Friday. February 19, 1965
The Daily Nebraskan
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ForeSgim Sfcydeimt Aid
University Doiirag
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Hy Rich Mclcr
Jr. Staff Writer
The foreign student pro
gram at the University is do
ing tiie best it can, but its
biggest problem is helping
those with financial problems
CCORDING TO Mrs. Row
Buykin, assistant foreign stu
dent advisor.
"It is very difficult for a
student to get help," she
said.
J''Wc're nt doing anything
different than we were a few
years ago, but there is a trend
developing among the colleges
and universities of the United
States' to require a pre-deposit
before the student comes over
This would get the student
through the first year," said
Mrs. Boykin, "but most of the
students who do get into fi
ancial trouble do so after the
first year."
"There are 10 regents schol
arships available to those for
eign students who can qualify
after the first year," she said.
She said there is a need for
a Foreign Student Emergency
Fund, because present facili
ties are inadequate. "If I had
a fund I could dip into, when
a real emergency arose, I
would be so pleased."
Last semester there were
216 foreign students. In 1963
there were 216. "The Univer
sity has tightened its restric
tions concerning the admis
sion of foreign students some
what," she said. "It requires
both the College Board test,
and an English proficienev exam."
'"Of course, this semester is
different. We have had 24 new
students, and a few leave,"
she said.
Statistics have not yet been
compiled for this semester,
but last semester there were
123 graduate students, and 92
undergraduate, with one ad
vanced professions.
Forty-two of the graduate
students hav a University As
sistantship. Thirteen have fi
ancial support from American
International Devleopment
(AID, a division of the state
department), ten have some
form of aid from the Rocke
feller Foundation, eleven re
ceive some aid from their
home government, twenty-two
arc here on practical train
ing, and the rest of the for
eign graduate students use
personal funds, or personal
fund:, and a combination of
scholarships.
The undergraduates live
mostly on personal funds, 52
doing so. One received a
grant-in-aid from the Univer
sity last semester.
"Indians have a problem
with funds, because their gov
ernment is so careful about
keeping money within the
country." Sometimes the fam
ily may be well off, but the
student is living on quite
meager funds.
"Cuban students arc treated
as foreign students even
though they may have grad
uated from a Nebraska hig4i
school," she said. "The Cu
Dan situation is ratner con
fusing. If they are here by
themselves, it's one thing, and
lthey flunk out the State De
parents it s another. They are
here on student visas, but if
they flunk out the state de
partment doesn't send them
back."
Housing is
Thirty-seven
sity housing.
non-University
Boykin told of
a problem also,
live in Univer
and 158 live in
housing. Mrs.
a study
being
done by second year gradu
ate students in social work.
They are compiling personal
feelings of all the foreign stu
dents on housing by means
of personal interviews.
She said "The darker the
skin, the more discrimination
encountered."
"The University tries to
give as much assistance to
these people as possible. We
try to avoid having them be
insulted, either by pre-checking,
or by having someone go
with them when looking for
housing."
"The main problem is the
landlords tend to generalize.
If they have had a bad ex
perience with a foreign stu
dent concerning his attitude,
or cleanliness, or whatever
the complaint, they tend to
feel all foreign students are
this way. Of course this isn't
so. and we try to point out
that they have similar prob
lems with Americans, and yet
they still rent to Americans.
Triangle has two Iranians
in their house, but Mrs. Boy
kin did not know of any other
foreign students in the fra
ternity system.
"When a new student comes
over the transition does pro
duce some problems, known
as 'culture shock.' "
"One of the main problems
the new student faces is a
feeling of loneliness," she
said.
"The Indian has a problem
getting adjusted to the Ameri
can idioms. He has passed
his English profiency exam,
and has studied English since
the second grade, but it is
Oxford English. So it takes
him quite a while to get use
to our way of speaking."
I Nebraskan Applauds I
Twenty-nine University stu
dents were honored for high
scholarship here Tuesday
night by the Nebraska Chap
ter of Gamma Sigma Delta,
the Honor Society of Agriculture.
The group, consisting of 18
nnVinmnrps and 11 inniors. all
are men students majoring in I "yder;
agriculture at the University.
They were introduced at the
annual Gamma Sigma Delta
scholarship recognition dinner
by Dr. Charles Adams of the
College of Agriculture and
Home Economics faculty,
the chapter president.
Bruce Snyder of Paxton re
ceived the chapter's annual
award for having been the
top scholar among sopho
mores in the College of Ag
riculture and Home Econom
ics for thhe 1963-64 school
year.
Snyder, now a junior, com
piled a grade average of 7.736
for four semesters of study.
He has been enrolled in the
Ag. Honors program. Snyder
has received Union Pacific
Railroad and University Re
gents scholarships, and in 1964
was awarded a Luther
Drake scholarship valued at
$500.
The Keith County student is
an animal science major,
member of the Nebraska
Block and Bridle Club, and
has been active in livestock
judging at the University. He
was a member of the student
team which competed at the
National Western Livestock
show at Denver, Colo., last
month.
Students honored by Gam
ma Sigma Delta were:
JUNIORS: Jay Belden;
Ronald Bellamy; Jerome Cris
well; Allen Frederick; Burle
Gengenbach: Mark Gustaf
son; Vernon Leibbrandt;
D w a i n Meyer; James Pan
ska; Robert Schaffert; Bruce
SOPHOMORES: Ivan Bart-
ling; Congrave Callaway;
John Goedeken; Victor Lech
tenberg; Fredrick Leistritz;
Howard Miller; Wesley Mus
ser; Keith Olsen; Richard
Preston; Ronald Prior.
Tom Reimers; Brian Rid
del!; Ronald Shaffer; David
Shoemaker; James Specht;
Burton Thomsen; Gary Vieth;
Gary Wahlgren.
The main address was giv
en by Dr. Robert Palmer,
pastor of Westminister Pres
byterian Church, Lincoln. En
tertainment was furnished by
"The Rho-Men," a trio of Al
pha Gamma Rho fraternity
members Rod Johnson, Jim
Weier and Marsh Jurgens
The Nebraska International
Association is doing a f i n e
job, according to Mrs. Boy
kin. "There is opportunity for
leadership for the foreign stu
dent, because the American
and the foreign student op
crate as co-chairmen."
She said "People to People
is going to include foreign stu
dents as co-chairmen on com
mittees this semester, if they
have any applicants."
"Those who live in the resi
dence halls do get tired of our
food, because of the cultural
differences. They want to go
somewhere and prepare some
of their own dishes some of
the time."
"We do have one under
graduate girl living off-cam-pus
because of this problem.
She is living with a graduate
foreign student, and Dean
Synder was very understand
ing." Overall the University is do
ing the best it can, but there
is a need for an emergency
fund.
Pledges In Help Week
Find Callers flustered
"We are lonely, rotten,
slight and ready to satisfy
your every need."
"I am a lowly pledge and
through the ingenuity of Alex
ander Graham Bell and co
operation of the Lincoln
Telephone Co. you have con
nected with our house."
"Which of the exalted ac
tives do you wish to speak
to."
"Not only am 1 the most
putrid, puny, pugnacious, and
piddling pledge, but I have
the inconceivable gall to seek
the exalted level of an ac
tive." "Thirty days hath Septem
ber, April and June and no
wonder all the rest have pea
nut butter except my grand
mother who has a little red
tricycle."
Tradition? Harrassment?
Symbolic meaning?
One can't be sure exactly
what these phone answering
salutations mean, but they do
announce that the season of
"Help" (Hell Week) has start
ed and that more than 500
pledges will soon be seeking
membership in both fraterni
ties and sororities.
Not all houses use the
phone answering rhymes dur
ing their time of "Help" but
for those who do, some funny
things often happen for both
the pledges and the innocent
callers.
A bewildered mother or a
salesman who calls one of the
houses may become speech
less when he hears the "lone
ly, rotten and slight" from
the other end of the phone,
but the problem is even
worse for the pledge who
keeps answering the phone
and after giving his speech
hears a laugh and t h e n a
click and nothing else.
One house president, when
asked what the meaning of
these rhymes were, said that
they were mainly traditional,
but also taught the pledge
humility and was a way of
letting the public know that
the pledges were seeking
membership.
Delta Delta Delta pulls a
swtich from the regular rou
tine and there the actives an
swer the phone for a whole
week and have to say a rhyme
including their active number
and give a little song which
is made up by the pledges.
But in most houses spring
means more than just tulips,
Easter and sunny weather
for the PLEDGES.
Icy Feet Thaw;
Stomp Out Cold
Lotsa snow. Melts. Let's
have a stomp in the mush.
TODAY
Til ETA XI HOUSE PARTY,
9 to 12 p.m.
WRA FORMAL, 9 to 12 p.m.
Cornhusker Hotel.
SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON.
DELTA GAMMA PLEDGE
HOUR DANCE, 4 to 5 p.m.
KAPPA SIGMA PLEDGE
HOUR DANCE, 4 to 5 p.m.
MARDI GRAS, 8:30 to 11:30
p.m., East Union.
TOMORROW
ALPHA GAMMA RHO
HOUSE PARTY, 8 to 12 p.m.
ALPHA TAU OMEGA
HOUSE PARTY. 9 to 12 p.m.
ALPHA XI DELTA HOUSE
PARTY, 9 to 12 p.m.
AROTC ARMY BALL, 9 to
12 p.m.. National Guard Arm-
orv.
KAPPA DELTA II 0 U S E
PARTY, 9 to 12 p.m.
PHI KAPPA PSI HOUSE
PARTY, 9 to 12 p.m.
RAM DANCE, 8 to 12 p.m.,
Selleck.
UNICORNS DANCE, 7:30 to
12 p.m.. Union.
SIGMA CHI HOUSE PAR
TY, 8 to 12.
SUNDAY
FARMHOUSE, ALPHA CHI
OMEGA PLEDGE TOBOG
GAN PARTY, 2 to 5 p.m., Pio
neer Park.
TODAY
K1WANIS CLUB - noon,
Pan American room, Student
Union.
BUSINESS ORGANIZA
TION DEPARTMENT noon,
240 Student Union.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
12:15 p.m., Pawnee room, Stu
dent Union.
PLACEMEENT OFFICE
LUNCHEON 12:30 p.m., 241
Student Union.
A.R.A. 1:30 p.m., Audito
rium, Student Union.
YWCA-YMCA INTER
VIEWS FOR STEERING
COMMITTEE FOR FRESH
MAN WEEKEND 2-5:30 p.m.,
232 Student Union.
A.W.S. INTERVIEWS 3
p.m., 235 Student Union.
JAZZ 'N JAVA 4 p.m. Crib,
Student Union.
MOVIE "7 Brides for 7
Brothers" 7 p.m., Auditorium,
Student Union.
KOSMET KLUB TRYOUTS
7 p.m., 232-234-235 Student
Union.
PALLADIAN
Student Union.
7 p.m., 332
TOMORROW
EAST UNION INTER
VIEWS FOR CHAIRMEN
AND ASSISTANTS 9-2 p.m.,
East Union.
,H I MISS 0THMAR. I
V.i V 5 WED HOWE y
MILK M0NEV ENVELOPES, CLAS
fWW? ENVELOPES PTA
MONEV ENVELOPES AND HOf P06
MONEY ENVELOPES...
THIRTY KIDS BRIN6IN5 FOUR
ENVELOPES EACH MAKES ONE
HUNDRED AND TWENTY ENVELOPES.,
POOR MISS OTHwAft...
SHE CRACKED UP... SHE
WENT "ENVELOPE HAPPV"
Skirting Other Campuses
Beards Blossom
For Oldahomans
University students don't
know what they're missing!
If only they went to other
schools they could enrich
their social and cultural lives
and stay physically and eco
nomically healthy at the same
time.
"Beard-growing for fun and
profit" can be found at Okla
homa State, for example,
where the finalists in the En
gineering Queen Contest
award $25 to the winners of
one-and two-month whisker
raising contests.
Or take the intellectual at
titude from Texas A & M: "I
guess I ought to be studyln'
for tomorrow's quiz, but this
is the first he's given and he
may give easy quizzes! I'd
feel foolish if I wasted time
studvin' for an easy quiz so
I think I'll sack out!"
"Women's Week" programs
at the University of Minneso
ta included "What Is a Wom
an?", "Woman's Intellectual
Potential" and "Woman: Her
Changing Roles." The MU
Art Gallery also displayed a
"Woman as Art" exhibit.
Twenty Students
Injured On Ice
"We had twenty injuries
from people slipping on the
ice, this past week," said Dr.
S. I. Fuenning of Student
Health.
He said this was not a high
incidence considering the
amount of snow, ice, and a
population of 13,000.
Only two had injuries war
ronting casts. "One cast on
the leg from a cracked distal
end of the fibula, and one on
the wrist from a cracked dis
tal end of the ulnar."
"Just the usual run of con
tusions, sprains, strains and
abrasions," said Dr. Fuen
ning. Debaters Competing
In Wisconsin Tourney
The University debate
team will compete at the Wis
consin State University De
bate Conference at Eau
Claire, Wise, today through
Saturday.
Dr. Donald Olson and Dr.
John Petelle, both of the
speech department and Uni
versity debate coaches, are
accompanying the eight stu
dent participants.
The team members chosen
to attend are John Drodow,
Gene Pokorny, Candace May,
Cathie Shattuck, M e 1 v y n
Schlachter, Alan Larson, Ter
ry Hall and John Peak.
Garry Boggs, a Univeniity
of Kentucky freshman, estab
lished the wold's tooth-brushing
record; time: 10V4 hours.
Men from North Carolina
Wesleyan have formed a
"Comment Squad" and enliv
en their basketball games
with assorted comments and
cheers.
Greeks from the University
of Minnesota hold "boot hock
ey" matches, with one fraternity-sorority
team trying
to outscore another. "There
ae no penalties to speak of,"
grinned a referee.
Scuba diving in the icy ca
nals near Portland State Col
lege provides recreation for
members of a new Skin Div
ing Club. The divers collect
and sell aquatic specimens
and conduct free diving class
es. Unfortunately, there would
be a slight distance problem
involved in going to all these
schools, so maybe it's wiser
to stay here, in a warm, lit
tle snow drift and read about
them instead.
Movie
Times
State: "Those Callaways,"
1 p.m., 4:01, 6:20, 9:12.
Stuart: "Sylvia," 1:35, 4:05,
6:35, 9.
Nebraska: "Joy House,"
7:15, 9:20.
Varsity: "Two on a Guillo
tine," 1, 3, 5, 7, 9.
Joyo: "Emil and the Detec
tives," 7:10, 9:20.
Admission Tests Set;
Applications Available
Students who wish to ap
ply for admission to any
medical school in the fall of
1966 must take the Medical
College Admission Test either
on May 1 or Oct. 23 of this
year.
Those who wish to take the
exam on May 1 must have
their application forms
turned in before Apr. 15.
Forms may be obtained from
the premedical advisers or
from T. B. Thorson, 204 Bes
sey Hall.
INTERNATIONAL
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from Stanford University, University of California, and Guadala
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tory, language and literature courses. Tuition, board ond room is
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