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WfaWiffHW'i'ri 4fc,ij:J''ii'iVi'''ilrA-'fn''J'Y -irlinliiiim'ni-iu it aiT -ffrriy -fry it -p frtifi m fyay aft kf tfnTr 0 i j i ' ni ' tx. t UNIVERSITY OP NEBSC LIBRARY 4 Vol 11, No. 86 The Daily Nebraskan Monday, April 13, 1964 " - " 1 f MISS MEANS CRITICAL- ' Vj A i Ssiodl 1 i . M I -"--r.-r-. - GREEKS GIVE A check for $240 was presented Friday to Robert Rudell, repre sentative for the John F. Kennedy swimming pool fund by Tom Brewster, Inter Fraternity Council (IFC) following the marathon from Crete. Nick Von Drack last run ner in the marathon, looks on. The money was the sum of entry fee paid by the fraternities. ZOO GETS $4,500 aficeA Games reek Week Open 64 Pheidippides, the champion runner of Athens 2000 years ago, ran twenty-six miles from a battle field to Athens to an nounce the news of Greek victory. Friday, twenty-four University Greek runners ran twenty-four miles from Crete to the south practice field in Lincoln to an nounce the beginning of Greek Week. Ray Stevens, former Cornhusker miler, who began the marathon race in Crete, had the best time of 4:28. The symbolic torch was ignited by Mayor Ray Renner of Crete, and was car ried to Lincoln where Nick VonDrack, the last runner, lit the flame which will con tinue to burn throughout Greek Week. After the lighting of the flame a check for $240 was presented to Robert Rudell, information and public relations director of the John F. Kennedy Memorial swim ming pool company. The money was col lected as a registration fee from each run ner and will be used to build a swimming pool at Whitehall Children's Home in Lin coln. Tom Brewster, Interfraternity Coun cil (IFC) president, presented the check. The torch, which "represents the spirit of the Greeks," according to Stan Miller, chairman of IFC Affairs Committee, will barn at the houses of the Greek Games winners. The tug-of-war was won by Farmhouse, Delta Sigma Phi was the win ner in the pyramid race, and Sigma Chi won the chariot race. Sorority winners were Alpha Delta Pi in the twelve-legged race, and Alpha Chi Omega in the obsta cle course race. Phi Gamma Delta, who won second in the tug-of-war and second in the pyra mid race, was overall champion. Greek games began with a parade of chariots down 16th Street to R, then down 14tb to the south practice field. A Saturday morning canvas of Lincoln by 1500 Greeks netted approximately $4500 for the Animal Nursery and Diet Kitchen at the Children's Zoo. An exact count of the money collected is not yet available. Th Astronauts were responsible for the firsi successful Greek Week dance in several years, said Miller. Over 1400 peo ple attended the dance. The Astronauts, a surfing music group, asked if they could return next year to play at the University. Greek Games trophies were presented at Intermission. Housemothers attended a tea in the Student Union Sunday afternoon. The af fair, sponsored by the Union Hospitality Committee, featured an act by La Femme Beatles, a pantomine by Mary Lynn Al berding, Ginny Ferrara, Marilyn Bowen and Winnie Sennents, and a trio group composed of Claudia Davis, Claudia Parkes and Jean Edwards. Barb Smith played the piano for the tea. Seminars and workshops, sponsored by IFC and Panhellenic were held Sunday aft ernoon in the Student Union. IFC chair men were Bob Weaver, pledge education, and Dave Magaret, scholarship. Panhel lenic chairman were Liz Ryon, standards; Marge Lehl, scholarship; Jan Whitney, activities; Susie Armstrong, president; Karen Benting, pledge trainer; Lynn Bau mann, social; Sharon Schmeeckle, rush. Scholarship Banquet Set For Tomorrow Dr. William Hauser, graduate secre tary and educational director of Phi Gam ma Delta fraternity, will speak in connec tion with Greek Week in the Student Union Ballroom tomorrow at 8 p.m. The future of fraternities will be the subject of Mauser's address. All members of fraternities and sororities are invited to the convocation. The top male and female Greek schol ars will be honored at an Interfraternity Council-Panhellenic recognition dinner in the Pan American room before the gen eral convocation at 6:30 p.m. The top male scholar will receive a watch. House presi dents will attend the banquet. Dr. Hauser has worked full-time with fraternities for more than a year, and has acquired insight into the problems and po tential of the fraternity system. He currently holds executive positions on the National Council of Teachers of English, the American Council on Educa tion, and the National Interfraternity Con ference. In September, he will assume the post of Dean of Faculty and College at Athens College in Alabama. He has published three books. Two are college textbooks on composition, and one, to be published in September, is an analy sis of the Bible and its literature. News coverage the day of President Kennedy's assassin ation was "a shambles" be cause the whole system of "on the spot reporting" needs im provement according to Mar ianne Means, only woman White House correspondent. Speaking at the annual Mat trix banquet sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi, women's journalism honorary, Miss Means criticized the so-called "pencil press" in Washington. She told a crowd of over 300 in the Union ballroom that perhaps reporters today could do something more useful than on the spot reporting. "There were 50 of us in the Dallas parade that day, and none of us knew what was happening. We had tocall our Washington bureaus I to find out the President . hid been shot," said Miss Mfeans, a University graduate. I She said only Mjerriman Smith of the United Press In ternational, riding in the "pool car" employed by Presiden tial reporters, had immediate access to the story. Although all the reporters recognized the three gun shots fired that day, Miss Means said, nobody really believed that the Presi dent had been shot. Miss Means attributed most of the news coverage problem the the "population explosion" Dream Girl Told Tonight; 13 Vie Thirteen candidates for Del ta Sigma Phi Dream Girl have been announced. They are Marcia Kosch, Kappa Delta; Kay Cronin, Kappa Alpha Theta; Bobbie Hamsa, Kappa Kappa Gam ma; Georgia Merriam, Alpha Omicron Pi; Lois Q u i n e 1 1, Chi Omega; Donnis Dare. Sig ma Kappa; Cay Leitschuck, Gamma Phi Beta; Judy Di lorenzo, Zeta Tau Alpha; Joyce Bartling, Delta Gam ma; Linda Shaw, Alpha Xi Delta; Dee Dee Darland, Al pha Delta Pi; Brenda Brown, Delta Delta Delta and Susie Moore, Pi Beta Phi. The candidates were inter viewed at a tea yesterday. The Dream Girl will be named tonight. UNSEA Will Elect, Plan Meet Tomorrow There will be a meeting of the University of Nebraska Secondary Education Asso ciation at 7 p.m. tomorrow. A spring convention for next month will be planned and officers will be elected. The slate is as follows: president, Bill Hayes and Doug Thom; vice-president of nropramin?. Mike Barton and Connie McAdams; vice-president of membership; Bill Bai ler. Carol Branting and Mari lyn Kramer; secretary, Barb ara Sieck, Jane Weymouth and Diane Weimer; treasurer, Gerrv Kriefels. Sandra Skoda, and Larry Toothaker; and his torian, Mary Ann Webster that has hit the Washington news bureaus. She noted that over 2,000 reporters covered the Kennedy-Khruschev sum mit meeting in 1961. The Washington press also has trouble getting past "the obvious images" because they have a tendency to compare President Lyndon Johnson to Kennedy. She emphasized Johnson's role as a man of today's problems while Ke nedy was more a man "of. great vision." The crowd, many who were from the Sigma Delta Chi regional convention, chuckled when Miss Means said John son was the kind of person who, "if bored on a Saturday, would hold an impromptu press conference."- Furthering the Kennedy Johnson comparison, she said Johnson treats reporters open ly and informally while Ken nedy maintained "a more re served dignity and personal style." "Off the record agreements" with the President are the source of other problems for Washington reporters said Miss Means. Recent articles about the President's conduct while entertaining reporters on his ranch during the East er holiday were the result of breaking such an agreement with the President. Miss Means said both Ken nedy and Johnson too often wanted to become good friends with reporters. She said reporters should react graciously to a President's role of social host, but that they should remember their duty as newsmen. She said that a formal press conference had been held and that an "off the record agreement'' had been made after that. TIME Magazine's account of Johnson's alleged speeding and beer drinking was "highly inaccurate" and "considerab ly exaggerated." "After all," said Miss Means, "who do you think has the highest accuracy rate. President Johnson or TIME.' ''r " " , - : ' ;j met'-- PoUard Atomic-Age Priest Will Speak Here Dr. William Pollard, a physicist and ordained priest in the Episcopal church, from Oak Ridge, Tenn., will speak at a University convo cation April 22. Pollard is executive direc tor of the Oak Ridge Insti tute of Nuclear Studies and serves as priest-in-charge of St. Alban's Chapel, Clinton, Tenn. He will speak on "Nature and Supernature" at the 10:30 a.m. convocation in the coli seum. The Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies is a non profit corporation of 39 south ern universities which con ducts programs under con tract for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and to a small extent, for other government agencies. Moon Show Featured "Our Mysterious Moon," a new sky show, is now being shown at the Ralph Mueller Planetarium: Dr. John Howe, planetarium coordinator, said the ao companying lecture will deal with mysterious ob jects that have been observed on the moon's surface and a general discussion of the April night sky. Public shows are scheduled at 2:30 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, and 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Works Give Life To Shakespeare By Wallis Lundeen Junior Staff Writer That "he was not for an age, but for all time" was proven last Thursday evening fes four English professors read from the works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare's men and women paraded before the audience in the modern Shel don Art Gallery auditorium, as Othello, Cleopatra, Rich ard II and Falstaff stepped onto the stage. Bernice Siote, Ross Gar ner, Robert Knoll and John Robinson, in formal evening dress, created these charact ers with feeling and humor. The readings were the first of a four-part Gallery program of the Shakespeare on the Plains Festival, celebrating Shakespeare's 400th birthday. One of the first program Adlai May Speak Here The University has com bined efforts with the Gover nor's office to bring United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson to the campus to address a summer convoca tion, according to a column in the OMAHA WORLD HER ALD. The visit would follow the University's practice of in viting a representative from the State Department to speak during the summer sessions, according to Vice Chancellor G. Robert Ross, dean of Stu dent Affairs. Plans are proceeding through the office of Dr. Frank Sorenson, director of the summer sessions. Vice Chancellor Joseph Soshnik, comptroller, who has worked on arrangements during the past week, was unavailable for comment to the DAILY NEBRASKAN. selections was Ben Jonsons tribute to Shakespeare "To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakes peare" "thou art a monu ment without a tomb," read by Garner. Othello, also read by Gar ner, bragged of his exploits to win his lady's love, and Miss Slote responded with "O mistress mine" from "Twelfth Night" "What is love in delay there lies no plenty." Fat, rollicking, conceited Falstaff was interpreted by Robinson, whose witticisms included "Youth the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears," from Henry IV. Nev er one to deny boasting of himself, Falstaff says to his son Harry of himself, "Harry I see virtue in his looks." Cleopatra in her barge, en trances Antony in the selec tion from "Antony and Cleo patra" read by Garner. Robinson displayed his talent in interpreting the nurse from "Romeo and Juli et," and he and Knoll rollicked through a scene as Quince and Bottom from "A Midsum mer Night's Dream." Miss Slote read the lines "All the world's a stage," from "As You Like It," which includes Shakespeare's de scription of the seven ages of man. Knoll read from Richard II. The king was seen as a man alone, with nothing to call his own but death. As the stage lights dimmed, the K i n g's agaonizing plea was heard "My large kingdom for a little grave." An audience favorite was the Quince and Bottom scene. Knoll played a wall which separated two lovers in a play scene. The wall, which a duchess calls "the wittiest partition," has to double as one of the lovers, Thisby, and this double role led to some amusing scenes. L u - V v' Jn '7';A 9 rf; ,y J DETERMINATION PLUS Greek games participants grimace in their efforts to win. Diane Vetter (left) be decked in the most stylish bib overalls, straw hat and over shoes races to the finish line on her modern vehicle. It's mod in yonr eye for the unfortunate Triangle tug-of-war, team (center) as their opponents pull them in to the drink. 1 It's topsy-turvy tumble for the Sigma Nu pyramid team,' (right) as they cross the finish line. j