Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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«■ Reform and mediation, understanding and co- operation. Student and faculty groups aimed at such goals in the 1967-68 school year. The newborn facul- ty council, headed by Dr. Ross Horning, provided a new voice for the staffs of the colleges. Student representatives from each school, members of the Student Government Reform Committee, spent hundreds of hours debating and studying worthy and workable changes in student government and policy. The Student Board of Governors ' campaign to increase the student activity fee by $10 was finally successful after the failure in the summer of the Green Light campaign. Approved in December was the so-called kickback referendum in which an allo- cation of the increased activity fee was made to the various schools. The additional funds were to make possible better-financed and more popular concerts and lectures for activity card holders. Creighton ' s encounter with increased enrollment was met from a social, as well as organizational and financial point of view. Kappa Beta Chi was added to the list of campus social sororities and Delta Chi Delta joined the roster of fraternities. The imi- versity ' s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, chartered in February by the former IKEs, was its first chapter on a Catholic campus. The game room — dubbed the Romper Room — in the lower level of Brandeis Student Center, was extended to include room for dancing, pin ball machines, pool tables and a juke box. Curfew hours for senior women were extended to 1 a.m. on week- days and 2:30 on weekends. A new staff of Samardick guards was contracted to provide campus security. The year meant change paralleled with contin- uity. Located in the center of a nation which suffered riots and war along with hope and determination, Creighton encountered its personal progress and pride in the 1967-68 academic year.