UNIVERSITY OF NEBR.
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Vol. 75, No. 71
The Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, February 28, 1 962
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DOLLS MINUS GUYS
Nebraska Coeds Kitty Sue TroxeL Janie Thomasin,
Barb Schnman and Terry David are caught cavorting at a
Kosmet Klnb "Gays and Dolls" practice. The show Is
scheduled for production at Pershing Auditorium March
6Guys and Dolls
Practices Keep
Students Busy
"You would be surprised
how many people are work
ing hard already on the Kos
met Klub spring show, "Guys
and Dolls," said Ed Con
nerly, publicity chairman.
"Each cast member put in
15 hours last week and will
probably work 18 hours this
week," he continued. The
cast will have put in about
100 hours before the final pro
duction. ' r
"Also, we have many work
ers laboring on sets, selling
ads to various firms and sell
ing tickets," be said.
He explained that the work
ers toil three nights a week
for three and a half hours a
night As show time ap
proaches, the workers are ex
pected to be "on deck" five
nights a week. And, they
give all available time during
the week before the show.
Kosmet Klub uses the point
system for their workers. Ten
points are awarded for each
Stolen
Editor's Note: This is the
first of a series of stories
concerned with the prob
lem of student cheating dur
ing examination periods at
the University. Today's re
port deals with the extent
ef cheating. AD facts and
Interviews were collected
and compiled by sealer
staff writer Tom Kotoue.
By TOM KOTOUC
During the night on Jan. 26,
an unidentified student or stu
dents broke into the office of
a University physical educa
tion instructor, jimmying the
office door latch and lock,"
announced J. P. Colbert, dean
of Student Affairs last Fri
day. One of the doors of a filing
case within the office was
broken into by smashing the
front panel of the locked
drawer, Colbert added.
The break-In was checked
once by the campus police
several days later, reported
the instructor, but no finger
prints were taken.
CapL Eugene Masters of the
campus police said that
"There had been no prints
to take."
We ran down a couple el
suspects on the break-in, but
with do positive results, said
Masters.
The final exam which the
student(s) sought was not in
the locked drawer which was
smashed in, explained the in
structor, but in an unlocked
drawer near-by.
When the final which the
student (s) could have stolen
was given U 30 juniors and
seniors in physical education,
seven students who bad gone
Into the final with a LS to 4
average received 7 te on
ibeir finals.
Given a second final exam
to remove any doubts which
the instructor had about
whether or not the seven stu
dents had seen the final be
fore the exam was given, the
seven students each earned
a 1. or flunked the second
final.
hour of work, and points are
also granted for ads and
tickets sold.
The number of points a
worker has earned is care
fully considered when he
comes up for 'formal mem
bership in Kosmet Klub.
Putting' on the production is
an all out effort of pre-med stu
dents hammering sets; future
businessmen painting b a c k
ground canvas; novice sales
men calling on hard-nosed
businessmen and prospective
viewers; sorority members
saying their lines to them
selves in class; would-be
broadway stars memorizing
the notes; and budding pub
licity chairmen being inter
viewed by the Rag; all this
work is aimed at a success
ful production of "Guys and
Dolls" at 8 p.m. on March 31
in Pershing Auditorium. Tick
ets are $1.50 for general ad
mission and $2 for reserved
seats.
Jimmied Locks, Filled Blue Books
Exams Popular During
Other students in the class,
who had gone into the final
with a Li average or better,
earned a S to I en the first
final and a 4 to 7 en the sec
ond finaL
However, it was impossible
to prove that the seven stu-;
dents who had seen the exam
before it was given in class
bad broken into the physical
education office, said the in
structor, since the 12-page fi
nal was the same that had
been given last year. -
"Thai It could have been
smuggled eat of the class
room after it was given last
semester, be said, "and the
students could have obtained
it that way."
When students were handed
the final in sociology 53, one
of the instructors heard a stu
dent exclaim "This is it!" said
sociology professor Nicholas
Babchuk.
Exam questions were im
mediately modified er
changed from the 1C0 multi
ple choice questions w h I e k
was to form the basis of the
finaL
When the performance on
hour exams throughout the se
mester was compared with
the performance of students
on the finaL said Babchuk, no
significant differences were
noted to make cs believe that
students had cheated on the
finaL
Over 99 percent of my
freshman students cheated in
a PE 75 final, reported one
instructor, who did not wish
his name to be used.
"Student had known far in
advance of the final that
some people in the class were
planning to cheat on the
exam," he said.
The final questions were to
'be taken from a list of 20
general questions ever the
course given to the students
t study early in October.
Some students apparently
found which 10 of the 20 I
was planning to use and
brought blue books filled out
with the answers to these 10
Select Number of
To See Sights at
By BOB BESOM
"I can just see myself din
ing in the Big Needle," Gayle
Sherman, Union program
manager mused while going
over plans for a Union
sponsored excursion to the
Century 21 Exposition in Se
attle, Washington.
The 600 Joot tower crowned
by aa restaurant and ob-
Columnist
Will Talk
In tJnion
Victor Riesel, noted col
umnist and newspaperman,
will speak at the Student Un
ion ballroom March 12, at 10
a.m.
Riesel, who is being spon
sored by the Talks and Topics
committee, has just 'returned
from Africa where he spent
two months studying the po
litical and economic prob
lems of the African people.
In Africa he not only held
conferences with the political
leaders of the countries, but
also lived with some of the
native tribes.
Riesel was born on March
6, 1915, in New York's lower
east side. He worked his way
through college, and after
graduating from the City Col
lege of New York went to
work writing for a string of
labor publications.
He was one of the observ
ers of the March 6, 1930, riot
in New York City involving
60,000 unemployed laborers.
Riesel began his first syn
dicated labor column in 1943.
His column is now distributed
by the Hall Syndicate to 231
newspapers. In his column he
has exposed corrupt labor
and business practices.
On April 5, 1956, Riesel
was blinded for life when an
unknown assailant threw a
vial of acid at his face. This
attack did not stop him how
ever. At his first interview in
the hospital he said, "The
acid hit my eyes but not my
mind, my spirit, or my back
bone." with them to class, the in-!
structor said.
"During the exam and af
ter checking over the exam
booklets, I discovered that
ever 75 per cent ef the 61
students in the course had
carried filled blue books with
them to class."
Had I received an anony
mous phone call or note be
fore the exam that students
were planning to cheat and
that they had copies of the
exam I could have altered
the exam questions immedi
ately, said the instructor.
The final exam was dropped
in computing the semester av
erage and the majority ef stu
dents la the PE 75 course
were given 4s.
"If I had failed the entire
class, I would have been the
greatest heel on campus,"
said the instructor, "since I
did cot know for certain all
that were guilty and all that
were innocent."
I am not sure bow the
PE 75 exam was obtained,
be said, but it mnst have bees
stolen since I pkked it up
only 20 minutes before It was
gives from the secretary who
typed It. Up to that time. It
had been stored la a safe
place.
Many students in the course
have complained to me that
their finals should be counted
since the? did not cheat on
the exam, but the student at
the same time knew that
cheating existed but did not
reoort it.
Most of the 90 per cent of
the PE 75 course students who
did cheat said tbey felt it
necessary since it was "un
fair competition" for t e s e
few students who first get
ahold of the exam te ase it
when they did not Grades
were not posted for the
course.
Students who needed to
know their grades for ath
letic or scholarship purposes
before they received them in
the mail from the registrar
were instructed to have their
servation deck, affords a
breath-taking panorama view
of Puget Sound, Mt. Rainier,
and the Cascade and Olympic
mountain ranges. It is just
one of hundreds of attractions
awaiting a handful of Ne
braska students who will
make the trip to the 1962
World's Fair at Seattle.
Nebraskans participating in
the Union-sponsored visit will
be in on the initial-week ac
tivities of the six-month af
fair, kicking off April 21 and
running to the 21st of Oct.
Students will leave during
Easter Vacation, April 24, for
a five-day trip and return the
following Sunday in time for
the start of Monday classes.
Working through the Lin
coln Tour and Travel Agen
cy, Mrs. Sherman has laid
out plans for a complete tour
Purpose of Neiv Center:
Keeping People Informed
"If we believe in the Amer
ican dream of greatness and
a good life, all people of all
ages must have a continuing
desire to be informed and to
re-evaluate their education."
This is the objective of the
Nebraska Center for Continu
ing Education, according to
Dean A. C. Breckenridge of
Trebing Accepts
Indiana Position
Dr. Harry M. Trebing, as
sistant professor of economics
at the University, will join
the faculty of Indiana Univer
sity next fall as an associate
professor in transportation
and public utilities in the
school of business.
Dr. Trebing was an honor
graduate of the University of
Maryland and received his
Ph.D. degree from me uni-
versity ot Wisconsin, tie join-
ed the University faculty in
me?
.
coach or adviser call the in
structor. At that time, the
professor explained to the
coach or adviser the reason
for this unusual procedure.
I felt that if I could frighten
these freshman students by
Tribunal Recommends
Warning for Cheating
The University Student Tribunal recommended Thurs
day that a student charged with "selling an English
final examination" be put on conduct warning.
Dean J. P. Colbert of Student Affairs will act on
the recommendation officially this week.
The student claimed that be sold one copy of an
eld English final (which be claimed to have represent
ed as an eld final) to ene student and tried to sell tbe
exam to several ether students without success.
Colbert said that five students testified that tbey
had been approached by tbe accused student and of
fered a copy of an English final at five dollars a copy.
"Copies of eld English exams are available to any
student upon request," said Dr. Dudley Bailey, associ
ate professor ef English.
As for other rumors that this year's copy of the
English 3 or B final was out over a week before the
exam. Dr. Bailey had this to say:
"I, too, beard the rumors that either this year's
final er aa old one was oat a week before the exam
was to be given.
"However," said Bailey", "I had not made up the
final when I first heard the rumors and did not do so
until several days before the Monday on which it was
given."
We have no evidence that the exam was out before
it was taken, said Bailey, and no office In the depart
ment was broken Into.
Several students taking the exam, however, report
ed that they had observed a student take a note card
from her coat on which the numbers and exam answers
were written.
Bailey said that ene Irate English student had called
him several days before finals and demanded to know
why the English department was giving eut copies A
exams to atMetes.
"This accusation," declared Bailey, "is false!"
"We believe a copy of the final got out ahead ef
time a few years ago, said Bailey, when a group ef
students living together got remarkably high scores en
the finaL
"This semester, we let he student keep his copy
of the English final in ' hopes that we can prevent
some of the unhealthy excitement which occurred before
the exam this year," Baikj concluded.
of the fab grounds. Arrange
ments have been made for
everything the students will
need, from transportation to
copies of the official guide
book.
"Because of the time ele
ment and. the 1,500-mile dis
tance from Lincoln to Seattle,
reservations have been made
for travel by plane," com
mented Mrs. Sherman. "With
a minium of 15 students par
ticipating, the cost per indi
vidual has been set at-$250."
Arrangements have been
made for everything except
meals on the actual stay in
Seattle. "This is because
there will be such a variety
of food bazaars and cafes at
the fair grounds that the
choice of eating established
should be left up to the in
dividuals. Students will be covered by
the University, who addressed
the 31st annual Conference of
the Nebraska Well Drillers
Association.
The Dean of Faculties said
this continued desire "is a
great challenge to all of us
here in Nebraska, a challenge
to our dynamic and restless
life."
Referring to Astronaut John
H. Glenn's orbital flight
Tuesday, Dr. Breckenridge
pointed out that this is a ra
pidly changing age. "Within
a century we have gone from
stagecoach to rocket flight
and as a result, so much is
now known that was not in
any book when we were in
school. If this is so, should
we not be concerned about
our knowledge and under
standing since we left
school?"
Nebraska YWCA Hosts
Leadership Conference
Tjuwersiiy YWCA wffl
j Saturday, March 17, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Z3Z student union,
j The registration fee will be 80 cents for YWCA members,
I Final deadline for registration is March 13.
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Finals
giving lew grades and using
this system of reporting
grades perhaps the next time
the student would not take a
final exam from another for
(Contiaued en page 3)
SXJ Students
World's Fair
University insurance. "The
only question mark in the ar
rangements is the housing
problem. The Fair Housing
committee has guaranteed a
place for the University stu
dents to stay but have not
confirmed where," said vice
president of the Lincoln Trav
el Agency, Bill Carley.
"However, with Seattle's
monorail system, the visitors
will be just seconds from the
Fan- from downtown Seat
tle." The Seattle monorail, the
worlds first high-speed trans
portation system of this type,
will whisk visitors to the ex
position grounds, a distance
of little over a mile, in 96
seconds.
Other special features of
the Union trip include: three
admission tickets to the Fair;
four rides of the Gallexy; two
admission tickets to fine art
performances (theater, pag
eants, movies); and two tick
ets to fine arts displays.
"Student interest prompted
the plans," said Al Bennett,
Congress Is Studying
Unique AFROTC Plan
A unique AFROTC program
which would pay advanced Air
Force cadets $1,100 a year
and eliminate basic AFROTC
is now under consideration in
Congress. If passed soon, part
of the new program may go
into effect as early as next
fall, revealed an Air Force
spokesman here.
This year's sophomore class
will be eligible for the new
program, if it passes, under
the same eligiblity require
ments as exist for the pres
ent program.
Dubbed informally the Of-
host a leadership conference
. . r j;j
to involve all women's organ
izations on campus as well
as YWCA members through
out the region. Betty Genne
of the Na
tional Board
of the YWCA
and Ruth
Shinn of the
Stall will
help in de
v e 1 o ping
better leader
ship skills in
working with
groups. Mrs. Genne
Mrs. Genne has served
both as a volunteer and pro
fessional worker. Formerly a
college teacher, she has long
been interested in adult ed
ucation. In this field she has
made contributions as a writ
er for various parent educa
tion and religious magazines;
as a leader in Parent-Teacher
Association work and in
many other organizations de
voted to community welfare.
Mrs. Genne also has active
interest la student and youth
programs which date back te
her own student days in Ore
gon State College where she
served en tbe Board ef Di
rectors ef that school's Stu
dent YWCA.
Miss Shinn is an associate
in the college and university
division of the national
YWCA where she is respon
sible for personnel and train
ing, s n e
works with
staff, advi
sors and offi
cers of stu
dent YWCA's
on college
and universi
ty campuses
the coun
try. Miss Shinn
She also
worked several
summers directing YW camps
in Reading, Penn., and Am
jerst, Mass., for four years
served as executive director
of the Student YWCA of the
University of Nebraska.
Miss Shinn attended Yale
University for three years,
graduating from the Yale Di
vinity school in 195s wiw a
bachelor of divinity degree.
She also holds a degree from
Heidelberg College is Tiffin,
Ohio. '
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managing director of the Un
ion. "Students kept asking
about the possibilities of such
a trip, so early last week we
got going on it."
"I might add," Bennett
went on, "if the student In
terest is large enough, we
may plan another trip for
June, and then as many more
as wanted."
A down payment of $75 will
be required for interested stu
dents by' March 14. And the
total amount of $250 win be
due by the 24th.
Students are asked to check
with the Union program of
fice if any questions arise
about the trip.
The schedule calls for de
parture from the Omaha Mu
nicipal airport at 2:43
p.m. Tuesday in a United
Main Liner. A switch-over
will be made at Denver be
fore a 10:14 p.m. arrival in
Seattle. The travlers will go
through two time changes.
The plans for the return
trip allow for an arrival in
Lincoln at 8:10 p.m. Sunday
ficer Education Program, the
new advanced course will
grant each cadet qualifying
$550 each -semester for his
junior and senior years of col
leg in the form of a scholar
ship. Te qualify for the new pro
gram a cadet will be required
to take a nationwide competi
tive exam, given in all col
leges and universities regard
less ef present er future units
assigned there.
Attending a summer camp
id the summer before his jun
ior year and in the summer
following his senior year, the
cadet will receive the pay al
lowance of a staff sergeant
and a second lieutenant re
spectively. Basic ROTC will probably
be continued through this next
school year for present fresh
man, but will not be offered
to next year's incoming fresh
men. Under the new program.
tnere will be no leadership
laboratory er "drill" and only
three class meetings each
week.
Next year, local spokesmen
said, the present program of
leadership lab and four class
meetings each week will prob
ably be continued as will be
the present curriculum.
"Six weeks ef intensive
training- in drill at summer
camp will be tbe substitute
for the leadership lab during
tbe echool year," tbe spokes
man said.
The University may have
uie option of continuing with
the present program, how
ever, or requesting that the
new program be imple
mented. At present, 173 colleges and
universities have AFROTC
programs. The new program,
which would be set up on a
smaller number of campuses,
is designed to save the Air
Force several millions of dol
lars each year, primarily by
eliminating the uniform-instructor
expense of b a s i e
AFROTC.
RAM Changes
Contract System
Frank Hallgren, associate
dean of student affairs, and
Alfred Calvert, SeHeck Quad
rangular manager, attended
last Monday's Residence As
sociation for Men (RAM)
meeting to discuss a new resi
dence system which goes into
effect next semester.
Available quad housing for
next fall is being filled on a
first-come, first-serve basis,
requiring a $40 advance de
posit. .
"We are trying to find out
where we stand in the bous
ing program as early as pos
sible," Hallgren pointed out,
"Tbe problem involves the
"no-show student Now, if tbe
student doesn't 'show,' he will
suffer a financial loss."
Hallgren went on to say
that future plans will allow for
equal proportionment of
classes in the dorm.
Calvert pointed out, bow
ever, that approximately 45
of next fall's contract! will be
reserved for freshmen and
that a hotel might be obtained
for the overflow of upper-classmen.