The Exponent, 1968-02-01

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Vol. 66, No. 17
Northern State College — Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401
February 1, 1968
Chuck Strasberg, Student Senate president; Cal Cooper, vice-president,
and John Biegler, Student Senator, prepared to begin their journey to a
meeting of the South Dakota Federation of Student Associations in Pierre,
Jan. 25. Problems concerning the state, Board of Regents and the various
colleges were discussed at the meeting.
Ball climaxes Women's Week
NORTHERN'S third annual Sweet- dorm, off-campus students, and each
heart Ball will climax the Association class at NSC. Students attending the
of Women Students sponsored Wo- formal affair will be charged $1 per
men's Week Feb. 6 through 10. The couple plus activity tickets at the
Ball begins at 8 p.m. Feb. 10, in the door Saturday evening.
Union Ballroom. Women's Week opens Tuesday
Thirteen contestants will vy for evening with the staging of a variety
Sweetheart honors during the dance. show in the Administration Auditorium
The candidates are sponsored by each at 7 p.m. Entertainment will be pro-vided
by individual women dorms.
Activities continue with the same time
and place Wednesday evening with a
number of speakers addressing the
students.
Thursday evening features "The
Line Up," a program presented by
eight cosmetic and hairstyling distri-butors
demonstrating and explaining
their products to the students. Wo-men
students will also view a mock
wedding style show.
All Northern students will vote on
the finalists for the Sweetheart Ball
Queen Feb. 6 while the final voting
will be done by those attending the
dance Saturday evening.
Onward
AND THE race is on — again!
Northern students got back in
the race for second semester the
first part of this week as they
registered for second semester
classes. Dacotah Hall Gym was
the scene of the mass semi-an-nual
three day onslaught as stu-dents
plugged their way through
the maze of enrollment forms and
class cards.
One final note about the whole
confusing week — for those of
you who haven't figured it out
yet, classes began this morning!
It's been a long day this morning! Graham Thatcher, assistant professor of
speech and drama, poses for the EXPONENT camera with an intentional ex-pression
diagnosed by the editorial staff as a case of registration "blabs."
Unfortunately, there 16 no Mire.
Speech frat plans
forensics tourney
for high schools
PI KAPPA DELTA, Northern's
honorary speech fraternity, has an-nounced
their plans to sponsor the
annual high school invitational foren-sics
tournament. The tournament is
scheduled Feb. 9 and 10 on North-ern's
campus.
Under the direction of Paul Bellin,
assistant professor of English and
speech, Pi Kappa Delta will host 20
high schools in competitive speech
activities. High school students will
compete for honors in debate, extem-poraneous
speaking, oral interpreta-tion,
and original oratory.
Cal Cooper, Sturgis senior and a
member of the speech fraternity, stat-ed
the purpose of the high school in-vitational
as to introduce high school
students to Northern's campus and its
debaters and to give them an oppor-tunity
for debate competition.
Tournament activities will be judg-ed
by Northern students and instruc-tors
and high school coaches. Northern
students may attend final rounds of
debate at 1 p.m. and individual events
at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 10.
Cover Girl Contest underway;
photogenic coed beauty sought
Day assistants selected
PLANS for the 14th annual Cover
Cirl Contest are unoerway with the
Exponent again sponsoring the event.
Campus organizations have been noti-fied
of the deadlines for sponsoring
a candidate.
The contest will be held as in the
past with all campus organizations
having the opportunity to sponsor a
coed for the contest. The sponsorship
fee for each candidate is $1.50 and
must accompany the entry blank. The
entry deadline for the contest is Feb.
8.
Entrants must be single residents
of South Dakota, North Dakota, Min-nesota,
or Wisconsin. Popularity, per-sonality
or scholarship will not be
factors in the contest. The entries will
be judged on the basis of beauty por-trayed
in the particular photograph
only.
The $1.50 entry fee will be used
to cover the cost of a professional
photographer for the semi-finalists. A
preliminary judging will be done by
a committee of Northern faculty mem-bers
and students. The Exponent staff
is in the process of selecting the final
judge.
Cancer Conference
slated for student,
faculty educators
NORTHERN STATE will host a
Cancer Conference on campus Friday,
Feb. 2. The Public Education Com-mittee
of the American Cancer So-ciety,
South Dakota Division, is plan-ning
the conference for educators at
NSC.
The conference will be held in the
Memorial Union Building. Dr. L. A.
Clarke, Dean of Northern, is in charge
of registering for the conference. All
college staff members are invited to
attend the conference. The meet is
being planned for teacher education
students. Further information on the
conference may be obtained through
the Dean's office.
The registration deadline is 5 p.m.
Feb. 1. The program includes a num-ber
of films and lectures on the facets
of cancer research and cigarette smok-ing.
SOUTH DAKOTA'S Federation of
Student Associations met in Pierre,
Jan. 25, with representatives from
state and private colleges and univer-sities
in attendance. A highlight of
the semi-annual meet was the appear-ance
of Governor Nils Boe.
The FSA met informally Thursday,
afternoon and discussed problems con-cerning
higher education in the state.
Problems ranged from individual cam-pus
issues to state wide trouble spots
in education.
Among the items discussed, the
campus representatives questioned the
South Dakota ruling that members
of the Board of Regents cannot come
from counties in which a state in-stitution
of higher learning is located.
Another topic for debate was the
ruling that prohibits administration
and faculty members of colleges from
running for public office without first
resigning their position. FSA mem-bers
debated the possibility and fea-sibility
of establishing a minimum ed-ucation
limit on members of the
Board of Regents.
During the meeting the represen-tatives
resolved to set as an organi-zational
goal the support and im-provement
of higher education in
South Dakota. Organizational plans
were discussed which involved the
coordination of state and private in-stitutions
throughout the state. The
next FSA meeing was set for April 20.
Students attending the meet from
Northern State College were: Chuck
Strasburg, Student Senate President;
Cal Cooper, Vice-president; John
Biegler, Student Senator; and Randy
Howell, Exponent editor. The group
was accompanied by Don Vogt, Di-rector
of Student Personnel.
The representatives talked inform-ally
with the president of the Board
of Regents, Charles Burke and through
a question and answer debate, a num-ber
of pressing questions were an-swered.
Burke explained the Regents' feel-ings
on duplication of curriculum and
stated that the "lack of oommunioa-
The Cover Girl Contest winner will
appear in the Feb. 22 issue of the
Exponent and will be entered in the
Minneapolis Tribune Cover Girl Con-test
this spring.
If your organization wishes to spon-sor
a contestant and has not been no-tified
by letter. Please place her name,
year, campus address, phone, major
and minor, hometown, and campus
activities on a sheet of paper and en-close
the $1.50 entry fee. Drop the
entry blank in Box 805 no later than
noon Feb. 8.
The Cover Girl Contest was slated
for Feb. 15, on the SAC calendar.
Due to circumstantances beyond our
control the Exponent staff has been
forced to move the date of the con-test
to the Feb. 22 issue. Semifinal
judging will be done Feb. 8-9, with
the five finalists appearing in the
Feb. 15 issue.
tion" is perhaps the greatest problem
that exists among the institutions, and
between these colleges and the Board
of Regents.
He explained that the major con-cern
of the Regents is to attempt to
see that monies are distribued in an
equitable fashion to the institutions.
The crisis in education brought up
the question of limiting enrollments
in the South Dakota institutions.
Burke stated that he felt the limiting
of enrollments would reverse its own
purpose by focusing attention on the
lack of expansion facilities in higher
education in the state.
Burke talked about student hous-ing
and the possibility of encourag-ing
private dormitories for student
housing, especially for married stu-dents.
Despite its shortcomings, Burke
pointed out the merit in the selection
GOVERNOR NiLs Boe spoke to
members of the Federation of Student
Associations at their semi-annual
meeting in Pierre Jan. 25.
Boe expressed optimism in the pro-gress
of higher education in South
Dakota and stated that he was "very
happy to see the teachers in Pierre."
The teachers of South Dakota met in
the Capitol to lobby for more state
aid to education and the supporting
action worked well with the meeting
of the FSA.
Boe expressed a desire to see that
the State of South Dakota becomes a
functioning economic unit. He ex-plained
the problems concerning
state aid to education and reminded
the FSA'ers that this is not the only
problem that faces South Dakotans.
The Federal cut in highway funds
was another point of concern for the
governor as he explained the need
for better transportation and com-munication
in South Dakota if it is to
function as the economic unit.
"We are making progress!" Boe
declared, "And we're not trying to
SAC, Gypsy STUDENT SENATE convened for
the first meeting of the second se-mester
Jan. 30, with eight members
present. Much of the action was de-layed
until more of the members
could be present. Cal Cooper, vice-president
presided over the meeting
in the absence of Student Senate
Prsident, Chuck Strasberg.
The Social Affairs Committee and
the Gypsy Day Committee recom-mended
students to act as assistant
chairmen of their committees. Wilma
of Regents members from counties
not housing state institutions. He in-dicated
favoring a compromising se-lection
program where these counties
would have limited representation on
the Board.
Before the conference adjourned,
the FSA representatives agreed to
meet second semester with a tenta-tive
date set for April 20. The repre-sentatives
divided into committees for
drawing up a constitution, establish-ing
a newsletter service, and solicit-ing
membership from every state and
private college in South Dakota.
The members also discussed future
policies and goals, expressing a need
for action on problems concerning
student government, publications,
communications, student housing, and
academic freedom as well as social
freedom.
impress everyone with the idea that
we've got the best — but we're cer-tainly
not the worst and we're mak-ing
it better!"
Boe commented on the welfare
problem in South Dakota, and ended
his talk on an optimistic note con-cerning
the future of South Dakota.
He explained that the biggest prob-lem
in the State is the fact that prices
have climbed the inflation spiral and
wages have not. Despite this he in-dicated
that South Dakota is a rela-tively
young state and that within the
next ten years the economy of this
state is going to grow at an unbe-lievable
rate.
Concerned with the "out-migration"
of young people in South Dakota, Boe
reminded the group that if it wasn't
for the educational system in the
state those young people wouldn't be
equipped to leave the state and work
for the improvement of a nation. He
also noted that a number of profes-sional
people are entering South Da-kota
for economic reasons and that
this is indeed an encouraging point.
Coins, SAC co-chairman recommend-ed
Lois Tunheim, Langford junior,
and Student Senate accepted the
recommendation. Lois will preside as
assistant chairman of the Social Af-fairs
Committee the remaining term
and then take over the chief job for
1968-69.
Steve McBride, 1988 Gypsy Day
chairman, and Joanne Glasow, Gypsy
Day Business Manager, presented the
names of the students considered for
the assistant posts of the Gypsy Day
committee. Senate voted Mike Bab-cock
as the assistant chairman and
Corinne Aaker as the assistant bus-iness
manager. Mike and Corinne will
then head the Gypsy Day committee
for 1989.
Cooper brought up the issue of two
vacant Senate positions. Former Nor-them
Senators, Jack King and Rory
King, have transferred colleges leav-ing
two seats to be filled. Now de-finite
action was taken by the ruling
body, but the members discussed
methods of filling the vacant posi-tions.
Among the methods brought
up was an election and the procedure
of appointing two students. The Sen-ators
also discussed using the two
candidates that were the next highest
in the Student Senate elections held
at the beginning of the fall semester.
A decision on this issue will be made
at the next meeting.
The main portion of the Senate
meeting was devoted to suggestions
and discussions for action during the
second semester. Questions were rais-ed
concerning methods of registration,
teacher evaluation, and procedures of
student teaching. Jo Opsahl, Senate
secretary, brought up the idea of a
study day scheduled before semester
tests. This day would allow the srn-dents
to study for tests without inter-ruptions
of classes or tests. Senators
also considered he proposal of ap-pointing
a student to assist the ad-ministration
in preparing the semester
test schedule.
The Social Affairs Committee re-ported
that there would be a delay
in the distribution of the SAC calen-dar
due to changes at the press.
Campus leaders question state policy
Boe backs SoDak economy