"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
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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.
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