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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1967)
Nebraska Foundation Silent Editor' Note: This report on the Nebraska Foundation is the first in a series of three ar ticles written by staff writer Dan Looker.. By Dan Looker Staff Writer The average student is probably unaware that the money which aids some of his classmates and keeps some of his better professors from leaving is not tax money but private donation. Like every other state sup ported university in the na tion Nebraska relies on projects which, according to Harry R. Haynie, make and -"'adequate", university into an "excellent" one. Haynie is president of t h e UNIVERSITY C SEP 19 1957 ARCHIVES Monday, September 18, 1 i C v.,; ' 1 INSPECTING A SHELDON EXHIBIT. , . students discover that they disagree on their interpretations of a painting. Stay True To Other People ... STTOP Formed To Promote B etter Negro-White Relations Dedicated to the promoting of better relations between Negroes and whites, STTOP, Stay True To Other People, Group Demands Negotiated Peace In Vietnam Petition An organization called "Ne braskans for Peace in Viet nam," has been active in cir culating the "Negotiation Now!" petition throufftout Nebraska during the sum mer, according to NPV mem ber Fred La Croix. The petition, calling for a negotiated peace in Vietnam was mailed to university and college professors and some ministers throughout the state, according to La Croix. "If each person on our mailing list can get ven four or five signatures," La Croix stated, ""then we should get the five thousand we need." "The Negotiation Now!" Committee plans to present one million signatures to con Party For Student Action Lays Plans To Uphold Campaign Promises The Party lor Student Ac tion, a political organization formed during last year's ASUN elections, will hold Its first meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m., according to Bill Eddy, party chairman. The meeting is open to all students interested in working with the group this year and will be held in the Abel-San-doz cafeteria. PSA candidates captured 23 senate seats and all three executive positions in last spring's ASUN elections. KEEP PROMISES "We're keeping a promibs to ourselves and to the Uni versity that PSA would not dissolve alter the spring elec tions," Eddy said. organization responsible for finding these sources the University of Nebraska foun dation. PURPOSE The purpose of the Founda tion is "to solicit, receive and administer funds to make the state university more effective in its work, more inspiring to the students and more useful t o t h e state," according to a Foun dation publication. In 1966 the Foundation added over $1 million dollars to the University budget which supported various scholarships, awards and sti pends to professors and the purchase of research equip ment, works of art and mu seum displays. 1967 was recently organized by Lincolnite B e n n i e L. Wil liams. Williams feels that both gressional and executive leaders in Washington on Oct. 7. Two other Nebraska groups, the Rural Nebras kans for peace in Vietnam, and an unidentified group from Omaha have also re portedly been active in cir culating the petition. La Croix said that he was "not sure" how many signa tures have been obtained, be cause "everyone on our mail ing list was instructed to mail the petitions directly to Washington and not back to us." La Croix also said that no attempt was made to make the petitions available to Uni versity students. He said that "Our aim this semester will ne to aid our ASUN senators and executives in research and Information on those is sues faced by ASUN," he ad ded. Student housing, a proposed Dank in the Nebraska Union, and the bookstore problem were among the areas cited for possible investigation. Eddy said he hoped that a number of party members wauld become workers on the various ASUN committees. INTEREST WORKERS "We hope to interest our workers in the role of the student, as reflected by ASUN, in decision-making at the University," i ; s i - The money comes from several sources: businesses, friends, other foundations, and 8,178 alumni donors. There are two types of contri butions given to the Founda tion. FUNDS The first is endowed funds. These funds are invested and only the interest from them may be used. The second Is expendable funds which may be used in their entirety. Either of these funds may be either "restricted" or "un restricted" according to Ed ward J. Hirsch, vice-president of the Foundation. RELATIVELY STRONG The donors of restricted funds set stipulations on the U j v I lli ill Negroes and whites need chances to get to know and understand each other. He hopes that STTOP will pro- some NPV member may have tried to contact the Stu dents for a Democratic So ciety on campus, but that SDS members are difficult to contact. The Nebraskans for Peace have also been active at the State Fair and with the "Viet nam Summer" program, ac cording to La Croix. The NPV sponsored a booth at the State Fair which dis tributed free literature about the possibilities of peace in Vietnam, La Croix said. They also Teceived funds from the "Vietnam Summer" program in Cambridge, Mass., with which to purchase literature, and defray the cost of the "Negotiation Now!" campaign. Although the party will be "'working toward next spring", its primary emphasis will be on carrying out last year's campaign promises. "We will be helping our workers develop the talents necessary for student govern ment," he explained, "'and we will be looking for future sen ators and executives among the workers." Noting that "We're going to need a little money to cover operating expenses." Eddy said it may be necessary to charge a "minimal member ship fee." Among the expenses that the group anticipates are printing costs for the reports it publishes. way the money is used while unrestricted funds have no such stipulations, Hirsch explained. Hirsch said Nebraska has relatively strong private sup port and ranked the Univer sity "second or third" in the Big Eight "In the past five years the Foundation's total assets have doubled from $5 million in 1962 to over $10 million this year," he added. FIGURES MISLEADING Hirsch said that figures on private support can be mis leading. "Until this year all private donations did not go through the Foundation but could also be given to the University or to the Board of Regents." University of Nebraska Photo ljy Mite Biyman vide such opportunities. AVOID VIOLENCE Thus, if possibilities of vio lence arose, Williams feels that Negroes and whites would look upon each other as friends and attempt to avoid the violence. "Everyone I contacted about the idea went for it," stated Williams, 'white and Negro alike and not only in Lincoln. I spread the word to friends in Omaha and they went for it too." One of the major goals of the organization is the estab lishment of teen-age recre ation centers around Lincoln. It is hoped that these centers would provide young people of both races with a chance to get acquainted. Although the club has a minimum age limitation for membership of 21, the organi zation is not oriented specifi cally towards older people. Presently, the club the 30 of ficial members, according to Williams. MEETINGS Scheduled twice a month, meetings have keen held in Williams' home, at 2430 Vine. However, the next meeting, scheduled for Monday evening, will be held at the United Cam pus Christian Fellowship building at 7:30 pjn. According to Williams, there are many people who are interested in STTOP, and he is very optimistic about the possibilities of the group. "We intend to charge 82.50 per person a meeting. The money will be used for com munity betterment and to help finance activities for the teens. "We're non-p r o f i t," he added. "We just want to help folks out" is5 He explained that many other universities, such as the University of Kansas appear to receive much more money because it all goes to one foundation. This situation will change, he added, because the legisla ture has passed permissive legislation which will allow the Nebraska Regents to also give all contributions to the Nebraska Foundation. Hirsch said the Foundation has encouraged any form of voluntary support, regard less of whether it was given to the University through the USES Voluntary financial support made possible such additions to the campus as: Don Love Library, built Sheldon To Feature ark American artists are being featured this month in Shel don Art Gallery exhibits with a collection of paintings by Mark Tobey and a Print Invi tational. "We are quite pleased to have the privilege to show the collection of Tobey's paint ings," stated assistant direc tor of the gallery, Jon Nelson. The exhibit is being shown at only three other galleries; the Stanford Art Gallery, Roosevelt University in Chi cago, and the gallery for the University of California at Santa Barbara. BAHA'I ARTIST Tobey, who won the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1958, is a poetic personal artist, influenced very much by the Baha'i faith. Religious subjects and a spiritual quali ty dominate much of the work on exhibition. Most of the paintings are tempera on paper. Tobey has worked in Japan studying both painting and Zen and is a member of the Baha'i community. In addition to numerous other awards, he became the only American to be honored by a large-scale retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in Paris in 1961. ABSTRACT ELEMENTS "Tobey's art is noted for its fusion of the abstract elements of line, space, light and color," said Norman Geske, director of the Sheldon Gallery, "but in each instance his pictures rep resent the direct experience of nature, specific places, times of day and seasons of the year." The paintings are from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dahl of Pebble Beach, Calif. They were loaned to the Art Museum at Stanford Univer sity during the past summer and following their showing at the Sheldon Gallery, will go to Roosevelt University in Chicago to be shows during the Intercontinental Congress of the National Assembly of Baha'i of the United States. PRIVATE COLLECTION The Dahls are friends of the artist and have assem bled probably the largest pri vately owned collection of bis work. The collection will continue through Sept. 24 in galleries D, E, and F. The Print Invi tational runs through Oct. 1. The Print Invitational, which was selected by Thomas Coleman of the Uni- aoinmiminiiiiiHiiiiniiinjiiiinama Students wishing to I I add courses to their class 5 schedules must do so by g today, according to the 1 registrar's office. 6 Those adding classes will be reouired to pay a 9 $2.50 service charge. Classes may still be 1 dropped, without receiv- 5 I ing a grade, until Oct. 9. 5 1 Drop and add will re- main for this semseter in I I the Coliseum. 3 ibiiiiiiumoiiiiimioiuiiimiiamtf M Benefactor . . . To University in 1942 for $900,000 Mueller Carillon Tower, and Mueller Planetarium The $3 million Sheldon Art Gallery constructed in 1963 the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education, con structed in 1962 at a cost of $3 million of which $1.1 mil lion was raised by the Foun dation the Behlen Physics Build ing the Nclle Cochrane Woods Art Building AID TO STAFF In addition to financially supporting 11 Regents Pro fessorships, two annual Dis tinguished Teaching Awards, and scholarships to 5 per cent of the undergraduates, To bev versity art department, fea tures 21 prizewinning Ameri can intaglio and lithograph artists from across the country. MIIIIIItMllllttllltllllllllMllUIIIIIISHliltHIIIIIIIIIHIIlllllllilllllllllllllUlllllltlllllllilllMlltlk'lllltlllimiimilllllllta I Panhel Assures ! Derby Day Games ! I Will Be 'Ladylike' I University sorority pledge classes will make their de but during the annual Sigma Chi Derby Day Saturday. Singing and chanting pledges will attempt to out yell each other for such prizes as the Spirit Trophy. A trophy is also awarded with consideration to the most spirited serenades sung by the pledges and to the most spirited seranades sung to the Sigma Chi's by t h e girls during the week. Rick Reinhardt, Derby Day chairman, said the event will be conducted similarly to last year except costumes will be limited to headgear and items which pledges can car ry in their hands. The pledge classes will also compete in a variety of games, referred to in past years by such names as the "zip strip," "pole races" and "mystery events." Sharri Mueller, president of Panhellenis said the Greek &iiiiiiiii!iHiiiifiiiiitiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiifi)innMiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiinuiiiiiiiimifitiniiaiiiiiiiiiiiinHiiiiiuiiitiniintiiif I Jazz 'n Java f I ) 4 i I I .1 f ttK -r - it R;. I t. I - y Hirsch said the Foundation is responsible for the purchase of most of the displays in Morrill Hall, and for bringing prominent lecturers to the campus. Hirsch added that the im portance of the Foundation is growing. "Only 10 per cent of the alumni were involved in in t h e program three years ago," he said. "That num ber has increased to 15 per cent today." He also cited growing or ganizational support at the student level as an ex ample of the Foundation's growing strength. He said such organizations as Build ers, Corn Cobs and some fraternities had made dona-lions. Vol, 91 No. 4 Exi hibit Print Invitational "The exhibit illustrates the diversity of styles and tech niques currently being devel oped in this country," stated Nelson. organization most approve the games scheduled by the Sigma Chi's before the pledges would be allowed to participate. She added that in past years many of the games were "unladylike." Derby Day will begin Sat urday morning with an open house at the Sigma Chi fra ternity at 8:30p.m. Marking the opening of the games a parade will circle the University campus and end at the Mall between the Coliseum and Bessey Hall where the competitions win be conducted. A Miss Derby Day will also be selected during the games. Each sorority house will se lect a candidate for the title, according to Reinhardt. Last year's winner was Lynda Kain of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority won the game competition and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority took the Spirit Trophy during last fall's Derby Day. St":0 V V