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Page 4 UWlnlT;!TT ill - 1 South Stadium Addition Summer Nebraskan Enter Riebar Balbert Business Hanacer Hollr Spenea Information far publication may be tamc4 In t 319 Nebraska Hall or called to at 4T7-8711, eit. 2434 or 9435. The SUMMER NKBRASKAN la published each Tuesday da ring the Summer Sessions. STARTS WEDNESDAY DO NOT SEE IT ALONE l liiH SPECIAL DISCOUNT -TO STUDENTS FACULTY KAUFMAN'S Jewelers 1332 O for your better DIAMONDS WATCHES JEWELRY KEEPSAKE LONGINES BULOVA WWrmf DOOM OPINES $jr -TZZTZZr: starts Friday y$ f v. r ' 'i:;f? , What ' 'Hi m hm asm 1 bob, mtk I in ir? i 'M'ffH MMIN6 for Stuart mmi Nabraakoi&M Ja;Hy.."3V?t;PsW torrer P.m. or: tiamparH urn m r i.ji 33 1 tl4 "F" T. 432-312 hi 'fCHNKUU" IN COLOR Behlen Physics Lab Know Your Government Nebraskans Appoint By Peggy Speece Two years ago Nebraskans amended their constitution to allow for judgeships of the State Supreme and State District Courts to be chosen by appointment rather than popular election. This plan for appointment of judges is known as the Missouri court plan because it is modeled after a plan put into effect in the Missouri court system in 1941. Basically the outline of the plan is as follows: 1.) A commission com posed of one current State Supreme Court judge, three lawyers elected by the Bar Association, and ;hree lay men appointed by the Gover nor nominate at least two candidates to fill a vacancy. The governor then makes the final appointment. 2.) After his six year term is over, the judge makes an application to the Secretary of State to have his name DOORS rsMM OPEN 12:45 fM. VmM iART rRIDAT . - tUH"jiJ Ith I p State Seearitiet Self Park Jaaytl Cor Park Ooroqe, 13th ft MjT:i!W mi A STORY OF &m SUPERHUMAN COURAGE m-3Mii'M put on the ballot with the question "Shall Judge . . be retained?" If the people vote to retain him in office he then serves another term. Otherwise a commission will make new nominations and the Governor will make a new appointment. 3.) No judge in office is al lowed to make a contribu tion or take part in any politi cal campaign. This method for selection of judges is in effect in re latively few states: most still have popular election of judges. Why did Nebraskans chose this system? District Judge Bartlett Boyles, Lincoln, is the first judge to have been selected iu der the new system. He ex plained that the plan has been proposed in one form or another in Nebraska ever since Missourians passed their amendment. "This plan leaves little room for an incompetent judge to gain office, he said. "Especially in the less popu lated districts of the state where several counties elected a district judge it was easy for an incompetent per son to get into office just be cause the people didn t know him. The Missouri plan does away with the possibility of this occurring." Boyles said that the Bar Association in N'ebras ka made the installation of the Missouri plan a project. It was their feeling that a judge should not have to wor ry about campaigning or poli tics to keep his job; that he should stand on his record as a judge. The amendment to the Ne braska Constitution is part of the fourth stage of judge se lection that the United States has seen. The first method of selec tion used in this country was, oddly enough, the appoin tive system. In fact, all the original states except Georgia appointed their judges through the Governor. However, in 1832, Missouri signaled what was to come when she adopted a popular election system. Jacksonian Democracy and the rise of the western states aided the no tion that a judge should be elected by a vote of all the people he was to serve. The Eastern states clung to t h e appointive system for' awhile but by the outbreak of t h e Civil War, 22 of 34 states elected their judges. " Around the close of the Civil War, the third period of judge selection began. It was now apparent to many NIEMANO'S Where Dining Is A Pleasure PIZZA-CniCKEN STEAKS Optn 4 p.m. dally 20 No. ft-Frta salivary 4M-I Summer Nebraskan 46ei Dorm, Ag Library, Physics Lab Being Built Flexibility of plan and modernistic design two of the features of the present expan sion program at the Univer sity. Reflecting the flexibility and modernistic trend of the program is the new library on the Ag campus. It is designed with an overhanging roof and a promenade on the ground level. The two story structure is built of steel and concrete, and will use glass for the walls and skylights. The up per stories, to be used for reading areas and reference books, have only supporting partitions; thus allowing max imum use of floor space for study activities, and the 100,000 books which it is de signed to accommodate. The offices and stacks are located in the basement. One of the newest and most modern of the regular campus buildings is the new Behlen Physics Laboratory. Built with gift funds from the Beh len Manufacturing Company, state appropriation and a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Beh len Building is to be used for research only. This is in ac cordance with terms stated in grant received from the National Science Foundation. The Behlen building has five Icors, two below ground levi; but the foundations are such that two more stores can be added. This which is keep ing with long range building plans insures the physics re search department of addition al facilities. The second floor of the structure is used for of fice space and expanded li- Judges that judges and politics easi ly made for corrupt judges. Those judges wanting to re main in office made "popu lar" decisions and many of them were not above taking bribes. The 1865-1915 period was a time of much agitation and many proposed remedies. Corrections of the elective system suggested included judicial nominating conven tions, non-partisan ballots, and election of judges on dif ferent days from other offici als. But little more than talk occurred until the time of World War I. The fourth stage, the one which we are still in, began with people demanding in vestigations and reports on their judical systems. Nowhere was this agitation the state where popular elec tion of judges was first started. A long drawnout con troversy followed, culminat ing in the Missouri court plan of 1941. At present, there is coun trywide belief that reform is needed in the area of selec tion of judges, Judge Boyles feels. "In a lot of places, trial court judges are up for re election every two years. The uncertainty of tenure keeps many excellent men from even running for a judge ship," he said. Judge Boyles explained that as the elected term of office for the State Supreme and District Court judges run out, the Missouri plan will be applied to fill the vacancies. "It will probably take at least 10 years before we know how successful the plan will be in Nebraska," he said. "But I feel confident that the system will prove to be a good one in the long run." Theater Wanted For Centennial The University of Nebraska Centennial Committee is launching a campaign to build a theater for the performing arts in time for the Universi ty's Centennial in 1969. E. N. Thompson of Lincoln, chairman of the Centennial Committee, said that Bennett S. Martin has agreed to head a subcommittee to develop plans for financing. Thompson, who Is president of the Cooper Foundation, said the Committee is unani mous in wanting to provide a permanent Centennial me morial on the University campus and agrees that a theater for the performing arts can be an important sources of further cultural growth for all Nebraska. brary. The other areas are for the purpose of modern re search. A special section is designed for construcing of equipment to be used by the research department The third major building under construction at the Uni versity is the Abel Dormitory. Named for the late George P. Abel, the dormitory located at 17th & Vine will have 13 stores when completed. The single housing units will house near 1000 men and provide dining facilities. In size the first floor of the dorm approx imates the size of a football field. Another major project of the University planning divi sion is at Memorial Stadium. Football fans will be happy to learn that the seating capac Freshmen Orientation Gives Answers Continued from Page 1 A student staff member rep resents each of five colleges. The student staff answers the entering students' questions, conducts a seminar on the college student's personal re sponsibility and guides the group through their day's ac tivities. Much of the afternoon is spent with faculty advisors who go over the college re quirements in a general way and then spend time individ ually with the students, ac cording to Siemers, Physical reviews are also completed during the program. The entering freshmen join together in one group on the second morning at which time campus life and student gov ernment are explained in de tail by student staff members. University students working in the various phases of the orientation program are Pete Sommerhauser, Brian "Skip" Soiref, Ann Wahl, Susie Ayres, Judy Brumm, Gary Pokorny, Mike Barton, Sally Wilson, Shirley Voss, Jean Probasco and Bob Brehm. Parents participate in a sep arate program in which they meet members of the faculty as well as campus religious leaders, see an educational TV film on the early history of the University and tour the campus. Entering freshmen seem to be concerned about what they can expect from their instruc tors, according to Ann Wahl and Brian "Skip" Soiref, two student staff members. "They have the Idea instruc For ttochtrs who wont anonay, a snore congenial location or special assistance in meeting particular situation, contact: THE DAVIS SCHOOL 501 Stuart Building Lincoln, Our servlc covert No feet er cnarae until yea Motor Cycle Two days Sat., July 18, 8 p.m. A - " A 9 Lincoln Speedways Close To w - 1 v v - .t a PL. Wi PI ity has been increased by 10,000 with construction of per manent bleachers on the southern end of the field. The seating capacity is now 43,000 excluding the blachers on the north. According to figures re ceived from the office of Noel L. Smith, plant construction engineer, approximately $7,5000,000 will.be the total amount which will have been spent on the completed four projects. The money was re ceived by private donation, national grant, revenue bonds and appropriations. All the projects are scheduled for completion by the 1964 fall semester with the exception of the Abel Dorm which is to be ready for use by the 1965 fall semester. tors are very impersonal. We have tried to tell them this is not true, that the professors really care, but it is up to the students to make the first move," Soiref said. "Entering students seem to enjoy the program a great deal, and they have not re ceived much of the informa tion in the mail. They are able to see the 'heart' of the Uni versity instead of just the facts," Shirley Voss, another student staff member, said. The most meaning for the University in this program is the fact that as students move from high s'hool to college, there is a transition period where students need help, Dr. G. Robert Ross, vice chancel lor for Student Affairs, said. "Last summer 1,000 students came in to get questions an swered," Ross stated. Through this summer program, he con tinued, we hope to do three things. (1) Provide individual at tention. (2) Aid students in their transition period. (3) Make students and par ents more aware of what the University will expect of them in the way of responsibility. "We are very pleased with our first effort and the general feeling is that we want to try it again," Dr. Ross concluded. Students who participate in the summer freshmen pro gram will need to come only one day in advance of school while those who do not will be required to come for at least two days of orientation prior to the fall term. 9 SERVICE Nebraska Phone: 432-4954 III entire U.S. nave received acceptable tervlce Auto Races of racing Sunday, Jury 19, 8 p.m. 2500 North 14th St. Campus IggjffSSE1 Cotata V If M7 ATTHE Tuesday, July 14, 1964 Jllllllllllllllllllllllll!lll!llllllll!)lll llllllllllig Bandsman I To Give 1 I Lectures I Frederick C. Ebbs, director of bands at the University of Iowa and recognized as ona of the great American colle giate bandsmen, will give a series of four lecturers tomor row and Thursday. His lecturers, arranged by the department of music, are free and open to the public but are desgined primarily for high school and collegiate band directors. He will speak at 10 a.m. each morning in the music annex and at 2 p.m. each afternoon in 332 Nebras ka Union. His subjects: Tomorrow morning, "Con temporary Band Literature and Its Affect on the Band"; afternoon, "Rehearsal Proce dureIntonation." Thursday morning, "Reher sal Procedure Conducting"; afternoon, "New Look at the Football Band Show." Professor Emanuel Wish now, chairman of the music department, said a second ser ies of music lecturers has been scheduled for July 21 when Hugh Stuart, national authority on woodwinds, will be on campus. Parents Praise Neiv Program A visit to student dormitor ies brought back memories of college days to an Indianola farm couple who participated in a new program for entering students and their parents at the University of Nebraska. (See Story Page 1.) Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Behn ke and their daughter Cathe rine are among the 1,000 par ents and freshman who have participated in the new p r o gram which continues during July. Mr. Behnke said he was im pressed with the amount of in dividual attention which stu dents receive through counsel ing services and faculty ad visors. Their daughter plans to study home economics next fall and has her room all lined up in Love Hall on the Ag College campus. Perky's Pino Place EAT IN OR CARRY OUT Open 11 A.M. Till Midnight Price 85c $1.50 $2.00 11th A Q 432-9652 STARTS TOMORROW AT THE ALL NEW Box office opens 12:41 1st show I PM CHILDREN SOC IMsAlimkWmHa Jrfi rrs r vjiwmii?tiiiiWiMW'