The Exponent, 1969-09-12

              The Happenings
Secret theme surrounds
Gypsy Days celebration
EXPONE Northern State College Lack of permit detains FM;
radio accents musical variety
"THE HAPPENINGS" will be pre-sented
in concert Monday, Sept. 22 at
8 p.m. in the Aberdeen Civic Arena,
by Northern State College's Big Name
Entertainment committee.
The four man singing group has
"happened" on almost every major TV
show, night club and campus in the
country. They have earned four golden
records, including their first hit single,
"See You In September."
The quartet is praised for their dyna-mic
and versatile stage show which
THE 1969 Gypsy Days festivities are
centered around the theme, San Tu
Rom, the meaning of which is now
known only to the Gypsy Days com-mittee.
Gypsies will first convene, Thursday,
Oct. 23, for the coronation of the
Gypsy Queen and Marshal. The royal-ty,
a selection of ten candidates, will
be chosen by popular vote from an
original group of 60 candidates.
The Big Name committee is in the
process of booking entertainment which
will follow the coronation activities.
The committee has tentatively added
such activities as donkey basketball and
greased pin
'
competition Friday. The
student barbecue will be held on the
campus green at five p.m.
The activities Saturday morning,
Oct. 25, include high school band
competition at ten a.m. at Simmons
Field; the alumni Get-Together in the
Student Union at ten a.m.; the Queen's
Luncheon in the Rushmore Room at
noon; the band barbecue on the cam-pus
green at noon; and the N Club
Get-Together at the Sherman Hotel
at two p.m.
features everything from straight bal-lads
to comedy take-offs on other
groups. Part of thier stage act is re-hearsed
and part of it "just happens."
Tickets for the concert are on sale
upstairs in the Student Union until
one p.m., Sept. 16, at which time they
go on sale downtown.
The prices, with activity tickets, are
as follows: bleacher, 75 cents; general
reserve, $1.50; and reserve, $2.75.
Prices without activity tickets are
bleacher, $2; general reserve, $3.50;
The Gypsy Days parade, beginning
at three p.m., follows a route from
Main Street to Sixth Avenue to Arch
Street. The homecoming football game
begins at 7:30 p.m. as the Northern
Wolves host the Hardrockers from
South Dakota Tech.
Following the game, students and
alumni are invited to attend the home-coming
dance in the Student Union.
The University Sinfonia Band from the
University of South Dakota will pro-vide
music.
The Gypsy Days committee includes
Mike Babcock, Huron senior, chairman;
Corinne Aaker, Redfield senior, bus-iness
manager; Chuck Morrissey, Hur-on
junior, assistant chairman; and Mary
Nahnsen, Winner junior, assistant bus-iness
manager. Sixteen subcommittees
work under this group.
Babcock requests that more students,
especially freshmen, apply to help
these committees. The Gypsy Days
office is open from three to five p.m.
The office can also be contacted by
writing Box S, campus mail, or by
telephoning 622-2526.
and reserve $3.75.
Tickets may be held on reserve until
Sept. 16 in the Union ticket office.
The Big Name committee, headed by
Mike Levsen, Aberdeen junior, and
Steve Mydland, Roslyn junior, is work-ing
on plans for the 1969 Gypsy Day.
The committee is composed of the
following members: Stacy Wegener,
Salem junior; Ken Van Orman, Hecla
sophomore; Dick Cota, Sioux Falls
sophomore; Larry Giesen, Aberdeen
junior; Connie Westhoff, Salem soph-omore;
Rod Thompson, Huron junior;
Barb Andries, Aberdeen junior, and
Gary Harms, Willow Lake junior.
IF YOU are interested in political
science and especially student govern-ment,
then Northern's Student Senate
is your bag.
Senate's function is to supplement
and not supplant the government of
the college by the President, Faculty
Council and the Constitutional Com-mittees.
It aims to cooperate in the
enforcement of high standards of con-duct
on the campus by broad legisla-tive
and judicial powers given it by
vote of the students. It has authority
over all other student organizations.
Other campus clubs may exist only
through charters from the Student Sen-ate.
Sixteen Senators will be elected this
fall to serve with the four previously
elected officers.
TWENTY-NINE new members have
been added to the Northern State
College staff for the 1969 fall semester
which begins Friday.
Of these new additions, one is a
change of the chairman of the Division
of Language and Literature, Dr. John
William Proctor, University of Mis-souri.
Other new members of the
language division include Richard Nor-quiet,
assistant professor of drama,
University of Montana; Mrs. Kathy
Shreiber, assistant professor of English,
University of Indiana; Syed M. Ahsan,
assistant professor of English, Univer-sity
of Ottawa, Canada; Robert Hutch-inson,
assistant professor of English,
University of Missouri; Dr. James
Pruitt, associate professor of English,
Denver University; and Roman de la
Camps, assistant professor of Spanish,
University of Minnesota.
The Division of Education and Psy-chology
have the following new addi-tions:
Dr. Francis Schwab, assistant
professor of psychology, University of
South Dakota; Francis Hefferman, as-sistant
professor of education, Northern
State College; Farouk A. A. Ellakany,
assistant professor of eduCation and
psychology, State University of Iowa;
and Andrew Shelby Delaney, assistant
professor of elementary education,
Colorado State College.
New faculty members in the Division
of Fine Arts include Miss Kathleen
Betz, assistant professor of art, Uni-versity
of Wisconsin; Douglas Lyren,
assistant professor of music, Colorado
State University; Miss Ann Gebuhr, as-sistant
professor of music, Indiana Uni-versity,
Bloomington; Mrs. Mavis
THE SINGLE barrier presently
keeping Northern State College from
going on the air with a noncommer-cial
FM radio station is the lack of
approval of a. Construction Permit by
the Federal Communications Commis-sion.
However, station manager Roger
Metzger, Aberdeen senior, said this
permit is almost certain of receiving
FCC approval, although the exact date
of approval is uncertain.
Metzger said the application for the
Construction Permit was placed with
the FCC last July. He added that the
station can be on the air in a short
time once the permit is approved.
The tentative hours of broadcasting
by the FM radio station are from 4 to
12 p.m. initially. Metzger noted that
the largest portion of broadcasting
time will be devoted to music, with
all styles of music being played. Other
features will be class lectures and
student sound-offs. No live news will
be reported since this is easily avail-able
through other sources.
The station manager said the pri-mary
purpose of the station is to serve
as a sounding board for students and
to promote interest in the broadcast
Staggered elections are an innova-tion
to Senator selection procedure
this year. Of the sixteen Senators elect-ed
at large this fall, the eight with
the highest votes will serve fall year
terms. The lower eight elected will
serve half year terms, resigning at the
semester break. Eight Senators will
then be elected for full year terms.
Staggered elections serve a dual pur-pose,
according to student body presi-dent
Jerry Adams, Aberdeen senior.
"This new procedure enables freshmen
to run an extra time this year after
they have met more people. It also
adds more vitality to Senate due to
the more frequent influx of new mem-bers."
Now, you say to yourself, how do I
join this Student Senate? Any register-ed
undergraduate student may pick up
Hamre, assistant professor of music,
Colorado State University; Mrs. Vir-ginia
Hall, graduate assistant in music,
Williamette University of Oregon,
American Conservatory of Music, Chi-cago,
and graduate study at Denver.
The Division of Social Science in-cludes
new faculty members as listed:
Dr. Richard Cinclair, assistant profes-sor
of history, Ball State; John S.
Painter, assistant professor of history,
University of Oklahoma; Paul E. Ruek-man,
assistant professor of economics,
University of Kansas; Philip M.
Dwight, assistant professor of sociology,
Mankato State College, and Larry
Kreuger, assistant professor of sociol-ogy,
Ohio University, Athens.
Other faculty additions are Ronald
McCullagh, assistant professor of bus-iness,
Unviersity of North Dakota; and
"I COULDN'T say enough good
things about Northern, it's people or
community," Northern State College's
new Dean of Women Beth Wray cons.
mented, and added, "I feel most for-tunate
to be here."
A Kansas native, Dean Wray grad-uated
from Kansas State University in
1964 and received her masters degree
in education there in 1966. She has
spent the last 21/2 years at the Univer-sity
of Kansas working on her doctoral
degree and is presently finalizing her
dissertation which is concerned with
evaluation of teacher education pro-grams.
Dean Wray finds the college-com-industry.
Ifc added that the radio
broadcasts will consist of entertain-ment
geared toward the students.
Northern's FM station will be staf-fed
entirely by students. Mike Ed_
wards, Aberdeen senior, will serve as
the station's business manager.
The seven-mile broadcasting radius
will encompass the entire Aberdeen
area.
The idea of an FM educational radio
station on Northern's campus began as
a plank in a party platform during the
1967 spring Student Senate officer
elections. In December, 1967, the stu-dent
body passed a much-debated FM
issue proposing a 75-cent assessment
per student each semester for the
financial operation of the radio sta-tion.
This assessment also received the
required approval of the South Dakota
Board of Regents.
However, difficulties arose when the
station was unable to obtain funds
which were to be used for installation
purposes from downtown businessmen.
Finally, in a student body election
held May 13-14, 1969, a referendum
was passed which allowed the pur-chase
of equipment from funds pre-viously
collected for the maintenance
of the station.
a petition from the Student Personnel
Office in the Administration Building,
starting Monday, Sept. 15. After se-curing
75 signatures the petitions
must be turned into the Personnel
Office no later than 5 p.m., Friday,
Sept. 19.
Sept. 19 through 29 is the campaign
period. By midnight, Sept. 29, all
campaign signs and posters must be
taken down.
Voting will take place Tuesday and
Wednesday, Sept. 31 and Oct. 1. Bal-lot
boxes will be set up in the Union
Ballroom, library and Jerde Hall
lounge. Your activtiy ticket must be
presented at the time you vote.
Twenty-nine students battled for the
sixteen positions last year. The 1,014
voters represented about one-third of
the student body.
Mike Sema, assistant professor of bus-iness,
University of Colorado, in the
Division of Business Education and
Secretarial Sciences. Dr. James A.
Fries, assistant professor of chemistry,
Universtiy of Iowa; and Walter Han-cock,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Nebraska are new addi-tions
to the Division of Science and
Mathematics. Miss Lora Lee Lindgren,
assistant professor of physical educa-tion,
University of Wyoming, joins the
Division of Health and Physical Edu-cation.
Jerome E. Lovrien, instructor of
industrial arts, St. Cloud State College
joins the Division of Industrial Arts.
New administrators include Dr.
Wendell Jahnke, assistant to the Pres-ident,
University of Missouri, and Miss
R. Elizabeth Wray, Dean of Women,
University of Kansas, Lawrence.
munity relationship in Aberdeen excep-tional.
"The people here are the nicest
I have ever found," she said. Another
encouraging factor in making her de-cision
to come to Northern was the
many good things people had to say
about Northern.
Dean Wray visited the campus last
May and was favorably impressed. She
arrived on campus as Dean of Women
in August.
Being activity oriented, Dean Wray
sees limitless opportunity for activity
at Northern. She hopes for many acti-vities,
particularly for freshmen in res-ident
halls, to aid the rather difficult
transition from home to college.
'NORTHERN'S STUDENT VOICE'
Volume 68, No. 1 Northern State College — Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401
Septmeber 12, 1969
The Happenings' entertain students
in year s initial Big Name Concert
Staggered elections guide selection process;
Senate petitions available in Personnel Office
Twenty-nine ne.w members join staff; several take administrative positions
Dean plans activity promotion