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Regents Race Discussed
Greenberg, Foster
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EDITOR'S NOTEj This
Is the first of two articles
on the candidates for the
two open seats on the Uni
versity Board of Regents,
to be elected next week.
Both Regents, Dr. Benja
min Greenberg and Richard
Adkins, are seeking re-election.
Today's article deals
with Greenberg and his op
ponent, Clifton Foster.
By Marilyn Hoegemeyer
Junior Staff Writer
Lost in the hoopla of state
and national politicking, but
remaining one of the more
crucial elective offices of the
day is the race for the Uni
versity Board of Regents.
Seeking reelection is Dr.
Benjamin Greenberg, a York
physician. His opponent is
State Sen. Clifton Foster,
principal of the Beatrice High
School.
Dr. Greenberg said the
basic strength of any univer
sity lies in the quality and
abilities of its faculty and
6taff. "The University will
improve' in direct relation to
whatever further upward ad
justments we can make in the
strength of our faculty and
staff," he said.
"My first commitment is
to the further development of
our University faculty and
staff; it involves working for
greater financial support, a
better public understanding of
the University's purpose, and
for the attraction of a prom
ising student body." Dr.
Greenberg told the Daily
Nebraskan.
Foster gave his training in
professional education and
administration and legislative
processes as an advantageous
background for a Regent.
Foster would improve the
University by "taking the
story of the University to the
legislature and provide some
leadership for a change. I
would make the seat hot
enough for the legislature that
they'll have to start some
long range planning," he said.
In answer to the question,
do you feel that the Univer
sity is adequately serving the
state of Nebraska at the pre
sent time, Dr. Greenberg re
plied: "I believe that the Uni
versity has capabilities of
providing greater service to
Nebraska, especially In t h e
area of economic growth, than
are now being utilized.
"The reason for not mak
ing greater use of the Univer
sity, however, is in my judg
ment, more the fault of Ne
braska than of the Univer-
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sity," Greenberg added.
Foster said the current
Board "is content to let lead
ership lie in the hands of the
chancellor and his appoint
ees .. . the chancellor has
been selected to run the Uni
versity . . . the Board has
been elected to provide state
wide leadership . . . This is
a responsibility which should
never be delegated."
According to Foster, "it is
not in the best interest of the
state to have the highest-paid
chancellor in the Big Eight
and one of the lowest paid
faculties."
Dr. Greenberg, 61, has been
a York physician for 35 years.
While Regent, he's been ac
tive in the National Assn. of
Governing Boards of State
Universities and was elected
president of that group in
1962.
Listed in the 1964-65 "Who's
Who in America," Dr. Green
berg this year received the
York Sertoma Club's Service
to Mankind Award.
Foster was the youngest
member of the Nebraska Leg
islature when he was elected
at age 29 from York and
Seward Counties in 1962. Fos
ter earned his B. A. degree
from Nebraska Wesleyan Uni
versity in 1957. Since that
time he has been a science
teacher and coach, a lectur
er at the Oak Ridge Institute
the principal of Kimball
County High School, Kimball,
and an instructor at the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
He is presently employed
as Senior High School Prin
cipal at Beatrice. He has
been named one of the 10,000
Outstanding Young Men in
the United States by the Unit
ed States Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
Elections Responsible
For Lost ID Cards
Homecoming Queen elec
tions were responsible for
three misplaced student iden
tification cards.
Barbara Pflasterer reported
her card missing, and the
cards for Roxanne Wiebe and
Sally Jackson were found.
Lost or found cards should be
reported to Galeri Frenzen at
4G6-2436.
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Facilities Mow Open
To Students, Faculty
Students and faculty of
the College of Agriculture
and Home Economics are
now enjoying the facilities
of the new library on East
(Ag) Campus.
Final administrative and
procedural touches are
now being put on the newly
opened 1.25 million dollar
building, and everything is
expected to be finished
within the next two or three
months.
Completion of the three
story steel and glass struc
ture fulfills a long-recognized
need for expanded li
brary facilities to serve the
College of Agriculture and
Home Economics, accord
ing to Frank Lundy, direc
tor of libraries at the Uni
versity. Under One Roof
The new library makes it
possible to bring under one
roof for the first time, a
number of collections which
have been stored in widely
separated locations, Lundy
said. It will house nearly
100,000 volumes once the in
gathering is completed.
Books were kept in t h e
basement, two main floors
and attic of Agricultural
Hall. Some 30,000 volumes
have been stored in t h e
basement of Love Library,
two miles away on the city
campus.
Also being incorporated
into the central collection
are the few remaining de
partmental and laboratory
libraries scattered around
campus, volumes in
interfiled with related vol
umes in the respective
broad subject areas such as
entomology and biochemis
try, Lundy explained.
In addition to existing ag
ricultural and home eco
nomics collections, several
thousand volumes related to
the field of biology have
been moved from Bessey
Hall on the city campus to
alleviate bulging book stor
age facilities there.
Further plans call for
making available to ag and
home ec students on East
Campus more references in
the humanities and so
cial sciences, Lunday re
vealed. Function Broadened
Projected Universi
ty plans to locate class
rooms and laboratores of
non-agricultural disciplines
on East Campus would
broaden the function of the
new library, Lundy pre
dicted. Although it will be
the home library for agri
cultural and home econom
ics students, it eventually
will become a second all
university library, he ex
plained. The ultimate book
capacity of the new library
is 250,000 volumes.
Features of the library
and its location both reflect
the belief of University plan
ners that it will be the hub
College
A landslide preference
was shown for Lyndon B.
Johnson over Barry Gold
water in a nationwide poll
taken by the Drury Mirror
among college and univer
sity campus editors and
newspapers.
In its Oct. 23rd issue, the
Drury College Mirror in
Springfield, Missouri, re
ported that of over one hun
dred schools responding to
the survey, the ratio was
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of East Campus in years to
come as the institution
comes to grow and develop.
The structure is located in
the midst of rose and peony
gardens at the present east
ern edge of the campus
building area. However,
long-range plans for the de
velopment of East Campus
would put the library near
its center.
The library is a three
story square, with a light
well running through i t s
center. It contains 52,000
square feet of usable floor
space, which compares with
approximately 150,000 square
feet for Love Library on the
downtown campus.
large Overhang
A 13-foot overhang on the
building is distinctive to its
over-all appearance.
The outstanding charac
teristics of the entire li
brary are simplicity and
flexibility.
"There are a minimum of
'fixed, internal commit
ments' such as stairs and
elevators," Lundy said.
Complete flexibility is as
sured by the use of free
standing book stacks. A Uni
versity stipulation that
floors be made strong
enough to hold a "maxi
mum, reasonable weight
load at any place at any
time," will allow the stacks
to be moved or re-arranged
as both the book collection
and student enrollment
grow Lunday said
"Total book collections in
a typical University re
search library double each
20 years," he said.
The main floor contains
basic reference and biblio
graphic works of most in
terest to the undergraduate
student. Adjacent to the
study areas are browsing
shelves containing new per
iodicals for leisurely read
ing. Several locations on the
first and second floors will
be carpeted and furnished
for lounge areas, adding to
the drawing power of the
library for students.
Grouped around three
sides of the light well is a
central core of offices and
library staff work rooms.
Tables For Study
Study tables are especial
ly designed for students, af
ter Lundy visited many li
braries over the country and
concluded that most tables
of this type were too small.
Tables to accommodate four
undergraduate students
each are 48 inches wide,
compared with 42 inches in
many libraries. Tables for
use by a single graduate
student are 42 inches wide.
Tables for undergraduate
students are dispersed
around the edge of stacks on
main floor, allowing both
Editors
more than 8-1 in favor of
Johnson.
Two hundred and sixty
colleges and universities
were contacted in the sur
vey, and of the 105 respond
ing, 60 per cent took no
stand, 37 per cent supported
Lyndon Johnson, and 3 per
cent supported Gold water.
When , asked who the edi
tor himself supported, 79
per cent favored Johnson,
and 17 per cent supported
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maximum concentration for
students and easy access to
the books.
Study tables are provided
to seat 400 students initial
ly, with provision to seat
up to 600 students.
Lighting in the new li
brary accentuates Its flexi
bility. Fluorescent lighting
tubes run the full width of
the building about 120
feet so that illumination
is uniform throughout.
Research Area
The second or top floor
carries out the structure's
primary function as a re
search library. The floor is
basically a giant tray on
top of columns which rise
from the main floor. This
means there are no physi
cal obstructions on the top
floor to hamper flexibility.
This floor will serve as a
faculty and graduate re
search area with 24 faculty
study rooms located around
the light well. The book col
lection will consist primar
ily of pure and applied sci
ences. All publications of
the state agricultural exper
iment stations and U.S. De
partment of Agriculture in
the University library collec
tion will be shelved on this
floor.
The 24 rooms will be as
signed to faculty members
on a semester basis by the
librarian, under policies de
termined by a faculty com
mittee. A faculty lounge is locat
ed on this floor, along with
book lockers which may be
assigned to graduate stu
dents regularly using the li
brary for advanced studies.
The lower floor, partially
underground, is designed
partially as a receiving and
storage area, but contains
active elements of the pre
sent operation along with
space for future growth.
Adjacent to the entrance
in the lower level is a 20 by
30-foot room which can be
used by the faculty to host
distinguished visitors, and
for informal conferences and
student-faculty get-togethers
It also will be used by the
Nebraska Hall for Agricul
tural Achievement for its
annual meeting, and for oth
er special events.
Hours Opened
Beginning this Nov. 1, the
library will remain open un
til 10 p.m. Sunday through
Thursday. It is now open
only until 9 p.m.
As soon as all moving and
consolidating at the library
is completed, it is hoped
that the closing time can be
extended to 11 p.m. and
that the service times of
both the city and east cam
pus libraries will be the
same.
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Goldwater. One editor sup
ported Richard Nixon, and
one suggested Michigan
Governor George Romney.
When asked "How is the
student body reacting to this
campaign?" the Mirror re
ported these results:
(1) "An active interest, as
demonstrated in campus po
litical activities, raging de
bates, rallies, Letters to the
Editor etc.
(2) "A passive interest, a
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YR's, YD's Hold Debate;
Examine LBJ's Leadership
Whether Lyndon Johnson or
Barry Goldwater should be
elected President of the Unit
ed States was debated last
night between the Young
Democrats and the Young
Republicans.
George Duranske and Bill
Harding presented Republi
can views and Bob Cherney
and George Kimball Demo
cratic views as they debated
the toDic "Resolved: That
Lyndon B. Johnson be elect
ed President of the United
States.
Chernev ODened for the
Democrats by outlining what
he called "areas of achieve
ment" of the Democrats since
1960. He pointed out the ad
vances of the Democratic
administration in the areas
of the military strength, eco
nomic well-being and individ
ual freedom and security.
Duranske answered that
any present favorable situa
tions in those areas were not
due to Johnson. He said that
military imDrovements were
the result of technology and
the U.S. situation in the oth
er areas was not so good as
outlined by Cherney.
Kimball charged that the
present Vietnam situation is
a "Republican legacy" dat
ing from the Eisenhower ad
ministrations.
He also said that Goldwa
ter "has been shooting from
In Poll
knowledge of the issues, but
generally a lack of strong
argument and partisan opin
ion. (3) "No interest."
The colleges, according to
the Mirror, are equally di
vided between (1) and (2),
but private schools seem to
be reacting more actively to
the campaign than large
state universities.
The Mirror said that civil
rights seemed to be the fore
most issue for many of the
campuses, while big gov
ernment vs. small govern
ment ranked a close second.
The third issue was for
eign policy, and was fol
lowed by federal spending,
communism and defense.
According to the Mirror's
results, religion was "unan
imously listed as the least
relevant issue."
On the whole, the Mirror
reported, the editors report
ed that campus political at
mosphere leaned toward the
Democrats. "Southern insti
tutions were almost even
ly divided between the two
parties," the Mirror said.
the hip since 1960 and prob
ably since before that."
Harding accused Johnson of
having differed from his pre
vious professed beliefs by en
dorsing the Civil Rights Bill.
In the rebuttal periods, Dur
anske and Harding empha
sized the unemployment
problem in the country and
questioned Johnson's charac
ter. Cherney and Kimball ar
gued that the Republicans
were using nothing but "char
acter assassination" in their
campaigning and were not ar
guing the issues which they
claimed exist.
Following the debate, a pe
riod of open questioning from
the audience was held.
Fcmhel Entertains
Two Suggestions
Of Pledge Tutors
Two plans for a tutoring sys
tem for pledges and interested
actives were discussed at the
Panhellenic Meeting Monday
afternoon.
The first plan introduced by
Maragret Lehl, scholarship
chairman, would consist of a
tutoring program co-sponsored
by the Inter Fraternity
Council and Panhellenic. The
IFC already has a tutoring
programs in progress.
IFC assesses each fraterni
ty a certain amount to pay
the tutors for their time
spent. Last year a similar
program was held on Satur
day mornings.
The sciences and freshman
English are the primary sub
jects in the present IFC tu
toring program.
"Perhaps some of the girls
could tutor in foreign lan
guages if members of the so
rorities would be interested,"
Jean Probasco, Panhellenic
president said.
If Panhellenic ' joined t h e
IFC tutoring program they
would be expected to pay a
certain sum toward the hir
ing of extra tutors.
Miss Lehl presented anoth
er plan wherein the Universi
ty Administration would sup
ply a closed circuit television
in the dormitories. The pro
grams would consist of review
sessions for several classes.
Miss Lehl also reminded all
the sorority presidents and
delegates of the math tutoring
program now available to stu
dents. Math tutors are grad
uate students. Those who need
help can contact them by tele
phone to receive help.
