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JN1VERSITY OF NEuft. Monday, April 25, 1966 The Daily Nebraskan Vol. 81, No. 98 Convocation To Feature Banis The University Honors Con vocation will have a worldly air Tuesday morning. . , This will be a result of the appearance of Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag of Denmark as the main speaker. Krag will be accompanied by the Danish Ambassador to the U.S., Torben Ronne. Three senior students will receive the C. W. Boucher Memorial Awards for scholas tic excellence and achieve ment at the convocation in the Coliseum. They are John H. Cosier Highest Average . J ' jt iiiiiiMninitt't fa Mnraihi tM mSjL iuumttmnmm Luther Krag Athletic Letterman Danish Prime Minister BOB HOPE . . . meets with University student Barbara AtKinson, nrsi irom uieteu, at uic amu u Air Society conclave in Dallas, Tex. Miss Atkinson, a finalist for the national Little General , was the second runner-up. The other women in the picture are finalists from other Universities. Houses To Host Masters At Dinners, Discussions Nine University alumni will begin a series of informal dis cussions with University stu dents during the Masters Week program Monday. Masters Week begins with a breakfast Monday morning with Chancellor Clifford Har din and the members of the Masters Week committee. Luncheon assignments Mon day include Mrs. Calista Coop er Hughes, Pi Beta Phi; Walt er Judd, Chi Omega; A. H. Moseman, Sigma Chi; Mar tin Kotsche, Alpha Omicron Pi; Milton Nohr, Delta Tau Delta; Forest Behm, Delta Gamma; Eugne Holland, Phi Gamma Delta; John Becker, Alpha Chi Omega, and Allen J. Sutherland, Theta Xi. The Masters will hold a press conference at 1:30 and Prime Cosier, Bruce P. Snyder, and Clayton E. Luther. Cosier Honored Cosier will be honored as the senior with the highest cumulative grade average. His average is 4.157, and his major Is physics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Sigma Pi Sigma, Pi Mu Epsilon and Innocents honoraries. A mem ber of Phi Kappa Psi frater nity, he is also active in Inter fraternity Council. Snvder will r e c. tt i v e the Snyder KOTC Candidate will have a coffee with the Student Senate at 4 p.m. The Masters will visit houses for dinner and inform al visits as follows: Mrs. Hughes, Kappa Sigma and Kappa Delta; Moseman, Beta Theta Pi and Alpha XI Delta; Mohr, Phi Kappa Psi, Theta Chi, and Delta Delta Delta; Behm, Alpha Tau Ome ga and Zeta Tau Alpha; Klots che, Phi Gamma Delta and Al pha Phi; Holland, Gamma Phi Beta, Beta Sigma Psi and Triangle; Becker, Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Delta Pi; Judd, Delta Gamma and Delta Sigma Phi, and Sutherland, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Kap pa and Delta Sigma Pi. At 8:30 the Masters will visit dormitories. Their sched ule includes WRA, Becker fir' ' l i r i v ' i .r i ; I , , I J I 1 I ' I j J l i award for the senior ROTC candidate for an officer's commission with the highest four-year average. Majoring in animal science, he has a grade average of 3.886. He is a member of Alpha Zeta, ag ricultural honorary, Block and Bridle and Farm House frater nity. The award for the senior athletic letterman in a major sport with the highest accu mulative grade average will be given to Luther. He let tered in baseball and has a grade average of 3.209. Two-Year Letterman A senior in Teachers Col lege, Luther is majoring in biology. He is a regular catch er on the varsity baseball team and is a two-year letter man. In addition to acting as dormitory counsellor for two years, Luther is a member of Phi Epsilon Kappa and Mu Epsilon Nu honoraries. Th3 University Foundation will present two distinguished teaching awards one in the field of science and technology and the other in social sci ences and humanities. Each award is accompanied by a $1,000 stipend and a medal lion. An award of $500 will be pre sented by Builder's for the second annual Student Pro fessorship selected by the stu dent. Also attending the convoca tion will be the nine Univer sity alumni participating in the Masters Program this week. Hardin To Preside Chancellor Clifford Hardin will preside at the convoca tion and the Rev. A. J. Nor den, pastor of the University Lutheran Chapel, will give the invocation. Val Peterson, former United States Ambas and Holland; Selleck, Behm, Mohr and Sutherland; Pound, Judd, Klotsche, Hughes and Moseman. At 9:30 this last group will go to Cather. On Tuesday, the Masters will attend the Honors Convo cation at 10:30. Earlier they will have breakfast with the Innocents and Mortar Board. Luncheon assignments are: Mrs. Hughes, Gamma Phi Beta; Judd Beta Theta Pi; A. H. Moseman, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Klotsche, Phi Delta Theta; Mohr, Delta Delta Del ta; Behm, Delta Upsilon; Hol land, Pi Beta Phi; Becker, Alpha Chi Omega and Suther land, Kappa Alpha Theta. Dinner assignments are Behm, Delta Upsilon, C h i Omega, Tau Kappa Epsilon ster sador to Denmark will intro duce the speaker. The University's Symphony Orchestra, directed by Prof. Emanuel Wishnow, will pro vide music. Gene Bedient of Hemmingford will play the Mueller Carillon during the processional. Krag's appointment as prime minister in 1962 re ceived universal approval in Denmark because of the inter national recognition Krag had received for his attempts to close the gap between the European Free Trade Asso ciation and the European Economic Community. Cabinet's Foreign Policy In regard to his cabinet's foreign policy, the major aim is to strengthen interna tional cooperation within the United Nations and to safe guard Denmark's security through membership in NATO. Krag began his political career in 1940 as directorate of supplies, head of the gov ernment agency in charge of wartime-and postwar-restrictions on goods. In the following years, he served as chairman of the economic council of the labor movement; member of par liament; minister of com merce, industry and shipping; economic counsellor to t h e Danish Embassy in Washing ton; minister of economy and labor; minister of external economic affairs; and minis ter of foreign affairs. Ambassador Ronne as sumed his post in the United States one year ago. Prior to this, he served with the Danish Delegation to the General As sembly of the United Nations in New York and as head of the NATO Department of the Danish Ministry. and Pi Kappa Alpha; Mrs. Hughes Alpha Omicron Pi, Sig ma Nu and Chi Phi; Mohr, Al pha Chi Omega, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Delta Zeta; Hol land, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Kap pa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Delta Tau; Klotsche and Moseman, Theta Xi, Kappa Alpha Theta and Phi Mu; Sutherland, Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Gamma Sigma and Farmhouse; Judd, Pi Beta Phi and Delta Tau Del ta; Becker, Cornhusker Coop, Pioneer House, Brown Palace and Towne Club. Dormitory visits at 9 p.m. include Judd, Holland, and Sutherland at Burr Hall A.1 Men, Love and Fodrle II;. J; Mrs. Hughes, Mohr, Klsdic, Becker, and Behm at Able. YD's Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was met at the Lincoln Airport by University Young Democrats. He stopped long enough to shake hands with the crowd, then joined the motorcade to Wahoo to dedicate the John F. Kennedy College, and to Omaha for the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. On his right is Gov. Frank Morrison. Student Affairs Approves Pass-Fail Grade System The ASUN-proposed pass fail system was unanimously approved by the Committee on Student Affairs Friday. According to the provisions of the system an undergradu ate could take a maximum of four classes not to exceed 12 hours on a pass or fail basis. The courses may not be in the student's major field or be minor or group requirements for graduation. In order to participate in the system, a student must have reached junior stand ing and can take only two courses in any one depart ment on the pass-fail basis. A g r a d e of "fail" in a course will count as an "F" under the current grading system and a pass will give a student the specified number ;i,iii,iiniiiiiiii mill iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiii nriiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinini 11111111 1111111111111111 iiiiiiiih I Spring Day Began As Carnival Running the gamut of pro motional gimmicks, and even tually evolving into what it is today, Spring Day will cel ebrate its tenth anniversary on campus May 6. According to an article in the Daily Nebraskan in 1956, Spring Day was originally "a combination of the Nebraska Union's seventeenth birthday party and additional events planned by Student Council as a prelude to Ivy Day." In that first year a bar becue was served on the mall in front of the Coliseum and Students To Vote April 26 After Wednesday the sleep less nights and hectic sched ules of those 105 candidates for ASUN office will be mem ories of the past. Wednesday marks the ASUN election where an es timated 4,000 students will vote for senatorial and exec utive candidates and on an amendment establishing t h e office of second vice presi dent. Carol Bischoff, electoral di rector, announced that poll ing places will be the Pan American room of the Ne braska Union from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; the first floor of Love Memorial Library from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and the East Campus Union from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Miss Bischoff noted that last year approximately 22 per cent of the s'.udents voted in the elections and that this year th" e!ettr;r;il rnmmissicn hns e.;lim;ited that about 25 per cent of the students will vote. 1 Meet Kennedy of hours earned in the course but will not be tabulated in determining the accumulative average. Determination of what shall be considered passing or fail ing will be the perrogative of the individual instructor. The student shall indicate what courses will be taken on the pass-fail basis at the time of registration, subject to the adviser's approval. A department may identify courses which may not be taken under the system and list such courses in the sched ule of classes. In discussion of the system, it was decided that courses taken on the pass-fail system could be used as prerequisites for other courses but special the Union parking lot was transformed into a carnival with penny arcades, ferris wheels and a boat ride. Hardin Winner Chancellor Clifford Hardin was proclaimed winner of the faculty Baby Bottle Contest for 1956 Spring Day. Some of his competitors were Adam Breckenridge, Lee Chatfield, James Pittenger and H e 1 e n Snyder. An editorial concerning the event said, "Spring Day, al though held in a gently falling rain under gray skies, was not a washout. The student body seems to approve of Spring Day combined with Ivy Day ... for this reason the new Council should make a point of keeping Spring Day alive next year." From then on, Spring Day became an annual event and gained momentum in pop ularity. Until 1960 the Union regularly combined its birth day party celebration with the strenuous physical con tests between students. Party Dropped Allen Bennett, director of the Nebraska Union, said the Union birthday party celebra tion was dropped in 1961 be cause "it was no longer pop ular and was expensive to put on." Spring Day headlines in the campus newspaper for 1958 read: Spring Day Raffle De clared Illegal ; 'Hot Car' To Be Awarded For Skill. Give-Away The article stated. "Plans to give away a 1951 Chevrolet at the street dance Friday ran into storms of protest as calls to the County Attorney's office called the give-away to the attention of men in the courthouse. Instead a contest to name the car is being held." Mclvyn Eikclberry, colum nist, wrote that year, "Yes, I like Spring Day; the strenu -Mlli , li I If I permission would be. needed to take a pass-fail course without having taken the pre requisites for it. Other discussion hinged upon a motion by Dr. Robert Johnston, associate professor of chemistry, recommending that if a student so desired and a professor approved, a pass-fail course could become a graded course before the final. The motion was defeated on the grounds that it would make the pass-fail courses a form of insurance rather than a method of allowing students to experiment with areas of interest. The Committee will refer its decision to the Faculty Senate for final action later this month. ous intellectual life I lead de mands some light-headed fun. I really do like Spring Day, but it will never be a com plete substitute for panty raids." By 1961 a more positive editorial read, "Originating after panty raids in the mid fifties, Spring Day is designed to wear out any and every enthusiastic student on cam pus. Provided there is clear weather, another rockem, sockcm Spring Day will do just this." Spring Night A first annua Spring Night in 1961 seems to have been quite unsuccessful, accord ing to newspaper reports. Some 35 or 40 people showed up for a performance hy na tional entertainers at Persh ing Auditorium. The big student parade out to Ag campus, and the Spring Dav barbecue have gone the wav of the Union birthday party, until today the event consists wholly of athletic events for students. Beta Pledges Aid Boy Scouts Acting as supervisors for a group of 500 Boy Scouts oc cupied the Beta Theta Pi pledge class Friday and Sat urday. The Beta pledges, for a service project, supervised the participants in the North Star Camporee in Grandpa Woods in Elmwood, Nebr., through a session of hikes, re lays and track events. "We had a lot of fun, but they sure wore us out," orm mented Phil Bowen, partici pant in the project. Bowen said that th Betas had incurred two casualties one pledge got hit in the shin with a brick and another fell into the water. S. & lite V i; h.
