It Happened At NU
An English professor was quoting Hamlet's
soliloquy to his class the other day. " 'To die, to
sleep ... perchance to dream. Aye, there's the "
rub.' Now what's the next line?" he asked a
dozing student.
"Unnh ... 'Is that a dagger I see before
me?' " the dreamer plucked from "MacBeth.."
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Vol. 59, No. 23
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Wednesday, November 9, 1955
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Honorary Commandant Finalists
Finalists for Honorary Com
mandant for the 1955 Military
Ball are, left to right, Peggy
Baldwin, Janice Carman, Phyllis
Sherman and Gail Drahota. ROTC
students in all three branches
QjEnsiveirsi'fy Heflinistefe
Suspended SfdodjeBDfrs
identity Of
Re-admission of six of the 18
students suspended from the Uni
versity after last Spring's riot was
revealed Tuesday following an edi
torial in The Nebraskan which re
ported the "fact that some oi the
suspended students were back in
school.
J. P. Colbert, Dean of Student
Affairs reportedly said that the
Rally:
Cobs Sponsor
Cofiipefifion
or Houses
A pre-Homecomlng rally is sched
uled for Wednesday at 6:45 p.m.
in front of the Carillon Tower,
Norm Creutz, Corn Cobs president,
announced Tuesday.
Competition between women's
and men's organized houses for the
most attractive banner is sched
uled, Creutz said. Trophies will be
given to the best banner in both
women's and men's divislbns, he
aid.
Banners will be Judged on orig
inality and cleverness, he said.
Winners will be announced Friday
night at the Homecoming rally, he
aid.
The Homecoming rally Friday
night will feature a bonfire on the
practice field. The rally will begin
at the Union and progress to the
practice field, Creutz said.
The evaluation team to deter
mine the estimated worth of ma
terial used in homecoming house
displays will consist of Paul Hy
land, Landy-Clark Lumber Co.,
and H. H. Acre, United Rent-All,
Von Innes, chairman of the Inno
cents Homecoming committee,
said.
Judges for Homecoming displays
will be Harry Weaver, Innocents
advisor; Norma Carpenter, adver
tising manager for Miller and
Paine; John Weaver, instructor in
architecture: Col. C. J .Frank
furter, past Innocent's adviser;
and Max Worley, Lincoln business
man.
Entries are divided into three
groups, Scarlet, Cream and wom
en's division. Competition in men's
divisions was divided Into two
groups because of the large num
ber of entries last year, Innes said.
Entries in the Scarlet division
ere Zeta Beta Tau, Acacia, Tau
Kappa Epsilon, Pi Kappa Phi,
Theta Chi, Delta, Sigma Phi,
Alpha Gamma Rho and Beta Sig
ma Psl.
Entries in the Cream division
are Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa Psi,
Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Alpha Ep
silon, Theta Xi, Beta Theta Pi,
Phi Delta Theta and Phi Gamma
Delta.
Additional entrants in the Cream
division include Delta Upsilon, Sig
ma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Delta
Tau Delta, Alpha Tau Omega and
Selleck Quad.
Trophies for first, second and
third places in' all three divisions
will be awarded at the Homecom
ing Dance Saturday, Lines said.
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will vote Nov. 17 to select the
winner who will be presented at
the 43rd annual Military Ball,
which will be held at the Coli
seum, Dec. 2. The other finalists
will be presented as Miss Army,
Miss Navy and Miss Air Force.
Students Not Released
students were admitted on a proba
tionary status effective September,
1955.
When contacted by a Nebraskan
staff member at b:15 p.m. Tuesday,
Colbert declined to comment fur
ther because it was after office
hours. He said, however, that he
was willing "to discusss the mat
ter tomorrow at my convenience."
Names of the students have not
been revealed. However Dick Glas
ford and Terry Cochran are known
to be among those re-admitted.
Colbert had reported earlier that
one student's application for re-admission
had been denied "for the
present."
Colbert had also said the cases
of the six were reviewed in accord
ance with the resolution passed by
the Board of Regents May" 10, 1955,
which stated:
"Resolved, that the action taken
by the Dean of Student Affairs in
connection with the suspension of
students involved in the riot of
April 14, 1955, on the University
campus in Lincoln be in all re
spects affirmed, provided the Dean
of Student Affairs at his discretion
may upon showing satisfactory to
Union:
Survey To
Expansion
A survey will be conducted in all
9 a.m. classes Wednesday by the
Union to find the urgent needs of
the city campus students to guide
in the planned expansion, Duane
Lake, Union director, said.
The survey, which was recom
mended by the expansion planning
consultants, is designed to find the
immediate needs of the students
and the degree of necessity. It will
also be used as a basis for future
planning, Lake said.
The cost of expansion will be re
stricted to the amount that can be
paid off in, a revenue bond issue.
The Increase of fees to $90 per
semester will give the Union $5
for every student enrolled In the
University. Future enrollment has
been taken into consideration also
in planning for paying off the cost,
Lake said.
The estimated cost for the new
addition to the present building Is
one and a quarter million dollars.
The addition will double the pres
ent square foot area and will cover
about 74,000 square feet, he added.
Lake 'said that one of the first
ideas for the addition was to ex
pand the ballroom to three times
its present size. However, it is
believed that the present need is
to provide better facilities for the
smaller activities and the individ
ual students.
While there are 'not a great
many auditorium and ballroom fa
cilities on the campus at present,
there will be many here and in
the Immediate area in the near
future, he said.
The Coliseum is planning an ex
pansion tt accommodate more peo
ple in the ballroom and to have a
better auditorium provision. The
City Auditorium and the new Fair
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Courtesy Lincoln Journal
The presentation of the Com
mandant and the representatives
of the three branches will follow
a welcome to the guests and the
grand march, consisting of se
nior ROTC cadets and their
dates.
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him and approved by the Chancel
lor re-instate any student so sus
pended upon a probationary status
under such conditions as he shall
determine advisable but not prior
to Sept. 1, 1955." - -
Before the hearings, Board Presi
dent J. Leroy Welsh read a state
ment saying that If suspended stu
dents wished to transfer to another
school credits will not be withheld
and that along with the credit
transfer would go a statement that
the student "did not leave the Uni
versity in good standing."
Following the Spring riot Colbert
had stated: "Befce any of the sus
pended students may return to the
University or before any of their
credits will be transferred to an
other school they must pay a pro
portionate share of personal los
ses."
There was no Indication from the
Office of Student Affairs of-wheth
er or not this had been done in the
case of the six students.
University authorities had also
stated that all those suspended
were to leave school "immediately
and will not be considered for re-
admission until June, 1956."
Help Plan
Prccjram
Grounds auditorium will also be
opening presently, Ag campus is
considering the possibility of build
ing a study hall with an auditor
ium. It is possible that there would be
an additional small ballroom which
would accommodate from 200 to
150 students. The results depend
on the views expressed In the sur
vey, Lake added. He felt that what
ever Is built, there are still many
social activities that students don't
want to go to campus for.
A definite part of the plans is a
new Crib with a capacity three
times as large as the present one.
There is a poslbillty that it will be
in a continental style with a new
type of table arrangement, he said.
There will also be several small
er dining rooms and a place for
students to dance, he added.
Judges To . Select
Activities Queen
AUF Activities queen will be
chosen Wed. night at 7:30 p.m. In
Room 315 at the Union. The Queen
will be presented at the AUF Auc
tion. Candidates for queen are Bever
ly Buck, representing Builders;
Barbara Sharp, Nebraskan; Sara
Hubka, Cornhusker; Marilyn Heck,
Union; and Nancy Salter, YWCA.
Judges of the contest will be Dr.
Woodrow Reed, guidance consul
tant; Dr. Wesley Poe, Director of
Junior Division and AUF advisor;
Andy Hove, Student Council pres
ident; Jan Linquist, BABW presi
dent; Paula Broady Wells, AWS
president and Rev. Rex Knowles,
pastor of Congregational-Presbyterian
student house and AUF ad
(For Tvio-Week Exam IPeriod
Review lime, Student Opinion, Faculty Hardship Stressed
By MARY SHELLED Y
Copy Editor
After six months embitter Wrang
ling involving stujkftts, faculty and1
the administration, the Faculty
Senate votedVedneslay to provide
for two-week examirJation periods
for the 1956-57 year. '
The 125-87 vote toend the ten
tative short-pr riod calendar back
to committee reversed the direc
tive adopted May 11. The Senate
action last May provoked howls of
protest from the students, inter-and
intra-college breaches, Nebraskan
editorial campaigns, Student Coun
cil resolutions and poll of the
student body and caustic Comment
from both or all sides.
Harold Wise, assistant dean of
the Graduate Colleg, introduced
the tentative 1956-57 calendar, com
menting that it followed the Senate
policy.
Wise then read the1 minority re
port of the Calendar; Committee's
student representatives.
Argument against Ithe proposed
calendar culminated in a motion
by Donald Moore, associate pro
fessor of physics, to Isend the cal
endar back to comiftittee, direct
ing it to lengthen the examination
period, and to direct! the calendar
committee to prepare subsequent
calendars (for 1957-58 and after)
after consultation with the admin
istration, the office of Registration
and Records and the students'
wishes.
T h o m a 8 Raysor, professor of
English, proposed ah amendment
asking that the committee submit
specific arguments from the ma
jority and minority for any calen
dar.
Raysor's amendment was defeat
ed. j
Wise stated that ithe calendar
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alternative calendar providing two
weeks for examinations, and that
1956-57 catalogues must go to the
printer Dec. 1 and should include
Symphony:
NU Concert
To Feature
Violinist
The Annual University Sym
phony Orchestra Concert will be
held on Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. in the
Union Ballroom. The Orchestra
will be under the direction of
Emanuel Wishnow.
Featured soloist will be Carroll
Glenn, young American violinist
and winner of all four major music
awards offered in open competi
tion in the United States. She will
play "Concerto In D. minor for
Violin It Orchestra," by Sibelius.
The concerto represents a very
characteristic and unconventional
treatment of the form, though it
has been long in gaining popular
ity, Darrina Turner, chairman of
the music committee said.
Other numbers by the Orchestra
Include "Overture to Anacreon,"
by Cherubini, "Nocturnes," by De
bussy; "Baba Jag, opus 56," by
Liadow which shows the ideas of
symbolism that were found In the
French school of composition dur
ing 1878; and "Polovetlan Danc
es from 'Prince Igor'," by Borodin
which is characterized by orches
tration and strong rhythms.
Tickets can be obtained in the
Union main office beginning Wed
nesday at 5 p.m. Each student and
faculty member is entitled to two
free tickets. The tickets will re
serve a seat for the perform'
ance until 7:45 p.m.
Union Plons
HC Eve Party
For Friday
The third annual Homecoming
Eve Dance will be held from 8:30
p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday In the
Candlelite Room of the Union, Ron
Boyd, chairman of the Union dance
committee, announced.
The dance marks the official
opening of the Candlelite Room
this year, and students are invited
to drop In after viewing the Hone
coming displays, he said.
Bill Alber's combo has been en
gaged to play for the opening,
Boyd said. The room will be ar
ranged especially for dancing, with
tables along the sides of the room
and the remaining area left for
dancing, he said.
There w i 1 1 be no admission
charge for the dance; chili and
coffee costing 25 cents will be
served, he said. The dance has al
ways been well attended in the
past, and this year promises to be
no exception, Boyd said..
the calendar.
A call to the previous question
closed the 40-minute debate. Im
mediately after the Senate voted
125-87 to return the tentative cal
endar to committee, Robert Knoll,
associate professor of English,
moved to accept the alternative
(two-week) calendar. The motion
passed by voice vote and a show
of hands.
The meeting was adjourned im
mediately. Argument in favor of the one
week exam period was presented
by Franklin Eldridge, professor of
dairy husbandry. The short period,
he said, would prevent cramming
and lessen emphasis on finals.
"Other colleges seem to manage
with a shorter period," he said.
Argument favoring the two-week
period centered around 1) the hard
ship imposed on the faculty by a
shorter period, 2) the need of stu
Student Opinion Seen
As factor In Action
Following the Faculty Senate ac
tion Tuesday, the Nebraskan inter
viewed several faculty members,
concerning individual reactions to
the hotly debated reversal of the
one-week examination directive of
last May.
The issue, which has been the
subject of considerable controver
sy, was resolved by a sound ma
jority favoring the two-week ex
amination period.
"It's very desirable for the Uni
versity to take into consideration
the attitude of the students, which
was done in the Senate meeting,"
Thomas Raysor, professor of Eng
lish, said in reference to the stu
dent poll circulated Oct. 29.
The logic of the situation and the
opinion of the students Influenced
many faculty members at the Sen
ate meeting, Stanley Ross, assist
ant prdfessor of history, said. The
reversal was a healthy sign, he
added.
"The matter was extremely im
portant to both students and fac
ulty," Boyd Carter, chairman of
the romance language department,
said. The Senate action can only
result in the ultimate good for all
concerned, he said.
Democracy prevailed at
the meeting, Adam Breckenridge,
administrative assistant to the
Chancellor and former chairman
of the political science department,
said. The meeting was evidence of
the American political system at
work, he added.
"I said all I wanted to say at
the meeting," Robert Knoll, assist
a n t professor of English, said.
Knoll spoke supporting the two
week proposal.
Chancellor Clifford Hardin left
for'an out-of-town speaking engage
ment immediately after the meet
ing and was unavailable for com
ment. "This is temporarily a fortunate
solution which takes into account
the various interests of various col
leges," William Pfeiler, chairman
of the department of Germanic
languages, said.
Banquet:
Education
Honorary
To Initiate
Pi Lambda Theta, national wom
en's education honorary, will initi
ate 49 new members at their ini
tiation banquet Wednesday at 6:30
p.m.
The new initiates are:
Helen Alberdlng, Patricia Al
vord, Carol Anderson, Doris Ander
son, Marilyn Beideck, Caroline
Boswell, JoAnn Chalupa, Prudence
Cooper, Imogene Davis, Shirley
Dewey, Jeanne Elliot, D e 1 o r e s
Fangmeier, Fanell Gutzmann, Nan
cy Hamer, Emily Hemphill.
Catherine Hodder, Billie Howalt,
Virginia Hudson, Jean Hueftle, Rita
Jellnek, Sharon Jensen, Lois Ratt
ier, Joan Kucaba Inman, Carol
Link, Phyllis Malony, Joan Mar
shall Reist, Shirley McPeck, Vir
ginia McPeck, Pat Moran, Carol
Newell.
Phyllis Ormesher, Margaret Os
beck, Mary Alice Pont, Barbara
Rystrorn, Phyllis Sherman, Karen
Smets, Judith Snell, Beverly Soder
berg, Sandra Speicher, Pat Staf
ford, Cerayne Swanson, Shirley
Swansen, Gretchen Teal, Mary
Jean Thompson.
Curole Unterseher, Eleanor Von
Bargen, Rosemary Weeks, Patricia
Wyatt and Janice Yosl. j
dents to review and put together
subject matter, and S) student
wishes.
Knoll said, "I am quite in favor
of having two weeks, independent
ly of the minority report. It is
pedagogically wise to allow stu
dents time to review. The Univer
sity should be set up to the ad
vantage of the good students, who
do use the time study."
Second, Knoll said, the one-week
period seems to place the burden
on the teacher, not the students. A
long examination period places the
responsibility on the students, while
using the extra time for more
classes places the responsibility on
the teacher. If students are able to
get along without studying for
finals, Knoll concluded, then per
haps, tht tests are too easy and
standards should be higher.
Boyd Carter, chairman of the
department of romance languages,
The examination period is now
ten days and the student point of
view on the question was ably pre
sented at the meeting, he said.
Pfeiler suggested that there
should not be one common denom
inator for the entire University in
the examination situation, due to
inter-colleee differences Hp coiri
that his suggestion was to be con
sidered and studied for possible ap
plication in the future.
S-R Awards
25 Students
Scholarships
Twenty-five University students
who are recipients of the Sears
Roebuck Scholarship this year will
be honored at a recognition ban
quet Wednesday at the Cornhusker
Hotel.
Certificates will be presented to
the scholarship winners by the
Sears-Roebuck Foundation, and a
general get-acquainted session will
also be held at the luncheon.
This year's scholarship winners
are: Doris Eby, Rose Joyce, Patsy
Kaufman, Janice Montgomery,
Janice Reeder, Patricia Tatroe,
Janice Tower, Warren Babcock,
Larry Brown, Boyd Burhoop, Ray
mond DeBower.
Patrick Dnnlnn r.avv rimb
j Robert Folts, Gerald Garner, Vir
gil Gellerman, Phil Hansen, Wil
liam Jameson, Norval McCaslin.
Ralph Middleton, Duane Stock
brand, Merrill Walkup, Burton
Weichenthal, Arlen Zaruba, all
freshmen, and Robert Weimer,
sophomore winner this year.
The Outside World:
Unification Rejecte
By BARB SHARP
Staff Writer
Western proposals for the unification of East and West Germany
were flatly rejected by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
There was no guarantee, however, that he does not intend to
submit some new approach to the deadlocked German reunification
issue.
French Foreign Minister Pinay told Molotov that Germany should
be free to decide after she reunites whether to join the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization or the Warsaw Eastern European. Pinay was
supported. by British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan.
Ike To Leave Denver
President Eisenhower will leave Denver for Washington Fridfly
after a short television and radio talk to the nation from Lowry Air
Field.
In addition to speaking at Denver, the President is expected to
speak briefly at the terminal in Washington. Eisenhower will spend
the week-end resting up in the White House after arrival in the
capital, then journey by automobile Monday to his farm at -Gettysburg,
Pa.
Syrian-Egyptian Pact Discussed
A military mismon to set up a joint Syrian-Egyptian military
defense pact was the object of a meeting between Syrian Premier
Said El Ghazzi Bnd Defense Minister Rashad Barmada.
El Ghazzi announced that Syria had obtained 41 10 million dollar
loan from Saudi Arabia to help Syria meet its current economic diffi
culties and to help finance the military pact with Egypt.
Benson Opposes Price Support
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. "Benson declared that the pro
tective umbrella thrown over the world's farmers by the American
price support program may be withdrawn.
He made the statement before the biennial meeting of the United
Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation.
Discussing the U.S. price support system, he said that one aim
of tliis system is to make Import controls "less and less necessary" to
the United States can be genuinely competitive in world markets.
Gary Presents Farm Program
The Governor of Oklahoma. Ravmonrf a
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on the Senate Agriculture Dmimlttee
Bmwon to halt the decline in farm
Gary presented his own farm program which features supports
at 100 per cent of the. "fair income" narltv 1pv1
modifies.
emphasized the burden placed on
the faculty by a lack of time, A
high per cent of those here today,"
he said, "are from the graduate
college. If I may use a personal
example, last May 1 read 12-1500
pages of theses." To try to do th
same amount of work in half the
time would be an impossibility, ht
said.
"In my concept of examina
tions," Carter said, the students
are to gain knowledge; we tr
not checking up on them. Good stu
dents will take advantage of their
time. The important thing is the
number who do, not those who do
not."
The University, he added, is
great and complex one. The need
within various areas varies. "'I
cannot conceive of wanting to
place burdens on other depart
ments," be concluded.
Raymond Dein, professor of ac
counting, said his objection to the
tentative calendar was not because
of the controversy over one week
or two.
"This is what I would call a
tight schedule," he said. "It leaves
very little time for end-of-the-se-mester
housekeeping, crowding us
even more than now. When could
senior grades be reported? I notice
that second-semester registration
starts on Jan. 25, with one-sixth
of the exams going on while we've
got registration of new students
on our hands."
The directives passed last May,
Dein said, seemed to have been
passed because of "barometric
readings you took out-state. Mr.
Chancellor. The parents' couldnt
understand why it was so long aft
er classes ended that their children
came home."
"That was not the Teal reason,
but go on," Hardin interposed jok
ingly. D. A. Worcester, chairman of the
department of educational psychol
ogy, presented the results of the
survey of faculty opinion. Out of
the 374 forms returned, 152 voted
for the two-week period and 198
voted for one week. Of those hav
ing votes in the Faculty Senate,
123 preferred two weeks and 166
preferred one week. Some of the
forms listed no choice, Worcester
said, "but those people seemed not
to know their college or rank."
Raysor stated that the lonirer
riod was put into effect some 25
years ago because of student pro
test. "The students complained
then because two or three exams
in one day were very difficult to
prepare for. Wouldn't it be wise to
consider student wishes now?"
William Pfeiler, chairman of the
department of Germanic lan
guages, stated he was onnosed tn
the short period for "reform, not
spiie. in Arts and Sciences, one
week is simply an imnossihiHrv
It would actually cramp our style.
we wouia comply of course, but we
have real reasons for fmnrwinir
this calendar. It would present ser
ious problems."
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