare Com mittee last year, told the com mittee that he was under the . .. . and up perclB fSmen listened to sales pitches, signed members In campus activities at yesterday's Activities impression that the Council would pay for the expenses involved. Koteeha made two main points for the committee. First, he said, he did n I know there was a two thirds profit being made on the cards. Second, he said, he suspected by the end of the year that a profit was being made. He said he planned to make Vol 80, No, 85 (! m w at f KB MS ! fej m m at i I ? k Ctt ma " k , .m an I ! -r-'4f''r;- SB tee DORMS AHEAD , , , The model represents the new dormitories, George Abel Hall, looking north from 37th and Vine, Construction is expected to be completed by September in time for the fall semester. Dormitory Complete This September; Abel Elevators Will Stop By Wayne Krcuscher junior Staff Writer 'One complaint you're not apt to hear on the University campus starting next fall concerns the elevators at the new men's dormitory which will lie completed this September. Students -often squawk about the skip stop elevator service at the twin tower Pound and Cather Hall where elevators stop only on odd floors. But in the new $3.5 million Ceorge Abel Hall, located on No. 17th, one block north of Vine, levat ors will stop at every floor, sort of. In the new dorm there will be two elevators for the first six floors and two for the upper six, creating the ffect of one dormitory on top of another. Elevators are only one of the new changes in the residence hall. Abel Hall will hold 1,050 students, as compared to 960 in both Pound and Cather. In terms of lounge area, the new hall will far surpass any of its predeces sors. As compared with Pound and Cath er, Abel will have 45 per cent more main lounge space, and 77.8 per cent more lounge area in upper floors. Although Noel Smith, construction en gineer for the University, said that there will be no difference in the function of the rooms at Abel as compared to the other dormitories, Abel will have 12.8 per cent more area in each room. The rooms will be 14 ft. by 15 ft. and unlike those in Pound and Cather, there will be a large window in the mid dle of the outside wall with the closets on the opposite wall. IPC Public Relations, Affairs Andy Taube and Gary Lar son are the new IPC chair men for the Public Relations and Affairs Committees, respectively. a personal investigation o f the matter since he "felt prof it shouldnl I made by stu dent OTganizat.oiis." Koteeha said that in the hustle of finals, he did not complete his investigation, and since he was not return ing to Council this year, he forgot it. He said it partly his fault, since he should have talked to Kerrey about the matter. a ,.:lll I I 1 I I :::: . t:ttl!ttttt ntitiittii X!!!!u 1 A 5 3W C l,U..-lsMe!; - Larson Will They were elected commit tee chairmen last night at the Council's meeting. TauiiC, Sigma Chi, said he wanted to start a public re lations seminar between the IFC committee End the fra ternity public relations chair men, that he felt more per sonal contact was needed with principals of high schools and that IFC should work more with the University's Tublic Relations Department. Opposing Taube for the chairmanship w a s Larry Johnson, Beta Theta Pi. John Rasmussen, Phi Kappa Psi, ran against Larson, Beta Sig ma Psi. Larson outlined a plan for improvements of Greek Week and said that a film on Greek Week should be made. Next Wednesday IFC will decide on the rush week schedule for next full. Strong sentiment was expressed at this week's meeting for pos sibly extending rush week from three to four duys. Interviews will be held for j the Affairs Committee t h i s 1 He said that as far as he) break-down In commnniea knew, the price to be charged j 'tons, advertisers bad not been set- Koteeha said he had not lied at $25 or $4o. Kerrey then asked Koteeha if he remembered some of the other projects the Welfare Committee had been c n cerned with last y ear. Koteeha cited one of the projects as being discussion groups with professors. He said that this project had failed because t The Daily Nebraskan IS 8 a B 2t S3 S3' 13 8 S 3 S 3 S S3 Complain The hall will have two basic struc tures: the dormitory and a dining-recrea-tion hall. The dormitory itself will he -307 feet wide (more than a city Mock)., 61 feet from front to rear and 140 feet high. The dining-recreation hall will be a two-story structure, located behind the dormitory, with the cafeteria on the sec ond floor and a snack bar on the first floor. The cafeteria which will hold 650 stu dents will also be used by the new nine story girls'' dorm which will "be built in the future to the south of Abel, The cafeteria will be connected to the dorm by two passageways. The passage ways and two buildings will enclose a large patio area. There will be two small lounges on each floor where students can study, hold meetings or just gather. There will be outlets for television sets in the small lounges so floors can buy television sets if they want. On the main floor there will be two large lounges and rooms for the resi dence manager. The exterior of the structure is of precast concrete containing white quartz aggregate, the same material used on the exterior of Pound and Cather Halls. A private drive will serve the main entrance, and there will be a sizable parking area to the rear of the hall. The two penthouse-like boxes on the top .of the hall, now being completed, will house mechanical equipment for the dorm. The hall is named after George Abel, founder of Able Construction Co. of Lin coln, who died several years ago. Sunday and interviews for the Public Relations Committee and other IFC committees will be on Feb. 27. Boys Pay Again; Late Date Night Set For Follies Mortar Boards will sponsor a Late Date Night, Friday. Feb. 26, the night of the Coed Follies. For every minute that a girl is out between 1 and 2 a.m., her date must pay a penny. The money will be imed for such Mortar Board projects as the scholarship luncheon, activities and the graduate seminar. Once a hoy pays, he musl leave. No overnights or out oi towns will he allowed and special permission will he needed to go home. One late minute means an automatic campus. I This is nn extra 2 o dock night beyond those grunted by AWS julas. been present at the meeting when Christie spoke to t h e Welfare Committee. Pam Hedgecock, present Student Council member and an Associate on the Welfare Committee, last year, Sold the committee that she recalled a discussion of the possibility of profits being made, but ouncil To Be Printed An Agenda for Student Coun-I cil meetings will be published in the Dairy Nebraskan Mon-1 days, as a result of motion at yesterday's Council meet-: ing. The motion, tetvoduoed by; Susie Segrist, calls for mo-' toons for each week's meet ing to be submitted to Coun cil President John Lydick by: the preceding Sunday if pos sible, j Miss Segrist explained that this would enable constituents' of Council representatives to contact them before the meet ing to make their opinions known. When asked by Bob Ker rey who would determine whether or not it would be possible for the motions to be submitted that early. Miss Segrist said that it would probably not he -enforced too much, but - would . allow for more chance at good represen tation. She said this was an executive policy last year. Lydick said that this was not an executive decree, but would permit more publicity for issues, and would allow Council members more time to do better thinking. Kent Neumeister asked the Council if the office hours of representatives could also he posted so the representatives could be Teacbed on Council matters. Xo action was tak en on this request. Dr. Beverly Fowler was announced as the new advisor of the Council. Dr. Fowler is the newly-appointed associate director of the School ol Home Economics. Delegates for the Model Uni ted Nations to be held at Ne braska Wesleyan University March 26-27 were announced by Mike Barton. They are: Carol Boyd, Larry Johnson, Jim Moore, Hi chard Thomp son, C. Robert .Jensen and Bill Marshall. There have been no letters of application for the posi tions of graduate represen- NHSPA Contest; Set For March More than 1.000 Nebraska high school journalists will participate in a series of dis trict journalism contests dur ing the month of March. The contests, sponsored by the Nebraska High School Press Association i NHSPA) will be held as follows: March 6 School of Jour nalism, University of Nebras ka, Lincoln. March 13 Wayne State Teachers College, PeTU State Teachers College and Chadron State Teachers Col lege. The top 10 winners in each contest category will compete in the state contest May 1 at the University's S c h o o'l of Journalism, .according to James Morrison, executive secretary of NHSPA and a University faculty member. High schools planning to compete in the district con tests should submit applica tions as soon as possible, Mor rison said. Contest categories wiD in clude: news writing, sports writing, editorial writing, copy reading and editing, news lay out, advertising, yearbook copy reading and editing, yearbook layout and copy writing, and radio news writ- was not clear on too many details. John Lnckasen, present chairman of the Welfare Com mittee, told the committee that he had "assumed I v ould set up the discount cards for He said he tried to contact Kerrey while he was out of town this summer. When he finally reached him, Kerrey Continued on page 3 Thursday, February 18, 1955 Agenda . Before Aeeting tatives on the Council, ac cording to Boh Kerry. Tw positions from the Grad uate College need to be filled, he said, and interested grd af students should send let ters of application to the Sr dent Council office at the Stu dent I nion. Reporting for the Elections Committee, Kerrev said that the May Queen primary will be held May X and the All Women Election wiU be held May 30. Kent Neumeister, chairman of the University Counseling Service Committee, told the Council that the Study Skills course being offered at the University has iony 35 stu dents enrolled this semester compared to 300 first semes ter. He said this compared to 300 first -semester last year and 80 second semester. He told the Council that his Committee felt that there were four reasons for this drop In enrollment. First, the 00 students enr(. Jast se mester made mp the largest enrollment tbe (course has ev er had, thus making 35 seem very small in comparison. Second, he said, the publici ty for the course was perhaps poor. More important, Neumeis ter said, is the fact that no credit is .offered for the course, which might be dis couraging many people from taking the time for the course. The fonrth reason he listed was that perhaps 4word got out that the course wasnt worthwhile.'" Neumeister said that the small group this semester would allow for three changes: lexperimenting with a small group through record ing sessions for future study, upgrading the .quality .of the course, and recruiting spon sors and prospective fresh man during the spring. The Counseling Service is working on another project which would allow members to work with administration in selecting dormatory counselor assistants, he said. Speaking for tbe Academic and Faculty Committee, Cale Muller told the Council that the University can and has applied for SB36.IHM) through the Economic Activities Act This would allow 2,1100 nidi jobs to be .opened on campus, with !!) per cent of the salaries being paid by the Jederal gov ernment, and the other 3fl per cent by the University, he said. Muller also explained t h e method by which Regents' Scholarships are given. He said that some -people may have been wondering why they didn't get scholarships when they got iiigher grades on tbe examination than some of the winners. The examination is given to the top one third of .all high school graduating classes in the state, he said. 'Of all the students taking part, the 100 highest scorers receive four- year scholarships. Then, excluding the schools with fourjyear winners, the next runking students are giv en one-year scholarships. The alternates are those with grades high enough to have been winners, but who were excluded on the basis of their school's winners.