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- iff A . Jtlt' .. r?3m L-rf la9 ar" iff :' i ft i JU , . 1 ' f , . J .4 Hi -i "-f", 171. r 'x t' - . . f" ! j-'V'."""' 11 mill n mm -MmAl t$ mmmttm GRADUATION 1910. ..The Library (Now Architectural Hall), University Hall (Where Ferguson Hall Stands Today) and Old Administration (Razed Two Frame The Small But Picturesque Class of 1910. Years Ago) University Gains Prominence After 1900 Fl Athletics, WE's Bring Argument And Turmoil Classes Give Landmarks By Frank Partsch Senior Staff Writer Between the years 1900 and 1915 the University gained national and interna tional prominence as a lead er in education, and, ac cording to Dr. Robert Man ley, assistant professor of history, emerged into the modern world of education to find the beginnings of several problems which are still unsolved. These problems, as Man ley lists them, are the ef ficiency of the physical plant, the quality of the fac ulty, student discipline, the purposes and techniques of the athletic program and threats against the real val ue of an education at the University. During and following the successful football seasons of the 1900's the controversy over the recruiting of foot ball players became a heav ily disputed issue. A skilled player publicly announced that his services were avail able to any school that would pay him a specified salary. His enrollment at the Uni versity naturally caused many speculations about where the supposed money came from to pay the man's salary. The Athletic Board, which was made up of both stu dents and faculty members, tried to resist any attempt to professionalize the game of football, but their at tempts were thwarted by rumors of the Lincoln busi nessmen's participation in hiring athletes. In addition to the prob lems caused to the Athletic Board by recruiting proced ures, the Board's elections came into the spotlight of campus politics due to it's furnishing a battlefield for the fraternities and non-affiliated students, for the members of sub rosas and the Greeks, and for the proponents of various the ories about the basis and principles of an athletic pro gram. At one time in 1908 the JOURNAL charged that sev en members of the Board were members of Theta Nu Epsilon (TNE's), including three professors and four students. In 1909 a TNE banquet in the Lincoln Hotel "culmin ated in scenes harmful to the reputation of the Uni versity." The senate recom mended that the Board of Regents place a ban on sec ret organizations. The problems of the phys- j " unntr nmwwm rnnr sit PHOTO BY PENNIS DeFRAIN ORIGINALLY FACED WEST The stone tree seat, donated by the Class of '06, was reversed when the tree forced Its founda tion out of position. ical plant were brought to light in May of 1914, when the question arose if the city campus was spa cious enough to invest with more buildings or whether the whole University should be moved to the Ag Cam pus. After considerable study, a board of visiting Univer sity presidents reported that, although neither loca tion was much good, the Ag Campus would be a bet ter location for the Univer sity of the future. The State Senate voted to move the University, the House voted to keep it near the city, Lincoln people wanted the University close to the business section and Lincoln newspapers charged Omaha brew ers with trying to move the University out into the coun try as revenge for Lincoln's "dry" law of 1912. With these complexities, the question "was put before the people in a referendum in 1914. They voted decisive ly to keep the University where it was founded. At the same time, the legisla ture approved a 3A mill levy for University building, and the first large scale build ing program began shortly afterwards. Manley says that Dr. Ber tha Luckey, a daughter of the first "professor of pedi gogery," went to the Uni versityof Heidelburg in 1908, and was told there that the University was rec ognized as one of the edu cational leaders in the United States. The quality of the facul ty, says -Manley, was due primarily to a nucleus of excellent educators. The problem of how much to pay to hire and keep good professors was born when it became evident that a larger school needed more than Just a nucleus of good teachers. The control of student be havior became "the great est internal crisis that has come to the University in many years," according to Chancellor Samuel Avery after the 1912 Cornhusker contained a joke page criti cal of the legislature as well as "suggestions of drunk enness and immodesty." The Chancellor was "deeply humiliated" and called for all the offending books to be returned, so that the joke section could be removed. The action was mandatory to all students shown by records as having purchased Cornhuskers. An editorial in the JOUR NAL on June 11, 1912, placed the blame for the in cident on parents who "al low their children to read Sunday newspapers without let or hindrance from their earliest infancy." The stone tree seat in front of the Architectural Hall was donated by the graduating class of '06. Or iginally facing west, it was repaired and turned around to face the sidewalk when the girth of the tree threat ened to crack its founda tion. The large rock which has become the Boulder Memo rial was discovered near Hunginton by Professor Samuel Aughey in 1892 Con'L on Page I Uh, Sftsiy Pun s lMl TI Vol. 77, No. 70 The Daily Nebraskan Friday, March 6, 1964 COLMAN TO LEAVE Wool P Accept SesogmiallTODiis; siftclheiry Laimd hase The Board of Regents yes terday agreed to purchase the Hill Hatchery property at 10th and S Streets for $210,000 to be used for additional lab oratory and classroom space next year. Exact use for the land, 11 - 1 1 ,1 1 FINALISTS FOR MAY QUEEN (front row, left to right) Willa Meyer, Judy Keys, Donna McFarlin, Sue Hovik, Cindy Tinan, (back row, left to right) Judy Erickson, Martha Ann Dubas, Ann Lemon, Judy Birney, Mary Sue Hiskey. 4- r r r Ten May Finalists Named Ten University senior women have been named finalists for May Queen. The May Queen and her maid of honor will be elected Wednesday and will be re vealed at the 75th annual Ivy Day festivi ties May 9. The finalists are Judy Birney, an Al pha Phi in Arts and Sciences and Teach ers Colleges. Her activities include Angel Flight executive officer, Alpha Phi vice president 1962, Miss Air Force, 1962 Lit tle Colonel, Little Sisters of Minerva, finalist for Dairy Princess, Little General, Nebraska Sweetheart, Honorary Comman dant, Rose Queen, Cornhusker Beauty Queen and Alpha Phi 1964 Coed Follies director Martha Ann Dubas, an Alpha Omi cron Pi, in Teacher's College. Her activi ties include Alpha Omicron l i recording secretary, first vice president and pledge trained, Pi Lambda Theta president. Dean's Advisory Board, finalist for . 1962 Homecoming Queen, and past Tassals treasurer. Judy Erickson is a Kappa Kappa Gamma in Teacher's college. Her activi ties include Women's Physical Education Club president, past Union chairman, Kappa Kappa Gamma social chairman and 1962 state co-chairman for Teenage March of Dimes. .Mary Sue Hiskey, Chi Omega, is in Teacher's College. Her activities include Chi Omega president, UNSEA; Pi Lamb da Theta, Homecoming Queen Finalist 1962 and Nebraska Sweetheart Finalist 1963. She is a Regent's scholarship win ner. Sue Hovik is a Pi Beta Phi in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her activi ties include YWCA secretary, Theta Sigma Phi secretary, Theta Sigma Phi Midwest representative on National Stu dent Advisory Board, senior representa tive on Pi Phi Executive Council, past DAILY NEBRASKAN news editor and member of 1963 Ivy Day Court. Judy Keys is a Gamma Phi Beta in Teachers. Her activities includt YWCA vice president, Cornhusker Beauty Queen finalist, Honorary Commandant finalist, Gamma Phi Beta past assistant pledge trainer, past member of Red Cross, Un ion, and Physical Education Boards. Ann Lemon is a Kappa Alpha Theta in College of Pharmacy. Her activities in clude Kappa Alpha Theta past president, Kappa Epsilon, past member of Union and AUF Boards, past treasurer of Ameri can Pharmaceutical Association. Donna McFarlin is an Alpha Delta Pi in Teachers College. Her activities in clude Angel Flight, ACE, Panhellnic Coun cil, Pi Lambda Theta, 1963 Miss E week, Honorary Commandant 1963; Vice President and president of Alpha Delta Pi. Willa Meyer is a Pi Beta Phi in the college of Arts and Sciences. Her activi ties include NHRRF, Psi Chi, past dorm counselor, Pi Beta Phi pledge trainer, finalist for Miss E-Week, finalist for Ne braska Sweetheart, finalist for Honorary Commandant, finalist for Delta Sigma Pi Rose Queen. Cindy Tinan is in Teachers College and is a member of Kappa Kappa Gam ma sorority. Her activities include Kap pa Kappa Gamma scholarship chairman, Newman Club, AWS Senior Board, Little Sisters of Minerva, 1962 Homecoming At tendant, 1963 Nebraska Sweetheart, and past member of Student Council which includes a one-s 1 0 r y brick structure with a base ment totaling 40,000 square feet and about one-fourth of a block of land, is not definite because of the sudden acquisi-4 I uua. ! Dr. Charles Colman, chair man of the department of ro mance languages at the Uni versity, had his resignation accepted by the Regents. He Iwill take a similar post at the State University of New York, Albany, N.Y. Colman, who has served for 17 years here, also taught courses m French and Italian. "I am leaving for personal i reasons and I have been very happy here at Nebraska." In other staff changes, Dr. Norman Cromwell, a mem ber of the department of chemistry since 1939, was named chairman of the Uni versity's department Cromwell succeeds Dr. E. Roger W'ashburn, depart mental chairman for nine years, and faculty member for 38 years. Washburn asked to be relieved of the chair manship responsibilities to devote full time to his teach ing and research. An authority on anti-cancer drugs, Dr. Cromwell is well known nationally for his re search and, among numerous other recognitions, has twice received Guggenheim Me morial Fellowships for study and research abroad. The Regents also accepted the resignation of Harry De dering, program coordinator at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education who is joining the University of Min nesota staff. Sherwood M. Sullivan, a San Francisco lawyer, was named associate professor of law while Walter Rowden was hired as man ager of livestock operations in the department of animal science. Research grants totaling $220,367 were accepted by the Board at the recommendation of Vice Chancellor Roy G. Holly. The grants were re ceived during February. A total of $154,078 In grant funds was received from the U.S. Public Health Service. The largest single item was a $50,000 grant from the Pub lic Health Service to Dr. Rich ard I. Meile of the depart ment of neurology and psychiatry. Dr. Donald Pace received $32,853 from the Public Health Service and $12,997 from the Tobacco Industry Research Committee for research in ef fects of air pollutants on hu man lung cells and quanti tive evaluation of the effects of smoke constituents. NU Student Encounters Color Bar Sam Skeete, a Panamanian graduate student at the Uni versity, said he was refused service at the Capital Barber Shop at 1035 P because he is a Negro. Skeete, 50, who lives at the Capital Hotel, entered the shop and was seated when a barber told him "we aren't permitted to cut colored peo ple's hair in here." The Panamanian, who is a fifth grade teacher in a Latin American school in the Canal Zone, came to the U.S. Feb. 7 to study for a master's de gree in elementary education. "I'm living at the Capital Hotel and everyone I've met in Lincoln have been very, very nice. The've gone out of their way to help me which I think is very laudable," he said. Prior to going into the bar bershop, he said he asked a hotel clerk if students were permitted to use the facility. He said she told him "It's a public shop 60 go right in." "I went and sat down in a chair and a young man put that w hite apron around me, but then an older barber shook his bead and said something. "I asked him what he said and he told me they weren't allowed to cut colored peo ple's hair in there. I told him it was the first black eye for Lincoln, but I didn't want to create an issue so I left," ha said. Shop operator Lloyd Dum ke, who leases his shop space from the hotel, wasn't in the shop when the incident oc curred. "We do cut Negroes hair if we must, but we suggest that they go to the colored shops in town. If we started cutting their hair we'd just be hurt our future white business," he stated. University's Honors Program Expanded Since 1959 The University's honors courses, despite some inher ent problems, continue to expand-according to Lee Chat field, Director of the Junior Division and Counseling Serv ice. Chatfield said a special bro chure will now be sent to prospective honors students because the number of courses has expanded. Stu dents, selected on the basis of high school performance, test grades or special permission, now have wide opportunities in many fields. Honors courses were started in 1959 by the math department and followed shortly by English and history departments in 1961 and '62. Chatfield distinquisbed be tween "true" honors and ad vanced placement courses. The emphasis lies in theory rather than factual drill in a true honors course. "The biggest hazard in the honors course lies with the attitude of the department and faculty toward the non honors student body," said Chatfield. The tendency, he said, can be for the faculty to regard honors students as the only people that belong in col lege in the first place. Another problem Chatfield pointed out is the accuracy of honors selection. He said on the whole, 50 per cent of the students just starting in an honors course can continue and gain sevens or better. "A number of non-cognitive factors such as emotional or personality troubles may ham per an individual's perform ance and these are things we just cannot foresee," Chat field said. Chatfield said that ability had to be accompanied by motivation. Selection of in structor aids motivation, the student will probably spend the extra time unconskmsly, he said. Part of the honors expan sion is being planned by the Arts and Science College in. the form of an honors pro gram on a four year basis. 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