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It Happened At NU
The enthusiasm of coeds often takes an un
usual turn at some of the fraternity serenades.
As one fraternity group serenaded at a sorority
house, an over-eager coed knocked a full pound
of butter from the window sill, hitting the song
leader on the bead.
Weather 'r Not
The warm sunny days will make way for more
typical March weather, Friday, as the tempera
ture in the Lincoln area is expected to range in
the 40 's.
Vol. 59, No. 56
Drama Planned:
Begins Siand&y
Religious Emphasis Week will
officially begin Sunday with an or
iginal religious drama directed
and produced by Jim Tomasek en
titled "Childhood of Man".
It will be held at 7:30 p.m. at
the University Episcopal Chapel.
Sunday evening will also feature
the , Rev. Allen Hackett speaking
ct the Vine Congregational Church,
Dr. Herrick Young at the First
Presbyterian Church and Dr. W
Clark Ellzey at the First Metho
dist Church.
The purpose of the week is to
promote religious growth and ana
lyze religious beliefs. This year's
theme Is "The Maker, the Maze
and the Man."
Throughout the week, convoca
tions, discussion groups in organ
ized houses and dorms, faculty
and student seminars, classroom
discussions and personal confer
ences will be held.
Three faiths are cooperating to
sponsor the week including Jewish,
Catholic and Protestant. The Pro
testant speakers were secured
through the University Christian
Mission of the National Council of
the Churches.
Rabbi Harold Stern has expres
sed enthusiasm about the REW
activities.
"This is the most constructive
effort to introduce religious orienta
tion to students," he said.
Religious Emphasis Week cli
matically ' emphasizes points for
concentration of religion on the
campus, he added.
"I look on REW as a retreat, a
time for withdrawing from ordin
ary life and occupations in order to
pray, meditate and receive instruc
tion in the spiritual life," com
mented The Rt. Rev. Msgr.
George Schuster, associate direc
tor of the Catholic student center
and chapel.
The University Council of Re
ligion is making the arrangements
for the week. The Council con
sists of the City Campus Religious
Council, the Ag Religious Coun
cil, and the Religious Workers As
sociation. About 1500 campuses In the
United States sponsor an annual
Religious Emphasis Week, and this
year the United Christian Missions
refused 65 other colleges me wee
In order to cooperate with actrvt
tix here.
University students have made
most of -the arrangements for the
.ir rhairmen of the different
committees are Sandra Reimers
and Marx Peterson, arrange
ments; Glenna "Berry and Larry
Voss. assemblies; Du Wayne Fur-
man and Emily Jackson, book dis
play. Pat McDougal and Marvin
Coffey, breakfast and retreat;
Marvin Breslow and Dick Terp,
classroom appointments, and Andy
Smith and Bill DeWull, finance.
Sneakers to be present will be
nr I. H. Craee. Dr. W. Clark
fcllzey, Rev. Allen Hackett, the
Rev. Gilbert Graham, Dr. Emer
son Shuck, Dr. Herrick Young.
Rabbi Myer Kripke, Rabbi Sid-
Candidate:
Johnson
Outli
ufiirtes
I
ssuss
The citizens of Nebraska are
looking for a positive program of
action in the political field, accord
ing to Dick Johnson, candidate for
the Republican nomination as Rep
'resentative of the First Congres
sional District.
Johnson, an Ag College student,
poke Thursday at a meeting of
short course students at the Col
lege of Agriculture.
"Since I filed, the response from
the people of Nebraska has been
very encouraging and I now feel
that I have a good chance of win
ning," he added.
Johnson said that the program
he is advocating deals with three
major issues agriculture, federal
power and natural gas.
He is in favor of unlimited agri
cultural production at a stable
price. This will be accomplished
through new consumption programs
both at home and abroad, he said.
These programs include an ex
panded school lunch plan, food al
lotments to supplement old age
assistance, new uses for farm pro
ducts, improved food distribution
and use of our food stocks by low
income persons in our nation.
Raising the quality atandards of
products would help competition
in the world trade market, be
said.
"Farmers must have an econom
ical sized farm unit to tili, and
tite who wkh to wove off the
farm must U given this. oppor
tunity by teaching them a new
trade," he said.
Johnson believes that we should
take a very positive statid on the
question of federal power.
"Nebraska will be faced with a
brown-out soon, unless we can ac
quire power from all Federal pro
jects," be warned.;
ney Brooks and Rabbi Harold
Stern.
Members of the different com
mittees who worked on the week's
planning will hold a retreat Sun
day at the First Plymouth Con
gregational Church.
Breakfasts will be held Monday
through Thursday for all city cam
pus students who are interested.
See Schedules at right and page
four.
Regents Approve:
on i
Appointments of James Olson,
associate professor of history, and
Charles Neidt, professor of educa
tional psychology and measure
ments, as chairmen of their re
spective departments was ap
proved in Wednesday's Board of
Regents meeting.
Olson, also director of the Ne
braska State Historical Society, will
replace Dr. James Sellers, chair
man of the history department
since 1951.
Neidt will replace Dr. Dean
Worcecester, chairman since 1934.
Seller and Worcester have reach
ed compulsory retirement age for
administrative positions, but both
will continue to carry teaching
loads. Chancellor Clifford Hardin
said.
Olson was promoted to a full
professorship as a result of his
appointment. He will resign his
position as director of the State
Historical Society to accept his
new position.
He took his Bachelor of Arts
degree at Morningside College and
earned his Master's and Doctorate
at the University.
During World War II, Olson
served as a consultant to the War
Department on the history of the
Army in World War n.
Neidt received his Bachelor of
Science, Master's and Doctor's de
grees from Iowa State College. He
is a member of the American
Psychological Association, Ameri
can Association for the Advance
ment of Science and the American
Statistical Society.
In other Regents' business, three
The
Although the Religious Emphasis
Week observance will dominate
the campus activities, the student
chapels will also carry on their
regular activities.
Presbyterian-Congregational
333 N. 14th
Sunday: S p.m., forum with Rev.
Allen Hackett as speaker.
Wednesday: 7 a.m., cabinet; 7
p.m., vespers.
Wesley Foundation
1411 R
Sunday: S p.m., supper; p.m.,
forum. Speaker will be Dr. H.
Clark Ellzey of Stephens College.
Wednesday: 6:30 to 7:45 a.m.,
breakfast and lenten devotions.
Speaker will be the Rev. Phil
Brown and devotional leader will
be Pat Gillespie.
Lutheran Student House
S3S N. It
Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Bible Study;
9:30 and 11 a.m., worship; 5:30
p.m., USA supper, Bible study
and program at which Dr. Emer
son Shuck will speak.
Tuesday: 7: IS p.m., Christianity
course.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m., Lutheran
instruction class; 9 p.m., interna
tional study group.
Newman Club -1(02
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Sunday: S a.m., 9 a.m., 10 a.m.,
11 a.m., and 12 noon masses.
Monday through Saturday: 6:45
and 7:15 a.m., weekday masses.
Religion classes: 11 a.m., Tues
day and Thursday; 7 p.m., Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday.
Lenten devotions: 5 p.m., Sun
day; 5 and 8 p.m. Wednesday and
7 p.m., Friday.
Baptists and Disciples of Christ
Student Fellowship
1237 R
Sunday. 5 p.m., Fellowship din
ner, worship and forum.
TuesdHy:7:30 a.m., chapel serv
ice.
University Lutheran Chapel
15 i
Sunday: 10:45 a.m.. Worship,
5 30 p.m.. Gamma Delta supper.
Wednesday: 7 p.m., lenten med
itation; 7:30 p.m., choir rehearsal.
University EpUeopal Chapel
m N. 13th
. Sunday: 11 p.m.. Holy Commun
ion, "An Annotation of Ceremony;"
p.m., Canterbury study groups;
6 p.m., Canterbury dinner; 7:30
p.m., Keligknis Emphasis Week
religious drama, "The Childhood
of Man.
Wednesday: 7 a.m., Holy Com
munion; 7 p.m., lenten service;
7:30 p.m., choir rehearsal.
Unitarian
lSth & H
Sunday:
11 a.m., worship serv-
Sunday through Wednesday: talks by the Rev. Gilbert
Graham, 7:30 p.m., Love Library Auditorium.
Tuesday: YWCA mas meeting, panel discussion, "Are
Collie Students Peddling Their Ideals?.", Dr. Emerson
Shuck and panelists, 7:30 p.m., Rosa Boutpn Hall.
- Tuesday: Ag campus convocation, Rev. Allen Hack
ett, 7:30 p.m., Agronomy Auditorium.
Tuesday: Chemistry department convocation, Dr. L.
H. Cragg, 4 p.m.
Wednesday: English department convocation, Dr.
Emerson Shuck, "The Influence of Religion in Litera
ture," 10 a.m., Room 101, Andrews HalL
Wednesday: History and political science department
convocation, Dr. Herrick Young, "Balance in the Near
East," 10 a.m., Social Science Auditorium.
Wednesday: University convocation, Dr. Louis Evans,
speaker, 8:15 p.m. Union Ballroom.
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Courteiy Lincoln Star
OLSON
leaves of absence were approved,
Earl Fullbrook. Dean of the College
of Business Administration, was re
moved from disability classifica
tion and the appointment of James
Pittenger as administrative assis
tant was formalized.
Dr. Albin Anderson, associate
professor of "history, was given a
year's extension of his leave to
remain in Turkey. Anderson is as
sisting in the establishment of
Ataturk University.
A year research leave was grant
ed to Dr. Herbert Jehle, professor
of physics. Jehle will work with
Dr. Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize
foils IMqqIz
ice; 5 p.m., student group meeting
and lunch. Discussion topic will
be "Are Unitarians Christian?
Transportation will be provided
from the Union lobby between
4:45 and 5 p.m.
Ag Interdenomination
34th & Holdrege
Sunday: 5 p.m., recreation;
5:15 p.m., supper and program.
Speaker will be Dr. L. H. Cragg
from Canada.
- South Street Temple
Friday: 8 p.m., services. Ser
mon will be "Theology and Prayer
Book."
Sunday: 10:30 a.m., religious
school; 8 p.m., worship.
Convention
Co m mitt gss
Elect Heads
Dick Fellman, senior in arts
and science, and Everett Steven
son, freshman in law college, were
elected chairmen of the Mock Po
litical Convention's Platform and
Rules Committees, respectively,
last night at meetings held in the
Social Science building.
The Platform Committee decided
to divide itself into seven sub
committees. These sub-committees
will gather Information, on topics
in their field and then meet and
draw up a plank for the Conven
tion platform.
These sub-committees are for
eign policy, farm policy, civil
rights and liberties, economic pol
icies, defense policy, labor and fed
eral aid. These committees are to
report back next Thursday when
the general committee meets again.
In the Rules Committee it was
decided that proxies or alternates
may vote while only official dele
gates may introduce discussions
and motions.
A sub-committee was appointed
to draft the rules of the convention
which it will submit next week to
the general committee for debate.
Members of this committee and
the delegations they represent are
Judy Host, Michigan; John Heeckt,
Calif.; John Valder, New York;
Ruthie Kosenquist, West Virginia
and Hartlngton Robinson, Wiscon
sin. Rules off challenging, unit rule,
debate on amendments and the
number of votes needed to nomin
ate will be drafted by this committee.
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Courtesy Lincoln Fur
NEIDT
winner, in specific intermolecular
interactions of identical large mole
cules. Dr. Hugo Riberis, professor of
mathematics, was granted an eight
month leave to study the theory
of models at the University of
Minister, Westphalia, Germany.
Fullbrook, who has been recup
erating from an illness, is ex
pected to return to active duty in
the near future. No temporary
dean was appointed in his absence.
Pittenger, recently appointed ad
ministrative assistant, will assume
his duties as soon as a successor
to his present post is named. Pit
tenger is secretary of the Alumni
Association.
Board president Dr. Earle John
son of Grand Island was not present
at the Regents meeting. He is re
cuperating from lung surgery and
is unable to travel.
udent Jour
tilBuUiB
arch 26 ,27
The annual Mortar Board For
eign Student Tour, which this year
will visit five southwestern Ne
braska towns, is scheduled for
March 26 and 27, according to
Carol Unterseher, Mortar Board
secretary.
All foreign students at the Uni
versity are eligible to join the tour
whose purpose is to acquaint for
eign students with the industry and
life of Nebraska, Miss Unterseher
said.
Towns included in this year's
itinerary are Kearney, Holdrege,
Grand Island, Hastings and Min
den, she said.
At Kearney the group will visit
Kearney State Teachers College
and at Holdrege it will tour a seed
corn processing plant. The new
high school and Tri-County Irriga
tion System will be visited in Grand
Island.
Plans have been made for the
foreign students to visit a bakery
and Hastings College in Hastings
and Pioneer Village and a pub
lishing house in Minden.
The group will travel by bus
and will spend the night in private
homes in Minden, Miss Unterseher
said.
Since the mone.- earned from
Late Date Night is being used to
sponsor the tour, cost for the trip
will not exceed $3 per person, she
said.
About 25 students went on the
trip late year and it is hoped
that more will take part this year.
The dates for the tour are during
spring vacation, so the students will
not miss classes, Miss Unterseher,
said.
Noycs To Speak
To Rag Press Club
Tle Rag Press Club luncheon
In Parlors X-Y-Z of the Union at
noon Friday will feature a brief
talk by Dr. Albert Noyes Jr., dean
of the Graduate College at Ro
Chester University.
Bruce Rliey and Arnold Morton
will be presented the "Star of the
Wek" award.
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. . . Vote Constitutional Change
Interfraternity Council official
ly disclaimed any connection with
the Mallard Club Ball and passed
an amendment requiring house
presidents to have a 5.0 average,
at their meeting Wednesday after
noon. The Mallard club, an anonymous
organization of fraternity men, has
scheduled a dance to be held at
a local ballroom March 9, the date
hich was previously set aside
for the IFC Ball. The traditional
IFC dance has been cancelled this
year as a result of a notice from
the Office of Student Affairs.
The Student Affairs communica
tion said that the IFC would not
be allowed to hold the ball off
campus as it has in past years.
The IFC decided not to sponsor
a dance this year following the
letter which was signed by Dean
of Student Affairs J. P. Colbert.
Bill Campbell, IFC president,
said that the IFC Board of Con
trol had sent a recommendation
to the IFC to consider making it
mandatory that all fraternity presi
dents have a 5.0 average. The
recommendation was made be
cause of an inconsistency that ex-
Buildings:
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Approved
University Regents voted
Wednesday to accept the low bid
of Blyth and Company of Chicago
on the purchase of $3,750,000 in
student facilities revenue bonds.
The bids will be used to finance
the Union addition, new Student
Health Center, Ag dormitories for
both men and women, an addition
to the Women's Residence Halls
on city campus and the married
student housing buildings on the
Ag campus.
The Chicago firm will charge
approximately four per cent as a
gross interest rate on bond ma
turities through 1986. The Regents
designated the Lincoln National
Bank of Commerce as trustee and
the American National Bank of
Chicago as paying agent.
Construction on the Union addi
tion is expected to begin in ap
proximately eight months. Bids
will be opened on the ag housing
March 14, on the Health Center in
May, on the married student hous
ing in June and on the addition to
the women's dorm on March 22.
Chancellor Clifford Hardin pre
sented statistics showing the per
centage breakdown of where Uni
versity students are housed to sup
port the planned building program.
"Of the total enrollment, Uni
versity residences accommodate
20 per cent of the students, fra
ternities and sororities house 19 per
cent and 16 per cent reside at
home," he said.
This leaves approximately 55 per
cent of University students in need
of other bousing, Hardin said.
Construction costs on other
buildings included in this bond is
sue are Student Health Center,
$550,000; Residence Halls on Ag,
$930,000; Women's Residence Halls
addition, $500,000. and married stu
dent housing, $400,000.
The Outside World:
ffre Says Yes
By ARLENE HREEK
President Eisenhower has offered himself to the American people
as a candidate for the 1956 Presidential election. In pursuing his second
term bid, Thursday be entered the Republican primaries in California
and, Wisconsin.
The President's health is already becoming an issue of the fast de
veloping campaign. Democrats challenged the President's own estimate
of his physical capabilities, and asked whether the country wanted
what they termed a "part-time president".
A possible GOP vice presidential nominee, predicted GOP Chair
man Leonard W. Hall, will again be Richard Nixon. Hall called Eisen
hower and Nixon "the greatest team" In the country.
Negro Coed Expelled
The University of Alabama expelled Autherine Lucy, Negro coed,
Thursday for unproved charges
mob action against her.
The action came within hours
Grooms Wednesday ordered the board to vacate an order excluding
the 26 year old Birmingham woman from the campus for safety
reas mis. He gave the University until Monday to take the action re
admitting her.
Grooms ruled Wednesday after an nil-day hearing that Miss Lucy
must be readmitted to classes by 9 a.m. CST Monday. He said he would
rule on Friday on Miss Lucy's suit for full rights to the woman's dormi
tory and the campus dining facilities.
Farmers Need Credit
Nebraska and Iowa farmers need additional credit immediately,
Department of Agriculture ohclals
About 100 representatives of
other agricultural interests from the
problem. The meeting was called by
credit needs. A means of refinancing' existing debts and establishing
longer-term loans were cited as the
Kenneth Scott, head of the department's agricultural credit serv-
ices, said Congress would have to
possible through government loans.
iniini(Sfl,nini
is ted with the requirements for ini
tiation and the requirements to hold
the office of president.
Upon the motion of John Gour
lay, IFC vice president, the coun
cil passed the proposal with the
needed two thirds vote which is
Houses I'terned
A letter has been sent to fraternity and sorority presidents con
cerning the Mallard Club Ball stating that the function is oontrary
to University regulations.
The text of the letter issued by the Office of SUideat AiT&ks
follows:
To Fraternity and Sorority Presidents:
According to advance publicity a group called the Mallards Is
sponsoring a party on Friday, March 9, 1956, at Kings Ballroom for
the fraternity men and sorority women of the University of N
braska.
The holding of such a party is in violation of University rules
and regulations because it is to be sponsored by an organization
not approved by the University and it is to be held without con
formity to the usual social rules.
Under these circumstances the support of this event by the fra
ternity and sorority system of individual houses is an indication of
bad faith. In. addition the University regards approval of such
events calculated subterfuge reflecting on the good same of tb
system.
We urge you to remind your members of their responsibility to
conform to University regulations lest they forfeit their right to re
main acceptable members of the University community.
Sincerely yours,
Helen Snyder
Frank M. Hallgren
From the Division of Student Affairs
One Day:
Council Considers
Short Exam Plan
A possible plan to shorten the
final examination period next year
by one day was discussed in
Wednesday's Student Council
meeting.
The plan is being considered to
allow instructors more time to read
and consider examination papers
and to give more time before grad
uation and semester changes to
submit final reports, Marv Bres
low, student member of the Fac
ulty Senate Committee on final ex
aminations, said.
Breslow, CCRC representative,
and Sam Van Pelt, Biz Ad, sub
mitted a report concerning the
plan to the Council for discussion.
Van Pelt is also a student mem
ber of the faculty committee.
Being considered as part
of the plan are scheduling all fresh
man English exams for the read
ing day before the exam periods
begin and scheduling Naval Sci
ence unit exams in the evening,
Breslow said.
The plan has been considered in
IGY Project:
University To Conduct
Cosmic Ray
The University will participate
in a program of cosmic ray re
search during the International
Geophysical Year (IGY), along
with nine other selected institu
tions. Dr. Robert Chasson, associate
professor and chairman of the
physics department, has received a
$6510 grant from the National Com-
that school authorities conspired in
after U. S. District Judge H. Hobart
were told in Omaha.
lending agencies, farm groups aiw
two states coiJerred on the farm
federal officials to determine farm
priniclpal needs of fanners.
change present laws to make this
Friday, March 2, 1956
required for amendments.
Mary Sheliedy, editor of tha
IFC Rush Pamphlet, and Judy
Bost, Theta Sigma Phi representa
tive, reported on the progress and
plans for the publication which
will be finished this spring.
both the Senate examination and
liason committees, Floyd Hoover,
director of. registration and rec
ords and member of the examina
tion committee, said.
"The plan is very much in the
formative stage; nothing has been
settled with regard to specific
plans," he said.
Hoover declined to make predic
tions as to what specific change
will be made in the examination
schedule for the next year if the
plan is accepted.
The plan will probably be dis
cussed at the next Faculty Senate
meeting, Breslow said.
Other Council business included a
report of the judiciary committee
concerning the revising of Coun
cil by-laws. A motion had been
made to that effect Feb. 22 and
was tabled. Breslow was added to
the committee as an assistant.
Council also voted to donate $2S
to Religious Emphasis Week
and approved the revised WAA
constitution.
Researc
mittee of IGY of the National Re
search Council for the first year's
study of cosmic radiation as .part
of the international program.
He expects to receive 125000 la
grants to finance the project until
Jan. 1, 1959. The grants are admin
istered through the National Sci
ence Foundation .
Other institutions to participate
in the cosmic ray research proj
ect are the Bartol Research Foun
dation, California Institute of Tech
nology, University of California,
University of Chicago Institute for
Nuclear Studies, University of
Maryland, University of Minneso
ta, National Institute of Health,
New York University and the Uni
versity of Washington.
Scientists in nearly 40 Other ac
tions also will take part.
Nearly 5000 scientists wHl simul
taneously observe many natural
phenomena which are of world
wide character. They will seek an
swers to such questions as (be
cause of electrical discharges which
black out radio and affect the
weather, whether the earth 4s grow
ing warmer and what is the six
and shape of the world.
Chasson said the University will
have two standard gei;er counter
telescopes of the type to be ured
by all IGY cosmic ray workers
throughout the world. This will ba
the first time in history, he cid,
that everybody will make their ob
servations with the same kfcid dt
Instrument.
Scientists m'Jl attempt to find out,
lie Bfckl, whether cosmic r&y dis
turbances are doe to solar disturb
ances or to changes In tha arl&"
agnfcie field or hoik
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Eaatrian are i.s X o. g t.
mettl conalalUii' Ur , j ,
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cord data.
The experiment .e 1
In a special area on ;hp t-
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