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Living By Ann Moyer Student Council represen tation according to estab lished living districts is presently the recommended plan which will be sub mitted to the Council today for consideration. Following Council discus sion a final open meeting will be held Thursday at ''30 p.m. in 234 Student Union to allow students to present their final views concerning the proposed plan. The representation com mittee will then present an official motion to the Coun cil requesting that the Con stitutional amendments be written to embody the final 'Help Project, Open Houses Greek Week Has Facelifting By Dave Wohlfarth Several changes are slated for this year's Greek Week, to be held April 16-22. This year's Greek Week will feature a Greek movement to church, open houses, dinner speakers, exchange dinners, discussion groups, faculty speakers, a convocation and a special Help Project, as well as the traditional Greek Games, according to Phil Tracy, Interfraternity public relations chairman, who is in charge of Greek Week. Plans have been maae for open houses for all fra ternities and sororities on Sunday, April 16, following the Greek movement to church. From 2 to 3 p.m. houses in Group II (all houses west of 16th Street) will divide its members so as to have one or two members at each open house at least for the first half hour. The second half hour can be spent by visiting any house or houses desired by those indi viduals, Tracy said. Each house in Group I (all houses east of 16th street plus Ag Campus) will divide and function as ex plained for Group II, he continued. Houses in Group I are Al pha Chi Omega, Sigma Kap pa, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega, Sigma Delta Tau, Pi Beta Phi, Delta Del ta Delta, Alpha Xi Delta, Kappa Delta, Pi Kappa Phi, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Gam ma, Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha Gamma Sigma, Alpha Gam ma Rho, Farm House and Acacia. Group II includes: Theta Chi, Zeta Beta Tau, Beta Sigma Psi, Phi Gamma Del ta, Alpha Tan Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Theta Xi, Phi Del ta Theta, Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Phi, Alpha Omicron Pi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Phi Kappa Psi, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nn, Sigma Alpha Ep silon, Delta Tau Delta, Sig ma Alpha Mu, Delta Upsi lon and Sigma Chi. The open houses will kick off a busy Greek Week. Here is the schedule: SUNDAY APRIL 16 Morning Greek move ment to church. 2 p.m. Open House (Group II) 3 p.m. Open House (Group I) MONDAY, APRIL 17 6 p.m. Individual house dinners with alums. Topic Alum-chapter rela tions and discussion panels. Houses serenade individual ly. TUESDAY, APRIL 18 6 p.m. Exchange din ners among bouses. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 12 noon 1FC and Pan hellenic dinner. 2 p.m. Four discussion groups going simultaneous ly. Discussions led by prom inent alums. 6 p.m. Faculty mem bers for house suppers and as speakers after dinner. Topic Faculty-Greek re lations. THURSDAY, APRIL 20 2-4 p.m. Housemothers coffee. 7 p.m. Convocation fea turing Herbert G. Wunder lich, Dean of Students at Kansas State University. FRIDAY, APRIL 21 8 p.m. Open House par- ties. SATURDAY, APRIL 22 8 a.m. Fraternities and sororities project. 2 p.m. Greek Games James Accepts Chicago Position Richard James has resigned as a staff member of the Uni versity's public relations de partment to accept an edi torial position with the Chi cago office of the Wall Street Journal. James, 24, joined the Uni versity staff in July, 1959, oHpt rnre'vinc his Master's degree from Northwestern Uninversity. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University School of Jour nalism in 1958. District recommendations of the committee. The amendments would first require the approval of 2-3 of the Council and then ratification by a ma jority vote in a general election in which at least 30 per cent of those eligible students voted. The plan to be presented to the Council today in cluded the following rec ommendations: Part I Council Representa tion. 1. The Student Council shall be composed of rep resentatives elected from eight student living dis tricts. 2. The eight living dis tricts shall be: Ex-Editor Dilliard To Speak Scholastic Societies Plan Spring Meet The spring meeting of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi scholastic fraternities will feature Irving Dilliard, for mer editorial Daee editor of the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Dilliard will speak at the special meeting of t h e two societies, held in honor of their new undergraduate members, at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom. Dilliard. who is also sched uled to speak for a S i e m a Delta Chi banquet Friday night, will speak on "Are We Underminine Our Bill of Rights?" He is considered an authority on the US. Supreme Court. i- A member of the P o s t- Dispatch staff for almost 33 years, Dilliard retired in 1960 to devote more time to writ ing and lecturing. A graduate of the Univer sity of Illinois, he was a mem ber of the first group of Nie man Fellows at Harvard Uni versity. He joined the Post Dispatch in 1927 as an editorial writer and from 1949 to 1957 served as editorial page editor. During the Second World War Dilliard was attached to Supreme Headquarter, Allied Expeditionary Force. After the War. he was in charge of information control for the al lied military government in Bavaria and supervised the re-establishment of German newspapers under the occu pation. Dilliard edited -"The Spirit of Liberty," a collection of Judge Learned Hand's papers, and "Mr. Justice Brandeis. Great American." He is also the author of "A Guide to the Show-Me State," and his a r t i c 1 e s have ap Deared in manv magazines. He is. presently writing a book on the United States Supreme Court. In 1959 the American Bar Association cited him for out- standine contributions to pub lic understanding of the judi cial system in recognition of a series of articles he wrote for the Post-Dispatch on the Supreme Court. A chevalier in the French Legion of Hon or, he is also a Phi Beta Kappa Senator. Indian Culture Festival Planned University students from In dia will sponsor a cultural program on Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom, Jagjit Singh, program direc tor, announced today. Celebrating the Baisakhi festival, marking the end of the harvest season, and the Basant, marking the dawn of spring, the students will per form Yoga exercises, a tiinau Marriage ceremony, Moslem sinEins. Tabla recital an in strument of two drums), folk dances from the states of Punjab and Gujerat, a dress parade and devotional ana folk songs Indian students have invited all interested to attend this celebration of their national festivals. Representation Proposed for a. Social fraternities b. Social sororities c. Men's city university dorms d. Women's city univer sity dorms e. Men's co-op houses and professional f r a t e r nities maintaining houses f. Women's co-op houses and ag dorms g. Unmarried students living in unorganized hous ing h. Married students liv ing in unorganized housing reprStWlifeaohf representative LlQBARa'ddi- APR 6 151 74, No. 87 Vol. Douglas Convocation Today All University classes will be dismissed at 11 a.m. today according to Assistant to the Chancellor James Pittinger, in order that students may C ' mi Soloists for the University Singers spring concert are (from left, front row) Sue Worley, Joan Baker, Carolyn Rhodes, University Singers' Spring Concert Dedicated to Former Conductor The annual spring concert of the 93 voice University Singers will be presented Sunday. The program will be held at 4 p.m. at the First Plym outh Congregational Church, 20th and D streets, and is open to the public. The con cert is under the direction of Earl Jenkins, associate pro fessor of music. The concert will be dedi cated to the late Dr. Arthur E. Westbrook, who served as director of the School of Fine Arts and as chairman of the department of music at the University from 1939 to 1952, and as conductor of the Uni versity Singers from 1939 to 1955. A feature of the concert will be 'the performance of the contemporary choral work, Te Deum." by Zoltau Cheer Practice Cheerleading practice will be held from 44 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and next Tuesday, on the stage of the Coliseum, AD students interested in trying out must attend a minimum of two practices . . KK Spring Show Tickets on Sale Kosmet Klub's Spring Show, "Damn Yankees" will be presented at 8:15 p.m. April 15 at Pershing Audita- num. i Tickets may be purchased from Kosmet Klub workers.! Ben Simons, Golds, Miller and Paine and at the Student Union. Tickets will be on sale in the Union from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Friday. The booth will be open from Monday through Friday next week. General admission tickets are $1.50 and reserved tick ets $2. Over 1,400 tickets r en sold prior to spring vacation and an audience in excess of 4,000 is anticipated. tional representatives al loted according to the num ber of votes cast in the in dividual district in the pre ceding general election. This allotment shall be es tablished so as to make the total number of representa tives, exclusive of holdover representatives, approxi mately 30. 4. Affiliated students, re gardless of their true place of residence, shall vote within the affiliated living districts. BR. Graduate students shall be eligible to vote. 6. There shall be no ac hear Justice William O .Doug las of the U.S. Supreme Court speak on "Democracy vs. Communism in Asia." The public has been invited 7 ' , W SINGER'S SPRING SOLOISTS Kodaly, assisted by Prof. Myron Roberts, organist, and Jean Sanders, pianist. Solo ists will be Joan Baker, Sue Worley, Gene Dybdahl and Kenneth Scheffel. Carolyn Rhodes and Paula Knepper will be soloists in "Yea, I Will Comfort You," from the German Requiem by Brahms. Other numbers of the Sing ers concert are: "O Domine J e s u Christe," PaJestrina; "Vere Languores," Victoria-, "Lord, in Thy Ressurection," Gallus; "Cold winter, villain that thou art," Debussy; "Lord, lovely has Thou made my dear." Debussv: and "Spring Returns," Christian sen. j Members of the University Singers are: Sopranos, Margaret Arm strong, Lexy Lou Bell. Sharon Binfield, Ann Blomquist, Nan tie Booth, Carolyn Bristol Carolyn Coffman, Gail Gallo way, Karen Glade, Gwynne Grevlng, Cheryl Jaecke, Joan Jeiinek, Paula Knepper, Judy; Lawrence, Lyn Loudon, Mona Mueller, Ann Olson, Rosemary; Peterson, Claire Prucha, Car-; olyn Rhodes, Carolyn Weiss,1 Charlene Whitney, Sue Wor ley, Claire Roehrkasse, Anna-; bell Zilunund. j Altos, Lois Anderson, Joani Drop-out Fees $19,398 By Leon Nyberg Students who have withdrawn from the University so far this year have lost $19,398 in tuition and fees, according to records in the Registrar's office. This amount is the difference between total fees paid and the amount refunded to the students who have withdrawn from school last semester and so far this se mester. The Registrar's records show that 309 students have withdrawn or have been dropped from school since the beginning of the fall semester. In addition, approxi mately 400 first semester students failed to register for the second semester. The 309 students paid a total of $37,373 to the University, and they received re funds totaling $14300. First semester refunds amounted to only $5,,t!66, indicating that many students left school after the fifth week of the se tivity representation. Part II Holdover Repre sentation and Officers 1. The Council, sitting as a nominating committee, shall nominate two of its members for president and two for vice-p resident. These two offices shall -be voted upon by the student body at the general elec tion. 2. The two losing candi dates shall be holdover members of the Council. 3. The office of second vice-p resident shall be eliminated. 4. Holdover representa The Nebraskan to attend the convocation which will be held in the Col iseum under the sponsorship of the convocations committee and the Union talks and 1 Paula Roehrkasse Knepper; fback row) Jean Sanders, accompanist, Kenneth Scheffel and Gene Dybdahl. Baker, Cynthia Dybdahl, Fields, Annette Hall, Mary Ann Harris, Joyce Johnson, Mary Kay Kapustka, Mary James Schlegelmilch, Larry Knolle, Nancy McGath, Sher oJyn Parks, Sara Rhodes, Jocelyn Sack, Nancy Soren sen, Susan Stohs, Joyce Story, Judy Tenhulzen, Nancy Wat ton, Heather Wilhelm. Tenors, Calvin Carlson, Larry Cole, Donovan Cran deJL Calvin Cutright, Steven Ellenburg,. Allen Epstein, Darrell Fast, Larry Hoepfing er, Arthur Hughes, Walter Hutchison, Richard Lening ton, George Mechling. Vance Nelson, Terry Otto, Jim Petersen, Dennis Ras mussen. Kenneth Schcfel, David Stenzel, William Walk er. Basses, Terry Boyes, Larry Dubas, Gene Dybdahl; James Eno, John GilJiand, Ronald Holscher, Paul Holzworth, John Jorgensen, Wendell Koontz, William Larson, Lou is Lawson, Richard Leigh, Willard Marquardt, Monty McMahon. John Mills, C. Richard Morris. Kent Murray, Douglas Pearson, Robert Person, Rog-1 er Quadhamer, Allen Rinne, Shaw, Richard Slepicka. Rol and Stock, Robert TideswelLj Jack Watkins, Dewey Wines, j tives shall be eliminated except for the four nomin ees specified under sec tion 1. Presently, five seniors are nominated and elected by the outgoing Council as holdover members. Offi cers are then elected from the holdover members by the outgoing Council. The number of Council members would remain ap proximately the same as at present. Representation by colleges would be elimin ated in favor of the living district representation method. The representation topics committee. In addition, Justice Doug las will be the featured guest at an informal coffee hour to be held in 232 Student Union at 2:30 p.m. He will visit with students and answer their questions at this time. Douglas, an associate jus tice of the Supreme Court for 19 years, will discuss the ris ing democratic institutions in Asia, the impact of Marxism and communistic tactics in that portion of the world and the methods of repelling them. His lecture will also cover Red China and its conflict with India. He will discuss Western relations with Soviet Russia and give an appraisal of the ultimate outcome. Douglas is the author of some half-dozen books, his latest being "Russian Jour ney," published in 1956. Others include: "North from Malaya," "Beyond the High Himalayas," "Strange Lands and Friendly People," "Of Men and Mountains," "We the Judges," and "An Almanac of Liberty," a book in which the great movements toward political, social, reli Douglas Discusses Justice William O. Doug las of the U.S. Supreme Court will answer questions on his speech, books and other topics during an in formal coffee hour discus sion at 2:30 p.m. today. The coffee will be open to stu dents and the public in Stu dent Union, Room 232, 4 and 5. Riddell Talks GOP Money To YR Club John Riddell, Republican state finance chairman, will address the YR's at their meeting Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Union. Riddell represents Ne braska on the National Re publican finance committee and is general counselor for the state Republican party. An active Republican for over 40 years, he has been named "Mr. Republican" by his col leagues. The executive council meet ing will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday. Annual YR elections will be held April 13, 8 p.m. in the Union. Membership cards w i 1 1 be checked at the door. Only members will be allowed to vote. Officers will be nominated by a nominating committee meeting this week with addi- t i o n a 1 nominations made from the floor. mester. A University accountant explained that a student who registers but then with draws before classes start gets a com plete refund with the exception of a five dollar processing fee. During the first two weeks of school 80 per cent of the tuition is refunded. This percentage drops by 20 per cent a week until after toe fifth week, when there is no refund to the student. The accountant said there is no way to determine if the amount retained from each student actually covers toe entire cost of the process of administrative work and classroom instruction before toe stu dent withdraws from school. The loss in revenue to. toe University IMs year amounted to the refund total of $14,200. plus $3,775 in tuition scholar ships which withdrawing students failed to Council committee supported this method. Bill Connell, chairman of the representation commit tee, cited the following ad vantages to the living dis trict plan: it would avoid double representation, pro vide closer Council contact with the individual stu dents and assure equitable representation of all eg ments of the campus com munity. Students are encouraged to attend the open meeting Thursday evening and pre sent their views concern ing the proposed plan. Wednesday, April 5, 1961 gious and. legal liberty are traced to their sources. In 1922 Douglas set out for New York's Columbia Univer sity Law School, paying his fare by herding a carload of Chicago-bound sheep. His specialty was the rela tion of law and business and his Wall Street research led to the reorganization of the Stock Exchange. In 1939, while he was serv ing as chairman of the Securi ties Exchange Commission, President Roosevelt appoint ed him to the Supreme Court. Seven Grants Awarded For Grad Study Seven graduate fellowships amounting to $12,500 for ad vanced study at the Univer sity have been awarded sub ject to acceptance by April 13. .. . Two of the awards for $2,000 each are being made under the University Regents Pre-Doctoral fellowship pro gram to Robert N. Man ley, who formerly taught in schools at Seward, Mc Cook, and Osceola, and who is now a teaching assistant in the University's history de partment and to Dan D. Gus tafson, a teaching assistant in the University's English department. The other five awards are made from the Franklin E. and Orinda M. Johnson fel lowship program and provide $1,700 stipends to: Mrs. Nancy Coover Andrea sen, an honor undergrad uate of the University who is now a staff member of Nebraska Wesleyan and is working toward a Ph.D. in English. Waller L. Baumler, a teach ing assistant in the Univer sity's department of sociol ogy who is working toward a Ph.D. Willard E. Smith, who is a teaching assistant in the University's department of political science and working for a Ph.D. Alt E. Kambal, who is now a graduate in agronomy. Miss Ching Ju Wang, a graduate student in pharma cognosy. The University's Graduate Fellowship committee inter viewed 83 applicants before selecting these seven as re cipients of the awards. Cornhuskcr Posts Cornhnsker yearbook ap plications are now available in 309 Burnett. Applications w ill be accepted until 5 p.m. Friday and should be re turned to the J-school office. 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