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Unicam Holds Key
The problem of closed sections, evening classes and
conflicts has been with the University for quite some time
now ever since the large increase in enrollment started
hitting.
But this semester it seems to be getting worse, as
the shortage of professors becomes extremely critical. It
has bcome so critical that in some instances sophomores
are being placed in 20O-level courses, usually reserved for
for juniors and seniors, because there are not enough pro
fessors available to teach the 100-level courses. In other
instances, students are just having to wait to try to fill
their requirements.
The same number of courses are being offered as in
the past, or more, but the increase in enrollment has
made the difference.
The problem is especially critical in the political sci
ence department, where many students have been refused
entrance.
Carl J. Schneider, chairman of the department, pointed
out that all the students could be accommodated if the
character of the courses were changed. "We don't think
that's sound educational policy," he said. "We're trying
to keep enrollment down so that writing and outside read
ing assignments can be kept in the scope of the courses."
The Daily Nebraskan could not be more in agreement
with the chairman. To sacrifice the quality of our courses
and turn out flocks of students with only half an education
would be a catastrophe.
Again the answer is obvious. The University simply
must have more professors to teach these courses and to
have more professors must have the money to hire them
and offer salaries on keel with other colleges and univer
sities. Again, our fate lies with the Legislature and their
decision on the University's budget.
SUSAN SMITHBERGER
Three Branch Government
Editor's note: The Consti
tutional Convention has
been working hard on re
vamping the constitution of
the Student Council. In this
column, and future ones.
Miss Guenzel, a delegate to
the Convention, will present
the findings and decisions of
the Convention.
By Cnz Guenzel
The structure of the plan
ned Student Association will
be different. In the first
meetings of the Structural
Committee, sub-committee
of the Constitutional Con
vention, we decided to make
the change to a three
branch government with the
legislative, executive and
judicial branches as our fe
deral system.
These branches will be
organized under an Associ
ation of Students of the Uni
versity. The Association is
composed of every student
with every student contribu
ting to its support through
student fees.
In addition to providing
advantageous governmental
procedures, a three branch
system will allow more stu
dent participation in demo
cratic processes. It will al
so be an effective way to
introduce and administer
the new responsibilities giv
en to the Student Associa
tion government.
But this arrangement is
not all good, there are two
drawbacks. The first consid
eration is that our legisla
tive body may not have the
lawmaking demands of a ci
vic body, so there may not
be the need for a three
branch government.
And the second disadvan
tage is the possibility of the
development of two legisla
tive branches if an indiffer
ent Senate would allow the
executive to assume too ac
tive a legislative role.
However, we felt that with
the new functions delegated
to the Senate, a three branch
system will be needed. We
also decided that the new
responsibilities would pro
mote an energetic Senate
so two legislative branches
will not develop.
Eight general functions
have been outlined for the
Senate:
1. To establish rules gov
erning elections.
2. To initiate association
assessments and approve
budgets of the Association.
3. To recognize student
organizations.
4. To be the supreme pol
icy making body of the As
sociation. 5. To adopt recommenda
t i o n g concerning affairs
which affect the University
at large and to present
these recommendations to
the University official in
charge.
6. To enact all ordinances
necessary and proper to the
functioning of student gov
ernment. 7. To enact regulations In
the interests of the Univer
sity as a whole pertaining
to student organizations.
8. To express student opin
ions and attitudes through
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its separate members on
all issues and aspects of
student life as those opinions
and attitudes exist in the
college community. Each
separate member shall have
the duty to detect, recog
nize and express to the Sen
ate those opinions and atti
tudes. The remaining four func
tions deal with special ses
sions, impeachments and
required answers from of
ficers which are well ac
cepted by all as part of le
gislative operations as are
the first two functions. The
third point will include a
more debatable idea.
After several weeks of
discussion we decided to in
clude such organizations as
Panhellenic, Interfraternity
Council, Residence Associat
ed for Men and Associated
Women Students in the "stu
dent organizations" that
the Senate must "recognize"
by approving their constitu
tions. We decided to include
these groups to make the
Student Association Senate
the supreme student body.
By making one body su
preme we believe that it
can become an efficient, ef
fective body to accomplish
more.
The Structural Commit
tee determined that these
groups can be included be
cause the Student Associa
tion officially represents
the whole or represents the
entire student body since
all students will support it.
And no faction of a whole,
or no faction of the student
body, can be autonomous
from the whole and still
have an efficient, effective
body of the whole.
So this function combined
with function seven means
that the Senate can work
with Panhellenic and Inter
fraternity Council as organ
izations, but not with their
individual, component parts.
Also the Senate can work
with these organizations on
ly when the interests of the
University as a whole are
concerned.
And this move would also
promote more efficient and
effective internal operations
.because such good ideas as
the Masters Program could
be removed from student
government to a campus or
ganization, leaving student
officials free to initiate oth
er good ideas and deal with
student problems.
Point four must be ac
cepted as the crux of the
new student government
and number five will let the
Senate serve the students
best as will function six.
Regulations for better co
ordination and communica
tion for a more efficient, ef
fective body promised by
the new constitution will be
enacted under the jurisdic
tion of point seven.
Finally, number eight,
makes it the responsibility
of each senator to bring
comments from every facet
or faction of University life
to the attention and consid
eration of the Senate.
Riv ' ?: M
PlAvY IT COOL
Allen Gerlach
The frequent reluctance of
the United States to s u p
port the forces of change
and its emphasis upon mili
tary alliances, the latter oft
en with reactionary govern
ments, have helped to un
dermine the influence of
the United States and often
the security of the countries
involved. Neither has this
all-too-frequent policy a i d
ed the quest for peace.
The decision of Secretary
John Foster Dulles in 1954
to fill the vacuum of pow
er left by the breakdown of
the old French imperial sys
tem in South Vietnam was
a mistake. The policy, con
tinued under three admin
istrations, to treat South
Vietnam, which is an arti
ficial creation and not really
a national state at all, as
an American protectorate
and as an outpost of t h e
West has continued to be a
deteriorating one. What we
have offered the people of
South Vietnam has been
and still is altogether de
moralizing. It may sound "unthink
able" but perhaps the poli
cy which the United States
has been following in South
Vietnam is one of the main
reasons why morale is so
very bad in that troubled
area. Between 1955 and
1963, the United States sup
ported an increasingly to- j
talitarian South Vietnamese !
regime led by Ngo D i n h !
Diem. American military j
intervention increased de
spite the growing unpopu
larity of that regime which
was overthrown in Novem
ber. 1963. Since that time
the United States has tried
to prosecute the guerrilla
war more vigorously, while
giving full support to a se
ries of regimes which have
made only token reforms,
failing to institute long over-
due political and economic i
changes.
In South Vietnam, the i
guerrilla campaign of the ,
Viet Cong reflects the as
pirations of many Vietnam- j
ese for a better life. This
campaign is aided by North
Vietnamese support, aimed j
at gaining political control ;
of the South. The support
from the north, however,
would have little effect up
on South Vietnam if the peo
ple wanted to resist it. As
Secretary McNamara has
stated, only the people of
South Vietnam can win the
war. The United States has
saddled the horse, taken it
to water, but has not been
able to make It drink.
Our effort in South Viet
nam cannot be called a
struggle for freedom, which
is something the South Viet
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foreboding that we are
about to be expelled from
Asia is quite unreal, for
American sea and air pow
er control the whole Pa
cific Ocean.
I would suggest that our
military commitment in
Southeast Asia has been a
mistake. The task before us
now is to discharge our
commitment and disengage
ourselves. It is in the best
interests of the United
States to adopt a policy
aimed at the neutralization
of South Vietnam, guar
anteed by the major pow
ers and implemented by the
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peace keeping force. Over
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have signed a petition call
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Vietnam, and it appears
that an increasing number
of United States senators
are agreeing with them.
Hundreds of young Amer
icans have already died in
the jungles of Southeast
Asia, and hundreds more
will die unless the Ameri
can government pulls out of
Vietnam now and leaves
Southeast Asia for the
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By Frank Partseh
I like people who quote
Shakespeare. Even with
my limited knowledge of
the good bard, I occasionly
recognize a quote or vari
ation thereof coming di
rectlv from the pages of an
English 235 text.
Without mentioning other
names, one instance that
impressed me was a well
known personality's state
ment last summer t h a t
"this is the summer of our
discontent." The speaker
was president, the summer
was 1964 and the subject
was human rights.
This University and this
state have generally
been free from the open
bitterness which led to open
warfare in the streets and
alleys of Harlem and Chi
cago. Few are naive enough,
however, to say in broad
daylight that no discrimina
tion exists here, and so life
goes on its bad accepted
hand-in-hand with its good
accepted at least by those
who are on the good end.
Nationally, many answers
have been proposed as an
didotes to the poison of dis
crimination which infects
the minds of so many of us.
With these andidotes comes
the natural backwash of
problems, implications and
inconsistencies: "How far
should the FBI curtail its
other activities to prosecute
the infinite number of civil
rights criminals?" "Is the
loss of life in a street fight
justifiable to survivors who
must still eat and sleep?"
'WTould YOU let your daugh
ter marry one?"
Much of the problem is
lost in these sideline con
troversies. When the patri
arch of law enforcement in
this country takes time off
from his duties to accuse a
Nobel prizewinner of fib
bing, someone is missing
the point by light years. I
prefer to leave this "some
one" unnamed, because it
could be any one of a hun
dred people.
Removing the "sideline
controversy ' what do we
have? Somi jople think
certain of their fellow men
are inferior. So m e people
refuse certain of their fel
low men rights AND AT
THE SAME TIME AN
NOUNCE PROUDLY TO
We work in space . . .
to provide the world's
finest communications
TUB WORLD THAT THEY
RE MAINTAINING THE
FORTRESS OF FREE
DOM, THE STRONGHOLD
OF DEMOCRACY ! ! !
I like people who quote
the Bible, too. "Judge not,
lest ye also be judged."
But what to do. Certainly
no tabulating device has
yet been conceived, no poll
has been devised and no re
port has or can be compiled
to list each of the methods
for working for Civil Rights
and its effect on the malig
nant minds of the racists.
I was walking back to
campus from night news
one morning about 2 a.m.
walking because my beau
tiful hunk of blue battered
ness had refused to even so
much as cough thinking
about the next day, when
I would have to run down
to the Journal office every
hour on the hour to feed
the idiot box standing in
front of the bomb.
It was cold.
A big old car about 35
feet long pulled up and a
deep voice asked me if I
wanted a ride back to cam
pus. When he heard why I
was walking he took me
back to Sally, my erstwhile
car, and, through the use
of his good jumper cables,
I coaxed her back to the
pasture.
I wouldn't have done the
same for him, but I think
I would now. When they de
vise the poll, conceive the
tabulation and compile the
report, I know this man's
methods of Civil Rights
work will be up very close
to the top of the list.
Not Much Fun,
But Comforting
Dear Editor:
In the fight with poverty
the low income group must
spend all income for things
for survival to protect them
selves against the forces of
nature. It may not be much
fun but there is comfort in
having food and clothing.
William R. Sullivan
Los Angeles, Calif.
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