i hp A:. r nno imveinifDOirD I 'v - II mm on By ftffefHyxjer Junior Staff WrlW The eligibility requir ments for positions in the Student Cabinet and Elec toral Commission were not lowered by Constitutional Convention delegates yes terday. At the beginning of t h e meeting, John Lydick said, "We have to be done by next week. Last time we got through 2V4 pages." He pointed out their deadline was Sunday and "we'd like to get done." The present draft states that the Student Cabinet "shall comprise an advisory body appointed by the Pres 1 d e n t . All appointments shall require approval by a majority vote of the sen ate." "To be eligible for ap pointment to the Student Cabinet, a nominee must be regularly enrolled as a full time student, either as an undergraduate or as a grad uate student, vand must meet t h e University re quirements for participation in extra-curricular activi ties." Rebecca Marshall p r o posed an amendment to strike everything after 'graduate student' and in sert the words "in good standing." She stated, "This will give as much latitude as possible to the president to pick the members for the cabinet." She also felt this was in keeping with the re quirements already s e t down for elected members of the student government. Vicki Dowling felt the rea son the requirements for elective office were lowered was that they are elected. The members of the cabinet are not elected, and there fore the reason to lower their requirements cannot stand up. Cuz Guenzel pointed out the members of the Cabinet are going to be from an organization anyway, and therefore it was ridiculous to consider lowering the requirements for the cabi net position when they had to have the regular re quirements to get into the organization in the first place. Miss Marshall said, "The president may organize his cabinet as he sees fit. Its members may come from anywhere he wants." Dave Kittams said, "The president can use the cab inet to study any area or particular problem. We should give this the power and magnitude it should have and not cut down on the president's breadth of choice." John Luckasen said "I Food Management Reduces Prices By Wayne Kreuscher Junior Staff Writer Food prices, laundry bills both are common problems to University students who find a good share of their money going for these two items. People often talk about prices, but seldom do they do anything effective about them except pay the bills. One organization on campus, at least in theory, is try ing to do something about bringing prices of food, laundry, bakery goods, eggs, lumber, flowers and paper goods down the IFC Food Management Association. Food Management, an unincorporated branch of IFC, makes contracts with food companies in Lincoln and then buys at a discount, large quantities of food or other goods for fraternities and sororities who wish to participate. Sam Baird, chairman of the Association, pointed out that if the program ever reached its full potential, it could have the bargaining power of several thousand Greeks and save the houses a large amount of money. Right now only two houses are fully participating in the Association which was started four years ago by the IFC. Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Gamma Rho buy all of FMA's products and 25 other houses, including co-ops and two sororities participate in some part of the program. Baird said that more houses so far havent fully par ticipated in FMA for several seasons. He said, Often house mothers after several years of experience feel they know the best way to purchase the food for their house they like certain merchants and they prefer this over a lower price." Upon questioning some of the houses who don't partici pate in FMA, one housemother said, "The association has an excellent purpose and in theory no doubt it could be beneficial, but unfortunately our experiences with it so far have provided few benefits." A former house president who has dealt with FMA in the past also pointed out that the program in theory could work, but that often prices weren't lowered or the quality of the food was not as good as FMA had promised. Besides the present FMA itself, Baird said that two other possibilities were being examined to help improve the collective Greek buying to its fullest potential. One of the possibilities is a corporation of FMA itself and another is to bring in a food management company which will pro vide food services, take the responsibility of providing cooks and do the purchase accounting work for the houses. "These corporations," Baird said, "would provide the management service now provided by the housemothers and they would know where to go for food and know where to get the best quality food at the lowest possible prices." He pointed out that the corporation's food would prob ably be standardized, but variations could be made by individual houses. Baird said that many campuses around the country have developed collective Greek bargaining or co-operative buying to very successful levels and that their Greek sys tems had profttai tim iL still consider it (student government) an extra-curricular activity. For this rea son I think we ought to re quire a (5.0) grade aver age." David Keifer said, "If we do that we may exclude some qualified people." The . question was called. The amendment was de feated by a vote of 5 to 6, with Terry Schaaf abstain ing. At this time Dick Stuckey was not present. An Election Commission is provided for by the draft. Their function is to preside Vol. 80, No. 87 Enjoying a break from Marshall, Ken Thienhardt If If sn fek Si" ' :h - : M&im . NIA Completes Project; Books Ready For Shipment Saturday the Nebraska In ternational Association com pleted their project of prepar ing packages of books to send overseas. David Jhun, chair man of NIA, said that over 5,000 books were packaged. A dozen members of NIA spent the day in the basement of Selleck Quadrangle sorting, boxing, and addressing the books. The texts will be given over the elections conducted by the Association, (i.e. the whole student government). "The electoral commis sion shall consist of five Commissioners, two of whom shall be the faculty representatives to the Stu dent Senate, one of w h o m shall be appointed by the President of the Associ ation, one of whom shall be elected by a majority vote of the Senate, one of whom shall be selected by the Student Court from its own membership by a majority vote of that body." fWW" 'SfSWWI)! MWSSBHBPWi MMWWBMMHf PWWWfc WWMWJI SWWWflW r (hm it- their book-packing activities and Steve Carter. to people needing them in un derdeveloped countries. NIA was founded five years ago as a group for U.S. and foreign students. Jhun said the group's goal is to promote international un derstanding and fellowship by exchanging cultural as well as academic sharing. The group's adviser, Dr. Richard Gilbert said books had been collected for over five years. Schools donated slightly more than half of them as obsolete for class use. Previously 65 packages were sent to 12 countries from areas as diverse as Afri ca, the West Indies, and the Pacific Islands. This year the packages will Go To Three Students Avalon Scholarships Three freshmen from t h e University College of Medi cine have been awarded scho larships from the Avalon Scholarship Fund. The winners were selected by the College's Committee on Scholarships and Awards with the approval of the dean, Cecil Wittson, M.D. Gary Biesecker, Wallace Duff, and John Rogers will each receive a $300 scholarship. Skirting Other Campuses Coeds Seek 'Rust Proofing' lather Than lRust Removal' Women are coming to col lege more frequently to get "rust proofing" not ' rust re moval," according to Dr. Vera Schletzer, coordinator of the Minnesota Plan for Continuing Education of Women. This statement came out of Women's Week, recently held at the University of Minne sota. Because of "natural and cultural" causes, women have not shown as much ability as men in some areas of knowl edge, according to Dr. E. Paul Torrance, director of the Department of Education Psychology. This does not mean women are not as in telligent or creative as men, however, Torrance explained. Under the direction of Al pha Phi Omega, Suffolk University in Boston, Mass., is in the process of having its own blood protection pro To be on the Electoral Commission "a nominee must be a regularly enrolled full-time student, and meet University regulations for participation in extracurri cular activities." , Miss Marshall made an amendment to strike every thing after 'full-time stu dent' and insert the words "in good standing." Joe Carroll repeated the argument that these people were not elected to office and therefore should be sub ject to the requirements for extracurricular activities. The Daily are Neil Bateman, Rebecca be forwarded to the Asian Foundation in San Francisco. The Foundation will pay the postage and distribute the books throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands. Helping NIA with the pro ject were the People to People Committee, RAM, the Methodist Wesley Foundation student group, and the Friends Meeting. Broadcasting Company Offers Scholarships Applications for the Sum mer Scholarship Award Com petition sponsored by the Corinthian Broadcasting Cor poration must be entered by March 15. The CBC is offering three six-week scholarships to juni ors or seniors. The winners will undergo an extensive six week, on-the-job internship at one of the Corinthian tele vision stations. Each winner will receive transportation, allowance for room and board and a $400 scholarship for the program, which is scheduled to begin in mid-summer. Students in terested should contact Dean Linger or the Corinthian Broadcasting Corporation, 110 West 51 Street, New York 20, New York. gram. Under this program each full time student and faculty member Including his immediate- family will be thoroughly covered for any blood need they may en counter. Students and faculty will be recruited for donating purposes. Next fall, while students trudge daily across the na tion's campuses, 75 freshman at Alleghany, Colo., and Lake Forest colleges will be work ing toward their four-year de grees without ever attending classes, pursuing an education as part of a new experiment backed by the Ford Founda tion. Free of the usually required courses, grades, and credits, the chosen students will be taken from registration to . . . Eligibility Dispute Continues Little subsequent discus sion took place. The ques tion was called and t h e amendment was defeated by a vote of 4 to 7. Terry Schaaf explained his personal feelings on the matter of eligibility in a statement after the meeting to the Daily Nebraskan: "We, as a convention, have lowered the required grade average from the 5.0, presently used by the ad ministration in determining eligibility, to a 4.0, or sim ply: 'in good standing.' This Association is a subordinate Nebraskan Eight distinguished Nebras ka alumni are being brought back to their alma mater this year by the Masters' Commit tee of the Student Council. The purpose of the program is to provide a two-way edu cation between alumni and the students. The masters learn about the University as it is today, while the students Jearn about their futures. The date for Masters Week has been set for May 2-4. This year's program will stress student contact with the mas ters, according to Bill Cou fal, committee chairman. The masters will make class visitations, speaking to stu dents about their experiences and give lectures at the grad uate colleges in their respec tive fields. Also included in their schedules are informal lunch eons, coffee hours and ses sions in the Crib. They will attend dinner in various liv ing units Monday and Tues day evenings. Other points include a for mal breakfast with Gov. Mor rison and a news conference which will be open to students and broadcast by local radio stations. The masters will be honored at the Honors Convo cation May 4. The eight masters attending Two Faculty Members Serve As Evaluators Two University faculty members are serving on na tional committees which are evaluating proposals for in stitutes for advanced study under the National Defense Education Act. Dr. Wesley Meierhenry, assistant dean of the Teach ers college, is serving on the committee studying proposals for education media special ists. Frank Rice, co-director of the English Curriculum De velopment Center at the Uni versity, is serving on the com mittee for evaluating English institute proposals. graduation in these liberal arts schools In a faculty guided independent study, rather than a standard class room situation. Prof. Alexander Boyd, head of London's Manchester Uni versity's department of sur gery and author of the keep-your-legs-warm-and -keep -them -pretty theory, claims that "girls who dress scantily in cold weather run the risk of getting fat calves and blotchy skins by the time they're 30. They can be vic tims of erythrocyanosis cru rum puellarum frigidum, the medical name for a condition caused by exposure to cold. "Hideous legs,' 'he said, "can ruin a girl's life. The only answer is to keep them warm." Eiii9lht AiuGn for Incest body (to the administra tion), and the position of President and Vice Presi dent should be required to . . . meet the presently re quired grade average. "The responsibility of good leadership has now been left up to the student body." Stuckey stated after the meeting that Schaaf had made a "responsible state ment." He said, "it is per ceptive and responsibility anticipates a problem. Rut it is unnecessary to TELL the student body that when 3 IT$ are Eugene Robb, publisher, Albany Times-Union, Albany, New York; Judge John Brown, U.S. Circuit Judge, Houston, Texas; Harold Co rey, chairman of the board, Hormel and Co., Austin, Minnesota. William McCleery, play wright and editor of the Uni versity, a Princeton maga zine, Princeton, New Jersey; Dr. James Henson, president, Oregon State University, Cor vallis, Oregon; Paul Babson, president. United Business Service, Boston, Mass.; Her bert Brownell, Lord, Day 'Student Newspapers Can't Expect Freedom' . . . Study Reveali A student newspaper has no legal basis upon which to demand editorial freedom and will find little support for such demands in courts, according to Kenneth Devol, assistant professor of journalism at California State College at Northridge. In a study completed at the University of Southern Cali fornia, it was revealed that courts traditionally have held that college governing boards and state legislatures possess broad powers in establishing rules and regulations for the conduct of all phases of college life, including publications. The courts generally have not intervened in questions of administrative discipline unless there was evidence of arbitrary or grossly unfair action taken by the college ad ministrator, Devol said. Undergraduate newspapers have enjoyed a tradition of relative freedom on American college and university campuses, he said, but conflicts involving editorial control have existed in all types of institutions. There is no single method or philosophy of control that is advantageous in all campus environments, he reported. Devol recommended that: 1.) editorial pages should contain statements pointing out that views expressed on those pages are not necessarily the views of the college nor of its administration; 2.) fiscal control should not be in the hands of student politicians; 3.) administrative officers and editors should meet periodically to exchange views and discuss questions; and 4.) boards of publication should es tablish in writing the basic policies which govern the pub lication. "Student-edited college and university dailies exert a significant influence on the thoughts and actions of mem bers of the college community," Devol said. "This influ ence is becoming greater as readership of college news papers increases, student editors adopt more professional approaches to news, greater responsibility is placed on these publications as a primary means of communication within the campus community, acceptance of these publi cations grows and freedom and controversy continue to be an inseparable part of higher education." Some of Devol's findings were: Areas of major conflict are fiscal independence, edito rial freedom, the role of faculty or administrative adviser, relationship with student politicians, appointment and re moval of editorial personnel, and the role of the student press in the community. Presidents generally voice strong support for a free student press, citing educational as well as philosophical foundations for such support. Most agree that a free stu dent press is a "calculated risk," but one worth taking. Eighty-two per cent of the institutions having daily newspapers have written policy statements governing the student press. Fifty-one per cent of the policy statements specifically prohibit prepublieation censorship, 14 per cent specifically allow for such censorship and 35 per cent make no specific reference to censorship prior to publication. Membership of the various boards of publication ranges from five to 17 members, the median number being nine. Twenty-six per cent have student majorities, 18 per cent non-student majorities and 14 per cent an equal number of student and non-student members. Devol, who received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California School of Journalism in 1951, earned a Master of Science in Education from USC -in 1954 and has taught journalism and been a publications adviser at Burbank Junior and Van Nuys Senior High Schools and Los Angeles Valley College before joining the California State College faculty in 1961. they cast their vote they should do so responsibly. We should assume that they will." At one point during the meeting Stuckey also said, "It is not that we made limited, or more or less limited requirements, but that we have made none at all. The process of election, the race itself will decide. Why hamstring the constitu tion? The electorate will take the responsibility on themselves to see that the Continued on Page 3 Monday, February 22, 1965 DsiVited W and Lord, New York City; and Hazel Stebbins, former vice president, Red Cross Cam paign, Lincoln, Nebraska. The masters will be es corted by the Student Coun cil Associates working with the committee, Mortar Board and the Innocents. Requests for national tele vision coverage have been sent to NBC and CBS. Let ters for magazine coverage have been sent to Time, Life and Newsweek. The theme for Masters' Week 1965 is "Masters Today for Tomorrow." I 1 8 i jo