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r ! Fresh man wins E-Week title 0-.j Marcia McGreer. . ."I don't think I'm being exploited by being Miss E-Week How is Miss E-Week chosen? By the way she's built, right? Wrong. She is asked questions like "If you had your choice would you be a football, basketball or tennis ball?" At least that is what Marcia McGreer was asked by a panel of engineering students. Apparently her answer (a football) satisfied the judges because she ; was selected as Miss E-Week. McGreer, a 19-year-old' freshman from Big Springs, said that it is her duty to act as the official hostess for the event. She has appeared on television and radio shows throughout the state as a part of her Miss E-Week duties. "They don't ask too much about E-Week; I have been mostly asked about myself," she said. "I just volunteered to represent my floor in the competition. "I really don't know much about engineering but it is a lot of fun just the same. Engineering students seem to be very smart." McGreer pledged a sorority this fall butdepledged later on. She said that she couldn't devote enough time to get something out of a sorority. She remarked that she has had one date with an engineering student since she was chosen. "I'm really, not very involved in women's liberation but I agree that women are exploited," she said. "But many women let themselves be run over. I don't think I am being exploited by being Miss E-Week." McGreer lives in Selleck Quad and is a student in human development in the-home economics department. She hopes to work in a child care center after she graduates. Selection for Miss E-Week included interviews and a photography session. There were over 40 contestants. McGreer will greet visitors to the new engineering building during E-Week, along with other finalists Christi Adams, Cathy Eyth and Debra Cope. McGreer noted that this is her first and last venture of this type. She did not specify why it is the last. 1 1 . P. i if v 1 V H-"H t n II ' . 4 iit Jt I Equipment. . .Hydraulic testing cppsratus towers In the new High schools attend E-week High school students will for the first time take part in Engineering Week at the University of Nebraska, according to Donald M. Edwards,, assistant dean of the college of engineering. Twenty -nine projects by students in grades 7-12 will be displayed in the Nebraska Engineering Center April 14 and 15. The projects selected came mainly from the Greater Nebraska Science and Engineering Fair held last weekend in Nebraska City, Edwards said. But two came from the Lincoln Public Schools, he added. Edwards said there was an jdvantage in going to the fair for projects since they had already been screened. Projects were sought mainly from engineering, physics, math, computer, space science and medical divisions at the fair, he said. "The response has been overwhelming," Edwards said. "We issued 30 invitations and 29 of those are coming." . The students will stay overnight at Farmhouse and Triangle fraternities and with professors. Projects include: an aerodynamics smoke tunnel, compressed air engine, linear induction motor, organic dye laser, sound telescope, light-beam communicator and an electro-magnetic shock tube. It cslh(olyl Friday, April 14: 11-12 a.m.: Convocation, Centennial Room, Nebraska Union. The featured speaker will be Professor Yuri Sarkisyan from the Polytechnic Institute of Yerevan in Armenia, USSR. 2-10 p.m.: Open House at the Nebraska Engineering Center Saturday, April 15: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Open House at the Nebraska Engineering Center 11-11:30 a.m.: Dedication of the Nebraska Engineering Center 6:30 p.m.: E-Week Awards Banquet at the American Legion Club. The featured speaker will be Louis Lundstrom of the auto safety engineering department of the General Motor Tuphnirul Pant.. . lai. ... . wmoi ai warren, Mich. "J PAGE 10 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN FRIDAY APRIL 14, 1972 engineering building. . 1