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Friday, October 7, 1966
The Daily Nebraskan
Vol. 90, No. 15
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.WD MORE STUFFING . . . was the order of the day for Delta Upsilon pledge Pete
Scda and Alpha Phi pledges Becky Soterin and Caroline Chapin.
Homecoming Gala Back;
25 Units Erect Displays
Homecoming displays will
resume this year after a
year's absence. Twenty-five
displays will be erected in all.
Homecoming displays will
be judged on originality, at
tractiveness, construction and
the general relationship of
their theme" to the Kansas
State Wildcats, according to
Russ Sindt, Corn Cob display
chairman.
Judging will start at 5 p.m.
on Friday, Oct. 14. All ma
terials used in constructing
the displays must be outside
the units by 2 p.m. so the
evaluation team can deter
'Girl Of Century' Pageant
To Include 24 NU Coeds
Twenty-four University co
eds are among the 31 semi
finalists in the Lancaster
County "Girl of the Century"
Pageant to be held Friday at
Pershing Auditorium.
The girls were selected
from over 140 entrants and
were judged on the basis of
beauty, poise, personality and
public speaking ability.
The contestants are Mary
Lou Brolyer, Linda Bur
baugh. Cathie Cathers, Mar
tha Christiansen, J o A n n
Dean. Linda Defnall, Kathy
Dosek, Jamie Dittrich, Linda
Eichmeler, Virginia Flans
burg, Connie Gibbons, Joan
Haase, Kathy Johnson, Virgie
Lueders, Cheri McCullough,
Martha McCuistion, Maralie
Munger, Pam Oswald, Jan
Parrott, Pat Stines, Carol
Wedberg. Karen Wcsterberg,
Chcrie Wilson and Caroline
Witt.
The contestants will be
Judged on a percentage basis
with 40 per cent given to nat
ural beauty, 30 per cent for
poise and personality, 20 per
cent for public speaking abil
ity and 10 per cent for tal
ent. Miss Centennial
It was explained by an of
ficial that the talent segment
of the pageant will be used
as a possible tie-breaker.
Starting at 9 a.m. Friday,
contestant! will undergo an
all-day judging procedure to
elect the 12 finalists, who
will then be judged to declare
the winner.
The winner will be crowned
as the Lancaster County
Girl of the Century and will
Chance To Lobby ...
Success Of Voting Age May
By Toni Victor
Senior Staff Writer
University students may
get a chance to lobby for
lowering the state voting age
to 18, depending upon the suc
cess of a Nebraska Commit
tee for Children and Youth
(NCCY) study committee,
stated John Schrekinger, head
of the committee.
Schrekinger, a junior in psy
chology at the University,
beads the Study Committee
of Minimum Voting Age, an
off-shoot of the NCCY. For
the past several months. Sch
rckinger's group has been re
searching the feasibility of
lowering the voting age in Ne
braska to 18.
mine if the displays have ex
ceeded the alloted cost.
There are four divisions.
Entrants in Division I, com
posed of houses of 60 and un
der are allowed to spend
$100 per display.
Division II, units of 60-120,
has a limit of $175. Division
III, units of 120-200 may spend
$250. Division IV, units of ov
er 200, are allotted $350.
Sindt emphasized that
when two houses or living
units go together to construct
a display, total costs may not
exceed the limits listed
above.
go on to represent Lancaster
County in the Miss Nebraska
Centennial Pageant to be held
in Lincoln Dec. 6. Seventy
counties will be represented in
that pageant.
The winner will receive as
prizes several gift certifi
cates, a savings bond, a dia
mond cocktail ring and sev
eral other gifts. Siie will be
crowned with a $35,000 tiara
which has been loaned to the
pageant by the Retail Jewel
ers of America.
The winner of the Miss Ne
braska Centennial Pageant
will receive a $500 savings
bond, a full wardrobe and
several other gifts. The pa
geant board also hopes to be
able to present Che winner
with a new car.
Judges
The judges for the finals
will be different from those
that selected the finalists.
The judges Friday will be
Mrs. Barbara Rogers of Ne
braska Wesleyan University,
Lyall McCaig of North Platte,
Mrs. Brcnitts Bruenning of
Lincoln, the Rev. Dale Holt
of Lincoln, R. Fletcher of
Beatrice and Ray Crutchers
of Omaha.
The winner will be crowned
by the comedy team of Row
an and Martin, who will also
act as the masters of cere
monies for the pageant.
The pageant is sponsored
by the Gateway Sertoma
Club. Tickets are priced at
$1.50, $2, and $3 and are avail
able from Campus-Student
Centennial committee mem
bers. "We are one of eighteen
study committees set up to
study legislation affecting the
youth of the state," Schre
kinger explained.
Four States
There are four states that
currently have voting age
lower than 21. Roth Georgia
and Kentucky allow 18-year
olds to vote in elections. Alas
ka and Hawaii have ages of
20 and 19, respectively.
The study committee met
in July for a preliminary
meeting and wrote letters to
the four states with a lower-than-21
voting age, asking
what made the states decide
to change the voting age in
the first place, and question
Entrants in Division I in
clude: Acacia, "Quarantine
the Cat Team"; Chi Phi,
"From Kat to Kittens"; Sig
ma Delta Tau Zeta Beta
Tau, "Crush the Wildcats", at
the Sigma Delta Tau house;
Delta Sigma Phi, "Martian on
to Victory".
Division II entrants in
clude: Sigma Kappa. and Tri
angle, "Relegate the Grimal
kins" at the Sigma Kappa
House; Beta Sigma Psi's,
"Outswing the Wild Cats";'
Delta Zeta-Alpha Gamma
Sigma, "Tunnel of Love, Ter
ror, Victory", Alpha Gamma
Sigma house; Phi Kappa
Psi's, "Junk-Em."
Division III entrants are:
Chi Omega-Theta Xi, "Flush
the Wildcats", at Theta Xi;
Sigma Nu-Kappa Kappa
Gamma, -"Whip - the Wild
cats", at Sigma Nu; Delta
Delta Delta-Delta Tau Delta,
"Husker Hotline to Victory",
at Delta Tau Delta. Zeta Tau
Type Victory", at Zeta Tau
Alpha.
Alpha Delta Pi-Phi Gamma
Delta, "Octopi the End
Zones", at Phi Gamma Del
ta; Towne Club-Tau Kappa
Epsilon-Unicorns, "Pound the
Wildcats, at the Northwest
corner of Nebraska Union
Terrace.
Love Memorial-Burr West,
"Boy Did I Get a Wrong
Number" at Love Memorial;
Alpha Xi Delta-Sigma Alpha
Mu, "Knock the Pants Off
the Wildcats," at Sigma Al
pha Mu.
Division IV entrants are:
Alpha Chi Omega-Phi Delia
Theta, "The 'Cat Ballou' It",
at Alpha Chi Omega; Alpha
Omicron Pi-Alpha Tau Ome
ga. "Wildcat Astrophy", at
Alpha Tau Omega; Gamma
Phi Beta-Kappa Sigma, Wild
cat Shooting Gallery", at Kap
pa Sigma; Delta Gamma-Beta
Theta PI, "Cat on a Hot Red
Turf", at Delta Gamma; Kap
pa Alpha Theta Sigma Chi,
"Big Red Machine," at Sigma
Chi.
Delta Upsilon-Alpha Phi,
"Help Keep Your Stadium
Clean," at Delta Upsilon;
Abel-Sandoz, "Kansas State
Gets the Point-It's Another
Nebraska Victory", Sigma
Phi Epsilon Pi Beta Phi,
"Walk on the Wildcats", at
Sigma Phi Epsilon. Pound-Cathcr-Women's
Residence
Halls, "Feather Fighters
Fracture Feline", on 16th
Street.
ing the results of the legis
lation. Two major reports that the
committee received are being
taken into consideration for a
compiled report that Schre
klnger's group will make.
Kentucky University supplied
one study of lower voting
ages, and Joseph S. Dolan of
the University of Connecticut
was the source of the second
research report.
The Kentucky report
showed that the 18-year old
voters took as large an in
terest in local issues as well
as national issues, which has
been a criticism raised in op
position to lowering the voting
age in the past, said Schre
No Major Speakers Scheduled
For University Convocations
No major speakers have
been scheduled for all-University
convocations this
year, according to Foster
Owens, head of the Faculty
Senate Convocations commit
tee. Owens said the Faculty
Senate committee is now try
ing to obtain a speaker, but
probably not for this semes
ter. He noted that about ten
invitations had been sent out
last year, but that no one
had accepted an invitation.
All University convocations
usually feature a speaker of
some national prominence.
Owens said that availability
and cost are limiting fac
tors in securing such a per
son. The Nebraska Union Talks
and Topics committee has
scheduled four speakers to
talk at the University this
year.
'Green Power9 Is
Budget Solution
Green power, a parallel to the concept of Black Power,
is the solution to the University's budget problem, accord
ing to one Hyde Park speaker Thursday.
"We've been hearing a lot about Black Power this
afternoon and the Negro's need to find an identity. I say
we need to back a Green Power thrust right now to help
this institution find its identity as a University," Rick
Mann told the crowd gathered in the Nebraska Union
lounge.
Green Power is money, said Mann. He continued, say
ing that it seemed the University did not have enough
money to find its identity and that the students should get
behind his proposed three-part program to back a Green
Power thrust aimed at the Legislature.
"We need to convince the Unicameral that we can have
a good football team and good professors, but only if they
allocate the needed funds," declared Mann.
His program for a Green Power thrust consists of
first circulating a pctititon among the student body that
would indicate the students' concern for insuring a high
standard of education at the University.
Secondly, Mann offered to mimeograph 17,000 form
letters to be taken to the Legislature and "dumped on
desks." If this brought no results. Mann advocates the
signing of 17.000 more form letters to be sent through the
mail to "gum up the works" in the Capitol building.
The war in Viet Nam and Black Power were also
argued extensively at the afternoon soap-box session.
Hecklers plagued several of the speakers as student views
were expressed.
Black Power is symptomatic of the current wave of
frustration felt by the N e g r o c s of the lower class, said
Larry Grossman. This frustration has led to riots across
the country such as those that occurred as nearby as Oma
ha, Grossman stated.
Black Power is for the people from poverty back
grounds who feel cut off from the mainstream of life, and
is directly connected with the need to get out of a poverty
situation, according to Grossman.
Giving a functional analysis of Black Power, Sam
Stern stood up to protest the constant search for a defin
tion of the concept of Black Power.
"We have no right to demand a definition of the con
cept. We would just be putting the Negro on the spot as we
have always done," stated Stern.
"The way people react to the slogan of Black Power
will have a definite effect on the final outcome of any defi
nition of the term," Stern explained.
He claimed that a locus on Black Power in itself is the
wrong kind of focus. What the concept does is more im
portant than what it may or may not actually be according
to Stern.
Speaking on Viet Nam, Al Spangler said that "it has
not been made clear as to what would constitute a mili
tary victory in Vietnam," he said.
Spangler made reference to an article printed in
Ramparts magazine and written by Donald Duncan, a
former member of the Green Berets. Spangler suggested
that U.S. military aid might amount to merly alienating
the civilian population of Vietnam.
Spangler, in referring to accidental damage incurred
by the South Vietnamese from U.S. bombers, drew an
analogy of a big dog sent down a small alley to fight a
torn cat.
kinger.
The Dolan report was a
three-year study of voting
ages. It concluded basically,
according to Schrekinger, that
an 18-year old who had been
educated in the public school
system had the intelligence
and maturity to vote in an
election.
The report also reiterated
the argument that an 18-ycar
old soldier had the right to
share In his country's deci
sion to fight by casting a
ballot. Thirdly, the Dolan re
port noted that the 18-year old
age group's vote would help
balance the Increasing number
of older voles in today's population.
Talks and Topics usually
works with the Convocations
committee in planning all
University events, but Talks
and Topics seeks its own
speakers for the Fine Arts
Convocation series of the Ne
braska Union.
The speakers scheduled this
year by Talks and Topics in
clude Vincent Price, Pauline
Frederick, Jules Feiffer and
Art Buchwald. The Philip
Sorensen and Norbert Tie
mann guberatorial debates
are also included in the Union
scries.
Richard Scott, Nebraska
Union program manager, said
that fees of major speakers
such as Administration cabi
net members are so high that
the number who could appear
are limited.
The committee worked to
gether last year with the
Faculty Senate convocations
Depend On NCCY
Schrekinger's commit
tee has been compiling its
finding on lower voting ages
into a report that will be pre
sented within the next two to
three weeks. After the final
presentation of the report,
Schrekinger said that the
study committee would de
cide whether or not it would
organize Into a lobbying group
to support legislation for low
ering the voting age.
The group would then pre
sent proposed legislation to
the NCCY for backing.
"I'm confident that they will
earnestly consider our propo
sal and decide to back us in
our e f f o r t," Schrckingi
stated.
committee to arrange an all
University convocation with
Arthur Schlesinger.
In January of each year,
the committee begins pick
ing speakers for the follow
ing year. Scott said that they
choose from speakers' bu
reaus and select a prelimi
nary list of 15, at rimes send
ing special invitations to peo
ple not listed with the bu
reaus. Controversy, Contributions
Scott said that Talks and
Topics does not select speak
ers on a basis of controversy
alone, but considers the
speaker's contributions to his
field as well. He noted that
many controversial speakers
are not listed in the speakers
bureaus from which the com
mittee makes most of its se
lections. The availability of speak
ers is compared with possi
ble dates and fees involved,
Scott said. He added that
fees range from $500 to
S3,000. He estimated that this
year's program averages a
$1,000-$1,500 fee for each
speaker.
Scott said that the Univer
sity's speaker program has
only been organized in the
past two years. He reasoned
that it is more difficult to
get prominent people to
come here to the center of
the nation than it is for the
colleges on the coasts where
many of the prominent
speakers live.
The first in this year's
Talks and Topics series will
be the discussion between Ne
braska gubernatorial candi
dates Philip Sorensen and
Norbert Tiemann next Thurs
day at 3:30 p.m. in the Ne
ASUN Seeks
For Faculty
There are 11 student scats
which are presently vacant
on Faculty Senate Commit
tees, according to Terry Scha
af, president of ASUN.
"The fact that these are
vacant is a sensitive spot
with the administration,"
Schaaf declared. "We as stu
dents desire better relations
with the faculty and the open
ing of better ll'.es of com
munications, but student
members in the past have
shown no interest in the ac
tivities of the committees of
which they are members."
He stated, therefore, that
the present vacancies must be
filled with people who will
show some interest and take
part in the committees.
"There is a desire on the
students to participate in
these committees. Besides
this f?ctor, several of the
seats provide not only a voice
in the actions of the commit
tee, but also a regular vote
in the committee's decisions,"
Schaaf stressed.
He stated that the Student
Senate plans to discuss with
the administration the pos
sibility or getting student
seats on the Libraries Com
mittee and the Convocations
Committee.
In an interview, Roger
According to Schrekinger
the next step in the program
would be to find a sponsor
in the Legislature for a bill
to lower the voting age. The
group would then register is
a lobbying group.
If the hill passed the Legis
lature (it has failed five times
in the past) it would have to
?e placed in general election
as a constitutional amend
ment, with the citizens of the
state voting for or against tho
amendment.
Schrekinger stated that if
the bill were not passed this
year, his group could conceiv
ably still continue its lobbying
effort.
"Connecticut has had a bill
braska Union Ballroom.
On Oct. 20 political satirist
Ait Buchwald will visit the
University. Buchwald is a
nationally-syndicated colum
nist and author of several
best sellers.
ASUN To
Investigate
'Reasons'
The ASUN Student Welfare
committee will immediately
begin an investigation of the
reasons why "the University
cannot get nationally known
speakers experts in their
respective fields to come to
the University," according to
Sen. Ron Pfeifer, chairman
of the committee.
Pfeifer noted that the first
steps his committee would
have to take concerning the
problem include finding out
the source of funds to support
a 1 1 - University convocations,
when and how arrangements
are made, why the arrange
ments were not made for this
year and what is being done
with the money now.
"We aren't trying to crowd
the Union Talks and Topics
committee," he stressed. "We
only want to know why we are
not having any all-University
convocations this year and
what can be done about it."
He added that he would like
to see speakers come to the
University who are "really
experts in their field the
same caliber as Arthur Schle
singer," who spoke at an all
University convocation last
spring.
11 Students
Committees
D o e r r, vice-president of
ASUN, seconded Schaaf in
the importance of filling the
seats.
"Participation on the part
of students on these commit
tees fits in with the role of
the image of student involve
ment in the educational pro
cess." Doerr said.
"It is the first step towards
student participation in the
decision making process of
his education."
According to Doerr, persons
who would like to be a mem
ber of one of the Faculty
Senate Committees may pick
up an application in the ASUN
office. The seats will be filled
strictly on the basis of the
application.
The committee vacancies
are as follows: two seats on
Calendar Examination Com
mittee, one senior to fill the
student seat on the Com
mencement Committee, two
seats on the Honors Convoca
tion Committe and two seats
on the Scholarship and Finan
cial Aids Committee.
The vacancies which carry
with them a voting power on
all decisions of the commit
tee are: two seats on the
sub-committee on Student Af
fairs and Social Activities,
two seats on the sub-committee
on Student Organizations.
to lower the voting age In
troduced for the last twenty
years to its legislature," said
Schrekinger.
The state of Michigan will
vote on this same issue in
November of this year.
"We are looking with In
terest to see what Michigan
docs in the election concern
ing its bill," Schrekinger ex
plained. The committee head noted
that many people had ex
pressed interest in a study of
the voting age and that in
order to pass the Legislature
such a bill would need the
support of many people to
educate t he citizens of the
stale.
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