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n 1 f Faculty Senate srtfY HILARY of NtBw Ua r-x ri nnn n i n t un r -i r-i r r-i n ' rA w r n n c 1 Appoints Three New Members Baumgarten, Lake, Miller Get Student Duane Lake. Professor Charles Miller and Professor Henry Baumgarten have been appointed to the Student Af airs Committee of the Facul ty Senate. The three new members were appointed by. Chancellor Clifford Hardin on the basis of recommendations from the Faculty Senate Committee on Committees. Lake, managing director of Oak Ridae President To Speak Dr. Gross Named Convocation Guest Dr. Paul Gross, nationally known scientist, will speak at the Graduate College con vocation Thursday. Dr. Gross is president of the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies. Topic "The Graduate School Frontier of the Mind," will be his topic at the second an nual convocation at 3 p.m. in Love Library Auditorium. He will discuss the prob lcm of specialization in mod ern society and how this re lates to graduate training, research and society. Vice president in the Divi sion of Education and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Duke University, Dr. Gross is also a professional chemist. During World War I he carried out developmental work on gas masks. For his work with plastic bullets during World War II he was awarded the Presi dent's Medal for Merit. Dr. Gross Is the author of many scientific papers and has also patented sever al original processes of in dustrial value, especially in tobacco. In 1945 he received the Herty Medal, presented an nually to the most outstand ing scientist in the South. Dr. Gross is a member of the UNESCO Committee on Science, and is vice hairman of the National Science Foun dation Board. International Study Grants Offered Grants for foreign study and lectureships in Europe, Asia and Latin America have been received by the Graduate Col lege. NATO Research Fellowship Grants will be available to those working on projects of the Atlantic Community in NATO countries in 1959-60. Grants for the SEATO Re search Fellowships will be available for scholars to study in SEATO countries and territories. Lectureships for six weeks to three months can be ar ranged at Latin American universities from March to Dec. 1, 1959 under the ex change program of the State Department. Application blanks and ad ditional information may be obtained from the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils, Committee on In ternational Exchange of Per sons, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington 23, D.C. MisiBall Wins Music Audition Harriette Ball, a junior from Ceresco, was selected as winner of the Symphony Orchestra auditions the Lin coln Symphony Association announced. Miss Ball will appear in concert with the Lincoln Sym phony orchestra this spring. Some 20 Nebraskans com peted for the award. Miss Ball's audition number was Howard Hanson's "Concerto in G." She has studied piano with Mrs. Beth Miller Harrod for four years. Ag Ec Club Thursday evening there will be a meeting of the Agricul tural Economics Club at the Dairy Industries Building. Speaker for the evening will be Phil Sutton whose topic is Farm and Home Development Affairs Job the Union and Miller, profes sor of physical education for men are members at large. Prof. Baumgarten will rep resent the Student Council. He is an associate professor of chemistry. The committee is composed of three classes of members; members at large, represent atives of organizations and three ex-officio members. The ex-officio members are Dean Philip Colbert, Dean Marjorie Johnston and W. E Harper. Other members are: Prof. Arthur Ward, Dean Helen Snyder, Prof. Irwin Hathaway, Prof. Ruth Levin- son, Prof. Lyle Young, Dr. C. B. Schultz, Dr. William Hall Prof. Martin Alexander and Prof. Mary Jean Mul vaney. The Student Affairs com mittee recommends all gen eral policies including eligi bility for activity participa tion. All appeals involving University attendance and eligibility requirements are heard by the committee. The committee is divided into three subcommittees; Social Affairs, Student Pub lications, and General Organ izations. The sub-committee on social Attairs nanaies an cases that are not covered by established rules or which the Dean of Women cannot handle. The Subcommittee on Stu dent Publications governs the existence and operations of student publications are are issued or sold on the campus, and the Subcommittee on Gen eral Organizations controls the establishment, operation, and termination of any or ganization for students. Russell Off For Year In Bogota Ray Russell, member of the University Agricultural Extension staff, leaves Ne braska this weekend for a one-year assignment in South America. While working as advisor in extension work at Bogota, Colombia, Russell will be re placed by Danzil Clegg, for mer Antelope county agricul tural Extension agent. Russell will work as i member of the International Co - operation Administration team assisting the Colombian government in organizing an agricultural extension serv ice. The Extension team will consist of various agriculture subject matter specialists, a youth leader, home econom ics leader, and a studies and training specialist, with Rus sell representing Extension administration. According to Russell, the Americans will assist Colombian extension workers in setting up a na tionwide extension program. Russell ljas been north cen tral supervisor in Nebraska for the past nine years. Pre viously, he was baunciers county agent for nine years. $50 Awards Offered Top Writers Fiftv dollar first place awards are being offered in two poetry and fiction writ ing contests for University StUO'MtS. The "Prairie Schooner" fic tion awards sponsored Dy Marie Sandoz, awards first place, $50; second, $30 and third, $20. First and second place win ners will be chosen in the annual lone Gardner Noyes Memorial Poetry Awards. First place will receive $50, second, $25. Winners of both contests will be chosen by a board of judges. Entries for both must be typed, double spaced and in triplicate, witn tne name ot the author not appearing on the manuscript. Deadline for the contest is March 13. Entries must be turned into the English office in Andrews. Students may submit no more than two fiction pieces or three poems. The fiction must run from 3,000 to 7,000 but poems may be of any length. VWsH39? No 1 f'ii v ' I f -.Ta IE"? - ' '$ - - . ; - C . OOPS! And down goes another student! Coed Nancy Mont gomery seems to have lost her one-man battle with the Icy campus walks. Luckily, however, Marian Brayton and Nancy Ilallam are close by to help her pick up the pieces. Legislative Bills: Several Affect University By Marilyn Coffey The men in the Unicameral will decide many issues af fecting the lives of University students this session. LB30 and LB587 were dis cussed in Monday's Nebras kan. Sales Tax A third proposal, LB158, would establish a sales tax for revenue for tax-supported col leges and local schools. The bill calls for a popular vote in 1960 on a constitutional amendment to establish the tax. A minimum two per cent levy on retail sales is pro vided for. According to Edward Schmidt, professor of eco nomics, such a measure if passed would, in effect, pro hibit the state from levying a property tax. Property tax es are now the main basis for state revenue. Amendment Prohibits A constitutional amend ment, Schmidt explained, specifies that if either a sales tax or an income tax were adopted by the legislature, the state could no longer legally levy a state property tax. LB158 has been referred to the Judiciary Committee. March 2 has been set as the date for its public hearing. A bill which would remove indefinitely the ceiling on a building fund levy for the Col lege of Medicine and Univers- Where Galaxies Move at Button's Command Night is 45 Minutes By Doug McCartney The last light fades from the evening sky and stars slide into view. Never have they been so brilliant. The quarter moon passes overhead, then drops below the horizon. Just before dawn, a silvery twinkle arcs across the sky. It is one the earth satellites, swing ing its way through the star-crowded, yet lonely sky. In a Blaze A faint pink glow eases over the eastern horizon, and in a blaze of yellow and orange, it is day. Another winter night in Nebraska has passed in 45 minutes. In the "Theater of the Stars" the stage is a round dome whose only actors are heavenly bodies. In the center of the Ralph Mueller Planetarium, an ungainly instru ment mounted on a stand projects to this dome the stars, planets, sun and moon, all moving across the heavens. Any night of any year from 1000 BC to 2958 AD can be recreated on this indoor sky. More than 28,530 persons have arched their necks and squinted their eyes toward these far, yet near skies since the Plane tarium's March opening last year. This enthusiastic response has made the plane tarium self-supporting. Lengthy Handle Head man of the "Hall of Stars" is John Howe, who bears the lengthy handle of co-ordinator of guide services and plane tary programs, which he claims prevents him from being lost among the state mu seum's curators. Howe explained that the shows are changed every one-and-a-half months, to keep the programs 'seasonal and varied. He also said the lectures varied somewhat with the audience. "We try to explain so they can under . 63 The $7 i I n i f " ' WW.'' J y ? Si. Issues ity Hospital has also been in troduced to the legislature. $6 Million Limit The proposal, LB155, would strike from the present law the provision that the levy be automatically discontinued when $6 million for the col lege and hospital has been collected from it. Date for public hearing on the bill is Feb. 25. LB155 was referred to the Revenue Com mittee. A retirement system for University employees was proposed in LB130. - The t il would provide for contributions by both the Uni versity and the employee. Under the present system the employee does not contribute, but the University contributes eight per cent of the employ ee's annual salary. Sen. Sam Klaver of Omaha said this measure could cost the state a great deal. Chancellor Clifford Hardin said, "My guess is that the cost in the long pull will not differ greatly from the pres ent plan." The bill was placed on gen eral file after a hearing by the Labor and Public Welfare Committee. Senators Cooper, Jensen and Waldo have introduced a measure that would establish a one-fourth mill levy on pro perty for supplying funds for buildings at the College of Agriculture and the experi ment stations. Daily Nebraskan Matchmaker Cast Called Experienced Builders Announce Chairmen Assistants Also Named to Board Builders chairmen and as sitants for 1959-60 have been selected. They are: Office Manager, Jan Got- ben; Publicity, Larry Kil strup assistants, Sheila Mack and Sylvia McNallv: Tours, Sylvia Bathe assist ant, Louis Muhle; Parties and Conventions, Marilyn Cur ticeassistant, Dennis Elli thorpe; First Glance, Barbara Bar kerassistants, Lynn Wright and Gretchen Shellburg; Spe cial Edition, Ingrid Leder assistants, Bobbie Tanner and LaRay Richter; Student Di rectory, Phyllis Eliott as sistants, Linda Sawvell, Dor othy Sellentin, Nancy Raun and Ginny Hubka. Calendar, Nancy Johnson assistant, Jane Myhrens; As sistant Treasurer in charge of Sales, Julie Kay assistant, Jan Kaui'elt; Assistant Treas urer in charge of Advertising, Jane Mahoney assistant, Ann Walker. Ag Tours, Don Epp as sistant, Roy Arnold; Ag Sales and Membership, Mor ris Beerbohm assistant, My Ion Filkins; Ag Public Rela tions, Ray Preston assistant, Loys Mather. According to Dick Basoco, Builders president, the Art Committee has been elimin ated in an attempt to pre vent the existence of super fluous and overlapping com mittee functions. "This is an effort to make Builders as streamlined as possible without impair ing the individual needs of the committee involved", he explained. KUON-TV Will Present 90th Anniversary Show The University's 90th anni versary will be celebrated in a KUON-TV production Fri day at 8 p.m. The filmed half-hour show will feature everything from student life then and now, to well-known alumni and facul ty members. School History Anniversary of the day the University was chartered is Feb. 15. The first section of the pro stand,' he added. "All sciences can be very technical. Some people just can't be lieve the moon is moving over 3,000 miles an hour. The best way I can explain it is to compare it with a merry-go-round on a truck being driven around a race track." No Cricks The 100 seats in the air-conditioned room feature special head rests that don't leave cricks in the neck as a momento of the show. Soft music such as "Liebe straum" and "Moonlight Sonata" filters from hidden speakers as the lights dim for the show. "We've always worried about kids get ting scared in the dark and about vandal ism," Howe admits, "but the only trouble we've had at all is chewing gum. The kids drop it in the dark and can't find it." Two new pieces of equipment soon to be in operation are the "zoom effect," and a "northern lights projector". The zoom effect will bring a small star or planet seemingly closer until it fills the dome. "Specials" The staff is preparing other ideas to keep the shows varied. These include "special" shows for children which would utilize ultraviolet light and flourescent paint to explain mythology and why the ancients named the stars as they did. The planetarium and its equipment cost more than $61,000. It was a gift to the Uni versity from Ralph Mueller, '98, of Cleve land. The person who would like to brush up on his universe may drop around to the planetarium Tuesday or Thursday eve nings at 8 p.m., daily Thursday through Saturday at 2:45 p.m. or Sundays at 2:15 and 3:30 p.m. Marrs, Harslibarger, Hull, Take Leads By Sondra Whalen Cast members for "The Matchmaker" were de scribed as "experienced from the major parts down to the minor ones," by Dallas Wil liams, director of the Univer sity Theater. The play will be presented March 11-14 in Howell The ater. "Four lead members have had several major parts in University theater produc tions," Williams said. Comedy-Farce The play, a comedy-farce, tells the story of two appren tice grocers on a day off in New York City and Yonkers. When their boss, a 60 year old widower decides to re marry and go to New York to meet his intended wife, the two apprentices, left to run the general store, decide to have a vacation too. They close the store and leave for New York City, spending the day doging the boss and taking out his fu ture wife. "Finally everyone meets in a restaurant and the whole thing works out pleasantly," Williams explained. He added that the play is written in such a way that it requires audience participa tion. Parts of the action take place in the auditorium, as well as on stage. Horace Vandergelder, the boss, is played by Richard Marrs, a graduate student in speech. One of the appren tices, Barnaby Tucker, will be played by Ron Hull, the production director of KUON TV. The other, Cornelius Hackl, will be interpreted by Karl Harshbarger, speech instructor. Elizabeth Debo will depict Gertrude, and Roy Willey will interpret Malachi Stack. Bon na Tebo Hays plays Mrs. Levi, the person who finds gram will feature tne round ing of the school. Dr. James Olson, professor of history, and Miss Bernice Slote, pro fessor of English, will dis cuss why the University was founded and the kind of people that were responsible for its beginning. Three dramatic vingnettes performed by University stu dents will be presented as the next section. "These will represent stu dent life as it was in the ear ly years of the University," Ron Hull, production mana ger of KUON-TV, explained One of the scenes will be a meeting of the Palladian So ciety, the campus poetry group. Dixie Helms, Jack Ely and Jerry Brownfield will participate in this sketch. The second vignette will show the first library and musuem, and the third fea tures the student newspaper, "The Nebraskan-Hesperian." This section will be co-ordinated by Ken Keller, assistant director of Pubbc Relations. In the third part of the pro gram Adam Breckenridge, dean of faculties, will talk about former faculty mem bers who have become fa mous. These will include Wil la Cather, Louise and Ros coe Pound and Charles Bes sey. Famous alumni will be dis cussed by John Weaver, dean o' the graduate college, and Bruce Nicoll, assistant di rector of public relations. Included in the discussion will be Howard Hanson, Gen eral John Pershing, Charles Purcell and Herbert Brown- ell. Another student scene will show Ivy Day, with the planting of the ivy, masking of Mortar Boards, tackling ot Innocents, daisy chains and May Queen and court. Chancellor's Talk The final student scene will be Homecoming, presented in dance by several Or chesis members. , A four minute speech by Chancellor Clifford Hardin will conclude the proram. He will discuss the next ten years at the University. Tuesday, February 10, Vandergelder'! intended wif for him. Bill Larson has been east as Joe Scanlon. Ermen garde will be interpretated by Marijane Craig and Mrs. Molloy by Alice Baumgart ner. Other parts include Minnit Fay, Eleanor Kessler; a Cab man, James Baker; Rudolf, Andrew Wolvin; August, Zeff Bernstien; Miss Flora Van Huysen, Diana Peters; and her Cook, Stephaney Sheideman. Two Plays The play, written by Thorn ton Wilder, ir based upon two other plays, one of which was written in 1935. "In 19.38, Wilder wrote a play, "Merchant of Yon kers", Williams said. "Then he wrote 'The Matchmaker' in 1954, actually a revision of the 'Merchant'." Taking place during the 1900's, the play is divided in to four acts. Oleo Acts "We're going to have Oleo acts in between", Williams said, adding that these would include a singing group, 'The Maryannes'; a reading by Leonard Kluthe; a dance by Dorothy Maxwell, physical education instructor; and per haps a soft shoe and comedy routine. "All the music in the play will be provided by a six piece German band," he said. Reservations for the play are being taken now. "We want to urge students, especially those who have sea son's tickets to make their reservations now," Williams said. "We already have 127 seats gone for Saturday night. Four busloads of people are coming down from Norfolk." Reservations may be made in the ticket office, Temple Building, from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. AWS Filing Ends Today Applications for Associated Women Students Board must be handed in by 5 p.m. today in Rosa Bouton Hall. The student must be a member of the class which she proposes to represent and must have a weighted schol astic average of at least 5.7. Any freshman can apply. They are to estimate their average. The Board includes seven sophomores, seven juniors and five seniors in addition to the president and vice president. "There is an especially great need for representation among senior and unaffili ated women," according to Nan Carlson, AWS president. Interviews will be held Sat urday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Rosa Bouton Hall. Debate Teams Make Showing At Tournament Six University debate teams started second semester com petitive activities by partici pating in the Midland College Invitational Tournament last weekend. Winning three of five rounds was the team of William Cords and James Ehert. They were the only team to parti cipate in all five rounds. Teams winning both de bates in two rounds of compe tition were Don Epp and Benny Ashelman, Sara Gade ken and Nancy Copeland. Other teams winning one and losing two were Gary Hill and Phyllis Elliott, Eileen Warren and Richard Nelson, Robert Ross and Melvyn Ei kleberry. New Pi Tau Sigma Officers Announced Pi Tau Sigma, national mechanical engineering hon orary fraternity, has named new officers. They are Howard Hirsch, president; Ed Fisher, v i c e president; Steve Powelsky, treasurer; Richard Slaiger, secretary, and Buddy Miles, historian. ' ft ....