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The Daify Nebraskan Friday, April 12, 1957 Journalist: Imtelmd fr S I fl If J MM 1 1 rJffffO ' 1 1 vl MM eti lam A two-time Pulitzer Prize win ner, whose book has been heading the best eller list for weeks, will be the featured speaker at the University annual Journalism Day celebration, May 4. .He is Don Whitehead, veteran Associated Press correspondent, now Washington bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune. His book, the FBI Story, was a best seller from the start, selling 150,000 copies the first five weeks. - Whitehead will deliver the 28th annual Don Mellett lecture in Journalism, according to Dr. Wil liam Hall, Journalism School director Tne Mellett lecture, sponsored by New York University, is de livered on a different campus each year. It was established, In mem ory of a Canton, 0., newspaper man who was murdered because of his crusade against vice and corruption in local government. Starting out In the weekly field, Whitehead transferred to the As sociated Press, where he became night editor. During World War IX he saw action as a war cor respondent in Africa and Europe. Whitehead won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for a series of stories he wrote after witnessing the fall of Seoul to Communist troops." His second Pulitzer Prize followed with in three years. It was given to him for his day-to-day log of Pres. ident Eisenhower's post-election trip to Korea. James To Travel To fbwa Confab Dick James of Hastings has been selected to represent the sen ior clasj of the University's School of Journalism at the annual Iowa Press Association conventions at Des Moines, la., today and Sat urday. He will appear Saturday morn ing on a panel diJbussion with three other college seniors con cerning journalism students' atti tudes toward the weekly newspa per field. Mitchell Case: Hearings 'Study' Goes End; On By GARY RODGERS Staff Writer No more hearings of the Mitch ell Case will be held, bat the Fac ulty committee on Privilege and Tenure will continue to study the case for some time before they reacn a decision, according to com mittee chairman David Dow. Chatfield: University Seeks Man For Counseling Service a searcn is now going on lor a "highly qualified man" to be in charge of the University Counsel ing Service, according to Lee Chat- field, director of "the Junior Divi sion and Counseling Service. Gordon Henley, assistant pro fessor of Educational psychology and measurements, and Charles Neidt, chairman of the department of educational psychology and measurement, are assisting Chat field in the search. The department hopes to obtain a "diplomate," a person with a Ph. D. of E.D.D. in counseling. I five years of experience beyond his training and who meets the high standards set up by the Amer ican Psychological Association, ac- cording to Henley. 14V 1 , "u, we can ODtain sucn a man we will be the only school in the Big Seven to have one," Henley said. v-nawieia wouia prooaoiy re- Mortar Board: International Students To View State In Tour Members of Mortar Board, wom en student's honorary activity so ciety at the University, will use part of their Easter vacation to show 35 international students samples of Nebraska community life. A committee of Mortar Board girls will take the foreign students April 15-18: AFCW onfab SI & fed " Nearly every major college In the nation will be represented at the national convention of the American Federation of College Women, to be held on the Uni versity campus, Monday through Thursday. Three-hundred-fifty student dele gates from 122 schools will regis ter at University High School from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday. The coeds will be housed in the University Resident Halls for Women. The principal speaker will be Dr. Harriet O'Shea, associate pro fessor psychology at-Purdu Uni versity, Lafayette, Indiana. National president is Pat Mc pherson of Smith College, North' bampton, Mass., and president elect is Joan Heusner, University junior. utner otncers lor.tne conven tion include: Sarol Wiltse; trea- surer; jrat Arbutnnot, program chairman; Margaret Edwards, University of Tennessee, housing and registration chairman; and Sally Wilson, publicity chairman. The convention will consist of discussion groups, including a ban quet at the Cornhusker Hotel and a picnic at Pioneers Park Wednes day evening. Banquet speaker will be Miss Margaret Killian, professor and head of the department of home economics at the University of Omaha. Miss Mary Jane Mulvaney, Uni versity assistant professor of physt cal education for women, is execu tive secretary-treasurer. KK Contest warn I Select usce. Men' The Koamet Hub will hold a contest to select two muscle men " v"c xua it aim a production of "South Pacific," ac- cordintf to Jpit RrnomfioM Aoi.. man. Winners will be selected by the female cast members of South Pa cific, and will receive shrunken heads as prizes, in .addition to the part in the show. All entrants will receive an Im parted South Pacific cocoanut and a bag of vetel nuts for taking part in the contest. The basis far th selection will te brawn jr?y, and the judges se-Ii-'.Iti-s will la final. Winners will r iwd to fpend Much time at iAxacs, shice the parts require t ;o-1 1' J or singing. f ":.3 on applications for the e " -t will be announced im r '. following Spring Vaca- by bus to Omaha, Grand Island, Lexington, Curtis, Holdrege, and Hastings. The tour, similar to an nuai excursions begun in 1951, will be made Monday through Wednesday April 15-17. The tour committee is composed or Virginia Hudson, Dorothy No- votny, Marian Sokol, Shirley Rich ards and Beverly Deepe. Miss Sue Arbuthnot, a University Teach ers College staff member, will serve as, chaperon. Assisting with arrangements In local areas are Mrs. James Shom berg, Grand Island; Harold Ste vens, Lexington;, H. K. Douthit, Curtis, superintendent of the Ne braska School of Agriculture; Mrs. Ray Magill, Holdrege; and Stan ley Matzke, Hastings. Miss Hudson said an effort will be made to show the foreign stu dents, whose homes are in a score of different countries including Hungary, highlights of Nebraska's economic, social and home-life structure. . The group will stay overnight in private homes in. Grand Island and at the School of Agriculture j at Curtis. The tourists will have lunch with . Commercial Cattle Feeders at Lexington and will in spect the Central Nebraska. Pub lie Power and Irrigation District operations at Holdrege. The itinerary: Monday, 7:30 a.m.. leave from Student , Union. 9:30 a.m., Tour Boys Town, 10:30 a.m., visit Jos lyn Memorial, Omaha: Noon. lunch, Union Stockyards, Omaha4 2:30 p.m., leave for Grand Island: 5:30 p.m., arrive Grand Island for overnight stay. Tuesday, 9:00 a.m., leave Grand Island; 10:15 a.m., coffee and in spection alfalfa mill; 11:30 a.m., lunch with Lexington Cattle Feed ers; 3:30 p.m., arrive Nebraska School of Agriculture, Curtis, for high school program and overnight stay. Wednesday, 8:45 a.m., leave Curtis; 11:45 a.m., lunch, Franklin School, Holdrege; 1:00 p.m., tour Tri-County District; 3:00 p.m., ar rive Hastings to visit Hastings College and House of Yesterday; 6:00 p.m., dinner in Hastings, prior to return to Lincoln. ' main as director of the Service but only in an administrative ca pacity, Henley explained. The new person would probably have complete control over the Counseling Service, he stated. Chatfield confirmed this state ment. "I will continue to devote the bulk of my attention to the Junior Division," he said. "I would prob ably not handle any of the actual counseling". The number of . other full-time persons in the Service will depend mostly on the wishes of the new head, Henley explained. "We are hoping to use a greater number of graduate students in connection with the Service, but the details have not been worked out yet," he said. Chatfield stated "My primary in terest is to maintain as good a Counseling Service as possible." If the services of a diplomate cannot be obtained, we will get as good a man as possible, he said. The department hopes to have completed the search by June 1, according to Chatfield,. ' At the time of last hearing, Feb 21, it was reported that another hearing was contemplated but prob ably would not be held until the later part of March. Dow s a 1 Thursday that this was not true but that, "no further hearings are planned at the present time." The hearings were held in the investigation of complaints made by Dr. C. Clyde Mitchell, former professor and chairman of the de partment of agricultural econom ics. Dr. Mitchell claimed in 1956 that certain administrative officials of the University had threatened his academic freedom. The case has now been through an entire year of hearings and de liberations, and is now pending in the committee. Dow said he did not know when the committee will reacn a decision, but the definite ly will reach one and make a re port. The Committee met for about an hour and a half Thursday. Dow said they have been meeting every week recently and that they spend most of this time on the Mitchell case. However, he said that many other things have come up in the past year that the committee has had to consider and that this along with the fact that much of their work is done by mail, ac counts for the long time that has elapsed since the matter was brought up. The committee has heard from Mitchell several times since the last hearing, Feb. 21, but has not released any .new evidence. Square Dance Club The Swing 'n Cheat Sauare Dance Club will hold a dance on Friday, at 8 p.m. in the YWCA basement. Everyone is invited date or stag. 1958: NU Quistan Elected Yell Squad King Bill McQuistan was elected Yell King Wednesday, according to the Yell Squad. McQuistan will replace Don Beck, last year's yell leader. He is a sophomore in Agriculture, Corn Cob member and a mem ber of THeta Xi. McQuistan was elected by vote of last year's cheerleaders. Elected as assistant yell king is John Madden, who is sophomore in Teachers College. He is also a member of Newman Club, Kosmet Klub worker and a member of Delta Tau Delta. Other members of the Squad in clude Don Bell, freshman in Arts and Sciences, Varsity rifle team and a member of Sigma Chi; Brent Chambers, freshman in Business Administration, Union Dance com mittee, University Theater and t member of Kappa Sigma. Lyle Burry, freshman in Phar macy, is another new member of the Squad. He is in Junior IFC. Red Cross and a member of Kap pa Sigma. Charlene Anthony, freshman in Teachers, is a mem ber of Red Cross Board, Union and Alpha Chi Omega. Margaret Marshall, freshman in Arts and Sciences, is a member of Red Cross board, Aquaquettes and a member of Gamma Phi Beta. Holdovers from last year's team include Ann Wade, junior in Home Economics and pledge trainer of Phi Beta Pi and sophomore Ka rene Krueger is WAA secretary, Newman Club member and a member of Alpha Omicron Pi. Applications For Student Council Due All members, of organizations, filing for Student Council should have their applications in before vacation, Harry Dingman, Elec tions . chairman announced at the Student Council meeting Wednes day. Some applications have already beert sent in but not all organiza tions are represented as yet, he said. Applications have been accepted for the college representatives for Student Council." They are agricul ture, 8; Arts and Sciences, 11; Busi ness Administration, 7; Engineer, ing, 4; Law, 2; Pharmacy, 2; Teachers, 17, and Dental, 2. Dave Keene announced that Mary DeMars has been selected to introduce ex-governor Val Peter son at the honors convocation where he will speak. Last season's is back- bigger than everl S i-jU-4Lsf W -: M -- w - : j. I, . ' iCa VST' H' iWiw''.H 4 H i 5 ? lit " if .'1 iJ'4!' ir flMtiSUM ,..iJ This Arrow University oxford shJrfi was such a smash hit last season, you asked for an encore. And for good reason! 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Today, a Systems Analyst in IBM's Data Processing Division, Tom reviews his experience and gives some pointers that may be helpful to you in taking the first, most important step in your business career. "What I probably like most about this job," says Tom, "is that you're never tied down to one desk and the same routine. There's always a new problem ... a new approach needed . . . new people to meet and work with." I But first, what does a Systems Analyst do? "Briefly, we study a cus tomer's present system payroll, in ventory control, billing or whatever and convert it to a mechanized sys tem using either conventional IBM business machines or IBM's high speed electronic computers." Tom works out of the IBM Balti more Office with some of America's fined by Tom as "converting the flow of instructions and information into the most efficient operation for an IBM magnetic drum computer. Bell wood," Tom points out, "is the In ventory Control Center for all h 1 V Why Tom chose IBM How does a senior like Tom, who wat interviewed by at least twenty com panies while in college, select hia future employer? "In my case," Toro : says, "the choice was easy. IBM offered the best opportunities. I knew IBM sales were about doubling every,, five years and when I considered the tremendous growth potential of the electronic computer field I had no trouble making up my mind. "Besides, I was impressed by tha caliber of IBM personnel. They had a broader outlook and an approach to 1 - J Studying cuttomtr't prt(nl tyftam biggest companies as his customers. Graduated from Johns Hopkins in August, '55, with a B.S.I.E., he came immediately to IB M. During his train ing period, Tom studied IBM's Punched Card and Electronic Data Processing Machines. He learned their uses, their applications, and was in structed in the theories and methods of data processing. Diversified Assignments 1 A leading aircraft company was Tom's first major assignment. "My job there," he explains, "was to analyze the application of IBM's latest elec tronic computer the 705 to regu late the flow of materials and machines used to fill Government contracts." Then came a short, but highly sat isfying assignment. At the Bellwood Quartermaster Corps, Tom set up a "SOAP", system (System for Opti mum Automatic Programming) de- A problem In Inventory control Quartermaster centers in the country. The new system will achieve balanced supply find demand of material throughout the entire U. S. will save money for the Government and re lieve many men from the drudgery of details." For the past six months, Tom has been working with the Statistical Services Division of Headquarters Air Research & Development Com- n Ji ixplainlng IBM't 705 fodronlc computer mand. "We are designing and imple menting a system to link eleven reporting centers to Headquarters by wire transmission," Tom reports. "Data transmitted to Headquarters by this Bystem will be coordinate J and then processed by an IBM 6fi0 At lb control panel of IBM't 650 business which I can best describe as professional. "My future? It looks good very good. I've already received two gen erous raises in less than two years, and at the rate IBM and the elec tronic computer field are expanding, my future is both assured and rewarding!" o ; IBM hopes this message will help to give you some idea of what it's like to be a Systems Analyst in the Data Processing Division. There are equal opportunities forE.E.'s, I.E.'s, MJ2.'s, physicists, math ematicians, Liberal Arts majors, and Business Administration graduates in IBM's many divisions Research, Prod uct Development, Manufacturing En gineering, Sales and Sales Assistance. - Why not drop in and discuss IBM with ; your Placement Director? He can supply our brochure and tell you when IBM will f next interview on your campus. Mean while, our Manager of College Relations, P. H. Bradley, will be happy to answer your quHoiM. Just writs him at IBM, Room 11904, 590 Madison Ave., New York 22, N. Y. electronic computer." DATA PnOCKSSINa ILICTB1C TYPEWRITERS INTIIM ATIOMAL BUflMMS MACHtMM COIVOKATION MILITARV PRODUCTS i TIME IQUPM(NT V