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W lb ? ByJanltkin Aorwwca11 all-w o mje ns election Senior Staff Writer RCH,vVTednesday will decide which Communication between the AWS Board mfr wtfmentu: dents constitutes the major factor in the success of AWS, according to the three candi dates for AWS president. The candidates are Barba ' ra Beckmann, Pam Hedge cock and Diane Smith. Miss Beckmann has served on the AWS Junior Board as notifications chairman and pro gram chairman for Coed Fol lies. She has a 3.9 average. Miss Hedgecock was publi city chairman and represen tative to the Intercollegiate Association of Woman's Stu dents while serving on t h e AWS Junior Board. She has a 3.6 average. Miss Smith has a 3.2 aver age. Her AWS experience in cludes being an AWS work er, asistant chairman for pub licity on the AWS Sophomore Board and chairman of the 1966 Coed Vollies as a mem ber of the AWS Junior Board. Monday, Match 7, 1966 Joern Elected YR National Committeeman By Julie Morris Senior Staff Writer An administrative assistant at the University was elected state Young Republican na tional committeeman at a Young Republicans conven tion in Beatrice this week end. Bill Joern, administrative assistant to John Aronson, director of admissions, won a close race for the national position. As national commit teeman, Joern will be a Hair son between the Nebraska Federation of Young Repub licans and the national Re publican Party. In addition, he will be re sponsible for a large part of the planning and work of the National Young Republican convention in Omaha during 1967. Joern, a graduate of Holy Cross College in Worcester, Students To Attend French University Three University coeds have been selected to spend nine months in France next year studying at the Univer sity of Bordeaux. They will be the first NU students to participate in the study abroad program which originated at the University of Colorado in 1961 and now includes the Universities of Kansas and Nebraska. The three women are Kathy Nicoll, M ;rtha Hedge and Sheryl Ehlcrs. "Students are chosen for the program on the basis of fluency in French, maturity and ability to adapt to a dif ferent environment," said Dr. Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, chairman of th3 Romance Languages Department. He noted that 19 Nebraska students have studied in Mex cio under a similar foreign study program." Mrs. Jean Dfen, assistant professor of romance lan I i J- ' - r f ' . FROM OVERCAST, snowflake - blasts Communication of the three will serve as "AWS'-presldSnT for the next year. The two other candi dates will serve as vice pres idents in charge of the judi cial and programming areas of AWS. Communication "Now we have to cultivate the communication since many questions have been coming to light," she said. AWS should be a coordina ting body between the admin istration and the women stu dents, stated all three of the candidates. "As I see our role as the governing body," Miss Hedge cock said, "I believe more emphasis should be placed on coordination. We have the re sponsibility of being a regu lating body yet a major part of that responsibility includes listening to what the women want to say that is our pur pose." "Along with that responsi- Mass., did graduate work in political science here and taught at Nebraska Wesley an University last year. He was a football quarter back at Holy Cron and did missionary work in Baghdad, Iraq, for a year. Joern is a member of the Lancaster County Young Republicans. He was active in the Univer sity group while a graduate student. Position Now Elective The Young Republicans al so voted in favor of a con stitutional amendment mak ing the position of college di rector an elective, rather than appointive one. Jerry Abbott of Creighton Univer sity was elected college di rector. The college director is re sponsible for the organization al details and cooperation be tween college clubs in the guages, will coordinate the Bordeaux study program. The women will leave New York City in September and par ticipate in a cultural orien tation program in Paris. From the middle of Septem ber to the end of October they will take part in an exten s i v e language refresher course. k Classes at the University of Bordeaux will begin Nov. 1 and continue until June 1, 1967, with the exception of Christmas and Easter vaca tions. They will receive credit for a full year of study. The students will take classes in French, literature and civilization along with history, philosophy, political science and letters. All classes will be conducted in French. AU three Nebraska coeds are majoring in French and plan to teach at either the high school or college level when they graduate. "1 ,x i i 5 St s ' z. 1 j . i fillcd skies and winter's Icy . 1 Miss Smith bility, however, comes coor dinating all sides of a par ticular question and coming up with the best solution," she continued. "We are re sponsible to students, parents The Daily Nebraskan state and acts as a liaison between the state federation and the college clubs. The college dirctors have previously been appointed by the state Young Republican chairman, Cathie Shattuck, vice president of the Univer sity YR's commented. 12 NU Delegates There were seven state col leges present, representing a total delegate strength of about 40. The University delegation of 12 voting members was one of the largest present. Delegate allowances were based on membership of the individual clubs. Addressing the convention were Norbert Tiemann and Val Peterson, Republican can didates for governor. The del egates also held a birthday party for U.S. Senator Carl Curtis. The University dele gation held a 23rd anniver sary celebration for Secretary of State Frank Marsh and his wife. Peterson, a former Univer sity Regent, told the dele gates at a noon luncheon Sat urday that the greatest prob' lem facing Nebraska is the creation of a better balance between industry and agricul ture in the state. Peterson declared that steps must be taken to draw industry to the state, or Ne braska will remain a "pas toral state," and that t h e export of the "best brains" in the state will continue at an ever-increasing rate. China Is Forum Topic Tuesday China Its historical back ground and present political and economic aspects, will be discussed at the forum on Southeast Asia at 4:30 Tues day in the Nebraska Union. Dr. Soon Sung Cho, visiting professor of political science, will speak at the third series on Southeast Asia sponsored by University church groups. He will also discuss China's role in the world, especially the effects of Chinese com munism in Viet Nam. March: Lion Or By Tonl Victor Junior Staff Writer The earth is approaching the vernal equinox, the tran sition between the stable cold conditions of winter and the unstable warmer conditions of spring and summer. This Is the explanation of present weather condition according to a meterological technician at the Municipal Airport Weather Bureau. However, University students also have a word for the al ternating warm and cold spells that March is heir to. "Awful," stated freshman Sally Russell. "It's that kind of weather that lowers your morale. You never know what to expect wlien you get up in the morning." The unexpected character of the weather seemed espec ially evident last weekend as the snow from Friday's storm fey -i' V Miss Hedgecock and the administration, but the emphasis should be placed on the students." Miss Hedgecock added, "AWS has never been d i c tated to. One reason the op- He proposed the creation of a "think tank, ' possibly at the University, to develop re search capacity that would draw industry. Peterson said the "brains in science ad engineering must be drawn to the state because their presence and activity in train ing and research will draw students and industry." Abel To Da ice The Abel Hall executive council will vote Monday night on whether to reverse their decision not to support an interdorm dance May 6. "Our decision will be reached Monday night," said Tom Holeman, Abel presi dent, "but the vote will prob ably come out the same." He explained that last week Abel Hall refused to appro priate $150 to the interdorm social committee for a dance on May 6, because "$150 is too much money for this one dance." The interdorm social com mittee has been planning the dance which was to have in cluded two combos costing $500. "We would not object to supporting another dance on that same night with combos that were not as expensive," Holeman added. He continued that the rep resentative from Abel on the social committee had voted to approve the concept of the dance and the proposed bud get, but had no power to promise $150 from Abel to help pay for it. "An appropriation or pledge from Abel requires the sig natures of the president, res ident director and social dir ector," he added, "and the social director was the only onewho signed anything." Holeman cited six reasons for Abel's refusal to contri bute: melted into a clear, spring like Sunday. Students no soon er got their galoshes on and braced for the cold spell, than March outwitted them again with early indications of spring. A freshman, Ray Thomp son, said, "What bothers me is at night. I set my electric blanket and I wake up every morning being either too hot or too cold." Lynne Saunders, freshman, said that she thought this weather really provides prob lems with knowing what to wear in the morning. "Half the time I try to push the season with summer clothes and end up freezing before the day is over," she said. According to Harry Spohn of the weather bureau, last Friday's storm was "typical of March." He noted that it is characteristic of Nebraska, h Major r-V ' f I I Miss Beckman posite may seem true is be cause the type of Board mem bers who have served in the past felt a large sense of re sponsibility to the Adminis tration and somehow slipped Vol. 81, No. 75 "Industry knows where all these men are located; indus try is interested in them," Pe terson said, referring to out standing scientists who must be brought into the state. Peterson urged the Young Republicans to set up com mittees to research the prob lem and to be ready to pre sent answers when the 1966 campaign begins in earnest. Vote On Support it was outside the author ity of the committee to make a contract without receiving permission. no pledge from Abel had been made. the representative from Abel had no power to make a pledge. the resident directors were not informed of the plans. poor judgment was shown in offering a sum of money to the combos rather than bargaining with them. and while Abel's leader ship does not wish to destroy or weaken interdorm organ ization, it does believe new and different controls on powers are needed. Holeman said that since the contracts could be broken 45 days before the dance, the Abel executive council thought other plans should be made to hire less expensive combos. At last Tuesday's meeting of the interdorm coordinating committee, Abel's represent atives were asked to recon sider the action, according to Marv Almy, president of the interdorm coordinating coun cil. "If Abel still refuses to pay its share," Almy said, "we can tither break the con tracts and plan something else or the other dorms can cover Abel's share of the cost and plans can continue as they are now." Lamb? and Lincoln especially, that there is a period of inclement weather during the first few weeks of March. Spohn stated that March is the most un stable month as far as weath er is concerned. "Any way you look at It," stated one University profes sor, "March Is a hard month for attending classes. Either it's too cold and stormy, or it's a spring day and just the time for cutting classes and going to Pioneer Park." The 30-day weather f o r e cast from the weather bureau calls for temperatures below seasonal normal and normal prrecipitation. This means that the thermometer might read from 23 to 33 degrees throughout the rest of t h e month. Precipitation indica call for a cold, wet month with approximately 1.7 inches of rain or snow. Jr up in communications with the women students." "A great deal of considera tion should be given to the women students and what they themselves want.' Miss Beckmann stated, "The role of AWS is more than making the rules and regulations it should be to encourage University women to develop all aspects of col lege life." Where Administration and the women students are con cerned she said, "although AWS must consider the feel ings of Administration and parents, our main responsibil ity is to represent the wom en on campus." "Any governing body must take all facets into account," she noted, "and that is where Administration comes in. My feeling is that students can be taken into account through polls. AWS should definitely be a representative body yet should take the concerns of Administration into consider ation." "Arm of Administration" "I realize it is said that we are an arm of administra tion," said Miss Smith, "and it is hard to decide where our responsibility really lies with Administration or the s t u dents. We should be represen tative and spend most of our time listening to what the stu dents want of the regula tions." "Our final authority lies, however, with the Administra. tion," she added. "One can not escape the fact that Ad ministration does have the fin al sanctions, but it is not true that they dictate to us. The students bring proposals to AWS which then discusses them wtih Dean Helen Sny der, reaches a decision and then our decisions go to Ad ministration for the final say so." "It isn't that we represent one or the other," she con tinued, "but that we com promise and balance the two. AWS is for the women stu dents and does lean that way, but must work things out to be acceptable to both Administration and the stu dents." Accomplishments All three agreed that the past year has been a busy one for AWS and that many accomplishments have been made. "The biggest over-all ac complishment was the inter est created in AWS and the increased degree of commun ication with the women stu dents," stressed Miss Smith. "This year a liberalizing force arose throughout the campus and the student interest be gan picking up and students began to want to make changes." "The biggest move," she continued, "is that women stopped sitting around and griping, but instead organiz ed and presented ideas. As a result the AWS image great ly improved. All this resulted in changes in hours, visiting hours and ultimately the sen ior key system." Miss Hedgecock listed ma jor accomplishments of this year's AWS Board as "liber alization of hours, the senior key system, the expansion of Standards Week, a Coed Fol lies of fine quality and an ex cellent, excellent system of representation for future AWS Boards." "The most significant thing was a successful exchange of ideas between the Board and the women students," she stressed. "The proposals were presented to us for consider ation and all the changes were the consequence of the proposals." Any accomplisiiments that the Board makes next year, according to the candidates, will come as a result of ex '-nun E i . V w "?: 111 VL . . . TO BRIGHT SUNSHINE with March's perpetual winds still blowing. actor panding those which w e r 0 began this year. "First we hve to do a thor ough study of the key system to do it right so we can move on to expand it," noted Miss Hedgecock. "Also we need better com munication with the members of individual living units," she added. "This can be accom plished through the greater utilization of the AWS House of Representatives. It should be an important part of AWS where ideas can be originated and discussed. House of Representativ es "One part of this would be to ha an AWS represent ative in a prestige position, one who would have an integral part in a living unit meeting," she said. "Inter action between the Board and the women students could be accomplished through a more effective House of Represent atives." Miss Hedgecock added that she would like to see a re vision take place in the de merit system that would "take away the rigidity." Rather than having demerits, a system of major and minor infringements could be set up. "Minor infringements like not signing in, not signing out or having someone in the house during visiting hours could be dealt with within the living unit," she explained. "More serious things like many late minutes or an il legal overnight would con stitute a call to AWS court." "Another thing I'd like to see done is to adjust the cam puses more realistically," she noted. "This could be done bv revising the demerit sys tem." Election Procedures Miss Hedgecock added that she would like to see improve ments in the election pro cedures. "Ideally I'd like a petition primary because it would in crease communication," she said. "Only two of about 100 worn' who went through interviews wanted such a though, which did surprise me, so perhaps we should run a poll to see what the women really want." "Perhaps a combination of an AWS slate and a method of letting other people run if they wish can be worked out," she said. "If a woman wants to run, she should be able to." Improvements could also be made in the program area, Miss Hedgecock noted. Standards Week "Standards Week could be greatly expanded," she said. "The cultural program we had this year at the Sheldon Art Gallery could be enlarged and a Best Dressed Women contest could be incorporated. Maybe even the name could be changed." "Since next year is a cen tennial year, I'd like to see Coed Follies follow the cen tennial line," he continued. "Not only would it be a good show, but it would be some Also maybe men could be in corporated into the acts." She added that perhaps more emphasis could be placed on the Upperclass Activities Mart through more publicity. Miss Beckman proposes a series jf seminars and open hearings to increase com munication between the Board and the women stu dents. The seminars would consist of groups of women students simply exchanging ideas with individual AWS Board members. Open Hearings "An open hearing on the other hand," she added, "would be a place for women students to submit concrete proposals to the AWS Board We would just sit and listen Cont. from Page 1, Col. 7