T&ezing more difficult, I think that By MarnVTMftVZQco A series of recent chances are mch'-.g it harder fd&Q thaJiU student to breeze through college according to the dean of Jtfhier-Di- vision and several s t a f 1 members of the College of Arts and Sciences. But apparently the changes have not been af fected with an eye towards toughening courses. They have come about with tight er screening, positive grade demands and intensive ef forts to impart knowledge on the part of the faculty. No Policy "While there is no organ ized policy of making work Vol. 33, No. 68 Queen Presentation Scheduled at Game Auction Death Causes Change; Six Vie for Activities Honor The AUF Activiites Queen . will be presented in a new surrounding this year the basketball game Monday night. The six sophomore final ists, Barb Barker, Sue Car koski. Skip Harris, Kay Hirschbach, Linda Rohwed- der and Mary Lou Valencia, were picked last November by the AUF Board. WAA Picks Intramural Delegates Fifteen new representatives have been chosen for the 1959 1960 Women's Intramural pro gram by the Women's Ath letic Association board. They are Carole Woodling, Alpha Chi Omega ;Deantia Donnell, Alpha Omicron Pi; Diane Erickson, Alpha Phi; Janet Anderson, Alpha Xi Del ta; Sue Schnieder, Chi Ome ga; Barbara Fenwick, Delta Delta Delta. Gail Parker, Delta Gamma; Kay Hirschbach, Kappa Al pha Theta; Roberta Rock, Kappa Delta; Juli Bowers, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Clara Lou 'Ostdiek, Newman Club; Anne Witthoff, Pi Beta Phi; Gloria Tietjen, Sigma Kappa; Dorothy Dusek, Terrace Hall; and Cathleen Corkle, Zeta Tau Alpha. These girls, representing organized groups participat ing in intramural spcit, or ganize teams and encourage individual and team participation. Kappa Alpha Psi: Negro Fraternity May Get Kappa Alpha Psi, Negro fra ternity, may pledge enough members this year to enable the fraternity to obtain a char ter and a house next year, according to Hirschel Turner. Turner, basketball player and one of four Kappa Alpha Psi actives, explained that the fraternity has been in exist ence on this campus, although not officially, since before 1930. Not Enough "We've never had enough actives to get a charter," Turner added. Turner, Al Maxey, Lee Rol ands and Michael Adams are active members. The group has taken five new pledges on the University campus and several on Wesleyari. University pledges are Clay White, Al Long. Richard Keir, Joe Dixon and Al Kercheval. Not Strong "Up until now the few mem bers have just met in each others rooms now and then. It's never been as strong here as it has at other Universi ties." Kappa Alpha Psi is a na tional fraternity with more than 200 chapters, Turner said. It started at Bloomington, In diana in 1911, he said. "The chapter at Kansas Uni versity is strong and so is the one in Omaha. At Kansas Wilt Chamberlain, Bob Boozer and Bill Bridges are mem bers," Turner commented. Pledging "We've been pledging since About four weeks after school 1 without question the stand- ai&J-of academic achieve 'tnenp has been raised." ac cording to Lee Chatfield, Dean of the Junior Division. Reasons for this change atmany and complex, ac- cording to the dean Over the last two years, the general quality of the freshman class has been higher, judging by their po sitions in their the high school class. Fewer University fresh men ranked in the bottom quarter of their high school class this year than in 1936. The administration has been screening more tight ly than it was five to eight The Doily Nebraskan The Queen was to be pre sented at the AUF Auction in November or December, but this year the Auction was dis continued. The finalists were picked from candidates nominated by University activities. Miss Barker, the Builders candidate, is in Business Ad ministration. She is a Build ers chairman, Cornhusker sec tion editor and a member of Alpha Phi. Miss Carkoski is a member of Coed Counselors Board, a Union chairman, an AUF chairman, a Masquers work er, and member of Kappa Al pha Theta. She is in Teach ers College and is the candi date from Coed Counselors. Miss Rohwedder is the Corn husker candidate. An Arts and Science student, she is a Cornhusker section editor, a Red Cross- assistant tharr- man, a member of Coed Coun selors, Alpha Lambda Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Miss Hirschbach, Teachers College, is a cheerleader, a Union chairman and a mem ber of the WAA Board and Kappa Alpha Theta. She is the Union candidate. Miss Harris is a Cornhusk er section editor, member of University Singers, the AWS Board and is ruin chairman of Pi Beta Phi. She is in Teachers College and is the candidate from AWS. Miss Valencia, the WAA candidate, is a member of the AWS Board, the WAA Board, Newman Club, Aquaquettes and the Residence Halls for Women. She is in Arts and Sciences. Charter started and we feel that next year or possibly the year after, we'll have the 14 or 15 active members necessary for a house and charter." The pledges are called mem bers of a scroller club and wear pins in the shape of a scroll, Turner said. "They'll be activated in June if they make their re quired 4 average," Turner added. Arts Society Selects Karl Shapiro Karl Shapiro, University English professor and poet, has been selected for mem bership in the National Insti tute of Arts and Letters. The institute, which is the nation's top honor society of the arts, limits its member ship to 250 Americans. Shapiro, a professor here since 1956, is a Pulitzer Prize winner and editor of the Uni versity literary magazine, Prairie Schooner. Thursday Meeting For Ag Ec Club The Agriculture Economic Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 116 in the Dairy Industry Building. John Bucy will speak on the TVA program. An elec tion of officers will follow. Through yean ago. Dean Chatfield they fall into one of these years ago, Dean Chatfield said. High Demands Since most instructors tend to be influenced by the quality of their classes, the higher caliber student usu ally causes higher standards for the class, he said. This may partially ac count for the increased dif ficulty of courses. Since the University is a state school, it does not screen students "at the door." Instead, freshmen who fail to make an accumula tive average of 3.5 by the end of their first year are dropped. They may enter the University again only if Matzke Matzke To Talk To PBKs Former Senator Slated Feb. 19 Stanley Matzke will speak on Nebraskan's "Watered Economy" at a Phi Beta Kap- pa meeting at the Union Feb. 19. Matzke has had a varied career which includes a law practice in Seward, newspap er work, farming, politics and government. He is a former state senator and a 1924 Uni versity law graduate. He practiced law at Seward for 23 years and was county at torney for eight. Matzke served as Nebraska State Insurance Commissioner in 1945-46, and was farm edi tor of the Nebraska State Journal from 1946-1953. Matzke has long been an advocate of soil and water conservation, taking part in early day conservation legis lation and formation of soil conservation districts. He was an early advocate of flood control by on-the-land conservation and upstream watershed development, and was first secretary of the Salt Wahoo Watershed Association. For his work in soil conserva tion he was awarded the soil Conservation Society of America Award in 1952. i I f A ' ... j Nebraskan Survey Fraternity Hell Weeks Shorter on Time, Hazing By John Hoerner There is very little "hell" left in hell weeks, according to a recent survey of 16 uni versity fraternities. Of the 16 fraternities polled, one, Phi Gamma Delta, has never held hell week and two, Kappa Sig ma and Sigma Alpha Epsi lon, have abolished hell week from their pledge training programs. Early Start Five fraternities have held their hell weeks in the first two weeks of the semester since study loads are usual ly lighter at the beginning of the school term. Eleven of the 16 fraterni ties polled said that their hell week had been short ened the past three years. Five had shortened them this year for the first time. Three fraternities, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi and Alpha Tau Omega, have a civic service project as part of their hell week. This year the Phi Delts did ex tensive redecorating at the Salvation Army Headquar ters. The ATOc and Phi Psis they fall into one of these groups 1) those wno com plete two years of service and desire to re-enter, 2) those who accumulate a B average at another school, 3) those who make suffi ciently high grades through the University's extension More About Stiffening On Friday Wednesday, February 18, 1959 Physical Anthropologist Schedules 2-Day Talks Discussions to Center on Pre-DentaU Pre-Medical Topics, Human Evolution Dr. Bertram Kraus, noted, physical anthropologist, will speak Thursday and Friday at the University. Dr. Kraus is from the de partment of orthodontics at the University of Washington School of Dentistry in Seattle, Wash. Sponsors He is being sponsored by the University Research Coun cil, the graduate departments of pedodontics and orthodon tics and the department of anthropology. Dr. Kraus r e c e i v e d his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1951, and a Fellow of the American Cancer So ciety in 1954-55. He is also an authority on the growth and health of American Indian children. He has done field research among various groups of American Indians and in Ja pan. Pre-Dental Highlighting the program will be the discussion on "The Role of Physical Anthropolo gy in Pre-Dental and Pre Medical Education" which will be directed especially to ward pre-dental and pre-med- ical students. Other talks scheduled for Thursday are: Landmarks in Human Evo lution, 8:30 to 10 a.m., Room 301 Andrews Hall; Evolution of the Cranio-facial Complex, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Room 301, Andrews Hall; Seminar with professional anthropologists Group, 4-5 p.m., Koom 15-16 Burnett Hall. Square Dance To Meet Friday The All-Univti'sity Square Dance Club will meet Friday at 8 p.m. in the College Activi ties building on Ag Campus. Admission is 25 cents for members and 35 cents for non-members. have not had their hell weeks yet, but are planning community project, offi cers said. Alpha Tau Omega is na tionally known for backing the "help week rather than hell week program." All fraternities polled had what they termed "moder nized hell weeks." The haz ing and painful and degrad ing experiences often asso ciated with hell week have been almost entirely elim inated. One fraternity, in a five day program of cleaning up the house and learning chap ter history, etc., reported' that two hours were set aside for traditional hell week games. National Setup The longest hell week was reported by Sigma Chi. This program is set up by the na tional fraternity and con sists largely of instruction about the fraternity. One hell week chairman, Jim Cadwallader, expressed the views of many when he said "I don't see why they have to call It hell week any way. A pre-initiatiun period On courses to warrant another try. College Trends A policy of higher aca demic standards is reflect ed, also, in some of the Uni versity's colleges and schools. In the college of Arts and Sciences, a new ruling that it will take a grade of 4 or better to count toward the major will go into affect. A 4 average overall is need ed to graduate from the col lege. Walter N. Wright, assist ant dean of Arts and Sci ences, said the ruling will effect only a small number of students, and is not retroactive. Playwright Contest Offers $300 Prize University Theatre, Masquers Sponsor Nationwide Competition Friday: Heredity in Malocclusion, 9-10:30 a.m.; Principles of Human Growth, 11-12 a.m.: Principles of Human Growth (con't), 1:30-2:45 p.m.; Ques tions and Answers, 3-4 p.m. All of Friday's talks will be held in Room B-12, Burnett Hall. Physical Anthropology is the study of human evolution and variation. It is used a great deal in the study of growth, especially in children, according to the Anthropolo gy Department. 'Real Japan9 On Display At Burnett Been wondering who took those pictures of rural Japan which are displayed in the basement of Burnett Hall? The photographer is Jim Joachim, senior in electrical engineering and 15-year photo graphy enthusiast. While in Japan during a stint in the service, Joachim had a one-day leave with nothing to do. So he set out on a 15-mile hike in the coun try near Tokyo to capture the "real Japan on film. He faced a problem since he knew very little Japanese and his subjects knew no Eng lish. The Japanese people were also leery of Joachim since most of them had never seen an American before, much less one in uniform. But queries such as "May I take your picture?" and commands like "Look over there" helped him get the job done. The pictures were displayed after Jim took some of them to Ray Morgan, assistant pro fessor of photography, in con nection with a problem in a photography class. Morgan liked them and asked if he could display them on Bur nett's basement walls. would be a much more ac curate terminology and would eliminate a lot of in correct impressions which are gained from the name "hell week." One fraternity used the hell week time for getting better acquainted with alums. Pledges were re quired to obtain the signa ture of a certain number of campus and local alums on a plaque and present them at the chapter house. Time Saved The main activity report ed was cleaning and repair ing of fraternity houses. "Really," one hell week chairman said, "we save the pledges time by throwing all this work into one week, thus leaving them free for other activities the rest of the year." "Every house has to have a good cleaning and repair work done sometime in the year and it might as well be the pledges who do it," the chairman said. "When your mother does her spring cleaning, you don't feel sorry for her and call it he)l week!" Way He said efforts are beinff He said efforts are being made to "standardize" sec tions of the same course. Grade runs are made known to newcomers on the faculty, so they will be able to judge the standings of the classes they teach, Wright continued. Also, checks are made in to classes issuing more than the usual number of 7's, 8's, and 9's, to see if the stand ards need raising. Wright said weak high school students were d i s couraged by entrance re quirements and counseling from coming to college right away until "they've had a chance to settle down." A $300 play writing contest is being offered by Nebraska Masquers and University The atre. The contest, which is be ing directed by Joseph Bald win, assistant professor o f speech, is nationwide. "We're sending more than 600 announcements of the contest to every speech d e -partment in the United States," Baldwin said. Open To All He explained that the con test was not restricted, and was open to all private citi zens as well as students and faculty members of universi ties. The present contest is a re vival of an old contest which was offered by Masquers sev eral years ago. "There are other sim ilar contests in the United States, such as at Illinois, Wisconsin and John Hopkins University but this one has several unique features," Baldwin explained. Of the $300 award, $200 will be given as prize money. The $100 will be granted to the author of the prize winning script as traveling expenses for a trip to the University campus where he will witness a staged version of his play. Year Until Production "After he sees the staged version, he will be given an opportunity to confer with the staff about the play, and then will be given a chance to re write it and correct any mistakes he may have made," Baldwin said. The play will then be pre sented for the public in Jan uary of 1960. The staged ver sion will be in October, 1959. The revised script will be due Nov. 25. Entry fee for the contest is $1, which covers costs of cir culating scripts among the committee of judges, Baldwin said. The plays will first be judged by a screening com mittee, who will select be tween five and 10 scripts. Judges Not Selected These scripts will then be sent to a board of judges. The judges have not been select ed as yet. Manuscripts must be sub mitted by June 30. They must be original, not transla tions or adaptations. Plays should be in three act form, or if not, long enough to consti tute an evening's entertain ment. The $200 prize is named aft er Fred Ballard, Nebras ka native who had several plays on Broadway during the 1920's. Centennial Posts To NU Students Two University Students and a University facul ty member have been ap pointed chairmen for the Western Day celebration May 9, according to Arnott F o 1 -som, Western Day chairman. Western Day will be t h e final event in the Lincoln cen tennial celebration. Robert Volk, president of the Block and Bridle Club, was named chairman of the Quarter-H o r s e Show. Co chairmen of the Rodeo are Ted Klug, president of t h e University Rodeo Association, and Richard Warren,, assist ant professor of animal hus bandry. Bridge Tourney Deadline Near The deadline for entering the Inter - collegiate Bridge Tournament is Feb. 19. All organized houses and dorms may enter as many partners as they wish. Entrants should apply in the Union Activities Office. Out Referins to the aualitv of Refering to the quality of Nebraska's students. Dean Wright believes the Uni versity is getting fewer of the kind that are "not dili-, gent:s. Stiffer Yet Individual departments within the College of ArU and Sciences have even stiffer requirements. Chairman of History Dept. James Olsen stated, "We don't have to stiffen ours. We have always tried to maintain a stringent at titude." He cited one of the ma jor weaknesses in history students as the inability to use English. In an effort to equalize courses for Freshmen and upper-classmen, the depart ment last year prohibited students from taking history with English A. History I Limited Olson said next year His tory I will be limited to freshmen to provide a sit uation where Freshmen will not be in competition with upperclassmen. William Hall, director of the School of Journalism, also a department in Arts and Sciences, began reor ganizing the school in t h t faU of 1356. He said jour nalism requirements were much more strict than those of A&S majors, needing two majors and an automatic minor in English. "We train our students so they can compete on even terms anywhere in the country," he stated. He said all courses were graded on two factors, ability and app lication. Counsel is provided to give every student the best possible academic b a c k ground, he added. Professionals One of the factors con sidered by Dr. Hall import ant in evaluating the J school, is that all the in structors are professional men and impart profession al attitudes to their stu dents. "Our courses are tough,' he concluded, "but the out standing students will give the extra effort." Teacher's college is also becoming more demanding. Toughen N. F. Thorpe, Assoc. Prof, of Sec. Education and Principal of University High School reflected, "Yes, there's been a tendency to toughen up. Averages for juniors retiect a general toughening up in this de partment." Thorpe said a program of study is being carried on in the Teachers College, with an examination of objec tives. He said majors have to have an average of 5, a qualification adopted three years ago. They also must pass a written communica tions test in their junior year. A better caliber of stu dents are being taught, he believes, because of the more selective admission. In teacher's College, each instructor decides h o w to grade, Thorpe stated. This is academic freedom he said. He also thought few graded on curves. Arbitrary "Anyone who recognizes what a normal curve is knows they can't grade on a c u r v e," he continued, "Our grading is based on arbitrary standards as set up by the individual." Thorpe said while grading is flexible, the range in dif ferent sections of the same course shouldn't vary more than three points. He also thought that in structors were demanding more of their students. "They are having to put more into it (the courses) to get the same grade". 'Tactic' On KUON-TV Half-Hour Show To Explain Cancer Show business and medicine will combine forces to explain cancer and its control on KUON-TV. 'Tactic," a new series of six half-hour programs will begin Feb. 27 at 9 p.m. The show will try to dispel some of the false notions and attitudes about cancer. "Show biz" personalities in the series include Stephen Bo- sustow, creator of the Mr. Magoo" animated cartoons; Alfred Hitchcock; Jim Back us; Hy Zaret and Lou Singer, composers and lyricists of "Little Songs on Big Sub jects." Dr. Charles Cameron, auth or of "The Truth About Can cer," will act as medical au paneL