The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 24, 1977, Page page 17, Image 17
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. 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