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Sunday, March 5, 1950 PAGE 4 THE DAILY NEBRASKAM Know Your College ... Grad School Offers 46 By Tom Rische. The improvement of all facili ties for graduate instruction and research and expanding research in all fields of endeavor. That is the "dream" of the Ne braska graduate college, which offers advanced study in 46 fields at the present time. Students who have received their bachelor's degrees from a university and are working on their masters or doctor's degrees are registered in the Graduate college. Those students plan to go into teaching in colleges, or into re search work for some company or the government. Some students enroll in graduate courses in order to broaden their knowledge without intention of receiving a degree. The faculty of the Graduate college includes professors from all departments in which ad vanced courses are offered. The faculty usually instructs under graduates within the various de partments and colleges as well as graduate students. More Interest. There has been a great deal more interest in graduate work since the war. There are 932 students taking graduate work during this semester, as com pared with 380 for the same per iod ten years ago. The present enrollment is the highest number ever taking graduate work during one school semester. The lowest enrollment in a number of years was recorded during the late war years, reaching the lowest point during the 1945-46 semesters. Twenty-eight doctor's and 157 master's degrees were issued by the college in June, 1949. The study for advanced degree entails an intensive study of the field in which the student is ma joring. The master's degree re quires one year of study. Stu dents who plan to teach in col lege or to engage in research are required to write a thesis on a subject within their interest field. After completion, two copies of the thesis are placed on file in Love Library. Students planning to teach in secondary schools or to engage in some civil service work are not required to write a thesis. If they later decide to take their doctor's work, they must demon- Council . . . (Continued from Page 1.) Idea has developed to the ex tent that college students who attend the conference voluntar ily, present a space problem. Unique Group It developed out of the dis cussion that Nebraska Builders Js a unique organization among the Big Seven schools. Their program of publicizing the uni versity to all prospective stu dents during the summer is an original feature. The newspaper sent out during the summer im pressed the delegates a great deal. "First Glance," the latest Builders publication, was hand ed out to all delegates and was read with real interest as being truly descriptive of the Nebraska campus. The subject of pll university dances brought heated discussion from the group. All have had similar experiences with big name bands cancelling contracts, and charging exorbitant prices for one night stands. Gene Berg led the discussion for Nebraska and talked about Nebraska's vrwripnr with cancellations. and brought out the point that bands playing at universities re c?ived a great deal of free pub licitr and usually play only un til 12 o'clock yet charge almost double the prTce they receive from non-university dances. Set Band Price A resolution to set a price of $1,750 as a maximum for big name binds playing at any big Seven school was passed with the hope that it would have a decided influence on booking agencies and the price problem in the future. The econd resolution pabsid provided for the establishment cf a plan whereby schools who wanted to hold Ftudent migra tion! notify the school to which they were migrating of the ap proximate number that were coming, and if possible set up ome traditions such as exiht be tween the big rivals. Kansas State and Kansas university. The ttudent-faculty relationi topic met with wide variety of ideas and opinions. Most school! nther had, or were in favor of joining a teacher rating system. Kantii State presented the most outstanding plan to promote bet ter student faculty relations. A summer conference at a camp It organized by their student planning committee. Faculty memberi are invited and of ficial delegates attend. New Bulei Made Iew rules are made at the three-day conference at which faculty and student are on an equal basis. The Kansas dele gate remarked that a picture published in the school paper of the dean of women cleaning uo the camp grounds is typical of the aquility of the summer pro gram. He extended a formal invitation to all member schools cf the big Seven to send a max imum of two delegates to the 1 950 student planning commu tes conference as observers. Outlining the reasons for stu dent government In univers ity the delegates expressed va rious opinion: only way a stu dent can fulfill responsibility to the university community: ad ministration of student affairs; act as a voice of the sluoents; set up to appropriate $12,000 to various organization. The last tatcmert of organization was rn;,fie by Oklahoma university, whe? ttudent senate ha a bu'Jict of that amount annually. .v DIRTY WORK Charles Cook, graduate student, and C. T. Arnzcn work on the ion accelerator in the Physics building. The machine was made under the supervision of Dr. Theodore Jorgenson, chairman of the Physics department. The machine is being used in an attempt to find the fundamental range-energy relationship of ions in gases. (Rag Photo by Rod Riggs.) strafe their ability to carry on independent research. 30 Graduate Work. Before becoming an applicant for doctor's study, the student must have completed 30 hours of graduate work. He must take at least half of his work in courses relating to his major. He must also write a thesis, which after completion is 'printed in abstract form along with the other disser tations for that graduating class. Kwan Chung Tsou. of Shang hai, China, is working for his doctor's degree in chemistry. A graduate of the National Central University in Nanking, he came to the United States after the war. The University of Nebras ka was strongly recommended to him by an American soldier with whom he became acquanited After investigation he found that the University had one of the NU Dairy Club Tabs Members The NU Varsity Dairy club, a chapter of the American Dairy Science association, has awarded charter memberships to 12 Ag college students. The awards were made at a dinner in the Union Thursday evening, March 2. Prof. P. S. Lucas of Michigan State Univer sity, the main speaker, discussed "Trends in Research in Ice Cream." Dr. H. L. Templeton of Omaha was program chair man. The dinner was part of a two day conference held Thursday and Friday, March 2-3. Butter-making was the con ference discussion Friday. Speak ers included V. Schwarzkoff, Chicago; W. J. Dixon, Ueloit, Wisconsin; Prof. J. C. Olson, Un versity of Minnesota; H. W. Mc Elroy, Lincoln; Russell Filer, Chicago: Dr. Templeton, and L. K. Crowe, University of Ne braska. The Nebraska Butter Institute held its annual meeting Friday, March 3. United Nations Delegate Plan? TT,,!,,..,,!!.. Ir-f Crace Holmes, representative of the United Nations Interna tional C h i 1 d r e n's Emergency Fund, will visit the campus this week to tell ttuderits about the organization with which fchc works. On Thursday from 4 to 5 p. m representatives of various tain pus organizations will attend a coffee hour for Mrs. Holmes. She will lead an informal discussion about L'NICEF at that time. The coflec hour is sponsored by the Nebraska University Council lor World Affairs, which is in charge of the model UN general assembly. Mrs. Holmes will also fpe.-.k over the radio Thursday morn ing. That noon she will attend a luncheon .jiven by the presi dents of state women's organiza tions and by Lincoln women in terested in L'NICEF. The lunch eon will be fx-ld in I'arlor Y of the Union. Aft'-rward. the Lin coln women will conduct her on Tri-K Hopefuls Plan Initiation Tri-K, honor-try agronomy fraternity, will initiate 30 new members, Thursday, March 9. according Vi Dale Flowerday, president of the club. Men M-lccted for me nembcrship of instrur- rHiiir'd to attached to have received letter tion. They will be rrnpii wear an car of corn a green and gold ribbon around their necks for the two days pre ceding the initiation. "Tradition holds," Flowerday said, "that suitable punihhxnent will be given for kernels that are . missing from the ears of corn." Erick Nilson Is chairman of the eligibility committee and Warren Munson and Charles Stuber assisting. Co-chairman of the Initiating committee are Don Iiever and Arnold Nievwn. Other members are Gene Heuerrnann, Wayne Hansen and Norman Swanson. Flowerday also said that Tri-K will rponsor the annual CropF Judging and Identification con trt, oin to all Ag students May 13. a tour around the city. f.jt )-' Before Mrs. Holmes took l.f;r Ki Au'"! job with UNICEF, the was ac- UJJ'r.'i ('. tive in fled Cioss. During the- iV ; y, war the did work with prisoners. Afj Ifi it- V better graduate colleges of chem istry in the country. For his doctor's thesis, Tsou is studying the possibilities of using a compound similar to nitrogen mustard as a cure for cancer. While nitrogen mustard will aid in the cure of cancer, it is toxic to the patient. Tsou and others are working on possible alterna tive compounds which may form a possible cure for cancer. Thesis. As soon as his part of the re search is complete, he will write Montgomery Lecture Plans Announced W. T. Stace, professor of philosophy at Princeton Univer sity, will deliver the lectures during the annual Montgomery Lectureship on Contemporary Civilization, March 20-24. Profesusr Stace is a noted hu manist and author of several books in this f;eld. His book, "Destiny of Western Man." has been acclaimed one of the finest on philosophy. The Montgomery Lectureship, sponsored by the University Re search council, was established in 1 046 from the income of the James Montgomery Memorial. Benjamin Boyce, professor of English, said that the purpose of the lecture is to stimulate con structive thought on contempo rary problems. All lectures will be given in Love Library auditorium. Program and topics: March 20, Values in General; March 22, Demon atir Values; March 24, Whv Do We Fail? -5 , DOROTHY HART Lovely Denison Alumna, says: "Chesterfield was my cigarette in college and it's my cigarette today. They're always MILDER." CO-iTAPKING IN "OUTSIDE THE WALL" A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE mm- V It fSf. .... wi S :1 ' V f"! ''" ' l M ( Fields a thesis explaining the steps taken in all his research. The thesis will include theory and a description' of all experimental work, successful or not, of syn thesizing these compounds. The actual writing of the thesis should take about two or three months, Tsou said. Tsou spends most of his days, as well as many evenings and Saturdays in research for the project. He spends most of his time in research, although he at tends about ten hours of class each week. If the political situation in China permits, Tsou would like to return to China as a college in structor or to work in some in dustry or research. Henry Angelino is working toward a Doctor's degree in edu cational psychology and measure ment. This involves a study of individual psychological charac teristics and measurement of the mental and personality traits. Students majoring in psychol ogy are required to go on travel ing clinics which travel to dif ferent schools throughout the state testing students in elemen tary and high schools. Every student is required to do some part time teaching also. Angelino is teaching part time in the Sociology and Education departments. For his thesis, An gelino is making a study of re sults of the "Roscnzweig Picture Frustration Test." The test is composed of a num ber of pictures presenting situa tions which would be frustrating to the average child. The child is then asked to tell what he thinks the reaction of the child j in the picture would be. Uncon sciously, he gives in this response his own reaction. In this way, something of the child's personal ity ran be shown. Angelino is ' correlating the results of the study by Dr. Roscn zweig with his own findings, ob tained by tests given to more Women Used for Breakfast Test Not guinea pigs, but flesh and blood women were used recently at Penn State College Medical School to test the necessity for eating a good breakfast. The scientists wanted to know if there was a difference in the reaction time, output of work, and tremor of a person if that person had or had not eaten a good breakfast. After months of testing, it was found that without breakfast, output goes down, reactions are slower, and tremor increases. N U Bulletin Board ISA council will meet ; t 5 p m. in Room 313 of the Union Mon day . Theta f hi meets Monday at 7 i p.m. in 121 Burnett. Willi MOIO DOANf iiirr CIMIKH 1UIVfHlir IZcyte MlDffl IZey'ro TOPS- of Study than 500 Lincoln school children. He then checks with the teach ers of these cildren to see if the results obtained by the tests check with the behavior of the children in school. Angelino has spent nearly two years in this study. His thesis will compare his own findings with those of Dr. Rosenzweig. The aim is to determine whether or not the test is an accurate test of personality. NYU Graduate. Angelino graduated from New York University, and received his Master s degree from the Univer sity of New Mexico. He first came to Nebraska in 1938 as su pervisor of the archaelogical laboratory. He came to the Uni versity partly because he had married a Nebraska girl, and partly because he believed that Nebraska had one of the better educational psychology depart ments. He hopes to be able to obtain a combined teaching and research job in some University or college. Many of the students within the graduate college are graduate assistants in some capacity. There are 41 graduate full time instructors, 22 part time instruc tors. About 150 have other as sistants jobs. Graduates of 156 institutions representing 34 states and 13 foreign countries are at present working toward their Master's degree. Doctor's degree candi dates represent 42 colleges and universities in 22 states and two foreign countries. School administration Is the most popular graduate course of fered. Ninety-four students, in cluding many school superinten dents in small towns, are en rolled in this course. Other more popular courses include educa tional psychology and measure ments, chemistry, rural econom ics, secondary education and agronomy. Since 1909. Graduate instruction in the University began in 1885. A graduate school was organized in 1895, and the present Graduate college was established in 1909. Robert W. Goss, present dean of the college, has served in that capacity since 1941. As dean of the college Goss is in charge of all University re search, is a member of a policy committee which prepares all matters to be presented to the Board of Regents, and serves on the University Building commit tee. He Is assisted by Harold E. Wise, assistant dean since 1948, who handles all admissions to the college and supervises the ques tions of student requirements. At least 37 graduate fellow ships worth $300 or more are available to deserving students. There are a number of smaller grants covering only tuition or with a small stipend. Dean Goss hopes that of ten proposed men's dormitories to be built, one will be available for graduate students only. ZD v , Jv-'. : k. 's ' ' - I , y - . I I : : : ) V . ?. ''YV : , '-"j.y , rffH Recent Nolionol Survty ' ' W ji'tK' iblJllilljliiJlll UiLLLyj 1 1 a if X ) y X " w REACTION TEST Henry Angelino, graduate educational psy chology student, administers the Rosenzweig Picture frustration test to a high school student. Noting the student's reactions to each picture is of utmost importance in the test. For other details of test, see story at left. (Rag Photo by Rod Riggs.) Meeting ... (Continued from Page I.) things students had been refer ring to. "This action," iaKe stated, "came as a result of lack of use of the building at night. When only 10 or 12 students fre quent the Union in the evening hours," declared the director, "it certainly does not warrant its being kept open." , Low Fees. Lake explained that this Uni versity has one of the lowest fees in the country to operate a Union. 'And, he continued, "our fee of $3 a semester is maintaining two unions. The city building is get ting to the point of wear and tear, and it is very expensive to make the repairs and rennova tions that are necessary." Lake compared the Union fees of other universities to the ones on the Nebraska campus: Utah university, $20 per year: Wyo ming. $3 each quarter; Cornell, $5 each quarter; Indiana, $6.75 each semester; Minnesota, $3 each quarter; Wisconsin, $5 each se mester; and Montana university, $5 each quarter. Many of these fees include just operation or construction, pointed out Lake. Even if the fee for Ag students were increased to $5 each semes ter, that would mean a fund of $10,000 a year, explained Lake. Assuming that costs necessary for operation were $7,000, this would leave only $3,000 to put in a re serve fund for the expansion. 'The kind of building students want on Ag," says Lake, "would cost about one-half million dol lars. At this rate you can see how long it would take before it would be possible to issue a bond," remarked Lake. Other Campus Unions. 'We would like to expand," admitted Lake. "Our bond issue will be paid off by 1952. We are lacking a lot here. Studnts who have the opportunity to see what other campus unions have in the line of facilities and activities come back here and wonder what's the matter," said Lake. "In one sense," he continued, "we owe it to the students who started the campaign for expan sion and improvement in 1935. rMAA7mCA'S COUICES iVTMTNF TOP AfifW SPOXTS f IYTH TH HOUYbYOQD STABS -v. The status quo is just not enough on city campus." As Lake admitted, Ag students claim that facilities are grossly inadequate on their campus. They point out that especially when conventions and outstate meetings are held on campus, they have no facilities to accom modate such meetings. yoc A; to Attend April FFA Meet Plans for the Nebraska State Future Farmers of America con vention and judging contests were made at the last meeting of the Voc Ag association. The convention is scheduled for April 13, 14 and 15 on the Ag campus. Approximately 100 schools and about 600 high school stu dents will participate in the fol lowing Farm mechanics, dairy management, poultry judging, dairy cattle judging, crops judg ing and identification, farm management, dairy products judging, animal husbandry judg ing and crops and soils manage ment. The Ag association x 111 assist the various departments in set ting up the contests, directing and supervising contestants and completing the determination of the winners. Senior members in each group will act as chairmen. The association will provide a lunch stand on the campus grounds. Classified SUITE of two rooms for two hovn. On campua 3fi V-A roup A-l (Hill, 3-47R8 In Rnmy. 2 and 4 rnnm pt. on carapuj. Kratonablt, gmct. Phnn 2-443S. GOOH twd tlret $2 95. National road hazard guarantee. month fi.iXW milea. FK-P at W'il R HAAS O. K. RITRBER WELDKRff ATTKNTION tUiJ-nta. 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