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have taken amti-discrimina-tion
action this fall against
sororities who allegedly
practice racial discrimina
tion in pledging.
Portland State College
suspended six chapters of
national sororities for racial
prejudice and Long Beach
State College withdrew
recognition from six of its
seven sororities for failure
to comply with rushing
rules (with regard to dis
crimination rules in particu
lar.) The Portland College so
rorities were Alpha Chi
Omega, Alpha Omicron Pi,
Alpha Phi, Delta Delta Del
ta, Delta Zeta and Pi Beta
Phi.
Bradford P. Millar, presi
dent of the college, said
that only four girls were
cut from sorority rush
activities, but that two of
these were Negroes. Millar
said that the two girls
were "eminently qualified"
and that this was not an
isolated case of sorority
discrimination, but "the
straw that finally broke the
camel's -back." He said
that the sororities "must
show that they do not prac
tice discrimination."
The suspended sororities,
in reply, issued a joint
statement accusing the col
lege in effect, of ordering
them to pledge Negroes,
and asserting their right to
pledge whomever they
wished. "To yield to faculty
pressure," the statement
said, "eliminates all free
dom of choice."
Robert Wells, manager of
the Long Beach State news
bureau, said that the six
suspended Long Beach
State sororities withdrew
from campus supervised
rush without consulting the
college.
A trustee ruling at the
college says that all sorori
ties and fraternities must
sign anti-discrimination
pledges before Sept. 1, 1964,
agreeing to halt all race
and religious discrimina
tion. The suspended sororities
sent letters to their mem
bers which declared that
the sororities would refuse
to comply with the ruling.
The sororities are Alpha
Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Del
ta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta,
Sigma Kappa, and Zeta Tau
Alpha. Delta Gamma was
not suspended; although
they have not yet signed
the pledge, they are co-operating
with college rush
rules.
Carl Mcintosh, president
of the college, issued a state
ment explaining his feel
ings. The statement con
cluded "the six sororities
have chosen a status differ
ing from that traditionally
maintained by sororities.
We cannot concur in the
way they have chosen. We
bear them no malice and it
is with regret that we sever
the bonds of trust and
shared responsibility that
have joined us until now."
In a statement answering
that of the president, the
sororities expressed their
intention and capability to
exist even without the
recognition of the . college,.
In addition, they said, they
prefer to be private organi
zations based on a religious
foundation, and would con
tinue to be under alumni
supervision.
With the exception of Del
ta Zeta, all of the sororities
have chapters at the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
The University of Cali
fornia (UCLA) has also re
quired all fraternities and
sororities to "set them
selves in order" and agree
to comply with a university
policy banning all member
ship discrimination before
Sept 1, 1964.
The ultimatum says that
"essentially private organi
zations" which have a
"special relationship" to
the university, must elimi
nate all race, color, and
national origin discrimina
tion under the pain of sus-
pension. Suspended houses
will be considered nonexist
ant. The pledge was first dis
tributed in 1959, but only a
few organizations have
signed. Some of the object
ing fraternities feel that
the order to remove the dis
crimination clauses from
the constitutions infringes
upon their rights as private
organizations.
Herb Sanders, a Negro
who went through fraternity
rush at the University of
Oregon at Eugene, said that
twenty out of twenty-two
fraternities dropped h i m
after the first visit. The
others told Sanders that they
liked him, but that they
could not pledge him be
cause of his race, in spite
of the fact that the Oregon
Board of Education has
ruled against discrimination
in fraternities and sorori
ties. Representatives of these
two fraternities said that
they liked Sanders, but were
afraid to pledge him be
cause of sorority as well as
local and national frater nity
reaction.
Ray Hawk, dean of men
at the university, is holding
an unofficial investigation
of the incident. He has
talked with Sanders and
plans to contact members
of the fraternities.
"I was amazed at the
ladk of courage," said Sanders.
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Vol. 77, No. 16
The Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, Oct. 17, 1963
Integrationist To Speak
Miss Prathia Hall of the Student Non-violent Coordinating
Committee will hold a Conference on Civil Rights from
4:30 to 5 p.m. Friday in 232 Student Union. Miss Hall is
from Atlanta, Georgia, and last week in Selma, Alabama,
she was arrested for participating in a voter registration
training project. She was charged with contributing to the
delinquency of a minor. She is now free on $1,000 bail.
The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee is a
youth movement made up mostly of college students
working in voter registration and action programs for
both white and Negro in the South. It is one of the major
organizations involved in the Civil Rights movement in
the South.
Kansas Dean
Lauds Greeks
Miss Emily Taylor, dean of
women at the University of
Kansas, spoke on the prob
lems and frustrations of fra
ternal groups at the Panhel
lenic convocation Monday
night.
"All of the fraternal groups
are being judged by the ac
tions of each separately," said
Miss Taylor.
"Administrations are try
ing to attract fraternal sys
tems to the campuses despite
criticism they have received
because of the type of people
they attract and the leader
ship they teach by self-government,"
said the dean.
"They create loyal alumni to
both the fraternity and the
school, provide housing, pro
vide group leadership, repre
sent students to administra
tions, act as recruiting am
bassadors for the university
and encourage social poise."
Kappa Alpha Theta received
the scholarship award for.the
tenth semester. Second was
Chi Omega, and Delta
Gamma was third. Gamma
Phi Beta received the Elsie
Ford Piper scholarship
achievement award.
Modified!:
Meyer
Negro Fraternity Sees
Ross About Charter
Dick Rosenberg, expansion
committee chairman of fjthe
Interfraternity Council (ijo
said last night that represen
tatives from Kappa Alpha
Psi, a Negro fraternity at the
University, met yesterday
with G. Robert Ross, vice
chancellor in regard to a
charter. No further informa
tion was. available.
The IFC last night passed a
resolution endorsing Sigma
Chi Derby Day and urging the
cooperation of individual
houses in the implementation
of the Derby Day program.
The motion stated that
Mastodont Find To Complete
Nebraska Museum Collection
After 35 years of looking in
many parts of the nation for
prehistoric fossils, the direc
tor of the University of Ne
braska State Museum, Dr. C.
Bertrand Schultz, has learned
that a "find" he has dreamed
of is in the backyard of his
old hometown, Red Cloud.
The "find" is the remains
of a rare four-tusked prehis
toric mastodont, a specimen
Museum people hoped some
day would complete Nebras
ka's famous collection of
major North American mas-
Quiz Bowl Heads
Will Be Chosen
Applicants for Quiz Bowl
chairmen may sign up in the
Union Program Office. '
An overall chairman and
three sub-chairmen will be
chosen. Two of the sub-chairmen
will be chairmen of ar
rangements and publicity
committees. The third will be
a co-chairman on questions.
A faculty member, to be
chosen after consultation with
Dean Adam Breckenridge
will serve as chairman of the
questions committee.
The question committee will
be composed of two faculty
members and four students.
It is the only committee that
will require faculty members.
todonts and mammoths in
Elephant Hall on the Univer
sity campus.
It wag discovered by a field
party Dr. Schultz sent to re
examine an old fossil bed on
the Delbert Lewis farm three
miles south of Red Cloud.
Lewis reported rains had ex
posed promising material.
One of the specimens found
by the field party, led by Rob
ert Eisele, is the four-tusked
elephant, member of a prehis
toric family wheh scientists
say came here from Asia, via
the Bering Strait, about 8 mil
lion years ago.
The elephant is now being
carefully removed by Eisele,
Museum preparators Don
Martin and Ivan Burr, and an
anthropology student, Craig
Worstell, Covington, Ky.
Eventually it will be placed'
in a space the Museum has
held in reserve for the last
link in Its elephant chain.
"We've been looking for one
of these four-tusked elephants
ever since I've been around
the Museum," Dr. Schultz
said. "What really gets me,
though, is that it was found
not far from where I worked
in 1923 with a field party on
my first assignment as a stu
dent under the late Dr. Ed
win Barbour."
J-School Students To Edit
Grand Island Newspaper
Eleven University of Ne
braska journalism students
will edit the news columns of
the Grand Island Independ
ent Friday and will be guests
at the Associated Press Man
aging Editor's Associa
tion annual banquet at Grand
Island Friday evening.
This marks the second year
thaf University students have
taken the combination trip.
Two years ago they attended
the Associated Press meet
ing at Alliance and edited the
Alliance Times-Herald.
The students have been in
vited to the Associated Press
banquet every year since 1959
except in 1962 when the event
was held at Minneapolis,
Minn., according to Dr. Wil
liam Hall, head of the School
of Journalism.
The students will work with
Harold Hartley, managing ed
itor of the Grand Island In
dependent in producing the
Friday issue.
All students have completed
the integrated news-editorial
program in journalism at the
University and have had
three months of experience
working on newspapers or
other journalistic publica
tions, according to Keith
Rlarkledee. instructor in
journalism. The group will
Approval Needed
For Mizzou Trip
All women students desir
ing toattend migration in
Missouri Nov. 2 are remind
ed by the Associated Women
Students (AWS) to inform
their parents that a letter of
permission must be sent to
each student's housemother.
Women students will not be
allowed to go to migration
unless this letter is received.
AWS house representatives
should check in the AWS
handbook for further details.
leave Thursday evening with
Dr. Hall and Blackledge.
Students making the trip,
and their staff positions on
the G r a n d Island Independ
ent are as follows:
Jim Forrest, managing edi
tor; Larry Fruhling, wire ed
itor; Wendy Rogers, city ed
itor; John Morris, sports edi
tor. The news staff will be
Sue Hovik, Arnie Garson,
Dale Hejek, Diane Gosker,
Jane Miller and Larry Fauss.
'Music Man'
Opens Season
The University of Nebras
ka Theater will open its 1963
64 season with Meredith Wil
son's "The Music Man," Oct.
30 through Nov. 2.
The Broadway hit musical
is one of 'five productions in
this year's, varied program
announced by Dr. William
Morgan, associate professor
of speech and dramatic art
and director of the Theatre.
Other productions are:
"Long Day's Journey into
Night," by Eugene O'Neill,
Dec. 11 through 14.
Puccini's opera "Madame
Butterfly," produced by the
University Department of Mu
sic, Feb. 12 through 15. .
Shakespeare's "Hamlet,"
March 18 through 21.
"The Rivals," 18th century
comedy by Richard Sheridan,
May 20 through 23.
Metl Tech Honorary
Reveals New Pledges
Lambda Tau, the medical
technology honorary, has re
cently announced their new
pledges. They are:
Nancy Alden, Karla Bals,
Carol Bieck, Nancy Carroll,
Juanita Cole, Jackie Flick.
Bonnie Hoffman, Nancy
Johnson, Pat Maixner, Karen
Roegner, Mary Sue Townley.
Derby Day has developed into
an outstanding fraternity and
university tradition and
should be allowed to continue
as such. Whereas in the past,
the many difficulties en
countered in the area of stu
dent and fraternity coopera
tion has led to the possibility
of the discontinuance of Derby
Day.
Bill Gunlicks, Phi Kappa
Psi, pointed out that Derby
Day exists as a Sigma Chi
project and that it is not the
duty of other pledge classes to
go out and see how many girls
they can paint with their
Greek letters.
Bob Seidell, Sigma Chi, said
that the motion was not sel
fishness on the part of his
house, but an attempt to
alleviate the wrath of Admin
istration. He said that Sigma
Chi must show administration
that it can conduct Derby Day
activities without the many
skirmishes which have
erupted in the past.
NU To Host
Debate Clinic
Approximately 30 Nebraska
high schools will send students
to the annual University of
Nebraska Debate and Social
Studies Institute Saturday.
The Institute is held each
year by the department of
speech and the Nebraska
School Activities Association
to give high school students
the opportunity to hear accom
plished speakers and to have
their own debates and discus
sions constructively criti
cized. The general topic of discus
sion this year is "What Should
Be the Role of the Federal
Government in Providing
Medical Care to the Citizens
of the United States?"
Dr. Curtis Elliott, professor
of economics and insurance at
the University, will speak at
9:15 a.m. at Love Library au
ditorium on the implications,
pro and con, of the govern
ment providing medical care.
He will also discuss paying
for medical care through so
cial security or by subsidizing
health insurance companies.
Dr. Jack Murphy, profes
sor of speech, Central Col
lege, Edmond, Okla., willcon
uct a demonstration discus
sion following Professor Elli
ott s lecture.
The high school students'
discussions will be held at
1:15 p.m. in Love Library au
ditorium.
Donald Olson, director of de
bate at the University and
Institute chairman, said no
competiton will be held
among the students this year
and that each school will
limit representatives to 10 stu
dents.
Mel Meyer, former editor of
Alabama University's student
newspaper, "Crimson and
Red," said in a letter received
Wednesday by the Daily Ne
braskan that the oath con
cerning race relations on that
campus has been modified.
"The requirement that stu
dents refrain from writing on
all matters expressly dealing
with race relations has been
modified to restrict students
from writing about Negro stu
dents or applicants at the Uni
versity alone," said Meyer.
Meyer said that "The stu
dent newspaper here was not
affected by the oath. It is still
completely free to publish
anything it wants to."
The oath, which had to be
signed by Alabama students
before registering tms year,
originally forbade students
from civing service to the
news media or reporting on
matters expressly touching on
matters of race relations.
"The restrictions on the
writing of students that still
remain, I, of course, find ob
noxious but hardly wortny
of censure. The feeling of ad
ministration was that a stu
dent should not be able to
capitalize on the privileges
of his status to over-puoiicize
a potentially explosive situa
tion that is calmly working
itself out."
"This was of course one of
the real problems at Ole Miss
and the administration wanted
NU Frosh Ranks
In FFA Contest
Robert Milliean represented
Nebraska in nublic speaking
competition at the national
Future Farmers of America
convention. Milli'jan, presi
dent of tne pieage ciass oi
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity,
placed third in regional com
petition and finished "within
the top ten speakers in the
nation.
An all time attendance
record was set at the conven
tion held t'is past week at
Kansas City. Missouri. At
tendance exceeded ten thou
sand men, with delegates
from the entire nation and
Puerto Rico.
to avoid this error as much as
possible in order that any Ne
gro students who might at
tend the University could
with greater facility assume
their proper role of student
not television or newspaper
celebrity."
A motion pending before the
University of Nebraska Stu
dent Council calls for strong
ly endorsing the rights of stu
dents and student newspapers
to publish material freely and
uncensored within the bounds
of competency and decency;
and to express disapproval
of the action of the University
of Alabama in requiring its
students to sign such a state
ment. In this, the Student Council
would draft a letter to the pro
per authorities of the Univers
ity of Alabama expressing its
disapproval of that institu
tion's action of infringement
on student rights.
Students Start
Play Series
"Beyond," an original one
act play, and "Of Mice and
Men," by John Steinbeck will
be held this Saturday and
Sunday at the University
Theater.
The plays are the first of a
series of laboratory theater
productions directed, and
simetimes produced, by stu
dents in theater.
Patrick Keating is the pro
ducer and director of "Be
yond," which will begin at 8
p.m. in the laboratory theater,
201 University Theater.
"Of Mice and Men," from
Steinbeck's play of the same
name and directed by Rich
ard Mahood, will begin at
8:20 a.m. in the arena thea
ter, 303 University Theatre.
Other laboratory theater
productions to be held this
year include plays based on
William Shakespeare's "Mac
beth," and Eugene O'Neill's
"Great God Brown" and
"Morning Becomes Electra."
The purpose ot the piays,
according to Mahood, techni
cal coordinator of the labora
tory theater, is "to train stu
dents for major theatrical
productions while helping
them apply class work
theory."
Watanabe Schedules Two Lectures
Prof. M a s a o Watanabe
from the International Chris
tian University in Tokyo, Ja
pan, will speak at two differ
ent times today at the Uni
versity. Currently a visiting profes
sor at the University of Mis
souri, Prof. Watanabe is a
specialist in the history of
science. He will speak at 3
p.m. in 208 Burnett. The dis
cussion topic has not been
announced yet.
Students are invited to hear
Prof. Watanabe talk on the
"Role of American Science in
Japan during the Early Meiji
Period (1868-1812) at 8 p.m.
tonight in the auditorium of
the Sheldon Art Gallery.
The professor has received
his Ph. D. in Humanities and
his Ph.D. in Science. He has
taught at various universities
in Japan and the United
States. In 1955-56, Prof. Wat
anabe taught at Harvard and
was later a Fullbrlght Re
search scholar at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin.
Six books of his have been
published dealing with the his
tory of science .and he has had
26 articles on scientific de
velopment published.
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