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'I Vol. 77, No. 61 The Daily Nebraskan Thursday, February 20, 1964 Semester Averages In One Week?- ugdcgI mieir Studteonii" C Will Work 77"" n ili ' .j' f V ff I v I , . VV . ? - vv-- f '. : T Get Gra yft S Student Council yesterday unanimously passed a motion by Glenn Korff calling for the Council to work with the Faculty Senate and Adminis tration in shortening the length of time required for students to receive their grades after the end of a se mester. Korff, in the discussion fol lowing the motion, said that he has conferred with Vice IFC Sets Spring Rush Week; Sessions Start February 29 By John Lonnquist The first spring rush week to be held on the University campus will be conducted this year. The IFC last night ap proved a schedule for the week which will run from February 29 to March 7. The purpose of the spring rush week is to allow those men who did not participate in fall rush to pledge a fra ternity, according to Tom Schwenke, vice president. Participation in the activi ties of the week is open to all male students whose ac cumulative average is 5.0 or better. Orientation sessions will be held on Feb. 29 and March 4 The men will visit ten fra ternities of their choice on March 6, and then will return to three of them on March 7. That evening, they will pledge. No rushee will be allowed to wear a pledge pin until af ter 7 p.m. March 7. He will not be bound to any frater- NU Heart Report Appears On TV A report on research at the University in the radio tele metering of heart activity will take place on NBC's "Today" show tonight at 7:30. Dr. K. D. Rose, staff phy sician at Student Health, and F. Lowell, M.D., College of Medicine, have conducted the work in cooperation with Samuel Fuenning, M.D., di rector of the University Health Services. The project, financed by a U.S. Public Health grant, consists oU. attaching m ma ture FM transmitters to per forming track athletes to provide records of their heart activity for medical study. Preliminary results show that through radiotelecardio graphy the performing heart can reveal conditions which go undetected in the ordinary electrocardiographic (EKG) tests. According to Rose, the "News of Your Life" segment of the "Today" show will be devoted to the Nebraska proj HOW NOW BROWN BUFFALO? IS THIS COW SACRED? No, but as student rush through Morrill Hall on their way lo class on a cold winter morning, they will probably rotas this Cape Buffalo. How ever it is one of more than two million exhibits ia the State Museum which attracts visitors from all over the world each year. Chancellor G. Robert Ross, dean of Student Affairs and Dr. Floyd Hoover, registrar, to determine what bottlenecks in the present procedure cause the week span be tween the end of final ex ams and release of the grades to the students. The most serious problems in this area, said Korff, are the failure of many teachers nity, nor will he be recog nized by the IFC as a pledge until after that time. There will be no organized program for taking the rushees around to the frater nities as in the fall. The men are responsible for meeting and terminating their own party dates. The fee for participation in spring rush will be $6. The cost of the week in cludes dinner March 6, a n d lunch and dinner March 7. The meals will be served in Union 234-235. These rooms will be the headquarters for the entire week. The registration and fee payment must be completed in the IFC office, Union 330 by 5 p.m. March 4. All rushees will stay at their present places of resi dence during the rush period. Except for bonafide party times, the rushee may not be in the fraternity house, and may only be contacted by phone. All University reg ulations pertaining to conduct will be observed. Anyone fail ing to comply with these or with any of the IFC's rules will be subject to expulsion from rush week. Any man who fails to go through rush week, fails to pledge by 6 p.m. March 8, or who breaks a pledge at any time, must wait until April 6 to formally pledge any fraternity. In other business, the IFC memben heard Howard Brady, business manager of Miller Scholarships To Be Awarded Students interested in t h e Donald Walter Miller scholar ships must submit applica tions to their respective col lege deans by March 1. A total of three or four $1,000 Miller scholarships will be awarded for the 1964-65 school year. Sophomores or above who are registered in any college of the University, including Graduate College and the professional colleges, are eligible to apply for the scholarships. it to submit their grade rosters to the registrar's office with in the specified five day per iod following finals. He explained that, by using a different type of class card, which contains a slot for each grade that could be filled in with a pencil similar to the type used in machine-corrected tests would, with no ex pense or addition to the Uni versity's present IBM equip- Westm i n s t e r Presbyterian Church, present a program for house moves to church on Sundays. His church, accord ing to Brady, would provide a bus to take fraternity and sorority members to church. Each fraternity and sorority would be given a chance to choose a particular Sunday when it would like to go to church as a body. The bus would be made available to them on that date. Next week elections for the three standing committees of affairs, rush and public rela tions will be held. Those nom inated for these positions up to this time are Jerry Krot ter, Phi Gamma Delta, af fairs; Bill Mowbray, Sigma Nu, and Chuck Clement, Al pha Tau Omega, rush; and Mike Barton, Phi Kappa Psi, public relations. Appointed chairman of the expansion committee was John Lonnquist, Beta Theta Pi. His committee will consist of fraternity alumni and sen ior advisors. Coed Will Study At Detroit Institute Carol Kramer, former Uni versity student has been ad mitted at the Merrill-Palmer Institute, Detroit, Mich., for study during the current se mester. The Mer rill - Palmer Institute is a center for the study of human growth and develop ment, family life and com munity or. Miss Kramer ganization. It offers comprehensive pro. grams of teaching, research and community service. Selected undergraduate stu dents in sociology, home eco nomics, psychology, educa tion and related fields, from 65 colleges and universities throughout the country, spend a quarter or a semes ter studying at the Merrill Palmer Institute during their junior or senior years. raaro by mm vtmua ment, allow students Jo re ceive their grades within a week after the end of a se mester. The present system, Korff said, creates a number of problems for students who need to know a course grade before registering for a course following in the sequence, "or ganization initiations and stu dents who do not know wheth er they will be scholastically eligible to continue in the Uni versity until they receive their average. He added that after 11 day some instructors have not yet turned in their grade ros ters. In other new business, Su sie Pierce presented a motion containing numerous changes in the election by-laws. The motion was seconded by Ann Wahl, and, under Council pro cedure, it will be discussed and voted upon at next week's meeting. Jim Baer, chairman of the representation com mittee, announced that h i s committee and its associates will conduct a poll on student opinion concerning the pre sent system of representation. The poll, designed to con tact about 500 students, will be conducted by telephone and personal interview. The asso ciates will ask for student re action to representation, ex plaining the present system if the interviewee is not fa miliar with it. Parking committee chair- University Will Host Intercollegiate Debate College students from 33 schools in ten states will par ticipate in the University of Nebraska Intercollegiate De bate Conference Thursday through Saturday. The conference, directed by Dr. Donald Olson and Dr John Petelle, will include juni or and senior divisions in de. bate. There will also be a divi sion in original oratory, ex temporaneous speaking, and interpretive reading. Registration begins at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Temple Building. .The debate question will be "Resolved: That the federal government should guarantee an opportunity for higher ed ucation for all qualified high school graduates." Eighty-five teams will de bate both sides of the ques tion in six preliminary rtunds, quarter-f i n a 1 s, semi-finals, and a final round. Certificates will be awarded to each participant receiving a superior rating in any of the events. In addition, a sweepstakes award will go to the school that does the best overall job. Nebraskan debaters are from Creighton University, Doane College, Kearney State CoDege, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Midland College, Discuss Adding Wildlife Course The possibilities of making wildlife management a course of study was explored by a joint student-faculty discus sion group Tuesday night at the Nebraska Center. Interest in the wildlife course has been generated by the Wildlife Club on ag camp us. Vice Chancellor Adam Breckinridge, dean of Facul ties, answered student ques tions about the idea. Mel Steen, director of the State Game Commission, and Dr. Franklin Eldridge, dean of Residential Institutions were present Dr. Arthur Ward, di rector of Adult Education at the Center moderated the dis cussion. Discussion topics were the chance of creating a school of natural resources and the use of specialized Game Com mission employees as instruc tors in the program. man Gary Oye announced that the parking appeals board will meet at 7 p.m. on Thursdays in the future. He said that University Po lice have been instructed to make appropriate notation or a mete i umei u uie uueuuei returns while the officer is writing tne ticket. The ticket must be turned in to the office of the Univer sity Police, said Oye. The police may either waive the fine or refer the matter to the parking appeals board. Susie Pierce, chairman of the election committee, an nounced that organizational representatives must be elect ed before March 27. Filings for the general elections will be on Apr. 6. The Peace Corps placement test will be given at 9 a.m. Saturday. The council is working with representatives of the I o w a State Student Council on the possibility of arranging char tered flights to Europe for Big Eight students during the summer vacation. President Denny Christie emphasized that no tours would be in volved and the students would be on their own when they ar rive in Europe. He said that they would have their choice of several planes leaving and returning to New York and that the plan would represent a sav ings of about $200 on a round trip. the University of Nebraska, the University of Omaha, and Wayne State College. AWS Sets Selections Interviews for Associated Women Students (AWS) board members will be held Satur day at 9 a.m. Students chosen by the senior board members will run in the all women's elections March 11, for board positions. Freshman, sophomore and junior girls may apply if they have a 5.7 average. Applica tions may be picked up in the AWS office and must be returned by 5 p.m. Friday. Commitfee The English department plans to administer three literary competitions this spring including the Academy of American Poets award, the lone Gardner Noyes awards, and the Prairie Schooner Fic tion awards. The Poets award, being of fered for the second consecu tive year, is available to both graduate and undergraduate students, and will be pre sented to the writer of the best group of poems submitted. The University is one of 30 colleges and universities in America selected for partici pation in this event. The Noyes awards are of $50 and $25. Offered for the eleventh year, the competition is open to undergraduates only. Prairie Schooner awards of Religious Conference Convenes At Center The Nebraska Center will host a two-day conference on religion and race March 2-3. Discussion at the conference will center around the con cern of religion, religious groups and religious leaders in regard to civil rights as dealt with by and through the government, communications media, business and labor, and educational institutions and programs. Guest speakers at the con ference will be Rev. Dr. Wyatt Walker, Rev. Dr. George Dunne, Marvin Oberg and Rabbi Myer Kripke. The conference is open to all religious groups, lay and clergy, as well as civic, com munity, professional, labor and business leaders. A NEW WAY Dr. Robert Clyde Hyde have developed an electric method of an alyzing heart activity. NU Researchers Discover Heart Measuring Method A new method of measuring and recording heart ac tivity without wire attachment to the body has been de veloped by three University of Nebraska biomedical-elec-tronic researchers. Given the name Magnetocardiography (MCG) the new approach has proved highly reliable in measuring the magnetic field associated with the heartbeats of guinea pigs and turtles. The new technique was discovered by Dr. Clyde Hyde, professor of electrical engineering and department chair man; Dr. Robert Stratbucker, M.D.., and assistant profes sor of physiology and pharmacology; and Steven Wixson, a graduate student. They have shown, through correlation with the use of computers, that their early experimental technique com pares in reliability with the electrocardiogram (ECG) in the measurement of heart rate and rhythm and certain characteristics of conduction, injury, and heart size. Ex periments with refined equipment are continuing to deter mine whether MCG is capable of showing heart activity not generally revealed by the conventional ECG. The two systems differ in that the MCG senses and records only the fluxing or cycling magnetic field which accompanies the heartbeat, whereas the ECG senses only the electrical currents produced by the heart muscle tis sue. The MCG method, unlike that of the electrogram, does not require the use of direct wire attachment to the skin. Therefore, the researchers believe that perfected equip ment may some day make it possible to give large num bers of persons heart checks in much the same way they are given chest X-rays. Dr. Hyde said he could envision a device in the future that might fit around the human chest and which could be moved easily in a van. The working principle involved in the use of MCG re quires that the heart be somehow surrounded by a spe cial shield to eliminate stray magnetic fields such as those from power lines and the earth's stationary field. Dr. Stratbucker explained that the successful use of this prin ciple is similar to that used by watchmakers to make their products antimagnetic. The initial contribution of the physician and the engi neer in the search for a workable MCG came several months ago when they showed that the electromagnetic field associated with the self-triggering action of the heart was strong enough to measure. The groundwork for this discovery and the continued biomedical-elcctronic research is made possible through the close cooperation between the department of Electrical Engineering and the College of Medicine, who shared equal ly the work for this recent development. The University of Nebraska is the only school work ing on a project of this kind using this principle. To Conduct $50, $30 and $20, made possi ble through a fund initiated by Mari Sandoz, noted Ne braska author, will be offered for short stories written by either graduate or under graduate students in the uni versity. In charge of these events is Coed Follies Will Present life, Liberty, Associated Women Students (AWS) will present "Life, Lib erty and Leap Year" for its 1964 Coed Follies program to be held at Pershing Muncipal Auditorium at 8 p.m. Feb. 28. Skits, sororities and skit masters participating in this year's Follies are "Baubles, Bangles and Billboards", Gamma Phi Beta, Karen Pflasterer; "The Lady is Luce", Chi Oega, Anne Swanson; "Phi Folklore", Al pha Phi, Judy Birney; "The Abscoundable Snowman," Kappa Kappa Gamma, Cordy Seward; "Black, White and Read All Over," Pi Beta Phi, Linda Goth; and "The Status Seekers", Kappa Alpha Theta, Shirley Voss. Traveler's Acts to be pre- i'llllllllllllllllllllCllinilllllllDIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'J; I OOOfc I Scoreboard bu Tiut w n. m. n m Phi. 1. Kdpm Rlfma, US, T. Phi Delta Tbeta, W. Wema AliHu EmUon. lit Alpha Gamma fUrma, M. j iUnmer Ball, Mi, vt. Fana- Bauaa. N. SulllUUIHIlUIIUIUIUIIlUUIUUIUUUUIUlllilllUii Stratbucker (above) and Dr. Contests a committee consisting of Ber nice Slote, Marjorie Ixiehlin, Frederick Link, and Hugh Luke, all from the English de partment. Manuscripts for the con tests should be submitted in 221 Andrews by 5 p.m. on May 1. Leap Year' sented are "Crow Bait", Chi Omega, Kay Christiansen, skitmaster; "My Fair Lady", Alpha Omicron PL Mary Ann Griffiths, skitmaster; "Cock roaches", Alpha Chi Omega, Diane Steffenson, skitmaster; and "To the Blues", Alpha Chi Omega, Jean Grotelusch en, skitmaster. . The Ideal Nebraska Coed and the Outstanding Collegiate Man will be revealed during the evening. Coed Follies chairman if Bonnie Knudsen. Architectural Students Get New Scholarship A $300 yearly scholarship for architectural students has been established by the Ne braska Bureau for Lath and Plaster, Inc., through tht Uni versity Foundation. The scholarship will be awarded each year to a fifth year student op the basis of character, leadership, aca demic accomplishments and financial need. The recipient win be se lected by the architectural scholarship committee, ff V ft ? i 1. t I 6 I I i i I