lifer Seats
Peterson Urges
Stadimm Growth
Val Peterson, President of
the University Board of Re
gents, said last week that he
will suggest at least 5,000 new
seats be added to Memorial
Football Stadium despite low
responses to an advance seas
on ticket drive.
Peterson said he will urge
the expansion at the Regents
meeting this month.
"It looks to me right now
like the Regents might ap
prove a 5,000 seat addition. I
personally favor adding that
many, and maybe 10,000," he
said.
Peterson based his recom
mendation on three factors:
some 3,700 football ticket or
ders now on hand for the 1965
season cannot be filled; in
creasing student enrollment
and faculty expansion that will
require about 1,000 more
seats, and more than 160 re
quests for reserved tickets for
the next two seasons.
"All of these figures point
to a need for more seating,"
he said. "Furthermore, I firm
ly believe the people of this
state want more seating in the
stadium."
It has been estimated that
at least $100,000 would be
needed to construct an addi
tional 4.600 seats, and $500,
000 to build 17,000.
Peterson said financing of
any addition would be done
on a sound basis. Details
could be worked out by the
school's fiscal officers, he
said.
The proposed new additions
would close in the north end
of the stadium. If only 5,000
seats are added the running
track would remain intact.
Otherwise the track would
have to be removed.
The Nebraska stadium is
now the fourth largest in the
Big Eight Conference. A 5,000
seat addition would make it
the third largest and a 7,000
scat addition the second larg
est. The Regents, at the urging
of Peterson, launched a drive
earlier last month to expand
the stadium which now seats
about 45,500. The drive was
intended to determine the
need for more seating but on
ly 175 advance tickets have
been sold.
Peterson said the price of
the ticket package, $55 per
person, "probably ruled out
many fans, especially those
with a wife and children who
would like to attend Universi
ty games."
He said that more fans
probably would have respond
ed to the drive if the ticket
sales had been on a one year
advance basis.
"We discussed this possibil
tity before announcing the
drive. It was determined that
the two year sales would give
us a better financial indica
tion, however," he said
Peterson, a former three
term governor said he is sure
"there's a demand for more
tickets in the state."
gioenor
By Rich Meier
Junior Staff Writer
Opportunities for superior students are offered by the
University's Honors Program, and the Nebraska Career
Scholars Program.
Superior high school students are invited to enroll in
the honors programs of the University by the various de
partments and the University counseling service for fresh
man, the Junior Division, as first semester programs are
planned. Most continue in the honors program through
their freshman and sophomore years.
Sometimes in their sophomore year those who have
outstanding records are invited by the Nebraska Career
Scholars Program to become members. Opportunities for
accelerated progress toward upper division courses and
master's degrees at the conclusion of one year of gradu
ate study are afforded by this program.
In all the honors courses there is encouraged individu
al exploration and study beyond the requirements for
the regular course.
In the Arts and Science College there are seven de
partments having special sections or honors courses. How
the program is set up is left to the individual departments.
There are two ways a freshman may be selected for
participation in the various honors courses: on the basis
of his high school record and various other tests, before
he arrives at the University, or by his performance in an
introductory course.
According to Mr. Lee Chatfield, director of Junior Di
vision, the math department was the first to instigate a
special separate honors course.
"When it first started it was a three semester se
quence, paralleling the three semester regular calculus
course," Chatfield said. Students were selected on the
basis of their high school record and entered directly into
Math J 30.
"Now it will be a two semester sequence with its par
ticipant selected from Math 18, or 114, under the new num
bering system."
He outlined the other honors courses now "available.
"History 1 and 2, Philsophy 20, and Political Science 10,
cover the sume material as the regular course, but in
special sections giving the opportunity for greater depth.
The English department has a special honors section
br freshman, with different topic coverage.
"The c)imistry department selects superior students
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Photo By Kip Illrschbach
A,B,C's . . . Dean Militzer yesterday presented to the
Student Council suggested modifications in the grading
system at the University from a 9 point scale to a letter
system.
IFC Sanctions
New Day, Award
A new Rush Week schedule
and an award for outstanding
Greeks IFC accomplished
a lot last night.
After three weeks of debate,
changes and discussion, IFC
passed a new Rush Week
schedule adding an extra day
to the previous three day
Rush Week.
The new schedule which
will start Friday, Sept. 3 with
the rushees checking in t h e
night of Sept. 2 will last until
the night of Sept. 6 with open
rush Sept. 7.
Under te new plan rushees
will visit 14 houses the
first day for 30 minutes each
and 14 houses the second day
for the same amount of time.
The rest of the schedule is
basically the same as the one
in previous years except that
the third day of parties will
be on a Sunday and will in-
Officer State Named
For YWCA Elections
The YWCA officer slate has
been announced.
It includes Linda Cleveland,
president; Linda Mahoney
and Donna Eschliman, vice
president in charge of pro
grams; Cheryll Crosier and
Sue Potten, publicity; Ruth
Chestnut and Andrea Block,
secretary; Barb Miller and
Kathy Stankey, treasurer;
and Jean Jaspenson, district
representative.
Officers will be elected at
the mass meeting to be held
March 13. Other nominations
may be made from the floor
at that time.
Students
"I
elude a half -hour united
church service.
mt i j
ine extra aay win increase 1
the rushee's dorm and food
bill for the rush period from
$18 to $25.
Stan Miller, IFC vice presi
dent, said that the new Rush
Week schedule would make it
easier for the smaller houses
to accommodate the increased
number of rushees during the
first parties on the first and
second days. The number of
rushees is expected to in
crease from last year's num
ber of 450 to 700 this year.
IFC also agreed to form a
new honorary award for out
standing Greeks on the Uni
versity campus. The new
award called Gamma Gamma
will honor those Greeks who
help the Greek system or
their houses with new ideas,
work, initiative and enthusi
asm. This award, which still has
to be voted on by Panhellenic,
will be, if Panhellenic passes
it, for both sorority and fra
ternity members.
"A Greek might be presi
dent of AUF, Red Cross, Stu
dent Council and his house,
but he still won't get this
award unless he has really
contributed something to the
Greek system," Miller said.
According to Gamma Gam
ma's constitution a maximum
of 1 of the Greeks are eligi
ble for this award each year.
This means that 28 Greeks
would be eligible this vear.
Mike Gottschalk, Phi Gam
ma Delta, was elected chair
man of the IFC Expansion
Committee at the meeting.
. . .
Offered
for Chemistry 24, from the freshman first semester
course."
"Zoology and biology have special laboratory sections
with the student attending the regular lecture section."
Superior students also have many other opportunities
beyond the honors courses.
They may make use of advanced placement devices
available in all the colleges. These allow the student to
take the final and receive credit for the course without
having actually enrolled in the class.
Dean Walter Wright, Chairman of the Committee on
Honors and Graduation with Distinction, told what is be
ing done with superior students in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
"Most of the freshmen in Arts college who have quali
fied for honors courses, and have a good grade average,
are designated as the freshman honors group. For the
sophomores there is also a group of students designated
as the sophomore honors group."
"We have had two meetings in the fall semester with
each of these groups."
"In the second fall meeting of the freshman honors
group Professor Dewey discussed theories of knowledge.
"In the meeting with the sophomore honors group,
Dr. Robert Knoll discussed what science is about as seen
by someone not closely connected with it. In both of these
meetings there was opportunity for discussion from the
floor."
"We will have another of these meetings in March and
we have a mailing list of about 70 for each honors group,
inviting them to attend. These meetings are very informal,
and anyone may attend," he said.
"The purpose of these meetings is not currlcular or
extra-curricular, but is to get the person interested in
ideas. To point out to them that their courses are very
useful means to learn ideas, and not to make passing cours
es synonomous with learning."
But the most important aspect of these meetings, he
emphasized, "Is to get these superior students together,
to let them know that there are others here interested in
learning for the sake of learning."
The honors program gives more individual attention
to the student. He has the opportunity for contact with
the staff, and thus does not lose his individuality.
Dean Wright told of two cases, one in anthropology,
and one in the' foreign language department, where a juni
Vol. 80, No. 93
IWf i f t
By PriscHIa Mullins
Senior Staff Writer
The A-B-C grading system
was proposed by Dean Walter
Militzer of the Arts and Sci
ences as a substitute for the
present 9-S-7 system employed
by the University.
Kneakine before the Student
Council yesterday, Militzer
said I have never oeen nap
py with the 9 point system
since it was begun at the Uni
versity in 1947."
Nebraska is the onlv maior
rniicfc in tne United Mates. 1
with the exception of a few
smaller colleges in Nebraska,
which uses the 9 point system,
according to Militzer.
Tn the Big Eight and Big
Ten schools, Nebraska is the
onlv institution using this
system, he said.
"It is necessary to use the
more commonlv used means,"
he said, pointing out that it
is difficult for colleges to con
vert grades from one system
to another when students
transfer.
When students are being
sIHprort for fellowships and
graduate positions, there are
a great many transcripts to
be gone through by the
judges, Militzer said, and it
is so much easier to have all
A-s and B's to glance at in
these considerations.
Militzer said that he was
not proposing a system of A
plus or A minus, but just let
ters themselves with no dis
tinctions between them. A
through D would be passing
grades in the proposed sys
tem, and F would be a failing
grade.
In telling the Council about
the Iowa system, after which
he patterned his idea, Milit
zer said that Iowa has a dis
tribution curve telling how
many students fall into which
grade range.
On the elementary level,
which includes freshmen and
sophomore courses below the
100 level, the percentages of
students receiving each grade
break down into 9 per cent re
ceiving A; 28 per cent receiv
ing B; 41 per cent receiving
C; 18 per cent receiving D;
and 4 per cent receiving F.
At the intermediate level,
which includes courses at the
100 level and some 200 level
courses, the break down was
11 per cent, A; 31 per cent,
B; 42 per cent, C; and 24 per
cent, D.
The advanced level break
down, which includes 200 and
300 level courses for seniors
and graduate students, was
14 per cent. A; 33 per cent,
B; and 43 per cent, C.
Continuing his point on the
need for a change, Militzer
said that a "grade is really
a judgment of one human
being on another. Thus, It is
Through Honors, Career Scholars Programs
The Daily
zer Suggests Adoption
etter
not a mechanical process, but
a personal matter."
The usual argument against
the A-B-C system is that it
doesn't give enough points on
which to assign grades,
he said. "However, I am of
the opinion that four points
sre enough."
Militzer said his main ob
jection to the 9-8-7 system is
the fact that there is "a bit
of artificial competition in it
which I have deplored over
the years."
When the system was first
begun, a 9 represented the
upper 3 per cent of the grad
uating class, he said, but the
tendency over the years has
been to go up, so that now a
9 represents an A, which is
usually thought of in terms of
9 and 8.
The difference between the
two highest grade averages in
the sororities last year was in
the third place behind the dec
imal point, he pointed out.
"Isn't this silly?"
Militzer said that students
shouldn't be out, to set marks
in grades like they do for the
220 yard dash.
Answering questions from
the floor, Militzer said that
the transition, if the system
is approved by the Faculty
Senate, would not change the
grades already on the record.
He said that the records would
just start with the new sys
tem next year.
When asked about the ef
fect on the over-all average
which the University main-
Summer School
Bulletins Out
The University's summer
session bulletin and class
schedule is off the press and
is available through the Office
of Admissions.
Dr. Frank Sorenson, direc
tor of the summer session,
announced that several three
week programs and a special
six-week program would run
concurrently with the regular
eight-week classes.
Applications and registra
tion forms should be filled out
prior to the June 14 registra
tion date. Classes will begin
June 18 and conclude Aug
ust 6.
Over 5000 students are ex
pected to enroll for this year's
summer session. More than
500 1965 high school gradu
ates are expected to attend.
Anyone interested in attend
ing the summer school may
obtain a bulletin and catalog
of class schedules by writing
Director of Admissions, 109
Administration Building. Uni
versity of Nebraska, Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Advance Courses
or is working with the faculty. He pointed out that the
opportunity to be this close to the faculty is not present
at many colleges. "Nebraska is ahead of a great many
colleges in this respect," he said.
After a student has achieved a high average, there
is the possibility of graduation with high distinction.
"The College of Arts and Sciences has always had an
arrangement where the superior student could submit a
thesis, his senior thesis. This is part of the process to
graduation with high distinction, and the particular re
quirements are set up by the individual's department,"
Dean Wright said.
"But, graduation with distinction, can be purely a
mechanical thing, based on jhst grades," he said "and
have no connection with the various honors programs of
the colleges."
After a student has completed the honors courses
available to him now in the college of Arts and Sciences,
he will be a sophomore. At this time he may be invited
to join the Nebraska Career Scholars Program.
The Nebraska Career Scholars program is conducted
by the Graduate College. It was started in 1963, with the
support of a five year grant from the Ford Foundation.
On other campuses this program may be known as the
Ford Masters, or three year masters program. There
are presently 41 such programs at colleges across the na
tion, and they lead to a masters degree in the 5th year
of college, or the 3rd year alter joining.
The program has two goals: One, to increase the
number of college teachers, and, two, to help the student
make the transition from undergraduate to graduate col
lege. At the present time there are 110 students In the Ne
braska Career Scholars program. They are selected by
their own department on their interest in teaching and
their scholastic rating
B. W. McCashland, Director of the Nebraska Career
'Scholars Program, said, "We want the student to pro
gress as rapidly as he can, and this is not just a matter
of accumulating hours. When the student goes into gradu
ate college he is suddenly confronted with demands of a
much higher standard. There is a emphasis on independ
ent research study, that he has not had to cope with be
fore. For some this is a traumatic experience.
"The purpose ol the program is to give the student
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Nebraskan
Fading
tains, Miiitzer said that an';
"honor point system would
go along with the letter
grades. "A doesn't multiply
by five very well," he said,
so a number system would
have to accompany the let
ers. The main question behind
the whole grading situation is
how closely can you grade a
student, according to Militzer.
He cited an experiment at
Carlton College, where s t n
dents may elect to receive
a 'pass' or 'fail' grade on as
many as seven courses. This
is to c 0 m b h t the traditional
fear of students that they
should stay away from
"strange but interesting
courses to protect a carefully
nurtured B average."
In response to the statement
that the 9 point system shows
that the instructor takes time
to break the grade down fin
er, Militzer said the grade
"reflects our own judgment."
This judgment could vary
from one instructor to another.
When asked if tne 9 point
scale doesn't encourage stu
dents to work more for grades,
Militzer told of the cheating
situation at West Point. He!
said that an officer who at
tended that institution told
him that due to the rigid
grading system on every
phase of life, there was more
cheating.
"There is less of this pres
sure with the A-B-C system,
and even less with a 'pass'
or 'fail' system."
"You ought to be striving
to get more education and
not striving so much for
grades," he said.
In other Council business.
President John Lydick said
that he had received word
from the president of the Big
Eight Student Government
that the University has been
selected as the site of t h e
Big Eight Quiz Bowl tourna
ment to be held this spring.
Student Opinion Committee
chairman John Cosier report
ed the results of a general
knowledge survey taken on
the campus.
Cosier said that the results
are based on 91 per cent of
the 132 people the committee
intended to contact.
The first question asked was
"who is president of the Stu
dent Council?" Of the people
contacted, 28 per cent knew.
The second question asked
for the name of the chancellor
of the University. Ninety-three
per cent knew this.
In response to the question
"who is one of the represen
tatives from your college on
Student Council," 32 per cent
knew the answer.
Thursday, March 4, 1965
ystem
Eighty-one per cent of the
people were able to explain
what "Dead Week" was.
Eleven per cent of the per
sons contacted were able to
tell what system of represen
tation had been adopted by
the Constitutional Convention.
Seventy-seven per cent
knew the name of the head
basketball coach.
When asked for their opinion
on the recent Stndent Council
action on discrimination, 43
per cent of those contacted
were familiar with the action,
but many would not express
an opinion.
Because of the lack of
knowledge about the discrim
ination action, "it is difficult
to generalize a campus opin
ion," Cosier said.
"As yet we have not pur
sued this point and if a report
on this will be meaningful, we
will certainly make this infor
mation available."
Reporting on the Senator's
Committee, John Kenagy told
of three parts to the program.
First is a builders tour for
the senators. This is for the
purpose of showing them the
facilities at the University,
Kenagy said.
The second phase of the pro
gram is to send letters to the
senators which contain lists
of all the students from their
districts who are attending the
University. "This will shock
some of the senators," Ken
agy said.
The third part of the pro
gram is a series of dinners
which will be held in the dor
mitories and Greek houses.
The students and senators will
have a chance to talk during
these dinners, Kenagy said.
I Bruce Beck and Art Ruza
j nic were selected by the Coun
cil as tne new uraauate col
lege representatives. Stephen
Marshall also interviewed
before the Council.
Parking Committee Chair
man Bill Poppert told t h e
Council that there will be a
meeting concerning the inter
campus bus situation. It will
be held Monday at 8 p.m. in
232 Nebraska Union, and all
interested persons should at
tend. Junior IFC Ball
Tomorrow Night
The Junior Interfraternity
Council will hold their annual
ball tomorrow right from 9 to
12 p.m. at the Lincoln Hotel.
The Jr. IFC Queen will be
chosen from the following six
finalists: Lynn Beckman, .Al
pha Xi Delta representing
FarmHouse; Sherry Adams,
Pi Beta Phi representing Al
pha Gamma Rho; Sue Dowe,
Kappa Alpha Theta represent
ing Phi Kappa Psi; Jackie
Freeman, Kappa Kappa Gam
ma representing Beta Theta
Pi; Pam Wood, Delta Gamma
representing Kappa Sigma
and Helene Weinberg, Sigma
Delta Tau representing Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Last year's queen Carolyn
Rankin will crown her succes
sor. All 23 queen candidates
nominated by the fraternities
will participate in the proces
sion during intermission.
Couples will dance to the
music of the Primers and re
freshments will be served.
The Interfraternity Council
Executive Committee will be
the guests of the Jr. IFC for
the evening.
Tickets are $2.00 per couple
and are on sale at the Union
Bootih.
Legislature To Decide
On University Budget
The Legislature's Budget
Committee will begin hear
ings on the University budget
requests March 15.
Budget Committee Chair
man Richard Marvel of Hast
ings said Tuesday that hear
ings for the University will
takp at lfast a week.
The University has request
ed a total biennial budget of
$62.3 million and Gov. Morri
son has recommended a total
of $59.8 million for the upcom
ing biennium. The University
received $50.3 milln for the
present biennium.
Marvel jaid the first budget
package will be sent to the
floor about April 1. The first
of two packages will include
the University, state colleges,
the Departments of Education,
Public Welfare and Public
t institutions.
