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S Defends Controversial Point Plan "We realized the old point system discriminated against some organizations and re sulted in building "prestige activities," Associated Wom en Students (AWS) President Jeanne Garner pointed out in explaining a new point 'sys tem devised for University women. The new rules hold that no woman may be a member of more than three activities with the exception of honor aries and professional organ izations. Worker positions are not considered memberships. Another advantage of the new system is that at the freshman level women a r e not as limited, and are able to participate in as many or ganizations as they wish, said Miss Garner. A sampling of opinions on the new point system ex pressed by presidents of some organized houses, has called forth a variety of comment. "Itis a complete injustice to the Cornhusker staff," said Editor Ann Sowles. "The point system purpose is good," she said, "but the only way organizations' on campus can survive is to work together. And before they set up the point system, they should have consulted the organizations involved. Miss Sowles also commented that the Cornhusker and sev eral other similar organiza tions are penalized under the new point system because a "person active in one organ ization will be active in oth ers. "Holding an office presiden cy almost eliminates senior positions on the Cornhusker." Other provisions of the new system are that no woman may hold more than one presidency. No woman may hold more than two board positions or two chairman ships. Presidencies include a 1 1 groups except honoraries, pro fessional groups and Panhel lenic. Also affected are the Cornhusker positions of edi tor, associate editor and busi ness manager, and the Daily Nebraskan positions of editor, managing editor, news editor and business manager. The designation "boards" applies to most executive of ficers or organizations as well as to these other positions: Ag Executive Board, AUF Board, AWS Board, Builders Board, Cornhusker managing Vol. 75, No. 77 The Daily Nebraskan Friday, March 9, 1962 Jr. IFC Presents 'Senator Program' By MIKE MacLEAN Representatives of the Jr. IFC presented "The Senator Program" which IFC President John Nolon designated as the "most significant contribution the Jr. IFC has ever made." The purpose of the program is to acquaint state senators with the University and student life. The senators will take a tour of the campus, visiting with the heads of the selected colleges for half an hour before touring the college " i facilities. Courageous Journalist Will Speak Riesel Just Home From African Tour Victor Riesel, who has been called one of the most courageous men in journal ism, will speak at the Uni versity Monday at 10 a.m. in the Student Union. Riesel, who has recently returned from an extended stay in several African coun tries, will appear under the sponsorship of the Student Union talks and topics com mittee. The journalist, blinded by racketeers in an acid throw ing, incident n 1936, is the author of one of today's most widely read columns, "Inside Labor," in which he carries on his fight against Commu nist and racket infiltration of labor unions. Riesel is expected to speak about his trip to Africa. While there, he lived with the Pygmies and giant Rain Forest people and spent long sessions with tribal chieftains and monarchs. His recent columns have dealt with tracing Commu nist money, which, according to Riesel, has been spent in Africa from Zansibar to Kisu mu and from Capetown to Khartoum. Riesel found that the Rus sian money is "being used to capture the fledgling labor organizations which will be the governments as the new independent African states emerge." His columns have also dealt with the Communist agent support of the terror organizations and secret so cieties such as the Kiama Kia Thayu in Kenya, successor to (he dreaded .Mau Mau. This past summer the jour nalist had long talks with the heads of Germany, Italy, h ranee and England. Preceeding the tour would be a luncheon to which Gov ernor Morrison, Chancelor Hardin, Mayor Boyles and various students will be in vited. The senators will be given a packet containing a copy of the Daily Nebraskan, the Nebraska alumni maga zine, some of the Builders in formation and the Student Council constitution. The locations to be visited are: the Art Department, English Department, School of Dentistry, School of Music, Mornl Hall, Law College, College of Architecture, and the College of Pharmacy. Don Burt, chairman of the public relations committee, of IFC, announced that a publi cations subcommittee is be ing considered. The purpose of the subcommittee will be to handle such things as a rush book for parents, a greek newsletter, and possibly the rush book itself. Tentative plans for Greek Week are under way, and the rush film may be ready for showing Saturday. A motion was passed waiv ing rushing restrictions for Triangle fraternity during Engineering Week. Steve Joynt moved that John Nolon set up a study group on NSA. Joynt stated that the purpose of the study group would be educate the greeks on the campus about NSA. Members of the newly es tablished finance and expan sion committees were an nounced. The chairman of the finance committee has not been selected. The members of this committee are: Grant Gregory, Jerry Dickenson, Bill Henry, Harvey Perlman, Dick Weil. Members of the expansion committee, which will be headed by Bob Web er, are: Jack Lavsterer, Steve Joynt and John Powell. Mem bership on the committees is still open, however. 1 fr it t; ( A Id'' -v If You Cannot Understand What We Are Doing In These Pictures . . . Twist This Page Over r ft KS Howell Features 1 MacLeish Play Law School Tells Top Court Teams The winners in the semifi nals of the Moot Court com petition at the University Law College have been announced by Bill Gourley, contest chairman. The winning teams are Joseph Krause and Donald Treadway, and Richard Peterson and Benjamin Neff. The case that the students argued involved an appeal for an award of damages to a United States citizen while touring a Latin American na tion. The judges were Lan caster County Judge Ralph Slocum, Deputy County Attor neys Bernard Wishnow and Ronald Lahners, and Lin coln attorneys Patrick Healey, Jerrold Strasheim and Har old W. Booth. Semi-final winners will argue the case in final Moot Court competition April before three Nebraska Su preme Court judges. Li 111 el iters Chose Six Bachelors, Beauty Queens The Limeliters will select the six Cornhusker Beauty Queens and the six Eligible Bachelors, announced Anne Sowles, Cornhusker editor. After the Limeliters' per formance Thursday, a coffee will be held so that they may meet informally with the candidates. They will also look at the pictures of the 24 finalists to determine the winners. From the six Beauty Queens, the senior staff of the Cornhusker, assisted by the Limeliters, will select Miss Cornhusker. Judging will be based on beauty, personality, activi ties, contribution to the cam pus and poise. .The selections will be an nounced in the 1962 Cornhusker. Coeds to Present Swimming Pageant Aquaquettes, the University girls' swimming club, will present their annual spring swimming pageant March 15 16 at 7:45 p.m. "Rhyme and Rhythm," the theme of this year's presenta tion, will be given at the Coli seum pool. Admission will be fifty cents. "J. B.," a Pulitzer prize winning play by Archibald MacLeish, will be presented March 21-24 in Howell Memorial Theater. MacLeish is one of Ameri ca's foremost poets, having won Pulitzer prizes in 1932 and 1953 for poetry before writing "J.B." He gradu ated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. Macloish served as Li brarian of Congress and Associate Director of the Office of War Information under Franklin Roosevelt. "J.B." is like the Eliza bethan morality plays, but in a modern setting. The play opens with two ageing actors in a traveling pro duction of the Book of Job argueing about how the play should be read. They decide to dramatize it themselves, and take upon themselves the wager of the Book of Job; satan's bet that if God will strip 'Job of everything he has, Job, the perfect and upright man, will curse God to his face. "Will he?," wonders the audience at the end of the first act. The questions developed later in the play become more important to J.B., how ever. He wonders, "What h the meaning of suffering which is apparently unde served? How is it justified? Will he retain his unbeliev ing wife, and at the same time his belief in God?" Students Must Sign For World Fair Trip See the World Fair in Seattle, Wash., April 24-29. All interested persons must sign up in the Union Program office by Wednesday. A minimum of 15 students is needed and up to thirty will be taken. This is the first World Fair to be held in the United States in twenty years. It will host 40 nations. This educational and cultural opportunity is being offered students for $250. Included will be a round trip, ticket between Lin coln and Seattle on United Airlines, tickets for admis sion to the fair, hotel reservations for five nights, and transfers. At the fair expenses include visits to Gateway, Gfolaxie rides, a round trip on the Monorail, and a visit to the space needle. A boat and land tour of Seattle will be given and will include visits to Puget Sound, fisherman warfs, the government locks, Mt. Rainier and many other sites. The tour is sponsored by the tours and trips com mittee of the Student Union. All going will leave at 11:45 a.m. April 24 from the Union by chartered bus. The airplane trip to Seattle begins at 2:15 p.m. that day from Omaha. The balance of the $250 must be paid by April 9 at the Union Program Office. For further information contact Sam Condit at 432-6528. Professor Gets National Recognition A University professor re ceived national recognition for distinguished service in agri culture and a student was cited for his outstanding scholastic achievement by the Nebraska chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, an agricultural honor society. Honored were Dr. George A. Young, chairman of the department of veterinary sci ence, and Larry Hammer, a junior. Nineteen other sopho more and junior Ag students v ith high averages also were honored at the organization's annual distinguished awards dinner Thursday night. Dr. D. M. Hall of Urbana, 111., international president of Gamma Sigma Delta, p r e sentcd Dr. Young with a medal and certificate. The award goes annually to a member who "has made great contributions to agricul ture during the last five years, either in the form of teaching, research, extension or other notable service." Dr. Young is responsible for developing techniques which made it possible to obtain and rear pathogen-free (germ free) pigs. This breakthrough eventually led to the swine repopulation program which has spread throughout the Midwest and created interest around the world. This method involves taking the young pigs from their mother by surgical means. They are reared in isolation. Such pigs have been used extensively as experimental hosts in swine disease studies. Hammer, a wild life ma jor, was recognized for his academic achievement by the chapter. His over-all average at the end of the 1960-61 aca demic year was 8.0, and is slightly higher now. editor, section editor, panel editor and assistant business manager. Daily Nebraskan junior and senior staff writers, copy edi tors and assistant business managers; IWA Board, Pan hellenic president and vice president; Red Cross Board; sorority pledge trainer; Stu dent Council officers and se nior holdover members; Stu dent Union Board (Ag and City) and Program Council Board; WAA Board and YW CA Ag Board and City Exe cutive Board. Memberships include affilia tion with these organizations Aquaquettes, Cadence Count esses, cheerleaders, Debate 1 earn, honoraries, Husker ettes, professional group pres- idents, sorority scholarship chairman, social chairman, standards board chairman and treasurer. Student Council members, Student Tribunal members and assistants to chairmen of any activity. According to John Schroed er, president of the Stu dent Union, "as a general rule, such a point system is a very good idea. It will help most organizations because their members will have more time to do a better job." He continued, "it will give more people an opportunity to assume positions of leader ship, and help them in limit ing themselves to activities in which they're most inter ested." Jay Graf, new president of Ag Union, believes the idea of a point system is basically good, but that exceptions should be made for those who have demonstrated ability to hold more than the specified number of leadership posi tions. Don Ferguson, editor of the Daily Nebraskan, said, "it's the most ridiculous thing ever done. "As for my staff, I do not consider the posts of news edi tor and managing editor as presidencies." President of Builders, Mary Kokes, noted that while the new point system provides a chance for leadership to de velop in many activities, a problem is created because of students who concentrate on a few certain activities early, then find they don't like them. " ' Mwr Kokes - expressed the opinion that girls in activities, when they do find themselves overburdened, would drop out anyway. "But this new system is better that the old way," she said. "There will be trouble over it the first few years, but once students understand why it exists, the system will be a success." Miss Kokes also felt the act-i vities chairmen in organized houses should be oriented on the system so that they could plan their activities program differently. "I don't like the basic phil osophy which underlies the point system," said Roger Myers, president of All Um versity Fund. "Underlying it is the as sumption that girls don't know what they're doing. "The individual personalities of the girls are not taken into account. Some girls are cap able of one executive posi tion, while others are capable of more." Pam Hirschbach, president elect of Chi Omega sorority, commented that the AWS point system as a whole is somewhat idealistic, but she is convinced that a point sys tem is necessary. "The new system will be fine," she said," as long as it is fully enforced." "I believe AWS should either have a point system and carry it out to the full est, or not have it at all. "Otherwise you are being unfair both to the girls who have been honest in limiting themselves, and unfair in let ting others get away with too many points because they in jure themselves. "Girls just don't give up activities," said Miss Hirsh bach. "It takes something more than a conscience for them to limit themselves." "The important thing is why the point system has been set up," said Miss Marv Jean Mulvaney, adviser to AWh. it protects the girl from taking on too much, and thereby damaging her health and scholastic standing. i nave worked with cam pus leaders for a long time," noted Miss Mulvaney, "and I've witnessed what's hap pened to girls who take on too much." "The point system also pro tects the organization," she said. "They will know that they have people who can de vote the necessary time to the organization." She also pointed out that leadership is scattered more among equally qualified peo ple who are not so imme diately recognizable. 1 7v NIA Collects Used Books Have any books you can do without? Many countries abroad need them. Unicorns, the organization of off-campus independents, will collect any books you can give this Sunday, from 2-5 p.m. in the Pan-American room in the Student Union. Any books, paperbacks in cluded, may be brought to the Pan-American room or will be picked up by Unicorns. To have your books picked up, regardless of where you live, leave a note in the Unicorn box in the Student Union or phone HE 2-7631 Extension 5113, Sunday afternoon from 2-5 p.m. The book project is spon sored by the Nebraska Inter national Association (NIA). The NIA contacts countries abroad, determines what books they need and mails them. The books that are not needed are sold to pay postage. Tennis Champion Is Guest Allhea Gibson Meets With Coed Athletes Althea Gibson, the world's professional tennis champion of women, will be a guest at the regional meeting for col lege coeds at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Educa tion next weekend. The Nebraska Chapter of the Women's Athletic Associa tion will act as hosts for the conference. The conference will open at 4 p.m. Thursday and will close at noon Satur day. Miss Gibson will speak on "The Role of Women in Sports" at 8 p.m. on Thurs day. At 9:30 a.m. Friday she will give a tennis demonstra tion at the Coliseum. Admission to the Thursday night speech will be with tick ets only. The tickets can be obtained free of charge at the Student Union's main desk Thursday from 2-5 p.m. Miss Gibson has received many honors for her sports abilities. She held the title of National Negro Women's Tennis Champion for ten years. Miss Gibson was the U.S. Women's Singles Cham pion, 1957-1958, and also won the Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship that year. In 1958 she was awarded the Fredrick C. Miller Eagles award and the Babe Zaharias award as the Outstanding Woman Athlete of the year. Miss Gibson has studied singing, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in 1358. She has made a movie en titled "The Horse Soldiers," and has written her autobio graphy, which was published in 1958. She won the title of the Women's World Profes sional Tennis Champion in 1958. Union Schedules Tourney Dances The Student Union enter tainment committee is spon soring two dance3 during the State Basketball Tourna ment. Two dances at 50 cents per person are scheduled for Fri day and Saturday. S i n f 0 n 1 a Jazz Band will play Friday night and the Bill Albers Com bo will perform on Saturday. Both are scheduled in the Student Union ballroom from 9-12 p.m. COMING MARCH 15 03 Q m U l D IT E 02 S PERSHING AUDITORIUM