The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 15, 1957, Image 1
the Keep Up With Peqnuts Page 2 State Tournoy Results Page 3 Vol. 31, No. 65 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Friday, March 15, 1957 Student Representation: 1 f i nw ixfirrnfn) a (nf an 1 1 ; hi; : r i: , PI! i Pre v Ulv if 1.1 i I I II 1 1 I . I T M Mhs Lincoln Finalists Twelve of ttie fifteen finalists in the Miss Lincoln s Beauty Pageant are University coeds. The 1957 winner will succeed NU Organizations:. a nn w AM V eefs Officers of four women's or ganizations were selected in the All-Women's Spring Elections held Wednesday in the Union. Presidents and the organizations ttiey represent incude: Associated Women Students, Sara Hubka; Barb Activities Board for Wom en, Sue Hinkle; Coed Counselors, 5 Courtesy Lincoln Journal Bender Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star Hinkle May Queen Elected For Ten finalists for May Queen were selected from 34 women candidates Wednesday in the Union as part of the All-Women's Spring Elections. The ten finaksts are: Betty Branch, senior in Business Administration, president of Pi Beta Phi and a member of Busi r.ess Administration council; Emily Hemphill, senior in Teachers, member of Coed Counselor Board, AWS vice president and Pi Lambda Theta vice president. Mary James, senior In Home Economics, Omtcron Nu president and a member of Delta Delta Del ta; Rita Jelinek, senior in Teach ers, is a member of AWS Board and Pi Beta Phi. Beth Keenan, senior in Teachers, is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta; Mary Keyes, senior in Home Economics, is a member of Theta Sigma Phi, Phi Upsilon Omega, Gamma Alpha Chi and Gamma Phi Beta, Janet Kuska, senior in Home 'Pot Luck' Fete With The Profs Set Sunday The Ag Union and Student Faculty Committee will sponsor the fourth and final "Pot Luck with the Profs" at 5:30 p.m.Sun day in the Ag Union "Members of he' faculty and tuaent body have an excellent Dportunity . to become better acquainted with this type of func tion, which have been well attend ed in the past", according to Burt Weicbenthal. Mr. and Mrs. William Kehr have released the following names of members of the faculty com mittee hosts. Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond Arthaud, Mr. and Mrs. Milo Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reed, Mr. and Mrs, LeRoy Peters, Mr. and Mrs. John Matsushima, Mr. and Mrs. E. Olson, 'Misses Shirley Keso, Esther Meachem and Mr. and Mrs. W. Antes. Weichenthal, Larry" Wulf, Marilyn Jensen, Mary Case, Allen Trumbte and Jerry Svoboda. All Ag College students may sign up for their free tickets in the As Union Activities Office. Miss Diane Knotek. The Miss Lincoln winner will enter the Miss Nebraska Pageant to be held June first at the new Per- inniGfli's and Women's Athletic Association, Joan Huesner. Miss Hubka, junior in Teachers, is a member of Builders Board and vice president of Delta Gam ma. Miss Hinkle, junior in Teachers, is ABW secretary, Student Coun cil member, Pi Lambda Theta Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star Hubka Nebraska! Fboto Huesner Finalists Ivy Day Economics, is Cornhusker Associ ate Editor and a member of Delta Gamma; Barbara Rystrom, senior in Teachers, is Pi Lambda Theta president, a member of Coed Coun selors, YWCA and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Kay Skinner, senior in Home Economics, is a member of Gam ma Alpha Chi, Home Economics club and Alpha Chi Omega, and Gail Wailing, senior in Arts and Sciences, is Builders secretary, a member of AUF Board and Delta Gamma. BureauPredicts Fair Weather, Warmer Temps The old saying, "If you don't like Nebraska weather, wait a few minutes," has come true in the past few days for University stu dents. Thursday's high temperature of 25 degrees is contrasted with W e d n esday's high of 73. Icy winter winds will con tinue to whip University stu dents. The weather bureau is p r edicting I generally fair with somewhat warmer tempera tures in the west. Highs today will range from 30 to 35 degrees. The state Safety Patrol reported dangerous conditions in southern Nebraska, and ice and snow-covered highways around Norfolk. Roads throughout the state are snow-packed. At Grand island, the patrol said tn snow was running from four tc six inches, with blowing. Visi bility in the Grand Island and North Platte areas is poor. Square Dance Club The Square Dance Club win hold a dance Friday at 8 p.m. in the College Activities, according to Don Herman, club president. Admission is 35' cents for non club members and 25 cents for club members. Pirosiooims t 1 L ! ' " ,1 i s h i n g Municipal Auditorium. .University finalists included (left to right) Jan Shrader, Marcia Elliot, Joyce Evans, Martha project chairman, Sigma Eta Chi chaplain, Outstanding Coed Coun selor and Women's Residence Halls. Miss Bender, junior in Arts and Sciences, is on the Calendar and Final Exams committee of the Student Council, Layout editor of the Cornhusker, Panhelenic Coun cil, a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Delta Phi Delta and Delta Delta Delta. Miss Huesner, junior in Teach ers, is a member of Red Cross Board, Pi Lambda Theta, ACE, AFCW president, Ideal Nebraska Coed and treasurer of Xappa Al pha Theta. AWS Board Other elected members of AWS Board are: Karen Dryden, junior in Arts and Sciences, is a member of Union board and is pledge trainer of Delta Delta Delta. She is the newly-elected vice president. Senior members of the Board include: Jo Ann Devereaux, junior in Home Economics, is WAA house "representative, Gamma Alpha Chi, Aquaquettes and president of Pi Beta Phi; Sue Hinkle, junior in Teachers, is secretary of BABW, Sigma Eta Chi Chaplain, Student Council and Coed Counselors. Mary Huston, junior in Arts and Sciences, is AUF secretary; Stu dent Council secretary and a mem ber of Kappa Alpha Theta; Carol Smith, junior in Home Econmoics, is on Ag Executive Board, YWCAt Home Economics Club, Aquaqu ettes, Phi Upsilon Omicron and Alpha Phi and Pat Stalder, junior in Home Economics is a member of YWCA and Chi Omega. Junior Board members include: Pat Boyd, sophomore in Teach ers, is a member of Red Cross Board, Union Personnel, Union representative and Alpha Omicron Pi; Nan Carlson, sophomore in Teachers, is a member of AUF board, Union Assistant and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Nadine Calvin, sophomore in Home Economics, is a member of BABW, Home Economics club, 4-H club, Love Hall council and Alpha Lambda Delta; Nancy Cope land, sophomore in Teachers, is a member of Builders Board, De bate Squad and Delta Gamma. Judy Decker, sophomore in Teachers, is Union chairman, Coed Counselors and Delta Delta DeKa; Janet D w o r a k, sophomore in Teachers, is a member of Orche sis publicity chairman, WAA board, Physical Education Club and Alpha Phi. Jacqueline Miller, sophomore in Teachers, is a member of Univer sity Theater, Red Cross and Kap pa Apha Theta. Sophomore Board members in clude: Barbara Bacon, Polly Doeh ring, Susan McGrath, K a t h y Roach, Mary Vrba, Linda Walt, and Marilyn Pickett. BABW Board Newly-elected vice president is Marie Gerdes, '(unior in Home Economics, BABW historian, Home Economics club secretary, 4-H club, VHEA and Love Me morial Hall. ' Senior Board numbers include: Margot Frankc, junior in Home Economics, is a member of Home Economics club, Farmers Fair board and Love Memorial Hall and Mary Jane Phelps, junior in i (Coot. Ob, Page 4) l v-." Vi V. ' A i 1 i near j NebrMkn Pkotc Crocker, Ann Wade, Karen Par sons, Sylvia Rigg, Alice Coil- man, Joan Kiha,J Cindy zchau, Kay Nielson, Pdt Prouty and Marcia McCallui 4 Final Performance. Set For 'King Lear' The final performances of the University production, "King Lear", will be presented tonight and Saturday at Howell Memor ial Theater. The Shakespearean tragedy will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets will be on sale at the box office of the Howell Memor ial Theater from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday: NUCWA To Quiz Hopefuls The NUCWA Executive Council will interview candidates for gov ernor, beutenant governor and sec retary of state Saturday morning from 9 to 12 in Room 309 of the Union, according to "Biff" Keyes, president-. Houses who have not yet nomi nated candidates may still do so by placing nominee names on the interview sheet, Keyes continued. There will be a list of times at which candidates can appear for interviews posted on the door of Room 309. Candidates are asked to sign the list between now and Saturday morning at times con venient for them. Keyes also stated that the Stu dent Council had approved of the NUCWA plan for holding a Mock Session of the Legislature and has agreed to support it. IFC Votes Constitution Amendment The Interfratemity Council voted Wednesday to accept revisions to six articles of its Constitution. The approved amendments, which were first presented to the IFC on March 7 by a special com mittee appointed to review the Con stitution, include: A revision of Section six of Ar ticle ni: "Voting membership shall consist of one accredited member per fraternity, but the presiding of ficer of the IFC shall vote in case of a tie." In the past there had been some question as to whether officers could vote. Section four, of Article IV was amended to read; "No fraternity shall have an officer of the IFC for more than two consecutive years." Revisions to Section six, Part D, of Article IV require the treasurer tc "submit a monthly f nancial statement to the IFC, which state ment shall include an itemized list ol expenditures and income." An accepted change in section one, Part H, of Article X states; "The Executive Committee may consider with power to act on eli gibility questions not covered by this constitution." m- An amendment to Section two, Articie IV which called for all of ficers of the IFC to have a 5.5 cumulative average was deleted from the proposed revisions. Some of the tentative changes in this fall's rush week include, four compulsary rush dates instead of last year's three; retention of the 45 minute "meditation period" be fore official pledging, and eight open house periods instead of the former six. Action on the question of initia tion averages was postponed. In ' TVmnTH nvsiner. Tirofessor of psychology and chairman of the faculty Senate Committee on Com mittees, has requested the Student Council to "formulate a suitable procedure for nominations" of stu dent representatives on faculty committees. In a letter to the Student Coun cil, Dysinger, stated" that there was some sentiment among the members of the committee that students serving as voting members of the Senate committees should represent the entire student body." Present Council procedure, ac cording to Bruce Brugmann, presi dent, calls for the chairman to ap point subject to Council approval all student members of faculty committees with the exception of the pubUcations board. Student members of the Publica tions Board are interviewed by a special committee and then elected by the student Council en toto, Brugmann said. Brugmann said this procedure is in accordance f with the Council Constitution, originally formulated by a special committee appointed by the Faculty Senate, and vir tually all representative bodies. "I have yet to hear of a critical report from any University faculty member or administrator regard ing student participation on faculty committees," he added. "Quite the contrary, I have received many re ports, both publicly and privately, in appreciation of services ren dered by Student Council appoin tees." This has been particularly true in regard to the work of a special Council committee, which has worked closely with the adminis tration on the University budget request, the Council president con tinued. Brugmann, in ft special state ment to the Daily Nebraskan, stat ed: Action suggesting the election of student representatives to the University's student-faculty com mittees in an all-campus elec tion appears to be but the lat est of a series of moves to strip the Student Council of its legi timate responsibilities. Authority for the Council to appoint its members (a well de fined crossection of University students) to the student-faculty committees has been established by many years of precedent and Vogel Asks Tuition Increase ,Budgef Cut Chancellor Clifford Hardin pre sented the proposed University budget to a tough-minded budget committee on Wednesday and the results obtained were almost identical to those of the appear ance before Governor Anderson. Senator Kar Vogel, chairman of the Budget Committee, told the Chancellor to "Go over and have your men make substantial cuts. If you don't, we'll have to." Sen. Vogel added, "If the time was right, we'd give you everything you asked for, and maybe more." Senator Vogel said he thinks the Budget Committee perhaps should "set the tax budget low enough so the University wil have to in crease tuition." The budget that Hardin present ed to the legisative committee was the same one he had pre sented to the Governor earlier. It called for a salary increase to the present staff of $2,484,292 and $833,031 for the hiring of additional teachers. There was also an increase pro vided for the Medical Hospital in Omaha. Dr. J. P. Tollman, dean of the medical college, stated that "two wards in the hospital had been vacated to save on funds." Of the $879,783 proposed increase in the University Hospital budget, Hardin stated that $130,000 would go toward putting hospital em ployes on a 40 hour work week, which would stabilize the Univer sity Hospital with other Omaha hospitals in this respect. "The hospital is the only one in Omaha, the Chancellor said, work ing more than 40 hours a week." The rest of the 5.5 milion dol lar increase would go for fixed charges, $433,494; Ag Extension Service, $189,879; Experimental Stations, $381,268; Extension Serv ice, $42,230; 40-hour week in Lin coln, $100,000; and Maintenance, $219,098. Hardin said he was not "pro posing anything to keep up with Big 10 schools." In answer to com mittee questions, Hardin said "the University now is considering add ing two hours to the' class day. This is in line with anticipated student enrollment increases of 600 to 700 during the next year." Hardin, in answer to questions, said there was no provision in the budget for tuition increases. "This has been given consideration, though," he said. There was no date set for the the Council Constitution, ap proved only a few years ago by the entire student body, the Fac ulty Senate, and the Board of Regents. Article 2 to the Consti tution postulates that the Coun cil is to "serve as an agency through which faculty-student re lationships may be maintained." I hope that recent statements implying that students should be denied the right to vote on these committees, and that they be chosen In all-student elections is due to misinformation, and not a concerted attempt to divest the Student Council of its constitu tionally prescribed responsibili ties. Bruce Brugmann President, Student Council Dysinger stated that he didn't care to comment on Brugmann's statement. "I think the letter is clear to anyone who wishes to read it," he added. Theodore Aakhus, professor of engineering drawing and a mem- SC Studies Change In Use Of $10 Fee A special Student Council sub committee is investigating the pos sibility of temporarily using part of last year's $10 raise in student fees for educational purposes. In Wednesday's Council meeting, Connie Hurst stated that she is heading a committee to determine whether such a question should be presented to the entire student body on the Spring ballot. Presently the $10 raise in fees is being used to finance the new addition to the Union, which is scheduled to begin in July. Council To Investigate Eight-Day Examinations The Student Council unanimous ly passed a motion Wednesday calling for the council committee on calendar and final examinations to investigate the recent proposal of a Faculty Senate committee calling for an eight-day final exam period. second appearance of the Univer sity before the committee. Chair man Vogel told University offi cias, though, that the committee hoped to have its work completed by March 27th. Lois Wolfe Elected Adelphi President Adelphi, independent women's organization, elected the following officers at their regular meeting Tuesday night. Officers elected were: President, Lois Jean Wolfe, sophomore in home economics; vice-president, Alberta Strickland, sophomore in Teachers College; secretary, Cheryl Stereleck, fresh man in home economics; treasurer, Joan Neslacek, sophomore in home economics; pledge trainer, Bev Walenta, sophomore in Business Administration; and historian, Nancy Schacht, Sophomore in Teachers College. New Approach: Conference Will Study Structural Design Friday A completely new approach to the structural design of buildings which could save from five to 35 per cent in 6teel will be the sub ject of a day-long conference at the University Friday. Speakers include Dr. Lynn Beedle of Lehigh University, Ed ward Estes and Theodore Higgins, both of the American Institute of Steel Construction. The program will open at 9 a.m. in the Union, Boom 315. Sponsors of the event are the University's College of Engineer ing and Architecture and the Ex tension Division in cooperation with the American Institute of Steel Construction. The Institute has launched re cently a nation-wide program to explain the new theory to struc tural designers. The new theory called plastic de sign in steel will be presented to the practicing engineers and archi tects of Nebraska. On paper, a perfectly designed building from the plastic designer's ber of the senate committee on committees, stated "that there was some question on the committee as to just how student representa tives on Faculty Committees art selected." "Somebody on our committee asked just how representative the Student Council is of the student body." According to Aakhus the commit tee on committees is discussing the membership of every faculty committee separately, Edwin Halfar, assistant profes sor on mathematics and a mem ber of the senate committee, stated that the present student Council procedure "was open to criticism." "We are not putting any blame on the Student Council," Halfar added. Dean of Student Affairs, J. P. Colbert, who is also a member of the committee, expressed no com ment on Dysinger's letter. , Other members of the commit tee's committee could not be reached for comment. In a formal letter to faculty committees with student represen tation dated Jan. 17 pointed out that a Senate resolution of Dec. 13, 1955, removed the right for stu dents to vote on faculty commit tees. The Student Council, on Feb. 6, sent a resolution to Dean Colbert "respectfully requesting the Facul ty Senate to allow the student rep resentatives on the Senate Com mittees the right to vote at tha discretion of the individual com mittees." Colbert said in an interview last January that he thought support could be found on the Faculty Sen ate to return voting privileges to student representatives. The motion specifies that the Council committee should deter mine whether the recommenda tions of the Faculty Senate com mittee on final exams is "conson ant with the views of the Council and the Nov. 1955 action' of the Faculty Senate." In May of 1955 the Faculty Sen ate voted 135-65 to llimit final exams to one week. A Student Council poll of Octo ber, 1955, indicated that students favored a two week final exam schedule, 4 to 1. On Tuesday, Nov. 8, 1955, th Faculty Senate voted 125-87 to send the tentative short period (six days) calndar back to the commit tee. In other Council business, Ber Deepe's motion that the student activities committee be responsible for recommendinding whether or not Student Council be affiliated with NSA was passed. The NUCWA mock legislature, which will be held March 26-30, was unanimously endorsed by the Council. Biff Keyes, NUCWA vice president, spoke to the Council concerning the mock event and urged its cooperation. Dave Keene, chairman of the special legilature committee, re ported that he had addressed the Wednesday legislative bearing of the University Budget. A Chancellor's Roundtable will be held on March 27 according to I Bev Deepe. point of view would be one that was near the point of collapse. But in practice, it wouldn't col lapse. The same load safety fac tors would be applied to the plastic designed building as to a conven tionally designed one. Prof. George Ernst, director of the University's Engineering Ex periment Station, said plastic de sign engineers feel that the time tested methods of designing steel structures are frequently over-cautious and wasteful of steel. In the plastic theory the design ers use the excess material by a redistribution of stresses, without varying the size. In the event of an overload, there is a transfer of some of the load to less stressed portions, Professor Ernst ex plained. In effect, an overloaded struc ture can readjust itself to carry the load more efficiently. The principal research for this theory as applied to steel has brra carried by Lehigh University, tha U.S. Navy and the American In stitute of Steel CoastTuctiwS.