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    UNIVERSITY OF NEBR,
LIBRARY
DEC 6 1962
C ARCHIVES O T! A O T
ouncil Avoids
ution
ause
.Res J
Xji.
Programs
To Utilize
Senators
By SUE HOVIK
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The Senators Program,
passed unanimously by Stu
dent Council yesterday, will
give legislators the opportun
ity to see the product of the
University and how students
feel about the school and the
state, said Tom Kotouc, pro
gram chairman.
Divided into three areas,
the program will go into ef
fect immediately after Christ
mas vacation, said Kotouc,
The first area is the Lunch
eons Program, which will be
sponsored by Builders. Ko
touc explained that about five
. senators will be invited to a
noon luncheon held in the Stu
dent Union.
About five students from
each senator's district will
discuss mutual areas of inter
est concerning the future of
the University or state with
his senator.
The second program is that
of living units. Selleck Quad
rangle, Women's Residence
Halls, fraternities, sororities,
and co-ops will invite senators
and their wives to dinner. Aft
er supper, Kotouc suggested
that the senator could talk to
the living unit and answer
questions they might have.
' Living units interested in
Inviting a senator should file
their request with Mrs. Mason
at the Interfraternity Council
(IFC) office.
The third area of the pro
gram is the honoraries divi
sion. Honoraries and other
organization are encouraged
to invite state senators as
guest speakers whenever the
senator is qualified to speak
on a topic which is of interest
to them.
Kotouc hopes that the student
will also learn from the sen
ator about state government,
and problems inherent in fi
nancing and administering the
state's program. He also ex
pressed hope that the senator
will invite the students to visit
the legislative chambers and
aIk 4Va f TIaaimawa1 r -4-i rr
One-Way Stairs
Beginning at 8 a.m. to
morrow, the hall and stairs
of Burnett ball will be one
way. Due to problems of stu
dent flow, Bill Dunklau in
Student Council meeting
yesterday, introduced a suc
cessful motion for a trial
run of the "one-way" sys
tem in Burnett.
Beginning tomorrow, and
lasting until Wednesday,
the west door of the build
ing will be the entrance;
the east door the exit, and
the middle doors will re
main two-way.
The building will be "one
way" from 8 until 11 a.m.
on Friday, Monday and
Wednesday.
Caroling Test
Will Be Held
A motion to have an all
campus Christmas sing on
the Wednesday before vaca
tion passed unaminously, in
Student Council yesterday.
The motion provides that
Builders and the Student Un
ion work together to estab
lish a new campus tradition.
It also suggests the extension
of freshman women's hours
by approval of the Division
of Student Affairs.
In a proposed plan of ac
tion, the Council urged that
Builders install Christmas
lights on the dome of the
University Library.
An organ and loud speak
ers for the event are being
secured by the Student Union
program council. It was also
suggested that organized
houses and residence halls
plan functions.
The University
By BOB RAY
Ag News Editor
What division of the Uni
versity has the largest num
ber of students?
The Extension Division, with
3,000 college and 14,000 high
school enrollments, has almost
as many students as the rest
of the University combined.
Knute O. Broady, director
of the Extension Division,
said that some of the 17,000
people enrolled in University
correspondence courses this
fall aren't taking a full 12
hours and so can't be counted
as full-time students.
"But even so," said
Broady, "we have one of the
largest extension programs in
Vol. 76, No. 44
fills
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REVENGE! REVENGE! The citizens of a small town
set out to kill Tom Crowley (Anton Schill) center, who
seduced the town's benefactress 35 years earlier. Don
University Theatre Will Present
'The Visit9 as Next Attraction
"The Visit," a drama about
a bizarre woman's extraordi
nary vengeance on an old
sweetheart, will be the Uni
versity Theatre's next attrac
tion. The play will be presented
during the week beginning
Dec. 12 through Dec. 15.
The play portrays a mon
eyed, much-married woman
who returns to her home town
Lincoliiite Confesses
To Assault Charge
Ex-Convict Pleads Guilty in Case
Concerning Coffee House Knifing
By WENDY ROGERS
News Editor
John Smelser Jr., a 20-year-old
Iowa ex-convict living in
Lincoln, pleaded guilty
Wednesday in Lancaster Coun
ty District Court to a charge
of "assault with intent to in
flict great bodily harm."
District Court Judge Elmer
Scheele suspended court pro
cedures pending further pre
sentence investigation by the
state probation officer.
Smelser admitted the
assault and cutting of Gary
Hesler, a University student,
KK Interviews
Four Tuesday
Interviews for directors of
the Kosmet Klub Spring Show
will be next Tuesday, begin
ning at 7:30 p.m. in 232 Stu
dent Union, according to
Harold Dehart, chairman of
the Spring Show
Students interested in in
terviewing should contact De
hart at 423-6411 or Bob Geis
ler at 477-9995.
A musical director, techni
cal director, choreography
director and overall director
will be chosen.
Scripts for "Fiorello" are
available from Dehart or
Geisler for those interested
in studying them. Tryouts for
cast members will be imme
diately after Christmas va
cation. the world the largest for
high school correspondents."
The University is mailing
lessons to 80 different coun
tries, and has sent them to
every country on the globe
except the Chinese mainland,
Broady said.
Evening Teachers
But the Extension Division's
work isn't limited to corre
spondence courses. Broady
was quick to point out how
closely his division works
with the 40 Nebraska com
munities which don't have col
leges but do have college
education, thanks to teachers
supplied in the evenings by
the University Extension Di
vision. "We are also involved with
The Daily
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to seek revenge on the man
who had seduced her 35 years
earlier and then jilted her.
The little town has turned
stagnant and everyone hopes
that she will become their
Lady Bountiful and help their
blighted industries start up
again.
At a huge welcoming cere
monial, the visitor assures
the townspeople that she in-
Saturday night at the Purple
Piano, i036 P Street. He was
arrested Tuesday afternoon at
a wholesale electric company
where he was employed. De
tective Vic Wright made the
arrest.
Police said an outside
source tipped them off as to
Smelser's whereabouts. Capt.
of Detectives Robert Sawdon
reported that the youth ad
mitted striking Hesler several
several times and then pulling
a pocket knife from his pocket
and cutting him.
The penalty for the charge
to which Smelser pleaded
guilty is one to five years in
the penitentiary, said Lancast
er , County Attorney Paul
Douglas.
Hesler, 18, of 6000 Franklin,
was released from Bryan Me
morial Hospital Tuesday after
several stitches were taken to
close the wound in his nose.
According to an earlier re
port, Hesler said his assailant
pulled the knife on him after
an argument started by the
youth's offering Hesler a ben
zedrine filler from an inhaler.
Hesler said the youth swung
the knife at him; he caught
his arm and tried to avoid
being cut, but the blade
slashed his nose.
Smelser, who has resided at
929 So. 11th St., with his wife
and two children for several
months, had served 17 months
on a 10-year burglary sentence
in Iowa. His parole from Iowa
had been transferred to Ne
braska, according to Douglas.
Extension Program Is Booming
most of the night classes on
campus, said Broady.
"There are a number of
teachers who do graduate
work at night after driving
from several nearby high
schools. We use Teachers'
College facilities in working
with them," he added.
The Extension Division al
so gets Teachers' College co
operation in teaching a few
University High students in
order to give them ahead
start in college.
The Extension Division is
set up to work intensively
with the brilliant. For ex
ample, there's a multi-lingual
girl in Sweden who'll get her
high school diploma from Ne
braska at the same time she
Nebraskan
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Sobolik (Burgomaster), right,
eighth husband,
deed wants to contribute to
their prosperity. She prom
ises not only to re-open the
plants but to donate a billion
marks to the citizens on one
condition. They must kill the
grocer (her oW sweetheart)
whose jilting she has never
forgotten.
Although the townspeople
indignantly spurn her grisly
proposition, the nerciless
benefactress is not deterred.
The plan then details the slow
spread of her corrupting no
tion among the citrzens and
the lonely terror of the help
less shopkeeper who sees his
life-long neighbors begin to
spend the death money in ad
vance. The play becomes a mock
ing exposure of how greed
persuades a whole town to
sell the life of one of its resi
dents. Richard Watts Jr. of the
N.Y. Post said of the play,
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Mississipian . Editor Reprimanded
Brower Takes Stand
Against Majority Will
EDITOR'S NOTE: T-ie followinr stery is taken from the Daily Mlssisslppian.
the I'nivrrsity of Mississippi's student paper. It eoncerns another problem tared
by tbat university resulting from the present segregation issue on the college
campuses.
The Student Senate at the
University of Mississippi
voted Tuesday to reprimand
the editor of the school
newspaper for her stand
during the integration cri
sis. The approved resolution
stated that Miss S i d n a
Brower failed to "uphold
the rights of her fellow
students" and did not coun
ter the "distortion" of the
integration crisis by the
nation's newspapers.
During the racial crisis
Miss Brower editorially de
nounced the violence which
occured when James Mere
dith was admitted to t h e
University of Mississippi.
The motion accused her
of having taken editorial
stands against the will of
the majority of Mississippi
students. Yet it commended
her for her stands during
the crisis.
BROADY
Thursday, December 6, 1962
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is the wealthy
woman s
"It is an absorbingly sardon
ic contemplation of a commu
nity's avarice, and it is sure
ly one of the most savage
dramatic studies of greed
since Ben Jonson's "Vol
pone." The cast consists of:
Leta Powell Drake as Clair Zachanas
sian Tom Crawley as Anton Schill
lVn Sobolik as the Burgomaster
Robert Hall as the Teacher
Gerald Ean as the Policeman
Jay Freed as the Doctor
Melvin Grubb as the Pastor
Mary Meckel as Frau Schill
Ray Stanek as the Son
Annette Longo as tue Daughter
Bill Cooper as the Painter
Phil Nelson as the 1st Man
Ted McConaughey as the 2nd Man
R'hard Meier as the 3rd Man
Dan Pomerantz as the 4th Man
Mary Teale as the 1st Woman
Connie Hu.isaker as the 2nd Woman
Jody Reeder as Frau Burgomaster
Linda Mead as the 1st Grandchild
Elizabeth Bauer as the 2nd Grandchild
Ron Olsen as Bobby
Curtiss Greene as Pedro
Gary Gue as the 1st Blindman
Robert Prior as the 2nd Blindman
Charles Armstrong, 111 as the Station
Manger
Dave Heffelbower as the Conductor
Tom Ballain as the Truck Driver
Pat Keating as the Reporter
Elijah Powell as the Photographer
Connie Hoy as the 1st Townswoman
lJegBy Beth Bryans as the 2nd Towns
woman "This (reprimand) is not
to be construed as being
opposed to editorial free
dom," the motion states.
"This Senate upholds that
privilege for the campus
newspaper and this Senate
commends the editor for
deploring the violence which
has taken place on the
campus."
According to Miss Brow
er the resolution was not
condemning her for what
she said but for what she
did not say. She felt that
the approved resolution was
a "watered down resolu
tion" The original state
ment censured her for "ir
responsible conduct and
editorializing."
As of Monday in addition
to the reprimand resolution,
a petition to impeach
Miss Brower from her
elected position as editor of
the Daily Mississippian was
being circulated.
graduates from her high
schpol in Sweden.
Handicapped Students
Handicapped students are
also a main concern. "We've
taught people who could only
write with their teeth as well
as those who live far from a
'880 Club' Needs
Live student participation is
the essence of a new show,
the "880 Club" which will be
broadcasted tonight over
KNUS.
Originated by Jim Chingas,
the show will run every Thurs
day night, 7-8 p.m., through
June, 1963. The open show is
broadcast from the KNUS stu
Introducer Feels
Wot Understood9
By JIM MOORE
Nebraskan Staff Writer
A motion concerning recent official administrative
rulings that fraternal campus groups may not discrimi
nate by virtue of their constitutions was introduced by
Steve Christensen, law college representative, in yes
terday's Student Council meeting.
The motion, directed primarily at other universities
and colleges, also inferred that allusions of related ac
tions by Nebraska University officials should be con
demned. The motion stated that these actions "blatantly flout
ed the principle of free association," and further urged
that the University administration avoid any and all
such actions.
On Discriminatory Clauses . . .
Whereas certain colleges and universities have seen fit fo arbitrarily and
summarily rule that fraternal campus groups may not discriminate by virtue of
their constitutions, by-laws, or whatever on the basis of race creed religion, ad
Infinitum, ad nauseumt and
Whereas, there have been allusions both official and unofficial to the pro
prlety and desirability of such action on the University of Nebraska e ampul t and
Whereas, we, the Student Council of the Vniversity of Nebraska are struck
with horror at the possibility of such a blatant flouting of the principle of free
association at the University of Nebraska;
Now threfore be it resolved, that the Student Council of the University ef
Nebraska go on record as:
(1) strongly censuring such official administrative action by any and aU college!
and universities which have heretofore so despotically actedt
(21 advocating and urging that the University of Nebraska administration avoid
any and all such action on the matter!
(3 advocating and urging that fraternal groups which would be adversely effected
by such ruling resist the enactment or implementation of such ruling so far as
may he within their power:
(4) advocating and urging that such groups voluntarily enact more liberal constitu
tions by-laws etc.
After the reading of the resolution, Chip Kuklin im
mediately objected to consideration. The motion took
precedence and required a two-thirds majority. Subse
quently, the motion to object to consideration passed.
After the defeat of his motion in Council meeting,
Christensen commented, "When fraternal groups cannot
associate with whom they please, the situation is seri
ous, indeed."
"This was the point of the motion," continued Chris
tensen, "to allow students to think of the situation."
He also pointed out that the reason for the intro
duction of the motion was prompted by occurences on
other college campuses. He pointed out that in a few
schools the situation degenerated to the point that stu
dents were actually assigned to fraternities as a place
of residence.
He continued, "I don't really think the council mem
bers understood the motion."
Don Burt, president of the Council, said that he did
not feel the problem would come to Nebraska for at least
several years, and perhaps never.
"To consider this motion now, even before the prob
lem begins, would serve no useful purpose," Burt commented.
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CHRISTMAS SPIRIT! Annual door decorating contests
have started for freshman girls in the girls dorm- Per
haps the most original is the above decoration a "pop"
bottle with a lit candle and a neatly lettered sign point
ing out that the Christmas "spirit" is here. The girl is
NOT part of the decoration, guys. (Photo by Pixie Small-wood)
JFK May View
Huskers in Bowl
James Wagner, mayor
of New York City, will ex
tend an invitation to Presi
dent John Kennedy to at
tend the Gotham Bowl at
Yankee Stadium, accord
ing to a local radio station.
President Kennedy will be
in New York the evening of
Dec. 14, and the mayor will
ask him to stay for the
game the following morn
ing. public school," Broady said.
Broady proudly cites the
division's community service
in working with the Sheldon
Art Gallery to send art origi
nals for exhibits in fire-safe
schools and libraries across
the state.
Student Interest
dio in Temple Building.
According to Chingas, mu
sic, dancing, and discussions
on student afafirs "anything
the students want to do"
will determine each show's
program.
"So far attendance has been
good," noted a KNUS repre-isentative.
HallsteinTalk
Slated Today
At Wesley an
The President of the Euro
pean Common Market will try
to convince American Mid
westerners that there will be
benefit for them when low
cost European goods become
readily available here.
Professor Dr. Walter Hall
stein, leader of the Common
Market, will speak twice to
day at Nebraska Wesleyan
with the purpose of "convinc
ing the somewhat hesitant
American farmer that an At
lantic partnership with the
common market will provide
an equitable share of the
market for U.S. farm pro
ducts." Hallstein will speak at 11:00
a.m. in the Taylor Physical
Education Building, and will
hold a question and answer
forum at 2:00 p.m. in the
White Building auditorium.
Hallstein has said that "the
Atlantic partnership is based
on the common problems of
the partners. They have many
common potentialities, many
common dangers, many com
mon problems, and many
common objectives."
According to advance news
releases, Hallstein said that
he hopes to soothe some fears
among those in the traditional
stronghold of isofation when,
hi says that "no Atlantic gov
ernment is being contem
plated."