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NU For UWytaSITY OF NEBR, eacher Provision APR 15 1959 s supported By Marilyn Coffey A bill that would allow the University to provide teach ers for junior colleges re ceived strong support and lit tle opposition at a public hear ing yesterday. The Legislative Education Committee took no action on the measure. Proponents said LB587 would help junior colleges al ready in existence and en courage new ones without additional cost to the Uni versity. The bill stipulates that the Board of Regents may pro' vide instruction through the Extension Division and enter into contracts with junior col leges without additional ex pense to the University. Representatives at the hear ing from Grand Island, North Platte and Columbus said they Spring Day Plans Seventeen Houses Support Barbecue Seventeen' houses have agreed to support the Spring Day barbecue. The following houses have agreed to cooperate either by closing their tables the eve ning of May 1 or guarantee ing a certain number of stu dents at the barbecue or both: Fedde Hall. Alpha Xi Delta. Zeta Tau Alpha, Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Gamma Rho, Beta Theta. Pi, Delta Delta Bacteria Scientists To Speak A recent Nobel Prize win ner of the Rockefeller Insti tute and a microbial cytolo- gist from the Harvard Bio logical Laboratories will be at the University Friday and Saturday. Dr. Edward Tatum and Dr. George Chapman will be principal speakers at the an nual meeting of the Missouri Valley Branch of the Society of American Bacteriologists, which the department of bac teriology is hosting. Genetics and metabolism of bacteria, yeast and molds constitute Dr. Tatum's field of research. It is aimed at an understanding of how genes determine the characteristics of living organisms . at the molecular level. He shared the Nobel Prize with Dr. George Beadle, a former Ne braskan. Receiving his Ph.D. in bio chemistry in 1934 from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Tatum has taught at Yale and Stanford Universities. He received the Remsen Award of the American Chemical Society in 1953 for his contribution to biochemi cal genetics and f o r his work with Joshua Lederberg, a for mer student who is also a Nobel Prize recipient. Dr. Chapman's published research deals with studies of the fine structure of micro organisina and invertebrates. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 in biology from Princeton University. He was research biologist at -the R.C.A. Laboratories Division, David Sarnoff Re search Center, in Princeton, N.J., before joining Harvard in 1956. Delta, Alpha Gamma Sigma, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha cm Umega, Lornhusker Co op, Kappa Alpha T h e t a, Mgma Alpha Mu, Delta Up silon, Kappa Delta and Phi Kappa Psl. The Union announced Mon day that a guaranteed attend ance of 1,000 was needed to put on the barbecue. The above houses represent guar antees of between 450 and 500, according to the Spring Day committee. Tickets for the barbeque are $1. The menu will be spit bar becued chicken or beef, de pending on the vote of the participating houses. Rainbow trout will be avail able for those who want it, according to the Union food service department which is preparing the barbecue. The proposed barbecue is sponsored by the Spring Day Committee. The deadline for renting the barbecue equipment is today because of Lincoln Centennial activities which will take place at the same time. Spring Day house chairmen are asked to report their houses' support to John Hoer ner, 4-2515, or B o b Paine, 8-2004, before 10 p.m. this evening. were interested in starting junior colleges but that lack of prestige of a new junior college makes obtaining qual ified instructors difficult. Chancellor Clifford Hardin called the junior college pro gram a good one and pledged assistance whenever teachers are available. When asked by Sen. Norm an Otto of Kearney if the Uni versity would object, to in cluding teachers colleges in the bill's provisions, the Chancellor replied that he thought the Regents would not object. President Allen Burkhardt of Norfolk College spoke for the proposal, pointing out that it would help 'enrich the cur riculum offerings of junior colleges." At the suggestion that the bill might result in a number of new junior colleges, sev eral spokesmen said that fi nancial problems would tend to discourage the establish ment of new districts. Attorney Robert Crosby of Lincoln explained that the bill is only permissive and that junior college districts would have to bear the costs. la structors would be provided "rtnlir urban oir oil oKlz " V The measure is a result of a ruling by Attorney Genera) C. S. Beck, last spring, which brought a halt to the Uni versity's Extension Courses as weu as to a tentatively- planned branch college in North Platte. Beck ruled that the Uni versity had no legal right to conduct classes anywhere but on its own campus. Off-cam pus courses, otiered by the school for some 25 years, .were ceased. A bill passed earlier this season (with the emergency clause attached) gave the University the legal right to conduct off-campus classes. It did not empower the school to enter into contracts with junior colleges. ,11 Mlmrn. Vol. 33, No. 94 The Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, April 15, 1959 Five Tribunal Await Council Candidates Interview Grunt 'n Groan Judo Club to Show Techniques Saturday Twenty-four University stu dents will demonstrate about 100 different Judo techniques Saturday in the second dis play put on by the University Judo Club. The display will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Ball room. "This is the sixth year a judo club has been in exist- D. Binder, F. Bliss Head Cobs Sirens to Wail Friday Classes to Empty Again Snow can do It, football up sets can do it and now a third cause for letting out classes appears. NV to See Army 'Hawk A U.S. Army exhibit depict ing the Army's progress in meeting the challenge of the nuclear age will be displayed at the Military and Naval Science Building Monday and Tuesday. The official exhibit from Washington, D. C, will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the drill hall. A feature of the exhibit is the U.S. Army's "Hawk", a surface-to-air guided missile that can swoop down and de stroy enemy aircraft at tree top level. U. S. Army information specialists will be on hand to answer questions posed by the public. Admission is free. When the Civil Defense sir ens blast at 10:30 a.m. this Friday, University classes, offices and residence halls will be completely evacuated. The University is participat ing in an operational alert sponsored by the Lincoln Lancaster Civil Defense Or ganization, according to a let ter sent from Chancellor Clif ford Hardin to various admin istrative offices. Persons leaving the build ings are to stay outside for five or 10 minutes in order to ensure complete evacua tion, according to the letter. Classes will resume at 11 a.m. The purpose of the alert is two-fold, reads the letter: 1) To ascertain if civil de fense sirens can be heard in all areas of campus. 2) To determine the length of time it takes to evacuate each building on campus. Buildings in Lincoln are to be evacuated, also. Don Binder was elected president of Corn Cobs and eight members were initiated into the organization Tues day night. Other newly elected offi cers include: Fred Bliss, vice president; Robert Otto secre tary, and Roger Wehrbein, treasurer. Binder, a junior in Arts and Sciences, is a member of Stu dent Council and Theta Xi house manager. The pew vice-president is also vice-president of AUF. secretary of Farm House and a member of Alpha Zeta. Bliss is a junior in agriculture. Otto is a junior and Arts and Science. Wehrbein, junior in Agricul- ture, is president of Ag Exec Board, member of Union Board of Managers and vice president of Alpha Gamma Rho. New initiates are Gil Grady, Morris Beerbohm, Howard Kooper, Dave Mc- Conahay, Larry Williams, Winston Wade, Ron Kahle and Richard Valdez. APO's Interests Books, UMOCs Alpha Phi Omega here spon sors a book exchange. Alpha Phi Omega in North Carolina sponsors an "Ugliest Man on Campus contest. According to the contest chairman, "Several fraterni ties already have turned in the three photographs of their most hideous examples of the human race." Student Council Student Council will meet at 3 p.m. today instead of the usual 4 p.m., according to Gary Frenzel, vice president. ence at the University," said Sachio Ashida, the team's coach. The team members, all of them . Americans, compete among themselves, and with men from the Lincoln and Omaha Air Force Bases and YMCA's, Ashida said. "We get invitations to oth er tournaments but wa have no financial support so we can't afford to go. Last year we attended a Rocky Mount ain Area Tournament, pay ing our own expenses". No Money "We're broke now. We were invited to the Amateur Ath letics union conference in Los Angeles but couldn't go." Ashida is the highest rank ing black-belt in the middle west. The term "black-belt" re fers to the various rankings in Judo, Ashida explained, After a person is qualified to become an instructor, he can earn a ranking beginning with a white belt, then yellow, next green, brown and the top ranking black. Ashida said there were various grades or rankings within each color, also. mere are 10 grades in the black belt. Each grade is called a dan. There are onlv three 10 dan holders in the world, all of them Japanese professors. Ashida is a 5 dan holder, Competitive Promotion "increasing your raniang depends on mental attitude and physical coordination. You get promotion through com petition and through an oral- type exam. "We have four black belt holders here." The three instructors, Ryo ji Yamakawa, Paul Owen and Harvey West, are black belt holders. Two assistants, Takeo Ut sumi and Bob Scott, are brown belt holders, Ashida said. Practice Sessions The members of the team practice Tuesday and Thurs day nights in the Coliseum. "Anyone except ladies can try out," Ashida laughed. A dollar fee is charged each member per month as a travel fund. Ashida said they were pres ently planning an eight-week summer training program. More than 25 different tech niques will be taught. Five seniors have been named Tribunal judge final ists by the Student Council nominating committee. Dick Kelley, Bob Paine, Caroll Novicki, Judy Truell and Don Hall are the nomi nees from which the Council will pick four senior judges, Special Session Judges will be chosen in a special early session of Stu dent Council at 3 p.m. to day. Chairman of the Council nominating committee, Mary McKnight, announced that ad ditional names may be nomi nated from the floor of the Council at the time of selec tion. The tribunal was chartered a year ago to serve as the student court on matters of student discipline that are re ferred to it by the Division of Student Affairs. Other tribunal judges, two juniors and a law college rep resentative, will be chosen by the Council m subsequent meetings. Nominees for these positions have been made by the nomi- Foreigners Look at the NU Student Avoidance or Cooperation? Opinions Differ By Larry Long The American student and faculty member are seen many ways through the eyes of campus foreign students. Some, like Tokuo Fukui of Japan, are impressed with the cooperativeness of the Amer ican student. Others attest that the Amer ican student try to avoid the international students on cam pus. Student Participation Asi Mortazavi of Iran ex plained it this way: "I like the American stu-. dents and the American cus tomsthe football and basket-: ball games, the dances, the organizations and the parties. I enjoy taking part in them, but I do not like it when the American students do not take part in the foreign students' affairs. "They do not appreciate our customs." Some explained that some poor relationships point back to the international student who prefers to not associate with the Americans. Bahman "Sam" Samandari, Iran, attested, "If we show in terest, they show interest back." "Nebraska students are more interested in the foreign students than the California students are," according to Aida Casanovas, Bolivia, who attended school there. She at tributed this difference to the fewer foreign students on Ne braska's campus. Faculty and Students Faculty-student relation ships were interpreted this way by Stella Saenz of Pana ma: "The American student feels more free because the professor lowers himself to the level of the students." "The teachers here are not like something that is half God," according to a German student, Herman R 1 d d e r. "There is a greater atmos phere of freedom." Maung Shwe, Burma, and Martyn Bowden, Britain, ft? M 1 FOREIGN AND AMERICAN students alike find the Union a place to enjoy cof fee and talk. Americans (from left) Mor ris Sinor and Sherry Drew are shown dis- cussing classes and the campus with Kan dish Satkunam of Malaya and Sydney Jackson of Jamaica. agree that it is "easy tq get along and difficult to make enemies" here. 'A Retreat' "Nebraska students are cushioned from international politics by land," Bowden con tinued. "I enjoy it here; it is a retreat from the rest of the world. "What do I care that they are having trouble in the Mid dle East or that British politics are mixed up. That is several thousands of miles away from here. "I couldn't care less," he said. "Let them straighten out their own problems." There are certain peculiar characteristics which the stu dent from abroad doers not ap prove or understand. Grammar Errors Miss Saenz said, "I don't understand why the college student talks like the high school student. He learns that he is using incorrect gram mar, but he keeps on making the same errors. "The students use the ex pression, 'I am not very smart as an excuse , not to study, but the American stu dents are very smart," sne said. Many American students are not individualistic, said some of the foreign students. Girls especially tend to fol low the crowd. Bidder said, "If you are different, you are considered funny." Girls' Clothes The American girls' dress was called unimaginative and stereotyped by the males. "Everyone seems afraid to change the style," said Bow den. "The girls could brighten the campus by wearing clothes of their own discre tion." The foreign student was al so critical of other interests. G a n a 1 e Ataisik, Turkey, said she dislikes the Ameri can student's ignorance of the history, geography and cus toms of other countries. Art Interest Lacking The foreign students in gen eral also are critical of the lack of interest in the fields of music, art. literature and language. Bidder said that the Ameri can student knows only the subject in which he is major ing. Aida Casanovas of Bolivia said, "The interest of the American is in their boy or girlfriend." Despite their criticism, the majority of the foreign stu dents enjoy studying in the United States and particularly the University. Miss Casanovas explained it this way: this University is a typi cal, beautiful U.S. school which I have always dreamed about." KK Picks Officers, Directors Vernon Feye has been elected president of Kosmet Klub. Other officers elected Tues day night were Dave Godbey, vice president; Bob Theede, secretary, and Larry Romjue, business manager. The Klub also selected di rectors for its spring and fall shows next year, and word of a spring project was also made known. Nelson-Nielsen ' Clark Nelson will be direc tor of the fall show and Jack meisen wm neaa tne spring snow. , Kosmet Klub also has adopted a spring project, ac cording to former vice presi dent Dick Moses. Moses said that the Klub will participate in the Lincoln Centennial "Tower on the Plains" presentation May 5-9 at Pershing Auditorium. Workers Jobs He said actives will act out one of the scenes of the show and workers will begin today to build sets and scenery for tne presentation. Others will work with lighting and other technical problems. Moses said since scheduling mnicumes forced cancella uon ot plans for the spring snow, the Klub decided to find a new activity to keep the or ganization from becoming "a dummy." Feye, new KK president, is a junior in agriculture and a member of Farm House. Godbey is a junior in en gineering and a member of Theta Xi. Theede is a freshman in Dental College and a mem ber of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Romjue is a junior in busi ness administration and pres ident of Beta Theta Pi. Nelson, who will direct the fall show, is a junior in busi ness administration and a member of Phi Kappa Psi. Nielsen, who will direct the spring show, is a junior in en gineering and president of Delta Upsilon. Military Drill Squads To Compete Drill squads from Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC will compete in the annual Phalanx competition here Thursday. This year there will be two phases of competition, basic and crack squad. Four Army, three Navy and three Air Force squads will compete in the basic competittion. The top squads from each service will compete in the crack squad competition. The meet is sponsored an nually by Phalanx, a national honorary military fraternity. It will be directed this year by Phalanx Commander Pat Kuncl. The competition is limited to basic cadets, that is, fresh men and sophomores, under sophomore squad leaders. The meet will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Ball room. The public may attend. nating committee but they are not available for publica tion at this time, according to Miss McKnight. Dick Kelley is an AUF as sistant, intramurals chairman and rush chairman of Phi Delta Theta. . Bob Paine is president of Alpha Gamma Rho, a mem ber of Student Council, Corn Cobs, IFC and the Spring Day Central committee. Ha is treasurer of Ag Exec Board. Others Caroll Novicki is editor of Blueprint, a member of Pub Board, E-week board, IFC, Sigma Tau, Theta Kappa Nu, Engineering Exec Board, a Builders assistant and a mem ber of Theta Xi. Judy Truell is vice-president of Tassels, president of NUCWA, a Daily Nebraskan columnist, secretary of t h e present Tribunal and presi dent of Alpha Phi. Don Hall is Sigma Nu ath letic chairman and a member of Young Republicans. West Theme To Highlight Union Fete "Rope 'em, Spur "em, Brand 'em U" is the theme of the Union Awards Dessert to be held Thursday at 7 p.m. Presentation of the o u t- standing workers will high light the annual event. The new Advisory Board will be announced as well &s new officers, board members. chairmen and assistants. Jack Snider, president of the Union Board of Managers, will be master of ceremonies. The activities of the new Union will be explained bv Bob Handy, activities direc tor. Don Herman, past presi dent of the Ag Union, will tcT what the Ag Union has ac complished during the past year while Dorothy Beechner, past city Union president, will tell of City Union activi ties. The dessert will be held in Parlors A, B and C. All Union workers are invited. NU Combo On KFMQ Tonight at 12 An N.U. combo, the Mary Ann Davidson Quartet, will be featured on tonight's "Spot light on Jazz" edition of Kal eidoscope, heard over radio station KFMQ. Members include Mary Ann Davidson, piano; Frank Tirro, clarinet; John Marshall, bass; and Dick Moses, drums. Marshall accompanied Terry Moshier at t h e Big Eight Talent Show presented here in February. Moses is a member of Kosmet Klub and Innocents Society. Tirro is a music major at the Univer sity. Hosting the program is John West, junior and col umnist for the Daily Ne braskan. Kaleidoscope is heard nightly at 11 p.m. The quar tet will be featured shortly after midnight, including among their selections "The Wind," "Skylark," and "Gone With the Wind." Bizad Council Filings Open The deadline for filing for the Business Administration Executive Council is Friday. Students may file in 21t So cial Sciences. The positions last for one year,, coinciding with the Stu dent Council elections. Requirements include full time student status and an overall average of at least 5. Students also must have at tained sophomore, standing. Two junior men, two sopho more men, two senior men, one senior woman, one junior woman and one sophomore woman are to be elected. Vpc Ag Banquet Thursday Night "Move Ahead with Voc Ed" is the theme of the VHEA ATA Banquet to be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Union. , Dr. Erwin H. Goldenstein, chairman of the vocational education department, is the guest speaker.