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anmnH!iai!innntnin What About Tension? Vol. 77, No. 59 The Daily Nebraskan Monday, February 17, 1964 o" si their miDi!"De Tradiflfoinia n s Abandon By MICK ROOD Senior Staff Writer Traditional "hell week," with its physical hazing and constant late hours for pledges, has been virtually abandoned at the University of Nebraska according to fraternity pledge trainers and officers. The apparent trend, backed by the administration and national fraternity chapters, Is toward a constructive pe riod before pledge initiation The label "hell week" has been dropped by most fra ternities. Delta Tau Dalta pledge trainer Jim Ebers says his fraternity has what it c a 1 1 8 "help week." "This year especially, there Meller Drammer Features Music Student As Pianist Playing honky tonk piano in an old fashioned melodrama theatre is how one University student plans to spend his summer. Jarvis Green, University junior, has been contracted for the second consecutive season as accompanist for the Meller Drammer Summer Stock Theatre in Rockerville, S.D. Rockerville, a reconstruct ed 19th century town, is known foremost nationally by the Gay 90 "blood and thun der melodramas" which are produced in one of America's top rated old fashioned the atre operations. Melodrama is considered to be one of the most difficult forms of theatrical art. It is, characterized by overempha- IWA Will Hold Fashion Review The Independent Women's Association and Miller and Paine will present a style show, "Fashions on the Go" tonight at 7 p.m. in the Stu dent Union Ballroom. Models for the show will represent the dormitories, sororities, and the Lincoln stu dents. The models are: Alpha Chi Omega, Barb Shuman; Alpha Delta Pi, Anne Pierce; Alpha Omicron Pi, Lori Moris; Al pha Phi, Jane Thomason; Al pha Xi Delta, Ann Webster; Chi Omega, Pam Matya, Del ta Gamma, Di Kosman; Gam ma Phi Beta, Carol Jennings; Kappa Alpha Theta, Sarah Rankin; Kappa Delta, Suzi Trammell. Kappa Kappa Gamma, Susie Rogers; Pi Beta Phi, Gwen Vinordi; Sigma Kapa;, Lin Holmquist; Zeta Tau Al pha, Susan Sommers; Burr Hall, Pat Harrison; Fedde Hall, Cheryl Uden; Love Me morial Hall, Ardythe Dey; Towne Club, Jan Johnson; Women's Residence Hall, Di anne Paglia and Marcia Ma gee; Unicorn Club, Linda Wal lin; Pound Hall, Bette Garber, Merlyna Sailors, Susan Evans, Marilyn Callen, Con nie Wall, Judy Christensen Gloria Houser, Barbara Real, Roseanne Carlson, Antoniv Pavlos. Air Society Picks Officers For Year New officers were elected by the Joyce-Johnson Squad ron of the Arnold Air Society last week to serve for the next two semesters. Elected were Glenn Schaum burg, commander; Loyson Scheider, executive officer; Orley Cookson, administra tion officer; Donovan Walters, operation officer; Noren Cla tanoff, comptroller; Robert Buckland, information officer; John Hallgren, laison officer; Larry Ross, special services officer; Steven Purinton, ma terial officer. Union Interviews Set For Saturday Morning Interviews for chairmen and assistant chairmen of the Ne braska Union will be held Sat urday morning. Interested students should pick up applications in the Union office and sign for an appointment time. will be a pretty good change at our house," said Ebers. "The idea will be to develop the individual without also having sour attitudes because of the traditional hazings con nected with the old hell week" said Ebers. The Delt house this year will have Dean J. Winston Martin, Delt alumni and perhaps a national officer speak in an attempt to make the program constructive. A community pledge project is to be adopted. Emphasis will be on neatness also, pledges will wear suits to class and clean the house completely. But, the hazing will be gone. Sigma Phi Epsilon has al GREEN Summer. sis of stage action and exag gerated manners of deliver ing lines. . . . New Kind of Miss Nebraska To Return With Fred Waring Group Donna Marie Black, a for mer student at the University of Nebraska, will appear with Fred Waring and His Pennsyl- vanians when they present "The Magic of Music" Febru ary 29 at Pershing Municipal Auditorium. The show will feature a va riety of music ranging from show tunes to the classics, from jazz to folk songs, from stately anthems to the latest nonsense tune of Tin Pan Alley. Miss Black, Miss Nebraska of 1963, was recommended to Fred Waring by a former member of the Pennsylvan ians' Glee Club, Jacqueline Mayer, Miss America of 1963. On her way home from At lantic City and the Miss America Pagenat, Miss Black detoured to Shawnee-on-Dela-ware, Pa., to audition for Fred Waring. She chose opera selections fcr her audition material, among them an aria from the "Barber of Seville." She was immediately offered a job touring with the Pennsylvan ians as a member of the glee club. Miss Black is a 1961 grad uate of Broken Bow High School. Besides signing in musical productions, she played flute, was drum ma jorette, and a cheerleader. She first became excited about musical shows during high school, when she played a leading role in the produc tion of "Oklahoma!" How do her parents feel about her going into show business? "Fred Waring is known to have a wholesome group It's like traveling with a family," Miss Black explains. "My parents feel that it Army Plans Testing The department of Military Science announced yesterday that qualifying exam for Ad vanced Army ROTC are up coming. The tests will be giv en during scheduled classes of Febr. 24 and 25. Students not now taking ROTC, as well as those who are, are eligible for the ex amination, i ready had their help week. According to President Blenn Korff, the Sig Ep program was "mild" and "the pledges fixed the house up." "Everyone was allowed their sleep and attended all their classes," said Korff. Kappa Sigma pledge train er Dave James calls it "op eration brotherhood wee k." Pledges will have discussions and orientation sessions plus a community porject prior to initiation. Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledges will participate in "pre-initiation week" accord ing to Bob Wilburn, pledge trainer. Musical accompaniment is the backbone of melodrama and Jim Buterbaugh,1 theatre producer, commented that summer audiences last sea son often gave Green stand ing ovations to express their enthusiasm for his talent. A sociology major with a minor in music, Green has studied music for thirteen years. He is a member of the University Marching Band, pianist for Quad Quire, mem ber of the University clarinet choir, and a member of Gam ma Lambda, the band fra ternity. He appeared in the Kosmet Klub Fall Revue, sang in the Christmas pre sentation of the "The Messi ah", and appeared with the band at the Orange Bowl. ' will be an education for me. They want me to be happy, and are happy that I have this opportunity." Tickets for "The Magic of Music" are on sale at Persh ing Auditorium's box office or mail orders will be accepted anytime. Student Kissing, By Judi Peterson So you think you have problems . . . At least kissing is allowed here. At Indiana University the women's residence unit staff has banned kissing in the lounge of the dormitory. No romancing beyond "holding hands and convers ing verbally" is permitted. Members of the dormitory student council . were not asked to vote on the new rule. It was just announced to all the residents. Students protested vigor ously. In a letter to the cam pus newspaper, the INDI ANA DAILY STUDENT, a student writer termed the rule "An attempt to deny young people one of their greatest joys." Another called it "An inane exam ple of misguided power." The director of counseling and activities, Dr. Elizabeth Greenleaf, said that ban ning kisses might be inef fective and unreasonable, but something had to be done. At the University of Cali fornia in Berkely coeds are deserting dormitories to take up apartment life. Ac cording to an article in THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN, this is the first time in the Uni versity's history that there are more rooms available in the residence halls than applicants. Some of the girls' reasons for their moves were "lack of privacy," "regimented meal s," "lockout after hours," and "social regimentation." "We believe that this period should set the stage for initia tion and it will be construe' tive and instructive in na ture," said Wilburn. Theta Xi's Wayne Howlett says his fraternity takes a similar view and believes the change will be great com. pared with the past. A relig ious service and perhaps a religious speaker will be in corporated in the Theta Xi program. Phi Kappa Psi President Doug Gaeth expressed doubt that a complete change could be accomplished so quickly, Ignoring all the traditions sur rouding "hell week." '' The attitude has changed in the last three years and resulting changes are con structive in nature," said Gaeth. "There will be no hell week, as such" at the Sigma Nu house this year accord ing to Bill Buckley, president. "We will be putting the em phasis on pledge initiative to aid house unity. Pledges will take part in community pro jects and improve house ap pearance," said Buckley. Beta Theta Pi pledge train er Dave Smith said he could make no comment on the matter until after the house meeting tonight. 1 MB's Plan; Late Dates' For Follies The night of Coed FolL'es, Feb. 28, will be a Late Date Night for all women students. The Associated Women Stu dents board announced today. Girls will have 2 a.m. hours but their date must pay a pen ny for every minute they stay out-after 1a.m. The. usual rules for a 2:00 night will be in effect: no overnights or out-of-towns and special per mission is needed to go home on Friday night. One late min ute constitutes an automatic weekend campus. This is an extra 2:00 night, allowed in addition to the regular 2:00 nights granted by AWS rules. It is a Mortar Board money-making prjecf and the money collected is used to support projects such as the foreign student emer gency fund, graduate seminar, and scholarship luncheon. ON OTHER CAMPUStS- Problems Include Fires, Bicyclists The situation has caused an investigation by the Dean of Students' office. Spokesmen for the office say that they do not know the reasons for such vacan cies. A different reaction to dormitory life was seen last week at Columbia College, in Columbia, South Carol ina. Crying coeds were evacuated safely from their burning dormitory before it collapsed to the ground. None of the 350 girls were injured. Traffic on 16th Street and 14th Street may cause an guish for University stu dents, but at least they don't have to worry about being knocked down by happy-go-lucky bicycle riders. Such is the case at the University of Minnesota. Pedestrians as well as cy clists are running into all sorts of injuries. Conditions are getting so. bad that the Minnesota Student Associa tion is conducting an educa tional campaign to mako students more safety con scious. According to a report by the Health Service's Divi slon of Environmental Health and Safety, 60 stu dents had been involved with traffic injuries over a six day period. A proposal concerning dis cipline reform is being de bated by the Student Senate at the University of Illinois. This proposal, made by the senate legislative vice-president, defines and restricts areas in which the Univer 5 E ' . ' ; H IP. ' " ' " l' I h ' " 4 X , ' ' y 3 E ' ' f '' 1 I' v - .1 al'V'.; US'- ' ; tI I ;'"( 1 " ' 'VVr-il v V ','-'. . ' - . . C a I' , vi , - rJ r . I - . I : J , b " -v ' : f I Ml f - ff OffOf0 Ivy-Wa WASHINGTON (CPS) - The National Institute of Health (NIH) last week shat tered the college student's al ibi that a hard-drinking, hard- loving campus life is needed to escape the pressures oi studies. If you're worth your salt, sity can have disciplinary jurisdiction. It was asked that the Uni versity of Illinois discipline students only for "damage, destruction, or theft of Uni versity documents; cheat ing; violations of housing, motor vehicle, building, of organizational regulations; and participation in unauth orized student demonstra tions." This proposal also makes provision for compulsory counseling In cases of "fre quest andor flagrant viola tions of the commonly ac cepted code of sexual be havior." The proposal is supposed to be an Improvement over the present disciplinary sys tem in which the University can take action against stu dents with conduct "preju clal to the best interests of the University." Students at the University of Colorado were asked last month by the Student Sen ate to refrain from attend ing classes February 5, to protest Governor John Love's proposed tuition hike for Colorado colleges. The demonstration in cluded addresses by admin istration, faculty, and stu dent representatives. A pe tition was given to the gov governor during the first week of classes. It urged Love to reconsider his pro posal and asked the state legislature to provide sup port for state institutions. The proposed tuition raise was from $208 per year to $286 for Colorado students and from $832 to $1,032 for out-of-state students, lied Rat you'll wallow happily in aca demic crises and burden yourself with as many chal lenging situations as are available. At least that Is what the NIH's national institute of mental health reports. The findings are all part of an NIH-sponsored study of how humans deal with stress. Mental health investigators carefully screened through exhaustive interviews of 14 volunteer students making the transition from high school to college life. Researchers said the volun teers were "competent," with good academic backgrounds before starting their four year stint on the college cam pus. "Competent college stu dents seek out the tion of challanging stimula - and po - tentiallv stressful situations and, in coping with them, actively explore the resources in their environment," the report said. "Findings refute the pre vailing belief that students strive merely for relief of tension," the report added. To the students questioned, the report said, campus life was far from an ivy-walled rat race. "The students all had suc cessful academic records, close and meaningful inter personal relationships and clear self-images as achiev ers," the investigators report ed. Part of the self-satisfaction came from home where their middle-class families placed high value on Junior's college life. the researchers While didn't call it oarental rath, thev did say "the social mil ieu was found to provide and reinforce techniques for the student's problems." The report said, "most of the students developed new skills; they learned to size up a situation, budget their time wisely, and, strive for attainable goals." But the joy of the raccoon coat life was not completely left behind, the report said. "Alternative means of grati fication came through extra curricular activities." The successful students were given a big help from "friendships and heterosexu al relationships." The report said, "the abil ity to make and maintain friendships appeared related to the ability to solve prob lems in other spheres. "Friends assured the stu dent of his self-worth, and acted as models of behavior, sounding boards and sources of support. The students' in creasing confidence enabled them to overcome anxiety in meeting stiffer academic re quirements of college." One of the key reasons for the study was to help investi gators find why some stu- ! dents can't cope with college ; life. The failures will be put under the microscope during the latter part of the contin uing study. When they compile the rea sons for both success and failure, scientists hope to equate the ideal campus for all. "Once the factors influenc ing the ability to cope are identified," the report said, "the environment can be modified so as to be most supportive to successful cop ing." Making the report were Dr. George Coelho, adult psy chiatry branch at the NIH; Dr. David Hamburg, psychi atry department at the Stan ford Medical Center; and Elizabeth Murphey, of the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington. AWS Will Hold A Second Mart The Associated Women Stu dents will sponsor a second semester Activities Mart on Wednesday, Feb. 19 in the Conference room of the Stu dent Union from 2-5 p.m. Tables will be provided for each participating activity, and a representative of that activity will be on hand to answer any questions concern ing the activity. J. V I if