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ONIVSRSITY OF LIBRARY MAY CdHsfrucfion On Afeiv Music Building Plans were announced yesterday for Phase I con struction of a new music building at the University with funds appropriated by the 1963 legislature. Bids will be received May 27 and construction is ex pected to begin soon after, according to Carl Donaldson, University business manager. ' The three-story structure, plus basement, will be lo cated at the Intersection of 11th and R, immediately west of the present Music Building. Phase I for which bids will be opened later this month will include ' basic construction with the $1.5 million in funds appropriated by the 1963 legislature for a new mu sic facility. The University has requested $820,000 from the 1965 legislature for Phase II construction to complete the mu sic facility. Phase II construction would include a rehear sal hall at the site of the present music building, equip ment, utility connections, walks, and drives. The main music building would extend to the north side of R Street and east to include a portion of 11th Street. A walkway on the east side of 11th Street would separate the main music building and the proposed re hearsal hall. Phase I construction would not hinder opera tion of the present Music Building, Donaldson said. This places both future music buildings in the same general area as the Sheldon Art Gallery and the Nellie Cochrane Woods building for art classes. This complex of fine art facilities on the campus would be centered or tied together by a sculpture garden which is to be financed entirely by bequests from the Sheldon family. , Architect Phillip Johnson, who designed the art gallery, also a gift from the Sheldon family, win plan the sculpture garden. The new building will be of concrete and masonry construction. The four floors, including basement, will in clude class rooms, practice rooms, teaching studios, or chestra rooms, choral rooms, and band rooms. IFC Studies Proposal On Initiation Average The pledge initiation grade average for fraternities would be set at 2.300 under a pro posed change in the Inter fraternity Council (IFC) by laws. The required average under the present grade system of nine points is a 5.0. The 2.3 average would come under the University's new four point system which will take effect next fall. Suggested by John Cosier, IFC scholarship chairman, the change was not voted on at last night's meeting. Dele gates discussed the change and a vote is planned for next week's meeting. Also included in the propos al is a measure which would allow the fraternity system to initiate 60 per cent of the pledges, even thought his many pledges had not met the requirement of 2.3. This measure is to ensure that the fraternity system will initiate at least as many persons as they have in the past, according to Cosier. Cosier said his committee arrived at the 2.3 average af ter considering the grade av erages for other Big Eight robools. The proposal was then made to set the Univer sity average at the average of the mid western schools that being a 2.3. Under the proposal, any pledges earning an average of above 2.3 for the previous se mester would be initiated, and as many under that figure needed to make 60 per cent. Reporting on the new initi ates' convocation held last week, Dan Ism an told the Council that there were about 150 persons in attendance at the convocation. Several bouse delegates commented to It man that they were disappointed In the speaker for the convocation. "He stood for things that were opposite what the fra ternity system stands for," according to one delegate. , Another commented that the initiates from his house were disappointed in the program also. "You can't knock other bouses if you want to build the system," be said, "and be did that." Buzz Madson, president, told the Council that at least a start had been made In this area. He said that the Coun cil would bave to try to get better speakers in the fu ture. ; 1 Four girls have been select-' ed from Panhellenic to assist in the production of the Greek newsletter to be begun next year, according to Jim De Mars, publications chairman.; The girls Include Jane Crabill, Karen Johnson, Jan Ice Itkin and Barbara Robert son. Tranda Schultz had also been signed to help, but was unable to do so because ol her To Begin job with the Cornhusker year book, DeMars said. In a treasurer's report. Skip Soiref told the Council that IFC had suffered a loss of $163.34 for Greek Week expenses. Soiref said that the budget had allowed for a greater loss, so the treasury was not hurt too much by this loss. The IFC's share of the to tal expenses for Greek Week totaled $1,439, Soiref said. The group's total revenue was $1,276. In a straw vote, the dele gates favored the adoption of a billboard sketch showing "The many faces of educa tion." The sketch will be tak en to some professional men in Iowa for drawing, accord ing to Gary Larson, affairs chairman, and will be pre sented at the meeting next week FMA chairman Sam Baird told the Council that be en couraged each house to sign up for the food services avail able under the program, and urged them to "stay with it." "This is what's hurting the program," he said. "Houses have been signing up and then dropping out." Baird said that such a pro g r a m is "for the good of the system," and urged dele gates to "do everything you can to convince your house mother to go along with the program." Lists of all those men who Indicated an interest in the fraternity system on their ad mission forms Ibis spring will be going out to bouses in two or three weeks, according to Stan Miller, IFC vice presi dent. By June a list containing the names of all those who ranked in the upper one half of their classes will be sent out, and by mid-July, a list will be formulated of those going through Rush Week in Rush chairman Bill Pop pert said that at present there is a list of 900 names of pos sible Rush Week participants. He said that this list does not exclude those not in the upper one half of their classes , however, and "of course doesn't indicate -that they will really pledge." The Council adopted two proposed groupings of frater nities for Rush Week. Miller said that there had been some question as to whether or not the two groups were equal in size. He pointed out that there is a difference of only 60 men between the two. ! Married Students' The Nebraska Union Hospi tality Committee will sponsor a Married Students event Sunday from 2:30 to 6:30. There is no charge. The games area of the Un ion will be open from 2:30 on, and babysitting, snacks Lydic By Wayne Kreuscher Junior Staff Writer "I am not going to wish you success, rather, the Stu dent Council and 13,000 stu dents are going to make it our demand." With this statement ' John Lydick, Student Council president turned the student government over to the new Studsnt Association and Student Co cil became part of the University's his tory. Lydick pointed out at this last meeting of Student Council that in at least one area this year's Council has overshadowed any pre vious student government at the University. "The success of Student Council is due to your at titude toward your position Senate Election Protested Ted Suhr is protesting the election of Senate candidates from the Engineering College. Bob Kerrey said at the Stu dent Council meeting yester day that Suhr's request for a re-election had been ap proved by the Council's Elec tion Committee, but that Ron Psota has protested the com mittee's decision. Psota and Suhr were both candidates for the Senate from the Engineering College. Student Court will decide Saturday if the election should be held again or not. If the election is held again it will be between the bottom six candidates for Senate from the Engineering College. There are five representa tives from this college. Ten candidates were running in the election. Psota ranked fifth.- : Kerrey explained that Suhr protested the election for two reasons. First, because His name had been left off the ballot when it was sent to the printer and thus had been typed at the bottom of each ballot before the election. Al so because the Daily Nebras kan had run, the complete bal lot in the paper the day be fore the election before Suhr's name had been added to the bottom. Kerrey said that the Com mittee felt the first reason was valid, but the second was not their fault, but the Daily Nebraskan's. Psota said he is protesting the committee's decision to hold the election over because he feels that the name al ways being on the bottom of the ballot didn't make that much difference. Legislature To Shut Down Lab Schools University High School will hold graduation ceremonies for the last time in 1968. The Legislature yesterday passed a resolution directing the University and Peru State College to phase out their campus laboratory grade and high school. A 39-1 vote approved Reso lution 44, introduced by Sen. J. W. Eurbach. Burbach said 'the state should not be subsidizing lo cal school districts in t b i s fashion and noted that cam pus schools are being phased out at other state colleges. He said the 1908 date will give the local school districts time to take over the opera tions. The resolution was resisted by Sen. Calista Cooper Hughes in whose district Peru State College is located. She said it would be impos sible for the Peru school dis trict to maintain schools of the quality needed for Peru State teacher training pur poses. She said it will work "a great hardship on the community of Peru." Fun Day Sunday and entertainment for th children will be provided. At 3:30 a film starring Pe ter Sellers will be shown for the adults. Dinner will be served for adults at 5:30 in the Pan American Room M MBlases Old C k IeliirsiqidJjBshes C? of privileged responsibility," he said. "Student govern ment is not just another ac tivity. "Because you have sin cerely felt your responsibil ity," he added, "Lincoln students have become aware of the fact that others re alize their problems and are willing to help, and the Negro students acknowledge that we are attempting to help them through our posi tion." He also said that the re sults if a sin'-re attitude on the part of the Student Council has yielded an in creased interest in student government. Eighty-e i g h t students filed, he pointed out, for of fice this year, as compared with thirty-four last year. Twenty-six percent of t h e Student body vted in th election as opposed to nine teen percent a year ago. "We have now arrived at a position where many eyes are focused on student gov ernment," he said. The new student govern ment, he stressed, must strive to retain the concept of their position, that of i privileged responsibil ity. They must communi cate with the student body better than any previous stident government and they must continuously seek to determine the needs of the students whom they represent. Lydick received a stand ing oviation after his speech to the new Senate and old Counc'l members. JoAnn Strateman and Kent Neumeister, the new Vol. 80, No. 127 IHlistory f Sypreme By Steve Jordon Junior Staff Writer "The people are the ulti mate tribunal, and make the ultimate decisions." Supreme Court Justice Wil liam O. Douglas made this statement while addressing an All - University Convocation yesterday. In talking about the "non controversial topic of the Su preme Court of the U n 1 1 e d States," Justice Douglas out lined the powers and the his tory of the court. j The two basic precepts in defining the rules of the Su preme Court as a referee are those of judicial review de claring as unconstitutional the state laws that conflict with federal laws or the constitu--ion, Douglas said. i The state law power came in 1821, and "created a great er storm of criticism than anything you have ever seen." The court's jurisdiction has remained substantially con stant over the years, be said. It has no advisory powers,! no rule-making powers and no function of the executive, such as the veto. I The Court can consider no I political questions, such as the choosing of ambassadors or the seating of delegations to the Congress, he said. "While there is no clear cut division between the Court and other branches of the gov-, ernment," Douglas said, "they have never been com pletely separated." "The secret of the Ameri can success Is the element of good will between branches of the government," be said. He cited examples of Jus tices being ambassadors, serv ing on electoral commissions, being prosecutors and serving on commissions such as the Investigations into Pearl Har bor and the Kennedy assas sination, which Chief Justice Earl Warren headed. Nominated by the president, the Justices' appointments have to be confirmed by the Senate. "Nineteen nominees bave student government presi dent, both said that if this last year's Student Council has been one of the out standing ones in the Univer sity's history, then most of the credit must go to Lydick. , Miss Strateman presented a gavel to Lydick and Neu meister announced that a John Lydick award has been established. He said that this award will be awarded each year A NEW REGIME BEGINS hands the gavel to new The Daily ijtW Bos utlioios been rejected by the Senate," Douglas said, "and six have been confirmed but rejected appointments themselves." There are four large peri ods in American history with regard to the Supreme Court, he said. The first involves the de velopment of a common mar ket between the original sov ereign states, he said. Regulation of commerce in early times has expanded to include public accommodation issues today, Douglas said. The Marshall court effective ly leveled the barriers be tween the sovereign states. The second period occurred just after the Civil War, with the 13th, and 15th Amend ments. The nation was then turning to tie west and expanding rap idly, Douglas said. Then followed a period of regulation of corporation prac tices, he said. This became possible when the corporations Flying Club Organizing On Campus Are you interested in learn ing to fly? If so, would you like to join other students with a similar interest? A survey is being made to determine the num ber of students on campus who would be interested in an aviation club. Purposes of the club would be to stimulate interest in learning to fly among college students, to share flying inter est through an organized group, to organize for ground school instruction designed to prepare the student for the FAA written examination, to contract for group rates on flight instruction in aircrait use and to develop loans and scholarships for student flight instruction. If interested, write to How ard Eckel, 407 Administration Building, or call University Extension 2245 or 488-1306 on evenings and weekends. Please leave campus ad dress, telephone number and summer address. to an outstanding senator and that' a plaque will hang in the Student Council of fice. Mike Barton reported at the meeting that he had discussed the new spirit symbol with Chancellor Hardin and that it would now go to Corn Cobbs and Tassels. Skip Soiref, treasurer, said that about $658.21 will re main in the Council's treas ury at the end of the year. A. - as retiring Student Council President John Lydick ASUN President Kent Neumeister. Nebraskan were considered as people, and regulated as such. 'The Court acted to police the states in their experi ments in social legislation," Douglas said, "such as child labor laws." "Since World War II efforts of the court have been di rected to civil rights," he said. Not only Negroes, but Mexi cans, religious minorities, the increasing urbanization prob lem and resulting dilution of city votes with respect to country votes. Loyalty and sincerity laws bave been examined by the Court also, he said. "W h o could prove that it is to the best interests of the United States for someone to be re hired after being dropped from the payroll for being suspected as an unloyal Amer ican? Even Eisenhower would have a hard time." It was during Eisenhower's administration that laws such as these were in effect. "The frontiers are gone, and there's no possibility of es cape from discrimination," he said. "We must deal with each other with discretion." "The Court Is a referee, and no federal system can exist said. "Hamilton stated in the without a referee," Douglas Federalist that the Judiciary is the weakest branch of the government that It has no force or will, only Judgement." "Our people nave adopted a consensus to live under the Constitution; this makes most of our decisions enforceable," Douglas said. One of the popular myths about the Supreme Court is that it is overworked, he said. "Our case load has In creased from prison cases, but W7t of these are frivolous," he said. "These writs seem to give the prisoners some thing to do that they're Inter ested In." The workload Is actually lighter than it was 20 years ago, Douglas said. "At that time, we had about 300 hours and 143 written de cisions each session," he said. "Now we have 200 hours and just over 100 decisions." "We're also on a five-day vi men The Council started with a balance of $1642.74 this, year. Neumeister said that in terviews for recording sec retary of the new Senate will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. and that applications can be picked up in the Stu dent Council office. He also said that the Sen ate will elect three exec utive members as well as a speaker pro tempore at next week's meeting. ," Yf PHOTO BY YABBA Thursday, May 13, 1965 weirs. week," he said, "so remind your friends at Harvard not to pity us." Douglas commented on an amendment being circulated among the states. Article V of the Constitu tion gives a national forum for debating proposed amend ments, h e said. This new amendment could allow adop tion of amendments without a national forum for debates. "This would allow lobbyists to quietly change the Consti tution without the people ac tually know ing it," be said. "The people can always amend our decisions," Doug las said. "Our Court once held that the states could keep women from voting, and then along came the 16th Amend ment; you can see what con dition we've been in since that time." Students Receive Millions In Aid Forty-one colleges and uni versities awarded one million dollars or more in financial aid to their students during the 1963-64 academic year, proving that a college educa tion is available to more and more eligible students. Another 74 institutions each handed out from $500,000 to $999,999 in scholarships, loans and Jobs. A report by the Educational Testing Service shows that helping their students get through college has become a multimillion dollar business for the nation's Institutions of higher learning. Colleges and universities participating in the survey awarded more than $251 mil lion in student aid. ' ; The report did not Includa awards made by national scholarship programs s u c.h as the National Merit Scholar ship program, state scholar, ship and loan programs, work study grants or even loans and jobs which students can get after arriving on campus. The $251 million went to 454,000 students. The averaga student award was $553. About $120 million was in scholar ships, $35 million in loans and $15 million In jobs. Coiflirfl: i if 0 I t r- - H .- i K 3r 4