Saturday, May 8, 1948
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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DEMONSTRATING STUDENTS RUSH INTO 12th Street
to surround police cars at the peak of the campus demon
stration. While Police tires were deflated a tear gas gren
ade was discharged, at the students.
Eye Witness Relates
Morning Adventures
By I.ymmood Parker.
When I came out of my 9
o'clock class this morning, I no
ticed a group of about 500 stu-;
dents around the northwest side
. of the Social Science building on
. 12th and R streets. Upon ap
proaching the crowd, I discovered
that the police were attempting
to tow away all student autoriiJ
.'biles which were double parked;
By 10:30, approximately 2,000
students had gathered around the
cars and-a force of city police &r
rived. The police immediately
started arguing, and several stu
dents were jostled up a bit. '
By now about 2,500 students
had collected, and the police
threw a tear gas bomb into the
street, causing the students to
wlthdra W on to the campus lawn.
The students became infuriated
at the action of the police, and
immediately threw a human chain
into the street, blocking all east
and west bound traffic.
This human chain had hardly
entered the street when fire de
partment trucks arrived, and con
sidered connecting a hose with
which to attack the crowd. The
alarm may have been false, be
cause they rejected the idea and
retired from the scene.
At 11 o'clock I am sure that
there were over 3,000 students in
the street on their way to the po
lice station, where they were told
the mayor was the person to see
Unfortunately the mayor was
out of town. Cobe Vener, direc
tor of public safety, said the re
sponsibility for a demonstration
by a state institution to the gov
ernor or chancellor.
Upon arrival at the capitol, I
hurried to be one of the group to
talk to the governor. Mr. Peter
son was very cordial and gave
every one a chance to speak. The
requests made by the students
were as follows:
1. Release of students who
were seized by the police.
2. Release of cars impounded
by the police.
3. The name of the person re
sponsible for giving the seizure
order, so that a protest could be
made.
4. Elimination of the parking
problem.
To these requests the governor
said: "I am confident that the
university officers can and will
handle the situation. I will talk to
the city police and the chancellor
. .'. . the parking responsibility
is that of the chancellor and the
'Board of Regents. Only when the
university requires funds is the
governor responsible .... the city
also has a responsiblity to provide
parking to the students and vis-j
itors." .
The governor suggested that the
representative group he was talk
ing to take the matter to the
chancellor.
Chief of Police Carroll said:
"The university police ordered the
cars to be towed in. The only
time the city police go on the
campus is when they are called.
The university police are depu
tized by the police department
. . . . I am not in a position to
say that the cars will be released."
When the student delegation
left the . governor's office, all of
the students had dispersed. The
delegation went to Dean Thomp
son's office, and signed their name
stating wether or not they owned
automobiles.
Dean Thompson said: "It will
take about a week to investigate
and find out the exact problem.
There are several parking areas,
however, that are not being used
. . . There are several universi
ties that do not permit student
parking on the campus. I have
always been opposed to that, 12th
and 13th streets are city streets,
so anyone can park on them."
The delegation composed of stu
dents left the Dean's office confi
dent that some progress would be
made in the parking situation.
The student delegation to see
the governor were: Lynnwood
Parker, Woody Lange, Stanley
Partsche, Keneth E. Templin,
Glenn Gross, Dean Towle, Gladys
Jackson, Howard F. Pavelsek, Jim
R. Nash, Frank Gorton, Robert
Home, Mick Putney.
Arturo Toscanini climaxed his
tenth year as conductor of the
NBS Symphony Orchestra with
two memorable events that will
go down in musical history as tri
butes to his remarkable vitality
and distinguished accomplish
ments on the podium. On April 3
Toscanini presented a televised
p e r f ormance of Beethoven's
"Ninth Symphony" with the NBC
Symphony and the Collegiate
Chorale led by Robert Shaw. Tos
canirrrs final 1947-48 . BC broad
cast resulted in more than 20,000
requests for tickets for the studio
broadcast
Parking Problem . . .
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heights by the tear-gas barrage and the strong
arm methods of some of the Lincoln police officers.
But at the same time, the mob behavior which
followed the car-towing disturbance grew beyond
all reasonabe bounds. When bands of students
roam the streets and storm into city and state
buildings for no other reason than to kick up a
fuss, then the righteous indignation which all stu
dents felt became something different.
The scene was ripe for mass action and some
students not personally concerned with the trouble
of the parked cars took the lead in shepherding the
willing mob from office to office, ending the march
at the state capitol.
Even more useless, in fact senseless, was the
"Nothing March" which came into being Friday
afternoon. Psychologists would have a field day
pointing out the afternoon march through down
town Lincoln as a perfect example of mob psy
chology. The whole thing started as nothing more than
whooping and hollering in front of several frater
nity houses, but the campus, still tense from the
morning events, responded willingly to see what
was happening.
University of NebrasKa students will now
have to consider the repercussions of the incident
no matter how right or how wrong the disturbance
appeared.
Parents and the reading and listening public
cannot help but read some deeper meaning and
political implications into the event. '
Comments of Lincoln businessmen and the
general attitude of the man-on-the-street Friday
tended to bear out this observation, for the terms
"Communist" and "red" were sprinkled freely
through the conversations of the non-student on
lookers. What might have been laughed off as college
spirit in days past is classed as a significant act
or foreign influence in these days of world insecurity.
All-Campus Pin
Season Ends;
Rockets First
The all-campus bowling league
ended this week with the Rockets
emerging the champions after one
of the longest and most interest
ing intramural bowling races of
the year. This league was the
twelfth of a series of bowling
leagues that have been conducted
by the intramural department of
the University ever since last
October.
Hundreds of students and
faculty have enjoyed the bowling
competition, the largest program
ever offered in the history of
the University.
The standings of the All-Campus
League:
Won Lot n
Rocket 18 9 867
Y.M.C.A 17 10 630
Navy ROTC 18 11 593
Llllei IS 12' 556
I. T. T 15 12 556
Wheel! 14 13 819
Pioneer 12 15 444
A. S. M. E U 1 407
Alley Kniglita 9 1 8 333
Newman Club 8 19 298
The all-campus league was a
handicap affair. High team series
for the year was scored by the
Rockets with 2,570. This team also
scored the high team game of the
season with 927. The high indi
vidual series for the year was
rolled by W. Anderson of the
Rockets with 670 and high indi
vidual game scored by W. Reil
ing of the Lilies, 248.
Ten high individual averages
for the season:
A. Anderson 1S2
J. Bartlett 173
B. Relllnj 172
Bob Batten 170
M. Knapp 167
R. McNutt 166
D. Lindstrom 161
R. Olocli 160
J. Neidfelt 157
W. Mulder 156 ,
Metropolitan Opera Baritone
Leonard Warren, who makes his
debut in a new role on RCA Vic
tor records this month in an al
bum of traditional "Sea Shanties,"
will start in five operas at the La
Scala, Milan, Opera House next
August. The first American-born
member of the Met to sing at the
famous opera house since the end
of the war. Warren will appear in
Verdi's "Othello," "Rigoletto,"
"Ballo in Naschera," "Aida," and
"11 Trovatore." During May and
June the baritone will appear as
guest artist at Mexico's- Opera Na-cionale.
Sosh Society
Names Iowa
Prof President
Ray E. Wakeley, head of soci
ology at Iowa State college, was
named president of the Midwest
Sociology Society at its annual
meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., it
was announced today.
Wakelev will preside for the
coming year. Ihe society in
cludes the mid-western states of
Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Mis
souri, North and South Dakota,
Wisconsin, Nebraska and Iowa.
Hugh Ghormley, instructor in
sociology at Iowa State, was made
a member of the executive com
mittee of the society at the same
meeting.
Other officers elected included
George Void, University of Min
nesota, vice president; Donald
Cowgill. University of Wichita,
Kansas, secretary-treasurer.
New committee members are
J. E. Hulett. jr.. University of
Illinois; Randall C. Hill, Kansas
State college; Clifford Kirkpatrick,
University of Minnesota: A. L.
Lincoln, University ,of North Da
kota; Richard Seaman, University
of South Dakota, and William H,
Sewell, University of Wisconsin.
James M. Reinhardt represented
the executive committee of the
American Sociological Society.
The annual meeting will be at
Madison, Wis., in April, 199.
Metropolitan Opera baritone Rob
ert Merrill, who stars in George
Kleinsinger s Brooklyn Baseball
Cantata," reelased by RCA Victor
this month, in a rendition by Russ
Case and his orchestra and chorus
was installed recenUy as an hon
orary member of the Old Time
Locality Mayors. Inc., a 49 year
old society including many promi
nent national and New York City
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