Miss Crosier
Miss Cunningham
Miss Johnson
Miss Stuckey
Miss Irish
Miss Moore
Miss Muff
Bow
Miss Rakow
6 Students
Are Not
Apathetic'
By Randy Irey
Junior Staff Writer
"The University student is
not apathetic; rather he is
just not excited about any
thing." This is the opinion ex
pressed by Robert Dunn, as
sociate professor of psycho
logy. When questioned about
the student mind, he said that
"apathetic" is not necessari
ly a good term to use. "It's
a characteristic of the pres
ent generation to play life
with a cool facade. It is simp
ly a norm of the generation."
Level Of Adaption
This is so for the University
student in particular, he con
tinued. "There is a term in
psychology the level of adap
tationthat can be used to
explain the student. One of
the aspects of this is that a
person compares his present
condition with past condi
tions. The important point, is
that if the level of conditions
around the person, in his
view, is the same or better,
he will not be discontent. This
is true no matter how much
discontent there is that he
doesn't know about."
The other side of this level
of adaptation is a perpetual
and simultaneous comparison
of where you see yourself in
respect to others, he contin
ued. At the University, accord
ing to Dunn, the environment
is stable and everybody is
relatively the same. The stu
dents .don't know of any other
place ' that "has it better."
The entire state is relatively
Cont. on pg. 4, col. 1
Capp
Al Capp
To Visit
Campus
A noted cartoonist who pro
fesses to be "an authority on
nothing with opinions on
everything" will speak in the
Nebraska Union ballroom at
8 p.m. Thursday.
Al Capp, creator of the Lil
Abner comic strip, will speak
under the auspices of the Ne
braska Union fime Arts Con
vocation series.
Rich Scott, Nebraska Un
ion program director, ex
plained Capp's program as
"having no set topic he'll
talk on anything."
When people come to the
ballroom, Scott continued,
they will be given cards on
which to write any questions
they wish Capp to answer or
topics they wish him to com
ment on. Capp will thc-n sort
through the cards and talk on
"whatever the cards suggest."
Tickets are available free
of charge at the main desk of
the -Nebraska Union.
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T
en s
Ten women have been
elected finalists for May
Queen by junior and senior
women. Wednesday will be
the election of the May Queen
who will be presented at the
Ivy Day ceremony in the
spring.
The ten candidates are:
Cheryll Crosier, senior in
Arts and Sciences, has a 3.5
overall average. She was
Homecoming chairman for
Tassels, YWCA vice presi
dent, and a member of Ivy
Day Court in 1964 and 1965.
She also has served as
recording secretary and Coed
Follies skitmaster for Kappa
Kappa Gamma sorority and
is a member of Angel Flight.
She has been awarded a
YWCA scholarship to attend
summer school in Berkeley,
Calif.
Susie Cunningham, a senior
in Teachers College with a
3.5 average, has served as so
cial chairman for Kappa Al
pha Theta sorority and is a
Little Sister of Minerva. Her
other activities include
NHRRF-T e e n a g e Project,
A.C.E. and N.S.E.A.
A member of Pi Lambda
Friday, March 4, 1966
ADei w
By Nancy Henrickson
Junior Staff Writer
Abel Hall will not support
an interdorm dance planned
for May 6, Tom Holeman an
nounced at the Interdorm Co
ordinating Committee (ICC)
meeting Wednesday night.
Holeman, Abel's president
and representative on the
committee, said the Abel
Residence Association turned
down a request from the in
terdorm social committee to
pay $150 for the dance.
Lack Of Communication
The contract was signed be
fore Selleck and Abel had ap
proved it, he said. The dis
agreement was. causod by a
lack of communication be
tween the interdorm social
committee and the Inter
dorm committee, Holeman
stated.
"We rejected the possibility
of supporting the interdorm
dance because of the amount
of money involved and the
way it was handled," Hole
man continued.
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Greek Averages Improve
Over Previous Semester
By Bruce Giles
Senior Staff Writer
A much larger percentage
of fraternity pledges and a
slightly larger percentage of
sorority pledges made their
2.0 initiation average as com
pared to the 5.0 required un
der the old grading system
last year.
A study by the Daily Ne
braskan of fraternity and so
rority pledge classes and the
number who made their aver
age last year and the 2.0 this
year showed that 16.69 more
fraternity pledges made their
averages under the new sys
tem. The difference was not as
dramatic for sorority pledges
as the number making their
averages increased only
6.95.
The study showed that
61.87 of the fraternity
pledges made their averages
for the first semester of the
1901-65 school year and 78.56
made their averages this past
semester.
For the first semester of
the 1964-65 school year, 80.0
of the sorority pledges made
their averages, while 86.95
made their averages this
semester.
House Averages
Individual fraternities and
sororities differed in opinion
on whether their whole house
averages would change. Some
ay Queen Finalists Selected
Theta, Rho Alpha scholastic
honorary of Kappa Alpha
Theta, she has also been
named to the Teachers Col
lege honor roll.
Lynne Irish, a senior in
Teachers College, has served
as president of Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority and was a
member of the 1965 Daisy
Chain.
She has a 3.45 accumulative
average and was awarded the
Kappa Kappa Gamma Under
graduate scholarship in 1965
66. Miss Irish has served on
the AWS Board for three
years and is a member of Pi
Lambda Theta, U.N.S.E.A.
and Angel Flight.
Karen Johnson, a senior in
the College of Home Econ
omics, has an over-all aver
age of 3.8. She has served as
AUF vice president, chairman
of Student Tribunal, vice
president of Kappa Alpha
Theta and president of Kappa
Tau Talpha honorary.
Her other honoraries in
clude Omicron Nu, Theta
Sigma Phi and Phi Upsilon
Omicron.
Miss Johnson also was the
recipient of an Upperclass
on t suDDort interaorm uance
i
Tony Redman, Cather Hall
representative, moved that,
"The Interdorm Council ad
vise or recommend the ex
ecutive council of Abel Hall
to reconsider its present nega
tive decision concerning the
interdorm dance May 6." The
motion was passed.
"This has shown the need of
agreements and procedures,"
Marv Almy, ICC president
said.
Maid Service
The question of maid serv
ice provided in the dorms
was raised by M. Edward
Bryan, director of housing.
"It's fairly certain we will
have to deal with a cost in
crease within the next few
years," Bryan said. "Is it
legitimate that we spend the
money you give us for maid
service?"
Maids spend one-third to
one-half of their time in stu
dent rooms and the service
extends from the cost of oper
ation. thought the averages would
go up, others thought they
would go down and still oth
ers thought they would re
main about the same.
Several fraternities and so
rorities indicated that their
house required a higher aver
age for a pledge to be initi
ated than that set by Inter
fraternity Council or Panhell
enic. "We told the pledges they
would have to earn a 2.2 to
be initiated," said Mary Ann
Deems, vice president of Al
pha Phi. "But if they made
between a 2.0 and a 2.2, they
could be initiated with a peti
tion of 75 of the actives."
Bill Kling, secretary of
Theta Chi, said his fraternity
required a 5.5 initiation aver
age under the old grading sys
tem and a 2.2 under the new
system.
Diane Wisnieski, president
of Zeta Tau Alpha, com
mented that it was "evident
ly easier for pledges to make
their averages under the new
initiation average" because
her house had a higher num
ber of pledges making their
averages than ever before.
Top Grades
Commenting on the whole
house average, Bill Blaken
ship, scholarship chairman of
Kappa Sigma said, "The ones
Cont. on Tage 3, Col. 3
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Miss Kosman
Regents' Scholarship and has
served on the Journalism
Council.
Di Kosman, a senior in Arts
and Sciences with a 3.1 aver
age, has served on. the AWS
Board for three years and
now holds the p o s i t i o n of
AWS vice president. She was
a member of the 1965 Ivy Day
Court and is a member of
Angel Flight.
Her other positions include
first vice president of Delta
Gamma sorority and vice
president of Tau Rho hon
orary. Susie Moore, a senior in
The Daily Nebraskan
A
. . .
The maids in the dorms are
paid $185 a month plus two
meals a day, and uniforms
are supplied. This wage rate
is fairly uniform for custodial
work in University buildings,
Bryan said.
Student Responsibility
"We want to discuss wheth
er students could assume
some of the responsibility of
cleaning their rooms or wheth
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MODERN DAY . . . Huck Finns prepare for trip down the Mississippi.
Raft Trip Down Mississippi
To Publicize '67 Centennial
A raft trip down the Mis
sissippi River signified inde
pendence for Huckleberry
Finn.
A similar trip by four Uni
versity students this summer
will mean "fun" and publicity
for Nebraska's Centennial in
March 1967.
Supported by Gov. Frank
Morrison and the Nebraska
Centennial Comm,csion, the
trip will be made in a home
made, red and white, mo
torized raft.
The crew members Tom
Lundgren, Mike Voris, Jeff
Farkas and Tom Mason
will start the adventure July
2 at Omaha on the Missouri
River and plan to reach the
mouth of the Mississippi by
the end of the month.
Lundgren, a sophomore
from Scottsbluff, said that he
came up with the idea for -the
trip to advertise the state
Teachers College with a 3.667
over-all average, has served
as Pi Beta Phi pledge super
visor and a member of the
1965 Daisy Chain.
She is a L i 1 1 1 e Sister of
Minerva, a member of
U.N.S.E.A. and the recipient
of two University education
scholarships.
Miss Moore was a Nebras
ka Sweetheart finalist this
year and a member of the
Pi Beta Phi standards
board.
Linda Muff, a senior in
Teachers College, was a mem
ber of the Ivy Day Court in
1965 and in the Daisy Chain in
1963.
She has served as president
of Tassels and recording sec
retary of Gamma Phi Beta
sorority. Miss Muff, who has
a 3.3 over-aM average, par
ticipated in the People-to-Peo-ple
student abroad program
and is a member of the Sigma
Alpha Eta speech honorary.
Mary Kay Rakow, a senior
in Teachers College with an
over-all average of 3.78, is the
recipient of an Upperclass
Communication Blamed
er it should be assumed by
management," he said.
The number of maids in
the building would not be de
creased, but they would be
shifted to areas, such as
lounges, where they would be
more beneficial to the group
as a whole. In a few years,
the number of maids in build
ings may be reduced when
some are transferred into the
new dorms.
several months ago while
eating in Abel's cafeteria.
"I get Ideas like this all
the time and this is just one
that worked," he said.
He explained that after
talking the idea over with dif
ferent students on campus, he
made a model of the raft he
wanted to use and went to
see Gov. Morrison.
As Lundgren explained it,
the governor "went for the
idea immediately" and since
then plans for the raft trip
down the Mississippi have ex
panded into a statewide proj
ect. The trip now includes for
mal ceremonies at many of
the towns along the way
where admirals in the Ne
braska Navy will be named
and 500 Nebraska citizenships
given, personal interviews
with the governors of Mis
souri and Louisiana and ex
tensive publicity for the Ne
Regents' Scholarship and is a
Nebraska Career Scholar.
She was a member of the
1964 Daisy Chain and is a
Panhellenic Scholar. Her oth
er honors include election to
Alpha Lamb fa Delta honorary
and corresponding secretary
of Pi Lambda Theta hon
orary, and participation in
two honors convocations.
She is a member of
U.N.S.E.A. and Alpha Delta
Pi sorority.
Susan Stuckey, a senior in
Teachers College with a 2.7
over-all average, has served
as Pi Beta Phi president and
was the recipient of the Pi
Beta Phi chapter service
award.
She was co-chairman of Or
thopedic Project and a mem
ber of U.N.S.E.A. as well as
sweetheart of Delta Tau Del
ta fraternity.
Susie Young, a senior in
Teachers College, is a Little
Sister of Minerva and the 1965
Nebraska Sweetheart.
She is a member of Alpha
Delta Pi sorority and has a
2.67 over-all average.
Vol. 81, No. 74
If students did assume part
of the responsibility, it might
affect the amount of increase
in room and board payments,
Bryan said. A dust mop and
dust pan would be provided
for each room.
He noted that on a facili
ties questionnaire distributed
to Abel, Cather and Pound
residents, a majority wanted
to keep maid service in the
rooms.
braska Centennial.
The trip has also been
promised support, he said,
from many commercial busi
nesses and other individuals
who will pay for such ex
penses as lumber, food, tran
sportation to Omaha and
transportation home from
New Orleans at the end of
the trip.
Lundgren noted that the
raft will be called "Big Red
. . . something or another"
and that it will display signs
advertising the centennial and
a Nebraska flag.
The crew members plan to
sleep in the cabin at night
and cook their food there.
They will travel the 1,630
miles down the two rivers
only during the day at about
twelve miles an hour.
All four students pointed out
that they arc familiar with
boats and sailing and that
they expect no trouble
A
Miss Young
Ginsberg
Discussion
Scheduled
An open forum on poet Al
len Ginsberg will be held in
the Nebraska Union next Tues
day at 3:30 p.m.
A four member panel of stu
dents and faculty members
will present interpretations
and viewpoints of the poet who
appeared before a capacity
crowd at the Union on Feb. 18.
Clay Gerken, director of the
counseling service; Robert
Narveson, assistant professor
of English; Steve Abbott, edi
tor of Scrip literary magazine
and Liz Aitken will make up
the panel.
Gerken will present his
views on the psychological ef
fect Ginsberg had on the cam
pus. Gerken, along with other
members of the counseling
service, h e 1 d a conference
with Ginsberg While he was
on campus.
Narveson, adviser to Scrip,
will speak on Ginsberg's po
etry as literature.
Abbott, who acted as Gins
berg's host during his stay,
and Miss Aitken will present
the student view of the poet.
The f o r u m is being spon
sored by the Union Talks and
Topics Committee.
Council
Unkiiowi
To Many
The Inter-dorm Coordinat
ing Committee is virtually
unknown to many of the resi
dents in Abel, Cather, Pound
and Selleck.
Out of 25 dorm residents in
terviewed by the Daily Ne
braskan, about one-third did
not know what the Inter-dorm
Coordinating Committee is.
Feelings of those who did
know about the committee
ranged from enthusiastic to
indifferent.
One Selleck resident said
fthat it was a start toward a
government of all the dorms
and will represent the dorms
to the whole campus and
present a unified voice to ad
ministration. 'Complement'
"It will complement rather
than dictate to the dorms,"
he said. "It will not be a
weak coordinating group.
There are enough leaders
who see the necessity of it
that it will come about."
"Personally I think it's a
good deal if they can get it
to work, but independent peo
ple are hard to get organized.
Unity is the main objective
and all the dorms on campus
will know what's going on in
the other dorms,' said a
Pound resident.
'Combine Campuses'
Marlene Vogt, Burr East,
said the council will coordi
nate social activitits among
the dorms and help to com
bine East and City campuses.
"As yet it doesn't seem or
ganized, but if it holds the in
terests of the residents as pri
mary and not develop into a
supreme governing body, it
will be successful," said Bill
Paxton of Abel.
Practical
"I think it is extremely
practical with the growing
size of the dorms. It wiU
gain in function and prestige
as time goes along," said Mel
Schlachter, a student assist
ant in Abel.
Cather resident, Dick Chail
lie, said, "I'm in favor of
a council to hash over prob
lems but I don't think they
should set one policy for
everybody. We don't have a
lot In common with either Sel
leck or Abel and each has dif
ferent policies and problems.
The Individual will be one of
the mass." ,