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1RCHIV&J LidrtAKY NpV L7 ISol."-"' I: .'.'I IS IT Superman or Batman or birds alighting on the window sills of Abel Hall? No, it is just the boys taking advantage of the nice "fall" weather to wash their windows. Windexmen are sophomores Ron Olds and Don Riebe. Evans: Baha'i Faith Stresses 'Oneness' By Diane Theisen Higher education's failure to teach students spiritual as pects of life adds to the in creasing number of confused young people, according to Winston Evans. Evans spoke Friday at a meeting of the Baha'i Faith, sponsored by the local Baha'i group. He has been active in the National and International Baha'i Faith movement. The Baha'i Faith is newly organ ized on this campus. Evans emphasized the role of the Baha'i Faith is helping the young people of today face the basic issues of life. He stated that the Baha'is, through the law of Baha'u'llah, can help young people find assurance in the world tur moil and help them get back on the path to God. The Baha'i Faith, an inde pendent world religion found ed by an Iranian Baha'u'llah in the 1860's, first came to the United States in 1894. The Na tional Baha'i Headquarters estimates that there are about 355 local groups of the Baha'i Faith throughout the country. Evans explained that the three basic principles of the Baha'i Faith are essentially the oneness of God, the one ne,ss of religion, and the one ness of mankind. He stated that the Baha'is "cry to be understood" in the world today. The Baha'is believe in one God who they feel "in essence is unknowable." They believe that God has revealed "His Word" to man throughout time, Evans explained, through various prophets or special messengers such as Moses, Buddha, Christ, Mohammad and Baha'u'llah. They regard religion as an evolutionary process and feel that each age has its prophet or mes senger from God. Baha'u'llah, which In Arabic means "Glory of God", is the prophet of this age. The Baha'is condemn any form of prejudice and regard service to their fellow man as a kind of worship. To achieve the goal of one ness of the human race the Baha'is believe in the adop tion of a universal auxiliary language, the establishment of an overall world peace and the abolition of extremes of wealth and poverty. The Baha'i Faith requires the highest moral and ethical behavior from its members. Although divorce is discour aged, states the National Foundation, it is permitted after a waiting period of one year. The use of alcohol and drugs except for medicinal purposes is prohibited. The Baha'is emphasize strongly the. obligation of adults to edu cate children. The reality of man, Baha'is believe, is in the soul cf man, which is eternal. They regard heaven and hell, not as places but as conditions of the soul. The Baha'is feel that their faith is the key to the under standing of our complex mod ern society. They regard it as the next step in the evolu tionary chain of religion. . There is no clergy in the Baha'i Faith. Administration 1 V-Vt--V'" is done through democratical ly elected assemblies, ex plained the National Head quarters. These elected bodies are on the local, national and international levels. The Houses of Worship of the Baha'i Faith are nine sided temples surmounted by a dome. At the present time, there are four of these Houses lo cated in Germany, Australia, Africa and Wilmette, 111. These Temples are places of prayer and meditation and are open to people of all faiths. SHOW DIRECTOR . . . Lucy Comstock confers with show chairman Tom Holyoke during Kosmet Klub rehearsals. Lucy Comstock Begins First Year As Director While this Is Mrs. Lucy Comstock's first year of di recting the Kosmet Klub Fall Show, she has had a wide background in such shows and dramatics at the University. Mrs. Comstock coordinates the skits, and helps the skit masters In blocking and cho reography as well as just di recting the show. She is a sen ior with an English major and speech and dramatics minor. She said that she applied last year with Steve Brad ford, planning to work as a team on the show. Mrs. Com stock said that Bradford was drafted, leaving her the re sponsibility in her first job of directing. Mrs. Comstock has worked in Coed Follies with Delta Gamma, and was in Kosmet Klub Spring Shows both her freshmen year and in last year's "How To Scucceed in Business Without Really Try ing." Mrs. Comstock said that the technical planning for the show is complete, blocking and choreography is done, and the costumes are nearly completed. Rehearsals move into Per shing Auditorium Monday, with full dress rehearsals on Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Comstock began work ing on the show a month ago, meeting with skit masters be fore the tryouts. She said that she had been especially working on choreo graphy for the show, since she has taken dancing for 12 years and has been a member of Orchesis, the University mod Ludwig: Opposition To IDC Constitution Represented By Very 'Small Minority' By John Fryar Junior Staff Writer Recent attacks on the In terdorm Council constitution are "not well-founded", ac cording to Jim Ludwig, chair man of the Interdorm Coor dinating Committee. Ludwig explained the phi losophy behind the constitu tion, pointing out that the approved document carried over from last year had been passed unanimously by t h e committee, article by article. He said that the final consti tution also had received nnan imous approval of all articles In their final form. Ludwig said constitution op ponents Tom Briggs of Cather Hall and Dave Snyder of Burr Hall directly represent only a "very small minority." ' He also said that he h a d found no Cather students be sides Briggs who directly op pose the constitution. Ludwig is president of Cather Hall. Non-Voting Membership According to Ludwig, when the first sessions of the com mittee began in March 1966, many dorms expressed the feeling that they did not want to be drawn into the IDC with out their own approval. Monday, November 7, Evaluation Book Includes 119 . . . Profs Willing To View Selves Objectively The Faculty Evaluation Book's distribution "repre sents something that has nev er been done at the Univer sity before," according to ern dance society. Mrs. Comstock's husband Bill was a football player at the University and now com mutes to Omaha to play with the Mustangs. She said that she and her husband agree that each should pursue out side Interests, hers right now being "Fuddled Fables". The Comstocks have two children, Billy, 4, and Nanny, 2. Mrs. Comstock said that she hopes to work on future shows for Kosmet Klub, but that her work could best be commented on by the skit di rectors. ' According to Beta Theta Pi skitmaster Jody Parker, Mrs. Comstock is "lots of fun and real easy to work with" and the show is ahead of the stages it was at this time last year. Mrs. Comstock said that at times she had had to be the disciplinarian in getting things going, but for the most part the skit masters have been "great". Skits, for the show range from a takeoff on the "Tor toise and the Hare" fable to Gulliver's attempts to reform California. Fraternities in the show include Beta Theta Pi, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Nu. Tickets are on sale for $1.50 in a Nebraska Union booth or from Kosmet Klub workers. Ticket's are also available at East Union or the Pershing Auditorium box office. Tickets at the box office the night of the show will cost $1.75. Consequently, Ludwig said, the non-voting membership of dorms who had not approved the constitution was inserted. Membership is retained be cause the IDC will propose to be a representative body, but to function in new areas, the IDC may require the relin quishing of certain powers by the separate member dormi tories. Thus, the dorms have a choice through the residents of whether to relinquish some of their sovereignty by be coming voting members or to refuse and still have a voice in the discussion. This protects the sovereign ty of the dorms by not auto matically drawing opponents into the organization whhout their approval, Ludwig said. Ludwig stressed that the IDC still cannot go into any dorm and wield power, since the constitution states that "the Council may not legis late on any issue that is only of internal concern to a mem ber dormitory, without the permission of the dormitory involved," and also says that the IDC shall only have power to "legislate on matters of general interest to the mem ber dormitories." 1966 Ladd Lonnquist, chairman of the ASUN faculty evaluation committee. The book went on sale Mon day at the Nebraska Union and University-area b o o k stores and sells for 25 cents. ASUN is losing money on the book, Lonnquist said, but "this year., we want to get it out to the students." "We feel that the more stu dents who see it the better we will be able to determine the success of the book," he added. Lonnquist explained that of the 119 instructors evaluated in the book, "most of them were the more outstanding professors at the University." AWS Change Has Approval Of Deans By Cheryl Tritt Junior Staff Writer The major structural changes being considered by AWS have the approval of G. Robert Ross, dean of student affairs, and Miss Helen Sny der, dean of women students. Miss Snyder said the AWS structure needs revamping "to meet the needs of the or ganization's expanded pro gram and the growing num ber of University women in the living units." Government is only a part of AWS's function, Miss Sny der stressed, and the organ ization has continually ex panded in areas of scholar ship and culture. Referring to the Ad Hoc Committee, headed by Diane Hicks, Miss Snyder stated that Miss Hicks has "shifted her position considerably" and has now offered more con structive proposals, also the program area may be completely revamped. A constitutional convention could be in session for an en tire year, Miss Hedgecock said, because this much time was required for the student Dorms To Ballot On IDC Proposal Residents of the University dormitories will vote for or against the proposed Inter dorm Council constitution Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day. Abel and Sandoz Halls' elections will be Monday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Burr East and West, and Fedde Halls will vote Tuesday, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Cather Hall elections will be Tuesday, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Pound Hall will hold its elec tion 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tues day. Selleck residents will vote Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ludwig said that Snyder's proposed amendments had not been "defeated for no logical reason," but Instead, had died for lack of a second after in troduction. He said these amendments had been thor oughly discussed during an IDCC meeting. Ludwig stressed that the IDCC had been in existence since last March with "prob ably more publicity than any new organization since I've been on campus." He said that there had nev er been block voting on any resolution, such as big dorms versus small or city versus East campus. He said that during the course of this time, "all of the dissenting ideas have been thoroughly discussed." "I've never had anyone tell me that they thought the com mittee left out anything in the constitutional measure s," Ludwig said. He said that the individual residence hall students are represented on the c o u n c i 1 through their respective dorm governments and that this is important, because "they are actually the source of n e w programs." Ludwig pointed out that the The Daily' Nebraskan "The instructors who d i d participate," he noted, "were those who were confident in their abilities and methods and were willing to take an objective look at their class rooms." Two major reasons that oth er professors did not partici pate, he said were that some were "hesitant that their time would be wasted as they didn't think the book would come out." "Others were simply wor ried about what the evalua tion would say," he continued. The 47-p age mimeogrph ed book is dedicated to Kent Neumeister and Larry Frolik, Conservatism and liberal Ism are not the primary fac tors to be considered when meeting changing issues, Miss Snyder said. "It is important that changes not be the result of pressure but rather the re suit of careful consideration and planning," Miss Snyder added. The present AWS Board has been accomplish ing changes in a "mature and intelligent" manner, she said. Ross stated that AWS has always made revisions as the need has arisen, but he as sumed there is usually some disagreement as how to make the changes. It is important that women who do not like the existing AWS structure have the op portunity to make their posi tions understood, Ross said. Miss Snyder and Mrs. Jean Register, "Focus on Coeds" adviser, will meet with sev eral AWS Board members Nov. 11 to "decide how to re organize AWS," Pam Hedge cock, AWS president said.. "As I see it, an entirely new constitution will have to be drafted," Miss Hedgecock said. The constitution will probably be drawn up by a constitutional convention, she, added. Electing delegates to a con vention will be one of the is sues discussed at the Nov. 11 meeting. The procedure for calling a convention is anoth er problem to be solved, Miss Hedgecock explained. Study committees to re search the problems of re structuring the different branches of AWS may be in corporated. Miss Hedgecock added that not only the leg islative branch of AWS but council reorganization in 1964. 1 "During the convention the AWS Board will continue to function as before to carry out the duties of the organiza tion," Miss Hedgecock noted. IDCC previously had planned to use the name "Association of Residence Hall Students" to designate the body as a group. Snyder raised objec tions that this would reflect on all students and not just those approving the constitution. According to Ludwig, the name was subsequently changed to an overall Inter dorm Council, getting back to the original philosophy of the IDC as a council between member dorms, and not neces sarily all dorms. Reviewed Constitutions In forming the constitution, Ludwig said, the IDCC had last year gone over dormitory government constitu tions from more than 40 cam puses. He added that none of these had an overall organ ization between men and women. He said that constitutions of specific dorms and related or ganizations at the University had also been reviewed. Despite objections, the coun cil may amend the constitu tion within its own representa tive body, Ludwig said. He pointed out that the U.S. Con stitution has a similar meth od of amendment in the rep past ASUN president and vice president, who were two of the originaters and major ad vocates of the book last year. Lonnquist noted that he was personally "quite satis fied" that the book was fin ally completed after "all the opposition and obstacles that arose last year." The obstacles and opposi tion he referred to included the question of liability in case of possible libel suits, t h e necessity to revise the ques tionnaire and problems en countered in distributing and collecting the questinnaires.- "Also there were some pro fessors who did agree to let us in their classrooms to dis tribute the questionnaires, but the questionnaires were not delivered," he said. Lonnquist added that in iiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin Elections Horn tomrcwCbut n n i i l is Cup' o Voters across Nebraska and the United States will cast their ballots for national, state and local officers tomorrow. Nationally, Congressional and Senate races will show whether the Democrats .can retain their majority strength in both houses of Congress, or whether the Republicans can recapture seats lost in the 1964 elections. In Nebraska candidates are contesting for state, county and local offices as well as one senatorial and three Congres sionail seats. Regular ballots will be cast throughout Tuesday at local precincts and absentee ballots must be postmarked before midnight Monday. resentative bodies of the peo ple, and that the IFC has such a clause. Ludwig added that the non voting dorms are still legal in their representation on t h council and have full privi leges without voting power. He said that these members can sit in all standing committees ,and introduct legislation at any time, including amend ments. 1 He also said that full mem bers could be deprived of their vote for disciplinary measures, that this was no more illegal or unfair than non-voting membership for dissenting dorms. Ludwig said that at the last IDCC meeting, he had told representatives that be would speak on the constitution and explain its implications if he were contacted. "No one has contacted me to date," Ludwig said. He said that seven dorms would have to approve the constitution for ratification, and added that any dorm that didn't vote or voted it down could revote for membership at any time as well as to in troduce amendments to t h e IDC. Vol. 90, No. 32 cluded in the plans for next year's book were provisions for distributing the question n a i r e s to the instructors through the mails, "to elim inate mistakes." Plans are already under way for next year's book, he said, and the questionnaire will undergo revison. "We will attempt to give as accurate a description as possible as to what it's like to be in the classroom and how much time a course re quires to let the students know exactly what they're signing up for," he said. He added that he hoped the book would show faculty members that students are aware of the quality of in struction and the amount of work an instructor puts into his course. 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