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Dr. Reinhardt
Will Answer
Last Question
Dr. James R. Reinhardt, nationally famous author,
lecturer and professor of criminology at the University,
will present "The Last Question" tomorrow at 4:30 p.m,
in the Little Auditorium. ,
"The Last Question," which is the final discussion in
the Student Union Last Lecture Series, deals with how the
personality influences behavior. "Why did he do it? What
is the answer? Why will a seemingly normal person sud
denly emerge with a totally unpredictable act?"
Dr. Reinhardt is well-known as a lecturer. The demand
to hear one of his speeches was once so great that he had
to move from the Union to the Auditorium to enable every
one to listen.
v Dr. Reinhardt was born in Dalton, Georgia, in 1894. He
received his BA degree in 1923 from Berea College in Ken
tucky and served as managing editor of the "Bera Citizen."
The professor studied at the University of Chicago and
then received his master's degree from the University of
North Dakota in 1925. After further study at Morris College
in Barboursville, West Virginia, Dr. Reinhardt received
his Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota in 1929.
Professor Reinhardt did post-graduate study at the Uni
versity of Oregon and at the City College in Detroit.
In 1931 he came to the University of Nebraska as an
assistant professor of sociology. He has since been here for
30 years. Dr. Reinhardt was promoted to full professorship
in 1937 and served as Chairman of the Department of So
ciology from 1951 to 1954.
Since 1951, Dr. Reinhardt has been Professor of Crimin
ology here at the University. He has written more than 70
articles in the fields of social psychology and criminology.
Among his recent books are "Social Problems and So
cial Policy," 1951; "Social Problems; a Book for Nurses,".
1952; "Social Psychology," and "Sex Perversions and Six
Crimes," 1958.
A new book, The Murderer's Trail of Charles Stark
weather," is expected to be published this fall.
Jay, Christensen Given
Poetry, Fiction Awards
Maurice Jay was presented
the Iona Gardner Noyes po
etry award and Thelma
Christensen was presented
the Prairie Schooner fiction
award for 1961 at ceremonies
Tuesday.
Jay, a junior hi Teachers
College, was given the award
for his poem. "Metamor
phosis of Shoddiness." The
first place Noyes award car
ries with it $50 from a fund
established by Mrs. Harold
Meier of Omaha and Mr.
Laurence Noyes of Waterloo.
Miss Christensen's win
ning fiction entry is entitled
"The Last Dayt of August."
The Prairie Schooner award
also carries with it $50 from
fund initiated by Marl San
doz. Miss Christension is a
junior in the College of Arts
and Science.
Presented second place and
honorable mention awardj in
the- Noyes competition were
Elaine M. Arendt, second
place award of $25; James
Cole, honorable mention;
Norma Contryman, honorable
mention: and Lyle Linder,
honorable mention.
In the Prairie Schooner con
test the second place $30
went to Mary Anne Pryor;
the third place, $20 to Ernest
E. Hines; and honorable
mention to Dennis Bonge,
Elaine Arendt and Lee
Park.
Speaking at the ceremonies
wae Kail Shapiro, Pulitzer
prize winner and professor
of English.
Panhel
OKsRush
System
Suggestions Will Be
Considered Later
Panhellenic Council has ap
proved a new rush system
which will b used this fall.
Mist Madeline Glrard, di
rector of Panhellenic, said
the rush schedule was ac
cepted as it was originally
presented to the houses.
Consideration still will be
given to constructive sugges
tions made by the individual
sororities when the" final
schedule is drafted, she said.
The new system woiild
actually be to the benefit of
the sororities and rushees,
she contended. The new plan
will eliminate extra large
parties and give the rushee
and the sororities a chance
to meet more girls, she said.
In addition the release sys
tem would be eliminated due
to an automatic elimination
action by the invitations sent
for the second group of par
ties. The first group of parties
will Include six one hour
nartlea. The ICCOnd CrOttP
consists for -four two-hour
parties. A seperate set of in
vitations must be -ent for
each group of parties.
Miss Girard said the main
criticism of the program was
the time element involved
with such little time between
rush parties. However, she
explained, since the parties
'will be smaller and shorter,
no difficulties should arise.
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Christensen
YDs Offer
Special Rate
J-J Tickets
The annual Democratic
fund-raising Jefferson-J a c k
son Day dinner will be held
in Omaha Saturday night ac
cording to Young Democrat
President Don Ferugson.
Ferguson said a special stu
dent price of $3.50 was being
offered to students. Tickets
may be obtained from Fergu
son or Frank Golden at the
State Capitol.
Regular price of the tickets
is $25. Students must present
their identification cards with
their tickets Saturday night.
Deadline for tickets is Friday
noon.
Keynote speaker for the
event will be Senator Stuart
Symington of Missouri. Also
present will be Senator John
Kennedy and possibly Hubert
Humphrey's administra t i v e
assistant and Harry Truman.
A state YD meeting will be
held in conjunction with the
dinner for the purpose of elec
ing state officers. Those inter
ested in further information
concerning the meeting should
contact Rosa Greathouse,
state YD chairman, at Kappa
Sigma fraternity.
The Jefferson-Jackson Day
dinner will be held at the City
Arena in Omaha at 7 p.m.
Bowl Team
Send-Off
Is Planned.
, The University College
Bowl team will get a "royal
send-off" Friday morning as
they leave for New York by
plane at 8 a.m.
Cheering the scholars and
urging them on to victory
will be the University band.
All students are encouraged
to be present for the send-off
which starts at 7:30 a.m.
The scholars, Jon Froemke,
Harvey Nelson, Russell Rass
mussen and Walter Ross, will
participate in Sunday's G. E.
College Bowl at 4:30 p.m.
They will return on May 9
and there will be a big wel
come home at 12:15 p.m.
The four contestants will
have a practice session to
morrow night at 8 p.m. on
KOLN-TV. They will be com
peting against graduate stu
dents Carole Fitzgerald, Harl
Dalstrom, Boyu Breslow and
Henry Polleck.
A Nebraska victory will al
low them to return- again
next week.
Jay
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Vol. 34, No. 103
Cancer Research Grant
Given
The University College of
Medicine in Omaha has been
given a $2,500,000 grant, for
the construction of the Eu
gene C. Eppley Institute for
Research in, Cancer and Al
lied Deseases.
The establishment of t h e
Eppley Institute by the direc
tors of the Eugene C. Eppley
Foundation, Inc., involves the
construction of a six-story
structure which with equip
ment, will cost $1,800,000.
Construction is scheduled to
begin in the fall.
Building, Equipment
In addition to $650,000 be
ing supplied by the Founda
tion, the building and equip
ment will be financed by an
$800,000 grant from the Pub
lic Health Service and $350,-
000 from the University's Col
lege of Medicine Building
Levy.
The balance of the Eppley
Foundation gift of $1,850,000
plus an estimated $500,000 in
interest earnings will be used
over a 20 year period to
inaugurate and firmly estab
lish the Institute's research
program.
Chancellor Clifford M. Har
din called the Eppley Founda
It's A
Dog's Lift
The Campus police are
currently making a thorough
investigation into a hit and
run accident involving a
well known personality on
campus.
Herman, a care-free
mascot about campus, was
struck by a speeding auto
mobile in front of his Delta
Upsilon home last Thurs
day morning.
Quite obviously shaken
up by the accident, Her
man was unable to com
ment, but later at Student
Health when asked 'by the
campus police how it hap
pened he barked, "I
looked up and all I saw
was a bumper!"
Attending physicans
stated he was not seriously
hurt and should be fully
recovered in a few days.
Currently he is under the
watching care of Mrs.
Harry Scott, DU house
mother. Visitors welcome.
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KAPPA DELTA WINS TURF - Extra
point club members deliver one-square
yard of turf from the football field to the
KD's. The girls won it in a contest for
telling the most memberships in the Club
CampUS
In less than three minutes after Civil
Defense sirens began to wail on Tuesday
there was nary a student leisurely walk-
Sg on campus, reports Roy Loudon, Civil
efense coordinator.
Students hustled to the lower floors of
University buildings as part of the com
mand of Civil Defense authorities. The up
per floors of many buildings were vacated
in less than two minutes, Loudon said.
The Administration Building and Teach
ers College reported that they were cleared
in less than two minutes and that students,
cooperated well.
, The' Civil Denfense ' Alert was h?ld in
connection with a nation-wide alert held
"yesterday. Authorities from Kansas City
announced the time thi campus would
to NU
tion gift "one of the most
important educational and
medical seeds ever planted
in Nebraska.",
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PROPOSED CENTER - This $1.8 million
six-story structure, with equipment, will
be known as the Eugene C. Eppley In
stitute for Research in Cancer and Allied
Diseases. It will be constructed on the Uni
versity College of Medicine campus in
Chab Heads
Dean's Bd.
In Teachers
Shirley Chab, Teachers Col
lege junior, has been elected
chairman of the Dean's Ad
visory Board for -Teachers
College.
New secretary of the board
is Sylvia Bathe, junior.
Other new members chosen
for positions include Midge
Timm, sophomore; Mary
Drishaus, sophomore; and
Judy Lawrence, sophomore.
Gari Hathaway, junior and
Gloria Erickson, junior, were
chosen from this year's board
to continue as members of
the group.
The purpose of the board is
(o advise Dean Walter Beggs
on issues concerning Teach
ers College. The board serves
as a channel for s t u d e n t s
criticism and suggestions. .
-Civil Defense-
Drill Termed
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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
He went on to say that as
a result of the Foundation
grant, substantial amounts of
additional funds are antici
Med
Carpenter Opponent
Will Address YGOP
Feature speaker at Thurs
day evening's Young Repub
lican meeting will be Bob
Munro of Kearney.
Brubeck Tickets
Still Half Price
Reserved seats for the
Dave Brubeck program
May 12 may still be ob
tained by students for half
price. Tickets may be obtained
for 75 and 95 cents at the
Pershing Box Office, Stu
dent Union booth or from
Corn Cob workers by show
ing student ID cards.
Non-student prices are
$1.50 and $1.90.
Booths in the Union will
be open on Thursday, Fri
day and Monday.
which raises money for athletic scholar
ships. Putting in the grass are (left to
right) Bruce Bergquist, Larry Naviaux,
Bob McCracken, Joe Yctman and Dick
Russell.
Success
sound off the sirens.
According to Loudon the alert is to be
an annual event to bring Civil Defense to
mind and point dut what can be done when
an alert is needed.
This is the second alert on campus. The
first was held last year but was different
in that students were urged to vacate the
buildings instead of going to the lower
floors.
Loudon also said that the alert helped
the administratltn decide whether the new
sirens, one on city and the other on Ag,
worked. Last year parts of the campus
could not hear the old sirens.
After 10 minutes all returned to normal
duties. Loudon termed the alert as a suc
cess on campus.
pated throughout the next 20
years from the National In
stitute of Health, the Amer
ican Cancer Society, the Uni-
Omaha and will be financed and operated
by a $2.5 million grant from the Eppley
Foundation, a $800,000 grant from U.S.
Public Health Service and $350,000 from
the University's medical levy.
Munro, an attorney, is
presently the head of the
"Nebraskans for Honesty in
Government" organization.
The organization was formed
to oppose Senator Terry Car
penter's bid for the goveru
ership of Nebraska.
Carpenter is a candidate
for the Republican nomina
tion. Munro, Buffalo County at
torney and a frequent critic
of the Scottsbluff legislator,
said the group was organized
in Kearney to become the
nucleus of a statewide organ
ization which would express
opposition to candidates of
either party when it consid
ered them unqualified .for of
fice. -
He described the group as
was formed "with the specif
ic immediate purpose of
stopping Terry Carpenter."
President of the University
Young Republicans from
1955-56, Munro has served for
the past two years as chair
man of the Buffalo County
Young Republicans. His anti
Carpenter group is now en
gaged in an extensive state
wide television campaign.
The program will begin at
7:30 Thursday evening in 240
Student Union.
Pat Johnson
Is Elected
Panhel Head
Pat Johnson Chi Omega
sophomore, has been elected
president of Panhellenic for
the coming year.
Vice president of the group
will be Nancy McGath, Alpha
Omicron Pi sophomore, Jesse
Johnson, Sigma Kappa soph
omore, will serve as secre
tary. Miss Johnson is enrolled
in Teachers College and is
president of ACE and a Red
Cross Board member.
Miss McGath is enrolled in
the College of Agriculture,
Her activities include AWS
house representative, Ag
Builders assistant and a
member of Home Economics
Club.
Jesse Johnson is a past
member of Tassels a n d a
Student Union committee, a
member of Young Republi
cans and activities chairman
of Sigma Kappa sorority. She
is enrolled in the College of
Arts and Sciences.
Rhorfa Appoints
Two YR Workers
Jan Rhoda, president of
Young Republitans, recently
appointed two new officers
for the coming year.
Mary Dee Witcher, sopho
more in Arts and Sciences,
is the new campaign director.
Gwynn Showalter, freshman,
will be tne new phone chairman.
Wednesday, May 4, 1960
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versity and other sources.
According to the directors
of the Eppley Foundation, the
work of the institute will have '
a three-fold objective: to
gain a better understanding
of the causes of cancer and
allied diseases; to assist in
the improvement of methods
for diagnosis; and to assist
in the improvement of meth
ods for treatment and pre
vention of cancer and simi
lar disorders.
The proposed plans also
call for cancer seminars and
teaching clinics at intervals
with visiting lecturers of na
tional prominence for the
purpose of making available
to all physicians in the Oma
ha area, as well as medical
students, the advances in re
search and treatment of can
cer. "With these prospects, It
seems inevitable that the Eu
gene C. Eppley Institute for
Research in Cancer and Al
lied Diseases, within a few
years, shall attain recogni
tion not only in the entire
Midwest area but also na
tionally," commented
Dr. Hardin.
The Eppley Institute is ex
pected to have eventually a
staff of between 100 and 200
specialized personel, with an
nual expenditures of more
than a million dollars.
Major Responsibility
Dean J. P. Tollman of the
College of Medicine said that
the major responsibility of
the new research staff will
be to develop cancer-related
research projects and to use
the resources of the Univer
sity, College of Medicine, Uni
versity Hospital, and other
resources available in a co
operative attack on cancer
and allied diseases.
"Since the cancer problem
is extremely complex and in
volves knowledge and tech
niques peculiar to many
fields such as various spe
cialties of chemistry, physiol
ogy, radiology, as weU as
those of medicine itself, we
believe our initial effort must
be one of encouraging and
coordinating projects in sev
eral areas," he said.
Dean Tollman explained
that since the members of
the Institute's staff will serve
on the faculty of the College
of Medicine, they will be able
to strengthen the cancer-related
phases of the state's
medical educational program.
Announcement of the es
tablishment of the Cancer
Research Institute followed
almost two years of intensive
planning and study of cancer
research facilities throughout
the United States by repre
sentatives of the Eppley
Foundation and the Univer
sity, including a visit to the
campus by a team of four
national authorities in the
field of cancer to confer with
Eppley officials and the Uni
versity. Direct Result
Creation of the Institute it
the direct result of the rec
ommendations of Eugene C.
Eppley in 1956 that the Foun
dation make a substantial
grant to the study of the con
trol and cure of cancer if
after investigation, such pro
cedure seemed practical.
The Institute's faculties,
which will be located on the
College of Medicine campus
and will be connected to the
University Hospital by tun-,
nels, will house a series of
w e 1 1-equipped, specialized
laboratories and conference
and seminar rooms. The
equipment will include all
instruments and other facili
ties necessary for advanced
cancer-related research in
the basic science.
Dr. Hardin said the con
struction of the Institute
building and the recruitment
of a first-rate hard-core re
search staff to direct its pro
gram will enable the Univer
sity to seek and get research
project support from many
sources throughout the na
tion. "With this generous gift,
the Chancellor said; "the Eu
gene C. Eppley Foundation
is not only providing a physi
cal facility which the Univer
sity could not hope to receive
through the usual financial
channels but also is Insuring
an outstanding anti-cancer
program for Nebraska."