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Vol. 81 No. 56
The Daily Ncbroskan
Wednesday Febr. 2. 1966
February Decision
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REGISTERIN'G and registering and registering . . .
Lines, Cancellations
Plague
By Bruce Giles
Senior Staff Writer
Despite long lines and can
celled registrations. Univer
sity officials say this year's
registration problems are no
worse than in other years.
But they do admit that cer
tain problems exist.
"More than 90 per cent of
the students got their regis
trations in exactly as asked
. . . and that I consider very
remarkable," Registrar Floyd
Hoover said.
He said that the registrar's
office was forced to cancel
any registrations that were
turned in after 5 p.m., Jan.
21, as was stated in the letter
accompanying the registra
tion. "Actually all registration
problems boil down to the
fact that tiemand just exceeds
supply," Hoover said.
The campus mail was
criticized by many students
for not getting their registra
tions Into the registrar's of
fice on time, but Hoover dis
credited this complaint.
"I am convinced, after
visiting with those in charge
of campus mail, that a con
scientious effort was made by
mailmen to search even 10
feet around the mailboxes for
Senate Proposal Mi
Revise European Flight
The Student Senate Euro
pean flight committee is to
present a revised plan for a
cut-rate student fbght to
Europe this summer to the
Senate for approval Wednes
day, according to ASUN Vice
President Larry Frolik.
The Senate origninally ac
cepted sponsorship of a round
trip chartered flight from
New York to London that
would allow a student to save
between $250 and $300. The
flight would be available to
students, faculty and staff
members and their immedi
ate families.
In a committee meeting
Tuesday, however, chairman
Carolyn Freeman indicated
Regents Accept Plans
For Campus Expansion
Campus expansion plans
keynoted the Board of Re
gents meeting last week as
the R e g e n t s approved the
purchase of new land and the
offering for sale of bonds to
be used for expansion and
construction revenues.
The Regents authorized the
purchase of two tracts of land
on the northeast edge of the
city campus for $525,000. The
land is on the corner of 17th
and Y its. and the purchase
price includes any buildings
or improvements on the site.
The Board also approved
the offering for sale of about
$13 million in revenue bonds
for construction of a new
four-bullding dormitory com
plex to 'be located northwest
of Nebraska1 Hall. The com
plex is expected to house
about 1.4(H) students. It will
Include a separate food serv
ice building, a swimming pool
and suites with two bed
rooms, bath and a living
room.
Registration
registrations, but not between
the mail box and the wall
where one registration
showed up." Hoover said.
He pointed out that the
campus mailmen drd find the
letter behind the box and that
this is an example of just
"how far they went to ac
commodate students."
Hoover said that they tried
to solve the problem of supply
and demand this year with
pre-registration.
However, he said, the de
partment heads were not able
to supply the number of open
ings pre-registration called
for in many courses because
of a lack of furrds, or the in
ability to find space for the
class or a teacher for the
class.
He noted that the first
morning of free drop and add,
students had trouble obtain
ing courses, out this was be
cause students had not yet
dropped courses they did not
want.
He said he did not foresee
any serious problems, as stu
dents could pick up classes
which other students had
dropped.
"It will be necessary to do
a great deal of juggling to
make the programs fit
that the committee plans to
ask Senate that substantial
changes be made in the orig
inal plan.
The exact nature of the
changes proposed has not been
made public, but the commit
tee suggested that accommo
dations at a bloc rate may be
more economically feasible
than the actual chartering of
a plane.
The European flight plan
was originally developed by
Dave Fairbanks and was in
troduced by Sen. Dave Sny
der. The proposal was at first
tabled by the Senate, then de
feated and later resurrected
and passed.
Occupancy date for the
dormitory complex is the fall
of 17, according to Edward
Bryan, housing director.
Union expansion plans are
still in the formative stages,
but a possible occupancy date
of new facilities has been set
as fall 1968.
Possibilities for expansion
include addition of new floors
and an addition on the north
side or construction of anoth
er separate building.
The revenue bonds might
also be used to finance con
struction of new Greek houses
at the site of the dormitory
complex. These buildings
would be leased to the groups
that used them.
The Board hopes to take
competitive bids on the rev
enue bonds in mid-March.
In other action, the Regents
approved the offering of a
new degree, that of bachelor
of science in construction sci
reasonably." he said.
Regarding t h e problems
with the registrations that
were sent to students. Hoover
said. "As far as my office
could, we used the alternate
courses that the students sug
gested." "Mrs, Laase and her staff,
including 15 part-time people,
worked every night for two
weeks, all Saturdays and most
Sundays pulling cards lor stu
dents. Christmas vacation
was merely a time on the
calendar, but they did take
off ali day Christmas and
New Year's." he said.
He pointed out that Mrs.
Laase and her staff pulled the
cards for the students and
that computers were not in
volved in that part of the
operation.
Proposed" Draft Guidelines
Based On Academic Level
By Bruce (Hies
Senior Staff Writer
Joe College may soon find
his Uncle Sam more than just
casually concerned about his
progress at school. In fact.
Joe may find himself pulled
out of school if his grades do
not measure up.
Both college grades and test
grades will probably be an
important method of deter
mining if Joe is to stay in
college, if guidelines arc set
up similar to those used dur
ing the Korean conflict, ac
cording to Col. Francis Drath,
of the Nebraska Selective
Service.
"Sometime in the near
future, guidelines will be es
tablished regarding the draft
ing of college students," Col.
Drath said. "And Lt. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey (national
draft director) has indicated
that they will be along the
lines of those during the
Korean episode."
However, he said the guide
lines have to be drawn up
and would then have to be
approved by President John
son. ences to be obtained through
the school of architecture.
The Board also changed the
name of the department of
Germanic languages to the
department of Germanic and
Slavic languages.
Dr. Donald Allison, acting
chairman of the department,
said the new title better iden
tifies the course offerings of
the department which include
German, Russian. Icelandic,
Swedish and Czech.
Allison said it will soon be
possible for a student to major
in Russian and that students
can now take three years of
courses in Czech.
The Regents named Dr,
Herbert F. Schliesser the new
director of the University
Speech and Hearing Labora
tory. Schliesser holds B.S. and
M.A. degrees from the Uni
versity and has been on the
staff as assistant professor of
speech and audiology since
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Keys
By Jan ltkin
Senior Staff Writer
A definite decision on a
senior key system will be
decided within a month, ac
cording to a .schedule for
February w h i c h was an
nounced at the AW'S Board
meeting Tuesday.
Yicki Howling. itc presi
dent of AWS. announced that
on Feb. 22 a motion would be
introduced and discussed re
garding a senior key system
and a vote would be taken
at the March 1 meeting. If
the motion is passed, she
said, the new sjstem would
go into effect in September.
At meetings prior to the
senior key decision the re
sults of various polls an-d
questionnaires regarding the
question of senior keys will
be discussed. Di Kosman.
AWS vice president, reported
that within the nexi couple
weeks, questionnaires would
be circulated to junior and
senior women regarding a
key system and the results
would be discussed on Feb.
22.
Next Tuesday, Miss Howl
ing will present the results of
the questionnaires that were
sent to the parents ot ao
proximately ten per cent of
University women asking
their opinions of women's
hours and key systems.
Tuesday, the first of such
reports was given Of six
schools in the Midwest who
Col. Drath said two sys
tems were used to defer stu
dents during the Korean con
flict. One was by university
class ranking and the other
was based on scores received
on a uniform Selective Ser
vice test.
To be ineligible for the
draft, freshmen had to rank
in the upper half of their
class, sophomores had to
rank in the upper two-thirds
of their class and juniors had
to rank in the upper three
fourths of their class.
' On the Selective Service
test, student.-, were deferred
if they received a score of 70
or above. Graduate students
were required to have at
least an 80 on the test to be
deferred.
Col. Drath said the tests
had been started with the in
ception of the Selective Ser
vice Act in 1948 and had been
given once or twice a year
until 1958. The test was con
ducted by an independent
testing agency.
He said tests similar to col
lege qualification tests would
probably be given later this
spring for m;!l" students, ;md
that it would be wise for stu
dents to take the test at that
time.
Col. Drath said if these
methods were used to deter
mine which stu'dents were lo
be deterred, it would still be
up to the local boards to de
termine which method they
use or if they used both.
Draft calls for January and
February in Nebraska have
been amine! 260 and 270,
Drath said.
"I suspect that it may go
on at that level for some time,
however," he said.
In an interview with Se
lective Service officials, the
Jan. 24th issue of U.S. News
& World Report quoted Lt.
Gen. Hershey as saying that
calls of 80.000 a month are
likely if the Viet Nam war
expands.
Editor's Note: Grade
standings and hours being
handled through the Univer
sity and information concern
ing the special deferment
given ROTC students arc ex
plained on PAGE FOUR.
PAGE FOUR also Includes
an interview with Dr. Robert
Sakai about the war in Viet
Nam and various campus
opinions concerning President
Johnson's Vict Nam policies.
Expected Soon
responded to questionnaires
concerning their senior key
systems, the following con
clusions were reached:
Four schools allowed keys
to all women over 21. Four
schools allowed keys to all
women with senior standing.
One school gave keys to
women with at least junior
standing and one school's re
quirement was that a woman
must be at least three years
out of high school. No school
restricted keys to only sen
iors who were over 21.
One school required a C
average for women under 21
and the others reported grade
average was not taken into
account.
Parental permission was
required by three schools for
women under 21 and by two
schools for all participants.
The other school required no
permission of any kind.
The attitude gf housemoth
ers around the Midwest was
reported favorable and dif
ficulties were reported as
minor and dealing in the
realm of administering t h e
svstem rather than in abuses
of it.
AWS also unanimously
passed a new constitution and
by-laws which will be referred
to the ASUN activities com
mittee for approval.
Miss Dowling explained the
changes that were made in
the constitution as ''mostly
editing to have it correspond
The officials noted that a
large share of present
draftees wind up as combat
infantry or artillery troops,
with voluntary enlistees get
ting their choice of jobs.
The article states that a
draftee now has about a 50-50
chance of going overseas, but
noted that actually there is a
better chance that they would
be sent to Europe rather
than Viet Nam. The Army
figures that the odds against
any one draftee's going to
Viet Nam is about 9 to 1 right
now.
Draftees receive the same
salary as any other soldier
$94 a month, with a raise to
S98 in four months. This is
in addition to meals, quar
ters, clothing, medical care,
allowances for dependents
and special pay for hazardous
duty.
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"A dream for the future wben colleges like these can become reality" is the way
Joe Colgan, an architectural student, describes this display of a liberal arts college
which is now in the Nebraska Union, west of the Pan American Room.
The display, which includes five models for an "ideal" liberal arts college, is the
culmination of a semester's project in Professor James Porter's fifth year architec
turn! class
Colgran, who participated in making the model, pointed out that five different
teams, of three students each, were assigned the theoretical problem of designing th
buildings for the college. The sight of the college was chosen to be in the Bluffs, east
ol the Platte River, near Interstate 80.
with the standard form" and
changing the make-up of the
AWS Board.
"Before the Board con
sisted of 21 members strictly
representing their class." she
explained. "We're expanding
the Board to 25 members and
it will be composed now of
dual representation six
women from each class and
seven representatives from
four different living areas."
Under the new system of
representation, three women
will represent dorms on city
campus, two women will rep
resent sorority houses and
there will be one represent
ative from East Campus and
another for Lincoln students.
Miss Dowling explained
that the new system should
encourage more people to go
through AWS interviews when
they may chose whether they
wish to run from their class
or their living unit.
Other changes in the con
stitution converted the grade
requirement to a 2.3 on the
four-point scale, provided for
a system of succession and of
removing an elected officer
before her term was finished.
Miss Dowling introduced a
Evaluation Book
Set For Approval
By Jan Itkin
Senior Staff Writer
The Faculty Evaluation
"ok will go to Student Sen
ate Wednesday for final ap
proval. The committee on
student affairs, headed by G.
Robert Ross, dean of student
affairs, has already approved
plans for the book.
The committee on student
affairs, a faculty-student com
mittee, passed by an 11-3 mar
gin a resolution stating that
"ASUN be granted the back
ing of the committee on stu
dent affairs for the conducting
of a program of faculty evalu
ation." Formal interpretation of
the motion states that "unless
some subsequent action is
taken. ASUN now has the
backing of the committee on
student affairs and no other
action needs to be taken at
this time" and that the action
"meets the requirement of
the subcommittee on student
publications."
Ross explained that, accord
ing to the interpretation, the
book may be published if it
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motion to be voted on next
week extending visiting hours
Monday through Thursday
nights to last from 7 p.m.
until closing hours and re
stricting women from visiting
women from visiting mens'
living units during those time.
She explained that there
has been much dissatisfaction
with present visiting hours
and that they were incon
sistant with the later hours
which went into effect this
week.
In explaining the necessity
for restricting women from
mens' living units on week
nights, Miss Dowling noted
that fraternity housemothers
would have to be present
during those visiting hours
and that they (the house
mothers) would be greatly in
convenienced. To avoid the in
convenience, she continued,
the restriction is necessary.
In other business, Mrs. (Jan
Whitney) Hibbs, AWS presi
dent, announced that Barb
Beckmann. Pam Hedgecock
and Diane Smith have been
slated for president of AWS.
She also announced that
interviews for candidacy for
Board positions would be held
F.eb. 18-19. Applications will
be available shortly.
is passed by Student Senate,
but the student affairs com
mittee can reverse its deci
sion at any time.
He pointed out that although
"this is very unlikely" an in
dividual member of Faculty
Senate could present a mo
tion to Faculty Senate asking
for a retraction of the student
affairs committee's support
and if this motion was passed,
approval would be rescinded.
Before the meeting with the
committee on student affairs,
sample questionaires were
distributed to students in
about 20 classes and then
ample evaluations were com
piled, according to Ladd Lon
nquist. chairman of the AS
UN faculty evaluation com
mittee. "We chose the 20 teachers
at random and they covered
a lot of different depart
ments." Lonnquist said.
He said that his committee
is now awaiting Wednesday's
Senate decision and that, if
money is appropriated for the
project, questionnaires will
be available to students next
week and the book will be
out by April.
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