It Happened At NU
Among the most unusual calls received by
the campus police vas the one from a hyster
ical coed who screamed, "I left the dryer on."
They were relatively undisturbed, thinking the
object was a hair dryer. Piecing the story
together, they discovered she was a begin
ning photography student and had left a print
dryer on in the basement of Burnett.
Weather 'r Not
Colder weather is predicted for the Lincoln
area Wednesday and Thursday with possibili
ties of rain or snow. The skies will remain
cloudy and temperatures are expected to
range in the 40s.
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Vol. 29, No. 82
LI NCOLN, NEBRASKA
Wednesday, Moy 2, 1956
Accepts Position in Indiana
First Annual:
Spring Day Plans
To Culminate Friday
By RUTHE ROSENQUIST
Nebraskan Reporter
Spring w i 1 1 be officially wel
comed by University students with
the first annual Spring Day, Fri
day. A combination of the Union's
seventeenth birthday party and the
additional events planned by Stu
dent Council will prelude Ivy Day,
Saturday, making a full weekend
for University students.
During the 10 p.m. intermission
cf the street dance, the winners of
the Mall activities will be an
nounced by Don Beck. Phyl Ka
pustka will announce the winner
of the ping-pong tournament and
the awards will be presented to
the winners of the Union photog
raphy contest.
Also during the intermission, the
Union birthday cake will be cut.
Spring Day begins at noon with
the cancelling of all Friday after
noon classes and the serving of a
barbeque, sponsored by Ag Exec
Board. The barbeque, to be held
on the mall in front of the Coliseum
starting at 12:15 p.m., will be
served in three shifts in order of
ticket color.
Barbequed ham, cheese sand
wiches, cole slaw, baked beans, po
tato chips, ice cream, relishes and
pop, prepared on Ag campus, will
be served from 10 serving tables.
A P.A. system, located east of
the Columns, will announce the
events and their winners. Hank
Cech will be the announcer.
"We have close to 1000 individ
ual entries in the events, and we
are expecting more," Don Beck,
Spring Day Committee chairman,
said.
Faculty representatives from
each department will also com
pete in faculty pie eating, softball
throwing, egg catching, three-legged
racing, and peanut pushing.
Commandants
Honorary commandants for the
Army ROTC parade and the
. branch they represent Thursday
are from left to right, Lou Ann
Ross, infantry; Judy London, ar
tillery; Peggy Baldwin, regi
i'" i te w v)
s " V ) j) 1 ) t if
Scholarships, Awards:
Civil Engineers Place First
In Open House Competition
The department of civil engi
neering placed first in the E-Week
Open House competition and the
department of mechanical engi
neering and the department of ur
thitectural engineering tied for first
place in tbe Engineers Field Day
competition. The winners were an
nounced at the Engineering Ban
quet Friday.
One fellowship recipient, four
scholarship winners and the
awards to the outstanding engi
neering students were also an
nounced. Charles Wright has been award
ed a $1,750 fellowship by the Na
tional Science -
Founds tion
for advanced
study in math
e m a t i c s.
Wright will
receive b i
Bachelor
f Science de
gree in August
end enter
Graduate Col
leg e in Sep
tember. He is
fci L.
Wright
majoring in mathematics and phy
sics in the College of Arts and
Sciences .
Wright is a member of Sigma
Xi. honorary scientific research
society, past president of PI Mu
Epsilon, national honorary matb--rruUrs
society, and Pi Kappa
Phi.
itoland Hjorth, Willard Lomi
irti and John Vacek were air
iKMinced as recipient of H.OiMi
Donald Walters Miller scholarships
lor 195C-57.
Hjw'Jj is a junior in the College
cf Arts and Sciences, majoring in
Oerinan and pu;iicl sciciice and
minoring in economics.
Loren&en is a junior is the CoJ-
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Five trophies will be given to
teams and colleges with the high
est number of winning points
at the intermission of the evening
dance.
The trophy to be presented to
the men's over-all champion has
been donated by Tassels, the wom
en's over-all champion trophy by
Cobs, faculty trophy, by AWS,
and the men's and women's team
trophies are donated by WAA. The
trophies are now on display in the
Union showcase.
Starting at noon and lasting until
midnight, the Union parking lot
will be transformed into a car
nival. Carnival rides include a
merry-go-round, ferris wheel, tilt-a-whirl,
spitfire, roll-plane, dodge
em, boat ride, army tank ride and
kiddie auto ride.
The time honored concessions
of the carnival will complete the
carnival-atmosphere. They are the
penny arcade, cork shooting gal
lery, novelty stand, guess-your-weight
stand, photo stand, glass
pitch, ice cream stand, popcorn
stand and hotdog stand. -
The concessions selling food will
start at 1:30 p.m.' after the bar
beque. The carnival will be held
over, on Saturday, beginning at 4
p.m. and running until 12.
The carnival and a free street
dance are both sponsored by the
Union in celebration of its birthday.
Ronnnie Bartley and his orchestra
will play on the front steps of the
Union from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.
R street from 14 to 15th, will
be roped off for the dance.
"The success of this year's
Spring Day will decide its future,"
Beck commented. "This is an
event that can grow big and be
come comparable to Colorado's
C.U. days or Iowa's Veisha. This
weekend is our beginning," he
said.
(Nebnifcu rbl.)
Named
mental commander; Claudia Al
len, ordnance; Phyllis Sherman,
engineering; and Carol Link,
military police. The honorary
commandants will march with
their battalions during the pa
rade. lege of Law and Vacek a junior
in the College of Dentistry.
Eudell Jacobsen is the recipient
of the O. J. Ferguson award, pre
sented annually to the outstanding
senior in the University's College
of Engineering and Architecture.
The award was presented at a
banquet climaxing the annual En
gineer's Week.
The Sigma Tau Freshman Med
al was awarded to Don Sorensen
Contest Schedule
1:30 p.m.
Men's Chariot Race
Women's Tug of War
Men's Push Ball .
Men's Wheelbarrow Race
Faculty and Men's Baseball Throw
Women's S Legged Race
Women's Costume Relay Race
Women's Greased Pig Catch
Women's Football Throw
Men's Push Ups
J. 00 p.m.
Coaches Shot Put
Women's Tandem Bike Race
Women's Egg Catching
2 15 p m.
Women's Sack Relay Raca
Faculty Pie Eating
Faculty Peanut Pushing
2:30 p.m.
Men's 100 yard Backward Race
Men's Tug of War
Men's Football Throw
Women's Peitnut Pushing
Men's 8 Legged Rate
2:45 p rn. '
Men's Tandem Bike Race
Faculty EliZ Catching
Faculty Baby Bottle Contest
Faculty and Women's Baseball Throw
MSpm
Faculty Legged .Kara
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Trophies Donated
Presidents of organizaitons
who donated trophies for Spring
Day winners are shown above
with the trophies. They are, left
Nebraskan Letterip:
Mitch
Iff
6:
By CLAYTON LIBEAU
Former Extension Division
Economist
(Ed. note: Dr. Clayton Libeau,
former marketing extension econo
mist in the agricultural econom
ics department at the University,
left the department Dec. 1, 1955,
for a job in a similar position at
North Caolina State. He was at
tht University for approximately
three years.)
In a specially prepared letter
fo publication in The Nebraska,
Libeau speaks of the high regard
that Mitchell is held in as a scholar.
Defense Committee:
Counsel O'Sullivan Named
torney For
An Omaha attorney, Eugene
O'Sullivan, has been named defense
counsel for Loyd Grandsinger,
sentenced to die in the electric
chair for the slaying of State
Trooper Marvin Hansen near Val
entine in April, 1954.
A Grandsinger Defense Commit
tee to raise a fund for legal moves
in recognition of his average which
was the highest in the preceding
year's freshman engineering class.
Nebraska Blue Print keys for
outstanding staff work were pre
sented to Bob Young, Laurie
Dempster, Jim Souders, Ross
Brown and John Zinnecker.
The Mechanical Engineers and
the Architectural Engineers tied
for first place in field day compe
tition. The Civil Engineers won
the Open House competition.
s 3t?f 'n ,
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to right, Jane Jeffrey, WAA,
Carol Link, AWS, John Nelson,
Corn Cobs, Shirley McPeck,
Tassels and Don Beck, chairman
of the Council Spring Day com-
Off Ics
He then goes on to state how he
believes that money interests are
suppressing academic freedom.
These money interests he de
scribes as members of the AK-SAR-BEN,
the Livestock Exchange
and the Grain Exchange. He also
points to a member of the Board
of Regents who he says spent a
fabulously large amount to be
elected. He accuses this Regent
ancPothers of controlling' ediica
tional policy to fit their own pur
poses. Libeau states htat he believes
the reason for Michell being de-
Grandsinger
in the case was organized recent
ly at a meeting called by the Lin
coln Council on Human Relations.
Three University professors. Dr.
James Reinhardt, Caleb Foote
and Dr. Paul Meadows, are mem
bers of Defense Committee. The
committee was formed to secure
an attorney for Grandsinger, so
licit funds for the appeal and to
promote public interest in the
case.
Dr. Reinhardt explained that
the committee is not contending
Grandsinger' innocence or guilt.
It is seeking the new trial on the
basis of what seem to be insuffi
ciencies in the testimonies pre
sented at the trial.
O'Sullivan, quoted in the Lincoln
Star, said that he was "the last
lawyer" consulted to take the case.
He said it was "a terrible dis
grace for the lawyers of the state"
that a man "milked financially
dry" would be refused a chance
to take his case to the Supreme
Court by a lawyer from this state.
O'Sullivan, a former Democratic
member of Congress, said, "There
is no money in it for me nor for
the professors at the University.
It takes a lot of intelligence and
a lot of courageI've got the
courage," he said, "and the pro
fessors have the intelligence."
The case will be "tried in court"
and not in the press or by radio,
be said.
O'Sullivan said, referring to the
group raising funds for the de
fense, that he was happy someone
not in the law field was interested
enough in human rights to take
action.
John Chappell
Receives Law
Study Grant
John Chappell, University senior,
has been selected to receive a
Root-Tllden scholarship for study
at the New York University School
of Law.
He is one of 20 men in the na
tion to receive the award.
The scholarships, valued at
0,yoo each, are awarded annually
to two outstanding college men
from each of the 10 federal judicial
districts.
Chappell will receive his bache
lor's degree in political science in
June. He will bepin his three
years of law study la September.
(Nebraskan Photo.)
mittee. The two large trophies
are for the men's and women's
divisions, the small trophies are
for faculty division and individ
ual contests.
moted was that he wouldn't go
along with this "outside interest"
policy.
The following is the complete
context of his letter.
It is kind of you to give me an
opportunity to make a statement
for publication in your campus
newspaper regarding pressure
brought against Dr. C. Clyde Mit
chell. Perhaps it is possible for
me to write more freely sineS rny
salary is no longer directly in
volved as are the present mem
bers of the University of Nebraska
staff.
The professional stature of Mit
chell, is exceedingly high among
people who regard education as
a pursuit of truth. Dr. C. Clyde
Mitchell is a true scholar. This is
realized by those who have esteem
for scholarship and who have had
the pleasure of knowing him.
He is one of those rare individ
uals who believes that education
should be designed to teach peo
ple to think for themselves. He
will not indoctrinate people with
facts, theories and laws of the vest
ed interests. The vested interest
or pressure group in Nebraska is
evidently afraid of "fearless sift
ing and winnowing by which alone
the truth can be found." There
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Mitchell Demotion:
Economic Power,
Termed 'Outside
By HERMAN ANDERSON
Nebraska Reporter
A combination of economic pow
er and the Nebraska press con
stitute the "outside pressures"
which forced the demotion of C.
Clyde Mitchell as chairman of the
Department of Agricultural E c o
nomics, a member of the College
of Agriculture staff told The Ne
braskan in a specially arranged in
terview. The Omaha World-Herald and
the Lincoln Journal in combina
tion with wealthy businessmen,
farmers, ranchers, packers, stock
yards officials and bankers were
believed to have forced the Uni
versity administration to "knuckle
under" in the Mitchell case, he
said.
This spokesman, who aked that
his name be withheld from publi
cation, further stated that "apa
thy, extreme conservatism and stif
ling of differing viewpoints has
enabled these business interests
to control the legislature."
Members of the state legislature
told the University administration
to "do something" about Mitchell
or the budget wouki suffer, ac
cording to this source in the A
College.
"If the administration bad re
sisted these pressures of last
spring, our University would prob
ably be operating on lens funds
for this biermium," this Nebras
kan source continued.
Il felt that it was evidently for
this reason that Mitchell was in
formed on February 11, 1955, while
the legislature was in session that
he would not be retained as chair
man of the Ag Ec Department.
"Administrators are human,"
this Ag staff member told a Ne-
1
Rudy Pozzatti, Assistant Profes
sor of Art, announced his resigna
tion from the University Tuesday.
He will accept a position as as
sistant professor of art at the
University of
Indiana.
Pozzatti came
to the Univer
sity in the fall
of 1950 and
was promoted
to the position
of assi s t a n t
p r o f e s sor in
XUtJt. All XOit 11C
took a leave- jatfej
nf . nh!nr tn Conrtcsv Sunday
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study in Italy Pozzatti
on a Fullbright Scholarship.
The reason for his resignation
was to better his position, Pozzatti
said. The University of Indiana
has offered him a much higher sal
ary with better physical equip
ment and a greater chance for
advancement, he said.
"With several children who will
soon be of school age, I felt that
now would be a good time to make
a move," he remarked.
Pozzatti will remain at the Uni
versity until August and will
teach at summer school. He will
begin his duties at the University
of Indiana next September.
Pozzatti was born in Tell
uried, Colorado and received his
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the
University of Colorado in 1948.
While in college he served as
president of Delta Phi Delta, na
tional art honorary. He received
his Masters of Fine Arts from
Colorado University in 1950.
He was a member of the faculty
of the University of Colorado for
one year before coming to Nebras
ka. He is a member of the Artista
Equaty and the Institute d'Art
at Florence, Italy.
Play Scenery
Watching Larry Carstenson put
the finishing touches on the spir
al stairs to be used in "Mary
of Scotland" are Bernard Skalka
braskan reporter,
ance would probably
"Rcsist
have cost
them their jobs."
This spokesman felt that
"spokesman (leaders) of these
(business) interests profess tc be
blessed with such infinite wisdom
that they know best!"
Broadening on this statement, he
said that these "leaders" feel that
they know not only what should
be taught in our tax-supported uni
versity and in our public schools,
but also what our people should
know about public issues.
He added that the attitude of
Alan Bates
Mentioned
For Position
Dr. Alan Bates, associate pro
fessor of sociology, will be rec
ommended for the chairmanship
of the department of sociology,
according to a source within the
department.
His name Is expected to be
presented to the Board of Re
gents at their next meeting ten
tatively scheduled for next Sat
urday. T. J. Thompson has been act
ing chairman of the department
since the resignation of James
Reinhardt, who became prufes
sor of criminology.
Dr. Bates came to the Uni
versity in 1950 from the Univer
sity of Washington.
He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Washington where he
received his B.A. and M.A.
He reeei;d his Ph D. from the
University d Minnesota.
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He spent the summer of 1955
studying at the Yale Norfolk Sum
mer Art School.
Members of the School of Fine
Arts indicated that Pozzatti 's
loss will be deeply felt by the
School.
"We are extremely sorry to sea
Pozzatti leave," Walter Militzer,
Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences and Director of tha
School of Fine Arts stated." He
is one of the most outstanding young
men on the campus and one of
the brightest fellows that tha
School of Fine Arts has had in
a long time. He will be extremely
difficult to replace."
Pozzatti stated that he had en
joyed his association with the Uni
versity very much. He Stressed
that his leaving was entirely dua
to the offer of a better position.
Kosmet Klub
Announces
New Members
Twelve new members and one
honorary member were selected by
Kosmet Klub members at a meet
ing Tuesday night.
Dr. H. L. Weaver, associate pro
fessor of botany, was chosen as
honorary KK member.
The new members of Kosmet
Klub are Harlan Noddle, Zeta Beta
Tau; Morgan Holmes, Phi Delta
Theta; Jerry Brownfield, Beta
Theta Pi.
Philip Stevens, Phi Delta Theta;
Bob Schuyler, Phi Gamma Delta;
Harry Dingman, Delta Tau Delta;
Dave Mossman, Phi Delta Theta.
Ken Wehrman, Delta ' Upsilon;
Bob Weimer, Farmhouse; Eldon
Beavers, Acacia; Bob Glock, Alpha
Gamma Rho and Larry Schwartz,
Sigma Alpha Mu.
(Kebraikra FbatO
on the left and directing him .on
the right is Jerry Bass, acting
technical director of the Univer
sity Theater.
State Press
Pressures'
these men seems to be "If you
want to know how to think, how
to vote, just read the editorial
columns of the World-Herald and
the Lincoln Journal."
The basic issue for Nebraskans,
said this staff member in a writ
ten statement to the Nebraskan,
"concerns the future of the Uni
versity." This written statement said:
"The University of Nebraska caa
be the cultural, educational and re
search center of the Great Plains
Region and recognized as one of
the best universities in the coun
try, especially in agriculture, and
can provide vastly greater contri
butions to the welfare of the people
of the state, region and nation; or
the University can become a de
gree factory turning out products
of mediocrity and conformity.
"The decision is up to people of
the state, not up to those who
claim to be the 'chosen few and
who seem to feel that they can
make such dfxiwions for our peo
ple better than the people them
selves." Valbridgo Wins
Fashion Honor
Wanda Walbridge, University
senior is one of nine college wom
en In the nation to be recognized
In the 18th annual Fashion Fellow
khip Awards contest conducted by
the TobeCobura School for Fasti
l.n Careers.
She is one of six honorable men
tion winners. Three' were awarded
the fashion fellowships.
Miss Walbridge Is majoring in
clothing and textiles and idea
tional education In the CoUcjra of
Agriculture.