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V'. fh$.mimm S1TY OF nebr: . Private Opinion See Page 2 Music Atmosphere See Page 4 lB 181358 Vol. 32, No. 66 Lincoln, Nebraska Monday, February 17, 1958 Educational First Greets Nebraska Gardner Ties Two World Records Keith Gardner tied two world indoor track rec ords and Joe Mullins set a new meet record in the half mile as Nebraska won a dual track meet from Oklahoma Saturday, 513 to 49is. See Page 3 Lark Tryouts Tliis Week Tryouts for the University The atre production "The Lark" will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m and 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. in 301 Temple. Dallas Williams, director of the University Theatre will direct the production of Jean Anouilh's drama about Joan of Arc. "This will be a difficult play to east," Williams said. "Easter va cation will cut a week of re hearsals from the production." There are parts for seven worn tn and 22 men in the show. Wii- liams commented that there are "no straight juvenile parts in the how." "Picture such characters as Joan herself, the king of France, the archbishop all are complex characters," Williams noted. "On top of the other probiims," Williams said, "the rehearsals of Ondine, which also has a large cast, make it difficult to draw from that show's cast." The play will be produced earlier than the !ast play of the season usually is, the director stated. "We plan to take it to Fremont and Wayne in late April and early Msv," Williams said. Charles Lown Jr. is technical director of the play. Williams said that the settings will be done in part With rear projection equip ment. Students Interested in trying out for the play may do so, regard less of previous theatre experience, Williams said. Crews for the show will be signed at the same time as the tryouts. Miss Lincoln Tivelve IV 1 Coeds Named Finalists Twelve University coeds were among IS girls selected this week as finalists for Miss Lincoln of 1958. The girls were judged equally on the basis of personality and Intelligence, poise and grace, tal ent and beauty of face and fig ure, the same basis of selection that is used in the Miss America Pageant at Atlantic City. The Miss Lincoln Pageant will be held March 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cornhusker Hotel Ballroom according to Pageant Chairman Dick Simonson. The finalists were chosen from a total of 40 applications. University coeds vying for the Miss Lincoln title are: Sharon Abrams, iresnman in Arts and Sciences, and a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Breanna Johnson, sophomore in the College of Agriculture, rush chairman of Alpha Xi Delta so rority, and a member of KNUS staff. Mary Margaret Lewis, a sopho more in Arts and Sciences and a member of Kappa Kappa Gam ma sorority. Barbara Meston, junior in Teach ers College, Union board and Pi Beta Phi sosority. Joan Murphy, freshman in Teach ers College and a member of Chi Omega. Patricia Prouty, sophomore in Arts and Sciences, active in KUON TV and a member of Kappa Kap pa Gamma. ' Rosanne Rodgers, freshman in Teachers College -and member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Dolly Swift, sophomore in Teach ers, soloist for the Men's Glee Club, and a member of Kappa Dinner Will Honor . 24 Ag Students A scholarship dinner will be held Tuesday in honor of 24 Nebraska University students. The fourth annua recognition dinner sponsored by Nebraska chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, agriculture honor society, will be held at the city campus Student Union. Dr. Franklin E. Edlridge, associ ate director of resident instruction for the College of Agriculture, will be the principal speaker at the annual affair which honors soph omore and junior students at the College of Agriculture who have maintained nigh scholarship. v t Cwrtwy Lincoln Star PROPOSED CENTER This is a scale model of the proposed Continuing Education Center, which has been made possible by a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The $2 million building would be located at 33rd and Holdrege on Ag Campus. v Coed Board Filing Will Close Friday Filing for Coed Counselor board positions close Friday according to Joanne Bauman, president. Girls may sign up in Rosa Bouton Hall on City Campus. Ag girls may file at the booth in the Ag Activities Building. Sophomore, junior and senior women must meet the following eligibility requirements: 1) partici pation in activities as set up by the University; 2) must have a 5.7 average. No previous Coed Counselor experiences is neces sary. Board members will be chosen following the interviews Feb. 22 in Union 313. Coed counselor board has s i x sophomores, eight juniors and two senior members. Book Exchange Will Reopen The Book Exchange will be re opened Tuesday from 12-4 p.m. for the return of money and books which were not picked up February 10 and 11, Jack King, president of Alpha Phi Omega announced. The booth will be located on the main floor of the Union. All money and books left after Tuesday will become the property of the exchange. Alpha Theta. Sneleal Thompson, freshman In Arts and Sciences, and a member of Alpha Phi. Mary Kay L'ehling, freshman ir. Arts and Sciences and a member of Alpha Phi. Sharon Lee Vahle, sophomore in Teachers, member of Red Cross board and Alpha Omicron Pi. Sally Wells, a freshman member of Delta Gamma. and V ! Miss Mllson , . back to Atlantic City Honor Court Names Nielson Kay Nielson, last year's Nebras ka delegate to the Miss America contest, has been chosen to be in the Miss America Court of Honor at the famed beauty contest at At lantic City during the first week of September. Each year three girls are chosen tp return to the peageant to be in the Court of Honor. The other girls are Mary N?ncy Denner, Miss Oklahoma, and Valerie Joy Strong, Miss Michigan. The girls will assist the present Miss America, Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur. present trophies and participate in social affairs. Kay expects to perform several dances, be in pdrades and possibly be on television. I think it will be a lot more fun this time," Kay said, "because 1 i won't be so nervous.' "ii. ' ... Youth Program Expansion: Educators, Leaders React The possibility of expansion of youth training with the announce ment of a proposed continuing ed ucation center drew comment from several educators and youth organization directors, contacted by the Daily Nebraskan. In regard to a possible exten sion of the 4-H Club Week to four such weeks, Wesley Antes, State 4-H club leader commented that with such an extension 4-H Club Week would "have the oppor tunity to do 'considerably more training .than in the past." Facilitate Agent Training Ames said that in previous Gifted Dames Will Perform Guest Night Slated Thursday The University Dames will have a Guest Night 8 p.m. Thursday at University High auditorium. The meeting will feature mem ber talent and will include dramat ic readings, "'Iff hii'fTl.twirl" The purpose of the Guest Night is to acquaint interested women with the organization "There are 1600 married students in the University and only 286 wives in Dames," said Mrs. Vera Torczon, Union representative. Mrs. Torczon mentioned that the group has many activities for the ladies, such as the Chancellor's Tea, interest groups, a baby show, summer picnics, Christmas and Spring parties and a baby furni ture trading service. "Those who come to Guest Night do not have to join the group," said Mrs. Torczon. "We would just like them to come and see what we do." Dames is an organization which started at Harvaid in It came to the University in 1934. Membership is $1 a semester. The club meets the third Thurs day of each month. Arts Concert Set Thursday Fine Arts Ensemble will pre sent a concert 8 p.m. Thursday in the Union Ballroom. Leon Lishner, Associate Profes sor of Voice, will assist the en semble in the performance of Do ver Beach, by Samuel Barber. The Ensemble consists of Emanuel Wishnow, first violin; Truman Morsman, second violin; Max Gilbert, viola; and Rosemary Madison, cello. Gladys May willlhe capacity of the Don Love Me- accorapany mem on me piano. The program will open with String Quartet in D major No. 18, by Mozart. String Quartet No. 6, by Porter, will also be played. Dover Beach will open the sec ond part of the program. High lighting the program, it is based on the poem of the same name by Matthew Arnold, the English poet. String Quartet No. 2, by Borodin, will conclude the program. Tickets can be obtained at the door. They are 75 cents for stu- . CT?rt sented at the Joslyn Art Museum Concert Hall in Omaha 5 p.m. c,.j. m .j iooT t Z I Advance prices are $1 and door sales will be $1.50. Both programs are sponsored by the Friends of Chamber Music. BABW Applications Open This Week Applications will be accepted the rest of this week for Barb Activi ties Board for Women, according to Sue Hinkle, president. Freshman, sophomore and jun ior women in good standing and having a 5.5 average may apply. Application blanks are available at the BABW office. Union 309. Ap plicants sign up -there for inter views Feb. 22. f4 years, students in attendance at the Week, which meets on the Ag Campus, 'have had to sleep in make-shift dormitories in the Ag Engineering Building and the Ag Activities Building. The addition of the Center would also "facilitate the agent training," he added and benefit to a greater extent 30,000 club members and 5-6,000 volunteer leaders in the stale. Harold Duis, state adviser for the Future Farmers of America stated that the FFA state conven tion is held for three days in Lin coln during the school year. He added, "there is a possibil ity" that the state leadership camps, which are held in church camps throughout the state, "could be held here'' with the completion of the Center. Journalism Institute A possible additional journalism institute for high school students added in the Center, was met with favorable reaction by Dr. William Hall, Director of the School of Journalism. Dr. Hall said, "We have been looking forward to the day when we can have a summer training Institute for students who will be editors of their high school newspapers and yearbooks." The proposed institute would probably be comparable to the All-State Fine Arts Course held every summer at the University, Dr. Hall added. One-Day Convention Miss Rose Wanek, Director of Home Economic Education for the state of Nebraska, stated that the Future Homemakers Association has been holding a one-day an nual convention in Lincoln for ap proximately 350 girls. The conven tion meets in Love Library. However, with the new Center, the FHA, which has some 3,800 state members, might be able to hold a longer conference for 800 girls. . Dr. David Foltz, Director of All- State doubted that All-State would use the new Center, because of the impracticableness of trans porting students to and from the Ag Campus for private lessons. Library East Study-Lounge Will Science Room, By DICK SHIGRUE fditor In line with a long-range expan sion program which will enlarge morial Library from 600.000 to 1.- 200,000 books, immediate plans call for the elimination of t h e ground-floor east study lounge in the building "But a study area will be provided for the many stu dents who have used the east ! room in what is now the techni- :al services , area of the li- V Pre-!mente'd Frank' j . . t " 5 ',,. tt' the Urn- Courtesy Sunday , journal iiui Lundy versity Libraries. New Study Rorm The new study room would be about half the size of the present j reading room, Lundy noted. The east reading room of the 15-year old library will be con verted into a science and tech nology room, complete with book shelves and tables, 25,000 books on open shelves, service desks and seats for 150-200 students. Lundy, who has been director of the complex library system of ue University since 1944, stated that all vending machines would be re moved from the east reading room. However, arrangements are being made to place the coffee,, soft, drink and apple vending machine 9 er. i 1 ' i Kellogg Foundation Sets Stage For $2 Million Center By BOB IRELAND News Editor and -jr HERB PROBASCO Staff Writer The limelight of education has been focused on the State of Nebraska and its University. With a grant of $1,856,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., the University has assumed leadership of adult educational continuance in the (jreat Plains area a phase Contacted by the Daily Ne-. 1 braskan Sunday, Dr. Emory Morris, director of the Kellogg Foundation, slated that Nebras ka's "demonstration of its will ingness to aid education" was one of the primary reasons the stale was chosen for the estab lishment of a $2,642,000 Center for Continuing Education. Dr. Morris stated he was "de lighted" that the University was willing to assume responsibility for the development of continuing ed ucation. A First Nebraska will be the first land grant school supported directly by state funds to house such an ed ucation center, Dr. Morris stated. The Kellogg Foundation is com mitted to provide $1.5 million to ward construction and equipment, as well as $356,000 to help finance a part of the Center's program during its pioneer stage of opera tion. This committment is contin gent upon the University raising the balance of the necessary construction funds of $1,142,000 within a 12-month period. C h ancellor - - Clifford Hard- in r n A r t. ed that t h e U n i versity Board of Re gents would probably meet around the first of March to discuss plans to fi nance the op-ounsy Lmcoln Journal eration. Hardin The annowicement of the proj ect culminated three years of planning and negotiations between the University and the Foundation, Chancellor Hardin stated. According to Dr. Morris, discus sion of the project between the University and the Foundation be came after Hardin left Michigan State in 1954 to become NU chan cellor. "This is a wonderful opportu nity for the University and for Nebraska. It clears the way for the University to extend its ed ucational Influence to thousands of people, both youth and adults who are not enrolled in college," Hardin stated. "When the Kellogg people are willing to pledge that amount of money to our future," he said, "I am sure Nebraska contributors can be counted upon to make up the balance of the investment." Five Stories The center's central structure about 4O0 feet long by 80 feet wide will be a five-story adult- conference facility having an au- M1 Greater Book Space Planned in Present Building in the proposed west reading I room. Furnishings for the west room would include some of the large pieces presently used in the east room and some pieces which would come to the library through the Union, Lundy explained. About 12 pieces will be placed in the new reading room. The genial library director who received his masters degree in librarianship in 1949 from the Uni versity of California said that th use of the new room would depend on when money is available for tne shift. Science Room "We plan to give the science room on the second floor of the building to the Humanities divi sion, which would then have about twicf the amount of space it now occupies," he added. Lundy n oted that the ground floor study area has been "an ex perimental room." "First it was a reserve book room and then it was made into an unsupervised study hall." He added that at firs. he believed there would be a great disciplinary problem in the room, but t here has never been any problem with the east room. "Students value the room. It hai a tremendous value to them. This is what I have told the people on the building committees. But now we need the space fcr a reading room," Lundy said. The library director commented that every time the room has been closed either for the administra tioa of a graduate test or for some still in its pioneer stages. ditorium seating 700, meeting and lecture rooms, an educational tele vision studio, and hotel and dining accommodations for guests. Esti mated cost of the building and its furnishings is $2 million. A special four-story wing will be named the "Youth Hall" with facilities for meetings of Future f armers, 4-H ciuds, Boy s and Girls' States, and Fine Arts courses for youth. The wing, 176 feet long by 56 feet wide, will in clude a small auditorium two as sembly and instructional rooms, a cafeteria served by a central kitchen and dormitory quarters for 336. Michigan Enthusiasm The W. K. Kellogg Foundation furnished the major portion of the funds which permitted the estab lishment of the Kellogg Center for Continuing Education at Michigan State University in 1951. The enthusiastic participation of the public in the Michigan Uni versity venture led the Foundation to join the State of Georgia in the creation during 1957 of the Georgia Center for Continuing Ed ucation at that State University. In addition to the Nebraska grant, the Foundation also an nounced that it will establish a similar center at the University of Chicago. The Chicago Center will be housed in a $3.5 million build ing, with the Foundation providing $2.3 m: n, plus $500,000 for its program. Society Will See Best Foreign Film The 1958 Film Society's second presentation, "Ordet", has been chosen as the best foreign film of the year by the National Board's Committee on Exceptional Films. "Ordet" is based on "The Word." a play written by Kaj Munk. The picture is Danish, and opened its first run in New York City during December of 1957. "Ordet" will be shown at the Nebraska Theater at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, the 19th. Director of the movie is Carl Theodore Dreyer, considered the screen's foremost artist by theat er magazine "Films In Review." According to "Films in Review," "The composition of some of Or det's scenes equals that of the world's best paintings, and Drey er's direction brings forth from his players the drama that oc curs in the secret places cf the heart." other purpose a student delegation has approached him with protests. Miss Kathryn Renfro, the tech nical service librarian for the Uni versity, said that the east study lounge has served as a ro o m where students can relax and smoke, if they wish. "By having the room available, it gives tne student who wants to smoke a place to go and keeps them from smoking in the division reading rooms." Smoking Allowed Smoking will be allowed in the wesi study room. Lundy said that the plans for a commuters area in the Union ad dition would give the students who store their lunches in the east lounge a place to eat their noor. meal. He admitted that there might be a period of "a pinch" before the completion of the ad dition to the Union during which the west lounge might not be suf ficient. ."We're looking ahead five, pos sibly ten jears, Lundy explained.- "We will need a doubled capac ity for the library in line with the increasing need and desire for ed ucation as well as for the storage of new books and periodicals." He said that the boom storage area is practically full at the pres ent time. "Now there is a new area in the Law College library addition which can cope with a temporary book stacking prob lem." Lundy - stated that 175,000 books can be kept in general stor age in the Law Annex. Richard Farley, the assistant di Chancellor, Officials Comment University representatives and officials contacted by the Daily Nebraskan have expressed favor able reaction in regard to the $1.8 million Kellogg Foundation grant received by the University for the construction of a Continuing Edu cation Center. Chance lor Clifford Hardin pointed out that "although the Cen ter is to be located on Ag Campus," this location was selected primari ly for parking space. "The pro gram to be offered by the Center will be University-wide," he con tinued. Hardin stated that he is "hoping that there will be some sizeable gifts" toward the additional $1.5 million needed to be raised by the University before construction can begin. He added that he has received several phone calls in regard to contributions with one offer of $1, 000. Professional Seminars A center already established at Michigan State University when Hardin was Dean of the Agricul tural College at that school has had a "highly sucecssful operation in every standpoint," Hardin com mented. He mentioned that various pro fessional conferences and semin ars will be held at the Center, and from time to time members of the faculty will participate in these training programs. The Chancellor, who left Sunday for a series of West Coast alumni club speeches, said he hoped that construction of the Center will get under way shortly after the firt of next year. "Terrific Tribute" Clarence Swanson, member of the Board of Regents, stated, "I think it's a terrific tribute to the Uni versity and to our Chancellor, and I hope we can get the fund raising job done." The Board of Regents will hold its next meeting the first part of March. Dr. Knute Broady, Director of the University Extension Division, to whom- the director of the Cen ter will be responsible, stated that no plans have been made yet, re garding a staff for the Center. Be Cut rector of the University Libraries, commented that the study-lounge situation is a perpetuation of the high school study hall. "It gives the students a place to have coffee, a Coke or to sit beside their fellow students and serves a real need," Farley said. He added that perhaps study areas could be started in the class room buildings or in the dormi tories. "There is a need in any library for study areas such as we have on the fourth floor." New Stacks Plans are in the offing for the installation of new stacks which would permit a doubling of the library's capacity without an ad dition to the building. Lundy showed three types of st a c k s which can hold twice the number of books the present stacks bold in the same space.- "The installation of any of these stacks would necessitate the pour ing of a new floor to hold the add ed weight At the present time about 100,000 books are kept oa the open shelves. A greater and more efficient nse of the existing library space is the general goal of the shift of the study rooms, the three libra rians agreed. Lundy summed up bis sent ments regarding the change to the smaller study area in a letter sent to Carl Donaldson, business man ager of the University: "We must now move ahead to the full exploitation of the Love Library building for what are es sential library services and purposes."