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a honey Stresses Vote At 18 -Si To End 'Three-Year Vacuum9: M "AS YOU LIKE IT" . . . cast members: (seated) Bob Hall, Touchstone; Kristi Rapp, Audrey; (standing) Bill Jamison, Orlando; Bobbie Kierstead, Rosalind; Jean MacLaren, Celia. Theatre Season Premiers 'As You Like If On "As You Like It" by Wil liam Shakespeare opens the University Theatre season in repertory Friday. Curtain time is 8 p.m. The play will also be presented Saturday night, plus Nov. 4 5, Nov. 18-19 and Dec. 9-10. Dr. William R. Morgan, director, described the play as a "light, delicate comedy in emphatic language." It is Shakespeare's idea to spoof the idyllic conceptions cour tiers have of courtly life. "As You Like It" is Shake speare's mosit frequently produced comedy in the U.S. and England, Morgan said. The scene for the play, which is a countryside forest, 'Beer And L formal, By Ton! Victor Senior Staff Writer Beer and professors mix on Friday afternoons to provide a rare recipe of intellectual familiarity with University students. Take a small off-campus apartment, add a roomful of students, introduce the guest professors for the afternoon and the result is a unique dialogue that ranges from German history to the beat gener ation of the 50's. 'Beer and Professors' is hosted regu larly by various students on campus who invite three or four professors around whom discussion is centered. The infor mal gatherings started last semester and have become a regular feature. "It gives students a chance to meet professors on a personal level on a bas is other than student-professor," stated one coed. "It showed me that students are in terested in something other than pulling grades," stated a guest professor who has attended two of the gatherings. One of the hosts said that the situa Residents To Vote Nov. 7 On Proposed Constitution Students living in the Uni versity residence halls will vote on a constitution for a proposed iriterdorm coun cil Nov. 7. Ideas for an interdorm council sprang up last se mester and the Interdorm Coordinating Committee (ID CC) began writing a consti tution for the proposed body. Wednesday the IDCC ap proved the last article to the constitution and it will now be submitted to residents. An amendment was passed stating that ' representation on the council be distributed among member dorms with the ratio of one representative to 250 residents or fraction of 60 per cent thereof, and that each dorm shall be guaran teed one representative- The amendment had been Introduced by Dave Shonka of Abel Hall at the previous IDCC meeting and was tabled until the next week. Ted Suhr of Selleck Quad rangle proposed to amend the amendment to state that apportionment be based on a ratio of one representative to 250 to 400 residents. "The flexible number at tempts to equalize the differ ence m sizes to a degree, but It still prevents the council from becoming lopsided in favor of the larger dorms' Suhr aid. has been built on the thea- t r e's revolving turntable stage. The comedy involves pairs of lovers. Rosaline and Or lando will be played by Bob bie Kierstead and Bill Jami son; Celia and Oliver by Jane MacLaren and Bruce Borin; Touchstone and Au drey by Robert Hall and Kristi Rapp; and Silvius and Phoebe by Tom Coty and Roni Meyer. Jack McCoy will play the philosophic and melancholy Jacques who gives the fam ous speech, "All the world is a stage and men and wom en are merely players." Duke will be played by Ed Professors' Allows Non - Academic Talk The amendment to the amendment was defeated, with only Selleck and Cather representatives supporting it. An amendment to increase the number of delegates on the council court was also defeated. Wayne Morton of Abel moved that the number of court justices be increased from four to six. Larry Andersen of Selleck cited the ASUN court as a prime example on campus. He said that it has only four members and has only settled two cases in two years. Jim Arundel of Abel pro posed that the 750 signatures required to petition a special meeting of the council be changed to five per cent of the association members. John Fryar of Cather said that a set number protects the minority. The motion was defeated. The articles for meetings and procedure, regulatory powers, finances and amend ments were passed. An article providing for the transfer of functions of the IDOC to the interdorm council was introduced by Suhr and passed. The constitution will be de livered to units to be distri buted to residents next week, said Jim Ludwig, IDCC ehalrma- Friday Fern and Mike Nelson will play Duke Frederick. Other members of the cast are: Richard Ralston, Mike Otte, Mike Dobbins, Marc Armstrong, David Peterson, .Todd Slaughter, Alan Pless man and Bill Dalberg. Appearing as lords are: Mark Beech, David Peterson and Terry Weymouth. Lad ies are Pat Foreman, Adrena Valverde and Lana Vahl camp. Foresters are Gordon Hauptman, Pam Hathaway, Diane Bernard and Al Lund by. The second play in the repertory .season, "Look Back in Anger," will open next weekend. tion is always awkward at first because students are not used to" meeting profes sors in other than a classroom situation. But the host added that as the af ternoon progresses both sides feel more comfortable and all manner of topics are presented for discussion. A majority of the professors are from the history, political science and English departments, although some representa tives from sociology, economics and an thropology have also been invited. Although the professor usually talks on a topic related to his specialty, one coed stated that it depended upon the students as to whether other topics were introduced. "I like the idea tremendously. I sel dom get a chance to discuss anything but English poetry in the classroom," noted an English professor. And the idea has grown. The recipe has been passed on so that last week, there were two simultaneous gatherings featuring University professors and sea soned with a new appreciativeness on both the students' and professors' parts. The IDCC will meet Nov. 2 to discuss the balloting procedure before the elec tion Nov. 7. AUF-Beat Ticket Sale Under Way Tickets will go on sale Monday in the Nebraska Union for the all Univer sity Fund "AUF-Beat" dance to be held Oct. 29. Tickets also can be pur chased from any AUF member. The dance, featuring carnival booths, crowning of the Activities Queen and Big Man On Campus (BMOC), and two combos will be held in the Union Ballroom and the Pan American Room. The dance will start at 9 p.m-, voting on BMOC will be held until 10, and an- ' nouncement of BMOC and Activities Queen will take place at 10:30. ' Proceeds from the dance will go to the following five charities: American Cancer Society, Thomas Dooley Founation, Mental Health Association, the USO, and Radio Free Europe. Eighteen-year-olds should make their district legisla tors go on record as to being either for or against 18-year-old suffrage, said State Sena tor Eugene Mahoney. Mahoney, who is running for re-election to the Nebras ka State Legislature from Omaha, is proponent of a proposal to extend voting rights to 18, 19 and 20-year-olds in the state. "Our school systems have Improved in the last few years with courses in politi cal science and current events. At the moment the high school graduate is left in a three-year vacuum Friday, October 21, 1966 Males By John Fryar Junior Staff Writer Saying that he didn't want to appear under "false pre tenses", columnist Art Buch wald told his audience Thurs day that "I don't have much use for education." Speaking in the Nebraska Union Ballroom, the political satirist described his own education, his 14 years in Paris and experiences in col umn writing. Buchwald dropped out of high school to join the Ma rines and later enrolled in the University of Southern California, taking classes for one year before they told him that he couldn't get a degree and would have to be a "special student." He said that this was fine with him, since he didn't have a high school diploma and didn't see why he should get a college degree. Buchwald said that it didn't matter in the long run, since USC made him "alumnus of the year" last year. College Boy's Views The humorist said that he had been reading a lot of magazine articles on "sex and the college girl" and had decided that it was about time some one got the view point of the college boy. Buchwald decided to do a survey "which I made up", showing that college boys across the nation were "pure as the driven snow" in over whelming majorities, fighting off the advances of coeds. He said that he had con tacted a male Nebraska jour nalism major who said about the problem, "Fortunately, the subject has never come up in Nebraska." About 400 letters came to Buchwald following this sur vey, he said, from college males across the nation. He said that at least 395 of them demanded, "Who did you talk to?" Nothing To Do? Riot Buchwald attributed cam pus riots to the students hav ing nothing to do. He said that busy full professors turn over their classes to busy graduate students who turn them over to bright students who are so busy with cam pus politics that they don't even show up. He said that a "socialist" then usually takes over the class and starts a march on the administration building. Unfortunately, the chancell or, vice chancellor, and deans of men and women are usu ally away, leaving only the campus chief of police. 1 1 1 li i 1 i -"If' CHATTING OVER LUNCII Copplo of disenfranchisement," ex claimed Mahoney. Four states now allow per sons younger than 21 to vote. Both Georgia and Kentucky have extended the right to vote to 18-year-olds and Alas ka opened the voting booths to 19-year-olds. Hawaii did the same for 20 year-olds. Though the suffrage pro posal has failed to receive a majority in the Legislature five times in the past, Ma honey feels it could have a good chance in the next leg islative session. Mahoney noted the current emphasis on youth and youth The Daily Fight Coed Advances . . . Buchwald Survey Shoivs . Buchwald said that the chief of police, not knowing what it is all about, arrests the ringleaders "those standing in front." This gives the group something to really riot about. He said that the next step is for the chancellor to fly back and just about accept the demands of a student pe tition, when the Board of Re gents notify him that they will back him fully in "met ing out punishment to t h e ringleaders." Buchwald said that the faculty, composed of "visit ing professors from other colleges", backs the students and the chancellor resigns to accept a Ford Foundation re search grant. However, Buchwald point ed out that now the socialist student is no longer conduct ing the classes, but instead is on other campuses lectur ing on free speech. Mattresses In Streets Buchwald said that he had first gone to Paris because he had 250 dollars and had heard that the streets were "paved with mattresses". He said that at that time anyone could get a job with the Marshall Plan, a "GI Bill for countries." He said that with this kind of job, af ter two weeks work, one could be in charge of t h e coal and steel industries for the Benelux countries. Buchwald went to work for the Paris Herald-Tribune and covered nightclubs and res taurants, becoming the "food and wine expert of the Herald-Tribune". He reviewed French mov ies as well, but said that he was tough on them because he didn't understand them. 'Little Things' "As people kept getting fired and dying," he got more work. Finally he re turned to the United States after 14 years to be a politi cal correspondent. He said that he had to get used to "little things" in the U. S. like "taxes and expense ac counts." "The farther you are away from Washington, the more you think things are under control," Buchwald said. Commenting on Washing ton's sense of humor, Buch wald told about a column he had written about Johnson's economy movements, such as turning out the light bulbs in the White House. Buchwald said that as John son's advisors read this col umn one by one they roared, but when the President didn't ) f ' J.. ' ' 1 4 ' " ... Art Buchwald (right) visits with Professor P.. Neale during a noon luncheon Thursday. ful leaders, such as Mayor John Lindsay of New York and John F. Kennedy. "A large per cent of t h e population from the post World War II baby boom will soon be coming of age. Youth ful leaders have generated popular trust in the ability of youth," Mahoney stated. Mahoney said that he plans to bring the proposal before the legislature in the next session as a bill. He ex plained that he would need support from many sides once the bill is in committee. Mahoney has been guest lecturer at high schools throughout the state, and Nebraskan laugh upon reading it, they asked if they could look at it again. The columnist said that he definitely felt that the press was unfair to Barry Goldwa ter in the 1964 campaign. "For one thing, we quoted him," Buchwald said. He told of his own plan during the campaign to test the accuracy of guided mis siles by placing Goldwater in a rowboat in the Pacific and having McNamara fire a mis sile at him. A hit or a miss would have meant either a public apolo gy by MacNamara for inac curacy or Goldwater's with drawal from the Presidential race. According to Buchwald, MacNamara said, "I'll do it," but Goldwater never an swered. Buchwald said that t h e Russians printed his column, and when the State Depart ment complained to him about the Soviets using the material for propaganda, he said, "Stop them." Later he wrote that he was actually a CIA agent and that every third word in his column was part of a mes sage to American agents in Russia. The Russians answered, Buchwald said, that they had known it all along and con sequently scrambled every third word. Buchwald said that he had gotten a scoop on how LBJ had chosen Vice President Hubert Humphrey for a run ning mate. He said that Lady Bird told Johnson that they owed the Humphreys a dinner in vitation. Johnson had an swered, "I don't have time to have dinner with the Hum phreys, but I'll "ake it up to them somehow." Buchwald said that the rea son that the President didn't send Humphrey to Winston Churchill's funeral was be cause Humphrey "can't look sad." 'Lack of Communists' The columnist said that there was a lack of Commu nists in towns across the na tion with "Two anti-Communist organizations and no Communists." Buchwald proposed that the party be redistributed so that each town could have a "resident Communist" that they would pay to be the town "threat". "I'd like to make more fun of the Republicans," Buch wald said, "but there aren't any left," He later suggested t h a t , l FT- ' 1 Sum- said that he now has faith la the youth to make decisions'.; . "The decisions 18-year-oldS" make are as sound as those by 60 and 70-year-old senior citizens. Extending suffrage would not in my opinion pre cipitate a radical movement among the voting populace," he explained. A youth study group affili ated with the Governors Coun cil on Youth, headed by John Schrekinger a University stu dent, is currently collecting material for a report on the success of 18-year-old voting, in other states. The report will be published sometime within the next week. Vol. 90, No. 23' perhaps each town should have a "resident Republi can". Buchwald said that he hoped Richard Nixon runs in 1968, because "I've already heard his speech." Buchwald said that at times when he makes things up they turn out to be true. He said that the "scariest example" of this was when he had told Canadians that in order to attract attention in the Unit ed States they would have to provoke trouble, say by "dropping leaflets on Minne sota or something." Buchwald said that two weeks later something the Canadians did blew out every light in the northeastern Unit ed States. After the speech, Buchwald signed copies of his new book "Son of the G r e a t Society" and chatted with the stu dents. The speech was the second in a series of presentations of the Nebraska Union Talks and Topics committee. Novice Debaters Win Five Of Six University novice debate teams won five matches and lost one at a tournament at Omaha University Wednes day. According to Dr. Donald Olson of the speech depart ment, this was the first in a -series of monthly tourna ments for beginning debat ers. The next will be at Kan sas State Saturday. Olson said that a trophy will be awarded to the col lege accumulating the most : points by March. The team composed of Jeanne Kudrna and Linda Wells won two and lost one. The team of Fred Conley and Carol Schumaker won three. Olson said that there will be about 40 colleges at the Kansas State tournament. University debaters Rich ard Sherman and Terry Hall will debate an Iowa State team Saturday at a high school clinic in Lincoln. --- The demonstration debate will cover the question of whether U.S. foreign aid should be restricted to non military assistance. SAM Fire Vigil To Singe Tigers "Flames will fly 'til the1 Tigers die" at the fourth, annual Sigma Alpha Mu' bonfire at 9 p.m. Monday at the SAM house Football coach Bob De vaney, the team co-captains, pep band and pom pom girls will be there. Women's hours will be e tended until the event tk over, according to Dean Helen Snyder. The fire will burn con tinuously from 9 p.m. Mon day until game time Satur day with a constant watch by members. :-J The bonfire has tradition ally been held before the Oklahoma g a m e, but be cause of a conflict with Thanksgiving vacation,. It has been changed. Firewood is needed, so anyone wishing to donate It can either bring It to the SAM house or call and the members will pick it up, ac cording to Tom Rubin. All living units are ' en couraged to come In force and to bring signs. 'A- 'A V, '4 4 ,1? t v: . S ' r I f r 4 h ' u i 2 '7 4 M i ., .jr. fv - 1 . . . .