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MNIVERSIH OF NEBR. H EMM Ai';0,!iVt.i Vol. 74, No. 66 The Nebraskan Monday, Feb. 20, 1961 Tribunal (Compiles Rulings Committee Clarifies Two Alternatives "Indefinite probation" and "indefinite- suspension" con duct rulings were explained to the Student Council last week. The explanation, complied by the Student Tribunal com ' mittee, was made at the re quest of the Council in order to clarify the difference be tween the two rulings. Jim Samples, chairman of the committee, explained the penalities applied in two gen eral areas: morals and psy chiatric cases of a severe na ture and cases in which the student has, a record of re peated conduct violations. To date, the Student Tri bunal has never recommended either of these punishments. Any penalty rulings of these types have been imposed by the Division of Student Affairs in cases which the Student Tribunal does not handle or in addition to a penalty recom mended by the Tribunal. Samples reported "indefin ite pro" was used in cases which warranted more severe punishment than conduct pro bation but did not merit sus pension from the University. Irresponsibility to the Univer sity and repeated violations are the main violations prompting "indefinite pro" rulings. The period the ruling re mains in effect varies accord ing to the circumstances of the case and the attitude ot the defendant. "Indefinite suspension" is used In cases requiring more serious penalty than ordinary suspension, which requires that the student leave the Uni versity for a set p e r i o d of time. An "indefinite suspension" ruling sets a definite date when the defendant may apply for re-admission. Mu Epsilon Nu Initiates Ten Mu Epsilon Nu, teachers college honorary and profes sional fraternity for men, re cently initiated 10 men. Those initiated were: Larry Bradsby, Roy Bruce, Bill Cumberland, DeWayne Liene man, John Mitchem, Robert Otto, Melvin Peed,, Richard Peterson, Vincent Sullivan and Andy Wolvin. Honorary membership was bestowed upon Dr. Donald Clifton, advisor for the frater nity and Dean W. K. Beggs, dean of teachers college and guest speaker at the banquet. Zen Paintings Make U.S. By Dave Wohlfarth ' An exhibition of ten paintings by the Japanese painter, Kokuta Suda, opened last Wednesday in the University Art Gal leries. The exhibition marks the first time Suda's paintings have been shown in the United States. The exhibition was ar ranged by Sachio Ashida, a friend of the artist and a graduate student at theUni versity. The Zen paintings, located on the sec ond floor of Morrill Hall, are the first of their type to be exhibited at the Art Gal leries, according to Norman Geske, direc tor of the Art Galleries. Geske commented, "We welcome the op portunity to show these new pictures here." He added that the exhibition would last until Mar. 12. Failed Five Times Suda ranks among Japan's best known contemporary artists. He began his ca reer as an artist upon completion of his high school education, but on five consecu tive occasions he failed to pass the en trance examinations of Tokyo's leading art school. In his early twenties he became a pupil of the Zen masters of the temple of Heir inji and in particular of the painter Mineo zenshi. In 1930 his work was selected for the first time to be included In the exhibition of the Japan Art Association and was awarded a place In the restricted category of superior excellence. Suda's paintings were awarded this "blue ribbon" honor for thirteen years, after which he received the top honors in r " 1 4 ( 1 BautMruJi "V READY, EVERYBODY? An overflow crowd jammed the Student Union ballroom Sunday to hear the Nebraska Collegiate Band performance conducted by assistant director Jack Snider. Selections by Charles Carter, Tchaikovsky-Nelson, Cif ton Williams, Orlando di Lasso, Ronald lo Presti, Morton Gould and Eric Ostling were included in the performance. The Nebraska Horn Club, consisting of 18 members gave several presentations to supplement the concert of the 91 member Collegiate Band. Unicameral Defeats Tax Clinic The Unicameral has defeat ed 22-9 a proposal by Omaha Sen. John Adams to partici pate in a tax clinic to be ar ranged for the legislators by the University. The Adams motion request ed that Chancellor Clifford Hardin be asked to arrange a clinic lasting at least two days and held sometime before mid-March. "We need teaching on the problems of taxation in the state," he said. "The Univer sity has some of the leading scholars of America." The motion drew little de bate. Sen. Hans Jensen of Aurora, principal Introducer of a combination sales-income tax bill conceded that "the University has experts in the field, but I have more confi dence In others." Jensen referred to such per sons as former tax commis sioner Fred Herringtonv now with the Nebraska Citizens Council, and Tax Commission er Forrest Johnson as persons who could "provide any in formation needed." Late Date Night Coed Follies will rate a Late Date Night Friday. Associated Women Stu dents -(AWS) has extended women's hours to 1:30 a.m. Those fellows who are ro mantically inclined can spend an extra hour with their dates at the rate of a penny a minute. Late Date Night is sponsored by Mor tar Boards and money col lected will be contributed to the Foreign Student Tour. 1 ' 't' ft Vs! 1 ; k X,t rrf J-Yi .Vr K- f I y l&V ' k U I W " P ' 1 - ' ft 1 - ,T I :'.,.JiiM - 4M Today On Campus Monday: Basketball, Nebraska vs. Oklahoma, 8:06 p.m., Coli seum. Child Guidance Lecture, 8 H.m., Student Union Ballroom. Best Dressed Competition The Daily Nebraskan is again sponsoring the - "Best Dressed Nebraska Coed" con test. The winner of the Nebraska contest will be entered in the national contest. The ten win ners of the national contest who are named Glamour Magazine's "Ten Best Dressed College Girls in America" will be photo graphed for the annual Au gust College issue and win the trip to New York, where they will stay at the Biltmore Hotel. The 1960 w i n n e rs were photographed In Washington, D.C., with leading political figures including then Sena tors Kennedy and Johnson, and Vice President Nixon. The t e n national winners will be selected on the basis of three pictures df each can didate which will be sub mitted to a panel of Glamour judges. The pictures should show each candidate in an on campus outfit, a daytime off campus outfit and a party dress. Jeanne Garner, was selected "Best Dressed Girl" on the Nebraska campus last year. Each organized women's residence will be asked to no minate one candidate for the contest. Details pertaining to interviews will be announced at a later date. NOTHINGNESS .a Well known Japanese artist, Kokuta Suda, poses beside a collection of his Zen oil paintings which ara now on dis play in the University . Art Galleries. The jpearance of Suda's works at the University is his first exhibition in the United States. . t 'NU Cost Per Student Ranks Below Most State Schools By Janet Sack The cost per student to at tend the University ranks be low that of most of the col leges in Nebraska, according to Dr. Aubrey Forrest, direc tor of scholarships and finan cial aids. . In an article that appeared in the Daily Nebraskan last week, the University was Concept of Adult Education Center Offers Higher Learning By Jim Forrest In keeping with the concept of adult education through out the United States, individuals) and groups will look upon the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education as a place where education can be continued, regardless of the level of previous schooling. Arthur B. Ward, director of the University's department of conferences and institutes said the Nebraska Center's adult wing was constructed and will be maintained to help adults: meet, successfully, tne ever increasing-complexity of 20th century living; broaden concepts and perspectives; acquire new skills and abilities; reinforce skills once learned and abilities once de veloped. Chancellor Clifford M. Har din said recently, "A single period of formal education, even if it includes college, is no longer enough to serve throughout a productive life time." Unlimited Resources The Nebraska Center has unlimited resources for mak ing the adult citizen's partic ipation in a program of con tinuing education a memora ble and valuable one, accord ing to Dr. Ward, who is re sponsible for directing and planning the adult wing of the Nebraska Center. Dr. Ward stated that au thorities and experts from every walk of life can be ob tained for a Nebraska Cen ter program. Where local ex perts are available, be they professors, researchers or laymen, they will provide educational leadership. In addition, Dr. Ward's of fice is in constant touch with experts and outstanding speakers should the confer ees wish to obtain the serv ices of leading authorities from other institutions and from ajl walks of life who may not be available locally. "The adult wing of the Ne braska Center will provide the groups with the most ad vanced teaching and learn ing aids," said Dr. Ward. Access to Facilities Besides the very latest Premiere at NU this exhibition and eventual elevation to the rank of Mukansa which automatically places his work in a category above the competitive awards. . Invited to Carnegie , His work has been seen outside Japan in exhibitions in Italy and Brazil and has been invited to the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh later this year. - Late last year, Tominaga and Sakanishi, two of Japan's best known art critics in cluded Suda's work among the five best Japanese oil paintings of the year. Suda's philosophy explains the specific characters of his pictures. "In this small collection of paintings, I have tried to remove everything and tried to express nothingness as existence but not nothingness as emptiness," he said. "I believe that we can embrace every thing after we penetrate the mysteries of Zen. Hence, these paintings do not have titles," Suda said. Hen continued, 'My purpose of life is to understand reality precisely. Reality, real reality cannot be understood by the im mature, primitive, dreamy, or drunk ' states, but it can be grasped at once, in - instantaneously, by one in a state of self realization!" ' "Freedom it has no boundary, and exists indefinitely with infinite time. It has no restriction and no authority. It is dyna mic, and yet always parting," Suda said, "being solitary and individualistic; It has distinction and no fixation. White, black, yellow, red everybody participates, everybody lives, nobody ever denies any body else: a perfect harmony. This is freedom." ranked as the fourth most ex pensive in the state. This was an incorrect list ing because the. other col leges did not include the other typical expenses for a nine month period and all the fees which are included in the tui tion of the University, said Dr. Forrest who is also the assistant to the Dean of the audio - visual and teaching aids and public address sys tem, the Center will have access to federal, state and University film libraries and films from ,the National Edu cation Television network as well as many produced by trade, industrial and non profit organizations, he said. The Center, which was fi nanced by a $1.5 million grant from the Kellogg Foun dation and over $1 million from personal and business gifts from Nebraskans, will offer study and living facili ties for adult groups attend ing exploratory conferences or concentrated workshops. "T h e facilities available can accommodate a commit tee of -three or groups -of 50, 100 or 300 and more, all in a learning atmosphere, be the group businessmen, farmers, physicians, teachers, home makers or candlestick mak ers," Dr. Ward said. The Nebraska Center plan ners have made certain that the conveniences needed by busy people away from their homes and businesses for just a day or for one or two weeks are "built in," according to Dr. Ward, including parking space for over 300 cars. Privacy, Comfort In the hotel, the Nebraska Center can accommodate 196 guests in 9 air conditioned rooms, sleeping two persons each, and each with a private bath and closet space, to as sure the adult student of pri vacy, comfort and relaxed study atmosphere. Dr. Ward pointed out that, if rooms are available, par- (continued on page 4) Division of Student Affairs. Dr. Forrest figured the costs for one private college, Nebraska Wesleyan Univer sity, and a state teacher's col lege, Chadron, to illustrate how wrong the previous list ing was. . -Wesleyan Tuition A figure of $570 for tuition at Wesleyan was arrived at after including the number of fees that the University lists. Room and board at Wesleyan runs $580 for a year. The total for those two figures alone is $1,150. With the addition of $510 for other expenses such as laun dry, dry cleaning, personal care, clothes, capital expen ditures, entertainment, recre ation, travel, books, and in structional supplies the total is $1,660, quite a bit more than the previously listed figures of $1,100. In addition to the $1,660, charges are also made for musical instruction at Wes leyan, The total cost for attending Chadron is much more than the listed figures of $758, said Dr. Forrest. All Fees Instead of the $180 for tui tion as listed the figure would come -much closer to $250 after including all fees Glenny Gains Support Forrest: Increase Regents Scholarships By Nancy Whitford University scholarship director, Dr. Aubrey Forrest, has recommended that Regents Scholarships be increased from $100 to $180 to cover full tuition expense. This would not cover an additional $80 in student fees, such as Student Health and -Student Union, which can not be paid with tax monies, he said. i The increase represents portion of the University's "easily iustifiable need" for an additional $300,000 in schol arship funds during the com ing school year, Forrest said. This compares with about $170,000 which is offered now. It would aid approximately 20 per cent of the student body or "those who are in the up per half of their class and ' Woodard Backs Glenny Proposal Francis Woodard, instruct or in economics, has support ed a recommendation by Dr. Lyman A. Glenny that Ne braska refrain from the estab lishment of a state scholar ship program until the level of finances in other areas of educational spending be raised. Woodard said he did not feel such a scholarship pro gram could be justified at this time on the basis of "granting the "greatest amount of social benefit." "There would definitely be a social and individual bene fit from such a program, but other areas of education should receive priority," Woodard said. Glenny has. recommended that increased spending be allotted to faculty, salaries and library facilities at the University. Faculty Writes For Reference Three University faculty members will "be among the new contributors to the 1961 edition of the "Encyclopedia Britanica." " Robert E. Larson, professor of actuarial science, collabor ated with other authorities to produce the article "Life In surance." Stanley R. Ross, associate professor of history wrote two articles: "Guerrero, Vincente and Madero" and '"Francisco mdalecio." Rudolph M. Sandstedt, pro fessor of chemistry, wrote "Tapioca." The articles written by the University are among the 10.000 reviewed for the new edition. The new edition of the en cyclopedia is the largest re vision of the famed reference work in a generation. that the Uiversity includes such as Student Health, news paper, and lab fees. The cost of those fees is not even listed in the catalog, Dr. For rest said. Chadron's bulletin lists the cost of room and board as $558 for the year. However, this figure only includes 14 meals a week which run from Monday through Friday noon. "I didn't even "igure in the extra cost of meals in the $558," Dr. Forrest said. Additional charges are made to music students in the state teachers colleges, - said Dr. Forrest. Other Expenses The addition of $250 for tui tion and fees plus $558 for room and board and an ad ditional $510 for other ex penses total $1,318. Figures for the University are $240 for tuition and fees, $600 for room and board, and $510 for other expenses which come to $1,350. All the above figures' were taken from the cat a logs for the 1959-1960 'ear. Nebraska Wesleyan has raised its flat rate for the cost of a credit hour and the Univer sity has had an additional raise of fees that will make the tuition and fees $264, said Dr. Forrest. have a definite financial need." Forrest, in making the es timate, supported the Glenny proposal that Nebraska re frain from establishment of a state scholarship program "but for different reasons." Glenny, in his controversial report on the Nebraska higher education situation, suggested the state first wait "until the general level of financial sup port for public institutions has been substantially raised." Forrest cited "outside su pervision" as his -chief argu ment against state scholar ships. "Scholarship funds should be increased, but they should also be administered by the schools themselves rather than a commission as in Cali fornia and other states with similar scholarship pro grams," said Forrest. The scholarship director la beled Glenny's contentio as "erroneous" and that Re gents Scholarship qualifying tests had been extended to an additional margin of high school students, "in order to obtain enough students to whom grants could be made." "An estimated $100,000 was required to meet the needs of all entering freshmen this year, while only $23,000 was available," said Forrest. The amount was supplemented with work scholarships and loans. "We have never had any trouble finding a need for our scholarship funds," he continued. University administrators say the Regents tests were offered to students in the up per third of their high school class rather than only the upper fourth primarily be cause principals requested it. The move was designed to aid math and science stu dents whose averages might be a little lower; students in large schools who face greater competition odds; "late bloomers" who work to raise their average during senior year and the regis trar's office which thus ob tains Information on an addi tional 300-400 students with college potential. Forrest predicts that future trends in scholarship financ ing will stem from increased alumni donations, increased action from the federal gov ernment and "possiblv more from private sources." "We do not expect state scholarship financing to in crease greatly ' in Nebraska, although this certainly does not mean we would not wel come it," he said.