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TT n 0 SOT UNIVERSITY OP N LI3RAKY MAY .1.1963 U Mj7 Wednesday, May 1, 1968 The Daily Nebraskan Vol. 91, No. 103 IIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllllltipillllllM I 1 photo by Jim Shaw I Paul Newman, actor, director, and Eugene McCarthyite speaks to newsmen during a 30 minute airplane stop in Lincoln, Monday evening. Nearly 1,000 students gathered at the airport to hear the McCarthy supporter during his brief touchdown. siiiniiiiimiiiiiiiiinninimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH First award nomination goes to Emily Trickey Mrs. Emily Trickey, assistant to the director of the University School of Journalism, was nomin ated Tuesday for this semester's "Outstanding Nebraskan" award. As the director's assistant, Mrs. Trickey handles everything from paychecks to "irate students" to visiting newspapers publishers to irate faculty to "overheated ad ministrators," the nominators said. Mrs. Trickey was instrumental in developing the School of Jour nalism's depth reporting program, acting as research specialist and associate editor of the program's five magazine style depth reports 7 p. it v t - - . f 1 ' I r: ' -j . .-. '''! : A: ' . - v t - ' j' J ' ' - ' " - ' ' ' , ' - , , ' "" . , " - ' "-fit "' ' -,, . . - ' itoMiiiiMnif"r"1M1i "7 " b-J-"i-t-r-nnifliTr-r-Tffiiinffinimrt"-r-"4rt' , pbote by Jim Shaw Americus Liberator, independent presidential candidate, addresses newsmen and students following Tuesday's campaign speech la the Union Ballroom. Story on page 4. ft ' -v' v' '-- ' "v on subjects that include Nebraska politics and world famine, accord ing to the nominating letter. The research assistant for the program textbook, "Depth Re porting: An Approach to Journal ism," she also acts as a student advisor. A co-author of two University Extension Division Courses in journalism and an assistant in the writing of others, Mrs. Trickey is now co-authoring an introduc tory reporting textbook to be pub lished by Prentice-Hall. One of Mrs. Trickey's best known projects has been the es tablishment and conducting of a re I - ktu medial spelling course for jour nalism freshmen. The spelling test she devised to be the initial test in this course has been marketed and is now usedi nationwide by universities, newspapers and news wire services. Document to be sent to faculty . The Faculty Senate will vota May 14 on the "Student in the Academic Community Report," also known as the Student Aca demic Freedom (SAF) document, according to Professor Campbell R. McConnell. McConnell, member of the Chancellor's Ad Hoc Committee that studied the report, said that the committee unanimously en dorsed the document before send ing it to the Senate floor. The SAF report was approved by the ASUN Student Senate April 7 and by University students in the 1968 General Election April 10. May 4, Faculty Senators will re ceive, with the agenda of the May meeting, a complete copy of the Student in the Academic Commun ity Report, exactly as it was print ed in the Daily Nebraskan, April 8, McConnell said. He said that the Ad Hoc Com mittee consulted various groups faculty members and students in order to get "inputs from good people." The goal of the committee was to come up with a workable docu ment, he continued, which he thought the committee had done. If the Faculty Senate approves the document May 14, the mea sure will be submitted to the Board of Regents for final approval, Mc Connell said. He was not certain what would transpire if the Senate did not OK the report. McConnell expressed hope that the Senate would approve the measure. Members of the Chancellor's Ad Hoc Committee which considered the measure are: students Dick Schulze and Gene Pokorny, Dean Merk Hobson, Deaa Robert Ross, Dr. Kenneth Orton and Dr. Camp bell McConnell. Faculty Senate Grading committee recieves criticism f by Susie Jenkins Junior Staff Writer h Diverse opinions and after- j thoughts are emerging from facul- 1 ty and students concerning the Faculty Senate establishment of a permanent 4.5 grading commit- I tee. f Although the opinion of student leaders is that the new permanent committee is a satisfactory step in 1 insuring a future student voice in decision-making, several people contacted by the Daily Nebraskan i took issue with the action. I Georgia Glass, newly elected ASUN Senator, said that the com- mittee establishment was what she 3 had expected. 1 "The faculty made evident that i students should have been includ- ed in the grading change decis- I ion." Miss Glass said. "I didn't really expect the faculty to re- sand the change to a 4.5 sys- tern." Wanted 4.0 system Miss Glass said that ultimately the students who backed the com mittee formation wanted the Sen ate to cancel the new system, go ing back to a 4.0 basis. In opposition to Senator Glass, Sid Logemann called the Faculty Senate "very inconsistent" for set ting up the machinery to reconsid er and then failing to do so. "The outcome of the meeting was no surprise," said Logemann, who was one of the students back ing the grading committee estab lishment. "This grading system reverses the philosophy of grading by go ing back to more categories in stead of putting less pressure on the student to make good marks," Logemann said. 'Must justify averages' "I am also concerned whether "the Administration plans to in sert a conversion into student av erages to justify the individual av erages with the higher scale. "If this is not taken care of, the upperclassmen will have a really messed up average," Logemann said. English Professor George Wolf criticized ASUN rather than the faculty for the failure to pass the reconsidered motion. "The petition I signed had two parts," Wolf said. "One asked for establishment of the new grading committee, and the other asked for reconsideration of the 4.5 grad ing system." "The letter (from ASUN Presi dent Craig Dreeszen to Faculty Senate) asked only for the estab lishment of a committee, and this left it completely up to the faculty to try for reconsideration. There was no indication from ASUN that they wanted us to reconsider." Nebraskan must meet Applications for salaried posi tions on the Daily Nebraskan staff are now being accepted. The dead line is noon this Saturday. Interviews will be held May 6 for editorial positions. These in clude editor, news editor, man aging editor, business manager, sports editor, senior writer and senior copy editor. Other staff applications will be due Saturday noon, also, but in terview times will be announced Rights Committee starts recruitment The ASUN Human Rights Com mittee will meet Monday to recruit workers, according to Rod McCall, chairman of the newly-formed committee. "We are recruiting people in terested in helping us and who want to get involved," McCall said Tuesday. The work of the committee will be decentralized, McCall said. Ef forts will be concentrated not only on the campus, but in Lincoln. "There will be plenty of things to do next year," he said. "Re cruiting interested people is our main theme now." McCall said some work will be over summer vacation. "It's nev ..r too early," he added. Dreeszen, who favors moving away from numerous grading cate gories, said he thinks the Univer sity has taken a step in the wrong direction in adopting the 4.5 sys tem. "The only way we can change the system now is to work through the committee," Dreeszen said. "I do not think there will be a problem, because the committee will certainly be fairly set up." Dreeszen sent the Faculty Sen ate Committee on Committees his recommendation for the function of the grading committee and a list of students he wished to con sider. "The main purpose of the grad ing evaluation should be to have a valid educational reason for any grade change or adoption," he said. He cited the effect of grades on learning as a valid reason. Becomes sole factor "The more grading levels we have, the more the grade becomes the sole motivating factor in edu cation," Dreeszen said. Professor Royce Ronning, chair man of the Faculty Senate Com mittee on Committees, said that the new grading can be effective and successful. "We must be more careful to include students on decisions which effect them," Ronning said. "The committee on faculty retirement Grading committee to be organized A special meeting will be held Wednesday to set up the new faculty-student grading committee, according to Royce Ronning, member of Faculty Senate. Ronning, who is chairman of the Faculty Senate Commit tee on Committees, said that group will draft a description of the duties of the new grad ing committee, make decisions on the nature of the member ship, and decide on actual membership for the new body. "There are two usual meth ods for seating members of committees," Ronning said. "They are either appointed directly from the Faculty Sen ate, or a list of nominees is provided for Chancellor Har din, who makes the selection." Ronning said that referral to the faculty probably could not be completed by the Faculty staff applications Saturday deadline at a later date. Other positions open are senior staff writer, junior staff writer, copy editor, business staff, pho tographer, news assistant, night news editor, assistant night news editor, and assistant sports editor. On Campus Today t Father John McCaslin from Omaha, who wag arrested be cause of his participation at the Wallace convention, will speak Wednesday evening at Selleck Quad at 7:30 p.m. T?r ft ft Ron Hall from the University Educational TV will be the fea tured speaker Wednesday at a gen eral People to People meeting on Vietnam. HaU has been to Viet nam and has worked with the pacification program there. The meeting Ig open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Union. & it ft A representative from the Peace Corps will be in a booth in the Union thii week. ft ft ft Interviews win be held Wednes day and Friday for Mathematics Counselors for the fall semester. To be eligible an individual must have completed at least one mathe matics course beyond calculus by and benefits is not appropriate, but they should be included in many categories. 'Everything afl right Gene Pokorny, former ASUN First Vice President, said that in his opinion everything came out all right. "Several people in student gov ernment did know that a recon sideration of the grading system was coming up, so it would be un fair to charge the neglect of stu dent voice to just one quarter,1 Pokorny said. Pokorny said he had thought that there was a better way of accomplishing change than by go. ing to a 4.5 system. "I hope the committee finds k different way. That was the reason for the formation of a permanent committee," he said. Steudent Senator Bruce Coch. rane said that he thought the Uni versity should be run like "high school; the rules should be set, and we should attend classes. "If we start making our own de cisious, values will change. Be sides, the grading problems was superficial because being consult ed wouldn't have made any dif ference," Cochrane said. Another student said that the sit uation was "ridiculous." "It's time for a change in the of fices of the Chancellor and Stu dent Affairs," he said. Senate meeting scheduled for May 14. Ronning noted that the Com mittee on Committees may refer selection to Chancellor Hardin, but "that judgment will not be made until this afternoon." "Whether the membership would be the same as that on the original committee, is up to the Committee on Commit tees to decide, he said. Ronning said that the close vote which defeated the chance for reconsideration was an in dication that "professors are concerned for the students. "The best we can do to pro tect student rights this semes ter is to make this commit tee work in the most equitable manner," he said. "A student riot about grades wouldn't be in the best inter ests for the student cause," Ronning said. The interviews Monday win be conducted by the Publications Board in the Nebraska Union. All applications should be re turned to the editor's office in the Daily Nebraskan office, room 51, Union. the end of the current semester. Selection wiU be based on the ap plicant's record in math and the number of math courses be has completed or plans to take. Ap plicants should sign up for an ap pointment outside of 211 Burnett. ft ft ft All students interested in learn ing about employment opportuni ties In the mathematical sciences are invited to attend a panel dis cussion on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 121 Burnett. The discussions will answer questions about types of employment available, course and degree requirements, salaries, and other pertinent information. Wednesday's panel will include in formation on opportunities in ac tuarial science, industry, teaching, and research. ft ft ft Trofessor Mark P. 0. Horford of the Ohio State University will give an illustrated lecture "Nero and His Golden House" in the Union at 3:30 Wednesday. i I if ft I if i ft I ; I f- i y I 4. t m m j r -4 " - r " " - ' ' . ' k m n