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UNIVERSITY OP Ne.,Ki LIBRARY J f fi ?jtS? BUILDING SETS ... for two productions presents some problems for the University Theatre workers; especially when they combine the sets. Set Building Is Problem For University Theatre Building sets for two pro ductions and combining them is a fantastic problem, ac cording to John Holms, Uni versity Theatre technical di rector. Rehearsals have begun and sets are near completion for "As You Like It", which opens Oct. 21 and "Look Back in Anger", which opens Oct. 28. Work on the sets started four weeks ago and rehear sals began on location when the first chalk outlines were drawn on the stage floor. The five-member cast of "Look Back in Anger" now rehearses on a mock set in the arena theatre. The box set, which is the interior of an English apartment house, is finished. "As You Like It" is a typi cal Shakespearian production with complex music and lighting details, Holms said. The forest scene for Shake speare's play is being built on the revolving stage. A 20 foot paper mache tree, eight real trees covered with flock ing material, hills and a roll ing countryside complete the setting. A false proscenium con verts the set to a palace scene. The proscenium frames the forest in the back of the set and palace and interior scenes are played on the fore stage. The revolving stage is more versatile for playing Shake speare, Holms said. Different views, locations and playing areas enhance the scenes, he said. SDS To ( 'Power' Teach-in Further discussion of the Black Power Teach-in sched uled for Oct. 30 at the Uni versity, will take place at the Students for a Democratic Society SDS meeting Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. Bicimium Budget . Administrators Admit 'Moment Of By Julie Morris Senior Staff Writer EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first story in a six part series on the Univer sity's 19C7-4S9 (98 million dollar budget request to tbe Nebraska Legislature. The improvement or de cline of the University's ed ucational quality is depend ent upon the $38 million question being posed to the Nebraska Legislature. Dr. David Trask, a former University bislory teacher, said when be resigned last spring that tbe school was experiencing a "decline In quality" and characterized Nebraska as a mediocre in stitution. University administrators are indicating cow that Trask was at least partly right. Fur thermore, they have present ed a solution that begins with a whopping $07 million in state tax funds to put tbe school back on its feet. The University has reached "a moment of truth and cri sis," Regent B. N. Greenberg said when he announced that the Regents seek legislative authorization for a total (op erating budget (A '&. mil lion for lie 17-C3 biennium. Tbe school, Greenberg said, cannot continue with another b I e n n I u m of "emergency, make -do operations. If t b e University it to stay in tbe mainstream of higher educa tes it must bave tbe sub 4 7 The large, complex set will cause a special problem in setting up, taking down and storing. During the repertory season, the sets must be stored while the alternate play is being performed. Charles Howard, a theatre faculty member, designed the sets. The technical theatre class and volunteers work building the sets. Lonnquist: Evaluation Book To Be Ready In November Barring any unforeseen obstacles, the Faculty-Course Evaluation Booklet will be published and available in early November, according to Ladd Lonnquist, chairman of the ASUN committee created to print such a booklet. The legal foundation stating the reasons behind the publishing of the booklet is: "The intent and purpose of the ASUN's Faculty Course Evaluation Booklet is, first, to pro vide information concerning courses and in structors at the University in order to as sist the students in their selection of instruc tors and courses by making known more clearly the educational opportunities which presently exist. "Second, it is hoped that the critiques given in our booklet will provoke construc tive change in some of the instruction meth ods which now exist in our educational insti tution." In other words, according to Lonnquist, the purpose of the booklet is to "paint a three-dimensional picture of what it is like to be id a certain professor's class. This in cludes what the atmosphere is within the classroom, what the tests are like, etc." "In addition, we hope that this booklet will bring out the things that students crit icize so that the instructors can improve their teaching," Lonnquist declared. The success of the evaluations depend on the students, Lonnquist stated. He ex plained that the more information the stu dents present, the more material the com mittee can use in the booklet. "The evaluations are the result of a sur vey encompassing the instructor's entire stantial increases In financial support for which we have asked." "The University isn't doing all of the things it ought to te doing." declared Joseph Soshnik. Vice Chancellor and corporation secretary for the Board of Regents. Regent Richard A d k i n s said the University needs to "get in the league or get out." A total of $'J8,6C2,406 is what the Regents said tbe University must have to sus tain and strengthen its oper ations in the next two years. Of Ibis, tbe administrators hope $G7,eif,M will come from tbe state general fund of tax revenues, funds that are allocated directly by tbe Legislature. Tbe remaining dollars will come from student tuition, University fund sources and federal aid. A capital construction budg et, expected to be in excess of $30 million, will be sent to the Legislature later this month by University admini strators. The entire Univer sity budget must be approved by the stale lawmakers. The presentation of a budg et request that calls for a 91.48 per cent increase in tax funds and that proposes a $10.8 million increase in tbe total budget, prompted some observers to say the Univer sity has changed its philoso phy regarding its budgets. Election University students will vote Wednesday and Thurs day for the 1966 Homecoming Queen and her two attendants. Elections will be conducted both days in the Nebraska Union from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and in Love Library from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Students may vote in the East Union from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday only. Identification cards must be presented at the polls to be eligible to vote, Mimi Rose ASUN electoral committee member, said. Students may vote for only one of the candidates listed on the ballot. Wednesday, October Happy TSeiv D ates Changed Faculty Senate Thursday voted to change the dates of Christmas vacation to avoid having students and faculty returning to the campus on New Year's Day. Vacation was originally scheduled to begin on Satur day, Dec. 17, and end on Sun day, Jan. 1. With the change, Dick Herman. Statebouse reporter for the Lincoln Jour nal, said that this biennium, "at least the University has gone as far as to say 'it will take this to give up this.' " Herman indicated that in the past the University pos sibly had not really asked for everything it needed. "It was often thought that previous University budget requests were tailored in ad vance to figures more politic ally palatable. Tbe current budget reflects what profes sors and administrators be lieve is needed to make NU a quality institution," Herman said. Sen. Fern Hubbard Or me of Lincoln, a member of the Legislature's budget commits tee for the past three bien riiums, said, -"Some of the things included in the budget now, we probably should have taken care of years ago." 'There are so many areas in which we need things," Mrs. Orme stated, indicating the necessity for a consider able "catch-up" program for the University. Chancellor Clifford Hardin discounted suggestions that the University is being "more honest" or is "changing its strategy" in presenting a greatly enlarged budget this biennium. The budget increases, Har din said, reflect the Univer sity's "change in situation." Hardin bas repeatedly For Queen Begins Wednesday The ten finalists for Home coming Queen are Twila An dreasen, Marleen Beilke, Ann Boyles, Susan Diffenderfer, Jeannie Howard, Elaine Kallos, Jennifer Marshall, Pamela Oswald, Steph Tinan and Pam Wragge. The Homecoming Queen and her court will be an nounced Friday night at the Homecoming Dance in t h e University Coliseum at 10 p.m. The ten finalists will be escorted by members of the Innocents Society, according to Donni Maclay, Tassels Homecoming chairman. Tickets for the Homecom 12, 1966 Year! the vacation will run from Wednesday Dec. 21 to Tues day, Jan. 3.1 James G. Porter, chairman of the Faculty Senate commit tee on calendar and examina tions, presented a motion on behalf of Student Senate ask ing that vacation be extended one extra' day which would class." Lonnquist said. "I believe that there can be no fairer method of evaluation than this." Lonnquist praised the English Department and the agronomy instructors whom, he felt, supported the booklet very strongly. "But we were particularly disappointed with several college deans who took a pro tective attitude toward their departmental in structors and refused them the opportunity to submit to an evaluation," he emphasized. He said that he could cite at least two cases in which instructors gave the commit tee permission to enter their classrooms, only then to find out that their deans had "dictated" that their departments were not going to participate. "I would also criticize those instructors who ignored or refused to cooperate with our committee. I recognize their right to privacy, but in a public institution with publicly paid employees, the taxpayer (and consumer) is entitled to know the record and facts con cerning any instructor's ability and success as a teacher," Lonnquist declared. Alterations have already begun on the next questionnaires, according to Lonnquist. "They are steps necessary to improve the evaluation," he said. "Needed information will be asked for and questions which have proved to be of little value will be deleted." Lonnquist feels that the booklet will be a success and will continue to be in the years to come. "Harvard has had one for 44 years. We have the people who want to work on a book let, but it depends now on the reactions of the faculty and students." stressed tbe huge enrollment Increases, doubled In tbe past seven years, and tbe stiffened competition for faculty as the deciding factors In tbe Uni versity's present dilemma. The University is experienc ing a period of enrollment in creases "like we've never had before," Hardin said. He added, "It's bard for peo ple to understand" why the University would suddenly need huge dollar increases to handle huge enrollment in creases when enrollment was fairly stable for years. Enrollment is expected to bit 20,600 in tbe fail of 1S, Hardin said, two and a half tunes tbe enrollment In 1959. Budgets Trimmed In the part, the largest single ujer of the state gen eral fund, has never been granted all the funds it asked for. University administrate ors and teachers are reluc tant to speculate what the legislature will do with this request. Soshnlk noted that tbe Uni versity requested $12.1 million In tax funds for this biennium and received $314 million, a cut of $7.7 million. Budget trimming "bas been a fact of We," said Floyd Hoover, former Registrar and professor of education. How the legislature will receive the University request is based on a number of im ponderables, according to one University source. Tbe stat ing Dance may still be pur chased for $1.50 from Corn Cob workers or at a booth in the Nebraska Union Oct. 12 14, Miss Maclay added. Living units are racing against the Friday 5 p.m. deadline to complete their Homecoming displays. The winners of each division will also be presented at the Homecoming Dance, Miss Maclay said. All University women who are working on Home coming displays will have midnight closing hours Thurs day night, according to Pam Hedgecock, AWS President. Miss Hedgecock added that The Daily Nebraskan For Christmas Vacation have moved the beginning of classes to Tuesday, Jan. 3. Although Porter's commit tee refused to take action on the matter, Porter moved that the Senate accept the ASUN proposal in order to "put the request on the floor so debate can be held." A subsequent motion to table the ASUN' request was defeated. An amendment to the original motion was then presented stating that classes be held Monday, Dec. 19, to compensate for the extension. Finally an amendment to the amendment was proposed JllllllllllllllllMWMIWMIHIIIIimillllHIIHIM 1 i Best-Dressed Coed' Finalists Named I Twenty University coe-ls have been selected as final ists in the AWS Ten-Best-Dressed Coeds contest. Ten winners will be announced during a Holiday style show Oct. 24 in connection with the "Focus on Coeds" week. The finalists were chosen on the basis of nominations Ag-Exec To Face Constitution Vole Agriculture and Home Eco nomics students will vote on a new constitution of the Ag Executive Board Thursday, said Dave Snyder, Ag Exec president. The new constitution was drawn up last spring and was then approved by the Faculty Senate and ASUN. The constitution must be ap proved by at least 16 per cent of the total students enrolled in the Agriculture College to be valid. The election will be held w ith the Homecoming queen election Thursday on East Campus. tax situation is one large factor. New Tax Base? The state income tax, passed by the last Legisla ture, and the state property tax are both on the Novem ber ballot and both may be eliminated by the voters. If they are, the lawmakers will be forced to write an en tirely new tax base for the state. Tbe writing of a new tax base would necessarily come first In tbe order of Legisla tive business. Whether tbe situation would belp or hind er tbe University's budget hopes Is an open question, Soshnik said. Sen. Clifton Batchelder of Omaha said he feels the "ex orbitant budget they (Univer sity) asked for was occa sioned by the opportunity to get more money through a broadened tax base." Political Feasibility Political implications also enter into the University's budget request, according to Hoover. "The administration is always up against tbe problem of presenting some thing that is politically feas ible," be said, A third "imponderable" is the size of budget requests made by other state agen cies. Tbe state colleges, Kear ney, Cbadron, Peru and Wayne, have asked for a combined budget of $37 mil lion, double the amount for in an error in publication, it was formerly announced that freshmen women's closing hours would remain the same. Visiting hours for women's living units have also been extended from 11 a.m. to closing hours Oct. 12-13 un less the living units have made other stipulations, Miss Hedgecock said. The Homecoming displays of 25 living units will be op erational by 5:30 p.m. Friday, according to Russ Sindt, Corn Cobs displays chairman. Streets adjacent to the Uni versity campus will be closed Friday evening to give the public an opportunity to view which altered the vacation to its present dates. In other action, the Secre tary of the Faculty Senate, Richard Gilbert, was re elected to that post for a sec ond term. Chancellor Clifford Hardin presented an explanation of the proposed University budg et and some of the philosophy behind it. He explained that the budg et was "a blueprint for opera tions for the next biennium. Any improvements which are needed by the University must be reflected in the budget." submitted from campus liv ing units, Carol Johnson con test chairman, said. Each unit was asked to sub mit a maximum of ten nomi nations of girls they consid ered to be best dressed on campus. AWS Board mem bers were exempt from nominations. The twenty finalists are JoAnn Christensen, Jan Del bridge, Susan Devier, Kathy Deitemeyer, Susan D o w e, G i n n y Ferrara, Stephanie Floyd, Diana Focht, Kathie Glade, Natalie Hahn, Jeannie Howard, Nancy Hoffman and Ruth Ann Larson. Sally Leonard, Brenda Lyle, Jane Schmadeke, N'yla Sou kup, Susie Miller, JoAnn Ren ierkop and Pam Wragge. The twenty girls receiving the most votes were named as finalists, Miss Johnson added. Miss Johnson stressed that this is not a personality or popularity contest but a se lection of ten women who are best-dressed at all times. The Ten-Best-Dressed co Truth, the present biennium. The proposed operating budget for state government itself is now at a proposed hike level of $16.4 million. Observers interviewed indi cated that it is now the Uni versity's responsibility to demonstrate to the Legislat ure and to the state the ac the homecoming displays. The following streets will be closed from 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday: "S" Street from 14th to 16th Streets, "U" street from 14th to 16th Street, "R" Street from 13th to 17th Streets and 16th Street from "Q" to Vine Streets. Cars parked on these streets must be moved by 1 p.m. Friday or they will be towed away at the owner's expense. The following University parking lots will be available for those planning to view the displays: north of Love Library, north of the Nebras ka Union and the Nebraska Hall parking lot. Vol. 90, No. 17 Hardin attributed the in crease over the past budgets to the dual forces of increased student enrollment and height ened national competition for faculty members. He stated that the 2,000 stu dents per year increase in the enrollment, which has oc curred the past few years, is the single largest factor in the need for more money. "However, the competition for faculty has increased greatly throughout the nation, with the average of one insti tution of higher learning being created every week," Hardin explained. eds will be selected by t h e following criteria, established campus appearance, personal grooming, appropriateness of dress, individual suitability of dress and poise. Netherlands Prof Speaks At Behlen A professor from the Netherlands' Institute of theoretical Physics will lec ture Wednesday at the Uni versity Department of Phy sics in Behlen Labratory. Dr. Riek van Wageningen will lecture on "calculations for the ground state of a simple triton model." The physics department has also scheduled a talk by Dr. T. L. Loucks of the Iowa State University Ato mic Research Institute Thursday at 4:15 p.m. in the Behlen Laboratory. Dr. Loucks' talk is en titled "augmented plane wave method and electro nic structure of transition elements." Crisis9 tual needs for the budget re quest ed. As has been the pattern in tbe past, University admini strators will be able to ex plain the budget needs to Gov. Frank Morrison when the Gov ernor holds bis budget bearings in November and Cent, on Pg. 3, CoL f