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
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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' '
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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