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UNIVERSITY OF NEBR.
By John Hoerner
A seriiftJf mistakes and i
.uiAupi neany resiuiea in me
ineligibility of one of the
Homecoming Queen candi
dates and the declaring df an
invalid election.
The candidate, S u e 1 e a 1
Thompson, received official
credit in a course needed to
make her eligible just yes
terday morning.
Council Statement
Jack Nielsen, president of
Student Council, Bob Krohn,
of the judiciary committee,
and first vice president and
Kathy Roach, second vice
president, in charge of elec?
tions issued the following
statement late last night re
garding the election contro
versy.
"The Student Council will'
not declare this election in
valid because at the time of
Voting
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WAITING LINE This booth's eye view shews a line of
students extending from the entrance of the Student
Union waiting to vote for Homecoming Queen finalists.
The booths were open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday as
students cast ballots for three of the 16 finalists on the
ballot.
Home Ec Delegates
To Hear Mrs. Fleck
...Alum's Talk To Feature Day
A University alumna wide
ly known in education fields
will sneak at the eighth an
nua Home Economics Day
for Homemakers at Ag Cam
pus Wednesday.
She is Dr. Henrietta Fleck,
professor and chairman of the
home economics department
at New York University's
School of Education,
Other Features
Two others will speak, a
panel of doctors will discuss
cancer and home economics
students will present a skit
during the day-long program
to be attended by homemak
ers from all over the state.
Kay Clancy Metz with the
Quaker Oats Co. public rela
tions department, will speak
on the "Women's Role in To
day's World." A former news
paperwoman, Mrs. Metz has
represented Iowa in the House
f Representatives and served
in the Iowa Legislature.
YIVs Planning
'Elephant Nigh?
"Pink Elephants?"
Could be, say Young Re
publicans. , They're planning an "Ele
phant Night" Thursday at
7:30 p.m. in basement of the
Student Union and insist the
program be kept a complete
secret.
. President. Rod Ellerbusch,
reminds all interested stu
dents and new members to
attend.
Publicity Work Leads Achievements
. . . Dick Basoco
Th fourth la a rtm f articles
canipua teadrro,
f
Advancement to a top
spot on one of the major
University student publica
tions without a journalism
course to his credit has
marked one facet of the cam
pus career of Dick Basoco.
Basoco is now serving in his
tecond year as photo and lay
out editor of the Cornhusker.
-He's also made a niche in
other publicity and publication-connected
activities such
as: 1
Serving as former publicity
chairman for Builders, pres
ent publicity chairman for
this year' Military Ball, ns
a member of the IFC public
relations committee, as vire
president of Sigma Delta CM,
professional journalistic fra
ternity, and as a columnist
for (he Daily Nebratikan.
lie advanced last year to
the election, which is when the
Council has jurisdiction, all
the candidates had been de
clared eligible.
"However, the. Student
Council is very critical of the
manner in which the elec
tion was handled. The Coun
cil feels the Tassel officers
were extremely negligent in
their duties, in that they had
not cleared the eligibility of
any of the candidates at the
deadline set by the Univer
sity. "The Tassels- did not at
tempt to communicate or co
ordinate with the Adminis
tration or the Student Coun
cil. "The Student Council does
not have the responsibility
for initiating such communi
cation, but places this re
sponsibility on the officers
Time
Mrs. Gervase Franke, a
University graduate, will
demonstrate "Dollars and
Sense in the Market Basket."
Dr. Fleck's topic will be
"You and Your Family Are
Important."
She has been at NYU since
1W4S after serving for two
years as chairman of the
home economics department
at Illinois State Normal Uni
versity. She also has taught in Ne
braska public high schools,
the University of Delaware.
Kansas State University and
Simmons College. In addition,
she has been a dietician for
hospitals in California
and Iowa.
Degrees, Membership
Dr. Fleck received her Ph.
D. degree from Ohio State
University after earning her
undergraduate degree in
home economics here and her
Masters in nutrition from
Teachers College.
Also appearing in Who's
Who in America, Who's Who
in American Women and
Who's Who in American Ed
ucation, Dr. Fleck is a mem
ber of Omicren Nu, Pi
Lambda Theta, the American
Home Economics Assn., the
American Vocational Assn.,
the American Dietitie Assn.
and the American Education
Research Assn.
She also is past president
of the department of borne
economics of the National Ed
ucation Assn. and the past
chairman of the Family Life
Film Committee.
the presidency of Builders
and is secretary of Theta Xi
fraternity.
Campaigned
Basoco campaigned through
his column last year to get
the Homecoming Queen candi
dates' qualifications changed.
He believes that the new sys
tem of nomination is 'a step
bi the right direction."
Even thorgh the clause say
ing the candidates should be
Tassels has been thrown
out, he thinks the various
houses electing them will still
feel obligated to pick a Tas
sel member.
Popularity
Other elections also interest
Basoco. He said he advocates
all-out campaigning for of
fices, adding too many people
are elected to important po
sitkms only because he or she
is a "good kid."
He said this is illustrated by
ACHITt
Nearly
and n.?mbers of each organ
ization." First Mistake
The first mixup occurred
second semester of last
year, according to Miss
Thpmpson and art instructor
G. H. Butt. Miss Thompson
found it necessary to drop a
course. Art 253c, late in the
first semester of last year
because of illness.
Through arrangement with
Butt she was to receive credit
in the course after she com
pleted the work, which she
did during 'the first two
weeks of second semester
last year.
According to Butt, he gave
instructions to his office to
send Miss Thompson's credit
to the administration, but
through a mixup involving a
change in secretaries her
credit never was sent.
Vol. 34, No. 20
KK Workers Meet
Tonight In Union
Kosmet Klub worker? will
meet tonight at 8 p.m. in
349 Student Union.
Workers pmnt totals will
be announced and assign
ments concerning the fall
show will be made, accord
ing to Dave Godbey, vice
president.
Med School
Is Among
Top Twelve
The University College of j
Medicine is among the top 12 i
in the nation, using passing t
grades of state licensure ex- j
aminations as the gauge.
The latest report on medi-',
cal licensure by the A.M.A.
Council on Medical Education
and Hospitals disclosed that !
the University was among 12
schools who had no medical
licensing examination failures
among their graduates.
A total of 540 graduates of
these schools passed exami
nations. The other schools include
Stanford University, Chicago
! Medical School, University of
I Chicago, Boston University,
J Wayne State University, Uni-
versity of. Mississippi, Univer
' sity of Missouri, Albany Med
' ical College, University of
j Oregon, University of Pitts-
i burgh and University of Utah..
i
Rockefeller
Is Invited
To Campus
The campus may prove to
be a melting pot for presi
dential candidates.
Rod Ellerbusch, president
of Young Republicans, says
he has invited Nelson .Rocke
feller to speak at a club
meeting and University con
vocation. Rockefeller, now governor
of New York, announced Sun
day he Would make a west
ern tour.
Ellerbusch says he has al
so invited Vice President
Richard Nixon to speak on
campus.
Last Tuesday, Sen. John F.
Kennedy met University
Young Democrats while in
Lincoln for an appearance at
Nebraska Wesleyan and a re
ception at the Cornhusker
Hotel, where the Young Dem
ocrats were hosts.
Sen. Kennedy, still not an
official candidate, says he
will announce his plans in
January.
ths fact that election to the
Student Council is now "a
big popularity contest, and it
should be more lhan that in
college." If a student gets out
with an all-campus campaign,
only then' does be deserve to
win, Basoco said.
On the topic of school spirit,
Basoco said, "School spirit is
more than a matter of going
out and yelling at games."
To him "school spirit is be
lievir.g in the things the school
stands for , . . and having
visible pride in the school
somewhere besides at ath
letic events."
This same school spirit is
to be shown in the various
activities on campus, also.
Basoco said that "any activ
ity that a person gets into sin
rerely, without trying to get
'houe points, will prove rewarding."
Inva
This discrepancy was not
discovered until Friday by
Tassels, who are responsible
for running the Homecoming
Queen selection procedure.
According to Tassels presi
dent Jane Savener, the error
went undiscovered because
of her not knowing that the
eligibility of candidates had
to be checked with the Di
vision of Student affairs.
Checked Eligibility
Miss Savener said that she
had checked the eligibility,
or at least what she thought
was the eligibility, of the
candidates, with the regis
trar's' office.
She found at this time that
the candidates had the proper
number of hours and suffi
ciently high averages to be
eligible.
The rule which she did not
check, however, was the one
Maryland Professor Blasts
Students As -'Goldbrickers'
s a rxm Marvlaal Cain ara
Immt'i arttrar aUwkiaC tmiM 'tMi-hi-M-kiM"
and rtr araobeca at
thrrata im national rdwattaa vatf.
Today story rantaiaa fcackgra.Bo' ana"
faculty commmt.
By Dick Stuckey
'I am calling for a fight,"
challenged Richard B. Ho
vey, Western Maryland Col
lege professor in a recent arti
cle in Best Articles & Stor
ies.
Hovey
charged "abom-
iYwr. 8 (
Honorary Commandant
Prelim Selections Set
Preliminary selections for
Honorary Commandant of the
1959 Military Ball will be
held Nov. 8.
Each organized women's
residence will be allowed to
select two candidates for the
title. From these nominees,
nine finalists will be chosen
in an interview conducted by
the Military BU election
committee.
The candidates will be
judged on the basis of beauty,
personality, poise and popu
larity. In order to be eligible, each
candidate must have 24 hours
of University credit and must
be eligible under the Univer
sity's activities rules.
The Army, Navy and Air
Force each will be represent
ed by three candidates. The
cadets of each service wiD
then vote on their representa
tives to select their particu
lar service queen.
An all campus flection will
be held Nov. 30 at which time
the Honorary Commandant
will be chosen from the field
of nine candidates. '
If the Honorary Command
Red Cross
Will Hold
Mass Meet
Red Cross will hold its
semi-annual mass meeting to
night at 7 p.m. in 332-34 Stu
dent Union.
Dr. William E. Hall, direc
tor of the School oi Journal
ism, will be the featured
speaker. He is also public
information chairman for the
Lancaster County Red Cross.
Pop Machine Rohhed
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DIMES When the Kappa Sigs got ready to pay for
their Cornhuskers on the deadline day Friday, no money
could be found. Dave Anstine and Adam Main (left)
came up with a solution however, much to the dismay
of Cornhusker staff member Dave McConahay (right).
The answer? $43.10 in dimet nd nickels from the Kappa
Sig pop machine.
lidate
by which Miss Thompson was
ineligible.
The rule, number 3 on the
eligibility requirements for
participation in extra-curricular
activities which applies
to all activities, states:
"A student to be eligible
to participate in his third
semester of attendance at the
University of Nebraska or in
subsequent semesters mast
have completed with a pass
ing grade 4 hours credit to
the two semesters and sum
mer school (calenda- year)
immediately preceding."
The eligibility requirements
form also states "Certifica
tion of eligibility may be ob
tained by submitting a list
of participants to the Office
of the Dean of Student Af
fairs at least one week in
advance of the date the in
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
! inable sloppiness, student
! goldbricking, low literacy at
the master s level ana pres
sure on teachers, all as threats
to national educational safe
ty. "Intellectual sloth" results
from a genera student ati
tude of slipping through
courses and college w i t h
out working, Hovey claims.
"A student knows that unless
he is unforgivably negligent
ant should be one of the three
service queens, the girl with
the next highest number of
I votes in that service will be
named that service's repre
sentative. All nine finalists will be pre
sented during halftime cere
monies at the Nebraska-Colorado
football game Nov. 14.
All candidates should noti
fy Ronald Smith by mail pri
or to Oct. 31.
AUF Needs
Solicitors
For Drive
Students may sign up from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and
Wednesday at a i;ooth in the
Student Union to help in the
All University Fund drive
solicitation of off campus peo
ple. Any group of four people,
regardless of affiliation, may
sign up to solicit in Lincoln.
The only requirement is that
each group have a' car.
Solicitors will be assigned
an area to cover and given
a packet of materials to use.
They may choose the amount
of time they wish to spend
and can solicit on any day
between Nov. 10 and Nov. 15.
Collections will be made be
tween the hours of noon and
11 p.m. on each of thete days
except Saturday when solici
tors may go out from 9 a.m.
noon and 7 p.m. -11 p.m. Sat
urday afternoon is a home
football game.
Elect
formation is required."
Miss Thompson would have
only had 23 hours of credit
without the credit in Art
253C.
The discovery of the mix
up came Friday afternoon
when Kathy Roach called
Student Affairs.
She was told at this time
that the Student Affairs of
fice "wished that Tassels
would come over and pick
up Uieir eligibility list be
cause one of the candidates
was ineligible."
Miss Roach then called
Judy Trueil, vice president
of Tassels,and told her that
the list should be picked up.
She did not tell Miss Truell
at this time that one of the
candidates was ineligible
she said.
he will get by in all nisi
courses," he wiites.
Hovey called for a fight,
lest the true values of higher
education be hopelessly lost.
He asked - that the campaign
to bolster academic standards
be carried to the public. j
However, University fac-1
ulty members do not seem to
be carrying his banner.
J. B. Shannon, chairman of
the political science depart
ment and one of few instruc
tors consenting to comment
on Hovey's article, said, 'i
think he is trying the shock
treatment." Dr. Shannon in
sisted no instutition has ever
put pressure on him to pass
students and knew of none
which did.
"I think there are easy
pathways for degrees now,"
continued Dr. Shannon, '-but
this has come about . . . from
a breakdown of secondary
school curriculum . . . and a
disappearing of the liberal
arts man." He explained a
liberal arts man as one who !
studies and Iparns "in I
culture, for himself."
"College is now a way to
money-making the spread of
curriculum has made these
soft spots available," con
No Change
In Graduation Needs
Some Schools
By Jacque Janecek ,
Graduation requirements
here will remain much the
same, in spile of some re
organization planned on other
campuses, according to Dr.
Walter Wright, assistant
dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences.
Dr. Wright commented Mon
day that a "contemporary cul
ture" course suggested re
cently by six Phi Beta Kappas-
at the University of
Southern California is "not
thorough enough."
Contemporary Life
,He said the course which
would cover contemporary
life in art, music, science,
politics, religion, education
and architecture, would not
give students time to study
any one subject deeply.
The present requirements
here 12 hours in humani
ties, 12 hours In social stud
ies, and six hours in English
composition were last re
vised in 1955, Dr. Wright said.
"We think our humanities
program achieves more than
a course which would skim
the surface of many differ
ent subjects," he added.
"What a student doesn't get
here he can learn later on
in other courses, but it's bet
ter to learn fewer subjects
well."
'Discontinuity Possible'
Dean .Wright also noted the
Phi Beta Kappas' suggestions
that such a course be taught
"inter-departmentaDy, utiliz
ing professors in specialized
areas of research."
He said he thought the
plan would result in a "cer
tain discontinuity."
Dr. Wright did note one
change in the Arts curricula,
which he says will come out
in the next University catalog
and will go into effect in the
fall of I960.
"The change wiU be in
classification and not in in
tent, however," he said.
History will be offered as
ion
According to Miss Roach,
Miss Truell told her not t
worry as "someone" was
taking , care of checking th
elgibility. .
Miss Truell later told the
Daily Nebraskan that Student
Affairs called her around 4:43
p.m. Friday and informed her
that Miss Thompson was in
eligible. Miss Truell immediately
set about finding out why, she
said.
According to Butt, Miss
Truell approached him Fri
day and he told her that the
credit should be given and
he then gave Miss Thomp
son a note to that effect
It was on this basis that
Tassels went ahead and an
nounced Miss Thompson as a
candidate at the rally Fri
day night.
Tuesday, October 20, 1959
cluded Dr. Shannon. He de
scribed himself as some
what less sensational as Dr.
Hovey on the subject and
added, "The long, long story
of keeping people in school
. . . is largely accountable
for the (occasional) easy
pathways towards a degree.'
Several instructors declined
to comment on Hovey's arti
cle until they had read and
studied it, including Ed Hig
genbotham, instructor , in
men's physical education;
Ross Gamer and Karl Shapi
ro, E n g 1 1 1 n department
members; and John L.
Champe, chairman of the an
thropology department.
Refused Comment
When asked for comments
on general educational loop
holes and "intellectual sloth",
they refused to make any off
the cuff remarks.
Hovey noted that some
10,000 instructors are teach
ing freshman English to over
a million students, and
asserted that many have for
gotten all they were taught by
their senior year. He claimed
the average college student
is no student, especially in
English courses.
Tomorrow: Student Comment
Foreseen
Reorganizing
a separate sub-group and
geography will replace it in
the sub-group with economics
and political science, accord
ing to Dr. Wright. Students
wffl be required to take two of
the following sub-groups for
graduation anthropology,
social studies,- pyschology;
history; or economics, geo
graphy and political science.
Dr. Wright said faculty
members also are considering
changes in the sub-group re
quirements in mathematics,
logic and science.
Commenting on a sugges
tion to eliminate compruisory
physical education classes at
the California university.
Dr. Wright said Nebraska fac
ulty members were now dis
cussing the requirements, but
that no concrete plans have
been made to do away with
them as required courses.
The California group also
suggested abolishing true
false and completion exami
nations, but Dean Wright
said, "Each professor has
the right to lest his students
in the way he fhinks will be
most suitable for his course.
Administration cannot require
or prohibit any form of test
ing." Ticket Sales
End Tonight
Ticket sales for Community
Concerts end at 6 p.m. tonight.
Salesmen may turn in
their money and tickets in
the Student Union at the R
St. entrance headquarters. A
hi-fi set will be awarded to
the top salesman as soon as
the results are tabulated.
Student subscription rate
for the four programs is $4
and tickets may be purchased
from house representatives or
at the headquarters in the Un
ion until 6 tonight.
The season for the concert
series opens in Lincoln Oct.
j 27 with "Cay 90's Niht." '