The Exponent, 1977-09-15

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Billy Scheller
Gypsy Day Committee members pictured include (standing, left to right) Jean
Koehler, Rachael Jacobson, Jo Weberg, Jon Hill, Linda Campbell, (kneeling)
Jenny Jorgenson, Kay Franey and Scott Mayer.
Volume 77, Issue 2 Northern State College, Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401 September 15, 1977
Students prepare for Gypsy Day
by Deb Garvey
On October 15, Northern will cele-brate
its 76th Annual Gypsy Day
event. The festivities will, as last
year, revolve around the traditional
gypsy motif with the theme, "Waldo's
World of Gypsies."
Students devoting their time and
energy to the upcoming celebration
include Veblen senior Jon Hill, chair-man;
Sioux Falls junior Bob Wilcox,
assistant chairman; Alexandria,
Minn, senior Linda Campbell, busi-ness
manager and Pierre junior Jenny
Jorgenson, assistant business man-ager.
Seniors Scott Mayer, Roscoe and
Bev Ambrosius, Huron, are in charge
of the parade. They are assisted by
Jean Koehler, Mitchell junior, and Jo
Weberg, Yankton junior.
Alyce Albrecht, New Ulm, Minn,
senior, assisted by Pam Planteen,
Langford junior, is in charge of the
queen's party. Rachael Jacobson,
Veblen senior, assisted by Pauline
Burns, Sioux Falls junior, is in charge
of State Fair entertainment.
by Barb Brewster
At its weekly meeting Monday
night, the Student Association Board
of Directors concerned itself with
various committee appointments, the
resignation of Gayle Eberhart, Com-missioner
of Housing and Student
Services, and plans for a special
election.
Student Association President Pete
Mehlhaff asked the Board to confirm
Kurt Geist, Roscoe sophomore; Mic
Murphy, Watertown senior; Ed
Ryphema, Rapid City freshman; Paul
Clinton, Aberdeen sophomore; Mark
October 4 is the
deadline for the
payment of all tui-tion
and fees. Any
student who will be
unable to pay his or
her bill by that date
should make ar-rangements
with
the Business Office.
Bills will be mailed
to all students on
September 26.
Coronation activities are being or-ganized
by juniors Lesli Schulkoski,
Eureka, and Jane Palmquist, Aber-deen.
They are assisted by Melledy
Stange, Aberdeen junior; Mona
Terwilliger, Pierre senior; and Roger
Serr, Aberdeen senior to various
committee positions under the office
of Housing and Student Services.
These committee nominations
were made by Eberhart before her
recent hospitalization, but had not
been acted upon because of Eber-hart's
feeling that it would be best for
the new commissioner to make his or
her own appointments.
In her letter of resignation, Eber-hart
asked the Board to forstall any
decisions on committee members
until after a new commissioner had
been elected, but a majority of the
Board felt that the need for the com-mittees
to start their work precluded
any further delay. The nominees
were confirmed by a 4-1 vote. Jim
Lovering, Webster sophomore, acting
as proxy for Eberhart cast the dis-senting
vote.
With the resignation of Eberhart,
who will be unable to attend school
this semester, plans for a special
election to fill the post are being
finalized. An election board was
formed consisting of the regular
board and Lovering. Mike Rausch,
Student Association Vice-president
was named chairman.
Under the BOD constitution, an
election must be held within three
weeks to fill a vacancy in a commis-sioner's
post. The date for the special
election was set for Wednesday,
September 28.
Any student pursuing at least nine
semester hours is eligible to run for
the office of Commissioner of Hous-ing
and Student Services. Interested
Miller, Redfield junior, and Steve
Bruns, Aberdeen sophomore.
Sharon Heffernan, Milbank senior,
is in charge of the royalty luncheon.
students must pick up a petition at
the Student Association office.
These petitions, which must be
signed by 100 students who also must
be pursuing at least nine semester
hours, should be returned to the Stu-dent
Association office as soon as
possible. All candidates will receive
written notice concerning dates and
times of sound-offs, to be held prior
to the election.
In other business, Mehlhaff
reported on his meeting with vice-president
Clarke. Two topics dis-cussed
were block testing and faculty
performance evaluations. Mehlhaff,
who favors block testing, reported
that a difference in the Faculty Senate
and BOD opinions on the length of
testing periods seems to be the pri-mary
obstacle to implementing the
program.
The Board also moved to recom-mend
that in the matter of faculty
performance evaluations, the same
evaluation form be used as last year.
Evaluations are conducted once a
year at Northern at the end of the fall
semester.
Appointments to the KASD-FM
Study Committee were named. Acting
as advisor to the committee is Ron
Mayer. Other members include: Pat
Kellar, Pierre sophomore; Mark
Stange, Aberdeen junior; Jude
Herges, Aberdeen senior; Bob An-derson,
Redfield junior; and Rausch,
who was appointed chairman by
Mehlhaff. After much discussion, it
was decided that Cindy Zacher, Corn-missioner
of Curriculum and Commu-nications,
should also be included on
the committee.
She is assisted by Cindy Schlosser,
Frederick junior.
Cheryl Ohman, Aberdeen junior,
assisted by Rhonda Leith, Aberdeen
sophomore; is in charge of publicity.
Julie Halvorson, Aberdeen senior; is
in charge of programs. She is assisted
by Kay Franey, Mitchell junior.
Pete Mehlhaff, Eureka sophomore,
is in charge of dignitaries. Royalty
float preparations are being made by
Dave Zinter, Aberdeen senior. He is
assisted by Dave Hahler, Mansfield
sophomore.
Duane Niles, Ipswich senior, is in
charge of bands. Assisting him is
Craig Rostad, Rapid City junior.
Julie Heidenreich, Mansfield
sophomore, is in charge of public re-lations.
UOB schedules
guitarist, singer
The Union Operations Board will
be featuring Billy Scheller for the
opening performance of the Union
Coffee House on the east side of the
Wolves Den. Scheller, a folk and
blues guitarist and singer, will be
performing on September 19 and 20.
He will play 20 minute programs at
1:20 both afternoons and two
evening performances from 8 p.m. to
10 p.m. Along with his music, the per-former
will round off his act with
jokes and stage antics.
Scheller began his professional
career in the late sixties. This was in-terrupted,
however, when he decided
to study classical guitar and music
theory at the University of Minnesota
for two years. Following this, he
played with a group called "The Harp
and Bow Band," and it was during this
time that Scheller first started writing
his own music.
All of Scheller's performances will
be free to Northern students.
Eberhart resigns position