Bustard
'Not
Out
to
Get
Anybody9
By Marilyn Coffey
"I'm not out to get any
body," Eugene Bustard,
freshman law student, told
the Daily Nebraskan.
Bustard's statements con
cerning Prof. Frederick
Beutel's class in constitu
tional law were one of the
sources of Sen. Jack Ro
mans' information about the
law college.
Bustard, introduced ' on
the floor of the Legislature
yesterday, is no longer, a
student in the College of
Law. He dropped out of
classes May 15, according
to the registrar.
The law student told the
Nebraskan that he went,
voluntarily, to Sen. Romans
after "the Bernstein affair"
to talk with him about
Beutel.
"I had first felt inclined
to sign the student letter
approving Bernstein, but
didn't, because I felt it
would endorse all of the
faculty," Bustard said.
He said he felt that Beu
tel was trying to force his
political views on the class.
A letter from Merritt Pow
ell, freshman in law, deny
ing , the accuracy of Bus
tard's, statement, was read
on the legislative floor yes
teray morning.
Bustard said he felt it
was necessary that he af
firm his statements after
Powell's letter was read, so
he did not stop Sen. Ro
mans from introducing him.
No Pressure
Bustard said that he with
drew from Law College un
der his own volition with
no pressure from' the Uni
versity or the Law College.
He said he had not
planned to continue school,
but was hoping that he
would be working with the
t Christian Crusade, an anti
' Com m u n i s t organization
with headquarters in Tulsa,
Okla.
Bustard is a 1957 gradu
ate of Bob Jones University
in Greenville, S.C. Since
June of 1957, he has lived
here in Lincoln, working
mostly at King's Drive-In
and later attending the
University. '
A native of Lincoln, Bus
tard has lived in North
Carolina since 1948.
Felt Called
Bustard said he "felt
called" to work for Chris
tian Crusade, whose radio
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broadcasts he first heard
Columbia Broadcasting Sta
tion KGSK after returning
to Lincoln.
His interest in anti-Communist
work stems from
his high school, he said.
He said he reported to
Fulton Lewis Jr. what he
thought were Communist
like actions of one of his
high school teachers. Al
though Lewis recommended,
by letter, that he take the
matter to the school board,
Bustard did not.
"I didn't want to hurt
anybody," -Bustard said of
his statements about Beu
tel. "I don't want to un
justly ruin anyone's name.
Asked whether he thought
he would have passed his
Law College courses if he
had finished the year, he
said he thought he would
have failed a course in pro
perty, and have received
below-average grades in his
other courses. Beutel's con
stitutional law course he
was not positive he would
have passed. If so, he said,
it would have been "by the
skin of my teeth."
Bustard said he felt that
Communism posed a great
menace to his religious be
liefs. He is a member of the
Nazarene Church in North
Carolina and attends the
Havelock Alliance . Church
in Lincoln regularly. At one
time, he said, he considered
going into the ministry.
An Editorial
Vol. 33, No.
binding jhe Daiy Nebraskan
Tuesday, May 19, 1959
D
ean Burt, Prof. Meadows
'Outstanding9 Nominees
New
Two faculty members and
one student are new nomin
ees for the title of Outstand
ing Nebraskan.
Paul Meadows, sociology
professor, and Joseph Burt,
dean of the College of Pharm
acy, were nominated for the
faculty award. Charles
Kress, a senior in Electrical
Engineering, was nominated
for the student title.
International Acclaim
Dr. Meadows' letter said
that he had won for himself
and the University "respect
and acclaim on an interna
tional scale."
"He has authored, per
sonally or in collaboration
with others, seven books. In
addition, he has written more
than 65 articles which have
appeared in at least 21 dif
ferent magazines and journ
als, ranging from our own
"Prairie Schooner" to the
distant "Revlsta Mexicana de
John Allison to Give
Graduation Address
lhe U.S. Ambassador to
Czechoslovakia, John Allison,
will address the 89th annu
al commencement exercises
June 6.
A career officer in the U.S.
Foreign Service for 27 years,
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Union Holds
Conference
Saturday
Budget, Activities
Discussed, Shaped
Committee chairmen and
members of both the Activi
ties Committee and the ad
visory board huddled all day
Saturday over budget and
programming for next year's
Student Union.
Committee chairmen and
assistants drew up proposed
budgets in morning sessions,
then in the afternoon the long
job of paring and re-shaping
began.
First Participation
This was the first active
participation of the newly
formed aadvisory cabinet in
Union affairs. Under the con
stitution approved this year
for the advisory cabinet, all
matters pertaining to budget
and programming must be
approved by this group in
connection with the old Union
activities board.
The advisory cabinet, com
posed of 10 persons, repre
sents segments of the camp
us which it had been felt
were left out of consideration
occasionally.
Complex Programming
Programming was com
plex this year, since the
opening of the Union addition
in the fall will more than
double the facilities the Union
has to offer.
The overall budget must
now be presented to the
Union Board of Managers,
composed of faculty, students
and alums, for approval. It
then goes to the Chancellor,
who in turn presents it to the
Board of Regents. ,
Allison has also served as the
U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia
and the U.S. Ambassador to
Japan.
Attended NU
The former University stu
dent will speak to about 1,000
students who will receive de
grees at ceremonies beginning
at 10 a.m. in the Coliseum.
Allison is a 1927 graduate
of the University and a 1952
recipient of the University
Distinguished Service Award.
He will participate in the
Alumni Round-Up.
Since 1931 he has held dip
lomatic posts in China, Japan
and hngland as well as in the
State Dept. at Washington,
DC.
Diplomatic Posts
Between 1942 and 1952 Alli
son served as second secre
tary of the U.S. consulate gen
eral in London, advisor to the
U.S. delegation to the U.N
General Assembly, consul gen
eral at Singapore, special as
sistant to John Foster Dulles
and acting assistant secretary
for eastern affairs in the
State Dept.
After the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Alli
son. Ambassador Joseph
Grew and other American
diplomatic personnel were in
terned by the Japanese gov
ernment for six months be
fore their reparation was ne
gotiated. Allison was the principal
assistant of John Foster Dul
les in negotiations preceding
the signing of the Japanese
peace treaty after World War
Shortly . after Dulles be
came secretary of state in
President Eisenhower's cah
inet, Allison succeeded Robert
D. Muphy as ambassador to
Japan.
After serving as ambassa
dor in Tokyo four years, he
then spent one year as am
bassador to Indonesia. In 1958,
he was sent to Czechoslovakia
As ambassador to Japan he
played a leading role in 1954
and 1955 in concluding U.S.
Japanese mutual defense
agreements.
Also while ambassador to
Japan he handled the case of
23 Japanese fishermen who
were burned by radioactive
ashes from U.S. thermo-nuc-lear
tests in 1954 which re
sulted in an agreement by the
United States to pay $2 mil
lion in damages.
Allison has recorded Lincoln
his legal residence since
Sociologia"."
ur. Meaaows served as
president last year of the
Midwest Sociological Society
and has been named to sev
eral committees of the Amer
ican Sociological' Society.
Outside Work
The letter also cited him
for his work outside the Uni
versity. "Dr. Meadows has been ac
tive as a member of the In
dians Relation Council, for
which he has received na
tional recognition. And last
fall, he was given an award
by the National Unitarian
Church for the instrumental
role he played in securing a
fair trial for Lloyd Grand
singer." 36 Nominate Burt
Dean Burt was nominated
by 36 members of the College
of Pharmacy.
The letter calls his teach
ing ability "unsurpassed"."
"His busy schedule never
interferes should one of us
have a problem we wish to
Nominations for Outstand
ing Ncbraskans close at 5
p.m. today. Letters should
be brought to the Daily Nebraskan.
ing "instrumental in develop
ing a sound intramural sports
program at Selleck Quad. His
leadership js illustrated by
the increased participation
in both major and minor
sports by Selleck houses.
Charlie has managed to per
sonally engage, in the I-M
sports of football, basketball,
ping pong, freethrows and
horseshoes."
The letter further states
that Kress Is a member of
the Sigma Tau Slide Rule
Committee that "initiated
and organized their present
program of furnishing slide
rule instruction to freshman
engineering students. t
Kress is a member of Sig
ma Tau, engineering' honor
ary; N Cluh; Eta Kappa Nu,
electrical engineering honor
ary; and Pi Mu Epsilon;
mathematics honorary. '
Just about every three years it seems that someone
must revive the old issue of academic freedom at the Uni
versity. In 1953 the American Legion was conducting an in
vestigation of the University History Department. In 1956
came the Mitchell incident which arose out of evidence pre
sented by this newspaper. .
And now, in 1959 a group of Senators in the Legislature,
admittedly with the backing of a group of Lincoln attorneys,
has requested an investigation of the University Law Col
lege. It makes no difference that the formal resolution to in
vestigate has been withdrawn from the Legislature's floor.
The continued agitation over the matter on the floor of the
Legislature is much more damaging than any impartially,
conducted and official investigation could ever be.
The reasons for such agitation are not the ones pre
sented as the basis for an investigation. The charges made
on the floor of the Legislature have been refuted with the
most reliable evidence available. Under the pressure of
fatts from the United States Government and a United
States Senator they have collapsed with barely a wheeze.
The real reason is the basic difference of opinion
among citizens of the state about the status of a University
professor. One side holds that these men should retire from
active public life to the Ivory Tower of education. They
should decline to perform their duties as citizens. They
should decline to express their opinions on any matter that
is controversial or that affects the welfare of the state.
The side that holds this view has brought to bear the
forces of aspersion and innuedno, half truths and distor
tions. They have done damage to the University's reputa
tion that will not be repaired in the next five years.
The best thing that could be done at this point is for the
University Board of Regents to conduct the investigation
demanded. Only by putting the official seal of ppproval
by elected representatives of the people on the University
College of Law will the practice of "The Big Lie" be defeated.
Censure
Motion
Killed
Amended Move
Fails 18-17
Members of the legisla
ture split in a 17-18 vote
yesterday killing a resolution
to express legislative disap
proval of statements on tha
floor about
Law College
faculty members.
The cen
sure motion
was orig
inally intro
duced Friday
Dy Sens. J.
W. Burbach,
Joe T. Voso
ba and Nor
man Otto. It
legislators to
against "unfounded
tions and charges
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No Registration Difficulties
Cards Pulled for 500; Worksheet Stack Grows
as
his undergraduate days at the
University,
Design Award Goes
To Ernest Moser.
Ernest Moser, senior in en
gineering, has been awarded
the Industrial Press Machine
Design Award.
The award goes to a student
graduating this year who has
done undergraduate work of
outstanding excellence in ma
chins design.
discuss. He has personally
provided financial aid to
many of us, so that personal
expenses could be met until
other financial arrangements
could be made. He serves as
a parent, couonsclor and em
ployment representative."
Twenty one organizations
that Dean Burt has belonged
to were listed. Among them
were Rho Chi, of which he
served as national president;
the Lincoln Chamber of
Commerce and Sigma Xi.
He was also credited with
having articles or associa
tion with 17 publications. He
has served as dean of the
Pharmacy College since 1946,
with 40 years of service at
the University.
Helped Growth
The letter concludes .with
the statement that "The Col
lege of Pharmacy of the Uni
versity has grown locally, na
tionally and internationally
because of this ambassador,
Dean Joseph Bell Burt."
Kress, who has lettered in
tennis for the past three
years, ranks in the upper
25 per cent of his class.
His letter stated that
"Charlie's drive and talent
mark him as a remarkable
person and a credit to the
University."
He was credited with be
By John Hoerncr
More than 500 students'
cards had been pulled by 3
p.m. Monday under the new
registration system.
Of these 500 worksheets
only one has caused enough
of a problem so that the stu
dent had to be contacted,
Mrs. Irma Laase, assistant
registrar, said.
Class Priority
Upon being turned in by
students, the worksheets are
sorted into five hour groups
within the class, seniors first
and so on.
The card pulling started
early Monday with the over
100-hour worksheet, sorted
alphabetically within the
hour classification.
An eight-inch high stack of
worksheets is steadily grow
ing. These belong to students
who tried to cheat the sys
tem by indicating on their
worksheets that they have
more hours than they really
do, Mrs. Laase said.
IBM Cards
What these students forgot
to consider was that before
the cards are pulled each
student's individual IBM
card showing actual hours
earned is attached to the
worksheet, she said.
The falsified worksheets
will be held out and pulled
last.
Today worksheets of 42
hours or more will be ae
cepted.
The estimated completion
time for all card pulling is
5 p.m. Thursday, Mrs. Laase
said.
Sinfonia
To Feature
V.S. Music
American music will be
featured in the annual Phi
Alpha Sinfonia, men's mu
sic fraternity, spring concert
tonight.
The concert Is being held
at 7:30 p.m. in the Union
Ballroom.
Numbers on the program
will include "Psalms and
Hymns of Early America"
performed by the Glee Club
and 'Three Minatures for
Brass Trio", written by Jack
McKie a University gradu
ate.
Paul Creston's "Sonata in
E flat for Alto Saxaphone"
will be performed by Terry
tsoyes, saxapnonist.
; Directors of the two Glee
Club numbers are Richard
Davis and Frank Tirro. Rod
ney Walker is program direc
tor and Jack.Watkins is ac
companist, i
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1ST STEP Stan Khrushchwitz hands in his worksheet
to Doris Huber, secretary to Mrs. Irma Lasse. A quick
survey showed that the average time required to hand in
"a worksheet was less than a minute.
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THROUGH THE MILL Pulling cards and clipping them
to the worksheets being processed are from left: Mrs.
O. L. Lund, Mrs. Carl J. Olson and Mrs. E. A. Rogers.
In the foreground helping with the task is Mrs. Colton
Smith. The cards are pulled by courses in the order of
scheduling difficulty.
An air of peace and quiet
reigns over the room where
the cards are being Dulled
compared to the hustle and
bustle of the old system.
After the number of hours
on the worksheets are vali
dated, the worksheets got to
have cards pulled.
Worksheets progress
around the cardpulling tables
in the order of difficulty of
schedule arranging.
Science courses with labs
and recitations are pulled
first, engineering and archi
tecture next, then languages,
business administration and
economics, fine arts, journal
ism, education, social sci
ences, PE arts and ROTC,
English, ag courses, pharm
acy, etc.
The card pullers are in
structed to hold back any
worksheet which has more
than 3-5 of the classes sched
uled on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday mornings.
These worksheets are
checked to see that the stu
dent's working hours or some
other good reason necessi
tates this scheduling.
Mrs. Laase stated that
more problems would prob
ably be enountered in pull
ing courses on the sophomore
or junior level.
When problems are en
countered, according to Mrs.
Laase, the student will be
called at the phone number
listed on his worksheet. If he
cannot be reached at 4his
number, his advisor in some
cases may be called, she
said.
The card pullers will make
substitutions and trade
courses and times only with
in the hours the student has
indicated that he has avail
able for classes, according to
Mrs. Lassee.
Worksheets turned in must
be completely filled out. Sig
natures of the dean of the
college are necessary in Ag
riculture, business adminis
tration, engineering and
pharmacy.
They are also needed in
Teachers College' if under 12
or more than 18 hours, and
in Arts and Sciences if under
12 or more than 17 hours are
carried.
Alternative courses should
be listed for all except sen
iors. The bottom schedule
part of worksheets must be
filled in and alternative sec
tions listed in courses with
more than ' one section.
Simmons
called for the
go on record
msinua
of dis
loyalty" expressed on the
floor against Prof. Frederick
isernstein and former Prof.
Caleb Foote.
Censured Romans
The resolutions would have
censured Sen. Jack Romans,
who last week proposed that
a study be made of hiring
practices in the College of
Law.
. Before the resolution w a
killed, the original motion
had been amended. The move
to amend the original resolu
tion was introduced by Sen.
Kay C. Sim
mons of Fre
mont. Vote to
amend the
r e s o 1 ution
was also 18-17.
The amend
ed resolution
was then
d e f eate d,
with legisla
tors splitting
somewhat along party lines.
uroppea Accusations
The amended motion
droped from the original reso
lution references to accusa
tions made by Eugene Bus
tard, former law student. The
amended resolution left only
that portion of the original
proposal which called for
the Legislature to "reaffirm
us iaun ana commence in
the Board of Regents and
the chancellor.
Votes on the amended move were aa
follows:
For Killing:
John Aufenkamp, (R), Hal Briden.
baush, R, John R. Cooper, (R), H. K.
Diers, (Ind.), John G. Donner R). Dal
Erlewine. (Ind.). A. A. Fenske, (R),
George Fulton, (R), Marvin Lauten
sehlager. (R), Frank Nelson, (R), Harry
Pizer, (R), Jack Romans (R), Michael
Russillo. (), Ray Simmons. (R), George
Syas, (R), Lewig Webb, (R) and Dwain
Williams. R.
Voting- against killing:
J. W. Burback, (D), Terry Carpenter,
(R), Hans Jensen, (D), Sam Klaver.
R, Otto Liebers, (R), Richard Marvel,
R, John Munnelly, (D), Oliver Olinger,
(D), Fern Hubbard Orme, (R), Norman
Otto. (), Stanley Portsche. (R, Ar
nold Ruhnke, (Ind ), William Skarda,
D), Harold Stryker, (D), Don Thomp.
son, (R), and Joe Vosoba, (D).
Abstaining:
Kenneth Bowen, (R), Peter Claassen.
(D), George Gerdes, (R), Earl Hollen
beck, R). Edwin MsHugh, (R), William
Moulton, (R), J. O. Peck, (R) ana
David Tews, (R).
Of those not voting, only Bowen and
Moulton were present.
Romans
Ag Teacher
Is Honored
Dr. P. A. Downs, profes
sor of dairy husbandry at the
University for over 30 years,
was honored by friends and
co-workers at a banquet last
week.
Dr. Downs is a nominee
for the dairy science teach
er award of the American
Dairy Science Associa
tion. He has been a member
of the ADSA since 1926, dur
ing which time he has served
as a director, as chairman of
the manufacturing section
and as a member of dairy
products judging and butter
committees.
He is also a member of the
American Association of Uni
versity Professors; Sigma XI,
science . scholastic honorary
and Gamma Sigma Delta,
honorary agriculture fraternity.
University dairy producti
teams have won numerous
awards in national judging
competitions during the 30
years he has coached them.
Dr. Down's bulletin, "Judg
ing Quality in Dairy Prod
ucts" has been widely used
throughout the nation. He
has been a member of the
American Dairy Science
Judging Contest committee
for many years.
Participating in the ban
quet program were L. P. Mc
Coun, president of the Sugar
Creek Creamery, Danville,
111.; W. G. McGubbin, former
graduate student in dairy at
the University, now manag-'
er of the Goodrich Dairy
Company in Omaha and Dr.
E. F. Frolik, associate direc
tor of the Agricultural Ex
periment Satioa here.
