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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.
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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.
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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
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