UNIVERSITY OF t"-rr.
NOVl 1959
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Vol. 34, No. 35
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Wednesday, November 18, 1959
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EDUCATION IN FUTURE Dr. John II.
Fisher, noted American educator, speaks
to a Tuesday morning Teachers College
convocation on "Education 1960-65." Look
ing on are Dr. Frank Sorenson, chairman
of the department of education services,
and Mary Ramage, president of the Teach
ers College Advisory Board. Dr. Fisher,
Placement Office Asks Improved
Conditions for Work in Nebraska
By Jim Forrest
Last year Teachers' College
had 256 graduates. Only 87 of
these remained in the state to
teach.
The teacher's placement of
fice said that there wasn't
any alarming trend for teach
ers to vacate the state, but
that Nebraska should improve
conditions for teaching so
that the state can retain a
greater number of the gradu
ates. A great majority of gradu
ating students have been leav
ing the state,-after receiving"
degrees, to seek employment
elsewhere.
This fact is being stated
over and over again through
out the state by many edu
cators and civil leaders. Why
can't Nebraska retain their
young business, science, and
teaching people?
Profs' Pot Luck Is
'Casual and Relaxed'
Ten Years of Dinners Are Popular
"Casual and relaxed" are
the adjectives used by most
students and professors to
describe the atmosphere of
the semi-annual "P o t Luck
with the Profs."
The "pot lucks" are one of
the traditional programs of
the Ag College. They origi
nated 10 years ago when the
Ceres Ag faculty wives' club
and the Ag Union experiment
ed with the program. The ex
periment was termed a suc
cess by both students and fac
ulty members and the pro
grams continued.
Mrs. Sally Nelson, Ag Un
ion food director, has partici
pated in the pot luck pro
grams for many years. She
cites the biggest change in
them as the change in atmos
phere. Originally, she said,
the students and faculty
members were ill at ease but
Young Dcms'
Will Hear
Morrison
Frank Morrison, Lincoln at
torney and trial lawyer.will
address the University Young
Democrats tonight at 8 p.m.
p.m.
The meeting will be held in
232 Student Union.
Morrison, Democratic can
didate for Governor, has
served as president of the
14th Judicial District Bar
Association.
A Graduate from the Uni
versity College of Law, where
he was president of his law
class, Morrison served as
president of the Law Col
lege's Alumnae Association.
Politically, Morrison
served as State President of
the Young Democrats in 1942.
He managed the Estes Ke
fauver Nebraska campaign in
both 1952 and 1956. He was
the Democratic nominee for
the United States Senate in
last year's campaign.
Education Discussed
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former superintendent of schools at Balti
more, Md., is present vice chairman of
the Education Policies Commission and a
member of the Research Advisory Com
mittee of the U.S. Office of Education and
the Editorial Advisory Board of the
World Book Encyclopedia.
Reports have come in from
department heads and place
ment offices of the different
colleges on campus. These
reports show that there is a
greater percentage of gradu
ates leaving in some fields
then in others.
Usually Stay
Graduates from art, music
and speech usually stay in
Nebraska to work or teach,
because there are many op
portunities for graduates in
these fields.
Science is just the opposite.
In Nebraska there is very lit
tle opportunity for graduate
engineers physicists, .chem
ists or mathematicians.
Jobs acquired through the
placement physicist offices of
these departments are hand
led on the interview basis.
Representatives from ' major
firms from all over the coun-
now the attitude is complete
ly informal and relaxed.
Mrs. Nelson explained it
gives the students a chance
to meet and know their pro
fessors on a social rather
t'.an an academic level.
Quite Systematic
' The planning program for
the pot lucks have become
quite systematic and has
proved satisfactory over the
10 year period. The chairman
of the Ag Student Union fac
ulty committee contacts Mrs.
Ester Lambert, the wife of
the dean of the'Ag College.
She serves as a coordinator
between the students and fac
ulty. Mrs. Lambert then con
tacts the faculty chairman
previously chosen to be in
charge of the affair.
The chairman meets with
10 faculty members and their
wives who are chosen accord
ing to a three-year alternat
ing faculty list. This commit
tee is in charge of planning
the menu and providing the
food for approximately 100 to
125 persons.
Coffee and Rolls
The Ag Union committee
is in charge of decorations
and provides the coffee and
rolls.
Entertainment and mixers
also are handled jointly by
Ag Union members and the
faculty committee. The stu
dents handle entertainment
on one occasion. For the sec
ond pot luck of the year they
are in charge of the pre
pot luck mixers. The faculty
committee operates on a sim
ilar schedule.
Ag Union and faculty
members are now planning
their first pot luck of the
year. It will be held Sunday
in the Ag Student Union
lounge from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The students are in charge
of the entertainment. The pro
gram planned will feature
the Campus Chordbusters, a
student quartet and soloist
Karma Anderson.
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try seek graduates for em
ployment in then out-state
business.
A Long Time
Nebraska is becoming more
and more industrial as the
years go by, but it will be a
long time before we can as
similate all the engineers and
scientists that N.U. gradu
ates each year, according to
Walter E. Militz'er, dean of
the College of Arts and Sci
ence. So far this year only Janu
ary graduates have applied
for positions of employment,
the placement office said. Be
cause these graduates wish to
stay in the Lincoln area to
teach the final semester,
twenty-five have requested
jobs in the state with only six
wanting to leave.
Journalism graduates have
an entirely different reason.
Nebraska ccn offer jobs to
every journalist that gradu
ates, but the opportunities
that can be gained in salary
and advancement on the east
,coast and west coast , are
much greater than in Nebras
ka. Careers Begun
Even so, less than half of
the 1959 journalism graduat
ing class have begun their
careers in the newspaper edi
torial field with Nebraska pa
pers, reports said.
In the social sciences, his
tory and English, most gradu
ates are aiming at positions
on a college staff. To do this
they must do graduate work,
which is usually done at other
universities.
Sometimes they return to
Nebraska after their graduate
work, but once again the op
portunities arc greater out
side Nebraska, department
heads noted.
Ideals Lead to Success
"I feel that my idealistic
attitude has helped me to at
tain my present position."
Gretchen Sides, Mortar
Board, attributed her college
success to
the above
statement.
Miss Sides
is a senior in
the S c h o o 1
of Journal
ism. She will
graduate in
the spring
with a jour
nalism major
and 3 minors
Miss Sides
political science, history
and English. She said she
chose to select three minors
because she believed strongly
in a liberal education.
She also gave the opportu
nity of attaining a broad lib
eral education as one of the
reasons for choosing to at
tend the University. She felt
a school of this size had more
to offer in the liberal educa
tion field than perhaps a
smaller school would.
A second reason for attend
ing Nebraska was attributed
by Miss Sides to the merit
able reputation of the jour-
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Health Day
Convocation
Is Set
Dr. Thompson
To Lecture
Dr. Stewart Thomas, pro
fessor of public health at
Minnesota University, will be
the speaker at the annual
Student Health Day convoca
tion Thursday.
Dr. Thomson recently was
chosen "most popular lectur
er" by Minnesota students.
He teaches public health to
medical and graduate stu
dents, besides teaching
courses in personal and com
munity health to students in
other colleges of the Univer
sity. . ,
Dr. Thomson is the Associ
ate Director of the Minnesota
School of Public Health. For
the past 12 years he has con
ducted a weekly radio pro
gram, "Your Health and
You" over KUOM.
Dr. Thomson, who comes
from a family active in the
field of medicine, has long
had an interest in the history
of m e d i c i n e. He has pub
lished studies in the field of
medical history as well as in
the field of health education.
He is known in medical
circles for his extensive work
in the field of health lectures.
The topic for Thursday's
convocation is, "Health Facts,
Fads and Fallacies." It will
deal with the many common
misconceptions concerning
health.
The convocation will be
held at 11 a.m. in Love Li
b r a r y auditorium. Classes
will be dismissed at the teach
er's discretion.
Two Alert
Students
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Save Door
When two alert students
caught one of the big glass
doors at the Student Union
entrance Monday they saved
the union $350.
The door will be rehung
since the glass was not brok
en and University engineers
will install checks soon to
prevent any" other "falling
doors."
Union manager Allen Ben
nett explained that the reason
for the doors breaking is that
there has been no "outside
limit checks" on the doors
and there is nothing to keep
them from opening too rap
idly. The inside check prevents
them from closing too quick
ly, he said.
He stated that the achitect
originally did not think the
outside checks would be nec
essary but now since so much
trouble has been caused they
will be added.
Bennett added, "We're run
ning ahead of the insurance
company even though insur
ance is $1,000 a year to cover
just those doors."
For Miss Sides
nalism school in this part of
the country.
When questioned about her
interest and experiences in
activities, Miss Sides com
mented her primary interest
toward college activities was
motivated by the admiration
for activity persons. She ad
mired them because they al
ways seemed to display more
of a purpose and a happier
attitude than others less ac
tive. She attributes her selection
of activities again 'to her
idealist views. As many in
coming freshmen, she felt
she would be a crusader and
by the use of her journalistic
talents do great and wonder
ful things for the University.
In an attempt to accomplish
these ends she became a
Daily Nebraskan worker, a
member of Coed Counselors,
AUF, and Red Cross.
Prior to this year, Miss
Sides served as news editor
for the Daily Nebraskan, and
assistant in both AUF and
Red Cross.
At present Miss Sides is
Coed Counselor president and
Mortar Board editor-historian.
She explained her drop-out
KK In
Than
"We're in better shape now
for the fall show than we
were last year at this time,"
according to Vera Feye, pres
ident of Kosmet Klub.
Feye said that even though
only eight fraternities applied
for tryouts, compared with
15 for last year, this year's
show should prove more both
quality 'and variety-wise.
"Although we had 15 appli
cations last year, 10 dropped
out at the last minute and
we selected onlyfour final
ists," Feye recalled.
Most houses have indicated
that their skits weren't good
enough to make it through
the finals and so they didn't
Union Maintenance Head
'Mac's History'
Helping Students
By Karen Long
It' was a great day in the
Rag office when Mac fixed
the airconditioning so that
once again the staff could
take off their coats and type
in comfort.
The thing of it was that
Mac didn't know the staffers
were uncomfortable or he
would have done something
about it.
Grandville C. McKeen, Stu
dent Union maintenance
chief, has been behind stu
dents in cleaning floors and
supporting their activities
since 1939.
"Students have kept me
'Mac' McKeen
Debaters Travel
South for Three
Tournaments
Beginning debaters traveled
last weekend for tourneys in
Edmond, Okla., and Manhat
tan, Kas.
The Bronco Tournament in
Oklahoma brought one win
and five losses for Allen Nore
and Bernice Dvorak and the
same for the Gary Johnson
and John Wehr team.
At the Kansas tourney
Sonya Steiner, Larry Long
and Don Wilson won three
and lost one. Ron Happ and
Richard Baron came up with
two of each while Sue Carko
ski and Sylvia Bathe and
Roger Dodson and Lloyd
Goodson teams each won one
and lost three.
in activities as due to a care
ful consideration and re
evaluation of her academic
and activity role.
Miss Sides said she felt it
was important for each per
son to analyze themselves in
regard to their abilities and
then choose activities and
courses of study wnicn win
capitalize on these abilities.
The attitude of service, in her
opinion, seems mucn more
rewardine than one of selt-
attainment.
The same ideals hold true
for study, she said. Miss Sides
contended one studies to be
come a particular person
rather than to attain a par
ticular goal.
When questioned as to the
highlight of her college career
she replied "I will not realize
my greatest gain until after I
have graduated; I will be
able to guage t his only by
the future."
Miss Sides said she hoped,
in the near future, to have the
chance to apply those things
which she has learned in col
lege, not only her journalism
knowledge but also her abil
ity to work with people. At
present she is considering
public relations work.
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'Better Shape'
Last Year
want to spend the time re
hearsing, Feye said.
"But houses should have
realized that the best ideas
will win.Execution of the
skits will not beso impor
tant this year, since wewill
have professional help avail
able to polish thefive final
skits," the president said.
Bona Hayes
Mrs. Bona Tebo Hayes,
who received her masters
degree in dramatics from
the University last year and
has done summer stock work,
will help each of the finalists.
Clarke Nelson, director of
the show, said he thought this
year's theme, "Video Varie-
young," said Mac as he re
called incidents through the
years. One of the highlights
was the year Nebraska went
to theRose Bowl in 1940.
That year girls had their
pockets full of shelled corn
and scattered it over every
floor in the Union.
Car in Union
The fellows brought in a
car and tried to get it up into
the ballroom but instead
stopped and left in the mid
dle of the lounge.
"During the war we fed
1,800 soldiers every day be
sides the students, he said.
During that time Mac be
came the caretaker for 32
dogs which soldiers brought
and left in the Union.
Those years we had lots of
snow and when 1,800 pairs of
sno-tf-covered overshoes were
set in the hall we had a regu
lar flood at the bottom of the
steps in the inside hall, he
continued.
One cf the biggest prob
lems fias been floods and the
most recent came last Satur
day among the hub-bub of the
Touchdown Buffet, open
house and Parent's Day ac
tivities. The flood came when
the pipe which brings air in
from the outside for the water
cooling unit froze. "It took
several hours to wipe up the
water in the kitchens," he
said.
Most Unusual
One of the most unusual
but relieving situations he re
calls was the incident a year
ago last August when the
ceiling in the ballroom fell.
The day before, he said, more
than 150 women were sitting
right below it.
Mac has been here from
the time the first Union man
ager came. He has seen sev
en of them come and go.
A back injury which oc
curred when he was em
ployed at Ag College brought
him to the Union after his
recovery.
They Come Back
Enemy is an unknown word
for Mac. Even when he had
to fire some of his employees
for heavy drinking they have
come back for personal
chats.
As for hobbies he chuckled
and said, "Of course, I have
lots of flowers and raise so
many parsnips I don't know
what to do with them all."
Another of his favorite ac
tivities is to have the whole
family, including the eight
grandchildren, home for pic
nics. Bright &Shiny
From the time he comes in
the morning till he leaves at
night the maintainence chief
wants to see every bit of the
floor, furniture and facilities
bright and shiny.
"Now if you're chilly or too
warm let me know and I'll
fix it for you," Mac con
cluded. Teacher Placing
Meeting Planned
Teacher Placement will
have a meeting Thursday at 4
p.m. for all students who will
receive teaching certificates
at the end of the first or sec
ond semester or at the close
of the summer session.
The meeting will be held in
Love Library Auditorium. An
explanation of the Teacher
Placement Division will be
given and forms for registra
tion with the division will be
distributed.
ty," gave the houses more to
work with.
"All the scripts I've read
so far are real promising,"
he said.
Houses will try out Sunday
afternoon in theStudent Un
ion basement, party rooms
numbers four and five.
Skit Directors
The skit directors, timet
and topics are as follows:
Bill Larson, 2:30, Kappa
Sigma, "77 Sweatshirt
Strip;" Gus Buenz, 3:10, Sig
ma Phi Epsilon, "Mickey
Mouse Adventure Time;"
Jack Craft and Jim Thom-
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is your Hanging."
Tryouts
Harry Grasmick, Kent
Broadhurst and Larry Long,
4, Phi Kappa Psi "Kate's
Katastrophe;" Tom Sweden
borg, 4:25, Phi Gamma Del
ta, "Cape Ole;" Stan Rice,
4:50, Theta Xi, "Faith, Hopes
Charity or Dirty Dan Dal
rymple Done Her Dirt or th
Return of Stronghurt;" Jerry
Brown, 5:40, Alpha Tau Ome
ga, "Jacque Pure Show." -
Tickets for the show to be
held Dec. 11 in Pershing
Auditorium are on sale by
Kosmet Klub workers and
actives.
"It is very important that
the director and house mem-
fore tryouts begin," stated
Joe Knoll, Kosmet TClub
member.
Feye also reminded that
houses, whether theyhave fi
nalist skits or did not try out
at all, can try out for curtain
acts forthe show Dec. 11 at
PershingAuditorium.
Three curtain acts and one
intermission act will be se
lected at tryouts, the date to
be announced later.
AUF Makes
Time Switch
In Drive
All University Fund will
hold its Lincoln canvas on
Saturday and Sunday after-
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night, as has been previously
announced.
Mary Dee Patterson, chair
man of the Lincoln drive, said
that the reason for the change
was to make the solicitations
more profitable. On a week
end there are more people at
home and there are more peo
ple to help in the soliciting,
she said.
Renny Ashleman, assistant
director of the Lincoln drive,
said:
"I believe that this indepen
dent drive deserves the sup
port of both the independent
students and organized stu
dents. It is one of the few ac
tivities during the year which
allows every member of the
campus to contribute to the
welfare of others.
"Lincoln independents are
willing to join in this drive
if the members of the cam
pus are willing to solicit them
for this drive. There are few
other activities in which a lit
tle effort can bring city, state
or even world-wide publicity
to the University."
Volunteers for the drive can
obtain materials in 345 Stu
dent Union.
Tribunal Not
Open Today
None of the 26 students
scheduled to appear en
masse before the Student
Tribunal today applied for an
open hearing.
Dean Frank M. Hallgren,
who released the information
from the Office of student af
fairs Tuesday, said applica
tions were due Monday, ac
cording to the Tribunal's
charter.
The 26, who were appre
hended at a beer party in a
cornfield near Emerald on
Nov. 2, will appear together
at 4 p.m. in 419 Administra
tion. "But each case will be
dealt with separately," ac
cording to Dick Kelley, chair
man of the Tribunal.
Students Note
. Today from 10 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. is absolutely the last day
individual Cornhusker p i c
tures can be taken.
The studio is in the com
muters', lunchroom, in. the
basement of the Student Union.
