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Vol. 34. No. 82
LawCurriculum
To Be Changed;
Effective in Fall
A change in requirements
for admission to the three
year curriculum of the Uni
versity of Nebraska's College
of Law was announced today
by Dean E. 0. Belsheim.
Effective next fall , Uni
versity students who have
completed three years of re
quired academic work in the
College of Arts and Sciences
and the College of Business
Administration may enter the
three-year law curriculum.
Under the existing pro
gram, only students with
Bachelor's degrees are ad
mitted to the three-year
course.
Combined Program
Dean Belsheim said that as
a result of the change, six
y e a r combined programs
with the Colleges of Arts and
Sciences and Business Admin
istration will permit a student
to earn both his Bachelor's
degree and LL.B degree in six
years instead of seven.
Dean Belsheim said stu
dents who are not attending
the University may be admit
ted to the three-year course
if they have completed at
least three-fourths of the
work acceptable for a Bach
elor's degree.
However, he said, they must
be eligible to receive a Bach
elor's degree from the insti
tution attended upon the satis
factory completion of the
first year of law school at.
the University.
Transfer Plan
Also, University students
who are not enrolled in Col-
'Miss' Joins
Male Ranks
With All 9's
The quartet of males at
taining straight nine averages
must open their ranks for a
Miss, Judith Du Jardin.
Miss Jardin, a senior in
Arts and Sciences also had a
straight nine average last se
mester. The University ac-
Miss Dn Jardin
cldentally overlooked Miss Du
Jardin when they were com
piling the student averages
according to numerical rank.
Miss Du Jardin's nine av
erage raises the number at
taining this perfect grade
score 1o five.
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leges of Arts and Sciences!
and Business Administration!
may transfer to the three-!
year College of Law program
if their scholastic average is
a "B", supported by results
of the law aptitude test.
He added that students now
enrolled in the college may
not be able to adjust their
courses of study to fulfill the
new requirements. "Where
this is the situation, a student
will be admitted if he has;
substantially completed the
requirements and the circum
stances warrant his admis
sion." Dean Belsheim explained
that the College's four-year
curriculum will remain un
changed. Under this program,
an entering student must
have completed at least one
half of the work acceptable
for a Bachelor's degree'.
Law .aptitude tests for stu
dents entering the College of
Law next fall will be given
the afternoons of March 29
and 31 at College of Law:
building, 10th and R streets.
Botany Greenhouse
By Nancy Whitford
Tropical flowers
blooming in snowbound Ne
braska? Many varieties
can be found right here on
campus in the botany
greenhouse.
They include such oddi
ties as the Amorphophallus,
Bird of Paradise, Callian
dra, Monstera fern, Anth
ericum, Venus fly-trap and
Stag Horn fern.
Amorphophallus
The Amorphopallus Is a
slender shaft-like plant
which blooms dry from the
bulb. Once the blossom pe
riod has ended, the shaft
is replanted in the soil.
Bold blue and orange
blooms on the Bird of Par
adise plant represents a
bird in flight while the
fluffy red Calliandra flow
ers resemble tropical pow
der puffs.
The largest plant in the
collection is the Monstera
fern which reaches up to
touch the greenhouse cell
ing with its huge floppy
leaves. These tough, leath
ery leaves, which average
two feet by foW feet in
size, are perforated with
dozens of holes. According
to greenhouse foreman,
Glen Drohman, these boles
permit the rain to fall
through instead of weight
ing down the leaf.
In contrast, the smallest
plants grown there are only
fractions of an inch
in height. These are the
blue-green algae which are
used for experimental pur
poses. Perhaps the most strik
ing flowers are the heart
shaped blooms of the trop
ical Anthericum. True to
the valentine tradition,
these blossoms are bright
red in color. -
The common house plant,
Philodendrun takes on gi
gantic proportions under
pampered greenhouse con
in the snoo. Other wearers
quaffing green beer at local
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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
IFC Ball Rates
2 O'clock Hours
University women will
have 2 a.m. hours Friday.
The Interfraternity Coun
cil got, the extension ap
proved through the Division
of Student Affairs for the
IFC Ball, according to
George Porter, IFC presi
dent. The 1960 IFC Ball will be
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at
T)Ali!n TIT uniiinAI A iiHl.
, Voodv Herman and
ms band win"play.
Aquaquettes
Plan Pacific
Pool Theme
Blowing palm trees, blue
waves breaking on a beach
and cannibals chasing sailors
around an island .... these
things will be brought out in
the Aquaquettes 1960 show,
"Pacific Cruise."
Jill Weyand, president of
the swim group, announced
that "Pacific Cruise" will be
presented March 24 and 25
in the Coliseum pool at 7:45
p.m.
Twelve numbers will be
given, including one solo,
"The Flight -of the Fancy
Free," by Mary Erickson.
Tickets are 50 cents.
Venus Fly-Trap, Bird of
ditions. "It would cover the
whole roof," Drohman said,
"if I didn't cut it back."
A second house plant, the
Gloxinia, is also found in the
tropical ro?m. "This plant
originally came from Bra
zil and was introduced to
England in 1815," Droh
man said."
"These first flowers were
small and drab, but since
then, he continued, "they
have become large and viv
id through cross-breeding,"
Fly-Trap '
Two plants named for
characteristics of their
leaves are the Venus fly
trap and Staghorn fern.
WTien a fly walks across
the former the leaves snap
shut and trap him while the
leaves of the latter are
shaped like the prongs of a
deer.
Many of the greenhouse
plants are also used for ex
perimental purposes Droh
man said. "This is done,"
he noted, "by growing sev
eral different cultures each
of clover, soybeans, corn,
lettuce and sage. The seeds
are placed in sand and li
quid minerals are added
from reagent bottles. In
each case a specific chem
ical is then ommitted."
Minerals ommitted in
clude such elements as Ni
trogen, Magnesium, Man
ganese, Calcium-and Phos
phorus. "By growing these
plants themselves," Droh
mah said, "the students in
plant physiology 220 are
able to see the graphic re
sults of such mineral defi
ciencies." Many ornamental plants,
other than the tropical va
riety, are also kept to pro
vide a representative dis
play for students to study
and view. Several of these
are the liverwort, cacti and
geraniums.
Thermostat
Controlled conditions are
Rushees May Stay In Quad,
Visit Every Fraternity
of the green celebrated by
taverns.
Council Looks At Changes
In Representation Plan
By Mike Milroy
Representation on the 1960
61 Student Council may be
changed.
Bob Krohn, Council vice
president and chairman of
the Judiciary committee, pre
sented a list of proposed con
stitution changes to the Coun
cil at its Wednesday meet
ing. Motion Tabled
The motion that the Coun
cil accept the proposed
amendments was tabled.
Krohn briefly explained each
of the changes to the Coun
cil members and clarified
questions about various
changes.
The chief change proposed
would reduce the number of
organization and group repre
sentatives from twelve to
eleven. Under the provision
for change. Cosmopolitan
Club, Coed Counselors Board
and YWA-YMCA would no
longer have a representative
on the Student Council.
AWS, Corn Cobs, IFC, Pan
hellenic, Tassels and Build
ers will continue to have their
rights to representation. The
new constitutional changes
replaces the obsolete BARB
with the IWA.
Other changes would re
Paradise, Amorphophallus
Blooms in Winter
maintained in the green
house by use of an automat
ic thermostate. This is kept
at a temperature of 75
degrees for tropical and ex
perimental plants. All other
plants are kept at a tem
perature of 65 degrees.
In addition, humidity is
regulated by a nozzle which
sprays a fine mist of wa
ter into the air.
"Because of this control
we have very few cases
of. plant disease," said
Drohman. "The only insect
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day for this Nebraskan. Glenn Drohman, greenhouse fore
man, makes like Africa among the many tropical plants,
including the large Monstera fern (one leaf behind him).
By Jerry Lamberson
Next year's fraternity
rushees may be required to
stay in the Selleck Quad
rangle during Rush Week.
This proposal and others
were approved by the IFC at
the Wednesday night meeting
and are subject to the ap
proval of the Tnter-fraternity
Board of Control and the Di
vision of Student Affairs.
Mionite Hours
The 1960 Rush Week will be
gin on September 5 and end
on the 7th. During this time
the rushees will have hours
in the dorm said Bob Blair
vice president of the IFC.
They must be at Selleck
by 12 p.m. on the 4th to be
Friday, March 18, 1960
place the representative
from Men's Co-op and Resi
dence Hall with a representa
tive from RAM and a repre
sentative from the Inter Co
op Council. The University
Council on Religion would re
place the original Religious
Council. YWCA-YMCA are
representated on this Coun
cil on Religion.
Differing Reasons
Cosmopolitan Club and Co
ed Counselors were removed
from ' representation for dif
fering reasons. Krohn told the
Council that the Cosmopoli
tan Club was no longer func
tioning. He also pointed out
Union To Show
Soccer Movie
A film of the world's cham
pionship soccer match will
be shown tonight at 6:30
p.m. in room 332 of the Stu
dent Union.
Anyone interested is urged
to attend the free movie,
which w ill last approximate
ly 75 minutes, according to
Albert Arrigunaga, member
of the University Soccer
Team.
which reallv bothers us is
the red spider and we spray
twice a week to eliminate
him."
A special device found in
the greenhouse for speeding
up plant growth is the pho
toperiod cabinet. Plants are
placed in it during the night
in order to let additional
light shine on them.
According to Drohman
the greenhouse is open to
the students, and those who
wish to see the plants may
do so between 8-12 and 1-5,
Monday through Friday.
able to go through Rush
Week. This includes Lincoln
rushees too, Blair said.
The rushees will have 12
o'clock hours during Rush
Week. Blair said that it is the
hope of the IFC that living in
Selleck during Rush Week will
help to eliminate illegal rush
ing and will also give the pa
rents of the rushee more sec
urity of what their son is do
ing and where he is.
The rushee will have a
small fee to pay for staying
in the dorm and for his meals,
all of which will be eaten
there, Blair said.
All Houses
Another proposal of next
year's Rush Week is that each
rushee visit each of the 21
houses during the first day.
This will require that he
spend a half-hour session at
each of the houses.
Blair said that this change
was made because many of
the rushees were not getting
a look at all of the fraterni
ties and the fraternities were
not getting a look at all of the
rushees.
. Blair said that the Sunday
sessions would begin in the
that Coed Counselors was
dropped from representation
because they did not fulfill
the role of an organization
with "University-wide gener
al interest."
Newcomer to te Council
representation scheme is the
Student Union Board of Man
agers. When questioned about
the reason for adding the
Board of Managers, Krohn
said that the Union was of
University wide interest to
the students and consequent
ly, should be represented on
the Council.
Krohn told the Council that
all those who have been de
prived of their original repre
sentation had a chance for a
hearing to defend their po
sition of representation. These
hearings were attended by
members of the Judiciary
Committee and subsequent
decisions were made by this
committee.
Representation for the for
eign students remained a
question with the Council since
Cosmopolitan Club is not now
functioning. Krohn told the
Council that there was one of
three possibilities for con
tinued representation of for
eign students.
These were listed as: (1
Foreign students should elect
a representative from their
ranks; 2 Student Conncil
would choose the best repre
sentative group of foreign stu
dents each year and a repre
senative would be chosen by
this group or 3) Cosmopolitan
Club would again become
functional and continue as
the group representing the
foreign students.
The Student Union will al
so join the Interfraternity
Council and the Panhellenic
Council as organizations ex
empt from the powers of the
Student Council if these pro
posed changes are passed.
Selleck Group Petitions
For. All-Resident Vote
A special all dorm petition
is being circulated to get a
HELP (House Experiment in
Long-range Planning) project
referendum put to a vote by
the Selleck residents, ac
cording to Donald Johnson of
Fairfield house.
"We 'a group of 10) feel
that the students concerned
with the HELP project con
troversy should have a
chance to express their opin
ion," said Johnson.
I's and i's
The group that Johnson
represents includes both sup
porters of the I's and of the
i's.
The petition, which will be
put to the students at the
same time that the RAM
election of officers is held,
needs a total of 270-300
names.
"It is felt that there will
be no trouble in accumulat
ing the n umber of names
iince this referendum neith
er supports nor opposes eith
er group," commented John
son. "It will just give the
people a right to vote on
HELP project."
The petition says that the
undersigned request that "a
written referendum of the
House Experiment Long
range Planning organization
iHELPJi be submitted to the
afternoon and consist of visits
to four houses he has cards
for. The time that he will at
tend each of the houses will
be scheduled by the IFC,
Blair said.
Three Monday
Then on Monday the rushee
will attend three of the four
houses and he may state his
preference as to the date be
will visit that house.
The IFC made a proposal
not 10 allow any rushee to
pledge unless the rushee had
a card signed by the house or
that the house had his name
on their list of bid slips.
Blair said that the rushee
must pledge by 5 p.m. Tues
day or wait 30 days before
pledging.
The Jewish Rush Week will
begin Sunday evening and the
rushees will stay in Selleck
with the other rushees. It will
end Monday night.
The IFC officers will stay
in Selleck at all times to be
sure the rules are enforced,
Blair said .
Union Names
Ag and Qty
Managers
Eight city campus students
were elected to the Student
Union Board of Managers
Wednesday at the board's
regular meeting.
Juniors selected to serve on
the board as senior members
are Pat Porter, Sue CarkoskL
Sylvia Bathe, Paul Johns and
Sherry Turner.
Sophomores who will serve
as junior members are John
Schroeder, Dick Nelson and
Ginny Hubka.
Archie Clegg and Gil Grady
were named Ag Union senior
board members and Sara
Rhodes and Deon Sthuthman
are ag junior members.
At a meeting next Tuesday,
the eight city representa
tives who comprise the ac
tivities board will elect a
president, vice president and
secretary-treasurer from the
eight.
The other five members
will be directors of five areas
of activity. This is a new pol
icy going into effect this year.
Included in these areas are
recreational, cultural, public
relations, social and educa
tional committees.
Committe chairmen will
also be picked at Tuesday's
meeting.
Miss Porter and Miss Carko
ski were junior members of
the board this year, and Clegg
was a junior member on ag
campus.
Medical Tests
Will Be May 7
The national Medical Col
lege Admission test will be
given at the University May
7.
This test must be taken by
all students who apply for
admission to any accredited
college of medicine in the
United States.
Applcations to take the test
are now available at 306
Bessey Hall. They must be oa
file at the Educational Test
ing Service, Princeton, New
Jersey, before April 23.
residents of Selleck Quadran
gle for approval or rejection
by popular vote of the resi
dents." Referendum
The petition goes on to
say, "This is not a condem
nation or recommendation of
the organization, it is only
a request for a referendum."
The controversy of whether
Selleck should be left as just
a place to eat, sleep and study
or whether it should be social
ized and have activities simi
lar to those which the fra
ternities offer is the cause of
the petition movement
The debate on the issue has
been raging for nearly s
month with little being ac
complished except the aliena
tion of certain residents of
Selleck, according to John
son. It is hoped that this refer
endum and the chance to ex
press an opinion will settle
the question, he said.
Organization Plans
An additional requirement
of the referendum will be to
include a clarification of how
HELP will be organized,
membership requirements,
and future organization plans.
"The advocates of the Help,
project, the I's. will write
and submit the referendum
to a vote if the petition is
successful," stated Johnson.