The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, May 19, 1959, Image 1
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 lii'Ml? N IHBHrM If A 1l 113 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, f'Adf . ii ' ' If 73 J f x yf ' f v,1 f - f " Allison 4mm 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 Kim s , j J ? 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 111 f ?' '5 ( i , r 4 i j 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. . 1 ", j 1 1 k- .i -4 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.