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LIBRARY fiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu WEEK REVIEW CAMPUS . . . TWO PETITIONS request ing a declaratory judgment in connection with the Stu dents Senate's authority in setting up a new interviewing board for Homecoming Queen finalists will be acted upon by the ASUN Student Court Saturday. THE CORNHUSKERS ac cepted a bid to the Orange Howl in Miami, Fla., on New Year's Day. Jim Pittenger, ticket manager, said that there would be tickets aval able to students who want them. IDENTIFICATION RE QUIREMENTS for fans hold ing student tickets will be waived for the Oklahoma game on Thanksgiving Day in an effort to fill the stands for the nationally-televised game. ABEL HALL residents fail ed to approve their first con stitution with a two-thirds vote. A 56 per cent favorable majority, 402 for and 310 against, was not enough to meet the two-thirds ratifica tion requirement. MAJOR ISSUES in determ ining whether Mari Sandoz Hall will be open for second semester are whether or not the building will be complet ed and whether there will be enough students to justify its open in". A decision will be made in mid-December. CITY . . . FINAL APPROVAL was! given to the Lincoln Air Force Base re-use plan by the Lin coln Opportunity Team. The plan will now be submitted to the City Council and Air port Authority and, if ap proved, will be sent to t h e Defense Department. MAYOR DEAN PETER SEN made it known at the City Council meeting that the proposed annexation of West Lincoln could De coming up for introduction in the n e x t j several weeks. I SKETCHING himself as a; boy who loved machinery best and who tried to ignore per-; sons who made tun ot mm, Duane Earl Pope took the witness stand in U.S. District Court. STATE . . . AN OMAHA DISTRICT COURT jury convicted two former Omaha city council men, Ernest Adams and Ste phen Novak, of soliciting bribes while in office and found a real estate man, Ron ald Abboud, guilty of assist ing them. SEN. CARL CURTIS suff ered shoulder injuries in a light plane crash at the Mull en airport. Neither the pilot of the plane, Bob Garey of Hastings, or another passeng er, Burkett Van Kirk, minor ity counsel for the Senate Rules Committee, were injur ed. TERMINATION of t h e Mead Prison farm operation w as announced by Gov. Frank Morrison. He said the State of Nebraska does not intend to hand back the real estate involved to the federal gov ernment. A FOUR-MAN INSPECTION COMMITTEE from the Na tional Academy of Sciences toured the University Field laboratory at Mead to deter mine its suitability as a site for the proposed $348 million proton accelerator. NATIONAL . . . THE SUPREME COURT unanimously ruled unconstitu tional a key section of the subversive control law requir ing individual members of the Communist Party to register with the government. CANADIAN - AMERICAN power investigators traced the origin of the massive power failure in the Northeast to a telephone-sized control device at a generating plant in the Canadian province of Ontario. COMMUNIST NORTH VIET NAM has reportedly installed 35 to 40 surface-to-air missile platforms around its capital, Hanoi, in an apparent belief that the United States is pre paring to bomb their canital. SEATING OF RED CHINA was rejected in a General As sembly vote tied at 47 to 47 with 20 countries abstaining a much closer margin than in the past. A two-thirds ma jority is required to seat the Communist nation. 1 V't Photo by Tom Rubin "HISTORICAL HYSTERIA" REHEARS AL .. . Promises the "best Show ever" stated Show Chairman George Schloth auer. The Kosmct Klub Show will be pre sented Saturday at 8 p.m. in Pershing Team To Compete Sn National Meet By Ruth Hagedorn Junior Staff Writer One hundred ten of the na tion's 130 accredited law schools engage in competition against one another. This competition is sponsored by the Young Lawyers Commit tee of the Bar Association of the city of New York and is known as "moot court." Three senior law students are chosen as members of moot court on the basis of their record in local court competition. In August they receive a printed record of a current issue and then have two months to prepare a writ ten brief concerning it. The teams are judged on their written brief as well as their oral arguments. This year in the regional competi tion held at the University of Kentucky, the University of Nebraska's moot court's brief received the highest grade of any submitted. Professor John Gradwohl, sponsor, said, "We have al ways done real well with our written briefs." Nebraska placed second in regional competition and will attend, along with the University of Kentucky, the national meet at New York City in mid-December. Gradwohl went on to ex plain that "regional competi tion is tough," since Nebras Campaign Basics Explained By Thone By Beth Robbins Junior Staff Writer In easy-going manner, Charles Thone, 1965 nominee for Lieutenant Governor, ex plained the "three fundamen tals of a campaign to oung Republicans at a meeting last night. These fundamentals, he said, are "candidates, issues, and organizations." Answer ing his own question "what is politics and what. is govern ment?" Thone said that people are politics. "Sometimes we forget that, and the party for gets it, but we must always keep it in mind," he said. Todav's nolitical candidate must be "really attractive if he is going to do well witn today's sophisticated voter," Thone said. The candidate must be somewhat articulate, and be able to convey a warm image to a mass of people, he said. Concerning his second point, the issue of a campaign, Thone said they "should be a lot more important than they are." Only too frequently a political campaign "degener ates" into the "political junk" of a personality campaign. "Quality people are often driven out with the junk you run into in an election cam paign," he said, "You (the political candidate) won't take it for your family," he added. Comparing a political cam paign to a song, Thone said candidates must "accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative." A positive and af firmative attack of the issues is just good politics, he said. But, Thone cautioned, a campaign deals in practical politics. "The cause may be only our side and you'll still lose," he said referring to the importance of the candi date and organization behind him. "You can have good can ka actually competes in a combination of two regions. Schools with which the Uni versity competes are the Uni versity of Kentucky, Univer sity of Louisville, Washington University, St. Louis Univer sity, University of Missouri, Kansas University, Washbrun University, Creighton Univer sity, the University of North Dakota, and the University of South Dakota. Before regions w7ere com bined, there were only three schools competing in one and six in the other, with the win ners traveling to New York for national competition. The combination made possible more and better competition with the result that two su perior teams, champion and runner-up, represent the re gion. National moot court compe tition was begun in 1951, with Nebraska taking the cham pionship in its first appear ance in 1953. A team mem ber, Eleanor Swansoa, was named outstanding individu al speaker. Since then, Nebraska has been national runner-up in 1956 and 1960. In regional competition, the University's team has been champion four times and runner-up twice. Moot court members are Donald Burt, Stephen J o y t, and Vernon Duncan. didates and issues and still lose,". Thone continued. "You have got to have a good or ganization." Although he disagreed with a recent statement by former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater that it might be a "cold day in November" for the Republicans at coming elections, Thone stressed the need for greater party uni ty. "Nebraska is still a Republican-minded state," he said, but it and the nation, needs "a lot more unity than it has had in the past few months." "I think we'll get it," he added. The Republican Party has it's "strength and weakness" in its use of volunteer work ers, Thone said. "You can on ly ask a volunteer to do so much." He compared the number of volunteer workers in the Re publican and Democratic Par ties, calling the Republicans "much stronger, both in the state and nationally." Tau Rho Recognizes Proposed FM Station Tau Rho has announced its endorsement of the action of the Student Senate Culture Committee and SAGE in their efforts to establish a non-commercial FM radio station on the University campus. Tau Rho is the professional honorary for students in broadcast journalism. Recreation Department Offers Knitting Course The city recreation depart ment is sponsoring a course in beginning knitting from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Pershing Au ditorium Thursday afternoons. The workshop, which starts today and lasts six weeks, is free. For more information, call the city recreation de partment at 475-?.668. : J ... i -3 ft Auditorium. The skits will follow history, chronologically at least, from Noah's Ark to the 1930's. Tickets may be pur chased in the Union from Kosmet Klub workers. Two Chosen As Delegates To Convention Gary Larsen and Ed Tip petts have bean chosen to represent Iraterfraternity Council at the National Fra ternity Council Convention next month. Larsen, IFC Activities Chairman, and Tippetts, Del ta Upsilon house president, will attend the convention Dec. 2-5 in Washington, D.C. A meeting concerning the expansion of fraternities and the proposed housing complex will be held Dec. 8, it was announced. Division of Student Affairs representatives, house presi dents, alumni corporation presidents and the IFC Ex pansion Committee will be present at the meeting, which will discuss the complex and additions to existing houses. A percentage conversion system, which would allow for direct changing of nine point scale grades to the new four-point scale, was includ ed in a proposed amendment to IFC by-laws. The system would be used in converting past grades of prospective pledges to the four-point scale. The proposal also set 2.0 as the minimum average for pledging and a 1.5 overall average for a pledge to remain on the house rolls. The amendment will be con sidered at the next IFC meet ing. Dec. 1. There will be no IFC meeting next week. HYDE PARK By Julie Morris Junior Staff Writer Bearded students sat near those in button downs and, sport coats; madras was as' popular as ROTC uniforms, people sprawled on the floor, stood in the corridors and perched on the planters. This was the scene at the Hyde Park forum yesterday which was resumed after last week's cancellation. Students heard pleads made for a new system of women's hours, an end to the war in Viet Nam, equal time for hootenany lov ers and improvement of stu dent attitude. Two coeds gave talks con demning women's hours. Mrs. Dawn Barnet called women s hours "a most strict system" and discussed the reasons put forward for the present sys tem." "After all whose University is this? Is it for the adminis tration or for the students?" she asked. "The time has ar rived for a change," she said, urging coeds to "make your desires known to your student senators." A freshman coed, Cindy Gutherless, called the wom en's hours regulations, "illogi cal and irriational" and de manded, "If the girls have hours the boys should have hours." Approximately 120 people listened to parts of the forum. Corridor congestion was regu lated by members of the Talks and Topics Committee, which sponsors the forums. A dozen different students talked. Viet Nam kept popping up throughout the taJks, with a number of students com menting on literature that had been distributed by member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Carl Davidson, president of SDS came to the platform twice and asked questions or made comments from the floor throughout the program. Some members of the audi ence offered comments on the Hyde Park. Tom Mesner criticized the time limit and the need to sign up before speaking "one of the limiting factors is the formality." He praised Davidson calling him "the one who kind of keeps lit (the forum) going." Vol. 81, No. 39 People-To-People ... Students Jo Visit Abroad A meeting for all students and faculty members inter ested in People-to-People's Student Abroad program will be held Sunday, at 1:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. The program is primarily concerned with having parti cipating students meet for eign students and families in an experience of international relations on a personal level. Participants in the Student abroad program must be members of the University chapter of People-to-People. They must be recommended by the chairman of the Stu dent Abroad committee on the basis of their work in the campus chapter, exhibition of particular interest in interna tional affairs, and participa tion in academic and extra curricular activities. Each student participant prepares himself by develop ing an itinerary and educat ing himself on the places to be visited. He also attends ori entation sessions on campus and in Washington, D.C. The program has two dif ferent parts which include the Independent Travel segment for those students who are interested in general Europe travel and the Homestay seg ment for those students who prefer extensive contacts in a single country or area. Homestay programs are of fered for Belgium-France, Greece, Scandinavia, Germa ny, the British Isles and Yug oslavia. These programs re quire of participants great adaptability, intuition, person al preparation and a sincere interest in people. The Independent Travel por tion is provided in order that the participant may attend a foreign university, take a job, or be in some activity which requires more time than is al lowed on the homestay pro gram. The all-summer program cost- $420 for the homestay segment or $380 for the In dependent travel segment. Last summer, 319 students representing 67 People-to-People chapters in 27 states and the District of Columbia participated in the Student Abroad program. There is no limit to how many can go from one col lege or university. Pound Zoo Headquarters Surprises Casu al Visitors By Susan Heybrock The sign on the door of 810 Pound Hall reads "Diz muzbeedaplaze," and it is for what floor members consider the campus wild life preserve. Who is responsible for this failure to conform to the stereotyped dormitory room? Lynda Johnson, co-owner of the simulated outdoors, says it all started when her roommate gave her a cha meleon for ther birthday ir October. Since then Lynda and her roommate, Beth Robbins, have added much to create an outdoorsy effect. Included in their collection are a tur tle, beaver rug, stuffed an telope's head, tropical fish, branches and various types of plants, gourds, berries and leaves. As you enter the room, the antelope's lead, named Chet 'n David, peers out between the branches fast ened to the peg board. The antelope's head named tie obscured from sight, as Chet 'n David's antlers are probably serving their only known use a clothes rack for drying socks. "Close the door," you are commanded. "Gonzales is out of his shoe box." Gonzales, somtimes known as Speedy, is the turtle that pokes in and out of the clos ets and around the room. Beth found the turtle, who's shell is about three inches in diameter, on one of her hunting trips and decided to add him to the animal col lection. Gonzales reportedly gets around remarkably well, The Daily Nebraskan a it n k n t v Centennial A centennial committee re port distributed at the ASUN meeting Wednesday reported that plans for the state and University centennial include such projects as President Lyndon Johnson speaking in Lincoln in March of 1967, the publication of Dr. Robert Manley's history of the Uni versity and building the sign for the stadium on Thanks giving day. The committee is working with the State Centennial Commission and the Lancast Union Jo Offer Students Vacation Fun In Miami Bic;Red is going Orange. And sunshine, warm weath er and the excitement of foot ball Orange-Bowl style will await many Nebraskans in Miami on New Years Day. Once again the Nebraska Union will sponsor the official University trip to the bowl for students, faculty and staff members. The trip can ac commodate 400 people. Allen Bennett, director of the Nebraska Union, esti mated the cost to be between $200 and $225 a person and added that the exact figure will be available shortly. Cost of the trip will include round-trip plane fare, bus Exhibition To Feature Nebraska Sculptors Works by sculptors from four Nebraska colleges and universities are on exhibit at Sheldon Art Gallery. The sculptors, all recent ar rivals in Nebraska, are Roger Williams of Doane College at Crete, Sidney Buchanan of Omaha University, William Cordiner of Wayne State Teachers College and Gary Coulter of Hastings College. Sunday at 3 p.m. Gerald Maddox, assistant to the di rector of the Gallery, will give a talk on the "Four Nebraska Sculptors." The exhibition continues through Dec. 12. despite his cracked shell, and has discovered that one of Beth's shoes is a most comfortable sleeping place. The animals keep the room in a constant state of excitement. Most memor orable to Lynda is when Thadius McBelch and Sten chly Furbow II, the two chameleons, got out of their cage. The little lizard-like animals are quick runners X Ml yf v ! J m II ' . . f V S. ' 1 - fl - ' hv Wh ' 4i , IM r I Photo by Tom Rubin "DIZMUZBEDAPLAZE" ... of the campus's wildlife preserve. Socks hand down from Chet 'n David's ant lers, while Lynda makes a phone call and Beth holds GonzaJ"s. ieve er County Centennial Comms sion involving the state cen tennial in 1967, the report said. President Johnson President Johnson will be in Lincoln on March 1, 1967, and that same day the first Bicameral and Unicameral legislative sessions will be en acted in play form. "The state commission wants to have students take part in these productions" the report said. The sign in the southeast service to and from the a i r port in Miami, hotel accom modations, tickets for the game and for bleacher seats on the parade route. Planes will leave Lincoln on Tuesday, Dec. 28, and will re turn on Sunday, Jan. 2 thus allowing fans five days and five nishts in Miami. The deadline for registering for the trip is Friday, Dec. 17 at 5 p.m. Hotel reservations are at the Biscayne Terrace Hotel which is on the parade route and centrally located, accord ing to Bennett. Each room will house either three or four people except in the case of married couples who desire private accommodations. The cost of the trip, for i ..... . married couples, would beifAffl lfnrf ahout $30 more than the oth-i lUI er to account for the differ ence in the hotel rate. Bennett said that the Husk er delegation would have the bulk of the rooms on the up per floors of the hotel. A relatively new service, a tour headquarters booth, will be located in the lobby of the hotel to act as a student in formation center and mes sage bureau. Students may also arrange to rent cars on a discount basis at the booth. Other tentative plans in clude a cruise of the bay area and a tour of the seaquarium. so "we had a few tense mo ments," Lynda said. Pheasant feathers, foliage plants, and deep red, gold and brown leaves add the fi nal touches by occupying al most every available spot on the shelves about the room. Beth takes the blame for most of the articles, attrib uting them to her "love of nature." "V Friday, Nov. 19, 1965 3) S Plains stadium on Thanksgiving Day welcoming NBC to the foot, biill game and mentioning the state ccntennia. 's also bcinsr handled by both the state commission ind the ASUN committee. Other plans concerning the state centennial, the report continued, include all-Univpr. sity convocations and publicity ot state centennial activities. University Centennial Plans concerning the Uni versity Centennial in 1969, ac cording to the report, include the publication of Manley's history of the University in 1968 and the donation of some type of monument or memor ial to the University by the students. The report cited the pur poses of such events as pro viding "an excellent chance for better communication be tween the state and Univer sity," demonstrating "pride in our state," and giving stu dents "a chance to re-acquaint themselves with their state and its history." The report states that in volvement in such projects will "help put forth a favorable image of student activity at the University" and "provide students with the chance to perform services which will be of long range benefit to both the state and the Uni versity." Commission Needs Aid The Nebraska Centennial Commission yesterday urged organizations and groups throughout the state to "pass the hat" for funds for a float in the Orange Bowl parade. "Last year the fraternities and sororities at the Univer sity pushed us over the top," Don Shriner, director of the commission, said. "We hope to have University coopera tion in raising funds again this year." The commission reported that a float in the nationally televised parade would cost approximately $7,500 and that it would be designed by the company who holds the Orange Bowl parade fran chise. "This year's float will be different from the one in Dal las," Shriner said. He added that since the theme was one of pageantry, the float would be designed around a queen type theme which would be "the best of pageantry." Plans for a queen for the float revolve around Miss Ne braska Karen Hansmeier who is a student at Concordia College in Seward. The drive for funds for the float began Wednesday eve ning by the Seward County Feeders and Breeders Associa tion who collected $140 for the drive. . - Ski Trip Sign-Up To Close Tuesday Tuesday is the deadline for signing up for the Union ski trip to Winter Park, Colo., over semester break Jan. 26 to 30. When signing up, students must pay $37.50 of the $75 cost for the trip, and the rest of the money should be paid by Dec. 8 when the consent and waiver forms are turned in. Richard Scott, program manager, said that about 30 spaces for the trip are avail able. This year the trip will pro vide entertainment for the students including movies similar to the week-end films and a combo from Denver. LATE DATE NIGHT Mortar Board and AWS are sponsoring a late date night this Saturday. Girls may stay out until 2 a.m. The girls' dates will be penalized one penny for each minute they bring their dates in after 1 a.m. AWS representatives will, be in sorority houses and Mor tar Boards in the women's dorms to collect the money which will be used for AWS and Mortar Board projects. ' v . 1 X "l :- V Vr'