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Vol. 76, No. 100
The Doily Nebraskon
Thursday, May 9, 1963
Deferred
Nets IFC
Only four fraternities dis
cussed the proposed plans
concerning deferred rush at
the University during the
past week.
Each of these fraternities
judged the report by the In
terfraternity Council's Rush
committee as containing the
best approach to deferred
rush.
Last week, the IFC was
presented with a summary of
opinions expressed by otner
campuses on the subject of
deferred rush (waiting to j er classes due to an increas
pledge men until after they j ing lack of interest in the
have proven their scholastic fraternity system,
ability . Second, the burden of ori-
In their report, trie com-jenting men ta college life,
mittee stressed the fact that ; and finding first semester
although several universities housing space for the men.
the best thing that had ever ty . This would foul up j one- " e re al wavf
happened to their fraternity j the university housing, they pkins for another dormitory,"
system, these schools tended would have a notably small-: said Donaldson,
to be those with three or four er number of men to care j
fraternities. None were com-! for during the second semes- Estimates of the Univer
parable in size to the Uni-, ter, and the fraternity nous- sity's 1970 enrollment hover
versity- 'm& 11 maS estimated that : near 20 000 students with an
According to Jim Hix, the fraternity system would XampW foSSS of 2 bo
chairman of the rush com- lose approximately $180,039 i 7 rdu
mittee, one university stated ! during the first semester of according to
that before deferred rush,
thev were only able to ini
tiate about 55 per cent of the
men who had been pledge!
because of scholastic failure.
After the new program was
begun, however, they were j
initiating better than 89 per j
cent of the men pleagea.
The only drawback was that !
the 89 per cent totaled less j
Dr. Soshnik
Says Report
Is (Erroneous
A report that $2JB22 in state
tax money is the annual cost
per student at the University
is a "gross error," said Dr.
Joseph Soshnik, vice chancel-
lor for business and finance,
Associated Industries presi-,
dent, George Mechling, gave :
the report to a meeting of!
the Beatrice Chamber of Com-1
merce where he supported the
controversial budget film en-
dorsed by the State Cham-;
ber of Commerce. i
The cgrrect figures for stu-
cent insiruCTion cosis during oe similar to mat used last
the last complete academic j year.
year 196162. including mon- The last day for men to
ey from state taxes, tuition, register for rush week will
federal and aD other sources, j be August 30th. Rush week
according to Dr. Soshnik, are ' itself will begin on Wednes
as follows: ;day, Sept. 11th and run
Freshman-sophomore level, : through Sunday, Sept 15th.
$484.96; juBior-senior level, -
f 979.79: graduate students, Art Students Will Sell
$1516.15; and medical, nurs-
dent costs and they are re-
ported in the total financial
records which we have sub
mitted to the Legislature and
upon which the University
stands," be said.
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i.oit.ia; ana meaieai, nurs- ;f u-t,m TJw
ing, dentistry, law and phar- r'S"' Works Today
macy students and medical ! The Student Art Sale, spon
technicians, $2335.61. ; sored by the Student Union
"These are the true per stu-1 contemporary arts cosamit-
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FLOWER EXPERT Dr. Rufus Moore, associate pro
fessor of botany at the University examines the effects
of an infra red ligltt on plants. He has found that by sub
mitting his plants to the special light, he can acheive the
same result as lengthening or shortening the day.
Rush Idea
Rejection
whom they had originally
been pledging. Obviously,
said Hix, this type of thing
would be disastrous to a fra
ternity system.
The rush committee was
unanimous in its conclusion
that deferred rush not be ini
tiated at the University. It
listed several reasons for this
conclusion.
First, although the fraterni
ty would initiate a greater
percentage of its pledges, it
would probably pledge small-
i each year.
Third, although the fratern -
itv scholastic average wnuld
continue to increase over the a need ior about seven more
all-men's average, the sys- dorms similar to the 1.000 stu
'tem itself would dwindle in ,dent Selleck, Cather and
j numbers due to the smaller j Pound dormitories,
pledge classes. i The ideal method of situat-
Fourth, the University
would have to establish a
broader long term housing
! : i r
: gruwiuc uuniwer ui njea who
would not be living in fra-jtions and approximately sim
ternity bouses. ! ilar distances,
j In concluding its report, j
! the committee stated t hat i Donaldson observed that
!thpn ic tut rpasrm fnr th
IFC here to consider adopt-
ing any type of deferred rush
program, at least not in the
near future. The only rea-jtbe
son," stated the committee's
report, "we should ever pro-
I pose to adopt deferred rush
is to strengthen the Greek
svstem at Nebraska, and at
the present time, the effect
of deferred rush measures
would be just the opposite."
Dave Smith, vice president,
presented the schedule for
next year's rush week to ihe
council and to attending rush
chairmen. Next year's sched
ule, according to Smith, will
tee, wui oe new toaay in trie
Pan American room from 9
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Original
paintings and sculptures by
University students will be
sold.
Leads P
NU Plans
Additional
Dormitories
Nebraska Hall Area
Under Consideration
Another dormitory, similar
in size to the Cather and
Pound (twin towers) dorms,
will be built on the campus
next fall, according to Carl
Donaldson, University b u s i-
ness manager.
The site being explored for
the new dormitory is across
the street from Nebraska
Halls parking lot.
; Opening ef the Cather and
j Pound dormitories is antici-
! paled for next fall and "then
jweH have t start on another
1 ims wo 0 ia mean 11131 by
y S. there will be
ing dormitories, said Donald-
son, would be to place them
so that tbey would encircle
' r u i r -.-n J :
;uuw woiuu vc uum au uuec-
th llmvmitv is hatnnprfld in i
its expansion by the fact that
the dm pit is flanked on
three sides, en ene side by
business district, and on
jtwo sides by the railroads,
j "This puts a strain on the
east," be said.
Dorm Expansion is possible
to the west, he pointed out,
j but then possible expansion
j of the athletic facilities would
! be stifled.
Committee Se I eCTS
lu...-. A- t A L.
;nuuil r vicmuei
Dr. Franklin Houn, asso
ciate professor of political
science at the University, has
been named a member of
the Committee on the Tradi
tional Chinese State.
The -group is jointly spon
sored by the Social Science
Research Council, the Ameri
can Council of Learned So
cieties and the Association
for Asian Studies.
The committee will survey
the state of studies on tradi
tional Chinese government,
suggest desirable directions
for further development in
the field and study ways and
means for coordinating re
search and instruction.
Oflf btQSGOFCl
Remember those flowers wrong, Moore decided to test
you bought for your mother gome their answers in the
yXXffiS- instructor and stu
ones she might get this year? . . , . . .
Well, they might not have j dent off un tne scientlfk:
been grown exactly the way j fact-finding trail.
Mother Nature intended, ac
cording to Dr. Rufus Moore, Most of the theoretical ex
associate professor of Botany, pectations have proven true.
Manv clanti can be classi-
f ied as either "Saort-d av!ial green houses, flowers are
plants" or Jlong-day plants,
said Dr. Moore. This means
that they bloom when the
days are short, as in August,
or long, as in late June or
early July. It has long been i
known that plants will flower
early, if the length of their
day is artificially adjusted. A
"long-day plant" will flower
early, for example, if its day
is artificially made long.
Moore Is prwienOy experi
menting with the effects of
two kinds of red light on
plants. He hai found that by
submitting bis plants to the
special light, he eaa more
easily achieve the same re
sult at lengthening or short
ening the day.
On one of his Botany tests,
Moore asked his students
about the effects of various
wave lengths of red light on
plants. Their answers went
beyond what had been done
experimentally and Into the
realm of theory
Rather than say they were I
hoislHie, WeeDD,
By SUE HOVIK
DaQv Nebraskan Writer
Dennis Christie was elect-
ed president of the 1963-84
Student Council yesterday by
fro cutting members.
CHRISTIE . . . Will
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AUF Faculty Drive
Tops Original Goal
Contributions totaling $1,
021.25 have been received by
theAHUniversitv Fund
(AUF) for the 1963 AUF Fac
ulty Drive. The money was
collected from more than 200
faculty members and exceed
ed the goal by $2155.
Money will be sent to the
Vrorld University Serv
ice (WUS) for aid to needy
students and professors in
countries of recent disaster.
According to a recent tssae
of WUS In Action, the United
States WUS programs of aid
to Hungarian refugee students
have reached a total value of
over 4 million dollars in the
six years since the Hangar-; jion k to fcave in-
ian devolution. j creased from 3,000 million in
This represents over $3 mil- 1960 to 6,000 million; al
lien dollars in scholarships I ready more than half the
contributed by universities world's people do not get
and colleges, and over 600 1 enough to eat This program
thousand in loans and grants j was began to combat wide
administered by United States ! spread hunger in the under-
WUS itself.
Presently, ia some commer-
grows until tbey reach a cer
tain size, and then covered
during part of Ave day to pro-
'ae proper oay lengin. u
their operation is very exten-
ive, owe eaa imagine the el-
fort and equipment expended
in covering all of the plants.
There is a possibility,
agreed Moore, that the exper
iments being conducted may
eventually lead to a simplified
industrial operation. Use of
the red light technique, ac
cording to Moore, will enable
the commercial firms to sub
ject their plants to red light,
regardless of the length of
the day, and obtain the same
results.
Choir To Sing
The University Lutheran
Chapel Choir, under the di
rection of Harry Giesselman,
will present a concert Sunday
as the major part of the morn
ing worship at both 8:30 and
11 a.m. in the Lutheran Cha-
pel at 15th and Q streets
lixiecOTove
Dick Weill was elected first
vice president and Susie
Pierce is the second vice
! president
j
i Other Senior holdover
Follow Locke's theory
In addition, in the 1956-57
academic year, United States
professors and students con
tributed $152,000 for the assis
tance of Hungarian students
overseas.
The number of Hungarian
students benefiting from the
United States WUS program,
is, of course, decreasing each
year
the figure for 1963-63
is 258, nearly one-half of 570
Hungarians enrolled in United
States universities and col
leges. In 1960, the United Nations
launched a Freedom From
Hunger Campaign under the
supervision of WUS. Ey the
developed regions of the Near
East, the rar t-asi, Airica
and Latin America.
Folk Singers
VJill Perform
For Students
All reserve tickets for the
two performances of the Smo
thers Brothers May 15 have
been sold, according to Bob
Patterson, Union assistant
program manager. The tick
ets had been on sale for three
days in the lobby of the Un
ion. General admission tickets
will continue to be sold in the
Union for $1.75. There are al
most 1,000 of these tickets left,
Patterson said.
The Smothers Brothers, glee
ful dismantled of commer
cialized folk musk, will play
at 7 p.m. and p.m. Wednes
day at the Student Union.
They are sponsored by the
Union Special Events Com
mittee. In addition to their musical
antics the Smothers Brothers
will sing seriously those songs
in which they believe. They
began their upward climb in
show business in 1961 when
they first appeared on the
Jack Paar Show.
Since then they have made
several TV appearances and
contracted many nightclubs
including C b i c a g o's Mr.
Keily's, New York's Blue
Angel, the Purple Onion in
San Francisco and the Ex
odus in Denver.
dflDiiCQll Eoecfs
HSc
members are Ann Wahl and
Dave Smith.
In his speech to the Coun
cil, Christie said that the
conception of Student Council
since I960 has been to mirror
and mold student opinion. He
said that be believes that the
principle of all governments
comes in John Locke's "Es
say on Civil Government," and
I it says that "the objective
of inankind." He interpreted
this to mean that the Coun
cil's purpose should concern
the welfare of the student
body and the total good of
the University.
Christie said "C c 1 1
members have aa obligation
to act for the welfare of li,
009 students, a task to enact
programs that will achieve
this aim and a challenge to
explore new areas for future
benefit."
Pointing out the past ac
complishments of the Council
such as the Council Associ
ates, the Senators and Mas
ters Programs and Public Is
sue programs, the new Coun
cil president said they should
act as building blocks for the
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In the publicity area, Chris
tie suggested that proposals
be publicized before any fi
nal action is taken on them
in order to create student in
terest. Among the sugges
tions for increasing this pub
licity, be said that executive
Council meetings should be
bfld at least a day before
Le regularly scheduled
Wednesday meeting so that
all resolutions can be sub
mitted at that time.
Despite Steve Christensen's
recommendations to discon
tinue the campus opinion
committee Christie said that
the committee should be kept
to take a cross-sampling of
student opinion and attempt
to formulate reliable as i
comprehensive reports on the
att utudes of the student body.
"I believe that the Public
Issues comraittee should
broaden its perspective be
cause the Council can per
form a valuable function in
the total education of the Uni
versity students by encourag
ing an awareness of the prob
lems of the world around us,
said Christie.
In this area, he suggests
that the Council take the is
sues out of its hands, where
feasible, and direct them to
the student body.
He mentioned three types
of organizations present on
this camp as: professional
honor ariet, scholastic honor
aries and extra curricular.
Christie pointed out that
many of these groups are
interested and concerned with
issues that wDl affect them.
He said that be believes that
the Council can best accom
plish its purposes in this area
onlv if it directs issues to the
student body, only if it gives
organizations the opportunity
to participate and only if it
takes the issues out of the
hands of a small faction of
Council members and associ
ates. He gave the example
that the pre-med organizations
eouid take tip the Medicare
issue.
Christie suggested that a
temporary committee be set
up to study the Council con
stitution to discover any in
consistencies and to propose
valid changes.
Another new area to be set up
by Christie is that of welfare
and personnel services. Un
der this program he suggest
ed the book exchange and
consideration of the minimum
wage law and its enforcement
in Lincoln.
Christie proposed a Nebras
ka Student Government As
sociation which would Include
all student governments in
schools of higher learning In
the state. They could discuss
common problems and stimu
late attention for higher edu -
U n
cation ia Nebraska.
Another new committee tha
president proposed is that con
cerning student pep rallies,
pep demonstrations and stu
dent migrations. Preventing
some of the past trouble, the
purposes of this committee
would be to work directly
with the spirit organization ia
programming student rallies
and parades, to bring before
the Council any proposals for
new innovations in mascots
and cheerleader, and to be
directly responsible for set
ting up cheerleader tryouts.
Under the area of the activi
ties committee, he proposed
forming a subcommittee on
organization evaluation. Ac
cording to the Council by
laws, it "may evaluate any
student organization to deter
mine whether it is fulfilling
its purposes and potectiali-
This subcommittee w 1 d
study several key organiza
tions on campus to determine
their worth; to see if they
eaa justify their existence and
to discover their weaknesses
and failures.
Under this area he gave
the example of AUF which
solicits money from the en-
tiro stjiripnt hndv for various
welfare endeavors. Under its
constitution no organization
can solicit funds without its
consent Christie would like
to see an agreement between
the administration, AUF and
the Council whereby definite
funds could be allocated for
the purpose of helping defin
ite campus organizations.
The organizational evalua
tion subcommittee would also
evaluate newly-formed organ
izations to determine if they
need any sort of assistance.
Christie said that the Big
Eight Student Government
Convention should be set op
to fulfill its purpose which is
to exchange ideas concerning
the common goals of the stu
dent governing bodies of the
schools.
In the academic and fac
ulty area, he proposed evalu
ating each committee to see
how they have functioned and
to discover if more Council
representatives are needed in
certain areas.
Concerning representation,
Christie said that Council has
an obligation to study, to test
and to discover if the present
representation plan acts as
a liaison, if it is equitable
and if it fulfills the needs of
our college community.
He proposes a comprehen
sive stedy and evaluation of
representation plans on cam
puses similar to ours, re
ev illation of the representa
tion structure and monthly or
bi-monthly meetings for the
Council representative and
constituents.
He said that the Masters
Program should be run al
most exclusively by the stu
dents since they now know
the procedures,
Christie would also like to
have the elections committee
establish definite rules con
cerning campaign expendi
tures and rules for punishing
violators.
He agreed that the associ
ates should have a way of
expressing then- views to the
CouncfL This could Toe done
through an associate chair
man or having definite asso
ciates responsible for specific
areas under the main com
mittees of the CouncfL
"I am no staunch support
er of the status-quo and I
don't believe in leaving areas
untouched by change if they
can be expanded or im
proved," Christie said.
He stressed that regardless
of any program, he believes
that it is as essential that a
student government be dedi
cated to its principles, and
that it be a cohesive work
able organization striving for
the betterment of its student
jbody.
