Muskie Urges Student Political Participation By ANN PRIDE the students had made themselves towar d for 180 years," he added. selves oft' from other voters. Speaking on student power and felt in the last election. They had Senator M uskie compared U.S. Asked in a question and answer participation in the political sys­ discovered that an incumbent pres­ political systems to U.S. Universi­ period if he thought, as Senator tem as well as decision making ident was not immune to their dis­ ties. They both thrive on the same McGovern and M cCarthy did, that policies of the university, Senator satisfaction and that the nomina­ basic agreement, he explained­ President Nixon was taking too Edmund S. Muskie, Democratic tions of political parties need not "an open an d vigorous dialogue long in taking a n ew direction in Senator from Maine, spoke to a be the simple ratification of the among con cerned participants Viet Nam, Senator Muskie replied crowd of about 2500 people at last wishes of the few. whose ob jective is enlightened de­ that although as a Democrat it was night's Symposium. Students "discovered that they cisions-decisions which reflect not a temptation to think be was tak­ Emphasizing the students' dis­ are as entitled to participation in only the t heories of education and ing too much time, he didn't want covery in 1968 that they too are the political system as they are governments but also the needs to make t his a partisan issue in an interest grou p with as m uch at in an education in the University and the desires of the students and the midst of an en emy offensive stake in the election as any group, and that the choices and the dis­ the citizens that are most directly in Viet Nam. ''I w ould prefer not Senator Muskie said, "Students in cussions in the political system can concerned." to publiclly prod the president 1968 expressed their concern and be as free and as open as life in a Senator Muskie urged student right now . . . but I will be willing for the first time student power University, he explained. participation saying that students to do so when he has had time to was as much of a factor in the pol­ "Students have been trying to can l earn nothing by shutting take proper a ction." litical complex.ion of our country get involved and it is this type of themselves off from a dialogue Senator Muskie expressed his as any economic or r egional group. involvemen t-this type of citizen­ with campus just as voters can opinion that the convention was Senator Muskie pointed out that ship-that we've been working learn nothing by shutting them- still the most sensible form of nominating presidential candidates but called for reforms in the way ~ --=-~--- delegates to state conventions and -....:'.'",,,-·_ .- ~ -;. the national (£------,..-· conventions are elect­ ' ed. He said that convention dele­ gates should be elected by the rank and file party members rather than -=~ the poorly attended party caucuses. ,. If state conventions were elected ARKANSAS "' · Senator Edmund Muskie in this way, he explained that he would accept either the election UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS of national convention delegates Phi Alpha Delta the law fraternity TRAVELER by the state convention or by the for dinner and after the Sym­ people. posium was the guest at a recep­ Vol. 63 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1969 No. 102 Senator Muskie was the guest of tion held in Coed Complex. NASA Engineer Slated lo Speak For Final Symposium Series Tonight Dr. William A. Mrazek, assistant for outstanding leadership and in director for engineering, indust­ J anuary of 1969 he r eceived. the rial operations at the National NASA Exceptional Service Med­ Aeronautics and S pace Adminis­ al for contribution to the Apollo tration (NASA) at the Marshall 8 Mission. S1pace Flight Center, in Huntsville, Ala., will wind up Symposium '69. He will speak at 7: 30 tonight Watt Chosen As in Barnhill Fieldhouse. Born in Austria-Hungary Dr. Top AWS Coed Mrazek received his MS degree Sarah Watt, in engineering in Bruenn, Ger­ secretary of As­ sociated Students man,y. In 1962, he received an has been chosen as the January AWS coed honorary Doctor's degree from of the month it was announced Au.bum University. He first came this week. Miss Billy Jean Cain to the U.S. in 1946. He has di­ of the P..hysi.cal ..Education rected research and development Department has been named A WS Faculty in the fields of structure propul­ Member of the month. ELECTIONS FOR THE 1969-70 A WS officers were held yesterday on campus. New officers are: left to sion, mechanics, chemistry, ma­ right, Treasurer Tricia Keeling, Theta; President Peggy Bosmeyer, Pi Phi; Secretary Mimi Raney, ChiO; terials and design integration. Sarah is past president of Chi and Vice President Linda Maxey, Zeta. Dr. Mrazek was instrumental in Omega, a member of Mortar Board terials and design integration. and was voted the Outstanding the development of the Redstone, Greek Woman of this year. She Juniper, Juniper C, Juno I, Juno also received a Chi Theta award Women's Organizing Committee Gives II, Pershing and Mercury Red­ at the Commerce Day banquet. stone Missile System and in the Miss Cain is a graduate of the progress being made presently on University of Texas and has taught the Saturn project, industrial at the University of Arkansas for Revisions For Existi~g AWS Regulations operations. the past ten years. She is currently teaching tennis and fencing. Miss Women's O;rganizing Commit­ campus for nine A WS call downs. groups was also discussed. In October of 1963, Dr. Mrazek woe Cain is also the faculty sponsor of tee, a group of women interest­ Card keys may not be used dur­ felt that each group may or may was appointed the NASA medal ed in revising and clarifying A WS ing date jerks until 6 a.m. the Women's Recreation Associa­ not decide on regulat'ions for at­ tion. rules and regulations met last Judicial board appearances tire. Selection of the A WS coed is weekend to draw up a proposal would not be necessary if the Responsibility for the enforce­ Last TRAVELER based on the girl's participation in for rules changes. rules are revised if a woman is ment of the regulatioru should be campus affairs. According to Janis Sign-0uts, Coed-key SYstem. 30 minutes or more late. House vested in the Today's TRAVELER will be house manager and Applequist, AWS Role of Women date call, A WS violations and nanagers would have to notify officers of each living group. Stu­ the last one published before Committee Secretary, selection of judicial board appearances are a student 24 hours previous to the dents would be responsible to the spring break. Publication will the faculty member is based on the major areas of concern. meeting of the J-Board if she has Judicial Board for such enforce­ The sign out for women, as re­ be resumed on April 1. that person's work in student af­ to appear be.fore it. ment. fairs. vised, will consist of placing a Twelve A WS call downs and sealed envelope contai.n:ing her violations of a second date jerk address on her door in ca:se it is would make a J -Board appear­ Favoring Voluntary Program needed for an emergency. It is ance mandatory. Requested. ap­ proposed that women will also be pearance for a woman to go be­ allowed to stay in different liv­ fore the AWS J-Board would save Committee ing groups if they contact the Passes Recommendation to be submitted. by the chairman The ad hoc Committee on vol­ gram to Head Resident of the group they the University Faculty tures were presented to the com­ of the House J-Board to A WS on untary ROTC voted 10-3 last week Senate. Vote was taken after only would be staying with. mittee by Keith Mills, representa­ the form sheet. to recommend a change of com­ a few minutes of debate. Card keys would be extended tive for those students favoring Women's attire in the livi!ng pulsory RCYI'C to a voluntary pro- Petitions with over 2,000 signa- to all UA women. The Penny a voluntary ROTC program. nights would be done away with, r.•------~ George Lease, president of As­ as would the "late" date calls. : : sociated Students and a member of Card keys will not be used dur­ the committee, said the petitions ing registration. i Blue Otnie1·on ! were originally started to re-open A WS violations, such as those : Key : the voluntary ROTC question. for failure to sign out and sign When University President Mullins decided to re-open it, he said, in, would be abolished. Failure !: Edwin Delta Kappa ! to keep closed house rules dur­ Stanley Barton : these students were already half­ ing finals and failure to keep i John Raymond Boyle Tim Boe ! way through with t'he petitioning. quiet hours would sltill consti­ : "These students," Lease said, Donald Bishop : "deserve to be recognized tute a call down. : Carl Terry Brandt ,Bill Burnett : for the Date jerks would be given for : : work they have done and the in­ three A WS call downs and a ' Claude Douglas Buford J oe Carter : terest which they exhibit." I Dr. B. A. Waddle, chairman of J runes Ca'i.ood I Danny Wayne Durning ' the ad hoc committee, said, "Our Richard Christie J ames Richard Eads decision will now go to the Uni­ Don Dillard versity Senate. If the Senate ac­ Campus On The Go William 0. Johnson David Hargis cepts this report, it will be a rec­ ommendation to the Board of • International Club will meet Michael H. Mashburn David J ones Trustees for a change on the pro­ today at 6:30 p.m. in SU 217. There Ken May gram. will be a presentation by a Fin­ Steven Kirk Meyer "The Board will then have to i Steve Meyer nish student at 7:30 p.m. : ' act on this one way or the other I John Allen Vincent Bill P lunkett ' • All appointed and permanent I ' before it becomes effective." members of the Alpha Zeta com­ ' Larry T. Wilson Jesse P orter : A .list of reasons for this recom­ ' I mendation for voluntary mittee will meet at 7 p.m. in Agri 'I William Walter Wright Rick Tannenberger ' ROTC 301B for a work session. 'I will be compiled and presented to 'I Bill Vest i I the faculty Senate after spring '~------· ------·u' break. THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER Thursday, March 20, 1969 Soviet Film Classic Scheduled By Bill Thomas before ... " said the New York This is the first time since the The Russian Club will present Post. The New York Times called film was made that a complete, the Soviet film classic "Alexander it "a vigorous and undeniably im­ uncut version is available in the Nevsky" tonight in the Graduate pressive picture ... a stunning United States. The film was shown, Education Building Auditorium. portrayal of medieval warfare." with some cuts, by the Film Arts There will be two showings, one The film features a score by Society at the UofA in November at 7 and one at 9 p.m. Sergei Prokofiev, later recorded as 1962. Tickets will be on sale for $1 in the "Alexander Nevsky Cantata," The film is in Russian, with the Arkansas Union today. Tickets still popular today. English subtitles. are also available from Russian David Edwards, the Russian Club members and will be sold at Club's faculty advisor and assist­ the door. ant professor of history, has point­ Scholarship Applications Sergei Eisenstein produced and ed out how "Alexander Nevsky" directed this film. Over 20 years reflects the final stage In the vio­ Applications for Mortar after his death Eisenstein is still lent zigzags of Soviet foreign pol­ Board Scholiarships are avail­ the most widely acclaimed Soviet icy from 1939-1941. able at the Division of Student film producer. The film, released in 1938, was Affairs. They should be filled Eleventh century Russia w a s suppressed in 1939, Edwards point­ out and returned this week. plagued both from the east and ed out. This was at the time of west. Alexander Nevsky, prince of the Soviet-German Non-Aggres­ Novgorod and Kiev, swore alle­ sion Pact. giance to Genghis Khan to keep The Pact dissolved in 1941. Sev­ NEW RELEASE SHOWN TALKING with Betty Brinkley, Miss Do~atch1 are left to right: Blake Harper, Sigma Nu vice president; Miss Bn~ey, Neal the Golden Horde off his back. en centuries after Nevsky routed Sullins, Sigma Nu president; and Kim Capp, son of cartoonist Al Capp. This freed Nevsky's armies to fight the German Knights, Russia was STEPPENWOLF t he Western threat. again under German attack. The The powerful Order of Teutonic Eisenstein-Prokofiev work was re­ Knig'hts, as "crusaders", ravaged issued and used for building up At Your the Baltic provinces. In Russia Russian patriotism and anti-Ger­ Sigma Nu's To Sponsor they took the city of Pskov. At this man feeling. Nevsky r allies his people to com­ "Eisenstein redeemed himself Birthday Party bat the invader. with 'Alexander Nevsky,' " sald Miss Dogpatch Entrant The Teutonic Knights are met Edwards. His preceding film "Bez­ by the people of the free city of hin Meadow," put him in the ide­ $3.67 Sigma Nu fraternity has been should contact the National Pag­ Novgorod, center of primitive d e­ ological doghouse. The Soviet gov­ eant Headquarters, Recreational granted the first local franchise mocracy, led by their prince, Alex­ ernment charged that the film "ex­ at to sponsor an entrant in the Nat­ Enterprises, Inc., Dogpatch, Ark­ ander Nevsky. agerated the destructive aspects ansas, 7264a. ional Miss Dogpatch USA Pageant. At Lake Peipus and Lake Chud­ of the Russian Revolution." This marks another first for the METCALFE'S skoye the fierce and decisive Bat­ Eisenstein was accused of "for­ 626 West Dickson fraternity in events related to Al tle of the Ice was fought. It is a malism," contrary to Socialist Capp and his comic strip "Li'l Ab­ tremendous battle, a classic epic realism. "Alexander Nevsky," con­ Your Personal ner". Irish Novelist scene. sidered ideologically "correct," Service Record Store In 1938, the group received "Like no battle ever recorded saved him. Capp's endorsement when it in­ itiated the tirst Sadie Hawkins Visits UofA Day celebration. The event bas As the highlight of a week's grown nationwide with celebra­ visit to the UofA campus, Brian tions at campuses throughout the Moore, a well-known Irish novel­ United States and Canada. Sigma ist, will present an evening of pub­ CAN YOU A FFORD Nu will announce its Miss Daisy lic reading in Waterman Hall, Mae selection in May. Tuesday, April 1, at 8 p.m. The first Miss Dogpatch USA Moore will read from his work­ Pageant will be held at Dogpatch in-progress and discuss current USA, lhe theme park south of fiction. A question and answer Harrison, June 18 through 21. period will provide the audience Evelyn Contestants representing fran­ with an opportunity to hear his chised groups from selected areas views on his own work, contem­ throughout the United States will porary authors and the techniques compete for the National Miss Dog­ of writing, according to James patch USA title. Whitehead, assistant professor of Wood A minimum of twenty represen-· English. tatives of local Miss Daisy Mae Born and educated in Ireland, contests are expected for the first he emigrated to Canada, and is National Miss Dogpatch USA presently a resident of the United States. Reading Pageant. Scholarships tqtaling $6,000 will be awarded to Miss Dogpatch USA and the top four Correction finalists. In addition to receiving In yesterday's fashion section a $2,500 scholarship grant, Miss of the TRAVELER, we forgot Dogpatch USA will win a $1,000 to mention in the credit the Dynamics wardrobe from Tommy's of Little Town and Country Shop, with­ Rock. She will also receive a new out whose help the section Ford from Moore Ford of North would not have been possible. Can You Afford: Little Rock. Additional franchises are available. Interested groups --to increase your reading speed 3 to 10 times? Over 200 UofA students have already done so. Library Browser STUDENTS I --to cut your study time in half and probably improve your grades? Over 200 UofA students have already done so. To Enjoy Music --to read and use 2 or 3 times as much written information for the BrO\YSers in the UofA Library's rest of your life? Over 200 UofA students are now able to. browsing room will be treated to recorded music today from 8 a.m.- --to take a half hour to find out about the special student budget 5 p.m. But it won't be music by plan which makes it possible for you to take Reading Dynamics this Muzak. semester? The long-play tape will feature music recorded by the audio-visual division of the Library. On alter­ Considering these facts can you afford not to find out about this nate Thursdays, background music is played over the tape system program and, during spring break, talk to your parents about mak­ purchased by the Library last se­ mester. ing better grades in less time? The tape recorder is housed in ed plastic coverings. Speakers are a "truck" Gibrary cart) with lock­ spread apart on the shelf at the ATTEND A FREE south end of the browsing room. Just before Christmas, holiday songs and carols were played over MINI-LESSON the system. Music will be played at intervals throughout this semes­ ter. The tape system was purchased TODA Y-3 & 5 p.m. from Ampex-Mcclurg at a cost of r---:;~d $3,000. The system consists of a We've got jobs for women as tape library, a stereo tape recorder stenos, typists and general office Also Tomorrow--3 and 5 p.m. workers-factory, warehouse and and speakers. The tape recorder is outdoor work for men. You choose an Ampex 1100/E stereo. the days you want to work-earn ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH The tape library consists of over good money and still find time 100 "pre-recorded" tapes. The for summer fun! Corner of Arkansas and Dickson musical subjects cover a wide range including classics, operas, MANP©WER musicals, folk songs and jazz. ~ Eve!!,n 0'!.2.~.~_ f!!!!d!!J!!.., DY.,'!.~'?'ics The tapes, however, do not cir­ An Equal Opportunity Employer culate. They cannot be checked out ~ Phone 521-1357 Last Spring Class Begins April 8. from the Library Building. Thursday, March 20, 1969 THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER Page 3 Hoping For Good Weather Tennis Team Meets South western, Memphis State Shut o u t by Oklahoma Univer­ in Memphis on Saturday; then sity in their first engagement of play Centenary and East Texas Baptist the year, Arkansas' young tennis at Shreveport in Monday Runners Open Outdoors In A ustin and Tuesday m atches. team heads south during the UofA March 29. This will be the major cone (Okla.) .TC, Neosho (Mo.> JC champ), Tim Clark, Hal Fincher, For the third time in as many spring break for m atches in Mem­ weeks the Arkansas Razorback event of the home s eason for 1969. and Eastern Oklahoma State JC. Tommy James, Ken Johnson and track team will attempt t o open In the university division, the The 1968 event saw four n ew phis ahd Shreveport. Dennis Rizza on the trip. Four its 1969 outdoor season. This time host Arkansas Razorbacks w ill university marks and six JC stand­ The P orkers meet Southw estern members of. the six-m an squad are - the chances are g ood! compete against Missouri, Drake, ards broken. and M emphis S tate in a twin-bill freshmen. The Porkers head for Austin, Wichita State, Northern Iowa, Tex., and a S WC quadrangular Emporia CK.an.) State, Pittsburgh m eet with Texas, Baylor and Rice, (Kan.) State, Iowa State and P eru (Neb.) State. three of the kingpins in conference The junior college division will track. Where the weather has b een include Hastings (Neb.) J C, Hut­ Arkansas' chief torm entor in r e­ chinson (Kan.) J C, Fort Scott IS THIS YO U? cent weeks, the Porkers may find CK.an .> points hard to come by in this .TC, NE Oklahoma A&M JC, Butler Saturday cinderfest. Their three County

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