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tiMflr-n Vol. 90, No. 99 Thursday, May 4, 1967 University of Nebraska CONTEMPLATING A POSSIBLE CHANGE ... in the location of Ivy Day, Innocents and Mortarboards stare at Sheldon's snow covered lawn where Ivy Day ceremonies are traditionally held. Snow or rain on Friday and Satur day may necessitate a move to the Coliseum. May Snowfall Third In 74 Years By Eileen Wirth News Assistant Wednesday, for only the third time in 74 years, Ne braska had snow in May. The last such snow was May 4, 1944, the Lincoln Weather Bureau reported. The five day forecast calls for temperatures 10 to 15 de grees below normal with pre cipitation totalling between one-half and three-quarters of an inch in the form of occa sional rain Thursday and Saturday. A Weather Bureau spokes man said there is not much chance of snow on either Friday or Saturday. Alternative Plans However students in charge of arrangements for Spring Day (Friday) and Ivy Day (Saturday) were making al ternative plans in case of bad weather. Tom Spilkef , over-all chair man of Spring Day, said he has already made some ar rangements to use a gym on East Campus if it rains Fri- 1FC Meeting . . Fraternities Approve Wildcat Rush System For This Year Wildcat rush and deferred rush were discussed at the IFC meeting Wednesday night. The details of wildcat rush, which will go into ef fect for the first time at the University this summer, were announced. 10 Man Limit University fraternities will be able to pledge up to 10 men per house this summer before actual rush week be gins. The pledging period will be the twelve days from July 20-31 with the deadline set at 12 p.m. July 31. Under the conditions set up for summer pledging no fra ternity can break a pledge until the first day of classes at the University, whereup on the individual will imme diately be put on open rush. In addition, if the summer pledge breaks his pledge to a house he cannot repledge until October 30, 1967. Trans fer students and upper class Young Demos To Hear Senator Ross Rasmussen, a state senator and former Demo cratic candidate for lieutenant-governor will speak at a Young Democrats YD's) meeting this Thursday at 7:30 n.m. according to B o b Bartec, President of YD's. Rasmussen will speak on current affairs in the state Democratic party and in the Unicameral, Bartee said. "We will also introduce the new commute oh air man," he added. - day. He commented that there is a possibility that if it rains during the games that Spring Day might have to be can celled. H o w e v e r he would have to talk to his commit tee before he decided any thing. He noted that Spring Day's two biggest attractions, the push ball game and the tug-of-war, are both outdoor events which would probably lose their effect if moved in doors. Spilker said that if weath er forces a cancellation of the , games Friday they would probably hot be held this year because of the difficulty in finding a day on which nothing else is scheduled. Mary Ann Deems said Mortarboards and Innocents have arrangements made so all Ivy Day ceremonies can be moved to the Coliseum at a moment's notice. She commented that they might decide Friday whether to have the ceremonies out students with a grade aver age of 2.0 or above can be pledged during the summer as well as graduating high school seniors. Approximately 650 high school seniors who are in the upper half of their class have applied for wildcat rush. The discussion later turned to the study of deferred rush which was recommended at a Board of Regents meeting last Tuesday. IFC president Gene Hohen see explained that "all we know is that this was brought up at the last meeting of the Board of Regents and that they wanted the Office of Stu dent Affairs, in conjunction with IFC and Panhellenic to make a study of the feasibil ity of some form of deferred rush." The last such study was made by IFC in the spring of 1965 in which it was rec ommended that a deferred rush system not be adopted. Representatives of most of the fraternities were noncom mital last night as to whath er they would presently fav or deferred rush. Jerry Olson emphasized that "the worst thing would be for a few houses to try to act onact on this individually. All actions should be taken throuph IFC and the proper channels." "This all happened so fast in the last couple of days that the motives of the Board of Regents and the de tails of how this happened are not known to us," Olson added. Hohensee taidt "The. Re n side or inside if there has been enought rain so the ground would be very soft. Carolyn Freeman, president 13 Students With Voting ASUN Electoral Commis sion announced Wednesday that thirteen University stu dents will be charged in Sen ate Court with voting infrac tions during the April Senate elections. Many of the voting irregu larities were discovered, Lar ry Johnson, Electoral Com mission chairman said, after signatures were checked on the student voting records. Johnson explained the Elec toral Commission is given the power to "initiate by majority vote of all its members prose cutions in Student Court for infractions of electoral laws or rules" in the ASUN con stitution. gents want to see whether or not deferred rush would ben efit the Greek system. This is why they want the study made." "They don't want to force any economic hardships on us." he added. "We don't specifically know the Board of Regents' ultimate purpose in making the survey, how ever." At last night's meeting IFC also unanimously passed a motion made by Jerry Ol son recommending that IFC support the concept of a joint committee with IDA, ICC, IFC, and Panhellenic. "This would not obligate IFC to support any particu lar committee structure," Ol son added. "It would leave IFC open to work on a spe cific committee structure lat er," he explained. Students Present 'Arabian Night9 An "Arabian Night" will be presented by the Nebras ka Arab Student Association , this Sunday at 6 p.m. in the Pan American Room of the -Nebraska Union. ; ' The evening's entertain ment will c o n s i s t of an Arabian dinner and Arabian music and dancing. The din ner will include "Shish-ke-bab", a spokesman for the organization added. S 1 i d e s of Arabian coun tries will also be shown. Tickets are $2 and students who wish to buy tickets can obtain more information by alUnj 435-6512. of Mortarboards, said the University job pool would set up the thrones if it is neces sary to move indoors. Charged Infractions The students being charged are John C. Allen, Scott Al len, Kenneth Ferrarini, John Flemming, Peter Florio, Steve Henke, Marvin Hughes, John Lixtle, Kenneth R. Mid dletown, Terrance M. Plac tek, Steven Russell, Ronald L. Schindler and Ron Siebert. Johnson added the Commis sion will ask the Court to "affix penalties" to corre spond with the "gravity of the offense charged." He continued that "no fur ther information about voting irregularities" was reported at the meeting conducted by the Electoral Commis sin Tuesday to enable stu dents to report specific in cidences of dishonest voting during the Senate elections. Free University Classes Approved By Students The initial classes of the Nebraska Free University met with approval from seven stu dents polled by the Daily Nebraskan Wednes day. Problems, ranging from a sagging atten dance after an early heavy response to a lack of continuity in certain classes, were mentioned as flaws in the system. Persons interested in helping organize the Free University for next semester should plan to attend a meeting next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. For details concerning the meet ing contact Susie Phelps, member of the or iginal Coordinating Committee, at the Daily Nebraskan office. Bob Samuelson, former ASUN executive officer, said he felt the course "Intellectual Commitment in The University" was "pretty good but it was hard to sustain any continuity in the course because the class personnel changed so much from week to week." Goals Reversed He said another problem with the course was that since "we were formulating our own goals, it was difficult since the goals set up one week might be reversed the next week because the personnel of the cj a s s changed so much." Even with those flaws, Samuelson added that the class did produce "interesting and fruitful discussion." "Radical Needs in Education" was fav ored by Kathy Augustin, sophomore Student Senator, who "enjoyed that class because it was a chance to sit informally in small groups and discuss personal needs in com munication and goals that we wanted to achieve." She added that "it brought out points that I never thought of before and I also found out that other persons had the same doubts that I also had." "Edge of Wisdom" Jim Jansen, who attended the "Edge of Wisdom" course felt the course was "good si far as making you think about your posi Ad Hoc Housing Report Is Approved By ASUN Ad Hoc Housing Committee reports will go to the Board ot Regents in June from both the ASUN and the Faculty subcommittee on Student Af fairs. ASUN, by an overwhelm ing majority, endorsed the housing recommendation Wednesday and also passed two additional resolutions to be submitted with the Ad Hoc report. One resolution, introduced by Senator Kris Bitner, stipu lates that the Regents' must take action on the report be fore the start of classes next fall "and a statement be pre sented to ASUN regarding their actions." "I think the Regents will take action" on the recom mendations before next fall, Miss Bitner said, "but the resolution will be an added point of pressure." A resolution introduced by Senator Al Spangler forbid ding discrimination in ap proved housing also received Senate passage. "No housing shall be listed as approved or specially ap proved," the statement or ders, unless the owner of the property submits a state ment promising he will not discriminate against his resi-' dents on the basis of race, creed or national origin. Dr. Paul Byerly, ASUN ad v i s e r. favored Spangler's resolution pointing out that the "Factuly Senate has gone on record as being against discrimatory terms" as have the Board of Regents." "stu dents have yet to go on rec ord as being against dis crimination." While discussing the hous ing committee report, Spang ler spoke against the pro posals. He maintained that mandatory dormitory resi dence for freshmen is con trary to the Bill of Rights, which was endorsed by Uni versity students last month. Spangler was referring to the housing article in the Bill of Rights which was passed by vote of students. Article 5B giving students an equit able role in determining hous ing policies was approved, as was an amendment sub mitted by petition which al lows each student to select his own living environment. Disagreeing with the Ad Hoc committee's opinion that dormitory residence has edu cational benefits for fresh men, Spangler said "there is not one speck of evidence that dormitory living leads to maturation" or has educa tional value. Sen. Mark Schreiber sup ported the document arguing that the "senate must look at the political angle" of the regulations entirely" he said and the Senate "must realize , that this report is just getting things started." "We are trying to work for something that will be ac cepted," Senator Phil Bowen said. "The dormitories are going to be there whether we like it or not." Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, Marv Almy ex plained to the Senate that the group's recommendations "aren't set rules." The committee "agreed that exceptions will have to be made," he said "and many policies will be based on the individual's own circum stances." Exceptions could be made for students with money or health or employment dif ficulties or whose family has more than one child in col lege. Almy continued that the Housing Committee "en dorsed on-campus living for freshmen because of the edu cational value and not as an economic outlet for the Uni versity. "The committee "didn't consider politics" but rather decided which policies would be most beneficial. In other Senate business Al Spangler lost his position as Music Building To Have Open House, Dedication - m, a. r ;n: ODen house and dedication ceremonies for the new Ar thur E. Westbrook Music building will be held Sunday afternoon from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. A brief dedication program by Chancellor Clifford M. Hardin and Music Depart m e n t chairman Emanuel Wishnow will begin in the choral rehearsal room at 3 p.m. Nebraska Singers University of Nebraska Singers will complete the dedication program, followed by an open house until 5 p.m. tion about the topic." He added that the Free University course forced him to think "more than before." Barbara Helms, junior who attended the "Psychic Research" class was disappointed over the faltering attendance after the first few sessions. She said she derived some interesting dis cussion points and there was "a more re laxed atmosphere than in regular classroom with no tests to worry about." Good Experience Miss Holms added that the course "was a good experience and I hope they have the same class next year." Barbara Thomas, junior, who enrolled in the "Theories of Communism" class felt the course allowed for much informal discussion. She felt that the course's instructor Ivan Volgyes, assistant professor of political sci ence, developed the particular point of com munism theories rather than the entire history of Russia and went "into as much depth as was possible to go into." "I got added knowledge and that's what' I was after in the first place," she said. Pam Hurst, a freshman, who took the "Psychic Research" class felt the course was "pretty good until kids stopped going and it faded out at the end." Although she said she didn't obtain too many benefits from the class, she added that it was "interesting and I enjoyed it." No Profound Decisions Another "Psychic Research" student, Roxanne Roehl. felt that although no "pro found decisions were reached, I learned a lot about strange things that have happened." "1 don't know if I will ever use any of the things I learned, but it was very inter esting to learn about experiences people have had," she said. She added that after a "tremendous" at tendance at the initial session, the class was split in half, but at the course's conclusion, there were about 15 students, "which wag just the right number," tha added. President Protempore to Sen ator Phil Bowen in a re-election which was called be cause Spangler was elected last week by a plurality vote instead of the required ma jority vote. With Spangler's defeat the Senate also conducted an other election for the three Senate Executive Committee positions. Senators, Cheryl Adams, Mark Schreiber and Spangler were selected. Another re-election between Ron Alexander and Nesha Nuemeister was conducted for the Senate seat vacated by Miss Mimi Rose, when she took office as second vice president. Alexander retained the seat he won last w""':. Senate also approved the appointment of Jerry Ander son to the Senate Cabinet. Mike Naden and Susie Jen kins were also appointed to the Cabinet but were not pres ent at the meeting to be ap proved. Senate also formalized pro cedural rules for conducting ASUN meetings. Approved was a regulation which stipu late that "resolution and other pieces of legislation should be presented to the Executive Committee prior to the weekly student Senate meeting." Also approved is a rule which states "resolutions that are deemed major legislation by the Chair shall be discus sed at a student Senate meet ing with the vote concerning the legislation being taken at the next Senate meeting. The $1.5 million building at 11th and R streets was fi nanced through funds appro priated by the 1963 state leg islature. Additional Space The most recent addition to a fine arts complex including Sheldon Memorial Art Gal lery and N e 1 1 e Cochrane Woods Art Building, the structure houses three large rehearsal rooms, 30 faculty studio-offices, an organ suite, piano laboratory and materi als center. Classrooms, 50 student practice rooms and several office and conference rooms are also available. Designers Hazen and Robinson Archi tectural firm designed the building with Olsson Con struction Co., Ray Martin Co., and Energy Enterprises as major contractors. The old music building, on campus since 1896, was razed last week to make room for a concert-recital hall on the site. The building's namesake, Arthur E. Westbrook, joined the staff in 1939 as director of the School of Fine Arts and Music department chairman. Instructional Program Westbrook emphasized the development of the instruc tional program in the depart ment of music. After 1955, when he reached the University retirement age, Dr. Westbrook continued teaching at other schools. At the time of his death in 1961, he was a member of the Ne braska Wesleyan faculty. Accountants Give Award To Doerr A University senior, Roger Doerr, was recogniz ed last week as the out standing accounting s t u dent at the University by the National Association of Accountants. Doerr was one of nine students in the state who received recognition. The award is based on general scholastic excellence with emphasis on outstanding work in accounting. Doerr will be eligible for national awards this sum mer, according to Laverne Cox, assistant professor ol business organization and management
