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Vol 11, No. 86
The Daily Nebraskan
Monday, April 13, 1964
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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.'
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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.
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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
