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Any By Gretchea Sides The most Important question in the Middle East today ij under whose aus pices the coming inevita ble change it going to take place, Prof. Yahya Arma jani, a native of Iran, told several University classes Friday. "Change Is the byword. The people of the Middle fast believe anything would be better than to day," the professor from Mc&lester College in St. Paul said. 'j'r .... J OUTSTANDING THETA SIG of the year, Sharon McDonald, receives a certificate from Dr. William Hall, director of the University School of Journalism. At right is Mrs. Lois WOle of the Chicago Daily News, guest speaker at the annual Matrix Banquet held Sat urday, Cornhusher Editor Is Chosen Again, Top Theta Sigma Phi Spring Day Chair men Needed Rules Talked Over At Chairmen Meet Each organization desiring to participate in the 1959 , Spring Day celebration must appoint a house Spring Day chairman. These chairmen will meet for the first time on April 13 to discuss the rules and parti cipating c o n d i tions of the competition. At these meet ings, all awards will be ex plaiaed along with several changes in t h i s year's pro gram. Spring Day Is scheduled for , May 1, beginning at 1 p.m. The administration has dis missed afternoon classes for the occasion. Present plans can lor a Spring Day barbeque after the games. The winners of each compe tition will be announced at soon as they are known as usual, said Bob Paine, com petition chairman of Spring Day. However, Paine said, this year all trophies win be awarded at the intermission f the Union-sponsored street dance to be held in the even ing. Last year several trophies were stolen during the excite ment of the Spring Day events. Japan Subject Of Econ Talk Dr. George Kleiner, Uni versity of Illinois professor of Economics, will speak at a seminar 3 p.m. today in 212 Social Sciences. Kleiner, who has Just re turned from a year's teaching at the Imperial University, in Tokyo, will diect'ss "Japan's Economic Growth and Her Balance of International Pay ments." Kleiner Is an eminent au thority on international trade and finance. He was formerly an economist for the federau Reserve Banks of the Unit ed States. Officers Installed By Townc Club New Towne Club officers have been installed. Joan Schultz is president. Other new officers are: Mary Stastny, vice presi dent; Colleen Woulf, secre tary; Arlene Cook, treasurer; Pat CDelL social chairman; Rosalie Jacobs activities chairman; and Linda Mueck, historian. thing Would Be Better In This is why, Armajanl said, some experts on the Middle East say the peo ple will follow anyone who is sincere, that they will follow anyone who is leader. This could explain some of Nasser's appeal since Nasser is a strong leader, Armajani added. "Every Arab and Turk has four problems what to keep and what to reject of the past and what to keep and what to reject of the Western civilization." For the second consecutive year, an editor of the Corn- husker has been named out standing member of Theta Sigma Phi. Sharon McDonald, senior in Teachers, was announced Saturday as the Outstanding Theta Sig at the group s an nual Matrix Banquet Last year's winner was Beverly Buck Pollock, who edited the 1957-58 Cornhusker. Speaker at the banquet, which drew a sell-out crowd of 150 Nebraska newspapermen and students, was Lou Wille of the Chicago News. Presentations were made to winners of a yearly contest to pick the Woman Journalist of the Year in both the daily and weekly fields. Nancy Benjamin Ray of the Lincoln Star was awarded a plaque as the Woman Journal ist of the Year in the DaUy Division. Mrs. Lilas Thomas of the Keith County News took the honors in the weekly field. Miss McDonald, Outstand ing Theta Sig of the Year, is vice president of that organ ization. She is member of Mor tar Board, Pi Lambda Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma. In making the presentation of a plaque to Miss McDonald, Dr. William Hall, director of the school of journalism, praised women students of the school. Parade Miss Is Possible Navy Cadet Need Capacity NROTC students who must participate in an "official ca pacity' in the Ivy Day cele bration will be excused from marching with the Navy unit in the Centennial parade May 2. Capt. J. R. Hansen, head of the Nebraska unit, said, "We will decide each case on an individual basis. We are not going to interfere in any part of the Ivy Day program. Several students raised the question of conflicting sched ules requiring them to partici pate in Ivy day and the par ade at the same time. According to MaJ. F. T. Bockoven of the Army ROTC unit, the army men are par ticipating on a volunteer basis and thus there is no problem of schedules. The NROTC Batallion was informed earlier that all mid shipmen "would march" in the parade. Vo-Ag Judging Begins Thursday The forty-first annual Vo Ag Judging Contest will be held at the Ag Campus start ing Thursday. Future Farmers of Ameri ca students from 141 Nebras ka high 'schools will partici pate in the event. Faculty members in vari ous departments will conduct the contests. "V Ml ft J J fc V This confusion and great desire for change are part of the nationalism of the Middle East, he said. Another Ingredient of their nationalism is ex treme pride in their past "The weight of history is upon the shoulders of the people of the Middle East" And it is not so much that they are proud of the past but that they want to forget the present It is ex tremely frustrating to them, Armajani said. it 'Checker9 Gone; So Is Prof s Tie "You'll have to forgive me for coming to class half dressed." Robert SakaL associate professor of history, stood before his 8 o'clock class, his white shirt neatly but toned at the collar, a neck, tie conspicuously missing. Tve heard of this hap pening to people," be con tinued. "Yon see, my wife b est of town this week, and there was nobody to check me as I left," Red Cross Asks Liaison Help The Red Cross College Unit has asked all living units end organized houses on campus to elect a person to serve as a liaison between the group and the Red Cross Board. Each person would be re sponsible for keeping a list including house talent, per sons with First Aid and Water Safety Instructors certificates and persons owning cars who would volunteer to drive for Red Cross. Prep Debate Tournament 'Colleagues' Scan Files, Judges Scrawl Criticism By John Hoerner Four-bit words like "dema goguery" and "pedagogy" were mingled with technical jargon as aeDaiers irom a high schools met in ui an nual State Tournament this week end. Attentive judges scrawled comments concerning "clash" and tie "trap" as the ora torical high schoolers dis cussed: "Resolved: that we should adopt. the essential features of the British system of edu cation." Various rounds filled 25 rooms of Social Science Fri day afternoon as the week end meet got underway ..Each team had the chance to de bate both the affirmative and negative sides of the question during the preliminary rounds. Colleagues ' In a regulation debate round the teams consist ' of two members each who refer to each other tenderly as "my colleague." One team takes the affirma tive and the other the nega tive. The first affirmative talks for 10 minutes and then the first negative takes np the challenge. The second af "They have a great to feriority complex," Whea three or four Arabs of Per sians are togethery they complain of how bad the situation in their country is but they are haughty and belligerent to foreigners la order to cover up this feel ing, he explained. The Middle East Is like a house with four wings, Tur key, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt The other coun tries form the central pat io, Armajani said. Vol. 33, No. 88 Adminy tvr Pull All B ack Campaign Forecast: Hot Council Opens Filings Today Filings for Student Council college representatives open today, thus preparing the way for what promises to be a more heated campaign than the campus has seen re cently. Actioa by the Council March 18 lifted some of the restric tions from campaigns, allow ing more publicity by candi dates. Requirements Requirements for applicant: are as follows: Candidate must have com pleted at least one semester at the University and be in his second, third, fourth or fifth semester at the time of filing. He nasi In a boas file member of the college lie wishes to represent. He shall have a minimum Williams May Bo Alumni Head Alan H. Williams, a 1928 graduate from ScottsMuff , has been nominated for the Uni versity Alumni Association presidency, according to Ralph Kiplinger, chairman of the nominating committee. Other candidates for Asso ciation offices are: Robert Dobson, a 1931 graduate from Lincoln for first vice president; Mrs. Gale Davis, a 1331 graduate for second vice president; and Milton Ebers, a 1934 grad uate from Fremont, for mem-ber-at-large of the executive committee. Odd-numbered legislative districts will elect directors for a two year term. firmative and then the .sec ond negative follow. Following this contest each team member is given five minutes in which to refute the arguments of the opposing team. Sometimes the presentation of evidence pro and con is fired so thick and fast that one migjt think it was a mass card reading contest The debater's card which reside in his precious file box give ready information to sup port or deny whatever is ap propriate at the time. Maga zines both popular and schol arly seem to be the main source of material. The affirmative debaters brought out -many startling statistics about "frill" courses in fishing, etc One school, it was reported, gave a full credit course in "just plain living." One survey pointed cut by the affirmative s'jowed that 18 per cent of the students in one high school' didn't know the number of months in a year. ( U.S. Leading? The negatives fired back with evidence that the U.S. was leading the world. Edu cation is not for tha sciaotisU Each wing has an en trance to the central patio but Turkey and Iran have doors to other resources, he added. But in Saudi Arabia and in Egypt both countries have always ex panded to the north. "And it is almost an ax-, iom, that any power which has had control of the cen ter part has conquered Saudi Arabia and Egupt "Nasser knows enough of history to realize this. And he feels that if anybody is JJ The Daily u Door Hustling Out cumulative average of 3.0. (For Law College candidates, only pre-law grades shall be considered.) Rales Regular University rules shall govern in determining a candidate's eligibility. Applications may be picked np at the office of the Dean of Student Affairs at the Ad ministration Building. The filing will continue throughout the week, ending Saturday noon. Apportionments The apportionments of rep resentatives from the eight colleges are the same as last year with the exception of Arts and Science College and Law College. This year, Law College has one representative; last year it was not represented. Arts amd Sciences added one more representative this year, bringing the total to three persons. s Teachers College may have three (at least one man and one woman); Business Admin istration and Architecture, three; Agriculture, two (one man and one woman); Phar macy College, one. Of the three representatives from Arts and Sciences, at least one must be a woman and one a man. Games Workers Spring Day workers are needed to assist with Spring Day games, according to Bob Paine, competition chairman. Application blanks may be picked up this week in the Union lobby.. and the mathematicians, they maintained. We need a well balanced populace, not a bunch of "sci entific supermen," they said. Also attacked by the nega tive was the British system of testing students at the age of 11 and then placing them into three classes for educa tion. "Sheep, goats and dogs, one debater called it The judges. University de baters, listened carefully to the arguments before writ ing decisions and ratings of the team members. Judges Pencil Judges penciled notes rang ing from casual correction to caustic criticism as remarks such as "read the qualifica tions for the quote first" and "you pace like a hungry lion" were seen. The winning team, Lincoln Southeast received a trophy from the Nebraska High School Activities Association, sponsors of the tourney. A chance to attend the na tional debate tournament in Miami also went to the win ners. Prof. Donald Olson, Uni versity debate director, was in charge of the tournament arr&ngexae&ls. Middle Eas going to rule it should be him," Prof. Armajani said. Referring to Israel, which he said was not a problem to the Turks or to Iran, Armajani said that the rest of the middle east ern people feel that Europe made the Arabs pay for what Europe did to the Jews. "Nearly one million Ar abs are homeless," he said. The refugees have the right to go back to their land or to be compensated Nebraskan This spring the familiar early morning lines waiting outside the M and N building and the eager students hustl ing in through the back door will be missing. No one except the adminis tration will pull cards. The revised registration system which provides that the registrar's office will pull cards for all students on the basis of class priority will go into effect for the first time this spring. Order Cards will be pulled accord ing to hours earned as of Feb, 2, 1959, and the order in which worksheets are received. The new plan was worked out by the Student Council registration committee and the registrar's office. Students will see their ad visors, as usual between May 4 and May 15 After this, the change begins. Cards Pulled Following advisor appoint ments, students will take their worksheets to the Registrar's office, room 208 Administra tion, where the cards will be pulled for them. Junior Division worksheets win be sent by the advisor to the college counselor, then to Scrip Entries Due Today Manuscripts are now being accepted for the May issue of "Scrip," according to ed itor Steve Schultz. Undergraduates wishing to submit manuscripts may leave them in the envelope outside office 205, Andrews, or at tlia Phi Kappa Psi house in care of Schultz. They should be received by today. ' "As ttsual we are Inter ested In any kind of student writing," Schultz said. "We would particularly like to see something of a type we have never published be fore, such as play scripts or art criticism," he said. 4 ' " f I V J ' ' .1- ( ! '' - 'I : -. - TOM COOPER, Lincoln Southeast debater, expresses him self on pros and cons of U.S. and British educational sys tems at the Nebraska High School Debate Tournament held at the University Friday. Cooper and teammate Suzy Moffitt won first place in the contest for their high schooL The trophy was the third straight championship for South east and the right to compete in the national champion ships at Miami went with it Cooper and Moffitt won seven out of eight; rounds. for it but Israel doesnl ac cept this, Armajani said. Armajani, who is direct or of the Middle East Area Studies program for four Minnesota colleges, spoke on KUON-TV. He served as a liason of ficer between the Ameri can army and the Persian government during World War II. Recently Dr. Armajani traveled in Ira- for a year's study and last sum mer he traveled in Russia. Monday, April 6, 1959 Cards, the Junior Division Office which will process the work sheets and send them to the Registrar's office. Seniors and juniors should turn their worksheets in to tfla registrar's between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., May 18; sophomores. May 19; fresh man, May 20. Late worksheets will be accepted May 2L Late After May 21 students must wait until June 8 to register for the summer sessions, and September 9 for the fall se mester. Alternative courses should be listed according to pref erence (except for seniors with no alternatives) so that the registrar's office can pull those cards if necessary. Students who know their work schedule should so indi cate on the worksheet, giving name, address, and telephone of employer so that considera tion may be given and the employer consulted. Similarly, inter collegiate athletes should indicate time involved. This will be checked with the athletic office. Top Regent Is Fined Swanson Admits Drunk Driving Clarence E. Swanson, presi- dent of the Board of Regents, Saturday was fined $100 and had his driving privileges suspended for six months after pleading guilty to a charge of drunk driving. Swanson, 61, of 2633 So. 24th, appeared in Lincoln Municipal Court on a charge arising from a Wednesday night incident m wmcn his car was involved in a collision with a taxi. Swanson, who also is presU dent o f Hovland-Swanson, earlier had been booked,on an open charge.