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I CJNIVWSITY OF HTy f - ' WEDNESDAY, MARCH f22, 19fljR 22 103y University of Nebraska VOL. 90, NO. 80 4 Ill ,D .,'! ' ':n; --riV P n : C3 tlH . . mil v -1 O D , C... ! r"1 n P rl wvfV- i v w . .. ... I , t- i S P H W'"!VJ i i prt',Kn WMIWIWWIW l! --. -, nnM ynwmMl mim ' jocP1' .f .rin- 1 fi t nr1 4 : r irTJ ' wi it rl? I rJI is ii ill l liii v 5 -;'te,v. ..sa . v., 1 r L , m 1 1241 , rl 11 ri U I ii 11. J. 1. l. tr. PROGRESS "LOOKS PRETTY GOOD" ... on three new dormitories scheduled for completion August 15, mon food service, also under construction, will house 1500 students. Two of the ten-story residence halls according to Carl Donaldson, University business manager. The complex, which will be served by a com- will house male students and one will house women. Each building will accommodate 504 residents. Dorm Bond Requested At Session The University and state colleges "should seek appro priations while the entire Legislature is in session" if they are contemplating the, construction of new dormi tories, according to Sen. Jerome Warner. As the law stands, the issuing of new revenue bonds for dormitory construction must be approved by the Leg islature when it is in session or by the Legislative Council in session. Sen. Warner said he feels that the construction of dormi tories is significant enough to be considered by the en tire legislative body, rather than by the five senators com prising the legislative coun cil, especially since "there has been some concern ex pressed about how many dorms are being built." He pointed out that recent studies by the budget staff have indicated that uormitory construction may have an in direct effect on University ap propriations. "If the tuition rates are in creased substantially, and should this increase result in a reduced number of stu dents, it would have an effect on the University's ability to reiire the bonds," he said. News Analyst Reporter Frederick To Speak World-famous news com mentator Pauline Frederick will speak in the Nebraska Union Ballroom, Thursday at 3:30 p.m. as part of the Nebraska Union's Fine Arts Convocation series. UN Correspondent Miss Frederick is best known for her work as United Nations correspondent for NBC-TV and radio. She has also made frequent appear ances on such programs as "Today," the "Huntley-Brink-ley Report", "Meet the Press", and other news spec ials. She has achieved eminence in a field usually dominated by men, calmly reporting such United Nations crises as the Korean, Suez, Hungarian, Mid dle East, Laotian and Congo problems and the troubled months following the death of Dag Hammarskjold. Journalism Career A Pennsylvania native, Miss Frederick began her journal sim career by interviewing wives of diplomats and selling the stories to the Washington Star. Students To Hear Dr. Ralph Bundle Guest speaker for the spring University convocation will be Dr. Ralph Bunche, undersecretary of the United Nations. The announcement was made by Dr. Paul Schach, chairman of the faculty convocation committee. He said the all-University convocation will be held at 10:30 a.m. April 20 in the Coliseum. Classes will be dismissed so students may attend. Bunche, who joined the United Nations in 1946, was the first Negro to receive the Nobel peace prize, awarded for his work in obtaining a truce in the Jewish-Arab con flict in Palestine in 1948. He has served as principle director of the UN depart ment of trusteeship from 1948-1954. Since 1958 he has worked as undersecretary for special political affairs. Bunche was active in obtaining peace settlements in the Suez crisis in 1956 and the Belgian Congo conflict in 1960. Bunche received a doctorate in government from Harvard University. He did his post doctorate work in Africa studying colonial policies. During World War II he served with the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, office of Strategic Services and State Department, concerned with Africa. Executive Candidates Announce Platform By Cheryl Tritt Senior Staff Writer The three junior ASUN sen ators who recently formed an executive slate following a split in the Party for Stu dent Action (PSA) Tuesday announced their platform for the Senate elections April 12. The campaign platforms for the PSA and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) tickets and presidential can didate, Rich Thompson have been printed previously in the Daily Nebraskan. Ron Pfeifer is running on the slate for ASUN president. Liz Aitken is a candidate for first vice-president and Jer ry Olson will seek the posi tion of second vice-president. The three candidates will not slate persons running for Senate seats, Pfeifer said, but during the campaign "we will publish a letter namiug the senators who support our slate." Article number five of t h e Bill of Rights is the main area of disagreement between PSA and the new executive slate stand on the Bill, Pfeif er said. The original article states that all students have the right to select their own liv ing environment. An alterna tive article, supported by PSA, states students should have an "equitable role" in making housing policy which, allows "maximum individual choice." Pfeifer said his slate sup ports the original Article five because it "is a statement of philosophical ideal to be worked toward over a period of time." He emphasized that the al ternative amendment is n o t a statement "of a right but a statement implying a privi lege." Pfeifer said that if stu dents do not agree with the original number five and think freshmen should ideal ly be required to live in dor mitories, "they should defeat the entire Article five." Thus the Ad Hoc Housing Commit tee would continue to exist, he said, "to re-evaluatc and reconsider housing policies in the future." He explained that the "in tent of the alternative Article five is already provided for in Article four which gives students an equitable role in policy formulation." The executive slate's plat form stresses that "more student participation at all levels produces a better University by increased stu dent concern for an educa tion suitable to today's soci ety." Pfeifer said the executive candidates are committed to the Bill of Rights and view it as a "fundamental necessity if the needs of the New Stu dent are to be met." Other planks in the group's platform call for an 'investi gation of University health facilities and policies. Studies into the University's counseling service and inves tigation into lowering student insurance rates are included in the platform. The candidates also ask that the student wage-scale be investigated and that Stu dent Senate make a detailed report on expenditures of dor mitory and tuition student fees. Ad Hoc Committee To Report Choice By April 3 OnH By Dave Buntain Junior Staff Writer The Ad Hoc Committee on Student Housing will have a report ready by April 3 on recommended "areas of stu dent c h o i c e," Chairman Marv Almy said Tuesday. The report, detailing com mittee recommendations on which levels of students should be able to make cer tain housing choices, will be followed in about two weeks by a more general report, Almy said. In its initial report, he said, the ommittee will suggest that all freshmen be required to live on campus. "The freshman takes two big changes in coming to the University," he pointed out. "First, he is going away from home and the family situation. Second, he has to R.C. Recruiters To Visit Campus University students will have an opportunity to in terview for staff positions with the American National Red Cross on Wednesday. Joan Johnson, asst. direc tor of personnel services for the 14 state Midwestern area of Red Cross, and Cathleen O'Connor, Red Cross recreation worker who recently returned from Viet nam, will hold interviews throughout the day. They will speak to young men and women who are interested in Red Cross ser vice. Men are being sought for the service to military personnel and their depend ents. Women are being sought for employment as social workers and recreation workers in the service to military hospitals program, and the overseas recreation al program. adjust to the University com munity." The committee feels that the experiences of group liv ing and the advice from old er students, housemoth ers and resident directors can "be of some value" in helping the freshman make a successful adjustment, Almy said. Sophomores Adjusted Sophomores have made the adjustment and have "real ize what it takes to suc ceed," he said. "We felt they should have a greater choice." The committee will recom mend that sophomores be given the opportunity to live in "specially approved" hous ingliving units specially de signed for student residents. Such accommodations would include private homes or apartments "set aside for student use." To qualify for the "special ly approved" list, living units would be required to have a manager on the premises, and would be more closely checked regarding physical requirements such as venti lation and closet space. Juniors, Seniors Juniors and seniors would be free to live in any type of University approved housing, falling under the category of "generally approved," in ad dition to their on-campus or "specially approved" options. "Generally approved" housing conforms to mini mum health standards, near ly identical to the proposed Lincoln Housing Code, Almy ' said. He said that most of the questions still remaining about University housing pol icy will be resolved at a committee meeting next Tuesday afternoon. Submit Report The report prepared will be submitted to Dr. G. Rob ert Ross, dean of student af fairs, to ASUN, and to the Faculty Senate Committee on Student Affairs, Almy said. Legislature Approves Deficit Bill By Eileen Wirth News Assistant The Legislature Tuesday ap proved the University deficit appropriation bill in a 37-2 general file vote. The bill must now be ap proved on select file vote and final reading before it becomes law. Vice Chancellor Joseph Soshnik said the Legislature took the action the Univer sity had hoped it would. Act Favorably "We hope the legislature will act as favorably when the bill comes to vote on select file and final reading", he added. A Terry Carpenter amend ment to the meaure forbids all agencies of state government from spending "any money beyond their budget allow ance without specific author ity from the Legislature." Requested Money The University requested the deficit appropriation be cause of fiscal problems caused by 1,500 more s t u dents enrolled than estimates had indicated. Soshnik said if the Univer sity "had opened spending gates" to i accommodate the number of additional students who came. Because of income from tuition from the additional students, increasing faculty work loads and other bud get savings, the budget de ficit was, therefore, $569,612 requested from the Legisla ture. Noticed in Nov. '65 Sen. George Gerdes, vice chairman of the budget com mittee, said the situtation be came apparent as early as November 1965. The Board of Regents and the University administration sought advice from the Lge islative Council budget com mittee and decided to try to get a deficit appropriation rather than raise tuition or restrict enrollment. If the deficit appropriation fails to gain final approval, the University might be com pelled to curtail summer school expenditures, Soshnik said in a letter to Sen. Rich ard Marvel. The University, however, is "extremely reluctant" to take such an action, he said. Curtail Actions Physical plant maintenance and the work of Agriculture Experiment stations and the Agriculture Extension Ser vice also might be curtailed as one way of saving money, Soshnik added. In this same letter he stated that "virtually no expenditure curtailments will be possible in the instructional program of the University," except for summer school. Speaker Elvin Adamson de f ended the University be cause, he said, the problems was caused by "a situation unforseen." j ii t i tSf if '"' SEN. CLIFTON BATCHELDER . . . advocates end to the practice of spending money the Legislature has not pro- . vided at University deficit appropriation hearings. 1