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h ft- liiil Vol. 74, No. 73 The Nebraskan Friday, Mar. 3, 1961 Ball To Feature Marterie IFC Assessment Placed at 82.35 The Interfraternitv Coun cil (IFC) Ball featuring Ralph Marterie and his Marl boro Men will be held Satur day night at Pershing Audi torium. The ball, which will be semi-formal, begins at 9 p.m. and lasts until 1 a.m. Wom en's hours have been ex tended until 2 a.m., accord ing to Helen Snyder, dean of women. The assessment for the ball has been set by the IFC at $2.55 for each fraternity man and his date. Marterie, a 'top-rate band leader, has many "gold la bel" million record sellers including "Crazy Man Crazv," "Shish Kabob," "Skodiaan," "Comulsion," 'Pretend," "Blue Mirage" and "Caravan." j His well known LP album kite are "One Night Stand," "Trumpeter's L nil a by," "Marterte's Mood," "Danc ing On The Downbeat Marvelous Marterie". Ia 1949, Art Talmadge, vice-president of Mercury Records, picked Marterie as the musician "who could build a band after the tradi tion set in the '30's by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw." The Marlboro Men have been described as being "more constantly on tour than any other big-name or chestra "in the business." They have been established as the nation's number one college favorite as the num ber oe ballroom favorite in polls conducted by "Down beat" and "Cash Box" mag azines. Marterie's music has earned the description "fluid phrasing and solid beat." Castor Bean Research Initialed The agricultural engineer ing department and the Ne braska Agricultural Products Research Fund will begin a cooperative research project on caster bean production in the state, announced Pearle F. Finigan, Nebraska's direc tor of agriculture. Minimum tillage methods that have reduced operating costs for com and milo farm ers may hold the key to one of tils most perplexing prob lems for castor bean grow ers, weed control, according to Lloyd Hurlburt, chairman of the department of agricul tural engineering. ! Playing an active part Is the research project win be a new design incorporated en tiH-planters that originated in of the department f agricul tural engineering, said Profes sor Ilnrlburt. The new design places emphasis on the seed being firmly pressed into the ground and then covered with loose soil, Hurlhurt said. The press wbeels common to conventional planting ma chinery have been discarded a the sew design. It is hoped that the results from the research will prove the feasibility of using the till-planter for castor beans, said Finigan. "This seems to be an an swer to a way we can de velop weed control in t h e row without using chemicals which generally do some damage to the crop," Hurl burt explained. The research will also cover work on seed box design. Hurlburt speculated that some of the poor strands that result in the castor bean plantings could be the result of unsatisfactory seed boxes. Present research on ma chinery adaptable to caitor beans is not new to the ag ricultural engineering depart ment, as the forerunner for the present day castor bean har vester was developed in the 40's at Nebraska in a pro gram sponsored by Nathan Cold, Lincoln business man, according to Hurlburt. - t fj MARTERIE Council To Discuss Membership Do you have any ideas about how Student Council representation should be changed? If so, bring your ideas to a meeting of the Student Council committee on repre sentation next Wednesday in the Ogallala room of the Stu dent Union. The values of representa tion by activities will be dis cussed at this meeting. Oth er related topics will be dis cussed in the future, accord- Selleck Boycotts Borai Fooc Calvert Calls RAM Meeting By Norm Beatty A question and answer session designed to orient effec tiveness of the new Selleck Quadrangle student food com mittee highlighted an all dorm meeting Wednesday night The meeting was called after a "hunger strike" ex pressed dissatisfaction with the removal of William F. Wittman, graduate student, from the dorm following an argument over the quality of food served in Selleck. When asked at the meeting;' ; ; : and ! n to Bill tonneu, chairman of the Council committee. Some of the Questions to land it is possible I be considered are "Do the I made a mistake here if reinstatement of Wittman w as in order, Selleck manager Alfred B. Calvert replied, "I realize that I have displeased some of yon with the decision made concerning Bill. I think that the feeling you have shown is in order, and if a representative group who feels that he was not treated fairly would like to meet with an administrative group consisting of Assistant to the Chancellor James Pit tinger. Director of University Services William Harper, and Dean of Student Affairs J. P. Colbert, I would be glad to arrange it 'More Than Happy "Furthermore," Cal vert continued, "I would be more than happy to go along with reinstatement because il certainly make mistakes, have present Council members have a proper means of com munication with the students they represent" "Are the present Council members representing the proper stu dents," "Is there any. value of having non-voting mem bers on the Council" and "Is there double representation on the Council at the pres ent" Members of the represen tation committee from Stu dent Council besides Coo neQ are Dave. Myers .and Nell Ferguson. Non-Conicfl members are Tom Eason, Ross EdeaL Mary Kokes and John Bischoff. Connell said any student may attend and submit their , ideas or opinions. Jazz Tickets JVotc Tickets for the NORAD jazz concert to be held ia the Student Union Ballroom at X p.m. Monday are now available. There is no charge for the tickets but holders will get seating preference at the concert The tickets may be obtained from the Union program office or from members of the Arnold Air Society and the special ac tivities committee. Adds, Drops Totals Equal To Last Year "The number of adds and drops is running about the same as last 'year at this time," according to Mrs. lima Laase, assistant regis trar. "There was a little bit of difficulty because the grades were not out before the add period ended," said Mrs. Laase. A two week period is allowed for adding courses. Drops made during the first two weeks are automatically two weeks, whether the stu dent drops in good standing or not depends upon the marks received and the instructor. Mrs. Laase also stressed that a student who just stops going to class has not official ly dropped the course. In that event the student will receive a failing grade at the end of ithe semester-. The deadline for drops is Saturday, May 6 at noon. "If the student thinks be might drop, do it now; don't wait until the last day," Mrs. Laase said. Brill to Discuss Mental Illness Ag campus students' will find out bow thin the line is between sanity and insanity on March 14, as Dr. William Brill, psychiatrist at Univer sity's Student Health, will speak. Dr. Brill, who wiH speak from 4-5 p.m. in the Ag Un ion, will discuss mental illness. When later asked why the decision could not be "amended" rather than de pend on an appeal to the ad ministrative group, Calvert stated, "If the person (Witt man) returned and did not have a negative approach to the food problem, I would be glad to reinstate without an appeal." The new food committee appointed last week by the Residence Association for Men (RAM) Council consists of Dennis Mulligan, chair man; Gary Harris, Jerry Wood, Ron Bentz and Keith Phillips. Discussion of the bargain ing power and potential of the committee to improve the quality and economy of Selleck meals was lengthy and many expressions of dis satisfaction with past menus were voiced. Hit Checker A question was raised con cerning a student who had hit a meal line checker after the checker refused admit tance because the line bad closed two minutes previous ly. "That student is still here," the questioner said, "and now poor Bill is made a goat just because he ex pressed bis opinions ver bally." One liberal proponent of kitchen improvement re marked that since better food preparation had not re sulted in the past when called for, "Why don't we just clean out all the cooks and dieticians and start over?" Calvert explained that each board bul allowed $L7S for meals each day, of which 22 per cent went for bond on the Quadrangle buildings, leaving $LSS for the raw food. He explained that improve ment in quality and prepar ation would depend on eco nomic handling of buying and kitchen management, keeping the $1.05 figure in mind during all planning. Through Committee Calvert welcomed sugges tions, and urged that anin- David City Star Nebraska Bound Dennis K i r b y, all-state prep selection from St Mary's of David City, will en roll at Nebraska in the fall, Coach Bill Jennings an nounced. Kirby played quarterback, halfback and tackle for St Mary's, the Class C cham pion in 1960. He also is a hurdler in track. The 6-1, 186-pounder, has earned four letters in foot ball and track and three in basketbalL Kirby was an all-stater for two years in Class C and won both the high and low hurd les last spring in his class at the state meet here, Kirby's brother, John, played with the Hus-ker fre&h- man team last tali. dividual dorm resident with a complaint or suggestion should communicate through the food committee in order to make known all feelings concerning menus and qual ity. Fred Rickers, RAM Coun cil president, presided over the meeting, and later told the Daily Nebraskan that he "thought Mr. Calvert will make a sincere effort to make the food committee successful and increase the quality of food." "I think this meeting to night showed the Selleck ad ministration how the men feel about the situation, and how serious they are to see that it is remedied," said Rickers. "They have taken a sincere effort and are not complain ing just to complain." Earlier in the day, Tom! Eason, member of the Inno cents Society and past RAM Council president, issued the following statement to the Daily Nebraskan: Acted Hastily "I have considered the situ ation as objectively as I am able and after talking at length with everyone .con cerned, my opinion is that Mr. Calvert acted in haste, per haps in anger, and made an error in judgment; and that action should be taken to rec tify this error. "My prime concern is that this action goes on Bill Witt man's record and may harm his career in the future. This abrupt and, I feel, inappro priate action has shaken my confidence in the manager of Selleck Quadrangle. Wittman was contacted late Wednesday night and agreed to make a statement to the Daily Nebraskan. According to Wittman the whole situation was ignited Tuesday when be stopped in at Calvert's room and asked why the results of a question naire asking for the dorm men's preference for butter or margarine was disregard-1 ed. (Wittman said the results showed that a majority of the residents prefered butter but Calvert ordered margarine to be used anyway.) Butter Wastage "He (Calvert) said marga-! line was being used because of the high wastage of but ter," Wittman said. Wittman said he then went to class and when be returned at 2 p.m., Calvert came to visit him. "Calvert said he was sorry and that be had been abrupt and be wanted to talk the situ ation over," Wittman ex plained. According to Wittman, both he and Calvert engaged in a discussion of the food at Sel leck Quadrangle at this time. : Wittman noted that be pointed out several faults with the food and told C a 1 v e r t the "food is lousy in generaL" Not Eaten . "I told him that sometimes 50 per cent of the food on a plate is not eaten and there fore, we are not getting a bal anced diet" Wittman then told Calvert that "several of the students were getting diarrhea" from the food. Calvert reportedly told Witt man, "that's a serious accu sation, 'according to Witt man. Wittman said Calvert then told him that he didn't think it would be good for Wittman to be around the Quadrangle and anyone as dissatisfied as Wittman shouldn't be in the dorm. Calvert (according to Witt man) told him that be had un til Saturday to move out Wittman moved into sn apartment Wednesday with three other dorm residents. Wittman received his deposit of $40 back from Selleck Quadrangle but the other three former residents did .not, according to Wittman. WITTMAN 1 Ed 23 Applications Applications must be sub' mitted April 1 by all ele mentary education majors who plan to register for Edacation 23 (student teaching) for the first se mester of the 1961-62 school year. Application forms are available at the Depart ment of Elementary Edu cation office, 202 Teachers College. Little Action By Council Wednesday Student Council action slowed to a snails pace Wed nesday as all business was conducted in the space of a half hour. The Council passed a mo tion asking that the library committee . investigate the possibility of extending the library hours to 11 p.m. on all Friday nights during final nam oenods. The main objection to this ! cafeteria lines and were proposal ia the past has been the cost of maintaining late hours at the library for extra nights. Dave Myers, chairman of the Open House committee, reported to the Council that Administration was interested in having the committee work in conjunction with them for hieh school College Days. The Council passed a mo tion delegating the Open House committee to work with the sponsors of College Days to make them "a more effective event for the University." Council members will serve at the polls during the May Queen primary election to be held March 8. Polling places will be located on both Ag and City campuses. Today on Campus GjTnatic. AlWfllM rtiatnpwtaipf, 1 am., MmT P. E. BaMinc. Af Experiment Statin Council mecto. 4 .m.. Mt Kenn Hill. Aodunm Scm Tour. "Partoiw a Oi Sea." 4 and p.m. Lev Library aaOt- Ul PMIII . All-Vntvtrmtr Soaare Dwuw. Ac UfcM. A Into VMCA-VWC Tmm Cami fal. t Ml JB AC VnK. Sattrtxr: . "AatrHocr Fart or Firtton 7 45 p m., Eatph Planetarium. Morrill Hn. Ores. . a.m. ana 3:4 JIU aU rfl! Hal). . . Grnuiaii-, AH-CoTl-ae rhampintulupa, 1 p.m.. Men's P. E. Buudmc. IFC Ball, PJU.-1 a.m. Pennine Au ditorium. Ac Y Eatei Carnival, I jn Ac L'nion. Jr. PinneOenie Chili rend. VT a m-Paa-American Boom Student Vnioa. Two Pictures At Gallery Damaged Two pictures in the Univer sity Art Galleries' permanent collection were damaged in a "fist swinging incident" Wednesday. Norman Geske, director of the Art Galleries, said al though the pictures were "valuable," they were scarcely damaged when a stu dent punched his fists through the fiber wall on which they were hanging. Geske declined to give the exact value of the - pictures and said it was a "depart mental incident which already had been handled." One of the pictures was cut slightly and the other was knocked to the floor, he said. The pictures involved in cluded "Self Portrait" by Wolf Kahn and "Woman" by William De Kooning. Ousting Quad Student Starts Food Strike By Dick Stuckey The removal of a graduate student from Selleck Quadrangle touched off a "hunger strike" Wednesday evening in the dorm din ing room. Approximately 75 RAM residents partici pated in the six table boycott of the evening meal. Originally five Selleck houses planned to "strike" in objection to the decision of Quadrangle officials to remove William F. Wittman, 23 year-old chemistry graduate stu dent from Pittsburgh, Pa, The decision resulted fronti an argument between WKt- man and Alfred B. Calvert, Selleck manager, over the quality of food served in the dorm dining rooms. A Selleck menu economy move Tuesday utilized the use of margarine in place of but ter at breakfast and noon meals. Heated Argument Wittman and Calvert en gaged in heated argument lat er in the day in Wittman's Gustavson I room, and aft er a "vicious attack" on the Quadrangle diet, Calvert ask ed Wittman to be out of the dorm by noon Saturday. Wittman and three other men moved out yesterday. The Daily Nebraskan learned Wednesday afternoon that feeling was reportedly high among dorm men con cerning the removal of Witt man, and that the possibility of some RAM counter-action was not impossible. At 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, dis pleased dorm men mustered forces quietly. Gustavson 1 and 11, Bessey, Hitchcock and MacLean houses had all originally plan ned to participate in the pas sive meal boycott, and at 5:20 stronehearts from these houses had gone through the cafeteria lines and were sit ting idly at the dining room tables behind full trays of the evening's meal of chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots, rolls, brownies and ice cream, coffee and milk. 'This is a perfect night for it because the chicken is so bad here!" was one comment before the hunger-strikers walked orderly to the dining room meal line. The lyrics "TheyYe rioting ia Africa" from the Kingston Trio hit were occasionally heard from a smug striker. Many of the participants covered their untouched trays of food with mustard, ketsup, sugar, and salt and pepper, much to the dismay of the "carpetbaggers" from the training table. 'We'll Wait' When asked what next, a striker replied, "We'll wait We've got more time than they've got food!" Another stated, "I've eaten here four years the same bad food I can stand to sit and pass this one up!" A non-participant in the strike said when asked his feelings, "I'm hungry I'm eatin! I don't think they'll (the strikers) get anywhere. In fact, I think the kitchen knew this was going to happen the food was good tonight for a change. In fact, I think they even used butter!" . A foreign student from Iran stated that be "didnt know anything about it (the strike), but personally I don't care for the food here." At 5:35 p.m. Calvert ap peared and asked for atten tion. He said, "I know there's two sides to every question, and if you wish an open meet ing tonight, I'd be glad to arrange one. If you want me to resign my job, IH quit I'm sincere in my decisions, but I don't pretend to be per fed, and if you have no con fidence in me, then well put my resignation to a vote, and if the majority wishes, I'll re sign." As he finished there were a few cries of "Dig in!" but men at six tables quietly rose from their untouched food and left the dining area. Union Looking For Chairmen Applications are now avail able for Student Union posi tions. Program Council applica tions are due Tuesday. Inter views will be held Saturday. Applicants for the Council must have a 5.7 overall aver age, must be a junior or sen ior in the coming fall and must have served as a chair man, assistant or committee worker in Union: ft , ' A f . Si -7-. S I t if 1 I rri' Urn. IBM DISCUSSION Discussing IBM machines in relation to the field of electrical engineering is one of the ledaers in the field, Dr. Claude E. Waitson, (third form the left) who spoke Tuesday evening on "Advances in Com puter Speed and Miniaturization" ' in Ferguson Hall. Pictured with Dr. Walston are, (from left) Malcolm A. Young, with IBM in Owego, N.Y., James Wingall, with IBM in Lincoln and Roland Rader, University chairman of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the student In stitute of Radio Engineers. x r. . I i v i; 2 5f- Col 0 ft X. t i: .( f A I
