thursday, february 24, 1977
daily nebraskan
page 17
elia prepares for new members
Alpha Lambda D
By Gail Stork
A drawer full of unclaimed certificates and a box of
forgotten jewelry does not mean students are losing inter
est in Alpha Lambda Delta freehman scholastic honorary.
They just do not know what the honorary is, accord
ing to Lee Dillard , Alpha Lambda Delta president.
The honorary recognizes scholastically outstanding
freshmen, it? is not a time consuming club, Dillard said.
Unless a member is elected to office or is on the invita
tions committee, there is no time commitment in joining,
she said.
The only obligations are to sign a pledging book, pay
eight dollars in dues, and attend the initiation. After that,
she said, the only contact most members have with the
group is access to the biannual Alpha Lambda Delta news
letter. Molly Cunningham, an Alpha Lambda Delta adviser,
has the drawer of certificates and jewelry. She said the
number of students invited to join increases each year
with the increase in UNL enrollment and the number of
students accepting invitations also increases.
Initiation required
However, many students fail to attend initiation
which is required for membership, she said. Cunningham
also is assistant director of admissions and advising.
Students do not realize they have to attend initiation
to be members, she said, and this is where the problem
lies.
According to Dillard, steps have been taken to better
publicize Alpha Lambda Delta and its requirements
for membership, including initiation. Posters are being
produced for campus living units and colleges to inform
students.
Besides being an asset to list on job applications,
Dillard said membership in Alpha Lambda Delta qua
lifies a student for two UNL scholarships based on grades
and activities, or for one of the ten $2,000 fellowships
awarded by the national Alpha Lambda Delta office.
Two UNL graduates belonging to the UNL chapter
received fellowships last year, and a third was chosen as
alternate, she said.
Benefits of joining
Dillard said students do not realize the benefits of
joining the honorary and question the value of being
a member. Cunningham said employers attach various
values to Alpha Lambda Delta membership, but added
that any honorary is beneficial.
"No one knocks a national honorary. It says some
thing very specific about the applicant," Cunningham
said. She also said the membership could be helpful in
entering graduate school.
Since none of the honorary 's 196 chapters receives
financial support from the national office, dues are
needed to finance each chapter's projects, she said. The
UNL chapter uses its money from dues to provide the
scholarships, pay for initiations, and to sponsor the annual
Regen ts Scholarship winners' Tea .
The tea at the beginning of first semester recognizes
both one- and four-year Regents Scholars and introduces
them to school officials.
Book awarded
The group also awards a book to members graduating
with a 4.0 grade point average. Last year, five students
received the award, Cunningham said.
The group's current concern is sending invitations for
membership to eligible students, she said. Invitations are
extended in the fall for the previous semester, and in the
spring for first semester work.
Students meeting the requirements will receive their
invitations sometime in March, according to Dillard.
She said the initiation ceremony scheduled for April 27
will include both freshmen who have signed the pledging
book before that time, and upperclassmen who have pre
viously signed the book, but have failed to attend initiation
reenlsnd ice sheet Isyers hold weather secrets
A Greenland ce sheet's layers may indi
cate the possibility of this winter's unusual
ly cold and dry weather recurring in the
future, said John Splettstoesser, adminis
trative director of UNL's Ross Ice Shelf
office.
Splettsoesser said UNL is in charge of a
study at Camp Century in Greenland to de
termine whether the shelf there has shifted
since 1966. The project also is trying to
determine what the atmosphere and
climate conditions were a few thousand
years ago, he said.
UNL also has been in charge of the Ross
Ice Shelf program since 1974, he said.
Former UNL Chancellor James Zumberge,
who has done glacier research, helped UNL
acquire the program.
The program receives $500,000 in funds
from the National Science Foundation,
Splettstoesser said. The State University of
New York,-the VS. Army and scientists
from Denmark and Switzerland also parti
cipate in the project.
Splettstoesser said UNL is in charge of a
in May to drill a hole 200 meters (220
yards) deep into the Greenland sheet's bed
rock and study a hole that was drilled to
measure the sheet's movement in 1966.
"First we want to test out a new drill
that will help us to develop data on the
past climates of the area," Splettstoesser
said. "Then we will look at the old hole to
see if it has closed up or has been deflected
because of the movement of the flow."
Splettstoesser said the holes can help de
termine, through the layers of snow in the
ice, the chemical content of the atmo
sphere and possibly when volcanic erup
tions occurred. The 200-meter hole drilled
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be done and how well the new drill will go
into the bedrock. Eventually, they plan to
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but we will be able to predict when this
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