University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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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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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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Last spring OU became the home for two stump-tailed monkeys. The monkeys were purchased jointly by OU and Chica- go ' s Illinois Institute of Technology. The two arrivals were used in behavior stud- ies with particular attention being paid to their reaction in delayed response ex- periments. S I Several impressive speakers came to the campus dur- ing the last few months of second sernester. Erwin D. Cahnam, (left) editor-in-chief of the Christian Science Monitor paid a visit to OU. The Monitor chief fielded questions from students and faculty members ranging from is God dead? to is a monopoly newspaper bad? Senator Carl Curtis (right) spoke to students, as did Congressman Glenn Cunningham and Governor Frank Morrison. Doug Slaughter was announced the ambassador to Israel last Spring under the Experiment in Inter- national Living program.