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witH'l" -111 W- ' UH .ul'lWrl 1J jLMjjWrW..Ml''llW,WWl,W Pag 4 Nebraskan Wednesday, January 31, 1968 The Doily 1 iffipFs Ccttihmitm r. V v 'I A 7 V I -Jl .... .. ..n,.H.,.,i - WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31 (All activities are scheduled for the Nebraska Union, un less otherwise indicated.) I N T E R-VARSITY - 8:00 a.m. BAPTIST STUDENT UNION- :00 a.m. PLACEMENT OFFICE LUNCHEON12:30p.m. BUILDERS COLLEGE DAYS-3:30 p m. AWS WORKERS COUNCIL 3:30 p.m. BUILDERS FOUNDATION COMMITTEE-t:30 p.m. YWCA JUVENILE COURT 3:30 p.m. ASUN STUDENT SENATE 4:00 p.m. BUILDERS STUDENT New summer system i rROFESSORSHIP-4:30 p.m. TOASTMASTERS CLUB 5:30 p.m. DINNER FOR PHILIP CHAMBERLIN-5:30 p.m. TIIETA SIGMA PHI-6:30 p.m. REDCROSS-6:30p.m. SMITH HALL INTER- VIEWS-7:00 p.m. IFC 7; 00 p.m. BUILDERS BOARD 7:00 p.m. CIRCLE K 7:30 p.m. ALPHA PHI OMEGA 7:30 p.m. ASUN PARKING APPEALS BOARD 7:30 p.m. FELLOWSHIP OF CHRIST IAN ATHLETES 9 : 30 p.m. ORCHESIS 7:00 p.m. Uni versity High School. sets Job placement easy for college grads Rhodes Scholar Daiyl Gless plans two-year study program at Oxford Uni versity m England. Photo by Mike Hayman Gless to study at Oxford on Rhodes Scholarship For the second time in 22 years a Rhodes Scholarship has been awarded to a Uni versity student. The recipient is D a r r y 1 Gless of Schuyler, a 22-year-old senior who is as soft spok en about his personal achieve ment as he is vociferous in his enthusiastic praise of the University. Gless, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, a Ne braska Career Scholar and former holder of a Regents' and a General Motors Schol arship, is president of the Innocents Society, the senior men's honorary, as well as a member of the national nonary, Phi Beta Kappa. Oxford The award will send Gless to Oxford University in Eng land for two years of prepa ration towards a second, BA degree in English. "The Rhodes Scholar study at Oxford will slow my prog ress toward advanced degrees and my goal of being a col lege teacher of English, but it should be very valuable in the long run," he said. Gless will attend optional lectures at Oxford and spend most of his time working with his tutor. "The big advantage of ttiis system is the one-to-one ratio between student and teacher," he noted. Qualifications The award is the result cf a competitive process which began when he filled out an application for the Rhodes, including a 1,000 word essay on himself. Following a statewide eli mination, Gless was sent as Nebraska's candidate to a district selection conference along with the candidates from the five other states. There be was interviewed, asked to speak on contempo rary issues and "pitted against" the other candidates in a general atmospere being named the recipient for th Midwest Region. The last winner from Ne braska was William Holland of Overton, another English major, in 1963. Gless feels that the small number of honorees from the University is due to a lack of awareness on the part of outstanding students and to a lack of initiative on the part of their professors in en couraging them towards high goals. Gless credits Mr. T. A. Beck, assistant professor of English, and Dr. Paul Olson, also of the English depart ment, in urging him to com pete for the Rhodes Scholar ship. A 4.04 average student, Gless said, "I can't complain about the education I am re ceiving. The English Depart ment here is outstanding. It is one of the best, if not the best, departments on the campus." Finance His enthusiasm for the Uni versity is only slightly damp ened by the school's financial stiuation. "They need more money, but for what they have, they do well," he stated. "There are many ideas floating around. If they can get the money to put them into op eration ..." Job offers for technical stu dents has decreased 26 per cent nationally this vear compared to a year ago, ac cording to a survey of the College Placement Council. However, "no decrease in the number of job placement interviews has been ex perienced during the first se mester at the University of N e b r a s k a," according to Frank Hallgren, Director of Placement. The report also stated that candidates decline even more sharply than those for bach elor degree students. Mas ter degree recruiting nation ally is down 40 per cent while the doctoral candidate recruit ing is off 45 per cent. Hallgren said that the ef fect of these statistics may not be known until a greater number of offers have been accumulated for the second Placement Council report March 1. By then it should be apparent whether the frop in early - season technical volumes indicates a sharp decrease in manpower needs or whether recruiters have been engaging in watchful waiting. Over half of the Univer sity's graduates make use of placement services. Many of those who don't, go on to graduate schools or the armed forces. They can make use of placement services as alumni at a later date. Hallgren said that no stu dent at the University need worry about finding employ ment after graduation. "I don't know of any field that has fewer openings than it has qualified college grad uates," he said. "There is keen competition to get able people everywhere you go." New funds for science expansion The University has been awarded an $330,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for improving the department of chemis try. The funds are destined for use in faculty expansion and new equipment. The expansionary pro gram is aimed at freshmen, with the purpose of interest ing new students in chemis try, a University spokesman said. V Shop Downtown daily 9:30-5:30, Thurs. 10-9 Gateway daily 10-9, Tues. & Sat 10-6 Wilier spoine I "BIGGIE" by Jantzen $4 Just for fun . . . Janrzen has hien the shirt off "his" back and made a girl's pullover to man-sized proportions. P.S. Guys, these are great for you, tool You and your gal can have matching "Biggies! An assortment of colors. Also by Jantzen, 'BIG BROAD a widestripe T-shirt in a variety of colors. $4 Sportswear, Budget Store, Downtown & Gateway To date 250 firms over the nation have interviewed Uni versity students on the cam pus according to Hallgren. Besides running a year long interview service, the Placement Office has an ex tensive library of materials about various graduate col leges and employers. The office also aids stu dents in securing summer in ternships in fields related to their majors. Expanded services for deaf A federal grant of $177, 000 will enable the Univer sity's Midwest Regional Media Center for the Deaf to enlarge its services from two to 10 states. With the increase in funds the Center will be able to serve schools in North Da kota, South Dakota, Kan sas, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. A budget totaling $1,850,488 has been adopted for the two 1968 summer sessions by the University of Nebraska Board ofitlegents. Also, a new format of two, five and one-half week sum mer sessions will replace the usual eight and four-week sessions which have been of fered for many years, accord ing to Dr. Frank Sorenson, director of summer sessions. Registration for the first session will be June 7-8 and classes begin June 10. Regis tration for the second session will be July 17 and classes meet July 18. Second session classes end Aug. 23. Restrictions Each student will be limited to six hours per session. Since there will be fewer meetings for each class un der the new program, stu dents will attend 75-minute class periods. A three hour course, for example, will meet 75 minutes per day, five days per week. Dr. Sorenson said that 56 University departments will offer courses in one or both summer sessions. The cata logue of courses will be avail able in early February. At their meeting Friday, the Regents elected to furn ish a high energy diffractor system for the electrical ma terials lab in the department of electrical engineering. The instrument will be used in connection with a re search project for "thin film" research and materials struc ture. It is to be installed at a cost of $31,315. Adult Education The Regents also voted to establish a department of adult and continuing educa tion in the Teachers College. The aim of the new depart ment is to strengthen and provide the administrative framework for continuing educational and research pro grams in adult and continu ing education which have Regent been ccrried out by an area committee for several years. The new department will work closely with the Nebras ka Center for Continuing Education in evaluating con' ferences and institutes of all kinds in addition to directing the established academic pro crams leading to master's and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Wesley Meierhenry, who has been serving as as sistant dean of Teachers Col lege, was named department chairman. Appointment The Regents also appointed Dr. James A. Rutlege assis tant dean of the Graduate College. He will assist in the transfer of the Advanced Pro fessional Division programs from Teachers College to Graduate College, and he will be responsible for ad ministration of the programs. In other action, the Re gets: accepted a bequest from the estate of Charles H. Towle for approximately $60,000 to be used to establish one or more scholarships for deserv ing students, as recommend ed by the deceased. accepted proposals for new kitchen equipment for Selleck Quadrangle (Heifetz Metal Crafts, Inc., $13,519), new food service equipment for the Nebraska Union (Buller Fixtures' Company, $36,700) and new food facili ties for the College of Medi cine Hospital (Meneo Metal Products, $364,526). adopted a proposal to buy an electron microscope for me Dental College to be furn ished by the Perkin-Elmer Corporation at a cost of $44, 250 contingent upon Federal approval. approved a recommenda tion submitted by Francis L. Schmehl, Direcotr of Re search Services, to accept gifts and various research and training grants totaling $170,724. Rejection rejected a proposal to in stall fume hoods in the Ani mal Science Building on East Campus and in the Basic Science Building at the Col lege v of Medicine with the project to be redesigned and resubmitted at a later date. rejected proposed audi torium seating for the Basic Science Building at the Col lege of Medicine, which in volves furnishing and install ing 285 seats. The project is to be redesigned and resub mitted. "" ii - I ' U .V , -flow. . ' ... f v? , T" a? m .iiii.n.i n il look for the golden arches KcDcaald's ' the closest thins to home . . . HcDiafs S305 O'St 865 No. 27th St lWlilllll 03 SGpooS WE STILL HAVE GOOD USED BOOKS (PLUS OUTLINES AND OUTSIDE READING BOOKS FOR YOUR COURSES) There is a wide selection of reference , books at 1135 R and our 2 warehouse at 6400 Cornhusker EN TILL Jsmio 31 9:00 Fdbr 1 WE SIBEA PUDGES!