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"university Of tJk LIBRARY budget Committee To Begin Review Of Building Bonds sMBWJitM m emits enoww The enabling act to finance a six year building program of the University through the issuance of revenue bonds re payable with student fees will be aired today before the Legislature's Budget Commit tee. The six year, $48 million capital improvement plan is designed to help turn "a splendid university into a great university." - At the core of the blueprint traced by University leaders is a proposal for a $20 to $21 million bond issue, financed by student tuition. Bond issue cash would be dedicated, almost exclusively, to improvements on and the expansion of the main city campus. The program would also include $13,220,000 for the Omaha Medical Center and $9,240,000 for the East Cam pus. These developments would be underwritten by state tax appropriations. Student tuition now in part pays the University's opera tional expenses salaries, heat and light, library books, etc. Val Peterson declared the program should develop in the university a researcn capa city to attract sophisticated industries into the state. "This type of activity at the Unl versity, built on fine students from all over the country and the world, may be the yeast injected into a University community and the key for making a splendid university a great university," he said. The debates in the Legisla ture and their resolution, he said, would determine wheth er the University and the state go forward or maintain the status quo. The University is asking the Legislature to replace the $2.5 million biennial tuition loss with an extra appropria tion for the next 20 to 25 years. Val Peterson. Board of Re gents president, denied that the University is trying to end-run Nebraska's constitu tional prohibition against state debt with the tuition financed bond issue. "We are operating strictly under the law," the former three-term governor replied. "We are not getting around the debt feature of the con stitution any more than is be ing done by using revenue bonds to build dormitories," he said. The constitution outlaws any state debt beyond $100,000 to meet casual requirements, Peterson and Chancellor Clif ford Hardin said student tui tion would be pledged on the bond Issue, not the state's full faith and credit. According to vice Chancel lor Adam Breckenridge, if the Legislature does not supply equivalent offsetting extra ap propriations, the University would be faced with increas ing tuition, which it is not proposing, or with curtailling services. When the Regents an nounced the proposed building program, Chancellor Hardin explained the bond issue, sup ported by tuition payments by students. "It permits more necessary building to occur immediate ly," Hardin said, accomodat ing the University's unprece dented rate of growth. Also, It allows the University to make a major advance in sci entific study, he said. The Regents "are mindful of the tremendous, pressure which previals upon Nebras ka's revenue system." If approved by the Legisla ture, the bond issue "can per mit inauguration of an exten sive construction and facilities improvement program and do it with a minimum of fi nancial support from the state," the Chancellor said. The University would initiate "at once" the $24,545,500 Lin coln campus improvement, if the Legislature gives their ap proval, he said. Board of Regents president Projects which would be supported by the Bond issue and outside funds include: MUSIC BUILDING: $1.5 million appropriated 1963: needed to complete . . .$320,- 000. DENTAL BUILDING: $4.4 million available from state and federal sources; needed to complete . . . $143,000. WOMEN'S PHYSICAL ED UCATION Building: To re- place 78 year old Grant Me morial Hall; requested in 1963; needed to construct . . . $1,800,000. CHEMICAL SCIENCE BUILDING: Request from 1963 renewed; $1 million to $2 million of total may be available in federal matching . . . $7,700,000. OFFICE AND CLASS ROOM BUILDING: To ac comodate growth, minimum completion date 40 m o n t h s during which 4500 student in crease expected . . .$2,100,000. NEBRASKA HALL COM PLETION: Former Elgin Building awaits further con version for use for class room, research, science col lections, office and storage; $500,000 federal matching pos sible: four year project . . . $1,500,000. UTILITIES IMPROVEMENT: To replace obsolete, overloaded electrical equipment, revamp 35-year-old utility tunnel system , 590,000 MAJOR MAINTENANCE : Re pairs nt covered in operating budget $ 300,000 MISCELLANEOUS RENOVA TION: To adjust existing facili ties to changing needs ZOO,- ADDITION 3,500-TON CHILLER AND CONTROL: To accommo date campus growth 675,000 RENOVATE BESSEY HALL: To provide more class and labora tory space; re-wire and improve ventilation 205,000 RENOVATE BANCRAFT HALL: Classroom and office space for Teachers College; first of two stage project 125,000 RENOVATE BRACE LABORA TORY: To refurbish for under graduate teaching in physics 9U,UIW CITY CAMPUS LIGHTING: 75,000 REMODEL SOCIAL SCIENCES HALL: Building to be convened for use of College of Business Administration: first of two- stage project 220,000 INTRAMURAL FIELD DE VELOPMENT: City and East campuses 322.500 CHILLED WATER TO BUILD INGS: Service to new and existing buildings over six-year period 300,000 FIRE MARSHAL COMPLIANCE: Safety program 120,000 DRIVES, LANDSCAPING: Con tinuing, Includes walks and thoroughfares in expanded campus 300,000 BOILER REPLACEMENT: To meet 1968 requirements 250,000 LAND ACQUISITION: Acquisition of property 4,000,000 RENOVATE TEACHERS COL LEGE: Includes conversion of University High School for Teachers College 250,000 ENGINEERING BUILDING: Be. ginning of first unit of new en gineering complex to meet 1970 requirements '$1 to 16 million may be available from outside sources) 2,200,000 TOTAL $24,545,000 ' .jnilj P St " ""-, wnm r,l-Tnfmsi fiT ft.- , 1 ,- Tl v , I I 3 . EXPANSION PLANS . . . White area within boundaries represents property now owned by the University or the University related. Shaded areas represent sites for possible future campus development, a part of which would be purchased during the 1965-67 bicnnium under the bond issue. Vol. 80, No. 99 The Daily Nebraskan Monday, March 15, 1965 Szulc Describes Cuban Conditions Bv Steve Jordan Jr. Staff Writer The successes, failures and future of Fidel Castro's Cu ban revolution were outlined Thursday by Tad Szulc, chiei of the New York Times' Latin American Bureau in Washing ton D.C. In the third of a series of Latin American lectures, Szulc expressed the "likeli hood that we may have to live with Mr. Castro for a 1 o n g time." The lecture, sponsored by a grant from the Sperry and Hutchinson Foundation Lec tureship Program, was given to a standing-room c r o w d in Love Library Auditorium. Two facts lead to this con elusion, Szulc said. First, Cas tro's regime has existed for six years, and second, there is nothing apparent that will make it vanish in the n e a r future. Szulc was speaking on the subject "Cuba: a Perverted Social Revolution." In this "most peculiar of communist phenomena," Szulc cited several gains in Ithe economic well-being of the Cuban people. "Cuba's earnings from the sugar crop are going di rectly to the people," Szulc said, "rather than to a small group of Cuban and American landowners." j The country's food is being; distributed more evenly, Szulc said, and many people are eat ing better now than before the revolution. The most noteworthy aC' complisbment of the revolu tion is in education, however. which is already overloaded with sugar, or Cuba, which will consequently not be able to command good prices for its sugar, Szulc said. Eleven Seniors Awarded Woodrow Wilson Grants A record number of 11 Uni versity seniors have been named winners of Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships and three other students re ceived honorable mention. "This is twice the number j of University students who and complicating industrial i i.,.u: " j n c. i j "Jwamus aim is an an-iiine GC VrMilf. CQirl 1 Yi W 1 record, said Dr. Walter "The United ade has been States' block slowing down progress," Szulc said, "a n d resources are being drained by increased defense expenditures. Castro has also failed, Szulc said, in the restraining of poli tical freedom. "There has been no crea tion of a comprehensive na tional life," Szulc said. Wright, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and regional chairman of the Wilson fellowship program. One basic contradition of the revolution is that "to pro vide social justice, it has spawned a system of regimentation. More than 11,000 faculty nominated college seniors in the U.S. and Canada com peted for the grants which provide tuition plus $1800 for living expenses and extra al lowances for children of re- J cipients. The selections were an nounced Friday by Sir Hugh Taylor, president of the Wil son Foundation and dean emeritus of Princeton Univer sity's Graduate School. "The most damaging fea ture of the revolution is that it has found no imitators among Latin American coun tries," Szulc said. "This attitude is a rejection of a perverted social revolu tion," Szulc said. "I do not believe that Castro has the ability to subvert Latin America." "Latin Americans at f i r s t thought the revolution was good," Szulc said, "but a con-! tinninrr nmppm if prncinn hac occurred, mainly because fiGulfPrt project. University recipients included: Robert Cherny, Richard Denton, Mrs. Bar bara Ann Pandzik Grupe, Mrs. Joan Morton Jones, Mrs. Kay Louise Hemphill Michelfeld. Richard Law, Suzanne Murdock. Mrs. Ann Marie Semin Smith, Richard Smith, Jo Ann Louise Strate men, and Kathleen Anne Rob ertson. Honorable mention went to John Shadle, David Kittams and Mclvin Beal. The Wilson fellowship recip ients plan to teach at the col lege level in their respective fields. Cherny is majoring in his tory, is a Regents' scholar, has a grade point average of 7.6, and plans to do graduate work in history. Denton is majoring in phys ics, has a grade point average of 8.33, is a Regents' scholar, and plans to do graduate work FSNCC To Sponsor 'Dollar Days' Booth Friends of SNCC (Student Non - Violence Coordinating Committee) will sponsor "Dollar Days" in the Ne braska Union to support the French Club To Present Cocteau Film In Union The University French Club will sponsor a French film this Tuesday in the small auditorium of the Un ion, at seven-thirty. Written and directed by Jean Cocteau, "Les Parents Terrible" is a tense, witty and ironic film (with English subtitles) which depicts an almost frightening penetra tion into a neurotic world. The story evolves around a mother's unnatural obsession with her son, and it begins with an unsuccessful attempt at suicide and ends with a successful one. Speaking of the film, Cocteau says, "I wished to try to solve the problem of transferring the theatre to the screen and of filming a play, that is of keeping it intact, walking in visibly among my protagon ists while observing their ex pressions intimately, follow ing them into the rooms and corridors." Delving into nearly all forms of self-expression, Cocteau's influence has ex tended itself into the worlds of the sculptor, the play wright, the novelist, the chor eographer, the essayist, and the philosopher. The play, which was banned on the Paris stage during the Occupation of Paris, due to slight incestu ous suggestions, is one of Cocteau's earlier attempts at expressing his poetic thoughts through the film media. A brief explanation of this mod ern genius will be given be fore the film by Professor Gochburg who is especially interested in modern French theater and literature. Free admittance will be granted to members of the French Club; membership cards, costing 25 cents will be available at the door. "Castro has succeeded in cutting illiteracy rates in Cu ba," Szulc said. "University enrollment has soared and fel lowships are being given for study in communist European nations." This level of education re sults in "ideological indoctri nation and political brain washing," Szulc said. "Strangely enough, Cuba's revolution has encouraged In dividuality and artistic and cultural activity," Szulc said. "The country has produced some fascinating, if not first rate, modern art." The regime has its failures, however. "The best that can be said for Cuba's economy is that it is beginning to work its way back to the place it was be fore the revolution," Szulc said. One of the early goals in the life of the revolution was to decrease Cuba's dependen cy on the sugar crop and in crease the country's industria lization. Castro has had to admit the mistake, too, of depleting the sugar crop and has set a goal of 10 million tons per year by 1970, Szulc said. This increase in production will not help the world market, the strong national feeling of 'Why should we, in B r a z i 1, Chili or Argentina, imitate a Cuban experiment?'" Szulc also outlined Castro's position in the world situation FSNCC will sponsor a booth today, tomorrow and Wednes day in the Union where stu dents may make contributions to the maintenance of the, Gulfport project. Students will also be con- "Castro today is one of thejtacted in dorms and living many nuisances the world! has," Szulc said, "probably as much a nuisance to Mos cow as to Washington. "Castro s fate rests in Mos cow's hands," Szulc said, be cause of her economic de pendancy upon Russia. Castro's policies have been directed more toward the Chinese side of the r e c e n t communist split, however. "The Cuban situation is in sort of a stalemate that no body wants to disturb," Szulc said. "This is w h y there is no change in U.S. policy towards Cuba," Szulc said. "There is little talk about Cuba in Wash ington." United States policy toward Cuba is mainly "negative and defensive," Szulc said. Sur veillance is kept up, but Cuba is a secondary problem. "If we accept the continu ous presence of Cuba and leave the stalemate a 1 o n e," Szulc said, "how should the United States act? "Now there is a total isola tion of Cuba by the United States," Szulc said. "This policy could be harming us more than Cuba. We have built a little Iron Curtain, hi reverse, around Cuba." Szulc advocates a "cultur al, human relationship be tween Cuba and the American people, without official and formal decisions." units to contribute. Interest ed students should contact Gene Pokorny at Sellcck. "The project is a concrete way for students to express themselves for the civil rights movement and at the same time add to the cause of free dom in Gulport, Miss.," said Roger Lott, FSNCC repre sentative. The main task of the Gulf port project, which operates Students Arrested For Local Thefts Two University students were arrested early Friday morning in connection with the theft of a large red light mounted on the cab of a Dean Brothers wrecker. Kurt Keeler and Charles Sullivan, both Cather Hall residents, were held by Lin coln Police for this theft and several others. The police reports said that the arrest of Keeler and Sulli van cleared up several other reports turned in during the night Thursday. Other objects taken were a 30 gallon garbage can, a large circular thermometer from a gas pump display, a large white flower pot filled with dirt and a large no parking sign. Keeler in December claimed the record for taking the longest shower in a col lege fad which swept the country. in North Gulfport, Miss, and the larger Gulfport area, is one of organizing the Negro populace for political action. It includes voter registration work, teaching the people the contents of the Mississippi constitution and organizing "block captains" to aid in registration. Work is also done in re cruiting people to the Free dom Democratic Party and balloting to show the relative effect in politics the Missis sippi Negro could have. Pro grams include discussion groups on political machin ery and local issues. Another project is the Freedom Schools, which are primarily concerned with Ne gro history and literature, taught in a discussion ap proach which makes the stu dents aware of their present problems and makes them evaluate the political proces ses and how they have been most effectively used. The community library project hopes to help im prove the quality of the li brary which already exists and to begin to build up the libraries in other sections of the Negro communities. in quantum mechanics. Mrs. Grupe is majoring in English and art, has a grade average of 7.798, is a Regents' scholar, and plans to do grad uate work in English, and art history. Mrs. Jones graduated with distinction last month with a grade point average of 8.50, and plans to do graduate work in English. Mrs. Michelfeld graduated with distinction last month with a grade average of 7.97, majored In philosophy and plans to do graduate work in this field. Law is a Regents' scholar majoring in English, has a grade average of 8.232. and plans to obtain a rh. u. m English. Miss Murdock is majoring in English, has a grade aver age of 8.378. is a Regents' scholar, and plans to do grad uate work in English. Mrs. Smith is majoring in chemistry, has a grade aver age of 8.54, was awarded the General Motors scholarship for four years, and plans to specialize in biochemistry In graduate work. Smith is majoring in physics and mathematics, had a grade average of 8.167 is a Regents' scholar, and plans to do grad uate work in physics. Miss Strateman is majoring in French and German, has an 8.7 grade average, was awarded the National Merit scholarship for four years, and plans to do graduate work in language. Miss Robertson is majoring in French and English, has a grade average of 8.39, is a Re gents' scholar, and plans to do graduate work in language. Spring Day Posts Are Announced The new officers for Spring Day were announced follow ing interviews yesterday. They are: Overall Chairman, Mike Jeffrey; Assistant. Jim De Mars; Women's Games Chair man, Percy Wood; Assistant, Connie Rasmussen; Men's Games Chairman, Jim Cada; Assistant, Ladd Lormquist. Publicity Chairman, Lynn Jiracek; Assistant, Diane Smith ; Secretary, KaUhy Knight; Assistant, Ann Mul der; Treasurer, Don Cruise; Trophies Chairman, Rose mary Rudolph; Assistant, Bill Ilansmier. Ravnan To Play Tomorrow Night Audun Ravnan, concert pi anist and associate professor of music at the University will appear in two public per formances this week. He is featured in a regu larly scheduled faculty reci tal at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. The same recital will be given today at 3:30 p.m. in the little auditorium, Jos lyn Memorial Art Museum in Omaha. Professor Ravnan will play "Sonata in E-flat Major, K. 333" by Mozart; "Sinata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Opus 83" by Prokofieff; and "Carnaval, Opus 9" by Schumann. Professor Ravnan, born and raised in Norway, made his first public appearance with the Bergen Symphony Orches tra at the age of 13 and studied at t h e Bergan Con servatory during his early teens. After World War II, during which he spent a year hiding from German occupation forces, he studied under Ivar Johnson, one of Norway's foremost pianists. Since that time he has played with a number of the nations' lead ing orchestras. . . ' X . ' v .,. . ' : ' X - : X ' . .