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Vol. 77, No. 47
The Daily Nebraskan
Monday, January 13, 1964
Huskers Top Tigers, 74-69
NEBRASKA UPSETS MISSOURI Huskers Coley
Webb and Bob Antulov jump high for a rebound while
Charlie Jones looks on Saturday night at the Coliseum.
See sports page for details of NU's second Big 8 victory,
a 74-69 triumph over the Tigers.
First Q-Bowl Match
Sst For Wednesday
The first Quiz Bowl competition begins Wednesday
night at 7:30 between Kappa Alpha Theta II and "The
Outcasts of Campus Flat" from Selleck Quadrangle.
All team captains are required to be at this meet.
Team members are asked to be present, also, since all
essential information will be given. Everyone is invited to
attend.
Matches will be held every Wednesday night in the
New Party room of the. Student Union. The following Is
a schedule of the preliminary meets:
January 15: Kappa Alpha Theta II vs. "The Outcasts
of Campus Flat."
January 22: Pi Beta Phi I vs Pharmacy College;
Theta Xi vs. Phi Gamma Delta; Beta Theta Pi pledges
II vs. Theta Chi I; and Delta Tau Delta I vs. Delta Sigma
Phi.
February 12: VYLR's vs. Pi Beta Phi III; Sigma Al
pha Mu vs. Alpha Phi; IPs vs. Sigma Chi; and Kappa
Alpha Theat I vs Phi Kappa Psi II.
February 19: Pi Beta Phi vs. Beta Theta Pi II; Phi
Delta Theta vs. Kappa Sigma; Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs.
Alpha Gamma Sigma;- and FarmHouse A vs. Heppner
Hall.
February 26: Sigma Phi Epsilon vs. Pi Beta Phi IV;
Sigma Xu vs Kappa Kappa Gamma; Delta Tau Delta II
vs. Beta Theta Pi I; Phi Gamma Delta II vs. Manatt.
By April 15 the 39 teams in the preliminaries will be
narrowed down to 20 semi-finalists. Ten finalists will be
chosen by April 29. Final elimination will be May when
fire winning teams will be decided.
TThe three winning teams will receive trophies for
flrsOecond, and third place according to their scores.
: Ulloderators for all the meets will be Albert Book, head
of the advertising department of the Journalism School,
and Dr. Donald Olson, the coach, of the Debate Team.
They will alternate as moderators.
Competing for Kappa Alpha Theta on the January 15
. meet-will be Jane CrabilL Maureen Frolik, James Mc
Call, and JoAnn Strateman.
f The Outcasts of Campus Flat" will be Bob Cherny,
Dave Kittams, Jerry Patrick, and Ron RogowskL
Machine Sees
Hipiff
The use of electronic
Computers in teaching and
research at the University
eas increased rapidly and
with effectiveness since the
Erst machine was intro
duced seven years ago.
; Today, professors and stu
dents in almost every Col
lege of the University rely
on the equipment. Around
the -clock 24-a-day op
eration is common, and
scheduling is so tight that
operating time on some ma
chines must be arranged
three weeks in advance.
'-The machines are hard
for the layman to under
stand,' but the goals of a
few University scholars and
studenti who use them are
less difficult to appreciate.
JL The reduction of mas
sive amounts of medical in
formation to computer
memory on magnetic tape is
an effort of Dr. Roy G. Hol
ly, vice chancellor of the
University and a noted
gynecologist-obstetrician.
Increased Use
Aiding
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At least 160 scientific jour
nals published here and
abroad are reviewed by Dr.
Holly each month and the
important information on
the biology of reproduction
is abstracted and fed to the
computer on the tape.
Very soon now, a physl
.cian wishing to be kept up
to date on the latest infor
mation in this area of med
icine can be served with a
complete listing of the im
portant developments in the
field. Without computers,
Dr. Holly explains, such a
systematic review of im
portant medical information
in this area would be im
possible for any one doctor
to accomplish in this hey
day of scientific reporting
and research.
A reduction of the entire
nine volumes of the Nebras
ka statutes to computer
"language" is the goal of
John Gradwoh!, professor of
law. When the statutes have
beea committed to magnet
Adkins
To Head
Regents
Summer Sessions
Budget Increased
The University Board of
Regents Saturday elected
Richard Adkins, Osmond
banker and livestockman,
1964 president, succeeding Dr.
B. N. Greenberg of York.
LeRoy Welsh of Omaha was
elected vice president and
vice chancellor Joseph Sosh
nik, University comptroller,
was re-elected corporation
secretary.
Adkins was first elected to
the Board in 1958. He attended
Columbia University, Grinell
College and the University.
The Regents also approved
a 1964 Summer Sessions budg
et of $467,624.40, an increase
of $44,799.89 over the previous
year. Director Frank E. Sor
enson said that, based on ex
pected enrollment of some
4,250 students, tutiton p a y
ments would provide nearly
one half of the budget.
Sorenson explained that the
increase was necessary for
several reasons: salary ad
justments in line with changes
in academic year salaries;
addition of some staff ap
pointments to provide addi
tional sections for overcrowd
ed classes and to round out
offerings in a limited number
of departments.
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Some of the oldest writing
known to man went on pub
lic display' for the first time
yesterday at the University
State Museum.
Dr. Cr Bertrand Schultz,
museum director, said 12
clay tablet cuneiform docu
ments, about 4,000 years old,
will become part of a muse
um display depicting the be-
; ginnings of civilization in an
cient Mesopotamia, the land
between the Tigris and Eu
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ANCIENT TABLET Nathan Mohler, Museum artist,
prepariei the 4,000-year-old tablet for viewing. Phoebe,
left, and Debra Kaplan, daughters of Dr. and Mrs. S. D.
Kaplan of Lincoln, observe.
ic tape, a judge, attorney,
legislator or bill drafter win
be able to search the entire
Nebraska code for almost
a:iy information it contains
in a matter of minutes.
Stuart O. Nelson, an ag
ricultural engineer with the
U.S. Department of Agricul
ture, is searching' for ways
to destroy insects, bacteria
and viruses in plant seed
with radiofrequency energy
in the 8 to 40 megacycle
range. Professor Nelson
uses computers to test the
statistical reliability of his
efforts and to guard against
the possibility of killing the
seed in the process.
These are only three re
search projects under way
at the University using the
digital type computers. An
other type, fiie analog ma
chines, is used to study a
mechanical or physical
process with electronic cir
cuits. The study of the vi
brations in concrete when
struck a heavy blow, or the
study of a bird's wing In
Inevitable
"The Panamanian incident was inevitable from the
beginning because of the unusual status of the Canal
Zone," according to Dr. Alexander Edelmann, assistant
professor of political science.
Professor Edelmann said in an interview yesterday
that the crisis was an accumulation of the grievances
that have been building up ever since the establishment
of the Canal. He said that there is so much latent anti
Americanism in Latin America today that these things
can erupt at any time.
"I don't mean to imply," said Edelmann, "that senti
ment is entirely anti-American. Last summer when my
wife and I were in Latin America studying land reform
we were very graciously and courteously greeted, not only
in the cities, but in outlying districts."
Latin American countries have problems with low
Trask Dines
Dinner with the professor,
featuring Dr. David F. Trask,
will be held Thursday in the
west cafeteria of the Student
Union.
Dr. Trask, associate pro
fessor of history, received his
B.A. at Wesleyan in 1951 and
earned his M.A. and Ph. D
at Harvard in 1952 and 1958.
Dr. Trask has been with the
University since 1962
The dinner, which is spon
sored by the Union program
lay
phrates rivers.
The exhibit will be paH of
a larger display which will
tell the story of the 'begin
nings and growth of civiliza
tion. -. Dr. - Prestos- Jlier,
chairman of the department
of anthropology and Mrs. val
erie Nammour, assistant cur
ator of anthropology at the
Museum, are serving as con
sultants. The clay tablets were taken
flight, are examples of their
uses.
One of the most important
uses of computers is the op
portunity they provide stu
dents. James Blackman, as
sistant dean of engineering,
said a recent check showed
that computers are used by
students in 28 undergradu
ate courses in the College
of Engineering and Archi
tecture alone.
"These courses are not de
signed to train students to
become computer operators,
since thil is a craft or skill
better left to the manufact
urer of the machines," he
said. "Our engineering stu
dent of today may be a de
signer of better computers
tomorrow, and he is here
to learn the machines' lim
itations and how they can
be programed to solve prob
lems of analysis and de
sign." Students in the College of
Business Administration are
also heavy nsers. They
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With Students
office, is more or less an open
forum between the professor
and the students in attend
ance, according to Richard
Scott, assistant program man
ager. Scott went on to say that
the dinner allows the students
and professors to meet each
other outside of a classroom
situation.
The cost of the dinner,
which begins at 6 p.m., is $1.
The next dinner will probably
be held in February after fi
nals.
Tablets
ifscfni
from an area known to Bib
lical scholars as the land of
Noah and the early Biblical
patriarchs, the birthplace of
Abraham.
Eight of the 12 tablets have
been in the Museum archives
since" 1914 when they were
obtained for only $12 from
the private collections of Dr.
Edgar J. Banks, an archeo
logist and professor of Turk
ish and Semitic languages.
The Museum obtained the
other four from the estates
of Myron Swenk, a former
professor of agronomy at the
University and Mrs. Ralph
Johnson of Lincoln.
Dr. Alan Pickering, a Uni
versity student pastor with
experience In the early lang
uage, has studied and trans
lated the writing on some of
the tablets.
Dr. Pickering explained
that the ancient scribes wrote
with reeds which they pressed
into clay to form wedge
shaped depressions. Some
signs, which appear like
chicken tracks on mud, stand
for ideas or concrete con
cepts, and others for syllabic
sounds. When the latter are
combined in proper sequence
they make up words.
The clay tablets are of
particular interest to scholars
because they give insight in
to the way man learned to
write as well as telling some
thing of how he lived 4,000
years ago.
graduate with an under
standing of bow to use the
machines in such areas as
financial reporting and the
updating of insurance poli
cies. Professors of mathema
tics, physics and chemis
try are able to give their
students practical and theo
retical problems today that
would never have been at
empted ten years ago.
Another use of computers
is the roll they play in regis
tration of students and the
storage of personal informa
tion. Registration officials ex
plain that this is a highly ef
fective use of the machines
in an institution that grows
in the number of students at
the rate of a small midwest
era college each year.
One great potential the
machines will have in the
future will be their use in
libraries. Vast, inter-library
networks may some day ex
change information on their
holdings and collections with
high speed and efficiency.
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standards of living, poverty, and a lack of education; they
are sometimes apt to take their frustrations out on the
United States, commented Edelmann. The Russians
haven't been as closely connected with Latin America as
the United States.
Edelmann emphasized the lack of understanding that
Balboa high school students displayed when they tried to
fly the American flag in violation of the joint directive.
"The incident shows that Americans in foreign coun
tries should have enough understanding and respect for
the sensitivity of the people not to be an "Ugly Ameri
can," that is one who is ignorant of, or calloused toward
local custom."
He also insisted that a good part of the blame for
the seriousness of the situation should be placed on the
Panamanian Government for not taking adequate meas
ures to maintain order. "The Panamanian National Guard
should have been called out sooner," said Edelmann.
"They were not called out until very late in the game."
Edelmann said he was surprised that the incident
was not more serious than it turned out to be since any
insult that involves their flag touches the "raw nerve of
nationalism" and is regarded by them as a kind of "mor
al spitting."
The fact that Russia did not take the chance to sound
off about "American Imperialism" in the Security Coun
cil of the United Nations also surprised Edelmann. He
cited this and the fact that the rest of the Latin American
press spoke in a tone of moderation and confidence that
the U.S. would do the right thing as good signs for the
future.
t Edelmann thinks the U.S. would be very wise not to
argue the reparation payment and that the Panamanian
income from the Canal should be upped since it has in
creased very little since 1912.
Negotiations through the OAS will be a tremendous
stimulus to the prestige of the organization, and increased
pressure to settle the question of control over the Canal
will be probable results of the present crisis, according
to Edelmann.
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Queen, Mr. Ugly Chosen
ACTIVITIES QUEEN, MR. AUFul UGLY NAMED
VIckl Dowling, Activities Queen and Gene Hammond, Mr.
AUFul Ugly, were selected at the annual AUFul night last
Friday.
Six Coed Skits
"Life, Liberty,
Six sororities were chosen
at try-outs Thursday night to
participate in the annual Co
ed FoDies show, "Life, Lib
erty, and Leap Year," to be
presented Feb. 28 in Pershing
Municipal Auditorium.
"The skits were much,
much better this year than
ever before," said Bonnie
Knudsen, Follies chairman.
"The judges were impressed
with the originality they
showed.
The six winning houses and
their skits are:
Alpha Phi, "Phi Folklore,"
directed by Judy Birney; Chi
Omega, "The Lady is Luce,"
directed by Anne Swanson;
Gamma Phi Beta, "Baubles,
Bangles, and Bill Boards,"
Karen Pflasterer directing;
Kappa Alpha Theta, "The
Status Seekers," directed by
Shirley Voss; Kappa Kappa
Gamma, "The Abscoundable
Morrison Speaks
At YD's Meeting
Governor Frank Morrison
will speak at the Young Dem
ocrats meeting Wednesday at
7 p.m. in the Student Union
Small Auditorium.
The Governor will be greet
ed at the R St entrance to
the Union by all Young Dem
ocrats. All students are invit
ed to attend.
Comprise
Leap Year"
Snowman,M directed by Cordy
Seward and Pi Beta Phi,
"Black, White, and Read AS
Over," directed by Linda
Goth.
Miss Knudsen noted that
nons of the skits are at all
alike.
Letters concerning travel
er's acts for the Follies will
be sent out Thursday, accord
ing to Miss Knudsen. Any
University woman may enter
the competition and a group
may submit as many entries
as it wishes.
A skitmasters' meeting for
those houses that will be par
ticipating in the Follies will
be held Thursday at 7 p.m.
in 232 Student Union.
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