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jJNIVtRSnY OF NEBR. LIBRARY 79, No. 65 The Daily Nebraskan Thursday, December 3, 1964 Vol. Snowflakes Frame : "fee'' i i' jf -4 Kb FIRST SNOW Heralding the holiday season the first snowfall brings winter wonder land to the University campus and gave freshmen the opportunity to discard beanies as the flakes fell. GOP Needs To Find Points Which Have Appeal: Peterson By Jim Korshoj Junior Staff Writer The need to find points which appeal to the Ameri can people was named as the greatest challenge facing the Republican Party by former Nebraska governor Val Pe terson last night. Peterson, who has also served as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, made this point in a talk to the Young Re publicans. He spoke on "The Future of the Republican Party." "The Republican Party is definitely not liquidated," he said. "Not all of Goldwater's 25 million votes were re ceived just as an endorse ment of him. Many of them were cast as endorsements of the Republican party," he said. Peterson said that the Re publicans must, in order to come back from their defeat in the recent election, work for and endorse policies which will be favored by the majority of the people. "The purpose of a political party is to try to render maximum amounts of service to the peo ple of the country," he said. He also expressed concern over the party's failure at times to convey their stands to the people. "The Republi can party has not expressed itself in as affirmative terms in some years as is desir able," he said. "We can't be successful unless we are def initely for things." "There Is nothing wrong Sheldon Designer Wins Art Award The New York architect who designed the University Shel don Memorial Art Gallery, Philip Johnson, has received the 1964 "Art in America Award." Johnson is the first architect to receive the award. Win ners in other years included painters Mark Tobey, Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, a sculptor Alexander Calder, and photographer Edward Steichen. The honor, given by the Art in America magazine for outstanding contribution to art, carries a $1,000 prize and a medal designed by Seymour Lipton. ill ?i r with Conservatism," Peter son said. "The true Conser vative is interested in taking the best things from the past and using them for the fu ture. There is nothing about Conservatism that means rad icalism or extremism," he said. Peterson also spoke on the negative charges against many Republican candidates in the last election. He said that he could see nothing neg ative about fighting to main tain a sound budget and a sound dollar. In commenting on the elec tion, Peterson said that he doubted that any Republican candidate could have beaten President Johnson. "I think the only one who would have had a chance would have been Nixon," he said. "But as a new President who hadn't had time to have things go too wrong, Johnson had too many things going for him " Peterson said that he had one criticism of the Repub lican's campaign. He said that In a meeting of Repub lican leaders before the cam paign began, it was decided to "write off" the Negro vote and to try to capture the South. "This was sheer, bald ra cism, and a despicable ap proach to a campaign," Pe terson said. In response to a question concerning the future plans of the Republicans in regard to ultra-conservatives in the party leadership, Peterson said that he favored removing these people from their posi tions. "We would probably then lose some votes from this element of the party," Kansas Hosts Conference On Campus Government The annual Big Eight Stu dent Government Association Conference will be held at the University of Kansas Dec. 11 and 12, according to Ray Ed wards, president of the Asso ciation. Big Eight schools will send participants to discuss promi nent student government problems and solutions on the Big Eight campuses. In legislative sessions the Campus ' ' ' ' ir :! i ' " ' . ........... : . - ' " l;t- . ... J he said, "but we can get along without their type." When asked what the Re publicans should do on the lo cal levels in 1966, Peterson answered that they should do their best to encourage the best candidates they have to run for office. "We need ca pable, forward-looking people to run for office if we are to win," he said. Dave Clark Five Stars At Pershing The Dave Clark Five, a young singing group from England, will be appearing at the Pershing Auditorium, tomorrow at 8 p.m. .Admis sion price is $3. "Considering that the Dave Clark Five is running a close second to the Beatles, it is sur prising that the tickets aren't selling as well as they should," Ivan Horg, manager of the Auditorium, said. The group's latest record ing, "Glad All Over" has moved ahead of any Beatle recordings in England and is climbing on American popu larity poles, according to Gold's Record Department. Ashley Montagu To Give Lecture Ashley Montagu, a world famous anthropologist and prolific writer on the races of mankind, will deliver the 1964 Montgomery lectures here. He speaks at 3:30 p.m. next Monday and Wednesday at Love Library auditorium. Montagu will also appear at the Unitarian church Sunday. delegates will enact programs for the association to sponsor. Student flights to Europe and the Eight College Bowl were sponsored by the association last year. Governor-Elect of Kansas, William Avery, will speak to the group at a banquet on the evening of the 11th. The group is scheduled to elect new officers for the com' ing year. 'Fraternity AUF Results Very Poor1 Results of the All Univer sity Fund fraternity drive were unstaisfactory, John Lonnquist announced at the Interfraternity Council meet ing last night. He said that fraternities which did not contribute will be contacted by AUF. John Cosier, scholarship chairman of IFC, said that pledges receiving downs should be required to attend the tutorial program on Sun days at 7 p.m. He said that Panhellenic urges pledges who received downs to attend the tutoring program. Ladd Lonnquist announced that Student Health is re questing that very active fraternity member take part in the free diabetics tests. "Around 500 yearbook proofs have not been turned in yet," Mrs. Hazel Jackman said. If the proofs are not re turned by December 15, a proof will be selected at Mil ler's, she said. The pho tographic office is closed in the Union, but yearbook pic tures will be taken at Mil ler's until Dec. 12, Mrs. Jack man said. "Instead of charging each man $2 for the house com posites and glossies we will send each fraternity a bill." Mrs. Jackman said. A motion to donate to the Builder's Student Professor ship Fund was defeated. Tom Brewster, president, said that IFC was a governing body and could not donate money. Dan I s e m a n presented ideas and projects for the pledge training program. He suggested a research p r o -gram on both the value of pledge sneaks, and pledge participation in Homecoming displays. He also proposed studying problems of pledge training from the pledge's point of view. Information concerning the history of the University should also be made available to pledges, said Iseman. Bill Poppert said that of the rush chairmen, he had talked to none who were in favor of Spring Rush. Brew ster told all IFC members to solicit their house for an opin ion of spring rush. Ag Meeting Hero Today Classes for Ag students will be dismissed this afternoon so they can attend the fifth annual Agricultural College Pro fessional Opportunities Conference. Mr. Jerry Ladman, Place ment Officer, College of Ag riculture, Iowa State Univer sity, will be the speaker at the 1 p.m. general assem bly in the Activities Building. Following the general as sembly there will be sessions conducted by 25 industry rep resentatives. Sessions will be held in Ag Chemicals, Ag Ed ucation, Ag Marketing, Seed Production, Dairy Production, Economic Research, Electri cal Power Use, Farm Coop eratives and Irrigation. Other sessions offered are Farm Machinery, Farm Man agement, Feed Industry, Pub lic Relations, Food and Drug Administration, Peace Corps, Soil Conservation and Wild life Service. Any University student who is interested in attending the sessions is invited to do so, said Charles Adams, Confer ence chairman. Ag Chorus Holds Choral Concert Students are invited to at tend the annual Christmas choral concert at the Activ ities Building, East Campus at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The College of Agriculture chorus under the direction of Mrs. Adelaide Spurgin will sing traditional and modern carols. Robert Heist and Low ell Peters will sing "A Christmas Folk Song" com posed by Audun Ravan, assi ciate professor of piano. The program is being pre sented by the Student Union, East Campus, with the coop eration of the Ag Executive Board, the Faculty Wives Club and the Newcomers Club. A tea will be held following the concert. ouonciB Supports Bincirecase Dei Tyitooim By Priscilla Mullins Senior Staff Writer An increase in tuition was supported by the Student Council yesterday as it passed a resolution by Mike Barton stating that the Coun cil favors the increase as a so lution to the financial difficul ties of the Daily Nebraskan. The resolution came after Student Opinion Committee chairman John Cosier an nounced that 134 of the 147 students to be contacted by a telephone poll have been con tacted, and 54 per cent of these 134 favor a tuition in crease. Cosier said that 28 per cent of the 134 favored reducing the costs by either cutting back to three papers a week instead of four, or printing only half as many papers each day. Of tnose contacted thus far, 18 per cent favored re maining with the present in creased advertising situation, according to Cosier. Cosier said that 13 students must still be contacted for the poll, and the final results should be ready for the Coun cil next week. He said he did not feel that 'LAFB Not Necessity;' Callan Addresses YD's Business, farming economy and the University will help Lincoln "weather the storm" of the Lincoln Air Base close down, Clair Callan told the Young Democrats last night. Callan noted an air base closing in Kansas which af fected the entire city's econ omy. Lincoln does not rely entirely on the air base and so will not be so drastically affected, Callan said. Since winning the election to the first district, Callan has met with the Corps of Engi neers to discuss the Missouri River basin project, with mental health officials and has requested placement on the Agriculture and Interior Committees. "The business of agriculture is the biggest problem in Ne braska and probably the big gest in the country. What we need is a program with continuity," Callan said. The great potential of the rivers and streams in Ne braska is a reason for Callan's request for the Interior Com mittee. The $35 million mid state Bureau Reclamation Project at Grand Island is an example of that potential. The project is set up to store water from the existing wells in the Grand Island area be low the dam as well as to bring in about 9,000 additional Giant Setpent Fossil Excavated On Farm The skull and a portion of the 20 foot neck of a marine reptile with a body shaped like a turtle and a dinosaur shaped head, has been un earthed at a farm northwest of Valparaiso. The 120-million-year-old fos sil was identified by Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz, director of the University State Museum, as a plesiosaurus, a strictly marine specimen that lived during the Cretaceous period, during which Nebraska was flooded by a shallow sea. The giant serpent fossil measures almost 40 feet m le..6tii, and it could h a ve weighed as much as 20 tons when alive, Schultz said. At least 20 tons of earth was removed from the site, much of it excavated with a tractor driven by farm owner Adolph Resak's son, Gene. The discovery is an unusual one for Nebraska, because the fossil was so complete, Schultz said. The skull, vertebral column and one of the four "flippers" have been uncovered so far, he said Plesiosaur fossils have been found in Kansas, according to the nationally recognized paleontologist. The only evidence found in Ne braska until now was part of a fossil discovered at the Greenhorn Limestone Quarry at Garland, about ten years ago The Lincoln Gem and Min those 13 will greatly change the results of the poll as now reported. "The poll ran much better than I had expected," Cosier said. He said that most of the people contacted did want the paper changed in some way, and the greatest percentage wanted the increased tuition. Cosier said that the in creased t u i t i on alternative was favored among those con tacted by a 2-1 margin over the next nearest alternative. The Council also elected three delegates to the Big Eight Student Government convention, to be held at the University of Kansas on Dec. 11-12. The delegates are P a m Hedgecock, Bill Hansmire and Skip Soiref. D i Kosman, chairman of the Big Eight Student Government Commit tee for the Council will also be a delegate, as well as Council President John Ly- Results of the questionnaire distributed by the Parking Committee concerning the inter-campus bus were given to the Council by Bill Poppert. To the first question asked, "Do you feel this bus service is adequate to meet the needs acres to irrigation, Callan said. The Mid-State project and the Little Blue Project in the south east part of Nebraska are all part of the over-all development of the Missouri River basin. Two things must happen to put the Missouri River pro jects on a sound basis, Callan said. Both the payback from the revenue of electrical pow er and the interest rate must be changed, Callan said. Next week Callan plans to tour north east Nebraska. He will make stops at West Point, and Sioux City and visit the Omaha Indians at Macy. On Dec. 8 Callan will meet with Secretary of Agriculture. Orville Freeman, who is hold ing a briefing with all the new congressmen. All the Demo cratic congressmen are invit ed for dinner at the White House, Dec. 9. Callan thanked the Young Democrats for their work dur ing the 1964 campaign. "The YD's at the University are largely responsible for our success," Callan said. "Y o u can't do it alone, I tried it several times," he said. Callan complimented t h e group for "starting back to work." "If there is anything I can do, I will be glad to do it," he said. eral Club under the direction of University scientists did a great deal of the excavation work. The 125-member club is headed by Gene Eno of Lin coln. Members of the club, and members of the Resak family as well as university officials have worked in shifts to re move the earth over and around the fossil. Much of the supervisory work was done by Larry Mar tin University undergraduate from Bartlelt. The plesiosaur will be fully restored and put on display in Nebraska's Mor rill Hall Museum, Schultz said. Dentists Will Attend Periodontics Course Twenty-five Nebraska den tists will attend a special limited enrollment, continuing education course in periodon tics tomorrow and Friday at the Nebraska Center. Periodontics involves the study of the control of infec tion of teeth and gums. The two-day course is part of a series of special refresh er courses held for Nebras ka's dental profession at the Center. Future programs in clude courses on pedodontic appliances, operative proce dures, dental hcalWi and diagnosis. of your schedule?" the replies for Tuesday were 304 yes, and 89 no. For Wednesday, 362 said yes, while 170 said no. The second question asked how many times the student has been late to a class or had missed classes due to the bus. For Tuesday, 12 per cent replied that they had been late or missed a class three times or more. For Wednes day. 20 per cent replied in the three or more cate gory. The third question asked if the student felt the bus could serve him better if it were to make a stop between cam puses. For Tuesday, 46 said yes and 357 said no. For Wednesday 60 said yes and 465 said no to the 27th and Holdrege location. According to Poppert's re port, some of the most fre quent comments were that the students felt the bus was too crowded, the bus did not leave on time, and that the students want a bus during final exam period. Poppert said that the Park ing Committee is checking into the possibility of getting a larger bus. He said that the buses will run during final exams. Two runs will be made dur ing finals from East to City campus and one from City to East campus both in the morning and during lunch The questionnaire was dis tributed when the weather was warmer, according to Poppert, and this may have some influence on the find ings, since the weather has since turned cold. Reporting for the Academic and Faculty area, Skip Soiref said that the Dead Week pro posal was approved by the Calendar and Final Examin ations Committee of the Fac ulty Senate. He said that the Commit tee is taking the proposal to the Faculty Senate next week for Senate members to vote on, but the Committee is not making any recommendations one way or the other on the proposal. Soiref said the proposal, whether passed or not, will bring the desires of the stu dents before the faculty, thus making them aware of the students' wishes. The freshman English group final examinations will be held the Saturday preced ing finals, according to Soiref, so this final will not be in cluded in the proposal. Mike Jeffrey told the Coun cil that a Round Table dis cussion with Dean Ross will be held in 235 Union on De. 10 at 7:30 p.m. He urgei all Council members to attend the meeting. Library Committee chair man Kent Neumeister told the Council that his committee is looking into the possibility of having either a required or elective course on the library system offered at the Univer sity. Peace Corps Committee chairman Andy Taubc report ed that his committee will have a report on the money taken in for the movie "Mexi can Bus Ride" which was shown. He said that a display is presently located in t h e Student Union, publicizing the Peace Corps. After Christmas, the displays will be handled by the individual colleges, as will all information concern ing the Peace Corps, he said. Reporting on the Constitu tional Convention, Bill Coufal said that Sunday's meeting will be important in discus sing policy matters, and ho urged Council members to at tend and offer ideas. Council President John Ly dick told the Council that a political science advisor will probably be secured for the Convention by next week. The Student Welfare Com mittee received a letter from the Nebraska Nurses School in Omaha, according to Bob Kerrey, asking why they did not have candidates in the various campus elections. Kerrey said he replied to the school by sending a list of names of people in charge of this matter, and suggested that they contact them, and then let the Welfare Commit tee know what happens.