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Judi Zerbe, Don Darling, David MacCallum and Randy Owens do their part to sway mill-levy opinion OU ' s way. OU ' s Young Republicans walked off with three of the top awards at the YR state convention in Beatrice. Howard Kensinger, Charles Murphy, Nancy Schneider- wind and Rick Reeser are pictured with awards won at the convention. Omaha Superintendent of Schools Paul M iller, Pauline Williams and Governor Frank Morrison cut the ribbon ded- icating the Channel 26 Educational Television tower March 22. 3
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1966-67: A Year in Review This past year has been one of the most active and important in OU ' s history. These next few pages present a recap of the events that shaped this memorable year. Most of these same events are covered more ihorouiily in future pages. ' Signs of student support for mill-levy. In March, the OU Board of Regents announced they would ask for an increase in the mill levy. University students supported the Regents with a Man the Polls project. A rally was held election eve. Stu- dents carried a variety of placards urging support for ballot 1 1 . The May 6 Gateway ran a special section on the financial needs of OU. When the votes were in and counted, the mill-levy increase was defeated by almost 10,000 votes. At midnight on election day Presi- dent Traywick announced, We regret that the citizens of Omaha have not seen fit to increase their support of the University and that the vote was not favorable. We have an excellent university. . . it needs help. In view of the defeat, the Regents announced that they were forced to raise tuition from 14 to 18 dollars per credit hour for residents. Student Council President Doug Slaughter speaks at rally.
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Gateway surveys began to express student opinion on a wide variety of is- sues second semester. Surveys gave tiie student slant on grading systems, the war in Viet Nam and weekend activities. Cam- pus administrators were staggered by the weekender survey revelation that things go better with booze. Phi Kappa Phi, the nation ' s second-largest honorary, installed its new- est chapter on the campus May 19. Dr. Archie Solberg presented the charter to Dr. Traywick. In April, Dr. B. F. Skinner, Harvard psychology pro- fessor, addressed the Honors Convocation on campus. Dr. Skinner is renowned for his exper- imentation with animals and the development of the Skinner Box. 4
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