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I CAN'T VOTE, BUT Freshman Jcannie
Morcieen, one of more than 50 memlmvbf
Young Democrats who gifted fiftn, John
Kennedy !S!yIffFHSaftes her
support to the SenaiflnWRtfered with but
tons and signs, the students formed a cara
van, along with other supporters, which
"MAR" 7" I960
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Vol. 34, No. 75
Ag Men
Take First
At Carnival
'Space' Booth Has
Rockets, Sputniks
For the second year Ag
Men's Club won the traveling
trophy at the Estes Carnival.
Booth Theme
The carnival held Saturday
in the Ag Union featured a
"Soaring Sixties", theme. Or
ganized houses and organiza
tions set up booths using that
theme.
Ag Men's winning theme
was "Space Age" which had
an array of sputniks and
rockets.
The runner-up was Alpha
Gamma Rho whose theme
was "Glide and Slide." Their
booth included an airport
complete with run-way and
hangars.
Participants
Others contributing and
their themes were Love Hall,
"Who Will Find Capitol Hill?;
4-H Club, "Rocketing into the
Future;" FarmHouse, "Can
You Make Your Goal?;" Fed
de Hall, "Academy Awards
1969;" Burr Hall, "Operation
60;" and Alpha Gamma Sig
ma, "Democrats and Repub
licans." The Carnival was spon
sored by the AG YM-YWCA
and the proceeds will go
towards scholarships to the
National Estes YM-YWCA
conference in June.
Dr. Bourne
Will Attend
Bis Seminar
Dr. Richard M. Bourne, as
sociate professor of business
organization and manage
ment in the College of Busi
ness Administration, has been
selected to participate in
the University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business
Faculty Seminar in August.
The Seminar is spon
sored by the Ford Founda
tion and is to be held at Wil
liams College, Williamstown,
Mass.
The general Seminar
topic is "New Developments
in Business Administra
tion." Dr. Bourne's partici
pation will be in the area of
industrial relations.
Another member of the
Business Administration fac
ulty, Dr. Wallace C. Peter
son, associate professor of
economics, has prepared a
study, "France and the
French Economic Communi
ty: 1970-1975."
' The study was published in
February and is a research
study for the Temporary Mil
itary Planning Organization,
General Electric Company.
Susan Stehl Is
Music Frat Head
Susan Stehl, junior in
Teacher's College, has been
elected president of Delta
Omicron, international music
fraternity.
Other officer chosen were.
Kay Schoneberg, junior, first
vice president; Lois Ander
son, sophomore, second vice
president; Heatner wim..,
unior, secretary; and Anne
White, junior, treasurer
All the girls are enrolled in
Teachers College.
H0Mlii In Mm mmmh
NU Senate To Hear
Retirement Report
The faculty Senate will re
ceive a preliminary report on
a proposed retirement fund
at its Tuesday meeting.
The report will be present
ed by the Senate Committee
on Insurance and Retirement
Plans, which is headed by Dr.
Cecil Vanderzee.
Legislative Authorization '
The retirement plans stem
from the 1959 State Legisla
ture authorization of the de
velopment of a proposed
funded retirement plan to mu
tually serve the best inter
ests of the University, its
s' cf and the state.
among the understandings
involved in the granting of
this authorization were: 1)
That the University's contri
bution to the total retirement
benefits should not be ex
ceeded an amount equal to
nine per cent of the em
ployee's total salary or wage
earnings in any given year.
2) That all rights and bene
fits of employees accruing un
der the University's present
retirement program should
be left undistributed by the
proposed new program. 3)
That inauguration of the pro
posed new program, when
approved, be contingent up
on the availability of funds
to support it.
4) That the inauguration of
the . proposed new program
should signal the end of oper-
Burr, Fedde
Show 'Eyes'
For Spirit
Big I's, Little i's, lazy i's
and seeing eyes appeared in
Fedde and Burr Residence
Halls on Ag campus Friday.
But the i's which appeared
were not put up for control
versial reasons as were the
ones in Selleck last week.
The signs which appeared
in the residences were mere
ly part of a series which the
two dorms put up periodically
for "spirit," explained one
of the residents.
"It seemed only appropri
ate that we follow through
with the popular i's said an
other. Some indicated that they
hoped it would give the girls
who are not activity minded
some enthusiasm.
Dave Malena", president of
Burr Hall said, that the Bar-M
council has made no plans
for action about organiza
tion. He said that the coun
cil was satisfied with the ac
tivity participation by most
residents. .
Nursing School
Names Scholars
Honor !Roll students have
been announced for the
academic quarter by the Uni
versity School of Nursing.
Students on the honor roll
must have an average of 90
pr above in all of their
courses.
Seniors are Marilyn
Behrens, Mary Christensen,
Marilyn Leach, Carmen Horn
and Verua Holscher.
Juniors are Patricia Ise
man, Lois Jackson, Gloria
Mowrey, Kathryh Murphy
and Lynn Thoreen.
Sophomores listed are Car
men Gowler and Mary Pol-Iock.
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led Sen. Kennedy to the State Capitol to
file in the Nebraska presidential primary.
Others in the picture are (from left to
right) Ross Greathouse, Don Gies and Don
Ferguson, and behind Miss Morrison, Bar
bara Langhauser, all members of Young
Demos.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
ation of the present retire
ment program but not the
termination of benefits of em
ployees accrued under it.
Suggested Date
In developing its plans the
Committee has suggested
Sept. 1, 1961, as the pro
posed target date for the in
auguration of a new funded
Service Retirement Program.
The realization of this start
ing time, however, would be
contingent on the appropria
tion of adequate funds by the
1961 legislature.
The Committee also pro
posed a system of matched
contributions by eligible staff
members and the University
under which the resulting ac
cruals and earning would pro
vide annuities.
Each" contributing Staff
member w o u I d be the own-
Asian Study
Fellowships .
Announced
Eight $200 fellowships for
study in the Far Eastern In
stitute at the University dur
ing the summer session were
recently announced.
The program is offered
particularly for the high
school and college teacher of
history and the social studies.
Dr. Frank Sorenson, direc
tor of summer sessions, said
applications must be filed in
the graduate office of the
University not later than
March 15.
The fellowships will be
awarded to those who have
earned the baccalaureate de
gree and will be made on a
competitive, selective basis.
Dr. Sorenson stated that the
program was designed to help
the instructor to gain com
petence in dealing with the
subject of the peoples and so
cieties of Asia. The fellow
ship funds are provided joint
ly by the Asia Foundation, the
Asia Society and the Japan
Society.
James Cole, Carole Crate Receive
Woodrow Wilson Grants of $1,500
Two University students,
James Cole and Carole Crate,
have been announced as re
cipients of Woodrow Wilson
Fellowships.
The $1,500 fellowships plus
tuition and fees for single
students may be used to pur-
Cole
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Student Health, Red
Join to Form Blood
By Ann Moyer
A campaign will be under
way within the next few
weeks for the establishment
of a walking blood bank at
the University, according to
Beverly Ruck, chairman 0f
the University Red Cross dis
aster committee. !
' The bank will be jointly
sponsored by the Red Cross
disaster committee and Stu
dent Health and will serve
the University in event of
disaster, she explained.
Final Step
Miss Ruck said, "The final
step for the organization of
the membership drive will be
taken Monday."
It is necessary to obtain the
approval of Panhellenic, IFC,
RAM and other housing coun
cils to compound the duties
er of his specific, individual
annuity which would serve as
a supplement to whatever
other retirement income is
available to him through oth
er programs such as social
security, civil service, or the
University's present retire
ment program. The annuity
would also serve in its full
amount as a benefit to the
staff member's designated
survivor in event of his death.
The amount provided by the
annuity, obviously, would
vary according to the size of
the staff member's contribu
tion and the number of years
during which contributions
were made.
Prevent Inequities
in addition, the Committee
has also sought to prevent in
equities such as those which
now arise in the event of
death before retirement and
to fully protect for the staff
member or his survivors all
the benefits which would ac
crue. It provided for the division
of University employees into
three general categories to
facilitate the achievement of
an equitable relation or re
tirement pay to the em
ployee's active salary and
wages, regardless of whether
the employee served as a
member of the faculty, or
with the administrative, serv
ice or clerical staffs.
The Committee has also
suggested terms of eligibility
for participation in the pro
posed retirement program
and counted upon a standard,
mandatory contribution of six
per cent of salary and wages
from an eligible faculty mem
ber to be matched by the
University, but with contribu
tions at lesser rates for those
participating in civil service.
Lesser rates, too, would be
set up for clerical and serv
ice personnel whose social se
curity returns are almost al
ways proportionately larger
in relation to their active pay
than social security returns
received by the faculty.
sue a graduate degree in the
university of their choice sub
ject to formal approval of
the fellowship board.
Cole, an English major
and member of Theta Xi fra
ternity, tentatively plans to
study at Duke University.
. 'Miss Crate is a French
major and a member of
Towne Club.
Students who receive the
fellowships must indicate that
they are seriously consider
ing becoming teachers.
The awards are made for
outstanding scholastic rec
ords. Faculty members nom
inate the candidates.
For that reason it is con
sidered an academic honor to
be nominated for the award.
Three other Nebraskans al
so hav received the awards
for I960. They are Rosalie
Cohen and Robert Tich from
the University of Omaha and
Robert Benne from Midland
College.
Last year- the University
had five recipients. They
were Wilbur Hassf Charles
Keyes, Jack Oruch, Steve
SchtiHz and Pavs Young.
of the present house health
chairmen to that of Red Cross
representative and disaster
health chairmen, she said.
The membership drive will
(lien be spearheaded by the
h e a 1 1 h-disaster chairmen
working in their individual
houses and the disaster com
mittee, Miss Ruck said.
A booth may bet set up in
the Student Union where stu
dents may pick up the per
mission blanks required for
all meirbers under 21 and the
j information required for
membersip, she said.
Students will have two
weeks to obtain their parents
permission and return their
slips to the health-disaster
chairmen or Student Health,
Miss Ruck said.
After all slips have been
Monday, March 7, 1960
;Dr. Hardin
Will Wait
For Brass
Army, Def. Dept.
Split On Issue
"We're waiting for the Ar
my and Defense Department
to get together before we do
anything more with it,"
Chancellor Clifford Hardin
said in reference to the com
pulsory versus elective ROTC
controversy.
Dr. Hardin recently re
ceived a letter from the De
f e n s e Department stating
they were taking no stand on
the issue.
The Army, however, has
expressed a feeling that com
pulsory training is necessary
to the security of the nation.
The defense Department
letter said its policy was to
give educational institutions
"freedom of c h o i c eM In
whether to give the students
"freedom of choice."
Compulsory versus elective
ROTC has been a hotly dis
cussed issue at some of the
64 land-grant colleges.
The University policy, pres
ently requires compulsory
participation.
Ag Jubilee
Will Benefit
Orphanages
Entries are now being ac
cepted for the Aggie Jubilee
talent show.
The joint program to be
presented March 20 at 2:30
p.m. by the Ag Union and
Ag YW-YMCA, is an annual
event to benefit more than
100 orphans from Lincoln
children's homes.
Individuals, organized
houses, or organizations are
eligible to make their entries
before Saturday in the Ag
Union activities office. The
talent selections will be based
on entertainment children
would enjoy.
A trophy will be presented
to the top talent act, accord
ing to Sara Rhodes and Gary
Vencil, co-chairmen of the
event.
There are approximately
1,200 fellowships awarded to
American and Canadian stu
dents each, year from ap
proximately 7000 candidates.
All are nominated and
screened by committees of
faculty members.
Crete
i " i
' " t
returned, a time will be es
tablished when members
may have their blood typed
at the health center, she add
ed. "Information concern
ing the blood type of each
member will be recorded in
a permanent file at Student
Health," Dr. Samuel Fuen
ning, director of Student
Health, explained.
Membefs will also receive
a card to be carried in their
billfolds containing this infor
mation, Dr. Fuenning said.
University Students
When the need for a certain
type of blood arises, due to a
disaster stituation involving
University students, a c c i
dents, illness or operations
involving University people
or a major disaster in the
community such as a tornado,'
members will be contacted
for blood contributions, Dr.
Fuenning explained.
Some requirements have
been established, Dr. Fuen
ning said, to protect the do
nors. All donors under 21
must have their parents per
mission to participate in the
program and no donors un
der 18 will be accepted, he
said;
Women must meet a mini
mum weight requirement of
100 pounds and men a mini
mum weight of 130 pounds.
Donors will be accepted only
if they are In good health, he
added.
Dr. Fuenning pointed out
that participation in the Uni
versity blood bank program
Satkunam Blast
Union Operation
Kandiah Satkunam, resign
ing president of the Cosmo
politan Club, charged Sun
day that the Student Union
is "discourteous and unco
operative." "One has to undergo all
kinds of red tape in obtaining
a room to hold meetings and
parties," Satkunam said.
"Even if you manage to get
a place," he went on, "it
costs a lot of money. The
Pan American room costs
10, and it costs ?1.50 to roll
the rugs in some rooms.
"The party room, which is
available without charge,
cannot be used on weekends,
just because they are having
a movie in the auditorium,"
Satkunam added. (The party
looms are adjacent to the
audtorium.)
"O u r successful parties
were on weekends and not on
weekdays," he explained.
"When you order for cof
fee it costs fifteen cents per
Statement bv Bennett
The following statement is that of Allen H. Bennett,
managing director of the Student Union, in reply to the
charges by Satkunam.
It is with the deepest personal regret that I find the
Union, its management and its policies taken to task on
the above terms namely, being "discourteous and unco
operative." I must most heartily disclaim that the Union staff has
intentionally or otherwise been discourteous and uncooper
ative. I also feel obligated to inform the readers that the
professional staff in your Union holds the desires of the
campus groups in regard to this building to be the para
mount factor in all actions we take. Were it not also for the
deep personal interest in students and their many en
deavors,, the drives springing from these same interests,
and the consequent devotion to a quality operation, your
Union might well become just another "business institu
tion," then incidentally on your campus.
In the interest of better understanding of your Union
and its use by you as an individual or a group, I feel that
a brief explanation of some of Mr. Satkunam's criticism
might be in order here.
The Union business office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 12 noon, on Satur
day, consistent with general University policy. In this of
fice, and at one desk only the reservations secretary's
can a room reservation be made. To book a room a group
need only send one person, one time, with adequate infor
mation as to date, time, number in group and desired
equipment, to successfully reserve a suitable room. In so
far as there are a set number of rooms of any particular
size or type, they are made available on a first come, first
served, basis until they are all booked. There are many
times when the intent of the group as to the purpose of the
function assists us in making available the proper space
and equipment.
The above proceeding seems, direct, simple and com
plete. When food is desired, the second step must be taken.
The food service department is notified and the staff con
tacts the group as to price, desired menu, etc. So at the
most, two steps are required. (This part of the statement is
in answer to Satkunam's charge of unnecessary red 4ape.)
Union policy in regard to service fees perhaps needs to
be explained at this point. The Union, being student fi
nanced; obviously is obligated to provide its services as in
expensively as It is possible. There is nowhere in Union
policy an allowance made for management to run a chari
table institution. The Union is established as a non-profit,
self-sustaining, self-liquidating operation. Student fees do
not cover all expenses; hence, service feis, which are levied
only on "special use" afeas, much like any "use tax"
might be levied. This is why when a room with a $2,000 car
pet is requested by a group for a dance, we charge $1.50
to roll the carpet and move it. The carpet can be ruined by
an inexperienced person, and they are dangerously heavy
and cumbersome. Therefore, we insist that our men do this
task. Similarly, the ballroom, when used by a private group
desiring a dance setup where no meal is to be served, and
where the general student body may not participate, we
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Cross
Bank
was voluntary.
"It will not prevent partic
ipation in other similar pro
grams, he said, but one per
son can not give blood more
than five times a year. There
must also be a 10 week time
period between each contri
bution." At present only students
may be members of the blood
bank but, Dr. Fuenning re
marked, "The program may
be evenutally expanded to
include University personnel
as well."
The University disaster pro
gram of which the blood bank
is a part, was initiated two
years ago Dr. Fuenning said,
at the suggestion of a State
Civil Defense Report.
This program included six
areas' including first aid;
blood bank; food, shelter and
clothing; transporation;
warning, rescue and evacua
tion; and communication and
information.
Dr. Fuenning explained
parts of the program were al
ready in operation. These in
program including health
chairman and house first aid
kits ; the installation later this
spring of warning sirens to
be located in Bancroft school
and on Ag campus.
The sirens will be coordin
ated with the city warning
system, Dr. Fuenning ex
plained. Recommendations
also have been made to the
University disaster commit
tee for establishment of shel
ter areas in all buildings and
houses.
cup. This way it is easy for
us to add to our debt to the
administration," he declared.
"The Union changes the
rules practically every
month. How can they expect
us to be aware of all their
rules? We are willing to fol
low in accordance with their
rules and regulations," Sat
kunam commented. .
"It is their attitude and
their manner of handling
our problems which seems to
us that they are treating us
with contempt. One of the
high officials went on even to
say that the Cosmopolitan
Club is one of the organiza
tions that they could not get
along with well," he added.
"Personally, I would rec
ommend that the Cosmopoli
tan Club take advantage of
facilities off campus. People
off campus are willing to be
nice, friendly, have no red
tape and are more under
standing," he concluded.