The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 29, 1955, Image 1

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    Backing For Council
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The University's independent stu
dent groups have announced that
the independents will sponsor an
all-independent Student Council
election slate. Interviews with stu
dents interested in filing with the
support of the independent groups
will be held Tuesday night.
Doug Jensen, president of the
Residence Association for Men,
said that an agreement has been
made among the various independ
ent groups to sponsor and support
these candidates.
Participating in the agreement
are the Residence Association for
Men, the Residence Halls for Wom
en and the Co-op Council. Repre
sentatives of these organizations
will make up the interviewing
board.
Interviews will be held in the
Resident Adviser's Office of Selleck
Quadrangle from 7-9:30 p.m. Tues
day. At this time all independent
men will be interviewed. From
9:30-10:30 the board will interview
in the Women's Dorm all inde
pendent women who plan to file.
"The purpose of this system,"
according to Lowell Vestal,
R.A.M. secretary, "is to present a
unified independent set of candi
dates. In the past independents
have often split their votes because
there was no central group to en
dorse specific candidates."
Vestal explained that all inde-
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Honorary
Pledge
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Freshmen
Twenty-nine freshman women
women were pledged recently by
Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman
scholastic honorary:
Joanne Bender, Beverly Buck,
Dorothy Dicke, Karen Dryden, Ev
onne Einspahr, Claryce Evans,
Julie Fahnestock, Gretchen Glads-
stone, Kay Sandra Gleason, Jane
Greenwalt, Holly Hawke, Marilyn
Heck, Carol Hentzen, Jacqueline
Higbee, Janice Kraus.
Jane Michaud, Barbara Millnitz,
Patricia Nixon, Nancy Salter, Jo
Ann Sander, Harriet Saville, Sally
Schwantje, Julie Senge, Barbara
Sharp, Peggy Volzke, Marilyn Wae
chter, Joan Weerts, Mary Ruth
Weisel and Jackie Whittle.
Officiating officers were presi
dent Ruth Lucke, Jody Chalupa,
Mary James and Gerrayne Swan
son. Initiation will be April 21.
APA Elect President
Norman E. Creutz was recently
elected president of the University
branch of the American Pharma
ceutical 'Association.
Other officers elected were Gary
Christensen, Pearl Bremer and
Jack Wier.
NUCWA Announces Filings
Open For Eight Board Posts
Filings for eight NUCWA board
positions are open. Applications
may be obtained from the
NUCWA mailbox in the basement
of the Union.
Positions open include Spring
Conference Chairman; Civic and
Discussion Activities Chairman,
who will set up a speakers bureau,
obtain speakers and conduct dus
cussions; Program Chairman, who
will plan the NUCWA meetings,
and Foreign Student Affairs Chair
man, who will make personal con-
Indonesian Visitor
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By BARBARA SHARP
, Staff 'Vriter
A 23-year-old Indonesian student,
recently commissioned an Admiral
in the Nebraska Navy by Gov.
Victor Anderson, is studying youth
activities and youth problems on
the University campus.
The student is Wartomo, a third
year law student and guest of the
State Department, who in his own
country is vice-president of the Cen
tral Board of the Indonesian-Moslem
Student Union and secretary
of the All Indonesian-Moslem
Youth Federation. He is also a
teacher of civics and economics in
a high school in his country.
Wartomo attends the University
AZ To Elect New
Initiates Thursday
Alpha Zeta, men's agricultural
scholastic honorary, will hold a
smoker Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in
the Ag Union Lounge.
Purpose of the smoker is to
choose members for initiation into
Alpha Zeta, said Orval Weyers,
chancellor. Election of new mem
bers will take place immediately
after the smoker.
pendents are urged to come before
the interviewing board and not
just those who are members of the
groups represented on the board.
Students who live in Lincoln and
out-of-town students who do not
live in organized houses are in
cluded. "The purpose of the interviews is
not to confine the endorsed candi
dates to members of organized in
dependent houses, but to select
the best people regardless of their
housing," Vestal added.
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Vol. 55, No. 66
Law Competition
Hani" U
The final round of the 1955 Al
len Moot Court competition will be
held Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the
chambers of the Nebraska Supreme
Court.
Robert Berkshire and Robert
Johnson will argue against Jay
Dunlap and Paul Dunlap in the
final competition. The four law
students are seniors.
Supreme Court Justices will hear
the case concerning the issuance
of a writ of habeas corpus. Win
ners will have their names in
scribed on a plaque. The public
may attend.
The freshman practice round of
the competition will begin April 18.
All arguments will be presented at
the College of Law building and
will be judged by senior law stu
dents.
Paring for the competition are:
April 183:30 p.m., Harold Walk
er and Glendon Kemline vs. Wil
liam Ross and James Phillips,
Aoril 187:30 p.m.. William
Wolph and Hoburt Huston vs. Rich
ard Childs and Robert- Chubbock.
April 193:30 p.m., Richard Ar
tison and LaVon Billings vs.
Charles Burns and Charles Firzke.
April 197:30 p.m, James Knapp
and Bruce Barton vs. Domenico
Caporale and Willard Lorensen.
SC Filings
Student Council college repre
sentative filings will be open until
Saturday noon. It was incorrectly
stated in last Friday's Nebraskan
that college filings closed last Sat
urday. tact with foreign students.
Faculty Relations Chairman, who
will make contacts with faculty
members: United Nations and
International Relations Club Chair
man, who will be chairman of
UN V'eek and who will take care
of relatipns between college and
National' offices; Membership
Chairman, who will have the re
sponsibility of recruiting new mem
bers' and Publicity and Displays
Chairman, who will have the
responsibility of publicizing NU
CWA events.
of Indonesia at Djakarta. He has
been in the United States one
and a half months. Before com
ing to Lincoln, he visited New
York and attended lectures on so
cial work at the United Nations.
He is observing the activities of
the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp
fire Girls, Junior Red Cross, YM
CA, YWCA, Boys and Girls State
and other social agencies. When
he returns to Indonesia, he will
report on these activities and will
try to improve them in his coun
try. He commented that students at
the University are "very well
equipped; you have all the materi
als for study, recreational and edu
cational purposes." But he pointed
out that University students all ov
er the United States have one maj
or failing.
"One fact I realized," he said,
"is that students pay very little
attention to foreign and national
affairs. In Indonesia, students
are much i more conscious of
international events."
Wartomo stressed the importance
of moral support as well as finan
cial assistance to Asian countries.
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After the interviews, the inter
viewing board will compile a list
of the candidates to be endorsed.
One person will be selected) for
each college representative posi
tion. All independent groups will
then be asked to support these
candidates, Vestal explained.
"We feel this is the only way
in which we can successfully com
pete with other organizations in se
curing proportionate representa
tion for independent students," he
I said.
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University of Nebraska
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April 203:30 p.m. George Sohl
and Eugene Robert vs. Wallace
Reed and John Deish.
April 207:30 p.m. Donald Bloom
and Gordon Gay vs. George Null
and Kenneth McCormick. '
April 213:30 p.m., Stanley Lo
gan and Kenneth Freidrichsen
vs. Gene Spence and Floyd Sterns.
April 217:30 p.m., Robert Bat
tey and William Marti vs. Jerome
Barton and Donn Raymond.
April 223:30 p.m., James Golle
hon and David Erickson vs Ray
mond Mladovich and Norman Veit
zer. April 253:30 p.m., Gary Frand
sen and John Marvel vs. Norman
Ataturk University
Baher To Head Nebraska
Mission To Turkish School
A contract involving the payment
of approximately $1,400,000 to
Ataturk Univesity by the U.S. For
eign Operation Administration
was signed Monday afternoon, ac
cording to Chancellor Clifford Har
din. Dr. Marvel L. Baker' associate
director of the Nebraska Experi
ment Station and assistant profes
sor of animal husbandry, will
leave Wednesday to head a Ne
braska mission to assist in estab
lishing the new university.
Last fall, the Turkish government
selected four possible sites for the
university, but had not chosen one.
It is' Dr. Baker's understanding
that the city of Erzurum has been
selected.
Two-Year Stay
Dr. Baker will serve as dean and
chief agricultural advisor of the
university. He will remain in Tur
key for about two years.
Early in the year, six Nebraska
faculty members went to Turkey
to help draw up plans for Ata
turk University and for conferences
with the Turkish government.
Nebraska professors were select
ed to assist in the planning due
to similiarity of climate and agri
cultural problems in the two
areas.
Also in the provisions of the
contract signed Monday is a clause
that the Nebraska mission will
"Indonesia, Algeria, Morocco and
other countries there are struggling
for freedom," he said. "The United
States should give them moral sup
port because your country is the
mother of democracy and liberty."
Communists
Discussing the problems of Com
munism, he said that in Indonesia,
the Communist Party is recognized
as a legal party.
But, he added, "there are two
reasons why the Communists don't
have a great influence on Indones
ians. The first is that 90 per cent
of the people are Moslem and a
loyal Moslem cannot adhere to
Communist doctrines. The second
reason is the Communists made
a great mistake during the revolu
tion in our country when they made
a rebellion agaira' our government.
The only influence the Communists
have is in labor union in the cities.
Commenting on the educational
procedures in Indonesia as com
pared with the United States, War
tomo said that the system of edu
cation in his country is more "in
tellectual" than it is here.
"But," he said, "You are more
practical here than we are in my
country." He observed that uni
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April 257:30 p.m., Marvin Green
and Deryl Hamann vs. Lloyd Knapp
and Phillip Johnson.
Defense Department
All Seniors In AFROTC
To Receive Commissions
All graduating Air Force ROTC
cadets will be commissioned this
year, according to a Department
work with the Turkish Minister of
Education in setting up the new
university.
Ataturk University will also co
operate with the agriculture and
veterinary science faculties of the
University of Ankara, in addition
to the University of Nebraska mis
sion. Erzurum, the town unofficially
reported as the site of the Univer
sity, is an old city in Eastern Tur
key, near the Russian border.
It is very important from a mili
tary and strategic standpoint, ac
cording to faculty members on
last fall's commission.
Specialists in engineering and
architecture will join Dr. Baker's
mission at a later date.
'Educational Leader'
"We feel extremely fortunate in
obtaining Dr. Baker for this job,"
Dr. Hardin said. "He is one of
the most respected educational
leaders in the country."
The commission last fall was
composed of A. T. Anderson, as
sociate professor history; W. V.
Lambert, dean of the College of
Agriculture; Carl Olson, chairman
of the animal pathology depart
ment; Roy M. Green, dean of the
College of Engineering and Archi
tecture; Knute O. Broady, director
of the University Extension Di
vision,' and Elvin F. Frolik, chair
man of the agronomy department.
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versities in this country empha
size activities more than they do in
Indonesia. He added that Indone
sian organizations are based main
ly on religion such as the Catholic
Student Union and the Moslem Stu
dent Union.
Suggestions
Wartomo admitted that he had
seme suggestions for improvement
of activities on the University camp
us. "I suggest that all student or
ganizations promote international
relations activities especially with
democratic nations. It is very bad
if you don't know about other coun
tries because then you can't pro
mote mutual understanding to ach
ieve our common ideal which is
peace in the world."
He will travel to St. Louis next
month to attend the National Con
ference of International Relations
Clubs. Several University students
representing NUCWA will also at
tend this conference. Wartomo will
then visit the University of Okla
homa at Norman to participate in
Asia Week on that campus.
"In June of next year, I plan
to return home," he said. He
will report on his observations of
all youth activities in this coun
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Tuesday, March 29, 1955
Advanced ROTC
Applications for advanced
Army ROTC may be picked up
in the Military and Naval Sci
ence Building, ROTC headquar
ters announced.
Applications must be signed by
the student's adviser and his av
erage must be certified by the
registrar "before the application
is turned in.
Complete applications must be
returned before March 31 to
Dean Colbert's office in the Adm.
Building.
of Defense bulletin received Thurs
day. Not all graduates were awarded
commissions last year, Capt. E. W.
Nyland, public information officer
of Air Force ROTC, said. They were
given the alternative of a commis
sion in the National Guard, if
they were not accepted into the
Air Force.
Most graduates refused commis
sions were turned down because
they were not applying for flight
school, Nyland said.
It is anticipated that all students
commissioned will be called to ac
tive duty within a year, Nyland
said. Most will be called within a
few months.
The factor which regulates the
number of students receiving
commissions is the number of
spaces available in flight schools,
he said.
Students who have had previous
military duty or are continuing
with academic work will not re
ceive commissions, the bulletin
stated.
The Air Force estimates that ap
proximately 10,200 cadets will re
ceive commissions, the Defense De
partment bulletin said.
Students who will graduate dur
ing the period from May 1, 1955
to April 30, 1956, will come under
the jurisdiction of the new pro
gram, the bulletin stated.
Howell Theater
Clute
Orchesis Schedules
Show For
The Orchesis spring show, will
be held May 20 and 21 in the
Howell Memorial Theater.
Last year a capacity crowd of
more than 300 was present at both
performances in Grant Memoiral.
The theme for the show is,
"Dance is Life," and is presented
in four acts. Orchesis will be as
sisted in the production by Pre
Orchesis and the men's modern
dance group.
Dorothy Maxwell is director and
sponsor. The piano arrangements
are by Mrs. Jessie Flood.
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Mo Valley
U Debaters Win
Second In
University debaters won second
place in the annual Missouri Val
ley Forensic Conference held
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at
the University of Kansas.
Participating, in debat- were the
teams of Jere McGaffey and
Allen Overcash, Jack Rogers and
Ken Philbrick debating on the sub
ject, "Resolved: Price supports of
farm products in the United States
should be abolished.
McGaffey and Overcash', speak
ing on the affirmative, won five and
lost one. Rogers and Philbrick won
four and lost two.
In quality ratings the Rogers
Philbrick team placed second
among the 14 (earns in the con
test. McGaffey and Overcas)i took
third place. Two teams from each
To Appear On
Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Be
comes Electra," the season's
fourth University Theater produc
tion, will open at 8 p.m. Tuesday
in Howell Memorial Theater.
Cast in tiie le 'ing roles of the
play which - concerns the four
member Mannon family are Joyce
Fangman as Lavinia Mannon, Eu
gene Peyroux as her brother Orin,
Barbara Leigh as the mother Chris
tine and Mortell Clute as Ezra, the
father.
Max Whittaker, assistant profes
sor of speech and dramatic art,
is directing the play which, he
said, is seldom presented in this
part of the country because of
its "production difficulties." John
Tolch and Frank Bock, instructors
in speech and dramatic art, are
technical directors of the play.
Modern Adaptation
"Mourning Becomes Electra,"
Whittaker said Monday, is "a mod
ern adaptation" of a series of three
plays by Aeschylus, Greek dra
matist of the Fifth Century B. C.
The Aeschylus trilogy, Whittaker
said, is the story of a Greek
Warrior who goes off to war against
the Trojans. While Agamemnon, the
warrior, is gone, his wife Clytem
nestra, and her lover, Aegisthus,
plot his murder, which is carried
out upon his return. Agamemnon's
children, Orestes and Electra, plan
to murder their mother and her
lover. They do, and the Furies tor
ment Orestes to near insanity for
it. The last part of the triolgy tells
how Orestes is pardoned for his
crime.
O'Neill Successful
"O'Neill has been successful,"
Whittaker said, "in his attempt to
modernize the Greek myth which
deals with the violent passions of
a house divided, intense hatred
and perverted love."
The play is set in a small New
England town of the post-Civil War
period. Orin Mannon, Whittaker
Wednesday
Casting For Three
Lab Plays Scheduled
Casting for three lab plays will
be held 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in
the Arena Theater, Max Whit
taker, director of Laboratory The
ater, said.
Rehearsals will start after spring
vacation, Whittaker said. Produc
tion dates are April 28 and 29.
The first play to be cast is the
"The Silver Cord," by Sidney
Howard, a cutting from a three
act play of the same name. t
The dominance of a mother over
her two sons Is one of the tri
angles of the play. The mother,
thinking that no girl is good
enough for either of her sons, at
tempts to break the engagement
of one son. The attempt succeeds,
and the son's fiancee attempts sui
cide. Trouble develops when the
mother attempts to ruin the other
son's marriage. Her son s wife has
a strong will and refuses to give
in.
May 20, 21
Members of Orchesis are Jacy
Mathiesen, Mary Mong, Myrna
Olson, Diane Peterson, Charlene
Pierce, Marilyn Pelikan, Jeanette
Vollmer, Caroll Newell, Sally
Gaughan, Laura Garcia, Phyllis
Dudley, Donna Yungblut, Sue
Thomas, Mary Ostdiek, Ruth Whit
tenberger, Jo Gustafson, Jan
Shrader, Pat Nehling, Donna Ste
Shrader, Pat Uehling, Donna Ste
Jelgerhuis. Tickets for the show will go on
sale May 7. The price will be 80
cents.
Tourney
of the seven colleges in the Mo-
Valley Conference participated.
The tournament also included
contests, in oratory and extemp
oraneous speaking. This s the 39th
year of the oratorical contest.
Sharon Mangold entered the or
atory contest for the University.
Her oration, entitled "None Shall
Be Denied," defended the proposi
tion that the mentally ill, especial
ly children, are rot being proper
ly cared for.
In extemp speaking, Dick An
drews reached the final round of
the contest.
Don Olson, assistant professor
of speech and director of Univer
sity debate, traveled with the team
to Lawrence.
Howell Stage
said, corresponds to Orestes. Orin,
he said becomes psychologically
disturbed for murdering his mother
Christine.
Lavinia, O'Neill's Electra, Whit
taker said, is probably the main
character. She faces psychological
problems, he went on, of which
she becomes aware only toward the
end of the play. How she atones
for her brother's suicide, he added,
climaxes the tragedy.
Production Difficulties,
Because of accompanying diffi
culties in production, Whittaker
aaid, the play is seldom presented.
Adam Brandt, Christine Man
non's lover, is played by Dick
Marrs. Others in the cast are John
Forsyth, Doris Growcock, Bill Wag
ner, Linda Beal, Keith Williams,
Shirley Elliott, Len Schripfer, Don
ald Auld, Wayne Hunkins and
Larry Carstenson.
Jean Weddle is assistant to the
director and Ted Nittler is produc
tion manager. On the production
staff are Gloria Kollmorgen, Lou
Cohen, Bob Eaton, Josephine Mar
golin, Merle Stewart, Jim Copp,
Beverlee Engelbrecht, Bill Cole
man, Karen Peterson, Doris Biller
beck, Mary Lou Pittack, Don Auld.
Dolly Ann Rejda, Len Schropfer,
Sondra Sherman, Shirley Elliott,
Joyce Stratton, Sally Armour and
Claryce Evans.
Yell Squad Tryouts
Freshman students may register
for Yell Squad tryouts in the Ac
tivities Office until 4 p.m. Tues
day. Squad practice will be held Tues
day and Wednesday from 4 to 5:30
pm. on the Coliseum stage.
Judging will take place on Thurs
day at 7 p.m. in the Coliseum. The
Yell King will also be chosen then.
The characters include the dom
ineering mother, Mrs. Phillips;
David and Christina, her son and
daughter-in-law; her other son and
his fiancee, Robert and Hester.
Alberta Kasparek will direct tha
play.
The second play to be cast is "By
Euripedes!" a cutting from Thorn
mas Jeffers' version of Euripedes
famous tragedy "Media."
John Forsyth is director of the
play.
"A Cup of Tea" is the final
lab play to be cast. It is an adap
tation of a Katherine Mansfield
short story.
The action of the play centers
around a selfish London socialite
who decides to help a poverty-
stricken artist for publicity advan
tageous to herself. When compli
cations arise, the socialite turns
the artist out of the house.
The cast includes three female
and two male parts. Jane Laasa
will direct the play and Ron Green
will be production manager.
All regularly enrolled University
students are eligible for parts in
lab plays, Whittaker said.
Twenty-Three
Awarded Ag
Scholarships
Twenty-three Ag College student
received scholarships to attend the
13th annual Livestock Marketing'
School in Omaha April 3 through
April 6.
This annual school is being spon
sored by the Livestock Exchange,
Union Stock Yards Company and
the Omaha Meat Packers in co
operation with the University.
The four-day session Will consist
of talks by marketing personnel
observations of the markets and
tours of packing plants. -
William J. Loeffel, chairman of
the animal husbandry department
announced the students selected:
Richard Alden, Ken Billings, Wil
liam Bobst, Harold Coleman, Leo
Damkroger, Stanley Eberspacher,
Larry Gray, Thomas Haley,
Howard Hall, Robert Hansen, Del
bert Heinrichs, Gary Hild, Ned
Luther, Ed MacReynolds, Elton
Perry, Jim Peters, Donald Rey
nolds, James Schmoker, Joa
Shrader, Wayne Spilker, Jack
Todd, Ralph Walker and Kaye Don
Wiggans.
Union Announces
Talent Auditions
Auditions for the Union annual
spring Talent Show, May 1, will
be held April 14 at 7 p.n: in the
Round-up Room, said, Larry Han
son, general committee chairman.
Hansen said that anyone who can
sing, dance or play an instrument
may sign up in the. Union activities
office by Tuesday.
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