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NEBRASKA STATE HISTOK1CAL
Education Debated
SOCIETY
(CST 29 1958
33, No. 20
The Doily Nebraskan
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Photo by Kappa Alpha Mu
SOUTH DAKOTA debater Linda Ycriek expresses herself
on-B question of U. S. education at the Saturday debate be
tween Nebraska and South Dakota at the high school
peech and social science clinic. Nebraska debaters Don
Epp (left) and Renny Ashleman look on. Story on Page 4.
Honorary Producers
Banquet Added
To Presentation
A formal banquet will be a
new feature of the Honrary
Producer presentation, acr
cording to Dr. Dallas Wil
liams, director of University
Theatre.
"We hope by means of this
banquet to express our appre
ciation to these candidates
who year after year have done
' a top job of selling season
tickets," said Williams.
The banquet will be held
in tiie Georgian room of the
Corahusker Hotel before
Wednesday night's opening of
'Merchant of Venice." Win
ners of the competition will
be presented at the- theater.
Trophies
Another addition to the
presentation will be the in
clusion of trophies for second
and third place winners. Ac
cording to Steve Schultz,
president of Nebraska Mas
quers, these four new trophies
will allow the i.beatre to give
a palpable reward to those
who have worked hard on
ticket sales although they
may not have been winners.
First, second and third
place trophies will be pre
sented to winners in both the
ororlty and fraternity divi
sions of the contest.
Contestants in the Honor
rary Producer race include
the following:
Phi Gamma Delta, Gary
Ruck; Sigma Chi, Jack Ely;
Kappa Sigma, Carroll Kraus;
Cornhusker Co-op, Lee Fehl
faher; Theta Xi, Jeery Scllen
tin; Beta Sigma Psi, Fred
Stelling; Acacia, Dewey
Weims; Zeta Beta Tau, Steve
Cohen; Delta Upsilon, Gary!
Kohler.
Candidates
Chi Omega, Judy Deil
biSs; Sigma Kappa, Sue Wor
ley; Delta Gamma, Sharon
Quinn; Alpha Phi, Ida May
Ryan; Alpha Chi Omega, Kay
Howard; Kappa Delta, Sonia
Steiner; Delta Delta Delta,
Judy Dpuglas; Alpha Xi Del
ta, Alice Baumgartner; Zola
Tau Alpha. Anne Meyer.
Towne Club, Joanne Stand
ley; Alpha Ornlcron PI, Pen
ny Sandritter; Kappa Alpha
Tbeta," Sue Carkoski; Sig-
Sigma Xi Hosts
Jlarvardd Prof
Dr. Ralph Wetmore, director
of the biological laboratories
at Harvard" University, will
pea)' to the members of
Sigma Xi tonight at 7:30 in
Bessey Hall Auditorium.
He will speak on "Morpho
genesis in Plants a New Ap
proach." Dr. Wetmore received his
Doctor of Philosophy degree
from Harvard University in
1924. He joined the Harvard
faculty in 1926, serving as
chairman of the department
chairman of the departments
of biology and botany.
' In 1953, he served as presi
dent of the Botanical Society
and is a fellow In Botanical
Society, Society of Plant Phy
iologists and in American
Academy of Science.
Tickets on Sale
For Homecoming
Homecoming dance tickets
may now be purchased from
either Tassels or Corn Cobs
jnenibers.
Price is $3. The dance will
be held Nov, 1 in the Perilling
Municipal Auditorium.
Tickets will be on sale in
the Union next week.
ma Delta Tau, Ina Margolin;
Residence Halls for Women,
Beth Harrison.
Winners of last year's con
test were Kappa Sigma and
Alpha Xi Delta. The Honorary
Producer campaign is spon
sored annually bv Nebraska
'Merchant'
Curtain Time
Wednesday
"The Merchant of Venice"
will be presented Wednesday
through Saturday by the
University Theatre in Howell
Memorial Theatre.
Curtain time is 8 p.m.
The leading roles include
Shylock, played by Charles
Weatherford; B a s s a n i o,
played by Eric Prewitt: An
tonio, played by Ttichartl
Marrs; and Portia played by
Josephine Couch.
One of William Shake
speare's most often produced
plays, the comedy concerns
the attempt by Shylock to
claim payment of a debt
Dr. Dallas Williams is di
rector of the play, with Dr.
Charles Lown in charge of
stage sets.
Other members of the cast
are John Erickson, Grover
Kaulz, Robert Wetzel, Ge
orge Strunk, Stcphaney Sher
cieman, Stanley Rice, James
Baker, Andrew Backer, Zeff
Bernstien, Dale Hebbert,
Eleanor Kessler and Willis
Larson.
Migrators Rally
The pre-mlgration rally
will be held on Wednes
day at 6: 45 p.m. Starting
at Mueller Tower, It will
proceed downtown and then
bick to the Union.
Former Cornhusker All
American Tom Novak will
speak at the rally.
New Ag Building Fully Occupied
Glass Encloses Biochem and Nutrition Home'
A new m i 1 1 i o n-dollar
structure complete with fa
cilities for studying the
"chemistry of life" is the
latest building completed
under the University build
ing program.
The home of the Agricul
ture College's department of
biochemistry and nutrition,
a sparkling, modernistic
three-story building disting
uished by its shimmering
glass facade, is located on
the eastern section of the
University's Ag campus.
Fully Occupied
Financed by a. special
state mill levy, the build
ing is now fully occupied by
teaching and research per
sonnel and students.
A faculty open house and
several large meetings arc
planned for the building
soon, with the formal dedi
cation slated for early next
spring.
Behind this glass facade,
biochemistry is studied.
This science covers s u c ii
things as what happens in
the wing of a butterfly, the
udder ol a cow. a leal of
a plant, . o human Wrain
coll or the interior ol rap
Criticism
Chancellor Warns
Liberal Admission
Must Be Continued
Chancellor Clifford Hardin warned Friday that public
universities, in the face of growing demand for higher
education, must not forsake their policies of liberal ad
mission. . .
Delivering of the major addresses at the annual meet
ing of the Association of Governing Boards
of State Universities and Allied Institu
tions, held at Purdue University in La
fayette, Ind., he said:
The nation cannot tarn its back on its
dual mandate of "attending both the
quality and quantity needs of its people."
"We are hearing the argument that by
giving primary attention to the upper
echelons of our American scholastic strata,
higher education will be practicing sound
economy, will be avoiding a tremendous
waste of money, time, and
The Chancellor said,
'It
heard more than 150 years ago, at the very time this coun
try decided the opportunity for higher education should
not be limited to the academic elit- the social elite, or
the financial elite, but that it should be opened to 'all of
those able to make use of it.
."That is the decision upon which the public university
was founded, and that is the decision upon which the
public university must stand.
"It Is a decision which, by its very nature, rejects the
proposition that the students, his family, or some benevolent
benefactor shall necessarily be expected to pay in tuition
the full cost of his education. It embraces the philosophy
of public subsidy for both the student and the institution
he attends."
.To repeal that decision how would destroy one of the two
great pillars of Quality and Quantity upon which American
higher education has been constructed. Repeal would knock
away the pillar of Quantity and, in so doing, would
emasculate American higher education, he added.
"With the development of the public university, Amer
ica has established a pattern which continues to influence
educational efforts throughout the world," concluded the
Chancellor.
NU to Host
Convention
High Schooler
To Meet Aor. 7-
The University will play
host to about 800 high school
press enthusiasts Nov. 7-8 at
the 27th annual Nebraska
High School Press Association
Convention.
Lester Benz, executive sec
retary of Quill and Scroll So
ciety, and Murray Moler, dis
trict supervisor of United
Press International, will ad
dress the delegates after reg
istration Friday . morning.
The convention will feature
contests, sectional meetings
and movies on journalism.
Delegates may tour KUON-TV
and the Journal-Star Publish
ing Company.
The Rev. Rex Knowles,
Presbyterian Congregational
student pastor at the Univer
sity and member of the Na
tional Association of Chris
tian Athletes, will speak at
the banquet Friday evening.
A "Pi Party" for delegates
and an advisers' reception
will follow.
idly growing cancer cells
the chemistry of life.
In .step .
"To keep Nebraska in
step with the tremendous
development and changes
now occuring in the basic
sciences relating to agricul
ture" is the purpose of the
biochemistry and nutrition
department, Dr. Robert
Feeney, department chair
man said. i
In the final analysis, he
commented, the building is
but a symbol of the impor
tant work carried on in its
halls and laboratories.
The building will not only
serve as an important cen
ter, for graduate biochem
istry but also for cooperative
research with other depart
ments within the University.
The department was
formed in 1953, largely as a
result of the consolidation of.
the two former departments
of chemurgy and agricul
tural chomistrv.
Solid lMdciu-e
Tim new structure Is solid
evHwo that the stau docs
rci'o nj.e the importance ol
hasii' science in Aijriculturc,
the chairman twid. ,
1 vi
LAiU
effort.
Hardin
is the same words and music
Homecomihg
Decorations
In 3 Ci
roups
! Houses preparing home
taomiiia dfccoratkiis will be
grouped in three judging di
visions. All women's houses will be
in one division and men's
houses will be divided into
two groups according to pop
ulation. Included in the first men's
group are Alpha Tau Omega,
Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau
Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa
Sigma. Phi Delta Theta, Phi
Gamma Delta. Phi Kappa
Psi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu,
Sigma Phi Epsilon. Theta Xi
and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Those in the second group
are Acacia, Alpha Gamma
Itho,' Alpha Gamma Sigma,
Beta Sigma Psi, Delta Sigma
Phi, Farmhouse, Pi Kappa
Phi, Sigma Alpha Mu, Theta
Chi and Zeta Beta Tau!
in 1' rignis.
Mixer "Puttie opinion." he
A married students' Mixer j stressed, "makes the penalty
for all Ag students will be!for 1'1'ense, neater than it
held in the Ag Union Lounge ShoU,ASvL(lflB vW.,rf
Wednesday
p.m.
from
7:30 to 9;
Most of the future ad
vancement in utilization of
farm products must come
from researches aimed at
discovering the basic prop
erties of agricultural com
modities, Dr. Feeney point
ed out.
The University is one of
the land grant colleges
which has made an organ
ized effort to discover and
develop' new farm crops
and new uses for crops. A
concrete step in this direc
tion, was the development
of the department of bio
chemistry and nutrition.
Essentially nine research
areas are carried out in the
department.
They are: carbohydrate
and enzyme research; phys
ical biochemistry; analyti
cal and instrumentation
work; trace elements; mi
, crobiological work; cereal
chemistry research; nutri
tion laboratory studies; nu
tritional and metabolic
chemistry; and biochemical
enginoerinr
Projects
Projects under way in the
research areas include
growth factors for poultry;
.Draws Review
SC Judiciary Body to
On Charges Against
Gary Frenzel, chairman of
the Student Council judiciary
committee, said Sunday that
he plans to call a meeting of
his committee 3 p.m. Monday
to '"review" the criticisms
against the Student Tribunal.
Frenzel said that he planned
to invite members of the Stu
Dean Belshcim-
Nebraskan Policy
Labeled 'Unfair'
Edmond Belsheim, 'dean of
the Nebraska College of Law,
said Sunday he felt that the
editorial attitude of the Daily
Nebraskan toward the Student
Tribunal "has been most un
fair." One of two faculty judges
on the Tribunal, Belsheim's
comment followed" editorial
charges by the Nebraskan
that closed meetings of the
Closed
Tribunal
Is Backed
Four of the seven student
judges on the Tribunal indi
cated last weekend that they
believe in allowing students
appearing before the Tribunal
to have closed hearing if they
so desire.
The judges contacted in
cluded three senior class
judges, John Kinnier, L y 1 e
Hansen and Donald I b u r g,
and one junior class judge,
Judy Truell.
Three Judges Absent
"Joe "Baldwin C o 1 1 e g e of
Law representative and Tri
bunal chairman, was report
edly in Omaha. Gary Rod
gers, the second junior repre
sentative, and Frank Wells,
the fourth senior representa
tive, also could not be con
tacted for interview.
Truell, who is Tribunal sec
retary, said she did not think
hearings "should be com
pletely open unless the stu
dent requests it.
Protection Questioned
She said there has been a
lot of argument about this
point. "Some say," she said,
"we are not here to protect
the student."
Kinnier said he is "basical
ly in favor of leaving it up
to the student involved." He
said ho look this stand "for
the protection'of the student's
: i. . I,
Kinnier added that he has
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nitrogen digestion in ru
minants; egg' quality fac
tors; stabilization of vita
mins in feeds; digestion by
ruminants of the main con
stituents of corn cobs; car
bohydrales in diseased
plants; components of wheat
important in baking and
growth and digestion of
starch granules. 1
The central building con
tains laboratories, special
service rooms and equip
ment. An attached auditor
ium seats 192 persons.
Freshman chemistry lab
oratories will accommodate
3i'!4 students and advanced
chemistry labs, 144. A sem
inar room is designed for
30 persons.
Special rooms include a
radioactive isotope count
ing room, constant temper
ature incubator room, ani
mal laboratories and spa
cious walk-in refrigerated
laboratory storage rooms.
Building plans were
drawn in the spring of 1954
and an architect was hired
tn the summer of l!l5.r. Bids
were accepted on the build
iir in February. IHUl! and
construction began a mouth
later
dent Tribunal, as well as any
other interested students, to
attend. The meeting will be
held in room 305 of the Stu
dent Union, the Council's of
fice. Students Need Confidence
"Students must have confi
dence that the Tribunal is
Tribunal were denials of the
paper's right to freedom of in
formation. 'Preliminary Step'
Belsheim said, however,
that appearance before the
group is a "preliminary step"
and not a court trial. He
stressed that its duty is "to
hold a hearing at which some
recommendation could be
made to the Dean of Student
Affairs."
"In types of cases where a
charge might be unfair, it is
not unusual to have closed
preliminary hearings," the
dean said. "As the by-laws
stand, the Student Tribunal or
the student being tried may
open a case to the public."
Theodore Aakhus, professor
of engineering drawing and
the other faculty judge, said
he felt the Nebraskan's edi
torial stand showed somewhat
of a lack of "consideration
for the individual."
"I often wonder if the de
fendant were you or I, if we
would want a public hearing,"
Aakhus said.
"1 would be very hesitant
to have an open hearing if the
student did not want it," the
professor added.
Tribunal's Decision .
J. Philip Colbert, dean of
the Division of Student Af
fairs, said he had
no
com -
mcnt on whether the meetings
of the Tribunal should be
open or closed. "That is a
matter of procedure to be de
cided by the Student Tri
bunal," he said.
Colbert also would not com
ment on the advisability of
review ing the by-laws that al
low meetings to be closed. He
emphasized that the Tribunal
charter gave the group the
right to establish its own
rules of procedure.
Phone interviews with Bel
sheim and Aakhus indicated
that eight male students have
appeared before the Tribunal
so far this year.
Belsheim said five persons
appeared at last Wednesday's
session of the Tribunal, and
three were present at the first
session two weeks earlier.
Four Cases Heard
Aakhus said that four cases
f some of them involving more
than one individual) had been
heard. These reportedly in
cluded "two liquor cases, one
pilfering I guess you'd call
it and one dismissal."
Neither Belsheim or Aak
hus reported the recommend
ed disposition of these cases
as proposed by the Tribunal,
which also consists of seven
student judges. This includes
one student from the College
of Law, two juniors and four
seniors from the University
at large.
Belsheim said the Tribunal
meets every other Wednesday
and holds special sessions as
Wednesday, he added, the
judges will hold a special ses
sion to hear cases recom
mended to the group by the
Dean of Student Affairs.
Complaint Filed
He reported that before a
student appears" before the
Tribunal, the student is called
into the Division of Student
Affairs office as the result of
a complaint being filed
against him. The dean gets
a statement from the student
and decides if the case should
be transferred to the Tribunal.
Belsheim said that if the
case is' sent to the Tribunal,
the student is notified by the
Tribunal as to the time of his
hearing. At the. hearing, the
student is reportedly notified
of the charges against him,
his prepared statement is
read aloud and he is given
the opportunity to comment
i further on his case.
I Belsheim reported that at
the eieht hearings this year
j there has been no question as
1 to the facts of the cases.
Check
Tribunal
working in the best interests
of the students, while at th
same time upholding the laws
of the state and University,"
Frenzel said.
He said that "since it was
primarily through the efforts
of the Student Council during
the past two years that the
Tribunal was established, this
year's Council is obligated to
do what it can to help the
tribunal through its initial
year."
His action was taken in the
wake of adverse criticism by
Tribunal's rules of procedure
which have thus far resulted
in the Tribunal's hearings be
ing closed to the public.
Planned Review
Frenzel said Article III, sec
lion l.g. of the Council's con
stitution stipulates that it is
enpowered "to exercise other
powers that may benefit the
student body." He said this is
the regulation which gives the
Council the right to make the
planned review.
It was emphasized that the
meeting would be "merely to
ascertain the facts" of the
operation of the Tribunal and
Editorial Comment
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that the Council had no di
rect authority over the Tri
bunal's decisions.
"The Tribunal seemingly
has been unnecessarily curt
and the Nebraskan perhaps
has been a bit severe in its re
actions," the judiciary com
mittee chairman said.
Open Hearings Favored
Frenzel said that he
personally believed that all
Tribunal hearing should be
open to the publi nless the
student requested writing
that they be closer, and the
reasons for his request were
felt justified by the Tribunal.
He added that Article VII of
: the Tribunal Charter said:
"The Student Council with the
approval of the student body
may prepare amendments to
the University Faculty Senate
Committee on Student Af
fairs." Frenzel, who is also Coun
cil vice president, cited the
lack of "check and balance"
on the Tribunal under the
present system.
Other members of the ju
diciary committee are: Law
rence and Rosemary KihL
Jack Muck, Dorothy Glade,
Tom Smith and Don Schick.
Turkish
Minister
Visits NU
Celal Yardimci, minister of
education of the Turkish Re
public, arrived on campus
Sunday and will spend four
days observing the operations
of the University, according
to Chancellor Hardin.
The Chancellor said Mr.
Yardimci, as a participant in
the U.S. State Department
foreign leader program of the
International Educational Ex
change Service, is seeking an
overall picture of American
education.
Accompanying him is his
wife Emin Hekimgil, director
of cultural relations and ex
ternal affairs of the ministry
of education; and Necmi Kay
han, a member of the min
istry. Their schedule includes
tours of the facilities of the
various University colleges.
Mr. Yardimci, a lawyer by
profession, has been minister
of education since 1957, serv
ing as minister of state from
1955-57. He served in the
Turkish Parliament in 1950.
Nebraskan Post
Goes to Rolf ing '
Norman Rolfing has been
selected as the new Daily Ne
braskan assistant business
manager.
Rolfing, a junioi in the Col
lege of Agriculture, is a mem
ber of Kosmet Klub and
Farmhouse.
Business manager is Jerry
Sellentin. The other assistants
are Stan Kaiman and Char
lene Gross.
Rolfing was selected by the
Publication's Board to fill a
vacancv left by the resigna
tion of Bob HalL
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