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Friday, April 24, 1964 The Daily Nebraskan Page I Council Changes Suggested usiness Candidates Four Automatically Elected Business Administra tion candidate Bill Potts be lieves the Student Council's public issues committee should be abolished while his only op ponent, Skip Soiref, calls for "modifi cation of its purpose." Bill Potts Potts, who carries an 8.2 average, says the problems raised by the c o m m it tee are signi fican to stu Potts Business Ad ministration dents. If "great problems" arise, Potts says the welfare com mittee should handle them. Skip Soiref Soiref says the committee should be modified to "con cern itself with issues which more affect the people in Ne braska and the students at the University." Holding a 8.3 cumulative, he says the committee should direct its international and national top ics towards "interested" groups. He notes that there just aren't students who are concerned enough to take part in such discussions at the Uni versity. Soiref says "certain stand ard criteria" should be de veloped by Council to limit organizational representation. Meanwhile Potts observes that the present representa tion system "is not perfect," but that "as the University expands, district representa tion may not do the job ei ther." "At present, the system is workable since it is set up as a basis for merely choosing representatives to serve Stu dent Council, not as a per- hf j Evaluation Shows Contributions Studn EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol lowing evaluation is the sec ond in a scries compiled by the Student Council reporters of the last two semesters. This article concerns the representatives from the graduate colleges and College of Business Administration, By Frank Partsch Senior Staff Writer The Student Council repre sentatives from the Colleges of Law, Pharmacy and Busi ness Administration have distinguished themselves in general through their partici pation in Council discussions and their committee work. Individually, their work can be judged on its own value, its relevence and its application to the problems of the stu dents, organizations and the campus. Bob Kerrey, College of Phar I r'Vzir7 Doers Open 1245 I I Sfig STARTS TODAY I 140 MO. ITM . I 4a-144,, I I V-"" mHtt t 9Jm. ,1 Jt.t. tecvrlttot WIJ fwfc, J n H......M.M...---J AX flK HI mpk, Utb j Doori Open 1245 I 'MtmtrJi ACADEMY AWARD I j 'MSZZZlJ: ' WINNER OF I Vj'mV; ; REST FOREIGN FILM! A Joseph Levin t I i" . i RiS i 1 es ' " M tP J I gr. u , a 5 beyondwhal I , It 1 men think If 1 Ml Miss Wiles Agriculture Poppert Graduate feet representation says Potts. p la n, Soiref c a 1 1 s for a constitu tional convention next fall "at which time students would be able to voice their opinion." Five candidates from grad uate schools will automatical ly sit on the Council with the May 4 election, filling the five open positions. Ken McElrose Ken McElrose, if elected, will concern himself with re routing traffic on campus to "relieve some of the conges tion and confusion which oc curs between classes." McEl rose, who has a 7.1 in Phar macy College, says Universi ty police should be controlling traffic during congested pe riods instead of "looking for overparked cars to write tick ets on." McElrose feels the "drink ing situation" has been "blown up" and that Student Council has more "pertinent problems to cope with." "Is it no wonder the Uni versity has difficulties in get ting state funds for their budg et. Perhaps the state's liquor laws need to be changed but this is not the place to do it," McElrose says. Roger Beaman Roger Beaman, currently studying for a Masters of a macy representative, served this year as chairman of the student welfare committee. This committee originated the student discount cards and the Fireside Discussions pro gram, both of which cannot be evaluated at the present time because only the ground work has been laid. The student welfare com mittee also suggested the tic ket rotation plan to provide immediate relief during the tense situation caused by a shortage in student football seating last semester. On Oct. 23, Kerrey an nounced that his committee would investigate the concept of compulsary ROTC at t h e University with the intention of making a recommendation to the Board of Regents. He added at that time that a poll would be taken to measure t C Beam an Graduate Art in finance and banking, says "organizational repre sentation does not fairly and adequately represent the stu dent body." Representation should be by college and liv ing units only, according to Beaman. Beaman asks whether Stu dent Council should reflect student opinion and answers himself, emphatically "no." "I feel very strongly that I am a delegate and not the mirror or parrot of student opinion. I will always vote as my conscious dictates," says Beaman. Beaman comes out on other issues, including being firmly against athletic department's hired tutors, backing favor able treatment for grad stu dents regarding parking tick ets, and criticizing "the rub ber stamp representation of the past few years." Bill Poppert Bill Poppert, a sophomore Pharmacy College student with a 5.9 over-all, feels that the Council will "eventually have to go to district repre sentation" because college representation b o g g s down when they become large. He calls for a constitutional con vention with representation as one of the major topics of revision. a cb i student support and reaction to the program. The next significent mention of the ROTC investigation came this week with Kerry's an nouncement that a recom mendation would be made fol lowing Congressional action on a bill allowing military students to make up ROTC re quirements in summer camp. Kerrey told Council at that time that conferences with heads of the military science departments had indicated to him that the present system of ROTC is the only way that the armed forces have to sup plement officer ranks on a large scale. Del Rasmussen, Law Col 1 e g e representative, cam paigned on the following plat form: "Council should either be renamed or the function of it should be promoted. The student body should be al lowed to be heard and act positively upon disputes of is sues." No action or motions have been initiated in Council this year toward either end. Ras mussen was a member of the judiciary committee and pro vided advice to that body concerning legal technicalities of some of the problems the committee encountered. He was also a member of t h e student welfare committee. Gary Oye, representative of the College of Business Ad ministration, said in last year's DAILY NEBRASKAN that he believed that roll call voting should be mandatory on all Issues and, that Council should submit a voting record of each representative to his constituants. Christie later in dicated to the DAILY NE BRASKAN that a roU call St. Paul f.lethsdlst Church ... 12 & M McElhose Graduate M STUDENTS ALWAYS WELCOME Dr. Clarence Forsberg Preaching Services at 9:30 and 11:00 Heine Graduate Soiref Business Ad ministration Poppert supports the idea of incorporating the p u b 1 i c is sues committee in the wel fare committee. Also, Poppert feels the student affairs com mittee has been a "limited area" and s h o u 1 d be abol ished. Allen Heine Allen Heine, who has a graduate average of "over 6," wants to serve on the Council to "represent the opinions and issues concern ing and involving the gradu ate students on ag campus as well as city campus." John Klein John Klein, the fifth candi date in Graduate College, re fused to submit his platform comments. Susan Wiles Susan Wiles, a candidate in the College of Agriculture, who was ommitted yesterday, says Muaent council repre- resentauon presently "over laps." She suggests represen tation strictly by living unit, but realizes the problem of representing off-campus stu dents. Miss Wiles notes that "far too few students take a deep enough interest in our Stu dent Council." vote on every issue would be an unnecessary waste of time. As chairman of the parking committee, Oye, on March 12, presented a long series of minor revisions in the campus parking regulations. The changes called for clarifi cations in parking times and fine limits, and were pre sented to the Faculty Senate for approval. The other Business repre sentative, Jim Baer, indicated in his platform that he thought Council should act on its own inclinations in the ab sence of student opinion. He also expressed support for a Quiz Bowl program, which was later approved by t h e Council. On March 25, Baer, as representation committee chairman, presented a three fold change in organizational representation 1 n c 1 u d ing representatives for Cath er Hall and All University Fund (AUF) and the re moval from Council of t h e present Council on Religion (COR) representative. The plan, alternately re ferred to as "complicating an already activity - infested Council" and "streamlining Council representation" was divided into three parts for necessary voting convenience. Baer said that Cather de served recognition as repre senting 500 men, that AUF, as a financial power deserved a Council seat, and that COR, as a religious organiza tion, should be removed to avoid a religion and govern ment conflict. Council approved the first two parts of the motion, while defeating the third, allowing the COR representative to re main on Council. (cVHtairihr, TODAY JAZZ N' JAVA will be held at 4 p.m. in the Union Crib. "PERIOD OF ADJUST MENT," week end film, will be shown at 7 and 9 p.m. in the Union small auditorium. Admission is 25 cents with student identification. INTER - VARSITY CHRIS TIAN FELLOWSHIP will meet at the Dick residence, 5000 Grandview Lane, at 7:30. TOMORROW BLOCK AND BRIDLE live stock judging contest will be held at 8 a.m. at the horse barn. INDIA ASSOCIATION spring cultural program will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Ball Room. SUNDAY MARRIED - STUDENTS EVENT, sponsored by the Un ion hospitality committee, will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Union games area. "PERIOD OF ADJUST MENT," week end film will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Union small auditorium. Ad mission is 25 cents with stu dent identification. COLLEGIATE BAND CON CERT, under the direction of Jack Snider, will be held at 4 p.m. in the Union. Parties, Formals Scheduled Parties will invade the Uni versity campus today and to morrow, as house parties, formals, picnics and a soccer tournament abound. TODAY All-Ag picnic and dance, 5:30 to 11:30 p.m. at Ag Cam pus. Phi Gamma Delta Formal, 7:30 to 12 midnight at the Knoll's Country Club. Kappa Kappa Gamma pledge party, 9 p.m. to 12 midnight. Alpha Chi Omega pledge party, 9 p.m. to 12 midnight. Sigma Chi sweetneart for mal, 9 p.m. to 12 midnight at the Lincoln Hotel. TOMORROW Pioneer Co-op annual ban quet, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Till man's Plaza. Delta Sigma Phi Carnation Ball, 7 p.m. to 12 midnight at the University Club. Beta Theta Pi house party, 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. People to People soccer open nite, 8:30 p.m. to 12 mid night at the Newman Center. Phi Delta Theta house par ty, 9 p.m. to 12 midnight. Sigma Alpha Mu house par ty, 9 p.m. to 12 midnight. Delta Sigma Pi Rose For mal, 9 p.m. to 12 midnight at the Cornhusker Hotel. Zeta Tau Alpha White Vio let Formal, 9 p.m. to 12 mid nieht at Congress Inn. Inter-Co-op Council Spring Ball, 9 p.m. to 12 midnight at East Hills Country Club. Theta Chi-Sigma Kappa Subway party 9 p.m. to 12 midnight at the Theta Chi House. Delta Tau Delta street ! dancei 9 p.m. to 12 midnight Bridge tournament, 9 a.m. 3 p.m. to TRAVEL AND BE PAID FOR IT TOO AS A STEWARDESS WITH UNITED FLY INTO 117 EXCITING CITIES ACROSS THE U.S.A. AND HAWAII ENJOY ASSOCIATION WITH INTERESTING PEOPLE TRAIN IN OU KNEW STEWARD ESS CENTER IN CHICAGO AT OUR EXPENSE SUMMER CLASSES OPEN. , TO QUALIFY YOU MUST BE: 20-2S SINGLE 5'2"-3'9" ton ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: United Air Lln ' I mplovmtnt Office ' Stopleton AlrflcM' . . Denver, Colorado K207 Am Equal OpMrtultr UHITEDJ umntm Aim f fK y Survey Suggests Religious Revival By Priscilla Midlins Junior Staff Writer Is religion dead or dying on university campuses around the country? This question has been asked more and more in the last two decades, and many have felt that the answer was a definite "yes!" An article in the NATIONAL NEWMAN NEWS presents the opposite side of this story. It tells of the persistent revival of interest in religion since the end of World War II. Its author, Andrew Greeley, of The National Opinion Re search Center (NORC) at Chicago University, points out that "the upper levels of aca demia have remained one of the last bastions of resistance to the revival." He says that believers on university facul ties do exist, but they are few in number, and their religion is private and hardly noticed "or tolerantly ignored by their colleagues." Greeley does feel though that the others are not mili tant atheists. He says that though they are surprised and fascinated by the revival, they are "too well mannered to at tack other people's religious beliefs." Some of them, he says, are "even beginning to speak about a new 'scientific study of religion,' not to disprove it, but to understand its dur ability more clearly." Even so, Greeley feels that they are still what Michael Novak has called "bourgeois agnostics" men who refuse to admit that the most important ques tion man can ask is answer able. One of these men re ferred to an agnostic as "someone who is beginning to be fearful that there might be a God after all." The next question arising out of this controversey is whether or not the agnostic ism of "Upper Academia" will destroy the faith of the students in their classrooms. A recent survey by NORC seems to suggest that the an swer to this question may be negative. That is, religion is not dead among the students. Furthermore, the bourgeois agnostics, as Greeley puts it, "may be training a genera tion of believers who will eventually make agnosticism as rare on the campus as is Nestorianism." A study made on arts and sciences graduate students who had graduated in June HEADQUARTERS FOR CAPER CASUALS UIELtS'E FROST 1134 O STREET LINCOLN We give and redeem Community Savings Stamps V:-. -It Trim, tapered, easy moving . . . they go anywhere you like. Crisp and clean . . . beltless and cuffleea. Many fine fabric Including long wearing blende of 65 "Dacron" polyeeter and 35 combed cotton. 'DuPont'e Reg. T.M. From 6.63 IBS SMITH BROTHERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY CARTHAGE, Mtti of 1961 and had attended one of the top 12 universities in the year after their gradua tion, shows that onetfif th of the Protestant students attended church every Sunday as did four-fifths of the Catholics. These figures deal with the religion in which the person was raised, and all who had left their childhood faith were included in the nonattenders. The next two decades will begin to show the actual an swer to the question or prob lem of religion on the campus, but for the present, Michael Novak expresses a feeling of optimism when he says: "God will come back to the campus only when man comes back." By this he means the kind of man who realizes that a human cannot escape from facing the question of the pos sibility of the transcendental and not by running to the security of "bourgeois agnos ticism." Of course, church attend ance does indicate the very private and personal feelings of religions beliefs, but it may show that man is on bis way back. YRs Reveal Rally Plans The Young Republicans (YR's) outlined plans last night for a mass rally support ing Republican candidates for president, governor and lieu tenant governor to take place May 7. The rally, to be held in con junction with Nebraska Wes leyan University and Lan caster County YR's, will begin at the Student Union, procede around the living units and down O Street. An award will be given to the living unit with the greatest enthusiasm, according to Doug Payne, campaign chairman. Lowell Hummel, state presi dent of the Federation of YR's made his first official appearance since his election last Sunday. Hummel challenged the YR's to return to their homes this summer and organize YR groups there to work to elect a Republican governor in Nebraska. Present at the meeting were Leo Bartunek, candidate for governor, Sen. Willard Waldo, Sen. Don Thomsen and Her man Dinges, candidates for lieutenant governor. 101 ' 19 J 1 A 1 ' 4 i V 1 ( p : 1 ; - w r