Vol. 32, No. 84
'Fight For Worthwhile,
But Aim For Attainable9
Montgomery Lecturer Speaks
On Function Of Stress In Life
Fight for whatever seems
really worthwhile, but, on the
other hand, aim only for
things attainable."
This suggestion was made
by Dr. Hans
Selye, direc
tor of the In
stitute of Ex
p e rimental
Medicine at
the Univer
sity of Mon
treal, Tues
day evening.
He made
this state
ment in the
Selye
first of a series of three
Shall We
Disarm?
Pre-Convention
Debates Begin
"Will Disarmament solve
the problem?"
Discussing the question
Thursday in the second of a
series of meetings to precede
the NUCWA model UN con
vention, will be Dr. Herbert
Jehle, professor of physics,
and Col. Vernon Rawie, pro
fessor of Military Science,
U.S. Army.
The meeting, which was
postponed Tuesday, will be
held at 7:30 p.m. in Union
316.
The model United Nations
conference will be held April
9-12. Any group of four or
more persons may send a del
egation of four to represent a
member-nation of the UN at
the conference. Each nation
will be given one vote.
The conference commit
tee has found it possible to
lower the total cost per en
tire delegation to $2, said
Wynn Smithberger, confer
ence chairman.
The three chosen topics up
on which discussion meetings
have been based are: 1) Dis
armament, which will be de
bated at the Thursday meet
ing, 2) Cyprus, which was
presented by Dr. Sabr Sungu
last week, and 3) the Chang
ing of the UN Charter, which
will serve as the topic of dis
cussion on Tuesday of next
week.
Benjamin Cohen, United Na
tions Under-Secretary for
Trusteeship and Information
from Non-Self-Governing Ter
ritories, will fly from New
York to speak to the public
Saturday, April 12, as a con
clusion to the conference.
Interested groups who have
not yet registered for the con
ference are urged to do so
even if they were unable to
attend the first meeting, said
NUCWA President Biff Keyes.
Students should register as
soon as possible, however, so
the assignment of countries
can be made.
Frosh Meet
Ex-Principals
Transition Troubles
Will Be Discussed
Approximately 1,100 Univer
sity of Nebraska freshman
students will meet with rep
resentatives of their former
high schools Thursday at the
fourth annual Principal-Freshman
Conference, Dr. F 1 o y d
W. Hoover, registrar, an
nounced Tuesday.
Representatives from 90
high schools throughout Ne
braska are expected to at
tend. The students and the rep
resentatives will discuss prob
lems of transition from high
school to university work. Dr.
Hoover explains.
During the morning, fresh
men will meet in groups with
representatives from their
former schools.
At noon, Miss Irma Kyle,
director of the University
School of Nursing will report
on "The Nursing Education
Program." Dr. George W.
Rosenlof, dean emertis of ad
missions, will preside at the
luncheon to be held in the
Union.
A panel discussion on the
subject, "The Transition from
IIih School to the Universi
ty," will be presented in the
afternoon by several Univer
sity students.
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Lincoln, Nebraska
Montgomery Lectures, en
titled "The Stress of Life."
His second lecture, "T h e
Function of Basic Research
in Our Society," is scheduled
at 8 p.m. Thursday at Love
Library auditorium.
Experiments
Dr. Selye has demonstrat
ed, after practicing experi
ments for over 20 years, that
many of the worst diseases
result from an unbalancing of
hormones under prolonged
stress.
He explained that resist
ance should be put up when
ever there is reasonable ex
pectation of its succeeding,
but never if one knows it will
be in vain.
"It is not easy to live by
this motto; it takes much
practice and almost constant
self-analysis," he said.
The endoctrinologist ex
plained that stress, applied
in moderation is necessary
for life. "Besides, enforced
inactivity may be very
harmful and cause more
stress than normal activity."
He said he is certain that
the natural human life-span
is far in excess of the actual
one. "Among all my autop
sies, I have never seen a man
who died of old age. To per
mit this would be the ideal
Pharmacy Seminar
Plans Announced
Puerto Rico Will Host Assembly
Of 22 Nations' Representatives
Tentative plans for a Pan
American pharmaceutical ed
ucation seminar were an
nounced Monday by Dr. Jo
seph Burt, Dean of the Col
lege of Phar
macy. The five
day seminar,
to be held
during the
first week in
January,
1959, will
host dele- f
gates from J
the 22 mem- courtesy Lincoln Star
ber countries Burt
of the Pan-American Phar
maceutical and Bio-Chemical
Federation.
Announcement of the semi
nar came after Dr. Burt
met with Dr. Leonard Pic-
coli, secretary general of the
group.
Dr. Piccoli came to Lincoln
after a 3-week tour of Puerto
Rico and Mexico in search of
a site for the seminar.
Puerto Rico was selected
as the meeting sight because
it is a bilingual country which
is far advanced in the field
of pharmaceutical education,
Dr. Burt said.
The University of Puerto
Rico, located near San Juan,
has offered the free use of
its facilities for the seminar.
The purpose of the seminar
is to exchange ideas on teach
ing methods in the various
branches of pharmaceutical
education, and to promote
unity and liberty among the
nations of the western world.
The seminar was planned
at the 4th Pan-American Con
gress of the Federation. This
Congress, which met in 1957,
passed a resolution calling
for a teaching seminar in
pharmaceutical education.
Discussions at the seminar
will probably be held in Span
ish, Dean Burt said. This con
trasts with the Pan-Ameri
can Congress held in Wash
ington, D.C., at which the
discussions were carried out
in four languages.
Dean Burt, who is presi
dent of the Federation was
Business Frat
Plans Trip
Some 35 members of Delta
Sigma Pi, professional busi
ness fraternity, will leave
Lincoln for a two day tour of
Minneapolis, Minneso
ta, Thursday evening.
Included in the itinerary
are visits to Minneapolis
Honeywell Manufacturing
company, makers of electric
al regulators ; Minneapolis
Mining and Manufacturing
company, abrasives manufac
turers; and Minneapolis-Mo-
line, a farm equipment pro
ducer.
accomplishment of medical
research."
Men Die
"Men invariably die be
cause one vital part has worn
out too early in proportion
to the rest of the body." He
pointed out that the human
body wears longest when it
wears evenly. "As far as
man can regulate his life by
voluntary actions, he should
seek to equalize stress
throughout his being."
The researcher said that
civilization tends to force
Where s Peanuts?
Charlie Brown and friends
are appearing on page 4 to
day. people into highly specialized
occupations which may be
come monotonously repeti
tive. "Remember that stress is
the great equalizer of biolog
ic activities and if you use
the same parts of your body
or mind over and over
again, the only means nature
has to force you out of the
groove is: stress," he said.
Dr. Selye will appear next
at the College of Medicine in
Omaha on Friday.
part of the delegation to the
1957 Congress. He said that
the U. S. delegates have not
yet been selected.
He also pointed out that
Puerto Rico is working on
another project sponsored by
the Federation. A Spanish
translation of the American
Journal of Pharmaceutical
Education is now being pre
pared by the school.
The translation of the jour
nal will be of "great assist
ance" to the Spanish speak
ing countries of the western
hemisphere, Burt said.
Students Surprise Guest Prof
Spirit Of Inquiry Impresses Indian Lecturer
Mrs. Surama Dasgupta, a
visiting Indian professor at
the University, is pleasantly
surprised at the Nebraska
student.
Mrs. Dasgupta, lecturing in
the U.S. for a year under the
sponsorship of the Fulbright
and Whitney Foundation pro
grams, admires their "liveli
ness, frankness, and hones
ty." She believes that the "spir
it of inquiry" displayed by
the students toward the
Orient more than offsets their
inadequate knowledge of the
region.
Proper Attitude
"There are many in Amer
ica who have the proper at
titude to approach the East
ern peoples," said Mrs.. Das
gupta. Dr. Dasgupta observes that
Americans are better in
formed about her country
than 30 years ago when her
husband, the late Prof. S. N.
Dasgupta, was a visiting lec
turer at the University of
Chicago.
At that time, she relates,
some persons thought he had
mystic powers Great
enough, in fact, to locate
missing persons.
"Perhaps people (in Amer
ica) thought that people in
India had mystical powers,"
said Dr. Dasgupta.
Snakes To Yogi
His experiences induced
her to come prepared to an
swer queries ranging in sub
ject matter from snakes to
Yogi.
"Here I've found that
American people show inter
est in culture, religion and
cultural history and the Eng
lish do not," she said.
Mrs. Dasgupta, who re
ceived her Ph.D. from Cam
bridge University in E n g-
land in 1950, believes Amer
ican students are more sym
pathetic to different cultures
than English students. Amer
cans, she says, show
Wednesday, March 19, 1958
NU Flics
Model Moon
So the Navy launched their
Vanguard.
Days ago a minature Van
guard was "launched" in
Morrill Hall. The tiny sphere
circles a transparent plastic
earth in approximately the
same orbit that the real Van
guard follows.
This satellite and earth are
part of an exhibit loaned to
the University museum by the
National Science Foundation.
The display will be on view
in the museum until March 24.
A replica of the satellite
proposed for Navy's second
launching, larger and heav
ier than Vanguard I, is also
on display. This full scale
model was designed and con
structed by U.S. Naval Re
search Laboratory.
A cutaway of the model ex
poses to view the recording
instruments and transmitters
located inside the satellite.
The question of what
good a satellite way up in
space can do for us is partial
ly answered by the National
Science Foundation:
"By optical tracing of any
satellite we can learn more
about the shape of the earth,
the size of the earth, the
density of the upper atmos
p h e r e, intercontinental dis
tances and the mass distribu
tion for the earth.
"With proper instrumenta
tion satellites may be used to
study cosmic rays, the earth's
magnetic field, radiation bal
ance between the sun and the
earth and the albeds or cloud
cover of the earth."
Muttnick Visible
Thursday Night
The Russian satellite, pro
viding the weather is clear,
can be seen with the naked
eye Thursday evening at 7:37
p.m. traveling from south
west to northeast just a little
west of overhead.
Information such as this
concerning the sighting of
satellites when they travel
over the Lincoln area will be
posted in Morrill Hall for
public reference.
Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz,
director of the University
museum, explained that the
data was compiled from the
Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory ?n co-operation
with the Nebraska Wesleyan
Moonwatch Team.
"healthy curiosity and re
spect." One of Mrs. Dasgupta s
biggest surprises about married, but, because of dif
American collegiate life be-! ferences in the structure of
sides the many student cars
is the large number of mar
ried students. (At the Uni
versity 18 per cent of the;
undergraduates are mar
ried.) She frow fns tit the ten
dency toward early mar
riages which she believes in-
terferes with a s t u d e n t's
school work. I
"I was surprised in my
class to have many students
who are married," she says.
She refers to the situation
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McCormick leaps
Council To Discuss
Rules Resolution
Seek Answer To 'Whim Or What'
A resolution to "codify and
clarify" the rules applying to
social conduct will come be
fore the Student Council to
day.
Ken Freed,
who intro
duced the or
iginal resolu
t i o n said,
right now stu
dents don't
know if "it's
just whim or
what" that
d e t ermines
tration of so
the adminis-
Freed
cial probation.
Colbert
J. P. Colbert, dean of Stu-
Young GOP
Show Stars
Congressmen
. Nebraska's two senators
and four representatives will
be heard on ihe Young Re
publican's first radio program
at 7 p.m. Monday on Univer
sity station KNUS.
The men were interviewed
by Jim Roman at the Repub
lican Founders Day dinner in
Omaha Monday.
Senator Roman Hruska will
discuss price supports; Sena
tor Carl Curtis, the Koler
strikes; Representative Rob
ert Harrison, the Alcohol Bill;
Representatives A. D. Miller,
Ezra Benson; and Represen
tatives Phil Weaver and Glen
Cunningham, Congressional
committees.
The role of Young Republi
cans is also discussed.
According to Roman, the
entire program, which has
been taped, will last a half
hour.
Fourteen University stu
dents attended the dinner
where Governor Stratton of Il
linois and Fred Seaton, Sec
retary of the Interior, were
the featured speakers.
The students include Bob
Krohn, Monroe Usher, Jim
Roman, Larry Rotert, J a n a
Hruska, Louis Schultz, Marty
Jo Martison, Del Rassmus
son, Jack Pollack, Bev Buck,
Gene Spence, Darrina Turner,
Prudy Morrow and Sandra
Laaker.
"We hope to have the time
of our radio program changed
as soon as possible in order
to get more listeners," stated
Roman.
in India before early mar
riages were abolished. Then,
she says, many students were
society, this did not mtertere
with their work.
But, she continues, an
American couple sets up an
individual unity of house
keeping and they are unpre
pared. Mrs. Dasgupta will return
in Julv to India, where she
is professor of philosophy at
Lucknow university, in a
northern state of India. Last
semester she lectured at the
University of New Mexico.
Orchesis Show
rhursday, Friday
Millard McCormick, Karen
Parsons and Sally Wengert in
terpret what they anticipate
2 will be the form
Mars, from one of the num
bers to be featured at the an
nual recital of Orchesis.
The program will be held
Thursday and Friday at 8
p.m. in Howell Theater. En
titled "Syncopated Century,"
it will feature a portrayal of
important events from each
decade of the 20th century.
Numbers on the program,
emphasizing the types of
tp dance and music developing
in each decade, are: "Horse
3 less Buggie," "Flying Ma-
4 chine," "Soft
ville Act," "Country Hoe
down," "Beginning of Modern
Dance," "Charleston," "Gay
T w e n t i e s," "Depression,"
"P.Iiipk " "TJnitpri Nations "
i "Rnr-k and Roll." "Modern
Madness."
"' j Dorothy Maxwell, instruc-
tor in women's physical ed
- ucauon, directs Orchesis
', which attempts to further in
i terep in creative dancing and
to raise the standard of dance
m an art form.
i
dent affairs said he is in favor
of the Council discussing the
matter.
. Freed commented that
when the Council Social Com
mittee went over to Student
Affairs to look into the rules
governing conduct, they dis
covered a great deal of ma
terial that they (persons in
Student Affairs) weren't even
aware of.
"I hope the Council appoints
a committee to study the sit
uation," Freed added. If the
rules are already codified, he
added, they should be pub
lished so the students will
know what laws apply to
them.
Present material dealing
with social conduct is found
on the back of eligibility
sheets used by organizations
to determine if prospective
members are qualified for
membership.
Stipulations
The sheet makes the follow
ing stipulations:
1. To be eligible to partici
pate in activities a first se
mester student must be reg
istered for 12 credit hours
and maintain satisfactory at
tendance in these courses.
2. A second semester stu
dent must have passed three
fifths of the credit hours for
which he was registered the
Butterfly
Tries, Falters,
Then Falls
While the snappy crisp air
denied the arrival of spring,
the sight on the lawn in
front of Love Library her
alded its coming.
There a mammoth orange
butterfly with outspread
wings struggled vainly in
an attempt to fly.
Aiding the insect in its
plight was Nelson Chuang,
architectural student, who
had created the butterfly
kite as an assignment for
one of his classes.
"But," Chuang comment
ed sadly, "it has to fly."
Perhaps warmer weather
will prove to be the tonic
the grounded butterfly
needs.
IFC Holds
Slate Meetin
8
The IFC meeting tonight
will offer an opportunity for
nomination from the floor of
IFC officers.
Previously nominated for
candidacy for president of the
Interfraternity Council were
Don Smidt and Gary Cadwal
lader. Nominated for vice
president are Bill Ashley and
John Glynn.
Bob Smidt and John Dil
lingham have been nominated
for the position of treasurer;
Bob Paine and Bob Krumme
for secretary.
The tentative IFC slate,
a constitution requirement,
was announced last Wednes
day by the IFC executive com
mittee of four officers and
three faculty advisors.
Dick Arneson, president of
IFC, commented that "some
good men will no doubt be
added from the floor."
Election of officers will be
on March 26.
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preceeding semester.
3. A third, or subsequent se
mester student must havi
completed with a passing
grade 24 credit hours in the
two semesters and summer
school immediately preceding.
4. Any student on probation
for conduct forfeits his eligi
bility. 5. Appeals from the rulings
on eligibility by the Office of
the Dean of Student Affairs
may be made to the Com
mittee on Student Affairs.
6. The requirements do not
apply to participation that is
declared by a departmental
chairman to be an integral
part of the curricular activi
ties involved in a course.
7. Any organized activity
group can set their eligibility
requirements higher.
Further Information
Further information dealing
with social conduct is pub
lished in the Board of Re
gents By-Laws, the Nebraska
Handbook and a pamphlet en
titled "A Guide For Social
Events."
The ruling in the pamphlet
stated that "penalties for tha
violation of University regu
lations regarding drinking
will be increasingly severe up
to and including expulsion.
Disregard for these rules by
members of a house or group
may result in the forfeiting of
the right of the group to func
tion as an organization."
Rules specified in the 1957
58 Husker Handbook are nu
merous. Dishonesty and
cheating; destruction of prop
erty; rioting or public brawl
ing; purchase, possession or
consumption of alcoholic bev
erages by minors and failure
to observe library, parking,
or traffic regulations are all
violations of the University's
concept of acceptable con
duct. The disciplining of students
is one of the responsibilities
of the Division of Student af
fairs. Disciplinary action in
cludes expulsion, suspension,
and conduct probation.
An expelled student is not
permitted to re-enter the Uni
versity, suspended students
may be re-admitted according
to the terms of the suspension
order and conduct probation
restricts student privileges.
The Board of Regents By
Laws and Rules have a few
paragraphs dealing with con
duct and discipline in Section
Seven of their book. These
state the same thing as the
rules in the Husker Handbook
with a little different word
ing. The proposed resolution,
then, would gather this mate
rial "codify and clarify" it
for students' use, Freed said.
Funds Unknown
For Center
No tallies have been made
yet of offers and contributions
toward raising the Universi
ty's share of the cost of the
Kellogg Center for Continuing
Education, but Chancellor
Clifford Hardin is "very op
timistic." "I have been very pleased
with the great amount of in
terest expressed by numerous
individuals and their indica
tions of a willingness to help."
The Kellogg Foundation has
agreed to grant the Univer
sity $1,856,000 if the Univer
sity will raise $1,142,000 by
next February.
Miss Wengert and Miss Farsoni
