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'Daily Qebrashan
Friday, April 10, 1970 Lincoln, Nebraska Vol. 93, No. 80
AWS, aged 59, died Wednes
day evening.
An unopposed vote by the
Associated Women Students
Congress Wednesday abolished
the stalwart organization which
has ruled the lives of Universi
ty women since its inception in
1911.
The ' organization really
legislated itself out of business
when all women's hours were
abolished in February, ac
cording to Jane Sitorius, presi
dent of the defunct organiza
tion. A formal letter of resignation
from Smith Hall on March 17
prompted Congress's vote to
dissolve AWS, Miss Sitorius
said.
Chris Hanus, a former Smith
Hall AWS Congresswoman,
said interest in AWS had been
dying all year.
"It was really funny," Miss
Hanus said,, "because on the
day we presented our resigna
tion there wasn't even a
quorum in fact the president
and both vice presidents were
absent, so the parliamentarian
and secretary conducted the
meeting.'
The Congresswomen present
at that meeting had an initial
reaction of "Can they do that?"
Miss Hanus said. "No dorm or
sorority had ever tried to
resign before."
Miss Hanus reculled that a
Look out
Gusty winds and the grassy
expanse of Pioneers Park, made
superb kite-flying weather this
week. However the flight of one
6-foot by 4-foot kite was short
lived.
Eleven University of
Nebraska students were flying
the gigantic kite Wednesday -
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Joint effort features Maggie Mackkhan's photographs on page 6 and 7.
petition circulated in Smith
Hall confirmed that most Smith
Hall members agreed the dorm
could be better represented
through a strong residence
association (the nine-member
Smith Hall Senate) and by
working through IDA and CSL.
"We felt that AWS had been
groping for a purpose since the
abolition of women's hours,"
she said. Even though AWS had
been considering dissolving
itself since the beginning of the
year, everyone assumed that it
would continue," Miss Hanus
remarked.
Congress wanted to be a
pressure group for all women,
she said, "but we felt there was
no way they could co-cordinate
the many diversified interest
groups of off-campus women,
dormitory women and sorority
women."
Another justification for
Smith Hall's withdrawal was
the dorm's consensus that "it
would be better to have women
working in all organizations
than to segregate women in one
organization," Miss Hanus
commented.
There was not a bitter reac
tion from other Congress
members after Smith Hall
withdrew. Miss Hanus said.,
"Most of the girls had simply
never thought about it," she
said.
Debbie Cushman, another
jet here comes
unknowingly right In the flight
pattern for aircraft landing at
the Lincoln Municipal
Airport.
One 737 jet moved over to
avoid the kite, according to Jay
Benson, one of the eleven
students. But then a twin
engine Cessna private airplane
had to dodge the kite.
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Congresswoman of the now
defunct organization, said
"really there was nothing else
we could do but dissolve the
organization. It was obvious
that other dorms would follow
Smith Hall's withdrawal."
She said that most members
had no reservations about
dissolving AWS particularly
since one of the major pro
grams, Coed Follies, is now
merged with the Kosmet Klub
Fall Show.
Miss Sitorius noted that other
traditionally AWS programs
have been delegated to other
campus organizations. The
AWS Style Show is now under
Nebraska Union jurisdiction.
Remaining funds of the
organization's treasury are
being divided among various
campus organizations for
women's scholarships, Miss
Cushman said. One thcisand
dollars has been donated to the
University Foundation for
scholarship purposes. Miss
Cushman noted, while Mortar
Board will be awarding $500
worth of women's scholarships
with former AWS money.
Another fund has been
allocated to the Student Ac
tivities Fund in the event- that
another future women's
organization is formed, she
said.
Rest in peace.
the kite!
The pilot notified the airport
control tower, tower officials
notified Lincoln police and the
police notified the students that
the kite flight was over.
"We had 1,800 feet of string,"
Benson said. "And because of
the loop in the string it was
1500 feet high."
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Proposals consider
use of P-F, A plus
Proposals abolishing the A plus and returning to a
4.0 grading system while retaining the B plus, C plus
and D plus and expanding the pass-fail system will be
introduced in the Faculty Senate Tuesday.
A plusses are so uncommon that they hurt the best
students by putting their grade averages below what the
grading system says is possible, according to Don Stenberg.
He is chairman of the ASUN education committee and
one of two student members on the Faculty Senate grading
committee.
Stenberg, sponsor of the proposals, said abolishing the
A plus would also bring the University in line with other
state universities, most of whom have a straight 4.0 scale.
A second proposal scheduled to be introduced would
expand the pass-fail system from a limit of 12 hours to
24 hours and allow sophomores to participate along with
juniors and seniors.
Currently, Stenberg said, no pass-fail hours can be used
to satisfy college requirements, but the proposal would allow
the colleges to decide how many p-f hours could be applied
to requirements. It is still up to the individual department
to say which courses can be offered p-f, Stenberg continued.
Although an instructor can refuse to offer his course
p-f, he usually follows department policy, Stenberg added.
Wally suggests,
urban bank
Omaha U.S. Senate can
didate Wallace Peterson sug
gested Thursday afternoon that
an Urban Bank System be
established as a means of
pumping money into financially
starved American urban areas.
Peterson, chairman of the
University's economics
department, said the primary
objective of his proposed Urban
Bank System would be to make
long-term loans at low interest
rates to cities.
The Democratic candidate
said the Urban Bank System
would be similar to the current
Federal Reserve System.
Ownership of the Urban Bank
in each region would be vested
in the cities and municipalities
of the region.
"The Urban Bank System
would be able to raise money
Morrison tells motives
Frank B. Morrison "met"
both his detours on the way to
the United States Senate
Wallace C. Peterson and
Roman Hruska in a far-ranging
question and answer session
Thursday night.
Speaking to a Young
Democrats meeting, the former
Nebraska governor touched on
issues ranging from the gener
tion gap to environmental
pollution, and he enumerated
his motives for entering the
Democratic primary against
Peterson, a University
economics professor.
"First the campaign wa3
getting boring," he said, "And
by my entering the race, this
will broaden the base of public
Involvement in the political
campaign."
Criticizing Hruska for his in
action during his lengthy terms
in the Senate, he said that both
he and Peterson have enough
imagination to defeat Hruska in
a traditionally Republican
state.
Claiming that he agrees on
more Issues with Peterson than
he does with staunch con
servative Hruska, Morrison
spoke out against present
American policy in the Middle
East and Vietnam.
"While Nixon believes in the
present balance of power I feel
there are only two courses to
take," he said. "Either have
by issuing and selling its own
obligations in the private bond
market," Peterson said. "Such
sales would supply it with the
necessary financial resources
to make long-term loans to the
cities."
But Peterson added that the
federal government would have
to subsidize the difference
between the rate the Urban
Bank System would pay on its
obligations and the lower rata
at which it would make loans to
municipal governments.
Peterson proposed the novel
banking system in a speech at
St. Mary's College in Omaha.
The candidate noted that his
proposed banking system could
also develop and offer
specialized knowledge and
technical assistance to the
areas of urban management
and reconstruction.
Russia and the United States
leave and let the Arabs and
Israelis settle the dispute or
have a major summit meeting
between Russia and the United
States."
Nixon should initiate im.
mediate action on a cease fire
not by indirect methods
but by a direct talk with the
heads of state from North
Vietnam and the Viet Cong, he
said.
"The war must be stopped
now and Nixon must take the
steps to end it," he explained.
"1 think a coalition government
in South Vietnam is in
evitable." Admitting that he did not
enter the Senatorial race to
boost his ego, Morrison said
that running as a Democrat in
Nebraska is an uphill struggle.
He added that as the deadline
for filing approached his cons
cience prevented him from not
expressing his views.
"If Wally Peterson wins," he
said, "Frank Morrison will be
one of his most enthusiast sup
porters. But I think we need to
create imaginative programs
and two candidates can do this
better than one."
Morrison also predicted that
if Peterson defeats him on May
14 the economics professor
"will become a national
political figure."